Sophia Black
Feb 16, 2015 3:31:58 GMT
Post by Sophia Black on Feb 16, 2015 3:31:58 GMT
STUDENT APPLICATION
NAME : Sophia Black
AGE : 17
BIRTHDAY : October 2nd, 2004
ORIENTATION : Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Single
BLOOD STATUS : Muggle Born
What color are their eyes, hair, and skin? : Long brown hair, Hazel eyes, white skin
How do they dress? : Practically. She HATES wearing school robes, and gets out of them as soon as she doesn't have to wear them in favor of jeans and a t-shirt.
Do they like the way they look? : It depends on the day, and who she's talking to.
Height? : 5'3"
Do they resemble any family member? : No
What is their best physical feature? : Her smile
What is their most flawed physical feature? : She considers herself too thin, but with a high metabolism, she has problems getting up to a healthy weight.
Where are they from? : London, England
Describe their past history : Sophia never knew her father. From the earliest time she could remember it had been just her and her mom, trying to take on the world. Lucille Black did her best to support them both, but sometimes things got tight. Sophia never lacked for food, mainly because Lucille would skip meals so her daughter would have enough. The bond of love between the two grew so strong between the two that when the time came to send her to school, Lucille was conflicted on whether or not to teach her herself, or send her to school. In the end, she decided that school was going to be a better, less isolating option.
Sophia turned out to be an exceptionally bright child, mastering reading and numbers so fast she quickly outpaced her peers. Lucille, in an effort to encourage her, bought several children's books for Sophia, but Sophia quickly tired of them. In desperation, Lucille took her daughter to the library and gave her free reign. Sophia picked books well beyond her supposed level to bring home and read, books she devoured quickly.
Out of a combination of boredom and her fellow students making fun of her for being a swat, Sophia began acting out. Though her grades did not suffer, Lucille was plagued with calls from the school during Sophia's early years regarding behavioral problems. Sophia never pushed it too far, never getting a suspension, but Lucille tried to make it clear to Sophia that she couldn't keep going up to the school when she needed to work. Out of love for her mother, Sophia toned her behavior down. The teasing continued until Sophia learned that hiding how smart she was made her more friends than flaunting it. Once she learned to do this, she found she had many more friends, though she never got close to any of them.
To keep her mind occupied, Sophia turned to her books, reading well beyond her year in school. She started reading ahead not only in maths and literature, but also fiction, where she found a deep love for all things fantasy. After reading her favorite stories in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and the Silmarillion at age 9, she turned to learning the elvish language from those books by a combination of the appendices and online research. Lucille let her watch Peter Jackson's movies, which she hated as they didn't follow the books at all. Her favorite character from the books was Eowyn, and she felt the movies did that character a grave injustice. When her mother gave her a diary for her birthday that year, Sophia wrote in it in elvish so not even her mother would know her innermost thoughts. The diary became her closest friend, since Sophia felt that no one could really understand her.
By age 11, Sophia had learned to strike a balance. She kept her grades at near perfection, occasionally and intentionally getting a lower grade so her class mates wouldn't start teasing her about being a swat. She wrote in her journal to get out her feelings, while keeping her friends happy. Her truest joy was in her books, which she read voraciously, everything from science books to biographies, but still, her dearest love was fantasy. Wizards, dragons, evil curses, fantastic creatures, and heroic deeds filled her lonely nights with a world she dearly wished she could enter, though she knew they were not real.
In the summer of 2016, a letter arrived, telling her she had been admitted to a "school for witchcraft and wizardry". Both she and Lucille dismissed it as some joke being played by one of Sophia's friends, though none of them admitted to it. Neither she or her mother thought anything of it until a strangely dressed woman knock on their apartment door. She wore robes rather than regular clothes, and a hat that could only be described as a witches hat.
Minerva Mcgonnagal convinced both Lucille and Sophia that Hogwarts was real, through a combination of persuasion and demonstration. Sophia could not have bene more proud, nor more excited. Magic being real was a dream come true. Sophia was granted a small scholarship to go to the school, which covered her school fee, along with a small stipend for books and supplies. Professor Mcgonnagal explained it would not be enough for new books, but both Lucille and Sophia were used to making a penny, or in this case a sickle, stretch.
The excitement lasted until she and her mother started interacting with the wizarding world. It seemed that the last name of Black was reviled, so they learned very fast not to broadcast it. The one thing Lucille insisted on getting new was a wand, for which she threw in what little savings she had and changed it at Gringotts to wizard money, and the pair went to a wand shop Professor McGonagall had said was the best. After almost an hour, the wand the chose Sophia was one of Beech, with a phoenix feather core, 7 inches long. They were assured it was a powerful combination.
