Post by Grace Longbottom on Mar 6, 2012 21:49:39 GMT -5
CHARACTER APPLICATION [ADULT]
HONOR MARIE KNIGHTLEY
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I WALK A LONELY ROAD
[/color][/font][/center]"Do you prefer "fashion victim" or "ensembly challenged"?"
[/font][/center]THE ONLY ONE I HAVE EVER KNOWN
[/color][/font][/center]Outofcharacter
[/font][/center]Your Name: Bree
Your Age: 17
Other Characters: *groan* Lucy, Aggy, Frankie, Grace, Rosa, Ophelia, Chris, Tommy, Alex, Libby - I think I got them all from the top of my head, hey! xD
Experience: 4 years, give or take
Secret Word/Phrase: n/a
DON’T KNOW WHERE IT GOES
[/color][/font][/center]Incharacterbasics
[/font][/center]FACE CLAIM: Jessica Stam
FULL NAME: Honor Marie Knightley
NICKNAMES: 'Princess' (a nickname that sets her off like no other)
AGE/DOB: 19 / 13th of January, 2004
JOB: Employee at Madam Malkin's Robes For All Occasions
BLOOD STATUS: Half-Blood
SEX: Female
ORIENATION: Heterosexual
BUT IT’S HOME TO ME AND I WALK ALONE
[/color][/font][/center]Incharacterapperance
[/font][/center]EYES: Blue-Grey
HAIR: Blonde
HEIGHT: 5'10"
BUILD: Taller than most women, slender and not very well-endowed at all. She takes pride in her appearance and that's why she's very into shape - she's not just a skinny girl, she works to look like that.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Her ears are pierced once and her eyes are probably her most distinguishing feature.
SKIN TONE: Fair, best described as 'porcelain'
I WALK THIS EMPTY STREET
[/color][/font][/center]Personality
[/font][/center]DISLIKES:
• Rude customers - if you're rude to her, she's rude back, and that's why she's managed to burn through over twenty jobs since she graduated Hogwarts. She just really doesn't like people treating her like dirt because she's serving them.
• People assuming she's 'dumb' - because she's really not. She passed all of her NEWTs and most of them with flying colours. She always liked succeeding in school but she never wanted a high-paying 'smart' job. She always wanted a job to do with fashion.
• Trashy girls - she just doesn't understand them at all and they're high up on her list of types of people that she hates. She went to school with a couple of them and that's probably what's stemmed this dislike of them.
• Physical fights - because she never wins, lol. She's always towered over other girls, sure, but when it comes to fighting she's just plain hopeless and always ends up getting her arse served to her.
• People who thinks they're better than her - not much of a surprise because nobody likes people like that but she just cannot stand them. She doesn't understand why they think they're so much better because they're just a person like herself.
LIKES:
• Fashion - first and foremost, this is Honor's life. She loves fashion. She loves reading about fashion, dressing in fashionable clothing, shopping for new clothes, working at Madam Malkin's. She just loves it.
• Men - she likes the type of guys with tattoos and rebellious attitudes and motorbikes. She's a sucker for the 'bad boy' types pr older guys and this is why, more than often, she ends up getting hurt.
• Coffee - her vice. She can't live without her morning cup of coffee.
• Sleeping in - like all pretty girls, Honor needs her beauty sleep and she gets very, very testy if she has to wake up before at least ten in the morning.
• Winning fights against Caspian - like any sibling, she loves to win. Even if they're only step-siblings, she always enjoys getting a leg up on her brother.
BAD HABITS: She always takes too long in the bathroom - seriously, whenever she has a shower it's at least half an hour long; falling for the wrong kind of guy; always leaves wet towels on the floor instead of hanging them up.
GOOD HABITS: She will always overcompensate for you if you're down in the dumps - she'll bring you terribly made soup, tissues, cover you blankets, you name it; if you go shopping with her then she'll find you the perfect outfit within an hour; really really good at making tea
WEAKNESSES: Bad at making just about everything except tea and packet mixes, 'bad boys' especially those with tattoos, having foot-in-mouth disease
STRENGTHS: Quite intelligent, brave but no stupid, good-natured and possibly over-compensative
PERSONALITY: Honor's not your typical 'dumb blonde' like most people seem to think she is. On the contrary, she's quite intelligent and did extremely well at school - but the thing is, she never really wanted to have a high-paying job. She just wanted to be happy and work in fashion because that's where her true passion lies and has ever since she was a little girl. She aims to be a fashion designer.
Even though Honor can come off as a bit of a bitch sometimes, she is truly good-natured. She believes in what she thinks matters even though her opinions can come off as probably a bit 'too strong' at times. She does her best to be nice to everyone and while she does succeed, her foot always ends up in her mouth and she ends up being blunt, to the point of being just plain rude even if she does have good intentions.
Honor's pride is one of the most important things to her and she values it above everything else. She will not take people talking down to her or disrespecting her in the slightest. This often causes her trouble with the more high-end customers and is very possibly the reason why she keeps getting fired from jobs.
Contrary to popular belief, she is brave. Just because she was sorted into Slytherin doesn't mean she isn't. But here's the difference: she's not stupid and if given the choice, she'd always choose to save herself over somebody else - except possibly her family. She doesn't quite understand why anybody would do otherwise.
Honor also has the need to over-compensate for everything in her life. She can't just do things but she's got to over-do things. It's always been that way. When she was little, she couldn't have pretend tea but she had to have real tea and real scones... otherwise, it just wouldn't have been good enough. This need to over-compensate is both a blessing and a curse.
