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Feb. 23rd, 2017 02:55 amtsingtauenseBASICS
Your name or nickname: Merry
Your year of birth: []
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Link to your hold comment: word
Referral: already in game
Character name: Lily Juno Evans Potter
Character type: Fandom character (with the ittiest touch of previous game importing)
Fandom/Canon: Harry Potter/books
Character DW journal:tsingtauense
Does this character have previous CR?: Nope! Not even with present castmates.
HISTORY
[HP wiki entry]
Once upon a time, a Fairy Queen was born to a poor but loving family, who didn't know she was a fairy queen. When they found out, they were so happy! and resolved to help her find her true destiny: to explore the world, learn exciting skills, fight wicked villains, rescue the knight who would prove her one true love, and they'd all live happily ever after. The end.
She almost managed to follow that plan.
Lily Juno Evans was born 30 January, 1960, into a muggle household. She discovered her magic while playing on a hillside with her older sister, Petunia. The neighboring boy, lonely outcast Severus Snape, told her she was a witch, presented himself as a wizard, and aided and encouraged her spellcasting.
Mr and Mrs Evans were proud, supportive parents who had always said they would be so no matter what. Lily coming out as a witch proved no exception: they were able and eager to accept it.
The same could sadly not be said of Petunia.
Both these close childhood relationships, Severus and Petunia, would fall apart. But have lasting impact on Lily's legacy.
At age eleven, Lily and Severus were excited to set off for Hogwarts School together. Their expectations, however, proved quite different. Severus was counting on the future being him and Lily against the world. Lily was excited and eager to meet as many other people as possible; and started right away. Severus, possessive and jealous of his only friend, dealt badly, drifting ever closer to the Dark Arts and Death Eaters. Lily tried to intervene to no avail. She ended their friendship in their fifth year.
The foundations were laid in school for Lily's postgraduate activities. She joined the Order of the Phoenix in the First Wizarding War, personally defied Voldemort three times, alongside her school-boyfriend and then husband, James Potter—with whom she was soon expecting a child. A prophecy about a child who might prove to be theirs forced them go into hiding.
They had a son, Harry, in 1980, in their secret home in Godric's Hollow, which was protected from discovery by the Fidelius Charm. It was Lily's idea to make Peter Pettigrew, of all their friends, their Secret Keeper; not just (as she persuaded James) because Peter was a less obvious choice than Sirius Black or Remus Lupin, but because (as she persuaded Dumbledore) Peter had never really risen to his potential. Perhaps, because he'd never really been trusted with enough. She was sure he would rise to it.
When Voldemort broke into their home, she had little time to reflect on how wrong she must have been.
She heard James murdered.
Voldemort gave her the opportunity to leave with her life.
She refused.
Not because she didn't want to live without her family (though she didn't), nor believing her self-sacrifice would save her son (though, unbeknownst to her, it did).
But because if her son's short, short life was going to end tonight, whether he was aware of what was happening or not, the last thing in it would be his mother staying with him, fighting for him, and loving him. Even if it killed her.
So she stayed.
And it killed her.
Previous game developments: Lily wakes up on a spaceship bound for the terraformed colony "New Dodge". Her last memory is of being struck down by Voldemort. She doesn't imagine she was killed—or doesn't care either way. If James is dead, which she heard happen, and Harry dead, which had been imminent, then it doesn't matter whether she's still technically "alive" or not. For some reason, she apparently has to continue.
She assumed she must have been rescued from the rubble by Dumbledore/the Order, that the gaps in her memory are from trauma, and is in this colony (…once space travel, time fluency, and the multiverse are explained to her—being muggle-born, science-minded, and extensively well-read, it doesn't take as long as it might) for her protection, or to rehabilitate, or… something. She only knew she couldn't attempt to return and aid the war effort without reclaiming control of her currently shellshocked powers.
So she spent time in the colony, a place peaceful for being isolated and barren. It was a state of regressing since the barracks were more like living back at school than in a house. She gardened in the greenhouse, caught up on nonmagical botanical science, did chores, and kept to a schedule… even if it all felt a bit like sleepwalking. It was a worthy enough cause… to help build an entirely new world, without the baggage of her old one… and simultaneously get away from herself and get back to some semblance of herself.
All she had of her old life were her wand, wrapped in a baby blanket. She didn't touch either for months. She avoided doing magic.
Then something happened that made her cast a spell—an explosion, a cave-in, a fire. She grabbed her wand and raced in to try and save somebody. There was a blinding blast: perhaps the spell was too late and the disaster happened, or the spell backfired. But suddenly… she's coming up through the Fountain.
