[hider=Piper Ward] [hr][center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/23/45/0d/23450db5919d230786d7488f0c480055.jpg?b=t[/img] [color=#addfad][h2][i]"I don't believe in fate. I believe in myself."[/i][/h2][/color] [hr] [b][color=darkgreen]Name:[/color][/b] Piper Ward [b][color=darkgreen]Gender:[/color][/b] Female [b][color=darkgreen]Age:[/color][/b] 15 [b][color=darkgreen]Height:[/color][/b] 5'2" [b][color=darkgreen]Weight:[/color][/b] 132lbs [b][color=darkgreen]House:[/color] [color=#addfad][i]"How's our newest Hufflepu... Hold on, they said Slytherin?!"[/i][/color][/b] Slytherin [b][color=darkgreen]Year:[/color][/b] 5th year [hr][hr] [b][color=darkgreen]Appearance:[/color][/b] [hider=Face] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/dc/84/90/dc8490df4bca38c11a9dcaf71ae89209.jpg?b=t[/img] [hider=Hair][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/35/1f/46351fe030764fb7e41f8e23e0330298.jpg[/img][/hider][/hider] Piper looks easily approachable. Her skin is light with a healthy glow to it, and her curly, shoulder-length hair is light brown in colour, often left unkempt and tangly. Under thick eyebrows are curious moss eyes framed with short, brown lashes. Piper's face shape is a soft oval and the tip of her nose is remotely buttony. Behind Piper's left ear there's a visible scar from a fang. She isn't toned by any means, but her build is more athletic than your average 15-year-old's. When Piper isn't wearing her robes, her go-to clothes are earth tones and grays, often sweaters paired with plaid, knee-length skirts. The girl's most iconic outfit is her rust orange turtleneck sweater she pairs up with a dark, warm gray cardigan that reaches easily to her knees. She likes to wear her gray plaid skirt with dark knee-high socks and brown shoes. Piper doesn't wear makeup, but she has a discreet nose piercing. Even with her robes on she wears a pendant that has a hippogriff fang tangling from it. [b][color=darkgreen]Personality:[/color] [color=#addfad] ~ Positive / Headstrong / Social / Ambitious / Passionate ~[/color][/b] Piper is an interesting character to be around with. Nearly everyone who's met her wonders why she ended up in Slytherin instead of Hufflepuff: the girl is social, funny, spirited, and likes to spend time with friends. She seems like the odd one out compared to the stereotypical Slytherin model. However, her burning passion and ambition to succeed are qualities that make her a match for her house. Piper has a tendency to be reckless, but even more than that she is determined. She isn't an academical talent, but works hard every day to improve and keep up with the others, even surpass them. She doesn't want to be the best necessarily, she wants to simply be good enough, whatever that means. Piper is very encouraging and sunny around her friends, but she doesn't let that stop her from being fiercely competitive as well, trying to outdo everyone, especially herself. Snarky people don't mix well with Piper, although she tries to avoid conflict when she can. Piper isn't much of a sharer even though she loves being social; she uses physical activity to vent out her emotions and frustrations. Quidditch isn't as much a sport to her as it is an outlet to blow steams, even though winning does taste sweet every now and then. [b][color=darkgreen]History:[/color][/b] Piper was born to a all-wizard family. Her parents were both tamers of magical beasts, although her mother was also an ex auror forced to resign after an accident that took her leg. When Piper was about 6, her brother turned to the dark side. This came to all of them as a big surprise since Piper's brother had been an academically gifted Hufflepuff with a bright future ahead of him. Quickly he went off the rails, ending up arrested and sent to Azkaban. This event left a deep emotional scar in the whole family. Piper lived her whole life on a farm with her parents and varying magical creatures. When she was still little, she went along great with the animals, seeming a natural for conversing with them. Then, one day the little Piper went too close to a wounded Hippogriff brought to the farm to heal after a poacher had tried to catch it. The wounded magical creature reacted violently, slashing towards Piper, just barely missing her eye. Piper was left with a terror of all magical creatures and a visible scar on her left ear as a memory of the encounter. After that, every time Piper was forced to approach a magical creature, they could sense her fear and didn't trust her. Feeling like a disappointment to her parents - especially her dad - who had dedicated their whole life to the area, Piper was determined to somehow make up for her bad skills with animals. Everyone in Piper's family were Hufflepuffs, and naturally this was expected of Piper as well. The girl fit the picture perfectly: kind, social, and supportive. So naturally, everyone was shocked when instead of the expected, the Sorting Hat announced - voice solemn - that Piper was a Slytherin. This shocked no one more than it shocked Piper, who had her whole life recieved a rather black-and-white picture of the world, not to mention the Slytherin house. She spent her first year trying to distance herself as much as possible from her assigned house, sure there had been some sort of mistake. It was only after she began seeing that not all Slytherins were malicious that she became more comfortable in her house. However, Piper was still determined to prove to everyone she would turn out brilliant, especially her family. Although supportive, Piper could tell her parents were a bit worried of her being sorted into the notoriously "evil" house, especially after what happened with her older brother, Brian. This only fuelled Piper's need to show her parents she would turn out good. This is why, despite not being gifted academically like her brother, Piper studies harder than most. The only thing she's naturally gifted at is mastering new spells quickly, everything else she's pretty rubbish at by deafult.