[OOC] Forsaken Children of War (Kirah and McHaggis)

[Kirah]

Children of war suffer the most. These are the stories of the children during the Second Wizard War.

Kyle

Name: Kyle McCarthy

Age: 11

Year: 1

Gender: Male

House: Slytherin

Magical Heritage: Pure blood

Appearance:

Backstory/Personality: Kyle comes from a long line of Slytherin and Pureblood supremacists. His father was a Death Eater during Voldemort's first rise, and has rejoined him again in his second rise. Kyle has been raised to believe blood = status, and he does. He has dreams of one day working for Voldemort. That's a long way off, he has to prove himself first.

Kyle could have easily been in any of the other houses, but ambition and cunning are his primary attributes. His family does 'tricks' on each other each having to be more precisely planned than the last. These tricks are necessarily deadly, but the result of falling for one would hurt and incapacitate someone. Kyle has gotten better at them over the years, but he is no where near as good as his 16 year old sister Maggie. Maggie is on a one way trip to working for Voldemort. She has no greater ambition, but to be one of his generals. She despises Kyle. And even though the rules for the 'tricks' are only supposed to be at home Maggie continues to do it to him at School.

Wand: Rowen, 11 2/5, stiff, threstral hair

Personal items and pets: An owl named Rix

Special Gifts and Abilities: Kyle is exceptional at Dark Arts.

Maggie

Name: Maggie McCarthy

Age: 16

Year: 6th

House: Slytherin

Magical Heritage: Pureblood

Appearance:

Backstory/Personality: Maggie is brilliant. If she hadn't had such ambitions, even before the Dark Lord's second rise to power, she would have ended up in Ravenclaw. She strives for perfection in all she does. She has hated that mudblood Hermione since they met on the train. Maggie feels like she is always one step behind the mudblood.

She was raised for excellence. Her father had been a Death Eater in the First Wizarding War, and has resumed his place within Voldemort's army. He pulled Maggie aside the Summer after Voldemort returned and told her she was to prove herself. She was to be his heir. Maggie's mother wasn't pleased with that, but she had seen it coming.

Since Maggie had been an infant she cared for nothing, and no one, except what could get her farther in life, and that was only superficial. If Maggie spoke with a psychiatrist she'd probably be diagnosed with a form of psychosis including, but not limited to, delusions, narcissism, paranoia, nihilism and extreme lack of empathy or sympathy. (Cannot remember the actual term for the last one right now.)

Wand: Cherry, Dragon Heart string, 11 inches exactly, unyielding

Personal items/Pets: An owl named Leblos

Special Gifts Abilities: Maggie is also exceptional at the dark arts. She is capable of all three of the unforgivable curses (having done them on spiders). She flourished under "Mad-Eye Moody", and was pleased when she found out the man she had learned so much from was an imposter who was truly a servant of the Dark Lord. Maggie's detachment makes her more than just asexual or emotionally distant from people, though she can put on a good show of liking someone. She is an excellent flyer, but has never played Quidditch for the school.

[McHaggis]

Siobhan MacFusty

NAME: Siobhan MacFusty
AGE: 11
GENDER: Female

YEAR: 1
HOUSE: Gryffindor
MAGICAL HERITAGE: Pureblood

BACKSTORY & PERSONALITY:
Clan MacFusty has always been neutral in the war, despite attempts by both sides to claim the bountiful Hebrides Islands where they live for its strong natural wards and dragon reserves. Their children have been known to spread amongst the four houses, each with surprisingly different morals and personalities.

Siobhan is the youngest by six years with only one of her five siblings still in Hogwarts, a seventh year Slytherin. Alistair, who is already in the service of Lord Voldemort as he disappeared from the family mansion last summer, has been trying to convince her without fail that following the Dark Lord is the way to go, that he will win. She is just naïve and trusting enough to believe him.

Despite listening to her older brother and desperately pleading with the hat to be put in Slytherin to please him, she could only have ended up in Gryffindor due to her familial loyalty and bravery. She follows him around, much to his displeasure, because she cannot find friends within her own house (only bullies). While he is not particularly impressed with having a clingy little sister hanging on his coattails, the MacFusty family are ridiculously tight knit and he tries to ensure she has a place in his house even if she has none in her own.

WAND: Willow, 14 and ½ inches. Unicorn hair.

PERSONAL ITEMS & PETS:
Tabetha, a cat.
Map to the Hogwarts Kitchens (drawn by her sister).

SPECIAL GIFTS & ABILITIES: Excellent at Charms and would be a good seeker.

