#sleepingdintro

i told y’all in the plots channel how this is something i wanted to approach & give a try and everything came together so, so, so well (at least in my head HAHA)!!! i decided to tell the story of the new muggle Amelia & the Bones through some initial introductions to every member of this progressively political & famous family full of activists and smarts and lots of trouble!! xoxo oh the woes of balancing being a good person & being rich !

without a further ado... 

FATHER / Bo Bones / 53 years old

Chair of the Ecology party (known as the Green Party later on). Passionate environmentalist and has written many passages in newspapers and magazines about ecology prior to becoming chairman. Makes notes in empty columns of papers and restaurant menus whenever a thought comes to him. Very brainy, but also very scatterbrained. Bo Bones is DEFINITELY the definition of a gangly cunt and we love him for it. Often thinks about the WHAT IF’S of Scotland becoming Independent, or what happens IF Scotland abandons the Green Party to form their own, based on more tailored needs? He wants Scotland represented fairly. Of course, with the statute falling, he can’t only worry about Scotland’s citizens. He will be taking on an unnecessarily large, extremely stressful workload to find certain unity between every land, religion, and belief. It really is no surprise his children often bite off more than they can chew, because they’d witnessed it from the most practiced all their lives.

MOTHER / Sundy Castello / 56 years old

Activist and lecturer of Philosophy at Cambridge University. Italian immigrant from Sicily. Hailing from an infamous family who has lived off the fortune of their relative’s poetry that’d been published during the Romantic era over a century ago. The Castello family does not participate in the same idealist politics their dead relative and their poems spoke of, but Sundy always had. She moved away from home, travelled throughout all of Europe while teaching herself about philosophy while learning and respecting the philosophies of other regions. She remains with the Castello name, even after marriage, sticking to the Sicilian tradition of keeping your father’s name throughout life.

ELDEST BROTHER / Edgar Laclan Bones / 26 years old

While he isn’t NECESSARILY a whole ass Black sheep, because this family unit is rather tight knit and have really learned the means of good communication. However, the need or desire for the limelight has never ever once been there for him! His family’s money seems to get him more unwarranted attention than anything ever since he’s grown out of the phase of blowing it all just to blow it. Amelia and Ivan could probably learn a thing or two from him when it comes to working diligently, keeping your head down, and investing/saving. Whereas Edgar could probably learn a thing or two about appreciating life from his younger siblings. It isn’t so much about loosening up or changing his core, but it’d be great if he could open his eyes and not take the small things for granted. There is so much out there, Edgar! Please, for the love of god, go for a walk!

IRISH TWIN / Ivan Benachie Bones / 23 years old

Plays for Aberdeen F.C. Is a “decently” famous footballer who probably gets dragged more than appreciated in the tabloids. This MIGHT be because he is a rather mischievous one, known to sneak other players from their hotels in the middle of the night to party in abandoned churches. You know, just Scottish things! His moves on the pitch aren’t as impressive as his need to do something against the rules. Definitely immature. Definitely needs to learn a thing or two about the realities of life before the witch we love as Susan enters the world.

Amelia Susan Bones / 22 years old

She taught herself that to be heard, you did have to find ways to make yourself stand out. At times interchangeable with not all publicity is bad publicity. This has been a quote on repeat in Amelia’s head since childhood, which is not surprising, considering how infantile it feels to believe at times. It was not only her family’s money that could lead to the Bones family improving their country, just as well, they needed to be heard loudly and clearly. Following this philosophy as a teenager, however, might’ve not been the brightest approach. What tabloid took a seventeen year old seriously about progressive issues when she’d been caught underaged drinking in underground clubs? Among lots of other things no one her age should’ve be experiencing yet... 

Friends often came and went, because Amelia’s trust vanished after a handful of acquaintances only cared about her thick wallet and what bottle it could buy them that evening. She’s become better at dealing with strangers than making friends and in the process of it all, has taken on the same socialite’s life her mother had fled Italy from many, many years ago. Her drive has disappeared over the course of the last couple of years, and now life is much easier when things are handed to you. Magazine shoots, cameos on television sets, interviews about style now more prevalent than the idealist beliefs she once held so near and dear to her heart. Here is to hoping her moralistic side kicks back into high gear, now living to witness the falling of the statute she never once knew existed. Please, begin climbing the correct ladders, Amelia!

