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MJ Spooks
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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2016 10:19 pm


xxx:: Characters ::xxx
Antony Tempest
Johanna Tempest
Lillian Cody
PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:46 pm


xxxxxxA N T O N Y xxxD E V O Nxxx T E M P E S Txxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

          xxxxxxA B O U T MExxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
              NICKNAMES »» Ani
              AGE »» 39
              BIRTHDAY »» 9 September 1997
              GENDER »» Male
              FACE-CLAIM »» »» Ewan McGregor
              BLOOD STATUS »» Pureblood
              WAND »» 13 inches, Hawthorne with Centaur Hair, supple and smooth
              LANGUAGES SPOKEN »» English, some Irish Gaelic, some French
              ACCENT »» »» Received Pronunciation
              PET »» - - -

              LIKES
              xxx»» Being outdoors
              xxx»» Muggle cinema
              xxx»» Music
              xxx»» Candy
              xxx»» Being social
              DISLIKES
              xxx»» Being alone
              xxx»» Bigotry
              xxx»» Alcohol
              xxx»» His past
              xxx»» Himself
              HOBBIES
              xxx»» Reading
              xxx»» Hiking
              xxx»» Cooking



          xxxxxxP E R S O N A L I T Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              QUIET
              xxx»» Antony's father taught him one lesson as a child that he's never really grown out of; that he was to be seen and not heard. He rarely attracts attention to himself. His voice is soft, and he very rarely raises his voice. Typically, he keeps his thoughts to himself and refrains from taking part in conversation, unless his opinion is explicitly asked for. He's gotten better about this around people he's comfortable with, but in a public setting or among strangers, he reverts to this trait.

              THOUGHTFUL
              xxx»» He is often lost in thought; he had few friends as a child, and has had fewer as an adult, and as a result, he is always thinking. He is often found staring off into space, his attention elsewhere. The result of being rather quiet and solitary is that his mind is rarely focused on the present. His attention tends to drift when not focused on something important. Unfortunately, given everything he's gone through, this trait often causes him distress. He tends to get wrapped up in his own misery and think continuously on the mistakes he's made.

              MEEK
              xxx»» It's hard to say if Antony ever had much in the way of a will of his own. If he did, it was bullied out of him by his father at a very early age, leaving behind a soft-spoken man who would rather suffer in silence than speak out in his own defense. He was closeted for a good portion of his life as a result, and turned a blind eye to a lot of behaviors he now wishes he'd had the courage to act against. Even now, with his father and grandparents dead, he finds their shadows looming over him, controlling his tongue. Rather than make decisions for himself, he will often defer to his friends when looking for something to do. He is less inclined to ignore outright injustice, but even when he speaks out, it is quietly and without much bluster to back it up.

              ASTUTE
              xxx»» s distracted as Antony can be, he is still an incredibly smart man, and very observant. Years of watching his father for the slightest change in mood or hint that he was displeased has made him very good at paying attention to the people around him. He knows how to watch a person for their tells, signs that they are lying, that they have a secret, that they are afraid, etc. In general, this knowledge is simply useful for how he interacts with them, though when the situation calls for it, he can easily use it to manipulate a person. His alcoholism and recovery have hindered this somewhat, as his memory isn't always great and he often forgets the things he's observed. But, now that he has maintained sobriety for a while, he is improving.

              ANXIOUS
              xxx»» Antony has been through a lot in his life, and very little of it has been good. At this point, he's always waiting for the next blow to land. He obsesses over small worries, and tends to often assume the worst. For a long while, he used alcohol as a crutch to keep himself sane, but eventually had to admit that it wasn't a healthy path to take. Nowadays, he is constantly filled with restless energy. Whenever he feels an attack coming on, he goes out for some fresh air, or heads to the dueling range to blow off some steam.

              ADDICTIVE
              xxx»» The trouble with being an addict is that, when a person chooses to get clean, they often simply replace one addiction with another. This is certainly the case with Ani; when he was disowned, he threw himself obsessively into his work, saying that he needed to ensure his success to continue to support his daughter. He slid easily down the slippery slope into alcoholism once his depression hit an all-time high, and didn't see fit to try and rouse himself out of it until it became apparent that his bad choices weren't only effecting him. Unfortunately, cutting one addiction out leaves you wide open for another; it's a very good thing that he's getting more and more active, because his diet is becoming increasingly sugar-based.

