Life is series of collisions with the future;

whatweyearntobe @ 2011-05-02T17:14:00

2011-05-02T20:49:21Z

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Victoria Quinn Driessen (Tori, Trouble)
Residence/Hometown: Originally Albany, but currently lives in Fredonia, NY
Age/Birthday: 16, January 8
Gender/Sexuality: Heterosexual
PB: Anna Speckhart
Any notable differences from the pb? Tori looks mature for her age, people often assuming she's 18 or 19 instead of the 16 year old she actually is. She has one tattoo on the inside of each wrist of a swallow.

She is relatively tall, standing at 5'7". With long brown-black hair and bright blue eyes, she's quite pretty with her bone structure being slightly more like her mother's.

She is thin, though her recent baby weight is still somewhat there. She joined cheer and dance to try and help get rid of it.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: 11" inflexible bocote with dragon heart strings
House and Year: Clemons Sophomore
Schedule: Muggle Studies
Strongest subject in school: Potions
Weakest subject in school: Anything purely lecture based.
Extracurricular activities: Potions Club, Cooking Club, Cheerleading, and Dance Troupe
Boggart and Riddikulus: Two very angry, brooding giants - otherwise known as Dad and Uncle Yev. Her Riddikulus is them dressed as giant babies, complete with diapers, binkys, rattles, and BABY BONNETS.
Amortentia smells like: spicy and strong (imagine something Axe-like)
Patronus: Cobra
Animagus Form: N/A

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family: Alexander and Elaine Driessen (parents), Andrew "And" Driessen (younger brother by 10 months), Jesse Driessen (younger brother by 6 years)
Familiar: She and her brother used to have one Hypo Lavender Motley and Whiteout Cornsnake each, but hers was given to her brother when she went to live with her grandparents.
Any other relations we should know about: Blake "Oops" Sullivan (son), Shane Sullivan (baby daddy), Francis "Frank" and Helen "Nell" O'Reilly (grandparents), Uncle Yev and Uncle Sasha (father's best friend and his son)

Personality
Likes: partying, having fun, older men, her son (thought it’d be tough to get her to admit it), her brother And, the color purple, flirting, black-light parties
Dislikes: having to go to her grandparents house every other weekend, upsetting her father, having to be more responsible, lectures
Quirks: (Unless you count a daddy complex, none known as of yet.)
Secrets: *She has a son that is almost four months old, who is the product of an affair with a teacher from her previous school, which was the whole reason for her transferring schools. *The only reason she signed up for dance and cheer was to get back into shape and lose her baby pouch.
Strengths: Has a gift when it comes to potion making, determination, ambition
Weaknesses: Single minded at times, not very responsible, still a little naive about life and people

Detailed personality: Trouble is something of a wild child. She loves to party and drink and get high, and generally have a good time. Spoiled, entitled, and fun loving, Tori has been having trouble adjusting to having a baby, even though she spends most of her time at school. It's been difficult for her to transition from hard-core party girl to mom, and she's still trying to figure it out. Though she does call Blake "Oops", she has slowly begun learning how to love him, and would indeed react like a fierce mother bear if she thought he was in any danger. Other than that, she's become slightly more closed off from people, though she is still social and flirty. The only difference is that it's mostly a front, while she keeps a lot of her personal feelings and information to herself.

Personal History: Alexander Driessen never had the best of luck: his fiancee and college sweetheart left him when he was twenty-three, an old school friend of his sister convinced him to go on the run with her only to leave him in the lurch nine years later, the only thing that went his way was that the authorities bought his defense: that he'd been Imperioused. And so he was institutionalized in a wizard psych ward for seven years for his connection to a wanted felon of the wizarding world. In the ward, he met Elaine O'Reilly, one of the nurses who worked on his floor. When he was 'rehabilitated', he continued keeping in touch with her, and eventually courted her. They were married three years after his release, and Victoria was born shortly thereafter, when he was forty-two.

Since then, she's been used to getting her way, even after her brother was born when she was just ten months old herself. Her parents briefly worried about the relationship between the two (since Alex's own sister had a weird rivalry with him when they were very young), but it turned out that Victoria adored her little brother. When they were older, she would often tell people that they were twins. She was six when Jesse was born, and was mostly ambivalent towards him. Sometimes she liked him, sometimes he was a nuisance.

When the time came to go to school, she and Andrew attended their father's alma mater, though were sorted into different houses. She was always the more devious and ambitious one, and And was more studious and clever. Still, they were as close as any siblings, each having the other's back.

Toward the end of their freshman year, Tori attracted the attention of her house head and potions teacher and the two grew close. She had always been rather older looking for her age, and she was certainly knowledgeable in areas where her father would rather she knew nothing about. They kept it discrete, though, for obvious reasons. However, it came out eventually when Tori ended up pregnant. To say that Alex reacted poorly would be the understatement of the millennium. And when one of Alex's closest and oldest friends found out, he too stepped in on Alex&'s side. The ex teacher probably would have ended up dead in a ditch somewhere if Tori hadn't stepped in on his behalf - literally. Alex and Uncle Yev had their wands raised against Shane Sullivan, and a very pregnant Tori stood in front of him and refused to move. Naturally, Alex wouldn't strike his own daughter, though he did distance himself from her for a time, which did make her realize a little just how much she'd messed up. Shane's life was spared though, thankfully in her mind anyway.

