Forum:Giselle Fiennes

The Open-Ended Questions

A. Please answer the following questions as elaborately as possible. (Remember, this part is only a requirement for your third to fifteenth character! However, if you want to have more input on where you character is sorted, then please answer #6!)

1) What would you consider to be your character's strengths, and your character's weaknesses? Elaborate on your answer.

Strengths: Street smart, proud, mellow, objective, protective, competitive

Weakness: can be insensitive, blunt, pessimistic, apathetic

2) What goals and objectives has your character set out in their life? Is it to be successful and rich? Is it to find happiness? Why?

She has multiple paths she wants to go down on, but right now her main goal is to get the best NEWTs the world has ever seen.

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so?

She'd tell you that the best way is to plot world domination but really, she'd prefer to be reading, or playing with her dog, or maybe watching old reruns of her dad

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?

1. Her dog

2. Her bank account and trust fund

3. Her wand

4. A picture of her dad

5. Maybe her favourite jacket

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why?

She's not really sure. Maybe she'd change how unforgiving people are.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why?

She figures Ravenclaw would be her best fit, but she's happy with all of them.

The Sorting Quiz

B. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please bold the answers from an IC Point of View, and mark in italics the answers from the OOC Point of View.)

1) Which type of spell is most useful?

''':A. A Complex Spell'''


 * B. A Spell Of Control


 * C. A Combat Spell


 * D. A Healing Spell

2) What is most important to you?

'':A. Grades.''

''':B. Getting your way.'''


 * C. Life.


 * D. Friends and family.

3) What would you do if a teacher caught you cheating?


 * A. I'm the person people cheat off of.

''':B. I wouldn't get caught; I'm too slick.'''


 * C. I would deny the accusation until the teacher gives up.


 * D. I would 'fess up, apologize, and accept the consequences.

4) What matters most to your character?

''':A. Wisdom'''


 * B. Reputation


 * C. Success


 * D. Friendship

5) What's the best way to get things done?


 * A. Putting together a qualified team and completing the task efficiently.


 * B. Trick someone else into doing the work for you.

''':C. Get some friends together and lead them in the task.'''


 * D. The right way, no matter how long it takes.

The Character's Background

1) Give a description of your character's personality. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or Humble? Anything about your character that might help the Sorting Hat decide. (Don't worry, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, personality must be at least one paragraph long for the first two characters, two paragraphs long for the third to eighth characters, and three paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth!)

Gigi is smart, though not in your typical manner. She’s not school smart. She struggles to get herself to study for classes and keep to a schedule, she’s more of a free spirit and would rather study in energetic bursts or when she has a deadline looming rather than in a smart way. It bores her. That isn’t too say, though, that if you challenge her about what she claims, she won’t be pouring through books to prove you wrong. She’s the type of smart that she’s aware of what’s happening in the world around her. Street smart. This includes politics and history. Gigi will be willing to argue with you into the next century if you hook her into a debate. Though it’s more in jest, she often tells people she’ll become famous through winning a Nobel prize for achieving world peace. However, she still has high grades and is one of the top in her year level. The only thing driving her to do this, though, is her competitive nature. Her cousins are smart, arguably smarter than her, and she wants to prove she’s better and graduate with higher grades than any of them. Of course, this might be because she wants to get rid of her mother's reputation. Vain and shallow. She knows her mother hasn’t made a good impression with the rest of the family and she wants to prove she’s not like that woman. Even if she does this through proving she’s smarter than them.

The front and the majority of her attitude towards the Spencer’s is that she finds them annoying. She often brushes them off. However, she’s secretly jealous of them. Jealous that they had the freedom to develop whatever idea they wanted. If she wasn’t as proud and competitive as she was, she’d probably ask them if she could learn off them, even just watch what they do. Especially Andrew when he works on his car. She’d kill for that vehicle. However, she doesn’t have a set aspiration in life. She has multiple careers in her mind. Whether it be racing cars, a talk show host to try and follow in her father’s foot steps and redeem his name, or even an anarchist who topples the ministry. She’s not one to be picky and just wants to succeed in whatever she does. She’s competitive but she’s not ambitious.

