Post by Elodie V. Lafayette on Feb 17, 2008 4:03:49 GMT -5
Full Name: Elodie Vivien Lafayette
Age: 16
Blood Line: Purebred
Appearance:(a picture is acceptable) 5''9, 115 lbs, black hair, and black eyes. Very long limbed and pale.
Patronus A cat
Background: Elodie was born to a Marcus Lafayette and Cecile Verdier. Her father was a highly esteemed and ridiculously wealthy man, not because he achieved any remarkable feats in his life but simply because he was a direct descendant of an ancient and regal wizarding family renowned throughout France. Her mother was also of a wealthy wizarding family, but not nearly as much as the Lafayette's.
They had a small estate in the countryside outside of Paris and for Elodie's early adolescent years they hired the best qualified tudors for their daughter that money could buy. Besides the magical subjects she was taught a variety of languages, mathematics, and literature. And when she was not studying academic subjects they occupied her time with violin, piano, or some other fine art lessons. After Elodie the young couple tried again and again for more children, but the pair seemed infertile and this caused Antoinette to become very attached to her only daughter and she kept tight restraints on her. So Elodie led a very secluded childhood, she had little friends besides the young people her age that she meant at the family parties, and indulged most in books since she was able to read.
Her mother insisted to continue to home school her when reached 11 and it wasn't until a year later that her father coaxed her mother into letting her attend Beauxbaton, and when she did they put her a class level ahead anyway since she was a very intuitive and profound young woman.
Because of her isolated childhood it made her to be of a laconic and shy nature. She was slow to make friends and didn't really quite know how to socialize. She usually just stuck to a childhood friend, Allena, though she did not like her other group of friends. However she held the favor of most of her teachers in being a intelligent and honest girl that never missed an assignment and was often the top in her classes. And she enjoyed school still, her mother always had tremendously irritated her to the point of absolute abhorrence and she blamed her for many of her social problems and unhappiness--and her schizophrenia that she has been keeping a secret.
However, her mother without someone to dote on and occupy herself with...began blatantly loosing it. She was always slightly mentally unstable, and she had a history of it within her family, but she always had either her husband or her daughter. Her daughter was gone and her husband began to spend less and less time at home. This made her very suspicious. Had he always spent time away and she just had never noticed? The truth is, Marcus began taking interest in the Death Eaters, but often covered it up saying he was helping doing work for the French Ministry of Magic. Cecile did not think her husband to be part of an evil cult like group, but instantly presumed that he was seeing another woman. And from there the relationship and history of this small family plummets severely.
It was in her second year that her mother died. It was over winter break and Elodie had been at home. It read in the newspaper that someone had broke into the Lafayette Mansion belonging to the youngest son and assassinated his wife and attempt to steal some precious family heirlooms. It made for a believable story. Directly afterwords Elodie was sent, not back to school, but to a relative living in the southern countryside of France where she was retained for an entire year.
By constant insistence and eloquent persuasion she got her father to let her out of the institution she was being held at, and instead of going back to her French school...she transferred to Hogwarts.
Personality + Flaws: To the vast majority of people Elodie is simply a down right cold hearted bitch. She is sarcastic, vain, prejudice, aloof, and incredibly arrogant. And she will not pretend to be anything otherwise. She seems to take a pleasure in peoples distress and will actually go out of her way to do it. To those very select few she calls friends the bitchiness may be curved.
There are a couple things Elodie values very highly. Education and intelligence is one of them, if she thinks you are anything less she will not give you the time of day. She is also very curious of the functions of the world and human kind, muggles, animals, and all living creatures in general. She spends most of her time reading and studying various topics and playing the violin. She is rather philosophical and terribly interested in the human physce. But, perhaps in the wrong ways.
She is very, very mentally disturbed. Ever since she was a child she had an intense obsession for blood and a fascination for death. This may have been born by some death of a family pet that set off the questions and wonders. Since then she always took pleasure in killing small rodents and pests, nothing big. And then she developed some rather serious illness of the mind-- she began seeing this older girl, not far from her age or her looks, and she was there everywhere she went. She could talk to her, touch her, feel as though she was really there. But no one else seemed to. When she was young, her parents dismissed it as an imaginary friend. They never paid much attention to her anyway.
But on the contrary it was a tad more of a serious matter.
She is cunning, sinister, mentally disturbed, obsessed, coy, ruthless, heartless, and quite possibly soulless.
Magical Abilities: No specific or out of the ordinary ones, she is just ingenious and very knowledge and able to absorb ample quantities of information.
Ambitions: Revenge. And world domination....:-D