(The reasons I want to treat her as a previous-game-import: to have her already initiated to the concepts of a multiverse, and for her to have experienced existing a while with her losses.)
PERSONALITY OVERVIEW
Lily J. E. Potter on earth: "Uncommonly kind". Gave of herself so fully and willingly, to anyone and everyone, as only the phenomenally self-possessed and secure can do. Her incredible inner strength fueled her to be almost inexhaustibly gentle. She would occasionally choose not to be. Just because she approaches everyone with an assumption of goodwill doesn't mean she's not prepared to be proven wrong, and won't act accordingly. The only times she's really yelled at anyone have been in defense of someone else—or when she finally gives up on all other methods when it's absolutely called for. (…Which is also in defense of someone else, really. That someone just happens to be the same person as the one she's yelling at. See: Severus Snape.) Though she'd led a somewhat sheltered—some might say "charmed"—life, she was not blind to the nature of the world, was wise beyond her years, and decided that the best way to approach the pain of the world is not to add to it. Not even assume she can fix it, but fight entropy the only way anyone really can: in whatever increment is available, with steadfastness, not worrying about winning, only about easing and enduring. Because the bad things in the world just make the good things all the more worth appreciating and fostering; whether one can overcome the other is irrelevant. …Except… or even… in war…?
"Ell Evans" in New Dodge: …numb. Is probably the word. Maybe shock. She doesn't give the impression of being in shock. But there are issues on which her brain simply shuts down. All personal and introspective. She's still very in touch with the world around her—far more so than the world within—but you can't rule out triggers. There may be some memory loss. It doesn't occur to her that she was killed, for example. Then again, she considers that possibility pretty much irrelevant. Except that it may explain why it also doesn't occur to her to try to take her own life… but no, she's not the suicidal type. Not even under these circumstances. But you'd think the thought would at least, dispassionately as an option out in the universe even if one she would reject, have crossed her mind.
Lily insixthiteration: If New Dodge was a haven, the Canyon is like… being back in hiding from the war. But not any of the wars she'd chosen: not the Wizarding War nor the defense of her family… rather, it is against forces (whatever brought them here and to whatever end) with which she has no particular investment or quarrel, and ultimately about doing that which she's already done once, and lost, and doesn't particularly want to do again: finding a purpose and an individual identity.
At the same time… this is the first time she's been out in the world (—a world) as a single adult. (New Dodge had still allowed avoiding this fact by letting her be subsumed into a collective. Here… more self-determination is required to survive.) She married James and had Harry right out of school, while already committed to the war effort. She's never lived on her own, or sought work, or been outside the Wizarding fold. For all she's a wise and knowledgeable person, from being interested and attentive and imaginative to the stories of others in books and vicarious experience, it's coming home to her that she has had a rather sheltered life. (If not a particularly sheltered death.)
And, painful and impossible as it may seem, she's still prone to care and to love. She'll want to help people, and start to connect and invest in this world. Perhaps the fact that it's not the world in which she'd lost James and Harry will actually make that more acceptable to her.
So, in spite of herself, she will care, and will engage against dangers to defend them, and if that opens the floodgates of her trauma and grief… it will also make a reality that, whether she died on Earth or not, she is alive now. And being stuck with it, she has to deal with it.
…But… how can one move on and accept the loss of people who may appear at any time? How do you get on with a life without always looking to the fountain to provide the dead? And what if it provides someone you don't want to face?
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
What skills does your character bring to the situation?: Lily was "a singularly gifted witch"[SRC], possibly one of the "brightest of her age". "A talented student, Lily was a member of the Slug Club and was made Head Girl in her seventh year,"[HPW] a position once filled by Minerva McGonagall. The Slug Club were Professor Slughorn's handpicked brightest and best, for a variety attributes—in Lily's case probably "charm and/or talent". Lily had a particular gift for Charmwork (including Patronus Charm, with a corollary in Transfiguration), was an "excellent potioneer" (according to Slughorn[wiki]), and a powerful enough duellist to defy and escape the likes of Voldemort three times; and her strength of Love (and self-sacrifice—call it "will"/"purity of motive"?) created its own world-bending magic that fueled and changed in history.
In New Dodge, she studied and cultivated her mastery of nonmagickal botany. Her potioneering skills translated well to analog. She needs more experience to be fully confident but could already serve capably as an apothecary.
Here, most deliberate spellcasting will be beyond her—wandless casting was never her forte, as well as her continued difficulty channeling and controlling her power. But love—any emotional intensity rooted in Love, however that's defined/manifested—will provide a direct power boost to her magic (bringing it up to the allotted 20%).