Previously on Sleeping D....

June 1980 // Amelia "witnesses" her boyfriend murdering an old friend of hers, Nick Welling. Having only heard the incident, she does not know her boyfriend, now ex, Rory Sayre is a wizard and killed the man with magic.

July 1980 // Rory gets put away in jail, a muggle one as far as she knows. Amelia begins attending therapy, but it is not doing too much for her at the moment.

about / pinterest

the carrow twins are 1/4th veela oh baby oh baby

3rd year slytherin, ATTEMPTING to get herself a pre-healer’s degree, but can struggle at times. should definitely get herself a tutor, but nah! no thanks!

interning in the pediatrics/children’s ward at St. Mungo’s as her final year project

while the carrows do own and manage a boarding house, it is very much so because they ain’t got much money to begin with! as a family, they’ve come up with some money making schemes of their own. during aly’s final primary year at Wigtown School, she purposely got pregnant with the intent to sell the child for some cold! hard! cash!!! b/c that’s what you do for family apparently, y’all... smh

aly has been ice-skating the majority of her life! she likes that shit, could’ve probs made a real future of it however...

TW: MISCARRIAGE // one unfortunate winter afternoon, she was skating along the frozen pond outside their family home and fell through the ice. the incident almost resulted in the death of two, but aly survived that day with a bout of hypothermia while the baby sadly passed away. she had grown soooo attached to idea of owning a being of her very own (eeks makes me feel so weird to phrase it that way omg), that aly had planned to keep the baby for her own self! so, everything ended up being rly super unfortunate in the end and she’s been unable to conceive since. along with having an intense fear of water.

that would be why her parents are relying on her sister, amy, to marry into another pureblood family. gives us that money honey!!!!!

is bird OBSESSED!!!!!!!!!!!! works at the owl eeylops emporium in diagon!

the itch to move and perform again without having to put on ice skates recently urged her to take a position as a server and dancer at the Winking Wizard

the highlights 

Colin is a Squib. this is not the first thing he would tell you about himself, but this is the first thing you should probably know about him. his family has been, uh, Not Cool About It. they are no longer speaking and have not for years and this is fine with Colin (mostly). 

the first thing HE would tell you about himself is that he has a four year old son named Simon. yes he is in fact doing it on his own. he has no regrets about this but also if he never saw his son’s mother again it would be too soon (mostly). 

did i google what is the pettiest zodiac sign before i decided to make him a cancer? abso fucking lutely i did. 

Colin’s primary income comes from his ghost touring business! he realized a few years ago that muggles LOVE THE SPOOKY SHIT and so he uses the fact that squibs can see ghosts to his benefit. he doesn’t only tell stories about ghosts that he can actually see, and will frequently tell folklore/ghost stories if he thinks they’re entertaining even if he’s never seen evidence that the place is actually haunted. 

he is also going to muggle university for economics, but he ALSO works part time at TerrorTours in Diagon Alley and sometimes picks up shifts at the Leaky Cauldron if it fits his schedule/he can find a babysitter. 

here’s his about page

when i was looking for a fc i told more than one person that his aesthetic was “was once rich, now is very tired” and i feel that’s a pretty accurate summary of his character as a whole tbh 

BASICS

★ BIRTH DATE / 7 July, 1957 ★ BLOOD STATUS / Pureblood Squib Nonmagical ★ PRONOUNS & IDENTITY / he/him; cis male  ★ FACECLAIM / Lewis Tan

ACADEMICS & CAREER

★ PRIMARY SCHOOL / Muggle Primary, class of 1975 ★ HOUSE & YEAR / Muggle University (in progress)  ★ OCCUPATION / owner of Galivanting Ghouls Ghost Tours; part time employee at TerrorTours and occasional employee at Leaky Cauldron 