              STRENGTHS
              xxx»» Kind
              xxx»» Clever
              WEAKNESSES
              xxx»» Low self worth
              xxx»» Succumbs easily to addictions
              FEARS
              xxx»» Losing his daughter
              xxx»» His bad decisions hurting the people he cares about



          xxxxxxB A C K S T O R Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              CHILDHOOD
              xxx»» Antony was born as the first and only son of Lysandar Tempest, the third heir in his family line, behind his father and Uncle Nikolas. He spent most of his childhood attempting to go unnoticed, mostly as an attempt to save himself from his father, who abused him, masking it as punishment for minor offenses. He wasn't particularly close to anyone in his family, except for his mother, who was always the exact opposite of his father, kind and affectionate (though only when they were alone).

              SCHOOL YEARS
              xxx»» Antony was, like the rest of his family, sorted into Slytherin upon entering Hogwarts. Fearing his father's wrath should be be less than the best, Antony worked hard in school, but found himself relaxing the longer he was away from him and his grandparents. Free of their influence, he was able to open up. He was able to discover things about himself that he never had the courage to admit, fearing retribution; namely, that he disagreed with his family's purist ideology in regards to bloodlines, and that he is gay. Knowing he could never be honest with this family, he resigned himself to keeping his own secrets, and to continue living his life as they saw fit. While he was in school, his uncle Nikolas and Aunt Camille had a son of their own, though he would turn out to be a Squib.

