Forum:Madeline Blake

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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: She's an excellent baker, and will definitely use that to bond with people (because cookies are the best way to make friends!). She's usually pretty happy and easy going, and will connect with people. Weaknesses: She buries all her negative feelings-- anger, sadness, fear... and she's probably a ticking time bomb in that respect. She's also a good liar... and while she doesn't like doing that... she will when she has to.'''

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?

'''Right now, she's twelve-going-on-thirteen. So make friends, get through school, and keep her parents job a secret. She's pretty scared that if someone found out, they'd try to take her away from her family, or put her parents away. So keeping that a secret is definitely a goal.'''

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

'''Baking, spending time with Bronwen and Aaron, and maybe her parents. She likes being around people and staying happy (which can sometimes be difficult with her parents, but if she's sufficiently distracted and happy about other things, she can ignore it and be fine).'''

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

Her measuring spoons (they get everything right the first try... lovely magic, isn't it?), an old blanket she always slept with (nostalgia, and it's warm and comfortable), a scarf she secretly stole from Bronwen (she loves her sister), a ring her Dad got her when she was little (she now wonders if he pried it off a dead body, but hey... it was a gift?), a house scarf (because House pride)

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

'''She knows it would probably never happen because it's so overly idealistic... but she'd change what she needed to to get her father to stop murdering people. The fact that that's a thing is wrong, and while she knows that murder will probably always exist... if she could get rid of it, she would in a heartbeat.'''

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

'''I kind of see her as a Slytherpuff? I'd love to see her swing Puff, though. But she'd probably want Slytherin, to be with her sister, so I don't know. :P'''

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!)

'''Madeline Blake is a softy, on the inside. She makes friends fairly easily, and she cares and feels things deeply. Despite this, if she had to... she could lie her way out of any situation (a trait she inherited from both her parents); she does this frequently when asked about her parents. She buries everything... after she witnessed her father murder someone... it made her see the world in a slightly different way. How much does everyone hide? And maybe she should also hide things? She'll freely share good things about herself, but she'll shove down bad days, and anger, and fear. Since she never mastered the fake smile... she distances herself from everyone when she's feelings those things until she feels better. She hasn't had any bad moments where she's snapped.... yet. The one thing Mady loves to do is bake. She's got a killer sweet tooth, and can usually be seen munching on a licorice wand, or making some pumpkin pasties. She's gotten fairly good, and has started experimenting with different ideas and flavors. '''

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!)

'''Kristopher Blake and Ivory Henderson... it was a somewhat murderous love affair... that is to say Ivory, known as the White Blade, was an assassin and Kristopher Blake, a man of street deals and a moral compass that pointed anywhere but north, fell in love with each other. Despite their love for each other, Kris had commitment issues, borne of mourning the true love he'd lost, the American beauty Bronwen Rhodes. Ivory, a no-nonsense sort of woman, ended up giving Kristopher an ultimatum: Take me, or leave me. So, he took her, and the couple wed. When Ivory found she was pregnant for the first time, this time it was Kristopher who delivered the ultimatum. As lucrative as assassinations were... Kris wanted to give their child a fighting chance. He asked Ivory to hang up the business (one that he'd continue himself), in favor of being a mother. The White Blade became Ivory, mother to Bronwen (a name she still doesn't know the origin of.) A few years later, Kris and Ivory's family grew by a second child, a boy they called Aaron. And two years after that, their youngest, Madeline Hope, (named for Bronwen's best friend) was born. The Blake children were supposed to grow up in the dark about what their father did for a living. But... sometimes work follows you home. Madeline was eight when she'd woken up in the middle of the night. She'd have just rolled over to go back to sleep... but Bronwen wasn't in the bed next to her, like she normally would've been... and Mady heard voices. Who could be visiting their parents at this hour? She'd crept down the hallway and stopped just behind her older sister as she watched the scene in the kitchen unfold. Presumably a client of her father's had come to inquire to why the job wasn't finished yet. Angry that the man had followed him home, Madeline watched, wide-eyed and terrified, her father snap that man's neck. She doesn't remember making noise, but she must have emitted some kind of gasp, because Bronwen turned around... and her relationship with Bronwen changed after that. Growing up, she knew she was magic, so it wasn't a surprise to her when her magic showed signs around age six. Things did get lonely the last two years before she started school... at home without siblings, and mildly afraid of what her parents must do. She never told anyone about what she saw Kris do, and when people at school ask what her parents do for a living, she merely says she doesn't understand it-- because she doesn't. '''

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!

Stefania (LaVie) Owen

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? Half? I think Kris is Pure but idk what Ivory is. :P But she's got magic on both sides, no notable relations. '''

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!)

Nope!

6) What year is your character in?

2nd

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)?

13, 1 expansion, 0 exotics