POINTS OF INTEREST

★ Colin Fawcett was practically born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His parents bought him the tiniest brooms so he could learn how to fly before his peers, ensured the spells never wore off his lullaby bears, and read him stories about fountains and cackling stumps. It was only as his peers began to show increasingly powerful signs of magic while Colin didn’t that the spoon began to tarnish. It didn’t take long for concern and sessions with specialist Healers to turn into outright disdain from his parents. The word Squib was never spoken in the Fawcett household, but when his friends went to Cambridge, Colin found himself being shipped off to a boarding school. The school was full of other boys that thought he was strange for having never been to a movie theatre or having a telephone at home but who didn’t give him the pitying looks his parents’ friends always seemed to have ready in his presence and were happy enough to have him spend the holidays with him when his own parents were “busy with work”. 

★ Colin succeeded in his Muggle boarding school at least partially out of spite. If his family could so easily start building a new life without him, he could just as easily build one without them. He planned on continuing his success to university, but all those plans fell apart when he found out that his girlfriend was pregnant and planning on attending Cambridge University. Suddenly proving himself to people that didn’t care about him no longer mattered, and he didn’t hesitate to put his own life on hold to move to a city that he had tried to avoid for years. The idea that their son would have a child with a Muggle was the last straw for his pureblood parents, who proceeded to cut him off and announced they refused to acknowledge him any longer. Colin refused to let their reaction bother him though. He had a family now, and they needed him to support them in a way his parents hadn’t bothered to support him in long time.

★ Colin collected a haphazard series of jobs that reflected both his interests and his lack of degree, doing whatever was needed to support his small family. After he realized that being a Squib meant he could see ghosts that the Muggles around him could only sometimes sense, one of those jobs included leading the occasional ghost tour. However, he never fully gave up the idea of going to university, biding his time until his girlfriend finished school. He realized too late, perhaps, that he should have discussed this plan with the girlfriend in question. On the same day that he planned to tell her that he had enrolled himself in courses for the fall, the mother of his child announced that she had accepted a job at the Italian Embassy and would be moving there almost immediately. Colin had never really considered what her International Relations and Political Sciences degrees might mean for them as a family, but her declaration that she had never seen herself as the mothering type and therefore he shouldn’t feel the need to keep in touch with her yanked the rug out from under him more effectively than anything else she could have said.

★  Fueled by a need to prove the world wrong yet again as well as attempting to long term plan for a lifetime of being a single parent, Colin started classes in the fall as planned. It might mean attempting to juggle multiple part time jobs, coursework, and babysitting arrangements, but Colin had never been the type to let a challenge stand in his way. In the past year, he has been able to turn his ability to see ghosts as a Squib and his connections to the Muggle world into a ghost tour business called Gallivanting Ghouls. He’s found that operating his own business is as hard as anything else he’s run into in his life, but if nothing else, at least no one complains if he brings his four year old to work with him.

TRAITS

about page / pinterest 

the bio (tldr at the bottom) ~

★ It had never mattered that Maeve had been born six weeks premature; she was healthy as hell. She used to wear the title as a badge of honor, showing up ready to battle from the get-go, but things began to shift during Mae’s primary years. It was clear she was falling helplessly behind when it came to school, never quite picking up things as fast as even the slowest of her peers. Consistently receiving low marks did not go unnoticed by her Professors or parents and soon enough, Mae was having to endure the most humiliating thing of all. Kwikspell lessons. Her magic wasn’t as sharp as most witches her age and she’d forever be busting her ass harder than everybody. When you can’t even travel without asking your older brother to side-along or getting yourself filthy through the floo system, a chip falls onto your shoulder. Maeve can be a generally unpleasant person to be around if you haven’t the nerve or patience to deal. She couldn’t care, either way.

★ If one more person told Maeve that life wasn’t fair, she was going to explode. It was perfectly easy for everyone to say when without an ounce of thought, your blessed wand would do exactly what you wanted. Even muggleborns, without a pureblood for a mother and halfblood for a father, could perform spells beyond her wildest expectations. Maeve might harbor a deep resentment towards muggleborns because of this now. Resentment, jealousy, envy, hate. They all seemed to be the same thing when she could only feel anger.

