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Character Information
Basics:
Full name: Mackenzie Antoinette Dubinsky
Nick names: Mack Daddy, Mack, Kenzie
Hometown: Plano, Texas.
Age and birthday: Nineteen. April 3rd, 1992
House and year: University [Former Roanoke]; Second Year.
Boggart: Her Mother.
Riddikulus: Kate gaining sixty pounds and becoming as docile as Paula Deen.
Patronus and why: Mackenzie’s patronus is the Honey Badger. A fierce and ferocious fighter the Honey Badger will viciously attack when escape is impossible. Tireless in combat and highly intelligent the Honey Badger can wear out large opponents in battle. They don’t give up easily and wont go down without a fight.

School Information:

Wand: Inflexible Ivy Phoenix Feather, ten inches
Classes:
Major subject and focus: Auror Training: hostage negotiations.
Extracirriculars:
-Quidditch [Blind Side Beater; University House]
-Pride Club
-Muggle Sports
-Art Club
Animagus form, if applicable N/A

Family and Relationships
Parents: Adam Dubinsky (Father), Kate Carroll (Mother), Craig Peterson [deceased] (Stepfather)
Siblings: Kia Dubinsky (25), Roger Peterson (22), Alex Peterson (30)
Extended Family: She has a large extended family on both her father and mothers sides. Neither of which she see's very often, except for her mother's mom Alice. She counts Hunter as a sister as well.
Familiar: Extremely fat cat named Lunkhead
Sexuality: Homosexual.

Appearance:
PB: Taylor Momsen
Physical Description: Standing at 5’ 11”, she towers over most, making her feel somewhat awkward as she has spent most of her life until recently being shorter than her peers. Her avid training for Quiddich has left her a muscular body, making her a tall, lean, Quiddich machine. While she make look like someone could snap her like a twig, she is very solid and muscular.

Mackenzie has long blonde hair that is wavy and messy but sometimes she charms it straight if she’s not feeling lazy in the morning. She rarely wears make up and can be seen sporting a messy pony tail most days or wearing a beanie or hat. Mackenzie has two piercing’s, both in her ears, one on her lip and a white ink tattoo on both of her wrists, although its very hard to see it. You’ll have to know what you are looking for if you want to catch it. The script starts on her left wrist facing her so she can read it, the left wrist starts with "Don't judge a book", followed by the script on her right wrist that finishes the phrase by reading: "by the size of its wrist's".

When she’s not sporting her Quiddich robes, Mackenzie’s wardrobe consists of comfortable clothing. Her typical dress is a fitted pair of jeans, t-shirt and a sweatshirt or sweater of some kind. She does have a few nicer items when she needs to be fancy but overall her look is casual. She also enjoys hats, and rarely leaves her dorm without one pimped to the side. She is also sometimes seen (although very rarely) wearing her favorite hand me down sweaters from her step-brothers along with baggy sweat pants. But such occasions are usually saved for her days off.

Personality:

Likes: Quidditch, girls, a good book, doing well on her tests, getting high marks in her classes, Tatum, being in control, Hunter, pissing off her mother, spending time with her father, snacking on things, intelligent conversation, the muggle show Glee (will never admit to it publicly), early morning strolls, solitude, comfortable silence, people who get her to smile, being a romantic (although she’ll never admit to it), smoking, whiskey and coke, tattoos, panties, girls in panties, taking off girls panties, spontaneous making out, playing the drums.

Dislikes:Her mother, not being in control, being told no, clutter, having to spend holidays with her family, losing, being told she’s not good enough, letting down her walls, frilly things, clingy people, those ugly blue M&M‘s, asparagus, scrap booking, bare feet in public showers, really tall trees, anything coconut flavored, owls, Gossip Girl, Mario Lopez, men who think that they can turn her straight, wine coolers, saltine crackers, the color pink, people who try to one-up her.

Quirks:
-Can be very gentle and caring once someone breaks past her walls, its just a matter of patience for that person.

-Hates her mother and stepfather but is very close with her stepfathers children Roger and Alex.

-Flirts with anyone, sometimes she is serious, sometimes she just enjoys making people uncomfortable.

-Resorts to violence if she gets angry enough, she’s not scared to pull a punch at someone.

-Has an extreme love for Glee, Batman comic books and Terminator. She will kill anyone who makes fun of her for this.

