Post by Bethany on Aug 7, 2012 14:07:41 GMT -5
[/color]player information!
preferred name ; You'd think by now you'd know by name is Bethy.
age ; 27-28 depending on when I post this.
how you prefer to be contacted ; You can just send a house elf with the message. Or an owl though my dragon might eat it.
characters you already play ; Yep no way look at my COC Waaaaaay to many to list herecharacter information!
the basics
character name ; Jinx Melani Archibald
nickname(s) ; She's looking at you like your crazy. Why on earth would she go by any other name when her name is as cool as it is?
age ; 15
date of birth ; August 7th,
blood status; half-blood
sexual orientation ; Jinx thinks labels are a bit outdated. Since your forcing her to pick a label she's bi-sexual. She feels that once she starts feeling a certain way toward someone because of their personalities the packaging doesn't matter much. Boobs or not doesn't really change anything.
wand ; 8 inch elm wood wand with a lephercaun hair core.
affiliation ; Again with the labels. She supposes she's sort of neutral. She's defintely not with the Death Eaters, but she's not sure making a club against them is really all that healthy or all that bright of an idea at all.
the appearance
height & weight ; Jinx is a little slip of a girl. She's not very big in any way. She stands a a hair uner 5'0, but calling it anything other than 5'0 are fighting words in Jinx's world. Weighing in at 108 pounds she is also a very thin girl. This of course is despite her best efforts to put on weight. She eats like a horse, but no matter how hard she tries she can never gain. If she isn't careful she will easily lose weight. She is if you asked her fortunately not very blessed when it came to the curves department. She has very few curves and on a good day she is a just a little less flat than a board, but she's quite pleased with her body image.
hair ; Jinx is mildly obessed with her hair. It is naturally very straight and a rather dark shade of brown that borders on black. Less naturally it tends to change shades and colors on a fairly regular basis. She loves playing with different hair styles and almost always is wearing some quirky but cute hairstyle. She's one that will happily spend an hour getting her hair just so. But fortuantely for her brother who have a habit of messing up her various hairstyles she's not overly attached to them and doesn't get too mad when her hair is mussed up by an over eager twin or other sibling.
eyes ; If you ask Jinx her eyes are boring. Especially since they aren't like purple, or storm cloud grey. They are just plain old boring brown. She does have a habit of trying to dress them up with heavy applications of mascara and eye make up.
facial features ; Jinx is cute and she knows that. She's not the prettiest member of her family a fact she really doesn't care about, but her overall features add up to cute or adorable depending on her mode of dress for the day. Between her eyes which are a little on the large side and her smallish almost button like nose her gentle cheeks bones and a cupieish smile she defintely qualifies as cute rather then beautiful.
distinguishing features ; Well other than her style and personality Jinx isn't exactly teeming with distinctive features. She only has one scar a big slash across her palm from doing cartwheels in the courtyard. She doesn't have tattoos mostly because she's pretty sure her parents would kill her and Lennox. Her for getting it and Lennox for not stopping her. She also has a small blob shaped birthmark on her left pinky toe.
style ; Jinx has a very distinct and colorful sense of style. She's not tacky like certain people she could name, but she enjoys bright fun clothes. Her style can fluctuate a bit as she treats most days like she's playing dress up. Her style can be a bit eccentric, but she tends to stick to cute and bubbly outfits. And unlike some people she always matches. Her outfits might be a bit outlandish, but she would never purposely mismatch as that would just be silly.
play by ; Sandara Park or Dara.
the personality[/color]
likes ;
HONESTY[/u] Jinx is in her way a simple girl. She liked the world to be straight and plain laid out. This trait makes her a big fan of honesty. She knows sometimes honesty is a hard thing as some things hurt and people don't want to hear or even talk about hurtful things, but she thinks if the world was more honest everything would be so much simpler. Why should she have to try to decide who's telling the truth and who's not? She likes just having everything out in the open it's a lot easier.
