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The First Wand

At age eleven, a then female presenting Artem was dragging all the way to France for school shopping, primarily because Alanna wanted her half-Veela daughter to have a wand as exotic as she was. She also insisted on a Veela hair core, despite the fact that none of the wands really spoke to Artem. The child kept gravitating toward the simpler wands, but Alanna spoke over the wandmaker they were working with to get exactly what she thought Artem needed. The wand they walked out with was a firm 8 inch African Blackwood wand with a Veela hair core. Everything from the wood to the core radiated a stubborn and finnicky personality that Artem never clicked with. Even the ornate design of the wand was hard to hold. They did terribly their first year at Hogwarts, and in hindsight, Artem blamed their wand.

Artem can’t even pretend they snapped the wand accidentally because they looked their mother in the eye and broke it in half. She was understandably pissed, and Artem suffered the consequences of it all summer. Once they had a new wand, though, Artem couldn’t help feeling it was worth it.

The Second Wand

Artem’s father took them to Ollivander’s at the end of the summer because they couldn’t well be sent back to school without a wand. He had a much more hands off approach, but Artem also suspected that Ollivander wouldn’t have let himself be bullied as much as the French maker had. He helped Artem select a wand that in some ways was similar to the last. It was on the shorter side and unyielding, but instead of the finnicky stubbornness of the other, this one felt like an ally Artem could trust from the moment it was placed in their right hand. It was 9 1/4 inches of fir wood with a dragon heartstring core. It was simple but sturdy, and that’s what Artem needed.

It’s been hanging at their side ever since.

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Alexi isn't really a Valentine's Day kind of dude, but he is the type of person to give someone an actual, literal heart for the holiday.

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☼, ♔, 👓

☼ How does your character usually dress in daily life?

A funky athletic lesbian, okay? Artem doesn’t necessarily dress like he spends every day in the gym, which is probably good because he doesn’t have that kind of time unfortunately. He does still go on a regular basis, so it should be a surprise to find him dressed that way. He has worked hard to expand his wardrobe to be a little classier, a little more professional of sorts. That mostly just means adding some button-ups and a few better jackets.

♔ What (if any) jewelry does your character usually wear?

Artem isn’t really an accessories person. He occasionally throws on a necklace or a hat and sometimes remembers a watch, but that’s about it.

👓 What kind of mobility or assistive devices (if any) does your character use in daily life? (Glasses, canes, hearing aides, wheelchairs, etc.)

Artem does take a monthly dose of the Cypiotepoh Potion for hormone assistance that have helped him build up the muscle mass he has and physically shift where he carries body fat. 

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XOXO and ZZZ

XOXO.   does your muse use / like pet names?

Artem is not a huge fan of pet names because many have been used against them in general and in the ring full of condescension. They aren’t against them on principle, but they have to like you to let you get away with using one.

ZZZ.   how many people has your muse slept with?

Sex is a really complicated issue for Artem. They don’t mind letting people close physically in the right circumstances and had plenty of short flings and one night situations during their days involved in the muggle London gay scene. That said, Artem has a lot of discomfort about their body when it comes to other people. They don’t want their chest touched and need a partner they trust to allow anything below the waist. During their more dysphoric moments, even a pair of hands on their hips have been too much. 

This is just a long way of saying that Artem couldn’t give you an exact number of people they’ve “slept with” because their sexual encounters have larger existed in middle ground or focused entirely on the other person. 

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Cypiotepoh Potion

Since they were 19, Artem has been taking monthly doses of the Cypiotepoh Potion, a testosterone enhancement potion originally created to help Russian Quidditch players bulk up and have the muscle mass for the intense full-tree games they play. Since then, the formula has been adapted for a variety of needs. One of its more common uses is as an alternative to the Attisgalli Corrective Draught (x). Unlike the draught, Cypiotepoh’s effects will not create as much physical change. 

For Artem, the changes were largely internal and/or related to his muscle mass. As the way he carried his body fat shifted, his breasts did get smaller, although Artem tends to dress in specific ways to further reduce their size. He has looked for a wix-created way to mimic muggle top surgery because the idea of subjecting to muggle doctors sounds uncomfortable to Artem. There are a few potions they have found, but most seem to mimic the children’s version of Attisgalli, and Artem doesn’t want to create any other physical changes beyond what Cypiotepoh has already allowed them to do.

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Alexi + Cats

Alexi has had a cat since he was thirty years old and he never goes more than a month without them. He adopted the first one after he learned the transfiguration spell, because he’s never liked or trusted people but leaving the shop unattended has always bothered him. Something about naming them after the Catholic saints didn’t sit well with him when he knew they’d spend most of their time in a black magic shop, so he went with the other religious influence of his life and named most of them for the Greek gods.

He has no control over what they look like in their human forms, but he would (and has) said that they all still look like a cat.

Ares lived to be 41 years old.

Athena lived to be 62 years old. She's still one of the meanest cats he’s ever owned. She bit someone. While in human form.

Artemis and Apollo are the only time he’s ever owned two cats at once, but the twins refused to be separated. The rest of their litter died and they would not leave one another. Unsurprisingly, they were nothing but trouble and he chooses not to adopt more than one at a time now. Athena lived to be 71 and Apollo made it to 72, but he wasn’t the same after his sister’s death.

Zeus only lived for 12 years. One of Alexi’s clients killed him to take revenge on Alexi. She lived to regret that, but not for long.

Hera survived to be 87, so far the oldest of his cats. Also the most mellow.

Hermes lived to be 52.

Persephone lived to be 54.

Hades is 5. He’s the most judgmental cat Alexi has ever owned, but for whatever reason, he’s the favorite so far.

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☯❥✟

☯: Do they believe in karma?

They don’t believe in it in a true spiritual sense, but they do think the universe has a certain level of give and take to it. Doing kind things and being positive makes positive things more likely to happen while negativity and spiteful behavior will absolutely catch up. 

❥ :Opinion on love from the first sight

By batting their eyes and tilting their head just right, Artem could have half the room declaring love in an instant. Kind of kills the mood of believing in genuine emotion based on a first encounter.

✟ : Religious beliefs

Artem wasn’t raised with any religion in particular. Their family celebrating Christmas, but more as a collected opportunity for presents than any kind of religious reasoning. The closest thing Artem feels to religion is a belief in magic itself, that it will always work according to the rules that had allowed allowed it to work. But they don’t think much of it.

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The Goonies

The Goonies - Bling, bling, ladies! Does your muse wear earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, etc.?

Artem has pierced ears but very rarely wears earrings. They rarely wear jewelry in general, except necklaces, which tend to be fairly nondescript.