OOC
Game: Quidditchery
Journal: graceful_lark
Played By: Jessica Alba
Basic Stats
Full Name: Graciana Calandria Ramírez y García
Gender: Female
Nicknames: Gracie, Grace
Date of Birth: April 11, 1974
Age: 25
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Sexuality: Straight
Marital Status: Single
Hometown: Retiro, Madrid, Spain
School: Escuela Bendecida de la Mágia (Blessed School of Magic)
Year: 1992
Bloodline: Pureblood
Wand: 10 in, willow, hippogriff talon
Pet: None
Occupation: Keeper for the Guadlajara Graphorns; Keeper and Captain for the Spanish National Team
Family
Father: Basilio Jorge Ramírez y Aznar (wizard)
Mother: Veta Sarita García y Fernandez de Ramírez (witch)
Brother: Pacho Hector Ramírez y García (wizard; b. 1972)
History
Graciana was born the second child to Basilio and Veta Ramírez, following older brother Pacho by two years. Both of their parents, as well as all four grandparents are magical folk, so Pacho and Graciana are considered to be pureblood, though just barely because their mother's parents are both muggleborn, which makes Pacho and Graciana first-generation purebloods.
The Ramírez family lives in the Spanish capital of Madrid, in the district of Retiro. Growing up, Graciana was more of a tomboy than a girly-girl: she tagged along with her brother and his friends when they went to watch bullfights or play fútbol (soccer) in the park (and she was always one of the best players when they let her play with them). Pacho and Graciana were very close as they grew up, so Gracie was upset and lonely when her brother went off to Bendecida when he was eleven. She coped for that by throwing herself even more into sports in the two years before she could join him at the Escuela.
Once Graciana had joined her brother at Bendecida, she proved just how adept she was at sports, gaining a spot on her Caste's Quidditch team in her second year. It was mostly just Quidditch that she excelled at in school. The only classroom subject that she consistently did well in was "encantos" (Charms); most of the rest were hit or miss. She didn't particularly care about her grades too much, as the only career she wanted was as a professional Quidditch player.
Unfortunately, genetics threw Graciana off her game for a while. She inherited her mother's curves and ample bosom, which started showing up in her fourth year. She took to binding down her breasts all the time, in an attempt to make them not grow so much (which, of course, didn't work). The changes in her body threw off her balance on a broomstick and she had to work even harder to teach her "new" body to move the way she wanted it to. By the start of her fifth year, she was back to top form as Keeper.
After leaving school when she was 18, Graciana scored (no pun intended) a spot as reserve Keeper on the Guadalajara Quidditch team. She waited (relatively) patiently as the reserve for two years before the previous Keeper left the team and Graciana was promoted in 1994. For a while, that was the happiest day of her life: the day she became the official starting Keeper for the Guadalajara Graphorns. But then, in 1996, that day was knocked into second-happiest, replaced by the day that she was chosen to be the Keeper on the Spanish National Team; after two years, she was made Captain in 1998.
