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Amora Julia Moreau nee Travers
by Iane
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age
Female
gender
02/29/1980
birthday
blood status
Pureblood
sexual orientation
"Tristan, I'd say"
epidemic x status
not immune but newly arrived
occupation
⁎ Principal Dancer at Avalon School of Ballet  
⁎ Prima Ballerina at Avalon School of Ballet 
⁎ Alchemist
⁎ Potions Mistress

⁎ Former Premier Danseuse at Paris Opera Ballet (Contrepartie Magique)
⁎ Former Danseuse Étoile at Paris Opera Ballet (Contrepartie Magique)
general appearance
i'll let her do this because it's easier. Amora does not have a self esteem problem, i'll have you know.

"See, much like everything in my life, my body was moulded by ballet. I'm lithe and toned, great thighs too and my waist is, I believe, naturally thin. I look more like my Father's family with my dark skin, actually, since my Mother is terribly pale. My hair is not naturally straightened but I've always found it easier to keep that way, with a slight curl to the locks.

"My features are very...sharp, in a way, and my eyes are dark enough that I can say they look enchanting, instead of bland. As for my height, no matter what Tristan says, I'm 1.70m on the dot, not a single centimetre shorter." Lies, lies and slander, she's 1.69m and that's stretching it. "Whatever. Back in fourth year, I was a lot taller than Tristan and I'll never let him forget that. Ever.

"I mostly prefer wearing tight clothes - likely used to it, honestly - but summer dresses are also a great part of my wardrobe. I had a fondness for slit dresses - ask Tristan about the summer after graduation."


former school
Durmstrang
former house
Tempestas
achievements
Durmstrang Ballet Academy student: 1991 - 1998

    ⁎ 1991 - trainee
    ⁎ 1996 - apprentice
    ⁎ 1998 - corps de ballet

Duelling Champion at 1993 ⁎ 1994 ⁎ 1995 ⁎ 1997


university
Pantheon-Sorbonne University
university major(s)
Potions ⁎ Alchemy
years attended
Fall 1998 - Fall 2002


skills
she's very flexible "As my ballet instructorrs can attest. My husband too, but in different circumstances." ⁎ has impeccable balance ⁎ fast reader ⁎ great at household spells ⁎ anything related to potions ⁎ charms ⁎ duelling "Tristan loses every single time he doesn't cheat." ⁎ languages ⁎ manipulation ⁎ getting Tristan to do what she wants "Like keeping that beard sometimes."
weaknesses
her kids ⁎ her husband ⁎ the secrets they keep ⁎ her career ⁎ the way her brother turned out, honestly ⁎ she's mortally afraid of failure ⁎ cannot do maths to save her life ⁎ black thumb ⁎ her shirtless husband "Which is the only way he can ever win a duel against me, honestly."
positive traits
passionate ⁎ loyal ⁎ loyal ⁎ artistic ⁎ romantic ⁎ dignified ⁎ diligent ⁎ disciplined ⁎ warm ⁎ vivacious ⁎ persuasive ⁎ independent ⁎ practical ⁎ energetic ⁎ captivating "I did hold Tristan's attentions for years, didn't I?" ⁎  witty
negative traits
difficult ⁎ overly critical ⁎ proud ⁎ arrogant ⁎ extravagant ⁎ cunning ⁎ obsessive
hobbies/interests
ballet ⁎ potions ⁎ poisoning people ⁎ motherhood ⁎ dancing, of course "All the sorts of dancing, not only ballet. Especially those memorable times during the summers that I'd drag Tristan to the floor to scandalise Parisian pureblood society in perfectly respectable ways." ⁎ listening to her husband play ⁎ watching her son dance and act ⁎ going to art galleries with darling Elle ⁎ pretending she doesn't get her brother's letters ⁎ duelling "Especially beating Tristan, that's always more fun. After all, we did come up with strip duelling at some point"
accomplishments
⁎ she's Prima Ballerina, which basically means she's awesome
⁎ managed to stall Tristan with letters and risque dances for years before consenting to marry him
⁎ had three beautiful, amazingly talented children
⁎ invented a spell to vanish clothes to another random location within ten meters just so she could get rid of Tristan's shirt for him. at least at first. now she does random articles of clothing for fun


character history
"We should start, I think, with the fact that I was born without a father. Well, that's not quite the truth but my brother and I were out of Britain and in Bulgaria before our second birthday and we have no recollections of our father - with the exception of a terribly cranky painting that Mother kept.