Alistair MacFusty

NAME: Alistair MacFusty
AGE: 17
GENDER: Male

YEAR: 7
HOUSE: Slytherin
MAGICAL HERITAGE: Pureblood

BACKSTORY/PERSONALITY: Alistair has always been the most prodigious of his generation when it comes to learning magic, taking after his mother's frightening intelligence. His accidental magic as a child was explosive and powerful, and while he was a relatively calm child of few temper tantrums, those fits he did have were certainly dangerous.

Growing up around dragons was certainly not safe for those who did not have the right temperament for it, and Alistair was one of those few. Unlike his brothers and sisters, he hated the dragons and the feeling was mutual, so much so that he has a large bite scar on his shoulder to show for it. His parents weren't all too fussed, as dragon keeping or life on the reserve wasn't for everyone and their eldest child had already moved abroad to study Ancient Runes instead; they had more than enough children with an interest in keeping their family's heritage alive to allow Alistair to do what he wanted.

When he was sorted into Slytherin, even he was surprised; however, he was never treated badly by his parents, only differently and more distantly. He began to focus on his studies, determined to show his natural talent as a wizard and indeed he succeeded with an excelled mark, Eight Outstandings in his O.W.L.S out of ten, the other two being the dreadfully boring History of Magic and his hated Care of Magical Creatures. To try and impress, he also joined the Quiddich team as a chaser.

He took up dueling around this time as a blood sport, eased into it by his friends and having exciting competitions in the hidden chambers down in the dungeons. That summer, while the media was loudly declaring that Voldemort's return was fake, he entered an amateur, invitation-only competition and won it, boosting his ego tenfold. The other Slytherins knew that the Dark Lord was back and told him as much so there was no surprise at the end of his sixth year when the newspapers finally realised it was the truth. That very summer, he got into an argument with his parents about his choice in friends and stormed out, pleading with his contacts to "get him in".

Sure enough, he returns to Hogwarts this year with the Dark Mark branded into his forearm.

WAND: Cherry, 13 and ¾ inches. Dragon Heartstring core (Hebridean Black).

PERSONAL ITEMS & PETS: An owl named Portia. Has with him a Firebolt and a journal for interesting spells and spell-creation.

SPECIAL GIFTS & ABILITIES: Good at Charms, Transfiguration and Dueling. Despite his allegiance, he is better with light magic than dark.

[Kirah]

Nice. Do we want to make secondary characters now or later?

[McHaggis]

Can just make them as we need them for the sake of simplicity, unless you want us to make Kyle's sister/Siobhan's brother right now.

Oh, and what point will we be starting from? The train, the sorting, after the sorting, a month or two in...?

[Kirah]

Hm, I like the idea of starting from the train, because there is so much confusion and rushing about people who wouldn't have necessarily ended up as friends can.
And Siobhan will still think she's going to be a Slytherin at that point!
Oh that seems interesting. Her and Kyle could make friends and then at sorting they basically have a falling out at first.

[McHaggis]

Alrighty then! Even if we already know what's gonna inevitably happen at the Sorting, it would be a good introduction for our characters. Can't wait :D

[Kirah]

Awesome I'll work on the IC for here, because for Legacy I have no idea what to do yet.

[Kirah]

Would you agree that our character's siblings know each other.

[McHaggis]

At least in 1x1 you can't ninja post? I think I'm going to live with the crippling guilt of doing that for the rest of my life.

[McHaggis]

Yeah, definitely. Even if there's a year between them, Alistair's probably boasted about getting the Dark Mark etc... or something like that.

[Kirah]

Lol!
Yeah no ninjaing in this.

Okay. Cool, that gives our characters even more reason to gravitate to each other, especially in the beginning.

[McHaggis]

I had to look through so many pictures of pretty men to find a -single- dude with curly blonde hair and blue/grey eyes for Alistair.

I won't lie, it was pretty fun.

[Kirah]

How tragic for you to have to look through so many pictures.

I had a really hard time for Kyle actually...so many mug shots *face desk* Racism is alive

Anyway I won't be able to give a good response until later. I'm about to go down for breakfast and then my sister will be here to take me to the wedding.

[McHaggis]

Uwu, have fun! Sounds like an exciting time :D

[Kirah]

The wedding was amazing! It was super small, but that was lovely.

[McHaggis]

Huehue, "Maggie is so nice."

I'm sure Kyle thinks the same x)

[Kirah]

Lol, yeah, that's exactly what he's thinking. Nothing along the lines of, what's her plan to kill me this time?

[McHaggis]

Soooo brilliant time for the forums to go crazy, amirite?

[Kirah]

RIGHT!

[Kirah]

I was in the middle of my post and had to log off my computer. *grumbling*