Post by Bethany on Sept 14, 2010 1:23:09 GMT -5
[/color]player information!
preferred name ; Hmmmm I suppose Bethy works
age ; 24ish still
how you prefer to be contacted ; Owls are just fine, but strip o grams are nice too
characters you already play ; Let’s see. Areyna, Virgil, Charisma, Julian, Tar, Luna, Autumn, Neorah, Brice, Huntercharacter information!
the basics
character name ; Valentina Ladalina Carmona
nickname(s) ; Lady, Tina, Lada, Lady Valentine this is the one she is most known by as it is her stage name.
age ; 23
date of birth ; 02/14/1985
blood status; pure
sexual orientation ; straight
wand ; 9 and ¾ inch cherry wand with veela hair core.
affiliation ; Neutral, but leaning towards the Order of the Phoenix
occupation ; She is a retired Multi-Platinum selling Muggle Recording Artist. She is currently unemployed in the wizarding world.
the appearance
height & weight ; The first thing you notice about Valentina is that she’s much smaller than she seems. In reality she’s just a hair above 5’5, but with the heels she wears and the personality she possesses it is hard to tell that she’s a smaller woman. Her frame also leans toward the small side. She weighs in at 123 pounds. She’s a small but curvy woman, with very little spare body fat. Her body is also very obviously carefully taken care of. She doesn’t believe in diets, but she is a die hard exercise fan and that fact is shown in her very carefully sculpted physique.
hair ; Lady has the kind of hair that most people would kill to have. Lush thick and with just a hint of natural wave. Her hair is naturally a dark black color, but she does occasionally lighten it to a brown tint. She does play with the tints sometimes but she’ll never go lighter than brown. She has no interest in being blonde or anything like that. As for style she wears it long and more often than not she wears it down and loose letting it’s natural wave to reign.
eyes ; Once you get past her body and your eyes finally settle on her face the very first thing most people notice is her eyes. They are a startling shade of grey with just the barest hint of blue. Her eyes are surrounded by dark dramatic and very thick eyelashes. The sort that seem fake, but are naturally hers. Her eyebrows are equally dramatic carefully plucked and shaped to suit her eyes best.
facial features ; There is no denying that Lady is a very attractive woman. First there is her lips which in a word are kissable. Full and just as dramatic as the rest of her looks and above all very expressive. Her eyes can at times be hard to read, but her lips will always tell the story. Finally there is her skin which is indeed imperfect. She does have a few old scars from child hood acne. Of course she could have gotten rid of them with the right charm or potion, but she is very comfortable with herself so she embraces the imperfections right along with the perfection. And oddly enough the few marks that do mar her milky soft skin only enhances her beauty makes it all seem more real.
distinguishing features ; As for distinguishing marks she doesn’t have many. Other than the few acne scars she had from her adolescent years she has two tattoos. The first is one her shoulder blade it’s just a simple quote no pretty pictures for her the other tattoo is similar though it has different word and is much longer. This second tattoo is on the side of her torso it stretches from just under her armpit to just above her hip. It is indeed a sizeable tattoo. Surprisingly enough it’s not that noticeable due to the fact more often than not it’s covered by clothes or her arm.
style ; As for her style Valentina can fluctuate depending on her mood. Some times she likes to wear simple clothes like jeans and shirts. Others she likes to dress very girly and others she dresses as provocatively as she can. The only things she does consistently with her look is wearing heels which is something she does almost all of the time and look good which she does all of the time. Really the girl doesn’t have much of a style of her own because she’s used to wearing what has been picked for her.
play by ; Megan Fox
the personality[/color]
likes ; Lingerie Lady is a big fan of lingerie. Some people think this makes her easy and looking at her closet and the fact that more than one third of it is lingerie one can understand why they would think this. But Lady just genuinely enjoys the sensation of the lingerie. She also enjoys just how special the garments make her feel. Lady likes lingerie so much that she is almost always wearing it. The woman could be wearing a pair of baggy jeans and an old shirt and underneath she’d still probably be wearing some sort of frilly lingerie.