PARTIES[/u] Jinx is a social girl. She enjoys being around people having a good time. So unsurprisingly she loves parties. She's one to throw a party for even the smallest of reasons. Good grade means a reason to party. Heck if she's in the right mood waking up is a good enough reason for a party. Of course it doesn't always have to be a big bash. Sometimes she's perfectly happy with a few snacks and some friends, but if there's a reason to celebrate she'll defintely run with it.
GYMNASTICS[/u] When Jinx was a little girl she had a lot of extra energy to burn. This translated into her taking Gymanstic classes in the hopes of calming her a bit. She quickly took to the sport like a duck to water. She loves tumbling around it's fun and even when one is practicing it feels more like fun than work. She's known to do radom tumbles and cartwheels just about anywhere there is room to do it. She's also pretty notorious for walking about on her hands rather than her feet. She's actually quite good at it and can even manage some stairs on her hands.
FAMILY[/u] Jinx has a big family, so it's a good thing that Jinx is very family orientated. Otherwise she would have lost her mind years ago. As families as big as hers aren't exactly calming. But she still loves them anyways. She is extremely close with her brother, but she's still close to all of her family. She beleives family to be very important. If family won't always be there for you then who else could you possibly count on?
KNOWLEDGE[/u] Given Jinx's general personality a lot of people are rather surprised by the fact that while Jinx is no book worm she tends to rather fact hungry. She loves to learn new things whether it be something important like a self defense charm or a silly little fact that she may never actually need to know. She personally feels that you need to learn something new everyday and when there's nothing left to learn you most likely die. She figures that's really what happens you get old. She also feels it's very important to know as much as possible as knowledge is power.
dislikes ;
BOOKWORMS[/u] Jinx beleives that education is important. She's diligent about her homework and she does enjoy a good book just as much as your average person, but she finds book worms to be annoying. One can't live their lives stuck between the pages of a book. She also thinks it gives people like her a bad reputation as if to be smart you always have to have your nose in a book. Of course Jinx knows to really learn stuff you have to be out experiencing and learning the old fashioned way. She feels that bookworms are a little cowardly and that they use their books to sheild them from the world and that just annoys her.
ANGER[/u] Jinx can be seen as a bit of a firecracker and yes she does have a bit of a temper and is perfectly willing to let any and all know just that, but she has always been uncomfrtable with real anger. Annoyance yes irritation sure, but anger just isn't a good emotion. She understands that it's a perfectly natural emotion, but very rarely does anything good come from anger. People do stupid things when they are angry. Things they'll regret for years after all. She's not even particuarly comfortable with her own anger. She had a great habit of trying to distract the hell out of anyone that looks like they are getting angry.
LABELS[/u] Jinx is almost a hundred percent sure that the world's need to label everything is it's biggest problem. She feels that when one tries to label something one is trying to force it to be something it may not be. She thinks if the world just stopped trying to put everything into neat labeled boxes the whole world would be happier. She personally won't let herself be labeled and does her best to encourage other people not to. She's well known by the Headmaster and the Board of Governers for her letters trying to get them to demolish the houses at Hogwarts. She doesn't feel it's right to seperate people as if you could possibly sort every single person into just the right house. As if no Ravenclaw has Gryffindor traits or no Hufflepuff had no Gryffindor traits. She feels the system makes people subconciously make decisions about people with out even meeting them as evidenced by most of the schools opinion of the Slytherin house. Which Jinx thinks is just unfair sure some people are arses, but being labeled green doesn't necessarily make you a bad guy even more than being labeled blue made you a genius.
SMALL SPACES[/u] Small spaces and Jinx don't really mix all that well. She wouldn't quite says she's claustophobic, but she'll never really be comfortable in a small room. She absolutely hates elevators and has a tendency to take the stairs if she has aboslutely any choice. She knows it's a silly thing to be uncomfortable with, but she can't help it there's no logic to her little fear. It's just how she is. She does try to ignore the crawling each of discomfort whenever she's in a small space, but she also tries to avoid situations where she'll be stuck in a small room as much as possible.