              ADULTHOOD
              xxx»» Upon graduation, Antony was immediately wed to a pureblood witch from an old family rather like his own. The marriage was an unhappy one while it lasted, facing the obvious difficulty of his sexuality and the fact that she agreed with his family concerning the importance of blood. Still, the pair managed to conceive a child, a daughter, which served as a disappointment to his family as she was not a proper heir, but whom he loved all the same. Her mother died in childbirth, something Antony has always felt guilty for regarding as a blessing, since it freed him of her presence and their child of her influence. Antony was always worried about the influence his father had on his daughter. Recently, however, through a tragic and terrifying turn of events, this has become a non-issue; Lysandar's growing frustration with the deficiencies of his son and nephew culminated in him making an attempt on Avis' life, resulting in the death of his Uncle and Aunt, as well as the disowning of all members of the family but his Aunt Callidora on the premise that they were all a failure to the family name.
              xxx»» Antony packed up his daughter and Ava and moved them away to Scotland, hoping that his father would never come looking for them there. Things seemed to be good enough, though the adjustment was certainly difficult. He was proud of Persephone when she was sorted into Hufflepuff, because he'd always thought that he might've been sorted there himself, except he was fairly certain the hat knew what would happen to him if he were. This suspicion was proven true when his father resurfaced after Persephone's first year of school, breaking into their flat and leaving him and Ava incapacitated for days while he tortured Persephone in the next room. Antony suffers nightmares to this day of his daughter's screams, though he never admits as much due to knowing she suffered so much worse during the ordeal. Eventually, Ava was able to get a message out when Antony's boss sent an owl demanding a reason for his absence from work. The authorities were alerted, and Lysandar was captured and sent to Azkaban.
              xxx»» The family returned to England at this point, the memories of what had occurred in Scotland driving them away. Their lives continued on, and Antony watched and struggled as his daughter grew up. On the one hand, he was terrified of anything bad happening to her, and wanted nothing more than to hide her away and keep her safe. On the other hand, she was already an anxious, insecure mess of a child, and his neurotic over-protectiveness only made it worse. He often found himself seeking out Belle for help, and she would remind him that his daughter (she started going by Jojo around age fourteen; he didn't blame her, since her grandfather had chosen her name) was a normal teenager, who deserved to do normal teenager things. He relented, letting her go on a trip out of the country with friends one year, provided she promised never to be apart from them while she was gone. Likewise, he allowed her some freedom around Diagon Alley, if only because the odds of anything bad happening to her there were slim. Mostly, he let her hang out around the tattoo parlor, which he frequented given that he'd begun seeing the owner.
              xxx»» Eventually, Jojo met a boy, which Ani had known was inevitable but still found shocking. He liked Kenny well enough, he supposed, and liked his family as well. In fact, Ani soon counted the boy's father Ciaran among his friends, a fact that bothered both their children. This only grew worse when Antony and London ended their relationship, as there were casual jokes tossed about by various parties that it was only a matter of time before Ani and Ciaran began to date. Ani found the jokes funnier than anything else, but tried to shut down anyone who made them in front of his daughter.
              xxx»» Things seemed to be just fine, until word got out that Lysandar had been broken out of prison. Ani contacted Kenny and informed him of what had happened. He didn't want to tell Jojo, as the information would be distressing a best, panic inducing at worse. But, he thought that Kenny knowing was best, since she was pretty much always with him when outside the castle. Unfortunately, this didn't protect her; she was kidnapped on her birthday her seventh year, gone without a trace.
              xxx»» Antony didn't know what to do with himself; by this point, he'd given up hope on protecting her. The authorities were doing their best, and even they couldn't find a trace of her. There was nothing he could do to help matters. Feeling broken and hopeless, he spent more time drunk than sober, willing the whiskey to numb him until he felt nothing. He was drunk the night Kenny told him they'd found Jojo and were going to save her, and his later memories of the conversation were written off as the deluded fantasy of a drunk until he was told she'd been rescued. Jojo was returned to him, albeit in a concerning condition. Her memories had been altered by Lysandar, who'd sought to 'fix' her by making her the person he'd intended to raise her to be. The original memories returned, but fear of making a mistake and breaking her psyche prevented anyone from attempting to remove the false ones. As a result, she suffered a split personality, and he, in a way, had two daughters. There was Jojo, the Hufflepuff who had been disowned and he'd raised, and Persephone, Lysandar's perfect doll. Antony strove to help her deal with her issues, but found himself struggling with Persephone's existence. She unnerved him, reminding him too much of his father. As things settled and the two halves of his daughter's psyche seemed to come to terms with one another, he got better, but he still finds Persephone unnerving.
              xxx»» It was concern for his daughter that inspired his return to sobriety; during the early months, Jojo's response to Persephone's existence was to get drunk and force her into a sort of void. She said that Persephone was quiet when she drank, and Antony found himself growing worried that his daughter had picked up on his bad habit. Eventually, he quit, and convinced her to do the same, with help from Kenny and her friends. To distract him from the anxiety caused by a clear head, Ani took to spending more time outdoors. Eventually, he met a man named Topaz Mortemer, who he got along with quite well and was good for helping him get out of the house. Topaz was an outdoorsman, something Ani couldn't claim of himself but would like to. Jojo wasn't quite happy about the relationship, mainly because she could see that her father's feelings for the man weren't strictly platonic, and she felt her father was being led on. But, it was his life, and she had her own to live. Jojo moved in with Kenny eventually, and Ani was left to distract himself with his social life and telly to fend off the desire to drink.



          xxxxxxS C H O O L AND C A R E E Rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              ATTENDED »» Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
              HOUSE »» Slytherin
              GRADUATED »» 2016
              OWL SCORES
              xxxASTRONOMY »» EE
              xxxCHARMS »» O
              xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS »» O
              xxxHERBOLOGY »» EE
              xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC »» O
              xxxPOTIONS »» EE
              xxxTRANSFIGURATION »» O
              xxxALCHEMY »» EE
              xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES »» EE
              xxxSTUDY OF ANCIENT RUNES »» EE
              xxxWIZARD LAW »» O
              xxxWANDLESS MAGIC PRACTICE CLASS »» O

              NEWT SCORES
              xxxASTRONOMY »» EE
              xxxCHARMS »» -O
              xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS »» O
              xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC »» O
              xxxPOTIONS »» EE
              xxxTRANSFIGURATION »» O
              xxxSTUDY OF ANCIENT RUNES »» EE
              xxxWIZARD LAW »» O
              xxxWANDLESS MAGIC PRACTICE CLASS »» O

              CURRENT JOB »» Works for the Office for the Improper Use of Magic
              DREAM JOB »» No dream job, he just wants to keep his head above water



          xxxxxxR E L A T I O N S H I P Sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION »» Gay
              RELATIONSHIP STATUS »» Single
              SIGNIFICANT OTHER »» - - -

