Post by Bethany on Sept 6, 2012 16:01:15 GMT -5
[/color]player information!
preferred name ; Bethanator. Or Bethy if your feeling lucky.
age ; 28ish
how you prefer to be contacted ; Owls work just fine
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the basics
character name ; Tessa Marie Walker.
nickname(s) ; Tessa doesn't really like nicknames. Only her brother can get away with calling her Tessy. She also aboslutely hates her middle name and has a tendency to kick people in the shin who call her names she doesn't like.
age ; 14
date of birth ; 05/26/
blood status; muggleborn
sexual orientation ; Tessa is most defintely straight. As she's pretty much boy crazy.
wand ; 9 inch hazel wood wand with a doxy wing core.
affiliation ; She's more of a neutral, but would defintely side with the order if push came to shove.
the appearance
height & weight ; Tessa is fairly average when it comes to body type. She stands at 5'4 so she's neither very tall or very short. As for her body type she tends to be fairly skinny. This is most likely because she rarely sits down and eats a full meal as she often gets interuptted by an idea and will want to jot it down and wont think to resume eating unless Tucker happens by and reminds her. She tends to weigh in at 115 pounds
hair ; Tessa has fairly dark hair that alternates between black and a few different shades of brown given what she's put into her hair and how long she's been in the sun. She keeps it fairly long as she never remembers to cut it and she thinks it's more fun long. As for hair style that depends on a lot of things her mood, what she was doing before, and how much attention she spares for her hair. On her more preoccupied days she just uses a spell to put it into two easy pigtails. On days where she's not quite so distracted she'll try to do curls or something like that.
eyes ; Tessa has simple brown eyes. They are surrounded by a fairly generous helping of very thick eyelashes. Of course the most noticeable thing about her eyes is the fact that more often than not they look a little distracted as even while she's talking with someone she has ideas brewing in her head. Often these eyes will be hidden by a pair of glasses. She calls them her thinking glasses and will wear them whenever she's stuck on a particular idea and is really trying to be serious about getting the idea worked out.
facial features ; Tessa isn't exactly a bombshell, but she does have a cute face. She is quite fond of saying that she was spared her brothers nose and has a slightly smaller version of it. Or at least she hopes it's slightly smaller. She has fairly good cheek bones. Her lips are a little on the thin side, but only one doesn't notice as she is either grinning or chewing on her bottom lip as she works on her newest idea.
distinguishing features ; Tessa has a small mole on her right elbow. She also has a small mole on the left side of her hip. She also has rather bitten down nail as she tends to chew on them when she thinks. Other than that she's pretty mark free.
style ; Tessa unsurprisingly has a fairly flighty way that she uses when she picks out her clothes. Often they don't quite match as if she started with a certain theme or idea that changed as she was getting dressed. So often she doesn't quite match or she'll wear an outfit that does match with a few pieces that don't seem like they belong. Or she'll do her hair in a way that doesn't really fit what she's wearing or she'll wear beat up old sneakers with a princess dress.
play by ; Danna Paola
the personality[/color]
likes ;
FLYING[/u] Tessa isn't the most atheltic girl in the world. She'd much rather be tucked in some corner jotting down ideas or tinkering with one of her inventions so she's not one to be running around and playing a lot of sports. However Quidditch and especially flying is the exception to this rule. Tessa absolutely adores flying. She feels she gets her best ideas up in the air where she feels free of all the world restraints. There is in Tessa's opionion few experiences that are as good as a brisk flight up above the rest of the world. It is not unusual to see Tessa flying every day. Whenever she gets a chance she'll happily grab her broom and go out to the quidditch field.
IDEAS[/u] Tessa is an inventor. She's pretty sure it's part of her soul. She can't imagine living not trying to create things no matter how well said thing actually works. Because of this Tessa loves ideas. She's neigh on obessed with ideas both new and old. There is no idea to big or small or crazy for Tessa. She thinks every idea has a lot of value even if it's an idea that never quite comes to frutation. She's pretty sure the day she has no more ideas she'll probably die. She has a strong tendnect to put ideas before most of everything else. It's not unusual at all for her have to an idea and stop everything to jot down said idea no matter what she's doing. She could be showering, eating, talking with a friend, or even sleeping and she'll immediately stop and write down the idea so she doesn't forget.
