Post by Celestina Flamel on Feb 16, 2007 18:52:34 GMT -5
Behind the Character
Contact:Celestina_Hermione@hotmail.com
Roleplay Experience: Plenty![/ul]
Basics
Nicknames:'Stina, Ma Cherie (only by Perenelle or Nicholas!), WindWhisper (Only by the Marauders or closest friends)
Age:15
Birthday:May 1st 1958
Year:5th
House:Gryffindor[/ul]
Physical
Celestina is tall and slender, much like her father and her Mum both in that respect. She's lithe and strong, though looks delicate. She has long legs and a nice arch instep on her foot- the body of a dancer- inherited from her Mum. She has long reddish auburn curls that fall past her waist and are very thick indeed. She has a smooth peaches and cream, somewhat rosy cheeked complexion and blushes easily- much to her frustration because she insists her hair looks like it's on fire.
Celestina has these beautiful blue eyes that can express a deep range of emotions. They're light-medium blue and have hints of darker blue and violet if she's excited or upset. She has thin, arched light eyebrows that frame her eyes well and thick eyelashes. Celestina also has had pierced ears ever since she was five years old thanks to a trip into Paris. She's got dimples in both of her cheeks also like her Mum. She has a nice smile, friendly like. Overall, she's very pretty but nothing like.. gobsmackingly beautiful.
On Celestina as a phoenix: Decent size, though smaller than a Male phoenix (seeing as she's a girl duh)- She has deep crimson-scarlet plummage trimmed in the purest of golden colors and deep, ebony eyes.
Picture:[/ul]
((coming soon
))
Mental
Celestina.. she's a mix of things really... she gets it from all the influence she's had in her life. She's very kind to everyone. She always wants to do what it takes to help, even her enemies. She's been taught from an early age to practice forgiveness and compassion,even when it's very hard for her. She's lively and quick and can be impatient and flighty. She doesn't anger easily, but when she does- look out! She's intelligent, needless to say, a lot because of her genes but also because of how she's been raised. She has a good work ethic and tries her best usually. She enjoys healing as well as working out mysteries and doing experiments.
Celestina is somewhat shy and withdrawn when she's around people she doesn't know well, but once she does get to know someone she opens up a lot more. She can be kind of bossy and she's a big time take charge person. She also tells the truth exactly as she sees it... which isn't always a good thing! She's the sort of person you feel that you can trust with your secrets and she'll never betray what you tell her in confidence.. She's a really great friend to have and a good girl if struggling a bit to find her way in the world.
Likes: [at least five things]Family, Friends, study, France, Hogwarts, Remus (and the other Marauders), chocolate, cooking, music, the ballet, writing, flying and Quidditch, astronomy/astrology, alchemy, the six main subjects, mysteries and riddles, Arthurian Legends, she's also got that same gift of love that her Mum had
Dislikes: [at least five things]Death Eaters, Voldemort, creepy crawly things, black coffee, being underestimated, being abandoned, seeing people get hurt and not knowing how to help, Arithmancy, Divination
Patronus:Dog (for Loyalty)
Animagus:Phoenix
Talents:Giving advice/listening, Flyting/Quidditch, solving riddles, anything in the Fine Arts, Transfiguration and Potions (her strongest two), giving love (NO get your mind out of the gutter!!!)
Boggart:Someone she loves being hurt- usually this is whoever she's worried about at the time.
Life Goals: [at least five things] To help end this thing Voldemort is beginning, To find "the right one", to develop a closer relationship with her father, to make a philosopher's stone all on her own- just to say she did it, to figure out what she wants to do with her life, to make her family proud of her[/ul]
Family
Godparents:Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel, Minerva McGonagall
Siblings:None
Personal History: [at least two decent paragraphs][/ul]
This basically all starts with Celestina's Mum. she was also a muggle ballerina. Her name was Elise. Dumbledore had gone during the summer months to visit his friend and alchemy partner Nicholas Flamel. Perenelle, Nicholas' wife, had gone to visit a friend of hers leaving the two guys to fend for themselves. The two went into Paris for a bit of sight seeing and ended up getting tickets to what they THOUGHT was a concert.. as it turned out.. it was a muggle ballet.. by the time the two figured out what they were getting into.. it was too late. Elise had had a very very bad life before that.. her family was extremely poor and her two little sisters had died of pneumonia the year before because of lack of medical care. Elise danced to keep her family off of the streets... she was beautiful and men tried to court her just because of that.. it upset her because she wanted someone to love her for her mind... her spirit.. that was her one dream.. to find a guy who would take her away from all that.. who would care about something besides her beauty... and she and Dumbledore happened to meet outside the theatre because she needed someone to escort her home because it was very late at night. They talked and soon found that they were very compatible. Being a wizard he didn't realize she was so well known and with his personality it never occured to him to care for her simply because she was pretty... They got married at the Notre Dame Cathedral with Nicholas as best man the next week.