              FAMILY
              xxx»» Daughter Johanna Tempest
              FRIENDS
              xxx»» Best Friend Annabelle Ross
              xxx»» Darius Ross
              xxx»» Ciaran Blake
              xxx»» Topaz Mortemer
              xxx»» Siobhan Edgeworth
              xxx»» Wesley Edgeworth
              xxx»» Amata Harlowe
              ENEMIES
              xxx»» - - -
              ACQUAINTANCES
              xxx»» - - -


MJ Spooks
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MJ Spooks
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 5:16 pm


xxxxxxJ O H A N N A xxxE I L I Rxxx B L A K Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

          xxxxxxA B O U T MExxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
              NICKNAMES »» Jojo, Persephone, Seph
              AGE »» 23
              BIRTHDAY »» 14 February 2015
              GENDER »» Female
              FACE-CLAIM »» »» Kesha
              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
              LANGUAGES SPOKEN »» English
              ACCENT »» Irish Received Pronunciation
              PET »» Owl Roxie

              LIKES
              xxx»» Tattoos
              xxx»» Loud music
              xxx»» Butterflies
              xxx»» Quiet
              xxx»» Wintertime
              DISLIKES
              xxx»» Strangers
              xxx»» Closed-mindedness
              xxx»» Nuts
              xxx»» Dirt
              xxx»» Thunderstorms
              HOBBIES
              xxx»» Drumming
              xxx»» Reading
              xxx»» Games



          xxxxxxP E R S O N A L I T Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              OPEN-MINDED
              xxx»» Initially being brought up in a stuffy, pureblooded household, 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.

              ANXIOUS
              xxx»» 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
              xxx»» 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.

              FRIENDLY
              xxx»» 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.

              INTELLIGENT
              xxx»» Of all the mistakes Lysandar Tempest made with his granddaughter, perhaps the biggest one was nurturing her sharp mind. He valued intelligence over all else, and wouldn't have ever stood for Persephone to be a dullard. She was naturally a bright girl, but as Jojo, her intellect had been hampered by self-doubt. Persephone lacked this barrier, and her natural gifts flourished under the tutelage of her grandfather. Of course, his need for her to be bright bit him in the arse when she used her brain to realize that things weren't quire right with the life she lived. Her natural curiosity and observational skills proved troublesome for him. But, now that she's free and fully aware of the truth of things, she is at least pleased that she benefited from things in some way.

              STUBBORN
              xxx»» Constantly being told that you're not real and don't exist can have rather damaging effects on a girl's psyche. Particularly when that girl's psyche is in fact split down the middle, and one half knows for a fact that it is, in fact, not quite real. Understanding the truth of how she came to be made Persephone feel constantly attacked. Every little thing seemed to be a reminder that she was a figment invented by a madman, no matter how real she might feel. Rather than letting herself be bullied back into non-existence, she dug her heels in and refused to budge. Now, she has a much more balanced relationship with Jojo, and enjoys taking advantage of this trait when Jojo is too timid to stand up for herself.

              STRENGTHS
              xxx»» Passionate
              xxx»» Clever
              WEAKNESSES
              xxx»» Suffers from PTSD
              xxx»» Bull-headed
              FEARS
              xxx»» Losing her loved ones
              xxx»» Vanishing



          xxxxxxB A C K S T O R Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              »» FALSE MEMORIES UNDER SPOILERS ««


              CHILDHOOD
              xxx»» 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.

              xxx»» 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.
              xxx»» Her understanding was finally clear when, at the age of ten, just preparing to enter her schooling at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, her grandfather very suddenly came to her room one night and took her away. Confused and afraid, she begged him to tell her what had happened, because something was clearly very wrong. Reluctantly, he informed her that her Uncle Nikolas, his wife Camila, and her beloved cousin Ava had all plotted together to kill her and her father. They were resentful, Lysandar told her, because they believed that, as a male, Ava should have been looked to as heir before Persephone. She was devastated to learn that her grandfather had been too late to save her father; they had succeeded in murdering him. Lysandar told her that he had killed her uncle and aunt in an attempt to save Antony, but Avis had escaped. Fearing both for his granddaughter's life and that he would be blamed for all three murders and left unable to protect her, he had taken her away, and into hiding, in case her cousin had a mind to finish what his parents had started. The child's perception of her family was shattered, and she vowed that she would always trust her grandfather and do as he said.


