the black that threw her chains away. (monalisasmile) wrote,
@ 2008-01-11 18:55:00

Morgaine saw Arthur, sleeping with one arm under his head and the other across the body of a young girl with long, dark hair, who seemed like a daughter of the queen—or like Morgaine herself… The dark haired maiden came to them, and in her hand she held Excalibur in its scabbard. "I had it from him while he slept," she said, "and with it he called me by your name."

Name: Andromeda Guinevere Tonks, nee Black. She still keeps Black in her signature to remind herself of who she was before, and who she is now.
Date of birth: 15th of March, 1953, making her a Pisces.
Played-by: Emily (adult), Cecile (teen), Dakota (child), and unknown getty model (younger child).

Personality: Andromeda has her set of principles and she follows them to the tee: she doesn't eat meat, doesn't believe in nicknaming someone when their full name is perfectly fine enough, enforces the belief of turning the other cheek in a fight, and never say what you don't mean and always mean what you say. Andromeda may not be the most welcoming person by first impressions: she's actually quite haughty. Though she's changed noticeably from her upper crest days as a Black, than slight hippy fashions of the seventies, now more conventional and toned down: people of her school years still remember the stiff lipped Slytherin that spoke only when people she approved spoken to her and tailed behind Bellatrix or Narcissa everywhere she went. The war made her a bit more grounded but it also made her a tad more open. First impressions were never Andromeda's strong point and it's nearly certain, no matter if she was Sirius' favorite cousin or not, that if someone meets her, they're more drawn away from the same aura that Bellatrix and Narcissa encompass.

Not to say she is not still that same free-spirit that gives a daughter a name like Nymphadora. She still spends her time outside becoming one with nature and appreciating the peace and quiet, and she still likes to dance in the rain – only if it's a light sprinkle, that is. Once fully comfortable, Andromeda is a kind and sincere individual. If you're a loved one, she's fully dedicated to you and gives more than she'll receive. Just because her own formative years were not as sunshine and glorious as she wanted, it has had very little effect on her outside perceptions. She's more of an optimistic realist than a pessimist. Just because she isn't exactly noble in her reasoning that not everyone is innately good, doesn't make her any less of a humanitarian. She's an idealist in her own way, first impressions or no, and therefore she'll fight in her own way.

Andromeda turns the other cheek.

But let's face it: there's good and bad in the best of people, and no matter how saintly Andromeda tries to appear to be in, she is no exception. Andromeda is uneasy toward those of eclectic lifestyles, even the noted half-breeds like Remus Lupin in society. Though she's passed the hurdle of blood and money that the Black's drilled into her skull, there is many hurdles Andromeda has yet to come over, many prejudices she has yet to set right, and sometimes it causes people to think she's no better than her sisters.

Andromeda is always a polite and well-mannered individual and scowls at anything less in people. She's courteous, receptive to courtesy, polite, to the point, and still speaks like an affluent. She eats Chinese take out on a plate, pizza but cutting it up with a fork and a butter knife, and corrects the grammar of anyone she comes in contact with. To say that Druella had little to no effect on her upbringing would be downright callous. She has the same patient indifference to those whom she thinks less of. She also has a fancy for antiques that she received from her mother, Druella.

Andromeda was always earthier than her sisters not only in appearance but by demeanor. She shows deep love in her own way, silently, never one being that loquacious. Her resolve is the noted aspect of Andromeda's personality and being a passive person by default, she's keen on being in the shadows than the lime light. Andromeda may like observing the masses huddled together but she also respects silence. Because of such an attitude in school and before her schooling years Andromeda was always the soft spoken intelligent one. Bellatrix was the powerful one, Narcissa was the rare beauty, and Andromeda merely knew how to read before the age of five. Now nearly thirty and no longer that little girl, she still likes working in the back ground and letting someone else have the limelight. And if the limelight is shown on her she reacts rather badly and uses her old cold exterior to make the awkwardness go away.

Andromeda is also a born Black. Therefore, she isn't one to be taken lightly. If she says she'll do something; she does it. She inherited a silver tongue along with that silver spoon, and was raised to be a perfect English rose: Pretty on the eyes, sweet smelling, with a thorn somewhere in there. Because such things were inbreeded into her subconscious from birth, it's still there, whether Andromeda knows it or not. She can also easily lie and judge a book by its cover. Let's just say she wasn't jumping for joy when she discovered who her daughter's affections laid years down the road.

An important note on the second Black sister is the fact, unlike Sirius; Andromeda does not hate her family. She still loves them, in spite of transgressions from her part and theirs. Unlike her family, Andromeda loves without conditions, therefore in her eyes; she came out the better man.