★  She couldn’t give two shits when it came to proving herself to the people around her. People were stupid. It was about what Mae could prove to herself. Running on six hours of sleep a night, Maeve is currently juggling her third year of Hogwarts while attending night classes at a university in Glasgow. She’s studying Marine Biology, one of the only things in the world she thoroughly enjoys. And enjoys alone, at that. You would think she’d keep her afternoons free, but she has filled them with a four hour shift flipping burgers at a Wix Burger location in Puddlemere. She wanted her pockets to be filling up, a surefire way to get her own place after graduation. A boat, far away from home.

BASICS

★ BIRTH DATE / 1 December, 1955 (i think LMAO) ★ BLOOD STATUS / Half-blood ★ PRONOUNS & IDENTITY / she/her; cis female ★ FACECLAIM / Tristin Mays

ACADEMICS & ROOMING

★ PRIMARY SCHOOL / London School of Witchcraft, class of 1974 ★ ACADEMIC PURSUITS / Pre-Auror ★ HOUSE & YEAR / Gryffindor, class of 77

( alcohol abuse cw, abuse cw )

POINTS OF INTEREST

★ Penelope was happy being poor, alone, and without any ounce of weight to her name. She was alright with being “Penny Tyler” the girl with a muggle father who left when she was six, a borderline alcoholic witch for a mother who tried her best to give Penny everything she needed to be successful in life, and one or two friends at London School who were there when she needed them, but never suffocated her. She was okay being the girl that no one knew existed, or cared about if they did. In fact, she almost loved that fact. She didn’t have to talk in class, she didn’t need to act like a good friend or pretend that she cared about other people. Everything seemed, for once, to be going alright. Then, of course, her mom fell in love (or so she claimed).

★ Augustine Nott came from a long line of pureblood wizards, and with that came a lot of gold and a big reputation, one that her mother was more than happy to become a part of. Parties every weekend and fancy gifts delivered to their dilapidated doorstep; those were the things that Mrs. Tyler lived for, and suddenly they were all hers. The wedding was fast, unexpected, and huge -- married in June of 1974. The gossip that followed it was even bigger. Penny’s mother was nothing to the pureblood family that Augustine came from; she was trash, and by association so was Penny. Nevermind that she didn’t want to live in his lavish house with his House Elf and seven bedrooms and four and a half baths. She was her mother’s daughter, and she was going to be known for it. She had a name to uphold now, there were people (her peers) that she had to socialize with and parties she had to attend, and no matter how much she wished that going to Hogwarts for her 1st year would change that, she found out it only got worse.  

★ Silas Nott entered the world at only 6lbs 6oz a year after the wedding. Yet the tiniest of things, make the largest impacts. The maddening part about it all was, Penny never wanted any part of it, yet it was clear, when it came to her new baby brother, she was the person who cared the most. And being away at Hogwarts, away from him, and knowing the care that he was in (trust her, she’d grown up with Vera Tyler as a mother herself), only added to the stress. It led to outbursts in lessons, physical altercations with other students in the corridors, and a foul mouth on the quidditch pitch. Penny was kicked from the quidditch team -- one she even captained as a Seeker. But that was the only consequence she ever faced among all the incidents in her years at Hogwarts. She hated the privilege her name brought, but at least she didn’t have to kiss away her dreams of being an Auror. Penny’s currently in her last year of the Auror Academy. And while her dreams are soon to come true, she has more goals now. In her heart, she knows the influence Silas was under could forever change him. Her endgame was to have custody of him. No matter what it took.

★ It was undeniable that Penny took after her mother, the way she fell quick, hard, and deep for a wizard. Ten years her senior, Andrew Porter worked tirelessly as a well trained Hit Wizard. They’d met as soon as Penny entered the academy. It even being on her very first day had her thinking, perhaps fate did exist, and they weren’t all aimlessly wandering about. They were engaged only three months later, with a rushed wedding following everything else. But to Penny, this wasn’t rushing. This was love and why would she wait for love? But this romance was a whirlwind for a reason. The first year -- marital bliss. Nothing but surprise dates, apartment shopping, and they even got a dog together. The second year, things began to fizzle out. But, that’s what Penny had expected. That’s what she’d been taught her whole life, watching her mother go through men. The excitement wore off as you entered the “normal stage”. But what about arguing every week, sleeping in different beds, and deciding to work overtime was normal?

