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Post by SilentGaze on Oct 8, 2011 15:00:11 GMT -5
Name: Hilda Louise Roads
Nickname: Hildy (only by those that hate or annoy her) and Thea (only by her boyfriend)
Gender: female
Age: 26 - December 26
Orientation: straight
Race: human
Location: O'Fallon, Illinois
Occupation: Professor at Hogwarts
Wand: Oak - 14 inches - Dragon Heart String
Education: Hogwarts - Ravenclaw
Family Tree:
Mother: Viveca Kathan Roads (witch - Boubatons - alive - 54 )
Father: Darius Mark Roads (wizard - Ravenclaw - alive - 56)
Sister: Brenna Finley Carlisle (witch - Gryffindor - alive - 27)
Brothers: Liam Orrick Roads (wizard - Ravenclaw - alive - 21)
Gunner Lewis Roads (wizard - Gryffindor - alive - 30)
Nieces: Bethany Rose Carlisle (witch - future Gryffindor - alive - 4)
Sara Louise Carlisle (witch - Gryffindor - alive - 11)
Reese Valorie Roads (witch - future Gryffindor - alive - 3)
Nephews: Peter Roland Carlisle (wizard - future Ravenclaw - alive - 5)
Richard Nathaniel Carlisle (wizard - future Gryffindor - alive - 5)
Brother-in-Law: Owen Josiah Carlisle (wizard - Durmstrang - alive - 27)
Sister-in-Law: Evelyn Katherine Roads (witch - Hufflepuff - dead - 18)
Patronus: gray wolf
Animagous: grizzly bear
Sight: yes
History:
The day twenty-one-year-old Viveca McLaren was dragged kicking and screaming from a club while visiting New York was the day Ireland forever lost one of it's more... fiery women. She had come to visit, as her old friend from Boubatons had moved to America right before they graduated, and Viveca wanted to visit her. While talking to a man who was sitting beside her, a woman walked up to Viveca and told her to back off the guy. Something about already claiming him. Well, Viveca never backed down from a challenge, and without telling the mystery woman, decided they should fight for the man. Since she started it, the bartender and the bouncer had to haul her out of the club and ban her. Well, the bartender couldn't help but think she was cute, and he got off work and the two went on a date. Wanna guess who the bartender was? It was Darius, who was working a part time job while working as an intern at the American Ministry of Magic, but needed some money to pay for an apartment.
Three years later the two were married, and Gunner was born. Three years after Gunner came Brenna, and then two years after that Hilda entered the world, except at the time she had been named Thea.
And now the real story begins.
It was clear from the beginning that like Gunner and Brenna, Hilda would be a witch. Gunner had already managed to levitate his father's wallet right out of the adult's hand when he wanted money for a toy, and Brenna, as it turned out, was like the famous Nymphadora Tonks, and could change her appearance. The fact was discovered when Brenna would walk by a woman with beautiful black hair (where Brenna's was blonde), say the word 'pwetty', and her hair would grow long and rich black. But the way Viveca and Darius found out about Hilda was a little more subtle, yet still blatantly obvious at the same time. She'd often predict the weather, but only when it would dampen the spirits of her siblings. 'Thunderstorm' and 'hail' were her third and fourth words, the first two being 'shut up'. Her third and fourth words were used often. Brenna would be looking forward to an outdoor shopping festival with their mommy (as even at the tender age of five she loved to shop), and on days where Hilda's 'sight' told her bad weather would happen on that day, she would loudly say so, crushing Brenna's small yet happy dreams.
By the time she was four, not only her gift of sight was evident, but so was her magic in general. The volume of the television would go up whenever she got irritated by her perfect older sister as she pranced about in shiny new shoes, a bright pink skirt simply built for her, or talked about that Jerry kid in her kindergarten class who proposed to her. Hilda would glare at Brenna, and the closest noise maker would quickly drown out her sister's melodic voice.
Age four was also when the last Roads child came into the world. Liam Roads was the only child in the family who got their mom's red hair. Everyone else got Darius's blonde hair.
