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Muadhnait Kira Sayre
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eleven with a stupid birthday years old
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Post by Muadhnait Kira Sayre on May 6, 2019 20:14:05 GMT -5

Muadhnait Kira Sayre
by Steph
eleven
age
she/her
Pronouns
11/25/2007
birthday
blood status
half-blood, thankfully
sexual orientation
"The fluttery feelings in my stomach don't define me. Also, I get the same feelings when I eat too much cheese, so. . ."
epidemic x status
small, small wain
occupation
to have fun, not break grandpa's heart, learn Irish better, not cause too much chaos, don't tease the cousins

And Hogwarts student soon.
general appearance
A small face somewhere between heart-shaped and oval-shaped, framed by shoulder-length hair that waves or curls under depending on the moods it's in. A pert nose, grey eyes, dark brows. She's rather small for both her age and her year, and is roughly the same size and shape as a seven-year-old at this point. She's fond of casual attire: usually denim jackets, or older wool sweaters outgrown by older cousins. 

FORMER SCHOOL
HOMESCHOOLED, BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SIT IN SCHOOL BEFORE SHE HAD TO

"Other kids are loud, they have things and there's always a lot of things going on, and it hurts my head."
FORMER HOUSE
SHE'S NEVER MOVED IN HER LIFE AND SHE NEVER WANTS TO
achievements
"Four therapists and a life coach. I'm on my fifth now, and we'll see how long she lasts."


university
that's so far away
university major(s)
years and years and years.
years attended
she'll be so old. she'd be an adult.


skills
cats' cradle, and a lot of handgames.

Numbers - "I mean the game, not the actual thing. For now, at least. "

Getting back up after falling - "Because I'm stubborn."

Word searches -  "I usually know where to look."

Getting through to therapists -  "Maybe not in a good way, but it's not always on purpose."

CLAIRVOYANT
weaknesses
Dara. "For obvious reasons."

origami. "It's stupid." CLAIRVOYANCE DID NOT HELP THERE. "Didn't help avoiding paper cuts either."

Quidditch. "What is the appeal, people."

Therapists. "I've had four already. People are gonna say I'm weird."

Pity. "I don't need that."

Sudden decision-making. "If I can't think, if I can't feel--"

positive traits
"Da says I'm very good with his parents."


Charming (Or so Da says), Caring (Mam says), Compassionate (They both say), Curious, Discreet, Earnest, Friendly, Hard-working, Imaginative, Loyal, Protective, Sensitive, Thorough
negative traits
"Grandda also says I should stop asking about his mother"


All-or-Nothing thinker, Abrasive, Blunt, Curious, Difficult, Disconcerting, Distractible, Falsely Vulnerable, Judgmental, Messy, Noncompetitive, Naive (because she's 11), Opportunistic, Passive-agressive 
hobbies/interests
Not Quidditch. heights suck. brooms hurt.

Guitar, sometimes. "Today, is gonna be the the day, that I'm gonna throw it back to you. . ."

Going through therapists isn't one, really. That just. . . happened. A lot. Maybe more than she should have, because she definitely knows some of it was her miraculous gift at pushing buttons.

Word searches, she likes those. And not because she finds it easy to look for things.
accomplishments
"I've gotten people to forget my first name's Muadhnait, I think that's also a good one."


character history
"I want to make one thing clear: unless you're my family, my name's Kira."

Explain that one a little more, won't you?

"So I'm born, right? And everyone crowds 'round my cradle, and says: What a quiet little wain! Let's name her Muadhnait while she can't protest!"

You know that didn't happen.

"It's close enough. Anyway. Muadhnait. It's not that I don't like my name. It just doesn't always sit night, and when it's already the diminutive, nicknames don't really work. Besides, not everyone knows how to say it, or says it right. I mean, come on, Mud Hut isn't a people-name, and it leaves out about half the letters if you try to say it in English. It's an Irish name! So just don't actually call me by my name unless you're Da's family, really. For everyone else, I'm Kira, and that's the only name I'll respond to. That includes you."

You're very confident in that. 

"You do similar, don't pretend you don't."

Okay, okay, back to you!

"So I'm lucky. We're a close family. Always have been. And I mean Da's siblings, really. He's got four, and two of them have families of their own. It's the type of close where even their in-laws, you're close with. Aunt Brigid's husband, my aunt Macha met his cousin Bolade at my cousin Dara's birth and then they really hit it off and got married. And because we see Aunt Brigid so much, we got to know Uncle Sullivan's family pretty well. And there were then three of us cousins and we all had similar names. I was the oldest girl, and then there was my cousin Melkorka, and Mel's cousin Morrígan. And we're all pretty much cousins then-- they're my best friends. They get to call me by my first name, of course. Me and Mel and Mor, we're always running around together and Da and Uncle Sullivan and Uncle Edgar call us the Threefold Chaos. I don't think we actually make too much of it, but it's a pun on Mor's name, according to Uncle Sullivan. Also, not to say I'm not friends with my other cousins, or their cousins, but I'm just closest with Mel and Mor on Da's side."

