Post by Grace Longbottom on Jul 9, 2012 13:21:35 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] raegan elise rickett. fourteen. fourth year. hufflepuff. juno temple. | |
[rs=2] | Raegan Elise Rickett was born on April 21st, 2009, as the second daughter to Anthony and Mafalda Rickett (née Prewett). She was born less than a year apart from her older sister, Ainsley, who she got along with amicably as a child. At the time of her birth, her father was 28 years old and had earned the position of Beater for the Montrose Magpies three years before and was happily married to the Mafalda Prewett (Molly Weasley I's second cousin) who was 26 years old at the time and worked as an Auror for Ministry of Magic. Growing up, Raegan's family was quite well-off due to her both of her parents high-paying, respectable jobs for the wizarding world. She spent a lot of time with her sisters as a kid because, apart from her cousins and the house elves, they were her only company. She was a happy, sweet child who always cared about others. She was constantly singing and dancing, all your typical cheeky kid stuff. She was an early bloomer - she walked earlier, talked earlier, and learnt to write earlier than most children her age. She had a talent for mischief and was constantly demanding piggyback rides from the poor house elves who occupied the house with them. When Raegan turned around two years old, Mafalda fell pregnant yet again with her third daughter and her last child. Despite her young age, Raegan was thrilled for a new bubba to play with. Like with the rest of her child, Mafalda took time off from her dangerous job halfway through her pregnancy and after she had given birth to her newborn daughter. After a year off, Mafalda returned to work and the little girl was left at home to play with her sisters as well as the house elves. As a child, none of the Rickett kids felt particularly abandoned in favour of work because their parents always came home for dinner and left after breakfast and spent their weekends with them. When she was merely nine years old, Raegan lost her mother who was on her way home from work and had decided not to apparate straight into the Rickett home, instead choosing to walk. Mafalda had recently locked up a known criminal and said criminal's brother had decided to follow her home. Right as she was turning onto her street, she found herself at wand point and threatened to let the criminal go. Malfada refused, thinking she would be able to buy enough time to stop the assailant from attacking her and be able to grab her wand. She was wrong, it turned out. The night when Mafalda didn't return home from work marked the start of a whole new life for the Rickett family. Raegan didn't deal well with the death of her mother. She started having nightmares and she'd wake up in the middle of the night screaming. It got to the point where she'd start crawling into Ainsley's bed and she started to ask her father questions such as, "Is it because I was naughty that mummy died?" She'd worry about how her mummy would eat now she was up in heaven and it was a lot more easier to make her angry. When her father started to move on about a year after Mafalda had passed away, and started dating again he'd kept a secret until Raegan caught him kissing another woman when she was ten. Ever the headstrong girl, that was when Raegan showed her first sign of magic and she blasted them apart to opposite ends of the room before storming out. She locked herself up in her room and refused to speak to him for a month. When she finally did, her first question was why would he kiss another woman if he still loved her mum? She had trouble dealing with the whole idea of her dad dating other women so Anthony lost the girlfriend... only to get another one a month later and that's when he fell into a pattern: swapping an old girlfriend in for a new one monthly. This pattern is still going on to this day. She received her Hogwarts letter when she was eleven and because she'd grown up hearing all the magnificent stories about how fantastic Hogwarts was, she was positively elated (and secretly a little relieved she wasn't a squib like her grandpa). She made friends like nothing else on that first trip to Hogwarts, chatting brightly and grinning and just generally feeling better than she had for years. She was sorted into Hufflepuff within the first few moments of the hat touching her head and it was the right choice at the time... however, Raegan has definitely changed. For the first year of Hogwarts, Raegan played the role of the perfect little student. She said her 'yes please's' and her 'thank you's' and that was that. She studied, trying to get good grades like she knew her mother would have wanted to. She floated around with just about ever social group there was in her year - from the studious to the fun to the shy. She followed the rules by the letter and never got detention. By the time she'd finished up her first year, she was coming one of the top people in her year. But that all changed as she went home for break. This time around, her father had actually chosen a woman to date that Raegan liked and looked up to. She admired the fact that this woman didn't try to enforce rules or trying to be her "new mum". She was so unlike the other plastic, step-in-mothers that her father had tried to force into their lives and Raegan got along with her like a house on fire. She was constantly telling her dad how cool she was - and ended up