Post by norct on Jul 10, 2011 2:25:06 GMT -5
Lenore Cecelia Taylor
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AGE/DOB: 36. July 6 1959
HOUSE: former Badger
OCCUPATION: Curse Breaker
AFFILIATION: Neutral
SEXUALITY: Bisexual[/SIZE]
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As a young girl her hair was a short mess of tight ringlets that bounced with every movement she made--but as she grew older her curls loosened a bit, still a mess of blonde ringlets [that now cascade down her back] but not quite as tight and springy as it had been when she was a child. She takes great care of her hair, she knows more than anyone else how much of a pain it can be to forget to brush it and then have to de-tangle a giant rat's nest at the end of the day--needless to say she keeps it well maintained.
As she grew older her hair gradually became less curly, evolving into loose waves.
EYE DETAILS:
Depending on who you ask, her eyes could be described differently. If you're a guy you'd probably mention how alluring and captivating her baby blue eyes are--words used, no doubt, from the effect the veela in her has on them. But if you ask Nori herself then she certainly wouldn't use such words--she'd describe them as dull and boring, lots of people have blue eyes so what's so special about them?
HEIGHT/WEIGHT/BUILD:
Lenore has definitely filled out over the years, she stands at 5'8" and weighs between 127 - 129lbs, she appears to be a lot thinner than she was when she was a student at Hogwarts, though that's merely an illusion since she's relatively the same height and weight [the only difference is an inch or two and a couple of pounds].
FACE:
The baby fat on her cheeks that she retained all throughout her school years is now lost, replaced by thin cheeks that accentuate her high cheekbones. Her complexion is still rather pale, thanks to the Veela in her she has a hard time tanning, though she isn't bothered by her 'affliction' anymore...at least not as much as she used to be back when she was in school.
STYLE:
For work she usually wears stylish, yet practical, clothing--things that she can afford to lose or have to throw away since working as a Curse Breaker requires her to have an expendable wardrobe [because sometimes breaking curses can backfire and she can end up at the end of a nasty curse].
Outside of work she likes to wear comfortable and stylish clothes, usually some sort of muggle wear such as designer jeans and blouses.
FEELINGS:
Lenore tries her hardest to not get angry with others, she has a high tolerance level. Being that she's 3/4s Veela when angry [and I mean incredibly angry] her face contorts, taking on a harpy-like appearance with sharp features. For this, she curses her real family's bloodline for giving her such a terrible curse. If asked what her favorite physical feature on herself is she'd reply, without hesitation, that it was her curly blonde locks. While she may be less than pleased about her Veela blood, she is appreciative that it gave her such fair hair and complexion.
Though over the years she's learned to live with what she is and isn't quite as self-conscious as she once was. Nori is a lot more outgoing and more outspoken now that she's an independent adult.
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- Puzzles
-Reading
- Her job
- Cracking particularly tough curses
-Muggle fantasy/fiction novels
-Music
-Flowers
-Summer thunderstorms
-Dogs
-Swimming
-Her family
-Being caught in the rain
-Hot fudge sundaes
-Sketching/drawing
LOATHES:
-Conflict/Confrontation
-Superficiality
-Blood purity maniacs
-Spicy food
-Spiders
-Failing
-Having a curse backfire
-Loud noises
-Fire
-Immaturity
-Unanswered questions
-Brooms & Flying
BOGGART: Failing to correctly dismantle a curse, ending in someone else getting injured because of her failure.
DEMENTOR: When she was first learning to fly, back in her 1st year, she fell off her broom. Now, she didn't fall from a normal height--her broom had taken her higher than she had wanted and she had no idea how to make it stop or to make it bring her closer to the ground, and she was absolutely terrified! In her fright her grip around the handle of the broom slackened and she lost her balance and plummeted 40 feet to the ground. She was unconscious for a week and a half, suffering from a broken wrist, leg, a couple bruised rips, and a concussion. Needless to say she hasn't flown since.
PATRONUS: When conjuring up a patronus she summons the spectral image of a Snowy Egret, a long and lanky bird that flies with its neck retracted rather than stretched out.
Over the years, as new memories are added in amongst the old, her 'best' memory from childhood was pushed out [though never forgotten!] to make room for her new best memory. About a year and a half after graduating from Hogwarts she was selected to participate in a program at Gringotts, where she went through grueling trials with several other applicants her age to decide who would became the next Curse Breaker for Gringotts [after one of their previous Curse Breakers was killed when he failed to dismantle a particularly nasty curse, leaving his position open for the taking]. After several months of tests and deliberation from the Goblins....Lenore was chosen to take the place of their lost Curse Breaker. She was incredibly ecstatic after receiving the news and since then has, more or less, become a workaholic--doing everything and anything that she possibly can to ensure that she keeps her job, which means that she hardly ever has time to go out and have fun with school and work friends because she'd rather stay home and research various ancient curses and the ways to crack them.