Despite the fact that, like just about everyone else she met, Hilda didn't like Liam, it was clear that she still favored him. Instead of yelling 'shut up' at the crying baby, she'd snap 'Sleep! It's good fer you.' before going to retrieve her amused mother to put the baby to sleep.
Age six is when the eldest Roads child, Gunner, was sent off to Hogwarts and sorted into Gryffindor. Despite living in the USA, the former-European-magic-school-students (aka Viveca and Darius) insisted that their children go to a school in Europe instead. And, seeing as the two didn't want to have to send their boys and girls to different schools (mostly because Viveca hated Bouxbatons, and Darius was scared of Durmstrang) they sent their son to Hogwarts with the plan being to send all four to that very school.
Hilda didn't miss him at all. Actually, she bargained with her mother that if she would reveal to Viveca what happened to the girl at the bar that had started off Viveca's relationship with Darius, then she could have her older brother's room instead of sharing one with Brenna, and could also get her name changed to Hilda. Hilda (still Thea at the time) had always suspected her mother must've been drunk to name her Thea over something related to violence like the other four children, and Viveca admitted she couldn't remember why she had named Hilda 'Thea' before. In reality, this was to mark Hilda as one of the greater oracles of the magic world, as oracles were well known in Greece, and Thea meant 'gift of god' in Greek. Lucky for Hilda, her sight was beyond advanced, and she discovered the girl was currently attempting to juggle four boyfriends and figure out who the father was. Technically, that was a sad thing, but Viveca laughed and with a flick of her wand moved Hilda's belongings into Gunner's room, and an application was sent to the Ministry of Magic to change Hilda's name. Sure, Gunner would be returning, but by the time he did Hilda had managed to see all the rules he had broken at Hogwarts and blackmailed him into taking the basement for his new room.
By the time Hilda was nine, Brenna was in Hogwarts too, having been sorted into Gryffindor, and Hilda was beginning to learn more about her power with the sight. The Ministry of both America and Europe were already aware someone with powerful sight had been born nine years ago, but it was on her ninth birthday that a ministry official overheard Darius talking about her at work, (where he was head of the Magical Creatures Rights Department) and asked if he could have her take the AMT (Abnormal Mentality Test), where Hilda got the highest score on record when she came in for the test. Sure, Viveca and Darius knew their daughter was weird. Since she was born she would experience odd fits, seizures, blackouts and the like before vomiting, but the doctors said it wasn't actually affecting her health, so the couple had done nothing but tolerate it. Well, now it all made sense. She would get visions, premonitions, prophecies, and even feel certain things that would happen in the future. Technically, a mortal body shouldn't be able to handle the strong connection Hilda's mind was capable of making with the future and prophetic thread of things, so to compensate for the pressure she would vomit.
Since that moment all ministires tagged her as someone of interest, but Hilda made it clear she would not be spending time with anyone who wanted to record her visions, prophecies and whatnot. After all, everyone knew she had a dangerously low tolerance of people.
Hilda told Liam because she felt like it, but didn't feel the urge to tell her sister or her older brother.
Two years went by, and she finally went to Hogwarts, where she was sorted into Ravenclaw, like her father before her. Everyone knew the reason Darius and Brenna were in Gryffindor was because of Viveca anyway.
She was placed into Divination immediately, even the first years didn't normally take that class, but Hogwarts was well aware of her sight. Students with that natural ability were instantly enrolled. Being a Ravenclaw, she managed to be good at every class, except she was known to fall asleep in most of her classes. Still, she did all her work, she got good scores, and thanks to sheer luck, she received a grumpy Hipogriff much like herself, and the two actually got along.
Hilda was pretty much an outcast. Brenna was the popular third year that many boys were asking out, Darius was a troublemaking player that all the boys wanted to hang out with, and of course he was also a Beater for the Gryffindor team. When people heard another Roads girl was coming to school, a few boys were expecting a beauty. What they got was an abnormally skinny, blonde grouch whose hair was always messy, who hated hanging out with people, and who had also figured out how to charm her skin and hair to have brown streaks and weird tattoos. Hilda had no friends except for Brenna, of course, Brenna's current boyfriend (because if a guy wanted to date Brenna, he had to pretend to like Hilda) and her Hipogriff. Even the family owl who lived at the owlery to deliver letters disliked her.
