Post by juliet kirke on Jan 12, 2009 2:30:39 GMT -8
Juliet Kirke.
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FULL NAME. Juliet Tamberlyn Kirke
NICKNAMES. Julie, Jules
AGE. 20
YEAR. Senior
DATE OF BIRTH. Feb 14
SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Straight
HOUSE. Hufflepuff
DO YOU WANT TO BE IN A FRATERNITY/SORORITY? Of course
WAND. Silver Birch, Centaur Mane core
BROOMSTICK. Firebolt 2020
CANON OR ORIGINAL. Canon
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HEIGHT. Five foot nothing
WEIGHT. Barely over one hundred pounds
BODY TYPE. Little bit
HAIR COLOR. Blonde
EYE COLOR. Green
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES. Juliet's eyes are a gray-like green and they are, she feels, proportioned very well apart. Her skin is a fair color, though there are some imperfections involved, which are usually covered with the appropriate makeup. Her nose is a bit crooked, from a little tussle in the school she went to as well as the fairly large dent in her skull that is only a bit covered up by her hair, where people see it and look at it, which bothers her a smidge. Her hair a dirty blond that is put into many different styles, depending on how she feels that day. Her cheek bones aren't that noticeable, unless you press on them, or something. She prides herself on that.
APPEARANCE IN DETAIL. She knows she is short – standing at five foot even isn't that great, because it seems that everyone else is some giant to her or something. She is skinny, but not incredibly skinny thanks to her love of eating, though she isn't a husky girl either. She would categorize herself as more of an in between both extremes, knowing she's got some fat on her though also taking into consideration that there is some muscle there as well. She isn't perfect by any means, and Juliet knows that, but she knows she isn't flabby. Juliet tends to have more lower body strength, able to hold on to most anything with only her legs, as long as it isn't slick or anything. But, ask her to pull herself up, and you are completely out of luck – she isn't some body builder! She carries herself with dignity, even if her eyes say something different. Juliet will never let anyone make her inferior, and so, she hopes her posture will say that. Her footsteps aren't heavy and awkward, except when she runs. Oh, how she hates the way she runs. She hits the ground rather hard, through no fault on her own, and many a time someone had guessed she was some guy coming up behind them. Her athletic ability is limited, seeing as she only dances multiple dances, swims, and runs. All of these build up her lower body strength, leaving her upper severely underused.
DESIRED PLAY BY. Hayden Panetierre
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LIKES. moving around
dancing
wearing odd clothing
other people talking, not necessarily to her
LOVE MACHINE.
speaking in terms only the intelligent can understand
happy people
being happy herself
peace
animals
Defense Against The Dark Arts (oddly enough)
trying things out of her comfort zone
DISLIKES. things out of order
boys looking for sexual gratification
girls who sell their bodies
garbage
rude people
people who feel sorry for themselves
people who hurt themselves / others
- sell outs
STRENGTHS. Loyal, Honest, Hard-working, Clever
WEAKNESSES. Kind of snotty, a tad naive, procrastinator from hell, and hard to shut up
HABITS/QUIRKS. Juliet is by no means stupid, but she is very naive and easy to fool. If you want to put somebody up to doing something outrageous, well, here's your girl
FEARS. Being locked in a closet
SECRETS. Total virgin. Okay, maybe that's not a huge secret, but one would assume with her being twenty and nearly done with school
FULL PERSONALITY. Miss goody-goody two shoes
Juliet can proudly say that she has never gotten in trouble in her life, and does not plan on doing so. She is the definition of a goody-goody two shoes -call it being overly cautious, or just cowardly, but she never puts a toe out of line, in fact she barely approaches the line. She doesn't see the point of being a troublemaker -it just gets you in trouble and it annoys the heck out of the teachers, so why do it? That's her reasoning, at least. To be honest, she liked it better than what was probably the realistic reasoning and that is that's she's simply not brave enough to do something wrong and then suffer the consequences. She isn't, however, so uptight that she might not laugh at a prank played by others -however, it does depend on the prank, whether it is simply for laughs or cruel.
Forgive and forget
Her mother had always said that the best way to deal with life was to "forgive and forget". Juliet takes that advice to heart and is convinced that everyone deserves a second, third, even fourth chance. They were just humans, no one was perfect, and everyone made mistakes, so why hold a grudge? It would just make life harder for you if you went around holding grudges and getting angry over meaningless things. Even the big things are worth forgiving -she made mistakes, too, and would probably make many to come and she would hope that her real friends would be able to be big people and follow the advice of "forgive and forget" as well. True, she's quick to get hurt, but is just as quick in forgiving the person who hurt her.
