Forum:Pandora Katsaros

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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:


 * A. Stars


 * B. 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.

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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.

pandora's mother, aretha katsaros, was born and raised in greece, where she attended school until she dropped out when she was eighteen. her boyfriend, at the time, was nineteen, and a wizard, but aretha would never learn the truth of that. he was solely a boyfriend of aretha who was occasionally brought up in the future to pandora, but always in a negative light. when her mother, aretha, told pandora's father - and only pandora's father - she was pregnant, he first assumed they weren't keeping the baby. when aretha announced she was keeping her, he announced that he didn't want to be in the baby's life. he was a busy man, and especially much too busy to raise a child. he traveled to much, and hadn't planned on staying in greece forever either. so he wasn't. wasn't in pandora's life that is, and the man was just an occasional story pandora was told.

aretha often believed that she was dealt the worst hand in the card game that is life. she was brought up by two very strict, religious parents that never made her feel like she was enough, and admittedly favored the younger of the two katsaros sisters, anastasia, more. aretha was completely removed from her family's life the same day after announcing she had broken up with her boyfriend once again and... well, she was also pregnant. that didn't sit well with the katsaros parents, and they told her to leave and never come back. she moved in with a close friend from school and their parents for a while, but, a few months after pandora's birth, aretha woke up one night to find that friend get arrested, leaving aretha and her young daughter homeless. they lived in their car for a while, but aretha started dating a new boy. she and pandora moved in, but he ended up to be abusive and a terrible person, so they were back on the road until another boy came along. it was a cycle aretha let herself go through over and over again—had been for a very long time—and wasn't hardly changed after a daughter came along. she dealt with levels of depression, and that occasionally lead to unhealthy coping mechanisms, like drugs and alcohol. aretha said bad luck was the reason for everything. she had upset the universe in some unknown, unforgivable way and this was her consequence.

throughout pandora's childhood, she never really had a stable or forever place to call home. there were, occasionally, times where aretha's relationships lasted longer. enough time for pandora to grow attached to him and their "home", but they always ended up leaving in the end. this eventually led to attachment issues, and she began to refuse getting closer to anyone or anything other than her mother. the closest thing to a constant in pandora's childhood was primary school when she was of age, but even that wasn't an always. her mother often pulled her out of school for weeks at a time when they were back to not having a permanent house again, or she wasn't feeling healthy enough to drive to school everyday. pandora formed to be independent at a young age, and also learned how to keep herself occupied and entertained. she received her first sketchbook and set of crayons when she turned seven—a birthday gift from her mother—and started to spend many of her days coloring and creating comics she saw based off the couple cheap superhero ones her mother had bought for her.

pandora enjoyed drawing. she did it constantly, and especially liked to draw superheroes or fantasy figures. so, if one were to think of it, it wasn't much surprise that the magical, special part of her began with her just doing that—drawing and coloring. it wasn't any day out of the ordinary, and pandora herself was just about the age of eight. her mother was buying groceries, and, stuck waiting in the car, she created little pink and purple fairies on her paper. she was proud of her drawing once finished. so proud, in fact, they had her imagining the little fairies fluttering inside the car... and well, once opening her eyes, she witnessed her imagination come to life. She observed all her hand drawn and colored fairies animate to life and dance in the air, and played happily until right before her mother walked back into their car. when sharing what she witnessed, aretha surely didn't believe her. she told her daughter to stop 'joking around'. pandora began to wonder to herself if she had only imagined the scene. after a few weeks, she had entirely forgotten.

when pandora was ten, aretha felt at an all time low in life. she was recently broken up and moved out again, and, in response, she abused unhealthy coping mechanisms for her depression worse than ever. pandora knew her mother wasn't at her healthiest state, but she wasn't knowledgeable enough to know her mother needed help. the person who did have the realization and knowledge when seeing aretha was one that the universe decided to bring back out of the blue after years of not talking. aretha and her sister, anastasia katsaros, had bumped into each other mistakenly one day, which lead to an awkward reunion. anastasia didn't need to do much prying to learn aretha was in bad shape, and that it possibly was putting aretha's own child, pandora, at stake. the two talked for a while, catching each other up with their lives. anastasia even had the chance of meeting young little pandora, while aretha got the chance to meet anastaisa's wife, cassandra. finally, one day, anastasia was able to convince her sister to seek help and go to rehab for her addictions, and aretha agreed. in the mean time, pandora was expected to stay with her aunts, ones she had only just met, despite her begging to stay with her mother. young pandora always dreamt of living in a grand, marvelous house and meeting her mother's family, but she hadn't wanted it with the price of being taken away from her mother, the one and only person she was truly attached to and loved.

cassandra, anastasia's wife, recieved job offer in the UK a few months after pandora moved in with the couple. with an approval from her mother and nowhere else to go, she had no choice but to move from greece to england with her aunts. from there, a few months after getting settled in, two strangers knocked on their door and shared some interesting news about pandora, witches and wizards, as well as a magical school. it left all three females in the household speachless, confused what it meant and how to handle with it. after a while of giving it a thought, pandora let her anastasia and cassandra know that she wanted—needed to go to this school of magic and learn about this part of her. she possibly couldn't just not. so, with a few months of preparation and learning in between, pandora began her first year of hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. in fact, it is where she remained up to sixth year of schooling, staying with her aunt during the summers as it was most convienent.

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!

faceclaim is quintessa swindell

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!)

half-blood. (muggle mother and wizard father)

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?

sixth 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?

she believe she'd likely be in ravenclaw because her fondness and talent in the arts, but doesn't have a large bias or a favorite.

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"? If you do have exotic characters, please list both the name and the type of exotic. Remember you are only allowed one of each type with the exception of nymphs.

9/2

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?