Name: Prudence Louise Stark. She's been known as Pepper since her fourth year at Dresden. Her father calls her Pru. Her mother calls her Prudence.
Residence/Hometown: She grew up in Lake George. She presently lives just off St. George's Way in a tree house set back in the woods. The sleeping area is raised above the small kitchen/living area. Just to the side of this is Pepper's pride and joy: her home library; it's larger than the interior of her home could support and needed multiple charms to hold it in place.
Age/Birthday: 28. January 18, 1984
Gender/Sexuality: Female. Pansexual.
PB: Allura (Suicide girls)
Any notable differences from the pb? She doesn't have any tattoos. She doesn't have her ears gauged, but she knows a charm to make them look that way. It's a little trick for shock value when people wander into the shop expecting her father and find her instead.

Pepper shops out of one of those catalogues for saucy ladies who are perfectly happy to show off copious amounts of skin. She thinks a corset is suitable as a stand alone top.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: She owns three wands. One for use and two for sentimental value.
Wand One: 12 inches. Yew wood. Phoenix Tail Feather. Springy. This is the wand gifted to her by her grandfather when she was three years old. It has been passed down to the first born child of the current wandmaker at Starks and was the first wand that the shop ever produced.
Wand Two: 9 inches. Poplar wood. Dual core of Griffin Feather and Mallowsweet. Sturdy. This is the wand her father crafted for her to use at school. It's a reliable wand and well suited to her personality. She continues to use this wand.
Wand Three: 10 inches. White Oak. Dragon Heartstring. Rigid. This is the first wand she made herself. She can't use it herself, but she can't bear to part with it yet. She hasn't found someone to resonate with it. Should she find someone she plans to make a gift of the wand.
House and Year: Alumni of Dresden. Champlain House.
Schedule: Took magical crafting as an elective three times in a row. She had a particular interest in literature. Divination was only a partial skill and she was removed from Mother Criss' classroom when she repeatedly failed to meet with the seer's approval. Took wandless for the thrill of it, but decided after the first semester that she'd much rather have the weight of a wand in her hand.
Strongest subject in school: Charms, Herbology
Weakest subject in school: Transfiguration, Astronomy
Extracurricular activities: While at Dresden she participated in Quidditch as a beater.
Boggart and Riddikulus: Her boggart is a boggart. As such her riddikulus is an actual charm shoving it back into whatever wardrobe/chest it sprang from.
Amortentia smells like: Wood shavings, men's aftershave, cinnamon, ginger.
Patronus: Osprey. A large bird who can charm fish to surrender to it wholly.
Animagus Form: N/A

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family Lael Stark (father), Persephone (Peterson) Stark (mother), Jonah Stark (younger brother)

She has a close working relationship with her father, since she helps run his shop. She gets exasperated with him for some of his business practices, but he's too set in his ways to try and change him. She trusts her mother more than anyone else in the world. She was once very close to her brother, but they grew apart when she started school and they've been drifting further apart ever since.
Familiar: A Kneazle named Irene who likes to go to work with her.
Any other relations we should know about: She's Abernathy and Bernadine's second cousin (their father's first cousin on his mother's side). She's not terribly close with her aunt Lorraine's children (since they're all at least 9 years older than she is), but she makes an effort at family gatherings to say hello to everyone and check in on their lives. She also makes an offer to craft wands for which ever witch/wizard is up and coming in the family.

She's friends with Jools Le Gallo and Bobby Eisley (who graduated 2 years ahead and in the same year respectively).

