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HEY GEUSS WHAT AO, THIS IS MY FINAL CHARACTER!!

Is this a Primary or Secondary Character?: Secondary

Full Character Name: Beverly
Character Birthday & Age: Been in existence for roughly teen to twenty years
City & Country of Birth: Originally from the Emerald Isle
Blood Purity: Pure breed
Alma Mater: N/A

Job (If any): N/A
Type of Creature: Púca, can also be spelled as Pooka or Phooka
Are they Registered with the Ministry of Magic?: No. Ministry classification often overlooks púca as some kind of rare, Irish magical horse, added under the category of 'Beast' in the margins.

Are they considered a 'Dark' Creature?: No
If yes, What crimes have they committed to earn this title: Púca are the source of many old Celtic legends, even similar tales in Wales and Scandinavia. For many modern wizards, púca are either a myth or a rare Irish steed that makes for very particular wands if you can pluck a hair from its tail. Many of these legends are about how púca ravage the countryside causing mischief and destruction, although they are overall more benevolent than, say, a boggart. They are unassumingly ascribed the status of Beast, though they are much more than that.

Are you currently under pursuit by the Ministry of Magic for these crimes?: No

Wand: No need!





Physical Description:

Púca, as they are mostly known should anyone care to notice, are Irish fairy steeds. In their original form they are sleek, midnight black horses that look very similar to kelpies but not aquatic. Though viewed as Beasts, púca are better defined as fairy folk, nature spirits. Púca are shape-shifters and can take the form of any black pelted creature, although few know this. Common forms besides horse can include goat, rabbit, and eagle. What is consistent across any form a púca takes is the black fur and golden luminescent eyes that can shine in the darkness.

Beverly is a younger púca that hasn't mastered too many transformations. Besides her original form of a horse, Beverly can transform into a rabbit and a moth. Any other creatures she can transform into briefly but can only sustain it for seconds. Being 'stunted' in the transformation department is something of a sore spot for her.

And here's where things get unique.

>> Simply put, Obderedria sees Beverly as a six and a half foot rabbit when there isn't evidence to the contrary, like when the two of them are alone. This 'form' of Beverly is a product of Drea's imagination, honed from day dreams about her imaginary friend, making her out to be like a giant cartoon character come to life. A form Drea wants when finding out her imaginary friend is real. While it's only Drea that 'sees' this 'giant rabbit' Beverly is still real. Everyone else will see Beverly as she really exists in whatever animal form she has taken, such as horse or regular-sized rabbit or moth-flying-about-seven-feet-off-the-ground to 'fit in' with Drea's perspective.


Usually, Beverly will take unassuming forms around Hogwarts that won't be noticed, the smaller the more easily missed, like rabbit or moth. Since a horse is much more recognizable, she sticks to the forest or nighttime if she wanders around in this form. While she appears to take the guise of normal animals there are supernatural elements. The shining eyes, for example; as she canters as a midnight mare the eyes are truly frightening to behold, coming from the formless shadows. But she can perform feats beyond what you would think for the animals she is copying. At full gallop as a horse her speed rivals champion racing brooms, and as a rabbit she can leap over several times the length of that body.

Personality Description:

Beverly is a force of nature, a bit more grounded than Peeves but a lover of mischief equal to any Poltergeist. If she wants to be heard she can whoop in a booming voice good for yodeling and epic peals of laughter. Púca can speak but doesn't when lying low, remaining mute to keep up the appearance of a dumb animal when hiding in plain sight.

Though fun loving and boisterous Beverly is very loyal, especially to her special friend, Obderedria. She has no qualms about the lengths she will go to protect the girl, not recognizing any rules magical or mundane but her own. Beverly isn't all that bad, as sometimes her mischief brings about a special gift or serves some greater purpose.

Púca are usually wild on their own but sometimes they seek out and bond with one individual, although such pairings have become uncommon. This is a lifelong bond, not only for the human but the púca as well, long lived as they are. Some prefer to seek out their companion when she or she is still a child or some may wait until their companion is older before entering his or her life. The púca serves to make their life more surreal but conversely their friend can be the only one to tame up the púca a tad.

Beverly is easily the counter thesis to Drea, almost opposite in temperament. Courageous instead of timid, thrill seeking instead of cooped up, uncouth instead of polite, extroverted instead of introverted, the list goes on. While Beverly can be hard to handle at times, she's only trying to build up Drea's self esteem, giving her the push needed in order to truly shine.

MAGIC

Púca are very magical but not in the way of wands or flashy lights. They are supreme at transfiguration, the previously explained self-transformation. Most of their physical abilities are borrowed from the traits of whatever animal morphed into, with that supernatural flair. This also lends to influencing circumstances to serve one of the Púca's tricks, although their methods are always indirect.

Púca are also supreme Diviners, better than the star gazing centaurs. Púca happen to be 'in the know' and can sense things before they happen. It's up to whim whether a Púca wants to share this information, sometimes letting the events play out or assisting in bring about their existence.