-Doesn’t quite understand the hype of Quodpot, she much prefers Quidditch.

-Enjoys getting under peoples skin and breaking the rules.

-Pretends like she prefers being alone all the time but secretly really wants companionship.

-Ignores her mothers letters until she gets a howler.

-Has a slight addiction to Muggle sodas, her favorite being Mountain Dew.

-Hunter and Mack have been friends since she moved to Plano, Texas when she was three. Hunter is the only person who has seen her cry and the only person she really trusts to open up to. Her sister Kia practically raised the two of them, they even have a joint birthday every year. She honestly can't fathom a life without her best friend, which is why she picked the profession she did. Mack wouldn't trust anyone else with making sure Hunter didn't get killed.

-Her accent isn't as strong as Hunter's but it's still present in her speech. She enjoys her southern drawl, and plays it up when she's trying to impress a girl.

Secrets:
-She regrets she was never closer with her stepfather Craig. She misses him terribly since he passed away.

-Wears glasses to read, but doesn’t like to let people know. She doesn’t want people to think she is a nerd.

-Despite her claim that she "doesn't do relationships", she secretly wishes she could find someone she would want as more than just a one night stand. She's kind of jealous of Hunter and Michi's relationship, although, she doesn't want to have a preggo girlfriend. She just doesn't see the point in trying if the other person will just leave in the end.

-Can't say no to Tatum, no matter what it is she asks her to do. She's secretly in love with the redhead, but neither of them have realized it yet.

-Stole a candy bar once from a muggle store.

-Has a massive addiction to superhero comic books. She owns a huge collection that she hides in the back of her closet. Her favorite is Batman.

-Hunter and Mack fixed up an old tree house they found in the woods behind their houses' when they were eight. It's always been a place to hide when things got really bad at home, and it's an unspoken rule that what happens in the tree house, stays in the tree house. Mack still visits it on her trips home, especially if Hunter is with her. They've never told anyone about it, but Mack suspects that her older sister knows where they disappear off to. It's probably one of the few places they feel safe enough to let down the tough front they both put up.

-Sometimes blames herself for her parents splitting up. She wonders if they would have stayed together if she hadn't been born to cause trouble.

-In a small fit of artistic inspiration, she took this picture of Tater. She didn't realize how actually creepy it was until she was developing her film later on. Now she doesn't know what to do with it. She feels skeezy if she keeps it but she's afraid to throw it away in case someone finds it and figures out it was her. Besides, she kinda likes it, in a not dirtballin' way. She thinks Tatum is beautiful, and this picture only puts her in hot water. The only person so far who knows about it besides her is Sera.

Amortentia smells like: broom polish, the ocean and Coconut.
Strengths:
Her confident attitude and ability to speak her mind usually makes endears her to others, although she was never quite sure why. It also makes her a good leader. It has never let her down to date, and usually helps her achieve her goals to boot. Mackenzie will rarely give up on something until she achieves it. Her quiet demeanor makes it easy for her to play the role of observer, there are many things that she notices that others don’t. She is skilled at reading people but as regular human being sometimes this backfires on her. She also has a very thick skin, and is a pro at changing the subject if she doesn’t want to talk about something.

Weaknesses:
Her headstrong determination can also be somewhat of a weakness, as she sometimes doesn’t know when to stop. This has the potential to land her a deep hole that she will be lucky to get out of. She hasn’t yet, but there have been a few close calls. Another weakness is her lack of a sensor on what she says. Being able to speak ones mind isn’t always a good thing, and while it has made her some friends it has also made her many enemies. She can also be hard on herself when she fails, although she’ll never let anyone see it. She doesn’t often let many people in through her defenses, not that she wont pretend to be close friends with you. She has some trust issues that keep her from expressing her true self to people.

Detailed personality:
Mackenzie Dubinsky is often seen as the quieter one of the two blonde trouble makers that make up Mac and Cheese. Of course, compared to Hunter, anyone seems quiet. Even if she is a little more level headed than Hunter, Mackenzie is still just as loud and goofy as her blonde counter part. Together they are like a tornado, leaving destruction and heartbreak in their wake. When she is separated from Hunter however, Mackenzie tends to be much quieter and calmer. Most of the friends she has have been made through Hunter introducing them to her, and she's a little bit unsure of what to do without the taller blonde. She puts up a very convincing front for people she doesn't know though, always acting cocky and confident. In both Hunter's presence and absence she usually sports a smile or mischievous smirk. The only exception to this being when she is really focusing on her task at hand or if she is deep in thought.

