Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 20:20:47 GMT -7
hello there, my name is xanthippe meagle but you can call me xan. i'm 16 so that makes me a sixth year at hogwarts, where i reside in ravenclaw house. you could say i'm intelligent, knowledgeable, and witty but i personally think that i am creative, fun-loving, and open-hearted. people say i look a lot like olivia holt, but i don't really see it...
xanthippe hermione meagle
nickname:
xan
age:
16
date of birth:
18 july 2007
gender:
witch
blood status:
half-blood
sexuality:
pansexual
house:
ravenclaw
wand:
8 inches, pear, phoenix feather; springy
playby:
olivia holt
appearance:
- 5’0” (5’1” if you’re being generous)
- charcoal often smudges her fingers; if not that, then there will likely be paint on her clothes, which are designed more for comfort than beauty
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personality
likes:
being messy, being up high, buttercups, fairy lights, fireflies, fluffy sweaters, gymnastics, her godmother, her siblings, learning something new, lollipops, painting, photographs, rainbows, smiling until her cheeks hurt, sprinkles, sunshine, winter sunrises
dislikes:
being away from home, blank canvases, making mistakes, people with frown lines, people who don’t respect art, ruined photographs, sitting still, too much open space, when someone changes their perfume
erised:
become a portrait artist, or any kind of artist really
amortentia:
her father’s cologne, new paper, warm summer grass
boggart:
being abandoned, especially by her siblings
overall personality:
xan takes after her mother in that she tends to be over-the-top and bubbly. as much as she loves the library, she can rarely stay in there for long because of her absolute lack of volume control. she can be overwhelming the amount of energy she has, but it’s often just what people need to get out of their funk, which is what xan primarily uses her excessive charm for. she wants to help people as much as she possibly can, another trait that she learned from her mother. xan has a warm heart and intends to use it for as much good as possible.
another thing that colors xan’s view of the world is her endlessly creative bent. everything that can be seen, and even some things that can’t be, can be drawn, and xanthippe loves doing just that. she doesn’t stop drawing just because someone asks her to (unless, of course, she’s drawing them and they’re not comfortable with it. that’s just rude). it can make her a bit oblivious to the outside world, which is why xan has had to stop doing it in class.
speaking of class, xan’s second (or maybe third) thing in the world is knowledge. books are her constant companion. she’s the definition of a bibliophile. more often than not, though, xan is reading books that she wants to read, rather than the books she’s been assigned for class. oops? either way, xan often finds herself spouting off random facts that she’s learned from one book or another, much to the chagrin of those around her.
the final thing one absolutely must know before meeting xanthippe meagle is that she has a fiercely independent streak. after being separated from her siblings in her first year of hogwarts, xan learned that she could stand on her own two feet, and found that she liked to do that, a lot. if she perceives she’s being coddled (even if that’s not the truth) xan is likely to throw a little bit of a tantrum. she likes to pretend that she doesn’t need anyone, even if that’s not the truth.
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personal history
mother:
leslie meagle, 42, charms professor
father:
benjamin meagle, 40, occupation open
siblings:
winifred xella meagle – 16, gryffindor
isaac xayvion kester meagle – 16, gryffindor
pets:
beauxbatons, durmstang, and hogwarts – guinea pig trio (named, obviously, for the three magical schools in her general area. she wanted to get another eight so she’d have one for each of the eleven wizarding schools, but her brother’s snakes started to freak her out, so she decided not to.)
history:
xanthippe has always known how to make her own way in the world; born the first of triplets, she was the trailblazer. she never wanted to do anything that her siblings had already done; she said her first word first, and walked before her other siblings, too. when her brother and sister were diagnosed with celiac disease, xan found at that she was the only one of the three who didn’t have it. she seemed to have the makings of a little slytherin, constantly wanting to be the best at everything. she had ambition abounding before she even knew what ambition was. but then she learned to read.
knowledge became xan’s passion. her brother had his animals, and she had her books. building a fort of words around her made xanthippe feel almost as safe as she did when she was sitting in between her two siblings. she wanted to learn and learn and learn until the world ended. the lust for words didn’t temper her spirit, though. xan still loved to be around others, and her love of happiness and all things sunshine-y (so reminiscent of her mother’s) made some consider that she might eventually be a hufflepuff.
when the sorting came, xan was the last of the triplets to be sorted. her brother and sister had both gone to gryffindor, which made sense, and she was assigned to ravenclaw, which also made sense. it was fine that she was away from her siblings. really. she had sort of expected it, but that didn’t make it hurt any less. everything was already so big and so scary and she was away from home for the first time and everyone kept telling her that she was going to have so much fun and her siblings were together and she was apart, and xan cried all through dinner.
the weeks that followed were rough. her normally bubbly personality disappeared beneath her sadness, and her loss of identity. as much as she wished it not to be true, she had always identified herself as one third of a whole, instead of her own independent person. having an identity crisis was not something xanthippe had expected in her first weeks of school. but it did, and she became stronger for it.
after settling into her niche, xan began to flourish. she still loved getting to see her siblings, of course, but it was nice to have friends in her house, too. even better than that was all of the beautiful things she saw at school; there were more beautiful things in the greenhouse alone than xan had seen in her entire life, and something tugged at her to record them. her first drawings, done entirely in ink on spare scraps of parchment, were barely recognizable, but xanthippe couldn’t stop drawing no matter how awful the product looked. sure, her grades in class slipped since she spent the entire time doodling, but after the mania left, xan was able to find a balance between drawing and studying.
balance became the key word in xan’s next few years at hogwarts. she found the balance between being her own person and being her siblings’ sister. she found the balance between knowledge and passion. she found the balance between her schoolwork and her artwork (which, by the end of her fourth year, was quite stunning). the only time the balance was upset was when she realized she liked girls, which didn’t end up being a problem for anyone but her. she should have known that her siblings were going to accept her, but coming out was still a terrifying time for xan.
after all of this, xan had to reevaluate the way she saw the future. it had always been something intimidating, and something to avoid. realizing that the future was inevitable helped xan almost as much as being sorted into another house had, and she prepared herself to step into the wonderful unknown.
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alias
name:
puck
age:
seventeen
time zone:
est
reference:
topsites
other characters:
royal shacklebolt, jamie greyback, lysander scamander, hephaestus corfield
