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Bridgette Dunstan ([info]dunstan) wrote,
@ 2008-01-01 15:22:00

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NAME: Bridgette Holly Dunstan
AGE: 18
HOUSE/YEAR: Hufflepuff, 13th
SOCIAL STATUS: While Bridgette participates in a good number of extracurricular activities, she's barely in the upper half of the social ladder. She comes from a middle class background, and entered Hogwarts after attending local schools. Both her parents work for Pfizer, her mother a higher up in the research division, and her father a senior engineer in the sexual health department. Bridgette appreciates the income paying for her tuition, but isn't fond of the jokes.

APPEARANCE: Theoretically, Bridgette's rounded features would make her face seem youthful and friendly. However, the serious expression she usually puts on cancelled whatever effect they may have. Her blonde hair is shoulder-length and wavy. If she had a fringe, it'd mask her high forehead. Her brown eyes are wide-set, and she has a long, beakish nose, and high cheekbones. She keeps herself lightly tanned – all the better to hide potential blemishes and the scars of old ones. At an average height, she has a medium frame and build.

Choosing dark and muted colours, Bridgette dresses conservatively when she's not within her house common room. When classes aren't in session, she's basically wearing a slightly more casual version of the school uniform anyway. She keeps herself as neat as possible, though her efforts slip around exams. Her clothes aren't expensive, but they're not from random department stores either.

PERSONALITY: Completely serious in nature, Bridgette doesn't have much of a sense of humour. She mainly enjoys dry remarks; crude jokes, sarcasm, pranks, and rhetorical questions are met with strained smiles. It's just as well, since she has horrible comic timing, and couldn't tell a joke properly to save her life. She doesn't bother with icebreakers. Laying things out as clearly as possible – while perhaps masking a few things – would be far more productive than beating around the bush.

Being productive drives her. While she's not fond of compromising, she'll do it to move things along. She's far more stubborn regarding personal issues, and usually sets the stakes up higher so that she can be talked down to what she actually wants. She manages her time extremely well, and doesn't like surprises. She may have learned to adjust to them, but they still irritate her.

She is overconfident, though she never explicitly states how wonderful she thinks she is. It comes out in phrases like, "Law is my back-up," "I need to keep my options open," and, "Of course it's going to work." While she does put a lot of work into getting her grades, she's always up for a shortcut. It's not buying exams or eating Ritalin tablets like they're sweets, but she'll neglect to properly write out equations if it saves time, or use a quicker method to factor polynomials. If she is allowed to accomplish two things at once, she'll do that.

In most situations, she's already planning ways of increasing efficiency. Some of the methods may be more radical, but she's personally fine as long as she remains in control. When she's not, she quickly tries to find more ways of reasserting the power. She doesn't need public acknowledgement of it, just as long as she feels the reins are in her hands. She is dedicated and commits when she says she will. This isn't a show of loyalty, but a personal sense of pride.

Teamwork gives her trouble. Ideally, she'd do it all alone. However, delegating things, and then meet up again towards a deadline to put it together, is a better alternative than actually working together. If there's dead weight in a group, she'll pick up the slack before considering that there's a hitchhiker. She has no problems using sketchy means to procure something. She prefers to not hurt the feelings of her peers, but she tends to shove aside such sentiments if it means better results.

Bridgette is impatient, though she hides her facial expressions well. The giveaways are when she starts tapping her foot or repeatedly checking her watch. For the most part, she'll suppress frustration and hurt until she shouting at someone for daring to like Take That, rather than addressing the actual issue. Competitive and ambitious, she hates losing. It's quiet stewing, rather than making obnoxious comments. She says what she ought to say, but it doesn't always sound sincere.

She does strive to be friendly, and with enough effort, she can be charming. She especially does this around professors. If someone asks, she's willing to help without demanding something in return. She's visibly relaxed after long walks and while playing with a flying disc. Bridgette is capable of having fun; it just has to be scheduled first.

DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS: Well, it's difficult to pick Bridgette out from the crowd. Smartly dressed and Conservative, she's ambitious and has good grades. However, in a prestigious school, most of the students are like that. While she participates in numerous activities, she's middling in most of them. Thus, she'll never get Sportsman of the Year or singled out to be booed. She wants to be a doctor, and already knows a great deal about various drugs. Most of the time, she doesn't look like she's having fun, but that's something she doesn't dwell on.

LIKES: Flying discs, hiking, skating, productivity, the sciences, history, flowcharts
DISLIKES: Clingy people, disorder, sudden change, cheap chocolate, creases on book spines, Sir David Attenborough

INSIDE SCOOP: Bridgette's well aware of the mechanisms of big corporations, though she acts oblivious to it all.

Jokes aside, she doesn't care about her family's connections to Pfizer. Side effects and such don't matter to her: she knows it's enantiomers, and chemistry classes have taught her about the difficulty in separating them.

It was Bridgette who sold her brother's mint condition Star Wars (?) doll (or whatever, really) for new skates. However, she was ten, and she's felt bad about it ever since.

HISTORY: While often busy, Mary and William Dunstan did as much as they could to raise their children. They found a balance between giving space and imposing boundaries and responsibilities that didn't frustrate the kids. By placing trust in their three children, they hoped they would be the first ones Bridgette, Robert, and Charles told their problems to. The siblings were expected to remain calm and maintain good behaviour. In short, Mary and William had three mini adults, and Bridgette had an unspectacular childhood.

Her parents had their sights set on eventually getting their children into Hogwarts before the three were even born. Thus, despite attending the local infant and primary schools in Sandwich, Kent, Bridgette and her siblings were encouraged to participate in as many activities as possible. Bridgette worked hard to please her parents, and when they seemed satisfied, she set to work on besting others. This seldom happened, but that never stopped her from trying.

As the oldest sibling, Bridgette considered herself responsible for the other two, whether they liked it or not. She proudly walked them home from school, and played games with them. Instructed not to talk to strangers or help people find lost dogs, she obeyed the rules and kept them with her subconsciously. Her childhood wasn't a particularly warm one, even with family night, walks after dinner, and playing in the backyard, but she knew she was loved, and she loved her family.

When Bridgette accomplished the goal of getting into Hogwarts, she barely took the time to savour it. She was already trying to do something else, and set her sights on studying medicine. Free from her parents' schedules and responsibilities, she didn't rebel, but continued imposing them on herself. She maintained high standards, and a good relationship with her parents. Lacking many social skills at first, Bridgette had difficulty making friends. After realising she needed contacts and to at least tolerate her roommates, she began forcing herself to develop social skills. She's still working on them.


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