Accio Goblet!

( They would make kind of a cute couple )

Another meme! Sorry it's so close to the last one. I was thinking about this the other day as I realised I still listen to songs from the may02 soundtrack. Then this morning IJ was down so I was pratting about on youtube...

OKAY. Post a comment with your character's name as the title. If you have a song that reminds you of this character, or you can think of one that fits them pretty well, then post a link to it in the comment. Everyone else, if you have songs that you think fit that character, post them as comments to the comment.

I'll start.

I don't have any icons up yet. Deal with it, bitches. I spend precious little time at home at the moment and then last night IJ went down just before I got home and came back again ten minutes after I went to bed. So this is all me typing things at work, then emailing them to myself so I can post on my phone. Booya! Fuck you and your internet restrictions, work. *ahem* It's Alison, by the way.

This is Valentina. She's 18 and the BFF of one Remy Laurent. She's a Beauxbaton's student and originally from Italy. Basically what you have to know about Valentina is that she's sweet and kind and lovely and obliging and helpful, but only if she trusts you. Otherwise, she's as cold as ice. (I kept getting 'Sunday Girl' in my head while I was writing her... "cold as ice-cream but still as sweet...") She is ALL OVER Remy and probably friends with the other Beauxbaton students too (just because there's not many of us and we have to stick together!). Hogwarts and Durmstrang students may have been able to get to know her, usually by being friends with Remy. Otherwise, they will get the cold face. Sorry. Valentina is like a modern day Cinderella with a wicked stepmother, neglectful father and ugly half-sisters. This makes her shy of people but also really clingy when it comes to people she likes. She's good with animals, and also skilled in Divination and, bizarrely, DADA. She's pretty smart. If you're her friend she will basically do anything you ask her to. She's in Choir, Drama club, and Fashion Club.

So... friends? Potential prince charmings? (Who arent gay please - she had a disastrous kiss with Remy before he realised he was gay.) People who think she's a snob? Hit me.

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. It's Alison. This boy here is Luke and this icon will probably never be used IC as he's not very silly. He's pretty serious, actually. Luke is a 7th year Ravenclaw, his real name is Julian but he prefers to be known by his middle name because he's obsessed with Star Wars. Yup, he's a muggle-born and a giant geek. Why he would prefer the world of Star Wars to the world of Harry Potter? Well, the grass is always greener, I guess. Anyways. He's a little socially awkward and quiet but he's sweet. He works hard and gets brilliant grades and tries not to draw attention to himself because he tends to attract bullies. He wants to be your friend, if you're not too loud or scary, and if any girl wants to have dated him and scared him half to death, that would be cool too. I doubt any of your characters would be bullies, but if I'm wrong, let me know on that score too.

Looking forward to diving in!

Yeah... I don't even know. I tried to write a third person thing for Yakov to fulfil his activity requirement this month, and he was annoying me bring all gloomy so I shoved him in the lake. If your character wants to have done it, go for it. Otherwise I'll assume it was some npc who never comes forward.

Here is Barney in his dress robes. Nothing can tame the hair.

Here is Yakov in his - doesn't he scrub up nice?

Lee has no photos in suits, so here is another black kid with cool hair wearing Lee's robes and Lee's nonchalant stance.

This doesn't look anything like Mel, but she tells me she is wearing this dress. There are no photos of Mel in dresses that are even remotely decent for a school affair!

Someone needs to comment to Yakov asking him if dreidel is a euphemism for penis. Pleeeeeease. I guess I should say that although Jews make up 0.5% of the UK population, Judaism doesn't seem to have as large a profile here as it does in the US. Until I was 22, I had met a grand total of 2 Jews in my life, and knew more about Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism than Judaism. I actually learned about dreidels from watching South Park. So... other people may have different experiences based on their backgrounds but it would be totally plausible for people to not know what the hell Yakov is talking about, because I wouldn't have at that age. JUST SAYING.

Anyway, that actually wasn't what I wanted to post about. Here is Lee. He says hi, especially to the girls. I am going to do a post for him in a minute about who he is thinking of asking to the ball, but first I just wanted to say that as part of his being unable to say no to pretty girls thing, any girl who wanted to ask Lee first would get a yes. So if that is plot you want, just let me know. Also let me know if you want any of mine for anything at all :-)

Barney will ask Audrey, and presumably this will fall through at some point because of Adrian, and then he will ask Allegra.
Yakov will ask Alexa, and if she won't go, he will likely not try anyone else because he is not very confident. If anyone wants to ask him, go ahead. He will likely say yes.
Lee is open.
Mel is going to ask Cormac, but not yet. She will wait to be asked by someone and then be like WAIT I AM A STRONG INDEPENDENT WOMAN I DON'T NEED TO WAIT FOR BOYS TO ASK ME.

Who are you asking to the ball?

