Forum:Apollinariya Romanova

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.

Does Apollinariya Romanova really have strengths? It's hardly something people perceive the Russian brunette as having; considering that, both internally and externally, she's every bit as much a rotten apple as the rest of the family that surround her.

Weaknesses come in abundance. A self-serving worldview; a materialistic nature based on what can be gained; a lack of moral boundaries. This is mostly due to how she was r a i s e d as an entitled, aristocrat rich girl.

Strengths? Ugh, does she have to? Apollinariya does have loyalty, to her family and herself at least, and a passion that is usually directed to gaining what she wants. She's also a fairly talented thief from what she was taught by her father, a member of the Black Parade - but due to it being quite unmoralistic to steal, she's not sure if that's a strength.

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?

Apollinariya Romanova has been an entitled rich girl since she was born with a silver spoon with her mouth. In exchange for engaging with her parents' wishes for her future, including her marriage arrangements with other aristocratic (obviously pure-blood) families, she has always had every last thing that she wants falling into her pocket with limited effort. Consciously that is her perfect life, the subconscious desire she has to be a better person is not something she has realised yet. So, yes, her life so far has proved to be exactly what she wants, if she excludes leaving Koldovstvoretz.

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

A good self-entitled shopping spree is always a good way to go, just because it allows her to take advantage of the fact she has money. Or, quite simply, a day spent with the only person she cares even REMOTELY for, her brother. (He exposes a caring side to her that nobody else has ever experienced, not that he is the caring type himself; she just cares about him and wants to make him as proud as she can, which is mostly why she goes along with this 'criminal' thing.)

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?
 * 1) A signet ring bearing the Romanov family crest - her family is her first identity, her heart and soul, and she doesn't know what she will do if that small fact ever changes.
 * 2) A picture of her older brother, who is a Black Parade member, and is essentially the only person in her life that she truly cares about.
 * 3) Her wand - the proof that she is a witch, and not one of those awful Muggles, or vampires.
 * 4) Her grandfather's silver dagger. He was prejudiced and he used it to kill werewolves, although she knows that story as "protecting himself from the werewolves."
 * 5) The key to her Gringotts vault. Money. 

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


 * The fact that the British ministry is currently run by a werewolf. It seems like a rash choice, and not only for the prejudiced reasons she was taught by her family and their many...unscrupulous associates.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why?
 * Clearly, the only house suitable for one of her status is Slytherin, in her mind; her worst nightmare is being Hufflepuff and discarded as one of "the rest."

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!)

"gimme love, give me dreams, give me a good self-esteem."


 * Apollinariya Romanova lost her sense of self a long time ago. You could say she never had it.


 * Her life has been spent catering to expectations, demands, and commands from the people who call themselves her parents but don't stand up to the role. The only love Apollinariya has ever felt from her parents is cold; that is, cold, hard, cash and coins against her palms. Gifts and presents and holidays can only carry you so far. But she's managed to fool herself into thinking this loveless existence is okay, because she'll never want for anything. Butlers bring her food whenever she wants.


 * Silently scarred but smiling away, because she has told herself she can't remember the things she has seen in her house. If she remembers them her night terrors will return and she'll find herself feeling guilty. Culpable. Her parents say what they're doing is right, her brother thinks they're right, so...they must be right. Her brain is WRONG and these feelings are STUPID. Put on a smirk and a nice dress and you will be just fine. Materialistic falseties distract her from a deep inherent sadness, a depression, that she carries deep within. So deep that she's nearly forgotten it in her quest to impress.


 * A false confidence in herself and her family that's so well-trained you'd think she wasn't falling to pieces waiting for someone to love her. Not someone who sees dark things in the middle of the night and has to fool herself every waking moment. She just needs somebody to reawaken her doubt, her capacity to care about people, and Miss Fire and Ice might actually care about someone. Her self-confidence is because she feels like the worst. Secretly she is so many things that her parents have told her is wrong.


 * She is perfect. She is her family's daughter. She has to be or they will cast her out.


 * Alone.


 * On the outside she's shallow and that doesn't show the canyon within. A constant conflict, a storm brewing inside with herself, and the only way she can unleash this is against others. Which, it so happens, happens to ally with the uncaring rich-bitch attitude she was trained in and learned from her mother. She'll do anything for anyone if she can come up with something that they've given her in return. The selfsame desire to control people lives deep in Apollinariya's bones, but truly, the one person she wants to control is the one person she cannot.


 * Herself.


 * Because she has sold herself to them.

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!)


 * Apollinariya Romanova is one of the 'Romanov dynasty', a Russian blood-supremacist family headed by matriarch and patriarch Roman Romanov (hehe) and Svetlana Romanova (nee Talnika, anglicised as Willow). Svetlana believed her family were far too liberal with their views on creatures' rights, and thus abandoned her past family and joined a new one that more suited her, by marrying Roman - she has never once met her seventeen nieces and nephews by her sister Anzhelika, although they both know plenty about the Romanov clan and would anyways want to keep their distance.


 * Her older brother has always been her greatest inspiration. From a young age they were taught the values of pure blood and to be wary of those who masqueraded as human but were not. A child raised like that was bound to be prejudiced, as well as the fact they were kept from Muggle and non pure-blood society in the Romanovs' mansion in a secluded, remote part of Russia. While they had major connections in the cities, their seclusion was to ensure they could get away with some of their more immoral endeavors.


 * Roman and Svetlana were some of the least law-abiding people you could meet. Your stereotypical rich family with connections that tries to manipulate and henceforth control everyone and everything around them and felt insecure if they couldn't control somebody. (So insecure, in fact, that they'd usually dispose of them.) Bribery with money, money laundering, you name it, the shady family had done it. But it made Apollinariya a rich girl, and she basically had everything she desired, so she couldn't complain.


 * She had been raised socialising with "the right people." She's been arranged to another Russian aristocrat family since she was born, too. Glassy manners to those who were friends or could benefit her, straight-up angel of darkness manipulative mean girl to those who could not. Her first magical sign came when she was three years old; she was always perfect, her parents' darling little girl, who grew up as she lived. Letting her parents do whatever they wanted as she, as a good girl should, turned a blind eye.


 * The girl has seen things. But she has trained herself not to see. Not to care. Not to be affected because if she was affected, this nightmarish reality would tear her to shreds from the inside.


 * Apollinariya was happy attending Koldovstvoretz. A good school with a good, appropriate circle of friends. Everything was fine until about a year ago, when she came along. Someone it seemed Apollinariya had been born to resent, the girl she would have to call 'Tatyana'.


 * She didn't belong in this family and Apollinariya was going to make sure she knew it - interrupting the livelihood she had with her older brother. Of course she knew who the girl was, she had to know, her parents couldn't hide it from her when they explained why Apollinariya would have to move to England. To England where a werewolf was in power and their creature-loving cousins lived. Needless to say she was not impressed, and she took out her bitterness on 'Taty.'


 * Apollinariya believes - no, knows - she is better than Hogwarts' mixed bunch. Because her "sister" was some kind of freak genius, they've ended up in the same year despite the other girl being her junior, something she resents. She has a talent for Quidditch - but that's not so becoming of a lady, is it? Her enjoyment of flying is one of her great secrets, but, being a Romanov, it is by no means her darkest.

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 Liana Liberato.

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!)


 * Pure-Blood

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

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)?


 * 4 / 2