outofhenhurst | PRE-GAME PLOTTER MEME: Getting to know you!

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PRE-GAME PLOTTER MEME: Getting to know you!

getting to know all about you

Welcome to Wiztrict! We're so excited to see our first residents of Henhurst Hall and we can't wait for move in day!

Until then, let's get to know each other! Use this meme to introduce your character, learn about other characters, and form connections.

Know of a hot spot around town? Tell us all about it and pin it to the bulletin board here!

You don't have to have a finished app to participate. Everyone with a hold can join!

PLAYER:

CHARACTER NAME:
AGE:
HOUSE/YEAR/SPECIAL ROLES:
WHAT'S SOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM?: Were they always in detention? Did they have a big, public break up with another character?
ELEVATOR PITCH: A short blurb about your character.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Where they work and where they've worked, to help find overlap.
NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS: Relationships and connections they already have, so players might be able to find a common thread to tie other characters together.
WANTED LINES:

» Intro Forms: Show us your monstrosity!!!

» Other Plot Ideas: Talk about general thoughts n plots. There's no form for this.

» OOC - Discussion

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PLAYER: Alison!!! (

aeris)

CHARACTER NAME: Lorcan Scamander
AGE: 20
HOUSE/YEAR/SPECIAL ROLES: Ravenclaw '24. Prefect.
WHAT'S SOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM?:

He is a werewolf. Recent-ish-ly turned as of like... nine months ago. He was turned one night when he was researching Rougarou.

He fucked off immediately after Hogwarts to tour America. When he was nineteen, he discovered the Mothmen of Appalachia and wrote (what would turn out to be) a best selling book about them.

His childhood was nomadic. They were world travelers from BORTH.

As a prefect, he was extremely lenient. As long as kids weren’t hurting others (without their consent), they got away with so much shit and Lorcan would help them skirt the law. Sneaking them back to their common rooms after hours, pretending he did not just see that skirt rolled up to show a lil more thigh, keeping his eyes straight ahead when he walked through the best snogging spots ‘round the school.

ELEVATOR PITCH: Dreamy Lovegood-Scamander child set off on a grand adventure to America to study magical beasts... and then became one. Now he’s trying to navigate his early 20s as a werewolf.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Heee has worked independently as a writer/cryptozoologist, but recently-ish got his own radio show on the Quibbler Network “Quibble Quabble” where he just talks about… anything and everything he wants in a stream-of-consciousness format. Sometimes it’s about animals, sometimes it’s about his experience as a werewolf, sometimes it’s about how the dough didn’t rise in his bread oh and also did you know that yeast is alive?
NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS: Lysander Scamander is his twin brother! ?Marion Bell-Wood used to babysit him when he was sevenish-eightish.? Might’ve had a kissin’-friends sorta thing for a little bit with Scorpius their sixth year, I gotta follow up w/Meggie about this. (I just copy-pasted my old app over lmfao)
WANTED LINES:

Frieeennnndssss!!!! If anyone’s nice to him, he’s nice back. He gets along great with those puppy-esque types who think everyone’s their friend, because he’s extremely receptive to it without question.

Other owners of small pets to have hangouts with his pygmy puff. :( He’s getting Pickles on move in day and is going to go hog wild building what’s essentially a giant, sprawling dollhouse McMansion for him. It’d be cute if they threw “parties” at the McMansion.

If anyone wants him as a bad kiss-friend during his 6th or 7th year of Hogwarts, he’s available for that as long as they’re not more than a year above or below him. For him, it was more of an experimental thing to see what it’s like and nothing was really serious about it. If it did turn into a “relationship” then it didn’t last for more than a month or two.

I REALLY CAN’T THINK OF ANYTHING SPECIFIC, I’M SORRY. LET ME KNOW IF THERE’S ANYTHING I CAN FILL!!

chase wants to bring their lizard to pickles' mcmansion parties!!!! he'll probably mostly just... sit there and lick his eyeballs but that's just because he's shy.

PLAYER: kas!

