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- AGE 17
BIRTHDAY 14 February 2015
BLOOD STATUS Pureblood
WAND 10 and 2/3 inches, Larch with a Veela Hair core, springy with a decorated shaft
MORE-THAN-AVERAGE Butterfly Animagus
GENDER Female
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION Heteromantic
SEXUAL ORIENTATION Heterosexual
FACECLAIM Kesha [x]
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- ATTENDING Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
HOUSE Hufflepuff
YEAR Seventh
BEST LESSONS
- ⇢ Music
⇢ Defense Against the Dark Arts
⇢ Charms
WORST LESSONS
- ⇢ Herbology
⇢ Potions
⇢ Divination
OWL SCORES
- Astronomy ⇢ A
Charms ⇢ EE
Defense Against the Dark Arts ⇢ EE
Herbology ⇢ P
History of Magic ⇢ A
Potions ⇢ P
Transfiguration ⇢ EE
Art ⇢ EE
Care of Magical Creatures ⇢ A
Cooking with Magic ⇢ A
Divination ⇢ P
Muggle Art ⇢ A
Muggle Music ⇢ A
Muggle Mythology ⇢ A
Music ⇢ O
Wandless Magic Practice Class ⇢ EE
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Student
DREAM JOB Musician
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- FRIENDLY
- ⇢ Jojo likes people. She's skittish around strangers sometimes, but she tries not to be. She enjoys talking to others, about pretty much anything that interests them. She feels like overall, she has a lot of lost time to make up for. A recent boost to her confidence has left her wanting to correct all the errors she feels she made in regards to her social life when she was in a bad place.
OPEN-MINDED
- ⇢ Initially being brought up in a stuffy, pureblooded househole, and subsequently being abandoned and tortured by the members of said household, left Jojo feeling very strongly about the ideas she'd been raised on up to that point. Namely, she thinks they're garbage. Partially out of rebellion and partially because she believes it's important to be a decent human being, she is exceptionally open-minded and accepting of other people, regardless of anything about them. The only thing she can't accept in a person is if they are particularly awful, or outright evil.
PLAYFUL
- ⇢ Jojo likes to tease and goof around with her friends. She's quick to make a snarky quip, and always up for anything that sounds like they'll be having fun together. In general, she is polite and kind to people she doesn't know. With her friends, it's an entirely different story. She likes to pick at them and get under their skin a bit, though she knows what lines not to cross, and when to stop. She would never do anything to hurt her relationships with her friends.
ANXIOUS
- ⇢ Due to the trauma in her past, in spite of her best efforts, Jojo isn't entirely over all of her issues. She does still have issues with anxiety, often imagining the worst when something bad happens. She will jump to negative conclusions about a situation fairly quickly, and can be difficult to talk down from these moods. For the most part, she can keep it under control herself, but when it's particularly bad, only certain people have the ability to calm her down.
AFFECTIONATE
- ⇢ Jojo greatly values everyone in her life. She personally feels like, with everything she's been through, she's a complete and utter mess most of the time. She knows she's better now than before, but she was still pretty bad before, and feels incredibly lucky to have people in her life who were willing to stick with her during that time. As a result, in spite of certain snarky comments and relentless teasing, she tries to make sure that every one of her friends knows how much she cares about them and how important they are to her.
EXTROVERTED
- ⇢ It came as quite a surprised to Jojo when she realized that she was actually quite the extrovert. She'd always assumed that introversion and shyness went hand in hand, and that due to her shyness, she must be an introvert. However, she realized eventually that, while she did have difficulty with people sometimes, and was quite shy, she was never worn out or exhausted when around others. She actually found the presence of other people to be quite invigorating, and felt more like herself when surrounded by people she was comfortable with. Being alone for long periods of time left her tired and antsy.