Oddly enough, by her third year she had managed to make on friend. Brenna's boyfriend Jack had a friend named Calix Xanthus Lysander, a guy who had transferred from Durmstrang that year at Jack's encouragement. Calix asked Jack about Hilda, because he had seen her attempting to draw in peace with her sister trying to talk to her and Jack obediently at her side. Jack quickly explained not to waste his time, because everyone knew the only people who could stand Hilda was her Hipogriff and Brenna. But Calix was intrigued by her sour nature and her violent drawings. And so, the popular Calix began to hang out with Hilda, against her wishes.
Their "friendship" (lacking a better term that described the low tolerance Hilda felt for Calix, and the clear interest Calix held for her) almost came to an end in Hilda's fourth year. Jack and Brenna were still dating, but that quickly ended when Jack found out Brenna was pregnant. While a few of Brenna's close friends stuck with her, a lot of people distanced themselves, though not as much as Jack. Hilda, frustrated with the emotional Brenna, the jackass Jack, and all the attention the Roads family was now receiving because of the scandal, threatened Calix. He was friends with Jack, and if his friendship hurt Brenna and made her more wishy-washy and crybabyish than normal, Hilda didn't want him there. The current Brenna was already an armful.
Calix, seeing how things were and also observing Hilda's cold shoulder as care for her sister, instead broke off his friendship with Jack. Brenna didn't get any worse with him around now, as he supported her, and now Hilda really couldn't get rid of him, as much as she wanted to.
Near the end of her fourth year, Sarah Louise was born, and one of Brenna's friends (Jessica Relowitz) was the godmother. It was Hilda's fifth year and Brenna's seventh when the second TriWizard Tournament of their Hogwarts school career came up. Brenna was old enough to participate (which made it a much bigger deal than in Hilda's first year, where neither could participate, and Brenna predictably had your non-exciting yet very popular date to the Yule Ball) but she wasn't interested. She had a daughter to think about (a daughter that Nearly Headless Nick had taken a liking to, as she hung around the castle to be with her young mom) and didn't want to risk it. Hilda, despite popular belief, was a little relieved.
The Yule Ball came along, and Brenna got asked by a Durmstrang boy by the name of Owen (among several (seventeen, to be precise) others, of course, but Owen's the important one, clearly). She quickly made sure to tell him about Sarah, but Owen didn't seem to mind the very young toddler.
Hilda was asked as well by two boys, one being a total nerd like herself with no friends who was in her Divinations class (he was a seventh year, and she was in advanced classes, so there you go). Hilda flat out refused. Who wanted human communication? She hadn't gone last time. She certainly wasn't going this time. No, she'd probably sit in her dormitory drawing out the massacre by centaurs that she repeatedly saw, and maybe she'd try and glimpse into the future to see if she'd have to spend more time with this Owen kid. So busy was she that she dismissed the rotten feeling in her mind and the butterflies in her stomach. Hilda was sure it was because of the two futures she was seeing. After all, it seemed she'd have to get used to having Owen around. But this was not the case.
Truth is, when she went out to sneak a cup of coffee from the kitchens, Calix was waiting for her at the entrance of her dormitory. In his hands was a black box, sealed up and everything. It didn't even look opened. "I asked my sister if she could sew me a dress. Not sure why. Sort of a last minute decision, y'know? What with the Yule Ball and all. Then my sister tells me she didn't have a lot of fabric, so the dress would be considered a size zero dress. Size zero! How many girls can fit in that? So, you see my dilemma. Do you know anyone who could possibly fit?" was what Calix said to her.
