| Description: | Twenty-six year old Celie is of an average height for women, tends towards the plump side of average in weight, and has averagely attractive features. She has a true peaches-and-cream complexion, which pinkens even more quite often, as she�s prone to blushing at the slightest provocation. She is very vain about her hair, which is thick and reaches the middle of her back in dark brown curls. Her eyes are pale blue, and she often wears robes to match them. |
| Personality: | Aracelis is naturally very cheerful, and has a prodigiously strong maternal instinct, which, in part, drove her to her career as a mediwitch. She can, however, be a formidable opponent to anyone who threatens one of her charges. She is a little too fond of being liked, and as such tends to accept apologies too readily, sometimes to the point of being a doormat. |
| Family Life: | Celie is only one of many scions of the expansive Chant tree, which first came into prominence in Wales during the
sixteenth century. During the eighteenth, two branches immigrated to the
Americas: one to the mid-Atlantic colonies, and one to Pennsylvania. The
Virginia Chants fell into place as one of the eminent wizarding families
there, and have retained their standing down through the centuries.
The Pennsylvania Chants, however, were the first magical clan to reach that particular colony, and out of absolute necessity unbent enough to associate with Muggles. This individual branch, through the forced connection with the Muggle population and exposure to the more tolerant nature of the Quakers, have therefore cultivated a much more lenient attitude towards blood status. Both the Virginia and Pennsylvania Chants have proved to be very fecund, and therefore have named themselves not only by state, but by city. Needless to say, the Pennsylvania and Virginia Chants rarely get along. Celie�s father, the aptly named Anfri Chant, was the only son of the most prominent of the Virginian families, the Yorktown Chants. When Anfri (who was regrettably nicknamed Boy Friday by some of his snider Yorktown relatives for his helpful, humble nature) was only five his mother and father divorced for reasons undiscussed. His mother, also a Chant, returned to her own family in Philadelphia. Thus Anfri was raised as a Pennsylvania Chant, and developed the same liberal attitudes. Her mother, Isabel Silva, was a Muggle who had moved from Madrid to Philadelphia after finishing school, and became the assistant to a professor of art history at Temple University. There she met Anfri, disguised as a Muggle; he was already an accomplished healer, and had decided to pursue a Muggle medical degree. Celie and her two brothers, Adrian and Casimiro, were raised in the same liberal fashion as her father, and followed in his footsteps in terms of a career, as well. By twenty-three she was employed as a nurse at a clinic in Washington D.C., where, unfortunately, her cousin Rufus (a Yorktown Chant) also worked. Rufus and his family, still sore about Anfri�s defection made her life miserable. She left after two years, and would have joined her father�s clinic had she not heard of an opening for medic at the Salem Institute.
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| Other Info: | Celie has a great fondness for Muggle music. She is a vegetarian, believes that some Muggle practices could breathe new life into stodgy magical customs, and has little patience with purebloods like the Yorktown Chants. She also speaks fluent Spanish, and it is in this language that she communicates with her mother, for the most part. |