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Link to your encyclopedia thread Nora De Carie, First Year, Slytherin
Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you Are Applying for Comprehend Languages (Veela)
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it) 447/400ReducioNora didn't often visit the wizarding half of her family, and it was primarily her dad's fault. He sheilded her from the magical world he grew up in, talking of it as a far off realm and never letting her see it. He still kept a wizarding job, of course, but even that he kept from her. Nora wondered if it was to 'protect' them, but she doubted it. Her father was just secretive, and that was that.
However, he didn't totally isolate his new family from his old one, and every once in a while, Nora would have the chance to visit five of her aunts and uncles. There was a sixth one, of course, but he never talked about them. Nora didn't even know their name, but she was happy knowing the others. The youngest was her aunt Jane, a rather lazy woman, and the oldest was Keira, who looked after Nora's grandfather, Brad Dogger. The next oldest was Nora's dad, and then there was Coley, unmarried but living a quiet life. After that, there was Joan, a rather cranky aunt who always skipped the family get-togethers, and Mark, who was just the opposite. He was literally the life of the party, despite his age, and always brought his wife and daughter to family events. His wife, a gorgeous woman named Tilly, was also a Veela, making their daughter a half-Veela.
While Nora usually stayed with her grandfather, this got harder as he slowly declined, and eventually, she just started staying with her Veela aunt. Her dad and uncle would leave for work, and her aunt would stay home to take care of Nora and Shannon. They played games, made crafts, and read together. Shannon was, of course, a great deal older than Nora, but when they were young, this didn't matter much. Over the course of her visits, Nora slowly started to notice that Shannon and Aunt Tilly weren't always speaking English. Instead, they were speaking in a tongue that Nora didn't even recognize.
One day, Nora asked what language they were speaking, which prompted a weird look between her cousin and aunt. After talking a for a bit, they promised to teach her. And so they did. It took ages, and a lot of visits, but over time, she began to learn more and more. Soon, she could not only understand bits and chunks of phrases, but sentences as a whole! She could finally be able to interact in conversation with her aunt and cousin, without having to request a translation. Of course, her dad didn't love her newfound language, but as far as she was concerned, his disapproval was only a plus.
STATUS: Approved, Opeila 26/05
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Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you are applying for : Metamorphmagus
Describe why this fits your character :
Stamina - 6
Evasion - 8
Strength - 4
Wisdom - 2
Arc Power - 0
Accuracy - 10
Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you are applying for : Metamorphmagus
Describe why this fits your character :
Stats overall :"Metamorphmagi―A wizard or witch with a rare ability to change physical appearance without using polyjuice potion or a spell unlike the rest of the wizarding population."
WC = 520 wordsReducioNaoki's mother, Kane Koizumi, was born with this rare ability. She has a natural gray-white hair, unlike the rest of her family members, who have the typical jet black hair most wizards and witches in Japan have, and was able to change her hair into different kind of colours and change her features when she was a baby. Because of that, she was discovered by the well-known Japanese Wizardry School, Mahoutokoro and attend to, and later on, graduate that school. Kane use the ability a lot of time to be in disguise. Just like other matemorphmagis, when she's really tired or depressed, she can't use her ability even when she tried to. This is proven in the backstory of how she met Zacharias Vickers, her husband, when she ran away from her home, feeling tired to utilize her capacity. Even though it's still unknown if the Koizumis have an ancestor with metamorphmagus ability through hereditary, Kane Koizumi's high heritability (fortunately and unfortunately) pass down to Naoki Vickers, her child.
Just like his mother, Key has a white-gray hair when he was a baby. However, things change when his maternal uncle take him to Quidditch World Cup at Argentina in 2014 when he was three years old. There, he met his first idol, a Japanese quidditch player by the name Noriyuki Sato. Every time Noriyuki Sato appeared on the big field, little Key became really excited without even realizing that his hair turn into blue, mimicking Noriyuki's hair out of happiness, which surprised his uncle and his friends who were also attending to the QWC 2014. During the semi-final, his hair turn into black in sadness, after the Japan National Quidditch Team lose to Bulgaria. It's possible that because of that, Key was unable to change his hair color to his natural grey-white hair, or due to the fact that he was unable to control his ability yet. But ever since the 2014 QWC ended, the color never changed at all, so he's stuck with having black hair, which he's fine with, since he can easily blend with other muggle kids when he moved to Scotland.
Later on, He was able to use his metamorphmagus ability again when he got accepted to Hogwarts, which make his mother really happy to the point that she decided to host the worst party Key ever had, and when he finally meet his first Hogwarts friend in the Hogwarts Express. It's still unknown how he manage to get a heart-shaped mark on his cheeks after the QWC 2014, maybe he have it as a thank you message to his uncle for bringing him and introducing him to Quidditch (He's a late talker) but it'll be one of his most iconic feature he have, since he really like it very much and decided to keep it no matter which appearance he'll change. So if you see a person with a heart-shaped mark on their cheek, there's 98% possible chance that's Naoki Vickers changing his appearance, unless he has to be in disguised for a reason, then he would probably removed his heart-shaped mark to avoid suspicion.
