| | BOOT, NICOLE P. i wanna roll with him, a hard pair we will be
FULL NAME: Nicole Penelope Boot
NEE: Bardera
NAME MEANING:
Nicole; Of Greek origin, meaning "victorious people." The French form of the name Nicholas.
Penelope; Of Greek origin, meaning "weaver". The name has come to signify a loyal, capable, and clever woman. Penelope, wife of Odysseus, fended off suitors by weaving during the day and unraveling at night a tapestry she said had to be completed before she would wed another man.
AGE: 29
BIRTHDATE: 23 November 1952
NATIONALITY: English
BLOODLINE: Halfblood
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
STATUS: Engaged
SCHOOLING: Slytherin, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, Class of 1970
OCCUPATION: Professional Quidditch Player [Chaser], Puddlemere United
FORMER OCCUPATIONS: Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Professional Quidditch Player [Reserve Beater], Holyhead Harpies
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THE INTERIOR a little gambling is fun when you're with me
IN DEPTH: By just looking at her, you can see that Nicole is one tough chick. She's everything that a Slytherin should be--ambitious, determined, strong, and ruthlessly competitive. She is a girl that gets what she wants and she doesn't care who she has to step on along the way to get it. In fact, she often tells Finn that the only reason he's Seeker for the United is because he's the captain--if he weren't, she'd be all over him for the position. She also can't stand the feeling of second place and is a horribly sore loser when she doesn't have her way, undoubtedly one of her biggest failings. She doesn't make it a habit to take defeat well at all, so it's a good thing that she has a very controlled temper. Unlike some, she doesn't scream and yell and curse when she's bettered... she sits and plots revenge, and she really likes to do things just to spite people that have won against her.
Nick despises the public eye. She loves being a professional player because it's her dream, but really wishes on most days that the press would just bugger off and leave her alone. She doesn't strive for limelight, but unfortunately, she seems to get more than any other player on the league apart from her dear captain--being the only female on the defending British Cup champion team will grab you a little bit of attention here and there. She's not reclusive like Finn, and she does everything that's asked of her, but not if she can manage to get out of it first. The only press-related bits she will happily perform are for charity; if it's just for the cover of a magazine, you'll be hard-pressed to book her for it.
Despite her mad popularity, Nicole has never been very fortunate in the romance department. She's that girl that is a guy's best friend, but when it comes to dating them is completely lost. She gets tons of male attention, but it's always the wrong kind (she hates pigs), and she doesn't particularly grasp the concept of how to attract the right kind. She regards her current relationship with teammate Martin Boot to be some sort of freak of nature accident, but a big part of her hopes that it's more than that--she'd never tell you, but she'd kind of like to have a steady boyfriend for once.
LIKES: Quidditch, proving people wrong, being respected, Martin when he's not acting like a baboon, exercise, taking care of herself, kicking ass, taking names, a sense of self-respect, witty humor, and winning.
DISLIKES: Morons, dressing up, being judged on her looks, men, male chauvenists, pigs, probably you, the press, alcoholics, impertinent questions, Slytherins, Martin when he is acting like a baboon, and junk food.
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
PATRONUS: Cat
BOGGART: Being dropped from the United's roster
FAMILIAR: Nick's got one pet, a rather large and lovable shaggy dog that goes by Bludger. Why Bludger? Walk through her front door and see--he rather likes to tackle people to the ground.
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THE EXTERIOR russian roulette is not the same without a gun
HEIGHT: 5'9"
WEIGHT: 134 lbs
HAIR: Blonde
EYES: Blue
DEFINING FEATURES: Thankfully, despite being hit by bludgers more times than she can count, Nicole has never sustained any lasting injuries. However, there was one point when she was playing for the Harpies in which a player from the opposing team knocked her off her broom, causing her to fall. It was cushioned, but the spell was cast slightly too late and she hit harder than she should have, on top of her broken broomstick at that. There's two nasty scars across her back from where the wood slashed through her skin.
MANNER OF DRESS: Simple, and not extremely feminine. That is to say, she doesn't take a lot of time in the morning to make sure her hair is just right, and she won't go out and buy clothes because she thinks they're 'cute'. A t-shirt or cami are fine for her on most days, a habit that has her stylist perpetually flailing.
