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Sept 12, 2020 14:08:34 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2020 14:08:34 GMT -7
There were days that Wendy was simply.... restless. She missed home, she missed being on the ice and while she'd found a place to get back to training during school, it didn't compare if there was nobody to coach and nobody to compete with. She often felt isolated when her family wasn't around her and during school they were all in their respective common rooms, all except Sunday, who was in Slytherin with her. It wasn't a very warm or welcoming common room, even less so when compared with most of the others in what she heard about their common rooms. She figured that on average most Slytherins didn't really see comfort as a highly important thing. Many were cold and calculated, highly ambitious and not really willing to let anything get in the way of their plans. It was very much true for her as well. The main problem was that her own ambitions were a little bit easier to realise if she actually got to be comfortable in her down time. Since the pillows were not very fluffy and her ambitions had very little to do with school, it was not too uncommon for her to find herself feeling out of place while in the castle. She'd become prone to wanderlust when feeling ill at ease and didn't care too much about rules or authority, even more so when academics were never going to get her what she desired. She was wondering the sixth floor at some point when she spotted one of her siblings. It was always good to see them. "Charlie!" She called out as she rushed towards her sibling. "Please tell me you have time to hang out for a bit? We should really just catch up for a while if you have the time." She said, hoping her hufflepuff sibling would be willing to provide her with company. The warmth and comfort of their presence usually cheered Wendy up quite a bit, so she really enjoyed being around them.
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Sept 16, 2020 19:30:04 GMT -7
Post by charlie marie weekly on Sept 16, 2020 19:30:04 GMT -7
▲ Divination class had just let out and Charlie felt more enlightened than ever. They were starting to learn xylomancy, which was new in the curriculum and focused on the reading of patterns made by twigs and other pieces of wood. The class was starting by burning wood and interpreting what they meant based on the burns in the wood and the arrangements they were found in. According to the required book (which Charlie had made sure to read front to back prior to the school year!), they would eventually do this by observing naturally fallen limbs and pieces of bark in the forest, and she was even hoping to maybe run into the centaurs that supposedly lived there. She had never met one before, but they were apparently great purveyors of astronomy and other divinities, all while being one with nature. To her, that sounded like a dream come true. Lost in wonder and staring at a few sticks that she had pulled out of the fire, Charlie was wandering down the floors and to wherever her next class was. It would be a few hours, but she wanted to keep working on the sticks to see if she could read anything from them. Hearing her name called, she looked up to see Wednesday running towards her. “Hey Wendy,” she blinked a few times as her concentration on the twigs broke and she began to comprehend what was going on. “Uhh…yeah I’m free right now,” she mumbled out in her daze, pulling her bag around in the process and shoving the sticks into it. “Did you know you can predict things with the patterns sticks fall in? It’s unbelievable. And there are centaurs in the woods too! I’m glad we get to stay here for another year,” she let out a long sigh after she finished, already forgetting what her sister had just asked her. @wednesday ● 315 ● Death Knell by Ghost MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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Nov 6, 2020 11:44:05 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2020 11:44:05 GMT -7
Well, up to some point Wendy should have known this would happen. She'd always been the odd one out compared to her siblings when it came to school. The rest did well, she just couldn't wait to get out. She knew she could even manage to live completely without magic, although not without her family. Perhaps she was one of the few that wouldn't have minded if she'd been a squib. No such luck though. Magic was a ton of work and when she heard her skating buddies she felt she was missing out on a normal school experience. Supposedly she'd gone abroad for training along with her new school now that her old boarding school had gotten destroyed (or so she told them) but she knew better than anybody she was attempting to sell horse dung to disbelievers. Her friends knew better. Or at least, Wendy thought they did. She didn't really connect too well with the wizarding community. Maybe it was because she felt they'd let her down. It didn't seem that the same went for Charlie, something Wendy was plenty happy about. Her sister deserved the very best after all. In all honesty, Wendy was very prone to barely paying attention in any of her classes. She sometimes put in a tiny bit of effort in charms, messed around enough in the potions lab to get passing grades but all in all her grades were barely passable, something