[CHAR] Hogwarts, 1480

[PhunkyPhoebe]

Mirabelle Tullia Rosier
(called "Mira" by her family)
Age:
13
Appearance:

House:
Ravenclaw
Wand:
Sycamore, Dragon Heartstring

Wand

Personality:
Mira, on the surface, is well-behaved, speaks only when spoken to, and is somewhat shy. Though on her own or with a trusted ally, she is obnoxiously curious and has a deep desire to know what's behind every closed door. She's very good at entertaining herself, is truly an explorer, and often finds herself in situations where she must hide or risk punishment for sneaking around. Free-spirited as she may be, Mira was raised to respect authority and to do as she was told, but still finds it hard to follow this strict way of life. Besides exploring and sticking her nose in places it does not belong, Mira loves to read and is a very intelligent young lady. Biting her tongue was never a specialty of hers and she is certainly no stranger to disciplinary action. Deep down, Mira is lonely and would love a real friend who truly gets her, as she has always found it very hard to find anyone who doesn't find her very peculiar and strange. However, she's had great practice at hiding her true feelings and goes about her days hiding behind a mask to keep her true identity, wants, and desires secret.
Bio:
Although she has his name, Arturo Rosier is not Mira's real father. Her true parentage remains unknown to all except her mother, though Mira has always had a slight inkling that the man who raised her did not share her same blood. Mira grew up practically alone at the Black Estate having no siblings until she was 9 years old with only servants to look after and care for her. Her parents were often away from home and when they were around, neither her mother nor her father made an effort to give her the love and nurturing she so desperately wanted from them. Her father didn't care much for her until he discovered that she was quite the talented witch. Even then, his main concern was how often she was using magic to develop her ability. As a result, Mira is somewhat detached from her parents and family. Having the chance to go away to school was the best thing to happen to her.
Plotting:
Mira's true father has yet to be discovered and is still very much a secret to everyone-including Arturo. I'm pretty positive that if it was revealed that her mother had a child with another man, pureblood or not, it would bring a whole lot of shame and scandal to the family. She might clash with others who find her curiosity and thirst for freedom off-putting. Mira is also from two old pureblood families, so being forced into an arranged marriage with another pureblood son is very likely to happen in the day and age this roleplay takes place.
Family:
Mira's parents are both from distinct, pureblood families. Her father, Arturo, was born into the infamous Rosier family and her mother, Alys, hails from the ancient and notorious Black family. Mira is the eldest and has three other younger siblings: twin brothers, Pollux and Castor, and a sister, Sabine. Arturo is not her real father, and the real one is still unknown.

[MiddleEarthRoze]

Name: Contessa Evangelina "Eva" di Diavolo

Age: 13

Appearance:


House: Hufflepuff

Wand: Rowan wood with a Phoenix feather core; 12 1/2 inches, unyielding flexibility.

Wand

Personality: Despite Eva's upbringing, she has attempted to make herself as down to earth and gritty as possible. She'll be the first to get down and dirty in some exploring or adventuring, is extremely outgoing in casual social events (Not so much in formal ones, but then again, it depends on the crowd she's hanging with), and enjoys making friends - particularly with common folk, or simply those without airs and graces. For her, there is nothing worse than acting above everyone else simply because of your blood or your family name - to her, what lays in one's heart is what is important, and she tries to make that known to most new people she meets.
As she would hate for people to assume that she's just another shitty-acting noble, Eva is quick to stick up for underdogs or those being bullied - more than once, this has led to fights in the streets involving a lot of hair pulling and behaviour unbefitting of a Contessa. Despite the various scoldings received from her parents in regards to this, she continues to do so - and will have a lot more chance to truly act like herself in the halls of Hogwarts. Be ready to expect a steadfast friend loyal to the end, who will personally fist-fight a dragon for you - who cares if her dress gets burnt in the meantime?

Bio: The di Diavolo family was a lesser known - but still influential - noble House present in Florence, Italy. Close to the ruling Nobles, House Medici, it was extremely easy for Eva's pure-blood wizarding family to avoid persecution from the Papal States, who did not have much leeway in the state of Florence thanks to the Medici's.

