Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2021 18:06:10 GMT -7
Camilla Gehenna Quirrell
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WAND
Bloodied tanto
| CURRENT JOB | PREVIOUS JOBS |
Professor of Wandless Magic | Dark wizard . . . hunter |
APPEARANCE
pronunciation
kah-MI-lah geh-heh-nah
nickname
Mostly rude words
age & birthday
Approximately 45
March 7
gender & pronouns
Female; she/her
blood status
Half-blood
sexuality
Bisexual, strongly inclined to women
face claim
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| LIKES | DISLIKES |
| ● Dark magic ● Cigars ● Fiction ● Rabbits ● | ● Dark Magic ● Her uncle ● Snakes ● Being alone with her thoughts ● Being bothered by others |
PERSONALITY
Camilla is very much the product of her upbringing and the desire to distance herself from it. She has a love-hate relationship with dark magic: she is an addict after too many years of exposure and training in the dark arts; at the same time, she hates dark magic and herself for her addiction. Her hobby/previous profession of hunting dark wizards was a combination of a desire to stamp out dark magic and an excuse for her to indulge in her own addiction without repercussions. Her tendency to chain-smoke is another coping mechanism. The tobacco is a poor substitute for her real craving, but it’s better than nothing.
Camilla has sought an opportunity to teach as a way of purging her demons. Her uncle’s training methods ranged from merely cruel to monstrous, but they were undeniably effective. She wants a chance to show that there is another way to learn the skills she mastered. A way that doesn’t involve becoming an addict.
At the same time, Camilla is badly starved for affection. Her life has been made of periods of isolation, sometimes externally imposed and sometimes from her own choice. Her human contact has been badly limited and what there has been has often been negative. The few “relationships” she has had have been plagued by distance and have failed to fulfill any real need for positive contact.
She tends towards cold indifference and is often abrupt instead of diplomatic, but rarely ever lies.
ORIGIN & RELATIONS
Father: Arthur Cooper, muggleborn graduate of Ravenclaw (deceased)
Mother: Sibi Cooper nee Quirrel, pureblood graduate of Hufflepuff (deceased)
Uncle/Guardian/Instructor in Magic: Quirinus Quirrell
HISTORY
Technically, the most formative event in Camilla’s life was the death of her parents during the first unpleasantness. Her uncle was the closest living relative and was given custody of the very young girl without much thought. While not a death eater at the time, he was deeply immersed in the dark arts and saw in his niece a protege–someone he could mould into a mistress of the arts he had spent decades crafting.
At the time, Quirinus was not seeking immortality through avoiding death, but through the more intellectual means of passing on his abilities to the next generation so that she could do the same. As a result, until his timely death, Camilla lived in the private home he maintained and worked to satisfy the increasingly insane demands of her uncle and keeper. She had no contact with the outside world, trapped in the small building with a library of books on magic which delved into some of the darkest practices uncovered.
Quirinus was obsessed with the idea that wands were a weakness–an affectation that had been used by weak wizards to bolster their unworthy abilities. He himself had been raised and trained with a wand before he had begun a series of ever darker plans to free himself from the crutch. Again, in Camilla, was a perfect test subject. His sister and her husband had been powerful and he expected their daughter, with her mixed blood, to be similarly endowed. Thus it was that his foremost goal was to turn Camilla into a witch who would not use a wand.
A combination of meditation, drugs, and dark rituals were the path she was forced to take to please him. The constant use of dark magic drove her into addiction to the various intoxicating effects that can accompany the prolonged use of such spells. It also drove her to a fanatic hatred for the abusive tyrant who’d trapped her in a jail of her own cravings.
Quirinus’s plans would have ended badly for him eventually. Had he not abandoned his project when his new master decided that a damaged addict was not required for future plans, he would have met his end in a gout of dark fire at the hands of his niece within a year or two as she worked to complete her own training.
With his death, however, the wards trapping her fell and she fled England entirely. Camilla was torn between the need to use dark magic to stave off the cravings and the desire to have nothing to do with her uncle. That was combined with her lack of a technical degree to send her into something she could justify.
Well trained in magic, Camilla found an outlet in the form of hunting other practitioners of dark magic in the Americas, where they at least spoke English “fluently”. It was during her time in the United States that she took up tobacco. It barely managed to even touch the deeper need for the dark magic at her fingertips, but it was enough to center her mind so she could control] it.
The idea of teaching was initially repugnant to her, not because she disliked the idea in of itself, but because she feared she would fall into using the methods that created her. Taking the job was more about trying to prove to herself and the world that someone like her could have existed without going down the dark paths she followed–to prove her uncle was wrong; because he undeniably created a skilled and powerful witch, but pray Merlin that she could show that he hadn’t needed to push her into darkness to achieve it.
OOC
| name | pronouns | age |
| Sandri | Complicated | Greater than 18 |
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