Music Like really isn’t close to encompassing the way Valentina feels about music. But one can’t make a list of things she enjoys without including music. There is nothing about music she doesn’t like. She likes to listen to it, play it, hum it, whistle it. She just loves music in all its various forms. If there was one way to quickly become a fast friend of Lady’s it would be to be a musician. She’s yet to meet a musician she didn’t like. She feels music and the people who make music are what makes the world go round.
Ally Allyson is a big part of Lady’s life. And really the girl is a rather complicated issue, but down at the bone of the issues Lady really does adore her sister. The girl is a big huge ball of problems, but despite this fact Ally always manages to bring a smile to Lady’s face. Her sister can at times be a burden, but for the most part Ally is one of those things that can force Lady into a good mood.
Chivalrous Men If there is one thing in this world that will just make Lady melt in a puddle it’s a man who believes in chivalry. She is at the heart a very old fashioned girl. There is nothing more attractive than a man who lives the role of the knight in shining armor. Unlike many women who seem hooked up on women’s lib Lady absolutely loves when a man holds a door open for her or helps her over a puddle, or offers to help her carry something heavy.
Stuffed Toys She realizes that having a collection of stuffed animals doesn’t exactly scream mature adult, but Valentina just can’t help but adore stuffed animals. She has quite a collection. She finds them to be very comforting. A lot of people look at her oddly when they seem them, but she thinks they are nice so she collects them anyways. Besides you can tell stuff toys you’d never tell anyone else.
dislikes ; Violence If there is one thing Lady has absolutely no tolerance for it is violence. She dislikes it so much that seeing too much violence she will get physically ill. She knows it’s really just psychosomatic, but she still becomes quite ill around violence. Usually when the woman sees violence she will turn and run. She dislikes violence so much that she won’t even watch movies with violence in them and she dislikes most sports for the same reason. Especially Quidditch because it is so horribly violent.
Prejudice Growing up in a pro-pureblood house and eventually growing up to see how wrong her beliefs were Lady had no tolerance for prejudice. She thinks a person should be judged by their character not by something that they have no control over. She thinks it’s just stupid to judge someone by their blood status or their color or a dozen of various just as stupid reasons.
Sneakers Lady is one of those few people that really just doesn’t like sneakers. She doesn’t like the way they look or even the way they feel. She feels that sneakers are really only meant for men and that women wearing them look manly. She definitely prefers heels or sandals if she is being casual. She’d rather run around barefoot than to wear a pair of sneakers.
Snakes If there is anything Lady hates on principal it would be a snake. She hates them and if she sees one she will turn around and run away. She is slightly afraid of them, but it is mostly that she finds snakes to be disgusting creepy little creatures. She has no reason to dislike the creatures, but she does and she’s not trying to cure that particular prejudice.
Posers For all her faults Lady is mostly an honest person and she just can’t stand fake people. People that act in a way they really aren’t the annoy her to no end. Having had to deal with fakes during most of her muggle singing career she knows very well that she really doesn’t like posers. She thinks people should just be who they are for better or worse. It’s better to be disliked who you are rather than liked for who you aren’t.
strengths ; Caring Lady isn’t perfect, but despite her flaws and her past mistakes she is a very caring person. Apathy is definitely not an issue that the woman has to worry about. She likes most people and she does genuinely care about the welfare of people. She’s the sort that regularly gives money to the homeless, or spends time at the hospital cheering up sick people. If she can do something to help someone she will do it. She doesn’t like to see anyone unhappy even the people she doesn’t like.
Generous Lady is a lucky person and has had a lot of success through her life and she likes to share that good luck. She is a natural sharer she has plenty and she sees no reason why not to spread the wealth around. She’s well known to give out money and even more known for gifts. Sharing makes her feel good and she does it often. In her mind it makes no sense for someone else to go without when she has plenty to go around.
