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Rings and Ravens

MAKING YOUR CHARACTER

When you make your character for this RP be as thorough and creative as possible. If you impress me you'll be rewarded! No canon characters, no one related to canon characters and no one who is basically a canon character with a different name, please. PM the profiles to ONLYTONI, before posting.


Name:
Gender:
Age:
Year:
House:
History: (where you were born, your parents, your siblings, half-blood? Pure? Muggle? Formative years)
Personality:
Flaw or weakness: (I will be keeping this to myself and it MUST be equal in magnitude to any super character trait you have. For example: Wicked awseome on a broom, but can't make any friends. If you aren't “that great” than you don't have to come up with something “really sucky”.)
Appearance:

RP experience: (how many years, literate? Genres?)

CHARACTER LIST

Off Limits NPCs:
Headmaster Dulgovery
Professor Bryn of Herbology
Professor Lenitov of History
Professor Werner of Defense Against the Dark Arts

Player Characters:

Player: ONLYTONI
Name: Richard Mathers
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Year: 4
House: Hufflepuff
History: Rich's parents met at an archaeological dig. His mother is a semi-famous witch historian and anthropologist his father is a half-blood. Rich was born in a small muggle town in south-western England and has no siblings. His father and mother taught him a lot about being a wizard at home, but he was very excited when he finally got to go to Hogwarts and be with other witches and wizards his own age.
Personality: Despite his excitement he is pretty shy and is more of a follower then a leader. He loves to learn things because the focus isn't on him but on the subjects. He prefers to be wallpaper.
Appearance: short and skinny, he can't quite manage his limbs and tends to stumble. He has dark hair that hangs in his dark eyes, long lashes and is very pale, which means when he blushes he turns an alarming shade of red.

Player: Junimaia
Name: Andromeda Baines
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Year: 4
House: Slytherin
History: Andromeda is the only child of her muggle parents, a peculiar circumstance given the fact that she somehow got sorted into Slytherin. Her father works as a consultant and an accountant. Her mother is a nurse. How her parents ever got together in London will remain a mystery to Andromeda, because for as long as she can remember, they were always yelling at eachother, mostly disagreements about the well being of their daughter. The father wanted to give her a chance to make her own path in life. The mother wanted her to get a nice practical money-earner job like a doctor. When they discovered Andromeda was a witch, it made the situation even worse. They divorced about a year ago, and Romy (as she likes to call herself) moved in with her mother. Nowadays, mom sometimes plays nice with her dad, though Andromeda suspects the woman only does it because she's getting alimony. While the girl finds some shelter away from the fights in the walls of Hogwarts, being a muggle Slytherin doesn't make her schooling position too comfortable, not with the pure-bloods anyway. She has spent alot of time alone in the library studying.
Personality: Enigmatic, patient, generally quiet, very independent, though not completely unfriendly to other houses. She has a tendency to keep to herself, however.
Appearance: Short and slender, with fair skin; she has quite a few freckles on her face though not many freckles on the rest of her. Her eyes are light hazel. She has long dark brown hair that shows glimmers of red in the sunlight. Her walk has a kind of balanced elegance to it, probably caused from her short-lived martial arts training when she was younger.

Player: FearlessDare
Name: Fearless Ann Pearly
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Year: 4
House: Gryffindor
History: Fearless's parents are doctors who are working in the hospital. They had Fearless before marrying. They are currently in the midst of divorce. Fearless's mother is a witch(pure blood) and father is a muggle. That's what is breaking the family apart. She got sorted to Gryffindor even though her mother had been in Slytherin. Currently, living with her dad in Arizona. She travels between the two countries, Britain and America because her mother is located in Britain and Fearless goes to school in Hogwarts, which needs her to catch the Hogwarts Express in Britain.
Personality: A very hyper and energetic girl. She has lots of friends and can very charming when she wants to. She is optimistic and believes that no matter what happen, she'll still be there for herself.
Appearance: She's tanned because she spends her time outdoors in Arizona. She towers over most of her peers and have a slim figure. She has blond hair which is bleached white by the sun. Her hair is wildly curly which can't be tamed, no matter how much gel is thrown onto it. Her eyes are dark brown, and sometimes, it's as dark as black.


Name: Lyra Elizabeth Calloway
Gender: Female
Age: 14
Year: 4
House: Ravenclaw

History: Lyra’s parents met in college. Her parents are both muggles – her mother is a biochemist and her father is a mechanical engineer, neither of them well-known. She was born in the southeast part of England, and lived there for most of her life. Lyra and her parents were extremely surprised when they received the letter from Hogwarts, as they had not even known magic existed. It did explain a few things, though. She has a younger brother, but it is not yet known whether he has magic or not. Lyra was rather intimidated by the school, the people, and magic itself at first, but has since grown to love it.

