Dark Cyan 2 #ACC2C8 / Dark Orange2 #A8622F / Dark Blue 2 #25518E
Notes for playing Primary Tension: Loyalty to Alys and to Knapps Finch is torn by her dream of fitting into and belonging to a proper family vs her loyalty to Alys, her first master. Driven by family and her masters
Character development up for grabs but will shape her ethics and her loyalties? Broken by freedom/ not knowing to do with herself ---
xxx☒PERSONALITY▢xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx STAID Mild in temperament and quick to calm, Finch is a diligent worker and rather unadventurous and demure soul, who has always just accepted her station in life and wants to simply not cause trouble.
BUSYFinch is always working or looking for work. The idea that “idle hands make the devil’s work” has been engrained in her, and even if she doesn't believe in a devil, she doesn’t feel comfortable unless she has a to-do list. While independent enough to find what needs doing and get it done, she does require occasional guidance from the whims of her masters.
EFFICIENT Staying busy doesn’t mean dragging the work out though, and Finch always works as efficiently as she can. While generally sweet and polite, she learned that sometimes the most efficient way to get things done is to be a little snappy.
RESIGNED Finch expects to a certain extent to be given enough knowledge and supplies to do her work efficiently and aid her masters effectively, but she also fundamentally expects to be treated as property and a means to an end instead of a feeling creature.
LOYAL Finch prizes loyalty as the highest virtue, even if she still hasn't quite decided out what loyalty means in every scenario. Thus far, it's made her a little obsequious and never questioning her designated master or their lifestyle. She doesn't really try to be a suck-up, but obedience always trumped opinions, and agreement makes obedience a little easier to swallow. So long as no harm ever came to Alys, Finch would never contradict the masters she was contracted to, even when it was dishonest or hurt her or those she liked.
☒LIKES ■ Listening to people talk about their day while she works ■ Music ■ Cleaning, particularly laundry. ■ Young children ■ Researching hobbies or potential things of interest for her masters
▢DISLIKES ■ Gardening work ■ Not knowing what is next (or what something is) ■ Doing anything wrong ■ Large gatherings where alcohol is involved ■ Water or Air travel
☒STRENGTHS ■ Efficient and discreet ■ Picks up on how things are done and fits in quickly
▢WEAKNESSES ■ Nervous and impatient such that she doesn’t know how to rest or relax effectively. ■ Long suffering and doesn’t stand up for herself or those she cares about
☒DREAMS ■ Belonging with a good family and being treated as a family member instead of an outsider. ■ Alys settling down.
▢FEARS ■ Blood and Death ■ Freedom sounds a lot like being forced to face life on her own
xxx☒BACKSTORY▢xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ☒▢EARLY LIFE Finch grew up as part of a small cohort of elves that were worked or sold by the small but wealthy Alouette household. The Mistress of the household would punish the house elves severely if they were ever caught not working or working slowly. The Master of the household, while polite, regarded them as property to be used or sold as opportunity presented.
Before a stable household could be found for Finch to be sold to, she was contracted temporarily out to various other families to earn money. Some of these families were wonderful and kind, but others were horrifying and abusive. One such temporary master smashed a glass bottle repeatedly on her, tearing Finch’s left ear and breaking a few of her ribs. While the Aloutte adults paid no heed, their older daughter Alysanne, a sixth year at Beauxbatons at the time, personally got Finch out of the household and healed her. Since then, Finch has been fiercely loyal to Alys, and has taken it as a sign that if things were really bad, her young mistress would help her; otherwise, it was her responsibility and pride as a good house-elf to deal with whatever was thrown at her.
Occasionally, Finch heard of and met free elves who worked for wages and received vacations. She never dared bring it up before, out of fear to the family and respect for Alys. She's gotten by thus far, so Finch has decided that she need not stir trouble.
☒▢ADULTHOOD After graduation, Alysanne took Finch on a few cursebreaking and trading adventures, but when the house else proved extraordinarily prone to seasickness, Alys returned to contracting Finch out temporarily while on treks. Most of her time was spent cooking and cleaning for a lab of independent artificers and potioneers, but they soon hired a permanent elf and Finch was no longer needed.
