Name:  Josephine Ryan Blanchard<br/><br/>Gender:  Female<br/><br/>Age:   25<br/><br/>Birth Date: 8/May/1983<br/><br/>Nationality: France<br/><br/>Distinguishing Characteristics:  Josephine has a small fleur de lis tattoo on her right inner wrist.  This symbol is an integral part of her family’s crest and signifies to the outside world that she is of the Blanchard family line.  Additionally her ever-changing eye color is a distinct characteristic of the women in her family.<br/><br/>Weight:  130<br/><br/>Height:  5’8<br/><br/>Eye Colour: Brown – but changes to shades of green, blue and grey depending on what emotion she is feeling (there is more explanation of this under the “appearance” section).<br/><br/>Hair Colour: Dark Chocolate Brown.<br/><br/>Appearance:  Josephine’s appearance is classic and elegant in its nature.  Her appearance has many to think she is weaker and more naïve than she actually is.  She has long dark chocolate brown hair that she tends to wear down and loosely curled. It offsets her slightly olive skin tone. She has a very feminine figure and has always known that she had inherited the beauty of the women of her bloodline. She has human characteristics.  Her cheeks have a natural pink flush to them and her lips a hint of red.  She is almost always wearing jewelry that has been passed down from generations, each piece holding a secret or a clue to her family’s past and to her magical abilities.<br/><br/>Her most unique feature is her eyes.  Though they are a rather dark shade of brown, they change colors depending on what emotion she is feeling.  When she is overcome with anxiety and frustration her eyes change to a shade of grey.  When she is deeply concentrating on her magic or immersed in one of her many lessons her eyes will change to blue.  Her eyes being green indicate that she is extremely excited and happy.  Her eyes remain brown whenever she is content her at peace with herself and the circumstances around her. Many of her features, particularly her changing eye color, are signals to the outside world that she is a Blanchard.<br/><br/>Personality:  Josephine has a quiet confidence about her.  Though she has anxiety and fear about her growing powers, she is confidence with everything else.  That confidence coupled with her tendency to be rather quiet often comes off as arrogant.  However, Josephine is known for having a heart of gold and looking for the good in every situation.  She is extremely intelligent, her wit and knowledge are both aspects of her personality that she prides herself upon.  She is naturally rather submissive, having being raised to know that despite her great power, she is slightly inferior to others because she is a female.<br/><br/>She tends to be the person that others feel they can seek confidence in.  She is determined to help anyone that she can, and is always trying to help others with their problems which sometimes is to the detriment of her own personal development.  She is the dependable one, which puts almost everyone else first, mostly because she fears exposing herself.  Though it is easy to win her trust, she tends to keep the conversation and the relationship focused on the other individual so as not to deal with her past or her own internal demons.<br/><br/>Occupation: Senior Student<br/><br/>Paradigm: Harmony and Balance<br/><br/>Skills: Skilled Pianist. She has the natural talents and those talents had been refined over the year of drawing, painting and dance. Additionally she has a predisposition to healing both magically and non-magically, and as such has fully developed abilities of first aid and basic medical care.<br/><br/>Weaknesses:  Josephine’s biggest weakness is her insecurity.  She fears that she will not be able to control her powers or grow into the powers that she supposedly possesses.  Her insecurity is hidden from most, and as a result she has a tendency to keep her feelings and worries to herself, which has led her to experience great anxiety.  Her anxiety and frustration impedes her progress.<br/><br/>Background:   Josephine is the youngest member and as far as she knows the sole survivor of the Blanchard family.  For centuries, her family has been revered for their magical abilities. That admiration had also developed into jealousy by many other beings that wished they were able to capture the Blanchard’s abilities and skills.  In response to the growing threats to the family line, the Blanchards had retreated deep into the French countryside to continue to develop the skills of the younger generation’s magical abilities. But their retreat did not last for long, as their rivals had found them and burned the family compound down.  Josephine was a young child when these events occurred and was taken into hiding by family’s friends to ensure that she was able to stay safe and grow into her powers.  She has been at the Academy since she was 16.  She has lived her entire life waiting to fully develop into her skills and secretly harbors a fear that she will not live up to the destiny that everyone claims is hers.<br/><br/>