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PaintedRed Sig1PaintedRed Sig2 15:50, August 11, 2020 (UTC)

The Sorting Quiz

A. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please italicize the answer.)


1. What are you looking forward to learning at Hogwarts the most?

A. Transfiguration
B. Magical Creatures
C. Hexes & Jinxes
D. The castle's secret areas


2. Pick one:

A. Stars
B. Moon


3. If flowers adapted their scent to attract the unwary, what would it smell of in order to lure you in?

A. Parchment
B. Freshly baked bread
C. A crackling log fire
D. The Sea


4. Pick one:

A. Dawn
B. Dusk


5. Four boxes are placed before you. Which one do you open?

A. The ornate one, promising secret knowledge and unbearable temptation
B. The small, tortoiseshell box, embellished in gold, with a small, squeaking creature
C. The small, pewter box that reads "I only open for the worthy"
D. The gleaming black box marked with Merlin's rune


6. Pick one:

A. White
B. Black


7. What road tempts you the most?

A. The cobbled street lined with ancient buildings
B. The wide, sunny, grassy lane
C. The twisting, leaf-strewn path through woods
D. The narrow, dark, lantern-lit alley


8. Pick one:

A. Forest
B. River


9. What scares you most?

A. Speaking in such a silly voice, people will laugh at you and mock you
B. Waking up and realizing your family & friends don't know you
C. An eye at the keyhole of the dark, windowless room where you're locked
D. Standing on top of something high, without anything to stop you from falling


10. It's late, you're walking alone, and hear a peculiar cry you believe has a magical source. What do you do?

A. Wait for developments, while mentally reviewing the most appropriate spells
B. Draw your wand & stand your ground
C. Draw your wand & search for the source
D. Proceed with caution, keep a hand on the concealed wand, and keep an eye out



The Character's Background

Please Note: You can write either the first or second question in a bullet point form. However, please remember only one of them can be in that form. The other must be in full sentences and meet the required length.

1) Give a description of your character's personality. It must be at least seven sentences.

Nova must always be the center of attention, or she will die from the lack of praise. Ever since she was younger, she never coped well with having to share the spotlight. She's a total show-off; when it was someone else's turn to receive praise she'd butt in and do something more impressive. Her entire personality growing up revolved around being the favorite child, and this carried over to her time in Hogwarts. Despite this popularity, Nova has the tendency to be rather mean, and often finds fun in terrorizing other students (mostly just to show off her powers) or talking about people behind their backs.

The fact that the attention she seeks is always given to her has done nothing to help her ego, either. Nova is extremely arrogant and never backs down from a challenge at the risk of having to admit she can't do something. Her pride is her ultimate downfall – she is too headstrong and stubborn, and it is hard to convince her out of something once her mind is set. She will obsess over something until she has managed to best it because she will never let something get the better of her.

As of late though, Nova's fiery spirit has been a bit... dulled. After her transition to a dhampir, she has found herself at a bit of an impasse where everything she was once passionate about are now things she can no longer do. Her dream was to do professional Quidditch but she can no longer be in the sun without irritating consequences, she used to love showing off her light nymph powers but they've all been lost... This had led her to become reckless and hedonistic in her actions. She's extremely unmotivated nowadays and doesn't quite see the point in trying anything anymore.

Despite this onslaught of negative traits, it can be said though that one thing admirable about Nova is her fighting spirit. She is brave and daring and would sooner die than be called a coward.


2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? It must be at least two paragraphs long, seven sentences each.

Nova was born to a light nymph mother and a wizard father. She was the middle in a family of five children, but never quite suffered from middle child syndrome considering she was an absolute prodigy growing up. Her first sign of magic came as early as four-years-old, as her entire body used to glow whenever she needed something from her parents. This pleased her mother, Annisa, immensely. Obsessed with the idea of having such a powerful daughter, Annisa began training her immediately and neglected her other children. Nova was the obvious favorite and she always got what she wanted; it was continuously drilled into her head that she was the best and that she had powerful abilities like no other before her.

Things kind of got to her head and she started abusing these powers. She had fun "torturing" her siblings by doing small things like temporarily blinding them or using her light nymph powers to set off small explosions or give them slight burns. Her father was concerned about this behavior, but her mother only encouraged it, reasoning that Nova needed an outlet for her talents and that everything was only being done for fun anyway. This resulted in a rift between Nova and the rest of her siblings, not that she cared very much. As long as she was mama's favorite, nothing else mattered.

