Post by Ali Hawkins R5 on Sept 16, 2010 22:10:39 GMT
Let's pass a butterbeer to Kia!
Who has been role-playing for over 5 years.
And currently plays Carlin & Damien Lennox and Colin Morgensen.
SWALLOW MARIE SEYMOUR HAWKINS
Ali
The Basics:[/color]
House: Ravenclaw
Year: Fifth
Age: 15
Blood: Muggleborn
Wand (length, wood, core): 10 inches, Teak with a leprechaun hair core.
Pet: A black cat with white paws, Quinn.
Physical Description:[/color]
The dark brown hair that is bleached to a lighter shade during the sunlit months of summer is undoubtedly Ali’s favourite feature about herself. She can find millions of flaws in any other part of her body except her thick hair, which she alternately keeps at shoulder length or longer depending upon her preference at the time. Her eyes are light green and her skin pale and clearly littered with the scars of an active and adventurous childhood. Of average height and average weight and average prettiness, Ali is fully aware that she has nothing to make her stand out from her friends or the crowds of students around her but that knowledge doesn’t affect her ability to smile. It may not always seem like it, but, in Ali’s opinion at least, there are more important things than being beautiful and being noticed.
Personality:[/color]
Like so many other teenage girls (and indeed, everyone else in the world), Ali has a tendency to become self-involved to the point of an almost painful lack of realisation when things are happening around her. With so many things going on in her own life, no matter how small her problems can be, it can be hard to see past her own difficulties and recognise that she is not the only one unable to float unburdened through life. When she does acknowledge her friends’ problems, however, Ali is protective and loving enough to stop at nothing but the most harmful danger to help in any way she can. With so much love directed at her from her family, Ali utterly fails to comprehend the possibility of people being forced to stand alone.
Ali has always, from the very moment of her birth, had the love and support of her parents and their lovers. As a result, she cannot help but to expect that other people will have had similar experiences – because she simply does not know of any other type of life beyond the cold, distant knowledge that can be gleaned from books rather than experience. From trying to please the four very different people who made up the centre of her universe, Ali grew up learning to enjoy playing sports while also treasuring the quiet moments spent curled up beside her dad, both reading with bowed heads and the chaos of their unorthodox family paling into the background beside the written word.
Upon discovering Quidditch, however, everything else seemed to immediately lose importance in comparison. The sheer thrill of flying – actually flying, on a broomstick – could be matched by no sport that Ali had ever encountered before. Books and knowledge still had their place, of course, and Ali would sooner break an arm than give up her nights in bed with a good book, but Quidditch was something unbelievable, something she could never have pictured even in her wildest dreams. From the first time she saw a match, Ali vowed to be good enough to join her house team and be a part of the whooping, madly grinning team that trooped off, broomsticks proudly slung over one shoulder as triumph and joy lit their faces.
History:[/color]
The conception and subsequent upbringing of Swallow Marie Seymour Hawkins was not a typical one by any means. Her biological parents, Jacob Hawkins and Kara Seymour, had been close friends for over ten years when Ali was born; Kara, in fact, had met her long-term boyfriend, Ashton Turner, through Jacob since the two men had shared a house during university. Being gay, the likelihood of Jacob ever having blood-related children was essentially impossible and while the decision for Kara, Jacob and Ashton to raise a child together had been almost effortless due to their close friendship, the logistics of the matter proved infinitely more complicated.
Nearly a year of trying for a baby passed before it was discovered that Ashton was physically incapable of fathering a child. Feeling that he had failed the woman he loved at some intrinsic level, Ashton abruptly broke up with Kara and moved out of the house the three of them shared. Heartbroken, confused and feeling more alone than ever, Kara spent days crying and miserable before something snapped into place in her mind: Ashton had left because they couldn’t have a child so, reasonably, he would return if she did have a baby. Her eyes naturally settled on Jacob, as her closest friend and the only person she could trust, and, swept along by Kara’s desperation and the knowledge that she would be likely to turn to a stranger if he didn’t oblige her, Jacob reluctantly acquiesced to her demands. There was little he wouldn’t do for his best friend and, empty of life though she was, Kara was still the woman who had stood by him when he had told his parents about his sexuality.