The glass is half-full.
Juliet is one of those happy-go-lucky people who can almost always see the silver lining of the cloud, the bright spot on a dark day. Her engaging smile is usually infectious and she goes about her days convinced everything was going to be okay, everything would get better. Perhaps thinking like that set her up for disappointments, but it hadn't yet -at least, not drastically, because with her optimism the disappointments became challenges and obstacles that she could easily pass if she put her mind to it. Her reasoning is: why depress yourself by seeing all the negatives when there is obviously positives as well? You just had to look for them, that's all.
I care
Juliet absolutely hates it when people around her are upset, it completely ruins her day, and she would do –almost- anything to cheer them up, even if they are complete strangers or even enemies. No one should be unhappy, not when there were so many good things in life. This sunny attitude might be perceived as annoying by some, and endearing by others, depending on their tolerance, but honestly she couldn't see what was so bad with being positive all the time -there were enough negative people in this world to cause an epidemic depression, in her opinion. Was it a crime to cheer up complete strangers? She didn't think so. And if she doesn't succeed in cheering them up, she would more likely then not cry/be upset with them. Because misery loves company, right?
Oh, I'll just do that tomorrow...
Procrastination is a horrible trait, her mother says, but unfortunately Juliet just can't help it. She has repeated the phrase "oh that essay is still due in a few days time..." so many times in her head that she has lost count. Usually this procrastination is only to do with studies and homework. She always leaves studying to the last-minute and ends up cramming the few weeks before exams and pulling all-nighters. A bad habit she needs to kick, especially since this is her senior year, and she's working on fixing it. Honest.
Hmm, let's see, the troll war was- Oh, look, a butterfly!
In this trait, Juliet is rather contradicting -for things like studies and lessons and such, where she has to force herself to concentrate, she is so easily distracted it's not even funny. But then during other things, like playing wizarding chess or Quidditch, she could be completely focused on the game and nothing could deter her from it. Her mother had often expressed her wishes that it would be the other way round -that her short, goldfish-like attention span only came to things that "didn't matter as much". Which was silly, because Quidditch mattered as much as her studies did. She didn't dare say that in front of her mother, though. Can you imagine the earful she would get?
As soon as I open my mouth, I just can't seem to shut it
Juliet has an obvious condition of talking too much, especially when comfortable around a person. Some people might assume that she just loves to hear herself talk, and that might be it, but then there's the fact that she absolutely hates awkward silences and hence chatters away in an attempt to avoid them. As it is, it usually either annoys the person who's ears she is assailing by her incessant talking or they end up having no idea what she is saying and feeling absolutely confused -she never could tell which is worse. It's even more difficult to avoid talking too much when she's nervous or under stress, and usually she doesn't even realise she's doing it until either a) the end of her rambling (whenever that is) or b) someone stops her and points it out or simply tells her to shut up. It's another of those bad habits she has to quick.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will also hurt me
Her sister had always said that Juliet was too sensitive, and who was she to disagree with someone who was practically a genuis? She knew she could of grown a thicker skin, and that cruel and even simply tactless comments shouldn't cut through her like they did, but she just can't help but take things to heart all the time. It was easier to succumb to tears then to pretend like everything's fine and dandy, and she's not one to bottle things up either. If you hurt her, you'll know it.
Holding out for a Hero
Romance novels were a favourite of hers, and it wasn't unusual to catch Juliet daydreaming when she's supposed to be studying about Princes on galloping steeds coming to sweep her off her feet. When she falls, she falls fast, and hard, which often leads to her heart breaking. She's not a fickle little thing -if she loves someone, it's difficult for her to get over said love -she had spent the better part of her third year pining over a boy she hadn't even known all that well and whom she quickly realised was in love with someone else. Unfortunately, her first experience with unrequited love had not been enough to stop her. It wasn't her fault her heart was such a frustratingly easy thing to capture, now is it?
PARENTS.
SIBLINGS. (names, ages, occupations)
BIRTHPLACE.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. (spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend)
CHILDREN. (if applicable)
PETS. (if applicable)
FULL HISTORY. When Andrew Kirke went to France with his family after graduating from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, he definitely had not been prepared to fall in love with anyone. He was young, barely eighteen, and yet as they say love knows no age, and he found himself falling, and hard, for a beautiful young woman. He was delighted to find that she was originally from his own country, but lived with her parents in Paris and had recently graduated from Beauxbatons. What should have been a summer fling quickly grew into something more serious -the thought of returning to England without her made his heart ache, and so he came up with a spontaneous solution: they would get married and she would return with him to London.