Explain how your character would react to the following:
- Discovering that their memories may have been tampered with: Don't you dare—they're all that's left of Harry and James. —After an initial flush of violated rage, she'll try to methodically set up safeguards to protect herself. Lacking books, it'll be tough, but she'll write down all the spells she can think of that might be remotely relevant, then try casting them on herself, and/or trying to teach herself occlumency (even if lacking a legilimens to test it against [unless Queenie wants to volunteer?], it is reduced to more a meditative practice).
- Having to do physical labor to survive: Full willingly. If she can muster enough magic to help, she'd be extremely glad to extend that benefit to anyone else. The things she would want to do the long/hard/nonmagical way would include anything to do with planting and gardening and continuing to study nonmagickal potionry.
- Having to share resources with others: Yes. Needs a community for her sanity. In fact, will emphatically not want to live alone.
- Being unable to leave the area: If she learns that Harry lived… it'll go hand in hand with the knowledge that his life continues without her… so in fact she'll assume that if she goes back to Earth, she'll be dead. Thus, she might as well stay here where she can be useful, whether by anyone's "design" or not.
- Doing without modern conveniences and technology and/or being around tech more advanced than they're used to: She just came from a terraformed settlement on a spacefaring planet—extremely high and depressingly low tech hand in hand—so any technoshock will be tempered. The biggest challenge will be making do without a wand. She can do wandless magic but finds it less precise and less effortless—doable but a bit frustrating/claustrophobic for something that's so important and usually more fluent.
- Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable: Thanks to her time in New Dodge, is already on her way to processing and accepting these things. It's too late for to blame whoever brought her to the Canyon for that; Voldemort beat them to it. She doesn't imagine she could undo it even if she could leave here. She may not be certain why she's here now, but will take the opportunity to enjoy being back in nature and try to learn more. It feels like a third reincarnation, and in the face of such forces, one can only be humble and do one's best. If she ever recovers enough from James's death and losing Harry to stop feeling like she's been put out to pasture and regain interest in moving forward with a new life… it would likely be in an entirely new direction. A fourth time.
WRITING SAMPLES
[1. meme] Test drive meme
[2.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
boomtown] a day in New Dodge
[3.sixthiteration arrival]
Your name or nickname: Merry
Your year of birth: []
A reliable DW account the mods can PM to reach you:
candor1Link to your hold comment: word
Referral: already in game
Character name: Lily Juno Evans Potter
Character type: Fandom character (with the ittiest touch of previous game importing)
Fandom/Canon: Harry Potter/books
Character DW journal:
tsingtauenseDoes this character have previous CR?: Nope! Not even with present castmates.
HISTORY
[HP wiki entry]
Once upon a time, a Fairy Queen was born to a poor but loving family, who didn't know she was a fairy queen. When they found out, they were so happy! and resolved to help her find her true destiny: to explore the world, learn exciting skills, fight wicked villains, rescue the knight who would prove her one true love, and they'd all live happily ever after. The end.
She almost managed to follow that plan.
Lily Juno Evans was born 30 January, 1960, into a muggle household. She discovered her magic while playing on a hillside with her older sister, Petunia. The neighboring boy, lonely outcast Severus Snape, told her she was a witch, presented himself as a wizard, and aided and encouraged her spellcasting.
Mr and Mrs Evans were proud, supportive parents who had always said they would be so no matter what. Lily coming out as a witch proved no exception: they were able and eager to accept it.
The same could sadly not be said of Petunia.
Both these close childhood relationships, Severus and Petunia, would fall apart. But have lasting impact on Lily's legacy.
At age eleven, Lily and Severus were excited to set off for Hogwarts School together. Their expectations, however, proved quite different. Severus was counting on the future being him and Lily against the world. Lily was excited and eager to meet as many other people as possible; and started right away. Severus, possessive and jealous of his only friend, dealt badly, drifting ever closer to the Dark Arts and Death Eaters. Lily tried to intervene to no avail. She ended their friendship in their fifth year.
The foundations were laid in school for Lily's postgraduate activities. She joined the Order of the Phoenix in the First Wizarding War, personally defied Voldemort three times, alongside her school-boyfriend and then husband, James Potter—with whom she was soon expecting a child. A prophecy about a child who might prove to be theirs forced them go into hiding.