Stamina - 6
Evasion - 8
Strength - 4
Wisdom - 2
Arc Power - 0
Accuracy - 10
STATUS: Approved, Opeila 26/05
Please note that any changes would revert when Naoki sleeps, they are not permanent.
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Name of Ability you Are Applying for: cats grace (ability, it might have a picture of a cat instead of the word)
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it):
Name of Ability you Are Applying for: cats grace (ability, it might have a picture of a cat instead of the word)
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it):
Reducio
Akina is a very shy and quiet person overall. She has the stealth of a black cat slinking away in the shadows. Her grandfather, Magnus Briarwood, was very loud when spying on someone, causing him to get killed. He was an amateur spy, doing things just for fun, without working for a company. But sometimes he went too far, spying on villains, and got too excited. His name comes from the Latin word, Magna, meaning loud. Akina is stuck in the shadow of his death, so she wants to stay very quiet and stealthy at all times, no matter who she is with.
One day, when she was 8 years old, Akina was sent to stay outside in their large backyard for an hour for punishment. She was bored, and her books were upstairs, where of course she wasn’t allowed. So she started throwing things around, just for fun. Her father was watching her from the window and told her to pick them up. So Akina obeyed, and went inside the tall grass section of the backyard. She bent down, picked up the toy, and stood up again. When she turned around, she found herself face to face with a snake. She didn’t move for a whole minute. Oddly, the snake had seemed to not have noticed her. Akina was almost like invisible to the snake, even though she clearly was not.
Also, when she was younger, she used to play hide and seek with her neighbor Lori Smith (against her parent’s will), who was a half-blood around the same age as her. Akina never found out what school she went to, but that didn’t matter. Akina always seemed to find countless different hiding spots but was never found. It seemed as though every hiding spot easily hid her for Lori. And no, not just because Lori was bad at seeking.
Akina has a childhood friend named Ascentia Ramos, who was a Quidditch player, but not for a national team. Akina was once invited to watch one of her matches. It took quite some time to convince her parents to let her go, but in the end, she was able to go to the match. Akina didn’t keep her eyes off Ascentia, who was a great Keeper, coming out of nowhere and blocking the Quaffle. Ascentia had great Keeper skills, staying stealthy. Akina admires Ascentia for this, but knows she’d never have the courage to join the Quidditch team. Akina especially admires Ascentia’s ability to hide in the shadows of the super tall [like 400+ kilometers tall] trees surrounding the arena. This is another way how Akina has acquired and strengthened this ability. After watching so many games of Ascentia, Akina has earned the ability, almost as if absorbing it just by watching it in action. WORD COUNT: 466/400
One day, when she was 8 years old, Akina was sent to stay outside in their large backyard for an hour for punishment. She was bored, and her books were upstairs, where of course she wasn’t allowed. So she started throwing things around, just for fun. Her father was watching her from the window and told her to pick them up. So Akina obeyed, and went inside the tall grass section of the backyard. She bent down, picked up the toy, and stood up again. When she turned around, she found herself face to face with a snake. She didn’t move for a whole minute. Oddly, the snake had seemed to not have noticed her. Akina was almost like invisible to the snake, even though she clearly was not.
Also, when she was younger, she used to play hide and seek with her neighbor Lori Smith (against her parent’s will), who was a half-blood around the same age as her. Akina never found out what school she went to, but that didn’t matter. Akina always seemed to find countless different hiding spots but was never found. It seemed as though every hiding spot easily hid her for Lori. And no, not just because Lori was bad at seeking.
Akina has a childhood friend named Ascentia Ramos, who was a Quidditch player, but not for a national team. Akina was once invited to watch one of her matches. It took quite some time to convince her parents to let her go, but in the end, she was able to go to the match. Akina didn’t keep her eyes off Ascentia, who was a great Keeper, coming out of nowhere and blocking the Quaffle. Ascentia had great Keeper skills, staying stealthy. Akina admires Ascentia for this, but knows she’d never have the courage to join the Quidditch team. Akina especially admires Ascentia’s ability to hide in the shadows of the super tall [like 400+ kilometers tall] trees surrounding the arena. This is another way how Akina has acquired and strengthened this ability. After watching so many games of Ascentia, Akina has earned the ability, almost as if absorbing it just by watching it in action. WORD COUNT: 466/400
STATUS: Pending, Opeila 26/05
You have listed plenty of reasons for Akina to want to have Cats Grace. Why *does* she have it though?
Please keep in mind that this is no magical talent either.
STATUS: Pending, Opeila 11/06
This is the description of the ability:To rephrase- you are good at not being noticed.Watching from the shadows as a means to escape others or to simply monitor their behaviors is your skill. This could have been a skill you refined over the years or something more akin to a cat-like grace you have always possessed.
1) I do not understand the part with her grandfather. When you are a spy, you are not loud. When you can't be quiet, no one will hire you as spy. Why is he spying?
2) Trusting no one has nothing to do with it.
3) Not moving for an entire minute and admiring a snake has also nothing to do with it.
4) Hide and seek is a great reason! But that she always lost doesn't really speak for her being particularly talented.