CHARACTER NAME: Marion Birdie Bell-Wood
AGE: 25.
HOUSE/YEAR/SPECIAL ROLES: Ravenclaw + 2012–2019. Prefect. Quidditch team (Chaser).

WHAT'S SOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM?:

PERSONALITY. Marion's ride-or-die with a chosen few and has a reputation for involving herself in tiffs on behalf of those who didn't ask; unless she straight-up started it. She's flighty in her interests, both professionally and romantically. She's competitive. I'm still trying to find... some... positive aspects of her personality, tbh.
HOGWARTS. She worked hard and played harder, both on the pitch and at parties. Never slowed down. Was a ✨ rising quid star. ✨ Kissed around, a lot. As a prefect, was especially protective of the younger students and often took their sides.
QUID PRO (QUO). Recruited onto Puddlemere United.
2022, GOT WREKT. Took a bludger to the head at just the worst angle. And then fell off her broom. It was scary, messy, public, and soon revealed to have caused a brain bleed; she was removed from the roster for the rest of the season and spent two months recovering in hospital, where she didn't want to see many friends. She didn't return to Puddlemere for the next season and more or less disappeared from the public eye until the new year.
2023, RADIO SILENT. Is given a more-or-less clean bill of health. Shortly thereafter, a leaked report states that she's no longer cleared to play professionally. She bails on her family, most friends, and possibly the UK at large. Sends occasional owls sent to assure she is alive and well. Comes back for check-ins at St Mungo's but that's about it.
2024, RE-EMERGED. Back, worked a lot of jobs, tried poorly to rebuild relationships.

ELEVATOR PITCH: Yesterday she was the rookie chaser to watch — now she's the oldest rookie healer who's trying to get back on her feet. She fell apart when she was told she couldn't play anymore and lost the reassembly manual years ago, and now that she's trying to find equilibrium she's also trying to (re?)build relationships that are more likely to last. She doesn't know how, though. And she's a total dumbass. So.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

NOW. St Mungo's, in her first year of healer training. On the side, works in her grandparents' pub in Glasgow to earn some extra cash ~~and because she likes it there~~.
2024–EARLY 2026. Literally everywhere, working a new job every few months. Hired, tried hard to do well (and often did a pretty good job of it), and then dropped it after only a few weeks in favour of something else. Definitely worked at Meat Sweats, the Ministry, and the owl post, each for a hot minute. She's been an apprentice wandmaker and an apprentice potioneer, a daycare staffer, and god knows what else. (See Wanted Lines for more!) The only place she didn't work was in the quid world.
2019–2022. Chaser for Puddlemere United.

NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS:

a lot of this is tbd
her relationship with viv otterwell is probably equal parts "will kill for" & "will kill for no reason"
there are a number of children she babysat as a child herself and would also kill for.
s t a y t u n e d

WANTED LINES:

RIDE OR DIE. Marion won't just go to bat for her closest friends — she'll also fill the bat with nails, set it on fire, and swing it wildly in the night at the mere SUGGESTION of danger. There's probably a couple of people she feels like this about.
EXES. Marion has never dated anyone for more than three months; she breaks it off pretty quick at that point, citing disinterest. And that's kind of true. Often it's messy. & She's only dated women since like fourth year, so no boys allowed. The number potential is tbh infinite.
RIVAL?. Could be FUN or MEAN. She doesn't like: nepotism, people who have been mean to her people, people who have slighted her, people who looked at her wrong. I like a slow burn to them hopefully maybe one day understanding each other kinda plot but I also don't want to rush it~
EX-COWORKERS. If there's an entry-level role she thought she could burn through, she did. Lay it on me.
FRIENDS. Just like... friends lines. frens.
A REMINDER OF HUMANITY. ok so uh the more I write her, the meaner she gets. I need... her... to have some kind of redeeming quality? And maybe part of that can be as a result of her connection with... somebody? Do I fully know what I'm asking for here? OF COURSE NOT! Am I vomiting these words out anyways?
LITERALLY ANYTHING. I TEND NOT TO PLAN A WHOLE LOT WITH OTHERS BEFORE A GAME SO I'M TRYING TO PLAN MORE WITH OTHERS BEFORE THE GAME HI

