Post by Harriet London on Aug 2, 2009 23:18:10 GMT 1
**INTRODUCTIONS**
Name:
Harriet Sofia London
Nickname:
Hari
Age & Year:
16, 6th year
Birthday:
3rd May
Sexual Orientation:
Essentially straight, but she'll flirt with anyone if she fancies
Birthplace:
Thurrock, Essex (That's south-east England)
Current Residence:
A wizarding village near Hockley, Essex. More specifically, this house:
Parents:
Mother – Aurélie London (Née Roux) – Comes from a pureblood French family. Attended Beaux Batons. Has lived in England for 18 years now.
Father – Dawson London – English, pure blood, attended Hogwarts. Former Ravenclaw. He works as an astronomist.
Siblings:
Twin sister (Not identical) – Juliette, 16, unknown house.
Younger brothers – Zachary (Zak) and Dominic (Dom) – 7 year old identical twins.
Blood Status:
pure-blood
**WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE**
Picture:
Looks:
Eyes - Bright Blue
Hair - Black, straight.
Height - 5 foot 5
Weight - 7 stone (98 pounds)
Appearance:
Her eyes are bright blue and stand out brilliantly against her pale skin. On top of this, her eyelashes are quite long, which makes them look even larger. She did have a tongue pierced a year or two ago, but it closed up pretty fast because she took it out whenever she was in class. There's a noticeable mark on her tongue still, where the hole used to be. Also, there's a scar on her cheek near her right ear from when her sister threw a vase at her. A shard of china cut her quite deeply, and it left a scar.
She wears a pair of blue stud earrings and a ring she'd been given from a boy that she's known since she was 6.
Favourite Outfit:
Harriet likes bright colours. She tends to wear bright vests or t-shirts, tight jeans or shorts/skirts with black or patterned tights. Her favourite item of clothing is a pair of aqua blue zebra striped jeans, though she doesn't find an opportunity to wear these very often. She owns a couple of dresses, for wearing if it happens to be warm in the summertime.
**PERSONALITY**
How do you treat your friends:
Harriet's closest friends are the world to her. If they manage to work their way into her heart, she'll treat them like precious jewels, like they're the most important thing in her life. She'll protect them, trust them with everything and pour all her energy in making sure that they are happy and that they know she loves them.
The friends that aren't as close to her are disposable and she knows it. She'll be nice to them and treat them with respect, but she won't put as much care into the relationship and she tends to forget them a lot of the time.
How do you treat your enemies:
True enemies would bring out the worst in her. She would be as horrid as she could manage and try to make them miserable, stopping just short of physically hurting them unless they really provoked her.
If she dislikes someone, they're likely to get a few dirty looks and possibly the occasional mean word.
Social Status:
Harriet likes to think of herself as popular, and a real people-person.
Positive Traits:
Negative Traits:
[For the next part, bold your answer]
Money vs Love/Friendship
Love vs Lust
Dueling with wand vs Fighting
Fighting vs Solving the situation with words
Reading vs Writing (Neither. A more practical thing like a drama enactment is better suited)
Purebloods vs Muggleborns
Cats vs Dogs
Comedy vs Drama
**SOME MORE INSIGHT**
Skills/Hobbies:
Harriet can act really well, and she's recently found a natural talent for haircuts and styling. She also thinks she can sing quite well.
She sings to herself most of the time. Under her breath or out loud, she doesn't really care. It just keeps her entertained when nothing else is going on. She tries to keep herself surrounded by people most of the time to keep herself entertained. If she gets really bored, she'll try to plait her hair, cut it or convince another person to let her cut theirs
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes:
Toys – Childrens toys, like toy dinosaurs, cars, teddys.
Muggles – She had a childhood friend whose brother married a muggle. As she was so close to the family, her parents allowed her to go out into the muggle world with the boy and his brother. Ever since then, she's loved the culture.
Stars – They make her feel relaxed.
Flirting – For some reason, it makes her feel empowered, and she loves that.
Candy – She has a big sweet tooth.
Parties – They're fun.
Alcohol – It keeps her entertained.
Dislikes:
Squids – She hates the way they look, and as food she hates the texture.
Drugs – Stupid waste of time. She hates them, especially because her sister's into them.
Flies – She has a phobia of these insects. They creep her out.
Dark windows – She gets scared that people might be watching her.
Soppy films – They make her feel ill.
Children – She doesn't hate them, but she feels awkward around them.
Best/Worst memory:
Best
“You miss her, don't you?”