5) Ascentia is a keeper- why exactly is she hiding in trees instead of guarding the hoops? And what trees on a Quidditch Pitch?
STATUS: Denied, Opeila 25/08
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Ability: Prodigal Defense Against the Dark Arts Learner
Character Link: viewtopic.php?f=169&t=27237
Why this fits my character:
Stats: Stamina: 8 | Evasion: 9 | Strength: 3 | Wisdom: 9 | Arcane Power: 10 | Accuracy: 9
Abilities: Prodigal DADA | Wandmaker (WRMS) | Calming Presence
Speaking color: #286a80
Ability: Prodigal Defense Against the Dark Arts Learner
Character Link: viewtopic.php?f=169&t=27237
Why this fits my character:
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Cassian isn’t the brightest student. Largely in part to his difficulty paying attention and staying on task, he struggles in more academic classes. Cassian thrives in action-packed environments, hands-on and visual learning, and hard work. While he may not always have the brains for his classes, he has strong determination and will. Until his first year at Hogwarts, Cassian struggled overall in school. Mathematics were especially difficult. Numbers never seemed to fit in his head. Equally so were his reading and writing classes, as well as history. Too many dates and names to remember. He found he liked the science labs, but the lectures were hard to understand and follow. He also loved physical education and was very quick and agile, despite his small size.
Upon receiving his Hogwarts letter, he secretly hoped he might find something he was good at. He had always been an average student and wanted new opportunities at Hogwarts. He found this in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He seemed to have been born for this class. The classes were so interesting to him! Learning about monsters and dangerous creatures, as well as curses, hexes, and jinxes lit a fire inside him. His mother worked for the ministry as an Obliviator and specialized in charms. His older sister excelled in potions. But Cassian thrived in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He quickly realized his first year DADA class wasn’t going to teach him all that he wanted to know, nor would he be able to unlock his true potential. He convinced his older sister to lend him her old DADA textbooks. Cassian spent much of his free time and, truth be told, much of his time in his more “boring” classes reading up on the new material.
It wasn’t difficult to see the results in his DADA class. He was ahead of nearly all the other students in his class. He found his outside preparation and readings helped him pay more attention in class. And he didn’t find it hard to pay attention to his readings if the textbook was interesting. What Cassian especially loved about Defense Agaisnt the Dark Arts were the real world applications of it. It wasn’t like maths or useless historical facts. It was real life, live or die. And he loved it. The thrill of learning his spells, learning about the dangers that lurked in the wizarding world made his curious nature all the more inquisitive. He wasn’t sure exactly which career he wanted to go into, but something related to the Dark Arts and the protection against it fascinated him.
Cassian isn’t the brightest student. Largely in part to his difficulty paying attention and staying on task, he struggles in more academic classes. Cassian thrives in action-packed environments, hands-on and visual learning, and hard work. While he may not always have the brains for his classes, he has strong determination and will. Until his first year at Hogwarts, Cassian struggled overall in school. Mathematics were especially difficult. Numbers never seemed to fit in his head. Equally so were his reading and writing classes, as well as history. Too many dates and names to remember. He found he liked the science labs, but the lectures were hard to understand and follow. He also loved physical education and was very quick and agile, despite his small size.
Upon receiving his Hogwarts letter, he secretly hoped he might find something he was good at. He had always been an average student and wanted new opportunities at Hogwarts. He found this in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He seemed to have been born for this class. The classes were so interesting to him! Learning about monsters and dangerous creatures, as well as curses, hexes, and jinxes lit a fire inside him. His mother worked for the ministry as an Obliviator and specialized in charms. His older sister excelled in potions. But Cassian thrived in Defense Against the Dark Arts. He quickly realized his first year DADA class wasn’t going to teach him all that he wanted to know, nor would he be able to unlock his true potential. He convinced his older sister to lend him her old DADA textbooks. Cassian spent much of his free time and, truth be told, much of his time in his more “boring” classes reading up on the new material.
It wasn’t difficult to see the results in his DADA class. He was ahead of nearly all the other students in his class. He found his outside preparation and readings helped him pay more attention in class. And he didn’t find it hard to pay attention to his readings if the textbook was interesting. What Cassian especially loved about Defense Agaisnt the Dark Arts were the real world applications of it. It wasn’t like maths or useless historical facts. It was real life, live or die. And he loved it. The thrill of learning his spells, learning about the dangers that lurked in the wizarding world made his curious nature all the more inquisitive. He wasn’t sure exactly which career he wanted to go into, but something related to the Dark Arts and the protection against it fascinated him.
STATUS: Approved, Opeila 26/05
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Stats: Stamina: 8 | Evasion: 9 | Strength: 3 | Wisdom: 9 | Arcane Power: 10 | Accuracy: 9
Abilities: Prodigal DADA | Wandmaker (WRMS) | Calming Presence
Speaking color: #286a80
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Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you Are Applying for:Werewolf
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it): It was around three in the morning after a dinner party. The guest had been gone for hours or so they thought. Phantom was around six at the time. Phantom was awoken by a night terror. She sat up in bed, rubbed her eyes and yawned. She reached for her water glass only to find it was empty.
