MACNAIR, Penelope Camilla

PENELOPE CAMILLA MACNAIR
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INTRODUCTION
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FULL NAME: Penelope Camilla Macnair

NICKNAMES: Penny

AGE: Sixteen, June 3rd.

ALLEGIANCE: Secretly, Potter's Army. But she'll be in the Dark Followers.

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin.

CLASSES: Charms, Transfiguration.

WAND: Ash, thestral hair, fourteen inches, springy.

PLAY BY: Jenna Louise Coleman

HAIR COLOUR: Dark brown.

EYE COLOUR: Brown.

COMPARATIVE HEIGHT: Somewhere between average and tall.

BODY BUILD: Curvy

GENERAL APPEARANCE: Penny is not extraordinary looking, but she is pretty. It's from her mother's side, who bred near-goddesses, all with long, dark hair and deep-colored eyes, as well as stick thin bodies. Her father, not as well-framed nor as sweet on the eyes, sort of balanced it out. Penny has never met her mother's standards of beauty, always being a bit too plump and a bit too plain. Her face is round and childish, dimpled, and friendly. Her limbs are thin, but she has a roundness in her torso. Her hair is of a medium length and a plain brown color, but there is a radiance inside her that makes her attractive. She wears very light makeup, with the exception of preferring to put on some lipstick on. Her style ranges from dresses to stylish, if simple, jean and tee ensembles.

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES:
+Studious
+Eloquent
+Crafty
+Empathetic
+Resourceful
-Shy
-Malleable
-Insecure
-Nervous
-Self-depreciating

LIKES & DISLIKES:
+Peace
+Reading
+Classes
+Quiet
+Tinkering
-Disagreements
-Rough sports
-Loud noises
-Pressure
-Her weight

GOALS:
+To look the way her mother wants her to look.
+To somehow get past her own moral conflicts and fit in with her family.
+To graduate, top of her class.

HABITS & QUIRKS:
+She's a bit of a grammar stickler.
+She likes things clean and tidy. Little things like forgetting to erase a mark on a piece of paper irritates her.
+She gets lost more often than she thinks possible.
+Generally very awkward.

BOGGART: Her screaming father - To somehow fully dishonor her family.

PATRONUS: A lamb - Naturally, her first day at school. She made two really good friends and she enjoyed the new life before her.

DEMENTOR: Probably her Sorting. The Hat was set on putting her in Ravenclaw, but she pleaded for Slytherin, because she knew anything less was unacceptable to her family. She still regrets it, even though she could not imagine allowing herself to be anything but Slytherin.

VERITASERUM: She does not buy into her family's ideals about blood purity.

MIRROR OF ERISED: To be rid of the constant worries surrounding her. The image is herself, smiling, a book under her arm, and her hand in someone else's.

PERSONALITY: Penny was born with a mind that belonged to neither of her parents. She liked to solve puzzles; she was quiet; she was thoughtful; she was adventurous; she was fair. Her parents tried to instill in her their values- of superiority, the importance of wealth, the path of power. Penny didn't like any of these ideas. She tried questioning them. But she realized it was not right to question them, so soon she just nodded and replied, "Yes, mother, yes father."

The problem with Penny is that she somehow had the convictions of fairness and equality that completely divided her from her friends and family. Perhaps it came from the books she read at a young age. Penny had a penchant for wandering and, equipped with her parent's money, she often bought books from local stores. Books about muggles came into her possession and she was thrilled by their inventiveness. She's never been able to convince herself to hate muggles - her parents had no good reason to, and she had found too many reasons to appreciate them. She tried to make these morals as small a part of her as possible so she could continue on in peace, but they are always present inside her, making her a very confused girl. She does her best in living her life as normally as she can, attempting to excel in classes, to have small but functioning friendships, and to to enjoy school life as thoroughly as possible, but there always seems to be a small cloud of confusion hanging over her.

FATHER: Walden Macnair.

MOTHER: Vivienne Macnair, nee David.

SIBLING/S: Shadow Macnair.

OTHER: other significant family or family-like people

BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood.

RACE: Human.

