ZELLER, Zelda Eden

zelda eden zeller

PERSONALITY

Boggart: Being alone and abandoned. She's surrounded by people, but there's a circle of space, nothingness dividing them and all their backs are turned. It causes her to feel disconnected and lonely and there's one back in particular that she recognises and it feels as though she's being stabbed in the heart to have her brother ignoring her. 
Mirror of Erised: A peaceful world to live in, but that's only because of all the problems happening in the world at the moment. If life wasn't so dark she'd probably see herself with a bunch of gold on holiday with her friends and family!
Patronus: Wolf - back in Hogwarts, hearing her brother stand up for her when he hadn't realised she was nearby. As much as they fight and bicker, that memory is a true and perfect reminder than her brother loves her and will always have her back no matter what. 

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Zelda is a fun little creature. She’s petite but fierce. With a fire in her belly that’s hard to sate. She’s firm on justice and has a natural talent for combat, no doubt thanks to all the sights she had with her brother as toddlers. And kids. And teenagers. One thing’s for certain, life with Zelda’s never boring. She’s active and passionate about what she does with her life and she always backs what she says or does. She’s not as rash as one might expect. She weighs options carefully and quickly, taking in information and coming to a conclusion with a swift due process, which is pretty important in her line of work. Socially she has a sense of community about her and finds herself mixing and mingling with people well in her social life. She volunteers a little here and there when she has the time and finds no issues amongst those that can tolerate a muggleborn.

Enemies are probably more than Zelda realises. She’s a muggleborn and that just doesn’t sit well in today’s climate. She’s probably rubbed people up the wrong way because occasionally she can be a little brash. It can be great for work but sometimes she forgets to switch off and so can come off as bossy and a little too assertive. She will be apologetic if called out on it, although not if you’re her brother, then she’ll just tell you to get over it and quit your whining.
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One thing’s for certain and that’s that you’ll know where you stand with Zelda. She doesn’t pretend to like someone, make-believe is for children. She can’t be alone for too long or it starts to get to her. She likes a little quiet every now and then but usually she likes to be near people. It’s why she lives in Diagon Alley in a flat above one of the shops, she loves to be smack bang in the middle of the magical social hub. It’s great for coming home tipsy or bringing back an extra friendly friend -winkwinknudgenudge- which leads us into the romantic side of Zelda’s life. It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride but long story short, guys just can’t handle a badass witch! She believes she pushes partners away because she’s dedicated to her work, and her secret work for the Order, or she thinks that she’s a strong woman and people are intimidated by that, especially men. But really who knows? Only the people that have left her know their real reasons for leaving and right now, Zelda has no interest in anything serious.

HISTORY

Mother: Natalie Zeller nee Winston, 66, muggle, lawyer
Father: Gerald Zeller, 66, muggle, mechanic
Siblings: Zachary "Zach" Zeller, 26, Hufflepuff Alumnus, muggleborn, twin
Partners: None worthy of mentioning/single -wink-
Others: Various muggle aunts, uncles and cousins.

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Natalie Winston and Gerald Zeller met during school. He was an annoying dick with a thing for tall blondes with shiny hair and she was the quiet nerdy wallflower that never caught the eye of anyone. It wasn’t a likely combo to ever meet, let alone fall in love and have kids but it happened. Gerald was popular, the girls loved him and he enjoyed the attention he got. He played on the school sports teams and everyone loved him. From running to football to swimming he was an all-round superstar but only when it came to physical activities. He was failing lessons and Natalie was tasked with helping him enough to get his grades up. Over the course of their final school year they actually came to like one another as friends.

Their lives went in different directions, Gerald went to work as a mechanic at his father’s garage while Natalie went off to university, one of only a handful of women in her uni. She visited her home town over the course of her summers away from uni and she happened across Gerald one day, changing a flat tyre for a neighbour. The two had a small chat and arranged to meet at the local pub later that night. They spent all night talking about their lives, school, work, uni and what they hoped their futures might hold. At the end of the night shy, sweet Natalie made the first move, kissing Gerald and the rest, as they say, was history.

For many years after their wedding, Natalie and Gerald tried and tried and tried to have a child. Nothing ever happened, not a single pregnancy. Natalie was heartbroken but Gerald didn’t mind. He came from a family of many sons, they would carry on his family name and he could spend his life with the woman he loved. The pair travelled, built themselves a successful life supporting one another. Natalie went on to become a Lawyer and Gerald took over his father’s garage. They worked hard but always made time for one another.

