Post by Charlotte Artoise on Apr 5, 2009 5:00:42 GMT -5
Out of Character Information
Name/Alias: Bryony
Nicknames: Bry
Ways to Contact: Email me, or PM.
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Character Basics
First Name: Charlotte
Middle Name: Anne
Last Name: Artoise [neé Hunter]
Nicknames: Charlie, Char, Lottie
Age: Sixteen
Year: Sixth
House: Gryffindor
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Character Personality
General Personality [2+ PARAGRAPHS]:
In many ways, one might take the initial inspiration for describing the Artoise girl as a typical girl. But then, she’s apparently also like the stereotypical Gryffindor. Although the latter probably spirals from her immense house pride and qualities prized so by Gryffindor, that the Sorting Hat saw almost immediately where to place her. But if she were entirely the stereotypical Gryffindor, she wouldn’t be in the situation she currently was, seeing a Slytherin. A ‘proper’ Gryffindor would have been able to resist her hormones. Wouldn’t a ‘stereotypical’ Gryffindor know exactly who to avoid, exactly who was a ‘vile’ individual from their opposing house? While, this may be true, Charlotte Artoise takes extreme satisfaction in being able to call herself a Gryffindor. In her opinion, there is no better house to be placed in. Although she wouldn’t ever say it so simply to a student of one of the other three houses.
Her girly personality, while still visible, was perhaps more obvious a few years ago. She was a great person for gratifying the female typecast, taking joy in spending time with her fellow Gryffindor girls, forever talking about some random topic. Usually, the subject wasn’t ever what an outsider would call important, but each time, it felt like it was, to them. Mindless talking was something she was good at, along with attracting male attention. Being the ‘typical’ girly individual, she was talented at dealing with this attention in a way that usually benefited her – as most good-looking girls are. While she never copies this behaviour as firmly as she did previously, a substantial amount is still exposed on a daily basis. Despite showing girlish tendencies, Miss Artoise has a strong character, one that also leads her to show slightly vain and arrogant aspects of her personality on occasion. Of course, she never means to appear as arrogant as she might sometimes seem to be. She’s extremely confident with almost everything she does, believing there to be little opportunity to doubt yourself.
Grades were never exceedingly important to her, as she was a reasonable student in the majority of subjects, generally hitting grades such as ‘Exceeds Expectations’, with ‘Outstanding’ in Charms and Potions, Arithmancy was also a different matter, with her gaining a ‘Poor’, but she persuaded herself that Arithmancy was a pointless subject that nobody cared about in the real world. Currently, her exams matter slightly more, as she wants to succeed in her NEWTs and move away from judgemental people. Charlotte appears to be particularly talented with Charms and Potions, the second having nothing to do with sharing the class with Slytherins, of course.
Likes [10+]:
}} Summer
}} Gryffindors
}} Cepheus Malfoy
}} Appearance
}} Clothing
}} Chocolate
}} Watching Quidditch
}} Conversation
}} Boys
}} Shopping
}} Dancing
}} Charms
}} Flowers
}} Potions
}} Cats
}} Precision
}} Night
Dislikes[10+]:
}} Secrets
}} Bigotry
}} Lectures
}} Arithmancy
}} Birds
}} Flying
}} Restrictions
}} Helplessness
}} Making decisions
}} Smoking
}} Drunks
}} Insects
}} Boredom
}} Being insulted
}} Pain
}} Surprises
}} Not knowing who she is
}} Rumours about her
}} Hiding her true feelings
Strengths [0-5]:
}} Optimism
}} Charms
}} Essay writing
}} Potions
}} Loyalty
Weaknesses [5+]:
}} Making decisions
}} Arithmancy
}} Clumsiness
}} Recklessness
}} Slight vanity
Values [3+]:
}} Life
}} Friends & Family
}} Intelligence
}} Bravery
}} Loyalty
Goals [1+]:
}} To pass her NEWTs
}} Have a successful career
}} To find a way to make Cepheus 'good'
}} To find out about her past
Fears [4+]:
}} Birds
}} Losing someone
}} Rejection
}} Abandonment
}} Being old
}} Humiliation
Appearance
Image:
General Appearance [2+ Paragraphs]:
Fortunately for her, Charlotte Artoise is generally considered to be quite attractive. Unfortunately for other people, this has contributed to her confident nature and moderate vanity. While she isn’t up there with some of her fellow students, in terms of how much she likes herself, she’s reasonably concerned with her appearance. It is probably these looks, amongst several other factors that led to her first meeting with Cepheus Malfoy.
