Forum:Valeriya Sakellarios-Willow

The Sorting Quiz

A. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please italicize the answer.)

1. What are you looking forward to learning at Hogwarts the most?


 * A. Transfiguration


 * B. Magical Creatures


 * C. Hexes & Jinxes


 * D. The castle's secret areas

2. Pick one:


 * B. Stars


 * A. Moon

3. If flowers adapted their scent to attract the unwary, what would it smell of in order to lure you in?


 * A. Parchment


 * B. Freshly baked bread


 * C. A crackling log fire


 * D. The Sea

4. Pick one:


 * A. Dawn


 * B. Dusk

'''5. Four boxes are placed before you. Which one do you open?'''


 * A. The ornate one, promising secret knowledge and unbearable temptation


 * B. The small, tortoiseshell box, embellished in gold, with a small, squeaking creature


 * C. The small, pewter box that reads "I only open for the worthy"


 * D. The gleaming black box marked with Merlin's rune

6. Pick one:


 * A. White


 * B. Black

7. What road tempts you the most?


 * A. The cobbled street lined with ancient buildings


 * B. The wide, sunny, grassy lane


 * C. The twisting, leaf-strewn path through woods


 * D. The narrow, dark, lantern-lit alley

8. Pick one:


 * A. Forest


 * B. River

9. What scares you most?


 * A. Speaking in such a silly voice, people will laugh at you and mock you


 * B. Waking up and realizing your family & friends don't know you


 * C. An eye at the keyhole of the dark, windowless room where you're locked


 * D. Standing on top of something high, without anything to stop you from falling

'''10. It's late, you're walking alone, and hear a peculiar cry you believe has a magical source. What do you do?'''


 * A. Wait for developments, while mentally reviewing the most appropriate spells


 * B. Draw your wand & stand your ground


 * C. Draw your wand & search for the source


 * D. Proceed with caution, keep a hand on the concealed wand, and keep an eye out

The Character's Background

1) Give a description of your character's personality. It must be at least two paragraphs long, seven sentences each.


 * Valeriya Sakellarios-Willow is the kind of girl who depends on her friends — not to the point of co-dependence, but she has a need for them in her life. She's sort of 'the mum friend' in a way, the one who likes to look after people. She is more tactile than her parents and her siblings alike, and perhaps the most emotionally open and vulnerable. Lena used to say that her daughter reminded her most of her elder brother, Slava, and the parallels are certainly there. (She hasn't really seen her Dyadya Slava in a while — she's never met her grandmother, Anzhelika, either, though from what she hears from her aunts and uncles that is quite possibly for the best.)


 * Val values friendship, loyalty, and a sense of humour, having people around with whom to enjoy life, whether it be playing Quidditch or simply appreciating the world around her. Quite frankly, she's a ray of sunshine and optimism to the point that it annoys the more cynically inclined, and it's lucky this group of people doesn't include her twin sister Iliana, or she'd be trying to change herself. She admires and aspires to be like her older twin, and follows her lead more than Malia would perhaps like. Mainly, Valeriya wants to learn how to be that bold like her Gryffindor sister.


 * She's also not so intellectually inclined as her mother Lena was at Hogwarts. She's more of a social extrovert, not too interested in the matter of textbooks, though practical magic is okay. Valeriya enjoys the game of Quidditch (she plays Chaser; she'd have played Beater, like her mothers, and wanted to, but didn't have the upper body strength for it. That might have something to do with her training motivation.) Most of all, she's the kind of girl who needs friends and food, and then you're all set with her. What she does get is hangry, though, and you really don't want to mess with that. Hell hath no fury like a hungry Valeriya Sakellarios-Willow.

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? It must be at least three paragraphs long, seven sentences each.