              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.

              xxx»» Lysandar was unable to risk allowing his granddaughter to attend school. He risked her safety long enough to take her to Ollivander's to get her wand, and then, they vanished. Persephone was taught magical theory by her grandfather, but never allowed to properly practice magic. Paranoid to the extreme, he was fearful that, should the Ministry find them because she had used magic outside of the school grounds of Hogwarts, he would be found guilty of the murders of the other members of the family, and she would be taken away from him. Eventually, he moved them to a secure location, an old holding in the family name that was unknown to anyone alive, except himself and his father. Many spells for protection and secrecy were woven over the property, and here he was finally able to teach Persephone magic. She was quick to learn, and eager to please. She was taught a good many things, including powerful dark arts, which Lysandar informed her she would need to know to protect herself, and to follow in his footsteps, which was her only ambition. She didn't quite understand, but grew to accept him, remembering her vow to always trust his judgement.


              ADULTHOOD
              xxx»» Upon Persephone's seventeenth birthday, when the Trace broke, Lysandar took her from their sanctuary for the first time since they had come there. Moving through the shadows, he finally shared his secrets with her, telling her the truth of what he did when he left her alone and why. Her grandfather, she learned, had taken it upon himself to try and help 'right the world.' The corruption he had seen in his own family scared him, and he had realized that following the written law and acting as society allowed was not helping anything, and was actually allowing the world to become sick, a place where the innocent were harmed by the actions of the deranged and entitled. People like her uncle, aunt, and cousin, he told her. It took some time, but she began to understand that he was right; Lysandar was a powerful wizard, he couldn't simply stand back and not take action, and he wanted for her to be strong as well. The fight, he said, would not be over by the time he died, and he needed to know she would be safe when he was gone. The pair took up with a young witch named Rui, a dangerous woman, Persephone was warned, but a useful one. She had informed Lysandar that she wanted chaos, to watch the world burn. While chaos was not his objective, the world burning was certainly something that would benefit it, as it needed to be cleansed so it could grow new and fresh and pure. Persephone promised her grandfather that, in spite of her reservations, she would do as he asked, always, because she knew that his intentions were good, regardless of his actions. She reasoned that the end would justify the means, and trusted him completely.


              xxx»» It was eventually determined that Persephone was old and skilled enough to accompany her grandfather on outings to 'recruit' for Rui. She would go out, in disguise, with her grandfather, and observe from a distance as he tried to entice young witches and wizards to take up 'the cause'. On one such evening, Lysandar left her to wait in an alley, as he had 'business' to attend to that she shouldn't be privy to. Persephone waited dutifully, until she was approached by a young man. He claimed to know her, but called her by the wrong name, referring to her as Jojo. Something about him disturbed her. For some time she had been noticing and subsequently ignoring odd little inconsistencies in her own life. For one, she had a tattoo and a piercing, neither of which she remembered getting, and which her grandfather certainly wouldn't have allowed. A tattoo that the young man knew about, which he claimed to have given her. She denied it at the time, but his words only deepened the cracks. He'd seemed familiar. He'd known about her tattoo. But, she convinced herself that he was lying, somehow.
              xxx»» She found herself questioning everything. When her grandfather returned to the keep one night with a boy, a redhead he called Pancras, that same odd familiarity hit her. She avoided the boy as much as she could, though her grandfather tried to push her at him at every opportunity. She rather got the feeling that he was trying to set them up, in fact. But, she was too put off by the sense that she knew him to ever go for it.
              xxx»» Technically speaking, she supposed, she was right to be suspicious of him. One night, the keep was broken into, a feat she'd been told was impossible. Of course, its supposedly impenetrable nature relied on none but a select few being granted access, and access had been granted to the wrong person in this case. Pancras, it turned out, was a spy, sent in to find her by the young man from the alley. Once he'd earned some modicum of trust, he'd snuck the two of them, along with two Aurors, into the keep to 'rescue' her. She doesn't quite know what happened in the encounter; she was knocked out rather early on, and when she woke up, she wasn't quite herself.

