Deborah

Originally written: Spring 2015

Name: Deborah

Species: Human

Subspecies: Wizard

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/her

Orientations: Unknown

Age when written: 15

Family: Unknown, but she lives with her biological family and at least one of her parents must be a wizard too

Friends: Unnamed Incubus

Description:

Deborah has short brown hair and brown eyes. She's a little on the short side, and wears glasses and dark comfortable clothes. She looks like a pretty stereotypical nerdy girl really, and is fairly quiet when she's not around her friends. She loves to learn and is especially passionate about history. She's good with numbers and abstract concepts, which is pretty common for wizards. Since wizards have to be able to think about the world outside of three-dimensional existence, linearity, time, or conventional physics, they tend to have one or more "disorders" like dyslexia. This is further compounded by the fact that wizard magic is repetitive and messing up a step in a sequence can cause disastrous consequences, so OCD and similar conditions are also common.

Deborah herself has dyslexia. Her glasses are enchanted to allow her to read as if she didn't have it. (Originally she only got glasses because her eyesight isn't very good, but it was a convenient way to use wizard magic to create an aid.) She wants to become a historian, and idolizes Nikola Tesla (who was also a wizard). Thomas Edison, of course, was NOT a wizard despite people referring to him as such, but a hack and an unscrupulous businessman.

Deborah is an introvert and is picky when it comes to making friends. She won't hang out with anyone who drains her energy unless she absolutely has to. As a result, she has a small number of really good friends. Her best friend is Unnamed Incubus. So ironically, she fits the trope of the quiet, glasses-wearing nerdy girl who's friends with the most popular boy in school. Each of them knows the other is a fantasy creature, though of course their conversations about it are discreet. Part of why Unnamed Incubus likes Deborah so much is she doesn't think the concept of an asexual incubus is weird or even noteworthy.