"Anyway, he died. My father, I mean. Anthony Travers was a Death Eater, a brave one by all accounts, and he died fighting instead of surrendering. If you ask me...I'm not sure about bravery. Not when Mother had to flee, not when it put us all in that situation. Then again, he'd been young. Young people do foolish things.

"Point is, I don't remember Britain. Never been there before this, really. My mother left England to marry Dmitri, the man I called Father my entire life. And they raised us in Bulgariam as Vulchanov. We never really...held the name, Jason and I. We were Vulchanov in everything but the name because Mother thought it was necessary to keep being Travers, even in exile. It never made a difference for me, to be rather honest. I was happy, in a stable environment with loving parents. I know that Mother never wanted more children but her love with Dmitri was what made me sure that I wanted something like that.

"From a young age, I was put in ballet for...discipline, as far as I was told. I never cared much to ask, since I appreciate it. I was...two? Yes, two. My stepfather's late wife had a ballet academy and her sister Yelena Kalashnikova kept it running after her death. From the age of two, I attended. And I fell in love. It felt as if my body was made for it - which is ironic because everything hurt to hell and back, gods help me.


"Most of my early life was centred on that, on ballet. Which was good, saved me from becoming an obsessive weirdo like Jason. I measured the time that passed by my progression at school. At eleven, I got my first pointe shoes, being finally promoted to the big girls ballet group. Mother was terribly proud too and that was important. Jason was...doing something.

"At eleven I was also sent to Durmstrang. Hogwarts sent a letter too, our names were in their book along with all British wizarding families. But it wasn't an option and Bulgarian was home. Off to Durmstrang Jason and I went, the ancestral school founded by a Vulchanova. Luckily, I didn't have to stop ballet to attend school. You see, Durmstrang is known by its highly competitive environment. Physical activities are very encouraged and, along with several martial arts and magical combat, they have a strong ballet culture. The Durmstrang Ballet Academy is less than a club and more of a fully-fledged school inside a school and I was grateful for that.

"Duelling and ballet took up most, if not all, of my time at school. Training was gruelling on both ends, hours on end, but I managed to find time to fall in love with potion making as well. Rather...random but Mother said Father had a passion and a knack for it too. Maybe I inherited it from him.

"On my fifth year, something interesting happened."
That's putting it mildly, Amora. "Fine, yes. Something fantastic happened. Durmstrang, Beauxbatons and Koldovstoretz were throwing this duelling tournament in Russia. Very exciting stuff, of course, and I managed to get permission to go right away. In fact, I'm sure our duelling instructor at school would've thrown a fit if I hadn't been allowed to go. Thankfully, Mother willingly gave it and off I was to Russia.

"The tournament was grand, of course. But I didn't pay attention to much of it. First day, matching ups put me against someone called Tristan Moreau. Beauxbatons. I've always been confident in my abilities and it wasn't for naught. It wasn't an easy match but I won. If you ask Tristan, he'll tell the story differently but I can prove.


"That's not important, though. I was...drawn in, by that dark haired wizard. Two centimetres shorter than me, he was, but already handsome and interesting. It wasn't easy to find a wizard interested in the arts, let me tell you. To find that he was a player was an absolute delight. The fact that he asked me to the end of tournament ball was the icing on the cake, of course. Tristan is quite the good dancer, had been even then, and I had so much fun. It was a memorable night, I still have the picture we took. Not that I'll admit it out loud but I was...a bit upset when we had to part ways after it was all said and done.

"Tristan and I exchanged letters from the get go and they kept getting longer and longer. Luckily - more like very careful planning -, we bumped into each other during my first day in Paris for the summer season with my family. We have an estate in Paris, see, and we'd always go to spend summers there - especially after Jason married but that's for another time. Meeting Tristan there was- well, I did love it a lot and he basically moved into the estate after that first week of dancing around each other.


"Sometimes literally.

"Back to school that year, I was promoted to apprentice and ballet took the priority to the point that I sort of dialled back on duelling. Not stopped, of course not, had to keep Tristan on his toes. But less intense than before. We kept writing to each other, of course, and there wasn't a single summer we didn't spend most of our time together. I'd taken to the habit, as I grew older and bolder, to wear dresses with outrageously high slits in them and drag him to the floor to dance the most scandalously society accepted dances ever. I must admit to have a fondness for La Volte.

