[OOC] Finite Incantatem [AU Harry Potter RP]

[rawkhawk64]

Woops, I did indeed miss that. I'll fix it, and then see if I can't work on a post.

[Little Bird]

Expect my character by tonight. Just got a huge burst of inspiration as far as where I want him to fit into the cast as a whole.

[rawkhawk64]

@McHaggis Would it be unresonable for Finnegan to deliver some potion or other to Ronan as he enters. Like, Veritaserum or something?

@Pirouette Depending on timeframes, perhaps Erin encountered Finnegan while he was staying at St. Mungo's? If so, that might lead to some interesting character interation.

[McHaggis]

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[Pirouette]

@Pirouette Depending on timeframes, perhaps Erin encountered Finnegan while he was staying at St. Mungo's? If so, that might lead to some interesting character interation.

@rawkhawk64

Yea I would like that.

[Pirouette]

@rawkhawk64

Erin and Finnegan would also know each other fairly well through potion brewing. Erin's methodical medical brews are one thing, but I can Finnegan providing advice, expertise, or showing off new brews.

Just a thought.

[rawkhawk64]

@rawkhawk64

Erin and Finnegan would also know each other fairly well through potion brewing. Erin's methodical medical brews are one thing, but I can Finnegan providing advice, expertise, or showing off new brews.

Just a thought.

@Pirouette

Once she gets over the shock of seeing someone escape from the crazy section, I can see it. After all, he might've babbled to her about his expertise.

[Little Bird]

Alright. Going with this one. Kinda going for a more general purpose role within the Ashes, if that's cool. And hopefully I'm achieving well enough in creating him.

Hider

Name: Liam McLain
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Marked: No

Appearance

Skills and Talents

Overall Role: Factotum/Floater/General Purpose Wizard/Youcancallhimfodderifyouwantbutnotreally

Talents

• Apparition; Liam passed his Apparition test the first time around with perfect marks. Given an unprotected destination or lacking confinement by jinxes and charms, he can perform this feat of magic like Hell, and can quickly pop to-and-fro with near-prodigious speed and very little time thinking time.
• Magical Versatility; whereas many witches and wizards find themselves falling into specialized magical professions, Liam is more of a all-around proficient wizard, able to converse and practice competently, though not always expertly, in just about any given area of magical work. Whether it’s holding out in a battle or assisting in the potions chambers, McLain is a functional and adaptable team player.
• Two-World Experience; Liam has spent just about as much time among the Muggle world as he has among witches and wizards. He is able to operate effectively in both without overtly risking blowing his cover.

Weaknesses

• Loose-Cannon; Liam is absolutely sickened by the thought of staying put or hiding out while others are making themselves useful. Constantly out to make what difference he can, he rarely exercises caution over himself. He has no qualms about breaking orders if those orders involve the words ‘just wait.’
• Alcohol; for all of his brilliance when it comes to thinking matters and things that generally require an uninfluenced head, Liam stays incredibly close to his flasks and bottles. He claims that it’s just his way of coping with the world, yet, in an affirmation of stereotypes, he finds just about every excuse to crack open the liquor. In his most frequented expression: “Either we succeed and save lives, or we fail and lives are lost; either way I have a reason to drink.” At any rate, he seems to have a very high tolerance for the creature.
• Zero-Tolerance for Failure; Liam is utterly disgusted with himself when he does not perform optimally. While he’s rarely seen drunk, in spite of his alcoholism, he manages to reach this point after particularly rough missions, especially those during which his own errors resulted in defeat or failure.
• Multi-tasking; to be fair, under ideal conditions he’s actually pretty good at this. The problem is that it’s never an ideal condition. Liam has the tendency to fill his cauldron to the brim with tasks when he really gets going. It’s very possible that he has some extent of attention defecate hyperactivity, as he frequently jumps from one project to the next. He earnestly thinks that he’s capable of doing everything at once though.

Favorite Spells

Whatever it takes to get the job done.

Biography

Views: Forged from his lineage and upbringing, Liam is a crafted and honed advocate for fairness and justice for all individuals, regardless of race, species, creed, etc. Being a half-blooded wizard, he finds sympathy and respect for both sides of heritage. He views Muggles as being worthy of respect for their innovations in technology that have allowed them to live in good standards without magic, just as he honors the powers bestowed upon the magical communities of the world. Knowing that neither the Muggle nor Magical worlds are free of flaws, with filled with prejudice among their own kin, he sees a necessity in learning cooperation even between the two ‘worlds.’

