"You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire."
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BASIC INFORMATION
FULL NAME: Emmeline Mei Vance
ALIAS/NICKNAME: Emmy, Emms, Snake (those that dislike her), Vance
AGE: Twenty Eight
BIRTH DATE: September 23rd, 1951
BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood
AFFILIATION: Death Eaters (unknown to non-affiliated)
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Cis-Female. She/her
CURRENT LIVING CONDITIONS: Flat in Knockturn Alley, above her shop
OTHER: Vance Manor.
OCCUPATION: Curse Breaker (business called ‘Arcana Obscura’), also works in the Ministry of Magic, Department of Magical Law Enforcement as a curse breaker in support of the auror department
PETS: Barnaby (male, great horned owl)
PATRONUS: Chestnut Stallion
BOGGART: Losing her loved ones
WAND: Ebony, phoenix feather core, 12 ½ inches, unyielding
AESTHETIC: the sound of rain falling against old windows, the scent of lavender and tea on an early morning in fall, long nights, the harshness of winter, the softness of snow, the idea of unpredictability, envelopes sealed with wax, the flicker of a candle, the scent of petrichor in spring, flowers blossoming among a field of withered crops trying to grow again, a flock of birds flying by, storms raging across the sky, the serenity of a still lake, deep waters, coffee and tea
RELATIONSHIPS
PARENTS: Jin Xiu (muggleborn, step-mother) and Alusius Vance (pureblood). Cao Luo Yan (actual mother).
SIBLINGS: None.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None.
OTHER FAMILY: Cousin.
CHILDREN: None.
EDUCTATION:
SCHOOL: Hogwarts
HOUSE: Slytherin
EXTRACURRICULAR: Chaser for the Slytherin Quidditch team, Charms club Potions Club, Dueling club. Alchemy.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, French, Latin, Mandarin
PHYSICAL TRAITS
EYE COLOR: Brown
HAIR COLOR: Brown with shades of light and dark depending on the light
HEIGHT: 5′5
SCARS: Thin lines spreading like roots from the palm of her right hand up in the inside of her wrist due to dark magic firing back
PERSONALITY
INTELLIGENCE: High. Adaptive.
SKILLS: Wandless magic (decent), Flying (decent), Dueling (practicing, decent), Curse-breaking (skilled), Non-Verbal Magic (decent)
POSITIVE TRAITS: creative, resourceful, determined, caring, proud, observant
NEGATIVE TRAITS: desperate, impulsive, impatient, reckless, deceptive at times
MBTI: INTJ
𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩
Emmeline was born to JinXiu and Alusius Vance on September 23rd, 1951 on a stormy night shortly before midnight. Her parents were an unusual pair as Aluisus believed in the ideals of the world he lived in and felt himself part of the pureblood society as much as the next one. While he had known that marrying JinXiu would be looked upon as odd, he’d been drawn to her from the very beginning and simply pushed himself to believe that his one sidestep could not ruin the future of all there was. It had been a mistake that would eventually come to cost him dearly as with each passing day, and later the birth of Emmeline, society made it very clear that they did not in fact approve of his choice. Even though it wasn’t the most widespread fact, their family still paid the price for it. JinXiu herself never found her place in pureblood society and in return disliked the purists and their idea of life.
With Alusius’ firm belief to raise Emmeline the way him and his friends had been raised, the young witch grew up resenting her mother as everything she learned caused her to believe things were very much her mother’s fault. How else could one explain the way things had gone downhill? It started with her, surely it would end with her. Thus, the witch felt naturally connected to her father, doing her very best to impress him while growing up into a competent witch, who would upon being sorted find herself within Slytherin.
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫
Slytherin was everything she'd ever dreamt of, Hogwarts a place that held all the wonder in the world and every step she needed on her path to becoming the witch she wanted to be. For the very first time she truly felt at home, fitting right in with the crowd. The loss of her mother during her second year almost didn’t bother her, was it not for the uncomfortable attention for the two weeks after.
Surrounded by those who would later become supporters and followers of the dark lord, the thrill and the darkness ever present, Emmeline found herself drawn to the same world. These people were friends, her home away from home; there was a loyalty with her that nothing could shatter so easily. Of course, Emmeline Vance wasn’t naive, not as much as one may have thought and yet she saw nothing wrong, did not bother to listen to those outside trying to hammer the truth they believed to be correct into the heads of those that saw the world in a way others may deem cruel.
𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞
Upon graduation Emmeline joined the ministry, trained under both the department of magical law enforcement as well as the goblins at Gringott’s as a curse-breaker before fully joining the department, working under the aurors whenever they needed a curse-breaker to grant them access to artifacts or manors. It was around three months after graduation that she joined her friends among the ranks of Death Eaters, taking the mark. It seemed so simple, so logical at the time. In the meantime she buried herself in work, loving the fact that she was surrounded by the dark arts; the one thing she’d always felt at home around - other than potions.
Eventually she opened a shop, taking things on into a business venture in the making. A shop entirely dedicated to the craft of curse-breaking. The job within the ministry was kept, seeing use within it to help further the cause and if need be adjust things for the Death Eaters’ side. Emmeline wasn’t one to share her affiliation with anyone who did not need to know, rather using the fact that she could slip in and out of the shadows in order to remain unnoticed for the most part.
The mark on her arm was an ever-lasting reminder of what all of this was for. If the war was won then no one else would ever have to go through what she had to; the disgrace of a mother so unwilling to adjust to a world she simply did not belong in. And Emmeline herself had fought hard for her own place, to earn the respect she now held by giving respect in return.
Now that the war is in full swing, the witch has moments in which she yearns to prove herself but at the same time is very much okay not being the face of the whole situation. Being in the backlines allows her to be as sneaky as she could ever want. As stubborn as she is, it would take quite the shock to challenge her faith and loyalty toward those she cares for as well as the side she’s chosen. Recently she's found out about her mother's true identity, leading to a newly shaped path that Emmeline is still very much trying to navigate and figure out but only time will tell.
𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
𝐋𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝- Friends. Best friends. Made back at Hogwarts and stuck through thick and thin with, equally ambitious and ready to tear down the world. Her gateway to the dark.
𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 - Reserved as she is, especially given her previous struggles, someone she cares for that she may not openly be seen with for one reason or another.
𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 - The person who eventually ends up bringing Emmeline to the Order. Whether that is because of her spying and then turning toward the good or there being something that caused it, this person would be her gateway.
𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬
𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩 - Someone Emmeline has somehow managed to convince - whether on purpose or by accident - that she isn't a bad person. If this person in turn turns out to be her own trap that she's stepped into and then leads to her turning toward the Order, double bonus.
