It can be amusing watching patterns emerge in the applications at Sonora Academy. It can also be depressing. People strive to make their characters interesting and unique with their tragic backgrounds, with their interesting associations with animals, with their sexiness (yes, this happens enough to warrant a mention). Here some of these patterns, especially in regards to the applications, will be explored to a certain extent.

There were roughly 270 applications that have been received at Sonora Academy at the time this current page was made.

Note: Year groups as used here are in chronological order. Thus, '1' indicated those who started when Sonora first began and the highest number are those who have joined most recently.

Popular Animals

Easily the most popular animal in any context, the wolf roams its way throughout the psyche of many of those who came or wanted to come to Sonora.

Please note that in some cases, one person's use of the wolf is in two of these categories. And yes, that includes one case where it was chosen as both a Boggart and a Patronus. Also note that this is including some characters who were declined.

(year)

As a Patronus / good association

As a Boggart / bad association

As a name

As a pet / friend

Brought up by them

Attacked by in sample post

1	2	3	4	5
1	8	4	6	8
0	0	0	1	3
0	0	1	0	0
0	1	0	1	0
0	0	1	0	0
0	1	0	0	0

Why is the wolf so popular as a Patronus? There are plenty of reasons given, ranging from them representing nobility and gentleness to being vicious killers.

Multiples

It seems that when magic shows up, an increased chance of multiple birth happens. Just looking at the students who did or do attend Sonora, you can see this. While in a usual population twins occur at a rate of roughly one set for every eighty-nine single births (triplets in one for every eighty-nine twin births), Magical schools seem to host a higher percentage. At Sonora alone this can be quite easily seen:

Class of 8 SA

• Thyme and Teal Evergreen
• Zoey and Dillon Welsh
  
• Danielle Johansen (twin brother Bradley died previous to Sonora, so whether he had magic is unknown)
• Sorrel and Ash Craven

Class of 9 SA

• Christobel and Nicoletta Dupree
  
• Briar Jade (twin sister Amity. Unknown fate)
• Benjamin Cornelius and Alexandria Juliette Stafford
• Pyotr Ring (twin sister Anna was run down by a car)

Class of 10 SA

• Cassy Park (twin sister died in the year before she started at Sonora)
• Alexandra Christine and Lila Evangeline St. Martin
• Jillian Colahan (twin sister died in a car crash)
• Carmin Smith (triplet; Callie killed by a griffin at age five, and Sanora is at another school)
  

Class of 11 SA

• Gilberto and Leonardo Idoya
• Mateo and Jose Santoro
• Harmony Trent is one of a set of triplets (Bahnshii, other's name unknown; reason why not also at Sonora unknown)
  

Class of 12 SA

• Cole, Matthew and Rachel Trip

Other related examples

• Paul Simon Tellerman has twin cousins
• Ethan and Elliot Valentine are the younger brothers of Earl and Eavan
• Labyrinth and Chalice Markner are Grail's twin sisters
• Grace and James Anthony are twin siblings to Lutece
• Aaron McKindy has twin illegitimate daughters
• Günter and Kaleb Heindrich have younger triplet sisters.
• Rob Stone, if he saw himself in the Mirror of Erised, would see himself with a wife and their twins.
• Gwen and Morgaine Carey's mother, Lorena Vaughn, had a twin brother, George.

And, as can be seen above, being a multiple also seems to have a dark side, with almost one group a year having suffered the loss of one of the set. And as that's about as good an opener as I'm going to get, onto...

Tragedy

Tragedies are a favourite background chosen by many authors, and not always just in having it as an conversational piece. In some cases it's used quite well to explain certain behavioural patterns of the character and / or their families.

Of course, in other cases doesn't appear to be anything more than a painted 2D background to make things 'interesting'.


Death similarly seems to be something that many student characters at Sonora Academy have come to know all too well. Doing a search on 'died' amongst the applications brings up fifty results and 'death' gets forty-three, 'murder' brings up five results, while 'kill' brings up thirty-six results (keep in mind though, there are characters who show up on multiple searches and that some of the words are used in slightly less dire situations than might be assumed from what is here, i.e. 'hungry enough to murder a sandwich' or as a vision brought on by a Boggart).

(year)

Mother

Father

Twin/Triplet

Sister(s)

Brother(s)

Grandparent(s)

Animal(s)

1	2	3	4	5
2	2	2	0	0
1	3	0	2	0
1	0	3	1	0
0	0	0	1	0
0	1	0	0	0
0	0	1	0	0
0	0	0	1	1

(year)

Car Crash

Plane Crash

Run over by car

Tragic (and mildly humorous) accident

Magical Beast / Being attack

Fire

Bear Attack

Assassinated

Bullet

Suicide

Unknown

1	2	3	4	5
0	0	1	0	0
0	0	1	0	0
0	0	0	1	0
0	0	0	0	1
0	1	2	1	0
0	0	0	1	0
0	0	0	1	0
2	1	0	0	0
0	2	0	0	0
1	0	1	1	0
1	0	1	0	0