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Valensia Greyson; Ravenclaw, 5th year
Topic Started: Sep 20 2009, 12:54 AM (271 Views)
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About You
What should we call you? Nightlight
What is your gender? Female
How can we get in touch with you? nightlight.flame@gmail.com is my email address, faerinangel@hotmail.com is my MSN, NightlightFlame is my AIM
How did you know we were here? The advertisement on Colloportus RPG (though I’ve yet to quite figure out how I got there.
Did you read all of the rules? Yes’m!
Show us a sample post, from any game. A recent one would be nice. Doesn’t have to be the character you’re applying for.
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Roisin had briefly thought of finding a pay phone, then decided it was more important to make sure Mark wasn’t angry at her. There was some possibility he might have been there when Dresden had gone crazy on her, and she had to fix that. And why the hell were there missing kids and that kind of changelings in town?

She wasn’t really paying attention to anything except her hurried walk towards Mark’s apartment. Not for the first time, she wished that she could carry a cell phone without the fear it would be fried much to quickly to be worth keeping. There was going to be trouble and she just wanted to see her boyfriend!

With so little attention to the sidewalk she was hurrying along, she managed to walk right into another woman who was walking in the opposite direction, lose her affected grace and tumble to the ground.

“Fuck, ow!”
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“You don’t want the answer to that question. I’m fine.” Roisin was pretty sure if she started at ‘wet clothing,’ she’d end up somewhere along the lines of ‘and I think my boyfriend is going to use iron against me before I can tell him that I love him.’ Now wasn’t the time for a rant. She took a deep breath and then got back to her feet, working to move more delicately instead of the slightly bumbling way this woman made her feel. It was vaguely like the feeling that Thomas gave her—oh. White Court. She tucked away the information for later.

“Do I know you? You look familiar.”

This is from the Dresden Files universe, but I don’t think there’s anything too special to make this understandable.
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About Your Character

Basics

Full name: Valensia Greyson
Nicknames: Sia, Vala (but she doesn’t much care for either)
Ancestry: Halfblood, though her mother is a muggleborn
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Birthday: May 13, 1960
Sorted into: Ravenclaw
Who do you follow? Whoever she thinks is right at the moment, or no one
Wand: Ten inches, lilac wood, unicorn tail hair

Personal
Sexuality: Bisexual
Likes: (in no particular order)
- Feeling beautiful
- Reading
- Learning
- Understanding complicated concepts
- Making people happy
- Being cared about
- Butterbeer
- Chocolate
- Baking, muggle style
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Dislikes:
- The concept of love and sex as synonymous
- Discrimination
- Muggle Studies
- Boredom
- Being alone
Strengths:
- Open mind, open heart
- Enjoys learning
- Intuitive
- Rarely looses her temper
Weaknesses:
- Has trouble understanding why other people can’t figure out what she can
- Gets upset if things don’t make sense, and has occasionally been known to burst into tears over difficult homework
- When she gets upset, she tends to get sad rather than angry, and she usually winds up crying, almost uncontrollably
Goals:
- Get at least an A on all of her owls, and at least two Os
- Date someone for more than two weeks
Fears:
- That somehow she’ll actually get taken away from her family
- The dark, when she’s alone, though if there’s someone else there she feels safe
Tics, Quirks & Habits:
- When something is bothering her that she can’t find a solution for, she tends to get very upset, though she has gotten much better at dealing with this since she’s started at Hogwarts
- She is very careful about her hair, because it’s her favorite feature, though this often only amounts to braiding it out of the way
- She reads when she walks, whether it be muggle fiction or textbooks, and she’s gotten good at not walking into people, though things on the floor below knee height are out of her line of vision and leave glorious bruises every few days
Pet Peeves:
- Even though she doesn’t agree with the sex is love, love is sex concept, it bother her when people date multiple people
- Discrimination (she may have gotten a bit obsessive about this, after primary school)
Favorite sounds and smells:
- Peaches
- Garlic
- Brownies and cookies when they’re not quite done
- Most music that has singing (some that doesn’t)
- The muted noise of the library
Have you ever met a boggart? What does it look like? The one time she met one, she was ten, and it looked like the teacher she had when she was seven. It’s probably changed, but she doesn’t know to what.
Can you cast Patronus? What does it look like? What memory do you use? She can’t cast a corporeal Patronus, but she can manage one that’s fairly strong for not being corporeal. Still, for now it’s mostly light. The memory she focuses on is getting her Hogwarts letter, and the realization that she’s free of her primary school and all the kids who go there, and that she really is just like her mother, and really is a wizard. (If she is dating someone, she has been known to focus on a first kiss or something similar, but once it ends, it’s got enough negative to not work.)
What is the worst memory Dementors bring forward? Her worst memory is the one time she met her Aunt Jenny’s mother. The woman started screaming at Valensia at and her aunt, right in the middle of a store, and managed to hit Valensia once before Aunt Jenny could get her into her arms and out of the way. She was only five at the time, and didn’t really understand what was going, but everyone was staring, and the hit hurt, and by the time they hurried away, Aunt Jenny was crying, though you almost couldn’t tell unless you looked at her face. That had hurt the most, because Aunt Jenny had always been the strong one.
If you were to find the Mirror of Erised, what would you see? She hasn’t got any idea, and the whole idea of it is a little scary, really. There isn’t any one thing she desires above all the rest, and the idea of one desire being more important than the others is a little painful.
Tell me a couple secrets about yourself: Her mother and her Aunt Jenny are really a couple, which is the biggest secret of her life, though it’s not about her. Her biological father thinks she is depressed, because he is, which she hasn’t even told her mother or her aunt, because she doesn’t even want to think about it. She’s got a crush on Remus Lupin, but this is a terribly kept secret, and even she is aware of this.
Personality:
Valensia is, of course, intelligent, being a Ravenclaw. She is also very open minded about a lot of typically unacceptable situations, which comes from her family situation. She also enjoys flirting, dating, kissing, and all such similar things, with both genders. Though she has loved everyone she’s dated, she’s fairly sure she’s never been in love. She doesn’t much mind, though. She’ll get there sooner or later, for now she just likes the way it makes her feel. She also has a bit of an air of innocence about her, as if she’s always been protected. Really, though, it’s that she’s learned not to let herself be hurt by anyone else’s actions.