And yet you didn't want to go to school with them. . .

"I'm getting to that, shut up. So I'm different. I've always known that, because if you're normal, Mam and Da don't put you into therapy at four and a half. And you don't stop seeing that one at. . .six, and going to another one. Then a life coach, because every seven-year old has that. I convinced them to take me out of Peverell then, because I was getting made fun of. The life coach was a university student and everything, or just graduated and I. . . I forget what I told him to make him leave."

Do you? It doesn't sound like you did.

"You don't need to know that. Anyway, I drove him off. I didn't really like his voice. It was annoying, hurt my ears. And everything hurt when I talked to him. So I listened to my gut, and he quit a few days after."

You know he wanted to help you. He cared about you, Kira.

"I know. I just didn't like him, okay? I didn't know if the stuff I said is real or not. It doesn't matter, because then. . .Mel and Mor and  Dara came over. We saw each other, and we played, because Dara convinced me to play Quidditch, and I knew it was important then. He's the oldest you know, and then it's me. So that's how we split up, me against him, and I had Mel and he had Mor because that's only fair that he also gets the youngest. I hated Quidditch before then, don't get any ideas! And then my head started killing me, but I ignored it, and my body was. . .sore, that's a good way to put it. Like I fell, and that was before it happened. I fell and I couldn't explain it. We stopped playing then, and I felt really sick when I said goodbye. I know I couldn't have known-- you're not the first person to say that!"

You don't have to talk about this part. That's not what this session's about.

"I do, I know that. It doesn't matter, it was three years ago. But Dara died the next day, and so did my life coach. I felt. . .guilty, that's the word. I was mean to him, I bullied him, and he wanted to help me. Other people got hurt too, but Mel wasn't. Neither was Mor. Just Dara, and Ali, and Sadie. And--"

Did you feel like you could have stopped it? That you should have known?

"Of course not! I knew I couldn't. I'm not a Seer, and even seers don't know what they see. Why does everybody think that? I was eight then. Maybe I used to think that, but I don't think that now. And I don't remember thinking that, either. I went to Dara's funeral. Everyone said parents should never bury their kids. That's what Mam said before we went. I. . . she was so . . .sad. I remember, she gave me her hat to hold, and all I could feel was that she was sad. It took over completely."

You understand why she was sad, don't you?

"Yeah! I'm not stupid, you know. Kids aren't supposed to die, especially not-- not shopping for school supplies with their family. But Dara did. And he wasn't the only one. I don't think I like you, so I'm not going to talk about the funeral."

You're very direct, aren't you?

"There's no point in not being direct. But I didn't have to argue about not going to school after that, because I couldn't take it, and I didn't want to. And I got over it! My last therapist said kids like me, we're resilient and we bounce back quickly. I don't even remember what Dara sounded like, and he's been dead for a lot of my life now."

Oh, Kira. . . 

"Stop patronizing me."

 (what does mother do? anything for ministry? years since.)

"Something fell into my stomach then, two years ago. I remember it, and suddenly all I could think of was Granma Siobhan. Everything was tense and hurt, and I knew something bad was going to happen. But we weren't home then, we were  in Iceland visiting Da's family. Another bad feeling, like I didn't have enough of those. But I-- we got back as soon as we could. And the registration had started, and granma was already taken. There wasn't anything we could do. Or Mel's family. Or Tade's. We tried. But she did dragon waste, and we weren't able to visit her really, but. . .sometimes Mel and Mor and Tade came with me to visit, and we'd run off. We always got lucky, because I knew . . .gaps. When people wouldn't be paying attention. It was easier to get in when people don't know what an eleven-or-twelve year old looks like, and you could pretend to live there for one shift of guards and leave when it changed."

Do you think they knew and let you in anyway?

"Maybe. I mean, it's possible."

Did your parents know?

"Of course they did! I got rid of another therapist then. That one wasn't my fault, my parents just told me I was getting a new one, and so I did. No, I wasn't curious, I didn't care. Why do you think I'm so good at telling therapists things? It's because I'm used to it. It doesn't mean anything, they're just words."

That's interesting.

"It's what it is. Anyway, so Grams was in there, and Granda argued for her, and so did great-grandda-- he's on the Wizengamont, you'd think that would help. But it didn't, because they don't care, and she's just another--  you know that bad word. Mam says if I ever say it, she'll ground me. Not that I would, anyway. And no one did anything, and things started changing again, and--- this. And that. And everything. And-- I'm the first Sayre cousin to go to Hogwarts since Dara, other than Uncle Cormac's kids."

