Post by Lissianna Delacruz on Sept 24, 2012 21:35:16 GMT -8
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Lissianna Alice Delacruz
20. Citizen. Anti-Slavery. Historical Researcher of Hogwarts. Hufflepuff.
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ALIAS(ES): Liss, Alice, Lissi, Misses Lisses
BIRTHDAY: September 17, 1991
BIRTHPLACE: Dundee, Scotland
CURRENT: Cale Manor, edge of Hogsmeade, Scotland, Great Britain
FAMILY:
• Mother: Laine Alice Delacruz, 23 at time of death. Muggle. Deceased.
• Father: Peter Giovanni Delacruz, 42 at time of death. Pureblood. Auror. Deceased.
BLOOD: Halfblood
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
WAND: 8 1/3, cherry, unicorn hair
DESCRIPTION: Lissianna stands at 5 feet, 2 inches and bounces between 97 to 104 lbs (44 to 47 kilograms). She is of slim build with the beginnings of sculpted muscle. Her dark brown, blond streaked hair naturally falls in soft waves, but she usually binds it back, exposing exotic almond-shaped brown eyes.
She rather fancies feminine style muggle clothing, and, when the weather is warm, usually wears dresses, sometimes a wide brimmed hat. Cooler weather forces her to don jeans and trainers and whatever top she finds first. She also wears a lot of scarves in the winter. Around her neck is a long, silver chain, from which a small, empty phial sandwiched between two gold wedding rings dangles. The ring on her right hand is a silver, vine-engraved band. If you look behind her right ear, you can spot a very faint one inch scar from shrapnel of a falling pot.
PLAY-BY: Dichen Lachman
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PATRONUS: Ocelot
BOGGART: Being rendered helpless and without freedoms
MIRROR OF ERISED: Liss cooking in the kitchen, an unknown man comes up behind her and hugs her. She laughs and gives him a taste of what she's cooking, before he leads her in a dane around the kitchen.
HABITS: Liss talks without contractions, unless she's under extreme emotion. She addresses people by a title (Mr., Ms., or Mrs.) unless the person she's speaking with is someone she is very closely acquainted with. On account of nerves, Liss will twist the ring on her right middle finger and/or bite her lip. Embarrassment causes her to twirl her hair around her finger and look away. While she's working, either taking notes or searching through books, her fingers start tapping on her collarbone or on the table. Though it does not happen often, Liss will rub and/or tap the bridge of her nose when she's close to breaking her normal calm demeanor.
PET PEEVE: Being stonewalled, general incompetence, and people underestimating her.
STRENGTHS:
• Researching skills
• Potions/Herbology
• Knowledge of the Muggle world
• Analytically Perceptive
WEAKNESSES:
• Self-Esteem
• Assertion
• Social Interaction
• Dueling
TRAITS:
• Proper/Polite: As detailed in her history, the few people Liss had contact with before Hogwarts were distinguished young and mature adults. As any child of a pureblood would, she addressed her elders by Mr. or Ms. and treated them with the utmost respect. Over time, this became her default setting when talking to anyone.
• Loyalty/Kindness: Once she finds a friend, Liss becomes extremely loyal to that person, to the point where she will stubbornly defend that person either verbally, physically, or magically. Because she didn't have many friends as an adolescent, she will do anything for them, within moral reason. In her mind, this proves that she's a good friend. She also does not want anyone else to feel left out, given her past, so she will be exceptionally nice to any stranger.
• Shy: Because Lissianna had been ignored by her father and raised by governesses most of her life, she is rather hesitant at speaking with the general populace. Factoring in her lack of modern social etiquette leads her to be more of a follower and listener rather than a speaking leader, not wanting to cause any trouble. Fear of conflict also made her swallow her words more than speak her mind. This caused most people to look at her oddly, more like a lurker than a friend. She's slowly starting to overcome this, to be firm and speak her mind. Baby steps.
• Panic Attacks: Starting when Liss began working with a governess, she became subject to panic attacks linked to the idea of not being 'enough'. In the past, this was brought on by always wanting to make her father proud, but he was never around to see. Poor little girl though it was because she wasn't what he wanted, not that she resembled her mother. Then it spread to being triggered whenever she felt inferior or inept. So, if Lissianna even starts to think about the past or about becoming vulnerable, her thoughts become a jumbled mess of "What Ifs" and despair and she'll freeze up, unresponsive to the outside world. Since making more friends and acquaintances, this event has been triggered less and less.
• Perception: In order to maintain her distance from people who would potentially harm her, Lissianna taught herself to read non-verbal cues. She'll respond accordingly to stay out of trouble as much as she can. This skill has developed and evolved into being able to alter her actions to fit any situation. In fact, if Lissianna was a Muggle, she'd either be a grifter or an actress, depending on her end game. After graduation, she hadn't had much contact with the population and her skills have gotten rather rusty. Her perception does not only mean reading body language. She's also logical and analytical enough to map out possible outcomes, increasing her awareness of the future.
• Kristofer Wilkinson's Lissianna: Considering Kristof is a shark of sorts when it comes to weaknesses, Lissianna had to create a shell to hide behind when she deals with him. This Lissianna is the opposite of the one the public knows; cold, distant, proud. She stares him down as much as she can, holding her own against him. There is no hesitation or flicker of emotion in her face, nor in her voice. In fact, she can be rather sarcastic and cruel, should the situation call for it.