The two went on a long cruise for a honeymoon... they spent the whole summer happy, but as September approached, Dumbledore got very nervous. He had never told her he was a wizard.. it hadn't been important then.. Elise was very upset that he hadn't told her..and scared.. imagine finding out you were married to someone who was over a hundred and a famous wizard when they LOOKED like a perfectly normal (handsome), muggle guy if perhaps a bit overpolite. Elise was hurt and scared.. so she ran.. leaving Dumbledore to go back to Hogwarts on his own... he spent the next four months just sort of.. wishing she'd come back..he had fallen in love with her and now she was gone.
At Christmas Hogwarts was hosting a Christmas ball and Minerva had to go into Diagon Alley to get supplies to finish the decorating.. she ran into a young woman in the Leaky Cauldron who was seeking "A wizard named Albus Dumbledore" quite desperately. The woman was young, in rags, and looked exhausted.. Minerva asked her why she needed to know, because she could tell her where he was.. and take her there.. and Elise said, "Merci, Madame.. I am Elise Magnier.. I am pregnant with his child." and Minerva put it together.. with a little help from her.. Minerva took her back to Hogwarts and lent her dress robes to wear for the ball, during which she was able to surprise Dumbledore. She'd realized she was foolish, giving up the man she loved simply because she'd been scared and hurt that he didn't tell her.. Elise became very beloved at Hogwarts. She was the same age as all the 7th year students and the Sorting Hat even felt it necessary to say if she was a witch she'd have been in Ravenclaw house. Elise loved flying and she taught the students to dance and formed bonds with almost everyone under the castle in her special way... just giving love..
The next spring Elise had their child, and the labor was very hard on her because she's wasn't strong.. all of her strength had gone to trying to take care of her family.. she ended up not being able to recover from it and died a few hours later.. and for Dumbledore it was this shocking realization... sometimes magic can't fix everything... sometimes there is nothing you can do. Dumbledore decided to name the child Celestina - meaning Daughter of the Stars because he'd heard an old muggle legend that spirits of people beloved on earth were scattered into the stars to watch over those they left behind. Also, Elise had loved the wizarding singer Celestina Warbeck, so that didn't hurt at all!
Celestina spent her first 8 months of life with Minerva however, her first word was "Mum" to Minerva because that's all she knew.. Minerva realized at that point some decisions had to be made... Dumbledore decided to send Celestina to live with Elise's parents.. he gave them money to help raise her so they wouldn't be on the streets and it helped them to recover because they lost all three of their daughters in two years.. but by the time she was five, Celestina was already exhibiting magical characteristics.. They sent her on her fifth birthday to stay with Nicholas and Perenelle.. imagine her fear.. going from all she'd ever known to a strange couple she never met.. especially because she'd heard that Nicholas Flamel was a crazy old man who supposedly was some six hundred years old and an alchemist.
However, Perenelle won Celestina over by giving her the locket that had belonged to her Mum.. it was a pair of golden toe shoes enscribed with a cursive E. Inside were two pictures.. one of Elise and Dumbledore together while Elise was pregnant with Celestina and one of Elise dancing. About the age of five she experienced her first interest in actually learning magic.. and they began teaching her themselves.. at seven she started helping Nicholas- whom she affectionately called "Sir Nicholas" because it sounded like a professor- with his experiments.. and studied alchemy. With a lot of guidance in her best subject, Transfiguration, she learned to become an animagus and took the form of a Phoenix due to her loyalty, her love of healing and helping, and her mature wisdom beyond her years due to being raised by two people like Nicholas and Perenelle.
When she was 11 they figured she'd go to Hogwarts, but Dumbledore wouldn't allow it.. he was terrified of something happening to his daughter if Voldemort found out about her.. but also afraid of the pain Celestina would bring him.. the memories of Elise because of how much like her in personality Celestina was.. but finally Minerva and Perenelle and Nicholas all talked sense to him enough that for her fifth year, Dumbledore agreed to allow Celestina to attend school.. but only if she didn't reveal who her parents were.. so she took on the name Flamel (very proudly indeed). She left for Hogwarts very nervous and unsure what to expect.. she'd never been around kids her age and she'd had custom lessons with Sir Nicholas and Perenelle.. how her world was about to change! As a gift they gave her the owl she'd helped them to raise from a chick, Guinevere. She would still see them at Christmas and Summer.. and she would always love them.. but life was changing... and she hopes it'll be for the better!