Eyes hard, she scanned his face, and saw no deceit would come from this. Earlier Hilda had clearly told him she didn't want to go to the Yule Ball when he had been babbling about it like the idiot he was. But there he was. She stepped forward, putting her hands on the box as she was going to push it into him as rejection. but the moment Hilda's fingers touched it she got a very good feeling, something she'd never felt. So instead, she ended up taking it.
Normally, she wasn't curious about these things. But this was something she'd never felt, and she wanted to know. Glaring at him, she stepped inside, changed into the dress, and stepped out once more. His jaw dropped at her apparent beauty. She had never been called beautiful before, so she neither rejected nor accepted his seemingly sincere compliments. Then he held out his arm, and when she didn't take it, he hoisted her up and ran towards the Great Hall with her. That was the end of the silent rejection. With a resigned sigh, she pulled away, and instead wrapped her arm around his, glaring at him as she did so. The magical night began, and in the end, Calix called her Thea, saying he heard that was her original name, though he wouldn't say from who.
At the end of the night, he hugged her and that was it, but surprisingly butterflies filled her stomach.
Liam came to school the year Brenna left, and so now it was Hilda and Liam, with Calix graduating from Hogwarts as a Gryffindor. Hilda somehow survived to the day she graduated with her sanity, and Calix asked her out. When she glared at him, he kissed her, and those butterflies from the Yule Ball returned with a vengeance. So, she sighed once again and responded with a 'yes'.
By now, her oldest brother Gunner was a practically broke playboy who gambled away all his money back in California. Brenna lived in New York, now married to Owen. Hilda went on to a muggle university where she learned about graphic design and what not. Most of her courses besides the art specific ones were online, because she still hated most people.
By age twenty she had gotten her Animagus license as a Grizzly Bear, much to the terror of the staff member who had been testing her (as he found her to be enough of a grouch without the claws and big teeth). Brenna also had twins with Owen, two boys that Hilda often found herself unwillingly baby sitting by age one. She lived in an apartment in O'Fallon, Illinois without Calix, not that he hadn't offered many times. Technically, the location wasn't even convenient, because Brenna lived up in New York, but the owner of Hilda's apartment complex was a wizard, and he allowed Brenna to use his fireplace to send her sons through the floo network.
At age twenty-three, a lot of major things happened. Liam had proposed to his two-year girlfriend and seven-year best friend Evelyn. She eagerly accepted. Brenna also gave birth to her fourth child, though only her third with Owen. Bethany was born, and thanks to Hilda foreseeing Bethany born with a collapsed lung, Brenna canceled her homebirth and instead went to a highly trained doctor who saved the baby girl at birth. Hilda and Calix were now Bethany's Godparents.
Eventually, Evelyn confessed to Liam that she was pregnant, and before the year was up had given birth to little Reese Roads. However, she died giving birth, however it was thanks to Hilda foreseeing Evelyn dying in childbirth that the young woman insisted on marrying Liam before hand, and got to be his wife for a few weeks before passing on. Hilda was dubbed Godmother, while Liam's best friend Devin was dubbed Godfather.
For the next three years, it was pretty unexciting. On Calix's twenty-sixth birthday, Hilda told him she was finally letting him move in. She worked as the head of graphics for a video game company called Pixel-X. Calix proposed to shortly her after, but she flat out refused, saying that was ridiculous. But the two didn't break up. She was twenty-six and it was about time for Sarah Louise's first school year at Hogwarts when Calix told her Hogwarts was looking for a new Divination teacher. He also may have secretly sent in her application. She was accepted, and she went to work at Hogwarts for the first time, against her desire. Of course Calix would want her to work there, though. He was the Broomsticks Professor.