That doesn't mean she'd turn the other cheek if Nymphadora's life was hanging in the balance. To sum it up: if she had to choose the life of her sisters, her parents, or her cousins for the life of her child, Andromeda would gladly push the prior off the cliff and buy her daughter a new stuffed animal. As a daughter Andromeda was quiet, defensive, and unsure; as a sister, she was bashful, the mediator, and wise; and as a wife and a mother, Andromeda is protective, proud, confident, and able. She has come full circle from her earlier years and fights, in her own way, for the life she only dreamed of and never knew that could be made reality.

It's very difficult to get this female riled but once it's done, it's done. There's absolutely no way going back. She hardly ever in her life raised her voice, the times being few and far between, but when such a thing happens, it's explosive. Because she was a Slytherin and because she's a relative of a very noted and powerful wizarding family in the United Kingdom, Andromeda knows how to cut someone down, make them feel inferior. She was given a silver tongue by way of her parents just like they gave her a silver spoon. She was raised as the Black version of an English Rose: soft on the eyes but with a thorn or two hidden away for good use. If she has to use old tricks she'll use it.

Andromeda fights not with a wand nor with anger, but with wit and the big heart she was given and seldom appreciated for. It goes to show one must read between the lines before they really understand a meaning, a person, and to quote Atticus Finch: "You can never tell what a person's life is like before you walk a mile in their shoes." Don't judge Andromeda for that haughty lift of a light brown brow, what she says, whom she associates with, or the color of her tie—or you'll be gravely mistaken in the long run.

In short: She's a tree hugger while still having culture savvy to back it up.

Magical strengths/weaknesses/peculiarities: Out of the three sisters, Andromeda was more intellectually gifted than magically gifted. She was also the last to perform magic at the age of eight; after willing a doll her mother snatched from her to come right back to her arms. Her greatest weakness, as a teenager, was her confidence. It wasn’t the fact that she was unable to produce magic; it was that she didn’t loosen her body, think positively, and just let her mind be. As an adult, she gets into the habit of thinking too much, and sometimes tries to make a spell immaculate and grows ever frustrated when it isn’t so. Andromeda is a sheer perfectionist. Now she gained her confidence and sense of self, her obsession for doing everything right and making things spotless and immaculate is her magical and personality crutch. She was also horrible in Arithmancy and Divination, too.

Andromeda was able to cast a corporeal patronus by her seventh year with the special help from Slughorn, and finds her strong suit in Charms, being Flitwick’s favorite pupil when she attended Hogwarts as a Slytherin. Andromeda’s strong suit also lies in with Defense, after having to with a sister like Bellatrix. But it also helped that, when they were students together, Andromeda’s wand-work was dissatisfactory and improved when her older sister agreed to give her pointers, tips, and they generally bonded more than they ever had. Bellatrix might be a bit off her rocker, but her tutoring during her little sisters first three years at school helped out greatly when one of her OWLs and NEWTs were in Defense.

Her patronus is also a rabbit.

Now, here’s the peculiar bit: Andromeda dislikes defense, dark arts, are generally anything that could harm or manipulate another human being. She very well could do it, if needs arises, but keeps the dark part of her psyche at bay until she absolutely needs to. The only time she’d consider killing someone, especially her family, is if someone hurt Nymphadora. She wouldn’t take more
satisfaction than necessary in it, wouldn’t cackle and snort about it, but would use her adrenaline to her advantage, focus, and a stream of familiar green light would spew from her wand. She has the ability to kill, to harm, and to hurt—but unless provoked, Andromeda much rather lay her wand to the wide and turn the other cheek.

Wand: Lime wood (inflexible), 11 inches, with the essence of a Mermaid Fin. When the eleven year old girl was handed her wand and she swished, flicked, and levitated the box in front of her, the old wand maker only asked: “What month were you born?” The Lime wood is the Celtic tree of the time Andromeda was born, also apart of the Ash tree month: March. Andromeda is also a Pisces, which she takes her astrology more seriously than anyone else she knows, and the mythological guardian, in some beliefs, is the Mermaid, associated with the Pisces element of water: intuition.

Appearance: Andromeda stands at five foot six, equally, with her mother’s willowy figure that once was thin as a stick, but given childbirth, developed into curvy hips and a fleshed out stomach that makes her more mature and womanly than she was prior. Her hair flows with natural, big, lose curls of light brown accompanied by pale highlights of blonde signaling her Rosier inheritance. While her hair is light brown and has been since she was eleven years old, at the start of her formative years she graced her family with curls of medium blonde that only darkened with time. To even more solidify her Rosier heritage; Andromeda has two pairs of heavy lidded gray orbs, piercing and Greek pointed nose of her fathers. One thing she was teased about and has taken many years to grow fond of, is her freckles. Andromeda was graced with more freckles than a Weasley. She used to be somewhat embarrassed by them, ashamed even, but has grown accustomed to them overtime and eventually began to love them. She’s an earthy beauty, like the earth child she is, but accompanied with a slight case of a lazy eye—though hardly noticeable to anyone but herself—and with one breast larger than it’s twin, Andromeda hardly qualifies as immaculate, but normal.