They had a son, Harry, in 1980, in their secret home in Godric's Hollow, which was protected from discovery by the Fidelius Charm. It was Lily's idea to make Peter Pettigrew, of all their friends, their Secret Keeper; not just (as she persuaded James) because Peter was a less obvious choice than Sirius Black or Remus Lupin, but because (as she persuaded Dumbledore) Peter had never really risen to his potential. Perhaps, because he'd never really been trusted with enough. She was sure he would rise to it.
When Voldemort broke into their home, she had little time to reflect on how wrong she must have been.
She heard James murdered.
Voldemort gave her the opportunity to leave with her life.
She refused.
Not because she didn't want to live without her family (though she didn't), nor believing her self-sacrifice would save her son (though, unbeknownst to her, it did).
But because if her son's short, short life was going to end tonight, whether he was aware of what was happening or not, the last thing in it would be his mother staying with him, fighting for him, and loving him. Even if it killed her.
So she stayed.
And it killed her.
Previous game developments: Lily wakes up on a spaceship bound for the terraformed colony "New Dodge". Her last memory is of being struck down by Voldemort. She doesn't imagine she was killed—or doesn't care either way. If James is dead, which she heard happen, and Harry dead, which had been imminent, then it doesn't matter whether she's still technically "alive" or not. For some reason, she apparently has to continue.
She assumed she must have been rescued from the rubble by Dumbledore/the Order, that the gaps in her memory are from trauma, and is in this colony (…once space travel, time fluency, and the multiverse are explained to her—being muggle-born, science-minded, and extensively well-read, it doesn't take as long as it might) for her protection, or to rehabilitate, or… something. She only knew she couldn't attempt to return and aid the war effort without reclaiming control of her currently shellshocked powers.
So she spent time in the colony, a place peaceful for being isolated and barren. It was a state of regressing since the barracks were more like living back at school than in a house. She gardened in the greenhouse, caught up on nonmagical botanical science, did chores, and kept to a schedule… even if it all felt a bit like sleepwalking. It was a worthy enough cause… to help build an entirely new world, without the baggage of her old one… and simultaneously get away from herself and get back to some semblance of herself.
All she had of her old life were her wand, wrapped in a baby blanket. She didn't touch either for months. She avoided doing magic.
Then something happened that made her cast a spell—an explosion, a cave-in, a fire. She grabbed her wand and raced in to try and save somebody. There was a blinding blast: perhaps the spell was too late and the disaster happened, or the spell backfired. But suddenly… she's coming up through the Fountain.
(The reasons I want to treat her as a previous-game-import: to have her already initiated to the concepts of a multiverse, and for her to have experienced existing a while with her losses.)
PERSONALITY OVERVIEW
Lily J. E. Potter on earth: "Uncommonly kind". Gave of herself so fully and willingly, to anyone and everyone, as only the phenomenally self-possessed and secure can do. Her incredible inner strength fueled her to be almost inexhaustibly gentle. She would occasionally choose not to be. Just because she approaches everyone with an assumption of goodwill doesn't mean she's not prepared to be proven wrong, and won't act accordingly. The only times she's really yelled at anyone have been in defense of someone else—or when she finally gives up on all other methods when it's absolutely called for. (…Which is also in defense of someone else, really. That someone just happens to be the same person as the one she's yelling at. See: Severus Snape.) Though she'd led a somewhat sheltered—some might say "charmed"—life, she was not blind to the nature of the world, was wise beyond her years, and decided that the best way to approach the pain of the world is not to add to it. Not even assume she can fix it, but fight entropy the only way anyone really can: in whatever increment is available, with steadfastness, not worrying about winning, only about easing and enduring. Because the bad things in the world just make the good things all the more worth appreciating and fostering; whether one can overcome the other is irrelevant. …Except… or even… in war…?
"Ell Evans" in New Dodge: …numb. Is probably the word. Maybe shock. She doesn't give the impression of being in shock. But there are issues on which her brain simply shuts down. All personal and introspective. She's still very in touch with the world around her—far more so than the world within—but you can't rule out triggers. There may be some memory loss. It doesn't occur to her that she was killed, for example. Then again, she considers that possibility pretty much irrelevant. Except that it may explain why it also doesn't occur to her to try to take her own life… but no, she's not the suicidal type. Not even under these circumstances. But you'd think the thought would at least, dispassionately as an option out in the universe even if one she would reject, have crossed her mind.