After five weeks of trying and hoping and nothing happening, they both began to give up hope and Kara started to rebuild her life, including trying to get Ashton back and reassure him that she would love him even if he couldn’t give her any children. As it tends to do, life moved on and, with time dulling the raw emotion that had caused everything in the first place, Ashton settled back into life with his girlfriend almost as if he had never left. Despite a bit of awkwardness at the start, very little changed between Jacob and Kara either. His new boyfriend, Jack Morris, also found his place in their lives almost like he had been created to expand their trio. For the first time, Ashton found himself left in peace when he wanted to read since Jacob and Jack combined could distract Kara better than Jacob alone had ever been capable of. Similarly, Jack offered Kara and Jacob a calm understanding of their closeness, without any of the jealousy that could come from a misunderstanding of their close-knit relationship, and received love, friendship and the trouble and companionship that came from adjusting to be part of a family.
Nearly four months passed in that same contented routine before Kara was forced to acknowledge that her previous selfishness was going to ruin the happiness that she, Ashton, Jacob and Jack had managed to achieve. The news of her pregnancy did indeed cause a backlash: Ashton walked out on her for the second time with clear betrayal written in his expression while Jacob simply paled and collapsed on the floor as if his knees lacked the strength to hold him up in the face of such important, horrendous, unexpected news. Much to everyone’s surprise, Jack took the news in his stride, refusing to talk about how he felt and citing that he hadn’t dating Jacob when it had happened as his reason. In the months Ashton was absent from their lives, Jack organised everything from Kara’s doctor’s appointments to painting the nursery and buying furniture to put in it. He soothed Kara during her more hysterical moments, never once telling her that she was to blame for at least part of the situation but ensuring that she was kept in good physical condition so the baby remained as healthy as possible.
At Jack’s insistence, Ashton was at the hospital at the time of Swallow’s birth and the start of a reconciliation was made between him and Kara as she screamed for him and, unthinking, his reaction had been to grip her hand and reassure her that he would always be with her. Ashton took his place in the household once more and, by unspoken agreement, none of them mentioned the circumstances of her birth to Swallow. Kara and Jacob were ashamed of what they had done to their partners, Ashton was too conflicted about his feelings even years later to inflict that on his beloved daughter while Jack kept his mouth shut and privately thought that the daughter, Jacob’s daughter, should not be torn apart by the knowledge of her parents’ reckless thoughtlessness.
So Swallow grew in happy ignorance, at some point deeming Jack ‘Daddy’ (and any sternness he might have had melted instantly in the face of her wide eyes) and Ashton and Jacob became ‘Dad’, regardless of how confusing it could be when the wrong one answered her call. It never seemed to dawn on her that no one else seemed to have a family quite like she did until a few months after her seventh birthday. Kara’s firm statement that having four parents just meant that she was loved twice as much as any other child she knew eased any concerns in Ali’s young, thoughtless mind while simultaneously serving to make the children who sought to pick on her think twice about their own families. Ali’s preference for sports made her more popular with the boys in her primary school more than the girls, which resulted in an entirely different type of teasing that Ali shrugged off without a second thought. Daddy had told her that boys were just around to play football and climb trees with her until she was older so the other girls clearly just didn’t know what they were talking about.
The existence of Hogwarts and magic came as a surprise to Kara, Ashton, Jacob and Ali but Jack admitted to being a Squib, which he quickly had to explain to the other four lest he be overrun by shouted exclamations and questions. Armed with Jack’s explanations and cautions of what to expect, Ali marched onto the Hogwarts’ Express with a bright smile and curious eyes. She had no idea which house she would be sorted into so Ravenclaw was neither a disappointment nor a cause for celebration but she settled in there quickly enough and promptly set herself a goal of joining the Quidditch team.
After four years of magic, ghosts and moving staircases, Ali sometimes finds it hard to return to the Muggle world during the summer. It’s hard to interact with the peers she would have been attending school with had she not been accepted into Hogwarts because they simply don’t have anything in common any longer but there’s still weekly football matches and the occasional party to attend so she doesn’t feel entirely alienated. Her parents, all four of them, love her and she even had a sort-of boyfriend over the past summer so life is good and it can get better.
