Post by Dominique Weasley on Jan 5, 2012 22:05:34 GMT -5
michelle carol beckett
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so if by the time the bar closes
----------------and you feel like falling down
----------------and you feel like falling down
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i'll carry you home
-------tonight, we are young
-------tonight, we are young
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so let's set the world on fire
-------we can burn brighter than the sun
-------we can burn brighter than the sun
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OVERALL PERSONALITY:First impression, Shelly comes across as a bit of a typical ditz. With her enthusiasm and her outgoing, attention-grabbing nature, it would seem like it takes a while to realise there's more underneath the surface, but it doesn't - Shelly is a bad influence through-and-through and people tend to see that after a mere conversation with her. Her adventurous, impulsive side leans towards parties, breaking and entering, smoking, drugs, anything out of the ordinary and wild and basically what a fourteen year old shouldn't be doing. This behaviour, however, could be summed up with the conclusion that she needs attention - she hasn't felt loved properly ever in her life and she makes up for that with self-destructive behaviour.
Shelly would also consider herself a 'bad' person at the end of the day - she is malicious and vengeful if people cross her and often only does things if they work back to her advantage. She takes joy in shocking people and winding them up and often puts herself and other people in positions where they have to think quickly and be forever on their toes. Her idea of fun can sometimes be completely fucking someone else over, without even realising it. However, Shelly isn't neccessarily a bad person - she is ultimately kind and often makes it a point to stick up for the underdog and makes a bee-line towards the shy, the bullied, or the downtrodden, and tries to make them smile by pulling her ditzy antics or juggling or just listening to them.
She can be brutally honest - she's the sort of girl who'll smile while she's being a bitch - but then she can also keep her emotions and her true feelings to herself. Although she can give people too much information about herself - if asked about her parents, she will give details - she generally lies about how she feels about this information. She acts like she doesn't care about her parents and she acts like she expects other people not to care, either, so when they do she's either shocked or simply doesn't believe them. In regards to her parents, Shelly has monthly supervised meeting with her mother, whom she now thinks harshly of as being weak and is quite resentful towards. However, she does have a certain amount of unconditional love for her mother. She keeps the lid clamped down tightly on that, though.
She supposes she's a bit of a screw-up, but in some ways she delights in being a screw-up. She has a strong character, however, and battles through a great deal of loneliness, heartache and self-hatred on her own. She loves change and often tries to change, even if it's only little things like her hair or her demeanour - it gives her a better sense of control, oddly. She contradicts herself in many ways because while she likes to have a grip on self-control somedays, on other days she wants the whole world to spin out of focus because in honesty she feels like she couldn't be bothered with anything anymore, and if she has to be living this life, she may as well live it wildly. She doesn't think she'd miss anyone if she left Hogwarts; people sort of come and go in her life but they never really seem to stay and from that she's never really had long-lasting relationships, nor does she believe they really exist.
the moon is on my side
------------------i have no reason to run
------------------i have no reason to run
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OVERALL HISTORY:Carol Fitzgerald and Richard Devine met at a party. Both were from families struggling with money and both were given close to free reign as a teenager. Although Richard was three years older than Carol, there was mutual attraction between the pair and soon they were dating. However, three months after they started going out, what the couple saw as disaster struck: Carol became pregnant. After telling her parents, they urged her to get an abortion and forbade her from ever seeing Richard again. Carol flat-out refused and, after telling them her wishes of dropping school, having never been a good student, her parents found themselves giving up on her. Carol went to live with Richard, who at the time was living with a friend. The nine months were a difficult time for her and more than once she wished she had aborted the baby. They had their baby girl a few days late, and she was named Michelle - mainly Carol's wishes, as Richard seemed less preoccupied with the name of the child or loving the child but more with how they were to feed another mouth.
For the first couple of years, Carol struggled to be a good mother, despite the fact that she constantly felt that her whole life had been dragged away from her. She was perpetually tired and often snappy, and feared Richard wouldn't want her anymore, already suspicious that he was being unfaithful to her. Carol, however, never questioned Richard about this, knowing that he was feeding both her and Michelle. She did love Michelle, but at the same time she could be resentful towards her and treat her daughter just as a list of things to do; she never spent time with her daughter just because she wanted to, just out of love, and neither did Richard. Michelle grew up those first few years with little affection from either of her parents. Finally, Richard managed to get his own apartment for them. It was in a rough part of town and it was quite poky and dark, but it was their own.
Michelle had to learn to be independent growing up; in fact, her parents were so wrapped up in themselves so often that it was in her nature to be indepenent. Her mother had begun drinking regularly and her father was often out the majority of the time. Sometimes Michelle would not be fed by either and have to improvise with packets of biscuits (sometimes stolen from the local shop). She made up for being neglected at home by seeking attention at school. She was well-liked as she was adventurous and seemingly innocent, yet she dared do things others would not. She appeared cheerful and mildly eccentric to her teachers, although she caused some worry with the amount of days she did not show up to school. As she often had to walk herself there (luckily it was a considerably short walk), she would sometimes end up staying at home, just to see if her mother would insist on her going to school, or if it was bucketing down raining in the morning, she would skip the first few classes. People noticed, but they didn't say.
