#and a lot of it is about young people who grew up w absentee parents trying to figure themselves out without good parental support

[5eyed]

some recent sprites for "on the flip side" characters (or rather the dimensional doubles of existing characters lol). ive posted characters from this universe a lot over the years, as its my oldest story that i still work on/think about, but ive never really explained who they are! if youd like to explore the setting and characters of "on the flip side" a bit, i made a carrd for it here (its still a wip but im trying to get it all finished within the month! main characters have fully written out bios & backstories, some side characters still just have basic info.) (also this all takes place in a fictional californian city and if you read this and go "wow that is definitely not how things are in california or the us" sorry i dont know shit im french.)

[oftaintedhearts]

SKYLAR MITCHELL ; ravenclaw | 17

stats.

➣ blood status: pureblood. ➣ parents: jennifer mitchell, amycus carrow unknown father. ➣ year: seventh. ➣ best subjects: quidditch & defense against the dark arts. ➣ worst subjects: herbology & potions.

bio.

     skylar mitchell was born and raised in salem, massachusettes after her mother fled the united kingdom during the first wizarding world war. her mother had found out she was pregnant after a brief affair with a well known death eater and, not wanting her daughter to grow up as part of that world, she kept the pregnancy a secret from the father and told skylar her father had abandoned them both when he found out she was pregnant. growing up with an absentee mother who was too busy falling in love with every man who paid attention to her and with no idea who her father was, skylar was left to her own devices throughout her childhood, discovering her magic for herself and keeping it from her mother, despite knowing her mother was hoping she’d show signs sooner rather than later. despite being given the option to attend her mother’s alma mater, the salem witches’ institute, or ilvermorny, when she received her letter from hogwarts on her eleventh birthday, she fought her mother to attend hogwarts and eventually got her way. her mother remained in the states, leaving skylar to travel to a new country on her own and without assistance, and she now only occasionally visits home during the breaks.

     she settled in well at hogwarts, making lots of friends and enjoying being away from her mother. from the moment she got there, she set to trying to find out who her father was and, eventually found out his name in her fourth year; amycus carrow. despite knowing he was safely locked up in azkaban and unable to get to her, she often has nightmares about him coming after her since learning about what kind of person he was, and the idea of him ever leaving the prison terrifies her. she keeps her father’s name a secret, not wanting anyone to know of her familial ties to the death eaters and wanting to stay out of the entire situation as a whole.

     though originally being confused about why she’d been placed in ravenclaw, having expected to end up in either gryffindor or ravenclaw, she quickly accepted her place. she knew she wasn’t the typical idea of a ravenclaw, with her nose in a book or a love for learning in a classroom, but she was intelligent in other ways that mattered just as much; rather than being overly book smart, she was street smart. having had to learn to look after herself from a young age, it was easy for her to adapt to situations and keep herself out of trouble... if she wanted to. sky is currently on the ravenclaw quidditch team as a beater, a role she is very good at as she uses it to let out all of her pent up aggression. though she’s hardly top of her class, she’s not at all unintelligent, rather she has never had the desire to apply herself in her classes and only makes sure her grades are good enough to keep her place on the team.

facts.

➣ though she’s very efficient with her wand work and spells, she prefers to settle her issues with people with her fists. she’s gotten herself many detentions throughout her time at hogwarts by being involved in fist fights because of her temper, but is trying to work on it.

➣ since her first year, she’s only gone home during break three times. she considers hogwarts more a home than where she grew up, mainly because people care more about her in her school than her mother ever cared for her. her mother sends her letters a few times a year with updates on how her life is going, as well sending presents for birthdays and christmases. skylar only replies to the letters.

➣ she has a pet ferret and an owl, named hercules and delphinus respectively. they’re basically her children and if you touch them or hurt them in any way, you’ll get your ass beat.

connections.

➣ carly sage ( @cicerosxphilosophy ) - how skylar feels about carly depends entirely on her mood. but also sky likes to turn carly into a human christmas tree every time they stay back at hogwarts during the christmas breaks. with lots of glitter.

➣ davina claire ( @fallenregent ) - got to know each other during breaks when they stayed at hogwarts while most other students went home. davina tutors sky in potions, sky pisses her off constantly with her lack of respect for potions. :)

➣ etta martinez ( @justoldnews ) - etta had to deal with sky getting her drunk ass locked out of the ravenclaw tower and not being able to answer the riddle, and in turn sky thinks she’s pretty chill, though they’re not entirely friends.

➣ jillian holtzmann ( @avidskiier ) - they sometimes hang out while sky is flying around and training on the quidditch pitch and holtz is just hanging around. sky is determined to show holtz how fun flying is and she considers holtz to be a friend, even if they don’t spend a lot of time together.

➣ kalani atwood ( @thewclfgirl ) - during a game of quidditch, sky got kalani injured badly enough to end up in the hospital wing and visited her out of guilt. kalani gained sky’s respect when she told sky she would have done the same for the cup, and they now have a mutual respect for each other.

➣ simon lewis ( @remembcr ) - simon knows something about sky’s mum and refuses to tell her, so skylar has basically just become simon’s #1 stalker. she’s basically just going to hunt the lil shit down through the castle until he tells her what he’s up to tbh.

plot w/ meeeee.