Forum:Ella Blackbourne

16:29, October 2, 2015 (UTC)

1) Give a history of your character. History must be at least two paragraphs long. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc.

Genevieve and Xander Blackbourne were a perfectly normal muggle couple. Straight as rods, businesspeople, Christian, relatively well-off, proud parents of a four-year old son.

Genevieve gave birth to a second child a few weeks after their eldest son (named Xander after his father) turned four. They planned to call him Calvin. And then he was female. They let Xander Jr name the newborn, and he decided that Nutella would be a wonderful name for his little baby sister. The recipient of this name disagrees. For some reason, Genevieve and Xander decided that Nutella was an acceptable name for their daughter, completely disregarding the fact that she'd most likely be teased endlessly at school.

Ella attended school from the age of five, much like anyone else, and she was your typical bubbly child - she made plenty of friends, played bulldog in the playground until it got banned, then continued playing it under a different name, traded Moshi Monsters cards, treated the benches at the back of the assembly hall like the iron throne, covered her hands in PVA glue then peeled it off when it had dried, etcetera etcetera.

After she left primary school (and had the names of aLL the students and teachers and dinner ladies and PTA members on her polo shirt), Ella received her Hogwarts letter and began school, being sorted into Gryffindor. Her first year was fairly uneventful and she excelled at most subjects, though especially the more theoretical ones. She also endeavoured to keep up with basic English and Maths and Science and languages (okay, mainly Spanish, but still), since she wasn't entirely ready to give up all 'conventional' schooling.

The summer after second year, Genevieve Blackbourne accompanied Ella alone to Diagon Alley, and they had a great time. That was until they took a wrong turn, ended up in Knockturn Alley, and got caught up in a mugging-kidnapping incident. And thus Genevieve and Nutella Blackbourne disappeared.

The idea the kidnappers - a group of wealthy young dark wizards - had was to attempt to create a 'human time turner' out of Genevieve, whom they assumed was a witch. Ella was there only for insurance. That was until her mother died during the experiments and the kidnappers finally realised she was, in fact, a muggle. And then they turned their attentions to Ella, who they knew for a fact was a witch.

Their experiments on Ella didn't go exactly to plan, but she was close enough to what they'd wanted to be useful. Naturally, they taught her things - how to go unseen, how to lie through her teeth, how to steal and pick locks and other things. They didn't get to make her use these newfound skills for long, however, because she picked the locks, stole her wand back and disappeared just before her fourteenth birthday. Naturally, she found her way to the ministry and brought the force of the aurors down on the kidnappers as "human traffickers". Moral of the story: don't teach teenage girls how to pick locks and lie convincingly.

Ella returned to school for her fourth year, and kept up with the work only because she'd had a sort-of tutor for the past two years. As was to be expected, she'd found a sudden talent in History of Magic. In her fifth year, her father remarried to a witch named Eleanor who had her own children, Freya and David, and life at home took on a semblance of normality again. Eleanor she strongly disliked, because she was so different from her real mother, being strict and uptight, with practically no personality. Not motherly in the slightest. She pitied Freya and David that.

Upon graduation, Ella became History of Magic professor at Durmstrang until she was 24, when she was offered a position at Hogwarts. Naturally, she took the opportunity immediately.

2) Give a description of your character's personality. Personality must be at least one paragraph long. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or humble?

Overall, Ella is a happy individual and often described as the "cool" teacher. Because she's the coolest-est. She's rather unpredictable in the eyes of most, and whilst she's fully capable of thinking on her feet this is extremely far from the truth. She likes to have a solid plan, and feels on edge whenever she doesn't know exactly what's going on. She'll often crack a joke, good or not so good, in class, or share little anecdotes to make the usually boring subject interesting - she knows exactly how to stop her students from being bored. She's extremely clumsy, and has the ability to trip over thin air.

3) Are you Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!)

Muggleborn

4) 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 likes? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have an "exotic" characters as your first two characters!)

Human Time-Turner. Sort of. Approved by both CK and Lyss.

5) Describe your character's profession. Do you plan to enroll your character into the Ministry of Magic? Does your character not work? Is your character a teacher?

History of Magic Professor, hopefully.

6) Describe your character's marital status. Is your character single or married? What is the spouse's name? Any kids?

Single af.

OPTIONAL: If you want your character Sorted into a House, then please fill out this section as well.

Please Bold Your Choices

1) There are three paths. One leads to a wandering road, another to a lake, and one over a mountain. Which one?

A) None of them, I'm at home reading.

B) Lake

C) Mountain

D) Road

2) Which type of spell is most useful?

A) A Complex Spell

B) A Spell Of Control

C) A Combat Spell

D) A Healing Spell

3) How would you describe yourself?

A) Wise

B) Cunning

C) Hard-working

D) Loyal

4) Someone infuriates you in public. How do you react?

A) Shrug it off.

B) Tell them that they are worthless and to get a life, infuriate them, push them, and storm off.

C) Get up, look at them right in the eye, and walk away like it never happened.

D) They are just joking around.

5) What is most important to you?

A) Grades.

B) Getting your way.

C) Life.

D) Friends and family.

Any House You DO NOT Want to Be In? (No Promises, Sorry)

Any House You REALLY Want to Be In? (Sorry, Again, No Promises)

Gryffindor.

Out of Character Questions (These do not affect which House you'll be sorted into)

1. How much time will you have to participate on this RP site? (This does not affect which House you'll be sorted into).


 * A) I have a lot of other responsibilities, and although I really want to be a part of this wiki, there may be days on end I won't be able to participate in anything.


 * B) Although I do have some other responsibilities, and there may be times I'll be absent, I should be able to participate on a weekly basis, around my other schedule.


 * C) I should be able to participate at least some every day.


 * D) I have loads of free time, and don't see participation to be a problem at all.

2. Is this your first character?


 * A) This is my first character


 * B) This is NOT my first character.

3. If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic"?

8 major, 1 inactive, 2 exotic.

4. Please post your time zone in relation with the UTC time zone (ex. Eastern Standard Time is -4), but if you don't understand how to calculate that then please simply put the name of your time zone below. BST