However, that changed in 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV was elected as the new Holy Father of the world. As with most Catholics at the time, he abhorred the thought of magic, science, and anything that could bring down the Catholic Church - which included House Medici. They held Florence, and had disobeyed Rome and the Vatican for far too long. From there, the Pazzi Conspiracy took place.

In 1478, the Pazzi family attempted to assinate two members of the Medici fgamily, and Pope Sixtus had aided the plans along. While they failed to overthrow the family, and did not attack the di Diavolo House directly, Eva's parents were terrified. They had only some protection from the Catholic Church by the Medici's, but this blow shook their confidence in the ruling House of Florence. Scared they too would be attacked - and their status as magic users discovered - the di Diavolo's left Italy, travelling to England to live with Noble family there.

While witch hunts were still prominent in England at this time, it was rare for nobility to be even accused; the peasantry couldn't even try and judge them if they tried. So, the di Diavolo's were safe, building their reputation and their family. They had left Italy with two children; Eva, at 10 years old, and her brother Leonardo, at 13 years old. The pair were already fluent in English (Italy and it's Church had declared the English language as heathenish and dirty - the di Diavolo's took great delight in learning it as a small, private rebellion against the zealous Church), and by the time their younger siblings were born as twins a year later, their accent was all but gone.

Naturally, when their parents caught wind of a wizarding school, they shipped their oldest two off to it immediately. Eva needed the discipline and Leo needed the independence from his parents. Also, with them both at a boarding school, they couldn't complain or refuse any arranged marriages their parents concocted.

Plotting: Her brother is in his fifth year at Hogwarts, and the two get along well enough. He considers her behaviour to be benefiting of her title, but isn't overly annoying about the whole thing. He's more bothered about his nobility than his blood, anyway.
She's unlikely to get along with the pretentious, snobbish, or judgemental - and if she hears the word "mudblood" thrown around, her fists are going to be thrown around too.

Family: Vaguely related to the Black family, somewhere down the line.

[LadyTabris]

Name: Lior Reynes
Age: 13

Appearance:

Hider

She would be a bit older than this, but this is what I found.

House: Slytherin
Wand: Ash with Phoenix feather.

Personality: Lior is an intelligent girl with a good memory. She is skilled at remembering information she is taught, and is rarely ever found studying or taking notes in class. For her, just sitting and listening is often enough to learn, though occasionally it requires more work than that with more complicated subjects. In attending Hogwarts, she wants to come out near the top of her class in order to better herself and how her life was so far. She has ambitions to work in a better field than her parents, a farmer and a barmaid. She doesn't have many scruples on how she does this or what sort of work that may entail. She wants to become on par with the great pureblood houses.
She is often quiet, but when she does speak she can be extremely opinionated. If she believes in something she may become relentless in its pursuit. If someone spits at her, she's equally likely to exact immediate revenge with a sharp remark, or just stand taller and wait with a grudge.

Bio: Lior wasn't raised in a rich home, like most of those with wizarding heritage around her at Hogwarts. She grew up living on a small farm with her parents, in an average sized wizarding town in England. Because of this, Lior is very familiar with hard work. She loves animals and learning about magical creatures, and she always has.
Her father, Owen, owned the farm and brought livestock to the market for meat and other purposes. Her mother, Moiraine, worked at a local tavern servings drinks in the evening, and because they were such a small, poor family, she often had to help out on the farm during the day as well. As soon as she was old enough to understand, Lior was put to work, and even before that, her father would bring her around with him as he did his work, so she would be familiar with it. She never had a wand until she was 11 and never learned any magic, but she learned other things growing up, like maths and reading.
From birth to age 11, Lior barely had a vacation and no friends save her small dog, Lily, who was also their family sheepdog, though they had a good connection. While Lior was still 10 years old, she received a Hogwarts letter. Her parents had always told her she would, but she had never thought much on it or believed it. They were a small, poor family. How could they afford to send her there? From well before her birth, her parents had saved every penny they could until she was 10, when they sent a medium sized sack of coins and a letter to Hogwarts, detailing her bloodline and upbringing. This was the reason her parents didn't have more children (who could've helped out o n the farm), so they could put everything they had into their first. She went off to Hogwarts, meager, second-hand supplies and ratty clothes in hand. Barely in her life had she seen a silver coin, but she did that day in Diagon Alley, and no little more than that.
Upon arriving at Hogwarts, she immediately applied herself to catching up to her better-born peers with basic magic. She spent nearly all her time in the library or generally just practicing spells in empty classrooms, teaching herself from books where she could. She wanted to match and surpass the other students. By third year, she has caught up with most of their knowledge, though she sorely neglected her personal life and barely has a friend to speak of.

