Post by elaine rosalei knight on Sept 15, 2013 2:18:50 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; height: 600px; border-left: 10px solid #9E3C33;] Welcome to MUDBLOODS & MURMURS! ELAINE ROSALEI KNIGHT [/style] [style=font-family:times; font-size:10; letter-spacing: 6px; line-height: 2px color:#9E3C33; text-transform:uppercase; font-style: italic; ] you're a wizard, harry CHARACTER FULL NAME: Elaine Rosalei Knight NICKNAMES: El, Laine DATE OF BIRTH: October 26 AGE: 34 (nearly 35) GENDER: Female SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual OCCUPATION: Auror BLOODSTATUS: Halfblood FINANCIAL STATUS: Middle class YEAR: 1982-1989 HOUSE: Gryffindor Alumini WAND: 11 1/2" Hawthorn w/ Augurey tail feather ALLEGIENCE: The Ministry and The Order CANON: No Tell Us a little about how you look HEIGHT: 5’9” WEIGHT: 145lbs HAIR COLOR: Brown EYE COLOR: Blue DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Her catlike eyes are intense and focused. FACE CLAIM: Angelina Jolie ATTIRE: Elaine’s style always reflects the task at hand. As an auror, efficiency is important. Whatever gets the job done is her motto. As a female trying to maintain a reputation of class, it’s a different story. She can embody grace and elegance as easily as she can cast a spell. Her closet is full of clothes with a wide range of styles that can accommodate her two lives. Even though these two aspects of her life are far from the same they are both who she is and all that she knows. It’s second nature to her. In the privacy of her own home, she is more relaxed, but she will never be found with a hair out of place. The importance of appearances has been engrained in her since birth. and then a little about yourself LIKES: 1. Her cat and owl: They are quiet comforts in her life. 2. Making money: She likes that she earns more than enough to support herself and supplement her parent's income. Though her sister doesn't know it, she has taken over her school costs. 3. Darjeeling tea: At the end of the night she likes curling up with her cat and a cup of tea. 4. Her muggle upbringing: It’s given her the chance to live a more hands-on life, adding to her skills as an auror. She considers it an advantage and an aspect a pureblood wizard might not quite grasp. 5. Family: Despite her rocky relationship with her father, Elaine holds her family close to her heart. She supports their way of life even if she doesn’t agree with it, but at the same time, she quietly wishes for her former rich lifestyle. 6. Etiquette: She was brought up to have manners and taught to act a certain way, but she expects the bare minimum from everyone and will feel a sense of superiority when people don’t act up to their expectations. 7. Landscape and greenery: It’s so refreshing to be out in the open of Mother Nature when society is made up of stones and concrete. 8. Work: Working keeps her active. She doesn’t enjoy work, but she enjoys being able to focus on things and getting results. It’s sometimes to the point of obsession and she will neglect herself to get the job done. DISLIKES: 1. Her father’s jack-of-trade mentality: She feels he needs to take responsibility and grow up. But she’s more concerned that his ways are rubbing off on Natascha and she will grow up to be more like him. 2. Gambling: Well, squandering money in general. Not being smart about money irritates her and she hopes her father will eventually learn his lesson. That day is yet to come. However, she will be generous to herself and splurge. She has not shaken off her former lifestyle as easily as she likes to imply. 3. Swimming: She can’t swim. For all the talents she has, it’s the one thing she forgot to train herself in and now feels ridiculous getting lessons for. 4. Failure: Who likes failure? 5. Unexpected obstacles: She can work around them, but she prefers to plan everything out to a T. She also dislikes drastic changes in her life and it will stress her out. 6. Natascha’s incessant need to change her nail color: It’s not so much a dislike, but an irritant especially when she paints them obnoxious colors and shortly after finishing (yes a day or two is shortly after), she will spend an hour doing it again! 7. Her body mass: Even for a female her body mass is slight. It doesn’t help that she puts her health on the back burner. She can’t carry as much muscle mass, though she’s worked around that in her own way. 8. Herbology: It was the one subject she didn’t do well in even though she tried very hard at it. BOGGART: Her mother in rags and out on the street. ERISED: A beautiful home in the country side. OVERALL PERSONALITY: Even though it seems Elaine lives two separate lives: one as an auror and the other as a former aristocrat, these two lives make up who she is. There is no longer one without the other and because she’s been doing it for so long, she doesn’t know how to be different. She’s a quiet and steadfast figure. She minds her manners and puts a lot of effort into her work and into her appearance. With her family reputation she is gracious and elegant. She knows how to play the part of a social figure even though she’s not a social butterfly. She prefers to stay at a distance and observe those around her. Keeping a watchful eye comes from being an auror. She’s suspicious of everyone. Especially with the rise of the Dark Lord, she can’t be too careful. As a halfblood she has her muggle-side of the family to worry about and if there is anyone she is loyal to, it’s her family. Regardless of what kind of person they are - right or wrong, bad or good, her loyalty trumps all of that. She will defend her loved ones regardless of what consequences befall her. She doesn’t mind if she’s attacked, but never her family. She’s also constantly worried about her younger