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| Entry tags: | application: completed, game: find the horcruxes |
Alexis Ketteridge for find_the_mod
| Out Of Character Name: Brandi Age: 25 e-mail: garnet.sunrise@gmail.com AIM: brandied plum IJ: kitten_patronusTimezone: CST Experience: Comprehensive listing of characters here, and here in wiki format In Character BASICS Name: Alexis Laurel Ketteridge (Lexi) Age & Birthdate: 18; 23 May, 1961 Sexual Orientation: Straight Marital Status: Single Blood Status: Pureblood (her exact bloodline is unknown to Lexi: she grew up believing she was the pure daughter of the Ketteridges, but upon learning that she was adopted, she only knows that she has at least one magical parent; in truth, her birth father is a pureblood and her birth mother is a halfblood, and Lexi is a first-generation pureblood) Wand: 8.5", chestnut, unicorn tail hair Current Residence: Appleby, Lincolnshire, England Affiliation(s): Ministry supporter Political Stance: Being raised Ketteridge means being raised in a very open-minded sort of way. Alexis herself isn't entirely sure what she believes, but she does believe that the Ministry is there for a reason and she supports anything they do. And she trusts that the Ministry will keep her and her family safe from the terrorists. SCHOOL & WORK Former House: Hufflepuff Years: 1972 - 1979 Any Extras: Prefect NEWT Scores:
Attitude Toward Job: She can blame being raised a Ketteridge on this: she doesn't do anything halfway. She might be working menial jobs in order to give herself time to work on her art (and keep a roof over her head and food in her belly), but she will take her jobs as seriously as if they were life-and-death. PERSONALITY Likes: Italian food; coffee; peanut butter, banana, raisin, & honey sandwiches; sculpting; reading; history; plants; being outside; wide open spaces; animals; organization Dislikes: The dark; close quarters; green vegetables; strawberries (allergic); smoking (the one time she tried it, she nearly coughed up a lung); messes (in terms of things being tossed about willy-nilly with no organization) Greatest Fear: Being locked up inside somewhere small and cramped (she's claustrophobic) Greatest Wish: To find her birth parents General Personality: To look at Lexi, you might not see an artist. She isn't exactly your stereotypical messy, scatterbrained, starving-artist type. Aside from the occasional smudge of clay along her hairline that she missed while cleaning up, she tends to put forth a generally tidy appearance, both in her person and in her living and working spaces. She is a highly-organised person, and everything in her studio has a particular place; she'll start getting nervous and twitchy if somebody moves things around in there, because then she can't find what she wants when she needs it. She was the same way at school, always having her part of the dorm perfectly organised, always turning in her assignments on neat and unwrinkled parchment, laying out her clothes for the next day the night before. Lexi also has amazing concentration. Whatever she's working on at the moment, she devotes all of her attention to it. If she's talking to you, she'll pay complete attention to you and the conversation. If she's at work at one of her jobs, she's focused on those. This doesn't mean she doesn't multi-task; she's usually working on several different projects at once, it's just that when she's actually working on one particular piece, she's mentally devoted entirely to that piece, even if she's going to switch to work on one of the other ones in five or ten minutes. She could easily be seen as your typical Hufflepuff. Lexi is a hard worker, she is loyal, and she is friendly, but she is not a pushover. It is also quite amazing how utterly patient she can be: she could very easily spend hours working on the most minute details on a sculpture, gently and patiently nudging it into exactly what she wants. Her patience is a great strength of hers, one that will be tested as she struggles to find out about her birth parents. A great weakness of hers is her claustrophobia, which extends to a fear of the dark. She cannot handle being in small, enclosed spaces for very long before she starts feeling constricted and finding it hard to breathe. Darkness only makes it worse, because you can never tell how small an area might be when it is dark, and the darkness itself implies being enclosed in something, when not even the moon or stars are able to provide any light. These fears are literally crippling to Lexi: she cannot push past them on her own, she completely breaks down when faced with dark, enclosed places. PERSONAL & FAMILY HISTORY Family:
Sophie Campbell: Birth mother (not known to Lexi), Hogwarts alumna (Hufflepuff, 1959), b. 19 April, 1941 Spencer Ketteridge: Adoptive father, Hogwarts alumnus (Ravenclaw, 1944), b. 2 September, 1925, magical greeting card designer Isla Ketteridge née Morgan: Adoptive mother, Hogwarts alumna (Ravenclaw, 1944), b. 15 February, 1926, magical book binder The summer was 1960. Sophie Campbell had been out of school for a year, and boy did she love the freedom. She didn't so much love having to work, but she loved knowing that she was an adult, which of course automatically made her so much more responsible and mature. Still, though, she was a bit of a naive girl, not nearly as grown up as she liked to believe she was. When she caught the eye of the handsome Patrice Nott, she felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Even when "things didn't work out," she still felt incredibly lucky to have had his attention for a short while ... and to have been in his bed. She felt considerably less lucky a month or so later when she realised she was pregnant. Thinking back, she determined that Patrice was the only one who could be the father of her unborn child, so she sought him out and told him the (supposed to be) joyous news: he was going to be a daddy! Patrice's reaction was not one that Sophie expected: first denial, then an attempt to buy her off. Offended at the thought of being paid like some common trollop, Sophie gathered all her remaining dignity and huffed off ... something she later regretted when her parents turned her out for getting herself knocked up, and she was forced to work to support herself and the growing life in her womb. Finally, only a few weeks before she was due to give birth, she again attempted to seek out Patrice, but only found his father, an imposing figure who scared her into silence and away from trying to get any money out of their family. Alone and dejected, Sophie gave birth to a baby daughter that she named Alexis, and even tried to raise her for a few months, but she was simply not made to be a mother. When Alexis was only three months old, Sophie wrapped her up in blankets, put her in a bassinet with a