User:Rabbitty/Sandbox

'''Hi. These are kind of my character development notes. You're welcome to read them, but remember: they're notes, and are not written with British spelling, so please don't judge me.'''

Talk-bubbles

http://dumbledoresarmyroleplay.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Emoticons

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_wizarding_terms_in_translations_of_Harry_Potter

http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/english_united_kingdom_spell_checker.html

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm

here, here, here, here, or on this website

http://translate.google.com/

Charrie Page Layout

 * History
 * Personality
 * Appearance
 * Unique to character
 * Possessions
 * Pets (if any)
 * Relationships
 * Spells (550px)
 * Facts

Patronuses
"[A] guardian which generally takes the shape of the animal with whom they share the deepest affinity. You may suspect, but you will never truly know what form your Patronus will take until you succeed in conjuring it."

Mirror of Eriseds
"It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."

Middle Names

 * Celesta's middle name is Bellona.
 * Alexandria doesn't have a middle name. The note just said her first name was Alexandria, and she got her surname from where she was found.
 * Nevaeh has no middle, like most Greek people.
 * Linaeke's middle name is Nutell.
 * Travis's middle name is Athanasios.

Classes

 * Potions
 * Herbology
 * Defence Against the Dark Arts (DAtDA)
 * Transfiguration
 * History of Magic (HoM)
 * Astronomy
 * Charms

Pets
Linaeke's falcon Jacy.

Nevaeh and Heaven share a owl, Adelpha (Αδελφά), that their parents got them when for Hogwarts, so they can write home. Xander (Ξανδερ) the kneazle. Pure kneazle, because cats are like muggle kneazles.

Clover (Full name:Clover Eleq Starr) the hedgehog is Celesta's.

Celesta
Relatives of Her Biological Family:

Gruffudd Black, Ferlen Black & Karith Black (first cousins; her dad's brothers' children)

Barant Black & Orion Black (uncles; her dad's brothers)

Levista Black & Elizabeth Black (aunts by marriage; her dad's brothers' wives)

Emeric "Dev" Deverill (Third or fourth cousins on her mum's side of the family; he is her maternal great-great-(great-)grandparents's great-great-(great-)grandchild, just like she is.)

Sascha Guthrie (On Celesta's bio mum's side of the family)

Laela Hammond (On Celesta's bio mum's side of the family)

Nevaeh
Great-great-great-grandmother veela. Straight up the mother-daughter line, making Heaven and Nevaeh 1/32 or 3.125% veela, Gaiane 6.25% or 1/16 (although she doesn't really look it), and Evangelia 1/8 or 12.5%.

Travis
His grandmother's name was Beatrice. She was his father's mother. She was a Seer. Beatrice's mother, Cassandra, a Greek witch, and the granddaughter of another Seer.

Celesta
Flying: when she came to the Smalls' house at the age of 10, she found a broom shed with several broomsticks. After finding them, she taught herself to fly. She loved it, and spend most of the summer flying over the countryside. But even after all summer, she still loved it, as she does to this day.

Music: Celesta never though much about music, she always thought she wasn't a music person. But at the Smalls' house, there is a radio in the kitchen and it's almost always on, playing WWN. Celesta listened to it all, from Lisa Green to The Weird Sisters, and she found that she did like music after all. She's interested in learning to play the flute.

Oil lamps: lately Celesta has been very interested in oil lamps, especially ones made of brightly colored glass.

Photography:

Alexandria

 * Creating yet-to-be-created magic (true love potion, unaided flight spell, ect.)
 * Falconry

Nevaeh

 * Magic
 * Exploring
 * Quidditch

Linaeke

 * Magic
 * Falconry
 * Metalwork
 * Hunting

Travis

 * Potions

Celesta

 * Flying
 * Music
 * Animals/pets
 * Poetry
 * Crafts

Alexandria

 * Reading
 * Cooking
 * Playing outside and goofing off

Nevaeh

 * Magic
 * Exploring, looking, finding
 * Animals/pets
 * Quidditch

Linaeke

 * Hunting with Jacy

Travis

 * Potions

Quotes
Celesta:

-To trust is a big act. -Once Upon a Time

-I wonder who I'd be if the people I needed had stuck around. -Dance Academy

Alexandria:

-And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran

Nevaeh:

-[A]ngry and messed up and more than a little frightening. Frankly, no one does that as good as you. -Dance Academy

-Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell [with] the power of the family. -John H. Speke

-As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. -Solomon Ibn

-If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. -Isaac Hayes

Linaeke:

-Dealings between wizards and goblins have been fraught for centuries. . . I would never claim that wizards have been innocent. -Bill Weasley

People they met
I do my best to keep track of everyone. If you notice I missed one, please owl me. Thanks-

Heaven and Nevaeh - Χεαβεν και Νεβαεχ
A woman with child — twins, actually — sat in the blue courtyard, reading a baby-name book. She skimmed down the list of names-in-other-languages, looking for a name that would jump out at her. Then a pair caught her eye: Heaven ή Nevaeh. Curiously she flipped to the page at the beginning on the names-in-other-languages section, where several alphabets were listed. She looked at the English alphabet and slowly translated the names into her own language: Χεαβεν και Νεβαεχ. Intrigued, she went back to the page and read on: ''Heaven είναι η αγγλική λέξη για τον Ουρανό και Nevaeh είναι Heaven προς τα πίσω. Συχνά χρησιμοποιούνται ως ονόματα για τα δίδυμα αδελφές. (Heaven is the English word for Heaven and Nevaeh is Heaven'' backwards. Often used as names for twin sisters.)

