Forum:Nadezhda Nikolova



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: humourous, cunning, loving


 * weaknesses: carefree, rash, flirtatious

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?


 * To basically just have fun, that's the only goal she has, because it allows her to truly be free, as well as to keep her family's reputation.

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


 * A day spent outside buying ice cream and other such things that a) don't last long, b) she doesn't necessarily need. Not for any real reason - she doesn't need a reason to do things.

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?
 * 1) Her wand.
 * 2) A picture of her and her siblings.
 * 3) A Bulgarian to English dictionary just in case she should ever slip up.
 * 4) Headphones.
 * 5) Her broom.

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


 * The representation of Durmstrang in the wizarding society; as a dark school, which it mostly isn't - she might have essentially been kicked out of the school, but it's really not.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why?
 * Probably Slytherin - if only to impress her family.

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!)


 * Nadezhda is the kind of girl who will stand up for herself any way she knows how, no matter how unorthodox said method could be. She has been taught to nearly always prioritise herself and how to manipulate the best out of every situation for herself, although this does not extend to betraying those she might consider friends.  Nadya stubbornly stands up for her honour as she has been taught by her family.


 * While cunning and very secretive indeed, and with a careful way of speaking that tends to reveal little, she is secretly very vulnerable and loving as well as the kind of girl who really, honestly, just wants to have a good time. She takes advantage of her money, you can't say that she doesn't, mostly to buy things she will never need.


 * Things she does not react well to include authority, and not getting her own way. Being told what to do is one thing she will not stand for, she is her own individual. She lives her life selfishly, she likes to say, without thinking about how her carefree life when it comes to experience will affect others. But when you become her friend, she will shade your enemies and is guaranteed to hate them too. (She will do anything to bring them down.)



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!)


 * Nadezhda Nikolova is the third-born daughter of pure-blood Bulgarian family, the Nikolovs; born into riches, you'd expect her to be a brat, but surprisingly that is one thing she never was. Because she never had to handle the expectations borne on her older brother and sister to succeed, but neither did she receive the favouritism of those who were younger. Nadezhda literally went through life in a fairly normal fashion, except with a carefully selected pool of "friends" who she tended to stray from. All of them were wizards, and she was mostly kept out of touch with any kind of muggle community, not because they were muggle-phobic but more because they fiercely believed in keeping the Statute of Secrecy, and they could not trust a young child to keep the wizarding world's secrets on her carefree, breezy shoulders.


 * But if there was one thing young Nadezhda had a talent for, or Nadya as she came to be called, it was breaking rules her parents placed down for her. One night she snuck out to see what the Muggles were truly like and not through the somewhat rose-tinted picture her family had painted for her. It was on this night that she formed a fateful friendship with a Muggle boy, who she would continue to be friends with. Her first sign of magic was saving him from an oncoming car, which was thankfully something they could hastily cover up, and Nadya was once again withdrawn and lectured on the whole concept of the Statute.


 * Nadya received her acceptance letter to Durmstrang when she was eleven years old, and sure off she went. Her education went smoothly enough, although some of the classes and personalities there tended to concern her. This continued to go smoothly throughout the year, and she became successful at Quidditch amongst other extracurricular activities, mostly because she provided "sponsorship" through her parents' money. However, in the end of her fourth year, something happened.


 * That "something" being her getting into several fights with other students after they bullied a group of others for being half-blood. Her parents' money paid the school off enough to not expel her, so she could continue to study magic - but she was as such 'permanently excluded.' They moved to England, at which point she met Gryffindor student Mason Brown. When she told him her story, he told her she'd have done the same, and over a fast summer they became friends, and then...more than that.


 * This year she hopes to attend Hogwarts.

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 Anja Cihoric.

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!)


 * Nope.

6) What year is your character in?


 * Fifth.

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)?
 * 9/2