Her long golden hair, always presentable and glowing, is perhaps a difficult colour to judge. On occasion, it appears to be much lighter than it appears on other days, ranging from a dark blonde to a soft, light brown. It is of course, only through many minutes of preening and care that her hair looks this good. She doesn’t like to divulge exactly how much time and effort goes into hair presentation, but anyone with more than a half a brain should be able to work it out. She likes her hair in particular, taking pride in its colour and texture, adding small accessories. Because, basically, she likes her appearance to be noticed.
Other factors associated with a person’s appearance are probably just as noticeable, while others less so. Her eyes, while a nice shade of deep blue, are not what many people would describe as being particularly ‘eye-catching’ or interesting, a detail which is obviously a minor annoyance to dear Charlie, who takes such pride in her appearance. Her height and weight, meanwhile, are quite typical for a girl of her background and age, reaching the ‘grand’ height of 5’7” and being relatively thin, believing most food to have very little appeal.
Character's Family
Parents: Chelsa Marie Hunter [50, Headmistress]
Bryce Belser [55, DADA Professor] [unknown to Charlotte]
Siblings: n/a
Other Family:
PATERNAL }}
Keaton Edward Belser [83] [unknown to Charlotte]
Felicity [neé Noble] Belser [81] [unknown to Charlotte]
MATERNAL }}
Wesley Rylan Hunter [deceased]
Iyana [neé Murray] Hunter [deceased]
Opinion on Family: Charlotte has a mixed opinion of the only member of her family that she knows. Of course, she loves her mother, despite whether she LIKES her at that moment in time. On occasion, she feels she has a better relationship with her mother, than at other times. It really varies depending on the circumstances and her emotional state. In childhood growing up with only a mother, in a small sized family of two people, and lacking any other family, including siblings, meant that she was often very lonely and wished to have other relatives.
Other
History [3+ Paragraphs]:
It was a surprise, perhaps to those involved when the conception of Charlotte Artoise came to be. Mainly because neither person in the couple involved with the situation, wanted to be involved, and more importantly, they hadn’t wanted a child. Hadn’t wanted her. Still didn’t particularly seem to want anything to do with her. As one might expect, Charlotte Artoise is still one pretty messed up and confused individual as a result. And her way of dealing with this? She appears to proceed to do everything possible to rebel against her only known family member.
At the time of her birth, in the cold winter month of December, only the same two individuals were aware, excepting the sole woman who acted as Chelsa’s midwife- a lonely existence for a young child, before she had even entered the world. Of course, her father wasn’t around; he had decided he didn’t want her. The same applied to her mother, except this parent was slightly braver and stronger, in Charlotte’s eyes, than the other and stayed with her only child. Although her mother remains by her daughter’s side, it isn’t and wasn’t much of a relationship as one would expect a child to have with their mother. Chelsa was still putting on a sweet facade, acting as though nothing had happened, perhaps wishing that this were true also.
As the years passed, Charlotte grew to be a healthy individual, retaining much of her childlike qualities, but quickly realising there were large parts of her knowledge about herself and her family life that were limited. While she never had any complaints until the age of about three, other small children would often inquire about her father, which led her to do the same. She couldn’t understand, being so young, why her mother refused to answer any of these questions. It was always the same routine after this, her asking and her mother changing the subject or walking away. Charlotte rapidly became confused and a little bit hurt about the way in which she was not entitled to receive answers of this sort about her past. If it was her past, it involved her, and she deserved to know, right? Apparently not, according to her mother. Seeking the answers from anybody else was a ridiculous thought; nobody seemed to even know of her existence.
Such large and confusing thoughts constantly impacted upon her life. Her desperation to know her family went to new lengths, resorting to researching books, looking through her mother’s belongings, certain that she would find some image or artefact belonging to her unidentified father. Unfortunately she didn’t find anything and when her mother discovered her behaviour, was swift in her scolding. Charlotte didn’t particularly like being reprimanded. Especially by someone who had been clearly hiding information from her, for countless years. What right did this woman have?
Since then, Charlotte Artoise appears to be determined to do whatever she feels, ignoring the majority of words of her mother. In simple terms, whatever her mother wanted or told her daughter to do, Charlotte went and did the exact opposite. A shallow revenge, maybe, but it worked. Quite successfully, actually. In this sense, little has changed. Many still view Charlotte as a reckless young woman.
