| B A S I C S ••• ○○○ whatever happened to tuesday and so slow
FULL NAME Elspeth Kennedy Bell
NEE n/a
NAME MEANING
Elspeth; Scottish form of the name Elizabeth, as well as the name of a Celtic goddess.
Kennedy; Irish surname that was transformed into a unisex forename. The English variation on the Gaelic name Cinnéidigh.
AGE 18
BIRTHDATE 01 January 1962
NATIONALITY Scottish
BLOODLINE Halfblood
SEXUALITY Heterosexual
STATUS Dating
SCHOOLING Gryffindor, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Class of 1979
OCCUPATION Student
FORMER OCCUPATIONS n/a
P E R S O N A L ••• ○○○ going down the old mine with a transistor radio
FIRST IMPRESSION Giggly and outgoing, and almost overwhelmingly bubbly and bouncy. She's often asked (not so jokingly) if she has ADD. The absolute antithesis of what you would think a Ravenclaw looks like.
IN DEPTH Elspeth is your average teenaged girl. She's a serious gossip hound and loves to chat with her friends and her favorite pasttimes are putting on makeup and reading fashion magazines. This girl majors in Annoying Her Brother, with a minor in Flirting With Boys and Shopping Spree Etiquette and if you ever wanted to find her, it would probably be out on the grounds of Hogwarts scoping out the cute boys with a friend or two. Despite this, she was put into Ravenclaw for a reason. Ellie's not a ditz, nor is she stupid or naive--okay, okay, so she scored way less on her O.W.L.s than every single one of her dormmates, but they're like, geniuses! Not to say that she didn't score way above half of the school, it's just that sometimes she looks around at the other Ravenclaws and wonders whether or not the Sorting Hat made the right decision on her. There are plenty of smart Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs, so why wasn't she one of those?
With a strong will and a hard head, Ellie always thought she should have been put into Gryffindor and kinda resents that she wasn't. She's a rebel at heart and likes to do a lot of things that bother her brother because they bother her brother--making out with boys and talking about it, reading every gossip mag that comes out about him, spreading gossip about him, the list is endless. But just because she likes to tick him off doesn't mean that they don't love each other and at the end of the day she'll still be the first person to admit to you that she loves it when he comes around to see her and pays her special attention.
LIKES Booooooys, gossiping, fashion magazines, girly magazines in general, clothes, shopping, shoes, talking to her friends, flowers, flirting, boy watching, Davy, her brother paying her attention, her brother spending money on her, & just her brother in general.
DISLIKES The nicknames her brother gives her, people who just can't have fun, ugly clothes, people that don't take care of themselves, being forced to study, & jerks.
ALIGNMENT Neutral
PATRONUS Blue Bird
BOGGART Having sex. She loves Davy to death, but the prospect of her first time overwhelmingly frightening to her.
FAMILIAR At home, Ellie keeps a King Charles spaniel by the name of Crispin, which her brother bought for her for her sixteenth birthday. At school, she keeps only an owl, christened Saraneth.
S O C I A L ••• ○○○ standing in the sunlight laughing, hiding behind a rainbow's wall
PARENTS Father; Euan Kade Bell
Mother; Isla Coira Bell neé Watson
SIBLINGS Brother; Ian Callum Bell
OTHER Sister-in-Law; Elizabeth Bell
Niece; Kathryn "Katie" Bell
BOYFRIEND Davy Gudgeon
CHILDREN n/a
PAST RELATIONSHIPS Unless you count two-week flings as 'relationships', there aren't any to be spoken of.
BEST FRIEND Phoebe Smethwyck
FRIENDS Anneliese Rosenberg, Emmeline Vance, Lucy Martin, Juliet Dearborn, Brianna O'Hara, Miranda Dodderidge, Darren Quigg, Iris Conway, Ludo Bagman
ENEMIES Aww, no hard feelings here! Although she does consider the Tornados a rather large exception to this. GO PUDDLEMERE!