AMORENTIA:
Lilacs.
The Forest after it's rained.
The dusty/old smell of Gringotts
Morning Dew.
VERITASERUM:
+ She's always, secretly, wanted to get married and start a family but her work has gotten in the way of her actually getting to go out and meet anyone. Lenore won't tell anyone that this is what she wants though because she finds admitting it to be quite embarrassing.
+ Her biological mother was a full-blooded Veela and her biological father was a wizard [though his mother was half Veela]--making Lenore 3/4s Veela. The only people who know this about her is her family, a few close friends, and the orphanage where the Taylors had adopted her from.
STRENGTHS:
+ Charms
+ Kindness
+ Reading Comprehension
+ Intelligence
+ Drawing
+ Curse Breaking
WEAKNESSES:
- Potions
- She's a little oblivious to feelings directed towards her
- Children, she absolutely loves little kids!
- Her job, she's pretty much a workaholic..
OVERVIEW:
During her childhood she was a young woman full of insecurities, mostly about the Veela in her but as she grew to become an independent young woman she learned to accept herself for who she was and not shy away from people because of what she was. She became quite outspoken for her beliefs, though she'll only open her mouth to say something if she believes it truly needs to be said--if not then she'll continue to go about her own business and not bother to acknowledge anything else.
As soon as she graduated from Hogwarts she was given a chance to work for Gringotts as a Curse Breaker, a fantastic opportunity for her to really do some good in the world. It was tricky work, but her quick wit and shining intelligence was enough to get her through even the hardest of puzzles. Lenore enjoys doing what she does and has since, because of it, become quite the workaholic, working weekdays, weekends and holidays without taking much of a break. The few friends that she does have have commented, on occasion, that she's going to push herself to her limits and burn out long before she's of retiring age--but Lenore doesn't care, she loves breaking Curses and will gladly spend the rest of her days doing so.
She's confident in her abilities, more so than she ever was back in school, and she likes to test her limits and push herself to the extreme, wanting to do whatever she can to better herself and get the job done in an efficient manner.
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FATHER: Jayson Taylor, 67, Ministry Worker: Improper Use of Magic Office, Neutral, Slytherin
SIBLINGS:
--- --- Taylor, 36, former Slytherin, brother.
--- --- Taylor, 35, former Ravenclaw, sister
--- --- Taylor, 34, former Ravenclaw, sister.
OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES: The Taylors are cousins to the Meadowes
WEALTH STATUS: She's pretty well-off, not having a family of her own and only having to worry about providing for herself, Lenore has accrued quite a bit of money over the years.
BIRTHPLACE: Belfast, Ireland
CURRENT RESIDENCE: London ,England
OVERVIEW:
Lenore doesn’t know much about the life that she had before she turned 3, it remains a mystery that she wishes to one day solve. What she does know is that her mother was a full-fledged Veela and her father was a wizard [whether he was pureblood or not, she doesn’t know], making their daughter 3/4s Veela. For a reason unknown to Lenore, her biological parents dropped her off an a wizarding orphanage at the age of 3 [well, she doesn’t know if they actually left her there on their own accord or if something happened to them] where she was later adopted by the Taylor family who already had a song her age and a daughter a year younger than her, but despite already having children of their own they were looking to expand their growing family.
Growing up there had been no secrets about the adoption, Roberta and Jayson had decided that it was best to tell her from the get go that she was adopted—but that they loved her more than the world itself. In doing this, they hoped that she wouldn’t become some horrible teenager who rebelled against them as soon as she found out that her life had been ‘a lie’ and that she was adopted—this way, she knew from the very start that she wasn’t their biological daughter, and she was okay with that. Or so they thought.
Lenore had always wondered about her biological parents, why had they left her? Was it voluntary or involuntary? Did they love her? Or was she an oops-baby that they decided they no longer wanted to care for? The presence of these questions plagued her mind and instilled the fear in her that maybe, one day, the Taylors would grow tired of her presence in their lives too and drop her off somewhere far away.
Despite her fears, she loved the Taylor family dearly and loved living with them—she and her brother became fairly close, playing silly childrens games together while their parents cared for the two youngest children. While she enjoyed playing outside with her brother, she also enjoyed being inside with her two little sisters; reading to them, teaching them their shapes and colors and ABCs, and just all around keeping them entertained.
