Isabella Shannon O'Conner||Elsewhere Adult Application

[Isabella OConner]

E L S E W H E R E   A D U L T

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Isabella (Bella) Shannon O'Conner
Gender: Female
Age: Eighteen
Blood Status: Pureblood.

Education: 
Up until the time Bella attended Hogwarts, at age 11, she received instruction in magic and academic basics from her parents and their fellow dig site members, plus a little arts instruction from relatives when her family was able to escape from dig sites to visit.  At age 11, after her family relocated back to the United Kingdom, Bella was sorted into Ravenclaw, and for one term was Prefect and Quidditch Captain. After she graduated, in 1950, she has tried to call on her father's and relatives' connections in the Britsh Ministry of Magic to try and land an apprenticeship on a Department of Mysteries Field Team, while learning much more about ancient and modern day wizarding cultures and history, so that she can hopefully follow in her parents' footsteps, and become a great magical archaeologist and anthropologist.

Residence:
A small, but tasteful two bedroom townhouse that borders Godric Park, but also spends a lot of time in Connacht, Ireland where her family's seat is visiting relatives, and visiting her parents and younger siblings in a larger five bedroom house, also bordering Godric Park.

Occupation
Apprentice Magical Archaeologist & Anthropologist

Do you plan to have a connection to a particular existing place (for example: the Ministry, Shrieking Shack) or to take over an existing shop in need of new management?
Going to apply to the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries as an apprentice if my application is accepted, and be one that volunteers constantly at the Children's Home.

Requested Magic Levels:
Adult characters have 32 starting levels to distribute across these four categories (less levels can be used if you so desire, but no more than 32). The number of levels on the lowest ability must be at least half of the highest ability.

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• Charms: 7
• Divination: 10
• Transfiguration: 7
• Summoning: 8

Do you wish to be approved as a group with any other characters? If so who and for what IC reason?
Nope.

Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
Irene Cecily O'Conner, Kynan O'Conner, Collin O'Conner, Sanja Waldemar, etc.

Biography: (300 words minimum.)
Isabella was named after her mother, great-great grandmother, and great grandmother.  It has always been very common in her family that children are named after relatives, and Bella was no exception.  She was the first child of Connelly and his wife Heather, and was born on September 1, 1932. 

However, unlike most O’Conner Don members, she was not born at the family manor in Connacht.  Rather, she was born abroad in Egypt while her parents were working with a team of wizarding anthropologists as junior members at numerous dig sites. 

Her parents both were always fascinated with ancient wizarding culture and history, and both knew each other long before their Hogwarts days, where both were Ravenclaws.  The two were drawn to one another with their common interests in history, art, anthropology, and architecture and dated one another while at Hogwarts even though Connelly was three years older.  When Connelly graduated, he first went to Italy for some further study in wizarding history, and kept in touch with his girlfriend Heather.

When she graduated, three years later, the two arranged to go to Cairo to further their studies, and it was there they got married.  Connelly’s family was not happy that he had decided to get wed away from the family manor, but they eventually forgave him when they saw how happy he was there, abroad with his young wife and their first child, Isabella. They remained there, in Egypt, just outside of Cairo all the way until 1938 when the threat of a world war seemed imminent. Even though the couple was based in Egypt, the two travelled to many different countries with their children where new dig sites were started, as requested by the Egyptian Wizarding government, and eventually Connelly became the leader of his own wizarding anthropology team.  His wife never left his side, and he made sure, whatever team he was assigned to, she was assigned with him because family is nearly everything, and he couldn’t bear the thought of being away from his wife and children. 

As a result, Isabella and her two younger siblings (Heather and Connelly, Jr.) have been to places many people could only imagine visiting.  They have been to China, Japan, Egypt, Greece, and Italy, just to name a few.  Since there were very few kids their age at the dig sites, the three of them became incredibly close and always watched out for one another.  Loyalty to one another, knew no bounds.  The three have always been inseparable, but as a result of there being very few children their ages at various dig sites, the three of them suffer in socialization skills when it comes to people their age.  The three of them tried to befriend local children, muggle and wizarding ones alike, but their parents were always extremely protective of them, and leery of them doing so, so their contact with locals was always incredibly monitored.

Growing up, since the three of them were in numerous countries at so many different dig sites, Isabella, Heather, and Connelly were always tutored by their parents, or fellow dig site team members. They learned the basics, but a majority of their education was spent on Charms, History, Defensive Magic (you never knew what curses there might be lurking on various artifacts at dig sites), Potions, Herbology/Botany (so they knew what they could eat and use in case of ever getting separated from the team in the wilderness in an emergency situation), and Cultural Traditions of the locals. Very little time was ever spent in teaching them etiquette, math, the arts, and writing, so when you compare them to most fellow upper-class purebloods, the three of them appear to be almost roguish. Isabella, being the oldest, has always been a mother figure of sorts to her siblings, because her mother, was always away at dig sites with her husband. 
 
