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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 8:30 pm
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xxx❖xxxG W E N D O L Y N xxxA L I C Exxx H I E Rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxx❖xxxA B O U T MExxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NICKNAMES »» Gwen, Gwenny
AGE »» 39
BIRTHDAY »» November 24, 2013
GENDER »» Female
FACE-CLAIM »» Kristen Bell ✖
BLOOD STATUS »» Muggleborn
WAND »» 10 inches, Holly with Dragon Heartstring, inflexible and knobby
LANGUAGES SPOKEN »» English, Welsh, some Spanish
ACCENT »» RP ✖
PET »» Pomeranian Bebe she's Yeni's dog but somehow she got stuck with her????
LIKES
xxx»» Coffee
xxx»» Sweets
xxx»» Combat sports
xxx»» Traveling
xxx»» Snow
DISLIKES
xxx»» People
xxx»» Attention
xxx»» Weird smells
xxx»» Being touched
xxx»» Quiet
HOBBIES
xxx»» Cooking/baking
xxx»» Watching telly
xxx»» Painting
xxx❖xxxP E R S O N A L I T Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
INDEPENDENT
xxx»» Gwen grew up having to fend for herself. She's used to getting things done with no help whatsoever, and if she has a problem, she figures it out on her own. It's not in her nature to ask for help. She's more likely to try every solution she can possibly think of that can be implemented on her own, no matter how comparatively difficult they may be. Having someone to rely on isn't a given in life, and she has a hard time remembering that she's not alone sometimes.
ACERBIC
xxx»» Gwen tends to come across as a little blunt, and a lot rude. She's not very good at censoring herself, partially because she doesn't see why she should bother most of the time. She's used to being alone, so alienating people isn't a big deal for her. It's something of a defense mechanism; she figures that if she's a jerk who drives people away, well, they were probably going to leave anyway, and at least she knew it was coming. She's snarky at best and downright hostile at worst.
PROTECTIVE
xxx»» Gwen hasn't had a lot in her life, so she's fiercely protective of what she does. Everything she's accomplished, everything she owns, every person she's allowed herself to care about, she will fight tooth and nail to keep and to take care of. She doesn't let go of anything without a fight once she's allowed it to be important to her. She's not above engaging in activities of questionable legality to go about looking out for what's hers.
DEFENSIVE
xxx»» Gwen is extremely insecure due to her youth and the mistakes she made. She's managed to make something better of herself, but she still has a lot of weight on her shoulders concerning her past. Being around people with their lives more put together than her own brings up reminders of these things, and she tends to get extremely defensive as a result. She's quick to pick fights and try to belittle people by pointing out all the things they had that she didn't, thus making their successes not as meaningful as her own. Alternatively, she tries to bring them down to her level, by trying to get them to lose their temper or confess to something horrible to prove they're not better than her.
DETERMINED
xxx»» Gwen's expectations were always set on the low side, but she'd be damned if she wasn't going to have them be met. She figured that she wasn't asking for much, the least people and the universe could do was give it to her. And she would do anything she could think of to get what she felt she was owed. She spent some time in her youth on the wrong side of the law trying to get ahead; eventually, a few close calls made her realize she was setting herself back and that she needed to do better. She spent a lot of time trying to find herself and a direction for her life. Once she had a plan, she wasn't going to let anything get in her way.
SNARKY
xxx»» Gwen has a very hard time being sincere. Honest communication, especially when it's positive, isn't something she's used to or comfortable with. She resorts to humor and teasing to try and diffuse the tension in any situation where someone is making her uncomfortable, either with a compliment or an expression of concern. It can be very hard to tell who she likes and doesn't like, because her preferred method of showing affection, and her preferred method of interacting with idiots, is the same; making fun of them.
STRENGTHS
xxx»» Iron will
xxx»» Self-sufficient
WEAKNESSES
xxx»» Emotionally distant
xxx»» Can't function without caffeine
FEARS
xxx»» Having nothing
xxx»» Opening up to people
xxx❖xxxB A C K S T O R Yxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CHILDHOOD
xxx»» Gwen was an only child, a fact she saw fit to thank the universe for every day of her life, if only because it meant no one else had to suffer through having her parents. Possibly the only positive thing that could be said about Owen Hier and Cheryl Keen was that they weren't around much. Which sounds like a very bad thing, except Owen Hier was a lazy slob with anger management issues who couldn't keep a job, and Cheryl Keen was an alcoholic from what used to be a well-off family who'd never quite figured out how to live with less. It was a match made in hell, and as soon as she was old enough, Gwen made it a point to never, ever be home at the same time as them, except to sleep. She took to spending as much time as she could hiding out at various neighbor's flats, or wandering the building if no one was willing to lend her their couch for a few hours.
