Post by Thalia Mulciber on Jun 21, 2012 4:40:14 GMT -5
| [atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 460px; background-image: url(http://i44.tinypic.com/34fb0ns.jpg);-moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border: 4px ridge #9c5f5b, bTable][tr][cs=2] thalia diane mulciber. twenty-three. musician. rasa zukauskaite. | |
[rs=2] | Meet Thalia Mulciber, although there's a chance you've already heard that name... Well, if you've any interest in classical music at all. Thalia (or Hallie to a favoured few, by which I mean Nevin and Lina, but we'll come to both of those later) is a concert violinist currently taking both the muggle and wizarding worlds by storm. The eldest daughter and second child of Dagon and Lailah Mulciber, Thalia was born into a family with a pureblood heritage longer than her arm, and the attitude to match. Dagon and Lailah's marriage was never a particularly happy one - it was arranged for social and economic purposes, and Dagon was significantly closer in age to Lailah's parents than to Lailah herself. Perhaps they could have learnt to be happy together in time, if not in love, but Dagon had a wandering eye and a hot temper that he made no real effort to curb, and Lailah was pretty, shallow and vain. As a result, both pursued a number of romantic liaisons for various reasons - attraction, lust, attention and revenge being common themes amongst them - particularly after the birth of Corin ensured an heir for the Mulciber fortune and family name. It is a rumoured possibility amongst Pureblood circles that Thalia is the result of one of Lailah's affairs, rather than a product of the marital bed, and although this has never been confirmed or ratified (for obvious reasons) by either Lailah or Dagon, it is true that in comparison with her siblings, Thalia bears little resemblance to her father and in certain lights can appear remarkably similar to certain members of the Rosier family. Despite this, or, perhaps somehow, because of this, Thalia was always closer to her father growing up, and respected him immensely. It was he who first recognised Thalia's prodigious musical talent and fostered it with violin tutelage from the age of six. Although mainly brought up by nannies and governesses, it was the highlight of little Thalia's week when she was granted an audience with her father and he would read her a story, or when he would spontaneously interrupt Corin and Thalia's lessons to walk them around the grounds that would one day be Corin's, pointing out features of note and making the history of the place seem so amazingly interesting. In contrast, Lailah never really seemed to show an interest in her eldest daughter, and Thalia's achievements and progresses in life went unnoticed and largely uncelebrated by her mother. It was her mother's disinterest and borderline negligence that lead to one of the key defining instances in Hallie's life. At the age of nine, she was sexually assaulted by a male family friend at a time when her mother was supposed to be keeping an eye on her, but was instead otherwise occupied, to phrase it somewhat delicately. Too scared and confused to talk to someone about a situation that she knew instinctively was wrong and a person who now inherently terrified her, Thalia remained silent about the abuse, and so it continued until she was seventeen. Her ability to absorb herself so fully in her music arose partially as a reaction and a coping mechanism to prevent herself thinking. To this day, she does not actually know whether her parents were aware or not of its happening - she suspects they might have done, and hopes they didn't. Sent off to Hogwarts as expected at the age of eleven, Thalia was sorted into Ravenclaw after a relatively long sorting. It wasn't that she particularly fitted in there, just that she fitted in less in all of the other houses - she wasn't brave or daring enough for Gryffindor, stolid enough for Hufflepuff, and she lacked the cunning needed for her expected house of Slytherin; but she did have a thirst for information and musical learning that meant that the house of Ravenclaw accepted her, albeit somewhat grudgingly, which was fine by Thalia as it pretty much reflected her own attitude towards learning. She bumbled along towards the middle of class, easily competent but never outstanding - her violin was her passion and her focus, and a Charms or Herbology class could never quite compete. Thalia was, by and large, happy at Hogwarts. It was a safe space, and there was a far greater sense of family in the castle than in her own home. Naturally somewhat introverted (something exacerbated by... circumstances), Hallie often appeared to be coldly haughty and aloof, yet her classmates who persevered discovered her to have a wry sense of humour and a surprisingly soft heart, all traits that have remained with her into adult life. She made friends, mainly having