While my first RP character was Cygnus Fawcett, I think I'm going to skip her because...well, frankly, no likes her at all. *tear* So, we'll start with my most popular character--Tavis Burke!
Tavis is the grandson of Caractacus Burke of Borgin and Burke's and both his mother and father come from long lines of respectable pureblood families, which Tavis is very proud of. Their blood mania prejudices have been passed on to their son. He helped in establishing a Pureblood Club (after encouragement from a mysterious family friend known only as "Uncle Gavin", see my PC story for more information) with a few other students (Columba Briggs, Veronica Tomms, Mehren Blair, Fiona Shawn and Tom Campbell) many of whom have since graduated. With much of PC gone, he needed to find himself some new cronies...I mean accomplises...I mean friends.
Tavis has a few enchantments upon him that hinder his actions as a purist leader. The first, and most important, is one that doesn't allow him to kill anyone unless seriously threatened or provoked. His grandfather put this spell on him just before he died so Tavis couldn't track down his murderer (Lucius Malfoy) and take revenge. His grandfather's murder also explains his intense hatred for all Malfoys.
The second was placed on him as an infant. His grandfather gave him a cursed toy that allowed him to tell a person's blood status automatically. He doesn't put much store by this anymore since finding out that it can be tricked if he loves (or could fall in love with) the person. That being said, it's obvious he's been in love with filth before.
Tavis's past relationships have been shaky. He's dated extensively within PC (almost every female member can bear witness to this) and continues to do so though he knows he should stop. Because of this, he's been burned by almost all of them. Most of them left him for other girls (Fiona, Veronica, Mehren, etc.) and then he found out Cygnus was supposedly a "lesbian"! That didn't help. Because of this past, he's extremely homophobic (but the majority of his homophobia comes from his own deeply hidden and resented bisexuality)! Despite his dating streak, he is not looking for love. He's now viewing dating a much more Mehren-esque light. He wants a bunch of meaningless relationships, one after the other--the way PC should be.
One of my newer RP characters is also one of my most interesting. Her name is Katarina Borgin. I had to bring in a new character to run Pureblood Club after Tavis graduated. So, in came Kat!
Katarina, granddaughter of the infamous Mr. Borgin, former co-owner of Borgin and Burke’s in Knockturn Alley, has rarely seen her grandfather since she was quite young. Her father, Caradog, married Jacquelle Molyneux whom he’d met while she was on holiday with her parents while they were both still in school.
Their relationship was quite romantic; they fell in love quite quickly, continuing to write to each other over several years. Only much later did they both discover that they were promised to each other. They married straight away after he graduated from Hogwarts and she from Beauxbatons and made a small but quaint home in Diagon Alley so that Caradog could help his father and Caractacus, the man he was named after and had grown quite close to, in the shop while he and his new wife decided what they wanted to do.
They waited too long to make a decision and Jacquelle’s announcement that she was pregnant made the decision for them. The couple decided that, with Caradog’s mother gone (having passed on when Caradog was quite young), they didn’t have the resources to raise a child in England. So, they moved back to France to be close to Jacquelle’s parents.
Katarina was born and raised in a small town in Brittany in which her family was the wealthiest. Due to this, and her parents’ great love for their only daughter, she was given anything and everything she could ever want. It was this that brought her back to England the first time. She spent summers in her grandfather’s home, but she seldom saw him as he was always being called away for business. The only reason she returned was because she loved being around youngsters like her. Dinan was nice, but her family was the only magical one in the area, and she enjoyed the time she spent playing with young Tavis Burke (the family friend that is three years her elder). It was probably these excursions that shaped her love for the magical community and her passion for protecting it.
These visits stopped when she turned eight because her mother disliked the ideas she would express upon her return. She stopped playing with her Muggle friends in the village and just sat in her room writing to Tavis. Jacquelle found a letter that Katarina had written and was disturbed by the purist agenda her eight year old was already supporting. She showed it to her husband who refused to do anything, as he secretly supported the views his daughter had picked up. Yes, their romantic and seemingly perfect relationship was built on a lie—Caradog had never revealed his purist leanings to Jacquelle. Only now was it causing issues.
Not wanting to send Katarina to Hogwarts to be with “that Burke boy” Jacquelle sent her blossoming and talented daughter to WADA (the Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic Arts) to keep her away from the purist influences she knew to be present, even at Beauxbatons. And she was right. The purist movement was all but nonexistent at WADA and Katarina detested her mother for interfering with her goals in this respect. Her correspondence with Tavis, however, continued, uninterrupted, from school and she gained more and more information about their cause through him.