[hr][/center] [b][color=darkgreen]Extracurricular Activities:[/color][/b] [list][*]Beater for the Slytherin Quidditch team [*]Founder of a small after-school study group, although these days she rarely attends herself [*]Charms club [*]Other hobbies include doing moving picture puzzles, collecting famous wizard cards from the chocolate frogs, collecting gemstones, and spellmaking. [/list] [b][color=darkgreen]Strengths:[/color][/b][list] [*]Determination through the roof (Competitive) [*]Excellent dueller. Piper is an interesting duelling partner to say the least. Sneaky battle style, she uses the oddest spells and tactics, always trying to catch the opponent off guard. She isn't a part of the Duelling Club (although she attends the meetings sometimes unofficially), but rarely turns down invites to a wand-off. [*]Charms, transfiguration [/list] [b][color=darkgreen]Weaknesses:[/color][/b] [list][*]Maybe the worst at handling magical creatures [*]Pushes herself over her limits [*]Herbology, Care for magical creatures [*]Inner conflict [*]Unhealthy way of coping with pressure and emotions [*]Wizard chess. Just... no. [/list] [b][color=darkgreen]Other:[/color][/b] [list] [*]Piper has a pet tawny owl named "Barnaby the Bumblebee", Barnaby or Bee for short. The name was a joke at first but then it stuck. Bee is one of the only animals Piper is naturally good with - and no surprise, since the owl is a huge dumbass with not a single bad bone in him. [hider=Barnaby][img]http://images.mini-ielts.com/images/1/8/tawny-owl.jpg[/img][/hider] [*]Piper knows how to summon a patronus. Her patronus is a ringed seal. [*]Piper's wand is [url=https://i.pinimg.com/564x/d0/40/aa/d040aaf3f225fef666d8869b10bb2764.jpg]Hornbeam wood, dragon heartstring core, 12" and supple[/url]. [*]Blood status: Pureblood [*]Piper prefers using less known spells while duelling. She considers duelling a form of art and likes to be creative with it. [*]Piper is only average at flying, but she is good at aiming her shots. [*]Has never seen the Muggle world. It fascinates her a lot, and she loves chatting up Muggle-borns to find out what their life is like. [*]Piper has faced a bit of discrimination among the other Hogwarts houses because the Slytherin reputation is what it is. This has been quite tolling on her social personality. [*] Piper collects gemstones. She has a small collection of stones such as amethyst and other quartz, lapis, and agates. [*]Color code: [color=#addfad]#addfad[/color] [/list][/hider] [hider=Relationships] [b][h3][color=fff200]Hufflepuff[/color][/h3][/b] [color=yellow][b]Halle Moore:[/b][/color] Halle and Piper became properly friends after the unfortunate incident involving a group of Slytherin girls and a certain degratory term. Although being aware of Halle from afar, the two never became proper friends. However when the incident happened, Piper rose to Halle's defence, straight up ditching her so-called friends for the kind Hufflepuff. Now Piper is rather protective over Halle, and the girl is what Piper would describe as one of her closest friends. She doesn't know if that's how Halle feels too, but at least the two have good times together. Piper would never dare to reveal that she has a crush on Halle, mostly because she's come to terms with it being probably unrequited. [color=fff79a][b]Brady James:[/b][/color] A Hufflepuff Piper finds herself quite liking despite them not being anyting but friendly acquaintances. Piper is approving of the boy's talent as a seeker and his protectiveness over his fellow Hufflepuff and Piper's friend, Halle. Piper first met Brady in the study group she founded, though the two never became close friends. Piper finds herself smiling every time she crosses paths with the Hufflepuff boy, usually greeting him with a nod.[hr] [b][h3][color=0072bc]Ravenclaw[/color][/h3][/b] [color=#4BF6FF][b]Jaxon Chauser:[/b][/color] Jaxon and Piper have a lot in common. The two have a similar love for duelling, charms and spellmaking. Even their battlestyles have similarities. They are in friendly terms, and the girl feels a sort of strange kinship with the more reserved Ravenclaw prodigy. Jaxon is the one to try to nudge and persuade Piper into joining the Duel Club officially instead of just kind of skirting along here and there, something which the more socially liberated girl certainly appreciates. The two of them are often duelling partners, and Piper has taken up to trying to help him overcome his struggles with social situations. [color=#1E90FF][b]Lara Donner:[/b][/color] As with most Ravenclaws, Piper isn't familiar with Lara. It doesn't help their interests are in different areas, either. [b]Miley Witherspoon:[/b] Piper finds herself indifferent when it comes to Miley, although she finds the girl's Metamorphmagusness pretty funny. Still, this ability doesn't intrique Piper quite as much as it might others, since Piper's imprisoned brother is a Metamorphmagus as well. [hr] [b][h3][color=39b54a]Slytherin[/color][/h3][/b] [color=39b54a][b]Elspeth Macbain:[/b][/color] Not the highest of friends, maybe, but Piper surely respects her fellow Slytherin a whole lot. Maybe their opinions don't always go eye-to-eye, but at least they both have a high work ethic they can agree on. Piper knows better than to reach for the impossible and doesn't compete with the girl in academics, but as a duelling partner Piper gets to have the satisfaction of standing on rather equal footing with the blonde Slytherin Prefect. Even though Piper isn't strategically as advanced as her housemate, she is capable of giving Elspeth a run for her money. [color=lime][b]Thomas Korevny:[/b][/color] Another Slyherin from Piper's year, the two are best described as friendly acquaintances. While generally disliking his more stuck-up worldviews, Piper avoids conflict and instead pushes Thomas to be a better dueller. In return, Thomas has taken to pushing Piper to refine her flying skills at Quidditch. They are the Slytherin team Beaters, and have a sort of rivalry between them. They always compete on which one of them "scores" more hits with the Buldgers during a match.[hr] [b][h3][color=9e0b0f]Gryffindor[/color][/h3][/b] [b]Elliot Forrester:[/b] Only familiar with him through Quidditch. [b]James Dalton:[/b] Much like Elliot, Piper is only familiar with him through Quidditch. The girl's opinion on James is neutral. [/hider]