Name: Carly Lynn Travers
Residence/Hometown: Concord, New Hampshire
Age/Birthday: 18. May 21, 1993.
Gender/Sexuality: Female
PB: Jennifer Lawrence
Any notable differences from the pb? Most of the time she keeps her long, blond hair tied back in some configuration; otherwise she'd be playing with it all the time. She likes to wear contacts that make her blue-gray eyes appear green. Typical dress.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: 7 inches. Swishy. Cedar. Dual core of jarvey fur and doxy wings.
House and Year: University House. Formerly Champlain.
Schedule: Charms with Olivier.
She took both charms and wandless her seventh year and when she finishes one more semester of charms she intends to study more in depth wandless.
Strongest subject in school: Charms
Weakest subject in school: Care of Magical Creatures
Extracurricular activities: Art club, orchestra, cheerleading (head of her squad).
Boggart and Riddikulus: Her boggart appears as a giant boulder rolling to crush her. Her riddikulus is a great pick axe that cracks the boulder in two so it splits just in time.
Amortentia smells like: a summer day, Cool Water, sugar cookies
Patronus: Jackrabbit. Quick and fierce. Associated with the fae and considered to be a trickster.
Animagus Form: N/A

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family Dad- Royal Vernon Travers: politician
Mom- Catherine Travers (nee Margulies): closet alcoholic
Brother- Royal Vernon Travers II: attends Dresden (either his fifth or sixth year)
Sister- Marguerite Jennifer Travers: in her second year at Dresden.

Her father groomed her from an early age to take up the family mantle as a politician, but as soon as Royal was born he began doting on the boy instead. Left in the lurch, Carly generally dislikes her brother and doesn't trust her father to have her best interests at heart.

She likes Marguerite enough when she's not trying to be her shadow.

Carly protects her mother's secrets, especially her alcoholism. Of all the people in her family she trusts her mother the most (though she should probably trust her the least).

Familiar: She doesn't have a very good hand with animals and thereby doesn't have a familiar.
Any other relations we should know about: Grandfather Cecil Travers is retired politician, now a man of leisure, his wife Marguerite Travers was a housewife (and died four years ago). Grandfather Carl Thompson Margulies was a business magnate (died before Carly was born), his wife Jennifer Margulies was an uptight socialite, but after her husband's death she had something of a personal renaissance and reinvented her life.

Carly's relationship with her grandfather Cecil is a complicated one. She constantly wants to please him but can never measure up, simply because she's a girl. He thinks it's a shame in the most patronizing of ways. She rages at how he treats her because of the bits she was born with.

She thinks her grandmother Margulies is off the rails compared to the rest of her family who have all the political politesse and know the social etiquette from start to finish. She can't quite believe it when her mother tells her stories of how her grandmother used to be.

Significant Others: Dated Hawthorne Nikitin in their sophomore year. When he moved on she didn't and she's been relatively obsessed with him ever since.
Friends: Hard to come by in her line of business. Mostly she has people she gossips about and then the handful of people that she doesn't; they're about as close as she gets to having friends.
Enemies: Pretty much any girl that Hawthorne takes an interest in. She makes a good share of enemies with her vicious gossip.

Personality
Likes: Rock and hip hop music. Terrible reality tv.
Dislikes: Romcoms, useless decorative items that have no function, girls who take a shine to her Thorny.
Quirks: -Gets terrified by horror movies.
-She's incredibly flexible.
Secrets: She doesn't have an truly devastating secrets, but she tends to act as though she does.
Strengths: Strong willed. Capable.
Weaknesses: Bitchy. Untrustworthy.

Detailed personality: Gossip monger extraordinaire; she doesn't bother with that tiddly shit Shell Horton published in the DA Post. She's hard to know, rather harsh. She keeps her own secrets, but drops others like its no one's business. It's a wonder anyone bothers to put any amount of trust in her. She can't really articulate why she does what she does. Maybe it's a safety mechanism, maybe it's just how she's learned to function when surrounded by other people. She's not quite self-aware enough to confront it.

She's not entirely unknowable, but she doesn't make herself very vulnerable. She takes a long time to truly trust anyone.

She's an achiever, desperate to please her family even though they've dropped her in favor of Royal.

She can be fun and lying just underneath the bitchy surface is a bubbly, vivacious girl who enjoys a good party with good people.

Personal History: The Travers side of her family has a storied political legacy. Her grandfather Cecil Travers was a high ranking official of LAW before his retirement. He is constantly saying that Carly should have been born a boy and then she'd be truly magnificent.

She was groomed to be the next politician among the Travers line, but then Royal was born and when he reached the appropriate age for the typical training he started to show some talent. Carly was left by the wayside.

She started getting a bit vindictive, particularly to her younger siblings. This spread into school and her interactions with other children. Pretty soon she was the gossip queen and no one would cross her for fear they'd end up on her list.

In her sophomore year she started dating Hawthorne Nikitin. He seemed like a good idea at the time, fun and weird, someone who would probably horrify her parents. She didn't expect that she'd fall ridiculously in love with him. She didn't think he'd break up with her for some other girl, even though that was MO. She didn't expect the heartbreak, the seemingly unending depression that almost held her back a year in her studies.

Eventually she recovered from the wounds, but she never quite got over Hawthorne. She has jealous fits over any of his current/former girlfriends and is particularly vicious about them in her gossip.

She managed to pick her grades back up and started applying to magical universities. She was accepted to several of the schools she applied to, one of them in Virginia; the same school her father attended. But she wanted to stay at Dresden because of Hawthorne. If her father knew the real reason she stayed he'd pull her from school and put her on a bus to Virginia.

Other Stuff: Shares a suite with Adelaide and 'Abernathy.'

tags: carly