Personality:
Where to begin when describing Hilda? Well, perhaps it is best to say that she despises people. Yup, the human race is definitely on her 'Top Five Most Annoying Things' list, as she finds them to be irritating, invasive, loud, stupid, and a list of other insulting things. Hilda prefers to be by herself, and the only reason that her boyfriend has managed to get himself romantically involved with her where she never would've dated otherwise is becaue he was extremely persistent and pretty much unavoidable. She won't admit that she's grown fond of him. Still, Hilda is a grouch, and snaps at those that irritate her. She doesn't mind lying to people, but finds that being painfully honest and blunt often gets much more satisfying results when trying to tick off people. She's also been known for her biting sarcasm and her dry humor. Hilda cannot be described as either impatient or patient, because it all depends on her rather undependable mood swings. She says she's a realisist, but many call it pessimism. She despises fairy tales, cute things, girly things, formal wear, and being bossed around. Hilda goes at her own pace, and doesn't take crap from anyone. Girly girls make her vomit without her having visions, formal wear never looks good on her and reminds her of her obnoxious sister, and all around she just hates the things people expect the cliche girl to like.
Just because she might not have already killed the girly girl image, Hilda also doesn't care for romance. Roses are often lost on her, love songs and poems, and basically everything her current boyfriend was so famous for with all of his other girlfriends.
Hilda is a rough and tough kind of girl. Nothing seems to bother her unless someone insults her boyfriend or her parents, and sometimes her siblings if you say the right, aka wrong, thing. She also is just fine with physical violence, despite having a wand, so you'll often find that there's almost always conveniently a broom, mop, or something of similar nature within reach for her to beat creepers up with. She'll also just hit you over the head or something similar if she feels like it. Hilda is extremely lazy, and finds roundabout ways to do things she would rather avoid. Normally, she sits in a chair, puts in a movie, blasts some music, and draws whatever she wants. People seem to prize Hilda's good taste and her great artistic ability, though Hilda herself just treats it like a normal thing.
Hilda is also a disorganized slob. However, despite the fact that everything in her possession ends up in some obscure location, she's always able to find it. Hilda has a good memory, fine woman's intuition, and is stern in her ways. People with lots of energy annoy her, and she hates crowds and parties/events.
Despite the fact that she'll eventually lose it to the toilet, Hilda loves food. Preferably take-out, fast food, coffee and anything that isn't healthy for her. But she's not a picky eater at all. Coffee is her favorite drink, and seemingly the only thing that she can digest that she won't eventually vomit up.
She appreciates all things nerdy, from mangas to video games to movies to books.
Description:
Hilda is five feet and eight inches tall, and last time she checked, she weighed ninety-five pounds. More than likely, she still weighs that much. After all, thanks to her especially attune Sight, she vomits whenever she has visions. The only thing that ever seems to stay in her stomach 100% of the time is coffee, and if she's lucky take-out food. Otherwise, her calorie count per day is pretty low, and since she has an insane metabolism as it is, many are convinced she's purposefully anorexic when she isn't. Her ribs are evident, she's pretty much skin and bones, and because of that she's mostly sharp angles. Her face is pretty normal though, thankfully. Hilda has dark green-gray eyes, and they're normally blank in boredom or narrowed in annoyance. Her skin is pale, as she is not much of an outdoor person. Her skin is covered in scars however, as being lazy comes with a price, and she often likes to try and make things that will help her accomplish that goal. It doesn't go well, and in the end she has to get up and retrieve her wand with a few scratches from her latest attempt somewhere on her.
Her skin is also home to a lot of tattoos. She has what looks like a target straight off the archery range on the back of her neck, a snake wrapping around her right wrist, a flame on her right collar bone, a ying-yang sign on her left hip, and even a sun broken down the middle like a cliche cartoon heart right above where her heart should be. There are several others, but she's changing them so much with magic that they're hard to keep track of.