sister, Natascha and hopes she doesn’t turn out like their father. She’s hard on her and expects more. In general, she has expectations of everyone, but she will never hold them to it unless she feels they are capable of it. And when she does, she is unyielding and will push people to be better. Elaine is a thoughtful person. She always thinks before speaking or acting. This also translates into her work. She makes plans before diving into it. She finds this much more productive. Plan and expect obstacles, but her planning and focus can border line obsessive. She puts 110% into everything she does and she loses herself in it. She can go days without sleeping and eating to get a job finished so long as it’s a success. Likewise, if she fails, it hits her hard and she will become obsessed in her failure. In life, she was so focused on supporting her family that she has yet to fully question if this was the life she wanted to lead. Life and a career sort of just crept up on her... nevermind if she's put any thought into having a family of her own. history your family and such PARENTS: Richard Knight (55; Jack-of-Trades) & Jacqueline Delacroix (57; French Literature Instructor) SIBLINGS: Natascha Anneliese Knight (17, Gryffindor) PETS: Athene (short-eared owl) and Pepper (black Tiffany cat) OVERALL HISTORY: Elaine was born to a young couple: Richard and Jacqueline. Through her mother’s side she was born into a lifestyle of wealth and reputation. Where etiquette and propriety were expected even from a young child like Elaine. But with expectations, she was rewarded greatly. Her life was any girl’s dream come true. Being the first grandchild she was spoiled rotten and even though her maternal grandparents found Richard distasteful they were pleased with the outcome of their daughter’s relationship. But as a young child, Elaine found her father fascinating as her mother did, once upon a time. To be honest, what young child wouldn’t be? He told fantastic stories about a world she spent many years only believing was real because she was a little kid. While still being her mother’s dutiful daughter, she looked up to her father’s whimsical ideas and spontaneous plans. They were two extremes in her life, but with both present she found balance. She found something in each her parents. But all dreams fade and as she grew older she realized just how irresponsible her father was. He went from dream scheme to dream scheme, in an endless loop. He couldn’t hold down a steady job nor did he seem to express any desire to do so. Even as a child she knew her father’s way couldn’t be the right way. She inherently took after her mother in that. While having to deal with growing up and often taking responsibility for herself, which is a lot for a young girl, she received her Hogwarts letter. Looking back she realized what a break that was for her, but at the time it was just freaking awesome. Elaine never had second thoughts about starting her life as a witch, but it did take some time getting used to being away from home. It provided her a way to step out from her parent’s shadows. She didn’t have to worry about being proper and she didn’t have to face her father’s failures. She was determined not to have to depend on her father and she worked hard in school. With her high marks, her ambition, daring, and skills it only seemed natural for her to pursue a career as an auror. On her way to becoming a grown woman and starting a career, Elaine found it irresponsible when her parents became pregnant again at their age. Okay, her age. She was seventeen! It did little to distract her from her goals, but she could not ignore her younger sister. She did not want to be a sibling that never saw the other. Even if their age gap made it impossible for them to fit into the standard sibling mold. She doubts siblings who grow up together feel quite so much responsibility to the other as she does to her younger sister. Perhaps she has forgotten exactly when she started becoming so concerned with her sibling's life, because matters between her polar opposite parents only grew worse when her maternal grandparents died and her mother was left an inheritance their father would begin to squander away. Elaine grew to feel betrayed in the following decade. Not because she thought she had any right to the money, but for the way he placed his endeavors before his family without thinking about the consequences. From what she was born into, she could only watch as her father dug their family into what could only be established as poverty. Instilled with certain expectations as a child it was hard to accept, gradual or not. As an auror she made good money. She started to help support her family’s way of life, but also a part of her felt that it connected her to her father’s parents who were killed by Death Eaters in the first war. Though she never met them, she felt like this was a way she could fight for them. Avenge them in a way that their squib son was incapable. After all, they were the reason she was a witch. (Though she does feel pity for her father in that.) And being halfblood, she felt a responsibility to fight for her kind in the war. Now with the threat rising once more, she has joined the Order. Ready to protect the ones she loves, she’s ready to bring down as many Death Eaters as possible. now for the person behind the character ALIAS: Pickle AGE: Years EXPERIENCE: Years WHERE'D YOU FIND US?: Current member [style=padding-right:5px; padding-left:9px; font-family:georgia; font-size:10; letter-spacing:0px; color:#fff;line-height:10px; text-align:center; border-left:0px dotted black; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:0px; text-shadow: 0 0 0.2em #F87, 0 0 0.2em #F87;] Credit goes to MDIZZLE FO RIZZLE at Caution 2.0 |
