| “ | You might be able to hide and runaway from your pain but I can't. You think it's hard trying to pull yourself together for a few days every year? Try carrying the weight of our family on your shoulders. Our parents, the business, Felix. You can runaway when you like, and we'll manage. If I break, our parents lose everything. | ” |
–Vasilia to Ilija Fortescue | ||
Vasilia is the middle Fortescue child. She's a culinary student, inherited owner of the Violet Hound Pub, and also an unofficial employee of her family's Ice Cream Parlour.
Personality[]
Vasilia is fun, loving, sweet and charismatic. A social butterfly, she can hold a conversation with just about anyone and anything. Years of working in her family's shop have taught her how to read people exceptionally well, and how to handle them. You know those people that could talk someone off a ledge? She's that type of person. She just knows what to say, and how to say it. When you meet her she treats you like an old friend, and makes everyone feel welcome.
Vasilia has a creative and curious mind. She loves to try new things, though especially with food. She's always experimenting with recipes, and trying to create something new and exciting. She's a serious foodie. So when you are around her, expect to be well fed.
Vasilia has her faults though, being such a people person she wants to make everyone happy. So... She doesn't really know how to say no. She is always taking on more, and more, sometimes far to much then she should. At the same time, she is also quite independent so she doesn't ask for help easily. She doesn't want to worry those around her, or let them see her struggle. So, she'll carry the weight of the world and smile the whole time.
She is a very clumsy person though. Her hand-eye coordination is definitely lacking. She's the sort of person that can and will cut herself while cooking, will drop things on the floor, and trip on thin air. But hey, she's a good sport about it! In fact, her clumsiness is a quirk she's quite fond of, as odd as that sounds!
Vasilia loves life. Despite being a squib in a magical family she holds no resentment or jealousy (anymore) for her lack of magical abilities. She's come to terms with who she is. She loves herself, and loves to have a good time. She's the girl that will frolic in a field, make a flower wreath, make up her own constellations when star gazing, and has to dance when music comes on.
Relationships[]
Abigail and Florean Fortescue[]
Vasilia loves her parents dearly. She would do anything for them. Due to her Squib status she spent a great deal more time with her parents growing up then her siblings, and likewise spent much more time in the shop. Her parents taught her everything there was to know about running a business, and how to work with people. Easily they set her on the path she is currently on, and are the reason she has such a strong work ethic and business skills.
Ilija Fortescue[]
Her elder brother. This has been a strained relationship for several years. When she was 14 Ilija moved away for his work and was never the same. He has kept her at arms length ever since, much to her dismay. She's always been able to tell that something was wrong and that her brother was suffering, but he never shared his pain with her. Because of this she's also very guarded about her own pain and struggles. Since his return in September of 2025 though they have finally been opening up to each other. Though there is still a long way to go to fully mend the bridges.
Felix Fortescue[]
Felix is her younger brother who she adores more then anything. Vasilia has a very difficult time seeing Felix as the adult he is and often tries to protect him from everything. She goes out of her way to make sure that he doesn't deal with the burdens of their father's illness, or see how difficult she is struggling. She wants Felix to be happy and this has, in some ways, led to many toxic behaviors on her part. In part, she hates to tell Felix no, or have him feel let down. So, she will take on more and more on her plate. As long as it makes him happy. The toxic behavior was particularly evident in how she handled the situation of inheriting the Violet Hound. Knowing how worried Felix was about the family business she chose to try and run two businesses herself, instead of delegate. This eventually led to her collapse in the fall.
History[]
Vasilia was the little girl her parents always wanted. Her parents decided to start their family later in life than most. It wasn't necessarily by choice though, the couple had had a difficult time conceiving. When their first born son was born it was a wonderful blessing after years and years of trying. Vasilia's birth though was unplanned, as her parent shad come to believe their little boy was the only miracle they'd have. This second miracle came out kicking and screaming, announcing her presence to the world. Even as an infant she was a vocal, but happy girl. She was the sort of infant and toddler that made noise purely for the enjoyment of making noise. Only a few short years later and a third blessing joined the family, another boy.
Vasilia had a happy childhood, as one might image when your family owned and ran an ice cream shop. She always felt like she was living in a fairy tale. She loved to try all the flavors and help her parents and their employees create the ice cream. When she was still a child, there was a kitchen fire at the family home while she and her mother were cooking. While the fire was quickly contained, Vasilia's arms were burned extensively.
There was also something quite off about Vasilia. She never seemed to show any sign of magic. Both her brother's were displaying signs, but not her. Vasilia's parents had growing suspicions that she might be a squib, but those suspicions weren't confirmed until she turned 11... and no letter arrived.
While many families would be devastated by the news of a Squib (The Ollivander's just down the road from the ice cream shop had had just such an event several years earlier) the Fortescue's took this information in stride. It didn't change who Vasilia was. And while Vasilia, as a preteen and teenager felt a hint of jealousy for her two brothers she also had a strong support system. Each summer when her brother's would be home for the summer they would tell her all the wonderful things they'd learned at Hogwarts and she would tell them everything she learned at the muggle schools. Being able to attend school in the same area as her family's shop also gave her the opportunity to spend almost every afternoon at the shop, working with her parents and the employees.
It was during these teenage years that Vasilia learned to love cuisine, and decided that she would someday become a chef. While ice cream was a favorite she didn't want to limit herself to just one thing.
2022- Current[]
Vasilia was greatly unaffected by the Hogwarts murders and the Minister's death. Being a Squib, she has one foot in both the muggle and magical world. She started working at her family's Ice Cream parlour full time that year, and in particular took over the ice cream crafting. In September of 2023 she also enrolled in a four year culinary school.
In Spring of 2025 The Fortescue patriarch was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Both her parents had to step away from the business. Her father from his illness and her mother to care for him. This put the majority of the business on Vasilia's shoulders as Felix was still in school and Ilija had moved to Madagascar many years before. At first, Vasilia was able to juggle the business and her studies but it was difficult, leaving her little time for herself.
Then, in July of 2025 an old mentor reached out to her. He was finally retiring. And he wanted her to take over his business, the Violet Hound Pub in Horizont Alley. Unable to decline, Vasilia added this new responsibility onto her shoulders. After having spent so many years growing up in her father's shop she had business skills far above her age. But she was now holding the weight of two shops adn her schooling on her shoulder.
Eventually, it became too much and she collapsed in September, much to the shock of her family. Realizing just how much Vasilia had been overworking herself, the eldest Fortescue, Ilija, returned home to help relieve some of her burden. Likewise, Felix, now graduated, stepped up. While she has since recovered she still has a very bad habit of not asking for help when needed and overworking herself.