Model: Ryan Newman
Post color: pink candy (#DCA2CD)
Secondary color: dark orchid Basic Info: Name: Desiree Yvette Marchand
Nickname: Des, Princess (only her dad calls her this!),Teddy-rat (Peeve’s nickname for her wombat form - NEVER call her this!!!)
Date of birth: 23 December 2094
Place of birth: London, England
Current Residence: Cookham, England
Heritage: Mixed blood (muggleborn father, halfblood mother)
Languages: English, French
Appearance: Hair: black
Eyes: Blue
Height: 4’11
Build: petite
Distinguishing features: English/French hybrid accent
Clothing style: Frilly (soft colors, lace, ruffles, lots of embellishments)
Immediate Family Father: Gaston Marchand
Mother: Rosalyn Marchand (nee Newton)
Brother: Adam Beaulieu Marchand (Born 21 June 2091; adopted Aug. 2098)
Grandparents: Raoul and Marceline Marchand; Scott and Joanna Newton
Pet: sphinx cat named Quasimodo (Mo for short)
Magical Me House: Hufflepuff
Wand: 11 ˝ inch willow & unicorn hair, whippy
Boggart: her dad’s corpse
Patronus: can’t produce one but hopes hers is anything but a wombat!
Amortentia: roses, French lavender, strawberry mille-feuille, rosin
Best subject(s): Charms, History of Magic
Worst subject(s): Potions, DADA
Personality: ENFJ - T
Desiree strives to be the living embodiment of the Disney princesses she grew up watching: kind, graceful, and beautiful both inside and out. She shares her father’s generous, sensitive nature, though owing to her happier upbringing, she’s much more optimistic and outgoing than Gaston. She’s everybody’s friend, unless she has a very good reason not to be, but she’s not a pushover. She won’t hesitate to protect those she cares about and can become uncharacteristically vengeful when pushed too far (though it takes a lot for her to get to that point!).
Desiree is quite sophisticated for her age with many artistic talents. In addition to being classically trained in ballet and voice, she also enjoys baking, knitting, fashion design, and playing the piano. But don’t let her traditionally girly interests fool you - she’s no ditz! Although she tends to lose focus in subjects that don’t interest her, she enjoys learning to the point that she can be overconfident, sometimes cocky, in her knowledge of certain subjects.
Likes: Disney movies, ballet, art, knitting, baking, sweets, dolls, animals, flowers, fashion, anything pink and/or purple, making friends
Dislikes: PEEVES!!! Wombats, her accent, boredom, mud, slimy things, boring outfits, getting dirty, seeing people (especially her dad) in pain, being underestimated
History SPOILER!!: Click here!
Desiree is the only biological child of two former Hogwarts professors, Rosalyn and Gaston Marchand. She was so named because it was Gaston’s greatest desire to be a father, and the name Desiree means “desired”. She is truly her father’s daughter in many ways, strongly resembling Gaston in looks and personality. That fact was apparent since Desiree’s birth. On that cold December day, Gaston cried with joy, and Desiree cried with him, only stopping when he did.
For the first two years of Desiree’s life, her dad was a professor at Hogwarts. She and her mum lived nearby in Hogsmeade, where he would visit them on the weekends. When she was a year old, Gaston was injured defending the school from an Inferi attack. The resulting scarring changed his appearance, leaving Desiree frightened and unable to recognize him. To help her understand what had happened, her Mémé (grandma) gave her a special present for her 2nd birthday: a doll of the Prince from Beauty and the Beast (Desiree’s favorite fairytale) with dark hair, blue eyes, and scars like Gaston’s.
Following Gaston’s departure from Hogwarts, Desiree noticed the change in her dad’s personality but was too little to understand what had happened. The Marchands moved from Scotland to Cookham, England and not long after that adopted a French boy named Adam Beaulieu. Desiree did not like sharing her parents’ attention and acted bratty and hostile toward Adam at first, but she warmed up to him when she saw how happy he made her parents.
Desiree showed her first signs of magical ability at the age of five, when she made a toy mouse move on its own while playing with the family cat. Having parents who believed the importance of a creative outlet, she grew up immersed in the arts and developed a talent for ballet. She attended a muggle primary school where she had decent marks and a circle of friends, but she longed to go to Hogwarts and see the place where her parents met firsthand. She got her chance when her acceptance letter arrived on her eleventh birthday.
When the big day arrived, Desiree hoped to be sorted into Gryffindor, of which her father was once Head of House, but she went to Hufflepuff instead. She spent her first two years at Hogwarts laying low and not engaging with anyone/anything that looked suspicious, as per her dad’s advice, but staying out of trouble wasn’t enough to save her in her third year.
That year, she was accosted by Peeves and given the “power” of random wombat transformations. For the girl who prided herself on being the living embodiment of a beautiful DIsney princess, this was probably the worst thing he could do! The uncontrollable transformations affected her self-esteem and changed her worldview. She saw how fleeting outer beauty was and began to seriously question her ambitions of a career in ballet or opera, both of which placed importance on appearances. No longer sure of what she wants to be when she grows up, she’s started to broaden her horizons and learn skills that she would’ve previously dismissed as messy or undignified.