Self Aware There are a lot of things that Valentina may not be aware of and at times she is down right gullible, but she is very aware of herself. She knows her strength, her weaknesses. She knows exactly who she is. She may not like exactly what she knows, but she knows what is what. This fact leads her to be fairly confident about herself. She rarely questions herself , because she already has all the answers. It also helps keep her on the straight and narrow, because she knows exactly when she is doing something that she will regret so for the most part she can stop herself from doing just that.
weaknesses ; Push over Saying no is something Lady has always had a problem with. She can say the word and usually she’ll even mean it, but in the end she’ll almost always capsize. She’s just not very good at standing up to people. No matter how much she doesn’t want to do something most people can either intimidate her or cajole her into doing it. Standing her ground is a concept that is fairly unknown in Lady’s world. There are a few issues she’s completely unbudgeable about, but for the most part she is easily bent.
Gullible Lady knows that there are people who will take advantage of her. She knows that every person she comes across isn’t trust worthy, but this is an issue she had problems with. She’s naturally a fairly trusting girl so has a hard time being cautious. More often than not she’ll believe anyone until they are proven to be liars. This makes her fairly easy to take advantage of.
Coward Without a doubt Valentina’s biggest weakness is that she is a certified yellow bellied coward. There is hardly a brave bone in her body. When scared Lady usually does one of two things she either freezes up becoming as useful as a statue or she runs away. She is cowardly enough she will almost bend over backwards to stop any sort of issue from developing. The only time she will ever force herself to be brave is when someone she deeply cares about is being threatened. And even then she’ll have to fight the urge to run away the entire time.
boggart ; Herself purposely hurting someone
amortentia ; Sheet music, cotton sheets, and cotton candy.
erised ; She desperately wants a do over so she can fix the mistakes of her youth.
veritaserum ; That she is the reason her sister is insane.
dementor ; Lady’s worst memory is the day she pushed a girl down the stairs over a boy.
patronus ; Valentina’s patronus takes on the form of a Holland lop bunny rabbit. Her best memory is the day she discovered she could sing.
personality ; Valentina like most women is a very complicated piece of work. She’s a mish mash of clashing personality traits that somehow manage to co-exist with out making her insane. First and foremost the woman is dramatic. She’s no drama queen she doesn’t enjoy emotional drama in fact she avoids it like the plague. If a problem can be avoided she will, but that doesn’t make her not dramatic. Really it’s an unconscious sort of thing. She has been the center of attention for so long that everything she does reflects that she is being watched. So she will talk just a bit louder than necessary, smile just a bit bigger than really necessary, pout just a little more than she needs to. She simply just does things a bit bigger than everyone else. This behavior can be slightly annoying to some, but for the most part it’s accepted as just being part of her unique personality.
Secondly and probably most importantly Lady is very comfortable with herself. She knows exactly who she is and is fine with that. She’s no ego maniac, but there is no one that will convince her to think badly of herself. She has a great amount of confidence in everything she does. Her talents, her skills, and her looks. She knows she can sing no matter what anyone else says. She knows she’s beautiful no matter how many people criticize. And she’s just as aware of her limitations as she is her strengths. And she’s just as comfortable with her weaknesses. She doesn’t mind that she’s not the best in everything nor does she want to be. If there is anything Valentina doesn’t want to be it’s perfect. After all perfect is boring. Because of this confidence Lady will very rarely question herself. She feels her instincts will always lead her right so she rarely thinks about anything too long she goes with her gut feeling. This can of course get her in more trouble than one would think, but she’s never tried to change that.
Music is also a big part of her personality. If there was one sure fire way to get lady to like you it is to be into music. Lady loves music any kind of music. Whether it be good or bad she likes it. She thinks music is more an art form than anything else. She doesn't have too much patience for people who discourage people who try to make music no matter how bad they are. She believes people should be able to express themselves musically no matter how bad they are.
Valentina is naturally a very flirty girl. She flirts without even thinking about it. And she’ll flirt with anyone man woman young or old it’s just simply a habit she’s never broken. This is also shown by the fact that Lady is a very touchy sort of person. It’s a very rare occasion that lady will talk to someone without some sort of physical contact whether it be a hug or a pat or something. Of course these tendencies give a lot of people the wrong idea. Many people assume that the woman is easy and in reality she really isn’t. In fact she has very little experience when it comes to relationships. She’s only been in one serious relationship and she would never in a million years sleep with some casual hook up. Intimate relations to Valentina is nearly a sacred thing and to do something like that with a practical stranger is just wrong to her. Lady is in all honestly an old fashioned romantic she believes in loving one person and just one person.
