susan amelia bones

- Buddha

Contact Information
NAME: Lena
AIM HANDLE: macgirl50
OVER 17?: Yes!
TIMEZONE: US/ Eastern [GMT-5]
CDJ: dejavroom // lena
EXPERIENCE: 6 years in various games.
PB: Karen Gillan
JOURNAL TO BE USED: justsusan

Basics
FULL NAME: Susan Amelia Bones
NICKNAMES: Suze, Susy, etc.
HOMETOWN: Where they live outside of school
AGE: 16.
BIRTHDAY: 21 November 1979
BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood


Family/Relationships
PARENTS:

MOTHER: Eleanor Bones nee Vance.
FATHER: David Edgar Bones.

SIBLINGS: None. Susan is an only child.
EXTENDED FAMILY: Amelia Bones, Aunt; Edgar Bones, uncle.
FRIENDS: Susan looks for loyalty and compassion.
SEXUALITY: Straight.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None at the moment, but she's had a mad crush on Ernie McMillan since first year.

Education
HOUSE/YEAR: 6th Year Hufflepuff
GRADES: Better than average.
FAVORITE SUBJECTS: Herbology, Charms
LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECTS: Potions, primarily because Professor Snape is mean.

Politics
LOYALTY/ALLIANCE: Dumbledore's Army
POLITICAL VIEWS: Susan is very open and thinks people shouldn't be persecuted and certainly not killed over something they can't help.


Appearance
APPEARANCE: Susan is average in height and build. She's not very athletic, but she has a naturally slender frame. Her eyes are hazel and she has long red hair that she frequently pulls back, though lately she's been letting it hang loose a bit more.


Personality ETC
WAND: 9 inch Bloodwood with Unicorn tail hair. Sturdy.
BOGGART: A large clown. She doesn't know why, but they've always terrified her.
PATRONUS: A swan. The Swan holds a multitude of representations including love, grace, purity, beauty and sincerity. Another attribute of Aphrodite, the Swan also symbolized chastity. The Celts believed the Swans were benevolent dieties and legend has it that their images were forged into silver medallions worn around the neck for protection. In Hinduism, the Swan is known as the Hamsa bird and signifies the divine mind and the breath of spirit. The Swan is also another symbol of the Virgin Mary and the purity and love she symbolizes.

LIKES: Ernie, Chocolate Frogs, Herbology, Helping Others.
DISLIKES: Prejudice, Mean People, Turnips, Loud Noises, Mandy Brocklehurst.

STRENGTHS: Kind and compassionate. Good with Charms, particularly healing charms. Extremely loyal and kind-hearted.
WEAKNESSES: A bit of a pushover. Has a slight temper. Struggled with Potions. Socially awkward, especially with boys.

DETAILED PERSONALITY: Susan has always been quiet, a little on the meek side, in fact. This isn't to say she is shy or standoffish, because she is perfectly friendly, but she's never been one to want the spotlight and she tends to second-guess herself and downplay her own strengths often. She just doesn't see her skills or accomplishments as anything to boast about. This isn't to say she won't stand up for herself or others, though, when it comes down to it.

She's a sweet girl, quiet and gentle with a motherly side to her. Susan is good at keeping others calm, especially in a crisis, even when she is freaking out a little bit herself. She wants to train to be a healer once she finishes school. Healing magic is something she has a knack for, but more than that, she has found she loves it. Susan gets a great sense of satisfaction from caring for others and it shows in her interactions with others. The eventual monetary compensation won't matter to her. She just likes feeling as though she is doing good and making some kind of difference.

Susan is a loyal friend and an extremely good listener, but she can be a little awkward around those she doesn't know well, especially those of the opposite sex. With everything else that was going on while she was in school, she never really had a chance to date and never really learned to talk to boys outside her immediate circle of friends. This isn't anything she noticed or anything that bothers her (much). She's very non-nonsense about her role in the DA and it left very little time for socializing in her mind. She's grown into a little more of an extrovert since those days and while she has a tendency to put her foot in her mouth more often than not, her experiences with the DA taught her to not be so afraid to say what she's thinking.

Any specific plot ideas for your character? Involvement in the DA, love-triangle (or is that quadrangle?) of awesome as she desperately wishes Ernie would notice her in that way while he's busy snogging someone else.


History
Childhood passed rather uneventfully for Susan prior to starting her education at Hogwarts. The first war had been over for some years and would not begin again until well into her Hogwarts career and while she did grow up without many of her extended family members, her life was a relatively happy and stable one.

She's never been horribly coordinated, so attempts at playing sports did leave her with a few broken bones and those halted her pursuit of such activities, but she simply found other things to occupy her time, discovering a love of reading and beginning to spend time with some of the other girls in the neighborhood she grew up in.