note (giving simply her first name and date of birth), and placed it on the front steps of the Artemisia Lufkin Orphanage on Diagon Alley. It was at this orphanage that Alexis spent her first few years, though she remembers none of it. Although nobody at the orphanage will admit to it, and Alexis does not consciously remember it herself, her claustrophobia began there, when, at the age of three, she was locked into a cupboard by a mean-spirited older boy at the orphanage, who proceeded to make such a racket that nobody could hear Alexis' cries for several hours. Although the boy was reprimanded, the orphanage personnel figured that Alexis was much too young to remember the event, and so it wasn't worth worrying about. Not long after the incident, Spencer and Isla Ketteridge approached the orphanage to adopt a child. They had been trying for years to conceive a child of their own, but Isla was infertile, so they decided to adopt instead. And so, Alexis was brought into the Ketteridge family. They decided that, at least for now, they would not tell her that she was adopted, and asked their family members to treat Alexis as if she had been born into the family. And so, having been too young to remember her orphanage years, Alexis grew up believing that she was Spencer and Isla's birth daughter. Life in the Ketteridge household was always interesting as Alexis was growing up. Spencer worked out of the house, designing magical greeting cards, and Isla worked as a magical book binder with flexible hours. But there were always extended family members visiting, and visits to grandparents and aunts and uncles, and life in those households was always considerably more explosive. Dating back to great-times-something auntie Elladora Ketteridge, who discovered the properties of gillyweed by eating it (and then almost suffocating until she dunked her head in a bucket of water), the Ketteridge family has always been very big on discovery-through-trying. It was from her family that Alexis learned to give everything her all, even if it seemed like a really stupid idea to others, or even if it seems like a really small or menial task: Spencer insisted upon his daughter learning that there is no such thing as a small task, only small people. When Alexis was eleven, she went off to Hogwarts, where she was sorted into Hufflepuff. The hat was almost tempted to send her to Ravenclaw, but in the end, it decided that Hufflepuff was a better fit for her. After such a wild childhood with her family, Hogwarts was considerably tamer, though Alexis was determined to be good and stay out of trouble: she had heard all sorts of stories about Filch and Mrs Norris, and she had no desire to be hung by her thumbs in the dungeons. While at school, Alexis spent little time in the Hufflepuff common room, preferring to spend as much time outside as she could, where she was better able to breathe and felt less hemmed-in. Even when the weather was cold and gray, she still bundled up and sat outside to do her work, only retreating to the common room or library during storms or if it was too windy. Her hard work and determination to "be good" paid off when, in her fifth year, she was made prefect. Alexis was proud to wear the prefect badge, and continued working hard in her last few years at Hogwarts. In June of 1979, she finished school and moved home with her parents, until she could get a job and her own place; she still believed that she was Spencer and Isla's child by birth. In the fifteen years since they had adopted her, the Ketteridges had continually told themselves that they would tell her "when she was older," but they just kept delaying it, waiting for "the right time." Eventually, they decided that it was for the best that Alexis not know: they wanted her to feel like she was loved and wanted, and they felt that telling her that she had been abandoned at the orphanage would just make her feel the opposite. Spencer and Isla were happy to let their daughter believe that she really was theirs, because to them, she was. However, when it was announced in November of 1979 that all citizens would need to carry ID cards, Spencer and Isla realised that they could not delay telling their daughter any longer. Not knowing exactly what would be going on the cards, or how that would be checked, they decided that it was finally the right time to tell Alexis the truth about herself. PHYSICAL Portrayed-By: Evan Rachel Wood Height: 5'7" Hair Colour: Blonde Eye Colour: Blue Distinguishing Marks / Features: She has a scar on the nape of her neck from when she fell backwards into a glass table when she was eight and got a deep cut there from a shard of glass. She also has a few tiny scars on her hands and wrists from cat scratches and from various thorns (from working in the garden). Samples 1st Person Journal Entry: Warded to Friends. I'm adopted. You know that orphanage that we always pass in Diagon Alley? Apparently my parents just didn't want me, so they just dumped me there like I was some toy that they got sick of, or a gift they wanted to return! And then the Ketteridges came along and adopted me, and while they're really awesome for saving me from having to grow up there, they decided they were just never going to even tell me! My whole life has been a lie, and they were just going to let me keep on believing that I'm someone I'm not! I don't even know if my "birthday" even really is that? And what am I supposed to say when they ask me what my blood status is? "Well, I don't know, because my parents didn't want me, and they didn't exactly write me a letter with my whole history in it or anything, so by the way, the birthdate and everything else on this thing is really probably not true anyway! I'm ranting. I can't believe I'm ranting! I never rant. I'm ranting and just a few minutes ago, I was pacing and chewing on my fingernails. I just -- they lied to me. My whole life, they've been telling me to accept people for who they are, to be honest and trustworthy, to be open-minded, and then it turns out that they've been lying about the most important thing in my life for fifteen years. And I would have never known if not for the IDs. End Ward. Have you ever been hit with news, like ... big major completely world-changing news, and had no idea at all what to say or do? How do you deal with something like that? 3rd Person RP: Log; I was Marlene Other Blurb: Alexis Ketteridge spent fifteen years believing that her parents were actually biologically linked to her. Now that she knows that she was adopted, she is determined to find out who her birth parents are. Of course, she has no idea that her birth father is a terrorist. Plans for your Character: Oh hey, look over there! Haley's Comet! *points! ... runs away!* Battle Numbers: (See the chart for details.)
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