horrified a month later when she found that, like all the others, her dad had dumped this woman. That was the point that Raegan decided her father didn't care what she thought and definitely didn't listen to her - she theorised that she and her sister's were just kids he'd been burdened with, kids that he didn't want, especially her because she resembled Malfada so much instead of him. Her rebellious behaviour started off small: she started wearing less dresses and bright colours, trading them in for band shirts and ripped jeans instead, her music changed from your typical pop to bands like Green Day and Nirvana, she started wearing make-up like heavy eyeliner and painting her nails black. It all seemed harmless and Anthony accepted it as a part of Raegan just growing up, shrugging it off as though it were a phrase. But it wasn't just the aesthetics that changed - Raegan's personality did as well. As Raegan returned for her second year at Hogwarts, her grades fell - she was no longer coming at the top of her class but rather towards the middle of the spectrum instead, something that didn't bother her as much as she thought it would. It was perhaps a cry for attention that her father didn't notice, instead chalking it up to typical 'not being a first year scared of her Professors' type thing. Raegan's behaviour, however, only started to get more wild. She was still the bubbly, kind girl but she was more loud, more opinionated. She didn't let people step all over her. Her previous respect for the rules vanished as she decided that life wasn't about playing it safe but instead living on the edge. The first time she landed herself in detention, she was secretly freaking out inside. But when her father didn't respond to the letter she'd sent him telling him of it, that was the moment she stopped trying to impress him and started living for herself. Mid-way through her second year, she lost her first kiss to Vlad Dolohov during a game of truth or dare, and she's truthfully been a bit addicted ever since because to her, snogging is ridiculously fun. Nowadays (at age fourteen), she runs a covert operation teaching people how to kiss for a couple of galleons. She's not very particular about genders, either, as she hasn't quite labelled what her sexuality is yet. During her third year, Raegan took up the bad habit of smoking... both weed and normal cigarettes. She'd gotten a hook-up from her connections in the Muggle world and found that it was a pretty sufficient way to deal when she felt down. That was also around the point she started smuggling stuff into Hogwarts in exchange for a couple of galleons or secrets. She's become somewhat of an expert with her whole smuggling operation and often finds the niftiest places to put things, e.g. a bag of weed hidden in a hollowed out candle stick. So far she hasn't been caught and the reason why she risks getting in trouble so much is because she loves the whole thrill she gets from it. In the Christmas holidays of her third year, Raegan's friend from the Muggle world provided her with her first drop of alcohol and Raegan's since discovered that her favourite is vodka. She has an emergency stash at Hogwarts - and she refuses to tell anybody where - and though she doesn't constantly get trashed, she likes to break it out every now and then. She's always careful though - she never rocks up to class the next morning with a hangover (she usually only drinks on the weekend). She's so far never gotten detention for her somewhat 'illegal' things but rather for arguing with fellow students over minor things and once for flashing a class her bra when she was walking by. Despite her changes, Raegan still remains the girl she once was: she's still bubbly and kind to those who deserve it (she definitely goes for the underdog despite whatever the circumstances) but she now lives on the edge, completely rebelling against her father. She has a knack for snogging in broom closets and smoking. She's also quite loud and shameless - thus the bra flashing incident... she sees no real reason to be ashamed of her body. She's flirty as all hell and she's a bit of a 'naughty girl' but truth be told, she really just enjoys the thrill of doing the things most people wouldn't. She'll talk to anyone so long as they're nice enough and sometimes even if they aren't. She's still Hufflepuff to the core, however, as much as it seems like she'd be better suited to Gryffindor. She's ridiculously loyal and honest, not to mention hard-working when she applies herself. Additional info (that I didn't know where else to put): she loves music and playing her guitar and writing lyrics/poems, as well as stealing people's clothes. She has her ears pierced twice on the left side lobe, and three times on the right with her lobe pierced twice and her cartilage done. She also has her nose pierced and she varies between wearing her ring and her stud. She got all of these piercings done with her Muggle friend's older sister who pretended to be her mother for her. Her clothing style is mostly rock chic... she'll usually be seen in a cool jacket, band shirt, ripped jeans and a pair of converse or Doc Martens. At school you'll find that her shirt usually has the first couple of buttons undone, her skirt is almost always rolled up and instead of wearing the proper school shoes she'll wear a pair of black Doc Martens instead. She always wears her tie though it's usually knotted really loosely. |
bree. eighteen. 4+ years roleplaying. |
