Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 23:47:19 GMT -7
hello there, my name is elise delacroix but you can call me El. i'm 20 so that makes me a graduate of Beauxbatons, where I would have resided in the ravenclaw equivalent house. You could say I'm intelligent, knowledgeable, & witty but I personally think that I am positive, helpful, & a go-getter. People say I look a lot like seychelle gabriel, but I don't really see it...
elise sirena delacroix
nickname:
el
age:
20
date of birth:
18th, may, 2003
gender:
witch
blood status:
half-blood
sexuality:
straight
house:
beauxbatons
occupation:
apprentice wandmaker
wand:
9 inches, poplar, kneazle hair, firm
playby:
seychelle gabriel
appearance:
5’3”. Likes to dress in comfortable clothing while working, but doesn’t mind looking a little nicer when going out. The uptightness of Beauxbatons didn’t work well with her. Always wears a watch on her left wrist, given to her from her father before going to Beauxbatons her first year.
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personality
likes:
breakfast foods (diners), tea, cats, helping customers (both in her father’s muggle bookstore and wandmaking), reading, researching, anything that requires time and concentration, learning new languages (is fluent in French, English, Latin, and learning Greek for research purposes), her father
dislikes:
being turned down/looked down on, paper cuts, humidity, constant negative criticism, flaunting money/wealth, overly aggressive people, dark alleyways (who knows what could be down those?), being too warm, shops with heavy amounts of perfume
erised:
becoming successful enough on her own and showing her father that he did a good job raising her on her own
amortentia:
paper, bacon (come on, everyone should love this smell), diesel fuel, mint
boggart:
being rejected by a loved one. currently encountering a boggart would be her mind’s version of what her mother would look like
overall personality:
Anyone that saw Elise in school would immediately peg her as the annoying girl in class. Constantly asking questions on little details was a common occurrence, and while it won her some favoritism with the professors, it didn’t win her a ton of friends. That didn’t stop her though, her need to understand the magical world was too great, especially since her father had tried to maintain the secrecy while running a muggle business. Maintaining her positive attitude throughout school was her way to get past the negative criticism sent her way by classmates. Asking excellent questions granted her ideal answers, and that’s how she views her learning.
Being upbeat about learning everything she could, knowing how to work with people was essential. Her father owns a bookstore, meaning summers since the moment she could read and write were spent working in the store, mingling with customers and the likes. Elise enjoys learning about other people as much as she does with everything else, so it was the perfect environment for her. Again, the negative drawback of this came with learning boundaries whilst at school. Not all of her classmates enjoyed being questioned 24/7 by her hungry brain, and she quickly discovered that society had certain levels, and she was considered to be on the lower end of it.
She watched other classmates treated this way turn to keeping to themselves, or creating a shell and hiding within it. Elise used it to her benefit. She doesn’t like manipulating people, but understanding their qualms and problems that they have with her (or the bookstore), is her way of improving on her overall quality as a worker. She believes that helping people and treating them with the respect that they deserve, no matter who they are or where they come from, is the best way to leave an impact. And get them to buy a book. Obviously she knows that not everyone can be swayed through words or action, but the belief still sticks with her, and doesn’t really affect her day to day work.
Elise is also not afraid to put herself into the fray in order to complete something. If a job or project needs to be finished, she’ll readily volunteer herself (while in school, to her classmate’s annoyance). She thinks missed opportunities result in missed experiences. Obviously something high-intensity that has real world consequences requires more of a thought process, so she won’t jump head first into those. Anything that has a possible learning experience is a must-do on her list.
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personal history
mother:
athena agnosis, sculptor, 40
father:
leo delacroix, 42, bookstore owner, muggleborn but chose to take on the muggle family business
siblings:
half-sister: adonia jae nyström, 7th year durmstrang, currently unaware of each other
pets:
frank the scottish fold
history:
Athena Agnosis. She had been a spectacle to the muggle bookstore owner, Leo Delacroix. Some would say it was like magic. Actually, it was. Leo, who had gone to Beauxbatons as a muggleborn, had decided upon graduation that he wanted to continue on the family business that his parents had painstakingly built from the ground up. The magical world, while fun and definitely entertaining, had lost its appeal after spending nearly a decade in it. That was, until Athena stepped into his family’s store one day. It was obvious to him that she was a witch, and unlike any of the ones that he had met before. He was willing to step back into the life that he had abandoned, if it meant winning her over. And for a while, he did. What resulted was a child born nine months later, and not much longer after, having to raise said child on his own.