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| | OF FRIENDS AND FOES and baby when it comes to love, if it's not rough it isn't fun
PARENTS:
Father; Benjamin Jonathan Bardera
Mother; Sylvia Nicole Bardera neé Monroe
SIBLINGS:
Brother; Adam Benjamin Bardera
Brother; Jonathan Tyler Bardera
Brother; Tristan Jason Bardera
OTHERS:
Sister-in-Law; Nadiya Bardera
Sister-in-Law; Dana Bardera
Niece; Jessica Bardera
Niece; Cavanaugh Bardera
Nephew; Nathaniel Bardera
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Martin Boot
CHILDREN:
Son; Matthew Chase
PAST RELATIONSHIPS: ...ugh.
BEST FRIEND: Bree Dawlish
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| | THE LIFE AND TIMES i'll get him hot, show him what i got
BIRTHPLACE: Essex, England
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Puddlemere, England
SOCIAL STATUS: To put it lightly, Nicole makes a lot more money than she really cares to have to deal with, or could ever manage to spend.
HISTORY: You'd think that growing up in a family where your three other siblings are boys would make it difficult on all counts to be anything resembling girly, but for Nicole Penelope Bardera (that's Nick to you), it was exactly the opposite. Not only was it very possible to be feminine, but it was encouraged greatly by her parents... too bad she never really subscribed to that. As a child, Nick's favorite things to do included rolling in the mud, catching frogs, and playing Quidditch with bothers Adam, Jonathan, and Tristan. She found that she was talented in the sport from a very young age (much to the dismay of her mother, who had only kept having children to have that girl that she could play dolls with), beating out her much larger brothers on many occasions. Her favorite position was Seeker, but she was always determined to better her siblings in everything, and so she became quickly adept at being a Beater, Keeper, and Chaser as well, just to show them up. It wasn't just that, though--she really, truly loved the sport and would have liked to become as good at all the positions as she could. When she was seven years old, Nick knew that Quidditch was exactly what she wanted to with the rest of her life.
Therefore, the young girl was crushed when she got to Hogwarts. Being sorted into Slytherin was the worst moment of her life--Slytherin captains did not believe in allowing females on their team, no matter how good. Out of sheer spite, she tried out every year, but her determination never seemed to get her anywhere, and somewhere in fifth year, she decided that maybe it was best if she gave up her dream. She was very interested in Care of Magical Creatures, after all, and maybe the life of a teacher or a beast trainer was better for her. It wasn't like she could expect to be a Quidditch star when the extent of her practice were the summer games of two-a-team she played with her brothers, and this was what she convinced herself of. It may have been nothing more than a defense mechanism so that she wouldn't get her hopes up in case the professional teams saw her as 'just a girl' too--she didn't need to think about that, all it did was make her bitter.
Nick graduated with average grades, but enough to secure herself a desk job in the Department for the Regulation of Magical Creatures at the Ministry. As much as she tried to tell herself that she was content where she was, she wasn't at all. It was too dull for her, and when news came to the family of Tristan making a position as starting Chaser on the Caerphilly Catapults, she was devestated... She tried to be happy for him, but it proved nearly impossible when she looked at him and saw exactly what she wanted to be. The event was a blessing in disguise, however--she knew that if she was ever going to be happy with herself, she was going to have to get up out of her desk and do something about it. At age 19, she picked up her broom and began flying again.
While she still had her natural talent, Nick knew that she had a lot of time to make up for as well, but she didn't just jump into her work, she dived head-first. Not only did she practice for hours every day, but she attended every practice of Tristan's team, watching, taking notes, studying moves. She listened to every game that she could watch on the wireless. She checked out books on the greats of the game, read them over and over and over and over again. Her Slytherin ambition did her well, and two years later, Nicole had a place as a reserve beater on the Holyhead Harpies.
While she moved up in their ranks quite quickly to a starting position, the Harpies were not where she wanted to be. She didn't fit in on the all girl's team, despite the fact that the notion of it was a dream come true for her school-aged self. No, Nicole decided quickly that she needed to move away from the girls and play on a field that she had been used to since birth: a field full of boys. Six, to be precise.
Nick made the transfer to Puddlemere United at age 23 as a starting Chaser, seeing the team through their championship year and becoming the only female on the team. This singles her out a bit, and as a result she's become a lot more of a star than she ever was with the Harpies.
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| | OUT OF CHARACTER no he can't read my poker face
PLAYER: Cor
AKA: ![[info]](https://www.scribbld.com/img/userinfo.gif) mikipinku
PB: Kate Hudson
MUSIC: Poker Face by Lady Gaga
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