She sighed and swung her legs over the side of the bed and slipped her feet into some slippers. She trudged out of the room. She decided to check and see if her twin brother was also woken up by the noise. She opened the door a crack, he was still fast asleep it even appeared that he had kicked the covers off of himself while he slept. She closed the door and headed to her Papa, Daddy and Mama’s room. She opened their door only to hear soft snores and only her mama’s figure in the bed. Her Papa and Daddy must still be out as it is a full moon.
She proceeded to walk down the stairs to the first floor to the kitchen. She pasted by some leftover trash from the party "The house elves are gonna have a lot to do tomorrow" she thought as she entered the kitchen. She reached the sink, turned on the faucet and filled her glass. As she was turning off the faucet. She decided she didn't want to go to bed again quite yet so she decided to go outside and stargaze for awhile as she was shutting the front door she saw a tall shadow. “Pappa, pappa du er allerede tilbake” (Papa, daddy you are back already) she asked the figure confused on why there was only one shadow “Hvor er pappa” (Where is daddy) she asked the figure assuming it was her Papa since he was the bigger of the two even in werewolf form.
The figure stepped into the light of the moon that was shining through the trees. It wasn’t her papa she dropped the glass on the ground and it shattered before she had time to scream. The creature lunged at her, pinning her against the front door ; it bit her shoulder and scratched at her eyes. The world went dark. She couldn’t see anything. She screamed “MAMA, MAMA PLEASE HELP” Footsteps could be heard pounding down the steps and more screams she could hear her mother and brothers voice and then she felt the creature fall limp.
The weight of the creature was pushed off her and she screamed in pain. “It’s going to be alright my daisy” she heard her mother coo. “MAMA I CAN’T SEE” she shrieked feeling around in the darkness. She could feel a cloth being placed over her eyes presumably to stop the blood. Her mother picked her up before calling to her brother to watch over the siblings and wait for their Papa and daddy to come back. Her mother took the floo network to take her to St.Mungos. The doctors then bandaged her eyes and shoulder before turning to her parents and explaining that they were able to heal the eye enough that they didn’t have to remove them but she can no longer see out of them but it was okay because she could use her sense of smell to get around now that her sense of smell was heightened because she was a werewolf.
Additional info: The werewolf was an ex convict and a school friend of Anastasia (Phantom's Mother) they had a fall out when he went to Azkaban. The werewolf was not invited and intended to ruin the party to get back at Anastasia for ditching him when he went off to jail by leaving a permanent mark on Anastaia's life (turning Phantom). When the transformation got to painful he ran into the woods. That night Anastasia was able to identify him and report him to the ministry who later caught him.
Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you Are Applying for:Werewolf
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it): It was around three in the morning after a dinner party. The guest had been gone for hours or so they thought. Phantom was around six at the time. Phantom was awoken by a night terror. She sat up in bed, rubbed her eyes and yawned. She reached for her water glass only to find it was empty.
She sighed and swung her legs over the side of the bed and slipped her feet into some slippers. She trudged out of the room. She decided to check and see if her twin brother was also woken up by the noise. She opened the door a crack, he was still fast asleep it even appeared that he had kicked the covers off of himself while he slept. She closed the door and headed to her Papa, Daddy and Mama’s room. She opened their door only to hear soft snores and only her mama’s figure in the bed. Her Papa and Daddy must still be out as it is a full moon.
She proceeded to walk down the stairs to the first floor to the kitchen. She pasted by some leftover trash from the party "The house elves are gonna have a lot to do tomorrow" she thought as she entered the kitchen. She reached the sink, turned on the faucet and filled her glass. As she was turning off the faucet. She decided she didn't want to go to bed again quite yet so she decided to go outside and stargaze for awhile as she was shutting the front door she saw a tall shadow. “Pappa, pappa du er allerede tilbake” (Papa, daddy you are back already) she asked the figure confused on why there was only one shadow “Hvor er pappa” (Where is daddy) she asked the figure assuming it was her Papa since he was the bigger of the two even in werewolf form.
The figure stepped into the light of the moon that was shining through the trees. It wasn’t her papa she dropped the glass on the ground and it shattered before she had time to scream. The creature lunged at her, pinning her against the front door ; it bit her shoulder and scratched at her eyes. The world went dark. She couldn’t see anything. She screamed “MAMA, MAMA PLEASE HELP” Footsteps could be heard pounding down the steps and more screams she could hear her mother and brothers voice and then she felt the creature fall limp.
The weight of the creature was pushed off her and she screamed in pain. “It’s going to be alright my daisy” she heard her mother coo. “MAMA I CAN’T SEE” she shrieked feeling around in the darkness. She could feel a cloth being placed over her eyes presumably to stop the blood. Her mother picked her up before calling to her brother to watch over the siblings and wait for their Papa and daddy to come back. Her mother took the floo network to take her to St.Mungos. The doctors then bandaged her eyes and shoulder before turning to her parents and explaining that they were able to heal the eye enough that they didn’t have to remove them but she can no longer see out of them but it was okay because she could use her sense of smell to get around now that her sense of smell was heightened because she was a werewolf.