Plotting: Her parents are wizards but has muggle in her heritage, so some people may just not know what to do with that. She's equally likely to spit on someone more noble than she is or to kiss up to them to advance herself, though she rarely interacts with people for extended periods of time. Now, having caught up in her studies, she will have more time to basically meet the people around her. As she is from a poor background, she's very sensitive about money and would be very tempted by seeing any. Hates charity, of course, but money could easily be a big motivating factor in what she does. She would probably actually like to distance herself from muggleborns and other poor people i order to ain a good reputation.

Family: Her father brought the name Reynes from his muggle father, who married an Avery woman. She left her family avoiding a marriage and set about travelling the world, and eventually settled down with her muggle husband. Lior never understood the woman. On Lior's mother's side, there is no muggle blood as far as it's known. They were just a poor family who have lived in this small town of Rosecliff for as long as anyone can remember. Most other families like that in the city are a bit better off, more middle class and living closer to the center of town, though the Ingram family, somewhere a few generations back, had crippling debt that Moiraine's (Lior's mother) mother only just managed to pay off the last of. The family has been stuck in poverty for a while.

[Teddyinahat]

Name: Aoife inghean Domhnall - Irish, pronounced ee-fa en-yan doh-nael, inghean was shortend to Ni, which means the same, in later centuries but in 1480 it was writen as ‘inghean (lowercase is correct). The meaning is Aoife, daughter of Domhnall. She is from a clan in ireland which does not use clan names when naming girls. She is from the Ó Flaithbheartaigh Clan (pronounced similarly to O'Flaherty in modern ireland) which I will give more information about in the Family section later.

Age: 13

Appearance:


House: Ravenclaw

Wand: (still unsure why we dont get to pick our wands, we already have them by 3rd year)

This in chestnut (just a little darker)

Personality: (I dislike personality descriptions, I prefer a character's personality to be discovered and developed through the game, but I'll play along) Aoife is a shy girl when in public and even in small groups, onkly showing her true self when surrounded by only family or her two close best friends from home who she misses greatly. She is smart but does not offer up answers in classes unless asked directly, giving the impression to her classmates that she is of average ability. She is not afraid to talk to others but generally stays quiet unless addressed directly.

Bio: Born to the cousin of the head of the clan, Aoife’s family are well off but lead a quiet life. Her father is a landowner with several small properties whitch he rents out. He also owns a small fleet of fishing boats and one small trade ship.
Aoife has lead a quiet life with very little happening except in her ninth year when she was with her father at the docks, she spent a lot of time with her father. That day at the docks her father was meeting with some foriegn traders and one of the young men named christopher gave her a honeyed treat, later her father told her that he was a great sailor and that he wouldnt be surprised if he went on to great things saying,
"Mark my words, that Chris Colombus will be a household name in no time." ((en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1476_in_Ireland))
She always remembered the kind man who gave her the treat.
When she turned eleven her father send her on his trading ship to britain and had her enrolled at Hogwarts like her grandfather, her last magical ancestor since her parents are both squibs. The ship's captain left her there where she never felt she fit in after one year she recieved a letter from her father telling her that she must stay at hogwarts or find somewhere to stay until she had finished her time there. the next year at school was better, she started to enjoy learning magic and befriended the librarian who reminded her of the kind man on the dock three years previous ((I do not know if you have a character planned for the librarian, but it does not matter if it is male or female)). She enjoyed spending time in the library and reading the books which the librarian showed her. Since she kept herself to herself at school she has very little interesting past at the school.

