6th Year
Group: Hufflepuff
Posts: 3
Member No.: 122
Joined: 10-June 08
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---» OOC INFORMATION «---
Name: Grace
Age: 18
Contact Info: morbid_chronicles@yahoo.com (Also my YIM name.)
---» IC INFORMATION «---
Full Name: Joannah Lindsay Wescott
Nickname: Jo
Gender: Female
Blood Type: Halfblood
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Birthdate: 02/20/1960
Age: 16
Hometown: London, England
Year: 6
House: Hufflepuff
Wand: Ash, core of Dragon Heartstring, 10 inches, stiff.
Patronus: Serval
Boggart: Disembodied Heads
---» APPEARANCE:
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in the same room as Joannah would describe her as holding herself far more like a man than a woman. Her posture is always rigid or ridiculously slouched, and she makes an effort to seem the least bit feminine she can manage at most times. She's always been one of the taller girls in class at five feet, nine inches, and has always used it to her advantage around those shorter than her. If her height doesn't help her stick out, then it's certainly her hair. Jet black and kept at various short lengths, in which she can make it look somewhat wild. Her eyes have always almost matched her hair, often mistaken for also being black when someone isn't looking close enough, though they have a touch of brown to them. Her preferred clothing usually consists of dark colored shirts and tank tops accompanied with a pair of very over-worn jeans. It is doubtful that anyone at Hogwarts would be able to make the claim they they've seen her in a dress for any occasion, even during the holiday dances. Even with the school uniforms, she's made a point of wearing nothing but pants rather than skirts. Something like that would just be absolutely offensive- being feminine in any way.
---» PERSONALITY:
Unpredictable. Most people simply find that that single word is all that's needed for Joannah, and most leave it at that. Her mood seems to always be changing just as violently as the sea winds in a storm, so she has ended up earning a reputation for firing off unexpectedly. The one state of hers that is a reliable constant is her fierce and daring attitude regarding everything and everyone around her, no matter who or what it is. She shows almost every range of emotions openly, however. She isn't afraid to display a sudden intense liking in something, or express how she feels when she's particularly happy or hyper... especially as well as unhappy about something. She has developed a reputation for befriending the less popular students, or the ones who have a knack to repel people just by their presence alone. She has found that these are the best students to accompany, at times when she doesn't want to be particularly bothered, or in particularly 'normal' company. It's always nice to avoid other people just by simply being near another they all seem to have a common fear, dislike or hatred for.
Joannah has never taken a friendship for granted, despite her strange and intense nature. If there's one thing she enjoys, it's getting into a conflict with someone else, and one of the better ways to accomplish this is by stepping into someone else's conflict. Some may call it one of her flaws, though, that she can't help but jam her nose into someone else's problems and try to fix them herself if at all possible- and sometimes even when it's not. She may not make a lot of friends, but she is stubbornly loyal to those she gains. And at many times, loyalty conflicts with one of her other strongest characteristics- jealousy. She is prone to it in many ways, whether it involves her friends, or someone she has a fancy for. Her jealous habits have more than once placed her in an unpleasant or aggressive situation with another student... of course almost always entirely by Joannah's doing. Being subtle about anything has never been a strength for her.
---» HISTORY:
Joannah was born and raised in the busy city of London, England. Or, rather, she was born there, and began doing the raising herself at the age of seven. Before a regrettably tragic accident involving a horrific splinching incident, the family was a happy and settled one, with parents Adrian and Lindsay Wescott, and daughters Joannah and Naomi. The family was quiet, with Joannah and Naomi's parents both being halfblooded wizards. Lindsay stayed at home to raise the children and their father Adrian worked out of the house almost all hours of the day, or would return home after a couple of days at a time. Things were pleasantly uneventful and peaceful for the family, until the day of Naomi's first birthday. The party had not been large, in fact, the guests were only a few close family members and another child or two that belonged to them. Lindsay had been performing a simple act of disapparating to retrieve something for the birthday party that she had forgotten, when she became the victim of a splinching. Normally, one would assume things like this were easily reverse-able; however, it's rather impossible to reverse the effect of leaving one's head behind in the middle of the family room floor, in front of a horrified seven-year-old and the family. The incident was every bit of the cause of Joannah's intense fear of disembodied heads, and the refusal to ever side-along apparate again.