★ She’d learned he’d lied about a few things since meeting -- all to make himself seem... superior. Did this man have a God complex? Was this relationship only feeding his ego? At times, it’s all it felt like, when she wasn’t being made to feel crazy. There was nothing but a sense of false security and though Penny did not quit a thing in her life, she had to escape. This was not setting any better example for Silas, after all. And wasn’t her baby brother the priority in her life? Penny had wasted so much of herself admiring this man, for nothing in return. He hadn’t helped build up Penny’s self-love, not once, and it was as soon as she realized that, did she file for divorce finally. This was in November of 1979 and while the divorce isn’t yet finalized, Penny is out of their house and has avoided all contact with him since. Recently, she’s couch surfing with her dog as she searches for a new place to live and trying to find a sense of purpose again.

TRAITS

✓ athletic; independent; adventurous  ✗ bitter; aloof; quick-tempered

EXTRA FUN STUFFS

whale HELLO! this is the love of my life penny tyler, comin’ atcha with a fresh face and backstory!!! i wanted an old character to connect with all da older bbs ~ so everyone come at me, but definitely da “older” crew!!

her about page & pinterest

is a few months away from becoming an official auror! so we will soon be responding to all the fuckin war crimes that yall be committing in this universe DLKFALKJLSKDF;J hit us up if you ever need anything auror related! 

penny is definitely ACAB but you gotta fight the system from the inside!!! she also has this antiquated dream that she is going to “save the world one day”

grew up rather poor and doesnt take shit for granted much because of it

she can be a bit Intense or Abrasive so i APOLOGIZE in advance! i do not support physical violence but ms penny says what u gonna do about it punk !! maybe it’s cuz she’s a sag idk dont perceive us basically

she also has attended a lot of pureblood events and parties since her mum got married in ‘74. so!!! connections there too >: )

has currently been couch surfing since her divorce! so if you’re one of those couches, hmu :)

is craaaaazzzzyyyyyy about music!!! has a vinyl collection thats p much her pride and joy and what most of her money has gone into over the years

picked the “ugliest” dog at the shelter and made it hers!!! her name is blair lol

BASICS

★ BIRTH DATE / 25 February, 1960 ★ BLOOD STATUS / Muggleborn ★ PRONOUNS & IDENTITY / she/her; cis female ★ FACECLAIM / Sydney Sweeney

ACADEMICS & ROOMING

★ PRIMARY SCHOOL / London School of Witchcraft, class of 1978 ★ ACADEMIC PURSUITS / Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, class of 1980

tw: disordered eating

POINTS OF INTEREST

★ She was only fourteen years old when an aspiring fashion designer discovered her in a small boutique in London while she was shopping with her mother. The designer approached Greta, saying she had the perfect look for her line she’d just finished up and was soon to launch in springtime. She’d never modelled in her life -- but when someone of the industry was telling you, that you had it, that you had the look, it gave you every bit of confidence to go through with it. Now Greta’s been modelling since fourteen, in both the muggle and wizarding world. At just the age of sixteen, she was selected for a contract with Witch Weekly. The magazine often discovered fresh faces and now Greta would be one for the era of the 70′s.

★ Greta walked onto a photoshoot with slightly shorter hair once and was almost immediately fired. It shook her up good. She already knew this world she was in heavily depended on her looks, but when something as simple as a haircut or eating an extra bagel meant receiving harsh scrutiny, she began to pull back. Witch Weekly was already searching for a fresher face, because that’s how the modelling world was constantly evolving. She loved the creativity she was allowed to bring onto each set, but maybe this was no longer the career for her. Her mind was suddenly set onto acting, amazed by the way you could be one person on Monday and someone completely different by Saturday with no shaming. There were stories to be told and Greta wanted to be the voice of them. She had never planned on going to school after primary, but she enrolled into the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts for acting specifically.