xxx»» In her early years, Gwen saw herself as something of a Matilda character; a bright, unique little girl who'd been born into a terrible, terrible family. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be a Miss Honey around to come save her from her parents, and by the time she was ten, she'd pretty much learned to do without. She was remarkably self-sufficient, and also remarkably mean. The only way, she figured, to cope with the big, bad world, was to be big and bad herself. She had a terrible temper, much like her father, and was lacking in both patience and tact. Around when she was eight, her temper flare-ups seemed to coincide with a lot of odd events around the house, such as things her parents 'desperately' needed disappearing without a trace, or some new electronic they were oh so proud of short-circuiting without warning. The answer was revealed when she was eleven; a man came to her door, and informed her that she was a witch. Her parents thought it was a practical joke, particularly when he started talking about a special school she would be attending. Gwen, already smarter than both her parents put together, was able to more or less manipulate them into 'playing along', and soon found herself with a trunk full of spellbooks and an actual magic wand. By the time she was off to school, her parents had more or less forgotten the whole thing even happened.
SCHOOL YEARS
xxx»» Gwen did manage to remind them that she was going to boarding school, of course, though she had to spin quite a tale to avoid them making the connection between that and their strange visitor. She was thrilled to get to spend time away from home, away from her idiot parents. She did well enough in her studies, and loved Hogwarts and magic, but didn't care much for... well, anything else. She didn't like people, didn't want to make friends. Just about the only thing she cared about, at least once she hit fifteen, was having a good time. Which she did, particularly during holiday break her seventh year, when she met a boy at a party in her building and got pregnant. Gwen discovered her pregnancy less than a month after returning to school. She quietly disappeared during a Hogsmeade weekend shortly after, and never went back to school.
ADULTHOOD
xxx»» Gwen, not wanting to deal with her parents on top of her pregnancy, ran away from home as well as school. She was homeless for a few months, stealing to get by and breaking into hotels for a bed to sleep in. Right around when she started to really show, she caught the attention of an older woman who ran a diner she'd begun frequenting. Nana, as the woman insisted on being called, had realized that Gwen was alone, and suspected she was homeless, and offered her a place to sleep and rides to see a doctor in exchange for working at the diner. Gwen resisted at first, but eventually agreed, seeing as she was going to be working and therefore earning her way, not freeloading. Over the course of the pregnancy, she debated with herself over what to do with the baby. Nana tried to convince her to keep it and to stay on at the diner, but the offer reeked of pity and Gwen refused, she only let the woman help while she was pregnant for the sake of the baby. She decided to give it up for adoption; when the baby was born, she didn't even look at him, didn't hold him, too afraid that if she did, she would decide to keep him and ruin both their lives instead of just her own. He was put up for adoption, and that was it.
xxx»» As soon as she was recovered from the birth, Gwen vanished again, leaving Nana and the diner behind without so much as a note. She traveled a lot, deciding to bum her way across Europe, looking for something. What, she had no clue, but she figured she'd know when she found it. Eventually, she ended up in Spain, and met Yenifer Desai, who from the moment they met seemed bound and determined to Be Her Best Friend. Gwen had never had one of those before, the closest she'd ever gotten was Nana. But Yenifer had the same wanderlust Gwen did, if not for the same reason, and so whenever Gwen left Spain, Yenifer followed, to the point that finally she admitted she was never getting rid of the other woman.
xxx»» Eventually, Gwen got tired of moving around with no real goal or purpose. She'd been an ambitious child, with dreams and desires, and she felt like she'd lost that person somewhere along the way. Conversations too late at night over too many drinks ended up revealing too many feelings, and she decided it was time to go back to the UK and do... something. She wasn't really sure. But she felt like she needed to 'go back home', so to speak, and figure it out. The two women discussed Gwen's likes, her wants and needs, and eventually settled on the idea of opening a coffeeshop. Gwen loved coffee, and tea, and most especially hot chocolate, and she thought that, what with her lack of NEWTs, owning her own business was as good as she could hope for. Yenifer agreed to help with the money to start the business, and the two began planning.
xxx❖xxxS C H O O L AND C A R E E Rxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ATTENDED »» Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
HOUSE »» Slytherin
DROPPED OUT »» 2031
OWL SCORES
xxxASTRONOMY »» EE
xxxCHARMS »» O
xxxDEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS »» EE
xxxHERBOLOGY »» A
xxxHISTORY OF MAGIC »» EE
xxxPOTIONS »» O
xxxTRANSFIGURATION »» A
xxxCURSEBREAKING »» A
xxxMYTHOLOGY »» A
xxxWANDLESS MAGIC PRACTICE CLASS »» A
CURRENT JOB »» Co-Owner of I Like You A Latte (coffeeshop - pending)
DREAM JOB »» Reclusive millionaire
xxx❖xxxR E L A T I O N S H I P Sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION »» Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS »» Single
SIGNIFICANT OTHER »» - - -
FAMILY
xxx»» Father Owen Hier, Mother Cheryl Keen
FRIENDS
xxx»» Best friend Yenifer Desai
xxx»» - - -
ENEMIES
xxx»» - - -
ACQUAINTANCES
xxx»» - - -
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