Lily in
sixthiteration: If New Dodge was a haven, the Canyon is like… being back in hiding from the war. But not any of the wars she'd chosen: not the Wizarding War nor the defense of her family… rather, it is against forces (whatever brought them here and to whatever end) with which she has no particular investment or quarrel, and ultimately about doing that which she's already done once, and lost, and doesn't particularly want to do again: finding a purpose and an individual identity.At the same time… this is the first time she's been out in the world (—a world) as a single adult. (New Dodge had still allowed avoiding this fact by letting her be subsumed into a collective. Here… more self-determination is required to survive.) She married James and had Harry right out of school, while already committed to the war effort. She's never lived on her own, or sought work, or been outside the Wizarding fold. For all she's a wise and knowledgeable person, from being interested and attentive and imaginative to the stories of others in books and vicarious experience, it's coming home to her that she has had a rather sheltered life. (If not a particularly sheltered death.)
And, painful and impossible as it may seem, she's still prone to care and to love. She'll want to help people, and start to connect and invest in this world. Perhaps the fact that it's not the world in which she'd lost James and Harry will actually make that more acceptable to her.
So, in spite of herself, she will care, and will engage against dangers to defend them, and if that opens the floodgates of her trauma and grief… it will also make a reality that, whether she died on Earth or not, she is alive now. And being stuck with it, she has to deal with it.
…But… how can one move on and accept the loss of people who may appear at any time? How do you get on with a life without always looking to the fountain to provide the dead? And what if it provides someone you don't want to face?
PERSONALITY QUESTIONS
What skills does your character bring to the situation?: Lily was "a singularly gifted witch"[SRC], possibly one of the "brightest of her age". "A talented student, Lily was a member of the Slug Club and was made Head Girl in her seventh year,"[HPW] a position once filled by Minerva McGonagall. The Slug Club were Professor Slughorn's handpicked brightest and best, for a variety attributes—in Lily's case probably "charm and/or talent". Lily had a particular gift for Charmwork (including Patronus Charm, with a corollary in Transfiguration), was an "excellent potioneer" (according to Slughorn[wiki]), and a powerful enough duellist to defy and escape the likes of Voldemort three times; and her strength of Love (and self-sacrifice—call it "will"/"purity of motive"?) created its own world-bending magic that fueled and changed in history.
In New Dodge, she studied and cultivated her mastery of nonmagickal botany. Her potioneering skills translated well to analog. She needs more experience to be fully confident but could already serve capably as an apothecary.
Here, most deliberate spellcasting will be beyond her—wandless casting was never her forte, as well as her continued difficulty channeling and controlling her power. But love—any emotional intensity rooted in Love, however that's defined/manifested—will provide a direct power boost to her magic (bringing it up to the allotted 20%).
Explain how your character would react to the following:
- Discovering that their memories may have been tampered with: Don't you dare—they're all that's left of Harry and James. —After an initial flush of violated rage, she'll try to methodically set up safeguards to protect herself. Lacking books, it'll be tough, but she'll write down all the spells she can think of that might be remotely relevant, then try casting them on herself, and/or trying to teach herself occlumency (even if lacking a legilimens to test it against [unless Queenie wants to volunteer?], it is reduced to more a meditative practice).
- Having to do physical labor to survive: Full willingly. If she can muster enough magic to help, she'd be extremely glad to extend that benefit to anyone else. The things she would want to do the long/hard/nonmagical way would include anything to do with planting and gardening and continuing to study nonmagickal potionry.
- Having to share resources with others: Yes. Needs a community for her sanity. In fact, will emphatically not want to live alone.
- Being unable to leave the area: If she learns that Harry lived… it'll go hand in hand with the knowledge that his life continues without her… so in fact she'll assume that if she goes back to Earth, she'll be dead. Thus, she might as well stay here where she can be useful, whether by anyone's "design" or not.
- Doing without modern conveniences and technology and/or being around tech more advanced than they're used to: She just came from a terraformed settlement on a spacefaring planet—extremely high and depressingly low tech hand in hand—so any technoshock will be tempered. The biggest challenge will be making do without a wand. She can do wandless magic but finds it less precise and less effortless—doable but a bit frustrating/claustrophobic for something that's so important and usually more fluent.
- Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable: Thanks to her time in New Dodge, is already on her way to processing and accepting these things. It's too late for to blame whoever brought her to the Canyon for that; Voldemort beat them to it. She doesn't imagine she could undo it even if she could leave here. She may not be certain why she's here now, but will take the opportunity to enjoy being back in nature and try to learn more. It feels like a third reincarnation, and in the face of such forces, one can only be humble and do one's best. If she ever recovers enough from James's death and losing Harry to stop feeling like she's been put out to pasture and regain interest in moving forward with a new life… it would likely be in an entirely new direction. A fourth time.
WRITING SAMPLES
[1. meme] Test drive meme
[2.
boomtown] a day in New Dodge[3.
sixthiteration arrival]
