Forum:Circe Elder

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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:


 * 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.

Circe is... odd. She has a multitude of strange habits, mostly down to the superstitiousness hammered into her by her mother and aunts. It's not uncommon to see her throwing salt over her shoulder in the great hall, or chasing after falling leaves in the autumn. She's been known to talk to herself under her breath, and this has tended to gain her a bit of a reputation within her house as crazy. Against all expectations, though, she's never been bullied for it. Quite the contrary - many of her housemates seem to find it endearing.

Raised in a house full of seers, and a clairvoyant herself, Circe is understandably observant. She's very difficult to lie to, given her gift, and she has a very high EQ - she finds it easy to imagine herself in another's shoes, so she's prone to just giving people the benefit of the doubt in arguments. These qualities enable her to empathise with others, and therefore she's often seen as the friend to come to in a time of crisis.

Circe is reliable, in her own way. She's good at keeping a level head in a crisis, and she's very loyal to her friends. Sharing is a big thing in her household, what with so many women living in close quarters, so she learnt to work in a team early on. Don't let her usual calm, slightly disorganised self fool you, though: Circe is a force to be reckoned with when someone gets on her bad side. Armed with a fiery temper and a lot of sisters, she's not really a person to mess with.

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.

Persephone Elder was always an odd child. Born to two barristers, she took an interest in books very early on, as she was an only child and generally looked after by nannies and childminders rather than her very busy parents. Losing herself in a world of fantasy, filled with dwarves and elves and spells, Persephone didn't see it as odd when her dreams started coming true. Her nannies, having long since decided that Persephone was a unique child, didn't see it as odd when she occasionally went into a trance, spouting nonsense. Her parents didn't know, because they only really saw her to tuck her in at night.

Persephone received her Hogwarts letter like everyone else, by owl only a month past her eleventh birthday. It was all her dreams come true: she was a witch! A real-life, honest-to-God (Merlin?) witch! Her parents were exceedingly skeptical, but after a visit from a professor they let her go without much resistance. After all, they had already planned on sending her to boarding school, and it wasn't like anywhere else could teach her the skills she'd need in her new world.

For Persephone, Hogwarts was a whirlwind. Sorted into Hufflepuff, she gathered a wide group of friends in her own year, but she met her true best friend in second year. Maura was her name, and she was a seer like Persephone, a seventh year Ravenclaw. It was from Maura that Persephone really learnt many of the methods of divination: tarot cards, crystal balls, tea leaves. Upon graduation, having kept up a correspondence with Maura throughout school, Persephone was introduced to Maura's friend Calla, who was well into her thirties. The trio became fast friends, and soon moved in together to start their own psychic business.

The business was a resounding success. Three legitimate seers, working together? People flooded in to get tarot readings in the women's sitting room or to take part in a seance round the kitchen table. Persephone loved it. It was personal, and so tailored to her own personality, and it paid the bills! The customers were occasionally problematic, and always always odd, but generally it was pleasant. And then one particular customer came in: Ronan.

We call him Ronan because we're not certain of his surname. You see, he originally gave the seers the name Tom Smith (yeah, basic), but his relationship with Persephone was whirlwind and eventually, after the birth of their first daughter, he told her his true first name: Ronan. He'd been hiding from his older employers, you see, having stolen money from some crime lord and gone on the run. Eight years and four more daughters later, Ronan vanished. To this day Persephone doesn't know exactly what happened to him, but the cards tell her he's not dead so she'll take it.

Circe Elder grew up in a house full of seers, minus one father, surrounded by magic and people and strangeness. It was all something she delighted in, as a child. Nobody at her muggle primary school had such a unique family, and nobody at school had wand-wielding mothers and aunts and sisters. Or at least, that's what she assumes: she never quite broke the Statute of Secrecy that badly, thank Merlin. Regardless, Circe's childhood was the very opposite of her mother's.

Circe encountered one problem growing up: she didn't have the Sight. She memorised the meanings of the cards, the symbols in the tea leaves, but none of it came naturally to her. She didn't get visions like her sisters or speak prophecies over dinner, and the few things she did predict using her cards were often completely wrong. Overall, Circe was a shit seer. There were a few things she could do though, things that were completely hers: she just knew things about people and objects and places and events, without ever being told anything. Her mother and aunts knew what it was immediately, of course - Circe wasn't a seer, she was a clairvoyant.

That's maybe the only reason Circe didn't grow up resenting her sisters. She had something of her own, and it was a lot of use to her family - after all, it's easier to predict something if you know a bit about the client. Helps you focus. Circe's first sign of actual magic, though, came when she was eight and she made a client who was being uncooperative after turning over a death card (it means chANGE, how many times does this have to be said?) float right out of the window and into the busy street. He almost got hit by a car, but it was all fine eventually. The obliviators took care of everything.

Circe's Hogwarts letter finally came when she was eleven, and needless to say she was ecstatic. She'd always been incredibly excited to start her magical education - it was one more step towards her ultimate goal: become a world-renowned wandmaker. It's incredible, really, how much you can tell about a person just from a wand. But that's for another day.

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!

Tashi Rodriguez

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

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!)

She's a clairvoyant.

6) What year is your character in?

Third

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"?

Seven (5 active, 2 inactive), none exotic

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

Her whole clairvoyance thing, for one. They'd probably also mention how good she is at solving other people's problems - she's not quite the mum friend, but maybe the therapist friend? And of course they'd mention her wandlore obsession.

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?

She would hate to work in an office, or doing anything repetitive. Ideally, she wants something magical and ever-changing, like her mother's job.

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

Not much, really, aside from her own personal interest in things. Oh, and a desire for adventure instilled in her by her fantasy book-loving mother.

6) Where does your character's weaknesses lie?

She's odd, and that can make it seem like she's incompetent. She's all over the place mentally - I wouldn't want to be the person who tries to read her mind. Probably would get lost in there and die. Finally, her temper has been known to get away from her, however calm she usually is, and it can make her brash.

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

Cedar: there's an old saying, you will never fool the cedar carrier. That very much applies to Circe. Phoenix Feather: shows initiative, and tends to act of its own accord.