LIKES
- ⇢ Butterflies
⇢ Fantasy films
⇢ Cats
⇢ Rock music
⇢ Art
DISLIKES
- ⇢ Strangers
⇢ Most of her family
⇢ Closed-mindedness
⇢ Nuts
⇢ Quiet
HOBBIES
- ⇢ Playing music
⇢ Writing
⇢ Watching films
STRENGTHS
- ⇢ Passionate
⇢ Open-minded
WEAKNESSES
- ⇢ Suffers from PTSD
⇢ Not very focused
FEARS
- ⇢ Lysandar Tempest
⇢ Losing her loved ones
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- CHILDHOOD
- ⇢ Johanna, given the name Persephone at birth, was the first and only child born to Antony Devon Tempest. His wife, Evelyn, died giving birth to her. Upon her birth, her great-grandfather Edgar, the head of the Tempest family, was angered to learn that she was a girl, believing this to be a second failure in the family to produce a proper heir (the first being her father's cousin Avis, who is a squib), but her grandfather Lysandar decided that he would make the best of a bad situation. From the time she was three, he was teaching her how to be a proper, noble woman. Her father was greatly disturbed by the interest Lysandar had taken in his daughter, due to the fact that the man had abused him as a child. But, her grandfather doted on her, only ever harming her once, as a punishment for 'being very bad.' Johanna can't remember what she did to invoke this punishment, but learned the lesson well. Growing up, Johanna found herself in a very odd spot in her family. She wanted to please her grandfather and great-grandparents, but she also looked up to her father and loved her cousin Ava very much. Her father's distaste for his family and the family's hatred of Ava confused her, so she spent a lot of time trying to sort out how she felt about things like blood purity and lineages and nobility.
⇢ Her understanding was finally clear when, just before she was to begin school, her grandfather went insane and attacked her cousin Ava. She doesn't remember much of what happened, only hearing shouts and screams, followed by her father bursting in on her with Ava close behind, and then being Apparated away. The three of them went to stay with a friend of her father's named Annabelle, who Johanna had never met before. Their lives changed drastically as, following the scandal and the additional discovery of her father's homosexuality, everyone but her Aunt Callidora was disowned, written out of her great-grandfather's will, and barred from the family estate. Things were difficult for a time, adjusting to the changes, but she generally felt that she, her father, and her cousin grew closer as a result. Freed from the influence of her more toxic family members, she began developing a much more accepting outlook on life.
SCHOOL YEARS
- First Year ⇢ Johanna's first year of school was reasonably uneventful, save for the great surprise of her being sorted into Hufflepuff. She felt very out of place her first few weeks of school, but slowly grew more used to her house and its reputation. She eventually realized that perhaps it was a blessing to be sorted into the house of badgers, because she knows she made at least one friend, something she isn't sure would have happened had she been in any other house.
Second Year ⇢ The Summer before Johanna's second year was the stuff of nightmares; her family had been found by her grandfather, who was intent on killing them all. But, he found when he went to kill Johanna that he didn't have the stomach for it. Angered by his weakness, he proceeded to torture her for days before a chance message from her father's employer led to her rescue at the hands of the very dashing Auror Darcy Bennett. However, she couldn't seem to relax or feel safe until she returned to Hogwarts. The school year was blessedly uneventful, aside from the Yule Ball, which Johanna attended with her best friend Emily, though she ended up 'ditching' Emily early in the night so that the other girl could be free to dance with a boy in their year she had a crush on. Johanna also began exchanging letters with Mr. Bennett, who was even so kind as to send her a Christmas present, much to her delight.
Third Year ⇢ This year marked a few changes for Johanna; first and foremost, she decided that she was done being mousy and quiet and meek, and decided to actively try to be more out-going. She started going by a new nickname, Jojo, because she decided that 'Seph' was too weird and 'Persephone' was too old-fashioned. She also had her first date, though it didn't go remotely how she expected. It turned out that the boy who'd asked her out, Jesse, was actually just trying to determine if he were into girls or not. Still, she supposed it could have gone worse.
Fourth Year ⇢ This was a particularly eventful year for Jojo, and not in a bad way like her second year had been. After leaving school, she went on a trip to Germany with her friend Emily, along with three others. She spent much of the trip feeling like a fifth wheel, given that the other four all were apparently paired off with one another romantically, but nonetheless had fun. Upon returning to England, she met Kenneth Lowery on and outing to get an owl for herself, who she would continually run into over the course of the year, until eventually, he asked her on a date. In spite of her nearly cancelling and having a panic attack, it went well, and they began dating. The rest of the year was mostly a constant internal struggle for her, finding herself having anxiety attacks over seemingly inconsequential things, and teaching herself to pull back and calm down. She was, by the end of the year, much more successful at doing so than when it began, and is quite proud of her progress.