For Beverly, her magic is in many ways under developed but versatile to lend assistance to her mischievous antics. As previously mentioned she only has two other animal forms right now. One talent she has created is writing, in the hopes of sending reply letters to Drea. Without the need of a quill, Beverly just transfigures the parchment to form the words that she wants. As a rule of thumb, if there is an impending physical danger that would harm Beverly or Drea, the púca can react before the event occurs. She can't peer into anybody else's future. Beverly can also get flashes of Drea's mood or thoughts, location, and the unsent letters written to 'Beverly the fictitious pen pal'. This strengthens as the two become closer. For the longest time Beverly could only get flashes of the letters and had to track down Drea's location inferring from places mentioned in the letters.

History:

Beverly did the unusual for a púca, traveling to larger cities to observe modern aspects of human culture instead of sticking to nature. She especially liked the music that had come out of the eighties, observing pop culture without knowing the full inherent meaning. At the millennium Beverly was drawn to the very imaginative mind of a four year old Obderedria Pienas, a half blood little witch living in London. Child and púca played so much together, becoming close friends. During these playtimes Drea began to attribute many pretend abilities to Beverly that the púca couldn't actually pull off but in games of pretend that is not what is important. Her parents didn't know that Beverly existed, thinking Drea had created an imaginary friend.

Then, so suddenly, the bond between Beverly and Drea was severed. Obderedria's father was a wizard looking to push the boundaries of magic, to the neglect of his wife and daughter, although the ladies had each other and Drea also had Beverly. At one point one of his experiments went out of control and Drea was stricken with a rare, deadly magical disease. It caused her to waste away and within half a month she was insubstantial and only a starvation away from death. Beverly was very angry at Drea's father, terrorizing him so for what he did to his daughter. His cure, not only for Drea's disease but his own safety, severed the bond between púca and child, driving Beverly away. Before he too disappeared, the wizard out of shame modified the memories of Patricia and Obderedria, so they could live in safety without fear of magic.

Beverly's relationship with Drea was in limbo. As a part of her púca nature from bonding with a human, Beverly's power was subjective in part to Drea's perspective. With her memories modified, Drea remembered Beverly…but only as an imaginary pen pal. An imaginary friend some part of her viewed as fake. This rebranding of their relationship kept Beverly away via an insurmountable buffer. She could only observe from afar, during the times she was able to sense what Drea was doing but she could only get flashes of the letters Drea penned to her although they were never sent.

There was hope for a reconnection. Drea soon showed signs of magical ability, permanently dying her hair with green polka dots. However her confusion about magic was not enough. Then Drea went off to Hogwarts and even with her letters to Beverly it took the púca most of the year to find the school.  In April Beverly tried to sneak onto the school grounds by crossing the lake, only to have the buffer kick in again. She was spotted by several students, one being half-Selkie, and was confused for a kelpie, being bound and transported to some forsaken location through Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures channels. When she had been dumped into another lake she was finally able to slip away, back to Hogwarts.

This detour took around a month. Beverly was squatting in the farthest reaches of the Forbidden Forest when Drea accidentally mailed her an actual letter. The owl didn't have far to fly before delivering it to the púca. With a real letter, not the usual flashes of Drea's writing she could sense, Beverly took this as a sign that the buffer was weakening. She had to be indirect with her reply, and snuck the letter in to be one of Drea's practicals in her Charms final. Unfortunately Drea was disbelieving of the letter, thinking it must have been a product of her own imagination, so still the old friends did not reconnect.

Beverly was nothing but a patient púca. Though a failure, that letter did implant a notion that allowed Beverly to zero in on where Drea lived over the summer. Then the girl suffered another tragedy when back to school shopping. Drea and her mother were attacked. Since Drea was so scared and desperate Beverly was able to move past the buffer, in a fashion, leading Drea to where her mother had been taken. When Drea faced an obliviation Beverly clung her, trying to protect her but it didn't work as she was only a moth at the time. The buffer between them proved too much and Beverly was stuck, unnoticed, in her insect form for several days.

But there was a silver lining. Drea's brain was so befuddled that her oldest memories about her young self teased back into her consciousness. She is still very confused on what is real and what isn't. Beverly knows that this is the wavelength where, if she can get Drea to see her as more than an imaginary friend, they will be able to reconnect again. Beverly has returned to lurking around the Forbidden Forest and wants to be Drea's companion again before the year is out.

Writing Sample: N/A

Sum up your character in one paragraph: Beverly is a Púca or Pooka, a kind of legendary Celtic trickster horse that can also appear as a rabbit or moth. She'll frighten small kids, vandalize and damage anything but she views it as good fun, sometimes with an ulterior purpose to bring about a boon. She has a fierce protectorate of Obderedria Pienas and may scare off bullies or sabotage events in Drea's favor in attempts to peel the speckled haired wallflower off the wall. Ultimately, Drea's life is made all the more surreal when Beverly pops up…which is saying something in the magical world.