              xxx»» Elliott used his mind magic to help determine just how bad Jojo's state of mind was. He then painstakingly removed the charm Lysandar had used to hide away her true memories. But, too afraid of the consequences should he make a mistake, it was decided that he would leave the false memories as well, and that he, Kenny, and Jesse would work to help keep her straight on what was and wasn't real.
              xxx»»It was a struggle for a long time. 'Persephone' didn't magically go away just because Jojo's memories were restored. She persisted, fighting Jojo tooth and nail, first trying to prove that Jojo's life was the lie, and eventually trying to prove that, even if she wasn't quite real, she shouldn't be forced to retreat. Jojo, for her part, resented Persephone's existence, and fought her on everything, even when it didn't really matter. Jojo did everything she could to suppress Persephone, covering herself with tattoos to prove her autonomy and drinking constantly to drown her out. The behavior became worrisome for the people who cared about her, and she was eventually forced to get sober and see a Mind Healer. Eventually, after a lot of exhausting compromises and long therapy sessions, the two came to something of an agreement. They behave more like sisters now, which is rather odd, given that the occupy the same mind and body. Slipping steadily closer to something approaching sane, they agreed to try and be more responsible, and not let their oddness hinder them. Moving out of their father's flat and in with Kenny was a decent first step, and getting a job seemed a logical follow up. She was hired on at Dominic Maestro's in Hogsmeade, taking advantage of a somewhat familial relationship (Kenny being a werewolf, and packmates with the owner's husband) to earn the job.
              xxx»» Jojo adapted well enough to the working world. There were some struggles, but typically whenever she was having a hard time, all she had to do was recede and let Persephone handle things. The two worked out a system so that Jojo could relax more and worry less, knowing that if things really got bad enough, she had an easy out. Rather than relying on Persephone like a crutch, however, she felt more confident in herself, and was able to handle most situations without help. Settling into domesticity and having her own life, Jojo began to feel more and more like an actual person, and less like some mess of broken parts. Of course, she wasn't completely stable, and so when Kenny proposed, the prospect of a wedding very nearly put her off the idea entirely. But, they agreed to elope, despite the reaction they knew it would provoke from their families. Upon returning, Jojo at least let her father-in-law host a party for them, though she insisted there be no speeches, or any sort of big to-do about the marriage. Her one allowance in this regard was the cake, because she's never been able to resist Ciaran's baking. Meanwhile, Jesse and Elliott surprised her by adopting a child, which at first she thought was completely insane. But, she rather liked her new 'nephew,' and found herself using every excuse to see him. She'd always thought being around children would be nerve-wracking, but she actually quite enjoyed it.



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              ATTENDED »» Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
              HOUSE »» Hufflepuff
              DROPPED OUT »» Seventh Year - 2033
              OWL SCORES
              xxxASTRONOMY »» A
              xxxCHARMS »» EE
              xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS »» EE
              xxxHERBOLOGY »» P
              xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC »» A
              xxxPOTIONS »» P
              xxxTRANSFIGURATION »» EE
              xxxART »» EE
              xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES »» A
              xxxCOOKING WITH MAGIC »» A
              xxxDIVINATION »» P
              xxxMUGGLE ART »» A
              xxxMUGGLE MUSIC »» A
              xxxMUGGLE MYTHOLOGY »» A
              xxxMUSIC »» O
              xxxWANDLESS MAGIC PRACTICE CLASS »» EE

              CURRENT JOB »» Shop Assistant at Dominic Maestro's
              DREAM JOB »» Musician



          xxxxxxR E L A T I O N S H I P Sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION »» Straight
              RELATIONSHIP STATUS »» Married
              SIGNIFICANT OTHER »» Kenneth Blake

              FAMILY
              xxx»» Husband Kenneth Blake
              xxx»» Father Antony Tempest
              xxx»» Father-In-Law Ciaran Blake Rhys Hamilton-Blake, Catheryn Blake
              xxx»» Uncle-In-Law Wesley Edgeworth Siobhan
              xxx»» Cousin-In-Law Damien Edgeworth Marina Gideon, Lucia
              xxx»» Cousin-In-Law Prudence Collins Addison Collins
              FRIENDS
              xxx»» Best Friend Jesse Calvert
              xxx»» Kenneth Blake
              xxx»» Gypsy Lovette
              xxx»» Jeremy Lovette
              xxx»» Elliott Holt
              xxx»» Dorian Xanders
              ENEMIES
              xxx»» - - -
              ACQUAINTANCES
              xxx»» Jessamine Xanders
              xxx»» Miles McLellan
              xxx»» Morven Vass
              xxx»» Emmet Hughes
              xxx»» Alex Quimby-Scott
              CO-WORKERS
              xxx»» Boss Newlyn McLellan
              xxx»» Samuel Lambert

