Regan Hobbs is a hard girl to miss in a crowd. For one thing, she literally sticks out, at 5'8", a situation she deliberately exacerbates with brilliantly dyed hair and a personality to match. Maybe it's the height that drives it: Regan had her growth spurt early, and so she's spent a long time growing her attitude to match her appearance. Either way, no retiring flower is Regan. She courts notice, and while she certainly prefers positive attention to negative, she's not going to be particularly bothered by the latter either.

The most important thing to Regan is honesty, in all aspects of one's life. Hiding your light behind a bushel is just as bad as lying outright, in her book, and so she refuses to do either. Beware asking her for her opinion, unless you really, truly want it without a sugary coating. And if she feels strongly about something, she will not wait to be asked. This goes triple for friends; she gives it to the people she's close to straight, sometimes appallingly straight, and if they don't like what they hear, well, she's only being honest so maybe it's their behavior that ought to change.

It should not be surprising given all of this that Regan is almost impossible to offend. It can happen, but it's rare and requires a great deal of hard work. Most insults she brushes off, because everyone is entitled to an opinion and other people's opinions have no business affecting her own feelings about herself; and if you think you can get under her skin by giving her the same tough love she gives others, think again: she appreciates the honesty and is willing to concede that sometimes, she needs her own wake-up calls to the truth. She's human, and can be hurt, but you have to be very deliberately hurtful indeed to manage it.

The one thing that will upset her- and this is perhaps obvious at this point- is being deliberately lied to be someone she cares about. She gives those close to her implicit trust; she doesn't expect you to cater to her or only do what she thinks you should, but she does expect you not to hide the truth from her, whether it's what you're feeling or what you're doing no matter whether she approves or not (after all, she's gonna do what she's gonna do out in the open herself, and you're free to disapprove right back but she isn't going to lie about it. She expects the same in return.) Break that trust, and...well. As it turns out, Ree can hold a grudge, for a little while, at least.

Despite all of this, Regan is still an Azurcrest, and she's as fun-loving as anyone else in her house. Life is for enjoying, after all; otherwise, what's the point? She plays very, very hard when she plays, which is most of the time, and throws herself passionately into everything she does. She's bright and outgoing and looks for the potential fun in everything. She usually finds it, and if she can't, she makes it. There are times when she could stand to take things more seriously.

Once upon a time, one such thing was romantic relationships; Ree was involved in a fair few of those, between Ilvernmorny and her first year at Gooseberry: again, she developed early, and was precocious and eager with it. She likes people, likes flirting and kissing and fooling around and having fun with people, and she developed a reputation that could range, among people who gossip about such things, from 'heartbreaker' to 'slut.' She would take issue with either of those accusations- she was just having fun and spreading the love around, and she's never been dishonest with anyone; it's not her fault if people wanted something other than fun from her- but they still get said, if less so now: as with certain other aspects of her being, this settled down during Ree's sophomore year as she began to mature in past her perhaps-inappropriate early pubescent behavior. She still did, and does, a lot of flirting, and she's going to play Spin The Bottle til the day she dies if she has anything to say about it, but the 'fling' she started with older boy Dominic at the beginning of the year somehow outlasted all of that, and helped her figure out how to be a little more serious in the long run. It is, in fact, still going.

That Regan became a prefect was perhaps unexpected, but with early development came early maturity, at least of a sort. When she is given a responsibility, she fulfills it, come hell or high-water; it's part of her preoccupation with honesty. She agreed to the position, and so she'll do what it entails willingly and fully. She's a hard worker as well as a hard player, so to speak. And what Regan says she will do, she will absolutely do.


Maybe more of a hard worker, these days. Her first year as a prefect saw Ree taking far more responsibility than she had considered at first, to the point that somehow she became the one encouraging her peers not to go to the Grotto, formerly her favorite place at Gooseberry. She's grown in maturity and sense of duty toward the kids she's supposed to be looking after: if almost no one in her year as any sense, she'll be the one, goddammit.

Which sucks. Having to try to adult at sixteen is no fun. And Ree likes fun. But here she is, and she's doing her best to leave the whole party girl persona behind and grow into this new one.

MOTHER- Gloria Hobbs, nee Quayle, Administrative Assistant
FATHER- Raymond Robbs, Manager of a Quodpot supplies shop
COUSINS- Cricket and Ulysses Quayle

The way her mother likes to tell it, Regan Hobbs came into this world already yelling her head off. There's almost certainly a link between that truth and the fact that her parents never had the energy for another child; Regan was strong-willed and unafraid of using her voice from the very start, and while Gloria was pleased to have such an assertive little girl...well, she could have been a little less assertive.