She's got somewhat of a jealousy complex. This isn't to do with insecurities about herself but rather about the other person. She's had a jealousy complex ever since she was five and she was forced to move into a house with a new family and her dad started spending more time with them then just herself.
She doesn't have anger issues. No, really, she doesn't. She only goes off at you if you've done something seriously wrong to piss her off. Or if you're her step-brother.
ON THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
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[/font]WAND: 9 and 3/4 inches, birch, veela hair
BROOMS: n/a
PET(s): A cat called 'Missy'
WHERE THE CITY SLEEPS
[/color][/font][/center]Relationships
[/font][/center]AMORTERIA: Fresh parchment, apple pie, mint
MIRROR OF ERISED: To fall in love. It's cliché but she wants it more than anything else in the world. She just wants a guy to actually stick around in her life.
VERITASERUM:
1) She misses being an only child. She really does.
2) She's never quite understood why her mother walked out on them.
3) Her favourite person in the entire world is her dad.
4) Her need of feeling loved and getting attention is why she's had so many boyfriend.
5) She's probably burnt through more than twenty jobs since graduating Hogwarts. It's a miracle she keeps getting hired.
BOGGART: Failure. Not just failing but failure overall. She wants to do something meaningful and worth remembering in her life. She doesn't want for all of it to be for nothing.
DEMENTOR: Being told she was moving into a 'new house' with a 'new family.' She hated the thought. She hated everything about it.
PATRONUS: “Her first kiss. Again, cliché, but she'll never forget the way it felt. She felt like she was finally being noticed and she loved everything about it.
AND I’M THE ONLY ONE
[/color][/font][/center]Familyhistory
[/font][/center]FATHER: Roger Knightley, 51 years old, half-blood, comic artist for the Daily Prophet. Ever since she was a little girl, Honor has had her father wrapped around her little finger which wasn't too hard considering he was the one who practically raised her.
MOTHER: Anna Thompson, 42 years old, muggleborn, occupation unknown. Honor never knew her mother - or at least, not properly. Anna walked out on the family when she was only a baby and she's never known why exactly because every time she asks her father, he freezes up.
CHILDREN: N/A
OTHER IMPORTANT FAMILY:
1) Calixta Fleming, step-sister, 27, halfblood
2) Caspian Fleming, step-brother, 19, halfblood
3) Atticus Knightley, half-brother, 13, halfblood
4) Helena Knightley, step-father, 50, halfblood
HISTORY: Honor was the first and only child born to Roger Knightley and Anna Thompson who had never planned to stick together in the long-term. This is why their relationship crumbled - because it wasn’t meant to be, none of it was. In the first few months of Honor‘s life, Anna was convinced she would be a terrible mother. This is why she ended up walking out - both in vain and for the sake of her daughter. She hasn’t been seen or heard from ever since and this has been both a blessing and a curse.
Anna walking out on Roger was at first a curse. He didn’t have any woman figure in his life, nor did he have enough financial support for the both of them to maintain the life they were living. This is why he moved back into his mother’s house who was able to mind Honor while he was working… but eventually, he realised he wasn’t seeing his daughter nearly enough and this is why he started working as a comic artist for the Daily Prophet - because this way, he could work at home and see Honor as often as he wanted to.
For the first few years of Honor’s life, up until she was five, it was mostly peaceful. She just remembers playing in her ’kitchen’ and having pretend tea parties with her dad. But then one day, it all changed. She was moving into a new house with another boy and another woman… and this didn’t go down with Honor who was used to being an only child. She hated the attention her father gave this other boy he didn’t even know and she didn’t like playing tea parties with her new ‘mum‘… this need for attention became even worse when, nine months later, there was a new baby in the house. She hated it all. Hated having a new family, hate having two new brothers and an older sister who didn’t even like her. She hated everything.
As the years went on, she eventually adapted though it took a lot of time and a lot of playing with herself rather than other kids who she was convinced all preferred Ian instead. She showed her first sign of magic when she was eight - she levitated and spilt a bowl of cereal on Dad’s head during a rage when he was trying to bond with Ian. She was easily jealous.
When she finally got to Hogwarts, she was relieved. She was finally out of that dreadful house that she hated and got to make friends with people who hadn’t known beforehand. She was quickly sorted into Slytherin while Ian was sorted into Gryffindor which set them even more apart and meant she didn’t have to see him as often… except, then it didn’t. Because Ian started to prank Honor and that’s when their whole war started - he’d prank her and she’d prank back and then there was the constant showing up of one another, trying to prove how much better they were. It never really stopped until they were both in their seventh year and Atticus (their younger half-brother) joined them at Hogwarts. They stopped messing with each other all the time and changed it to less frequently. That year was also when they started really tolerating one another and covering each other’s backs. It was also really the first year that Honor could actually tolerate Ian.
During her time at Hogwarts, she did quite well in school - this was a part of wanting to show Ian up. She never got any failing marks and passed majority of her OWLs and NEWTs with ‘Exceeds Expectations’. This was partially in vain because she wanted her father to actually pay more attention to her than anybody else in her family. However, getting good marks ended up mattering less when she finally graduated Hogwarts and decided she’d much prefer to get into a career of fashion than some stuffy Ministry job. Between graduating and now, she’s went through quite a long line of jobs - mostly because she isn’t the best people person nor the best at serving people who think they’re better than her. Currently, she’s working at Madam Malkin’s.
AND I WALK ALONE
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MY SHADOW IS THE ONLY ONE THAT WALKS BESIDES ME
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