She is the sort of girl that doesn’t necessarily believe in the fairytale romance, but that doesn’t keep her from yearning for it. There is very little she wants more than her own personal knight in shining armor to come and save her from the big bad world. She deeply envies most story characters with there epic romances. Except for Romeo and Juliet she despises that story as she believes that all love stories should end with a big happily ever after. She knows the world is not a place of sun shine and daises, but she believes whole heartedly that love is the strongest power in the world. In her world love really can conquer all.
Over all Valentina is a optimistic person. Not stupidly so, but she does her best to see the silver lining in any situation. She is also the sort of person that believes that if life throws you lemons make lemonade. Some of the greatest things ever done by human kind was done during a time of tragedy. To Lady it’s a simple fact that you can’t have the good without the bad and if there was no bad then no one could appreciate the good as much as they should. One of the woman’s biggest personality traits is that she is just plain stubborn. For the most part she really is a flexible person who’s willing to compromise, but occasionally she takes a stand on certain issues and then she is impossible to budge. She won’t listen to anything once she’s certain about something she will not change her mind and she will let nothing stop her no matter how good the argument is. This happens rarely really only a handful of times, but it’s a sight to be seen when it does happen.
For the most part Valentina is a pacifist. She just doesn't like violence. She is no stranger to it, but being familiar with it did not make her a fan. If there is any way to avoid any sort of confrontation Lady will do her damnedest to do just that. She is admittedly a coward. She will if she has the chance run away from a fight of any sort. Though the woman is a little yellow when it comes to a physical fight she will stand and fight if she has to. If other people stand to be hurt if she ran away then she would tough it out no matter how much she may not want to. Her biggest weakness without a doubt is the fact that she is a pushover. She’s known to be notoriously stubborn about a few issues, but for the most part the girl simply isn’t very good at saying no. This tendency makes her easy to control leads her to do things she wouldn’t normally agree to do.
the school life[/color]
school attended ; Hogwarts
former house ; Gryffindor
favourite subject ; Valentina’s best subject was herbology. She found the subject to be fairly interesting and very peaceful.
worst subject ; Defense Against the Dark Arts was definitely her worst subject. It was just too in your face for her. She’d flinch and forget the spell to the charms she’s supposed to be using every time some turned their wand in her direction.
OWLs gained & grades ;
- Astronomy [core] A
- Charms [core] E
- Defence Against the Dark Arts [core] P
- Herbology [core] O
- History of Magic [core] E
- Potions [core] A
- Transfiguration [core] A
- Care of Magical Creatures E
- Muggle Studies E
- Divination O
the family life[/color]
partner ; N/A though she's sure Mr. Right will come along eventually.
children ; N/A
mother ; Vivian Vanlace Carmona, 50, Pure
father ; Armando Carmona, 54, Pure
siblings ; Allyson Carmona, 19, Pure
Voltain Carmona, 16, Pure
other significant magical relatives ; Ladalina Carmona 82, Pure Valentina's grandmother.
residence ; A very non-descript flat above a shop in Diagon Alley.
history ; Valentina was brought into the world on a very average Valentine's day. She was born to be the first of three children to Armando and Vivian Carmona. Her entry into this world was surprisingly difficult and dramatic entrance. And Dramatic would be the way she would be her entire life. Even as a infant she would scream just a little louder than anyone else. She was the center of everyone's attention from the minute she was born. This would continue for a good portion of the woman's life.
Her childhood was fairly average for that of a pureblood child. Tutors from an early age and of course endless lessons of deportment and etiquette. Other than the addition of her sister Allyson and her brother Viron, Valentina‘s life was quiet. When the girl was ten years old her parents separated. From that day on the children spent half the year with their mother living in an old manor in Norwich with their mother and half the year with the father in an elaborate mansion in Spain. Valentina also spent a fair amount of time with her grandmother Ladalina without either of her siblings. This time with her grandmother was spent grooming her to be the Carmona Heiress. This of course made Valentina the obvious favorite this did cause a few problems with her younger siblings, but nothing overly dramatic.