Other
Anything Else: -admin edit-[/ul]
Contact:Celestina_Hermione@hotmail.com
Roleplay Experience: Plenty![/ul]
Basics
Nicknames:'Stina, Ma Cherie (only by Perenelle or Nicholas!), WindWhisper (Only by the Marauders or closest friends)
Age:15
Birthday:May 1st 1958
Year:5th
House:Gryffindor[/ul]
Physical
Celestina is tall and slender, much like her father and her Mum both in that respect. She's lithe and strong, though looks delicate. She has long legs and a nice arch instep on her foot- the body of a dancer- inherited from her Mum. She has long reddish auburn curls that fall past her waist and are very thick indeed. She has a smooth peaches and cream, somewhat rosy cheeked complexion and blushes easily- much to her frustration because she insists her hair looks like it's on fire.
Celestina has these beautiful blue eyes that can express a deep range of emotions. They're light-medium blue and have hints of darker blue and violet if she's excited or upset. She has thin, arched light eyebrows that frame her eyes well and thick eyelashes. Celestina also has had pierced ears ever since she was five years old thanks to a trip into Paris. She's got dimples in both of her cheeks also like her Mum. She has a nice smile, friendly like. Overall, she's very pretty but nothing like.. gobsmackingly beautiful.
On Celestina as a phoenix: Decent size, though smaller than a Male phoenix (seeing as she's a girl duh)- She has deep crimson-scarlet plummage trimmed in the purest of golden colors and deep, ebony eyes.
Picture:[/ul]
((coming soon
))Mental
Celestina.. she's a mix of things really... she gets it from all the influence she's had in her life. She's very kind to everyone. She always wants to do what it takes to help, even her enemies. She's been taught from an early age to practice forgiveness and compassion,even when it's very hard for her. She's lively and quick and can be impatient and flighty. She doesn't anger easily, but when she does- look out! She's intelligent, needless to say, a lot because of her genes but also because of how she's been raised. She has a good work ethic and tries her best usually. She enjoys healing as well as working out mysteries and doing experiments.
Celestina is somewhat shy and withdrawn when she's around people she doesn't know well, but once she does get to know someone she opens up a lot more. She can be kind of bossy and she's a big time take charge person. She also tells the truth exactly as she sees it... which isn't always a good thing! She's the sort of person you feel that you can trust with your secrets and she'll never betray what you tell her in confidence.. She's a really great friend to have and a good girl if struggling a bit to find her way in the world.
Likes: [at least five things]Family, Friends, study, France, Hogwarts, Remus (and the other Marauders), chocolate, cooking, music, the ballet, writing, flying and Quidditch, astronomy/astrology, alchemy, the six main subjects, mysteries and riddles, Arthurian Legends, she's also got that same gift of love that her Mum had
Dislikes: [at least five things]Death Eaters, Voldemort, creepy crawly things, black coffee, being underestimated, being abandoned, seeing people get hurt and not knowing how to help, Arithmancy, Divination
Patronus:Dog (for Loyalty)
Animagus:Phoenix
Talents:Giving advice/listening, Flyting/Quidditch, solving riddles, anything in the Fine Arts, Transfiguration and Potions (her strongest two), giving love (NO get your mind out of the gutter!!!)
Boggart:Someone she loves being hurt- usually this is whoever she's worried about at the time.
Life Goals: [at least five things] To help end this thing Voldemort is beginning, To find "the right one", to develop a closer relationship with her father, to make a philosopher's stone all on her own- just to say she did it, to figure out what she wants to do with her life, to make her family proud of her[/ul]
Family
Godparents:Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel, Minerva McGonagall
Siblings:None
Personal History: [at least two decent paragraphs][/ul]
This basically all starts with Celestina's Mum. she was also a muggle ballerina. Her name was Elise. Dumbledore had gone during the summer months to visit his friend and alchemy partner Nicholas Flamel. Perenelle, Nicholas' wife, had gone to visit a friend of hers leaving the two guys to fend for themselves. The two went into Paris for a bit of sight seeing and ended up getting tickets to what they THOUGHT was a concert.. as it turned out.. it was a muggle ballet.. by the time the two figured out what they were getting into.. it was too late. Elise had had a very very bad life before that.. her family was extremely poor and her two little sisters had died of pneumonia the year before because of lack of medical care. Elise danced to keep her family off of the streets... she was beautiful and men tried to court her just because of that.. it upset her because she wanted someone to love her for her mind... her spirit.. that was her one dream.. to find a guy who would take her away from all that.. who would care about something besides her beauty... and she and Dumbledore happened to meet outside the theatre because she needed someone to escort her home because it was very late at night. They talked and soon found that they were very compatible. Being a wizard he didn't realize she was so well known and with his personality it never occured to him to care for her simply because she was pretty... They got married at the Notre Dame Cathedral with Nicholas as best man the next week.
