Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 17:46:34 GMT -7
hello there, my name is jessamine burke but you can call me jessa. i'm an adult and thirty so that makes me a graduate of hogwarts. You could say I'm ambitious, cunning, & resourceful but I personally think that I am determined, independent, loyal. People say I look a lot like hannah john-kamen, but I don't really see it...
jessamine hilla burke
pronunciation:
jessa-mean / hill-a / burk-e
nickname:
jessa, jess, min-min
age:
thirty-years-old
date of birth:
december 3, 1994
gender & pronouns:
female & she/her
blood status:
pureblood
sexuality:
heterosexual
schooling:
hogwarts - slytherin
occupation:
co-owner of borgin & burkes (formerly - lost to male relative)
co-owner of gamblin galleons casino casino (currently)
wand:
11 1/2", black walnut, unicorn hair, swishy
playby:
hannah john-kamen
appearance:
Jessamine stands at 5’6” with an hourglass figure. Having a slim figure all her life, there were times when she looked almost sickly, but after a while and once she hit puberty, she filled out an hourglass figure. With long flowing curly dark brown hair, sometimes pulled back on the side and braided tightly, she pairs it with cat green eyes. Jessamine has her ears pierced, three on her left and four on her right ear (an industrial being one). She has a small tattoo of a rose on her left wrist, as well as her daughter's initials underneath of it.
Jessamine’s style usually consists of dark colors, dull colors and usually lacks bright pastels. Usually seen in red, black or even purple, she favors skinny jeans and a nice blouse paired with heels but doesn’t mean she won’t pull out a dress or even comfy sweats and baggy shirts. She enjoys things with floral patterns if she goes that route. She sometimes wears an array of bracelets and rings as well as a necklace that changes constantly. Her makeup consists of dark red lips and smokey eyes, but that doesn’t stop her from going el natural sometimes.
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personality
likes:
being the center of attention, being in control, treacle tarts fresh out of the oven, baking, doing her daughter’s hair, being busy, and reading historical books (fiction and non-fiction)
dislikes:
having to fight with her sister in public, getting a divorce from her husband, blood purist, the pureblood elite groups, the purifiers, having to lie, being lied too, losing the ones she loves, and the sight of blood
erised:
for a better world to raise her daughter in, a world without blood purists and a divide between the muggleborns, half bloods, and purebloods
amortentia:
treacle tarts, sandwood, green apple shampoo
boggart:
being found out as a blood traitor fully, she may have already been outed for marrying and having a child with a halfblood but people believe that he lied to her and while they dislike her for keeping custody of her child, they aren't as mean as they could be if they learned she was just spying on the elite purebloods
overall personality:
Raised in a world of pureblood elites, Jessamine was bound to be a Slytherin. Having to be both ambitious and resourceful, it was no shock that she followed her sister into the Slytherin house. However, Jessamine wasn’t like many purebloods and had a lighter side to herself, being extremely intelligent and determined to make the most out of life. Unlike her family, she never saw herself as a blood purist but always played the part to make her family proud. She was always striving for her families love and affection, which played into a lonely upraising in her mind.
However, as she grew and developed, her nice and nonjudgemental side appeared and many people flocked for her attention. Jessamine has, and always will be, and attention seeker. Always wanting to fill the lonely void, she goes after any type of relationship she could get. She’s also a hopeless romantic but rather cautious of whom she falls for in fear of being rejected by her family and the pureblood community.
After learning that her husband, and thus her daughter, were half-bloods instead of purebloods, she felt betrayed. Not only by the man she loved but by those that turned away from her because she refused to give up custody of her beautiful daughter. Though she didn’t really care, she once again had to play the part of a blood purist and became a secretive person. On the outside, portrayed to the outside world, she hates her ex-husband and her relationship with her sister is strained, however, behind closed doors she is still dating her ex-husband and she’s extremely close with her sister.
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personal history
mother:
geraldina burke (nee bulstrode), deceased, home-maker, pureblood
father:
mortimer burke, deceased, borgin & burkes owner, pureblood
siblings:
belladonna burke, 34, co-owner of gamblin galleons casino, pureblood
partner:
jonathan --, 34, open job, half-blood (pretended to be pureblood), divorced / secretly dating
children:
kinsie burke, 11, hogwarts student, half-blood
pets:
wolfe, a auburn & white calico cat
serafina, a white persian cat [went to hogwarts with kinsie]
history:
In a world where pureblood elites had taken over the minds of blood status, Geraldina Bulstrode and Mortimer Burke decided to marry and promised each other a life of upstanding, pureblood society and comfortable wealth. While the Bulstrodes were semi-well known purebloods, they weren’t as prominent as the Burke were in the pureblood society, best known for owning a shop in Knockturn Alley for centuries along with the Borgin family. The life that Geraldina was promised was not one that she received, and it showed itself when she gave birth to Belladonna less than a year into the marriage, a sickly baby that Geraldina blamed on the alley itself, the darkness sucking the life out of her child and herself. Something that Mortimer refused to see or address, instead, spending his time taking care of his shop. It was about four years later, of darkness and decay taking over Geraldina’s life and being taken out on their eldest, that she fell pregnant again. They wished for a boy, an heir – and instead, they got another daughter, Jessamine, something that Geraldina blamed on Mort’s constant pressure for a boy and constant jinxing. Thus, a wedge was formed within the marriage of Dina and Mort, something that Mort ignored and would later result in her running away.
