Full Name: Ada Louise Talbot
Nicknames: N/A
Birthdate: December 7, 1872
Current Age: 15 years
Occupation: Student
Reputation: 10

Her family is pretty reputable, and Ada herself hasn't done anything to knock her reputation down as of yet.

Residence: North Bartonburg, Hogsmeade
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Vine, 11 1/4 inches, unicorn hair, supple.
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Middle
Family:

Father. Alfred Talbot (b. 1840)
Mother. Catherine Talbot (b. 1846)
Brother. Alfred "Alfie" Talbot (b. 1869)

Appearance:

Hair. Dark brown
Eyes. Brown
Height. 5 feet.
Build. On the skinnier side of average.
Clothing Style. Ada isn't overly interested in fashion, so her style tends toward the practical.
Handedness. Right.

History:

1872. Ada is born the second child and only daughter of Alfred and Catherine Talbot. Ada enjoys a reasonably calm childhood, and spends much of her early days toddling after her older brother.

1876. Ada displays her first sign of magic when, on Christmas morning, the Talbot family awakes to find that all of the gifts have somehow found their way to Ada's bed.

1877. Ada doesn't really remember the upheaval of this year, only that the family moves to Hogsmeade, and she likes her new bedroom better than her old one.

1880. Alfie leaves for Hogwarts.

1884. The Talbots survive the Plague and fire relatively unscathed, thankfully. Ada heads off to Hogwarts in September, where she's sorted into Ravenclaw. She takes to academia like a fish to water, having always been a fairly inquisitive child.

1886. For her third year, Ada takes up Arithmancy, Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies as her electives. She is tempted to take up Care of Magical Creatures instead of Muggle Studies, as she finds creatures more interesting than people, honestly, but is dissuaded by her family who worry about her academic interests not being ladylike enough. They're probably right to be worried, but it's fine. She's fine. Everything's fine.

1888. It's a long, boring summer stuck in Hogsmeade with the fog. Ada gets a lot of reading done. She is nonetheless happy when the fog lifts, of course.

Personality:

• Clever
  
• Bookworm
  
• Socially awkward
  
• Most Likely to Become a Spinster with a House Full of Cats.
  

Other: [Any other information you want to include.]
Sample Roleplay Post:

Quote:Harry didn't usually mean for things to go wrong. True, he was more than a little fascinated by how things functioned, and part of that was how they dysfunctioned. He wasn't sure that was a real word. He was a scientist, not a... person who knew words.

Speaking of not knowing words, clearly he didn't know the words in the instructions for the potion he was meant to be making, because something was very, very wrong. Harry could see this. He'd messed up enough potions over the years to know the signs. Unfortunately, all those ruined potions did not mean he always knew how to fix it.

This was definitely one of those times when Harry did not know how to fix it, because instead the potion exploded.

Name: Steph
Age: 30
Contact: PMs work best until I get around to remembering my skype password.
Other Characters: N/A at the moment.
How did you hear about us?: I was here before, took a break, Charming moved in the interim, and I had an urge for some historical-type nonsense, so here I am. How I found Charming in the first place is a mystery lost to time.

Full Name: Damaris Rose Hopkins
Nicknames: Mari (Mah-ree)
Birthdate: July 22, 1618
Current Age: 270
Race: Vampire
Occupation: transient pre-teen vampire
Reputation: 3- she’s a spoiled pre-teen vampire who wants to be in charge of anyone who’ll listen and likes to snack on witches
Residence: the Forbidden Forest
Social Class: working
Family:
Father: Stephen Hopkins b. 1578 d. 1630

Mother: Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins b. 1590 d. 1630

Half-Brother: Giles Hopkins b. 1602 d. 1668

Half-Sister: Constance Hackett nee Hopkins b. 1604 d. 1675

Brother: Oceanus Hopkins b. 1620 d. 1630


Appearance: Having been Turned at the tender age of 12, Damaris is stuck forever in a pre-pubescent body. She has just the slightest hint of a feminine body in the making, but never going forward. Her eyes, while dark ringed, are a brilliant blue that are quite haunting in appearance. It makes the bluish tinge in her skin almost luminescent in quality if she’s found in direct moonlight. She doesn’t actually glow, but she is quite noticeable in the light of the moon. Especially on the nights of a full moon. Her apparel tends to follow the trend of a younger child, since it gets her more blood that way. With long blonde hair, she can look rather angelic if you get past the creepy vibe she gives off. As with every other vampire, Damaris has the elongated canines and slightly sharper teeth.
History:
Pre-Vampire
1600: Stephen, Damaris’s father, marries a “gold digger” who thinks she can use Stephen for his money. They have two children together before she dies of influenza.