I'M IN&OUT UNTIL THIS EVENING THX 2 WORK BUT I'M SO EXCITED TO MASH BARBIE DOLLS TOGETHER

Edited 2021-01-29 15:46 (UTC)

MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH

gotta help clean off that eyeball GUNK!!! like any good friend would do!!!! pickles for sure has a wandering tongue n will clean out them nose crusties or any shed skin.

you could say they're

groommates

oh wait i just realized they're both he-s and u mean,,, odo cleans his own eyeballs. WELL, PICKLES IS GONNA INITIATE.

Edited 2021-01-29 15:50 (UTC)

free love in the mcmansion everyone gets an eyebath!!!!!

do you think they bring their pets to work with them?

PLAYER: Julia

CHARACTER NAME: Louis Weasley
AGE: 18
HOUSE/YEAR/SPECIAL ROLES: Hufflepuff | 2019-2026 | He is a follower, not a leader
WHAT'S SOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM?: Loves animals and wants to become an animal healer. Plays soccer, not Quidditch. Clumsy as heck.
ELEVATOR PITCH: He is an awkward and sweet Hufflepuff who is studying to become an animal healer.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Apprentice/clerk at a local animal clinic.
NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS: He is a Weasley so there are a lot of built in connections, but I'd love to flush out his individual relationships with each.
WANTED LINES: Friends, frenemies, first big heartbreak (romantic or otherwise)

yes and i bet sometimes they try to interview each other's pets and they just earnestly let them poke the mic with their snoots

lorcan 🤝 marion
lovin em n leavin em

UMMMM i think maybe hilde

powerlifting would've had a wee crush on her in school but never acted on it. they were in the same year and both played quid. (my concept for her isn't fully formed yet so her app is empty but i'm WORKIN ON IT)

then there is maya

horsie who is a couple years ahead of marion. she's a slytherin '16 grad and was Hot and Mean. she WILL encourage the worst in marion and encourages her to gossip n pick fights :))))) (a reminder of INhumanity.)

IT IS TIME

hi julia!!!! v excited to have you here!! louis seems super cute so far 🥺

my most obvious one is lorcan. his grandpa still lives in ottery st. catchpole near the burrow and the twins would've spent a lot of time around the weasley-potter clan growing up. if he had ever wanted some sort of summer apprenticeship (or whatever!) to learn more about animals, he could've worked alongside either luna & rolf or spent time with newt taking care of rescued animals. (i don't imagine his animal collection is as big as it was in his youth, but i'm sure he's still looking after smaller ones even though he's well over 100 years old by now.)

i'm also working on noel finnigan-thomas (

noelnoel) who might also know him, even if he's older? (he's 24 and a '21 grad.) i imagine dean and seamus still keep in touch with harry and ron, and at some point noel & his dads have been included in some weasley-potter clan cookouts.

noel also loves animals a whole lot!! but more in the sense of "LOOK AT THIS COOL FROG I FOUND!!!!" than like... any real animal caretaking. he WILL pick up injured bugs or animals he finds and try to take care of them, which probably means taking them to louis.

PLAYER: Alex!

CHARACTER NAME: Gilda Grace Goyle, aka Gilly
AGE: 26
HOUSE/YEAR/SPECIAL ROLES: Hufflepuff, '12-'19 and Prefect.
WHAT'S SOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM?:

Oldest of Goyle's five daughters. No male heirs, which is probably fine because we don't need to carry on the Goyle name.
Slightly less well known but not exactly difficult to find knowledge: Her American pureblood mother was arrested when she was ten for crimes in the States, which didn't really help their effort to rebuild the Goyle brand.
She wasn't necessarily super strict as a prefect, but when she was given a list of rules she went "ok if I see someone break these I punch them until they stop, got it." Not a lot of nuance. Apologies to all (from me, not from her).

