Post by Melisande De La Rosa on Jul 5, 2012 16:00:21 GMT -5
STUDENT APP
BASICS.
Name: Melisande Isadora De La Rosa
Nickname / Alias: Mel, Melly
Age: 12
Gender: Female
PERSONALITY.
General Personality:
On the surface, Mel may pretend to be bubbly, friendly and perky, but truly, Melisande is aloof, cold, and distant. Her façade of exuberance allows her to operate among others more easily than being openly haughty would. She cares little for others, seeing them only as tools to be used to achieve her own ends (and thus, what good would tools be if you lack the skills to use them?). She has an intense interest in studying and exploring the world around her, not for the pure love of scholarship, as many of her housemates might feel, but as a means to gain power and influence. Her abiding love of history comes because she truly believes the maxim that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. She has also shown significant skill with transfiguration, which may or may not be related to her natural-born ability as a metamorphmagus.
Melisande shows little affinity for DADA, or anything that requires more co-ordination than is required to walk and talk at the same time. She is physically weak, and dismisses physical pursuits, like sports, as a waste of time. Her potion work is adequate, as she can easily follow given instructions, but she lacks the imagination and creative drive to make them more than mediocre.
APPEARANCE.
Melisande is average height and weight for her age. Though she has the ability to change her appearance at will, she prefers to have blue eyes and long, straight, blue hair. She has spent a little time investigating the limits of her ability, but, for the most part, she has treated it with no special interest. She views her ability as nothing more than a peculiar talent.
DETAILS.
House: Ravenclaw
Year: Second
Wand: Ash with a core of demiguise hair and fairy wings. Firm. 7 ¾ inches. This wand is strong, tenacious and precise, though it is cold, and not very flexible. This wand speaks to its owner’s interest in history, as well as their analytical abilities. Good for transfigurations, charms and constructive workings in general. It is suitable for the darker arts, especially when used for body and/or mind imprisonment or when depriving a victim of their free will. Chaos-inducing curses, hexes or jinxes are unsuitable for this wand.
Companion / Pet: None.
HISTORY.
General: Melisande is a half-blood witch. Her mother, a muggle, died when Mel was a small child. She was subsequently raised by her aging wizard father. She has no brothers or sisters, and was quite spoiled by her father when she was young. Her father is a magizoologist, and taught his daughter to look at and examine the world through the eyes of a naturalist. This, coupled with his staid demeanor, made Melisande into a serious, though polite, child. Other adults, who cooed and fussed over Melisande’s misfortune, and who gave her special treatment because of her precociousness, taught Melisande the value of cultivating a certain amount of charisma, although she mostly found their attentions cloying and irksome despite the benefits. Still, she realizes that it is better to please people when you can, rather than risk alienating someone who might prove useful at some later date.
Melisande’s primary education was attended to by her father as well as a tutor. Whenever her father had to travel for his work, she was placed in the care of her Tia Elena, her father’s younger sister. Tia Elena owns a robe shop, and still loves to make outfits for her niece to wear. Melisande does not mind the fact that her aunt’s creations are more fit for a girl of six than one of thirteen, as she has little interest in being fashionable, and the dresses help to enhance her carefully maintained pretense of the charming, demure scholar’s daughter.
Place of Birth: Alanis, Seville, Spain
Prior Education: Firefox University with home-schooling before.
FAMILY / RELATIONSHIPS.
IF SIGNIFICANT.
Parents / Guardians: Lucia Maria Reyes (Deceased) (Muggle) (would be 58, died at age 47); Fernando Gaspar De La Rosa (Living) (Half-Blood) (63)
Siblings: None
Other relatives of significance: Elena Galvez-Aunt (Half-Blood) (60)
Optional, add on to as you go.
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