★ Based on a steady stream of reviews that came in after every production the WADA put on (and there were a lot...), it was clear... Greta needed to work even harder. Here she was again, facing harsh criticisms. Her acting was mediocre at best, wrote one critic. After pulling back on modelling, was she about to do the same with acting? She has contemplated leaving school more than she’s focused on reading her lines by now. Greta’s stressed.

★ Michael ‘Mickey’ Catchlove’s job was something she’d always admired with a full heart, wide eyes, and lots of curious questions. Mr. Catchlove owned a toy shop in the heart of muggle London called Catch the Wonder, granting wishes of young children all throughout the city. She’d worked there a couple of summers, watching in amazement and even feeling inspired to do something herself. Of course if there was anything she and dad would connect on, it was the child-like spark that still burned bright in both of their adult lives. Soon she began turning the drawings from children into stuffed toys, bringing all of their creations to life. It’s been a work of trial and error, but she hopes to start up her own business in the wizarding world, or better yet, add to her father’s. It will definitely keep her busy between lessons.

TRAITS

✓ warm-hearted; optimistic; open ✗ gullible; lack of backbone; easily flustered

OTHER FUN THAAAANGS

here’s her about! and her pinterest! i apologize for her aesthetic DLFL;SJFKJASF she looks like she shops at claire’s 

b/c she has had many brand deals while being with witchy weekly, she has acquired quite a wardrobe and is often giving away things to friends. so if you’re friends with greta, say HOLLA to some new designer clothes LOL!! she feels very fortunate as she grew up workin’ class/not very fortunate at all

muggleborn! so! there’s ThOsE kinda connections to be made too :eyeemoji:

i was not kiddin’ in the group chat when i said i was makin’ this b tall LDJF;LSJDFJSF holla 5′11 and often wearing some form of heel/wedges. we like to see everything, thank you

does anyone have a single dad? asking for a plot ;LDSJFLAKSDJAF NO GRETA IS NOT TRYIN HOOK UP WITH YOUR FATHERS. it’s for something else okay SDFKJLFJA;LSKDFJ

looooves a good cheese board! can’t wait for this retired model to write a book about cheese in her future LMAO chrissy teigen who????

ADHD queen, like all of us

is also the queen of making friends, so i feel like she knows A LOTTA PEOPLE. she went to london school! so anything stemming from that is great to start with. but literally anyone, yes pls. she probably comes around hogwarts whenever they’re putting on a play or something anyway too!!!

if your characters have any bbs or siblings or cousins or little ones in their lives that have made drawings, let greta bring them to life as stuffed animals as a special gift!!! <3

☆ CORY MULPEPPER —

BASICS

★ BIRTH DATE / 13 August, 1960  ★ BLOOD STATUS / Half-blood ★ PRONOUNS & IDENTITY / she/her; cis female ★ FACECLAIM / Sophie Simnett

ACADEMICS & ROOMING

★ PRIMARY SCHOOL / Cork Wizarding School, class of 1978 ★ ACADEMIC PURSUITS / Natural sciences degree, Potions cohort ★ HOUSE & YEAR / Hufflepuff, second year

POINTS OF INTEREST

★ It had been established in 1106 and not much had changed in ways of Mr Mulpepper’s Apothecary except for its staff throughout the years. It stayed within the family and eventually reached the hands of Nikolas Mulpepper, an English botanist and potioneer, in the year of 1949. Outraged by the fellow apothecaries that littered the wizarding world, Nikolas condemned them all for their greed and their use of harmful practices. Since then, Mr Mulpepper’s Apothecary has been the most affordable apothecary to shop, with constant deals on cleaning solutions and performative draughts. And it’s no secret Nikolas is one to barter if a patron cannot afford the remedies they so dearly need. The shop has almost gone bankrupt multiple times and while Nikolas may pay the ultimate price by having to shut down his family’s century old shop, he would never go back on his ways. He’s always been loyal to the customer and have taught his two daughters the very same. It should come as no surprise that they’ve made a formal announcement -- that they do not approve of Selwyn’s squib vaccine.