By the time Michelle had reached age nine things had gotten steadily much worse. Her mother rarely spoke and often seemed on the edge of tears or else slept on the sofa for most of the afternoons. At nights, her parents would sometimes go out for long periods of time and Michelle was always too afraid to go to sleep, instead opting for sitting alone in the dark and hoping that her parents would return home soon. She'd realised by that age that her parents didn't love her in the same way other parents did - in fact, she wondered if they loved her at all. Other mothers hugged their children - she'd see them in playgrounds or on streets or anywhere - but she could barely remember anytime she'd recieved a hug from her mother, much less her father.
One night, neither her mother nor her father returned home at all. Michelle hadn't retired to bed that night - she had sat on the sofa, waiting for them. She had dozed off at some point, but had spent most of the night awake, and was exhausted beyond belief. She decided not to go to school that day; she couldn't. She continued to wait for her parents, and when they did not turn up, she left the apartment and walked, dazed, to the nearby playground. She sat on the roundabout for a while before returning hom, certain that her parents would have returned. Much to her confusion, they hadn't. Michelle was beginning to panic. She went back into her apartment, and on a search for food. There was little to none in the house, and all of the shops were too far away to go and swipe something from. Feeling very much alone and exhausted, Michelle, after some thought, knocked on the neighbouring apartment's door, as the family that lived there had always been very kind to her. The neighbours, however, had been worried about Michelle for sometime and when they saw her in the state she was in they insisted she come inside. Michelle was adamant that she only needed a packet of biscuits or something of the sort, and launched into an explanation as to why she was not in school.
The neighbours were unconvinced, however, and she was ushered into their flat, much to her dismay. She was unused to people fussing over her, however, and glowed now that she was in the spotlight, accepting the tea and scones they offered her. Unaware that the neighbours had been worried about her previously, she admitted her parents had disappeared, but sugar-coated the story greatly. However, the neighbours rang the social services, unknown to Michelle, and she found herself taken away. Little afterwards her parents were declared unfit and Michelle was brought to a children's Home and presented with a social worker whom she instantly took a disliking to.
Michelle was fostered afterwards by the Becketts, an older and far more conservative couple. The process of Michelle being fostered by the Becketts took quite awhile, but finally she was able to live with them, and upon first entering their house she felt that she had never been somewhere so fancy. The Becketts were not rich, but they made a respectable amount and far more than Michelle's parents ever had. Michelle's room was twice as large as her previous one. She was giddy with joy and at first, life with the Becketts seemed almost perfect, although Darina was cautious around Michelle, something which spiked the girl's curiousity greatly. The Becketts were also disapproving of some of Michelle's mannerisms and her fascination with being bad and getting in trouble. The relationship grew slowly rockier and rockier with every reckless thing Michelle did and every clash they had. Michelle began being sent to a child psychologist, as Darina and Tom felt that the girl needed someone to talk to, someone to straighten her problems out with. Michelle was never particularly responsive to her psychologist, however.
When Michelle hit eleven, a Ministry Official visited the Becketts and it was explained that she was a witch. Although Michelle was intrigued by adventure and everything obscure, she was reluctant to believe she was magical, as were the Becketts, until it was proved by a charm being cast. It was the biggest thing that had ever happened to Michelle, and she wondered if her whole life had been leading up to that; to being a witch. It was offered to the Becketts that Michelle be given to another wizarding family, but much to Michelle's surprise the Becketts decided to keep her. Michelle never really believed the Becketts loved her, but at that moment she felt there was something of a chance that they might.
Michelle went to Hogwarts undaunted by what lay ahead of her. The Hogwarts Express journey was blissful as it felt as though she was leaving her entire life behind her. At first, the people in her year thought her as a bit of a stereotypical 'blonde' - hopeless and somewhat ditzy and naive - but she proved to also be somewhat malicious at times, unforgiving in her revenge if someone hurt her or her friends, ridiculously bright despite the fact that her grades were a tad all over the place, selfish, self-destructive and with a tendency to do reckless or impulsive or just bad things, sometimes with no reason at all behind them. She became popular, but not in the most conventional of ways. Although she has a group of people she can call friends, only a few people are ever really close to her. In regards to schoolwork, Shelly is intelligent but simultaneously hopeless. Although she likes all classes with the exception of arithmancy, she rarely bothers herself with studying and only does her homework to the bare minimum and thus her grades can be high one week and low to the next.
Michelle still has Muggle friends, all of whom are under the impression she's going to a normal boarding school - as, of course, she can't tell them about being a witch, or the wizarding world (they'd think she was winding them up, anyhow). Her Muggle friends range greatly in personality as do a lot of her friends in Hogwarts, but the vast majority of them are disliked by her Foster Parents as they would be seen as 'trouble' (particularly the boys). Once Michelle hit thirteen, she spent most of her summer staying at other people's houses and attending parties (often where people were a few years older than her). It was her way of pretending she had a carefree, wild life when in reality she cares about a lot and nothing is quite as simple as she makes it out to be. She's still a virgin, but she is not unexperienced, and seems quite content with the thought that she will not be a virgin for much longer.
Michelle cannot see the point in having a social worker and a psychologist seeing as they're Muggle and therefore cannot be told the full truth. Her foster parents, however, are adamant she goes to a Muggle psychologist to try and keep her connected to their world, the Muggle world, and she has to go on, of course, the condition that she doesn't talk about Hogwarts. This makes no sense whatsoever to Michelle, but she generally wastes the psychologist's time and would admit that, even if she was a Muggle, she still wouldn't talk to him properly.
so will someone come and
------------------------carry me home tonight
------------------------carry me home tonight
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carry me home tonight
-------------just carry me home tonight
-------------just carry me home tonight