1617: Stephen chooses Elizabeth as his second wife and they’re soon married. Within a few months, Elizabeth was pregnant with their first child. She’s born in 1618 and they’re happy momentarily.

1620: Stephen is part of a group that decides to voyage to the New World, trying to escape religious persecution. While they are on the ship, Elizabeth gives birth to their second child, Oceanus. Once they dock at shore, the now two year old Damaris is given everything she could want, even though Oceanus was the baby. He was an easy going infant where Damaris was demanding and picky. Elizabeth bonded with Oceanus while Stephen latched onto Damaris since his two older children reminded him of his gold-digging deceased first wife. They weren’t ignored, but as soon as Constance was old enough, she was married off. Giles departed for a “grand adventure” and soon it was just the four of them.

1630: Everything had gone well, and then a group of travelers came into the small town they lived in. They hadn’t moved far from Plymouth, just to a farm that supported the four of them right outside of town. Within a few weeks, bodies started appearing. Lots of them. People were being picked off like flies and the Hopkins family decided to pack up and leave. The night they were going to escape the carnage that had become their town, two strangers broke the door down. It seemed like within minutes Stephen was dead, having gone for a shotgun he used to protect them from the Native Americans. Elizabeth started screaming and when they snapped her neck to stop her, Oceanus broke free of the stranger holding him hostage and was soon disposed of. Damaris attempted to command them to leave, and they laughed at her. Rather than killing her, they bit deeply into her neck, feeding from her. They kept her hostage for weeks, biting her all across her body. They’d wait for one wound to heal to scabs and then bite her again. Finally, one of them drained her too much and a strange transformation happened. When it became apparent she wasn’t dying, the two strangers, who Damaris had now recognized as vampires, laughed and decided that if she survived the transformation, they’d take her under their wing and show her how to be a vampire.

She survived.

Vampire Years

1631: This is the first that Damaris really remembers much about her life. The ghosts of her human life haunt her constantly and it makes her vicious to those she bites. She’s tormented and she hates it.

1645: By now she’s got some control over herself and though she doesn’t break with the vampires who created her, she doesn’t stick with them when they stay in one place for too long. She always returns, uncannily knowing when their time is done, but she explores the wilderness, killing farmers and as they went further west, Native Americans at random. One of her creators ends up dead by staking and the other decides to take off, effectively leaving Damaris—who now exclusively goes by Mari—to her own devices.

1690: Having made her way across the New World, well ahead of any explorers, Mari plays the lost child card to anyone who will take her in for a few nights. Granted they’re all Native Americans who were distrustful of a white skinned blonde child who appeared out of nowhere, she'd stay nearby for a few nights and once a few of them were dead, she'd move on.

1715: Once the west was explored, she moved south, leaving trails of bodies all the way to what would be known as Panama. She spent time with all kinds of people, occasionally meeting up with vampires that had come with the Spanish invasion, and then getting bored with them. She decided at last to return to the colonies, deciding that she would do better there, able to blend in better. A trail of bodies follows her on her journey back north.

1762: She’s returned to the colonies and decided on New Hampshire for her home. She is now able to control her hunger for a few days at a time, though she prefers to feed as frequently as possible. It was here, in a small village in 1764, where she got caught. No one in the colonies had ever really suspected the small girl who came in the middle of a trading caravan, moving from caravan to caravan whenever she could, of killing the people who died in each town. But she grew sloppy one night and was seen sucking the blood of an elderly man in an alley. She was taken into custody and when she was about to be taken to the stake, an older girl swooped in out of nowhere. Between the two of them, they massacre the town, taking out everyone in it. The small town they were in is now gone, forever wiped from the history of the colony.

1765-1774: Now that the two of them are together, Mari finds herself actually happy with Galina, the vampiress who saved her. She doesn’t remind her a bit of her older sister, but at the same time, she does. They begin to travel together, spending all this time together, and though it doesn’t change Mari’s ultimate personality, she does learn to listen to someone older than her again.

1775-1778: The American Revolution gives Mari and Galina a veritable feast to munch on for years. No one questioned the death of another soldier in the grand scheme of things and they were able to hide their movements in the night, just taking out people who were already injured even though they were expected to get better.

