Index Re-Application

Character Name: Rosalind Delarose
School Year or Adult Level: Second year
House: Gryffindor

Link to Encyclopedia: A new encyclopedia page, because the old one is missing and I can't find it. Excuse me for the inconvenience.
Reason for Reapplication:
I want to restart RPing and rejoin the community. I was removed because of inactivity years ago.

STATUS: Pending, Taros, 31 August
Your old encyclopedia is here, please use that one instead as it is linked to the button in your profile. You won't be able to just jump right back into RPing, however, as you need to account for the missing years. Since it has been so long and you are still marked as a second year despite joining the site and messaging in 2019, you might find it easier to deactivate and start over as a new character. If that's something you're interested in, you can do that using the form here. If you want to stay as your current character, you'd have to explain each missed graduation with IC reasons.

STATUS: Closed, Taros, 31 August
User has deactivated.

Character Name (First and last name): Hana Suzuki
School Year or Adult Level: 3
House: Gryffindor
Link to Encyclopedia: here
Reason for Reapplication: So, I want to change Hana's residence to Woodstock, England if possible. Cuz lwk when I first joined the thing I only saw three options cuz i did not scroll far enough, but it also impacted my roleplay because I once mentioned that Hana came from an absurdly rich family even tho she's a half-blood and that she live in a manor kind of house but with london, it is too dense geographically, making the manor scenario unrealistic. So after i did my research, aka interrogating Google Ai a million times, I decided to change the location to Oxfordshire where a posh manor is possible ) thank u!

STATUS: Pending — Aulis, September 6
- Oxfordshire is a county. We don’t allow users to choose ceremonial counties or general areas as their residences because they’re way too big. Please choose a city, town, or village within the county of Oxfordshire for Hana’s residence.

Character Name| Alaric Equinox
School Year or Adult Level| Adult I
House| Technically a graduated Slytherin. Prior Ravenclaw HoH, but an Adult now.
Link to Encyclopedia
Reason for Reapplication|
I am reapplying due to inactivity. Nothing in his originally accepted background has been changed, and I have not made any new threads explaining his absence. I know some things have changed, rules-wise, while I have been gone, so please let me know if anything needs to be edited. I am happy to do so. Alaric’s absence in the adult world will be explained in a solo only after approval.

The basic storyline is that Alaric stepped down as HoH because his adoptive mother, Victoria, became extremely frail in her old age, and he wanted to take her back to her hometown in the United States to spend the final days of her life in familiarity and comfort.

Alaric will have taken up teaching Astronomy at a local community college at night while he cared for Victoria. After 3.5 years, Victoria has now passed away, and now that she has been laid to rest, Alaric is moving back to his estate in the UK.

The only thing I foresee needing updating is more specificity about where his estate is located, so I decided it would be in Hogsmeade.

Edit: The timeline is probably just because I forgot when I stepped down originally (I conflated my personal absence with his). If the passing in 2024 is just because of the timeline that was in my head, I would extend the mother to not pass away until spring of 2026.
However, if I did write that somewhere, I am happy to just state that Alaric remained teaching in America until 2026, processing his grief and settling his affairs there while, of course, giving proper notice to his current place of employment. I intend for Alaric to move back this Autumn in 2026.

If the community college can be a wizarding institution, I would prefer to go that route, considering Alaric is a Dhampir. His canon is that he wears makeup to hide his corpse-like appearance, but he remains extremely fair. He typically doesn't wear colored contacts to hide his eye color unless absolutely necessary.

STATUS: Pending, Lesmana, 8 September
Reason for Pending:

• We need a clear timeline of Alaric's life from his resignation as Head of Ravenclaw until he moved back to his estate in the UK. Alaric stepped down from his position as Head of Ravenclaw in late 2020 to take care of his adoptive mother for 3.5 years while, at the same time, teaching Astronomy at a local community college. My understanding is that Victoria passed away in 2024. What was he doing after his mother's death? Did Alaric move back to the UK that year, or did he return this year (2026)?
• Please clarify whether the community college where Alaric taught Astronomy is a Muggle or wizarding institution, as this would be relevant to the Statute of Secrecy.

Note for returning former adult staff character:

• Since you were formerly the Professor of Astronomy and continue your service as Head of Ravenclaw for at least a year, you are eligible to claim O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s in Astronomy and 3 additional subjects, which can be done in this thread: viewtopic.php?t=27775&view=unread#unread.
• Once this re-application has been approved and the O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s has been claimed, you can apply for an intermediate level of any job path you meet the OWL/NEWT prerequisites for.

This information can be read further here: viewtopic.php?t=27669

Character Name : Bea Blanco
School Year or Adult Level: 2nd Year
House: Gryffindor
Link to Encyclopedia: touche
Reason for Reapplication: Been gone for too long and wanted to come back!!

STATUS: Pending, Lesmana, 11 September
Reason for Pending:

• Your character has been held back a year. To re-register your character to Index, we need you to explain in-character why your character was held back.

Character Name (First and last name): Xio Arcana
School Year or Adult Level: 1st Year
House: Ravenclaw
Link to Encyclopedia: Tah-Duh!
Reason for Reapplication: Need to add to Ency that my character has dyslexia

Xio's Dyslexia

Reducio

Lyra was the first one in the family to notice Xio's dyslexia, considering reading magical tomes and grimoires she collected as a hobby was a way for them to relate and spend "quality time" together. It did not take long to acknowledge that it took Xio extra time to read a passage, and that occasionally she would get stuck on a word or two (even though sometimes they were in Latin or a forgotten language so it wasn't 100% her fault). Lyra, being the 2nd oldest of the bundle, took it as her personal mission to address this "potential vulnerability" to the Arcana family. But unlike Kael, she did have a compassionate bone in her body. She understood that Xio had a wild but creative artistic side, she could use this to her advantage. Whenever Xio struggled on a passage about Potion preparation, or Spell pronunciation she would have Xio draw her notes on the subject. Instead of having Xio just try to memorize the entire recipe for a Herbicide potion word for word, she instead had her draw each of the ingredients in her own artistic style so she could differentiate and understand the importance between each one. Although Lyra was always busy with studies or extracurriculars, she always made time for Xio to admire her "Ingredient Town" which was a collage of drawn and colored-in various potion ingredients like Mistletoe Berries, Horned Slugs, and Lionfish. Additionally, she would often challenge Xio to a "spellcasting spelling bee" whenever she could catch her off guard.
"Did you remember to clear the bins?" "Yes." "Are you sure? I could've swo--How do you spell Tarantallegra?" "T-a-r-a-n-t-a...um...l-e-g-r-a?" "Bzzt, you missed a letter. T-a-r-a-n-t-a-l-l-e-g-r-a, Tarantallegra, penalty time, spell it 5 times fast now."

STATUS: Approved, Lesmana, 11 September
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