Personality: Most of the time, Lyra is friendly and helpful. She is trustworthy and honest (sometimes perhaps a bit too honest). Lyra is very shy, which is partly because she is intelligent. She loves to learn, and usually has no patience for slow learners, though she is otherwise quite patient. She prefers working by herself than with others, and loves instructions/directions. Lyra is not creative, and hates sudden changes in plans. She loves to argue/debate if it’s a subject she has interest/knowledge in, and can be extremely stubborn. She can stand up for herself, and always has. When Lyra gets angry, it is more of a cold temper than a hot temper. She becomes very quiet and polite, and her replies/remarks are short, but have a lot of force behind them.

Appearance: Lyra is an average height and only slightly skinny for her age. She was always rather skinny, but is finally beginning to fill out a bit. She has blonde hair and brown eyes. Her skin is rather pale and her cheeks normally rosy. She has full lips and a slightly crooked nose (from breaking it once, but it’s barely noticeable). When not wearing the Hogwarts uniform, she goes for comfort rather than style, but tries not to look completely dorky.

The clouds over Hogwarts churned in the sky as the sun set, unseen beneath the cloud cover, the sky darkening from the pale grey that had been washed over the skies since midday to the roiling dark masses of thunderclouds as the students returned to their house common rooms and beds or were lead there for the first time by clucking prefects. The Sorting Hat had warbled and divided and dinner had been served and eaten. The first night of the semester was over and the first day was hidden behind angry looking thundercaps and somewhere far beyond the horizon. Ignoring the ominous clouds and the late hours old friends chattered the night away after a long summer apart and those first years that were to shy or nervous to try and make friends shivered under their blankets as the storm began and lashed against the windows of Hogwarts Castle's towers and turrets and halls. Eventually every student retired to bed, there was school tomorrow morning and the first breakfast of the year was famously the best. As the storm subsided to a dull drizzle a raven shakes itself loose from the folds of some statue's dripping stone gowns and takes wing into the rising light of morning.

A text book carrying, freckle-faced, messy haired girl wanders down the hall, not really looking where she is going since her face is turned down towards her schedule placed neatly on top of her text books. She subconciously nudges to her right as a crowd of chattering Ravenclaw girls passed her on the left.

"Herbology... History... Divination... hmm..." she mutters, not really talking to anyone in particular. She felt a sudden sharp pain in her scalp, "OW!" she yelped, and turned to see a Slytherin boy her age yanking her hair.

The boy chuckled, "Dodgy Romy can't dodge this, now can she?" but the boy yelped as the girl slapped off his hand and silently glared daggers into his eyes. He responded with a frown, but there was also a twinge of fear in his eyes, "Quit being such a freak, you'll make our house look bad." He turned and left.

Andromeda just stood there staring at him until he dissapeared around the corner, then realized she needed to hurry if she was going to be on time for Herbology. She turned to walk to her first class, but stopped half-way to see Richard scurrying past her. Normally this wouldn't interest Andromeda, but she got an uncomfortable chill down her spine as he hurtled by. Curiously she mumbled to herself, "I wonder... nah..." then she shrugged off the feeling and strode to the greenhouses.

"Ah!" Andromeda ducked under the table just as a few prickle-bees swarmed her way. Her hat was on, but she hadn't quite got the gloves over her hands when Professor Bryn let the buggers loose. She heard students yelling at eachother and screaming as she furiously fitted the gloves over her fingers. Clearly some of the students had some kind of bug phobia.

Her own partner, a rather large and round looking Slytherin finally realized where she was. "What are you doing? HELP ME!" Andromeda glanced up at her partner, who was throwing spells sloppily left and right. The bumbling fool couldn't hit one of these things even if it was staring him in the face.

She scrambled out from under the table with wand in hand, "Oh for crying out-- Impedimenta!"

Three of the nearby prickle-bees stopped mid-flight, while another seemed to slow to half it's speed. Andromeda whisked the frozen ones into the jar. "Three more three more!" she exclaimed to her partner, but stopped to stare at the sight of him desperately trying to aim at the one prickle-bee she had slowed. It looked like the target was giving him a great deal of trouble. "Oh you have GOT to be kidding me!"

(( Being the pessimistic person I am, I'm not sure if I got the dice roll system down. Did I roll at the right time? And would you say I editted my post accordingly, ONLYTONI? sweatdrop ))

Andromeda was sweeping the slow moving prickle-bee into the jar when her partner left. "Good riddance," she muttered as she capped the jar to keep the prickle-bee from escaping. Somehow she always felt better working alone, it made things so much simpler inside her mind without needing to listen to other voices mucking everything up. It took her another 5 minutes to round up two more prickle-bees, but when she finally did, she placed the jar on Professor Bryn's desk and left the greenhouses with her school things. Half the class had already left by this point; she had the immense pleasure of being able to walk alone... at least until she got back inside the castle.

Fearless and her friends had been walking along the corridor towards their Defense Against Dark Arts lesson when she saw somebody almost getting trampled by the other students squeezing through the small door. "All of you go to class first, I'll see you there." She waved her friends away before pushing past the small crowd of people to get to the poor person. "Are you okay?"