However, it’s almost laughable that she’s thinking of becoming a TV personality. She has the definition of having a resting b-tch face and can often be interpreted as either emotionless or a psychopath. Which isn’t necessarily true. Sure, she can often seem impassive but she believes emotions can be controlled and used for her advantage, she doesn’t necessarily think it’s a weakness. Not necessarily a leader, she can step up if she needs to and is able to seperate her own personal relation to achieve a necessary objective. She can be incredibly blunt, however, and doesn’t hesitate to tell people to shut up or declare them an idiot. Not her fault she thinks mostly everyone is an idiot. She decided a long time ago that the human species weren’t that intelligent. Though she’s accepted that the general human populace aren’t good in the common sense department, she has learnt how to deal with it, though that doesn’t mean she’ll keep it to herself. When it comes to being a psycho, however, sure she might have pulled a knife on a few people. Not her fault they weren't leaving her alone. Certainly not her fault that she has the demeanour for it either. However, it isn’t hard to gain Gigi’s loyalty and become friends with her. You’d think it’d be the opposite but Gigi doesn’t mind being around other people and isn’t much of a loner, she just tends to be slightly apathetic. Though there are times where she can be highly irritable. Mostly, though, Gigi is the type of person to be willing to sit there and listen to someone rant and rant for hours without getting bored. She doesn’t go out of her way to make friends, though, and often waits for people to come up to her and interact than doing it herself.

Though she appears to be apathetic, and she is to a degree, she does care. If someone close to her gets into danger and gets hurt, she has a tendency to lecture them for hours and hours. Though most of it includes calling them an idiot with a lot of swear words. She has the mouth of a sailor. She’s the type of person to tell someone ‘I told you that wasn’t a good f—king idea’. Despite this, she’s not a rule follower. She’s quite willing to break them, especially if she believes the rule to be stupid. Like the no-pets-in-class rule. The amount of times she sneaks her puppy into class is ridiculous. Sometimes she tells people her puppy is charmed to be kept as small as it is but sometimes she tells people it’s the breed, though she never tells them what breed. She sneaks him in through the pockets of her robe and keeps him on her lap during class. The dog is quite docile, though, and rarely makes a noise or any fuss really. Most of the time, Gigi can get away with it. Even when she doesn’t, she just shows the teacher the dog and hopes its looks will win the teacher over. Human’s are so fickle to visual affects, honestly. The dog, however, has been her companion since her father’s death and she’s unwilling to part with him. Still hasn’t named him, though, just calls him pup. However, her upper class childhood has had it’s impact on her. When it comes to money, she isn’t that good with spending it and rarely knows how much money is in her bank account. However, her appetite is tiny and she really only eats a meal a day, so she doesn’t waste food. How can she? Plus, she’d bound to run into someone that is willing to eat her left overs. Furthermore, she still dabbles in music, such as the piano and the violin and still despises dresses.

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc. (Again, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, history must at least be two paragraphs long for the first two characters, three paragraphs long for the third to eighth character, and four paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth character!)

Viola Spencer could arguably be one of the most successful witches in London, she’s certainly more successful than her siblings in the financial department, not that she tells them or reminds them of it (lie, she loves to come over and prove to them how richer she is than any of them). Of course, financial success is one thing and she was never as successful as her siblings, especially Louis Spencer, in the intellectual department. She simply knew how to marry well. Chandler Fiennes was an incredibly successful talk show host within Lumos Network Company. Of course, that isn’t to say she was a trophy wife. No, she went on to become quite a successful interior designer and set up her own firm within London for both magical and muggle clients. Thus, by their third year anniversary, they were millionaires, bordering on being a billionaire, which Viola was incredibly pleased about. She was your typical bourgeoisie, upper class, woman. Enjoyed gardening, had multiple dinner parties, and would never been seen dead in clothes less than $1000. Chandler, however, could be described as a bit of a ‘loser’, which is what his wife often calls him. Absent minded, subdued and garners little respect in his own house. By the time Giselle was seven, Chandler was already bouncing around with Alistair Fitzgerald, finding other woman to sleep with.