1779: By 1779, the pair had made their way to New York, where they feast on the people who survived the fire that decimated what was New York’s “Holy Ground.” Galina feasted particularly well on a young man, and they left him for dead. They find out much later that he survived the attack and became a vampire himself.

1798: Soon after Catherine the Great died, Galina and Mari get on the first boat heading to Europe. They dock in France and realize that there is a revolution going on. They get involved as much as they can, both because it gives them opportunities to feed and feed well, and because they have fun stirring up trouble.

1800: While still in France, the two vampires discover something they’d never thought possible. There was a hidden school. For witches. And wizards. And they had all kinds of magical beasts. It was outlandish and exciting. There was a forest nearby where Mari insisted they make their home for a while. She would lure unexpecting children out there, and then devour them. She didn’t care if they became vampires or not, she just liked the way  the magical blood tasted in her mouth. It wasn’t different than human blood but it wasn’t the same either.

1803-1815: Finally Galina was tired of staying near Beauxbaton and they left to roam the French countryside. Occasionally they enter towns, with Galina posing as a seamstress, but they don’t stay long due to Mari’s incessant appetite. When the Napoleonic Wars begin, they tend to lurk around the outsides of towns near the war front looking for deserters to munch on.

1816-1846: The two girls begin to travel through Prussia, Austria, Poland, and other parts of Europe that they have not yet been to. Whenever Galina gets the urge to pretend to be a part of society, they enter cities and get work until the urge passes. They typically stay in smaller towns or the woods surrounding them so that they don’t get caught. Occasionally they travel with caravans from place to place.

1847-1848: Galina gets intrigued by the politics of the areas they were in, but Mari tends to be bored of it all spend her time “playing” with the children of the important men, telling them what to do and biting them surreptitiously when they don’t listen.

1850: Traveling back to Paris Galina finds them work in a opera house as ballet dancers for a year. After a year the rumors of a nearby serial killer begin to get taken too seriously and many begin to realize that Mari has not grown or changed as a girl her age should be. The two leave Paris.

1851-60: They continue to travel through Europe in their fashion, seeing countries such as Spain, Italy, and Greece. Mari doesn’t get the need for culture that Galina has, and complains loudly when they stay in place for too long. Still, she tries to indulge Galina as best she can, whenever she can hold off on her boredom.

1860-70: Galina and Mari travel back to Germany, France, and the countries where their appearances at least blend in a little. Especially since they’re two blonde girls, it was harder for them to keep a low profile when people ended up dead in the countries they were in.

1870-present: Once they got bored of Germany, the girls forged the English Channel and entered Great Britain. They found another magical school and settle into the woods there. Galina gets involved with politics but Mari gets bored of it quickly and spends her time luring people into the woods where she would toy with them, let them go, and then do the same thing over and over until she ended up killing them. She got a reputation as a vicious vampire and scorned Galina’s work with the coven there. She refused to live in the caverns where the others were, and did her best to get Galina to ignore them. The only worthwhile thing was when a magical fog descended onto the town and Mari was able to hunt during the day. She would sneak through the park and munch on people and then flee into the fog whenever someone noticed. She grew remarkably skilled at just taking a little bit of blood from the people she was hunting so that there were no deaths for the magical community to blame on Galina and her friends.
Personality: Spoiled – petulant – immature – self-important
Other: [Any other information you want to include.]
Name: Bubbles
Age: 30
Contact: PM Arabella Wood or Discord Bubbles#6404
Other Characters: see character directory
How did you hear about us?: Hawke!

Full Name: Daphne Ida Bletchley (née Boot)
Nicknames: —
Birthdate: May 31st, 1861
Current Age: Twenty-Seven Years
Occupation: Maid to the Lupin Household
Reputation: 7. Was in a number of public skirmishes with her husband prior to his death.
Residence: Lupin Household, Wellingtonshire
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor Dropout ('83)
Wand: —
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Working Class
Family:

Wilson Bletchley, Husband [1856-1884]
Ida Bloom Bletchley, Daughter [1878]

James Boot, Father [1813]
Eleanor Boot (née Bletchley), Mother [1824-1876]
Merritt Boot, Brother [1846], and family
Ellis Boot, Brother [1852] Brother
Fritz Boot, Brother [1858]

Appearance:

Standing at five feet, one inch tall, Daphne has been continuously mistaken for a fully-grown woman since she was fourteen. Her short height has always been balanced by natural curves, and she would be a prime candidate for having a rounder post-baby figure if not for her inadequate diet. She has platinum blonde hair and darker eyebrows, a straight nose, and plump lips. She uses creative hair-styling to to frame her face to detract from her wide jawline, which is her most notable (and least favorite) trait.