However, the trade off was this: Tori was sent away to live with her grandparents, with her son, and she was relocated to a different school. As for Shane... though Alex (and Yev) still wanted to do the man physical harm, they reached an arrangement: they wouldn't kill him (or press charges) if he fully supported the boy financially, and they would be monitoring him to make sure that he would never again be able to get in contact with Victoria. All of his payments would be sent to Alex, and the location of his son would not be disclosed to him for any reason.

So in February of 2011, shortly after Valentine's day, Victoria began school at Dresden Academy, being sorted into Clemons and taking Muggle Studies on the order of her father.

Other Stuff: Any plot ideas? Well... I guess if someone wanted to pick up her brother? I wouldn't be opposed. XD Also, if someone wants to find out about little Oopsie, that'd be totally cool with me!</p>

It is Rosana, bitches

2011-04-23T03:56:13Z

PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: Polly!
AIM: walks with dream
E-mail: walkswithindreams@gmail.com
Character Journal: This one.

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Rosana Luisa Salazar Belo Cordozo Rios (her name is Rosana, and that is what you will call her, unless she REALLY likes you)
Residence/Hometown: Undisclosed location in the Amazon Rainforest
Age/Birthday:17; June 30
Gender/Sexuality: Heterosexual, though aromantic
PB: Lais Ribeiro
Any notable differences from the pb? Rosana is 6' barefoot, and waif-like but with an aura of power and control.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: 14" inflexible cocobolo, dragon heart string
House and Year: Clemons Senior
Schedule: Wandless Magic, Combative Magic, Ritual Magic (for the third year), and Spell Theory.
Strongest subject in school: Ritual Magic
Weakest subject in school: She's not particularly weak in any subject, though she does have a particular disdain for DADA.
Extracurricular activities: Dueling (she thinks there should be a Ritual Magic club)
Boggart and Riddikulus: Herself as her mother - her Riddikulus is her punching herself out of it.
Amortentia smells like: orchids, vanilla, rain
Patronus: Tiger.
Animagus Form: A black jaguar. She took the class in her sixth year.

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family: Vasco Luis Cordozo Rios (father) and Maiara Araci Salazar Belo (mother) and Noemi Gracilia Salazar Belo Cordozo Rios (younger sister)
Familiar: Nico, a seal lynx spotted Bengal (part Kneazle, though looks like a pure cat)
Any other relations we should know about: Araci Iara Cayubi Salazar - her maternal grandmother, whom she adores.

Personality
Likes: her grandmother Araci, her father, her height, heat, power, cats, men
Dislikes: her sister, her mother, her father, dogs, cold winters, snow, men
Quirks: (None, really.)
Secrets: *She absolutely abhors her sister. It's no secret that she hates her, but the depth of her hate is not known to all. *She knows how to, and has performed, several ritual killings - though only of animals. *There's speculation that she has had affairs with teachers.
Strengths: She is a master manipulator, ambitious, and intuitive.
Weaknesses: Selfish, ruthless, unforgiving, and incredibly vain and judgmental.
Detailed personality: Raised the first born and heir of a wealthy and powerful business man, Rosana thinks herself above almost anyone else. She is entitled and proud, knowing exactly what she wants and going for it with tenacity, uncaring of who or what might stand in her way. To her, other people are merely pawns for her own amusement and disposal. However, there are those pawns - sorry, people - that she has grown fond of and likes to keep around, almost considering them like pets. To these special individuals she is - almost kind.

She is almost like a pit bull, once she truly has her mind set to something it's practically impossible to deter her. She will quickly figure out how an individual person operates and then manipulate them to suit her purposes, disregarding their own wants and needs. It is for this reason that she is the last person you want as your enemy.

It is possible that underneath it all, she is actually quite sensitive and emotional, but she has smothered and buried this part of her so long and so deep that it's impossible for even her to tell.

Personal History: Born the oldest child of Vasco Luis Cordozo Rios and Maiara Araci Salazar Belo, two years before her sister, Rosana has lived a rather charmed life. Though her father had hoped for a son to carry on his family name and legacy, his daughter never disappointed him, and he quickly warmed to the idea of her being his heir. She never wanted for anything, and was always doted upon by her father, whom she adored in return. However, at a very young age, she learned of her father's affairs and quickly formed new opinions about the man. She still does love (in her way) and respect him, but she hates him at the same time, though not as much as she hates her mother, whom she sees as weak for not doing anything about it.

The one person in her life whom she has always loved and respected is her maternal grandmother. Araci is a strong, independent woman, the matriarch of her family, and she doesn't allow anyone to treat her with disrespect. She would often spend time with Araci as a child, taking an interest in Quimbanda and learning the different rituals and customs, though her grandmother is a practitioner of both Quimbanda and Umbanda, hoping to bridge the gap between the two religions and resurrect Macumba as a firm religion again.

In her eyes, she and her sister could not be more different, with Noemi taking after their mother predominantly. Though the birth of her sister took away no attention or luxury from her, Rosana still hates her and often wondered why it was necessary to have another child at all. She took great pains to keep her sister away from her and uninvolved in family affairs, which was actually quite easy since it was mostly her that their father took around to introduce to people while Noemi and Maiara stayed behind or off to the side.

Still, as she grew older she could tolerate being around her family less and less, and so she came up with a solution and transferred to Dresden Academy - as far away from her family as she could manage. In her sophomore year she tested for which classes she was to take and sorted into the house of Clemons.

Other Stuff: I would DEFINITELY love for her sister to be picked up, transferring in next semester or what not. She's between a year or two younger than Rosana, a sophomore in whatever house you think suits.