Jacquelle passed on the summer before Katarina’s fifth year at WADA. To be honest, Katarina didn’t partake in much of the mourning. She still resented her mother for not bowing to her every whim (as everyone usually did) and sending her to Hogwarts to be with Tavis. However, Jacquelle’s death provided the opportunity for Katarina to take Tavis up on one very important offer…to join Pureblood Club.
Without hesitation, Caradog shipped his daughter off to Hogwarts to take up her role in the purist movement, following soon after to live in England once again. Katarina was sorted into Slytherin, no shock to her father, and resumed classes at the English school. As always, she was quite skilled in potions and ancient runes. Now that she had proficient teachers, she would be able to progress further than she ever could at WADA, a thought that thrilled her father as she could make a name for herself in the professional world (as a healer one day) and beyond.
I created Mairead Lynch on a whim one day, and she still remains my favorite character!
Mairead was born to Adrian and Aurnia. Her mother met her father when he was at sea on vacation with his brothers in his late teens. He heard a beautiful voice that had a gorgeous siren to back it up. Upon meeting her, he fell in love with her song; he never really knew her. She fell in love with the young boy, and she hid him on the island they inhabited until she bore his child. Maternity didn't suit her, or her kind, so she allowed Adrian to take the child away, never to see either of them again.
Adrian raised Mairead as a single father thereafter. Throughout her childhood, she heard stories of her mother and was intrigued. She was often guilty about how much she yearned to meet her mother when she'd hurt her father so much. She felt the need to suppress her siren tendencies (such as the call of the water to transform, the song, and her spell over men) in order to make up for what her mother had done to her father (as countless other sirens had done to others).
Her father was ecstatic when she received her Hogwarts letter because he was just beginning to chase his quidditch dreams. He had also been fearful that she wouldn't have enough magic or human in her to be accepted. Regretfully, he sent her away from him for the majority of the year to be educated in Enlgand.
She was sorted into Ravenclaw, a house that greatly suits her thirst for knowledge. She's somewhat quiet when you first meet her, but, given time, she'll talk your ear off. She's also quite feminine, but she knows how to defend herself. Due to her background, she has a strong feeling for right and wrong and would do anything to fight for what she believes in. She feels regret about the actions of her kindred who inadvertantly (through ignorance about human anatomy and life) drown their lovers, and she works hard to do right by men and humans in general. Thus, she often feels guilt when she slips and "turns on the charm" around men who cannot resist her enchantments. She wants them to have a choice in the affairs of their heart and would never intentionally snare a lover this way. In fact, she's often avoided romantic interaction because she would question what really brought the man to her.
Mairead was quite good in school, especially with potions, charms, transfiguration, and defense against the dark arts. She struggles in few subjects like history of magic and muggle studies. She, like Hermione Granger and few other students, has been given special permission to take an especially loaded schedule including muggle studies, ancient runes, and care of magical creatures.
In her second year, she had just begun to make friends when the catastrophe at the quidditch world cup happened with her father losing the cup for Ireland. Most of her friends, huge quidditch fans who'd been drawn to her only because of her father's fame, deserted her. She was forced to start almost from scratch and her popularity never quite recovered. This did, however, allow her more time to focus on her studies, alone in the library. She is not ashamed of her father. She loves him dearly and is proud of his perserverence.
She was is involved in starting a group to oppose the purist movement she's found quite prevelant within the walls of Hogwarts. She was captured by the Pureblood Club after being charmed by their leader Tavis. She managed to escape with the use of her siren charms, though. Soon after, she met a pair of twins, one of whom she's still quite taken with, and Aschlyne who have founded what they call The Patronus Club.
It's been two years since she's last seen the Cuffe twins, though the absence of Bart has made it seem much longer. She was actually ripped out of Hogwarts by her father in her sixth year. He was afraid for her safety, and wanted desperately to be with her in what he feared might be the final chapter of their lives. She returned the year after to the chaos and joy that reigned in the castle and graduated quite high in her class.
Her life has been lonely but peaceful since the battle and the downfall of Pureblood Club. Though she has no real plans about what she'll do with her life since graduating Hogwarts, she's feeling positive about her future and what it might hold.
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