Name
Anaïs Séverine Joëlle Delacour Bolduc Age | DOB
25 / 23rd November 1996 Marital Status
In a long term relationship with [NAME] Sexuality
Bisexual
Hometown
Saint-Théophile-de-Beauce, QC, Canada
EDUCATION
School
Bugaboo School of Witchery Years
2008-2015
NOTABLE ACHIEVMENTS Animagus status gained during her 7th year - Osprey
*First female beater to play for the Canadian national team
*First female player from QC to play for the Canadian national team
*Youngest player to play for the Canadian national team in 150 years
ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Higher certificates in: Magical Creature handling
Magical Health & Safety
WORK EXPERIENCE
CURRENT JOB TITLE
Creature Handler DEPARTMENT
Terrestrial
✔ Outdoor lifestyle
✔ Dogs
✔ Big nights out with her guy friends
✔ Being centre of attention
✔ Competitive activities
DISLIKES
✘ People neglecting the importance of Francophone and Indigenous cultures and contribution to society
✘ People mocking the Quebec accent
✘ Blood snobs
✘ Anything else snobs
✘ Sexist/Racist/Homophobic/Transphobic bigots
✘ Quick to anger
✘ Has an ego
✘ Over-protective
✘ Over-proud
✘ Likes things 'just so'
Anaïs is vibrant, often up for a joke or a laugh, and whilst she may tease it is from affection 95% of the time. She does her best to get on with everybody - whether they like it or not - and does OK with people for the most part. Having said that, if you are one of the insular sort and Anaïs happens to like you, she'll probably leave you alone. Usually.
She enjoys being admired and dressing well, though she considers others just enough to avoid being too arrogant. While she generally respects privacy, she can't help but enjoy a bit of gossip as long as it isn't too mean spirited, and if it is, she still can't help but be curious. Don't expect her to go digging on her own half, though, as she'll just take what is put in front of her.
She doesn't like people who are snobby about backgrounds in general, let alone blood status. With her mother being a Squib, and her father being half-blood from a very watered down line, she's a little suspicious of purebloods from what one might call a "traditional" background. Anaïs can totally get on board with blood traitors and rebels, though.
As she is French-Canadian by birth, her first language is French with English coming a close second. Her English is pretty much flawless, although she often has the habit of slipping in French words and syntax when she simply can't be bothered. This happens more often with her friends and fellow non-native-English speakers. As befits a Quebecoise, her accent is much thicker than that of her fellow Francophones, and when conversing in French has a drawl reminiscent of the way someone from the Southern US might sound to a speaker of British English.
APPEARANCE
HEIGHT
5'10 BUILD
Athletic EYE COLOR
Blue HAIR
Red
SCARS
Around her ankle where her foot was reattached, and on her left elbow where the bones in that arm were shattered. PIERCINGS
Studs in both earlobes, pierced daiths, rooks and cartilage, tongue and a stud in her nose. TATTOOS
A small semi-colon on her wrist.
HISTORY
Anaïs was born the eldest child in a liberal Francophone household in rural Canada. Saint-Theophile-de-Beauce, a tiny parish of just over 700 people, directly borders the United States and the Bolducs grew up crossing over frequently, their multicultural upbringing and international outlook encouraging a strong sense of adventure in the young girl. Growing up in the outdoors, Anaïs could be found running around in the woods with her younger brother, making snow sculptures and as they got older, having vicious snowball fights - now it's legal for them to enchant the balls, the fights get even more vicious. That's just their sibling relationship... and the rest of the family is just as forthright. When your father has only one magical parent and your mother isn't magical at all, some would make you fight for your right to exist - and thus Anaïs' sense of activism was born. One of her early memories is being five years old and yelling "you're a bad man!" at a store owner who refused to help her mother pack bags when she couldn't do it faster with magic. Anaïs has been vocal about others' needs ever since.
Following her graduation from the relatively lesser known Canadian school of Bugaboo, Anaïs had little time to celebrate and enjoy the high life. A mere three weeks after the end of her school career, her bags were packed and she was on an international portkey heading out of Quebec for the wilds of another part of rural Canada, home to the training grounds of her new team, the Haileybury Hammers. At just 18 years old, she went straight into the reserve team after being recruited by a scout who attended school matches on the regular - a slightly more common event than in the deeply competitive European leagues, but not something that happened on a regular basis, nonetheless. She went straight into a competitive career, and quickly made a name for herself as one of the most exciting young Beaters in the North American League.
Since then, Anaïs developed her skills at the top team in the Canadian league, though she always felt there were more challenges lying ahead. The US and Canadian teams, no matter how talented their players as individuals, never gained as much respect as their European counterparts and this never sat right with her at all. However, she continued to work hard, stubborn as she was, and was selected for the 2018 World Cup to play as one of Team Canada's beaters. An unconventional choice as she was so much younger than the rest of the squad, she actually did pretty well before the team's ignominious exit from the early stages from the tournament. Well, you can't win them all, right? It cemented her international reputation, and it was around this time that she began a friendship with [NAME], [JOB ROLE]. Sure, he was a good 15 years older than her and it raised some eyebrows, especially with some folks claiming conflict of interest. She knew her own mind though, and really didn't care.
It is said by some that the brightest flames burn shortest, and the same could be said for Anaïs' playing career. Having transferred to the Thundelarra Thunderers just a couple of years after joining Haileybury, a match against the team's intense rivals, the Woollongong Warriors, went spectacularly wrong. Several of the team's brooms, somehow cursed with dark magic, exploded and caused severe injury. Anaïs' own circumstances, though not as severe as some of her teammates, were still enough to be career ending. Having begun to fall from her broom low to the ground just as the explosion hit, her lower leg was caught in the blast. She would have completely lost her foot were it not for immediate and intensive intervention, but the fact it had to be reattached meant that a comeback would be nigh on impossible, especially after she broke much of her left arm as it hit the floor and shattered in several places. Pick up games or casual flights are one thing, but the intensive nature and faster pace of professional matches are too much, being unable to grip a broom the way she used to. Her animagus transformation even became more difficult, and even today, when her injuries play up she cannot transform in a stable way. It was around that time that she realised she needed to reach out to others when she was suffering instead of pretending everything was fine, and the friend-with-benefits became something more. She and [NAME], her great support during this time, have been together ever since.
The first few months after the accident were tough - having to cope with her future prospects, people's questions and her own jealousy at those who were able to carry on. It was a terrible time, but after talking things through with [NAME] and her family she eventually ended up agreeing to an offer from an Australian wildlife reserve to train among their animal handlers as a new career. It was one way of having a distraction from her pain, and she quickly realised that not only was she good at it, she was pretty well respected for her work too. Things became more normalised pretty fast, but after a couple of years she and [NAME] agreed that a fresh start elsewhere would be for the best. Now living together, the couple moved together to Hawaii and hoped that the change would be the positive thing they hoped it would be.
IDEAS
GOALS
Career wise - as the anniversary of the broom explosion comes up, I'd love to see how she handles that as time gets further on from mourning the loss of her playing career. Relationships wise - as well as her romantic relationship raising a few eyebrows, she tends not to do too well interacting with women unless they're of a similar type to herself, so I'd like to see her push her own boundaries and actually have to bite her own tongue sometimes. WANTED LINES * Her partner/soon to be fiancé (see wanteds page)
* Other Canadian expats!
* Other folks from Bugaboo
NAME Heather
AGE 36
TIMEZONE GMT/BST
PB Courtney Halverson
DISCORD Heather#3837
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