“Heaven και Nevaeh. Χεαβεν και Νεβαεχ,” she said out loud. As she spoke, she felt a grin spread across her face. What sweet-sounding names! They didn’t sound all matchy, and each name featured different sounds. But they had a contention. The connection wasn’t too blatant, but it wasn’t so deeply hidden that it didn’t matter. And she had never heard of the names before, not around here. There wouldn’t be any other girls named Heaven or Nevaeh. They would be unique. And most importantly, the names plain sounded good to her ears. She reached for the quill and added them to the list of possible names: Χεαβεν Παπακωνσταντίνου και Νεβαεχ Παπακωνσταντίνου

Notes: ή is Greek for or, and και is Greek for and.

The End of Celesta Bellona Black
The door to the orphanage office opened, and two people stepped in: a man and a woman. They were tall, and regal-looking, with dark hair. They wore strange clothing: the man what seemed to be a sort of wizard robe, like one of staff had worn for Halloween the day before. He carried a tiny baby in his arms, who had the exact same blue eyes that he did. The woman leaned heavily on the man. Her long dark hair was dirty and knotted, and loosely tied back. She wore a long cloak of some sort. From the looks of her and the age of the baby, she couldn’t have given birth more than two days ago. But she had come, to drop off the infant, rather than send the man to do it himself.

The secretary looked up. "How can I help you?"

"We’ve come to drop off Celesta Bellona," he said.

“Ok, to surrender a baby, fill out this forum," the secretary said, and handed him a piece of paper.

The man handed the woman the little baby, and sat down awkwardly on the chair. He fiddled with the plastic ball-point pen, then read the forum. He quickly wrote something, then lay the paper on the desk. The woman handed him the baby. He took Celesta and lay her on the desk.

For a moment they both looked at the baby who lay wrapped in a white sheet and a woolen slate-coloured blanket. The room was mostly quiet: the secretary’s compute keys clicked as she typed something, and the noise coming from the other rooms of the orphanage was muted. They both looked down at the tiny infant, and if they felt sorry at all, they didn’t act upon. They both turned, and in a matter of seconds they were gone, the bell above the door chiming as the door fell closed.

The startled secretary picked up the forum. It was mostly blank. All it said was  Kim  under biological mother’s name,  Anthony  under biological father’s name,  October 30, 12:58 pm  under child’s date of birth and  Celesta  under child’s first name. Next to the first name line and before the blank surname line was a small handwritten note: Her middle name is Bellona.

The secretary stood and ran over to the door, ready to explain that they need these forum all the way filled out, her birth certificate, and a few more forums. But they were gone. Not a trace of them remained, and there was nowhere they could have gone that fast. No car tracks. Nothing. They had vanished.

Emmy
The day was wrapped in thick mist. The building on the other side of the yard was like a silhouette. Two girls sat high in the branches of a tree on the far side of the yard. Both wore worn hand-me-down jackets, warding off the damp cold. Neither girl looked much older than 6.

Emmy rubbed at her cold nose with the sleeve of her green jacket. Despite the cold her blue-grey eyes shone happily. She pushed a lock of her blond hair behind her ear.

Alexandria sat, her arm wrapped around one branch, her bare feet resting on the same branch she sat on. She wore a pair of grey sweatpants and a purple jacket and her brown hair fell loose about her face. Her big brown eyes sparkled with laughter she shook, giggling silently at something Emmy said.

Quick notes
Greek:

Mum = Mana (Μάνα)

Dad = Pateras (Πατέρας) when talking about him, Patera (Πατέρα) when talking to him

Grandma = Yiayia (Γιαγιά)

Grandpa = Pappous/Papou (Ππαππούς/Παππού)

Sister = adelfee (αδελφή)

Σύννεφο-Nimbus

Nevaeh Papakonstantinou = Νεβαεχ Παπακωνσταντίνου

Heaven Papakonstantinou = Χεαβεν Παπακωνσταντίνου

Alexandros Papakonstantinou = Αλεξανδρος Παπακωνσταντίνου

Gaiane Papakonstantinou = Γαιανη Παπακωνσταντίνου

Evangelia Georgiou = Ευαγγελια Γεωργίου

Iason Georgiou = Ιασων Γεωργίου

Adelpha = Αδελφά

Xander = Ξανδερ

Dymas = Δύμας

Rose = Τριαντάφυλλο

Lily = Κρίνος

Apollo = Απόλλων or Απέλλων Pandora = Πανδώρα Sybil =     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl Cleo = Κλειώ

Alexandria's mental list:

Find Emmy again

Go to the beach in the rain

Go to Alexandria (اسكندره) in Egypt

Fly free and unassisted