by Jaquellene Jack Dyllan Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:39 am
Character Name: Nerissa Anna Hatts
Sex: Female
Age: Fifteen
Blood Status: Pureblood
Alliance: Conflicted (neutral)
History: THREE - FIVE YEARS OLD: Nerissa had a rather rough childhood, what with her father leaving Nerissa's mother only weeks before their wedding, and then the marriage between Benjamin (her stepfather) and her mother only a year later. She was forced to grow up rather quickly, and began to see the world the way adults saw it; a dangerous place where people got hurt and their hearts were broken. Nerissa still liked to flip through the pages of the storybooks that the children in class talked to each other about, and to pretend as though she still believed in pixie dust and prince charming, but the other children at school were not unintelligent, despite their obsessions with fiction; it took no time at all for them to notice that Nerissa was different than they were. Those same children grew a few inches, and they learned how to mock little girls with broken smiles, making it nearly impossibly for Nerissa to gain- or regain- any sort of respect from her peers.
Eventually the child gave up completely on the idea of making friends during her younger years of mashing clay together to form farm animals, and learning how to count out coins until you had enough to buy entire Zoos. These were the earliest signs that the child would have a difficult time relating to her peers, as well as socializing- something which she would have to deal with for the rest of her life.
SIX - TEN YEARS OLD: In order to replace the human connections that Nerissa lacked- her parents, though caring, were not qualified to fill the void where friends should have belonged- she began spending most of her time in an old, abandoned greenhouse next-door to the house in which she lived. The people who'd once owned it had been forced to move years before Nerissa’s family arrived in the small town, and so Nerissa began to believe that the greenhouse was ‘hers’. She began taking care of the plants regularly, caring for them as most children her age would care for dolls, though there was much more responsibility required when it came to caring for the living creatures that Nerissa spent her time looking after.
Nerissa's obsession with plant life became apparent to her parents, uncle, and her older sister over the years, despite the fact that she spent little time, to no time at all, near her older sister and her step father, who had both decided to fly the coop before Nerissa was old enough to even have a conversation with either of them that hadn't consisted of a bunch of childish ga ga. It was a well-known fact in the family that Nerissa would not- or, could not- make friends with the children she attended classes with, and so, naturally, Nerissa's increasing interest in plants began to worry her family. However, both Esmeralda and Benjamin Mansini decided that by taking away the only thing that Nerissa seemed to feel strongly for, that they would be doing more damage than they would be correcting the damage that had already been done.
Over the years, Nerissa extended her knowledge of plants by creating a log book in which she would write down the way her plants reacted to certain conditioned, and how each of them had a specific trait that made them different than the rest. This log book was something that she had created out of a notebook which she had been given in one of her English classes in order to write down her thoughts and feelings- instead, she found a better use for it. Rarely did Nerissa go anywhere without the book held firmly under her arm, and it was a possession which she brought with her when she received her acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the finest school on earth.
FIRST - THIRD YEAR AT HOGWARTS: Because of Nerissa’s fascination of plants, Herbology was easily her favorite class from the very start of her schooling at Hogwarts. She had very few friends, if any, due to the cruel nicknames that her peers labeled her with. Julien Delacour being one of said friends, who became Nerissa’s only confident from her first year at Hogwarts up until the present.
Nerissa dreaded summer vacations each year; she didn’t get along too well with her step father, as her vote remained with her biological father, David. Only during the evenings when she was permitted to spend time with her David, or with her uncle, Calvin Ransom, was she content with the fact that another year at Hogwarts had passed. She discussed staying at Hogwarts over the summer with her Herbology professor, as well as the headmaster, but they came to the agreement that it was best she faced her personal problems, rather than avoid them.
During her third year at Hogwarts on a particularly sunny afternoon, Nerissa was dragged by her ankle into the “Black Lake”, and was nearly drowned by the giant squid that resides there. A Gryffindor girl witnessed the incident and pulled Nerissa from the lake. The pair were soon joined by Andrew Thompson, another Gryffindor, who revived Nerissa and would later become her first love.
KIDNAPPING: Due to a sudden case of frequent headaches, which were a symptom of her near-death in Hogwarts’ lake, Nerissa began to loose sleep. In her state of exhaustion Nerissa found herself in Knockturn Alley after having wandered off from Diagon Alley one evening. It was there where she ran into Ne’Os Emof, whom Nerissa did not recognize to be a wanted man at the time. He deemed her worthy of torture and kidnapping, and so, despite the attempts of Andrew Thompson and several others to free her, Ne’Os succeeded.
For months he kept her at her side, torturing her when he felt that she’d stepped out of line, as well as dragging her about the world during his missions.
After nearly five months passed, Ne’Os was murdered, but he’d informed Nerissa of the horcrux that he’d created, and thus Nerissa’s paranoia that he would come back for her, began - as well as her distrust towards all human beings.
Personality:Nerissa was once a gentle creature; someone who would withhold her opinion if irritated or angered in order to keep the peace, and who always smiled back - but that had been a time long before her kidnapping. All the pain and torment from which Nerissa suffered had done its job to change the way Nerissa saw the world, and ultimately lead to the destruction of all that had once made her a friendly, warm-hearted little Ravenclaw. She'd been hardened by her experiences in a way that was only noticeable to those who knew how to penetrate the walls she set up around her- walls which she built in order to both protect and to hide herself from the wicked souls that made up the world in which she lived. Everything became dark and frightening to the eyes of the young witch; everything was a potential threat that was to be examined and then destroyed. Everything, accept the plants that she constantly surrounded herself with.
Plot: Currently, Nerissa is an important to the following characters and their plots.
Calvin Ransom, her uncle, who would do anything to protect Nerissa, and likewise.
Julien Delacour, her best friend and confident. Perhaps the only person she trusts anymore.
Nick Potter, a young man who has fallen in love with Nerissa, but frightens her simultaneously.
Ne'Os Emof, the man responsible for Nerissa's partial insanity. He has come back to collect her.
Character Biography: See? You don't even need to fill out the application! Just 100% roleplay!
Current Threads:
Play By: Nadia Esra
Anything Else: I have recently updated Nerissa's character application, or "biography" as some like to call it. I am willing to change the email address and password belonging to this existing account, and to hand it over to whomever decides to adopt Riss. I simply can no longer roleplay this character, despite my many attempts to do so as of late, and feel that, in order to prevent quite a few plots from exploding, it would be best to hand someone else the reigns rather than to delete her. Originally I had plans of killing Nerissa, but even that seems to be of great difficulty to me.
Think of it this way: I have drawn in pen the outlines that you are to color within. Sort of like a canon character, if you will. 
Jaquellene Jack Dyllan- Gryffindor Graduate
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