Her arrival at Hogwarts saw her sharing a boat with Hermione and Neville, both of whom she would get to know better a little later on and at the feast she was sorted into Hufflepuff. Some may have seen it as the lesser of the houses, but Susan was always proud to be in Hufflepuff and she quickly made friends with others in her year and house, most especially Hannah Abbott, Ernie MacMillan and Justin Finch-Fletchley. She didn't socialize much outside of their little group during her first year, but she was perfectly content with those friendships she had formed.

During her second year, she did branch out a little, forming a friendship with Hermione Granger, who she sat next to in both DADA and Herbology through the year. They both had a mutual crush on Gilderoy Lockhardt, which gave them one thing to talk about and their friendship just seemed to grow from there. In her second year, she also joined the dueling club, wanting an excuse to be nearer to her crush and also thinking it would be a good way to brush up on her skills. DADA never had been one of her best classes in terms of actually pulling off the defensive spells. It turned out to not be very helpful with Lockhardt at the helm, of course, and as she discovered he was a fraud, her infatuation with him wore off.

As that crush faded, a new one took its place. In her third year, she started to develop a small thing for Cedric Diggory. And by small thing, we mean insane crush that would never be realized, because she found it difficult to really speak when he was nearby. Luckily, she had things like selecting new electives and juggling the addition of two more classes to distract her. He was always friendly, but she told herself it was impossible, especially given that she had no idea how to talk to boys who were not Justin at that point.

Still, in her fourth year, it was a no brainer as to whether or not she was going to side with Cedric in the Tri Wizard Tournament. She was more than a little angry with Harry for trying to take Cedric's glory (as she and the others saw it) and even if she started to come around by the end of the year, she was completely devastated when Cedric died and a part of her wanted to blame Harry, even though she knew in her gut that it wasn't really his fault. The thought that You Know Who was back was far more terrifying and something her conscious mind did not want to admit to.

Despite her fears and wanting to live in denial, though, she joined the DA when it formed in her fifth year and couldn't help showing that she was very impressed by Harry's ability to produce a fully corporeal Patronus. That more than anything helped her to trust him to teach them what they needed to know. She's always hated fighting, but she knew it was going to be necessary and she really did want to somehow make a difference. The war was starting that and she couldn't deny it any further.

Later in the year, as the Death Eaters who killed her uncle Edward and his family escaped from Azkaban, Susan found herself further empathizing with Harry. It seemed that everyone wanted to question her about it everywhere she went, which was frustrating to say the least and it was nice to think that Harry understood what that was like. She remembered how it was the same for him in their third year and offered him her sympathies, feeling like talking to someone who understood made her feel better, too, especially in the midst of being constantly bullied by Crabbe and Goyle in that same year. By the end of the year, she thought of Harry as a friend, though she was still closer to Hermione.

In the summer prior to her sixth year, Susan's Aunt Amelia is murdered, leaving Susan distraught and afraid. This is what really brought the reality of the war and Voldemort's return home for her and she spends much of the year in fear, not knowing what or who is next. It's a little easier to push those fears aside while she's at school, but they're still there, coupled with that normal teenage girl drama - like the fact that she's had a crush on best mate Ernie since first year and she still hasn't found the courage to act on it.


Samples
These are from another game. If I need to write something new for this one, please let me know.

JOURNAL ENTRY:

[Private to herself.]

I find myself wondering about my parents. Are they even still alive? Where are they? Has anything happened to them. I wish I could find them, get word to them that I'm alright, assuming they are, as well.

Alright is a relative term, I suppose. I don't think any of us are, really. We're alive though. That has to be what's important.

[/Private]

[Private to the Loyal and Free Order.]

I agree with Ron. I'm going mad just sitting here with no real concrete plan in place. We should be doing something, shouldn't we? It feels like we should.

Lavender's babbling about her child with.. him and we're.. what are we doing? It makes me ill to think about it.

[/Private]

RP SAMPLE:
The man in the mask moved toward her. At least, she thought it was a man. Susan couldn't be sure. He moved with such grace, such speed. Perhaps it was a woman. Perhaps it was something else entirely. She opened her mouth to scream as she tried to back away from him, but she was stuck. Frozen in place. She pleaded with her body to cooperate, to allow her to turn and run. She wondered if this was what it had been like for Cedric. For Aunt Amelia or Uncle Edgar. For the countless others who had fallen. There was a flash of light and then-

She woke up.

Susan sat straight up, neck and shoulders drenched in sweat, eyes darting around the room nervously for a moment before she was able to bring herself fully back to reality. A dream. It had only been a dream. She hated them so fiercely in that moment. You Know Who, the Death Eaters. She hated them for being able to make her feel this way, for taking away the life she and so many others should have led and leaving them with this.

They would win. She didn't know how or when, but the Order would find a way to take back this world. She was afraid, but she would die fighting for this cause if that was what it took.

Susan flopped back down with a sigh. She was okay. She was safe. A few forced deep breaths and self-assurances later she was closing her eyes and falling, finally, into a dreamless sleep.</lj></lj></lj>