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[theladyunicorn]

out of character :

Your name: alex
Contacts: alex@theladyunicorn.net
Timezone: gmt+10
Experience: serpentsblood
How did you hear about us? andy

basics :

Name: Dorea Jasmine Black
Nicknames: Rea
Birthday & Age: July 23 1920 | 21
Occupation: Healer

details :

Blood/Social Standing: Pureblood | In excellent standing due to being a Black
Relations: All the million Black's and therefore all the Pureblood's

Mother: Violetta Bulstrode
Father: Cygnus I
Siblings: Pollux, Cassiopia, Marius

Knowledge of their Family History: (required for 2001 characters only)
Standing on the 'Muggle' War: It doesn't effect her so she really doesn't care about it, they are Muggles after all - at least publicly. She is scared of how much danger they could be in with the Muggle Bombs - having lived through the Blitz, it shows to her just how much the Wizarding World underestimates the Muggles, not that she will ever admit it.
Romance: Charlus (could be currently seeing could not be). Open to have her seeing someone else currently but he's in the future at least.

School, House & Years Attended: Slytherin | 1931-1938
Wand and/or Wand Maker: Ollivander

politics :

Any : She's very torn on her politics. She doesn't like Muggles or Muggleborns but at the same time she doesn't think that Muggles are useless creatures like she was taught - the Muggle War has shown her just what they are capable of. She is more neutral than anything, not caring one way or another.
Views and loyalties: She's loyal to herself and her family
Potential faction: Neutral

appearance :

PB: Laura Donnelly
Notable Features: A scar on her back about half an inch long

Detailed Description: Dorea looks like a Black. Like the majority of the family there is no mistaking her as anything but one. Despite that she doesn't look as severe or cruel as some of the other members of her family, in fact she looks downright friendly and cute compared to some of them. When she isn't at work where she wears typical healer robes, she dresses in comfortable but stylish robes.

She's rather tall and thin, with the typical Black hair. She wears her hair up usually in a bun, sometimes letting pieces fall down around her face. She holds herself well and it is obvious she has had training in how to hold herself, how to walk and all the other standard lessons a traditional Pureblood learned.

personality :

Boggart: Insects crawling all over here. They just seriously creep her out.
Patronus: Collie Dog

Secrets: She isn't as such a purist as most of her family believes her to be
Quirks/Habits:

Detailed Personality: Dorea isn't your typical Black. While she is proud of her heritage and skills she was also quite willing to look at the other side of the argument too and decide which the best stance to take was. Always one to learn something new she wasn't afraid to go against her parents- as long as they didn't find out as she feared being disowned more than anything as her family was her support base. She wouldn't survive without them. Rather quiet she preferred company of books to that of people- not that she didn't love her family, in fact they meant the world to her and was in fact very social as a young child and teenager.

Being the youngest of four children had its advantages and disadvantages. It meant that she could get away with more things but also meant she was often overlooked. Dorea didn't like that one bit. She liked being in the spotlight, even if she wasn't that social- mainly in the sense that she needed friends and people to rely on when she needed them.

Loyal and friendly to a default she is also quite ambitious and cunning- like the rest of her family. Growing up in the Black family taught Dorea to strive to be the best that she could be- not that she wouldn't anyway- and do anything that she could to get there. If this meant she had to befriend people in other houses then so be it (though she tended to stick away from the Muggleborns, Hufflepuffs and some of the Gryffindors just to avoid being disowned). Possessing a very quick and sarcastic wit lead to her confusing and alienating a few people who didn't get her sense of humour but she didn't mind. She was happy enough with her friends and family as it currently stood.

history:

Born on July 23 1920 she was the fourth and youngest child of Cygnus Black and Violette Bulstrode. Growing up with two sisters and a brother lead her to being over looked quite often as Pollux was focused on as being the heir and then Cassiopia for being the first girl and then Marius who unfortunately turned out to be a squib though she would miss him after he was disowned.

At an early age she was taught how to read and write which she took great fascination with, spending many afternoons in the Black Library reading anything that she could get her hands on. When she wasn't reading she was trying to get the attention of her brother and sisters as she did wanted as many friends as possible. She spent a lot of time with other Purebloods who were around a similar age to her too.

When she was six they gained another member of the household- Irma Crabbe. At such a young age she wasn't positive of what was going on but she did know it was something bad and unexpected. After the child was born- she was a bit resentful for having to share her lessons with Irma but that didn't last for long and they quickly became friends. At first it was strange having her brother spend the weekends at home but she slowly grew used to it, they had never been that close but she was fond of him none the less. Out of all her family she was probably closet to Cedrella who was only a couple of years older than her.

When she was five she fell ill with a disease but no one could diagnose it. Luckily she got better after a couple of months but it left her extremely weak and pale. She would quickly run out of energy too if she was moving around for too long. Ever since then she also has the misfortune of catching every bug that goes around and is therefore nearly constantly taking potions of some sort.

Starting Hogwarts in 1931 she was sorted into Slytherin as she was ambitious and wanted to go as far as possible and was willing to do anything that would get her there- though the sorting hat did seriously consider placing her in Ravenclaw. Dorea didn't want to go there- she wanted to please her family and the only way to do that, was to go into Slytherin. At school she had a small group of close friends though she was rather popular despite the fact that she spent a lot of times with her books.

Over the years at Hogwarts she spent time with her friends and kept up a correspondence with the majority of her family members, especially her parents and siblings once they had left school while she saw others, like her cousin Regulus only at family gatherings that the whole family attended.

After graduating from Hogwarts in 1938 near the top of her class she continued to live at home while her parents looked for someone for her to marry except she wasn't interested in marrying at that time. Her parents eventually came to accept her decision as she was the youngest of five child and a girl when she promised to marry by the time she was thirty- at the latest, if she hadn't they were free to organise a marriage for her.

During this time she entered St Mungo's and started to train as a Healer which she fully qualified for at the beginning of this year.

bonus :

June 1st, 1941/2001 they were...?
1941: What is the one thing that the War (Nazi and Grindlewald's) affected them the most? The rationing and her fear of what the Muggle bombs could actually do to her and the Wizarding World. It did destroy the Ministry of Magic after all
What is your character's future in the game? Probably grow more distant from her family, marry Charlus at some point and far far far into the future have James.
Would you be willing to have your character killed or imprisoned? Sure. I mean I'd say she could be killed but James would never be born and that means no Harry and that leads to a big fucking mess.