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xxxxxxL I L L I A N xxxM A R I Exxx C O D Y - B L A K Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

          xxxxxxA B O U T MExxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
              NICKNAMES »» Lil
              AGE »» 28
              BIRTHDAY »» 23 July 2024
              GENDER »» Female
              FACE-CLAIM »» Charisma Carpenter
              BLOOD STATUS »» Muggle
              LANGUAGES SPOKEN »» English, French, Italian
              ACCENT »» Brummie, can fake a posh accent
              PET »» British longhair Trixie

              LIKES
              xxx»» Fashion
              xxx»» Pop music
              xxx»» Love stories
              xxx»» Animals
              xxx»» Pastels
              DISLIKES
              xxx»» Lies
              xxx»» Being sweaty
              xxx»» Seafood
              xxx»» Male designers
              xxx»» Snobs
              HOBBIES
              xxx»» Fashion design
              xxx»» Drawing
              xxx»» Baking



          xxxxxxP E R S O N A L I T Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE
              xxx»» In her youth, Lil built a wall around herself that she defended mostly by being a bit of a jerk. As she got older, she realized that this wasn't exactly going to do her any favors. There was some level of rudeness you could be forgiven for, but not if you were an intern, doubly so if you were a girl. So she started to channel various members of her adoptive family and plastered a smile on her face, opting to catch her flies with honey rather than vinegar. That the honey was usually poisoned was beside the point. She has to admit, there's something pretty satisfying about a person walking away without realizing you're making fun of them.

              VAIN
              xxx»» Lil's always been a little full of herself. In her youth, it was, like most things, a defense mechanism. But eventually she realized that actually, she was in fact awesome, and never saw any reason to question that or let anyone else do so. She knows she's pretty, she knows she's smart (if not the smartest, at least smarter than people assume), she knows she's a hard worker and good at her job. If nobody else is going to appreciate her, she's going to damn well appreciate herself to pick up their slack. She can come across as full of herself and arrogant, but honestly she's so far gone that doesn't bother her, either. There are worse character flaws to have.

              CREATIVE
              xxx»» Lil may not be the smartest person, but her imagination more than makes up for it. She's always thinking outside the box, which is very handy when you go into a creative field such as fashion. It can be a pain, sometimes, to try and get other people to understand and support her vision, but it generally pays off for her. Everything she does is infinitely more complex than it appears on the surface, with whole characters and backstories already sitting in the back of her head for everything she puts to paper. Her showcases are often less fashion shows and more mini-plays with a catwalk and no talking.

              INDEPENDENT
              xxx»» For being something of a cynic, Lil does have faith in at least one thing, herself. She thinks she can accomplish anything if she just keeps at it. She figures that the only thing she's really got to rely on is herself; everything else is transient, and can be lost at any moment. Even the people she trusts not to abandon her could die, so it's best to know how to rely on herself. So she works hard to make sure that she never has to rely on anyone. She's willing to open up to her family and friends, but she never assumes they're going to be available, and makes sure she can handle things herself.

              DECEPTIVE
              xxx»» Lil holds her cards very close to the chest; but, if you'd only just met her, you'd never know that. She puts on a very good act of being someone who wears her heart on her sleeve, always speaks her mind, and never has anything lurking beneath the surface. In reality, she's always watching and observing the people around her, so she can determine how best to get what she wants from them. She doesn't tell lies that can be caught out, such as saying she was sick when she really went on a date, or that her grandmother died. But she certainly acts like whoever she thinks the person she's dealing with is most likely to be receptive to.

              BOSSY
              xxx»» When Lil wants something, she's damn well going to get it, and beware anyone who tries to get in her way. She can and will steamroll people who she sees as an obstacle, and then gloat silently when no one suspects there was any sort of foul play. She doesn't hesitate to make her opinions known, and tends to argue her case so thoroughly that she could eventually wear down any brick wall. If someone is put under her command, they better be up to snuff; she's made more than one person cry when they failed to meet her expectations.

