Full name: Ivy Blackmore
Short name: Ivy
Age: 18

Occupation: Student.

Appearance

Hair: a combination of red and brown hair shades with a gradient effect, darker at the roots and brighter at the ends, medium hair, messy, unkempt.

Eyes: Brown. Strong dark circles under the eyes due to frequent insomnia.

Face: Freckles, pale skin not only due to a closed lifestyle

Skin: Pale skin with freckles

Body: slender with large breasts

Style

Everyday (Outside): She prefers black oversized clothes that completely cover her body. She especially loves wearing hoodies. Her favorite hoodies are black and red, which she usually wears. She rarely wears dresses and almost never shows her body to others. She feels very shy and awkward about her appearance.

At home: She wears wide T-shirts or pajamas, in general, comfortable but large clothes.

Personality

Ivy is extremely withdrawn, timid, and deeply insecure. She has been bullied since her first year at university by girls from different groups. She has no friends. She is used to being invisible and fears drawing attention. She is constantly in a state of fear and panic, especially in stressful situations. She tends to run away rather than fight back. She blames herself for her weakness. She is wary of kindness and does not know how to react to it.

A hidden gift lies dormant within Ivy, affecting her painful condition because it finds no outlet and poisons her from within. Her pale skin is not only due to her closed lifestyle but also because of the gift's influence. The strong dark circles under her eyes are from frequent sleep deprivation or sleepless nights. Sometimes Ivy is simply unable to fall asleep. On such nights, she sinks into depression and self-digging. Her only escape from real problems is poetry and music. She does not understand what is happening to her and considers herself simply weak.

Sexuality

Bisexual. Ivy has never thought about what kind of partner she needs. Because of her difficult past, she seeks warmth in people regardless of their gender. However, Ivy is afraid to open up to anyone, as others have most often hurt her, and she is used to not expecting kindness in her direction.

Relationships

Alice: An unusual girl from the café who hides an unusual secret. Meeting her changed Ivy's life and opened her eyes to the existence of another reality. Ivy reached out to her and for the first time wanted to truly befriend someone. Alice agreed to become her friend.

Sophie: A waitress from "The White Rabbit" café. A kind and sympathetic girl. Ivy almost immediately noticed her understanding and warm eyes. She works part-time and often refuses to wear the rabbit ears that are part of the waitresses' uniform, explaining that they distract her from work.

Eva: The kind owner of the café and Alice's mother. She treated Ivy with understanding when Ivy snuck into the café's back yard, showing heartfelt hospitality. In the future, Ivy will consider Eva a wonderful mother.

Natsumi: A sporty senior student who protected her from bullies. They had never met before. Ivy feels gratitude toward her for saving her.

Bullies: In her first year, Ivy couldn't fit into the team, and because of her withdrawn nature, she ended up outside of different groups and companies. Because of this, she became an easy target for mockery from various bully girls who felt impunity toward Ivy. Some bullies took pleasure in tormenting Ivy even after classes. Most of the bullying was verbal, especially if boys were mocking her, but the bully girls often tried to humiliate her physically: locking her in closets or locker rooms, hiding her things, pouring water on her, scattering her notebooks, and the like. Because Ivy never answered back and endured it, the bullies felt their superiority over the girl, and they liked it.

Father: Her father cowardly abandoned her mother when she became pregnant with Ivy. Throughout her childhood, until she was 14 and ended up in the orphanage, Ivy knew nothing about him. Then he came for her at the orphanage, assuring her that he repented and wanted to fix everything. Ivy went with him not out of love for him, but because life in the orphanage was hard, it was the first place where her peers began to bully her. Despite her father's attempts to bond with Ivy, she saw him as a stranger and could not fully accept him. In desperation, her father decided that Ivy needed a complete family and decided to marry a woman he had known for a long time. The father tried to be fair in the new family, but because of this, he never got close to Ivy, although he sincerely wanted to correct his mistakes and become a good father to her.

Father's family: In the new family, Ivy gained a stepmother and a stepsister. Both treated Ivy with disdain. The stepmother was jealous of Ivy's father's attention to her own daughter, and the stepsister was spoiled and quickly began to treat Ivy more like her servant. The stepsister also became the cause of multiple abuses at home and at school, and later at the university

Interests

• Reading and mysticism: She often hides in the library and reads strange books about mysticism. She is genuinely interested in magic and the occult.

• Poetry: She often writes poetry, trying to express herself through it.

• Music: She listens to music that can be described as goth and emo.

• Dream of escape: She dreams of escaping the country to the outside world, which she has only read about.

• Belief in magic: She believes that magic and mysticism are real, even though everyone around her considers it nonsense.

Background

Ivy grew up with her mother, Sandra, until she was eight years old. Her father left almost immediately after learning about the pregnancy. When Ivy was eight, her mother fell ill and soon died. The doctors could not determine an exact diagnosis and attributed her death to a weak heart.

After her mother's death, Ivy was sent to an orphanage, where she lived until she was fourteen. Life there was hard; older children treated her poorly, and Ivy, being withdrawn by nature, found it difficult to connect with others.

At fourteen, her father remembered her. He claimed that over the years he had realized his mistake and wanted to return to Sandra, but it was too late. It took him several more years to find the girl and complete the adoption paperwork. Ivy went with him not out of love, but because life in the orphanage was hard. Her father tried to bond with her, but she saw him as a stranger and barely spoke to him.

Hoping to create a complete family, he soon married a strict woman who had a daughter of her own. The stepmother showed no love for Ivy and was rather jealous of her husband's attention to her. She gave all her attention to her own spoiled daughter, who bullied Ivy in every way. The stepmother always covered for her daughter, and the father, after marrying, tried to be fair, but he never managed to get close to Ivy. Because of all this, Ivy completely closed in on herself. She saw no allies in her family.

She had no friends at school, and honestly, she did not want to go to university, but her father insisted. From her first year, Ivy became an outcast and an easy target for bullies. Girls from different groups began to mock her.

Ivy often hides in the library and reads strange books about mysticism. She believes that magic and mysticism are real, even though everyone around her considers it nonsense.

Ivy is a real witch, born in a place where magic is suppressed by the Barrier. The gift is passed down through the female line. Her mother, Sandra, did not know about her gift and died from its suppression. The gift requires release; if it is not developed, it begins to poison the witch from within. Common symptoms are withering, weakness, insomnia, and cold.

Formally, Ivy is not considered sick, but rather a girl with weak health. Her father attributes this to her lifestyle. Her stepmother and stepsister believe she is pretending and has "Cinderella syndrome." Ivy herself thinks she is just weak. She does not know she is a witch yet. She still has to uncover the secret of her mother and her lineage.