Additional info: The werewolf was an ex convict and a school friend of Anastasia (Phantom's Mother) they had a fall out when he went to Azkaban. The werewolf was not invited and intended to ruin the party to get back at Anastasia for ditching him when he went off to jail by leaving a permanent mark on Anastaia's life (turning Phantom). When the transformation got to painful he ran into the woods. That night Anastasia was able to identify him and report him to the ministry who later caught him.
STATUS: Pending, Opeila 26/05
1) When you edit this, I'd appreciate if you divide this wall of text into paragraphs, so it is easier to read.
2) No- A werewolf just spawning in your kitchen to attack you will not do. Please think of something else.
STATUS: Pending, Opeila 05/06
Where is this werewolf coming from? They don't just come to your front door to turn you. Why is it there?
STATUS: Pending, Opeila 10/06
Wolfsbane is taken every day for an entire week, it is not a one time thing. Also, as you are beginning to turn the wolf from a faceless NPC into a person with background, I will need some more info- Why is he coming to a party on a full moon? This is quite reckless and he will be held responsible for losing control by the ministry, even if all of this was an accident, so why didn't he go back and get his potion when he noticed he didn't have it?
STATUS: Pending, Opeila 12/06
The falling vase no longer makes sense.
STATUS: Approved, Opeila 27/06
As I am approving this while Phantom is already a second year and her trunk still has human first year stats (which is what she should have now), I don't require any stats to be listed here.
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My name is Tricksie Loraila, and I am a first-year Ravenclaw.
I am applying for the race Werewolf.
One day, when Tricksie was 4, she was playing in the fields around her home. Her mum called out, “don’t go near the forest Tricksie!” So of course, that roused her curiosity, and she went to look. At first she was just happily playing amongst the trees, unaware of the dangers ahead…
Tricksie decided to climb a tree. But, as she neared the top, she looked down and saw a bunch of werewolves gathering around! Only then did she realise that it was MIDNIGHT, on a FULL MOON night! Her whole body was shaking with fear. How would she ever get out of this alive! For two hours, a terrified Tricksie clung to the tree, shivering with cold and shuddering with fear. She tried not to think about what would happen if she fell. But then, an owl unexpectedly landed on her shoulder! She screamed and fell…
Luckily her parents got there just in time. They administered the silver and dittany, allowing Tricksie to live on as a werewolf…
Years later, Tricksie is eleven. She hurries onto the Hogwarts Express, determined to keep her werewolfness a secret. The wolfsbane potion in her pocket feels like it weighs a thousand tons. She keeps some on her at all times. The teachers know, and they advised her to have a secret stash, which she does, since her mum is a healer. The Potions Master has to brew it for her, and she is worried, what if they let something slip? No-one can know that she is a werewolf. It would be disastrous! She would be expelled because of parents hounding the school board! She HAD to keep it a secret. Then she could go do whatever she wanted with her life, and never think about Hogwarts again.
She had always been terrified of being bitten by a werewolf, the woods around her home were full of them, and her parents put her to bed with stories about narrow escapes from rabid werewolves. But that day, that one day, she had let her guard down. She had gone into the woods, desperate for some adventure, and look where THAT had landed her. As one of the beasts she had feared in her bedtime stories. Her parents had spent so much money on the mixture of silver and dittany which allowed her to live, how would she repay them? She had made them spend three months rent! That was why she had to keep her secret. So that she could get a good job and repay her parents for every single galleon they had spent on her.
Maybe she would learn how to brew the wolfsbane potion, then she wouldn’t have to rely on anyone to stop her transformation. She could be entirely dependable on herself. That was the only way she could expect to repay her parents. And by getting good O.W.Ls of course. She would be an auror and earn enough to feed her family.
She jolted awake, realising the train had stopped. Well. This would be a long seven years…
I am applying for the race Werewolf.
One day, when Tricksie was 4, she was playing in the fields around her home. Her mum called out, “don’t go near the forest Tricksie!” So of course, that roused her curiosity, and she went to look. At first she was just happily playing amongst the trees, unaware of the dangers ahead…
Tricksie decided to climb a tree. But, as she neared the top, she looked down and saw a bunch of werewolves gathering around! Only then did she realise that it was MIDNIGHT, on a FULL MOON night! Her whole body was shaking with fear. How would she ever get out of this alive! For two hours, a terrified Tricksie clung to the tree, shivering with cold and shuddering with fear. She tried not to think about what would happen if she fell. But then, an owl unexpectedly landed on her shoulder! She screamed and fell…
Luckily her parents got there just in time. They administered the silver and dittany, allowing Tricksie to live on as a werewolf…
Years later, Tricksie is eleven. She hurries onto the Hogwarts Express, determined to keep her werewolfness a secret. The wolfsbane potion in her pocket feels like it weighs a thousand tons. She keeps some on her at all times. The teachers know, and they advised her to have a secret stash, which she does, since her mum is a healer. The Potions Master has to brew it for her, and she is worried, what if they let something slip? No-one can know that she is a werewolf. It would be disastrous! She would be expelled because of parents hounding the school board! She HAD to keep it a secret. Then she could go do whatever she wanted with her life, and never think about Hogwarts again.