Not to say that Mackenzie Dubinsky is always a cocky, pig headed jock; she can be quite the charmer when she wants to be. She has no problem with charming her way into random girl's pants, just as long as they don't hang around to long in the morning. Actually building friendships with people is something she has a hard time with. She doesn't like to get too attached to people she doesn't know well because she assumes that they wont stick around long anyway. It's much easier for her to love 'em and then leave 'em before they leave her.

For the few she is actually close to she can be friendly, charming, talkative, and downright caring towards them. She’s not very good at expressing her feelings, and often finds it hard or awkward to comfort people in distress. But for the ones who have broken through her hard exterior she makes a winning effort. She’s not exactly rude to the rest of the schools populous but she rarely makes the effort to really talk to them unless absolutely necessary. Although, if she finds someone who unexpectedly finds a way to make her smile and doesn’t irritate her too much, she takes a quick liking to them.

The one exception to her laid back demeanor is when she gets pissed off. She’s not pretty when she’s pissed off, in fact she’s downright violent when she’s angry. Those who aren’t friends with her, and have heard her say more than a few obligatory words to them have probably been witness to her fits of rage. She goes all out, shouting, swearing and breaking things included. Although she saves these bits of anger for things that really piss her off, namely her mother and stupid people. She has an extreme dislike of authority as well, usually ignoring warnings from the prefects and most rules. And while she doesn’t seek out trouble, trouble usually seems to find her. It probably doesn't help that she ends up using her fists when she get's pushed past a certain point of anger.

Behind her rough exterior and disregard for rules lies an intelligent, sentimental girl. She really cares about doing well in all of her classes, and aspires to be an Auror. In reality, Mackenzie has worked hard to build up these defenses because she cares too much. She hides behind her aloofness and sarcasm as protection, and if she starts to trust you then who knows what will happen. She feels like alienating people is the only way to keep from caring. She‘s afraid of cracking, and will do anything she can to keep that from happening. She’s afraid that if she lets down her defenses people will see the vulnerable girl who feels like her parents abandoned her.

For those who merit her romantic interest she is a surprising romantic, although she gets terribly embarrassed about it. It’s hard to get her to express herself romantically, especially since she doesn’t trust most people when it comes to her heart. That is one of the reason's she doesn't really do relationships. Once coaxed into really fancying someone (and admitting it to herself), she turns into a big softy, a side very few people have seen of her. She secretly enjoys hand holding, hugs and cuddling with whoever she’s decided to date. On the flip side though, she can be stubborn, rude and infuriating to deal with since she has a hard time expressing her feelings and an even harder time accepting them.

Personal History
Mackenzie Dubinsky was born to Adam and Kate Dubinsky on April 3rd, 1993. And from the moment she was born she was overly adored by her parents, especially Adam. While he had never seen himself as a father figure he instantly slid into fatherhood with ease, doting over his daughter’s every second he got. He enjoyed letting Mackenzie sit on his broom with him as he hovered a few inches above the ground, something that Kate always scolded him for. As a small child, Mackenzie was happy and precocious, always curious about learning new things. She inherited her mothers passion for knowledge and learning, spending many happy hours with her mom in the families library. Although her mother was happy to impart her knowledge on the curious little child, she was never very good at interacting with her beyond that. Kate got along much better with her older daughter Kia, who shared her mothers more feminine interests. Maybe she felt like there was too much of Adam in the little girl but she was always more of a teacher and authority figure for Mackenzie then a mother.

The family moved to Plano, Texas when Mackenzie was three and it was there that she met Hunter Sommer. The two of them quickly became the best of friends, both being the tom-boys that their mothers never wanted. Hunter really brought out the worst in Mackenzie, something that the girl didn't mind in the slightest. She had always rebelled against her mother, but the frizzy haired blonde really taught her how to do it well. Surprisingly, her mother took a real liking to Hunter, and even if the two of them caused havoc, Hunter could usually talk Kate out of whatever punishment she was threatening them with. Mack liked having someone who understood how she felt around, the blonde pulled her out of her introvert shell. Not soon after meeting, Mackenzie was running around just as crazily as the blonde girl and adapting to her Texan drawl.

