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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.
Abigaia is happy and positive, trying to light the way for everybody else around her. Trying to blind people from the negative reality of light, she sometimes appears naive. Her fake and depressed nature is hidden quite well, which can sometimes cause trust issues amongst her friends once they've discovered how well she was capable of hiding one of her biggest secrets: her depression.
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?
Abigaia has no goal to be genuinely happy, because she feels that she's seen too much to reach that goal. Goals are supposed to be achievable. Instead she wants to go into a field where she gets to help others. Maybe she can be a therapist or counselor.
3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so?
Abigaia likes scrapbooking and pressing flowers and leaves. It's a simple hobby, although the first is certainly an expensive one (no matter what other people tell you, it's not easy). It keeps her calm and focused while she takes time to herself, away from the stressful reality of school and homework.
4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?
Abigaia likes her wand and an album she made of photos from when her and all of her siblings were younger. The latter is not something she necessarily needs, but she wants. It took a lot of time making it. Her wand just seems like a necessity to help survive and thrive in the magical environment.
5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why?
Nothing, she supposes. Abigaia knows that the magical world is quite progressive, which she wants to appreciate, but can't get herself to due to shyness and her own personal struggles. Some Muggle things like giving special titles to year groups or having annual dances, like in American high schools, would be cool, but nothing to fuss over.
6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why?
Abigaia would want Slytherin, to keep her family happy. With Oliver in Hufflepuff, she wouldn't mind following after him to be close to him. He's like the only sane member of the household anyways.
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.
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!)
Abigaia is a happy, gay thirteen year old girl. Everything from cloud watching to exam studying is fun for her. Her giggly nature attracts others, normally making people feel fluffy and happy themselves, like she supposedly does herself. It's clear that Abigaia is an optimistic person, believing in and cheering on the best of everything and everyone. Promoting good thoughts is something that Earth needs quite a bit of, especially with such a self destructive society around them all. She loves all people, blessing them with hugs and compliments whenever she can.
While she's damn good at pretending otherwise, Abigaia is extremely aware that society is messed up. Not everything is perfect, which means people get hurt. However, she wants to distract herself and others from the inevitable thing called death, so that maybe they can spend their time fulfilling their lives. Following blindly behind people, she is known for picking up after her older siblings, who tend to be chaotic. It takes little effort to convince her that whatever people want her to do is the right thing, because she is naive and simple. Internally, she knows there's a line, because she knows some things hurt and scare people from what her eldest brother and sister have done in front of her in the past.
It's been clear that Abigaia has been emotionally disturbed for some time. By being often forgotten and neglected, she has developed abandonment and attachment issues with severe major depression. Seeing the things that her eldest brother has done, she has been scarred with trust issues towards males. It's certainly a good thing that she's a full blown homosexual teenager anyways. That's also something Abigaia has struggled with over her time, fearing her family's reaction towards her "untraditional lifestyle choices." It's a forbidden secret she would never utter to a soul and she would protect at all costs, which creates an internalized homophobia.
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!)
Abigaia Elizabeth Matthews is the youngest child of Shane Barnes and May Matthews, two criminals brought together from the life of Croatia. It had been a whirl of wild and romantic adventures with one another, before it had been brought down with the news of them expecting their first child. It's then that they patiently settled down in America, with Shane's wanted prize hanging above his head in several countries. It was the reason for the children taking their mother's surname over their father's. A few children later and Abigaia was born on September 8th, 2021.
Among her older siblings: Finley, Elaine, and Oliver, she is often looked over. Not very many people seem to be aware of her existence, despite always being present, because her siblings were always got more spotlight. It's really damaged her mentally, causing her to have extreme abandonment issues from an incredibly young age. Eventually, when she was ten years old, she started on the pathway towards major severe depression, which she never quite expressed to anybody. Even as it developed into self harming around her third year, nobody seemed to be aware of her crippling depression.
The Matthews-Barnes family lived in America for some time. Her siblings had all gotten the opportunity to attend Ilvermorny, but she was the only one that never got the chance to. A few months before she was scheduled to begin her first year of schooling, her oldest brother got expelled and her mother began searching for her long lost niece. It all took them over to Great Britain, where she would end up attending Hogwarts instead. All together, her and her three siblings were sorted into their houses, but Abigaia went to ___ while Finley and Elaine went to Slytherin and Oliver went to Hufflepuff.
Most of her time in Great Britain was spent hanging around her siblings and their friends from a distance, eating at her own table over a comic or a design sketchbook. Outside of school, she primarily stayed at an abandoned cottage in the middle of an old forest with her relatives and their friends, as well as their friends' family. While she made plenty of acquaintances around school and the cottage, she didn't make a single friend in two years, which broke her heart and her confidence. Life was pretty uneventful, except for her older brother and sister's ridiculous antics getting far too out of hand, perhaps being dragged to a salon or restaurant by somebody she wasn't fully familiar with. It became apparent that she really needed to start trying to get her life together, primarily for the sake of her own mental health.
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 model is Kiernan Shipka.
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!)
Abigaia is a 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?
Abigaia is a 3rd year.
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)?
8 Active / 2 Exotic / 1 Kid
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The Sorting Hat has placed Abigaia Matthews into Hufflepuff!
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