TINKERING[/u] An inventor at heart Tessa is never happier than when she's tinkering. Even if an invention doesn't work she has a grand time trying. This is of course a good thing as Tessa has yet to make an invention that actually functions 100 percent correctly. She has a few that kind of work, but have some serious bugs in their works. But fail or not she feels her best when working on something. She's absolutely sure she was born into the world to bring her ideas to life and she certain that some day she's going to invent something as common as the refrigerator or television.
PEOPLE[/u] The fact that Tessa likes people is easy to miss and she has a bad habit or treating people as less important than her ideas, but she doesn't do this on purpose. She is in fact a very friendly girl who will talk to just about anyone. She finds people interesting and finds she often gets inspiration from random conversations. So she does her best to befriend lots of people. The fact that she's not very good at it and a lot of people think she's crazy doesn't really bother her. She still likes people even if they may not like her.
TUCKER[/u] Tessa tends to be a forgetful girl, but there is one thing she'll never forget and that is how much she adores her brother Tucker. There is no room for doubt in anyone's mind that Tucker is Tessa's favorite person in the world. Tucker is her rock and the only person who has a hope of dragging her out of her little inventor's world and take care of the important stuff like homework and eating and remembering people's birthdays. She knows she'd probably be in pretty bad shape if it wasn't for Tucker. She adores him for what he does and loves him to pieces.
dislikes ;
BEING SLOW[/u] Tessa isn't the most patient person in the world. She's not neccesarily impatient, but if something can be hurried she will most defintely do just that. Having a fairly short attention span she can't really afford to do things too slowly or she'd get even less done than she already does. Things have to move at a fairly quick pace or she's likely to get distracted by an idea. Of course she does that often enough anyways, but it's always worse when she's left with any significent amount of idle time.
HOMEWORK[/u] Her parents are both heavy into academics and her brother is like a genius, but while Tessa isn't necessarily dim she's not one who wants to waste her time or intelligence on homework. She doesn't really see the point in it as it's only repeating what you've already learned. It also takes up way too much time that she could spend doing something else. It doesn't help that it takes her ages to do her homework as she always winds up interuptting herself when she thinks up a new idea and has to pause to work on it.
BOSSY PEOPLE[/u] Tessa is a bit of a scatter brain and she's learned this particular quirk has a tendency to encourage people to tell her what to do as if she can't decide what she'll do on her own. This is one of her biggest pet peeves and the only person who can get away with it is her brother Tucker. Of course Tucker isn't really bossy as when he tells her to do stuff he does it in a very nice way that makes it clear he's only nagging because he cares. But when anyone else tells her to do something rather than to ask one will be confronted with a very stubborn Tessa who will most likely do quite the opposite just because she can. Unless of course it's a teacher. She'll generally listen to bossy teachers even if they do annoy her.
MEAT[/u] Tessa is a vegetarian. She's not one of those people that can't stand the idea of eating something with feeling, but she really just doesn't like the taste of meat. She's much more a potato girl. She does eat her veggies, but she's pretty obesssed with just about anything made from a potato. She will occasionally eat meat, but only if someone cooked something for her and she doesn't want to hurt their feelings. But she really doesn't like the flavor and the smell of meat. To her it smells like blood and she doesn't like the idea of eating blood. She's no vampire blood flavored things aren't for her.
HATERS[/u] Hearing Tessa say the word Haters is a funny experience, but she really does quite dislike them. By Haters she of course means the doubters and the people who call her crazy for wanting to be an inventor. She understands that many people don't get what she's trying to do or are puzzled by her admittedly unique behaviors, but she doesn't understand why people have to bother her about it. If one has nothing nice to say one shouldn't say anything at all. She has a tendency to try to avoid people who less than kind to her, but she can have a bit of a temper when someone calls one of her inventions stupid. She is very protective of her babies.
strengths ;
SMART[/u] A lot of people don't know how smart Tessa is. It's a little difficult to see intelligent when one has a tendnecy to stop mid convernsation and start doodling an sketch of some far fetched idea. But Tessa is a very smart girl. She doesn't have an photographic memory, but she's very quick to learn and memorize. She's also very good at figuring things out especially when it comes to engineering and putting things together and apart.
CREATIVE[/u] Tessa has more ideas in her little pinky than the average person. Some people see this as one of her biggest problems, but while it does cause some complications it's also one of her biggest strengths. While she's easily distracted and tends to leave thing unfinished she is never a girl without an idea. Which means that whenever she faces an obstacle she's determined to get around she'll never run out of ideas on how to overcome it. And eventually thanks to a nearly unlimited supply of ideas that percolate through her brain she'll almost always think of a solution eventually.