So what should have been a small family of three was just a family of two. Leo’s parents helped him raise Elise, but it wasn’t that difficult. She turned out being a lot easier to manage than Leo had ever been, a fact pointed out often throughout the smallest Delacroix’s life. For a while, there was the hope that she would never acquire the magical powers that both of her parents possessed, but it soon became obvious that she had. There were special precautions made by Leo, calling upon his partial return to the magical world in an effort to make Elise’s transition into it a lot easier than his parents had with him. At least this time all three adults had years of experience with it.
Childhood was fun. Elise took on a love of books, which was kind of necessary for the family business, and ran with it. She was kept occupied with non-magical material as much as possible to keep her constant questions about everything as magic free as possible, especially around the more normal customers. Luckily a child’s imagination was harmless, and any hiccups could easily be covered by Leo in a flash. She understood from a young age that her mother probably wasn’t coming back, that much was apparent, but that she was still cared for by her father and grandparents. Primary school was difficult because of this at first, but she soon learned of the greatest distraction ever: learning and education. There was finally a word put to it. Once she was able to, Elise began helping out in the store as well, usually either working the cash register or fetching books for customers. If she had been a normal child, this probably would have continued on while she went to a regular school, but Leo knew that wouldn’t happen.
Off to Beauxbatons she went once she was old enough. The hope was that she wouldn’t be too captivated with the magical world and would turn back to the muggle one, the same way that Leo had. The Delacroix’s were sadly mistaken. Elise took to magic like glue. It was the apparently the other missing piece of the puzzle. School was strange, especially after having attended a non-magical one for years. There were similar characters and personalities in Beauxbatons as there were at her regular school, but some of them were amplified with the added attachment of magic. Classes were easy, and the ones that weren’t she spent ungodly amounts of time figuring out on her own. Elise quickly became that girl; the one that everyone internally groaned at every time she raised her hand. She knew she was that person too, but couldn’t help it. Being inquisitive had never been a bad thing before.
Her years at Beauxbatons only served to increase her interest in figuring out who her mother was. Eventually Leo capitulated and explained that she was a witch as well, a detail that had never really been given before, and didn’t have to because he was magical himself and was sufficient for Elise at the time. She learned about this in her fifth year, and immediately set to work learning everything about Greece as she could, this being one of the few things that her father knew about Athena for certain. Elise was content with her life in France and with her father’s side of the family though, and knew that if she did ever come across something that would draw her to her mother, she wouldn’t go. Athena had abandoned her, and while it turned out to be for the better, that love couldn’t be reclaimed.
During her research of Greece, she came across a new passion, albeit a strange one compared to what the rest of her classmates wanted to graduate into: wandmaking. Typically a family business, Elise knew that she had the ability to be a business owner and the skills to step into the generational art. Upon graduation, she tried her hand under a lesser-known French wandmaker. It was okay, but only proved that some were better than others and that jealousy ran rampant amongst them all. That kind of thing didn’t sit well with her, so she moved on after learning as much as she could from the first. And so the two years after her graduation went by in a blink of an eye, some of the time spent as an apprentice, the rest spent researching wandmaking and testing out her own style of crafting. There were flaws in it though, and she decided to make a bold move and go to London, in an effort to convince the current owner of Ollivander’s, the greatest wand shop and lineage of wandmakers ever, to take her on as an apprentice, or at least send her in the right direction.
The killings and kidnappings at Hogwarts during the previous school year hadn’t really been on her mind much, past the occasional news article fluttering in front of eyes. Obviously something like that was horrible and needed to be stopped, though from her perspective in France, it seemed like there wasn’t enough being done by the Ministry. Then a new iteration of the Triwizard Tournament was announced, and she couldn’t help but feel nostalgic and slightly jealous that she had already graduated from Beauxbatons. While still in France during the first two tasks, she had rooted for the Beauxbatons champion, and was disappointed with his loss in the second task. Her father also decided that the revival of the tournament was the best time to talk about his school days, since he had been a young student at Beauxbatons the last time it was held. After moving to London, she decided that the first thing she was going to do was figure out how to watch the final task to root on her alma mater.
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alias
name:
colin
age:
22
time zone:
est
reference:
proboards support
other characters:
grey xavier slater @emile cordelia regan smith lancelot ray linley @scorp mina pandora oliveira blaise leo zabini lily luna potter cara june bainbridge
