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NICKNAMES»»Dru AGE»»53 BIRTHDAY»»12 January 1999 GENDER»»Female FACECLAIM»»Juliet Landau ✖ BLOOD STATUS»»Pureblood WAND»»13 inches, Silver Lime with Unicorn Hair, bendy with a bent shaft LANGUAGES SPOKEN»»English, French ACCENT»»Cornish ✖ PET»»Half-Kneazle Connor
LIKES xxx»» Conversing xxx»» Animals xxx»» Sweets xxx»» Lucidity xxx»» Dreaming DISLIKES xxx»» Shadows in her mind xxx»» Being alone xxx»» Missing dessert xxx»» Missing time in her memory xxx»» Prophesying HOBBIES xxx»» Reading xxx»» Divining xxx»» Dancing STRENGTHS xxx»» Kind-hearted xxx»» Open-minded WEAKNESSES xxx»» Inattentive xxx»» Naive FEARS xxx»» Going insane xxx»» Creeping shadows
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DISTRACTED xxx»» Drusilla's Second Sight was largely ignored by her mother when she was a child, and her father was too busy working to help her hone it. As a result, she grew up with little to no structure, and lacks a bit of control over it. She is easily distracted, either by visions or anything that catches her eye.
INTELLIGENT xxx»» When her mind is working properly and when she applies herself, Drusilla can be quite smart. She's gotten very used to having to muddle through a lot of information, and so recalling things she's learned comes easily to her. This was not always the case, hence her poor grades in history lessons while in school. But she's improved greatly since.
MAD xxx»» If asked to describe the Divination professor, most people's go to word would likely be mad, crazy, something to that effect. Even though her grip on the present has improved significantly, she can still come off as a bit batty. She has a tendency to ramble, her attention drifts when she's talking, and she oven speaks in riddles. As a result, she can come across as being more than a bit off her rocker.
LOYAL xxx»» Drusilla has never had a lot of people she could rely on; as a result, when she finds someone she can trust, someone who is there for her, being there for them in return becomes incredibly important to her. She would do anything for someone she considered a friend, even at the expense of her own well-being. Friendship is a rare thing in her life, and so it is of the utmost importance.
PLAYFUL xxx»» Sometimes it's hard to tell, but Drusilla is a very playful person. She enjoys any light-hearted distraction from her visions, be it a simple conversation or a silly game. While she isn't always quick enough to properly show off her wit, she can sometimes surprise people with a snip at them, though it's always in fun. She also enjoys games of any sort, provided they require two people to play.
HONEST xxx»» Her lack of social graces have made it so that Drusilla rarely filters herself when speaking; on occasion, this can mean that she rambles on nonsensically for ages, and other times it means that she is completely and even brutally honest with people. She has a habit of putting her foot in her mouth, and doesn't hold polite conversations very well. If she hears another person offer a polite lie, she'll often correct them, not realizing that it was made for propriety's sake.
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CHILDHOOD
xxx»» Most of Drusilla's early years are a blur to her; her gift of the Second Sight came early, passed onto her from her father, and she spent the majority of her childhood paying closer attention to the visions than what was happening around her, finding them fascinating. She unnerved her mother as a child, and was often kept away from other people as if she were a dirty family secret. This only grew worse when, for a full week when she was eight, she desperately clung to her father whenever he was home, insisting that he had to stay with her always, that he couldn't leave. This behavior continued until, that Sunday, her father was killed in a tragic accident. After this, her mother actively avoided her daughter whenever possible, which left the child to raise herself. As a result, she was always quite addled, and had little to no concept of how to behave properly and almost no control over her ability to See.
SCHOOL YEARS
xxx»» School provided Drusilla with something she had never had before; structure. She had a set schedule of lessons to attend, times to eat, things to do and places to be. In this new environment, she flourished, gaining a fair bit of the lucidity that she had lacked as a child. While her grades were hardly exemplary, particularly for a Ravenclaw, she was proud of herself simply for passing. By her later years in school, she rarely if ever missed a lesson, which she considered to be quite an accomplishment.
ADULTHOOD
xxx»» After her graduation, Drusilla thought it would be nice to do something with her life, but her mother, still disturbed by her daughter, insisted that she remain home with her, to 'care for her.' Their family, previously quite wealthy, had been bled dry by her grandparents before she'd ever been born, and in her later years, Juliana could not afford to hire anyone to care for her. The duty then fell to Drusilla, who tried her best but was always quite unhappy. When her mother passed away, Drusilla had lost a lot of the sanity she'd gained in school. However, she was able to pull it together well enough to be hired as the professor of Divination at Hogwarts. Returning to the school and its strict schedules of meals and lessons helped her significantly, though not so much as it did in her years attending. Having only her own lessons to worry about meant that she had less of her schedule filled with school, and left her to wander.
xxx»» Teaching at Hogwarts did bring Dru something she'd not had much of before in her life, friends. She met and got on well with many of her fellow professors, though she did have a tendency to develop a very strong crush on any who paid significant attention to her. A distinct lack of previous relationships and overabundance of rejection led her to mostly keep her feelings to herself. She counted herself fortunate that for once, her reputation as a madwoman helped in that regard; when she made a slip, people were easy to write it off as her being, well, mad. She did eventually develop a romantic relationship with Kolton Viner, but it ran its course and petered off rather unspectacularly. It wouldn't be so bad, except she began to worry about how awkward things would be if she ran into him. He seemed to've made himself scarce, though, for what reason she didn't know, and didn't care to ask. Eventually she made the acquaintance of Marni Kavanaugh, a new nurse at the school, and found herself quite fond of her.