Fifth Year ⇢ Jojo was somewhat optimistic when she left school to return home at the end of her fourth year, but her optimism was short-lived. As the students made their way to the train, a group of dark wizards who fancied themselves the successors to the Death Eaters of the wizarding wars attacked Hogsmeade Village. Before Jojo could really react, her boyfriend apparated both herself and his cousin Prudence to Platform 9 and 3/4 to get them to safety, and promptly disappeared. When he returned moments later, with a couple of younger students in tow, she realized he was attempting to save some of the students who lacked the knowledge to protect themselves. Worrying for his safety sent her into a panic attack, and she passed out. After the danger had passed and she knew he was safe, she became ashamed of herself for her response. Certain that he'd realized she was more trouble than she was worth and would break up with her, she began avoiding him. Eventually, Kenny tracked her down, afraid she'd been considering doing the same because he'd abandoned her at the platform. During their attempt to work through the issue, Jojo confessed to him everything that had happened to her at the hands of her grandfather, in an effort to make him understand why she was so broken. To her surprise, he didn't break up with her, and instead said that it was his job to take care of her when she had problems. Her issues persisted, but she was comforted by the fact that someone cared about her enough to stick around, even knowing about everything. When she returned to school, she attempted to focus her efforts on studying for her exams, though admittedly she didn't focus nearly as hard as some people (Jesse and Elliott, for instance).
Sixth Year ⇢ Jojo didn't quite know when she made the decision to become an animagus; it had happened some time between taking her exams and getting the results. She decided that she needed something to prove to herself that, if she really focused her attention on something and fought for it, she could accomplish any goal she set for herself. Animagus transformations, being an incredibly difficult branch of magic, appealed to her for a good many reasons, the difficulty of the accomplishment being only one. The majority of her sixth year was spent fighting with her own insecurities and trying to convince herself that she could succeed. She had a very hard time convincing herself, though, until her seventeenth birthday. To celebrate, she elected to skip the Valentine's Ball being hosted by the school, and instead met Kenny in Hogsmeade for a date. An incident the previous Summer had her feeling especially insecure concerning their relationship, which had been a large part of why she was having so much trouble with her self-confidence as a whole. However, the date took an unexpected turn, and at the end, she was left feeling much more confident, both in the relationship, and herself. With the newfound confidence, she found she stumbled less than before, and at the end of the year, successfully became an animagus. The discovery of her animagus form seemed particularly appropriate, as she had felt a kinship with the transformation process butterflies underwent in their lifetimes for a while. To celebrate her newfound self and leave her past truly behind her, she and her father had her name legally changed from Persephone Johanna Tempest to Johanna Eilir Tempest.
Seventh Year ⇢ ...
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- FAMILY
- ⇢ Father Antony Tempest, Mother Primrose Tempest (deceased)
⇢ Grandfather Lysandar Tempest, Grandmother Yvette Tempest (deceased)
⇢ Great-Grandfather Edgar Tempest (deceased), Great-Grandmother Lenore Tempet (deceased)
⇢ Great-Aunt Callidora Nott, Great-Uncle Remington Nott, Second Cousin Edric Nott
⇢ Great-Uncle Nikolas Tempest (deceased), Great-Aunt Camila Tempest (deceased), Second Cousin Avis Tempest
FRIENDS
- ⇢ Best Friend Emily Vanadeth
⇢ Kenneth Lowery
⇢ Jesse Calvert
⇢ Gypsy Lovette
⇢ Jeremy Lovette
⇢ Elliott Holt
⇢ Dorian Xanders
ROMANTIC INTEREST
- ⇢ Kenneth Lowery
ENEMIES
- ⇢ Lysandar Tempest
PETS
- ⇢ Siamese cat Sapphire
⇢ Mottled owl Roxxi
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