It was no surprise when her letter to Hogwarts arrived just after her eleventh birthday. Valentina was very excited and eager to start her career at Hogwarts. Her entire family had high expectations of her and she was bound and determined not to disappoint them. Lady entered into Hogwarts with her usual flair and was quickly sorted into Gryffindor. At this time in her life this outraged her. She was or at least she believed herself to be the epitome of Slytherin. She did her damnedest to be the picture perfect Pureblood Princess. This was one of the few time in her childhood that she disappointed her parents. She was sorted into Gryffindor, but for her entire Hogwarts career she did her best to distance herself from her house. She would not associate with anyone that didn’t wear green and silver. Not even one friend who lived outside the elite pureblood circles.
The day that changed her life started out fairly ordinary. Until she got into an argument with another girl about a boy. Of course this wasn’t just any boy this boy was the only person she had ever dated and was the person she planned on marrying. The girl was a Slytherin one who wanted Trevor as badly as Valentina did. The two girls had been at odds with each other for weeks over the issue until one day Valentina did exactly what her family had always taught her to do. When there is competition you get rid of it. The girl took this lesson to heart and followed it through by pushing the girl violently down the great staircase. At the time the girl didn’t think anything of it the other that the girl was standing in the way of something she wanted so she was getting what she deserved. And Valentina continued to believe this until she walked down the stairs to see the girl laying brokenly on the floor unconscious but seriously injured. She had never in her life had ever hurt anyone that badly and she was immediately ashamed. She knew that no matter what her family said they were wrong there was no justification for hurting people that bad.
Valentina had been prepared to face the music sure that she was going to get expelled for the incident, but her parents interceded before the girl got in trouble. Before Lady knew what was going on her parents had contacted and bribed the girl’s parents to put off the whole incident as an accident. Despite this the girl tried to confess, but her parents quickly put it off as an undue amount of guilt. This almost more than anything else upset Valentina. Her parents wouldn’t even let her deal with the consequences of her actions. It was then that she knew she had to change and that she wouldn’t be able to do that with her parents meddling. So one cool day in February just a few days after her eighteenth birthday Lady walked out of Hogwarts and didn’t look back. She faded into the muggle world leaving the wizarding world in her past. She didn’t truly want to leave the magic world, because she had been taught since a young age how horrible the muggle world was, but she felt being exiled into the muggle world was suitable punishment for her actions.
Of course the Muggle world wasn’t half as bad as the girl had been lead to believe. Really she found it pleasant for the most part. To make herself even harder to find she left the UK and moved to America. She moved to Los Angeles and quickly settled in. In no time at all the girl had found an modest apartment and a job as a singing waitress. She truly enjoyed this job and quickly became very popular with the customers. It was only a matter of months before she was approached by an agent who swore that he could make her a big star. And that is exactly what he did it seemed to the girl that she had barely blinked before she was the next biggest thing in music. She basked in this for a long time and she seemed destined to shoot straight to the top. In a few years she was a multi-platinum selling artist who’s name alone could draw crowds of people. The glamour however didn’t last long the love she used to hold for music was lost in the business of making money. It wasn’t long before she was little more than a puppet acting the way the record executives wanted her to, dressed the way the wanted her to, and singing what they demanded she sing. She continued to live like this for a few more years until she was finally fed up. And for the second time in her life she just walked away. She bought a plane ticket and disappeared back into the UK. It was easy to disappear since there was a whole world they didn’t know about. She has to avoid the muggle heavy areas to avoid being recognized, but she’s safe enough in mostly wizarding world as almost no one has heard of her.
And unsurprisingly returning to the wizarding was rather difficult. Lady has carefully avoided most of her family, but she discovered that her younger sister Allyson has been in accident with a potion that took her mind. It was made fairly clear to her that Allyson’s illness is her fault and Lady feels immensely guilty. So the woman already has a lot on her plate but she has a lot of hopes for this third life. Of course she’s rather nervous too, because as the muggles say three strikes and your out.
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