The books they bought were second hand, torn and written in, and in poor condition, but Sophia spent the rest of the summer pouring over them, especially the spell books. McGonagall had made it clear that casting magic before she got to Hogwarts was against the law, so she learned as much as she could from the text books. She looked forward to going more than she had anything else in her life.
Who are their parents : Lucille Black, Father Unknown
Do they have any siblings? : No
Is their any history of mental illness in their family? : Not in her recent family history, but she is a direct descendant of Marius Black, a squib blasted off the Black Family tree.
-PERSONAL INFORMATION-
What do they love? : Her mother is more dear to her than anything else on the planet
What do they hate? : Bullies
Have they ever loved anyone in a romantic way? : No, as she's never allowed anyone close enough. She knows she finds both girls and boys attractive, though
What's their most traumatic memory? : Being picked on for being smart before she learned to hide it.
What's their happiest memory? : Her mother singing her to sleep at night before Lucille decided Sophia was too old for it.
Describe their personality : Sophia hides a very introspective and intelligent personality behind an extroverted and average mask. She has learned to be sociable and learned how to adapt herself to the person she is talking to in an effort to avoid being seen as smart. She takes her time making decisions, examining all angles she can think of before settling, but once a decision is made, she leaps into it with both feet. She does nothing by halves. Despite her upbringing and abuse, she likes to think well of others, and will trust them until she has reason not to. This is a conscious choice on her part.
Describe their personality flaws : She is VERY hesitant to be her real self around anyone but her mother. She has learned that this leads to teasing and abuse. She tends to be overly analytical, which can put her in a position of not acting soon enough. She also has a temper, but it rarely comes out. It takes a whole lot to get her angry, but once she is, she is uncontrollable, and inconsolable. Once she has acted out of that anger, she always regrets it. The thing is, her anger comes out not in one big blow out, but seeping slowly, so she goes through a long period of seeking vengeance before it blows off. She does not forgive easily, and tends to hold grudges, though the target of those grudges rarely know they are the focus. Her willingness to trust can also place her in danger of betrayal, which has happened on more than one occasion, but she stubbornly refuses to sink into a state of cynicism. She sees the world in an idealized form, and when the world inevitably does not measure up, she tends to take it as a personal failure on her part, leading to bouts of short lived depression.
What would a stranger's first impression of them be? : A strager would find her to be charming and funny, and would feel an instant connection to her, as she merely reflects what they want to see back at them.
How would you, the writer, describe them? : Repressed. She has so much practice not being herself, that when she is allowed to be so, she sometimes gets lost, not knowing what to do or say.
Any special magical abilities? :
Occlumency: If she ever gets the opportunity to learn, Sophia will have a particularly strong talent with this art of hiding her true self, as she is already quite practiced at it.
Dark Magic: Due to her heritage with the Black family, Sophia would demonstrate a very strong talent for dark magic. However, this is very unlikely to come out, as she hates hurting others.
Non-Verbal Magic: Sophia has a great talent for non-verbal casting, due to her strong imagination and ability to focus.
Potions: Due to its exacting and more scientific nature, potion making comes very naturally to Sophia.
Ancient Runes and Arithmancy: These two subjects are simply extensions of her already proven skill in maths and languages.
Transfiguration: Sophia has the focus and the talent to excel in matters of transfiguration, which relies on exacting standards.
Any special skills? :
Acting: Sophia has so much experience pretending to be something other than she is that it comes naturally to her.
Numbers: Maths come naturally to Sophia
Social Adaptation: Sophia can adapt to anyone, and get along with anyone.
Writer's Name: Imbeni
Roleplaying Sample:
Sophia burst into the dorm and threw her back pack towards the trunk at the end of her bed. She took her robe off over her head, revealing the jeans and t-shirt underneath, then threw the robe on top of her trunk. She quickly glanced around the room and found she was alone, so she threw herself on to the beed, shut the curtains, silently cast a silencing charm, and screamed and cried into her pillow. She hit it several times in frustration.
The upper class man had pointed out her heritage, again, calling her a pure blood even though she had told him time and again she was born a muggle. She defelcted the situation, and played it off like it didn't bother her, but that was a lie.
Why did it matter? she wondered not for the first time. It's not like whether you're a pureblood or a muggle born it has any bearing on you as a person, or on how good a wizard or witch you are. Hermione Granger proved that. And Muggle born mania is just as bad as pure blood mania. Why could no one see that?