her house mates weren't too fond of. They didn't get her obsession with a muggle sport and found it to be rather unbecoming to a witch belong to house Slytherin. Wendy ignored them all of course. "That sounds nice." Wendy replied as Charlie told her about divination. She sounded like she at least enjoyed the subject. That made one of them. She definitively wasn't going to trust the future to tell her if she was going to win or lose in competitions. She'd show the future and kick it's butt. That was very illogical of course but at the same time it made perfect sense to her. Wendy was just glad her time here was near an end. She just couldn't wait to get home and start to live a life that... meant something? Maybe not that. Just, skate again. "Did you want to maybe head down towards the lake? You could practise the stick divination thing." Really, anything for a bit of fresh air and good company at this point. charlie marie weekly
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Nov 18, 2020 23:58:58 GMT -7
Post by charlie marie weekly on Nov 18, 2020 23:58:58 GMT -7
▲ Xylomancy wasn’t just nice, it was freaking sweet! Charlie was still trying to wrap her head around how one could actually interpret messages from the sticks and burn marks, but that was kind of how all subjects in divination went. If there was a clear path to the answer, then what would be the point to begin with? Having to search for the answer was only half of the enjoyment she got out of it, and the rest came from trying to understand what it all meant. Calling it a perfected practice would be dishonoring all of the divination masters out there. Unfortunately she knew that she’d never hit the same degree of skill as say, a clairvoyant, may, but she could definitely try. And then if that didn’t work, she was already pretty good with animals, and there were plenty of jobs both magical and non-magical that involved them. She didn’t really care either way. Caught in her daydreams of potential aspirations and future careers, Charlie heard her sister ask if she wanted to go down to the lake. There was an addition of potentially using her sticks down there as well, and her face lit up. “That’s a great idea! I bet driftwood holds a lot of different things than the ones the professor gave us,” she chimed in. This was getting really exciting now! “I could even see if I can get a reading for you. It’s never fun doing it on myself because I fudge the results.” And she always tried to make them out to be good prospects with bumping into Whiskey during Hogsmeade weekends, or an owl from Whiskey, or literally anything related to Whiskey. But even Charlie knew that wasn’t the best way to approach readings of any kind, and practicing on Wendy would definitely be a better way to learn. “So what have you been up to lately? Charmed the lake with any freezing spells yet so you can skate?” It almost seemed like a challenge to her at this point. One that would get them in trouble, probably, but it would be worth it. In reality, it was only a few more months until the lake froze over anyways. The unfortunate part about that was then the giant squid wouldn’t be out anymore. “I’m sure if we rally the whole family together we could do it.”@wednesday ● 397 ● Habits by Allem Iversom MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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Dec 23, 2020 10:48:09 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 10:48:09 GMT -7
Wednesday adored her adoptive family. Each and every part of it. She knew she fitted in the picture and that everything would eventually come together rather naturally. Still, she felt very different from the rest of her siblings on a regular basis. She considered dropping out of school while many of her relatives chased academic pursuits that failed to capture her interest. It was evident alone in the interest that Charlie displayed when it came to divination. The only thing that Wendy seemed to have any true passion for was figure skating and it completely consumed her entire life. There was nothing she wasn't willing to consider giving up for the sake of progressing her skating career. She realistically knew that even that held boundaries but they were a lot harder to find when it came to skating. It was the one thing she felt most passionate about to the point of her own destruction. What was she, if not a skater? Nothing, except perhaps a pretty face. So Wendy smiled and chuckled ever so slightly in seeing the love and passion that Charlie had for he craft. She started heading towards the lake, knowing Charlie would follow her now that she had purpose at the lake. "I would like a reading. Should be interesting to see if I'm still on track. Where ever that track might lead me." She suggested almost playfully, even though she knew better than anything else where she wanted the path to take her. What she wanted the end result to be. She wanted to go all the way to the olympics and win them. A challenge, but Wendy would do just about anything to make it happen. No broken bones would stop her if she could help it. She had yet to find anything worth giving up her dreams for. Or even anything worth lowering the bar for. Wendy smiled an almost dreamy smile at the idea of freezing the lake over. "Now that is something that I'd love to see happen." She muttered in a bemused tone. It sounded like magic to