★ Lydia, Nikolas’ wife, was born a squib. It positively broke his heart when the love of his life was unable to see her twin daughters start showing signs of magic themselves. But as Lydia had had a difficult upbringing because of her status in the wizarding world, Nikolas was just happy she’d finally found her peace. He told nothing but wonderful tales of his beautiful wife as bedtime stories to their daughters, who looked more and more like Lydia as the days passed by.

★ Born only minutes apart, it was safe to say the girls were inseparable from day one. This never, not once, got in the way of their individuality. Where one was brushing their teeth, the other one was using her toothbrush on the family dog’s teeth. Where one was doing arts and crafts, the other was using their scissors to give herself a new haircut. Two different sides of the same coin, essentially. They really became individuals upon attending Cork Wizardy College. They still shared a room, which wasn’t so different, until they began meeting friends of their own and attending different social gatherings. One would go to group palm readings, while the other went for live music shows. Even as time passed and distance began leaving its toll, the girls would still get together once a week with their favorite sweets and catch up on what boys or girls they were kissing.

★ Cory, the loud mouth she could be, was not placed into Gryffindor upon arriving at Hogwarts. But her quieter sister, Colleen, was, while she was sorted into Hufflepuff. Cory carried a chip on her shoulder about that one for a long time coming, wanting to be sorted where their father had gone. Where she’d idolized half her life. But no, Colleen got in where Cory hadn’t. Their weekly meetings were soon diminished, Cory saying she was too busy with the workload to catch up on any gossip. The most they spoke now were holidays back at home, where they put on a show for their father. To be perfectly clear, this wasn’t something Colleen had ever wanted, but for most of her life just like in birth, she followed Cory, Cory’s wants, Cory’s needs. They came first.

★ Cory usually spends her time half-assing a dozen things; painting, riding her skateboard, her school work in potions. But when it came to quidditch, she put in 110%. But as much as she put into the game, Cory rarely saw positive results coming back. In Primary, she’d gotten ejected from two games in row, which ultimately got her kicked off the team. She’d been too aggressive (and broken more bones than anyone) and needed to turn a new leaf, but when she had, upon joining Hufflepuff’s team, her efforts once again went unnoticed. This time she was denied from a summer quidditch camp. It seemed no matter what route she rode, she never chose the right one at the right time. It didn’t help that she was playing with and against peers that simply outshined her on the field. Dawn Withey was going to be the talk of Hogwarts when she landed herself on a fancy, popular, professional quidditch team, while Cory just barely scratched the surface. Her cynicism didn’t stop her from trying, though. With her third year coming up and a possible captainship, more is on the line than ever.

★ Thankfully, growing up, the girls never had to rely on looking for summer jobs. Their pops let them open and close the store on weekends for extra money. Cory was sure she could’ve gotten extra school credit towards her potions work for working in an apothecary. She’d have to pull that card if her grades ever dropped, she decided. One afternoon, the shop was buzzing with Christmas crowds, and the next second everybody was fleeing the scene. The Menagerie next door had apparently caught fire, smoke now billowing over into Mr Mulpepper’s Apothecary. Now, Cory couldn’t see much of what was happening once smoke grew thicker, but she knew a man had entered the shop. The man turned his wand on Cory, throwing Cory aside and knocking her right out until black was all she saw. When she awoke, alone in the shop, she knew that he had escaped with something in the commotion of it all. Cory had planned on going through inventory herself, but an item as rare as this, Mr. Mulpepper knew it was gone the second he returned to his shop. He immediately owled the DMLE. Cory’s yet to come forward with her statement of that afternoon, hardly believing anything truly happened as it all happened so quickly. The nightmares about it haven’t stopped.