History: Liam McLain was born a Half-Blooded wizard to two Half-Blooded parents in Ireland, very near to the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. As a result of these circumstances, his early life was filled with learning about both the magical and non-magical worlds. For the first ten years of his life, his parents were insistent on his attendance at a Muggle school. This insistence, and the primary education that it provided Liam, was critical in his formative years, shaping his positive outlook on Muggles and their lives before ever setting both feet into the realms of magic. By the time he received his acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he had already been well-educated in the balance of his blood. This would reflect throughout his tenure at the school, particularly in his openness toward Muggle-born students who felt out of place in their new environment.

Liam would spend seven years at Hogwarts. While he was known to be quite sociable and friendly towards others, he was noted as an academic madman by his professors. He had an uncanny resolve to take every class the school had to offer at least once while he was there, and, surprisingly, performed reasonably well in every one of them; “if he hadn’t been stacking his workload so high, he might have gotten Outstandings on all of his examinations,” was the vein of what was typically said of him. Regardless of how thinly he tried to spread himself, Liam emerged as well-rounded student, bringing home at least an “Acceptable” on all of his O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. He remained somewhat active among the student body as well through his seven years, finding involvement in several clubs and serving as an alternate chaser for his Ravenclaw House Quidditch Team.

Throughout his life and education, Liam remained driven the one day join the Ministry of Magic and aid in the efforts against the Dark Lord Voldemort. However, as soon as he had left the walls of Hogwarts for the last time, the Ministry opened in support of the Dark Lord and Death Eaters. This drastically changed Liam’s plans, as the entire magical community flew into a frenzy, and war became all the more apparent in everyday life. Abandoning his plans of working for the Ministry, he departed to his home. But he only stayed there for a short while, assisting the efforts of his parents and grandparents to ensure their safety in the troubling times to come. He stayed with his family on their protected homestead for the next three months, waiting out the summer to get a tap on everything happening around them.

Though it was originally the intention for him to stay put where it was safe, Liam grew restless. As the summer months waned, and news of more deaths and disappearances mounted, he came to the decision that hiding out on the countryside was not becoming of him or his ideals. Against the urges of his family, he departed from the homestead returned to England. Despite that the Order of the Phoenix had fractured over the months, Liam quickly sought out Albus Dumbledore, requesting that he join the ranks of the Order. Being that Liam was of age, Dumbledore accepted him as a member, and began putting him to work. After many mundane missions proving both his loyalty and value to the Order, Liam’s general-purpose was noted, and he began seeing action of all sorts on many different fronts in the Order’s efforts against Voldemort; occasionally this lead to some confrontation with the splinter group known as the Ashes, though it never escalated to violence.

He would go on to serve the Order of the Phoenix for nearly seven years. He left the Order in 1998, scattering with the rest of its members in the wake of Dumbledore’s death. Still wishing to continue in the resistance against the Death Eaters, he sought the Ashes, quickly taking place among their ranks as a “workhorse.” Without delay, he began operations, hoping to rebuild his reputation among his new comrades.

Wand: Maple, Flexible. Twelve Inches in Length. Contains Phoenix Feather core.

[Frettzo]

It’s very possible that he has some extent of attention defecate hyperactivity

Right in the Multi Tasking part--"Defecate" is a verb that's a synonym to "Poop". You might be looking for "deficit" in this case :p

[McHaggis]

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[Lord Wyron]

I'll try to get an IC post up today for Viktor :)

[Lord Wyron]

Shit, wrong thread

[YoshiSkittlez]

Lorina Malfoy

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Lorina Malfoy

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Basic Information

Name Lorina Malfoy

Age 27

Gender Female

Marked? Yes

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Appearance

Like most of the Malfoy family, Lorina has a very thin, lithe figure that follows up all the way to her narrow, pointed-featured face giving her an overall exotic look. Her dark eye makeup and light amount of foundation pull away the sallow-looking features that come with the bone structure of the Malfoy line, the unique hazel color of her eyes drawing away most of the attention from anywhere else. Her raven-black hair reaches all the way down to her shoulder blades which she keeps down for the most part letting her natural wave in her hair to do most of the styling for her though she is known to pull it back into a tight ponytail when an occasion calls for it.

