Daphne McKinnon______________________________________________________________________________________
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INTRODUCTION------------------------------------------------------------
FULL NAME: Daphne Jean McKinnon
NICKNAMES: Daff,Daffy, DJ
AGE: 19
ALLEGIANCE: Neutral and trying to keep her head low
HOGWARTS HOUSE: Gryffindor alumni
CLASSES: (Students only. Please choose from Charms, CoMC, DADA, Transfiguration, and Potions. 2 Minimum for Basic
students and 2 for NEWTs, or one class and an internship for NEWTs)
WAND: Ash, Unicorn hair, 11 inch
PLAY BY: Taylor Momsen
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APPEARANCE
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HAIR COLOR: blonde
EYE COLOR: blue
HEIGHT: Five feet Seven inches
BODY TYPE: Thin
GENERAL APPEARANCE:
Daphne is generally broke, so whatever she can grab on a discount rack does the trick. She prefers jeans and t-shirts but
sticks with wizarding wear when she is with older wizards who might look down on her for her background. Her hair is shoulder
length and blond and she lets it grow during the year, only cutting it at the beginning of summer. Being just a few sickles
short of a decent hairdresser has led to some interesting 'experiment's with her hair, when her mother has cut it for her, or
when she tried to do it herself levitating a mirror and comb and shears. Overall she's casual, except at work.
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PERSONALITY
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CHARACTER STRENGTHS AND SKILLS:
Photographic memory
Enthusiastic about new projects
energetic
CHARACTER WEAKNESSES:
is a terrible liar and does it a lot
gets distracted easily
gets in over her head
CHARACTER LIKES:
passion fruit wine coolers, banana shakes, rare steak and low level flying
CHARACTER DISLIKES:
iron tonics, most wizarding music, her bosses
GOALS:
mostly she just hopes to get by, and tries to stay under the radar.
QUIRKS:
bites her nails ragged, swings her legs under her desk, taps a pencil when she's bored. Constantly in motion she tends to
annoy people with it.
BOGGART: being told in front of the world she isn't good enough because of her bloodline
PATRONUS: her fifth birthday when she got a strawberry shaped strawberry filled birthday cake
DEMENTOR: when she was nine and her dog got hit by a car, it was pretty gruesome.
VERITASERUM: she feels inferior because of her background
MIRROR OF ERISED: to see herself settled and happy with a family of her own. Between the bad muggle economy and the discrimination in the wizarding world, she doesn't feel settled anywhere.
PERSONALITY: Daphne has a deep seated insecurity about her life both wizarding and muggle. She is constantly battling to stay neutral and hide her real opinions, not wanting to offend the wrong person. She resents being belittled, yet passed on the highest workload despite it. Extremely nervous, she fidgets and is constantly in motion. She has no real attachments other than her mother, and still keeps an affection for her father, though he is absent in her life. Shy and withdrawn, nobody really sees how bitter she is until she has a few, then watch out. A chattering maniac, she is a loud ranting drunk, often giving her unwanted opinion to whoever has the misfortune of buying said drinks.
She hems and haws a lot, trying to avoid committing to any opinion, making her seem wishy washy to casual observers, but her feelings on certain subject run deep as anyone who knows her fairly well will learn.
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FAMILY & POSSESSIONS
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FATHER: Terrence Miller
MOTHER: Jeannette McKinnon
SIBLING(S): none
OTHER: none
BLOOD STATUS: Muggleborn
RACE: Human
SOCIAL STATUS: Middle Class
PET(S):none
BROOMSTICK():
(Completely Optional. Make sure the broomstick which you own makes sense. For example, Ron could never have owned a firebolt.
For the full list of Brooms, check the ED)
OTHER POSSESSIONS:
(OPTIONAL)
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CHARACTER HISTORY
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Early Years:
Daphne had a rocky childhood to put it lightly. All she could remember of her early childhood was a lot of yelling. Her parents seemed to fight nonstop and it is probably the cause of Daphne's constant nerves and her nailbiting. She could not remember a single family event that didn't end in broken dishes, cracks in the wall, or hearing some four letter word she was told never to repeat. Looking back on family photos she said she didn't remember the walls being crackled, until her mother pointed out that it was just spackling from all the cracks made from things thrown at the walls. Once her parents were divorced when she was eight, things got much quieter. It seemed to her, her parents even got on better once they were apart (though that wasn't much of a stretch) Spending weekends with her dad in the countryside, until he remarried and moved to South America, was a thrill. Seeing her mom more relaxed and attentive was great too, though once her dad left things were really tight, moneywise. A card or odd tourist goofy package from time to time didn't replace a second income, and though her mother tried not to let it show, Daphne picked up on the tension.
Hogwarts Years: Daphne's first year was spent avoiding her classmates, as almost all of her things were second hand except her robes. She learned later not to be self conscious about it, but a little embarrassment still lingered. While a few of her classmates had one or two used items, unlike her the majority of their things were new. She tried to laugh it off when her scales from potions class sometimes dropped off in the middle of measuring but inside she was mortified. She never complained to her mother though, because she knew how hard it was for her to scrape the money together just to send her to school. Her classmates didn't laugh at her, though she was pretty sure the pitying glances they sent her way were worse.
Once she got over her shyness and made a few friends, things got better.Due to her lack of job offers after graduation, they moved on quickly and didn't keep in touch with her much. She bit the bullet and tried to do the best she could, getting a low paying job in the ministry mailroom, gradually working her way up to an assistant once her typing and spelling skills were discovered. It was still way under her ability but she kept hoping she'd eventually move up again. Every other weekend she visits her mom and gives her whatever she can once she converts part of her paycheck, though her mother tries to refuse. She hasn't heard from her dad in years by this time and gave up on him long ago. It was a shame, she often wondered what his reaction would have been to know about the wizarding world, and that she was a part of it.
Adulthood: As above, her lack of connections in the wizarding world made things hard for her. She struggles and is more than a little bitter about her lot in life, but she tries to laugh it off. Mostly her attempts are pathetic, as people usually see through it when she's had a few too many drinks. She often feels lonely and isolated and wonders what happened to her old classmates. She never tries to contact them though, as she hears from the grapvine that many of them are successful and doesn't want to be seen as some clinging leech trying to sponge off of their good fortune. She doesn't want privileges she just wants a fair chance but has resigned herself to the futility of her situation. (hence the drinking)
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BEHIND THE CHARACTER
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YOUR NAME: 
just callme whatever
RP EXPERIENCE: years
HOW YOU FOUND US: Silvyr
OTHER CHARACTERS:
PURPOSE OF CHARACTER: ? to get drunk as much as possible in rp? lol
RP SAMPLE: - Spoiler:
She took off her boot and threw it at him as hard as she could, without even turning to look, hoping to leave a huge bruise. Panting, she yanked off her jacket and threw it in the direction of a stuffed chair, and continued her verbal attack, not taking her eyes off of her mentor. She was kind of torn. Sure, the crazy imbalanced insane power freak thing was kind of a turn on-but only when it wasn't directed at HER.
"When you chose me as your confidante, I thought it was because you had good judgment. That you trusted me. That we had a connection. Now I hear that you swallow all this -" and here Dominique said a few very nasty words that her mother would die if she knew her baby had even heard before "--lies and don't even think to question it?"
Exhausted, she just dropped to the floor, ironically at his feet, and closed her eyes. Not out of heartbreak, but she was so angry she didn't trust herself to look at either of them. Let them think she was crying on the inside or whatever muggle crap they spouted in their novels. She just wanted to get the hell out, so she could kick that cheap bottle blond's ass all the way back to town.
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