When the threat of war was looming, Heather, Connelly, and their now three children gave up what they had in Egypt to come back to the United Kingdom, where they were closer to relatives, because anyone who knows the O’Conner Don sept knows that family is almost everything.  When they came back, Connelly decided to buy a moderate house right off of Godric Park from the proceeds he had received from selling their home just outside of Cairo and landed a job in the British Ministry of Magic’s Department of Mysteries where he was tasked with deciphering and counteracting curses of numerous ancient artifacts, so more about the ancient past can be discovered, and applied to modern-day society to help better the life of all wizarding folk.

Isabella graduated from Hogwarts last term,  1950, as a Ravenclaw, and at one point had earned the titles of Prefect and Quidditch Captain, but overwhelmed by all those extra responsibilities, did not retain them for her last couple of terms.  It was just too much for her, and though her parents were proud, Bella had never liked being in the spotlight in the first place, and lacked the leadership qualities to inspire, so it came to her as no surprise that those roles became filled by far more competent people.  And honestly, Bella preferred to be out of those roles because she could have more time to explore, read, study, and enjoy the outdoors.

 As expected, she still suffers from a lack of socialization skills when it comes to people her age.  She has buried herself in her studies, both when she was at Hogwarts and now in her apprenticeship,  when not around her siblings because, like her parents, she always has loved learning new things. 

 She enjoyed playing Quidditch,  when at Hogwarts and volunteering in the Hospital Wing, but pretty much kept to herself. As expected, she never made a lot of friends, and suffered heartbreak from Adrian which consequently has made her even more leery and suspicious of most people.

 Now that she has graduated, and has taken a likening to volunteering at the Hogsmeade Childrens’ Home as much as possible, she is often seen working alongside her Aunt Chastity when it comes to organizing fundraiser and community outreach endeavors to help the orphanage, but never takes an active leadership role in doing so. Bella is most definitely a follower, rather than a leader, and is focused on her further studies.

 This is because she has a strong mothering instinct in her (which came from taking care of her younger siblings while abroad, and even though she comes from an elitist family, she feels badly for the orphans, who even though most of them came from muggle families has no parents.  She can’t imagine what that must be like, since her own family has always been everything to her. Consequently,  she wants to make the orphans feel better and that they aren’t necessarily alone even though they might think so.  She is compassionate, but at the same time loves to learn new things, and can’t imagine staying put in one place forever, like so many people in her family.  She has a strong wanderlust and enjoys reading, architecture, and history, both muggle and magical.

She currently lives in a small, tastefully decorated, 2-bedroom townhouse that borders Godric Park, and could easily upgrade if she so wanted to due to her family's affluence, but chooses not to because she travels a lot, so she doesn't see the need for a gigantic home when she is rarely there.  Plus, she much rather prefer to give money to charitable organizations to help those less fortunate to her than to flaunt her family's wealth like so many of her relatives do.

She currently isn't dating anyone, even though her relatives are constantly trying to get her to go on blind dates with sons of influential, powerful, pureblood families, much to her angst. Though she knows that eventually she will be expected to settle down, and raise a family with many children, Bella wants to explore, study history and many cultures, and travel the world, first.

Roleplay: 
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Roleplay Response:

Option Two-

Snow and cold weather never mixed well with Bella O'Conner.  She had grown up in the hot, sweltering desert of Egypt for most of her life, courtesy of her parents' jobs and she never did too well when dealing with the cold. Okay, granted the freshly fallen snow glistening in the sunlight on rooftops and tree branches was pretty, but even so Bella loathed the cold winters in the United Kingdom. Consequently, she was rather grouchy even though her favorite holiday, Christmas was right around the corner, and had little patience for nonsense.

Oh and of course there was that anxiety of being around so many people at once. It made her quite uneasy and she was regretting her decision already to venture out in the God-awful cold and snow to hopefully get her Christmas shopping done in a timely manner for once. After all she had what seemed like a zillion people she had to buy gifts for, and her slight panic attacks amidst all these people weren't helping manners. As a result, to say that Bella's patience was already shot after only an hour or two of her shopping spree would be a massive understatement. Normally, Bella was pretty patient, but not today. And unfortunately for the elderly man who had just literally practically run her over, he was about to experience the wrath of Bella O'Conner, as a plethora of shopping bags dumped their contents onto the cold, wet, snow.

"Watch where you are going, you uncoordinated, pathetic, oaf! Are you bloody blind? Just look at what you did. This was a brand new jacket and dress, now, now they're ruined!"
Bella sniped at the elderly man as she tried her best to brush off the glitter and tinsel off her jacket and out of her hair, and save what gifts she could from the wetness.

She normally wasn't so contrary, or callous regarding simple mistakes, but she simply lost it with the man. If her relatives knew how she was acting right now, they'd kill her, but she just couldn't contain herself, today.  Between the crowds, weather, anxiety, and upcoming blind date her uncle Kynan had set up for her, a man ten years her senior, Bella just wasn't her normally compassionate and forgiving self, today.

OTHER
How did you find us? Oldie trying to resurrect one of her old characters.

[Calypso Ross]

Accepted!