"Graduation came along with an offer from the magical counterpart of the Paris Opera Ballet to dance for the. Corps de ballet, I was getting where I wanted to be. University was a demand from my stepfather, so I'd have something to fall back on after ballet was no longer an option and I didn't mind. Choosing alchemy and potions was the easy and I was going to settle on the Travers estate. 

"The letter I sent Tristan saying I was going to move to Paris months before graduation was just...courtesy."
Yes, right. As if you hadn't planned that way to give him enough time to come up with something. Right.

"We weren't, technically, anything to each other. Officially. From my part, I kept it like that purposefully as to keep him guessing, but it was time to put Tristan in check. And he responded exactly the way I'd expected it. That summer, Tristan proposed. Of course I accepted, it was everything I wanted. By then, I was in love with that wizard many times over. I suppose I might've made him a little nervous, with the little dance we were doing- but I doubt he truly questioned that I'd say yes. Or my love, as unspoken as it was by then."

Right, and you didn't fret with thoughts of what if he doesn't propose during the entire time. Right.

"We married soon enough, staying engaged only long enough for a wedding to be put together in a way that would be proper for both of our families. Which was...strangely fast, when I think about it. Our mothers became fast friends after the engagement but- it always seemed a little too convenient to me. Not that I complained, I wanted to marry Tristan. But still- if my Mother is involved, one would do better not to trust it entirely."

Amora, normally quite paranoid, is right. Alix and Bianca went to Hogwarts together, just a single year apart, and they'd planned the whole thing since Amora and Tristan's little crush survived its first summer. It's the reason why, whilst Jason was pressured to marry, Bianca never touched on the subject with Amora. She already knew.

"It was all a haze of happiness and breathless excitement, really - though most of our fun came from watching our mothers being veritable wedding planning monsters. And then- we were married. I was no longer Amora Travers. Amora Moreau had this nice ring to it. Except, it seemed, I was not exactly Amora Moreau, was I? Tristan told me of his secret, of who his father really was, and the sting of the lie was drowned by how monumental this was. I couldn't blame him for not telling the truth- it was a very, very dangerous secret. More than that, I knew of how hard he fought with his mother to be allowed to tell me. Of how much he wanted me to know him truly. I was...humbled and awed. Loving that man was the best thing I've ever done in my life.

"After all that excitement, things finally calmed down. We moved into a smaller place, started building a life together. The happiest moment of my life was probably finding out I was pregnant. Kept dancing until I literally couldn't anymore and went back to ballet as soon as I could after the twins were born - but being a mother brought an unexpected sort of joy. Parenting with Tristan was magical. I made soloist at twenty four and, a few years after that, principal dancer. Premier Danseuse at twenty seven, quite the achievement in such a big company such as mine.

"Being the principal dancer whilst juggling motherhood wasn't exactly fun but I relished the challenge. It was highly competitive, we were a big company after all. But I succeeded in it. Having finished university already helped a lot, of course. And, before I hit thirty, I was made Danseuse Étoile. An honorary title, by all means, but it meant that among all others, I was the highest ranking. There were a few Premiers Danseuses but only one star dancer in our company - unlike the eighteen of the muggle counterpart. Not that all the spots were every filled - less than half, if I have to guess. And in the magical counterpart, there was only one. Me.

"It's not exactly a coincidence our son was born a little after that. Tristan and I talked about it and decided that Noël should be our last child. Our family was complete, then, and we needed little else. 

"For some reason it's not yet clear to me - probably the doing of Melina Devereux, if I had to guess -, Avalon got in touch offering me a position. I'd not only keep my spot as Principal Dancer but they'd also give me the Prima Ballerina spot - one that was empty at the school, at the moment. It was the same as Danseuse Étoile, in the end, just with a different name. I'd have the same as I did in Paris- preference on roles, dressing rooms, more freedom than any other dancer. It was tempting, for the challenge alone. I told Tristan and we toyed with the idea for a while. He even applied to a highly respected musical hall - and was promoted. That decided it for us, really. The children would grumble a bit but Britain was home - more than people would know.

"My darling brother getting in touch about escorting darling Anthony to his new home felt like a sign. Little Anne was already there, in what was their home even though none of them was actually raised there. I felt confident about it, even though Elle complained about missing the Louvre.

