Tabitha Mercer

Full Name: Tabitha Katherine Mercer
Age: 22
Date of birth: 22 August, 1993
Birthplace: France
Current home: Sussex
Blood Status: Technically unknown, but she calls herself Halfblood
Sexual Alignment: Gender-fluid, Bisexual (She leans towards women)
Wand type: Hazel with Dragon heartstring, 13.5 inches


Hair colour and style: Short black hair, often styled with a bit of mousse or gel
Eye colour: Icy blue
Height: 5'7"
Body type: Fit, some muscle tone, but still feminine.
Dress sense: Masculine fashions, mostly, unless she's feeling particularly girly. Leather, dark colors.

Optional
Birthmarks: None
Tattoos: A lot. Too many to list, really.
Scars: A few small nicks from childhood adventures
Piercings: Her ears


Likes: Leather, Black, Her mother, Exotic/interesting animals, Babies of any kind
Dislikes: Spiders, Bullies, Hetero-normative assumptions, Being called pretty, Hugs from strangers
Strengths: Charms, Defensive spells, Exceptional Gaydar
Weaknesses: Babies, Anyone in distress, Girls in leather on motorbikes
Positive traits: Confident, Patience, Open-minded, Generous, Non-judgmental.
Negative traits: Stubborn, (A little)afraid to announce her sexual/gender identity, Rough when defensive


Tabitha Katherine Mercer was born to a single mother on hard times, but she was no less loved for her inconvenient timing. As a toddler, she was friendly to everyone she met and accepting of all sorts. At the tender age of 6, she discovered her magic when a classmate began making fun of her for her choice of hairstyle. In her anger and hurt, she caused her bully to loose all the hair on their head. After that, she tended to keep to herself for fear of similar incidents.

When she received letters for both Beauxbatons and Hogwarts, she chose Hogwarts. Beauxbatons uniforms were not to her tastes (or, at least less so than Hogwarts). Excited to be able to join people like her, she read all she could on both the school and Wizarding culture. At the time, she was just beginning to understand that she didn't always feel like a girl. Her sorting didn't take long, though the Hat deliberated between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor for a moment, and she was sorted into the Lions.

Tabby took to flying as if she was born to it, and she loved the freedom it allowed. She'd always wondered about her father, but her mother never spoke of him, and Tabby wasn't one to press the issue. However, she still sometimes wished and wondered, and one day over Christmas break in her fourth year, she finally asked about him. To hear that her mother actually didn't know who her father was, well, it was a shock, to say the least.

She found most magical animals fascinating, and greatly desired to learn more. So she checked out every book the Library possessed and read them avidly. By year 5 she had decided on a career. At 16, she finally came to terms with her gender and sexual identities, but didn't tell her mother until she'd graduated.


Mother: Agatha Mercer / 43 / Living / Muggle
Father: Unknown
Siblings: None that she knows of

Optional
Spouse: Not yet
Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Partner: Nope
Children: Nah
Pets: A barn owl named Kit


Agatha Mercer was always an unstable child, prone to drastic mood-swings and explosive tantrums. The severity of such emotions dulled over the years, but she was no less unstable and when she entered University, she took a liking to dulling her senses and emotions further with drugs and alcohol. Somehow maintaining her grades passably enough to keep her parents happy, she still partied and drank to excess every weekend. On one such night that she doesn't really remember much of aside from the fact that it was like most weekends, she spent the night with a man she can't remember. Two weeks later, she discovered she was pregnant.

Terrified, but suddenly determined, she dumped out every bottle of alcohol in her dingy flat and flushed every drug. She entered a narcotics anon group as well as AA, and finally told her parents of her unsavory habit. They were shocked, but no less supportive. She still attends meetings to this day, and has become a licensed therapist for those with dependency problems like she had. Both her parents and Tabitha are immensely proud.