A few tattoos decorate her pale skin, namely The Dark Mark taking up most of her left forearm and the initials B.K.M. taking up her right wrist, though no one seems to know what those initials stand for but Lorina. She also has the Malfoy Family Crest tattooed to her left ribcage though it only takes up a small portion.

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Skills and Talents

Overall Role Double-Agent Spy – Because of Lorina’s involvement with The Dark Lord and his followers, Lorina serves as an informant to the Ashes, providing critical information that might put others in immediate harm’s way or information on any newly developed plans. However, Lorina has to be very careful with this information, picking and choosing what information to disclose as it would be very easily picked up on if The Dark Lord had a mole amongst his followers. Thus, it is a very grey line in which Lorina treads on what information is important and what lives can be sacrificed to maintain anonymity. What sets Lorina apart from her other fellow spies, however, is if it came down to killing one of her own alliance members to prove her loyalty to The Dark Lord... she would do it. She is still very active in the duties of a Death Eater, leaving no questions to be asked about her loyalty.

Talents
Transfiguration has always been a very solid subject of Lorina’s. Even as a child, the first signs of magic that she showed being small instances of turning some of her toys into live animals like mice and birds. What is considered to be a difficult subject to master, Lorina was able to do at an early age; even in school she was advanced a few years’ classes to be with those who had similar ability, though was always at the top. As of her twentieth birthday, Lorina became an unregistered animangi when she started experimenting with transfiguration spells on herself, promptly turning herself into a rare-colored silver fox though small in relative stature.

Curses are something else Lorina is quite proficient in, however this talent was learned at a young age by force rather than interest. Learning from the Sponge-Knees curse all the way up to the Killing Curse, Lorina has at one point, done them all though it is not something she enjoys. To keep up appearances she continues to use them, letting her judgement be her best weapon of all.

Her quick wit and silver tongue give Lorina a very high advantage for ‘playing both sides,’ able to say one thing and mean another without many giving her question to her motives. She is able to cover her tracks by stringing up stories on the spot, most of the time using key elements of truth to remain undetected by those who would otherwise be able to call her bluff.

Intuition and judgement calls make up who Lorina truly is. By working with the bad to aid the good, she oftentimes has to get her hands dirty to prove her loyalty and though it has never been put to the test as of yet, she doesn’t want to give anyone reason to do so. So Lorina works and acts as though she is truly the Death Eater she was made to be, able to kill and torture innocents when in the company of others with a straight face, having to make certain judgement calls on whether what is being asked of her is necessary or if she would be able to change things for the better without coming across as suspicious.

Weaknesses
Lorina's knowledge on magics not pertaining to curses or transfiguration are very limited making Lorina a terrible duelist if she is not the first to strike and is unable to end it quickly. Though she able to hold her own for a short while, her lack of knowledge on magics outside of transfiguration and curses forces her into being the one to cut quite to the chase as she can be figured out to be quite predictable in a short amount of time. While she was very practiced in school in potions, charms and other such things, those skills have thus faded away, not being used, reverting back to a basic school-level of understanding on them.

While spending a good majority of her time with the likes of the Death Eaters, Lorina has sort of adapted two different personas fitting in two different settings. While coming across as the cool, collected, sometimes crazed killer while working with Voldemort's followers, being the person that she is expected to be, it is sometimes very difficult for her to snap out of that persona and become who she wants to be in the likes of the company in the Ashes. This leaves her oftentimes very unpredictable personality wise - a real wild card when called in for very sudden meetings as you never know which side of her you will get.

Because of Lorina’s ‘double life’ there are a lot of stresses that plague her mind, keeping her awake and restless. Because of this, Lorina oftentimes turns to alcohol and drugs to help her cope with the decisions she makes on a day to day basis that she is able to express regret for when she is alone, unable to confide with anyone about the struggles she constantly faces.

Muggle knowledge is a great hindrance to Lorina. Having been born a pure-blood and raised as such, all things related to muggles are very much foreign to her, her mind unable to understand why rubber ducks don’t swim on their own and quack when in the bathtub or why you have to move your own chess pieces while playing a game.