Then in the Spring of 2048, Alys brought Finch to the Knapp Family, saying only that she owed the Knapps her life and that she would be left there for "a long time". Over her years with the Knapps, Finch grew to love the big gamily, and adopted a practice of adding a bead and braid to her hair for each child she saw off to Hogwarts for the first time. While she was freed by the House Elf Freedom Act, Finch insisted on staying in her domestic duties with the Knapps, fearing the instability of the world beyond.
☒▢KNAPP FAMILY A year into Finch's stay with the Knapps, a house fire killed young Deepak, burning him beyond recognition and traumatizing the other children. Unfortunately, the world moved on: Alarick and Kadence worked on their marriage, Aldrick and Brook married and moved out. Chadwick was kicked out for dating a boy, and Flick ran away because they found no acceptance at home. Finch sent packages to Chadwick and Flick when she could, hoping they kept well.
xxx☒RELATIONSHIPS▢xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ■ First Master:Alysanne Alouette and Alouette family.
FRIENDS ■ Previous families she’s worked for and their house elves ■ Curious about other elves’ lives.
xxx☒UPDATES▢xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CREATED October 2019 UPDATED 01 October 2022 UPDATES MADE ■ backstory to include more info on the events since joining the Knapps ■ (recent update) ■ (recent update)
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:01 am
Favorites Music Light and airy tunes that are quiet-like. Country music. Food Bread and butter Season: Summer, when the kids are home and even if there's zero time to catch up on the endless to do list.
Typicals Appearance Wiry frame, 2’9”, large deep-purple eyes. Various patches of bleached skin and bumpy cut marks left from scars of poor previous masters. Scar on her left ear where it was torn by glass then reattached via magic. Gets her hair ombre dyed by one of the kids very early on??? Braids little strands and cinches them with beads that turn their Hogwarts house. Clothes: Dresses in a sleeveless rag dress with a hood so that she can cover the potentially offending side of the ear. Something made of an old rag (any color) but styled cute? Optional tiny patchwork apron made of an old baby’s bib and string? idk
Favorite chores: Laundry, cleaning, cooking. Also quite enjoys reading. Handwriting Neat print, thick vertical lines and thin horizontal ones. Smells like laundry detergent or soap, cooking, and a tinge of whatever she's been working on.
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Misc Amortentia smells like baby powder and fresh laundry, scented oil and candles. Boggart is getting thrown her out and a storm at sea.
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:00 pm
➤xFINCHxxxTHExxxHOUSE-ELFx☒▢ Middle Aged || Knapp Family House Elf _______________
Yer post is gonna go here. Words. Descriptions. Let us know what your character is thinking and feeling. Let us know what's going on with their senses. Put yourself in their shoes "Oh, and sometimes your character will say stuff. That'll go here," they say. And then maybe you'll say why they said that, or how they felt as they said that. Thinking is also good. Anyone ever tell you to think before you speak? Exactly. SPEECH
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settingSETTING || with CHARACTERS || status THINK/FEELING _______________ //OOC: OOC TEXT HERE
”QUOTING”
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To Do: ☒ Dishes ▢ Laundry ▢ Clean the ___ Room
Schedule
~Is up between 4:00 and 5:00 to cook breakfast and fetch mail. ~After seeing the adults to work, she starts the laundry, then goes shopping. Returns in time to make lunch. ~Afternoons are spent cleaning the house. Each room is only afforded one day of the week. Any other time is spent taking care of the little ones and helping with garden. ~Sleeps around 22:30/ 23:00, later if one of the children are up late.
~Always can be interrupted by children if they need anything. But also will ask Kadence for permissions.
Regular To Do items ☒ Make Breakfast ☒ Get mail ☒ Dishes ▢ Check on baby? ▢ Laundry ▢ Shopping for Groceries ▢ Make Lunch ▢ Clean the ___ Room ▢ Garden Maintenance ▢ Make Dinner