Passcode: Under The Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Who has been role-playing for over 5 years.
And currently plays Carlin & Damien Lennox and Colin Morgensen.
SWALLOW MARIE SEYMOUR HAWKINS
Ali
The Basics:[/color]
House: Ravenclaw
Year: Fifth
Age: 15
Blood: Muggleborn
Wand (length, wood, core): 10 inches, Teak with a leprechaun hair core.
Pet: A black cat with white paws, Quinn.
Physical Description:[/color]
The dark brown hair that is bleached to a lighter shade during the sunlit months of summer is undoubtedly Ali’s favourite feature about herself. She can find millions of flaws in any other part of her body except her thick hair, which she alternately keeps at shoulder length or longer depending upon her preference at the time. Her eyes are light green and her skin pale and clearly littered with the scars of an active and adventurous childhood. Of average height and average weight and average prettiness, Ali is fully aware that she has nothing to make her stand out from her friends or the crowds of students around her but that knowledge doesn’t affect her ability to smile. It may not always seem like it, but, in Ali’s opinion at least, there are more important things than being beautiful and being noticed.
Personality:[/color]
Like so many other teenage girls (and indeed, everyone else in the world), Ali has a tendency to become self-involved to the point of an almost painful lack of realisation when things are happening around her. With so many things going on in her own life, no matter how small her problems can be, it can be hard to see past her own difficulties and recognise that she is not the only one unable to float unburdened through life. When she does acknowledge her friends’ problems, however, Ali is protective and loving enough to stop at nothing but the most harmful danger to help in any way she can. With so much love directed at her from her family, Ali utterly fails to comprehend the possibility of people being forced to stand alone.
Ali has always, from the very moment of her birth, had the love and support of her parents and their lovers. As a result, she cannot help but to expect that other people will have had similar experiences – because she simply does not know of any other type of life beyond the cold, distant knowledge that can be gleaned from books rather than experience. From trying to please the four very different people who made up the centre of her universe, Ali grew up learning to enjoy playing sports while also treasuring the quiet moments spent curled up beside her dad, both reading with bowed heads and the chaos of their unorthodox family paling into the background beside the written word.
Upon discovering Quidditch, however, everything else seemed to immediately lose importance in comparison. The sheer thrill of flying – actually flying, on a broomstick – could be matched by no sport that Ali had ever encountered before. Books and knowledge still had their place, of course, and Ali would sooner break an arm than give up her nights in bed with a good book, but Quidditch was something unbelievable, something she could never have pictured even in her wildest dreams. From the first time she saw a match, Ali vowed to be good enough to join her house team and be a part of the whooping, madly grinning team that trooped off, broomsticks proudly slung over one shoulder as triumph and joy lit their faces.
History:[/color]
The conception and subsequent upbringing of Swallow Marie Seymour Hawkins was not a typical one by any means. Her biological parents, Jacob Hawkins and Kara Seymour, had been close friends for over ten years when Ali was born; Kara, in fact, had met her long-term boyfriend, Ashton Turner, through Jacob since the two men had shared a house during university. Being gay, the likelihood of Jacob ever having blood-related children was essentially impossible and while the decision for Kara, Jacob and Ashton to raise a child together had been almost effortless due to their close friendship, the logistics of the matter proved infinitely more complicated.
Nearly a year of trying for a baby passed before it was discovered that Ashton was physically incapable of fathering a child. Feeling that he had failed the woman he loved at some intrinsic level, Ashton abruptly broke up with Kara and moved out of the house the three of them shared. Heartbroken, confused and feeling more alone than ever, Kara spent days crying and miserable before something snapped into place in her mind: Ashton had left because they couldn’t have a child so, reasonably, he would return if she did have a baby. Her eyes naturally settled on Jacob, as her closest friend and the only person she could trust, and, swept along by Kara’s desperation and the knowledge that she would be likely to turn to a stranger if he didn’t oblige her, Jacob reluctantly acquiesced to her demands. There was little he wouldn’t do for his best friend and, empty of life though she was, Kara was still the woman who had stood by him when he had told his parents about his sexuality.