The art bug caught Regan early; her crayon masterpieces covered nearly every surface of the Hobbs house by the time she was old enough to start school, and having schoolwork to occupy her days didn't actually decrease the volume of her artwork very much at all. She was the kind of child who would doodle all through class and still, usually, come up with the right answer when called on despite not seeming to have paid much attention at all. When scolded for the behavior- or, as she got older, for failing to produce assignments despite producing quite a lot of scribbles- she would always fess up right away, honest and unflinching, and go right back to doing what she wanted to do regardless of the demands of authority.

Despite this difficult behavior, Regan was a bright girl who managed, for the most part, to do all right in most things and outstandingly at anything she set her mind to. Outside of art, her strengths lay in competition and anything that would get her moving, allowing her to work off her copious energy. A retiring flower she has never been.

It was with some relief that the Hobbses sent their daughter off to Ilvermorny. Her Sorting into Thunderbird seemed particularly apt; she was, after all, a fairly thunderous young woman. Regan loved her new House, enjoyed being away from home, and acclimated easily to her new life at school. It was all such an exciting adventure, from Quodpot to the classes in which she could finally do real magic; still, she found it hard to really apply herself in those classes, few of which really catered to her interests or talents or genuinely engaged her. She didn't do poorly- she'd always been smart enough to coast along with slightly-above-average grades, but that was all she did. Coast.

It was her facility with artwork that really set Regan apart. She spent a great deal of her free time experimenting and teaching herself new techniques, both Muggle and magical. A school like Ilvermorny forced one to be self-taught in the Arts, as most Wizarding schools do. There were clubs, yes, but it wasn't the same as true classes, which was why, as her freshman year approached, Regan started a campaign to get herself into Gooseberry- the only school she knew of that did offer such classes. Initially, her parents were leery of sending their only daughter to a relatively new, relatively experimental, and above all expensive school- especially one that would, it seemed, loosen up the discipline Regan was faced with far more than Ilvermorny. Ultimately Regan conspired with the Thunderbird Head of House to apply without actually getting permission. She was accepted before her parents even really considered agreeing to send her there, but that acceptance spurred them into really looking into it, and ultimately they- after a few discussions with the aforementioned Head of House- decided that it probably was the best place to foster her talents; she was never going to make a very good MACUSA employee or Healer or shopgirl, after all.

The fact that she was awarded a partial scholarship on the strength of her talent helped.

Her first year at Gooseberry was like the beginning of a new world for Regan. Here, at last, she blossomed: classes began to actually interest her, and rather than doing all right and only truly excelling in extra-curriculars, she began to perform very well indeed. And having a real art class has been a revelation. Even the setting- the woods, the camp-like atmosphere, the great outdoors, everything- is better for her than the schools she's attended before.

Her sophomore year was a time of unexpected growth for Ree. She'd never have expected to be appointed prefect, but when she was, she didn't turn it down She got off to a bit of a rocky start (does anyone remember the whole "fight club" thing? Yeah, Ree was there for that, though she didn't participate, and she got put on probation as a result,) but after the one major hiccup, she began to knuckle down and take her responsibility to her fellow students very seriously. Especially with the increase of...creepy, potentially dangerous events around the school, she started doing her best to make sure the others stayed safe and to behave like an adult, for the most part; all of this culminated, for her, first in her vocal opposition to anti-prom- something that led to a serious fight with some of her closest friends, something she never would have contemplated at the beginning of the year, and one which dragged on far longer than she'd ever had the gumption to hold a grudge for before- and eventually, of course, in the magical game of Hide and Seek half the school ended up playing with Anonymous.

Which Ree actually, weirdly, enjoyed, at least at first? It was horrible and terrifying and she wished everyone was safe, of course, but it also felt weirdly good just to be doing something finally, to have concrete knowledge of all the vague spooky things that had been flitting around the edges of the school, confirmation of the fears she'd been harboring, and a way to fight them. The ability to get everyone back to safety if they all just worked hard and were brave.

Yup. Ree would definitely have been a Gryffindor in another life.

That said, it all got a great deal more awful before the end- Ree's going to be terrified of small dark spaces for the rest of her life, probably, and going into the Aesthetic Magic darkroom next year is going to be a problem the first few times- but in the end...well, they all did it, didn't they? Faced the dark terrible things and came out the other end and got everybody who'd been stolen back home. And while it was a lot worse for some people than it was for her, and Ree can acknowledge that, she still came out of it all feeling braver and more capable, more resilient and responsible than ever. Not to mention closer to her whole big Gooseberry family, because whooooa boy have they all been through some shit now.

Not returning to the school wasn't even an option for her. Her parents weren't exactly thrilled with the idea, but once the school was cleared by the authorities, they didn't really have much of a leg to stand on preventing her (well, except for the fact that they were her parents and could have put their respective feet down; but then, Ree had had a way since childhood of simply blowing right past her parents and doing whatever she intended to do in spite of their wishes, and while their were quite a few arguments about it in the Hobbs household over the summer, tradition held and Ree got her way in the end.)

Ree usually does get her way in the end, after all.