(more)

parents
Oisín Sayre (2/1985), former Ravenclaw, History professor at Lufkin, Magical Historian.

and (will ask people!)
siblings
most likely. we'll see.
children
several animals which don't actually belong to her
partner
"in crime? in trouble?"
other family
Siobhan Þórlaug O'Malley Sayre (6/1956) - Paternal grandmother, Lapridarist , Dragon waste specialist
Tiernán Sigdór Fawley (1/1956) - Paternal grandfather, Attorney in the Department of Justice 

Brigid Freyja Sayre Fawley (11/1981) - Aunt, Magical Historian, Herpetologist
- Sullivan Abiodun Fawley (4/1981) - Uncle, Dragon Healer
-- Dara Risteárd Fawley (6/2005 - 7/2016) - Cousin, Peverell student, Incoming First year
-- Melkorka Folade Fawley (12/2008) - Cousin, Peverell student

Sinéad Hekla Sayre (3/1988) - Aunt, Hogwarts express driver, Mechanic

Macha Þórdís Akingbade (9/1991) - Aunt, Healer 
- Bolade Akingbade (10/1990) - Uncle, Vodouan Religious Studies professor at Uagadou
-- Omotode Munda Akingbade (7/2012) - Cousin
-- Ifelewa Tomas Akingbade (9/2015) - Cousin
-- Toyosi Orla Akingbade (8/2018)

Karles Lochlann Sayre (12/1994) - Theatre critic, WWN researcher






Other relatives on-site: Demelza Robins , unknown cousins, mother's side
family history
The present-day Sayre line continues from a cousin of William Sayre's, and despite possible opportunity, have not claimed any closer relationship to Isolt Sayre than what they have. While they do take pride a cousin founded one of the great magical schools, no other Sayres helped her and thus no other Sayres laid claim to her legacy. It is far more common to hear them speak of their famed ancestress the Morrígan than it is to hear of Isolt and Ilvermorny. 
Still, due to their most recent famed relative being a cousin who married a Muggle (and more than a few marriages to them) two centuries back, not-extreme-wealth, marriage alliances that brought little power, a lack of involvement in shaping their country and politics, and a rather laid-back disinterest in politics and the government, they were not on the Sacred Twenty-Eight list of families. It didn't particularly matter to Fionn and his father Caoimhín: the Sayres had made other lists, after all.

Cera Sayre was born to Riordan Sayre and his wife Álfhildur Eriksdottír in the flower of their youth. They'd married for love: Erik was involved in international politics, and he'd brought his illegitimate daughter with him one day to learn the ropes. Riordan crossed paths with her, and the rest was a frenzy of courtship. Ten months after their marriage, Álfhildur and Riordan had what was feared to be their only child for quite some time, though a credit to the family. Cera was high-tempered and had a taste for martial magic, as benefitted a daughter of the Sayres. Except.

Cera spent a fair amount of what would have been her Sixth year abroad, it must be admitted. Her younger brother Tiernán Sayre was born a few months either before or after she supposedly returned from France, though there's little evidence she actually travelled over there. Either way, Cera was quickly married off to Leonis Avery, a young man unlikely to inherit much as he was of a junior line; he was a fine enough match on paper and by bloodline but in little else. It must be said she had little contact with her younger brother after that; rarely would the two be seen together. It took Cera five years to successfully conceive, though she would go on to birth five other girls in quick secession: Anne Robins in 1964, the identical twins Vania Carrow and Sandrilene Avery in 1965, Sibéal Avery in 1967, Leontia Avery in 1970, and Lilia Avery in 1973. She never had a legitimate son, and Sibéal, Leontia, and Lilia died quite young, to the grief of all. 

Anne was disowned after marrying the son of a Muggle, and Vania went on to marry a junior-line Carrow in her sister's place. Tiernán went a similar way to Anne, it must be said, in that he married a Muggleborn witch. . . but he was not disowned, much to his brother-in-law's disgust and the distaste of Vania and Sandrilene. Riordan and Álfhildur very much approved of their son's match for reasons both parental and sentimental. Both Tiernán and Siobhan claimed half-Icelandic and half-Irish roots, after all, and the combination was certainly not so common. The names of the younger couple's five children reflected that heritage, with a mix of Irish and Icelandic names for first and middle.

However, thanks to Tiernán's marriage, there's no question of the blood status of the senior line of Sayres, even if there is some doubt about his: after all, no one will admit Cera might have birthed him, even now, and if he truly is Cera's. . . well, she's kept her mouth shut on who the father is. Though as far as her friends-at-the-time remember, she was mostly spotted with Ivan Kopitar, but if he has any suspicions about Tiernán, he  hasn't made them quite so public that it's beyond a reasonable doubt Tiernán isn't the son of Riordan and Álfhildur. Besides, both Tiernán and Siobhan still live. 


(MOTHER'S FAMILY)
other
Kopitar connection provided and approved by Jade!
face claim
McKenna Grace
status of application
Incomplete
have you read the rules?
yes
how did you hear about us?
i sessed it
roleplay sample
there will probably be a gif. . .eventually.