Hilda has very fair, straw-blonde hair, but she dyed random streaks of it varying shades of brown. Her hair reaches a couple inches past her shoulders, but she almost always has it tied back in a sloppy bun hung low on her head because she hates how warm her hair makes her neck. It normally falls straight, though, and isn't very thick. Her nails are usually chewed, her posture is often poor, and overall she looks like an anorexic, punk slob straight out of high school. She likes to wear athletic shorts, sweat pants, or ruined and highly ripped and stained jeans with the cuffs worn, the color leaving, and the pockets fraying. She also enjoys wearing loose t-shirts of any color that isn't highlighter. However, she knows her ribs and overall skeletal figure freaks people out, hence the shorts and short-sleeves, but she also likes to purposefully take a hair band and tie up the shirt as high as she can go without showing her A-cup bra. This way she disturbs people when she's around them. She's easily too hot or too cold, which explains her random assortment of ratty jackets, hoodies and coats. Her socks rarely match, and her shoes are usually the same holey tennis shoes that are a faded gray with even more faded orange stripes and fraying light green laces. Anything she owns that is remotely fashionable is thanks to her sister, not that Hilda ever wears it if its from her sister. As far as jewelry goes, Hilda finds it annoying when bracelets get in her way of drawing, when earrings get caught in her hair, and when her necklaces get askew, fall off, or hang in her way when she's leaning over something. There is one thing she sometimes tolerates, and that is the gold chain choker that her boyfriend gave her, though she'll never tell him that.
Because she's a professor, however, Hilda has been forced to get some clean dress robes to wear when teaching. However, the key word is robes. It's a simple, extremely dark navy robe with silver bands at the end of the sleeves, gold stitching, and a hood. The inside of the cloak is orange, however, though a burnt-orange color. She'll wear simple and short black boots with orange laces that make her two inches taller than her normal height, and that's her look. Underneath, she's still wearing her ratty, teenager outfits.
When in her animagus form, Hilda is your pretty average grizzly bear, except her fur is a bit darker, her teeth are slightly yellowed, and her eyes always look angry. She's eight feet tall when on her hind legs.
Other:
Position: Divination Teacher
Head of House: Yes - Ravenclaw
Experience: New teacher - 0 years
RP Example:
Hilda looked around the apartment, expression set into a stiff scowl as her eyes took inventory of all the things that used to be in the now empty living space. The small kitchenette was the only thing that remained where it had always been. Everything else in the dining/kitchen/living room was gone. Everything in her bedroom, despite it being rarely used, was gone, and the closet was even missing the cobwebs that housed Hilda's eight-legged friends. Like the kitchenette, the bathroom also kept most of its furniture, not that Hilda hadn't attempted to take it all with her. She was used to change, but of all the things for life to take from her... Hilda was almost sad to see the most understanding, easiest-to-clean toilet go. They had spent many long nights together as the deathly skinny young woman hurled up the entire contents of her stomach into the basin of the toilet.
Her golden owl gave one business-like hoot from within her cage, and Hilda nodded stiffly. She turned around, a ratty backpack over one arm and her bird's cage clasped firmly in her right hand. The apartment owner nodded mournfully. Despite his old attendant being a grouch, he would miss the woman dearly. "I'll keep it open for you in the summer when you're back from school," he informed her. Normally it would be a question, but Hilda was an uncaring person, and despite having a little bit of respect for the man who had so graciously given her an apartment and concocted crazy plans to scare away her insane family, Hilda could still care less what he did.
"You'd lose income. That's a dumb move on your part," she replied bluntly.
The man shrugged. "Thanks to you its most likely got some bad magic on it anyway," he explained jokingly, probably referencing the fact that they were both real witches and wizards. The right corner of Hilda's mouth quirked upward just a tad. "Anyhow, no one else will want it. You and the toilet are just too close of friends." Hilda chanced a glance over her shoulder, nodding sadly when she saw the plain white door that led to the bathroom.
Against her better judgement, Hilda then turned to the owner of the famous yet infamous apartment complex. "Good luck here. Your son's wife just found out she's pregnant, right?" she asked.
He nodded, glad she remembered that he mentioned it about three weeks ago. When he had first met her, he may have been surprised, but he knew better these days, it seemed. "Due in March she suspects, but everyone's worried that the child has a hole in it's heart," he replied with nervousness in his voice.
"They'll be fine... and so will their mother," Hilda said with a very small smile, waiting just long enough for the man to realize what her reply meant before apparating to the boundaries of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was her first year as the new Divinations Professor, plus the Head of Ravenclaw had just retired. She was taking on two new positions, and if her mother ever found out she had arrived late the family would never leave her alone. |
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