FINCH, Henrietta Charlotte

by Henri Finch Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:18 pm

HENRIETTA CHARLOTTE FINCH
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INTRODUCTION
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FULL NAME: Henrietta Charlotte Finch.

NICKNAMES: She insists on the names Henri and Finn.

AGE: Fourteen, October 30th.

ALLEGIANCE:

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Canons & Graduates state one. Original state two and admins will sort you. Others state school.

CLASSES: Transfiguration. Potions.

WAND: Aspen, thestral hair, thirteen inches, bendy.

PLAY BY: Emily Browning

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APPEARANCE
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HAIR COLOUR: Varying- natural, dark brown.

EYE COLOUR: Hazel.

COMPARATIVE HEIGHT: Average.

BODY BUILD: Stocky-athletic; thin limbs.

GENERAL APPEARANCE: Henri has the appearance of most fourteen year olds- she's not yet perfectly proportionate as she is still growing. She's not exactly short, but she's on the smaller end of the spectrum. She still has baby fat on her face, giving her round, pink cheeks. Her eyes are hazel and usually lined with expertly applied makeup, having been taught by her elder brother's girlfriend. She has slender, bony limbs and a pointed chin and nose. Currently, her hair is short and razor cut; she has her nose and ears pierced; and she dresses however she damn well pleases to dress. Her fingernails are a bit short, as she finds long nails cumbersome. She also has an American accent - not exactly appearance, but a part of her physical traits.

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PERSONALITY
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:

Manipulative
Reckless
Restless
Energetic
Cunning
Disloyal
Impulsive
Curious
Hot-headed
Vindictive
Observant
Thrill-seeking
Irresponsible
Untrustworthy
Lively
Sly
Proud
Daring

LIKES:

Fire
Piercings
Change
Thrill/Adventure
Deceiving others

DISLIKES:

Rules
Responsibility
Monotony
School Uniforms
Being underestimated

GOALS:

Get a reputation

HABITS & QUIRKS:

She likes to dye her hair, and pierce her body.
She likes to offer said services to others, i.e. willing to pierce her classmate's ears.
She impulsively lies.
She has a bit of a fire obsesssion - she smokes, and may or may not be an arsonist.

BOGGART: GREATEST FEAR: To be removed from the care of her brother.

PATRONUS: FONDEST MEMORY: Setting her last school's greenhouse on fire.

DEMENTOR: WORST MEMORY: Her mother's attempted suicide.

VERITASERUM: GREATEST SECRET: At fourteen, she really doesn't have a greatest secret, just a bunch of little, trivial ones.

MIRROR OF ERISED: GREATEST DESIRE: Herself, wearing a crown and a smirk, unable to be stopped by everyone.

PERSONALITY: Henri is, in simple terms, like every other fourteen-year-old girl. She knows what she wants, and she wants it at any cost. Unlike every other fourteen-year-old girl, she has the ability and the will power to get what she wants through her own refusal to take no for an answer, and her uncanny ability to manipulate those around her. Henri has a large ego due to her general tendency to get away with whatever she pleases; those times she does fail usually turn into memories of great rapture and fun- getting away with something is thrilling, but getting caught is more entertaining. She is very laid back socially, not wanting to appear as anything to anyone. She is lazy in class, sloppy in habit, and continually bored with the events of her life.

She likes to play people off of each other. Though she has many people who dislike her, she has an equal number of people who are intrigued by her and enjoy the entertainment and thrill factor she adds to their life. Henri doesn't take long to figure out how to manipulate these people, and she likes to create little plots for each acquaintance, and then does all she can to keep up the game.

She has a penchant for change which, if analysed, might reveal her to be a bit insecure with her own personality. She seems to constantly reinvent herself- new hair length, color, new piercings, new clothes, etcetera. Though she appeared to not care of the opinions of others, she likes to project the image of the untouchable bad girl, because it is easy to survive when people are afraid of you.

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FAMILY & POSSESSIONS
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FATHER: Jonathon Finch, muggleborn.

MOTHER: Janet Abbot, pureblood.

SIBLING/S: Benny Finch, 24, principal guardian.

OTHER: Zanna Scott, 23

BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood.

RACE: Human.

SOCIAL STATUS: It's a bit confusing. She receives financial support from her parents, and quite a bit of it too. However, she lives with her brother, who is relatively poor.

PET/S: A meadow jumping mouse named Gooper.

OTHER POSSESSIONS: A muggle lighter.

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CHARACTER HISTORY
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Early Years: Henri was born into an already strained, malfunctioning family. Married out of obligation after the birth of their illegitimate son Benjamin, Henri's parents had long decided their marriage was without love. Why they stayed together was unbeknownst to the young Finches, who assumed their bickering parents stuck together because they had falsely assumed it would be easier to have two parents together.