Hot and flustered Natalie hated menopause. It exhausted her, it left her hot all the time, her joints ached and she could never get comfortable at night. She got sick a lot but was still able to go about her day to day routine. She took long service from work and spoke with her Dr. He suggested she might be pregnant but at 40 years of age, Natalie just laughed him off. Her mother had gone through menopause early and everyone knew you couldn’t have a child over 35, right? She did the test if only to humour her Dr and the results came back positive. She was indeed pregnant. Natalie was in a state of shock and told Gerald when she got home. It was hard for him to wrap his head around it too. Even more shocking is they were farther along than expected. Four months pregnant and that bloating and weight gain had turned out to be pregnancy, who knew!? But that wasn’t all, there was more news for the excited couple. Twins. After nothing for so many years Natalie and Gerald were stunned to discover they were expecting twins but they were overjoyed and prepared for their little bundles of joy to come into the world.

Zachary Oscar Zeller came into the world first, followed by a blue, hollering blob. Zelda Eden Zeller came into the world loud and out there, letting everyone know just what she thought about being born. She squirmed and kicked and was never an easy baby, nor toddler. She fussed a lot and clung to her parents at all times. She would hit her brother every chance she got and used to be a bit of a biter. She outgrew the biting and clinginess but not fighting with her brother. While he means the world to her he does have a way of getting on her nerves, but he’s the only person in the world she’d let get away with almost everything.

As a kid things were pretty interesting. Zelda would make things happen. She’d misplace her homework -coughZachwouldstealitcough- and she’d find it was magically in her bag by the time she got to school. Sometimes she wouldn’t get the toy she wanted on the playground and poof! She’d find what she wanted just behind her. There were many instances of magic through her life but she never really believed it was actual magic until their visit from a witch named Minerva McGonagall. She explained to them and their parents all about magic and Hogwarts and how both Zach and Zelda were magically gifted.

Diagon Alley was amazing. It was literally eye opening to Zelda, she wasn’t sure if she could open her eyes even wider. It took her a while to even blink, she just didn’t want to miss a thing! They went shopping for the most bizarre things, toads legs, cauldrons, owls, but by far Zelda’s favourite thing to shop for was her wand. She went through twelve wands before she found her perfect fit. It was an incredible feeling and it was so hard for her not to use it through the summer. Professor McGonagall had explained that minors (under seventeen which seemed like an odd age) weren’t allowed to perform magic outside of Hogwarts.

Once at Hogwarts Zelda was beyond excited to see the castle for the first time as the magical rowboats took her across the lake. Beautiful just wasn’t a powerful enough word to describe it. After the boat ride was travelling through the depths of the castle to the great hall, followed by the sorting. One by one the students were called alphabetically by surname. Everyone was sorted apart from Zach and Zelda. She watched as her brother was called up and the big hat sat on his head and down over his eyes. Zelda was anxious, she worried that they would be sent home. Zach was sorted and as the applause died down she was called. The last person in the hall to be sorted, Zelda walked to the three legged stool and took a seat. The hat came down over her eyes and a voice sounded in her ear, making her jump a little. She’d heard the house calls but nothing else, she’d not expected that hat to talk to her, and what a lot he had to say! It was quite the one sided conversation as he mulled over where to place her. She didn’t get a word in but she was kind of happy to find the hat yelling out “HUFFLEPUFF”, the same house that Zach had gone to.

School was great for Zelda. She enjoyed it a lot, she liked to keep fit and she found herself on the quidditch team in her fourth year as keeper. She was quick, nimble and had a good eye for the quaffle. Her coordination was fantastic and she loved flying. It gave her little daredevil streak something to do. In her fifth year she became a Prefect. She wasn’t a perfect student but she tried her hardest to do what she could. She had a sense of right and wrong that she liked to follow. Becoming a Prefect gave her some idea of what she wanted to do with her life.

By the time she was finished with Hogwarts, Zelda was ready to embark upon new adventures. She joined the Ministry of Magic, training as a Hit Witch. She felt comfortable with her job and enjoyed what she was doing, mostly. There were a few cases that were hard to work for a variety of different reasons but mostly it was a great feeling to be able to help people.

It’s not been a bad life for Zelda. She’s faced her share of bigoted arseholes and sadly it’s becoming more and more common by the day at the moment. There is a shift about to happen, Zelda can feel it, but she’s determined to carry on doing what she feels is right. The world will be brighter again some day.

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