A P P E A R A N C E ••• ○○○ slippin' and slidin' all along the waterfall with you
HEIGHT 5'6"
WEIGHT 105 lbs
HAIR Light Brown
EYES Brown
DEFINING FEATURES From looking at her, you can instantly tell that Elspeth is a dancer. She's got the long legs, almost-too-thin figure, and a delicateness and grace to the way she walks. She tends to turn her feet out slightly when she walks, just like she's wearing a pair of ballet slippers and is making her way across a stage; a habit she can't manage to shake no matter how hard she tries.
MANNER OF DRESS When not in her casual street wear, Ellie's dress style can be described as cute and flirty. She's good at keeping up with new trends, and is probably one of those people you would watch to see what's 'in' at the moment. You'd also be hard pressed to find her wearing the same outfit more than once or twice, as she's got a great love of spending money on clothes--if it weren't for packing spells, she'd be that girl with the four or five trunks full of nothing but garments coming in to Hogwarts.
H I S T O R Y ••• ○○○ my brown-eyed girl, you, my brown-eyed girl
BIRTHPLACE Aberdeen, Scotland
CURRENT RESIDENCE Edinburgh, Scotland
FINANCES Although Ian's far long moved out, he supports the whole family with his hefty multi-million galleon salary. She and her parents have nothing to worry about, but when Ellie graduates Hogwarts, she'd like to pull away from relying on her brother so much and get a job and a flat by herself.
HISTORY It was early morning on September the 13th, 1957 when Ian Callum Bell was born to the young, poor Scottish couple Euan Bell and Isla Watson-Bell in their tiny home in the town of Aberdeen, Scotland. Even being the only child to a struggling family made life hard on all of them. Euan, a half-blooded shopkeeper in Diagon Alley and Isla, a pureblooded homemaker, had much trouble, especially in Ian's younger years, having enough resources to take care of him. However, whatever he lacked for in material posessions was more than made up for in love, and he grew very close to both of his parents, especially his mother.
Life got a little harder at the age of four, when Ian's younger sister, Elspeth Kennedy Bell, was born. It was around that time that Euan lost his shop to a declining market and was forced to file for bankruptcy. The family moved in with Isla's parents in Edinburgh, although that arrangement might have been even more difficult due to her parents' matching lack of wealth. To help pay for their board, Isla took up a job as a waitress when Elspeth was just a month old, leaving the infant and her brother with their grandparents. Euan procured himself a job at the lowest levels of Gringotts--there was not much pay to be had, but with his wife's job to supplement it, was enough to get them through.
Two years later, just as the family was about to finally move back out on their own, the children's grandfather suffered a massive stroke and died--they decided to stay on a little longer to help take care of their grandmother, but within five months, she had also passed. The ray of light in their situation was that they inherited the house they had been living in, and with the money they had saved up, the family was back on their feet in no time.
Just like any normal, magical child, Elspeth got her Hogwarts letter at the age of 11 and promptly followed in her brother's footsteps by being sorted into Ravenclaw house. Having as social a personality as hers made finding friends within her house simple and she quickly became close to her dormmates and several of the others girls in her year. However something she did find hard was that she was constantly living in the shadow of her brother, who was already famous throughout the school for his Quidditch skill. While she liked the attention she got from all the older students (especially the boys), she resented being called "Ian's little sister" all the time and never being recognized for her own achievements. It wasn't until her brother graduated that she found some peace, but even after that, as he went on to become a professional player, she found that shadow was back over her. It's just that now she realizes just how much she can use it to her advantage.
There is, however, still a downside; the boys. About ninty-five percent of her boyfriends during her Hogwarts career only wanted to be with her in order to get her brother's autograph, or to be dating the sister of a famous Quidditch player. It grew tiring and disillusioned Elspeth quite a bit to relationships--until she met (correction: snogged) Davy Gudgeon in the Library one afternoon during sixth year. Being the cousin of Quidditch player Galvin Gudgeon, Davy had a taste himself of what it was like to be related to a star, and she was ecstatic to find someone that understood her and wasn't just interested in her because of her brother.
Although they have had their problems and have rows on a weekly basis over something or another, Ellie can't imagine what she'd do without Davy around. Early on in the relationship, she was already convinced that she was silly in love with him, although she's still not ready to admit that aloud. |