However, before Geraldina could take her leave, she raised her daughters on the harshness of the world, teaching them not to cry for it annoyed her, and pretty much letting her own annoyance present itself in her parenting. Jessa and Donna were inseparable at a young age and kept mostly to themselves instead of the watchful eye of their parents. They never left their home above the shop, not knowing the outside world that was a mystery to them, their mother craved it, but the children did not.
As her second birthday rounded the corner, Dina left them. She disappeared after pacing the living room seconds before. Mort was optimistic that she would return, Donna was less so optimistic, and Jessa didn’t understand what was happening. When their mother didn’t return, their father fell into his drinking habits, Donna pretty much took over as the mother figure, and Jessa slowly forgot her mother’s voice or what she looked like. Jessa had to grow up without either parent, one literally disappearing into the daylight and the other hiding away with a drink in his hand, some would say she was better for it, but others would say she had a hard knock life.
When she was old enough, she was homeschooled within her home above the shop along with her sister by a horrible woman. Someone that she tried to scare away and play pranks on, even after her sister left for Hogwarts at the age of eleven. Jessa was upset that her sister left, having gotten away from the horrid tutor, but when her letter finally came four years later, she was ecstatic. That was the last time they saw the tutor and the first time she saw the castle. Jessa prayed that she would be in the same house as her sister, and the hat did just that – calling out Slytherin as if his life depended on it.
Jessa got in much trouble while at Hogwarts, mostly through the friends that she made and the way that she kept their attention. It was in her third year that she met someone that made her better, Jonathan. Jonathan was a pureblood in another house, and they had met on the Quidditch field, a sport that Jessa used to escape, and he used because he loved the sport. They were on different teams, and she had hit him accidentally and sent him to the hospital wing. Visiting him in guilt, it wasn’t long before a romance bloomed between the two of them. The next four years went by in a blur, filled with horrible friends, kissing beneath the Quidditch pitch with her boyfriend, and taking care of her father’s shop with her sister – Donna was good with the numbers and Jessa with the stocks. They kept up the secret of running the shop for some time. When she graduated from Hogwarts, Jonathan proposed and offered her a life outside of Knockturn Alley, and she quickly took it. At the age of eighteen, she was engaged, and the two were running Borgin & Burke’s for some time. Jessa later married within a few months, and within the next year, she was pregnant. Giving birth to Kinsie was the best thing that happened to her, other than marrying the love of her life. It was about three years later that their father died and they lost the shop to a male relative; they were pissed. Jessa became unemployed, and her husband was the breadwinner as a Quidditch player. It wasn’t long before the two purchased a Casino together, the two of them being the perfect partners and they brought the Casino up and made it the best place in town for the Pureblood elite.
However, she became the black sheep within the Pureblood elite community when a scandal broke out; somehow people had found out that her husband was actually a half-blood and when Jessa found out it was true and not fake, she told him they couldn’t be together – at least, not in public. She still loved him, and realized then and there she didn’t care about what the world thought, but she needed to keep face for her sister. Thus, the two divorced and she moved out of her home with her daughter, instead of taking up residence with her sister for a time before finally getting her own apartment. On the inside, she was dying, and on the outside, she pretended to be happy. Her daughter still saw her father and Jessa still got to kiss the love of her life, they were divorced to the world, but they were still married in their eyes. Having to fight with her sister to the public, it hurt her, but she knew she had to keep up the trust of the purebloods as well as keep her sister’s face so that people kept coming. On top of Jessa’s own horrid life, her sister lost her love as well – except that he had died – and she comforted her behind closed doors.
With each passing year, the world grew darker, and their business grew better and better. The Casino became home to the meetings of many ‘Purifiers,’ and it meant that it was the perfect way to spy and feed intel to the Order. They kept up their charade and kept the business booming. With the attack after the Triwizard Tournament and then the attack on Ilvermorny, she knew that something had to be done – if not for the world then for the safety of her half-blood daughter that started Hogwarts in the 2024 school year. Reality has finally set it, both she and her sister were blood traitors though no one knew, and they were playing with fire each day they pretended to be a pureblood elite within their own casino.
If anyone found out…they would surely be killed.
site events reaction:
Jessamine wasn't openly affected by the murders, the kidnappings, the destruction all in the name of killing people of lesser blood. In the beginning, raised on the ideologies if pureblood elites, she didn't really care about it much. She was more of the type that it was none of her business, that she should stay out of that crowd. As time went on, however, especially after she learned the dark truth of her husband's blood status that her "ex-husband" and daughter could be openly affected by the darkness of their society. The attack on the students after the Triwizard Tournament was the turning point for her, especially because her daughter was due to start at Hogwarts the next school year, and Ilvermorny had another effect on her. She needed to think for her daughter's safety, not the damn pureblood ideology that was forced down her throat. Jessamine, now allowing her daughter to attend Hogwarts this year as a first year, fears that her daughter will get mixed up in the good, the bad, and worries deeply about her time there.
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alias
name:
rissy
age:
twenty
time zone:
eastern
reference:
other characters:
too many
