Janique Kayla Sandoval

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Basics

Full name: Janique Kayla Sandoval
Age: 18
D.O.B: (Day and month) 19 July
Birthplace: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Current location: Merlin’s Academy for Excellence
Blood status: Half-blood, very slightly veela.
Occupation: Student.
Major: Dragon-Training
Year in University: First year, come term start.

Looks

Janique Sandoval (click here)
Hair style: She normally leaves it long and wavy, sitting just below her shoulders.
Body type: Slim and fit.
Dress sense: Casual, but not overly modest; skirts and tank tops or blouses.

Personality

Likes: Her boyfriend, manipulating people, anything that offers an adrenalin rush, food, and clothes.
Dislikes: Pink, overly nice people, flowers, dancing, very-girly things (not including clothes), and people who constantly pester her.
Quirks: She tends to flirt with every guy she meets, even though she has a serious boyfriend, to test the waters; as a self-proclaimed vigilante of sorts, who goes after playboys, getting them to fall for her before breaking their hearts in an attempt to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Flaws: She has huge trust issues when it comes to, well, anyone.
Strengths: She is very fast on her feet and a quick thinker, as well as a smooth talker, and as such is able to talk her way out of many situations. Certain spell work and potions.
Weaknesses: Non-verbal spells, making friends, and being open about her past.

More Information

Her mother, Cheryl Gray, and father, Dustin Sandoval, met when they were in school and were sweethearts all throughout their Salem days. They got married the moment they graduated, and had Janique when Cheryl was only 20. Due to their young age, they were not prepared to raise a child and it tore their love apart. They planned to stay together until Jani was old enough to understand, but on Janique’s 9th birthday, she had awoken to her mother crying; sometime during the night, Dustin had packed his bags and left. There was only a single note on the dining table that simply said: “I’m sorry.” They never heard from or saw him again. Her paternal parents, who were very rich, sent Cheryl a substantial amount of money to help her raise Jani – it was their way of apologizing for what their son had done, and the last contact either Cheryl or Jani had with them was at the bank, when the money was transferred.
Cheryl was devastated at this and fell into depression, went out and sought after new men – who, unable to resist her, took her up on her offers – and then used their money to fund her drinking and gambling habits. She would move through them almost monthly, and none of them ever came back to complain. Thankfully, she hardly brought the men over, and on the rare occasion that she did, Jani was merely introduced to ‘a friend’. It wasn’t till much later that she realized exactly who these ‘friends’ were.

Accepted to Salem when she was 11, she attended school happily, seeing it as an excuse to get away from her mother. It was towards the end of her third year that she met Vincent, a tall, handsome young man who was very gentlemanly to her, and while hesitant at first, he was very convincing. Come the start of her fourth year, they started dating, until three months later, she entered his room to find a pack of used condoms on his bed, along with a note attached to it that was most definitely not her writing – she had never done the ‘dirty’ with anyone before. Instead of being overly upset, all she felt was an odd sense of relief; it came as a kind of confirmation that guys were jerks that needed to be taken down a peg, and made it her mission to be the one who did it.

For the next two years, she did exactly that – she played the players and broke their hearts – until, one game of hers involved a boy named Callum Hunt. Somehow, over the course of the game, she fell for him, although she didn’t realize it until after the game finished. It took a while to convince him that she truly loved him, and it took a long time, but they reconciled, and became an official item. He was the very first person she let into her life and opened up to.

When she turned 17, and was considered a legal adult in the Wizarding world, Cheryl disappeared overnight, leaving her daughter without so much as a note, but, in what some might say was a means to sooth her guilt, Cheryl had transferred majority of the money Dustin’s parents gave them into Jani’s savings account. This was already much more than an average wizarding family had, and it made sure that Janique would have at least enough money to last her till she was 40, if she didn’t work and was careful in her spending.

Using some of the funds to move to the UK – for she wanted to get away from her past – she transferred to Hogwarts for her final years at school, alongside Callum, who, for his own reasons, moved along with her. Upon graduating, she moved into a house with her steady boyfriend, and, woken up one morning by a pair of identical ravens, discovered she was accepted to University. Although it was never something she had actually considered before, after looking through the subject offered, decided it would not be too much of a hindrance and made her choice of dragon training.

Family

Father: Dustin Sandoval
Mother: Cheryl Gray (neé Sandoval)
Siblings: None that she knows of.
Spouse: N/A
Girlfriend/Boyfriend: Callum Hunt
Children: N/A

Other (Optional)

Wand: 10 inches, cedar wood, dragon heartstring.
Broomstick:
Pets: Midget, a saw whet owl.
School that they went to: Salem, and then Hogwarts
House they were in: Nightshade, followed by Slytherin.
Why you chose your major: Why not? (This was the most appealing subject to Janique; this, and curse-breaking, but after research, she did not think it was that fascinating, and decided on dragon training in the end.)

OOC

OOC Alias: Melanie.
Best Way To Contact: PM (any of my characters)

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