Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 22:00:47 GMT -7
hello there, my name is emilia but you can call me emmy or em. i'm 27 so that makes me an alumna of ilvermorny, though i would have been in slytherin house. you could say i'm cunning, manipulative, and resourceful but i personally think that i am closed off, reckless, and stubborn. people say i look a lot like karen gillan, but i don't really see it...
emilia odessa rowan pond
nickname:
emmy, em
age:
twenty-seven
date of birth:
29 february, 1996
gender:
witch
blood status:
muggleborn
sexuality:
heterosexual
house:
ilvermorny (thunderbird), but would have been slytherin
occupation:
model, writer
wand:
13.5 inches, sugar maple, thunderbird feather; rigid
playby:
karen gillan
appearance:
- five feet, eleven inches
- in her work as a model she’s learned quite a lot about dressing for her figure, so emmy always looks well put together and would be considered by most as extremely fashion-forward
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personality
likes:
berger cookies, butterflies (both the insect and the feeling in her stomach), carnivals, donkeys, her aunt and uncle, imaginary friends, mirrors, modelling, old bay, rock candy, scotland, snow, writing
dislikes:
being frustrated, her family not understanding magic, her fingers cramping when she writes too much, muggle doctors, not having a home, people who act like she’s stupid because she’s a model, politics, the mystery of her parent’s disappearance, when she can’t find the words she wants
erised:
find out what happened to her parents
amortentia:
fog, old bay, mint gum
boggart:
disappearing and not being remembered
overall personality:
there is nothing subtle about emmy’s personality: everything about her is very in-your-face and over the top. she never even bothered trying to tone herself down, because he knew that she was always going to be too wild for someone. she’s extremely adventurous, always getting herself and her companions dragged into some mess or other because she was curious. once that curiosity takes hold of her, it’s difficult to get emmy to think of anything else, and she can dig her heels in when she wants to – which is often – to make others go along with her schemes, even if they are hare-brained. she doesn’t do well with other stubborn people, though, since she’s so used to getting her way. if it does come to an argument, though, emmy will do her best to make sure that she’s the one who wins it.
it’s fair to call emilia vain. she’s a model, and she knows that she looks good. her looks are a source of pride for emmy, so the only thing that would cause her to pause before diving head-first into danger would be an adventure that has the potential to seriously damage her body. she doesn’t mind stuff like her hair getting caught off, but scars or permanent disfigurement are not on her to-do list.
emmy’s had a lot of tough stuff happen in her life, but she doesn’t like other people to see how much it affected her. when conversations turn to topics that emmy isn’t comfortable talking about, she shuts down. she simply won’t respond until something new is brought up that she can deal with. if she’s really pressed, she can say a word or two, but those words are mostly whatever words will get the conversation on a different subject. emmy recognizes that it’s not a coping mechanism that will last for long, but people tend not to talk about the subjects she’s uncomfortable with in the first place, so it suffices for now.
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personal history
mother:
tabitha pond, age unknown, fate unknown
father:
augustus pond, age unknown, fate unknown
siblings:
none
pets:
any pets
history:
emmy doesn’t know much about her early life, due to not being able to remember that time and not having her parents around to tell her the story. from what she’s managed to glean from her aunt and uncle, she was born at home, since her parents’ house in the scottish highlands was a fair distance from the nearest possible hospital and they had a distrust of doctors.
what comes next is also hazy. all emilia knows is that when she was five, her aunt sharon and uncle ben took over her legal guardianship. to this day, she has no idea what happened to her parents, but her aunt and uncle refused to give her any details, or even the promise that she would know when she was older. emilia moved out of her house in the highlands to live with her aunt and uncle in the lowlands, and that was that. when emmy was young, she hated her bright red hair, especially since it made it obvious that her aunt and uncle were not her biological parents (both were brunettes). she invented an imaginary friend when she was young to keep herself from feeling so lonely and lost in her aunt and uncle’s house, a raggedy old man named the doctor (which was ironic, given her family's distrust of real doctors).
when emilia was seven, a boy moved into the house next door, and the two children became friends. in helping the boy – rory – through grieving his mother, emilia found a way to let go of her own parents, at least a little bit. she was still curious, but when rory accepted that his mother was dead, emmy accepted that her parents were gone forever, as well. emmy told rory stories about her imaginary friend, but having a real friend made the imaginary one obsolete. sadly, when emmy was ten, her uncle got a job offer from a company located in the baltimore, a city in the united states, so she had to move an ocean away from rory. she emailed him regularly, but the next year, she found herself having to hide a big portion of her life from her friend.
why? well, the next year, a stranger knocked on emilia’s door. she explained that she was a witch, and that emmy was one, too. emilia’s aunt and uncle, stunned (and naturally suspicious), asked the visitor for proof that magic existed. she turned into a finch right in front of their eyes, and they agreed that magic was real, indeed. emilia found herself excited to learn more about magic, though it did reignite an almost unhealthy obsession with finding what happened to her parents, since she now had a new avenue of approach.
when september came, emilia went off to massachusetts to get her magical education. when she went into the selection chamber, three of the four statues moved – all except pukwudgie, which made sense to emilia, since her family had made her naturally suspicious of doctors, the only kind of healers that she knew, and her heart wasn’t all that big. emilia chose thunderbird as her house, which turned out to be more fitting as she grew older. she wanted to explore the entirety of the magical world, and her adventurous companions were the best way to do that.
by the time she finished school, emilia found that her aunt and uncle didn’t care for the magical world beyond for the answers that it provided. the views american wizards held about no-majs didn't improve the situation. they both encouraged emilia to return to the no-maj world now that she had learned how to control her powers. emilia refused; the magical world had given her too much for her to be able to turn her back on it. she did, however, decide on a job that was rather more no-maj-ish than magical. emilia began as a model,. about three years later, emilia stumbled into writing as a secondary occupation – she began as a ghostwriter for other models looking to write autobiographies, and eventually moved on to writing murder mysteries to supplement her income when her modeling checks were sparse.
after a time, emmy grew restless with being stuck in america. she decided she wanted to return to the united kingdom, where she spent her childhood. though emmy had kept in contact with many of her childhood friends, she wasn’t sure how they would react to her return, so she didn’t tell anyone that she was moving to london to continue her modelling career while giving her a change of pace. emmy’s lack of magical contacts in britain (and honest lack of care for politics, wizarding or otherwise) made her oblivious to the turmoil going on. emmy has no knowledge of hogwarts beyond that it exists, no knowledge of assassinations or kidnappings or attacks – she simply thinks she’s coming home.
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alias
name:
puck
age:
18
time zone:
est
reference:
topsites
other characters:
asa creevey, cecelia rousseau, dustin bainbridge, fred weasley, georgiana linley, imogen zhu, jamie greyback, lysander scamander, natalia lestrange, oscar gauthier, poet dmello, royal shacklebolt, séamus krakauer, theodosia washington, viola chase, xanthippe meagle, zytka kamuntu