her. "I've mostly been practising in the room of requirement so far, but it's not the same. I miss my friends back home and being on the ice." She shrugged in frustration. "I'm far too close to just ditching school and running off to give all my attention to my skating but I doubt our parents would approve. I think I'm supposed to finish school first." She crossed her arms in irritation and rolled her eyes. What good was a charm more or less going to do her? She wasn't going to use magic in her chosen field anyway. She didn't want to win by cheating and her veela charm felt close enough to cheating already. It gave her a rather unfair advantage of the other muggle girls and she struggled with that idea almost every time she lost her inhibitions and skated with nothing but passion and love. She knew it affected people differently because of the magic in her blood. No, she needed to be better than that. charlie marie weekly
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Jan 9, 2021 13:16:59 GMT -7
Post by charlie marie weekly on Jan 9, 2021 13:16:59 GMT -7
▲ “Awesome!” she exclaimed when her sister agreed to the reading. There was no guarantee that the driftwood idea would work in the first place, or if she needed specific kinds of wood for the xylomancy readings to function. Plus there was the whole thing where she was a complete amateur when it came to it. At least with crystal ball readings or tea leaves she had an idea. She had caught onto those quickly though, so she was hoping that this would be the same way. Knowing how the others initially started out, there was a good chance she was either going to be telling Wendy the best news in the world or that everything she ever wanted was unattainable. And again, that was assuming the process she wanted to use would even work to begin with. “If it doesn’t work,” Charlie started with her warning, “I can just do tea leaves at dinner, or something.” She thought that would be a way to encourage her sister in the off-chance this ended up going awry. As for what Wendy wanted to do with her life, it seemed like she had always been focused on her skating over everything else. Charlie had a tendency to get lost in her own little world though, as most of her siblings did with their respective interests, so there were definitely times where she wasn’t sure exactly what each of them had in mind anymore for their futures. Especially with Wendy, since her dreams were so focused on a no-maj talent. It seemed like the offer to freeze the lake was received well, and Charlie was surprised to hear that the room of requirement could turn into a rink. “It can do that?” her surprise leaking out. “Like, I knew it could be used for a lot of different things, but I never imagined it could go that far…”Her thoughts of the magical rink made her completely forget Wendy was talking about school, and Charlie had to blink a few times as she tried to understand what her sister had moved onto. “I mean, you’re almost done. Might as well finish now that you’ve made it this far, right?” If it had been a few years ago, she probably would have said something else, maybe more along the lines of how Wendy needed to ‘follow her dreams’, or something like that. But with only two terms left of school, what was the point of dropping out now? “I don’t think mom and dad would care either way, though,” she mused. “But I think being this close to graduation, it’s better to complete it. Another half a year won’t change much.”@wednesday ● 446 ● Electric Cross by Spiritbox MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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Feb 8, 2021 13:41:19 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 13:41:19 GMT -7
Wendy chuckled slightly and shrugged as Charlie mentioned that it could possibly not work. It was fine by her, since she had no specific need to know her future. It wouldn't change how hard she'd work to get there. If the blisters bruises and other injuries didn't show for that, she wasn't sure if anybody would ever really understand just how much she was willing to go to get to where she wanted to be. She looked at Charlie. "Can you do themed readings or is it more like a general one?" She asked, genuinely curious about it. She was interested in seeing if the future had something to say about her lack of love life. She wasn't planning on personally doing anything to change it but she knew life didn't exactly go according to plan, ever. It would be useful to know if she needed to prepare for future distractions. Train twice as hard now to compensate for the distractions later. Wendy laughed as Charlie seemed surprised. "It's not big, it's very tiny so there isn't all that much room compared to a normal one, but yes, it can." She said with a big smile. It was nice to think about skating. There was nothing better after all, although quiditch was fun enough. At least it helped with the team part that she was supposed to master for some unfathomable reason. She did a solo sport as career, who needed team spirit? She nodded a bit glumly at the mention of finishing now that she was that close to graduation. "Yeah. It's just so bothersome. I don't really want to pursue a career based in magic either way so it partially feels like I'm wasting time chasing school while I should be chasing sports. If I ever fall out of figure skating I could see about coaching but it's not what I want. I know exactly what I want, it's just a matter of getting there." And not letting anything get in the way of that. She shrugged again as Charlie mentioned thinking their parents wouldn't care either way. They were busy and they cared in their own way, but Wendy couldn't help but sometimes feel like part of a collection. Still, they were supportive of her ambitions and didn't try to stop her, so they did their very best. It was just very different from what most people got for parental guidance. She smiled a bit weakly. "Yeah, it's probably for the best. Better odds if I do decide to pursue another career path for some unforeseen reason." charlie marie weekly