Giselle, though she shortened it to Gigi eventually, was the third eldest child but the eldest girl. Being the first daughter, she was spoiled by Viola growing up, constantly dressed up in pink dresses and forced into photoshoots (Gigi would rather die than let people see them). She tolerated it for the most part. It made her mother happy. Growing up, it was one of her brother’s in the front seat of the car whilst her dad was shoved into the back with Gigi and her other sibling (then he was kicked out when the youngest was born). She had a soft spot for him, though. He was nice and did try to take an interest in his children’s lives. On camera, Chandler was a comedian, able to keep people interested. Gigi wondered why this couldn’t travel into reality. When she found out about the cheating, she didn’t blame him. With the way Viola treated him, she was surprised he didn’t divorce her. She supposed he was too weak willed to do so. Though Viola tried to make Gigi her child, she was always secretly daddy’s little girl. Even as a child, she always laughed at his stupid antiques. It was over her father that she had her first magical incident. She was six years old and she was watching her father come home from work from the window. He had accidentally left his brief case open and when he was walking up the front steps, it flipped open, causing all the paper’s inside to go everywhere. Through Gigi’s magic, they flew right back inside the case, which shut with a click.

Of course, her older siblings were both magical so it wasn’t a surprise that Gigi was too. Thank god, in Gigi’s opinion. Now she could get away from her mother. She’d begun to feel like she was being suffocated by her and wanted to break free from it. It became even worse when Gigi turned nine. The public found out about Chandler’s affairs. They had snapped photos of him with a one night stand in a hotel room in an incredibly compromising position. Chandler lost his job, his reputation, nearly everything. Of course, though it wasn’t public knowledge, not even to Viola or any of their children, Chandler losing his job was because of Alistair Fitzgerald. If Alistair kept him on the network and continued to support their friendship then rumours and suspicions surrounding Alistair would get even worse. He couldn’t have that attention so he cut Chandler off without a second thought. If Viola couldn’t stand him before, she certainly couldn’t stand him now. She didn’t divorce him, though, she liked the money too much for that. She did rather like the sympathy from everyone, though. Turns out she didn’t need to bother with divorce. Chandler killed himself only a few months after the event. It wasn’t Gigi who found him. It was Viola and if Gigi listened to the maids, then all Viola did was smoke a cigarette staring at his body for ten or twenty minutes. With her own opinion of her mother, she believed them.

Gigi was affected by the death more than her siblings, or so she believes. She fought back against her mother, destroyed any of her belongings or clothing that her mother had a hand in. She’d rather be seen in jeans and a combat jacket than a dress. No longer did she tolerate being paraded in front of her mother’s friends like a trophy. Sure, she kept the necessities of what her mother forced her to do. She kept up the music, piano and violin, and still knows how to cook a mean roast. However, she began to take more interest in what caught her fancy, mainly: science, technology, history, politics, literature. Anything. At Hogwarts, she was aloof to the world around her, appearing to be better than the people around her. She grew more and more interested in racing and found herself to be rather competitive with the people around her. Of course, there was one habit she kept from childhood. Literature. She used it to escape the world when she was a child and she kept the habit around as she moved through the years. By the time she hit her third year, though, she realised a bunch of cousins were joining her at Hogwarts. The Spencer’s. If it were the Avery’s, she wouldn’t have cared. But the Spencers? She’d heard of Isaac’s grades and knew the rest of his siblings were a bunch of geniuses. If there was one thing she got from her mother was that she was competitive and proud. She wanted to be better than them. She was smart, sure she had a problem with focussing on the topics in school, but she could pull it off. She was already one of the top student’s in her year level (really, like this personal vendetta started in third year, she heard rumours about the Spencer’s from she was ten years old) which meant she could pull it off for sure.

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!

FC:Alycia Debnam Carter



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 Harry Potter characters!)

Pureblood, cousin to the Spencers.

5) Does your character have any special magical abilities? Or special abilities in general (photographic memory, etc.)? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!)

None

6) What year is your character in?

Fourth year

OOC Questions

C. These do not affect what house you're sorted to, but everybody must answer them!

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" (of a different magical race/have a special ability)?

14/3