 * Valeriya Sakellarios-Willow is the second-born child of Valentina and Malia Sakellarios-Willow, possible due to scientific advance and true love (but mostly the true love; Valeriya's a romantic) between two souls just meant for each other. She believes in soulmates, too, and perhaps she's naive in that, but who could blame her for it? From the moment Lena and Malia locked eyes at King's Cross, they knew they were meant to be, and the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor fought for their relationship once it became official through countless things. Through a disappearance, through a suicide attempt, losing Malia's siblings and even a considerable break — isn't that just a sign that they were truly meant for love?


 * It was in the summer prior to their seventh year that Malia & Lena got engaged. They had gone on a summer-long road trip across Europe, with apparations here and there to cross tougher boarders. At the very end, on the eve of their return, they were sat on the hood of their rented car, watching the stars, when Malia popped the question. She was a stammering, blushing mess, and by no means did she consider it as romantic as she'd have hoped, but Lena had loved it and accepted - which as far as Malia was aware, was all that mattered. They didn't tell anyone (inc. their best friends Owen & Lili) throughout the course of their seventh year, revealing they'd been engaged for nearly a year now once they had all graduated. Their wedding ceremony didn't take place until a year after graduating, on a cool August evening.


 * Valeriya is the second of five, after her twin Iliana, and before Zoe, Zilya, and Zenia, the triplets. The two of them were born just a year after her mothers' wedding, and they enjoyed the benefits of a quiet life, and lived from the moment of her birth until her eleventh birthday at their family home in Coral Gates. They were three when her younger sisters came along: Zoë Yevgeniya, in honor of Lena's deceased sister, Zenia Vasilia, in honor of Malia's childhood husband Vasilius Jo, and Zilya Polina. They were triplets, and as you would imagine, their life took a bit of an annoying turn upon their arrival home. They had been wholly unprepared for triplets, but with help and a little bit of magic, they made things work. They had their joint fortune due to their days playing professional Quidditch - with Malia playing for the national team after years of playing for the Catapults, and Lena retiring a little earlier to join the Auror Force - but the two of them still suffered.


 * Perhaps it was that Val had become accustomed to life with just Ili for company, but she warmed to her little sisters more quickly than her twin did by far. Valeriya was an emotive young woman, which was showed by the affection she came to have by them, and by her reaction when their world came crashing down — when her mother, Lena, disappeared when they were seven. Lena had been closer to Ili, granted, and Valeriya was almost empathic in the way she felt her mothers' and her sisters' pain at the loss of their mother. Her first display of magic was creating little light displays to calm her triplet sisters down to give Malia a little space to breathe, or to give Iliana some time alone. She always aspired to be like her sister, but she is likewise a pretty good soul in her own right at the end of the day.


 * Iliana and Valeriya received their Hogwarts letters on their eleventh birthdays, when they moved out of the family home to get away from the memories of their missing mother, and upon arriving there she was sorted into ___. Predominantly, she hopes to make new friends, as well as many interesting memories.

3) Write about your character's appearance. What do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here!


 * Her FC is Bailee Madison.

4) Is your character a Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important characters from the Harry Potter Universe!)
 * Pure-Blood

5) Does your character have any special abilities? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of a magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!)
 * No.

6) What year is your character in?
 * This will be Valeriya's first year.

7) The Sorting Hat has been known to take house preference into consideration. If your character could select one house they believe they are best suited for, what would it be and why?


 * Valeriya would want to be in Gryffindor, like her mother Malia, but she also knows she's basically the textbook definition of a Hufflepuff.

OOC Questions

B. Whilst the first two questions will not affect the character's house (and are mandatory), the others are designed specifically to help users come up with their character's ideal job (and are optional).

1) Is this your first character?


 * A. This is my first character.


 * B. No, this is not my first character.

2) If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic"?
 * 2 (Riley and Lena) and 0 exotic.

3) What would people who know your character well say they're really good at?

4) What do they really want to avoid in their future job/career? Do they hate working in an office? Do they hate the field?

5) Aside from family and peers, what motivates your character the most in life? What drives their passion?

6) Where does your character's weaknesses lie?

7) Wand cores and woods speak volumes about a person's character. What is your character's wand? Why does it answer to them?