Hi all! I'm Ann, a 16 year old Iowan, although I've lived in Germany for five years. I participate in all the WriMos (or Writing Months) including the original and biggest, baddest fun fest - NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month - in November. It was through that I wrote my novel Build You Wings which I am currently revising.

I'm going to be a senior in high school this fall and when I'm not writing (Writing Year goal: 200,000 words in 2009) or at school I'm participating in History Day or Speech. History Day is a ten month research project which ends in three competitions - regionals, state and nationals. This year my paper on Oscar Wilde went to nationals but then went 11th out of 13th in my room. Ugh.

Anything else you want to know, just ask!



Describe your character in less than a paragraph.
Arista, "Ari", is a twenty-six year old head speech-writer for the Minister of Magic, who also happens to be half Scottish, half Greek. She loves ice cream and hates pink. She's reserved about her life to those who don't know her well. She loves her job and she's stubborn - really, really stubborn.

What's your posting style like?
During the summer I normally take a day to answer posts. During the school year it normally takes at the most three days to answer a post due to extreme amounts of homework.

I tend to focus on the thoughts of my character instead of the actions.

What sort of plots or roleplays are you interested in? Serious or light? Long-term or short?
For long-term, I would prefer serious. But for short-term, I prefer light-hearted.

First off, welcome to AG. :) Its a great site, with loads of great Charries, and my favorite plot that I've come across, and that's not just cos I'm part of it. ;)

So, I've only got one character,

Astrella Snipe, 28 about to turn 29, Unspeakable. She is headstrong, intelligent, and has a thirst to know the unknown. That's why she worked so hard to become an Unspeakable, and how she got sucked into creating the Fourth Unforgivable. But now, she's missing months of her life from her memory. The last thing she can remember is being in the Department of Mysteries working on a way to sabatoge the abomination that was the Fourth Unforgivable with Logan Fletcher.

So Astrella and Arista could've known each other through school, they only being a two years apart, or something. Possibly even the Ministry. Just lemme know, I'm always up for RP threads. :D

A NaNoer! Yay! I do NaNoWriMo, too, and ScriptFrenzy. My pen name's Katrina Marie Lupin if you want to go ahead and add me.

As for characters... I might recommend Artemius. He lives in the Leaky Cauldron, so he wanders Diagon Alley quite a bit. He also works at the Ministry, so you might bump into him at work, too. He's not always grumpy, just after standing in a hall by himself all day. Otherwise, he's much more fun. Although after a tough day, he'll get a bit emo over a glass of rum and cola, so watch the bar encounters.

As of yet, I have two characters: Artie and Griselda.

Artemius Baxby is a disillusioned young man whose world quite literally fell apart during the dreaded week. His mother, Elaine Baxby, a trained healer, is in particular a highly seasoned lycanthropologist. For many years, she had a Welsh cottage by the sea (hidden in the Muggle village of Tywyn) that was a converted bed-and-breakfast. It did not hold vacationers, however -- instead, it was home to newly changed lycans (since the whole family has a rule to not refer to them as werewolves, seeing the cruel and animalistic and unfair connotations with the word and "creature" in Wizarding society) and houses them as they adjust to this new way of life, providing them shelter, a loving family setting, Healing care, a sheilded, guarded forest for transformations, as well as the Wolf's Den -- a privately owned cafe that is reserved only for denizens past and present of Baxby Cottage and others of the same affliction. His father, a broker of sorts, also had a workplace in the midst of Tywyn, but when the magicless week came, both were discovered by Muggles and destroyed -- Blake Baxby did not survive, and after a month or so of recovery, Artie and Elaine are managing through her working at St. Mungo's and Baxby getting a boring, yet fairly well paying security job at the Ministry. His change in favours has him rather bitter, and you're liable to hear him grumble about bureaucracy over a rum and cola after hours at the Leaky Cauldron, toting pamphlets to raise money for a new Cottage, or blearily standing guard in the halls of the Ministry.

Griselda Campbell, on the other hand, is completely different. Bright and flamboyant, she exudes sexual confidence, and is often flaunting her ill-gotten fortunes -- she's the author of such novelists as Scottish Rose, Gaelic Geisha and Nile Queen. Unfortunately, before she was a successful novelist, she was a horrid gossip columnist, hidden under a pen name until she was pointed out by her former friend and now hated rival, Rita Skeeter, and had to flee the country for the sake of her name. Now, she is a cougar, preying on the young wizards of England, keeping an eye out for the subject of her next juicy, evil column...

