Romilda Vane (romytheprincess) wrote in freedom_reigns, @ 2016-09-12 16:01:00 |
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Name. Romilda Catherine Vane. Nicknames. Romy (by everyone), or Princess (by her family). Age. 18 (turning 19 in September). Birthdate. September 27, 1981. Blood status. Pureblood. Sexual orientation. Heterosexual. Relationship status. Single Wand. Dogwood, Veela hair, 8 and 3/4 inches, snappy, noisy. Patronus. Raccoon. Residence. Vane Manor, Darlington, County Durham, North East England. Social Class. Upper Class. |
Height. 5'3" Build. Broad-shouldered and curvy. Hair. Brown, short, wild, and curly. Eyes. Hazel. Scars. None, but many small beauty marks spackled over her face and body. Tattoos. None. Dress. Colourful, trendy, sexy, modern, accessorized. PB. Antonia Thomas. |
Mother. Annabelle Vane nee Lewis, 49, Slytherin alumni, woman of leisure, has published 5 romance novels under the pseudonym Aria Crescendo, owner of four crups: Scorpio, Aries, Capricorn, and Aquarius. Father. Henry Vane Jr, 57, Ravenclaw alumni, heir, land owner and landlord, distantly related to muggle nobility (allegedly descended from the Duke of Cleveland and the Earl of Darlington). Brother. William Vane, 28, Ravenclaw alumni, incumbent heir, married to Christina, father of Claire (3) and Christopher (1). Brother. Alexander Vane, 26, Gryffindor alumni, traveling cursebreaker for Gringotts. Maternal Grandparents. Anastasia and Carter Lewis. Paternal Grandparents. Henry Vane Sr, 90, and Caroline Vane nee Smith, 88. Paternal Uncle & Family. William (Henry's younger brother) and Emma Vane (muggle fashion designer), and daughter Emma Cross nee Vane (21, halfblood paternal cousin) who is married to Ewan Cross (23, wizard). Other Family.Distantly related to muggle nobility on her father's side (allegedly descended from the Duke of Cleveland and the Earl of Darlington). As the youngest and the princess of the family, Romy was adored by her mother, catered to by her father, and protected by her brothers. She learned boldness and curiosity from her mother, entitlement and confidence from her father, and humour and strength from her brothers. Romy has always had more of an enmeshed friendship than a mother/daughter relationship with her mother, and her father has always coddled and indulged her, so she loves them both but doesn't really consider either of them authority figures. Her brothers are about nine and eight years older than her, so they have always played a more parental role for her, but as a result, she isn't especially close to them post-Hogwarts. Romy still lives at home with her somewhat doting but disconnected mother and her powerfully enabling father, while both of her brothers have their own lives and really only make it to the big family events, though they do both seem to take turns checking in on Romy. Romilda is friendly with her first cousin Emma, but they don't see each other much outside of the odd family event or party. Additionally, the magical Vanes have been removed from the muggle nobility heritage for a couple of generations by the statute of secrecy, so the family doesn't exactly have access to the privileges associated with nobility outside of the claim-to-fame aspect of the family reputation. |
School Years. 1993 to 2000. House. Gryffindor. Clubs. Magical Photography. Dumbledore's Army. NEWTs. Transfiguration - O Charms - A Potions - P Defense Against the Dark Arts - E Astronomy - P Ancient Runes - D |
Name. Vane Manor. Location. Darlington, County Durham, North East England. Vane Manor has been in the family for generations. The Vane grandparents retired to one of the family properties in Scotland when Henry Jr married, so Romy grew up in the extravagant home on the large property. The decor of the manor is colourful, with a red sitting room, purple dining room, blue master bedroom, yellow guest suite, green mainfloor and upper floor halls, just as an example. Romy and her mother redecorated Romy's second floor bedroom to be turquoise and ensuite bathroom to be pink when she turned thirteen, and that is still where she lives. Though Romy doesn't like to get dirty or tend to the plants, she still enjoys walking or sitting in the gardens. The Vanes have four house elves to do the cooking, cleaning, and maintenance: Morrie, Nanda, Corby, and Peek. |
Job title. Barmaid at The Hog's Head. Since. July 2000. Previous jobs. None. Romy loves her job, because she doesn't need it. She can be sassy and bossy and sometimes even rude, and if she gets fired, so what. She has rubbed a few customers the wrong way, but generally Romy is good at her job in part because she's there to have fun and meet people and see the way the world really is. It means she's confident and curious, which makes her attentive and entertaining as a server. Most customers really like her for being flirtatious and catty and interesting, but some of her coworkers find her irresponsible and frustrating and lazy to work with. Most of the time she pulls her weight, at least when the boss is around, because Romy's current infatuation is her boss, Seamus Finnigan. |