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ATTENDED»»Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry HOUSE»»Ravenclaw CLASS OF»»2017 OWL SCORES xxxASTRONOMY»» A xxxCHARMS»» EE xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS»» EE xxxHERBOLOGY»» A xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC»» A xxxPOTIONS»» EE xxxTRANSFIGURATION»» A xxxALCHEMY»» A xxxANCIENT STUDIES»» A xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES»» O xxxCURSEBREAKING»» A xxxDIVINATION»» O xxxGHOUL AND GHOST STUDIES»» EE xxxSTUDY OF ANCIENT RUNES»» A xxxWANDLORE STUDIES»» A xxxWORLD STUDIES»» A NEWT SCORES xxxASTRONOMY»» A xxxCHARMS»» EE xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC»» A xxxPOTIONS»» EE xxxALCHEMY»» A xxxCARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES»» O xxxDIVINATION»» O xxxGHOUL AND GHOST STUDIES»» EE xxxWANDLORE STUDIES»» A xxxWORLD STUDIES»» EE DREAM JOB»»Keeping her current job CURRENT JOB»»Divination professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
■ Astronomy ~ A ■ Charms ~ E ■ Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ A ■ Herbology ~ E ■ History of Magic ~ P ■ Potions ~ E ■ Transfiguration ~ A ■ Divination ~ E ■ Study of Ancient Runes ~ A
NEWT SCORES
■ Charms ~ E ■ Herbology ~ A ■ Potions ~ E ■ Divination ~ P
CURRENT EMPLOYMENTUnemployed
DREAM JOBOwner of Borgin and Burkes
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■ CLEVERA tight spot, a bad position, or a desperate needs pulls the cleverness from from Cerise in ways that mostly go undiscovered in everyday life. Her quick mind and quick tongue have pulled her out of a number of sticky situations as well as caused a few. ■ TENACIOUSLike a dog with a bone, once she has set her mind on something it is hard to dissuade her from the objective. The problem is getting her to decide the course of action in the first place. ■ FIERYIt is advised to avoid getting in her way as she isn't one to listen to high minded principles or disparaging words. While she might be conflicted after the action, but possible regrets won't stop her from doing the action in the first place. ■ SHREWDA pattern, a puzzle, a slight of hand or a trick won't work twice on her. Given time she can figure out most motives behind people's actions. Deciding what to do once she has that information is another matter. ■ INDECISIVEIt might be a split-second, a few minutes or days, but each action or movement is thought out. She rarely rushes into things with thinking of every possibility and while that doesn't mean she avoids stupid moves, it does mean she has somewhat clear idea of what to expect if her plan falls through.
■ Headaches ■ Losing ■ Stupid Questions ■ Rich People ■ Arrogant Rich People
HOBBIES
■ Gambling Games ■ Peddling ■ Eavesdropping
STRENGTHS
■ Street smart ■ Shrewd
WEAKNESSES
■ Self-doubt ■ Over-thinking
FEARS
■ Failing/Eternal Poverty ■ Being alone
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CHILDHOOD Cerise's life was volatile, constantly shifting from a solid stable home to scraping up a few knots to get dinner. Her parent fluxed between a content happy marriage to screaming matches, most of the yelling occurred in the years of stability. Her father's shift positions and unreliable salary, mixed with her mother poor spending habits and their general need to save for her education saw most of her childhood happening in multiple homes, but ended with the suicide of her mother. Home was a shabby place tucked into a corner of Knockturn Alley.
SCHOOL YEARS School offered the chance to be someone new. Cerise was an only child and her cousin and her family were as distant as the moon was close. It gave her the opportunity to present a better side of herself, one draped in fine robe material and received even finer gifts. This act grew thin as the years went by and she turned her attention to more interesting things, questions that had plagued her for years. One in particular captured her attention in her second year and grew into a type of game. Discovering a way to tell what flavour of Bernie Bott's Bean you had, it was a fun game where she'd ask her friends to take a bean, show it to her and then let her guess before they eat it. Eventually she create a potion formula she used in a cup gambling game. A simple game where she poured water into two chalices and the third with her clear potion and bet her friends couldn't find her potion. She always won and thus earned her the name Chalice.
POST GRADUATIONIt was expect that she would go on to do incredible things despite her ill performance at some of her classes. It was not so easy. No job held her interest and her 'silly games' often ended when she tried to raise the stakes. In the end, she ended up where her father was, conning the walker-bys in a corner of Knockturn. Grinding her teeth and scheming of ways to distance herself from her failing father. That way until his arrest, which has adding considerable haste to her need.
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FAMILY Father Caelistine Somerset (incarcerated), Cousin Drusilla Somerset FRIENDS--- BEST FRIEND---- ROMANTIC INTEREST---- ENEMIES---- PETS----