She had always been terrified of being bitten by a werewolf, the woods around her home were full of them, and her parents put her to bed with stories about narrow escapes from rabid werewolves. But that day, that one day, she had let her guard down. She had gone into the woods, desperate for some adventure, and look where THAT had landed her. As one of the beasts she had feared in her bedtime stories. Her parents had spent so much money on the mixture of silver and dittany which allowed her to live, how would she repay them? She had made them spend three months rent! That was why she had to keep her secret. So that she could get a good job and repay her parents for every single galleon they had spent on her.
Maybe she would learn how to brew the wolfsbane potion, then she wouldn’t have to rely on anyone to stop her transformation. She could be entirely dependable on herself. That was the only way she could expect to repay her parents. And by getting good O.W.Ls of course. She would be an auror and earn enough to feed her family.
She jolted awake, realising the train had stopped. Well. This would be a long seven years…
STATUS: Pending, Jake May 29
Hi Tricksie, you've applied for both werewolf and metamorphmagus. Only one of those is allowed, so you will have to choose one or the other to start with - then I can look at your application.
STATUS: Pending, Jake May 31
I've owled some suggestions, please take a look! At the moment the backstory will need some edits to be accepted.
STATUS: Denied, Opeila 25/08
No edits for 30 days
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Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you Are Applying for: Perfectionist II
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it): WC: 481
ReducioAmadea was nearing the end of her education at Hogwarts, which meant that it was only fitting for her existential crisis to hit. While she had spent many months working through the unhealthy relationship she previously had with studying, there was a new issue at hand. In the past, her fixation on exceeding in school stemmed from the need to preserve her father's memory and live out all of his hopes and dreams for her as quickly as possible. She had this misconception that if she was not doing the absolute maximum amount of activities and exceeding at them all, she would be failing to honor her father. Ultimately, her rational mind knew that this was not true, but it took many hours of therapy for Amadea to reach this conclusion and change her mindset. Now, her perfection stemmed from a different motivation.
The looming stress of figuring out what she was going to do once she graduated from Hogwarts was a pressure that Amadea was not mentally prepared to face. Hogwarts had quickly become her home as soon as she had stepped foot onto the campus and she couldn't imagine being part of the wizarding world outside of the school. As a Muggle born student, Amadea was thrown into the crazy world of magic in tandem with beginning her education at Hogwarts. She had never known life within this community outside of Hogwarts' walls. Not only that, but figuring out the balance between her future in the wizarding society and spending time with her Muggle family was something she still had to figure out. Whenever Amadea allowed herself a moment to breathe and think about life after Hogwarts, it rendered her completely paralyzed and unable to conceptualize. Therefore, she distracted herself by delving into her current activities; if she was insanely busy and always working to achieve the best grades and outcomes, she would not have time to think about the future. Furthermore, she thought, it could only help to be hyperfixated on the things she had to complete in the moment; that would allow her to appreciate the present as much as possible and not take anything for granted. In the back of her mind, she also knew that striving for perfection in everything she did would give her the best opportunities once she graduated and show future employers that she was a dedicated and hardworking person. The one thing Amadea feared more than thinking about life after graduation was the fear of lacking purpose. Amadea was a firm believer that she needed to have a purpose in her life to give it meaning and give her something to motivate her. Right now, her purpose was excelling in school and her extracurricular activities; being a perfectionist was a purpose that allowed her to set herself up for the best future possible. Therefore, Amadea would not settle for anything less.
STATUS: Approved, Jake, May 29
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Hi, my name is Tricksie Loraila, and I am a first-year Ravenclaw. I want to apply for the metamorphmagus ability.
A Metamorphmagus (pl. Metamorphmagi) is a witch or wizard with the rare magical ability to change their physical appearance through sheer will alone, without a Polyjuice Potion, or a spell, like most of the non muggles.
Tricksie was one of those. At age two she had hair a startling shade of purple, and violet eyes. She was especially obsessed with her nose, sometimes doing five transformations on it every day!
Metamorphmagi have limitations though, and Tricksie was no exception. She couldn’t change age, gender, or size. This made her very frustrated. She desperately wanted to become taller, as she was very short, and was often mistaken for an eight year old.
Tricksie’s favourite look was short chocolate brown hair, deep blue eyes with silver flecks in them, and wolf ears, playing on her werewolf “problem.” She loved to have black accessories, and a cloak, of course.
The ability, as far as Tricksie knew, was handed down from her four times great - grandmother, Larira. She had lived in a muggle village in Cornwall until the villagers drove her out, calling her a witch, which, ironically, was correct! However, Larira did not marry a fellow metamorphmagus, so the ability skipped a few generations to Tricksie’s great - great grandmother, Aria. She was an excellent potion maker, which is where Tricksie got her potions ability from. It then went to Tricksie’s mother, who was also named Aria, but the ability only went to their eldest, Tricksie!