5 words that describe your character. Confident. Bold. Dramatic. Directionless. Enthusiastic. Romy is a daydreamer who doesn't always have both feet in reality. She has grown up sheltered, and though her experiences going to school during the war made it clear that her station in life didn't exempt her from reality, she still has a strange sense of entitlement. Due to her experiences both before and during the war, she understands that anything can happen to anyone at any time, even horrible things, and instead of shaking her entitlement, it simply made her determined to do whatever she pleased, to live her life her own way, and to rebel against some of her status even while she still benefits from it. This results in a some what sassy girl who isn't afraid to make a scene, and who has the perspective that whatever will happen will happen, so she might as well live it up in the meantime. In addition to the warping of Romy's sense of entitlement, her sense of enthusiasm also withstood the darkness of the war. Romy has always been the sort to develop intense feelings quickly, and she isn't afraid to do something bold to get attention. She's grown up some since resorting to love potioned chocolates, and now favours blunt flirtation and perseverance in the face of rejection. Romy is the dramatic sort who enjoys attention and seeks out the spotlight, even though she's had firsthand experience that taught her attention isn't always a good thing. In fact, perhaps it is a direct result of her history that Romy hates being ignored. There are some obvious contradictions in Romy's personality, and she is absolutely unapologetic about them. Likes. Attention. Boys. Magical photography. Finery. Surprises. Food. Extravagance. Freedom. Flirting. Teasing. Being wanted. Dislikes. Rules. Responsibility. Missing the shot. Going without. Small enclosed spaces. Boredom. Losing. Being controlled. |
ⓞ Canon ⓞ 1970 - Annabelle and Henry get married ⓞ 1972 - William is born ⓞ 1974 - Alexander is born ⓞ September 27, 1981 - Romilda is born ⓞ September 1993 - Romy starts at Hogwarts in Gryffindor, and turns 12 a few weeks later ⓞ August 1995 - Between third and fourth year, only a month shy of 14 years old, Romy is molested by an associate of her father's at a dinner party ⓞ September 1996 - Romy asked Harry to sit with her on the Hogwarts Express, and he turned her down for calling Neville and Luna unpopular ⓞ September 1996 - Romy attends the quidditch team try outs, but giggles when asked to fly and watches from the stands instead ⓞ December 1996 - Romy gives Harry love potion filled chocolates (that Ron eats in March ) ⓞ 1997/1998 School Year - Romy joins Dumbledore's Army in her fifth year, while Death Eaters are running the school ⓞ March 30, 1998 - Romy snaps and tells the Carrows they can't treat students the way they are and is punished then locked in a closet for days (details below) ⓞ May 2, 1998 - Romy fights in the Battle of Hogwarts ⓞ Summer of 1998 - Romy is pushed by Alexander to take her OWLs, and does ⓞ 1998/1999 School Year - Romy returns for her sixth year ⓞ June 2000 - Romy graduates with a few NEWTs, but also fails a few of her exams ⓞ July 2000 - Romy gets a job as a barmaid at The Hog's Head, managed by Seamus Finnigan Beautiful Annabelle Lewis had only been out of Hogwarts a few weeks when her new crup got off his leash and ran through a field and into the gardens of Vane Manor. She met Henry Vane, the Vane heir who was eight years her senior, as she was breaking into his garden to chase down her pet. They began courting, and were engaged in months. Henry's parents retired to one of their many vacation properties upon their marriage, bequeathing Vane Manor to his oldest son, Henry, and allowed him to take over the Vane vaults, properties, and business so that he could retire and enjoy his wife. Within two years, Henry and Annabelle had their first son, William, and a year and a half later, a second son, Alexander. Annabelle had always wanted a daughter, but after her two sons, a series of miscarriages followed, and also the death of her beloved dog. Giving up on her dream of ever having a daughter, she turned her life's ambition to reinventing herself as a romance author named Aria Crescendo, splitting her time between the fantasy world she wrote about in her novels and playing with her two young sons. After a total of five miscarriages and years of almost zero marital intimacy where Henry focused on the acquisition of property and wealth and Annabelle focused on writing and socializing and making mischief with the boys, the family was surprised to find out Annabelle was pregnant. The baby was the product of a rare frivolous and playful moment of romance between Henry and Annabelle when he came home early to find Annabelle in a luxurious bubble bath one afternoon while the boys were visiting their paternal grandparents. Alexander was already seven and a half and William was almost nine when Romilda was born. Annabelle was overjoyed to have a girl, and the family's house elves took over most of the parenting of the boys as a result of Annabelle's sudden infatuation with her daughter. Henry still tended to his sons, but he too was pleased over Romilda's arrival in no small part because of how happy it made Annabelle. It reignited the spark of their marriage, and so both parents immediately began to dote on their little princess. From the very beginning, Romy had a sense that the world revolved around her. As she began to get older and her brothers both went away to school, this was reinforced by her mother's rapt attention where Romy was treated largely like a living doll, and by her father's coddling and good spirits, showing her a softer side than he ever showed to his sons. Romy grew up with very few expectations of responsibility or decorum, and never wanted for anything. Only her brothers ever held her accountable at all, doing what they could to curb the brattiness their parents seemed to encourage, and look out for her anyway when they couldn't keep her in line. When