a few very close friends as opposed to a large crowd of mates. Always pretty (the most attractive of the Mulciber siblings by popular opinion), Thalia grew into her looks as she hit puberty, and male interest in her only increased. Too affected by the ongoing sexual abuse she suffered from whilst at home, she responded by completely blanking it and pretending that it did not exist - something which, unfortunately, only served to give her an air of mystery and present as something of a challenge to a teenage boy. It wasn't until she grew close to Nevin Anglesey that Thalia felt safe enough to trust him - perhaps even at that young age she thinks that she recognised the jagged edges of another damaged soul. They ended up in a relationship during their fifth year, and for the first time in her life Hallie discovered something that meant more to her than her violin or her brother. It was a beautiful period in her fifteen year old life - a few months of serenity and peace and blissful happiness. And it was also terrifying, because Thalia knew enough that the feelings she harboured for Nevin were more than those needed to constitute a teenage fling, and she also knew what would be waiting for her over the summer holidays. Fearful and irrationally riddled with guilt, she broke off their relationship two weeks before the holidays, explaining only that she felt it was 'getting too serious', and though she never said on whose part, the insinuation was definitely that it was on Nevin's side. She never cried over the break-up, not even in private, further perpetuating her reputation as a bit of an ice queen. In reality, it hurt too much to even think about it. Sixth year felt like hell to Thalia, although she was accepted onto several musical development programmes for when she had completed her NEWTs. Nevin seemed happier without her, and the fact that he seemed to have gotten over her so successfully and so completely was more painful than breaking up with him had been. The final nail in the proverbial coffin was when Tallulah Percy gleefully informed Thalia over lunch that she'd seen Nevin snogging Abelia Blishwick, of all people. And yet she still maintained her stereotypically British stiff upper lip, at least until she got drunk at a Slytherin party and announced to the assembled masses during a game of Truth or Dare that she actually did really still quite fancy Nevin Anglesey. Abelia broke up with Nevin soon after that, and Thalia couldn't even pretend to be sorry. It turned out that perhaps he'd felt the same way, because they very tentatively resumed their relationship, and it lasted until they left Hogwarts this time, aided in part by Thalia seeking counselling and also by her turning seventeen (and so coming of age) and therefore meaning that it was significantly easier for her by various ways and means to avoid contact with her abuser. After seventh year, Thalia took up a place in both a Muggle and a wizarding orchestra, both based in London. Initially on a second violin part in both, she soon accelerated through the ranks to become principle, and her burgeoning solo concert career also improved accordingly, as she became a figure of note in both musical spheres, and a minor classical music celebrity. Due to their entirely different career trajectories - an Unspeakable and a professional musician - Thalia and Nevin's relationship faltered somewhat, and became more of an on-off thing than a constant in their lives. However, when at the age of twenty Nevin informed her that he was engaged to be married to Abelia Blishwick, it still came as a complete and utter surprise to Thalia, and it was only when Abelia's pregnancy became apparent that so did Nevin's reasoning. It felt like the bottom had fallen out of Thalia's world, but once again she coped, merely putting more of herself into her practise and her performances. She tried her hardest to distance herself from Abelia and Nevin, on the rationale that it was the only way either of them had a chance at a functioning relationship, but she could not help hearing of Abelia's tragic death shortly after the birth of their child - how could you avoid news such as that? Instinctively, and without thinking, she ended up on Nevin's doorstep, her only intention truly being to help him and the child. She ended up staying, and somehow (she doesn't know how) they went from the odd pairing of broken-hearted girl and grief-stricken fiancé to Thalia-and-Nevin once more, just now with the addition of baby Lina. She can't imagine the horrors Nevin went through that night, but she's fallen as much in love with Lina as she has with Nevin, and almost three years on and with an engagement ring on her finger, she cannot imagine her life without either. |
cassie. seventeen and eleven twelfths. some years roleplaying. |
ONCE UPON A TIME IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY A GOAT EXPLODED. THE END.