• Determination: Since meeting and making several friends late Fall of 2011, Liss has been becoming more and more determined in strengthening herself for herself and for others. This resolve became more solid after her home was attacked late December. Feeling violated and righteously angry, she set off to make sure it never happens again, that she would be able to protect herself and the ones she loves, by any means possible.
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HISTORY:
Peter Delacruz, a pureblood, met Laine Parker, a muggle, on his European backpacking trip just after graduating from Hogwarts. They kept in touch a few years, doing the long-distance courting before getting married in 1989 in Scotland, where they lived. She knew early on about the wizarding world and the part Peter was. Laine got pregnant and spent eight months in difficult pregnancy; Peter doting on her ever moment. One stormy night, Laine went into premature labor. The local midwife did everything in her power to help, but ultimately she died giving birth to a baby girl, Lissianna Alice Delacruz, a name decided on months before. Following his wife's death and daughter's birth, Peter threw himself into his job as a Ministry Auror, leaving others to care for his child.
Lissianna Delacruz was born in Dundee, Scotland and transported to St. Mungo's shortly after birth. After being released, she was moved to one of the Delacruz properties, this one in Cambridge. Her primary caretaker was the family house elf, Whisper, until the age of four, when Peter hired a Muggle governess and a Wizarding governess, disguised as a cook/maid. Until the age of 10, Lissianna grew up around Muggles and her primary education was muggle-based. She had little contact with life outside the town house, limited to grocery runs and study sessions with her neighbor's son. Peter also had limited contact with his daughter, checking up on her once a month. He was never cruel, but sad, as the girl reminded him of his late wife. Lissianna worked hard in her muggle studies to please and impress her father, even going to far as to read and absorb every book in the townhouse library.
She received a letter from Hogwarts and saw this as an opportunity to further her studies and to make friends. She did know she was a witch, due to the house elf and the govern-witch. Scattered throughout her younger years, Lissianna made appearances at parties her father hosted, impressing the Ministry folk with her polite manner and obscure facts. These were the only times, in Lissianna's memory, that she saw her father proud of her. Upon arrival at Hogwarts, it was apparent that she was inadequately prepared for social interaction. She was sorted into Hufflepuff and even declared a misfit by fellow Housemates due to her proper bearing and speech patterns, cultivated due to the proximity to the muggle college and mainly having adults to speak with. All seven-years at Hogwarts, Lissianna did what her father had done and threw herself into her studies, rather as a coping mechanism from bullying, spending a majority of her time divided between the library and the greenhouses. She never furthred her experience in social interaction, feeling safer staying the wallflower, and learning to read nonverbal cues.
She excelled in Herbology, Potions, History of Magic, Muggles Studies, and Arithmancy, and only averaged in every other class, despite heavy studying. She understood completely the theory behind spellwork, but upon performance, Lissianna's results earned her average results, sometimes backfiring completely. The only spellwork that was exceptionally good, comparatively, were her defensive spells. Sometime in her third year, her father moved Lissianna's things from the Cambridge house to a manor in Hogsmeade, Cale Manor, a present to his late wife shortly after being married.
The Yule Ball attack in 2008 left her an orphan, her father dying in the battle and both sets of grandparents having died many years before. While this left her with whatever Delacruz fortune there was, years before her father wrote that his solicitor, Kristofer Wilkinson, be in charge of all the financial and real estate matters until Lissianna reached the age of twenty-five.
After her leaving of Hogwarts, Lissianna permanently settled into the Hogsmeade property. She fought with Kristof, the only person thus far whom she's shown aggression to, to bring all the books from all the estates to this home. Frequently the two enter a bargaining of sorts; Kristof would require spy-like services in exchange for whatever Lissianna asked for. While she did loathe doing such things, her fear of Kirstof did not allow much room for confrontation.
Shortly after graduating, and acquiring Cale Manor, Lissianna became a historian's assistant to Corova Lockwood, assisting in the research project of Hogwarts. Thankfully, her years isolated at Hogwarts, as well as her muggle studies beforehand, lead her to be an inquiring mind and have above average research skills. Their partnership ended on October 7th, 2011, with Lockwood leaving the entire Hogwarts project to Lissianna.
It was also in the year 2011 that Lissianna started to come out of her shell, making friends and finally really learning what she should have learned at Hogwarts, even found friends in unexpected places and love in a fugitive. These friendships and recent events have caused Liss to grow up quicker than she ever has, under her own volition. Given the recent terrors surrounding Hogwarts and an almost break-in into her house, Liss decided to learn self-defence in Japan and weaponry in China, where she is still at during the turn of the new year.
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NAME: Alice
EXPERIENCE: A year
CONTACT: Skype (deadlyposie09)
HOW'D YOU FIND US? Gemma
CHARACTERS: Patrick Doyle, Araelia Leighton, Summer Leighton, Jason Brandt, Elena Fairchild (NPC), Kristof Wilkinson (NPC), Artemis Deas (NPC)
ANYTHING ELSE? She loves toffee and peppermint and has an spotted owlet named Winter.