Joannah seemed to take the role of Naomi's mother almost instantly after the accident, despite their aunt assuming watch over them most of the time with Lindsay no longer around. Their aunt wasn't the most pleasant of people, and Joannah had decided to avoid her as much as possible and try to handle Naomi as much as she could without the woman's help. Her baby sister never left her sight- she'd even begun sleeping in Naomi's room rather than her own at night. Adrian's presence only became more scarce, as the man buried himself in his work to try and avoid thinking of or confronting what had happened to his wife with himself and his daughters. Naomi might not have registered much more than there was a sudden and hideously inconvenient absence of her mother, but Joannah had been quite literally scarred. She kept her adopted role as Naomi's mother until her first year at Hogwarts came upon her, and she was forced to separate from her sister to attend school, leaving Naomi in her aunt's care. She would resume her role every summer and Christmas holiday that she returned home, determined to see to it that nothing ever happened to her sister. Now, nearing her seventh year at Hogwarts, Joannah is faced with the trials of learning how to disapparate, and her little sister soon to be attending Hogwarts for her own first year.
---» ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE:
SITUATION: 3
[Timur Vankov thread post]
This was the last time Desiree was ever going to insist he come along on a Hogsmeade trip when he didn't feel like it. "You need to get outside more!" she said. "Find something fun to do!" she said. FUN?
This was a thought bitterly crossing Timur's mind over and over as he lay, quite painfully, against the cobblestones. He had been somewhere in between the post office and Honeydukes when the chaos erupted. Death Eaters, people running around senselessly in every conceivable direction, curses flying around and hitting things far more than they were hitting people. And oh, the explosions.
Rather than have gotten sucked into the amazing confusion that was raging along the streets of Hogsmeade, Timur had attempted to hide himself from plain sight alongside Honeydukes. This, of course, had not been an effective means of avoiding other people that came that way. He even ended up having to scramble out of the way of a stray curse or three, and was almost convinced at one moment that he had become the target of a Death Eater. The event was all quite spectacular to some part of his mind, however terrifying it was to be in immediate danger. It was as if Hogsmeade was all going up in flames. Literally. The urge to leave where he was and venture out more into the open was only slightly less than his hesitation to do so. That sort of feeling of 'caught-between' was infuriating. His legs wouldn't move. And, now, he was realizing that working up the nerve to move sooner might not have been that terrible of an idea.
As Dervish and Banges exploded, he was able to feel the shock it produced- even the ground where he was standing seemed to have felt it. It had been deafening, though he wasn't sure if that was more because of the explosion, or the absolute uproar of noise it created from all of the people nearby, or involved, in the distance. Whatever all the noise, it had been enough to distract him from the fact that Honeydukes, already under structural strain, took a good shaking from the explosion, and more than likely some glancing blows along the rooftop from projectile pieces of building. His head had jerked upward when he heard something like cracking and crashing, and sure enough, pieces of the building were coming down like the unstable parts of a glacier. His attempt to jump back from the first bits had been so frantic that he'd fallen backwards in the mess, and then it was much too late.
Realization struck Timur faster than the pain did. A part of the building had landed, and violently, on his right arm, pinning him where he'd been laying momentarily dazed. It did not cross his mind that he was fortunate the rest of him had been missed, but only that his wand had been, and still remained, in his right hand. He didn't know if he was still holding onto it, if he'd let go and it was also smashed under this bloody chunk of building, or if it had managed to be tossed out of harm's way when he fell. From where he has, he certainly couldn't see it. He could not feel his hand, and the rest of his arm was either in searing, burning pain, or numbly throbbing. He'd made an initial effort to try and pull his arm free, but the pain that shot up his arm and through his shoulder at the attempt caused him to sink his teeth into his tongue and quickly cease moving.
As he lay there, his mind finally wandered to Desiree. Where had she been when the attack happened? Had she been hurt by someone or something in the madness of it all? Had she made it back to Hogwarts, or was she still here, in Hogsmeade?
Shit.
---» ADMINISTRATION «---
> 1. How many banners can you have in your signature and of what size (width X height)? One, 400x300 pixels.
> 2. What sort of links can you put in your signature? My journal, character profile, and rp thread.
> 3. If school has started, where can you (as a student) post? Hogwarts and Hogsmead.
Approved!
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Wescott, Joannah