The marriage didn't last though. By the time Henri was nine, her mother decided she had no way out but to try and end her own life. Henri was the one who found her mother convulsing in the bathroom. She called for her nineteen year old brother, home for Easter vacation, and he was able to get her medical attention. Soon after, the divorce was finalized, and Henri opted to live with her brother in Massachusetts. (The family were American natives). Her parents paid for her expenses, but were too busy attempting to rebuild their own lives to really desire to take care of her.

Henri received an acceptance letter to the Salem Witches' Institute. Her brother was a bit worried- she had already displayed a penchant for trouble in her public elementary education, but he was also distracted with his own escapades.

School Years: Henri soon found she thrived in SWI. The teachers somehow knew of her troubled childhood and pitied her. She was able to play them like fiddles- getting extra time for homework and forgiveness for trouble-making. By her second year, the pity had run dry. At twelve, Henri had a small, but nasty clique of friends. The girls in said group were constantly in some sort of crisis, and at the root of the trouble there was always one excuse. "But Henri Finch told me-" The investigation stopped there.

At home, Henri was surrounded by her brother and his older friends. None of his acquaintances were very conscientious about the effect they had on little Henri. She soon aspired to be like them, especially Benny's girlfriend, Zanna. Zanna wore outrageous clothes, had short colored hair, many piercings, tattoos, liked to smoke, and like to talk about how happy she was. Henri began taking up her bad habits, and took them to school with her.

It was the beginning of her fourth year when the trouble worsened. Near the end of her first semester of school, she was smoking one of Zanna's cigarettes outside, when a peculiar thought struck her. She followed the impulse and dropped the lit cigarette in some clippings in the greenhouse. The greenhouse burned down.

The school recommended the usual - the breaking of the wand with an expulsion. Benny and Zanna protested, drawing on Henri's unstable beginning, and pity was given again. She would be expelled, but she could retain her wand and attempt to find another school to take her. Hogwarts agreed.

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BEHIND THE CHARACTER
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ALSO KNOWN AS: Jackles

RP EXPERIENCE: Wot?

HOW YOU FOUND US: You guys tied me up and have kept me in a dungeon for the past few years. It's Stockholm Syndrome.

MAIN CHARACTER: Jack Dyllan - on this note, PLEASE discolor all of my old characters, please, except Jack.

PURPOSE OF CHARACTER: An attempt to get involved in the site again.

RP SAMPLE:

Spoiler:

by Henri Finch Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:19 pm

Work in progress.

by Henri Finch Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:03 pm

I believe she's completed. Do your worst.

by **Nick Potter** Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:16 pm

Yay Jacks back.

by Selwyn Thorfinn Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:56 am

You do need to make a few edits, Jack.

1. do you have any house preference? I know where I want to put her, but if you have a preference I'd like to know.

2. her wand isn't adept at offensive magic. Please remove that part. What a wand is "good at" seems to be a matter of folklore rather than fact. She's perfectly entitled to have been told her wand is likely to be adept at offensive magic by the wandmaker, however.

3. Please change Traits back to whatever it was.

4. Her personality needs to be modified the most. I know what you're aiming for, but I need you to rewrite it so that rather than saying "she has the ability and will power to get what she wants" which is very godmoddy/powerplay-ey you write what ability that is.

For example, from reading her history, I can see that she's good at manipulating people's emotions, so write that in, but leave out the stuff that makes it sound like it always works. You've been here long enough to know there will be some characters that she won't be able to pull the wool over the eyes of even if it's just because their players are in a bad mood or something.

Also, in that last paragraph of the personality (which I love, you could be describing me as a teen) you mean penchant, not pendant. A pendant is a piece of jewellery.

Get that done and you're good to go!

by **Jaquellene Jack Dyllan** Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:04 am

1. I meant to edit that in. Whoops. I don't have a preference anywho.

2. I always write my descriptor of the wand as what she heard from the wandmaker. Ollivander would often say "great for Charms; skillful Healing wand" etc. I can easily edit that out, however. I didn't mean to say her wand really was made for offensive magic anymore than any other.

3. Out of curiosity - why? I changed it on my own, as I have with all of my other apps simply because it's awkward to call them Strengths and Weaknesses. I can change it, but I'm curious as to why I must to have her accepted.

4. Understandable. I was trying to get it all out and didn't mean to make her the dictator she sounds like. That speed is also my penchant mistake. Fast fingers make for a sloppy app.

by Henri Finch Sat Jan 19, 2013 7:08 am

Edited all but the House, as I have no preference.

by Selwyn Thorfinn Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:36 am

Congratulations, welcome to

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by **Jaquellene Jack Dyllan** Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:57 pm

Thank you!

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