Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 11:07:07 GMT -7
hello there, my name is hadley barbados but you can call me hallie or lee. i'm a gryffindor and 16 so that makes me a 6th year at hogwarts. you could say i'm brave, chivalrous, and daring but i personally think that i am heroic, risky, and stubborn. people say i look a lot like emily rudd, but i don't really see it...
hadley nym barbados
pronunciation:
had-lee nim bar-bay-doe-s
nickname:
girl: hallie or hattie
gender neutral: hadley
male: lee
age:
16
date of birth:
09 january, 2008
gender & pronouns:
bio female, genderfluid; she/her/hers, they/them/theirs, or he/him/his dependent on day
blood status:
muggleborn
sexuality:
pansexual
schooling:
hogwarts, gryffindor
occupation:
hadley doesn’t have a clue what they want to do; the closest they’ve gotten is ‘something fun’
wand:
9.00 inches, oak, unicorn hair; rigid
playby:
emily rudd
appearance:
- five feet, six inches
- hadley has a myriad of small scars all over their body, most no more than an inch or two in length; none are particularly notable
- despite being genderfluid, hadley doesn't make much of an effort to change their appearance on a day-to-day basis. most of what they wear would be considered androgynous, since they prefer button down shirts and dark wash jeans when not in their school uniform. as such, they don't really expect people to be able to tell what gender they identify as that day, but will get rather pissed if they introduce themself and still get misgendered.
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personality
likes:
bloody lips, comics, dancing, fistfights, house pride (for any house), kickboxing, loud music (especially rock), making up stories about their scars, parties, people who smile even when they're missing teeth, persuading people to see things their way, scars, skinned knees, sweating, toothpaste, wildfires, wonder woman
dislikes:
cowards, long hair, not being the center of attention, playing it safe, unobservant people, when people don't listen to them
erised:
for everyone to think of them as a hero
amortentia:
aquafresh toothpaste, blood, burning wood
boggart:
not being able to save people (especially themself)
overall personality:
hadley has been obsessed with the idea of being a hero since they were young; the fact that their mother was a real hero and their father wrote about fictional heroes, the idea was ingrained deeply by the time that hadley found out that they were magical. as a result of their literal magical powers and the culture they grew up in, hadley has developed a flair for heroism – but not always in a good way. hadley knows that in order for there to be a hero, there needs to be someone in distress, and more than once they’ve been guilty of putting themself or their classmates in danger just so they can play the hero in the situation. it’s a nasty habit, and hadley still doesn’t quite realize that it’s wrong, since their illusions of grandeur (and their teenage brain) tend to blind them to many moral realities.
another relic of their need to be a hero is hadley’s inability to have people say no to them. they’re of the opinion that heroes always get what they want, and that by compromising on a position they’re somehow making themself less of a hero – if they were asked to explain that tendency they’d give a vague explanation about having the moral high ground. as a result, hadley can be stubborn as all hell. this is even true when they realize that they’re the one in the wrong. hadley has lost more than a few friends because of their stubbornness, especially because they almost never apologize for being in the wrong.
all of this leads to the natural conclusion that hadley is rather emotionally tone-deaf. they aren’t good at deciphering what other people are feeling and responding in a manner that’s respectful of those feelings. in some ways, they’re not even good at deciphering their own feelings, which makes everything infinitely more complicated. at the end of the day, hadley always returns to their true goal of being seen as a hero, no matter what regrettable decisions that may lead them to.
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personal history
mother:
primrose barbados, 41, firefighter
father:
stanley barbados, 43, comic book artist
siblings:
none
pets:
none - hadley desperately wants a dog, but their parents don't want them to get one since it can't come to school with them
history:
from the day they were born, hadley’s parents knew that they were going to be trouble. they weren’t a particularly bad child, but whenever they were displeased about something, their parents knew it. hadley was a loud baby, and that never really changed. their parents were concerned when hadley’s tantrums often coincided with the object of the tantrum (which was normally car keys, since they hated the clanging, jangling sound they made) went missing. for a while, hadley’s parents assumed that it was just coincidence, since car keys did have a habit of being left in the strangest places, and they weren’t sure if there was another explanation for the phenomenon.
the rest of hadley’s childhood passed in relative anonymity, with things still occasionally going missing when their temper flared up. perhaps the most interesting part of hadley growing up was their obsession with heroes that stemmed from her parents’ careers. hadley’s mother was a firefighter, and to hadley, that was one of the coolest things in the world – running into a blazing fire to save someone sounded oddly romantic, even though hadley had seen the burn scars on their mother’s arms. they much preferred their mother’s stories to their father’s, though – even though their father wrote about superheroes, they were just stories. no one had powers like that.
except… hadley did. when a strange woman showed up at their house and told hadley and their parents that hadley had magic, they almost cried. and then they danced around the living room for a half an hour, only able to settle down and listen when they had physically exhausted themself. the woman said that hadley had to keep their identity a secret, which only made hadley think more about how like they were a real, bona fide superhero, with a secret identity and everything. everything seemed like a game to hadley, and the reality of it didn’t sink in, even when they were on the train to hogwarts.
hadley was sorted into gryffindor house, which was appropriate with their flair for heroism. being around a bunch of other kids who were constantly getting into trouble was good for hadley in some ways, but bad for them in others. they got to play hero as much as they wanted, since there was always someone who needed to be rescued from some sort of sticky situation, but that only reinforced that they were a hero with secret powers, and everyone needed them to save the world. perhaps the only good thing that came out of this was the fact that hadley studied hard so that they could learn to control their “superpowers”, though they found they were rubbish at just about anything that didn’t directly relate to saving people. their teachers urged them to think outside the box to make the lessons interesting, but hadley wasn’t having any of it, and continued to ignore all but the subjects they thought would be useful.
when the first student was found dead on the train, hadley was more confused than anything. they didn’t understand how someone could get killed when they were on a train of people that were basically superheroes. they tried not to think about it too much, honestly, because the death on the train called their own heroism into account – why hadn’t hadley been there to save the day like they always had been before? when the kidnappings came, though, hadley actually had an excuse for not being a hero – they were recovering from an accident that left them with two broken legs (oops). they were recovering in the hospital wing when the attacks came, which left them in a terrifyingly vulnerable position. hadley still regrets that day, because they should have been helping fight instead of sitting, useless in a hospital bed. it didn’t matter that they were only a fourth year – they had wanted to help.
with hadley’s fifth year came the arrival of the triwizard tournament, and once again, they lamented their age. getting to prove themself in a series of challenges sounded like heaven on earth for hadley. but, they were too young to enter, and had to satisfy themself with living vicariously through the hogwarts champion, who became hadley’s own personal hero. they thought anna weasley was the coolest thing since sliced bread, though they never got around to telling the older girl about their crush (mostly because rumor had it anna was in love with a french boy). when anna won the triwizard tournament, hadley just about fainted with joy.
sadly, that joy was short-lived, because the vessels carrying the foreign students back to their homelands exploded, leaving much of hogwarts confused and scared. hadley attended graduation, but it was a subdued affair, and they weren’t able to say anything to the departing seventh years because they all seemed to be scooped up by their families as soon as they walked the stage. when word came that students from ilvermorny were coming, hadley was beyond excited – not because ilvermorny had been damaged, of course, but because new people meant tons of new partners in crime… and new people to save.
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alias
name:
puck
age:
19
time zone:
est
reference:
topsites
other characters:
albus potter, aras ollivander, cecelia rousseau, dustin bainbridge, emilia pond, 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
