Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 22:38:21 GMT -7
hello there, my name is elodie wood but you can call me whatever you like. i'm 17 so that makes me a 7th year at Hogwarts, where I reside in Gryffindor house. You could say I'm brave and bold but I personally think that I am hilarious, intelligent and (clearly not) modest. People say I look a lot like Daisy Lowe, but I don't really see it...
elodie may wood
nickname:
ellie, elle, lodie, and anything else people come up with.
age:
17
date of birth:
may 17th, 2005
gender:
witch, last time she checked.
blood status:
half-blood
sexuality:
pansexual - though she feels uncomfortable labelling it.
house:
gryffindor
occupation:
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wand:
maple, phoenix tail feather, 10", flexible
playby:
daisy lowe
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personality
likes:
quidditch, messing around, lame jokes, good banter, muggle music (it's so quirky, don't you think?), honeydukes, late nights, bright lipstick, birthdays, fiction books, feminism and human rights, and classes.
dislikes:
slytherins, ignorance, smokers, arithmancy, bugs, cleaning, small children, dickheads, wearing pants (she much prefers skirts and dresses), early mornings and getting caught.
erised:
to one day outplay her parents in quidditch, top all of her classes and in general, be the best at everything.
amortentia:
leather, woodfire smoke, old books and honeydukes fudge.
boggart:
being vastly inferior to her peers and being disliked by people - ultimately, rejection.
overall personality:
elodie is your typical teenage girl. except, of course, the tiny fact that she happens to be a witch. and a rather good one, at that. however, that's not from a lack of trying. elodie is a closeted bookworm, and studies a lot to achieve her marks in class, although she would rather her classmates not know about this and acts as if she's not studied at all. but really, she owes her OWLS to all nighters, and owes the all nighters to being a night owl. she loathes early mornings and getting up every day during term is a struggle for the young gryffindor, though she manages through being tempted by breakfast. she credits the house elves for her getting out of bed every morning, as well as her cooking skills, as elodie is a lover of all baked goods and ever since discovering the kitchens in her third year has occassionally visited for baking lessons.
with her success in school, elodie is modest, but in most other aspects, she most definitely is not. she grew up with a strong female figure in her life and has taken after her mother in confidence. elodie is a strong believer in the 'if you got it, flaunt it' way of life and takes great pride in her appearance, though often gets calls of "miss wood, get a longer skirt!" from teachers throughout the halls.
although elodie takes classes very seriously, she abides by the rule that the most important thing about school is
to have fun, while you still can. in her final year she doesn't get a lot of free time due to studying, but when the holidays come, she will bring down the house with late nights of underage firewhiskey drinking and blast the common room full of her favourite muggle tunes. she's a party girl, and loves to flirt and have a good time with her mates, as well as sit down and have a good gossip.
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personal history
mother:
katie bell, 44, position on the wizengamot, ministry of magic
father:
oliver wood, 45, former keeper on the scottish quidditch team, current guest quidditch commontater
siblings:
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pets:
eurasian eagle owl named merc, so large that he can no longer fit perched on her shoulder
history:
born into a world of peace and happiness after a time of fear and darkness, came elodie, whose name meant wealth and prosperity. it might not have gone that way if the father, oliver wood, had given her his choice of name. katie, the mother, had complained that "no, ol, ludo is a boy's name and the man was a right twat anyway," to the father's protests of "but he was an excellent quiddi-" "WE ARE NOT NAMING OUR
FIRSTBORN DAUGHTER AFTER A RUDDY QUIDDITCH PLAYER OLIVER SEAN WOOD DO YOU HEAR ME-"
yes, peaceful times.
don't get the wrong idea about that squabble - oliver and katie wood were very much in love and the perfect foundations for a happy family. both former gryffindors and quidditch fanatics, they raised elodie to be brave (except, perhaps, in the face of creepy crawlies) and bold. katie, who was a member of the ministry's wizengamot, was a critical figure in elodie's socialisation, as she saw a woman who was daring and had a right mind for justice. katie would often provoke elodie to question the ideals of the ministry and wizarding society itself.
elodie first showed her magic ability when she was just four years old, when throwing a particularly nasty tantrum about her bath time, and managed to vanish all the water in the tub, and every time the parents attempted to fill it again, it emptied itself in a manner of seconds. this lasted for about an hour. her parents were thrilled - gone were the nasty thoughts that their daughter may be unlucky enough to be a squib. they were so pleased that elodie thought that they may let her off having a bath that night, which, of course, was incorrect.
their pleasure stuck with her, and she remembers when she was ten years old, on the verge of being eleven and thus receiving her letter to hogwarts, asking her parents whether or not they would still be proud of her if she wasn't magical. they reassured her that of course they would be, but it led to questioning the attitudes towards squibs which was the catalyst for her interest in humanitarian rights.
upon receiving her letter (again, her parents were thrilled as the nervous doubt that their daughter may not be accepted was diminished) she was shipped off to hogwarts and sorted into gryffindor. during the sorting, the hat and whispered in her head that she would fit perfectly into hufflepuff or ravenclaw, and asked whether or not she had a preference. stubborn and bothered that it hadn't even considered gryffindor for her, she responded with, "you're the all-knowing piece of headware, you tell me", and was subsequently sorted into the house of bravery, gryffindor, which surprised and pleased her. she made friends quickly here, as well as getting along with a number of hufflepuffs, but she often found the ravenclaws that she met rather uppity.
growing up in a wizarding family left not much room for knowledge about muggles, although both katie and oliver, being half bloods, were not fully oblivious, they did not make an effort to teach their daughter about the other way of life. however, in her teens began her muggle music craze, after listening to a muggleborn's iDod. or was it uPod? anyway, it was some electrical device (hexed by a seventh year so it could temporarily work in Hogwarts grounds at a Gryffindor common room party) that played some excellent tracks that didn't possess the sort of aged tradition of most magical bands. from then on, her walls were plastered with non-moving posters of muggle bands, which got quite the side eye from a lot of her roommates.
although she loved her family, she often opted to stay at hogwarts during holidays after her third year due to extra access to hogsmeade, and in particular, honeydukes. she found that a lot of other students had the same idea and stayed back too, leading to late night sneak outs to the three broomsticks and brewing of aging potions to attempt to pass as an of age witch to procure some firewhiskey.
to elodie, hogwarts was her escape to this way of life, of hanging out with friends every day and immersing herself in learning and magic. it was all fun and games, until the student died on the express, on her way to her final and most important year.
she hadn't known the student, but it made her scared. and for a gryffindor, that was a big deal. since then, she was wary, always looking twice around her shoulder, making sure that if there was going to be another killing, she wouldn't be next.
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alias
name:
evie, but you can call me arctik!
age:
18 going on 19!
time zone:
UTC+10:00 (aka sydney, australia!)
reference:
proboards support
other characters:
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