She dresses in clothes appropriate to her station and occupation. She does not own a wand, having sold her first one shortly after leaving school; one year at Hogwarts was not enough to make it a useful tool.

History:

1861 | Born the fourth and final child in the Boot family, Daphne was immediately doted upon by mother, father, and her three elder brothers. Despite her parents' low wages and often unsafe working conditions, they'd always been determined to build a family of their own—but unlike many others, were unwilling to have children they couldn't afford (and thus, fifteen years separated Daphne and her eldest brother).

1863 | With a poor grasp on reading and writing, the Boots decide not to send Ellis to Hogwarts as they did with Merritt. Instead, he goes to work as a shoe-shiner at the local cobbler's workshop.

1868 | Following the destruction of the family home in a fire, the Boot family is scattered. While Daphne and her mother go to live with an aunt who's willing to take them, Merritt and Ellis go to live with their second cousins, the Bletchleys, while Fritz and Daphne's father go live with her widowed grandmother. Their plans to live under one roof again never come to fruition, but the love between family members never fade.

1869 | Fritz does go to Hogwarts, and with a strong mind and endless studying, earns the grades to secure a scholarship that grants him the opportunity to continue his education.

1872-1873 | With a decent grasp on English and a drive to succeed (or at least prove herself equal to her elder brother), Daphne is sent off to Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor. While not an awful student, her studies don't come naturally to her, and rather than preparing for examinations she may not pass, she chooses to drop out after her first year. She goes to work as a kitchen maid for a London family.

1876 | After her mother suddenly passes, Daphne goes off to live with her second cousins, the Bletchleys. An impressionable fifteen-year-old, she falls for the charms of her elder cousin, Wilson Bletchley, and the two begin a romantic affair. He promises to marry her, but in return she has to prove herself dutiful and obedient. Still recovering from her mother's death and longing for a life of her own, she obliges him. It would take years to realize how toxic the relationship was—but not before it was too late.

1877 | Daphne marries her second cousin at the young age of sixteen and temporarily trades her maid job for one in retail after she discovers she's expecting a child. The tension in their marriage is obvious to those looking in, but Daphne is dedicated to him—and arguably brainwashed to some degree.

1878 | As the beginning of the year, Daphne gives birth to her first child, Ida Bloom Bletchley. What should be a happy time for the young mother becomes one of realization and depression. Her husband's controlling nature becomes apparent when he tries to use their daughter as "punishment" when Daphne "misbehaves". He limits the time between mother and daughter, snatches Ida from her arms while breastfeeding, and—on one occasion too many—threatens to kill them. This causes Daphne to run off to her father in a panic, but he sends her right back home to her husband, citing her "feminine hysteria".

1880 | In an attempt to find better work, the Bletchleys move to the Hogsmeade slums with their daughter. Having spent years dodging her husband and generally learning to cover her tracks, Daphne begins searching for a way out of her marriage. Unfortunately, her options at this point are "divorce" and "murder", and neither of them will help protect mother and daughter.

1884 | Wilson dies. Daphne's only a little involved. After declaring his intentions to fix up their shack, Daphne quietly tampers with the tools—specifically the ladder, which he eventually falls from and dies from his injuries. With the death ruled accidental and nothing stopping her from moving forward, Daphne takes her daughter and a job at the Lupin household as a maid. The pay is good, but the rules are strict: she has to take an unbreakable vow to protect the family secrets... and so does her daughter.

1887 | After years of working for the Lupin family, Daphne finds herself becoming more and more aware of her budding affection for the master of the house. She does her best to keep her feelings hidden (lest she have the mistress of the house at her throat), but the more she thinks about him, the more intense they get...

1888 | Following her daughter's tenth birthday, Daphne begins wondering how she'll be able to send her off to school. She begins looking for other work, but domestic service provides comforts that other work wouldn't.

Personality:

Fiercely protective. Motherly. Empathetic. Responsible. Hardworking. Manipulative—but usually without the intent to cause harm. Trustworthy.