That is also where Tricksie got her name, and she lived up to it, using it to mimic her brother and sister so accurately even her parents were almost fooled! Tricksie loved potions, and she couldn’t wait to go to Hogwarts. Her mother had been a star student, which Tricksie desperately wanted to live up to, especially on account of her werewolf “problem.”
Unfortunately, the combination of werewolf and metamorphmagi made Tricksie rather unpopular with her class at school. She was made an outcast, and no one wanted to play with her. So you can imagine she was delighted when her application for Hogwarts came through. She would finally have a place to learn! And friends! Amazing!
Tricksie’s favourite combinations are:
- Small noses
- Short dark hair, sometimes coloured!
- Definitely wolf ears
- A narrow face
She had done some research on the metamorphmagi, and this is what she found:
A Metamorphmagus has the extraordinarily uncommon gift of being able to change their appearance at will. We famously met one in the Harry Potter series: Nymphadora Tonks, who used her shapeshifting abilities wisely in her job as an Auror. From changing hair colour to changing your whole face, the abilities of a Metamorphmagus seem unparalleled to the most advanced Transfiguration. It can also be hereditary, as we saw when Tonks had her baby, Teddy Lupin, whose hair kept changing colours just after birth.
It’s perfectly understandable to just be horrendously jealous of such a skill, seeing as it is a natural gift and comes with a whole string of possibilities. Tonks even said that the phenomenon helped her pass her Auror training, inevitably excelling at Concealment and Disguise.
The only downside we could really see about being a Metamorphmagus is the fact that the magic seems to be affected by your emotions.
A Metamorphmagus (pl. Metamorphmagi) is a witch or wizard with the rare magical ability to change their physical appearance through sheer will alone, without a Polyjuice Potion, or a spell, like most of the non muggles.
Tricksie was one of those. At age two she had hair a startling shade of purple, and violet eyes. She was especially obsessed with her nose, sometimes doing five transformations on it every day!
Metamorphmagi have limitations though, and Tricksie was no exception. She couldn’t change age, gender, or size. This made her very frustrated. She desperately wanted to become taller, as she was very short, and was often mistaken for an eight year old.
Tricksie’s favourite look was short chocolate brown hair, deep blue eyes with silver flecks in them, and wolf ears, playing on her werewolf “problem.” She loved to have black accessories, and a cloak, of course.
The ability, as far as Tricksie knew, was handed down from her four times great - grandmother, Larira. She had lived in a muggle village in Cornwall until the villagers drove her out, calling her a witch, which, ironically, was correct! However, Larira did not marry a fellow metamorphmagus, so the ability skipped a few generations to Tricksie’s great - great grandmother, Aria. She was an excellent potion maker, which is where Tricksie got her potions ability from. It then went to Tricksie’s mother, who was also named Aria, but the ability only went to their eldest, Tricksie!
That is also where Tricksie got her name, and she lived up to it, using it to mimic her brother and sister so accurately even her parents were almost fooled! Tricksie loved potions, and she couldn’t wait to go to Hogwarts. Her mother had been a star student, which Tricksie desperately wanted to live up to, especially on account of her werewolf “problem.”
Unfortunately, the combination of werewolf and metamorphmagi made Tricksie rather unpopular with her class at school. She was made an outcast, and no one wanted to play with her. So you can imagine she was delighted when her application for Hogwarts came through. She would finally have a place to learn! And friends! Amazing!
Tricksie’s favourite combinations are:
- Small noses
- Short dark hair, sometimes coloured!
- Definitely wolf ears
- A narrow face
She had done some research on the metamorphmagi, and this is what she found:
A Metamorphmagus has the extraordinarily uncommon gift of being able to change their appearance at will. We famously met one in the Harry Potter series: Nymphadora Tonks, who used her shapeshifting abilities wisely in her job as an Auror. From changing hair colour to changing your whole face, the abilities of a Metamorphmagus seem unparalleled to the most advanced Transfiguration. It can also be hereditary, as we saw when Tonks had her baby, Teddy Lupin, whose hair kept changing colours just after birth.
It’s perfectly understandable to just be horrendously jealous of such a skill, seeing as it is a natural gift and comes with a whole string of possibilities. Tonks even said that the phenomenon helped her pass her Auror training, inevitably excelling at Concealment and Disguise.
The only downside we could really see about being a Metamorphmagus is the fact that the magic seems to be affected by your emotions.
STATUS: Pending, Jake May 29
Hi Tricksie, you've applied for both werewolf and metamorphmagus. Only one of those is allowed, so you will have to choose one or the other to start with - then I can look at your application.