Drying her tears, she opened her trunk and pulled out her diary, contently writing how stupid it all was in Tolkien Elvish. She had no lock on it, since she was sure no one here would ever be able to read and understand what she wrote. Buy the time the other girls came in, they found her reading one of her fantasy books on her bed as if nothing had happened
-BASIC INFORMATION-
NAME : Sophia Black
AGE : 17
BIRTHDAY : October 2nd, 2004
ORIENTATION : Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Single
BLOOD STATUS : Muggle Born
-PHYSICAL INFORMATION-
What color are their eyes, hair, and skin? : Long brown hair, Hazel eyes, white skin
How do they dress? : Practically. She HATES wearing school robes, and gets out of them as soon as she doesn't have to wear them in favor of jeans and a t-shirt.
Do they like the way they look? : It depends on the day, and who she's talking to.
Height? : 5'3"
Do they resemble any family member? : No
What is their best physical feature? : Her smile
What is their most flawed physical feature? : She considers herself too thin, but with a high metabolism, she has problems getting up to a healthy weight.
-FAMILY INFORMATION-
Where are they from? : London, England
Describe their past history : Sophia never knew her father. From the earliest time she could remember it had been just her and her mom, trying to take on the world. Lucille Black did her best to support them both, but sometimes things got tight. Sophia never lacked for food, mainly because Lucille would skip meals so her daughter would have enough. The bond of love between the two grew so strong between the two that when the time came to send her to school, Lucille was conflicted on whether or not to teach her herself, or send her to school. In the end, she decided that school was going to be a better, less isolating option.
Sophia turned out to be an exceptionally bright child, mastering reading and numbers so fast she quickly outpaced her peers. Lucille, in an effort to encourage her, bought several children's books for Sophia, but Sophia quickly tired of them. In desperation, Lucille took her daughter to the library and gave her free reign. Sophia picked books well beyond her supposed level to bring home and read, books she devoured quickly.
Out of a combination of boredom and her fellow students making fun of her for being a swat, Sophia began acting out. Though her grades did not suffer, Lucille was plagued with calls from the school during Sophia's early years regarding behavioral problems. Sophia never pushed it too far, never getting a suspension, but Lucille tried to make it clear to Sophia that she couldn't keep going up to the school when she needed to work. Out of love for her mother, Sophia toned her behavior down. The teasing continued until Sophia learned that hiding how smart she was made her more friends than flaunting it. Once she learned to do this, she found she had many more friends, though she never got close to any of them.
To keep her mind occupied, Sophia turned to her books, reading well beyond her year in school. She started reading ahead not only in maths and literature, but also fiction, where she found a deep love for all things fantasy. After reading her favorite stories in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and the Silmarillion at age 9, she turned to learning the elvish language from those books by a combination of the appendices and online research. Lucille let her watch Peter Jackson's movies, which she hated as they didn't follow the books at all. Her favorite character from the books was Eowyn, and she felt the movies did that character a grave injustice. When her mother gave her a diary for her birthday that year, Sophia wrote in it in elvish so not even her mother would know her innermost thoughts. The diary became her closest friend, since Sophia felt that no one could really understand her.
By age 11, Sophia had learned to strike a balance. She kept her grades at near perfection, occasionally and intentionally getting a lower grade so her class mates wouldn't start teasing her about being a swat. She wrote in her journal to get out her feelings, while keeping her friends happy. Her truest joy was in her books, which she read voraciously, everything from science books to biographies, but still, her dearest love was fantasy. Wizards, dragons, evil curses, fantastic creatures, and heroic deeds filled her lonely nights with a world she dearly wished she could enter, though she knew they were not real.
In the summer of 2016, a letter arrived, telling her she had been admitted to a "school for witchcraft and wizardry". Both she and Lucille dismissed it as some joke being played by one of Sophia's friends, though none of them admitted to it. Neither she or her mother thought anything of it until a strangely dressed woman knock on their apartment door. She wore robes rather than regular clothes, and a hat that could only be described as a witches hat.
Minerva Mcgonnagal convinced both Lucille and Sophia that Hogwarts was real, through a combination of persuasion and demonstration. Sophia could not have bene more proud, nor more excited. Magic being real was a dream come true. Sophia was granted a small scholarship to go to the school, which covered her school fee, along with a small stipend for books and supplies. Professor Mcgonnagal explained it would not be enough for new books, but both Lucille and Sophia were used to making a penny, or in this case a sickle, stretch.
The excitement lasted until she and her mother started interacting with the wizarding world. It seemed that the last name of Black was reviled, so they learned very fast not to broadcast it. The one thing Lucille insisted on getting new was a wand, for which she threw in what little savings she had and changed it at Gringotts to wizard money, and the pair went to a wand shop Professor McGonagall had said was the best. After almost an hour, the wand the chose Sophia was one of Beech, with a phoenix feather core, 7 inches long. They were assured it was a powerful combination.
