CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Beulah Madelyn Cooper; "Maddy." She's known only by her middle name to most people; most people don't know her first name is Beulah. When signing school papers she goes by B. Madelyn Cooper.
Residence/Hometown: Poughkeepsie, NY
Age/Birthday: 16. August 10, 1995.
Gender/Sexuality: Female. Straight.
PB: Justine Waddell
Any notable differences from the pb? She's willowy. She has a pretty fair complexion and burns easily when out in the sun. She stands at 5'7", but she has a bit more to grow.

She likes to dress in period clothing. Part of this stems from her re-enacting experience, some from her method of acting. Sometimes she'll update a piece by matching it with jeans or a modern blouse. She wears a cloak instead of a coat in the winter time.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: 9 ½ inches. Supple. Cedar. Dual core of Billywig Stinger and Jobberknoll Feather. These cores have a peculiar balance, the Jobberknoll's long memory balancing out the Billywig's more giddy nature.
House and Year: Hudson. Junior.
Schedule: Language I. Ritual magic. She took cultural magic in her fourth year.
Strongest subject in school: History of Magic
Weakest subject in school: Herbology
Extracurricular activities: Drama, choir, dance, yearbook, quodpot.
Boggart and Riddikulus: A bad play review in the newspaper. Her riddikulus is a set of hands that folds the bad review into colorful origami.
Amortentia smells like: Day lillies, a good riesling (though she doesn't know that's what this scent is yet), that smell just after a good rain, the scent of an old bookstore.
Patronus: A Great Blue Heron. Gracefully awkward, a sight to behold.
Animagus Form: N/A

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family Merritt Cooper (father), Jessica (Bradley) Cooper (mother)
Familiar: A great horned owl named Shakespeare.
Any other relations we should know about: She doesn't have any cousins to speak of; her one aunt never married or had children. Her maternal grandmother, Miriam Bradley lived with the family and cared for Madelyn while her parents were at work.

Personality
Likes: Cuteoverload.com, old books, museums, hiking, boys who know how to dress well, Slings & Arrows, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Nathan Lane, cards and flowers, horoscopes.
Dislikes: Doing the dishes, getting dirty, bad reviews.
Quirks: - Something of a black thumb; she can't quite help it, but she can't grow plants at all and is very likely to kill them if they're left in her care.
- Can be very chatty, but she recognizes this and will stop if someone points it out to her
Secrets: None as yet.
Strengths: She's very generous when she remembers to be. Fun to be around.
Weaknesses: She can be a bit selfish when she's not mindful of it. Wears her heart on her sleeve.

Detailed personality: She's the quintessential theatre geek. She's given to histrionics and is very emotional. She insists that this helps her on the stage, but it's gotten her the reputation of a drama queen.

Being an only child, she assumed a large amount of responsibility at an early age. On the inverse her maturity fluctuates. At school she acts younger simply because she can. At home she's a grown up.

Personal History: Growing up an only child, Madelyn was treated like a miniature adult.

Her childhood was wildly fun, though devoid of other children. She was allowed free run of her house, being babysat by her maternal grandmother who lived with them in their home. Grandmother Miriam as she preferred to be called was a no nonsense sort of lady, but she had already raised her children and didn't intend to raise another. She let Madelyn do as she pleased, which was mostly to put on one woman shows in her playroom.

Many of her weekends were spent at magical re-enactments with her parents. Her mother was a magical historian and tended to bring her work home. Maddy developed a love for it early on. She also learned to fly on a broom from her father who was a quodpot enthusiast (though he only played on his school team and plays pick up games with the folks at work).

Her father was an alumni of Dresden and played Quodpot; as such he expected his daughter would as well. He also hoped his daughter would seek a career with the League of American Wizards; he worked with the NY branch office in the misuse of magic department.

She wasn't socialized with other children until attending Dresden. It was almost like culture shock. Maddy quickly adjusted, but her maturity remained in flux. At school she acted more her age, sometimes younger.

She blossomed on the stage; performing in the choir, dance and drama troupes became her central focus in school. She enjoyed her classes as well, but never so much as her work after school.

Other Stuff: None as yet.

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