"Sickness aside, it was good for us. Moving back. A little dangerous- Tristan's very own cousin being in charge and sitting as the head of the family was something that put me a little on the edge but no one knew anything. We were, as far as anyone was concerned, French. There was no need to attention to be paid to us. Yet."


parents
Mother: Bianca Callidora Travers nee Crouch, 56, pureblood, Slytherin, society matron
Father: Anthony Julian Travers, died at 23 (would've been 60), pureblood, Slytherin, Death Eater
Stepfather: Dmitri Vulchanov, 68, pureblood, Sagacitas, Director of Magical Law Enforcement in the Bulgarian Ministry of Magic
siblings
Brother: Jason Alexander Travers, 38, pureblood, Sagacitas, Durmstrang Board of Governors, arithmancer, Unspeakable for the Bulgarian Ministry of Magic
children
Daughter: @emmanuelle , pureblood, age 16, 6th year Hogwarts student
Son: @gabriel , pureblood, age 16, 6th year Hogwarts student
Son: Noël Tristan Regulus Moreau, pureblood, age 8, Peverell Academy student
partner
Husband: @tristan , 38, pureblood, Prêtresse, Assistant Concertmaster at Gambol Music Hall, Second Violin at Gambol Music Hall, Composer
other family
Father-in-law: Alain Louis Calixte Moreau - pureblood, age 75, Prêtresse alum, Auror

Mother-in-law: Alix Zénaïde Luminosa Moreau - pureblood, age 57, Slytherin alum, First Cellist for the Magical Paris Conservatory



Father-in-law: Regulus Arcturus Black - pureblood, deceased at age 18 (would be 57), Slytherin alum, Death Eater

Sister-in-law: Séraphine Aliénor Solange Max (née Moreau) - pureblood, age 42, Prêtresse alum, Spell Damage Healer at the Paris Hospital for Magical Maladies

Sister-in-law: Simone Élodie Astride Max (née Moreau) - pureblood, age 39, Prêtresse alum, Professor of Potionology at Giverny University of Magic, Potioneer



Sister-in-law: Dominique Alix Nicolette Gage (née Moreau) - pureblood, age 26, Prêtresse alum, Obliviator

Brother-in-law: Achille Régis Elouan Moreau - pureblood, age 22, Prêtresse alum, Demi-Soloist for the Paris Opera Ballet (Contrepartie Magique)



Brother-in-Law: Percival Urien Max - pureblood, age 45, Slytherin alum, Curse-Breaker

Brother-in-law: Walter Daedalus Max - pureblood, age 38, Ravenclaw alum, Professor of Herbology at the University of Bangor, Herbologist



Brother-in-Law: Falco Marius Aeson Gage - pureblood, age 38, Prêtresse alum, Alchemist

Sister-in-Law: Thalia Ismene Moreau (née Prewett) - pureblood, age 23, Ravenclaw alum, Pediatric Healer at Paris Hospital for Magical Maladies

more HERE at the tree courtesy of Celestina

Aunt: Beatrix Lycoris Nott nee Crouch
Uncle: Otis Midas Nott
Cousin: @theo
Somewhat cousin: @petrova

Sister-in-law: Lucretia Diane Travers nee Warrington
Niece: @anne
Nephew: Anthony François Travers
Niece: Johanna Marie Travers
family history
Currently related directly from the Black, Crouch, Warrington and Van De Veld families, the Travers Family was once proud of calling itself one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight - a group of families whose blood was considered extremely pure.



It all began to crumble after Anthony Travers was ousted as a Death Eater and died at the hands of Alastor Moody, leaving his wife Bianca Travers nee Crouch and his twin children - Jason and Amora - at the mercy of vengeful people who were wronged by Voldemort and his followers. Anthony's brother, Albert, continued to serve as a Death Eater until his arrest soon after his brother's demise. Fearing for the life of his daughter, Caspar Crouch arranged for her a marriage to Dmitri Vulchanov - a respected pureblood from Bulgaria - and had her sent away from England with her children. Jason and Amora would grow up in Bulgaria to be successful people, graduating from Durmstrang with high honours.

Though no children came from Bianca's marriage to Dmitri, it was a happy one - likely happier than hers to Anthony would've been and they raised the twins as a family.


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