Harriet nodded her head sadly, staring blankly at the images flashing up on this thing the Muggles called a 'television'. It was an outstanding invention, but it couldn't help her overcome her troubles. She missed her sister, and it's hard to get over things like that when the person who's left has been with you for your entire life. The boy next to her stared at her for a few minutes, before wrapping his arms around her.
“Don't be sad, Hari.” He said, eyes large and lips pouting. He then broke into a large grin. “I still love you!”
The nine year old girl looked at the boy that was beaming at her, before smiling back gently and planting an innocent kiss on him.
“Ty, you won't leave me too, will you?” She asked him quietly. The boy known as 'Ty' chuckled, and gave Harriet a squeeze.
“Of course I wont, you silly billy. Now come on, let's get some ice cream and watch Monsters Inc.”
The two children spent the rest of the night watching muggle movies until they passed out from exaughstion.
This is Harriet's best memory, because it was the only time that she felt comfortable when she was feeling vulnerable, because it was the first time during her sister's absence that she had felt genuinely happy, and because she'd spent the night with her best friend, just messing about like normal children would.
Worst
Harriet doesn't remember this one in detail, because she tends to block out any negative memories of her sister, but when she found out Juliette was doing drugs about a year ago, she got very angry at her. Juliette swiftly came back at this by punching her in the eye, and then smashing up her room. Both sisters spent hours crying over this, and then apologised to each other. This is her worst memory because this is the worst fall out she'd ever had with her twin.
Secrets:
She was (and still is, slightly) madly in love with her childhood friend Tyler until her fourth year.
She has a soft spot for boys with blue eyes.
She's quite obsessed with muggles.
**YOUR HOGWARTS CAREER**
What subjects are you taking this term:
Favourite/Least Favourite Subject:
Favourite:
Harriet loves Muggle Studies. She loves the way Muggles live, their culture, and everything about them amazes her. She also adores astronomy, because for some reason, stars make her feel safe and calm. Any subject that involves either of these is a great one in her eves.
Least:
Charms. She doesn't mind it, but she's too good at it. Everything seems so simple to her, it bores her.
What kind of student are you:
Harriet can cause trouble when she's in that sort of mood. It's okay for her, because it seems to sink in, but she can disrupt other people. Occasionally, she actually does focus on her work. This is seen by most as a blessing.
What is your preferred House:
Gryffindor!
**BEFORE AND AFTER**
How Did You Come To Be/Childhood:
Dawson London was an artistic and adventurous man, and after finishing his school career took to travelling for a while. He ventured around the world, visiting a lot of countries. After about a year of travelling, he settled in France, feeling that it was the place where he felt most at home. He lived in France for a year before meeting Aurélie. He sitting on a bench, painting the scene in front of him, when the petite blonde was knocked into a pond by some playing children. Ever the gentleman, Dawson rushed to her aid, and after making sure she wasn't injured invited her to his home to change clothes and warm herself up. Aurélie agreed.
After this, the two dated for around three years, both pretty sure that this was the real thing. Eventually, the two got engaged when Dawson proposed. It was then Aurélie's suggestion that the two moved back to England, as she had always wanted to get away from the country. Dawson happily agreed, and they moved to Essex, in England.
The wedding was a fairly small but beautiful affair, everyone there agreed that it was the best they'd ever been to. None of them knew, however, that there were two extra guests at that wedding. Aurélie was already pregnant with her first batch of twins at this point. Around 9 months later, Harriet and Juliette were born.
Harriet had a good childhood. Not much happened to her. She grew up in a wizarding community, so all of the people she knew were half-bloods or pureblood. Her best friend was a boy called Tyler. She's still close to him now, but his parents decided to homeschool him, so she doesn't see him much now. The two had great adventures, as both of them had vivid imaginations. She spent most of her time playing with him and other children at the park in the centre of their village. If she wasn't with him, she was with Juliette, her sister. Playing with Juliette tended to end in multiple injuries, as the girl had a lot of anger issues, but Harriet didn't mind. When Juliette was sent to live with her grandmother, Harriet became very sad and very lonely because she'd lost her main playpal, but Tyler helped her get through it, and the rest was all happy memories.
Coming To Hogwarts:
Going to Hogwarts was normal for Harriet. It was easy for her to change her lifestyle, and for some reason she felt that going to Hogwarts gave her more freedom than she had at home. It was easy for her to make new friends, but not as easy to let go of the old ones – She had to come to terms with the fact that she wouldn't be around Juliette and Tyler every waking moment of her life. She got over this eventually, though it did take her years. Now, she's happily settled in, and is making the best of her life while she's there.