Blinded by their love for each other, the two young adults had a hasty marriage -they could not have been happier. His parents had expressed their concern over the fact that they were going too fast before they got married, but they had known Andrew couldn't be stopped -when he had a goal in mind, he went for it, and he wanted to marry the beautiful Cathy, so he did. It was easy to charm her parents -they were poor and he was willing to take their daughter off their hands so that they wouldn't have to worry about her anymore and they graciously approved of the marriage.
A year after they tied the knot, they were still very much in love and Cathy had given birth to two healthy bouncing baby girls. Despite everyone's speculation on whether the young couple would stay in love, Andrew and Cathy's love only seemed to grow, and with their little family formed it just seemed to solidify their love so that Juliet grew up surrounded by nothing but love.
In spite of that, there was still the twin syndrome, but it did not affect her as much as it might have affected other people. She knew her parents loved her, but there was always a little competition. Or so it seemed in her earlier years, but that was before cause for worry on her behalf rippled to the surface. It was during the summer after Juliet's first year at Hogwarts, when they had gone for a visit at her uncle's farm (her father's brother) when she was nine that she suddenly fell sick. It wasn't an unusual illness, just a simply cold at first, but it seemed to spiral into something much worse and one morning she had suffered from a dizzy spell and then fainted.
When she woke up, she was at St. Mungo's with no idea how she got there.
She could see a white coat before her, someone's back to her, and around it she saw the worried faces of her parents. Confused as to why they looked so concerned, she tried to remember what had happened. Well, she remembered feeling very ill and then...well...everything went black. She sat up with a slight groan and coughed, her body feeling weak. Her mother was immediately rushing to her, light blue eyes clouded with worry. "Oh my baby!" she cried. "How could we have not seen this before? You always got so sick all the time and we didn't even notice. I must be a terrible mother!"
Confused at her mother's dramatic antics, she gave her father a puzzled look and he gently rested a hand on his wife's shoulder, effectively calming her down, if only slightly. "The doctor says you have a weak immune system. Much weaker then normal. It's why you get sick so easily," he explained. Well, that explained it, the nine year old thought. Before she could ask if they could fix it, the doctor butted in. "Don't worry, dear, we have a potion that'll help strengthen your immune system. You just have to take it once per day before you sleep and you have to be a good girl and take it every day, you hear?"
"Will I be okay afterward?" she asked him, pulling the blankets around her shivering form and wiping her nose discreetly on them. "I have to go to Hogwarts in two years," she informed him with a happy grin and he smiled back. She liked him, she decided then. He had a nice smile.
"I'm sure you'll be fine by then."
She wasn't, not really, but she was better. The years before she went to Hogwarts, she was often in and out of St. Mungo's, but less frequently every year until simply colds would often just need some hot soup and bed rest and then she would be fine. She obediently took the potion every day, and when she was in Hogwarts (her magical abilities had come out when she was six, according to her mother. Apparently, she had managed to smack one of her cousins in the head with her teddy bear which he had, incidentally, stolen from her without even touching it. To say the least, the boy had been pretty stunned and she had skipped off with her teddy safely in her arms, laughing gaily to herself. Needless to say that he refrained from stealing anything else from her after that.
Hogwarts was everything her older friends had said it would be and more. She absolutely loved it, from it's Forbidden Forest to the highest towers to the Quidditch Pitch -the latter being her most favourite. She quickly fell in love with the game of Quidditch, and simply flying in general. First year flying had been her favorite class, and one of the few she had actually excelled in. Her sister seemed to be more popular among their peers, and was quite a bit more intelligent, but Juliet didn't mind. She liked blending in -standing out was overrated anyway, wasn't it? And she had friends, quite a few, she just wasn't that...special. Sure, she seemed to be particularly good at Quidditch and Herbology, but otherwise she was scraping by in most of her classes with A's with handfuls of E's in her essays. Unfortunately, she wasn't doing quite so well in Potions, but hey you can't pass everything right? Unless you were her sister (or a Ravenclaw) in which case, you can.
But hey who needed good marks anyway, right? She'd already known what she wanted to be: a professional Quidditch player. True, it was rather a far-fetched dream, and one that would probably not come true, and so she already had a fall-back plan: she would become a cook. She loved cooking, and not just because she wanted to be a good wife -she could pick out individual flavors, and she had learned to recognise most of the ones she encountered. Her parents were rather disappointed with her dreams -in their opinion, one was too unrealistic and the other was...well...not very special.
They just didn't see how special both career tracks would be to her.
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