              STRENGTHS
              xxx»» Self-assured
              xxx»» Crafty
              WEAKNESSES
              xxx»» Arrogant
              xxx»» Manipulative
              FEARS
              xxx»» Being alone
              xxx»» Freezing



          xxxxxxB A C K S T O R Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              CHILDHOOD
              xxx»» Lillian was the firstborn child to Robert and Vivian Cody, and was quite happy being an only child. Unfortunately for her, her parents had other plans. They had some trouble conceiving a second child, and Lil's younger brother was a full four years younger than her. Apparently, though, the universe saw fit to correct that mistake by gracing them with their third child, another daughter, only two years after that. Generally, Lil found her siblings more annoying than anything else. But, her pleas to sell them to the neighbors fell on deaf ears, so she was stuck with them.

              TEEN YEARS
              xxx»» Lil would later regret not appreciating her family; when she was twelve, her brother and parents were killed in a car accident, leaving her alone with her younger sister Abby. The two girls were bounced around from foster home to foster home, strange occurrences following them all the while, until it was discovered that Abby was a witch. The two girls were then placed in an orphanage specifically for magical children. Lil grew paranoid that the prospective parents would want her sister, but not her, because she wasn't magic at all. She would act out whenever new people came by, always sticking close to Abby to ensure they were viewed as a package deal.
              xxx»» They never did get adopted by any of the visitors to the orphanage; instead, they ended up adopted by a pair of volunteers, one of whom had been a resident of Wool's himself as a child. Kenny and Jojo were barely old enough to adopt at all, let alone a kid Lil's age, but they didn't let that stop them. At first Lil didn't trust it, but eventually the couple grew on her, to the point that when she discovered Kenny was a werewolf, she barely even reacted. Somewhat more concerning was the state of Jojo's mental health, but she wasn't like, homicidal or anything, so Lil basically just acted like nothing had changed when she found out about that. She managed to make a lot of friends, all of whom somehow seemed to be magic or magic-adjacent, despite meeting many of them in Muggle areas of England. She supposed that she was just destined to be a magic-magnet, and accepted it, though that didn't stop her from making sarcastic quips every chance she got.

              ADULTHOOD
              xxx»» Lil made it through secondary school, and then Uni, where she got a degree in Fashion Design. She spent a few years interning under a reasonably well-respected designer in a well-known fashion house, before being properly discovered at a show. Later she'd lie and say it was an accident that she'd dropped her look book in front of the company's rep, but in reality she'd known based on their own showcase that her designs would be right at home. That it was a smaller company didn't bother her; their designs were good, and they were mostly small because they actually paid fair wages to their workers, which was a major bonus as far as Lil was concerned. Somewhere along the way, she managed to meet Galen, who she flirted outrageously with for a while before committing to a proper relationship a few not-dates in.



          xxxxxxS C H O O L AND C A R E E Rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              SECONDARY »» King Solomon Academy
              GRADUATED »» 2040
              UNIVERSITY »» University of East London
              GRADUATED »» 2046, BA (Hons) Fashion Design
              CURRENT JOB »» Assistant fashion designer
              LIFE GOAL »» To own her own fashion label



          xxxxxxR E L A T I O N S H I P Sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

              SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION »» Straight
              RELATIONSHIP STATUS »» Taken
              SIGNIFICANT OTHER »» Galen Hall

              FAMILY
              xxx»» Parents Robert and Vivian Cody, Guardians Kenneth and Johanna Blake
              xxx»» Brothers Jackson Cody , Reginald Blake, sister Abigail Cody
              xxx»» Grandfathers Ciaran and Nirav Blake-Chahal, Topaz and Antony Mortemer, Great-grandmother Marian Blake
              xxx»» Uncle Rhys Hamilton-Blake Gideon Reid Simon Blake
              xxx»» Aunt Catheryn Levy Phineas Levy Malakai Levy
              xxx»» Aunt Anandi Chahal
              xxx»» The Edgeworth Family
              xxx»» The Levy Family
              xxx»» The Lovette Family
              FRIENDS
              xxx»» BEST FRIEND - - -
              xxx»» - - -
              ENEMIES
              xxx»» - - -
              ACQUAINTANCES
              xxx»» - - -


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