Plotting:I think that her shyness can be exploited for good plot, forcing her into situations where she has to overcome it to work with others. I also feel that she is likely to be in a minority, being Irish, which could make for interesting plot development. Her family also has a history with dragons.

Family: Ó Flaithbheartaigh Clan - Ruling family in the Galway area of Ireland. The clan has a history of magic blood through out history, but has an unusual problem with squibs. many non magical children are born to magical parents and magical children are born to non magical parents. Due to this the Clan is not considered a pure blood family in magical comunities, despite all members of the clan having magical blood, however has had many strong and notible wizards and witches such as Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh, King of Connacht in the 11th century.
Thier coat of arms has embalzened upon it two red dragons and a black ship which speeks of thier strong maritime heritage and thier family reputation of being some of the greatest irish dragon handlers in history. They still have strong maritime presence in ireland and have strong buisness ties in Britain and Northern Europe.

[BookGirl1993]

Name: Meagan ‘Meg’ Savanna Warbeck

Age: 13

Appearance:

Hider

House: Ravenclaw

Wand:

My Heirloom wand

Personality: Meagan’s a girl who normally always speaks her mind and sometimes it can get her into trouble. Meagan was someone who studies hard and pays attention in class she has a small group of friends which consists of four other students. She even can sometimes be a bit of a brainy ack, but she does not like to show off.

Bio: Meagan is the youngest of three older brother’s her parents John Warbeck comes from a long line of purebloods until he had fallen in love and married a young girl named Lucy Genova a muggle born Witch who had made it to Hogwarts school, because of her parents has they knew what was happening and helped her hide it as Lucy’s dad had been a squib.

The Warbeck’s family hales from Wales a country located on an Island of Great Britain. It is unclear on when the Warbeck family had moved from Wales to London, but the Warbeck family have a large family estate located somewhere in London. John Warbeck was the first of his line to marry a muggle-born witch and to his family he had tainted his family’s pureblood line, but his family had always been a strong believer of marring for love and not marrying to keep the line clean.

Meagan’s older brother Markus had graduated from Hogwarts two years ago. Nick her second oldest is in his last year at the school and her third oldest brother Paul is in his fifth year at Hogwarts the brother are pretty protective of her. Meagan was always an easy girl to find if she was not in class she was either with her friends in the courtyard somewhere or she will be in the library or the house common room reading, studying or writing.

Plotting: With Meagan’s habit of speaking her mind it can get her in trouble with other students and at times teachers when it causes her to speak out of turn or when the teacher is talking. Though Meagan is easy to get along with once you get to know her. Meagan also has a big heart and help a student out if they are having trouble in a class any class or if they are getting picked on.

Family: She is a part of the Warbeck family. The Warbeck family is the surname of a Welsh Wizarding family. It has both magical and muggle heritage. (Warbeck is wizarding family from HP and there is not much known of the family.)

[Gisk]

Name: Isaac Prewett
Age: 13
Appearance:
House: Gryffindor
Wand: Aspen and unicorn hair. Twelve inches, middling pliability.
Personality: A confident and daring young fellow, with little fear of the unknown and untried. Easy to goad into unwise behavior, his recklessness is most often tempered not by a cautious quality of his own, but by that of his twin brother. He’s generally good natured and good humored, and he forgives almost as easily as he takes offense, giving him a gift for making friends out of enemies.

Bio: Isaac and his twin brother, Chandler, were a naturally inseparable pair from the very start. Their family have long since come to terms with this, and throughout their nobelman's upbringing, they were showed off to extended family and friends as a sort of "matching pair," where they would display well practiced drills in both wand and sword dueling. In these drills, Chandler intentionally mimicked any mistakes that Isaac made with his wand, while Isaac returned the favor with the sword, so that neither would outshine the other.

