Post by abbey on May 26, 2012 22:41:12 GMT
abbey lee ackerley
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full name: abbey lee ackerley
age: sixteen
year: sixth
birthday: 23/04/60
blood line: halfblood
occupation: summer employee at sugarplum's sweet shop
former / house: ravenclaw81/3 inches, willow, unicorn hair core. :wand
wolff, male, albino rat.:familiar
porcupine. :patronus
ravenclaw, house of ackerley, sugarplum's sweet shop. :loyalties
"I got him because he was cute and named him Wolff because it was the first thing that popped into my head when deciding to name him. Had him ever since I started attending Hogwarts. He likes to disappear a lot, but he always comes back. I once went a month without seeing him - it was sad really, I almost forgot he existed until I woke up one morning with him asleep on my nightstand."
[/i][/justify][/size]her greatest f e a r
"I got burned bad when I was a kid. I remember how it felt when it was happening. It wasn't bad enough to leave permanent damage, but I was in St. Mungo's for a week for treatment. It was my own fault too. It's what you call a growth spurt gone wrong. You know how young wizards and witches get these pre-magic sparks? Well instead of say - making something shatter or something inflate or disappear, the stove I happened to be sitting beside on the counter flared up and singed my arm. I might have been mad about something I don't remember. All I remember is the feeling. And that's honestly more than I ever wanted to remember."
[/i][/justify][/size]her l i k e s
Spring, soft breeezes, rain, fresh snow, soft fabrics, walks, fresh air, reading, charms, books, wind in her hair, flying, hippogrirffs, dying her hair blonde, light colours, puzzles, cake, sweets, her fake glasses, figurines, skating, water, floating, waking up after a good dream, pillows, protective/defensive spells, laughter, casual duelling, practicing spells, thunder storms, pastries, swimming, bubbles.
[/size]her d i s l i k e s
Drama, extreme degrees of emotion, the sound of ice being chewed on, pettiness, impracticality, the concept of marriage, discrimination, closed windows, being confined indoors for long periods of time, fire, a bad mix of arrogance and ignorance, discomfort, chocolate, being burned, overthinking, overanalyzing, expectations, excessive attention, being pampered, paranoia.
[/size]the girl in g e n e r a l
Abbey is a very perculiar individual. She has a fair amount of friends and has dabbled in relationships every now and then and has more or less the typical style of your average girl. Often enough people preceive her as a forgetful airhead, but while she is most certainly forgetful, she is much more practical than she is naive. This makes her harder to read, and sometimes even hard to comprehend in terms of how she processes information. She has a very simple way of looking at things and tends to use her intellectual resources sparringly, if not so - in a way that allows her to bypass complex concepts in order to find the answers she's looking for. In general, she dislikes complicated situations. Drama. Complex feelings and the like. In that sense she tends to take a rather carefree stance, and is occasionally avoidant of dealing with situations that promote chaos - usually deeming them as too troublesome. On the otherhand she can be exceedingly blunt in cases where people would usually take the run-around - believing that its only a cause for more speculation. Thinking too much annoys her and watching people think too much just seems way too impractical for her to understand.
While blunt and honest, her appraoch is rarely dramatic. She is a fairly calm girl and tends to take things as they are with the ocassion for a sarcastic flare if it pleases her. However her attention span is like her memory, in that it is incredibly short - it more often than not reflects on her ability to procrastinate in cases where she doesn't want to do something - like homework for certain classes or writing letters home. Her impulsiveness also has a say in it - as she is often lead around by whatever catches her attention. In the case of catching the attention herself and being given excessive amounts of attention - she finds it uncomfortable if not a little annoying. She has never been a fan of being pampered either. As a child she was alright with it, but as teenager, it made her feel almost inadequate. In the case of her first relationship - she felt as though she were being treated as though she were a pet dog in constant need of attention. Since, she's more or less frowned upon it and has prefered to indulge in relationships that her friends have been known to disapprove of.