Looks
Distinguishing Features: If you can actually see them, there are probably bruises on her shins. Her hair is probably to her knees when loose, an inch or two shorter when braided (as it typically is.)
Not-so-distinguishing features: She has long fingers, and Sirius Black has been quoted as saying she has “the most kissable mouth.”
Appearance: Valensia is short, somewhere between 5’2” and 5’3”. She has black hair, worn to her knees, and usually braided in a single braid or in pigtails, though she will occasionally give it another style for a special occasion or variety. For a special occasion, she might use any number of styles, but if it’s just to get away from a plain brain, she will typically use a brain wrapped into a crown or some form of carefully managed style that will prevent it from getting snarled or torn out.

Her coloring is quite fair, and she tends toward freckling rather than tanning, so she is very careful about using some form of sun protection when she is outside, and often carried a hat, whether it be a tradition witch hat or the straw brimmed one her Aunt Jenny gave her. Her eyes are a dark blue that has the tiniest bit of green if you lean in close enough, but if you’re that close, you’d better be kissing her, and really isn’t that a bit awkward with open eyes? Though if you ask politely and are already friends with or dating her, she might let you look. But it’s hard to see and kind of awkward.

She also has a traditional hourglass figure by appearance, though it is slightly scaled down from the traditional numbers given so that it fits onto such a small height, and the exercise she gets from the stairs of Hogwarts alone have prevented it from giving her an overweight appearance when she isn’t dressed in her robes. Robes just make her look boxy. She also tends to wear knee high, lace up, leather boots with an inch or so of heel, no matter what other clothing she wears. Her boots contrast quite a bit with her favorite style of outfits of very full, ankle to just above the floor length skirts and shirts with some flow to them, though if it’s fitted from chest to waist and a bit over her hips, all the better.

She typically only wears socks and boots under her robes, since her shirts and skirts don’t fit appropriately under them. She doesn’t typically add anything to her robes, since when she is in uniform, she traditionally ties her hair with a blue ribbon at the end. If she does add anything, it’s just a small pin, or perhaps a blue ribbon tied in a bow around her left wrist since it’s out of the way.

Place of Birth: London, England
Immediate family: Her mother, Madeleine Greyson, her “aunt” Jennifer Moore, Extended family: Her mother and her aunt are distanced from their families.
Other important people: Her biological father, Jonathan Terrence
Pets: None, as her Aunt Jenny is allergic to “practically everything!”
History:
Valensia was raised by two women who, according to most of the world, live together to save on the cost of housing in a city. Valensia knew that they were a couple for most of her life, though she also knew that it was a secret for nearly all of that time. Her biological mother was a muggleborn, and her “aunt” was a muggle, so she went to muggle primary school right up until she got her letter for Hogwarts. When she was seven, one of her teachers very nearly managed to have her taken away from her family, because she disapproved of the family situation. Only her biological father’s insistence that he had known about this set up, and he was actively involved in Valensia’s life prevented the situation from getting out of control. That was the beginning of Valensia’s decision not to let the actions of others hurt her.

All the same, she used Hogwarts as a chance to reinvent herself. Even though nothing had ever come of her teacher’s attempt to stir things up, the kids around her knew that there was something wrong with Valensia’s family, and so at Hogwarts she had a chance to keep her family situation a secret. Unfortunately, she wasn’t especially successful with this, but without the minor not-quite-a-scandal to make things messy, she hasn’t run into to much trouble at all.

On the whole, Valensia’s life at Hogwarts has been as normal as life at Hogwarts can be. She’s good at her classes, though never at the top. She has friends, but is not friendly with everyone. She started dating during fourth year, though she hasn’t dated all that many people yet, and she never asks anyone. (Truth be told, she’s mostly only accepted because she has trouble turning someone down unless she doesn’t like them.) She has a crush on Remus Lupin, and has had it for a while, but it’s harder to ask someone on a date than to be asked.

Right now, she’s mostly just trying to keep up with classes and get enough OWLs to do whatever it is she wants to do, whatever that may be.

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Edited by NightlightFlame, Sep 20 2009, 04:03 AM.
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