After five weeks of trying and hoping and nothing happening, they both began to give up hope and Kara started to rebuild her life, including trying to get Ashton back and reassure him that she would love him even if he couldn’t give her any children. As it tends to do, life moved on and, with time dulling the raw emotion that had caused everything in the first place, Ashton settled back into life with his girlfriend almost as if he had never left. Despite a bit of awkwardness at the start, very little changed between Jacob and Kara either. His new boyfriend, Jack Morris, also found his place in their lives almost like he had been created to expand their trio. For the first time, Ashton found himself left in peace when he wanted to read since Jacob and Jack combined could distract Kara better than Jacob alone had ever been capable of. Similarly, Jack offered Kara and Jacob a calm understanding of their closeness, without any of the jealousy that could come from a misunderstanding of their close-knit relationship, and received love, friendship and the trouble and companionship that came from adjusting to be part of a family.
Nearly four months passed in that same contented routine before Kara was forced to acknowledge that her previous selfishness was going to ruin the happiness that she, Ashton, Jacob and Jack had managed to achieve. The news of her pregnancy did indeed cause a backlash: Ashton walked out on her for the second time with clear betrayal written in his expression while Jacob simply paled and collapsed on the floor as if his knees lacked the strength to hold him up in the face of such important, horrendous, unexpected news. Much to everyone’s surprise, Jack took the news in his stride, refusing to talk about how he felt and citing that he hadn’t dating Jacob when it had happened as his reason. In the months Ashton was absent from their lives, Jack organised everything from Kara’s doctor’s appointments to painting the nursery and buying furniture to put in it. He soothed Kara during her more hysterical moments, never once telling her that she was to blame for at least part of the situation but ensuring that she was kept in good physical condition so the baby remained as healthy as possible.
At Jack’s insistence, Ashton was at the hospital at the time of Swallow’s birth and the start of a reconciliation was made between him and Kara as she screamed for him and, unthinking, his reaction had been to grip her hand and reassure her that he would always be with her. Ashton took his place in the household once more and, by unspoken agreement, none of them mentioned the circumstances of her birth to Swallow. Kara and Jacob were ashamed of what they had done to their partners, Ashton was too conflicted about his feelings even years later to inflict that on his beloved daughter while Jack kept his mouth shut and privately thought that the daughter, Jacob’s daughter, should not be torn apart by the knowledge of her parents’ reckless thoughtlessness.
So Swallow grew in happy ignorance, at some point deeming Jack ‘Daddy’ (and any sternness he might have had melted instantly in the face of her wide eyes) and Ashton and Jacob became ‘Dad’, regardless of how confusing it could be when the wrong one answered her call. It never seemed to dawn on her that no one else seemed to have a family quite like she did until a few months after her seventh birthday. Kara’s firm statement that having four parents just meant that she was loved twice as much as any other child she knew eased any concerns in Ali’s young, thoughtless mind while simultaneously serving to make the children who sought to pick on her think twice about their own families. Ali’s preference for sports made her more popular with the boys in her primary school more than the girls, which resulted in an entirely different type of teasing that Ali shrugged off without a second thought. Daddy had told her that boys were just around to play football and climb trees with her until she was older so the other girls clearly just didn’t know what they were talking about.
The existence of Hogwarts and magic came as a surprise to Kara, Ashton, Jacob and Ali but Jack admitted to being a Squib, which he quickly had to explain to the other four lest he be overrun by shouted exclamations and questions. Armed with Jack’s explanations and cautions of what to expect, Ali marched onto the Hogwarts’ Express with a bright smile and curious eyes. She had no idea which house she would be sorted into so Ravenclaw was neither a disappointment nor a cause for celebration but she settled in there quickly enough and promptly set herself a goal of joining the Quidditch team.
After four years of magic, ghosts and moving staircases, Ali sometimes finds it hard to return to the Muggle world during the summer. It’s hard to interact with the peers she would have been attending school with had she not been accepted into Hogwarts because they simply don’t have anything in common any longer but there’s still weekly football matches and the occasional party to attend so she doesn’t feel entirely alienated. Her parents, all four of them, love her and she even had a sort-of boyfriend over the past summer so life is good and it can get better.
Passcode: Under The Eagle by Simon Scarrow