Reena Ashworth

Reena Ashworth
Gender: Female
Height: Average

Blood status: Halfblood
Raised in: Wizarding
Home: Puddles Way -- LilyGrove

Boggart: A mirror, showing herself in a distraught / disassociated state while the reflection slowly merges into her mother.

Patronus: Unknown
On first glance, Reena Ashworth appears to be ambitious, tough, driven, and autonomous. An over-achiever with a no-nonsense attitude and clear set goals. While analytical and even strategical in her work, she possesses a natural curiosity that she has learned to control and focus. She is careful about new commitments, yet when she does commit to something she refuses to be deterred from it.

On second glance however, it becomes clear that she is accommodating to others, especially to anyone she considers family, and caring to a point of self-sacrifice. She lacks self-esteem or perhaps she just lacks reassurance, which she is compensating for in her strive for recognition and ultimately: fame.

At home she had been forced to take on responsibility at an early age, as her mother gave little to no structure to their everyday life after her father's and uncle's premature passing.

She had shared this with her older brother Jaxen, both silently agreeing to take care of their younger sibling and cousins for them to be allowed the carefreeness of childhood. In her own rare moments of carefreeness she shows to be playful and capable of creativity alike her mother.

She looks at Jaxen as her partner, and admires him for his patience and good nature, while she cannot help but look down on their mother and feeling abandoned despite trying to understand her point of view. As a result, she has trouble accepting authority of adults unless exercised convincingly.
Reena was born second to Aubrey and Marcus Ashworth. Only a year apart each from her two brothers, life looked rosy for the young family.

Things changed drastically however, as her father died when she was merely five years old.

Her uncle Conrad died at the same time, leaving Reena's mother to take in her cousins to raise alongside her own children- only the life of a single parent of five not suit her well. Aubrey lacked the discipline to provide structure and she soon retreated into her creative outlets, leaving her eldest children to rise to the occasion.

And this they did.

Jaxen and Reena, with financial aid by their paternal grandparents, shared in the responsibility for their younger brother and cousins to keep them fed and entertained.

While her brother was happy to do that for their mother, things were not all that peachy for Reena. The responsibility weighed on her and, in the year Jaxen first left for Hogwarts, she stayed behind to manage the situation on her own. She had hoped for her mother to step in some more with Jaxen gone but nothing seemed to change.

Only the rift that Reena had felt grow between her and Aubrey before seemed to grow faster and wider. She felt unheard, her efforts unseen, and overwhelmed all by herself.

She would get angry with her mother and cry herself to sleep a lot that year, only ten years old, wishing to be at Hogwarts already- while also dreading the day she would have to leave her brother and cousin behind with only her mother.

The day she started Hogwarts came faster than expected, and Reena was both reluctant to go and in a hurry to leave. The aids her grandparents gave her family were the only thing easing her worry for the younger ones.

School was the first place she ever felt seen- and soon started to strive for recognition, musing about future goals to achieve.

If she became famous and with that wealthy, surely she would get all the help she ever needed?