TRAITS

✓ challenging; individualistic; responsive  ✗ critical; self-conscious; reactive

extra shit

cory is on hufflepuff’s quidditch team, as a seeker! this is the one thing she never slacks off with and is always on time for. and im sure gives people a hard time if they’re not picking up the slack dlsfjasjf and it’s like SHUT UP CORY, YOU’RE NOT THE CAPTAIN. so any hufflepuff team connects hmu.

has a twiiin name colleen. cory is the “older” one. colleen’s gonna be an open bio if anyone has an itch 2 get silly wit me 

is Dramatic af

is not totally full of hufflepuff pride and maybe gets points taken away every so often? oops. 19 years old and still actin’ up.

her about page is here 

listens to a LOT of music. a lot of underground bands that people havent heard of allll the waaay to the huge names like rolling stones and the who. she’s never been to an actual, huge concert venue with a big band headlining. she’s only seen smaller shows here and there. despite that, doesnt own a whole lot of vinyl. cuz she really prefers the live experience better.

she would love a skateboard riding buddy for when the weather’s nicer!! and she paints only landscapes and oceans cuz she sucks at pretty much everything besides that. and always knows where the best party is happening. probably cant wait to have a low street house next year to throw her own parties.

opinionated for the fact that she just loves to hear herself talking

hmu for any relationships!! friendships, she is prone to enemies with her big mouth, she is bisexual AF so anything there, just anythaaaang <3

BASICS

★ BIRTH DATE / 14 November, 1960 ★ BLOOD STATUS / Muggleborn ★ PRONOUNS & IDENTITY / she/her; cisfemale ★ FACECLAIM / Vanessa Morgan

ACADEMICS & ROOMING

★ PRIMARY SCHOOL / Seattle School of Fine Witchcraft, 1979 ★ ACADEMIC PURSUITS / Natural Sciences degree, Care of Magical Creatures cohort ★ HOUSE & YEAR / Slytherin, first year

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

★ Slytherin Quiddich Team -- Chaser ★ Care of Magical Creatures club

POINTS OF INTEREST

★ It hadn’t been the life Cindy’s mother had wanted for her upon giving up her daughter for adoption. She couldn’t imagine her daughter would grow up in a foster home, only to be bounced around between multiple homes for all of her youth. It wasn’t until she was fifteen did she settle into a home with younger foster children. The three younger children, two girls and a boy, quickly became all Cindy knew in the ways of a family. They were true siblings underneath the control of their uncharitable foster parents. She was the oldest by a few years and spent the majority of her time protecting the other three and taking on all the consequences that came with.

★ It took three whole years for Cindy to finally snap. She was already eighteen and was only living there until she finished the year at Seattle School. They treated her even less like she belonged and that led to Cindy sucker punching her foster-dad across the face one day in the heat of a fight. In a complete rush, Cindy was packing up all of her things from the only home she’d even know. Though she’d been working a part-time job saving up for moving out, anyways, she didn’t have much in the ways of means. That’s when she took it a step farther and broke into the family safe, taking what she could fill her pockets with before fleeing in the night, without a good-bye to any of her siblings. She knew they’d contact law enforcement to press charges.

★ Arriving in Glasgow, Scotland, Cindy found herself the only warm place she could stay and made home there. It would soon be too much too afford and she’d go to couch surfing on stranger’s couches, people she’d meet at pubs. She went as far as changing her last name to Talkalot, a nickname she’d given her kid sister back home, and started going by Lux. And though she hated with every ounce of her being her life back in Seattle, she no longer felt whole. Not without her siblings, not without the car she’d spent so much time and energy on. That’s when Lux decided she’d make the best life she could, as quickly as she could, and “rescue” the rest of her siblings from the awfulness of that home. They could be a family if Lux got everything in order for them.

★ Enrolling at Hogwarts drained her bank account severely and she quickly found a job at the quidditch supply shop in Hogsmeade, deciding she’d work a job while attending school. It was easy to decided what to study. Lux had spent the greater part of her childhood rescuing strays off the Seattle streets and finding homes for them. Care of Magical Creatures was a no brainer. She imagined being the first veterinarian in the wizarding world that could tend to both magical and non-magical creatures. It was just nice to have somewhere to lay her head at nights, worry-free.

TRAITS

✓ Willpower; invulnerable; challenging ✗ Troublesome; stressed; vindictive

OK SO, is a super lesbian

just moved here from america so!!! connections, anyone? they could have met over summer somehow or they could’ve met right when school started or they can meet now :) just hmu 

is not the Most approachable, but we’re trying here pals

just started playing quidditch this year and is somehow,, very good, picked it up quickly and made the house team LOOK OUT EMMA

most definitely tells ppl her name is lux