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Mar 7, 2021 15:57:19 GMT -7
Post by charlie marie weekly on Mar 7, 2021 15:57:19 GMT -7
▲ Themed readings…now that was certainly an idea! A lot of the branches of divination covered specific things, though it was really a toss-up when it came to predicting things. While Charlie had her amateur level of understanding of the subject, she didn’t think she was so good as to be able to tell someone what their fate was, or who they should be looking out for in their love life. If that was the case, she would have performed the latter on herself ages ago. Because why not? “I could always try. But I would go to a professional if you really wanted something specific to be answered,” she admitted. The last time she had been in the Diagon Alley area, a few different palm readers and other divination types had shops set up. Some were quite obviously scams, sort of like the no-maj ones, while others definitely knew what they were doing. “Like, have you ever seen the ads in the newspaper for that Blishwick dude? Supposedly he’s number one in finding your soulmate.” Charlie had meant to grill the daughter of Blishwick, whom she had met during the party over the summer, more on the topic, but hadn’t found the time to corner the girl yet. One of these days though… She sort of understood the conundrum that Wendy was going through. Technically, Charlie could do the same – give up the magic life and go on to be a veterinarian or a reptile researcher. She had always dreamed of doing one or the other anyways, but the fact that magizoologists existed meant that she could still have a magical career if she really wanted to. Plus anyone could google a lizard, and find whatever they needed to know about it. The same couldn’t be said about dragons or other magical creatures. And she sort of wanted to change that. Unfortunately the same couldn’t be said about ice skating. There were definitely ways for Wendy to pursue her skill in a magical way, but it would take a lot more than knowing how to skate well, plus it didn’t actually solve the goal she had in mind. Still… “Well, you could always get into magical performance with your skating, I bet. In case it doesn’t work out on the no-maj side of things,” Charlie reasoned. “Not that I want you to fail, but you know, in the off chance it doesn’t turn out to be what you expected it to be. And that way you don’t waste all this time practicing.”@wednesday ● 422 ● Song by Artist MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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Mar 10, 2021 6:53:27 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2021 6:53:27 GMT -7
Wendy was glad that Charlie was at the very least willing to try a themed reading, although her mention of the Blishwick people made her doubt if it was really a good idea to pick love. Maybe career was a better option? She knew what she wanted there so maybe some guidance would help her to actually achieve that. She'd mentioned her ambitions to her siblings before of course, but so far she hadn't really gotten far with it outside of the practise she kept sneaking in during school time. The amount of rules she broke just to get herself up to the level she needed to be was nearly insane. She sighed for a moment. "I guess I don't really look for something specific? But some hints from the future would never be bad." It was the best she could do, she guessed. Wendy chuckled at Charlie's mention of Blishwick and finding soulmates. "Oh dear. I really don't have time for that." She said, laughing and shaking her head. If she was to juggle a boyfriend on top of everything she had going on she was sure she'd fail on all aspects within the month. She already had so little time to spare. There were times she seriously considered quitting school to pursue a figure skating career but she hadn't really told her siblings. She was worried how they'd take it. That they'd think it was stupid and the only viable choices was staying in school. Charlie suggested getting into magical performance and she thought about it for a moment. It was an option, she guessed. It wasn't what she wanted but it wasn't a horrible alternative. Then again, she could just as easily join a performace in a no-maj group. She didn't really feel like magic was an essential part of her life to begin with. She smiled at Charlie. "Well, fair point. Performing could indeed be an alternative. I was also thinking of maybe coaching when I get too old to skate? Or get like a really bad injury or something? I just know I want to skate. It's what I love more than anything." charlie marie weekly
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