What do you want to do after Hogwarts:
Harriet has no real plan for when she's left school, but she thinks it will either be involving astronomy, or the muggle world. She plans to travel, like her dad did, only she hopes that someone will go along with her. The one thing she's sure of is that eventually, she wants a family.
**OOC**
ABOUT YOU –
Name/Nickname:
Frances
Age:
16
Have you got any other characters here on Cave Inimicum:
-
How did you find the site:
Made bro.
How often are you online/able to play:
Right now, practically every day. Not likely to change soon.
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER –
Face Claim:
Brookelle Bones
Role-playing Sample:
Sundays. Sundays were like a small taste of death, delivered on a weekly basis to people who couldn't quite understand the idea of 'relaxing'. From Harriet's own experience, Sundays were anything but relaxing. They were days when all teenagers were either bored out of their minds or stressing out over the twelve page essay, due in the next day. Harriet never managed to find anyone who wasn't busy stressing out over work, so she always ended up bored and trying to amuse herself.
This is why she'd pushed open a window in her dorm room and sat herself on its windowsill. Her kitten, Kiko, was clambering over her in one of her rare playful moods, and occasionally tried to swat her hand when it moved. Harriet simply scratched the kitten's head, and resumed staring out of the window. It was a beautiful day outside, almost beautiful enough to make her want to go swimming. The only thing holding her back?
The giant squid.
She'd never seen the thing, but she knew it was there. The damn thing had haunted her dreams when she found out about it's existence, and now it ensured that she didn't go within two feet of the waters edge for fear of being unceremoniously dragged in by one of it's tentacles. If she had her way, that blasted animal would be dead and she'd be swimming to her heart's content by now. One day, she vowed to get rid of that horrid creature and get back to doing exactly what she wanted, just like she was used to.
Name:
Harriet Sofia London
Nickname:
Hari
Age & Year:
16, 6th year
Birthday:
3rd May
Sexual Orientation:
Essentially straight, but she'll flirt with anyone if she fancies
Birthplace:
Thurrock, Essex (That's south-east England)
Current Residence:
A wizarding village near Hockley, Essex. More specifically, this house:
Parents:
Mother – Aurélie London (Née Roux) – Comes from a pureblood French family. Attended Beaux Batons. Has lived in England for 18 years now.
Father – Dawson London – English, pure blood, attended Hogwarts. Former Ravenclaw. He works as an astronomist.
Siblings:
Twin sister (Not identical) – Juliette, 16, unknown house.
Younger brothers – Zachary (Zak) and Dominic (Dom) – 7 year old identical twins.
Blood Status:
pure-blood
**WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE**
Picture:
Looks:
Eyes - Bright Blue
Hair - Black, straight.
Height - 5 foot 5
Weight - 7 stone (98 pounds)
Appearance:
Her eyes are bright blue and stand out brilliantly against her pale skin. On top of this, her eyelashes are quite long, which makes them look even larger. She did have a tongue pierced a year or two ago, but it closed up pretty fast because she took it out whenever she was in class. There's a noticeable mark on her tongue still, where the hole used to be. Also, there's a scar on her cheek near her right ear from when her sister threw a vase at her. A shard of china cut her quite deeply, and it left a scar.
She wears a pair of blue stud earrings and a ring she'd been given from a boy that she's known since she was 6.
Favourite Outfit:
Harriet likes bright colours. She tends to wear bright vests or t-shirts, tight jeans or shorts/skirts with black or patterned tights. Her favourite item of clothing is a pair of aqua blue zebra striped jeans, though she doesn't find an opportunity to wear these very often. She owns a couple of dresses, for wearing if it happens to be warm in the summertime.
**PERSONALITY**
How do you treat your friends:
Harriet's closest friends are the world to her. If they manage to work their way into her heart, she'll treat them like precious jewels, like they're the most important thing in her life. She'll protect them, trust them with everything and pour all her energy in making sure that they are happy and that they know she loves them.
The friends that aren't as close to her are disposable and she knows it. She'll be nice to them and treat them with respect, but she won't put as much care into the relationship and she tends to forget them a lot of the time.
How do you treat your enemies:
True enemies would bring out the worst in her. She would be as horrid as she could manage and try to make them miserable, stopping just short of physically hurting them unless they really provoked her.
If she dislikes someone, they're likely to get a few dirty looks and possibly the occasional mean word.
Social Status:
Harriet likes to think of herself as popular, and a real people-person.
Positive Traits:
- Loyal – Harriet is incredibly loyal to her closest friends. She wouldn't let them leave her or stand them up for anything. She has a hard time letting anyone go.
- Protective – She is fiercely protective of the people closest to her. If anyone tries to hurt her loved ones, she'll be out for their blood.