Alliance and views on purism: She was always neutral and nodded and agreed to whatever her family said because she didn’t know anything else. Before she met and actually grew to stand/love the Gryffindor muggleborn, Andromeda thought she was the top of the food chain, the best, just because of her surname. She might’ve been a bashful thing growing up, but that didn’t mean she didn’t look down on others, even if she preferred rolling her eyes than threats or nasty looks. When she realized Ted, a muggleborn, was just as good as she was, if not better, Andromeda became humbled and truly embarrassed for her past transgressions. Though she is seen aiding the Order of the Phoenix in book seven, Andromeda, present day, finds siding too
slippery and remains neutral, only with a heightened sense of liberalism that she didn’t embody before.

Potential relationships:

CYGNUS, FATHER: She got on a bit better with her father than her mother as a young child, but discovered at an early age that he too did choose favorites and she definitely was not one of them. While she inherited his quiet and a bit shy demeanor, she quickly grew indifferent towards him and threw in the towl when it came to any sort of approval or nod of affection. Though she did inherit his temper as well as his shaped eyes, and it was reminded again and again when she was told no.

DRUELLA, MOTHER: Though she held her father’s facial structures just as much as Bellatrix, Andromeda inherited her mother’s soft features and natural highlights of blonde to make her brown hair a bit lighter. It’s also an unknown fact that her hair was only a tad bit darker of blonde than her little sisters, but darkened as she aged. Andromeda might’ve inherited her eyes, mouth, willowy figure, and hands, but she prides herself on not treating her daughter with the same distance her mother regarded her with. To Andromeda, Druella was cold and only thought of her daughters, sans the youngest, as anything but insufferable. Because of her perception at a early age, it crippled Andromeda, therefore always second-guessing herself as a child because of what she interpreted her mother said/thought. In the end, it was both of her parents that made her fly into the arms of someone that genuinely loved her, all because she was starved of it by the two of them.

BELLATRIX, OLDER SISTER: Though they had their rows, some more damaging than others, like every sisterly relationship; Andromeda genuinely looked up to Bellatrix and always scramble toward her for any sort of advice. They thought differently, they looked differently, and they acted differently, but Bellatrix inspired a strong will in Andromeda that she never knew she possessed. To this day, she regards memories of childhood with Bellatrix fondly, though knows better than to lament on it in the presence of Mrs. Lestrange.

NARCISSA, YOUNGER SISTER: While Andromeda might’ve felt any sort of resentment from the little girl for taking up her parents attention as a toddler, Andromeda felt a bit closer to the pale, Nordic colored Black that resembled an uncanny likeness to their mother. Narcissa was always more childlike of the sisters, and it was endearing to Andromeda, and like her big sister, she fondly thinks of her little sister from time to time, and is devastated that Nymphadora wll never know the sister she did growing up.

NYMPHADORA, THE CHILD: The reason why she was born, seriously! Andromeda lives and breathes motherhood from the first moment she laid eyes on the multicolored infant. When she first found out she was to be a mother, Andromeda nearly had a panic attack. Questions like: Will I make a good
mother? Will I turn into my mother? What if I break her? All swirled around in her brain for the first seven—yes, she only carried the future auror that long—months. It was either due to worry or the financial stress the newlyweds were under, but Andromeda went into labor two months too soon on the 10th of June, 1973, and Andromeda stopped trying to become a mother and simply became one.

TED TONKS, THE HUSBAND: It wasn’t love at first sight. During Slughorn’s first lesson of Potions for the upcoming first years, she was assigned with Ted as his partner. He introduced himself all polite like and Andromeda stuck her tongue right out at him. When he did the same to her, she tattled, resulting Slughorn deducting points from both houses for disruption. That night at dinner, Ted waltzed—and tripped—over to be the better man and apologize, but the stubborn Slytherin stuck her nose in the air and made him murmur out an apology to her back. Fast forward to the end of fifth year, the OWLs, and the two began to run into each other more and more, and by sixth year, she finds out that Ted thought more than fondly of her as a person, not as a pureblood affluent witch, and the prospect of it terrified Andromeda and she shunned him. It took a long summer being confined to her families estate to think over her brash decision, to truly think about it, and but when her seventh year came, Andromeda pulled the Gryffindor in a broom closet and wouldn't’t take no for an answer. Brash? Yes. They were married shortly after graduation, and are still happily married ‘til this day.

SIRIUS AND REGULUS, THE COUSINS: While Andromeda always took to an mothering approach to Sirius, she did the same to Regulus, though she always thought that he was closer to Narcissa. She still wishes to remain in contact with either of them and hopes that Nymphadora gets to receive at least one meeting with someone a bit mild from her family in the
little girls’ lifetime.

scribbld is part of the horse.13 network
Design by Jimmy B.
Logo created by hitsuzen.
Scribbld System Status