At the age of eleven, she received her Hogwarts letter and began her education there. She was sorted into ______ and quickly established herself as one of the it-girls in her year. As a light nymph, she loved the attention. As time went on, she ended up joining her house's Quidditch team as seeker, drawing energy from the sun every game – she was unbeatable and this only added to her stellar reputation. She'd use her light nymph powers to her advantage as well in her classes, maintaining above average grades. However, as time progressed this popularity got to her head and she ended up becoming rather mean to her fellow students. She wanted to make it clear that nobody could cross her, that she was too powerful for them to even try.

While Nova had many 'friends' at Hogwarts, she only had a few that she considered real ones. There was Az Cagan in the year below her, a little brother figure she grew attached to after playing on the team together. The other was Bunny Copeland, a girl in her year who was her go-to partner for everything. However, she suffered a huge falling out with the latter at fifteen. Bunny started having feelings for this girl who Nova found... less than worthy of her affection. Jealous and unwilling to share her best friend with someone who Nova was sure wasn't good for her, Nova jumped at the chance to get her out of the possible relationship when Bunny's extremely conservative parents asked her if she knew anything about Bunny's relationship with the girl. Nova, convinced she was doing the right thing, ended up outing Bunny in the process. The two of them haven't talked since.

Nova returned to Hogwarts for her sixth year with an even more sour attitude, having lost a best friend and unwilling to take shit from anyone. She dove into Quidditch and into her training as a light nymph, and eventually her arrogance was her downfall. Over Christmas break of sixth year, her parents asked her to go with them to pick up something in Knockturn Alley. Feeling overconfident, she decided to venture there by herself and was attacked by a vampire in a dark passageway. She was able to use the last bit of her powers to prevent the full transition process – she was injected with the vampire's venom but didn't drink any vampire blood. She was left for dead in the alley for nine hours before finally being found by some aurors on patrol, and was brought to St. Mungo's. However, the venom had spread and her transition to dhampir was complete.

She lost all her light nymph powers in the process. Deeply ashamed, she refused to return to Hogwarts and isolated herself at home. She was no longer the favorite and her siblings, after years of ridicule, all ganged up on her as they celebrated her downfall. It doesn't help that dhampirs don't mix well with light, either. She lost her passion for Quidditch even if it was her dream to play pro because being out in the sun was bothersome, and she spent her days obsessing over how to reverse the transition to no avail. Her mother eventually found a new favorite in her younger sister, Mentari, and Nova got so jealous at the feeling of being replaced that every night she would sneak into Mentari's room and bite her wrist until the fourteen-year-old developed an addiction to vampire venom. She kept this up for a month before stopping completely, and her sister underwent withdrawal symptoms that put her training on pause. Her family doesn't know to this day.

Nova never returned for the rest of her sixth year, but eventually completed what was left of the syllabus over the summer with the help of Kwikspell tutoring. Now, she's returning to Hogwarts for her seventh year, unsure of how she's going to navigate her last year at Hogwarts with her new condition.


3) Write about your character's appearance. What do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? Please include both model name and picture!


Nova Gif 1


Nova's model is Niki Zefanya.

Being 5'4", you can often find Nova in heels that probably don't follow the Hogwarts school dress code, not like she cares. She has long dark hair, her favorite thing about her appearance, and her face seems to be set in a permanent scowl, like she's stuck in a perpetual state of annoyance. She's very particular about what she wears and wouldn't be caught dead in something "unfashionable". She's very skilled at applying make-up, and prides herself on being able to perfectly wing her eyeliner without fail every single time.


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 characters from the Harry Potter Universe!) Half-nymph, technically, without the powers.

5) Does your character have any special abilities? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of a magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!) Nova is a dhampir. She used to be part light nymph, but lost all those abilities when she was turned.

6) What year is your character in? Seventh.

7) The Sorting Hat has been known to take house preference into consideration. If your character could select one house they believe they are best suited for, what would it be and why? Gryffindor, definitely. She's extremely stubborn and has a lot of pride. She never backs down from a challenge and she likes to think she's very brave.


OOC Questions


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"? If you do have exotic characters, please list both the name and the type of exotic. Remember you are only allowed one of each type with the exception of nymphs. I have eleven others, with three exotics (a part-veela, a seer, and a metamorphmagus).


Comments[]

Gryffindor crest The Sorting Hat has placed Novita Sriyata into Gryffindor!


"You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart."

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