At Hogwarts, this mimicry of each others weaknesses ended, because they were no longer dealing with doting family, or friends who had to stay on good terms with their father. Instead, they began to make up for each other's failings. Isaac's stronger personality kept Chandler's social awkwardness from holding him back with his peers, and Chandler would ensure that Isaac turned in his assignments for his less favorite classes.

In their second year, they both played quidditch for their team, Chandler as a Chaser, and Isaac as a beater.

Plotting:
Family: The Prewetts are an old pure blooded family, noble and well respected. Isaac is one of a pair of twins who arrived at the castle in the same year.

[Apoalo]

Name: Chandler Martin Prewett
Age: 13

Appearance:

Chandler

House: Gryffindor
Wand: Cypress wood, 12 inches, Manticore Stinger core (heirloom wand), reasonably springy.

Personality: Calm, cautious, and manipulative Chandler thrives in experiments where he's allowed to use his mind. He is exceptionally smart and a born tactician along with a gifted politician. He lacks a very strong social life however and instead counts on his twin to cover that for him. He comes across at first glance as a weakling hiding behind his brother and by the time you realize your mistake it's very often to late. Chandler is a great Quidditch Chaser but his true strength lies in practices where he comes up with insanely complex strategies and maneuvers. He's a natural bookworm and even when 'socializing' a book is never to far away.

Bio: Chandler grew up in Prewett Mansion all alone except for one other person, his twin brother Isaac, the two boys were practically born joined at the hip and that closeness followed them throughout their entire childhood. Their parents were hardly ever around the House instead preferring to stick to politics and parties instead of their Children, however the two were 'shown off' to friends and co-workers to impress them with amazing children and the two were expected to always do whatever requested of them during those times. The two were also expected to practice non-verbal wand movements or magic-less incantation uttering to get an edge in their classes.

This life was the normal routine for both boys until they turned 11 and received the letter every magical child dreamed about. Outfitted with the best clothing and accessories available the two Prewett boys were shipped off to the school via the Hogwarts express. As soon as they arrived Chandler was viewed as a weakling and coward, but only until Isaac glared at them which made then promptly stop. The sorting for the boys went very... Interesting with Isaac being sorted into Gryffindor, even more interesting was the almost forty minute sorting of Chandler and the eventual placement of Gryffindor as well, no one, not even the headmaster know what was said during hat time to this day but Chandler was a Slytherin to the very bone and it had taken quite a bit talking in order to follow his brother . The year passed easily for Chandler who excelled in every class that required a wand and it's usage while easily passing the other duller subjects as well. He was an amazing student, one of the top of his class and his true nature was being hid more and more and he was teased behind his (Isaac's) back as being a nerd and geek, and even weak. He let them think all of those things while gaining more and more knowledge of the Dark Arts. He would spend hours after school in a secret extra class with the Charms teacher who was a Championship Duelist and family friend.

The Second Year went quite like the first, the only difference was that both Chandler and Isaac also joined the Quidditch team, both boys being quite good flyers. For Chandler however it went a step further and he was constantly with the Captain coming up with new plays and like always standing in the back. He was a well liked and well loved student who no one would ever suspect of doing a single thing wrong...

Now in Third Year Chandler is looking to start making a name for himself in the Slytherin House and start showing his true Green and Silver colors, as well as continue his advanced dueling training and advanced combat spells while making sure he stays near his brother at all times, who helped him stay off the radar and covered his glaring weaknesses which was a lack of social skills and hate of just about everyone.

Plotting: Everyone but himself and his twin are potential enemies and he will be very cautious of then all. He will almost always let his twin talk for the both of them unless he to considers the person he's talking to as a friend which would take a good deal of work. Bookworms in general will have a lot in common with him and Quidditch players he at least respects.

Family: The Prewetts are an old pure blooded family, noble and well respected. Chandler is one of a pair of twins who arrived at the castle in the same year.