Auttenberg, Nixie

Nixie Evonna Auttenberg

PERSONALITY

Nixie is typically one who likes to stay out of the spotlight at all times. Being a new arrival from Germany, most people aren't incredibly fond of her nationality, so she tries to lay low. Unless she absolutely has to speak up about something - something she finds unjust or wrong - she keeps her mouth shut and just nods along with most things. With that being said, she is intolerant to intolerance. As a professor, she absolutely will not tolerate discrimination in her classroom of any type. Gender, race, sexual orientation (not that that's a big issue), etc. She tries to teach her students about respect for one another no matter where they come from or what gifts that were bestowed upon them at birth.

With that being said, she can be rather intimidating as a female. Not only is she prideful and willing to stand up when necessary, but she can also hold her own. She has been trained in fighting skills that she keeps under wraps, and truthfully, not much of anyone knows much about her history. But she is a force to be reckoned with and not someone to take lightly despite her quiet mannerisms.

HISTORY

Born in Germany on December 12, 1898, Nexie lived a rather normal, wealthy life with her older brother and parents. Her father was a well-known and powerful Auror, while her mother was a Healer at one of the largest magical hospitals in the country. Truthfully, she had a calm and pleasant upbringing with a busy social life, loyal friends, good grades, and a wonderful energy about her. This was her story for the first sixteen years of her life... Until 1914.

The first World War happened faster than anyone could have anticipated, and for the first year, she remained mostly unscathed by the actions of the higher ups of her government. Her father and mother, however, saw the threat in the storm that was building and gaining momentum with each and every second. Wanting his daughter to be prepared for anything that came her way, he began to teach her the arts of self defense - both magical and physical. He put her through rigorous training sessions each and every day for that first entire year - teaching her all she needed to know about the dark arts, charms, and even how to win a gun fight with a knife. She was a deadly weapon by the time she was seventeen.

As for her mother, she began that same year to teach her daughter how to perfect the art of healing, just minus the actual coursework it required. She wanted her daughter to know how to fix any injury inflicted upon her or someone who was attempting to help her should she ever be separated from her family... And unfortunately, that's just what happened.

One day - at the age of eighteen - when the war was roaring and nearly at it's peak, she was abducted from her childhood home on a raid. Normally, she would have been on her own at that age, but the war had changed those circumstances while her parents tried to keep her close and safe. Because of her skills, she was recruited to the German side of the war - the side both her and her family opposed, despite their heritage - instead of being immediately offed for rebelling. She was turned into a machine of war - "Black Widow" as they called her - as opposed to a machine of self defense and sent in to do a lot of the sneakier fighting for the Germans. Murdering became an every day occurrence to her, which went against every single instinct in her soul... But what do you do when you're trying to survive? When you have no other choice?

She was weak then. And just before the war was over, she finally broke free of the chains that were placed on her. Now nearly twenty years old, she snapped - killing her entire squadron before burning their camp to the ground. With no way for the other soldiers to know that she escaped due to all of the bodies being burned to ash, she went into hiding and did so until the very end of the war. Germany was in shambles and completely destroyed, and after returning to her home to see it no longer standing, she knew she had to leave. Had to escape everything she had done.

So Nixie fled. Took the wealth her parents had accumulated and left behind and crossed the border into France. From there - with the help of a temporary alias - she boarded the first boat she could get a ticket for and sailed to the United States. For a few years, she was simply drifting and trying to make a life for herself to no avail. The guilt she felt for the things she had been too weak to stop were eating her alive, but at the age of twenty-one, she decided the only way to redeem herself would be to try and help others instead of hurting them. So she sought out for training and education to be a professor and accepted her position as a Charms Professor at The American Academy of Magic at the age of twenty-four.