it came time for her to attend Hogwarts, Romy staunchly refused, claiming she intended to be tutored at home and do what she pleased. Her mother embraced this wholeheartedly, not wanting to send her little princess away, and her father was going to allow it so as not to make Annabelle unhappy. It was only when her brother Alexander, who had just graduated, suggested she didn't want to go because she was too scared to leave the parents that Romy changed her mind. When she got there, no one was surprised that the bold, precocious young girl was sorted into Gryffindor. Despite her initial reluctance, Romy ended up loving school. She made friends quickly, and became popular in her year for her fearlessness and willingness to take risks, for she had never yet experienced any consequences for her actions. Losing house points and getting detention did little to deter her, and Romy's focus continued to be on the social milieu over her coursework. Luckily, she was bright enough that she didn't flunk out, and her belief that her status entitled her to do as she pleased largely persisted, though it came from a place of genuine ignorance and not any malice towards others. Romy believed in fairness as a principle, though she didn't see how privileged she was. This began to shift after her third year. That summer, while enjoying a party her parents threw that they let her stay up late to play grown up at, she charmed all of her parents' friends with her bubbly precociousness, bragging about being almost fourteen to anyone who would listen. Unfortunately, she charmed an associate of her father's too much, and the man waited for her to come out of the bathroom, calmly took her by the arm, and walked them both into a small, dimly lit linen closet. He told her she looked much older than thirteen, he flattered her young ego, and he told her that she could never tell anyone what was to happen next before he put his hand up her dress, took her virginity with his fingers, and touched her prematurely voluptuous chest. He convinced her that was the kind of attention she'd been looking for by making a spectacle of herself all night, and that proper ladies didn't behave that way because, unlike her, proper ladies didn't want to be touched that way. Romy believed it, because she felt shame that a part of her had enjoyed it, had felt special for the attention, even though she hadn't invited or wanted his touch. She never told her family about it, and instead, in processing this invasion against her body, twisted the experience into a coming of age story. When she returned to school, she raved to her friends of a mysterious older man who'd been so overcome by her at a party that he couldn't help but seduce her. She didn't say who it was or how old he was, exactly, but described it as a sexual awakening. It made her realize, she claimed, that she wanted a real relationship with someone more appropriate but just as dazzling. Fourth year was the year of her epic infatuation with Harry Potter. She pursued him relentlessly and remorselessly, if clumsily, inviting him to sit with her on the train (and accidentally insulting Neville and Luna by calling them unpopular in the process), trying out to be on his quidditch team (though she could scarcely fly and as soon as he asked her to do a lap, he kicked her out and she had to watch the try outs from the stands), and even resorted to giving him chocolates filled with love potion when she couldn't seem to catch his attention (though nothing ever came of that). Romy was disappointed when Harry and Ginny began dating, but cheerfully pestered Ginny for inside information to show she was fine, really. In the end, Romy accepted it the same way she accepted everything else: telling herself that whatever happened was what she wanted all along, because Romy always got what she wanted and wanted what she got. If rejection didn't matter, that was easier, at least, than feeling the sting. In her fifth year, everything changed. You Know Who was back, and Death Eaters were running the school, and Romy could just not abide by this. She joined Dumbledore's Army, because she was on Harry Potter's side and it was the Gryffindor thing to do. Besides, what other option was there? To sit back and take it? That just wasn't Romy's style. So she rebelled, mostly behind the scenes, causing trouble for the Death Eaters as best she could. It was a long and traumatizing year, because these detentions were much worse than past years, full of the pain of the cruciatus curse at the hands of other students being directed by the Carrows. But everything came to a head in March, when Romy finally had enough and spoke up on behalf of a student who seemed to have been mentally broken. Romy's righteous indignation flared and she insisted that they just couldn't treat students that way. Romy was kept after class, and ended up alone with Alecto Carrow. Panicking, Romy insisted that she'd better not do anything to her, because didn't she know who her father was? He was practically royal and so was she and Alecto would be sorry if she crossed her. The physical torture didn't last very long, and left no physical evidence, before Alecto realized just how much of Romilda's identity seemed built on being important. Since she had other detentions to supervise anyway, Alecto dragged the sobbing Romy by her hair to a closet in a dusty, infrequently used corridor to see if her suspicions were correct and that it would take almost no real effort on her part to break Romy. Alecto locked the girl in without a word. Romy waited a few moments until