But, while Abbey seems to fly by the seat of her pants and her own set pacing, she really is just your average teenage girl. She's intent on having a good time and laughing with her friends and she enjoys dueling and practicing spells or elsewise to keep her busy. In certain cases she can be self-absorbed and a little ignorant to the feelings of others, but in others she has the potential to be aware, or at the very least - willing to listen and give her honest opinion. She is loyal to those she's grown attached and not so much to those she hasn't. In the case of school-work she is not necessarily the smartest Ravenclaw around, but she manages to pass most of her classes with ease, others not. With wandwork, she is efficient and somewhat experimental. She is adept with Charms and favours the spells involved as opposed to others and often prefers defensive magic as opposed to offensive. That being said, she is more passive than aggressive by nature. That doesn't mean she's not capable of pissing people off though as her honesty - or sometimes frank responses can do more harm then good, whether or not there is personal grudge behind her words or not. She has people she likes and people she hates and people she couldn't care less about. Overall though, Abbey is Abbey and there's not much that can change that.
[/size]While blunt and honest, her appraoch is rarely dramatic. She is a fairly calm girl and tends to take things as they are with the ocassion for a sarcastic flare if it pleases her. However her attention span is like her memory, in that it is incredibly short - it more often than not reflects on her ability to procrastinate in cases where she doesn't want to do something - like homework for certain classes or writing letters home. Her impulsiveness also has a say in it - as she is often lead around by whatever catches her attention. In the case of catching the attention herself and being given excessive amounts of attention - she finds it uncomfortable if not a little annoying. She has never been a fan of being pampered either. As a child she was alright with it, but as teenager, it made her feel almost inadequate. In the case of her first relationship - she felt as though she were being treated as though she were a pet dog in constant need of attention. Since, she's more or less frowned upon it and has prefered to indulge in relationships that her friends have been known to disapprove of.
But, while Abbey seems to fly by the seat of her pants and her own set pacing, she really is just your average teenage girl. She's intent on having a good time and laughing with her friends and she enjoys dueling and practicing spells or elsewise to keep her busy. In certain cases she can be self-absorbed and a little ignorant to the feelings of others, but in others she has the potential to be aware, or at the very least - willing to listen and give her honest opinion. She is loyal to those she's grown attached and not so much to those she hasn't. In the case of school-work she is not necessarily the smartest Ravenclaw around, but she manages to pass most of her classes with ease, others not. With wandwork, she is efficient and somewhat experimental. She is adept with Charms and favours the spells involved as opposed to others and often prefers defensive magic as opposed to offensive. That being said, she is more passive than aggressive by nature. That doesn't mean she's not capable of pissing people off though as her honesty - or sometimes frank responses can do more harm then good, whether or not there is personal grudge behind her words or not. She has people she likes and people she hates and people she couldn't care less about. Overall though, Abbey is Abbey and there's not much that can change that.
behind the g i r l
A spring baby, Abbey is the second born child of the Ackerley family - her brother preceeding her. She was your average child - self-absorbed, immature, naive, a typical daddy's girl. Her toddler years in particular held true to that. She wasn't spoiled per say, but well off considering her grandfathers remaining wealth - living in a small family manor in Tinworth, England, that had been passed down through the Ackerley pureblood lineage. Because of the location being a cross-culture community, Abbey was exposed to both the magical community and the muggle community at a fairly young age and what it was that made them different. She learned at a fairly average pace, raised in a decent household along the coastline, with enough relatives around to keep an eye on her and her siblings. By that time, there were three of them, having attained a younger sister a year following her own birth - giving her the best and the worst of having both a male and a female sibling. Sibling rivalry occured as expected as did sibling love.
As a child, Abbey was never alone as there was always family around. Their father was a working man - much to her dismay and their mother a stay at home for the time being, deciding to pursue a career once the children had all been sent off to Hogwarts. Prior to that however, they were put through Charm School as a precourse for magical education and to give them a taste of the world they were growing into. It gave them a chance to socialize beyond their family and family friends as well. Abbey adapted to the classroom atmosphere well enough, but was quick to expose her wayward attention span - which lead to having her mother and favourably her father going over the homework with her. Eventually she began to develope habits to counter it which only further prepared her for her years to come at Hogwarts.
At the age of seven, the first noticeable trace of magical ability become apparent, tying her sisters shoelaces together without actively doing so during one of their fights. These little bursts continued sparsely for the following years - one incident occuring when she was eight that resulted in her arm getting burned bad enough to seek treatment at St. Mungo's. The incident left Abbey somewhat traumatized, developping a fear of fire, and more specifically of burning. It took awhile for her to lessen the paranoia but she remains relatively uncomfortable with the element. That being said, having grown up along the coast, Abbey had always preferred water and learned how to swim at a young age making her likeness for the opposing element even less so.