- Flirtatious – Some may see this as a negative trait, but she loves it. She can't help but flirt with anyone and everyone. If she doesn't, she's either ill or in love.
- Determined – If Harriet sets herself a aim or task, she won't rest until it's completed. It's just getting her to commit to anything that's the problem.
- Sociable – Although she's not the best person at keeping them, she loves to make friends and likes to be surrounded with people most of the time
Negative Traits:
- Reckless – Often, she doesn't notice the possible danger involved in doing something, so will do it anyway. At other times, she just plain doesn't care, but she won't conciously put others at danger. Only herself.
- Impulsive – Harriet acts before she thinks. If any words or ideas pop into her head, she'll immediately follow it through without considering the implications.
- Jealous – If she thinks someone is leaving her or generally paying more attention to someone else, she'll get very jealous.
- Vain – Harriet likes herself. There's not much more to be said on this.
- Insensitive - If she feels someone has a real problem or are genuinely really upset, she'll have sympathy for them. However, any problems she deems to be smaller will get little sympathy and she's likely to disregard their feelings.
- Unforgiving – If someone does something to wrong her or her friends, it is difficult for her to forgive them.
[For the next part, bold your answer]
Money vs Love/Friendship
Love vs Lust
Dueling with wand vs Fighting
Fighting vs Solving the situation with words
Purebloods vs Muggleborns
Cats vs Dogs
Comedy vs Drama
**SOME MORE INSIGHT**
Skills/Hobbies:
Harriet can act really well, and she's recently found a natural talent for haircuts and styling. She also thinks she can sing quite well.
She sings to herself most of the time. Under her breath or out loud, she doesn't really care. It just keeps her entertained when nothing else is going on. She tries to keep herself surrounded by people most of the time to keep herself entertained. If she gets really bored, she'll try to plait her hair, cut it or convince another person to let her cut theirs
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes:
Toys – Childrens toys, like toy dinosaurs, cars, teddys.
Muggles – She had a childhood friend whose brother married a muggle. As she was so close to the family, her parents allowed her to go out into the muggle world with the boy and his brother. Ever since then, she's loved the culture.
Stars – They make her feel relaxed.
Flirting – For some reason, it makes her feel empowered, and she loves that.
Candy – She has a big sweet tooth.
Parties – They're fun.
Alcohol – It keeps her entertained.
Dislikes:
Squids – She hates the way they look, and as food she hates the texture.
Drugs – Stupid waste of time. She hates them, especially because her sister's into them.
Flies – She has a phobia of these insects. They creep her out.
Dark windows – She gets scared that people might be watching her.
Soppy films – They make her feel ill.
Children – She doesn't hate them, but she feels awkward around them.
Best/Worst memory:
Best
“You miss her, don't you?”
Harriet nodded her head sadly, staring blankly at the images flashing up on this thing the Muggles called a 'television'. It was an outstanding invention, but it couldn't help her overcome her troubles. She missed her sister, and it's hard to get over things like that when the person who's left has been with you for your entire life. The boy next to her stared at her for a few minutes, before wrapping his arms around her.
“Don't be sad, Hari.” He said, eyes large and lips pouting. He then broke into a large grin. “I still love you!”
The nine year old girl looked at the boy that was beaming at her, before smiling back gently and planting an innocent kiss on him.
“Ty, you won't leave me too, will you?” She asked him quietly. The boy known as 'Ty' chuckled, and gave Harriet a squeeze.
“Of course I wont, you silly billy. Now come on, let's get some ice cream and watch Monsters Inc.”
The two children spent the rest of the night watching muggle movies until they passed out from exaughstion.
This is Harriet's best memory, because it was the only time that she felt comfortable when she was feeling vulnerable, because it was the first time during her sister's absence that she had felt genuinely happy, and because she'd spent the night with her best friend, just messing about like normal children would.
Worst
Harriet doesn't remember this one in detail, because she tends to block out any negative memories of her sister, but when she found out Juliette was doing drugs about a year ago, she got very angry at her. Juliette swiftly came back at this by punching her in the eye, and then smashing up her room. Both sisters spent hours crying over this, and then apologised to each other. This is her worst memory because this is the worst fall out she'd ever had with her twin.
Secrets:
She was (and still is, slightly) madly in love with her childhood friend Tyler until her fourth year.
She has a soft spot for boys with blue eyes.
She's quite obsessed with muggles.
**YOUR HOGWARTS CAREER**
What subjects are you taking this term:
- Charms - O
- DADA - A
- Muggle Studies - O
- Astronomy - O
- Herbology – E
Favourite/Least Favourite Subject:
Favourite:
Harriet loves Muggle Studies. She loves the way Muggles live, their culture, and everything about them amazes her. She also adores astronomy, because for some reason, stars make her feel safe and calm. Any subject that involves either of these is a great one in her eves.