Things seemed almost story book until her father returned to professional Quidditch when she was four. Her father was home less and less, her mother always managing her as a teacher does a class instead of giving her the care and comfort that her father had provided. While Kia got along with their mother well, she saw the disconnect between her mother and Mackenzie. Kia tried to fill her mothers shoes as much as she could with Mackenzie, which helped. Mackenzie and Kia never had a traditional sibling relationship and while they fought like sisters sometimes, Kia would always be there to take care of Mackenzie when she needed to be. Hunter also diffused a lot of the tension that existed in the Dubinsky family; she not only provided a comfort zone for Mackenzie, but also pleased Kate enough that she would leave her youngest daughter alone.

At nine she didn’t fully understand what happened when she saw her father and mother screaming at each other. She didn’t understand why her mother threw her fathers things out the door at him, and told him never to come back. At the time she didn’t understand what adultery meant or that her father was a Quidditch playboy who even when tied to a wife and child couldn’t keep it in his pants. She did know however that she always blamed her mother for the absence of her father in her life ever since she saw her mum kick him out of their suburban home. Even when she figured out what had happened in adolescence she never blamed her father. While she was sure that her fathers actions had something to do with her mothers treatment of her as a child, she felt like her mother shouldn’t have punished her because of her likeness with Adam.

After her parents split up Mack retreated back into her shell slightly, spending a lot of time up in the tree house that both her and Hunter fixed up. She couldn't deal with the rejection that her mother was giving her. Even if Kate hadn't been the best mother up to that point, she had at least treated Mackenzie with some fondness. Things only got worse when Hunter received the news of her brothers death. They spent weeks in the tree house huddled together. Mack had never seen her usually excitable friend so down trodden, it disturbed her greatly to see the taller girl cry. It was at that point that Mack decided that she had to be strong for her best friend. She put on a brave face for Hunter through it all, and was extremely loyal to the girl from that point on. She even got in a few scuffles with the neighborhood bullies on Hunter's behalf. Even if she'd never openly admit to it, she really did care about her blonde friend.

Even though her mother lacked the unconditional love that was entailed in her title, she always kept Mackenzie well taken care of financially. Adam had to pay a large sum for child support along with all of the money that Kate won in the divorce. Not that Kate’s family wasn’t extremely well of to begin with. Mackenzie had to give it to her mother (albeit begrudgingly), she was no slouch when it came to finances. The steady stream of rich and powerful boyfriends her mother kept never failed to keep them in high social standing.

Mackenzie’s departure for Blue Ridge School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was a relief for her, it meant she only had to spend a little over a month and a half a year with her mother (the rest of her holiday time was allotted to be spent with her father). What made it even better though, was the day that Hunter ran into the Dubinsky house with her own letter of acceptance. Ever since Ben's death, Hunter just hadn't quite been the same, and Mack was scared of what might happen if she had to leave her best friend behind. Luckily for both of them, they were soon headed off to school together and have been roommates ever since. Mackenzie was especially happy to see the old Hunter return once they arrived at school.

Since arriving at Blue ridge all those years ago, she has made a name for herself on the Quidditch team, surprising everyone by excelling at being a Beater instead of a Chaser like her father. She’s never really wanted to pursue a career in professional Quidditch however, it had always been more of a hobby then anything. Beyond being a secret book worm and violent Quidditch player, she’s also on the list of out and proud (or more out and doesn’t give a shit in her case) lesbians. She’s messed around here and there with plenty of girls, but no one’s been able to make her settle down yet. Even though school has brought her best friend back and allowed them to cause a lot of hell, it hasn't all be fun and games for Mack. Her step father Craig passed away during her sixth year, which impacted Mackenzie more than she ever thought it would. Kate has remained single ever since, and for now, Mack's relationship with her mother seems to be on stable ground. At least for now they can act civil towards each other while in the same room, and as always Hunter's presence usually keeps things running smoothly between the two women.

Mack was a little bit apprehensive about her choice to join Hunter in the Auror program at first, but after studying for a year she is positive that it was the right one for her. She always enjoyed physical challenges more than academic ones, and she feels like it's her responsibility to keep Hunter out of too much trouble. She rather enjoys the rush of the danger that her training provides, and she can't wait to prove her worth out in the real world.

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