Regardless, it's fair to say that by the time Abbey was eleven, she had more experience in a number of areas than can be said for some, and she was more than prepared for what Hogwarts would bring. It helped specifically that her sister had gone ahead of her, providing insight whenever she would return home for the holidays. All the same, Abbey was delighted when her Hogwarts letter came and moreso when they made a trip to Diagon Alley to pick up her supplies. She was quick to pick out a rat as her familiar, naming him Wolf. A few weeks later and she was off, leaving behind her life at the family manor for the first time of a series of many - to join his broter at Hogwarts. Upon entering the Great Hall to sit beneath the Sorting Hat, expecting to be sorted into Ravenclaw like her brother, she was not the least bit surprised to hear Ravenclaw boom from its mouth.
And thus began her earlier years at Hogwarts. She made friends quickly, juggled academics at an average rate and experienced crushes and the like within the first couple years. She found a thrill in flying - having not learned to do so before and battled new obstacles, growing and maturing over the years. Her third and fourth years brought about more significant changes finding less and less in common with her friends at the time as she grew less and less interested in their drama, eventually settling into a new, less frustrating - less drama seeking niche. Relationships came and went at a relative pace, friends became enemies, enemies became friends and life as a witch attending a boarding school was every bit normal. Her following years she stayed friends with the same group growing fairly close with them. As she started into her fifth year she was asked to be Prefect on account of her relatively clean school record among other notable stances such as maturity and over general responsibility.
Well into her sixth year now and once more a Prefect, things are beginning to change again and the world around her is evolving at a troubling rate. There's really no telling what's in store for her.
[/size][/size][/ul]As a child, Abbey was never alone as there was always family around. Their father was a working man - much to her dismay and their mother a stay at home for the time being, deciding to pursue a career once the children had all been sent off to Hogwarts. Prior to that however, they were put through Charm School as a precourse for magical education and to give them a taste of the world they were growing into. It gave them a chance to socialize beyond their family and family friends as well. Abbey adapted to the classroom atmosphere well enough, but was quick to expose her wayward attention span - which lead to having her mother and favourably her father going over the homework with her. Eventually she began to develope habits to counter it which only further prepared her for her years to come at Hogwarts.
At the age of seven, the first noticeable trace of magical ability become apparent, tying her sisters shoelaces together without actively doing so during one of their fights. These little bursts continued sparsely for the following years - one incident occuring when she was eight that resulted in her arm getting burned bad enough to seek treatment at St. Mungo's. The incident left Abbey somewhat traumatized, developping a fear of fire, and more specifically of burning. It took awhile for her to lessen the paranoia but she remains relatively uncomfortable with the element. That being said, having grown up along the coast, Abbey had always preferred water and learned how to swim at a young age making her likeness for the opposing element even less so.
Regardless, it's fair to say that by the time Abbey was eleven, she had more experience in a number of areas than can be said for some, and she was more than prepared for what Hogwarts would bring. It helped specifically that her sister had gone ahead of her, providing insight whenever she would return home for the holidays. All the same, Abbey was delighted when her Hogwarts letter came and moreso when they made a trip to Diagon Alley to pick up her supplies. She was quick to pick out a rat as her familiar, naming him Wolf. A few weeks later and she was off, leaving behind her life at the family manor for the first time of a series of many - to join his broter at Hogwarts. Upon entering the Great Hall to sit beneath the Sorting Hat, expecting to be sorted into Ravenclaw like her brother, she was not the least bit surprised to hear Ravenclaw boom from its mouth.
And thus began her earlier years at Hogwarts. She made friends quickly, juggled academics at an average rate and experienced crushes and the like within the first couple years. She found a thrill in flying - having not learned to do so before and battled new obstacles, growing and maturing over the years. Her third and fourth years brought about more significant changes finding less and less in common with her friends at the time as she grew less and less interested in their drama, eventually settling into a new, less frustrating - less drama seeking niche. Relationships came and went at a relative pace, friends became enemies, enemies became friends and life as a witch attending a boarding school was every bit normal. Her following years she stayed friends with the same group growing fairly close with them. As she started into her fifth year she was asked to be Prefect on account of her relatively clean school record among other notable stances such as maturity and over general responsibility.
Well into her sixth year now and once more a Prefect, things are beginning to change again and the world around her is evolving at a troubling rate. There's really no telling what's in store for her.
alias: avyx
gender: faux-male
rp sample: see regulus black or daniel cadwallader
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