Least:
Charms. She doesn't mind it, but she's too good at it. Everything seems so simple to her, it bores her.
What kind of student are you:
Harriet can cause trouble when she's in that sort of mood. It's okay for her, because it seems to sink in, but she can disrupt other people. Occasionally, she actually does focus on her work. This is seen by most as a blessing.
What is your preferred House:
Gryffindor!
**BEFORE AND AFTER**
How Did You Come To Be/Childhood:
Dawson London was an artistic and adventurous man, and after finishing his school career took to travelling for a while. He ventured around the world, visiting a lot of countries. After about a year of travelling, he settled in France, feeling that it was the place where he felt most at home. He lived in France for a year before meeting Aurélie. He sitting on a bench, painting the scene in front of him, when the petite blonde was knocked into a pond by some playing children. Ever the gentleman, Dawson rushed to her aid, and after making sure she wasn't injured invited her to his home to change clothes and warm herself up. Aurélie agreed.
After this, the two dated for around three years, both pretty sure that this was the real thing. Eventually, the two got engaged when Dawson proposed. It was then Aurélie's suggestion that the two moved back to England, as she had always wanted to get away from the country. Dawson happily agreed, and they moved to Essex, in England.
The wedding was a fairly small but beautiful affair, everyone there agreed that it was the best they'd ever been to. None of them knew, however, that there were two extra guests at that wedding. Aurélie was already pregnant with her first batch of twins at this point. Around 9 months later, Harriet and Juliette were born.
Harriet had a good childhood. Not much happened to her. She grew up in a wizarding community, so all of the people she knew were half-bloods or pureblood. Her best friend was a boy called Tyler. She's still close to him now, but his parents decided to homeschool him, so she doesn't see him much now. The two had great adventures, as both of them had vivid imaginations. She spent most of her time playing with him and other children at the park in the centre of their village. If she wasn't with him, she was with Juliette, her sister. Playing with Juliette tended to end in multiple injuries, as the girl had a lot of anger issues, but Harriet didn't mind. When Juliette was sent to live with her grandmother, Harriet became very sad and very lonely because she'd lost her main playpal, but Tyler helped her get through it, and the rest was all happy memories.
Coming To Hogwarts:
Going to Hogwarts was normal for Harriet. It was easy for her to change her lifestyle, and for some reason she felt that going to Hogwarts gave her more freedom than she had at home. It was easy for her to make new friends, but not as easy to let go of the old ones – She had to come to terms with the fact that she wouldn't be around Juliette and Tyler every waking moment of her life. She got over this eventually, though it did take her years. Now, she's happily settled in, and is making the best of her life while she's there.
What do you want to do after Hogwarts:
Harriet has no real plan for when she's left school, but she thinks it will either be involving astronomy, or the muggle world. She plans to travel, like her dad did, only she hopes that someone will go along with her. The one thing she's sure of is that eventually, she wants a family.
**OOC**
ABOUT YOU –
Name/Nickname:
Frances
Age:
16
Have you got any other characters here on Cave Inimicum:
-
How did you find the site:
Made bro.
How often are you online/able to play:
Right now, practically every day. Not likely to change soon.
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER –
Face Claim:
Brookelle Bones
Role-playing Sample:
Sundays. Sundays were like a small taste of death, delivered on a weekly basis to people who couldn't quite understand the idea of 'relaxing'. From Harriet's own experience, Sundays were anything but relaxing. They were days when all teenagers were either bored out of their minds or stressing out over the twelve page essay, due in the next day. Harriet never managed to find anyone who wasn't busy stressing out over work, so she always ended up bored and trying to amuse herself.
This is why she'd pushed open a window in her dorm room and sat herself on its windowsill. Her kitten, Kiko, was clambering over her in one of her rare playful moods, and occasionally tried to swat her hand when it moved. Harriet simply scratched the kitten's head, and resumed staring out of the window. It was a beautiful day outside, almost beautiful enough to make her want to go swimming. The only thing holding her back?
The giant squid.
She'd never seen the thing, but she knew it was there. The damn thing had haunted her dreams when she found out about it's existence, and now it ensured that she didn't go within two feet of the waters edge for fear of being unceremoniously dragged in by one of it's tentacles. If she had her way, that blasted animal would be dead and she'd be swimming to her heart's content by now. One day, she vowed to get rid of that horrid creature and get back to doing exactly what she wanted, just like she was used to.
