Character Information
Basics:
Full name: Cricket Burford
Nick names:
Hometown:
Age and birthday: 6/3/2020
House and year: Quirank
Boggart: A vampire
Riddikulus: It turns into Nosferatu and starts tap dancing
Patronus and why: Wolf; loyalty, success, perseverance, pathfinder, intution

School Information:

Wand: 7½" rigid vinewood with phoenix tail feathers
Electives: Advanced potions, languages, wandless, ancient runes, and literature
Extracirriculars: Debate team, student government, cheerleading, gaming
Strongest subject: Potions, alchemy, & languages
Weakest subject: Transfiguration
Animagus form, if applicable NA

Family and Relationships
Parents: Meka and Sim Buford
Siblings: Rudy, Eli, and Mia Buford
Extended Family: Uncle Jason
Familiar: Two sugar gliders called Corey and Kevin
Sexuality: Heterosexual

Appearance:
PB: Tasie Dhanraj
Physical Description: Cricket is a tiny sprig of a thing, standing at barely 5'1. She's got a sweet face and there's something about her that just screams 'innocent.' She's got dark hair on the long side with a bit of a curl to it. She's got no discernible scars.

On her upper thigh, she has a cricket tattoo, something that she's kept secret accept for the kid who did it for her.

Personality:
Likes: Pirates, folklore, Guns and Roses, mythology, books, puzzles, partying, coffee, boys, history, lemon cake, her sugar gliders, puppies, snuggling, lazy Sundays, off the shoulder shirts, ties, The Beatles, fast cars, libraries, motorcycles, Corey & Kevin, rock, rap, punk, tattoos, cigarettes, things that glow in the dark, coconut, her name, video games, boys who play guitar, blue christmas lights, Metallica, classical music, piano music, cellos, watching ballet, Poison (the band), Say Anything (band)

Dislikes: When she gets in trouble but her brothers get off scott free, when kids her age assume that she doens't party because she's a scholar, straightening her hair, platform heels, ginger, being grounded, local news, embarrassing baby pictures, lentils, any sort of loaf shaped food that's not bread, wasabi, people who dance walk, snow, cold weather

Quirks:
*She's a total daddy's girl
*Instant gratification is the way to her heart
*Chain smoker

Secrets:
*She has a secret magical tattoo on her upper thigh of a cricket
*The kid who gave her the tattoo was one of her brother's friends, she lost her virginity to him when she was 16
*She never told her parents about the vampire incident

Amortentia smells like: Books, coffee, and tropical fruits

Strengths: Research, persistent, never gives up, loyal, outgoing, debating

Weaknesses: Even if a task is too much to ask, Cricket can not be convinced any other way, if she decides to do something, she'll be damned if she doesn't follow through. She over-stresses herself and makes up for it but partying just as hard as she works. Bad boys.

Detailed personality: Cricket is a strange combination of both her mother's and her father's personalities. On the one hand, she's a nerd to the core. She loves video games, reading, history, and studying languages. She's a musical nerd as well, talented and able to pick up almost any instrument she finds. Cricket is intuitive, thoughtful, and knowledgeable; in the classroom, an ideal student.

On the other hand she's a loud, she loves to go to parties, and she's quite the social butterfly. She never misses a party and gives her brothers a run for their money in any drinking game. She's fun to be around and she attracts a lot of attention. She's a people person who loves to be around others no matter what. She's talkative, inquisitive, and easy to talk to.

She's sweet but fierce. She's a fighter for the little guys out there and she's always defending people who don't or can't defend themselves. A little defender in her own right, people who fuck with her only do it once. She can hold grudge and she never forgets a wrong.

Personal History

Cricket had a pretty excellent childhood, the darling child of two loving parents. Of course there was always some sort of fight going on with her brothers but that was just natural. She was sorted into Quirank when she started at Blue Ridge and fell in love with the house. She had more access to learning and more opportunities to explore new topics than she ever had before. She spends a lot of her time in the library and in the common room discussing theories, treatises, and coming up with new theories.

She was introduced to partying at a relatively young age. She had her first beer at 13 and didn't stop going out after that. She spends all of her weekends at some party, dancing with boys and drinking a lot. At 15, while at one of these parties she got a magical tattoo on her upper thigh and promptly lost her virginity to the boy who gave her the tattoo. Instead of wallowing on bad decisions, she thought it was hysterical and fell in love with her new tattoo.

A bit scarier, at 16, Cricket had a run in with a vampire at a party in the woods. She had been off by herself smoking a cigarette when someone approached her from behind. She had felt the teeth almost sink into her neck but with quick thinking she turn and blasted the vampire with a spell. The vampire stumbled back and Cricket had seen that there was blood dripping from her chin. Cricket ran, tossing curses and jinxes behind her to deter the vampire from following her and she made it back to the ground safely. From then on, she never left the group at outdoor parties again.