Personality
Likes: A good rainstorm, cat naps with Irene, books (new, old, fiction, non-fiction), reading glasses (to wear and on other people), good conversation.
Dislikes: Distractions, obligations she didn't agree to, muggle shops (air conditioning is obnoxious and she hates the way muggle shops are laid out and the way shopkeepers treat her just on visual impression).
Quirks: - She see auras on people and wands; when they match (or are very similar) the wand and person are a good pairing. She hasn't been able to explain this properly to anyone (and Mother Criss largely discredited the idea as hogwash), but her record for making good pairings on the first or second try stands for itself.
- She uses this same talent to put wands together, especially with difficult cores which are prone to exploding. She allows the aura of the materials (which is faint before they're assembled) to guide her.
- Takes a mid-day siesta break from work.
- Tore her ACL in a skiing accident; needed surgery to graft a donor ligament and has two pins in her knee. She can tell when it's going to rain because her pins will ache. She has a scar, and a slight limp that gets worse when the weather is bad.
Secrets: Unknown at present.
Strengths: Very smart, hands on learner, loyal, protective.
Weaknesses: Struggles with book learning, sucker for a man in a suit, sometimes she's too curious, risk-taker.

Detailed personality: Like a cat in many ways. She's curious, silky, loves a good nap, adores being petted and preened, will let you know when she's not interested in having attention paid to her (which isn't very often), and has a way of moving about a room that can take a man by surprise.

She's a very intelligent woman who enjoys the pursuit of knowledge almost as much as the knowledge itself. She prefers her romantic interests to be intellectual; she finds brains far more sexy than outward appearances (though, hey, those don't hurt either).

She's a lusty girl and not afraid to admit it. She considers herself pansexual; mostly she doesn't let gender identity or the physical sex of a person get in the way of her dating choices. She's not ashamed to admit that she looks at porn and she whacks off just like everyone else (at least everyone else who is willing to admit it with her). Even still, she has high standards for romantic/sexual partners and won't fall into bed with just anyone.

She's relatively fearless and willing to try almost anything for the experience. Not an adrenaline junkie so much, but a very curious soul.

Personal History: Pepper grew up in the beauty of the Adirondacks and was nurtured happily as a part of nature by her mother, Persephone who didn't want her father, Lael sucking her into the family business so early that she felt obligated to it.

Her mother taught her a bit of hearth craft as she was growing up, mostly the sort of things they don't teach at school. She let her daughter spend most of her time outdoors and encouraged the intrepid and curious girl to explore her environment fully. Pepper didn't have many cousins her own age to play with, though she had a younger brother. The siblings were ridiculously close in their childhood as they had only each other to entertain themselves.

School changed her a bit. She opened up and jumped into the deep end of the social pool. She drifted a bit from her brother who wanted her to spend her whole vacation with him while she wanted to go visit her friends or have them over without her little brother pestering them.

Puberty gave both of her parents a head full of gray hairs. Pepper blossomed from a gawky preteen into a practical sex goddess. It didn't take her very long to figure out that she adored male attention and even less time to figure out how to get it. She started dressing scandalously (but still just within the dress code guidelines while in classes), breaking curfew, dating around. She was more of a tease in those days and though she gained a reputation once a boy took her out they learned that she was more interested in intellectual pursuits (which if they played into would lead to carnal pursuits, but young boys aren't often clever enough to figure that out).

After graduating from Dresden in 2002 she spent a year apprenticing with Pete Rosenthal on crafting wands before moving on to work in her father's shop. It was a mutual idea, something they had discussed frequently during the course of their studies together when she was student. They worked in the evenings outside of the scope of the academy, but when other teachers learned of Pete's apprentice they thought it would be an interesting experiment to try and began pulling together resources and plans for university house (which opened its doors officially in 2005).

She's been working with her father at their family owned business, Stark's Wands since 2003. He does most of the crafting; she's been relegated to making wands at her own whim and spends more time in the front of the shop pairing wands with users for which she has an unusual talent. Recently she began offering custom-made wands, something which her father has stopped doing; in this regard she's already assumed his responsibilities in their family business.

She knows her father wants her to take over the business eventually. She loves crafting and matching wands to their users, but she wonders if there isn't something else out there for her beyond what she's talented at.

Other Stuff:
Someone could pick up her younger brother Jonah (who may or may not want to vie for the family business and with whom she is not as close as she once was).

tags: prudence