she thought Alecto would be gone, and then screamed for help, banging on the door until her knuckles bled. She wasn't sure how much time passed, maybe several hours, maybe a day. No one came. Romy cried until she was so dehydrated and exhausted and panicked that she thought she was dying. In fact, she'd just hyperventilated and lost consciousness, and woke to Alecto coming to see her. The woman curled her hands around Romy's neck, restricted her breathing with a bruising grip, and whispered nasty things about how no one had even noticed Romy was missing, how she was going to die in there, and that no one would care. And then she was gone again. This pattern repeated itself for over a week, until someone passing by happened to hear her. Michael Corner found Romy in the closet when he overheard her screaming in her sleep and let her out, carrying her to the Room of Requirement and healing the superficial wounds on her hands with simple spells. Food and water did the rest, at least in terms of the physical effects, and Romy lived the last few weeks of the school year without leaving the Room of Requirement. Many of the other DA members were painfully interrogated, but the Carrows never found out who let Romy out, and they never got into the Room of Requirement. All told, this experience taught Romy that for all her entitlement, anything could happen to anyone. Everything could be taken away in an instant. It had the strange impact of making her more determined to enjoy herself, as well as less concerned for her own well-being. When the Battle of Hogwarts began, Romy didn't hesitate to jump into the fray. She had a negligible impact, ending up batted by a giant in the courtyard, losing consciousness against some rubble, and being woken by an ennervate in the Great Hall to find out Harry Potter had killed You Know Who. As soon as Romy tried to move, she passed right out again on account of the pain, and woke in St. Mungo's hours later. That summer, her parents doted on her more than ever before, but her brother Alexander, whom she was closer to in age and intimacy than William, stayed home and pestered Romy into studying and taking her OWLs in preparation for returning to school next year without losing a year. With his encouragement, she did, but not because school was important to her. Because, on his suggestion, that was how she could overcome what had happened to her. If she didn't let that horrific year affect her, then it was like it had never happened at all. She put on a brave face and returned to school for both sixth and seventh years, and completed her education even though she only passed three of her six NEWT exams: Transfiguration with Outstanding, Defense Against the Dark Arts with Exceeds Expectations, and Charms with Acceptable). That meant she failed Potions and Astronomy with Poor and Ancient Runes with Dreadful. She did, in those final two years, take up an interest in magical photography, if only because Alexander gave her a camera as a birthday gift in sixth year. So, she joined the Photography Club and learned how to use it. Though she acted outwardly as though it was frivolous, it actually had great therapeutic value for Romy. Looking through a lens let Romy learn to see the world in a more grounded way, as opposed to the extreme perspective she had been left with after the war (entitlement and trauma, silliness and tragedy). Photography helped her to connect with reality in a way she never really had before. But even carrying that hobby on after finishing school was enough entertainment in the face of the life of parties and social events her mother wished for her to join in on. So, Romy got a job because after being out of school for less than a month, she found herself both bored and disillusioned with her perfect life of leisure and matchmaking of her mother's design. She used to love it, used to love helping her mother with her charities and shopping for new dresses every week. But she had learned through her experiences at the school during the war that her entitlement was just a comfort blanket, and that anything could be taken away at any time. Feeling antsy and uncomfortable with being stuck in her ivory tower and left to her own devices, Romy decided to get a job, even though she didn't need one. She wanted something fun and social and that would bring her into contact with people who were more interesting and real than the socialites in her family circles. She went to The Hog's Head, which she'd only ever patronized because of the DA, and was pleased to find charming, handsome Seamus Finnigan behind the counter. He hired her because he needed the help and on account of their shared history with the DA. She's enjoyed being a server, although her coworkers mostly don't seem to like her. They think she's slumming it, because she goes back home to her fancy family estate each night and doesn't really need the money. Still, Romy has fun there, and flirts outrageously with many of the patrons, as well as with Seamus himself. She may or may not have a burgeoning infatuation with the man. The only hiccup she encountered at her job was that her skin crawls at the idea of going into the storage room and risking the door shutting on her or anyone following her in. It is too small and reminds her too much of her bad experiences with closets. So this fuels her coworkers' view of her as lazy and entitled, as she avoids and delegates this task to others whenever possible. |
Player. Robyn Email. alieandvixx@gmail.com AIM. aforgetfulgirl CDJ. aforgetfulgirl Player's Hogwarts house. Hufflepuff! |