The books they bought were second hand, torn and written in, and in poor condition, but Sophia spent the rest of the summer pouring over them, especially the spell books. McGonagall had made it clear that casting magic before she got to Hogwarts was against the law, so she learned as much as she could from the text books. She looked forward to going more than she had anything else in her life.
Who are their parents : Lucille Black, Father Unknown
Do they have any siblings? : No
Is their any history of mental illness in their family? : Not in her recent family history, but she is a direct descendant of Marius Black, a squib blasted off the Black Family tree.
-PERSONAL INFORMATION-
What do they love? : Her mother is more dear to her than anything else on the planet
What do they hate? : Bullies
Have they ever loved anyone in a romantic way? : No, as she's never allowed anyone close enough. She knows she finds both girls and boys attractive, though
What's their most traumatic memory? : Being picked on for being smart before she learned to hide it.
What's their happiest memory? : Her mother singing her to sleep at night before Lucille decided Sophia was too old for it.
Describe their personality : Sophia hides a very introspective and intelligent personality behind an extroverted and average mask. She has learned to be sociable and learned how to adapt herself to the person she is talking to in an effort to avoid being seen as smart. She takes her time making decisions, examining all angles she can think of before settling, but once a decision is made, she leaps into it with both feet. She does nothing by halves. Despite her upbringing and abuse, she likes to think well of others, and will trust them until she has reason not to. This is a conscious choice on her part.
Describe their personality flaws : She is VERY hesitant to be her real self around anyone but her mother. She has learned that this leads to teasing and abuse. She tends to be overly analytical, which can put her in a position of not acting soon enough. She also has a temper, but it rarely comes out. It takes a whole lot to get her angry, but once she is, she is uncontrollable, and inconsolable. Once she has acted out of that anger, she always regrets it. The thing is, her anger comes out not in one big blow out, but seeping slowly, so she goes through a long period of seeking vengeance before it blows off. She does not forgive easily, and tends to hold grudges, though the target of those grudges rarely know they are the focus. Her willingness to trust can also place her in danger of betrayal, which has happened on more than one occasion, but she stubbornly refuses to sink into a state of cynicism. She sees the world in an idealized form, and when the world inevitably does not measure up, she tends to take it as a personal failure on her part, leading to bouts of short lived depression.
What would a stranger's first impression of them be? : A strager would find her to be charming and funny, and would feel an instant connection to her, as she merely reflects what they want to see back at them.
How would you, the writer, describe them? : Repressed. She has so much practice not being herself, that when she is allowed to be so, she sometimes gets lost, not knowing what to do or say.
Any special magical abilities? :
Occlumency: If she ever gets the opportunity to learn, Sophia will have a particularly strong talent with this art of hiding her true self, as she is already quite practiced at it.
Dark Magic: Due to her heritage with the Black family, Sophia would demonstrate a very strong talent for dark magic. However, this is very unlikely to come out, as she hates hurting others.
Non-Verbal Magic: Sophia has a great talent for non-verbal casting, due to her strong imagination and ability to focus.
Potions: Due to its exacting and more scientific nature, potion making comes very naturally to Sophia.
Ancient Runes and Arithmancy: These two subjects are simply extensions of her already proven skill in maths and languages.
Transfiguration: Sophia has the focus and the talent to excel in matters of transfiguration, which relies on exacting standards.
Any special skills? :
Acting: Sophia has so much experience pretending to be something other than she is that it comes naturally to her.
Numbers: Maths come naturally to Sophia
Social Adaptation: Sophia can adapt to anyone, and get along with anyone.
Writer's Name: Imbeni
Roleplaying Sample:
Sophia burst into the dorm and threw her back pack towards the trunk at the end of her bed. She took her robe off over her head, revealing the jeans and t-shirt underneath, then threw the robe on top of her trunk. She quickly glanced around the room and found she was alone, so she threw herself on to the beed, shut the curtains, silently cast a silencing charm, and screamed and cried into her pillow. She hit it several times in frustration.
The upper class man had pointed out her heritage, again, calling her a pure blood even though she had told him time and again she was born a muggle. She defelcted the situation, and played it off like it didn't bother her, but that was a lie.
Why did it matter? she wondered not for the first time. It's not like whether you're a pureblood or a muggle born it has any bearing on you as a person, or on how good a wizard or witch you are. Hermione Granger proved that. And Muggle born mania is just as bad as pure blood mania. Why could no one see that?
Drying her tears, she opened her trunk and pulled out her diary, contently writing how stupid it all was in Tolkien Elvish. She had no lock on it, since she was sure no one here would ever be able to read and understand what she wrote. Buy the time the other girls came in, they found her reading one of her fantasy books on her bed as if nothing had happened