UNIFORMITY[/u] Unique, different, and colorful are some of Jinx's favorite words. She feels the fact that people and things are all so different is what makes the world so very interesting. So she really isn't a big fan of uniformity. Uniformity is ugly and mind numbingly boring. In her mind uniformity is something that should be discouraged and one differences should be encouraged and nurtured. The hogwart's uniform is also another source of many letters to anyone that has anything to do with Hogwarts. She does her best not to be an uniform anything. She also manages to get in trouble for altering her own Hogwarts uniform quite a bit. But she doesn't understand why everyone needs to look the same.
strengths ;
KNOW THYSELF[/u] Jinx is a girl who is very comfortable with the person that she is. She feels that she is aware of her strengths and weaknesses and is over all happy with herself. She knows exactly who she is and behaves accordingly. This makes her feel confident in herself and that shows through the way she deals with the world. She isn't one to second guess herself. And she doesn't have a lot of the self esteem issues many girls her age has, because she's pretty durned sure that's she pretty flipping awesome.
CREATIVE[/u] Jinx is pretty much bursting with creative juices. It shows in her fasion sense. It shows in the very interesting doodles all over her notebooks and most of her homework. It shows in the stories she enjoys telling. While she doesn't get lost in a fantasy world Jinx will never be at a loss for a bit of imagination.
COMPASSIONATE[/u] Jinx can be a bit overwhelming at times if you don't know her. She tends to be a full speed ahead sort of girl, but under her fairly exciteable bubbly personality is a very compassionate girl. A girl who deeply cares about most people. It pains her to see other people in pain even people she doesn't necessarily like. She's one to always stop and try to help people. If she sees someone hungry she'll try to feed them. If she sees someone cold she'll try to warm them somehow. If she sees someone crying she'll always have a shoulder for them to cry on. This can a times be a weakness, but for the most part for her it's a strength because it makes her not only a good friend, but a good person.
weaknesses ;
LOUD[/u] Jinx is one girl that doesn't come with a volume control even though she really should. Jinx doesn't necessarily mean to be loud, but more often than not she is without even trying. She can't even start to count how often she's been tossed out of the library for being too noisy. She talks loud, walks loud, and even studies loud as she has a habit to sing what she's reading to herself. This is a big weakness for her as people can find it more than a bit annoying. It also means she couldn't sneak around if her life depended on it.
OBLIVIOUS[/u] Jinx is a can't see the forest for the trees sort of girl. Sometimes she just misses out on little things that most people would think of as obvious. She's also not a girl that subtle works with. As she has not a single subtle bone in her body she has a hard time realizing someone might be being subtle. Which means she may not realize that someone likes her or anything along those lines. While she's not stupid a lot of emotional things have to be pretty obvious for her to get them. She can understand a sobbing person might be sad or scared, but she won't get that the person who's staring silently at the fire in the fireplace might be equally as sad.
IMPULSIVE[/u] Jinx is a bright girl. Really she is a lot smarter than some would think, but sometimes her intelligence doesn't always get a chance to have much input into some of her decision mostly because she tends to be a pretty impulsive girl. Often when she gets an idea or is presented with an oppurtunity she'll act before she really gives herself a chance to think about it. This is probably her biggest weakness, because when she does just jump in she doesn't think about how much trouble she might get into or how much danger she might be putting herself into she just throws herself into the decision and waits and sees what happens.
boggart ; Any member of her family being seriously hurt.
amortentia ; Cotton, hair mousse, and fresh cut grass
erised ; Jinx is a simple girl who wants no more than to take over the world. Ok well just part of it. She wants to be a architect and revolutionize how people build.
veritaserum ; what is your character's deepest secret?