STATUS: Denied, Jake May 30
Both a werewolf and meta app were submitted - after reaching out over owl, she confirmed she'd like to keep her werewolf app
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Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you Are Applying for:Prodigal Charms Learner
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it): As can be expected for an heir of a Noble House of Theramin, Tristan was given extensive tutoring at home for skills to be learned in his education. In addition, his intelligence is far higher than most children of fourteen years of age and it is evident in the academic and logical prowess that he has obtained. Tristan has been receiving training since his first instance of childhood magic and has had quite a bit of success in the action of learning a new curriculum quickly. Such training and his aptitude for academics and intelligence, has afforded him the opportunity to learn charms that are a year in advance at home. Though he would like to learn such skill faster, his parents had limited such advanced training to a year at a time, as they knew that the wisdom needed to decide when to use such charms will not come as fast as Tristan could learn such spells. In his time at Hogwarts, Tristan also found himself academically prone, enjoying the pursuit of knowledge far more than the hapless pursuit of love or Quidditch trophies, although his beauty and physical health could afford him to pursue such things with success. The only such sport that he desired to practice was dueling which furthered his passion for learning charms, fueling his academic prowess through a dedicated goal. In combination with all these things, Tristan’s desire for power and standing out also is a deciding factor in his speed of learning charms. He often imagined himself one day achieving the spot of Head of Wizengamot and leading society in the way he saw fit, accepting and in harmony with the muggles who were not aware of their brotherkind. Tristan imagined very often of the help wixen could provide for the muggle world, heal the sick and those who were victims of car accidents, those trapped in a fire, and even more. These dreams of providing answers to the problems of the muggle world often kept him up learning charms that would have practical application in saving muggles that are deemed unsaveable by the muggle world. In all, these factors and desires in Tristan’s life have formed a child with prodigious skill in charms. Whether it is talent or training, the fortunes have made it so that he could be considered a prodigal learner of Charms. Gladly, Tristan does not have dreams of evil domination, but some may consider his dreams of benevolent domination a sign that he may become a dark Lord but that was not true and his prodigal learning skill will probably never be used to harm the rest of the Wizarding World.Word Count
443/400
STATUS: Approved, Jake, May 30
STATUS: Denied, Jake, May 30 - Hi, Tristan, I'm sorry, I just realized that as a Parseltongue, you aren't able to take a third-year ability, as that is the year where you get your pet snake! See here
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Name of Ability or Race/Talent that you Are Applying for: Seer
Describe why this fits your character (not why you the player want it):
ReducioPlease list out your stats using the 6-point stat system:Tristan's parents came from two very different worlds. One a pureblood heiress, the other a half-blood child of an estranged household. But what they both had in common was that they carried a rare trait that would be passed down to their son, Tristan.WC: 653/500
Katarina Isolde came from an old-money wizarding family in the Netherlands. They weren't just old in terms of generational wealth, they kept some really old traditions sacred in their family. Most notably, pureblood wizard supremacy. Tracing back Katarina's lineage, it would be near impossible to find a drop of muggle blood anywhere.
With such restrictive choices for partners, recessive traits tend to start making themself more and more known. In the Isolde's case, their family developed very strong divination powers. For some, this meant particularly excelling in spellcasting related to divination or just pure having a knack for it. For others, the golden children of the family, this meant being a part of the rare race of people who didn't need to use the art of divination to see into the future: Seers.
While Tristan has many ancestors that were seers on his mom's side of the family, his closest relative would be his aunt, Noelle. As if it already wasn't frustrating enough being the younger sister of such a prodigy, Katarina also had to deal with the fact that Noelle was blessed with that highly coveted trait and she wasn't. Noelle had her first true vision when Katarina was just heading into her First Year, which warned of a person she would meet at Hogwarts that would tarnish the person Katarina currently is.
That person turned out to be Tristan's father, Oliver Marion, whom Katarina was so infatuated with that she never considered he could be the one foretold in Noelle's vision. Alas, no matter how secretive they were, their relationship would be revealed when Katarina became pregnant.
Katarina was too preoccupied with just being disowned and having Tristan to even consider the fact that she might've just given birth to a seer. While Oliver wasn't a pureblood, he was still half a wizard so it wasn't impossible for him to be carrying that trait.
Turns out: it wasn't impossible. Far down Oliver's heritage is an ancestor of his whose name was Sibylle Allard, a French witch born in the early 17th century. She was considered a very gloomy child, always rambling about chaos and destruction befalling the world. Her hair also mysteriously turned white at a very young age despite neither of her parents graying until far into their senior years.
The landscape of France would soon turn as macabre as the stories Sibylle would speak of. Unfortunately for Sibylle, the violence on the streets also seemingly reawakened Muggles' fear of witches so naturally when they saw a twenty-year-old woman on the street with completely white hair, they killed her under (correct) suspicion she was a witch.
While Tristan is still not quite old enough to have fully realized the special ability he possesses, he definitely has a sort of third eye when it comes to betting on what might happen. Tristan has received his fair share of groundings and other punishments, but that amount is far less than the amount he likely deserves. Whether it is always being able to tell when his mother would be too tired to punish him that day or setting up his pranks in school halls that just happened to be unoccupied that particular day, lady luck always seems to be keeping him out of trouble.
Though frequently around his aunt with white hair who can see into the future, neither he nor his mother suspects that trait might be shared between them as of right now. So while he carries such an amazing talent, for now, Tristan remains happy with how good he is at getting out of trouble, unaware of the dark realities that come with having this talent.
Stamina: 6 | Evasion: 8 | Strength: 4 | Wisdom: 2 | Arcane Power: 5 | Accuracy: 5STATUS: Approved, Emery 06/06
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