Favourite Spells
Accio - Summons an object

Confringo - Exlode Flames on target

Crucio - Tortures opponents unforgivable

Expecto Patronum - Creates a Patronus (in Lorina’s case a black panther)

Expelliarmus - Disarms your opponent

Finite Incantatum - Stops any current spells

Homorphus Charm - Causes an Animagus or transfigured object to assume its normal shape

Petrificus Totalus - Body bind

Smokescreen Spell - Creates a defensive cloud of smoke from the tip of the wand

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Biography

Views
Lorina was raised pure-blood which has strict views on anyone who might be tarnished magically or within their bloodline, namely Muggleborns and those who are not ‘pure’ such as werewolves and Veela. Lorina, however, from a very young age did not wish to follow this firm set of beliefs as her best friend from her childhood was Veela. The Veela helped Lorina to understand a different way of thinking and in turn, was able to create thoughts and deductions of her own on those who were not classified as pure-bloods and eventually found nothing wrong with those who were born outside the ‘pristine’ especially when they had no control of who or what they are.

Unfortunately, Lorina’s friend was killed during one summer when she was on vacation and though the nature of her death remains a mystery, Lorina is almost certain that she was caught up in the ever-going political battle between The Dark Lord’s Army and those who stood in his way.

This did not deter Lorina, however. As she continued to grow, she continued to make friends with those her family would deem filthy and unworthy to even walk on the same ground that pure bloods did. When Lorina was 19 years old, she even became involved in a romantic relationship with a werewolf, though the nature of such relationship was kept very secret and very suddenly ended when she was 25, never to be seen or spoken about again.

Lorina’s views on those in other houses than her own (Slytherin) don’t deter her opinions either, her belief being that if she is to dislike someone, it is to be because of their character, not because of what they are labeled as.

When it comes to house elves, centaurs, giants and the like, Lorina doesn’t view them in a disgusted, degrading manner in the privacy of just herself, but around others who expect much of her, she has (seemingly) no problem kicking a house elf into submission or talking down to other creatures as though they are her lesser.

History
Born on a cold December night in 1972, Lorina was raised in a family of pure-bloods who’s lineage went beyond time itself, it seemed. Not only was the family pure-bloods, but because their roots ran so deep, the Malfoy name seemed to hold a torch of its own on an entirely new playing field, sometimes even referring to other pure-blood families as their lesser depending on the situation. They were rich, well-known, and had their foot in figuratively every door within the Wizarding world. They wanted for nothing and knew not what it was to need for anything, a life many would trade their own sibling or favored pet for – but Lorina grew to detest it.

As a small child living at home and only having her older brother and plethora of cousins to play with, Lorina was raised to take on the beliefs of not only her parents but her entire family. Attending Hogwarts School in 1983, Lorina began her real training in magic though a great majority of things were taught to her mostly private; tutors of those within The Dark Lord’s organization. Along the way of her learning, a plethora of thoughts regarding others within her family were already established. Her second-cousin, Lucius Malfoy, assassinated by an (at the time) unnamed person. The only thing that Lorina truly knew was that her family could very well be in trouble – a group that called themselves The Ashes and that they needed to be destroyed.

As Lorina grew from a child to a woman, however, Lorina’s views that she had been brought up with began to change, starting with a friendship between herself and a Veela and though it didn’t last very long (as she and her family had been killed by unexplained circumstances one summer) it had her thinking about her own morals; the morals of her family.

At the age of 18, Lorina was turned Death Eater, following in the footsteps of her parents and even her older brother. It was a tradition that she quite literally could not say no to and though she was smart enough to keep her newly-found views to herself, a quiet detestation for her family slowly began to set in. It became even worse when Lorina met a man a few years older than herself at the age of 19 who she developed a secret romantic relationship with; a man who was much more than a man, but also a werewolf. The relationship would never have seen the light of day and it was a dangerous one, though they managed to keep it going for six years until things came to a very abrupt halt – reasons known only to Lorina and two others under Lord Voldemort’s control, none of which have spoken a single word to anyone since then.

Something snapped in Lorina then though, she was different. When she returned to the Death Eaters, she held absolutely no reluctance towards the tasks she was given and even some of her own Death Eaters had to question where this sudden, crazed streak came from within her but she gave no explanation, only quiet service that got results and got them quick. Every relationship she had outside of what her family approved of died. Even those she had once been somewhat close to within Voldemort's followers she pushed away. She was quit literally 'off the grid,' only checking in with her fellow Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort when it was absolutely necessary.