SOCIAL STATUS: Wealthy.

PET/S: An eagle owl named Darcy.

OTHER POSSESSIONS: A pearl necklace given to her by her parents, pearl for her birthmonth.

Early Years: The Macnairs were as classic a pureblood couple as you got - a well known, respectable if somewhat cold man paired with a beautiful, equally cold wife. The parents warmed when Penny was born, but not quite enough to foster a warm household. Penny was expected to be excellent and, though she tried hard, she had not been genetically equipped with a genius mind. In comparison to her parents, she was quite clever. But the inexperience of youth kept her from displaying her intelligence fully. Her mother became focused, a bit in vain, on making her a lady - what nine year old wants to practice dining etiquette over chasing squirrels? Her father tried to garner her interest in magical creatures and the plague that halfbreeds really are, but Penny was to gentle to think of destruction.

Though Penny seemed to be a bit of a disappointment to her parents, their second daughter made up for it. Shadow was beautiful and clever, and seemed to buy into whatever they asked of her. This, growing up, was a reason for insecurity in Penelope's mind. Her parents always remained stricter with her, as parents often do with their first born. She was not what they wanted her to be, but she was fairly acceptable.

Hogwarts Years: Penny started Hogwarts off on the wrong foot, but will never admit it. On the train, she made two best friends that she retains to this day- two muggleborn siblings by the name of Allison and Chester. The twins have never been mentioned by Penny to her family, and she does a careful job of making sure her sister is unaware of their friendship, (which isn't too difficult, as the sisters are in different years, social circles, and clubs) but Penny still, to this day, finds true companionship in them. Chester and Allison don't exactly appreciate the secrecy, but they understand it enough to put up with it. Both hate confrontation as much as Penny, so they really don't have too much of a choice.

Penny was barely sorted into Slytherin. She had to plead with the Hat, for fear of delivering the ultimate disappointment onto both of her Slytherin alumni parents if she were sorted anywhere but into Slytherin. She had already made the mistake of befriending muggleborns, she could not be sorted anywhere but Slytherin.

Once sorted and settled, Penny immediately threw herself into classes, hoping to gain the respect of her parents there. Though she earned nearly perfect grades, there was always something to be approved on. Penny worked hard at trying to improve what needed to be perfected, but always managed to fall short. She joined the wizard's chess club as well to try and impress her parents, but they were not satisfied.

Finally, the day came for her parents to ask her to join the Dark Followers. It was this Penny had been trying to delay, by putting such a focus on her academic work to suggest to her parents she had no time for anything extracurricular. However, they would hear nothing different. She was to be in the Dark Followers as a fourth year. She attended only three meetings that year, and hid in the background the entire time. She managed to get away with only two in her fifth year but now, her sixth year, her parents have expected her to begin making her way in ranks.

Now, however, she is becoming interested in Potter's Army. She does not like what the Dark Followers teach and wants to combat it. However, her greatest wish would be for these factions to disappear entirely so she can enjoy her schooling in peace.

ALSO KNOWN AS: Jackles

RP EXPERIENCE: A bit.

HOW YOU FOUND US: Mer. -insert clever quip here when it was forumotion-

MAIN CHARACTER: Jack Dyllan

PURPOSE OF CHARACTER: Maybe spice up some Hogwarts faction work?

RP SAMPLE:

Spoiler:

The problem with Penny is that she somehow had the convictions of fairness and equality that completely divided her from her friends and family. Perhaps it came from the books she read at a young age. Penny had a penchant for wandering and, equipped with her parent's money, she often bought books from local stores. Books about muggles came into her possession and she was thrilled by their inventiveness. She's never been able to convince herself to hate muggles - her parents had no good reason to, and she had found too many reasons to appreciate them.

he twins have never been mentioned by Penny to her family, and she does a careful job of making sure her sister is unaware of their friendship, (which isn't too difficult, as the sisters are in different years, social circles, and clubs) but Penny still, to this day, finds true companionship in them. Chester and Allison don't exactly appreciate the secrecy, but they understand it enough to put up with it. Both hate confrontation as much as Penny, so they really don't have too much of a choice.