dementor ; what is your character's worst memory?
patronus ; Jinx's best memory would be when she was rather young and her parents took her and her siblings on vacation in Australia. Once she set eyes on the Sydney Opera house she knew what she wanted to do with her life. It was the most beauitful thing she'd ever seen. Her patronus takes on the form of a very small bulldog puppy.
personality ; Jinx is what one would call excitable. She's a very vibrant girl who doesn't have much time for hesitation or shyness. She's always up for a good time and takes even the smallest excuses and turns them into a reason to celebrate. This isn't just so she can throw a party though she does love her parties, but also so she can appreciate life even in the darkest of times. Jinx is also most defintely an optimist. She's smart enough to realize life isn't perfect, but she sees no reason why sooner or later that it won't be. She also tends to be feel that your state of mind really can determine how your life goes. If you let yourself be sad and focus on the bad things in life you allow the bad to rule, but if you focus on the good you direct you life toward the good.
Jinx is an extremely social and amiable girl who is likely to talk to just about anyone. She is known to talk to random strangers and randomly talk to people who she knows who actively dislike her in the hopes that maybe at some point they might change their minds. She doesn't have a single shy bone in her body and makes that fact pretty clear. Jinx is indeed very social, but she has a fairly small group of people she really considers true friends. There are a lot of people she enjoys hanging out with, but she is a girl that takes friendship very seriously. In Jinx's mind friendship isn't just someone to party with or have fun with a real friend is the person who will be there with an umbrella when someone's raining all over your parade. She is an extremely loyal girl when it comes to her real friends and her family. She would never ever even on the pain of death betray someone close to her.
Jinx doesn't always come off as all that of a studious girl, but hidden under all the peppy energy is a nearly endless appetite for knowledge. No she will not spend hours upon hours cooped up in a room doing nothing but reading old musty books, but Jinx truly believes knowledge is power and she likes a lot of it. She's not one to study by books as she prefers to learn through experience or from someone else. She's also very fond of questions and has a tendency to ask tons of questions. This trait can often get a bit annoying as once Jinx gets interested in a subject she won't let up on the questions until forced too.
the school life[/color]
year ; Fifth Year
pet ; Jinx doesn't have a pet. She tried to smuggle in a puppy her first year by putting kitty ears on it, but when that was a no go her parents sent her a rat and she has no bloody idea where it is.
favourite subject ; Jinx enjoys most of her classes, but hands down her favorite course is Charms. The teacher is a bit iffy if you ask Jinx, but she loves the class and learning the many applications of various charms.
worst subject ; Jinx absolutely without a doubt hates herbology. It's so boring and you aren't even allowed to have dirt fights. And the stupid plants keep trying to bite her.
best spell ; Jinx is pretty good with a lot of charms, but without a doubt as silly as it might sound her best Spell is the bubble charm. She can create bubbles like you wouldn't believe firm enough that you could almost use them as steps if you wanted to.
worst spell ; what spell does your character have the most trouble with?
OWLs taking and grades ;
- Astronomy ( core )
- Charms ( core )
- Defence Against the Dark Arts ( core )
- Herbology ( core )
- History of Magic ( core )
- Potions ( core )
- Transfiguration ( core )
- Divination
- Arithmancy
- Ancient Runes
the family life[/color]
mother ; name, age, blood status
father ; name, age, blood status
siblings ; names, ages, blood statuses
other significant magical relatives ;
residence ; the place that your character calls home outside of Hogwarts
history ; this should be the most descriptive part of your application and should cover your character’s background from birth to now. we’re not asking for reams and reams like a play-by-play of your characters whole life, but any key events should be noted. if your character is in the second year or above, you can also write about your first year(s) at Hogwarts. Please remember that we do not accept exchange students and so each character will have been born in the UK to at least one British parent.
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Gee that's nice of you to ask, but sorry I'm planning a party for finishing my application. You can come if you want!
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