As a young girl, Lenore was a decently well-behaved child, there had only been a few mishaps involving temper-tantrums and transformations [and turning into the ugly creature that she had terrified Lenore to no ends! And that was when she decided that she’d be a good girl from then on and try her best to not get angry for fear of becoming a creepy monster].
Fast forward a few years, her brother turned 11 and received his letter to Hogwarts, making Lenore feel a little left out and jealous during the months she had to wait until she too received her letter. Her family threw her a party, like they had done with their son for his birthday as well, Lenore felt as if it was the happiest moment of her life. All throughout her younger years she had feared that her stay with the Taylors would be a temporary thing, logically she knew that they loved her dearly and she loved them back just as much, but the trepidation was always there…
However, the party and all the love that she felt that day helped to cement the thought that there was no way they would ever abandon her like her biological family had.
Her first year attending Hogwarts had been a major disappointment, in more ways than one. First, she had been sorted into Hufflepuff while her brother had gone into Slytherin—she didn’t like being separated from the only person that she knew, and was upset that she wouldn’t get to see him as often as she would have liked.
She made a couple friends, and was a little weirded out by how much attention she seemed to receive, especially from the male population, due to her Veela blood coursing through her. That was also the year her flying career ended. She was learning how to fly a broom and she fell off her broom. Now, she didn't fall from a normal height--her broom had taken her higher than she had wanted and she had no idea how to make it stop or to make it bring her closer to the ground, and she was absolutely terrified! In her fright her grip around the handle of the broom slackened and she lost her balance and plummeted 40 feet to the ground. She was unconscious for a week and a half, suffering from a broken wrist, leg, a couple bruised rips, and a concussion. Needless to say she hasn't flown since.
The years that followed weren’t quite as dramatic and painful as her 1st year had been and she found that she actually liked attending school, though she loved summer vacation even more because it meant that they’d get to spend more time together as a family. They didn’t have that luxury during the school year because her brother was usually busy with his Slytherin friends, her sisters were with their Ravenclaw friends, and she herself was busy with her own friends. So it was nice to be able to be together on vacation, going out to dinner, or going out to places as a family.
During her 5th year her mother fell ill, some muggle disease called cancer and despite the breakthroughs in magically enhanced medicines…there was nothing that could be done. The children were pulled out of school the last few weeks of their mother’s life to stay by her side and watch over her in her last moments, spending sleepless nights situated next to her bed in St. Mungos until..she passed in her sleep. It was a tough situation to get through and Lenore made sure that she was there for her father and her siblings, doing her best to be the crying shoulder that everyone needed.
The house seemed quiet after that…their father taking the death of Roberta the hardest, he became engrossed in his work, staying at the office late and coming home in the early hours of the morning. It took another year for things to feel normal again, things picked back up again at home; they saw their dad more often, started doing things together again and all around the air of depression that had settled in over them seemed to have lifted.
The rest of her teenage life past by without too much drama--she and her best friend Katara would occasionally get together and have a few intimate moments together, but it was never anything serious. All of this was done in secrecy for years up until Kat finally got together with the man that she loved and [eventually] married him.
As for Lenore, she never really had much experience in the romance department, preferring to keep to herself more often than not because she was never too certain whether someone was genuinely interested in her or if they were simply drawn to her because of the Veela in her. She thrived on playing it safe.
After graduation it seemed as if everyone just went their separate ways--Lenore included--and didn't look back. A decent amount of her classmates had gone off to become some heroic Auror or a Healer or something as equally as cliche as that and it was quite often that she would find herself seeing their names in the Daily Prophet under "Deceased" or "missing". She had never been brave enough to pursue a profession like that, she didn't really want to have to deal with the Death Eaters and risk her life. She remained neutral throughout the war.
But she also had her new internship to worry about.
Almost immediately after she graduated she was handpicked to intern at Gringotts as a Curse Breaker, the highest form of excitement and danger that she would allow herself to be put in. She worked closely under the professional advisement of her mentor for a year before they decided to hire her as one of their own. Since then she's been dedicating her life to Curse Breaking and being the best at what she does because she doesn't want to give the goblins a reason to fire her [this job is her life, seriously!].
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AGE: 20
GENDER: femallee
EXPERIENCE: 9+ years
SECRET WORD: ADMINT EDIT
ANYTHING ELSE?: naw son
RP SAMPLE: Lenore, Ave, Ana, Remus/etc[/SIZE]
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