To Astrella - Sounds good to me. I've been away from RPing formally for awhile, so it'll be nice to get into a new character and to RP with new people. Would you like to start it or should I?

Ari and Astrella could know each other from school but better know each other from the Ministry?

Artemius - Gisedela sounds very much like the temptess doesn't she? But since Ari is very subdued I believe Artemus would be the better choice. ;) Possibly have the two run into each other while wandering Diagon Alley?

Thank you both!

Yeah, no one's quite yet wanted to try her out yet. A little frustrating, as I want to give her a good test drive, but it'll happen eventually. As for Artemius, a Diagon Alley encounter would be fine. Would you like to start one or shall I?

(PM me in reply -- I don't want to be spamming your thread...)

Hey I'm Jemma...

I've currently got two characters here:

Kelsey Andersson: Kelsey is smart, nice, thoughtful, patient, sensitive, and likes to joke around. But when she get’s past her pressure point, she will explodeswith anger. She's ambitious, helpful and caring with it comes to toher people. By nature, Kelsey is an academic. She loves to learn. At times, Kelsey is reminded of her past and then becomes depressed; but this does not happen as much since she worked at Beauxbatons in France for over a year. When it comes to love and romance, she falls in and out of love very quickly, at her age she should be looking for a man to settle down with...but Mr Right has not yet arrived. Kelsey is the youngest of two girls (sister is Mattie Andersson) and is cousin to Nessa and she is currently working on Level Three of the Minsitry as a member of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad.

Derek D'Ambrosio: Derek is a six foot and 2 & half inches tall guy, with large hazel-green eyes; which any girl could fall right into. He has short, bed-messy brown hair, he doesn't usually use any product unless he is on a date or something. Derek is always clean shaven, unless it is the morning after the night before. Derek is known for his athletic build and is huge smile, even though he is naturally slender, you know that he is strong. He can bench press 290 lbs and deadlift about 300 lbs and also Derek is very fast for his height. Derek has recently had to have glasses, not telling anyone...but he has chosen to have contacts. Derek is a good looking boy, but he has never really believe it. When he was younger he uses to have acne, but due to the wonders of modern medicine his skin is all clear. Derek has a few childhood scars and no holes where there shouldn't be holes. He does have one tattoo of scriptive writing; the word is 'Loyal' and it is on his left wrist. Derek is American and attended Tagetes Academy and graduated in 2014. Derek is currently the Quidditch world Cup Organizer at the Ministry.

Welcome Ann! Germany you say? Sounds fun. I’m Apollo, just coming back from a three week (or is it a month now? *shrug* no matter) long absence, so apologies for not posting here sooner. Anyway I play Apollo Sinistra, Zippy Sinistra, and Sofia Robards.

Apollo Sinistra: He’s a flamboyant fashion freak with a love of glitter, gold, shimmery things in general and the latest trend – usually created by him. He’s a co-owner of the Sinistra Secondhand Shop with his twin sister Artemis and the fashion ‘prophet’ for the daily prophet. Apollo is also a proud member of the boy’s club (Atlas, Jasper, Wendell, Will and himself). He’s pretty fun loving and knows everyone and everything that needs to be known about social scenes and fashion – oh and he’ll hit on anyone. He’s currently father’s a love child that he doesn’t know about with Carmen and well open to making more friends or offering fashion advice. So if she needs a good time, fling, or just some fashion let me know and Apollo can get it done.

Zippy Sinistra: Apollo and Artemis’s slightly insane grandfather that is an ex-unspeakable. They retired him at a young age when he started talking to things no one else could see, which isn’t that crazy when you account he did a lot of work with trying to communicate and discover the spirit world. If you ever need a bumbling old man that has information about the world of unspeakable to talk to he’s your man. Granted you will have to wade through lots of nonsense before you get any sense.

Sofia Robards: She’s the newly made department head of aurors (one of the youngest in history) that comes from a long line of prestigious purebloods and aurors. She fell in love with one of her contacts (Wendell Darrow) and broke him out of jail then found out he died and then started dating him in his alter-ego form of Dillan Wentworth who posing as an auror. Fell in love again. Then she found out the whole Dillan is really Wendell thing and is not all that emotionally balanced to say the least. They are both workers for the ministry so there might be some sort of friendship there? Especially since Arista now works for Will and Will just left Level 2. Let me know if you have any ideas. The ministry is a big place but Sofia probably goes to Will for advice since there is really no one left to mentor her on her job and probably spends a bit of time hanging out in his office waiting for him? Dunno up for ideas.