Chyler Canning

THE BASICS:

Full Name: Chyler Lisa Canning
Date of Birth: 05/10/58
Age/Year: 16/Fifth
Place of Birth: Vancouver, Canada
Current Residence: London, England
Heritage: Half blood
House: Ravenclaw
Wand: 10.5 inches, mahogany, bendy, dragon heartstring
Patronus: Snow Leopard
Boggart: Unknown

APPEARANCE:

Eyes: Forest green
Hair: Reddish brown
Height: 1m 68
Build: Slender, but not skinny
[Looks like Emma Stone]

PERSONALITY & BACKGROUND:

In stark contrast to her good natured appearance, Chyler Canning is a very closed off person. Smiles and affectionate gestures are rare with the redhead and she usually prefers the one worded replies rather than long winded speeches. Everything that is said in a speech can be said with one sentence too and she was not fond of people who did not know that. Which basically encompassed the majority of the people she’d ever met and as a result, has few to no friends. The only person with whom she really talks to is her brother, Sam.

Born four years after her, Chyler grew up in an insane household trying to protect him from her parents’ antics. It’s not that they didn’t love their children or didn’t want the best for them – it’s just that they didn’t know what the best for them meant. Since the age of three, Chyler had never lived in one place for more than half a year, and usually it was only three months. Lillian and Joshua Canning live in their own little bubble and believe that the best way to raise their kids is to show them the whole world, and quite literally.

By the time Chyler was eleven, they’d already lived in more than three continents and were just moving again to South Africa when her brother – who was just seven at the time and starting school – threw a huge tantrum. This was something new because there was an unspoken understanding between the siblings; they didn’t approve of their parents’ choices and they did not like moving all the time but this was never to be told to the parents for fear of breaking their hearts. Lillian and Joshua had huge hearts and in their own special way were only looking out for their children.

When Chyler got her Hogwarts letter, her parents at first refused to let her go – even Joshua, who had attended Hogwarts back when he was younger. Buying home tutoring books and materials, Joshua took to teaching Chyler about magic and encouraged by her quick thinking, soon grew to love it too much to ever think about letting her go to Hogwarts ever. Instead, whenever they moved to a new place she’d go to muggle school with her brother and learn magic on the weekends. While she had been a little disappointed she couldn’t attend Hogwarts, the redhead was nevertheless pleased with this arrangement because she couldn’t fathom leaving Sam alone to deal with her parents alone. They were a team and she needed him as much as he needed her.

As the years flew by, Sam grew more and more unruly. He mouthed off to their parents, refused to do simple tasks and rebelled against their policy. Chyler didn’t mind because she never made friends anyway but Sam is the polar opposite of her personality – he’s friendly, outgoing, fun and has the ability to make friends in an instant. He has friends from all over the world that he keeps in touch with and resents his parents for making him move whenever he felt like he could stay at some place – which was usually every single time.

Eventually, Sam pushed too far. In hushed tones, their parents stayed up talking the whole night as Sam and Chyler debated in identical tones what they were going to do to him. Chyler had been mad at him, but she understood. They’d been here for half a year and even she had felt like the place was growing on her when their parents decided it was time to move. Sam refused.

The next day, they handed him a letter of acceptance to a military school in the US, and he was to go immediately. Furious, Chyler had a rare fit and clung onto her brother, her face hard and her eyes alit as she challenged her parents for the first time in her life. She’d been defying them since she was five years old but never to their face. In a spontaneous decision, Lillian and Joshua made an arrangement with their kids – in the fall, Sam would go to military school while Chyler was to go to Hogwarts. In the holidays, they’d fly their kids to wherever they were but they would have to go back to school.

And that is how Chyler finally arrived at Hogwarts, bitter and beaten down while missing her brother terribly. She knew her parents regretted their decision because she saw the looks on their faces days after the decision had been reached and felt bad for them. They were only trying to do what was best for their children, at the end. And when two people have endless money from a mobile company that Joshua owns, their thinking isn’t usually spot on.

Family members:
-Mother: Lillian Veronica Canning (nee Keynes)
-Father: Joshua Hector Canning
-Brother: Sam Leroy Canning
-Maternal grandparents: Lisa and William Keynes (both deceased)
-Paternal grandparents: Elizabeth and Leroy Canning (both deceased)

Likes: Libraries, the quiet, spending time with her brother, swimming, practicing magic and her eyes.
Dislikes: Pineapple, coffee, make up, silly girls, silly boys, overly talkative people and rats.
Dreams: To become a Healer, or some sort of person who helps others and does right in the world. In her words, "It's only decent, really. Otherwise you're just being selfish."