Other: —
Name: Bree
Age: 19

It is to my understanding that as Head Librarian at the Crowdy Memorial Library that you possess a singular intellect and knowledge of magical history. I am developing an idea for a special exhibit and I confess that my research is at a standstill. I could greatly benefit from the opinion of an intellectual equal such as yourself, and nothing would please me more than your honest opinion on the subject.

I may be found at the Museum of Magical Miscellany most any day, and very much look forward to discussing my research with you.

Most Sincerely,
Mr. Davies

Full Name: Grant Douglas Brown
Nicknames: N/A
Birthdate: February 3rd, 1841
Current Age: 47 Years
Occupation: Jeweler and Owner of Brown’s Jewelry
Reputation: 9 - He can be considered eccentric by most but his family has remained quite far from scandal... for now.
Residence: London
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Alumni
Wand: Elm, 12.5", rather bendy, phoenix feather and fairy wing core
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Middleclass
Family: Lenore Brown neé Rodgers: Wife, Housewife and Art Collector [1846]
Vincent Sorrel Brown: Son, Jeweler Apprentice [1870]
Claude Umber Brown: Son, Slytherin Student [1872]
Pierre Tawny Brown: Son, Ravenclaw Student [1873]
Monet Sienna Brown: Son, Slytherin Student [1874]
Appearance: Grant is of average build and stands at five foot, nine inches. He doesn’t do much to keep his body in shape though his work often see’s him running around. His hands are rough and calloused through his work in his business. He wears his robes most of the day – embroidered with the logo of his business – though when he is off work, he can often be seen wearing a suit of some kind (with a hat to match).


He has greying dark brown hair and deep blue eyes.
His wand hand is his right as that is his dominant hand.
History:
1841 - Born during a cold evening to Douglas and Minevra Brown, Grant is the second son to the Brown family.
1846 - Grants sister, Rachel, is born.
1847 - During a lecture from his father who made it abundantly clear his brother, Jacob, is to inherit the family estate and affairs, Grant gets rather worked up and somehow turns a chair into a pile of sand.
1852 - 1859 - Grant starts at Hogwarts and is sorted into Ravenclaw. Not much happens during his school years, focusing mostly on honing his creative juices (finding he has quite the knack for designing random trinkets and jewels) and studying. He finished school with OWLs and NEWTs. His greatest achievement is finishing with an Oustanding NEWT in Charmswork. ALl of his other grades are average at best.
1859-1862 - Grant focuses his efforts on continuing to develop his sketches, designs, and ideas and decided to start his own jewelry business. He doesn't have many clients though he continues his efforts to build on his business.
1863 - During the social season Grant meets Lenore though they do not really connect or interact beyond social gatherings.
1868 - Grant begins to officially court Lenore in August and the two grow feelings for one another. Grant finds her interest in all things art awe-inspiring and truly magical. By the end of 1868, Grant is presented with a hefty dowry. He accepts and marries Lenore and uses the dowry to buy a storefront in London for his business; Brown's Jewelers
1870 - Vincent is born
1872 - Claude is born
1873 - Pierre is born
1874 - Monet is born. This marks the last child the Brown's shall have as Monet almost causes her mother to die during childbirth
1877 - The muggle riots happen and eventually, Grant refuses to leave magical London. They end up moving though and it's during this time that Monet displays her first signs of magic
1881 - Vincent leaves for Hogwarts
1883 - It's Claude's turn at Hogwarts
1884 - Grant takes note of Monets ever-increasing interest in his business though does not take much heed, finding himself far too busy to take much heed of a ten year old girl. Pierre leaves for Hogwarts
1885 - The last of his children, Monet, head off to Hogwarts and though proud of how his children are growing, Grant finds himself increasingly lonely at the silence and takes to designing and creating new and intruiguing jewelry - often incorporating charms into his designs
1888 -  Grants eldest, Vincent, graduates and begins working as Grants apprentice. During the fog of the summer, Grant takes note of Monets sketches and humours her; making a few designs inspired by her sketches. However, he soon finds that they are rather good and decided to use a few in his own designs. He uses one of these designs to create a 'ring that never dulls' with the help of a charm. He has yet to test this out though he believes it will help lift his family to higher standing...
Personality: Creative - Focused - Family Oriented - Abrupt - Eccentric
Other: N/A
Sample Roleplay Post: *points to my other chars*
Name: Jon
Age: 24
Contact: PM / Skype / Discord
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