Forum:Lena Seabury

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.


 * p: loyal, protective, caring
 * w: socially inept, self-depreciating, envious

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 just wants to be happy, traveling with Lani around the world.

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


 * Most likely decorating the buildings of Hogsmeade with Lani, with their beautiful meaningful political art.

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


 * She'd just keep things she'd need for her survival, as well as Lani herself - Lani literally always has everything the two of them may need for entertainment.

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


 * All this discrimination and hatred... she'd make it go away. It makes her nauseous, it makes her feel powerless to help others. Oh, and her sight. Plus her socially inept ways. But those are more personal than anything.

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!)


 * '''The complete opposite of her bright best friend, Lena Seabury doesn't identify herself as colorful, as cheery, or even as one bit of happy. Though she is, she just doesn't want to admit it aloud. She likes to joke about how dull she is, with little negative drawings, just like the world that she sees, even though it's far from the truth. Her life has been chaotic right from the second she was born and it's easy to say she's grown a certain love towards everything that equals as such (which would explain why she's kept Lani around for so long).


 * For someone her age, Lena is smart. Not book smart, most definitely not, but if you dropped her on the street and forced her to live without any help, she'd be able to do it. She's a girl who hasn't truly lived yet, so much as survived, because it seems it's the only thing she's capable of doing. All her life, Lena Seabury has run. From the truth of her family, from the truth of her existence, from the awful adoptive family she used to have, from her nightmares. It's all she's ever known to do - run, never stay in one place for too long, always strive for survival. Her inability to stay rooted to one damn place is from where her lack of social skills stem.


 * Lena is an awkward person. She doesn't know how to interact with anyone that isn't Lani, anyone that doesn't know her little quirks like the back of their hand. She freezes up and stutters, and always ends up embarrassed. It turned her towards a new lifestyle - selective muteness. Since she was nine years old, Lena Seabury hasn't uttered not one word to anyone that doesn't happen to be named Lani Kahale. Even then, she doesn't like to say much. As someone who has an affinity for drawing, she very much would rather communicate through art than she would through verbal communication.


 * Lena has never learned to appreciate herself. She hates everything about who she is - her inability to speak to people like a normal person, the way she's exhausted every f-cking day of her life because sleep just doesn't come to her, the way she fidgets all the time, especially when she gets nervous. She hates how she isn't even normal enough to see the world for its true colors. It's all pink, a color she doesn't even appreciate. There's just one too many imperfections that irk her, that make her want to give up and sleep away the rest of her life, but she knows she can't. She wouldn't, either - she has Lani to think of. Sweet, beautiful Lani whom Lena designs political street art for.

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!)


 * There's a line, between doing anything for your children and becoming a criminal. It's a line that some parents cross without much a care, but it's also a line other parents try to avoid altogether. For Kaiko and Anuhea, that line didn't exist at all. They were two muggles who owned a chain or resorts in Honolulu, Hawaii, but despite the wealth it gave them, it didn't help them much when their infant daughter Ailani was diagnosed with Leukemia. She had time, but how long was just a mystery. She needed all sorts of treatments and transplants, but Kaiko and Anuhea weren't a match for what their child needed. No amount of money in the world could save their daughter - it was a matter of time and patience to find a match for her. But they ran the risk of it taking too long, so they did what they could and hoped it would work.


 * It was nine months later that Kalena Seabury was born, by science above all as she was born through the process of in vitro fertilization. She was meant to be her sister's guardian angel, at least according to her parents, but those plans never saw light, because the moment Lena was old enough to understand that her parents wanted to kill her to save their firstborn, she booked the hell out of that house. Her family had never felt like her family, due to the lack of love, she supposes. Not once had anyone been pleased with anything she did, unless it involved blood draws for her sister and more medical procedures of the like.


 * Kalena was four, not old enough to wander on the island alone and survive. It's why she relented when policemen found her hiding inside a carboard box on the corner of a street, letting them whisk her into an orphanage when she didn't tell them who she was or who her family was. Nobody knew much about her, the shy girl who always broke into stutters and always ended up crying at some point of her conversations. All they knew was her age, and how she preferred to be called Lena rather than that God awful name her parents always addressed her by. Oh, and that she had a super shitty sight. She was color blind, can you believe that? Tritanopia - yellow-green blindness. It was a f-cking pain in the ass, especially when she had nobody to help her through it all. Kalena was alone for the time being, until she was adopted, days after she turned six years old.


 * She met Lani Kahale in that house, with that family. Lani was easily the only person Lena ever truly connected with, from the moment they met. It seemed as though they always had something to chat about, whether it be about their affinity for the arts, or just how odd their family was. Lani never seemed to mind Lena's stutters and her inability to stay rooted in one spot for too long. They often wandered while they talked, as a way to distract Lena, and truthfully, sometimes she likes to think that's the moment she first realized Lani Kahale was her fucking soulmate. Not that she's given that much thought to it after the realization. (She has.) 


 * Around the age of ten, Lena's adoptive relatives dropped the bombshell that they were wizards. Wizards. Now, how the hell could that be? Lena thought they were downright crazy, and wanted to bust her ass out of there. The only reason she ever stayed around was because Lani had, apparently believing her father when he'd stated he adopted them both after seeing their own magical qualities. Well, it explained why she turned the orphanage's keeper's hair a light red.


 * As every other American student, she'd originally been meant to attend Salem with Lani and the rest of her family members. That said, she didn't stick around long enough to do that, which was as a matter of fact quite good, because the rest of their family were beginning to show just how rotten they were. They were anti-muggles, anti-creatures, anti-just about everything "lesser" than them. She and Lani had the same views that opposed theirs, along with some other older guy - Mauli. The lot of them were forced to stick together, as the only ones with a healthy point of view on the subjects. Their ways of trying to force Lena are also another cause for her to go into selective muteness, as she couldn't talk about anyone in a harsh way without freezing up and breaking down. She'd just rather not talk at all. Did it piss them off? Of course it did. But she had Lena. She had Mauli. She could get out of there, with them, right? She could run, she could survive. But then again it wasn't too realistic, so she just had to try and suck it up, for her and her two best friends.


 * Lena was forced to listen to her parents' bullshit, to their family's bullshit, to just about every damn wizard's bullshit until she'd had enough. Lani had had enough. Mauli had had enough. They were getting themselves out of there, no matter how they did it. And that they did. Mauli was old enough to apparate, but there were immense miscalculations and failures to take breaks between trips. Mauli ended up splinching himself into oblivion and Lena was stuck with Lani in the middle of London without any money, any idea of where they were (she's never been very good at geography) and how they'd get themselves out of this mess.


 * It was days after their arrival and they were noticed by a wizard, who had to lure them out of their hiding spots and earn their trust before he could offer to apparate them to Lil Bundles. It was a shitty idea, it left Lena having a panic attack afterwards, but she'd survived and she had a new home. Not that she liked it - she'd learned how to run, and she didn't want to stay there for too long. It was all about survival. It's what separated her from the Seaburys and then her other family, no? Lani didn't like to run, though. She liked it in the orphanage. So Lena decided to stay, for her, though she wandered every moment of her free time, searching for a new place to stick at. Maybe then, she could prove to Lani that they could live together, on their own. Away from everyone. But then Hogwarts started. Ah, yes, Hogwarts, where she was sorted into ______ and forced to do her seven years of mandatory schooling. Lovely.

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 Rania Benchegra.

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!)


 * Muggle-born

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!)


 * Nah

6) What year is your character in?


 * Fourth

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)?


 * 11/2