As one could gather from this point, Charlotte was not best pleased when she was told that once at school, nobody could know of their relationship or that she was even related to her own mother. She was to use to a new-fashioned name, to deter from drawing attention to herself. To make it easier for her, apparently other students would not be as friendly or sociable if she was to reveal that she was the daughter of the Headmistress. Personally, she couldn’t see why, but this was one situation in which she chose to believe her parent and act as they had intended. She still wonders, occasionally, whether people knowing her true background would really be so bad. Was it truly for her own good, or was it partly to hide her mother’s shame also?
Five years passed at Hogwarts, with some interesting aspects, but not interesting enough to note. Then she had that fateful ‘meeting’ with Cepheus Malfoy. She hadn’t really noticed him until that night. She knew vaguely of a Malfoy boy being around Hogwarts, but she hadn’t ever spoken to him in any form that could be described as a proper conversation. He was good-looking and seemingly charming, she couldn’t deny that. Falling fast, despite the short amount of time they spent together, she was rather bewildered to discover his true identity. The house difference and differences in blood status, allegiances didn’t seem to matter at that moment, but it would matter considerably to everyone else. In her opinion, she didn’t believe him to be as ‘evil’ as everyone else was portraying him to be. Nobody could possibly be THAT bad. He had been so nice to her, after all. And even if he wasn’t perfect, she was capable and happy to take that risk. For some peculiar reason, she had a firm idea that she was able to change him. He was still young and he had good potential. She was perfectly capable of altering a few aspects of his personality, right?
Except more than a year on, it’s still proving relatively difficult to say whether this forbidden relationship has any substance and whether she is succeeding in changing him. She sometimes does wish it were easier, she does claim to regularly see some good in him. However, nobody else wants to listen. It just seems much easier to judge than base their opinion with real evidence behind it. ‘If they knew him as I knew him..’ But nobody takes a sixteen-year-old Gryffindor girl seriously anymore. Besides, she’s breaking the rules and rivalry set down in ancient years. Gryffindors and Slytherins can NEVER get along. But, maybe, this once, she might just be right..?
Role-Play Sample [2+ Paragraphs:
It was rare that anyone would venture near this area of the castle grounds. Arguably, it was the only thing that had stayed the same over these changed years. People hadn’t wanted to visit this particular area for as long as he could recall. His father and mother had told him similar accounts, of people avoiding the tree as much as possible. It wasn’t a particularly attractive area from on outsider’s perspective, but it held certain magnetism for the Slytherin boy. It was almost a given thing that people didn’t walk around anywhere nearby, so it was easy to find a place to be alone when he wanted or needed to be.
He couldn’t think of another place in the castle that could claim to be as deserted as often as this bare spot. It was for this very reason, that he regularly visited the area, perhaps even one of the key areas that one could expect to find him. Not that many people usually wanted to find him and therefore went to the trouble of searching the castle grounds, but the fact remained that it was a useful place to have at such a crowded place like Hogwarts. He had always had issues with vast numbers of people surrounding him and feeling as though he wasn’t able to move – one might even say he was quite claustrophobic. Nobody knew this apart from a select few of course; the idea that the student population could know such a thing about him was ludicrous.
On this occasion, his reason for visiting the infamous tree was confusing even him. He didn’t really have an actual reason, more that on waking up he had decided to leave the school in search of a quieter atmosphere. Younger students were seriously irritating with their constant chatter at this time of the day. But then, he always found younger students to be annoying. He found most people who weren’t similar to him annoying in some way.
On this specific morning, he had found the castle to be rather dull and had therefore resolved to find somewhere that caused a limited amount of interest. The problem being that after six years in this school, he had been to most areas and none of them had been especially exciting. There were a few places he secretly still appreciated as much as when he had first ventured there, but nobody knew that he liked these areas of the school. Sure, some people had probably guessed at times in the past six years, but nobody had ever commented on his feelings about these places to his deep satisfaction. The Whomping Willow was one, the Astronomy Tower another. There were also a few other places that he had never mentioned having a fondness for to anyone else. He didn’t think it important or even a good idea to mention liking anything.
Glancing back at the tree again, he allowed himself a few minutes to think about what he was doing before he reached a conclusion. It wasn’t a momentous decision, just relating to his movements. Taking a few steps towards the tree itself, once satisfied, he turned and seated himself nearby, yet not directly underneath the tree. He might have been odd in his choice of destinations, but he wasn’t stupid enough to sit directly under a potentially violent tree.