That goes without saying, no one at Rosaline Hall knew what hit them when she appeared at their doors one day, pledging loyalty and promises of information about Voldemort and his followers with a striking personality switch that seemed as good and true-hearted as a Gryffindor.

Having only been with the Ashes for a month or so, she knows very few in the order can trust her as far as they can throw her, so she is determined to show them that she is on their side – the side of the greater good for all.

Wand

9” Willow, Dragon Heartstring
A willow wand signifies that you care deeply about emotions, art, and intuition, and that you have a particular knack for charms. Your dragon's heartstring core makes your wand very effective in hexes.

Patronus

Black Panther - A black panther represents the feminine, power and protection. The panther also has a deep understanding of spiritual things that are psychic and artistic. Panthers also have a way of swift, confident and cunning.

[Shadowcatcher]

woo we've started! expect a post from me soon!

[Jig]

Okay, Yoshi, it might be worth having another look at Lorina, because I found a few things that could probably do with a tweak.

Because of Lorina’s… unique ties to The Dark Lord and his followers

@YoshiSkittlez

I might be missing it, but I don't really see what her unique tie to the Death Eaters is that the other spies in the Ashes don't have. It's not really a big thing, but you shouldn't be thinking that Lorina is unique among the spies (unless I have missed whatever that unique thing is :P). Also, your CS states that she is Abraxas' sister. Abraxas is the father of Lucius Malfoy, who was born in 1954, and therefore Lorina would be Lucius' aunt, despite being almost twenty years younger than him...

She is a practiced duelist able to stand against anyone she has ever faced

Okay, many of the problems with Lorina come with the fact that she does feel very over-powered. She is a master of transfiguration, a terrific duellist, who is an impeccable actor that always makes the right decision. It doesn't help that she doesn't seem to have any really balancing weaknesses, or that her skill level doesn't seem to match her age.

For comparison, Bertha (my character) is exactly twice Lorina's age whose entire academic and actual career has been about duelling in some respect, be it competing in tournaments, being an auror, or fighting with the Order of the Phoenix and then the Ashes. It might be worth reconsidering how absolutely Lorina is a brilliant duellist, because there are many characters in this, who, just through having significantly more experience than Lorina, should be able to best her without too much difficulty.

Weaknesses

Muggle knowledge is a great hindrance to Lorina.

Really? When? All their opponents are going to be exclusively magical. Ignorance of Muggle tech and culture being a gap in her knowledge doesn't really disadvantage her.

Because of Lorina’s ‘double life’ there are a lot of stresses that plague her mind, keeping her awake and restless. Because of this, Lorina oftentimes turns to alcohol and drugs to help her cope with the decisions she makes on a day to day basis that she is able to express regret for when she is alone, unable to confide with anyone about the struggles she constantly faces.

On a similar token, this isn't really a weakness as such. Where the sheet says "weakness", it's kind of asking for a balancing factor that will make your character vulnerable, both generally and literally. Lorina not really having any weaknesses but feeling isolated won't manifest in the IC as a balanced character, but a sad OP one.

Draconifors - Transforms the target into a dragon (Lorina has only done this a handful of times as it expels a tremendous amount of energy and has only done it to someone else on one occasion)

The spell might be listed on HP Wiki, but it's actually from one of the HP games, which aren't very canon. It doesn't really seem like a spell that could really exist in the HP universe because, well, turning shit into dragons is... a bit dramatic, no? :P

Lucius Malfoy, assassinated by another branch of the Malfoy family, Rodolphous Lestrange

By the Ashes, akshully. :P

[YoshiSkittlez]

@Jig Sure thing, I'll get into looking over those now and get up those updates sometime today. Thanks for the feedback!

[YoshiSkittlez]

@Jig I have updated the areas that needed some work and changed a few things to make it fit better. Let me know what you think :) If I missed anything I apologize.

[McHaggis]

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[YoshiSkittlez]

@YoshiSkittlez – Okay, so I had a discussion with the guys and, unfortunately, I'm going to have to reject Lorina at this time for various reasons, most of which are carried over from @Jig's original response. I could write a more in-depth list if you required it, but as it is we would require many changes to the point where she will become a vastly different and unrecognisable character.

She also shares many characteristics with another character we already have in the roster. Sorry!

@McHaggis

Eh, fair enough. I tried lol. I'll see if I can't think up something else, completely new, if not, just know that you got a pretty awesome RP idea here and I wish you guys the best of luck.

[McHaggis]

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