Hiiii it's Alison again. Sorry about the boring journal names, by the way. I'm getting easily confused these days so I'm trying to get the journal names for each game next to or near each other on my lj login menu (which is sorted alphabetically). This will only make sense to firefox users who use the lj login button, and possibly not all of those. Ah well.

So this young man is Yakov Poliakoff, a 7th year boy from Durmstrang. Yakov is pronounced Yak-cove but he doesn't really care much if you get it wrong. He is very easygoing, y'see. Canonically, he wants wine and spills food all down the front of his robes, so you get a character based around that :-P He's a total slob, and he loves food more than anything. You'd think he'd be fat but apparently his metabolism is in his favour in that respect. I bet he's going to get one hell of a belly in his late twenties, though. He's Jewish but blatantly eats pork when his dad isn't there to stop him. Don't think he's not devout though! If someone tries to get him to work on the Sabbath, he is suddenly Jewish again ;-)

His bio is here if you want to read it. It's actually quite sad because his dad basically pressured him so much and made him feel like such a failure that he gave up trying to be anything. Your characters won't know that, though. They'll just see a lazy, messy, affable and fairly cheerful boy who spills food and needs to be tricked or coerced into changing his underwear before it stinks up the castle. (Oh yeah, ladies, he's a catch.) He needs girls to mother him and persuade him to wash his hair, and boys to be boys with. Enemies and people who are overcome by his grossness also welcome!

Tonight at dinner, Fred and George and Lee are messing about with the gravy boat, pretending like Lee is scared of it, and just generally being playful and idiotic. In the course of the fun, they are going to spill gravy on the floor. When Lee gets up from the table he is going to get distracted by a pretty girl and slip on the gravy, right on his ass. He'll look like an idiot, the pretty girl will laugh at him, and he'll break his coccyx (tailbone). I think lots of people will have seen this, so feel free to post about it, or help him up to the hospital wing (any volunteers to be the pretty girl who distracts him?). He'll be in the hospital wing tonight and all day tomorrow, then will come out tomorrow night after dinner. It's quite painful, but mainly just embarrassing :-)

Hey guys! I have Lee Jordan for you today. Lee is, as you know him, the usual Quidditch commentator at Hogwarts, the best friend of Fred and George, and general maker of mischief. He likes Quidditch, music, and pretty girls. His bio is here but if you're lazy just assume your character is friends with him because he's awesome - unless your character isn't awesome, that is. I've put him down as the bassist for The Unnamed Band for added plot - hope that's cool with Ren? Girls, he will do anything you ask if you're pretty and/or showing cleavage (especially if you're Angelina). Aaaand Slytherin, he doesn't like you on match days, but he will overlook your house the rest of the time. Oh, and he has a tarantula. Now someone pick up Fred, George, and Kenneth.

Hi, I'm Alison and I live to confuse. Just posting to say that the mods have graciously allowed me to re-app Alicia as Demelza, because I'm thinking of applying George and it would be even more confusing to play Alica and George at once. If you've read Alicia's bio, Demelza's is almost the same, but with a couple of tweaks because she's not on the Quidditch team (yet), is in 5th year, and doesn't know Harry as well. Hopefully she'll still be friends with many if not most of the same people, but if you think this may change things with our characters (e.g. if your 6th year would be less likely to talk to a 5th year, or if your 5th year will know her now) just comment to let me know :-)

Hey guys! I'm Alison and I have two characters here (so far... anyone who's played with me before will probably know I laugh in the face of character limits :-P). You can reach me by email at herringprincess at gmail dot com, on AIM (sometimes) as imphandsosmywife, and my CDJ is at fuckyeahbadgers.

Character one is Barney Dunstan, a bouncy and somewhat clueless Hufflepuff in Cedric's year. He's very sporty, very physical, he lives on a farm and he has the worst case of verbal diarrhoea known to man. He just cannot stop saying everything that comes into his head, and it makes other people's heads hurt apparently. Ah well. He's a sweet guy, not a malicious bone in his body, but he's a bit dim and clueless about a lot of things, including girls. His bio is here if you want to check it out. He's Team Cedric all the way :-)

The other is Alicia Spinnet (accio_alicia), who is a... highly opinionated young lady. Other than Quidditch, she's most well known for being very outspoken, especially with regards to feminism. She's friendly and smart and if you can deal with having debates every five minutes about everything under the sun, she'd be a good friend to have. Her bio is here. Alicia is good friends with Harry and so she's Team Harry. She does, however, enjoy looking at Cedric, so she will probably giggle cheer for him as well ;-)

Looking forward to playing with you all! Let me know if you think your characters and mine can be friends... or enemies... or whatever! I've left Barney's mother's name blank if anyone wants to be cousins, and I've also given Alicia a sister in the year above, if anyone's interested in applying for her :-D