ELEVATOR PITCH: Big sister bully solves everyone's problems with the blunt instrument that is her brain.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Currently works a commission-based job procuring potions ingredients/reagents/etc. for high-end, boutique apothecaries. They advertise that they're here to find rare or inconvenient ingredients, but for the most part she finds herself on a fetch quest for the grossest shit possible. Also the company is called Uncle Throckmorton's Mandrakes, Murtlaps, Moly & More!
Before Uncle Throckmorton, she kind of bounced around doing odd jobs here or there. She's not too bright, but she works hard, so probably at least a handful of menial shit jobs.
NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS: Still need to flesh things out, but! I know there's some other Hufflepuffs-of-Slytherin-lineage in her year, and I think Briar Longbottom is her former co-prefect.
WANTED LINES:

Sisters! Gilly has four younger sisters. I put the youngest as still being in school, but all the ages are flexible if anyone wants to play my terrible little sister. I! Love! Shitty! Siblings!!!
I put that she once ate 13 raw eggs on a dare so if you want to be the person who dared her that's wide open.
Mmmmore Hufflepuffs? I just want more Hufflepuffs in general, not even necessarily for Gilly.
AND JUST FRIENDS I GUESS IDK!! Gilly still needs some feeling out but I'm excited to figure that out as I go!!!

Edited (the sub-bullet looked ugly!!! go away!!!) 2021-01-29 17:11 (UTC)

Briar begged her not to eat the eggs

but it's a dare bri

his greatest accomplishment in life is that none of you died whilst still in school

Oh, I love that idea about the apprenticeship! Mind if I work it into my app? I see Louis looking up to Lorcan since he is so cool (Louis' words) and is into animals too. Maybe a little bit of hero worship when he was younger since Lorcan is a little older?

Noel! Louis says "yes, please" to cookouts and is totally willing to help innocent injured animals Noel finds.

Louis was in Hufflepuff, but, alas, after her time. I feel like he'd be terrified of her. Maybe he knows one of her younger sisters? He JUST finished school.

I use Hunter for an Ernie PB, but I love him as a Longbottom too. ♥ Mostly just love Hunter. A+

PLAYER: JJ

CHARACTER NAME: Peridot Patil-Brown, but call her Peri
AGE: 24
HOUSE/YEAR/SPECIAL ROLES: Slytherin 2014-2021, president of frog choir
WHAT'S SOME COMMON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEM?: She spent her Hogwarts days mean girling, but has mellowed out in a non-high-school social ecosystem. She has a bad habit of being really nice to people she was a bully to at school, as if she does not remember bullying them. Peri is also well known for, probably, having broken down in tears during the 3 weeks she worked at the same place as you do.
ELEVATOR PITCH: The extremely spoiled daughter of Parvati and Lavender, since childhood she has been taught to loudly feel her feelings and expect the world to revolve around her.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: Peridot is a chronic part-timer, frequently underemployed, and has been fired from 90% of the retail stores on Diagon already.
NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS: Noel Finnegan-Thomas is her pseudo-cousin, Lavender is a werewolf so I guess she might have some ties to Lorcan too, and all non-Ali characters are blessed to be free of her presence.
WANTED LINES:
🔮 Coworkers and former Coworkers. Peri's at her moms' tea shop, Seamus's demolition company, and Meat Sweats right now. She also thrifts and resells designer clothing and busks.
🔮 Other aspirants to FAME. Peri wants to be a famous musician, but she'd settle for being a famous actor.
🔮 She reads tarot at Amor Fati, so if you want to be a regular customer she is giving you VERY good advice, certainly
🔮 Other mean girl types (or victims) even if the overlap was brief at school. She deff hassled older and younger students both.
🔮 Friends she made after graduating (maybe at work)
🔮 As a side note I have her as an only child atm and I'm not really jonesing for a sibling for her, but if Parvati/Lavender kid really speaks to anyone else I'm open to it!!

Edited 2021-01-29 18:58 (UTC)

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PRE-GAME PLOTTER MEME: Getting to know you!

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