Character Name: Beverly the Púca
URL link to the Character's Bio: link

Character Age: Effectively in her late 20s, when compared to human years (~27)
Character Occupation: Creature[1], laying low as a personal house pet

Character History 2013 - 2017:

Several items were bulleted:

• Adopting you as the pet rabbit that followed you home, yur mum freaked out
• Glad no more Tournament accidents, but cripes those acromantula and monkey-beasts were still agitated
• Hopefully you haven't blocked out the memory of the carriage cart ride
• Or the time a scary horse chased you away from Hogsmeade, before other students got captured from Honeydukes
• Stowed away on your family trip to Mexico, but you never knew, but I wasn't no jackrabbit or chupathingie
• Sorry not sorry for Philo wetting his pants, it was a carpet emergency
• Or that nonsense helping your friend Helio outta her jam. Though I can turn into a seal now!
• THOSE NIGHTMARES AREN"T MY DOING!!
• And the comic strip? Hee-larious, but them I'm biased cuz you made me the star
• And WHAT is this sassafras about you dating a----------

Only to be scratched out then re-written into a new letter:

Dearest Obderedria,

You always wrote me letters growing up. Maybe if I leave one for you, you’ll come to understand that you haven’t been going crazy. Or that I’m not actually imaginary. Pink coral castles, dolphin shaped jet-skis and changing the color of Jupiter’s red spot are all fun, luv, but they’re just dreams. It’s all pretend.

Though given I’m a púca that can pretend to be other animals, I guess I’m off on the wrong hoof. Or paw. Attennae. Actually, don’t bother trying to figure out how I’m writing all this to you, that element certainly backfired when I tried to send you a reply letter in your 1st Year Charms final. You might be asking what a púca is and the simplest explanation are quasi-fae-like nature spirits. In short, spooky horses that can shapeshift into other creatures.

Okay, not that simple, but we show up in various myths across the Isles and northern Europe. The bigjob wizards haven’t fully categorized us and know just as much as the muggles. Mayhaps less. We’re usually very solitary outside of mischief. Which is honestly quite a shame because humans are a lot more interesting than you let on, when you don’t think so high and mighty of yourselves.

Anyhoo. The vast majority of púca haven’t done what I’ve done, and gone and formed a protectorate bond with a human. You were a very sweet little girl. It’s a shame your mum was so overworked and that [HEAVILY REDACTED!!] schmuck ‘dad’ of yours couldn’t see how special you were early on. But we púca are generally in the know on future events. I once got inta an argument with a centaur about stars on the horizon and she didn’t appreciate it. It’s not exact, however, and I never would have predicted all the twists and turns that kept us from reuniting properly, outside of your dreams.

Would I have given up on you had I been able to know alla’ this before hand? Notta chance!

You sort of know most things before your Levels of Witchingdom Ordinance. Guess I’ve got alot to own up to. Most of the times you've been sleepwalking, or had a more unusual encounter with magic? My fault. I’m just trying to get ya to see the real me, much as your perceptions of me are certainly entertaining. And getting those newsprint royalties, but there’s me getting ahead of myself. Although, those times a really scary horse chased you away from Hogsmeade visits? Also me, which happens to be my regular form. I didn't want you getting caught up in some dangerous stuff that affected several of your school mates. Hopefully you'll understand when you're older.

Basically, when I’m around you I’m “form-locked” in whichever way you happen to be perceiving me. Like being your pet rabbit, “Lil’ Bev,” stuck as a rabbit until you or I get out of sight. Had to go against my standards when I ‘adopted you back’ to play house pet. And then its off to the races when you’re at work. One of them human expressions.

And let’s not even get started on helping Heliotrope out of her mess that summer before your 6th year. That’s worthy of a whole separate letter, or maybe some bite-sized summaries from all parties involved. But I did get another animal transformation out of that! Not that I’ve really shown you, it would be incongruent to come home and see a sea lion in place of your rabbit in your apartment. You’re welcome on both accounts.

Otherwise, it’s less of a pickle to catch up to the present day as of this writing. Still exploring dreams with you, trying to help ya navigate your more difficult memories. Offering cuddle time at home. Basically being your inspiration behind your Beverly-derived slice of the pen and paper media fiefdom. Still watching out for you, and your mum, and some of your more entertaining friends from the shadows.

Because while I may be considered a nightmare steed, I am not one of your nightmares. Couldn’t be further from the truth.

Sign, sealed and delivered with hugs and kisses,

~Beverly

Envelope has no address, with the words “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL” but a date was never filled in…

Summary: Beverly the púca is the creature behind Obderedria’s imaginary friend “Beverly” who inspired the character in her comic strips and picture books. This fictional appearance is a nearly 7 foot tall humanoid black rabbit with horsehair tail. The actual Beverly is a nightmare steed that takes more of an interest in humans both with magic and without compared to her otherwise aloof, secretive species. When she isn’t a black pelted horse, she can also transform into a rabbit, a moth and a sea lion, usually beneath the notice of most of the populace. Drea chiefly recognizes Beverly during her dreams. She doesn't know her pet is actually a púca nor the real Beverly.

1.	Thanks to Lissa for overviewing the Púca article when edits were being made.