WW1- Cayetana Narváez
"𝘿𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙛𝙚𝙩𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣."
Name: Cayetana María Narváez del Monte
Nicknames: Caye
Birthdate: 24th of June, 1888
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Personality Type (MBTI): TBD
Blood Status: Pureblood
Nationality: Spanish
Physical Appearance
Hair: Pale blonde
Eyes: Dark brown
Height: 1.66m
Weight: 62kg
Body Type: Lithe
Skin Tone: Fair
Distinguishing Marks (scars, birthmarks, etc.): Several small scars on her upper body due to escaping the Germans
Background
Hometown
Cayetana grew up in the wealthy neighbourhood in Madrid, Spain, with a wealthy family, close relatives of Spanish President Narváez at the time. Despite the glamour and splendour, the Spanish arisocracy was in declive and Cayetana knew that soon their wealth would not protect them. She always dreamt of going to university and always dresses as a boy and twice a week, escaped to the Complutense university. One day, a quarrel with her mother made her escape to Castile la Mancha, where a childhood friend helped her disguise as a boy and attend the University of Salamanca.
Family
Mother: Milagros Eugenia del Monte
Known fondly by her family as 'Milagritos', though she was not a warm mother, she did her best to raise Cayetana as her own woman. Her husband died due to being a potential replacer for President Narváez and was left a widow. After a big fight with Cayetana, where she called out her cross-dressing and unfairly told her that she was a lady and had only one duty which she'd fulfill, her daughter ran away and was never seen again. She only heard of her in 1919, when she wrote to her about her whereabouts and disowning her as a mother.
Father figure: Professor Juan Manuel Serrano Villanueva
A brilliant and ahead-of-his-time man, despite being neutral about what was called 'The Great War' or 'The Cousin's War', he was nevertheless interested in the outcome. He always suspected of Cayetana, who called herself Alejandro de las Mercedes. He always knew that there was something off about Alejandro, and when he caught her red-handed, he was not thrilled about being taken for a fool, but when calmed down, and seeing Caye's potential, made her his protegé and was the one to inspire her about espionage and partake in the war with her improved disguise skills. He sent a letter to her home, letting them know that she was fine and safe in professional hands. He and Caye shared a special bond, being the afther Caye always waited for.
El Punto Mágico
House: Linces (Lynxes)
Best Class: Defence Against the Dark Arts, History of Magic and Arithmetic
Worst Class: Potions
Bachiller: Humanities and Political Sciences (Latin, Greek, History, Advanced Philosophy, Quidditch & Universal Literature)
Boggart: Her mother putting her a wedding dress
Riddikulus: The wedding dress turns into a suit and her mother faints dramatically
Patronus: TBD
Patronus Memory: Being in her first university lecture
Mirror of Erised: Being recognized for her academic achievements
Amortentia (what she smells like): strawberries, old books, green tea and smoke
Amortentia (what she smells): TBD
Career
6-12: Student in El Punto Mágico: Educación Primaria (Primary Education)
12-16: Student in El Punto Mágico: Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (Secondary Education)
16-18: Student in El Punto Mágico: Estudios Avanzados (some sort of bachelor's degree)
20-24: Right hand and secretary to Don Juan Serrano
25-30: Spy for the Spanish liberal party in the front lines
30-??: TBD
Personality & Attitude
Priorities: Educating herself, going away from her mother's grasp and doing something meaningful
Strengths: Whip smart, academically gifted, good at disguises and languages
Weaknesses: Can be sensitive and stubborn
Stressed: During the wars
Calm/Comforted: With a book in her nose
Favorites
Colors: Golden, baby blue, maroon and cream white
Weather: Sunny and cool
Hobbies: Reading, learning new skills and dark academia fashion
Fashion: She is one of the first women who wears trousers, vests and simple dressing instead of giving into the latest fashion
Relationships
Significant Other/Love Interest: Joanna Vallen ( @kathrynalicemc )
(STORY TBD)
Friends: Mysteria Charmworth ( @potionboy3 )
Both women's personalities are rather similar, and despite having different morals, they become good friends during the war and quickly become close.
Lunas Avery ( @cursed-herbalist )
Cayetana started her spying shenanigans when her investigations got her to a mysterious man from TOWER and soon applied to TOWER to assess the threat and soon met Lunas, who from the start suspected of her, who wanted to pass as a man called Don Anselmo Flores, and even after she was caught, her skills impressed the superiors so that they kept her as a nurse. After her ploy was caught, it was Lunas who, during the night of the Somme, alongside other two friends, arranged an escape route for her that'd get her to Britain where she'd give them all the intel she had gathered.
Alexej Kavinsky
(STORY TBD)
Colm O'Shea ( @unfortunate-arrow )
During runaways, she came across Colm's team and she nursed his wounds, and both bonded over their dislike towards the British and their histories with them, and although their time was cut short, Caye and Colm were pen pals, often corresponding and inviting one another to their weddings and important events.
Rivals: TBD (open as well)
Trivia
On her time in Salamanca, she earned a degree in Law and Political Science
She was a suffragette and advocated for women's rights and girls' more thorough education that didn't limit itself to womenly chores
Her mother tried to lock her in an engagement several times, but she always acted like she was mentally unstable or being annoyingly obnoxious and thus scared off possible suitors
She is a polyglot: she speaks Spanish, English, Romanian, ancient and modern Greek, Latin, German, French, Portuguese and Russian, and is always looking forward learning new languages
The first five were learnt in her studies in Punto and the university, meanwhile the last four were learnt on the trenches and still struggles to write in Russian
She also knows Suffragitsu and self-defence by Don Juan
She also forcibly learned how to be a high-society lady in Europe and helped her weave in Germany, France and Russia
In the 1960s, she was offered a position as a teacher by the resisting and hidden republicans who wanted to educate the younger generations. It only lasted eight months, and she had to run away with the help of the northern Maquis to escape back to England, and would return when Juan Carlos I was crowned king and abolished the dictatorship and offered all the teachers a pardon, among them Cayetana.
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just came across this map, i think it's quite interesting! it shows the identity sentiment of pertenance to a province / autonomous community by province, in brown-ish you have those provinces where the feeling is strongest, and in blue-ish those where the feeling is lowest.
the conclusions i can get while looking at it are
galicians, catalonians, basques and canarians are the ones with the highest regional identity. that should be no surprise, it makes a lot of sense as their cultures are the most distinct
all of castile has the lowest regional identity, which also kinda make sense i guess.
you can clearly see the two largest autonomic disputes in the country: guadalajara not feeling manchego (in fact i found this map on a tweet from someone from guadalajara demanding they secede from la mancha) and the old kingdom of león (león, zamora and salamanca) not feeling castilian.
andalusia is also quite interesting to me because you can clearly see the split between western and eastern andalusia. the west feels very andalusian, while the east not so much, especially almería.
the 'neutral' ones are the most interesting to me i think. i understand why madrid is like that, and i sorta get the balearic islands as well (people there tend to identify with their island and not the autonomy?), as well as murcia (people from cartagena would rather have a province of their own) but i have no clue about most of these
feel free to add your thoughts !!!
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