DARING[/u] Tessa has no fear. Well ok no social fears as she's just as likely to run screaming from a Dementor, or Troll as the next girl, but she's not afraid to take a risk. She's not worried about looking silly or making a mistake as looking silly and making mistakes is part of living. She doesn't really beleive that anything can be accomplished without risk. If you don't put yourself out on a limb you'll never reach the best apple. She realizes it's smarter to hedge your bets and be careful, but she's not the smart one in her family and she'd rather put all her apples in one basket and just jump for it. If she falls or fails so be it at least she'll never have to regret not trying.
weaknesses ;
SCATTER BRAINED[/u] If one asked people for the word that described Tessa the answer would almost defintely be scattered brained. Tessa is one of the most forgetful people one can meet. Mostly because she's got so many ideas buzzing around in her head anything she might deem less important falls to the way side. This mostly means she has a great tendnecy to forget meetings, be late, and forget other important things like eating and homework. She also has a tendency to be in the middle of something and stop and forget to resume once she's jotted down her idea. She doesn't do it on purpose, but it's hard for her to find room in her head for the little things as most of her head is far to busy with her ideas.
STARTER NOT FINISHER[/u] Tessa is an idea girl. She has so many ideas she just doesn't have enough time for them all, so she has a very strong tendnecy to get started with something and not finish. This tends to spread through most of her life. Homework, dinner, even bathtime can be interuppted at the drop of a hat. Even when she's working on an invention she's likely to get distracted by another idea and move on. Hence why she has many large chest full of plans and various inventions in different stages of completition. Sometimes she tries really hard, but inevitably an idea will come around and tempt her and she just won't be able to resist.
ANGER ISSUES[/u] Tessa doesn't have a temper. In fact she's usually too distracted to get flustered over much of anything. However when she does get angry she's not very good at handling it. In fact every single time she gets angry she starts to cry. Which is not only stupid looking it makes it a bit hard to look fierce or dangerous when your sobbing. Of course it's even harder to say a spell when one can carely talk and nearly impossible to aim a spell when your eyes are full of tears. Tessa isn't a confrontational girl, but if she were she'd be in big trouble.
boggart ; Disappointing her family
amortentia ; Pencil lead, machine oil, and fresh cut grass.
erised ; Tessa wants to be an inventor of something that almost everyone has in their household. Like the TV. Or a Microwave.
veritaserum ; She's worried that she is going to be a dissapoint to her family. She's not like them as she isn't all education ho' and she worries that when she does finally graduate Hogwarts and goes off to be an inventor she'll break her family's heart because she won't or can't do something more practical.
dementor ; what is your character's worst memory?
patronus ; Tessa's favorite memory would be the first invention she finished. Of course it still had bugs in it, but the first time she managed to make an invention work kind of like it was supposed to was definitlely one of the best moments in her life. She was so excited to see the little shoe tying robot functioning. Of course it tied her laces in a knot she never could undo, but that didn't matter she was still very very pleased. Tessa's patronus when she master's the charm will take on the form of a coyote.
personality ; excitable, bubbly, optimistic, opininitated (when she's actually paying attention), distracted, irresponsible,
the school life[/color]
year ; Fourth year
pet ; A barn owl named Tesla.
favourite subject ; Without a doubt her favorite class is potions. The professor is a big old troll, but potion making is in her mind the closest thing one can get to inventing while in class. Of course she gets in a lot of trouble as she has a tendency to add random ingredients just to see what'll happen and what sort of potions she can invent.
worst subject ; Tessa hates history of magic. She's not very good at it as HOM is prime idea time, but over all she just doesn't have an interest in the past as she's more focused on the future.
best spell ; which spell is you character best at performing? this spell must be age appropriate. if the sorting hat does not think a student of your selected age should be able to cast the spell, you will have to give a very good justification for your choice
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
- Muggle studies
- Arithmancy
the family life[/color]
mother ; Martha Styles, 46, Muggle – professor of chemistry at Oxford
father ; James Walker, 46, Muggle – professor of botany at Oxford
siblings ; Tucker Walker, 17, Muggleborn
other significant magical relatives ; N/A
residence ; A four bedroom home in Forest Hill, just due east of Oxford.
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