The two went on a long cruise for a honeymoon... they spent the whole summer happy, but as September approached, Dumbledore got very nervous. He had never told her he was a wizard.. it hadn't been important then.. Elise was very upset that he hadn't told her..and scared.. imagine finding out you were married to someone who was over a hundred and a famous wizard when they LOOKED like a perfectly normal (handsome), muggle guy if perhaps a bit overpolite. Elise was hurt and scared.. so she ran.. leaving Dumbledore to go back to Hogwarts on his own... he spent the next four months just sort of.. wishing she'd come back..he had fallen in love with her and now she was gone.
At Christmas Hogwarts was hosting a Christmas ball and Minerva had to go into Diagon Alley to get supplies to finish the decorating.. she ran into a young woman in the Leaky Cauldron who was seeking "A wizard named Albus Dumbledore" quite desperately. The woman was young, in rags, and looked exhausted.. Minerva asked her why she needed to know, because she could tell her where he was.. and take her there.. and Elise said, "Merci, Madame.. I am Elise Magnier.. I am pregnant with his child." and Minerva put it together.. with a little help from her.. Minerva took her back to Hogwarts and lent her dress robes to wear for the ball, during which she was able to surprise Dumbledore. She'd realized she was foolish, giving up the man she loved simply because she'd been scared and hurt that he didn't tell her.. Elise became very beloved at Hogwarts. She was the same age as all the 7th year students and the Sorting Hat even felt it necessary to say if she was a witch she'd have been in Ravenclaw house. Elise loved flying and she taught the students to dance and formed bonds with almost everyone under the castle in her special way... just giving love..
The next spring Elise had their child, and the labor was very hard on her because she's wasn't strong.. all of her strength had gone to trying to take care of her family.. she ended up not being able to recover from it and died a few hours later.. and for Dumbledore it was this shocking realization... sometimes magic can't fix everything... sometimes there is nothing you can do. Dumbledore decided to name the child Celestina - meaning Daughter of the Stars because he'd heard an old muggle legend that spirits of people beloved on earth were scattered into the stars to watch over those they left behind. Also, Elise had loved the wizarding singer Celestina Warbeck, so that didn't hurt at all!
Celestina spent her first 8 months of life with Minerva however, her first word was "Mum" to Minerva because that's all she knew.. Minerva realized at that point some decisions had to be made... Dumbledore decided to send Celestina to live with Elise's parents.. he gave them money to help raise her so they wouldn't be on the streets and it helped them to recover because they lost all three of their daughters in two years.. but by the time she was five, Celestina was already exhibiting magical characteristics.. They sent her on her fifth birthday to stay with Nicholas and Perenelle.. imagine her fear.. going from all she'd ever known to a strange couple she never met.. especially because she'd heard that Nicholas Flamel was a crazy old man who supposedly was some six hundred years old and an alchemist.
However, Perenelle won Celestina over by giving her the locket that had belonged to her Mum.. it was a pair of golden toe shoes enscribed with a cursive E. Inside were two pictures.. one of Elise and Dumbledore together while Elise was pregnant with Celestina and one of Elise dancing. About the age of five she experienced her first interest in actually learning magic.. and they began teaching her themselves.. at seven she started helping Nicholas- whom she affectionately called "Sir Nicholas" because it sounded like a professor- with his experiments.. and studied alchemy. With a lot of guidance in her best subject, Transfiguration, she learned to become an animagus and took the form of a Phoenix due to her loyalty, her love of healing and helping, and her mature wisdom beyond her years due to being raised by two people like Nicholas and Perenelle.
When she was 11 they figured she'd go to Hogwarts, but Dumbledore wouldn't allow it.. he was terrified of something happening to his daughter if Voldemort found out about her.. but also afraid of the pain Celestina would bring him.. the memories of Elise because of how much like her in personality Celestina was.. but finally Minerva and Perenelle and Nicholas all talked sense to him enough that for her fifth year, Dumbledore agreed to allow Celestina to attend school.. but only if she didn't reveal who her parents were.. so she took on the name Flamel (very proudly indeed). She left for Hogwarts very nervous and unsure what to expect.. she'd never been around kids her age and she'd had custom lessons with Sir Nicholas and Perenelle.. how her world was about to change! As a gift they gave her the owl she'd helped them to raise from a chick, Guinevere. She would still see them at Christmas and Summer.. and she would always love them.. but life was changing... and she hopes it'll be for the better!
Other
Anything Else: -admin edit-[/ul]
