Hogwarts School: A Harry Potter RPG

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Esméa Guerin , though people only know her by her last name.
Gender: Female.
Age: 29.
Height: 6’3 / 190 cm
Blood Status: Pure-blood.

Education:
Homeschooled, later Durmstrang Institute.

Residence:
Previously Sweden, Now looking for a place in the UK

Occupation
Magizoologist & Dragonologists

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?
The Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau at the Ministry of Magic and Dragon reserves in Europe. Mainly Sweden

Requested Magic Levels:[/b[
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.

If you want levels above the usual 32 total, or a significantly uneven distribution of starting levels, please fill out and submit the Special Request form here.

• Charms: 10.
• Divination: 6
• Transfiguration: 6
• Summoning: 10.

Do you wish to be approved as a group with any other characters? If so who and for what IC reason?
No, but I am open for this possibility

Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
None.

 Personality
The saying ‘still waters run deep’ applies to Guerin. On the surface she is rather stoic, mainly because she never learned to properly express herself. This is also why she is rather abrasive with her words.

Though direct-she isn’t inherently unkind. Unlike her fellow pure bloods- she doesn't have a sense of superiority over others. She generally just dislikes people as whole but not to a point where she would seek ways to harm them.  Guerin is rather apathetic to the plight of people and rather spends her time working with creatures. Considering she prefers the company of an animal that wants to eat her over the company of fellow wizards and witches - speaks volumes.




Biography: (300 words minimum.)


*France*

Esmea Guerin was born to a pureblood family Guerin in France. The family was well known as guardians of magical families, but mainly enlisted in the ministry. But being employed in so many dangerous professions, the family has dwindled to only a few. Therefore her birth wasn’t celebrated by her father since male heirs were the priority. Sadly her mother couldn’t conceive more children so they had to do with what they had. Her upbringing was strict and almost suffocating as there was no room for emotions, just bottle everything up and follow the rules. Any disobience was met with physical punishment.

Despite their brutal parenting- the family was making sure they upheld their family name of being guardians to others, to serve and protect. During the early stages of the Hexenreich, her parents were betrayed by the family they tried to protect during an attack and brutally killed. She would’ve died as well if an Auror didn’t snatch her and brought her to safety. Not only were her parents killed infront of her, her other family shunned her, refusing to give the orphaned girl a home. To them, a Guerin girl wasn’t worth having. This betrayel formed an everlasting scar on her towards people.

* Durmstrang Institute *

She was sent to the Durmstrang Institute since the Headmaster knew her parents and felt an obligation to help. With a small inheritance and a suitcase, she was sent away from her home to a strange new world.

At the institute Guerin didn’t value forming friendships or other relationships since she didn't trust people anymore. She became quite an introvert , only speaking when spoken to. Such a loner would normally be bullied into oblivion but due to her height and upbringing, she fought any bully that tried anything. She might be alone in this world, but she will survive nonetheless. The only connection she had was with animals as they were easy to understand and there was no fear of betrayel.
 
She was an average student that was able to fit in easily due to her upbringing. Following rules was what she grew up with and in someway it gave her some comfort. She did struggle with some subjects as her grades reflected her interest in them. The need to excel at everything was gone since she didn’t have any parents to impress nor a family name to uphold. The only subject she liked , were those that made her feel something.

Like flying. Being in the sky, made her feel alive again as it gave her a feeling of freedom. With her flying skills and upper body control, she was scouted as a Beater for the team. There she began to lose her icy demeanor  and discovered the joy in hitting her opponents with a Bludger. She became known as a bone breaker- a title she kept for many years. She loosened up and began to engage more with her teammates, but when she overheard her teammates calling her a freak, it was painful reminder that people are not to be trusted. Her love for flying prevented her from retaliating against her own teammates so she bottled it up, until one butterbeer afternoon she had a fight with her captain and lived up to her name.

Next to flying, she had outstanding results with the Dark Arts, especially with dueling as this was a way of directing her frustrations towards others in a ‘legal’ way. To her this was a loophole that got rid of her pent up anger. Her favorite spells came from weather related phenomena – as they reminded her of the sky. A skillset she would later use in her career. Her love for dueling even made her enter competitions until she was briefly disqualified when she lost her composure during a duel and used a lightning spell that set the stage ablaze. People thought she would end up as a Dark Wizard but she merely laughed when she heard that and simply said "don't insult me".

The only thing she didn’t manage to ruin with her anger issues, was working with mythical creatures. If it wasn’t for the Headmaster sending her to a dragon reserve as punishment after her fight and fire incident, she would never have discovered her love for the creatures.  When she came back she focused on becoming a Dragonologist. This new goal in  life, gave her the focus to calm down and control her anger. To keep her anger under control and increase her magical stamina- she began to do more physical excercise . And thus without any fights or accidents, she graduated from Durmstrang.


*Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau*

After Durmstrang Institute she began to work at the Beast Division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. After many gruesome years and plenty of injuries – she was finally a Dragonologist. One of her successes was introducing a way of incorporating routine patrols that didn’t disturb dragons during nesting. Now as an experienced flyer and duelist , she also taught how to duel on a broom during dragon dealer raids. Among the dealers, she became known with her trademark lightning spells. At the Dragon research and Restraint Bureau, she made great strides in lowering illegal trade of dragon eggs and materials.

However, her directness and hands-on work ethic, didn’t make her particularly well liked. She would rather fly in a storm ,being chased by a cranky dragon than socialize at the bureau for a promotion. Nonetheless, she managed to befriend some colleagues at the Bureau and even became a leader of a small team in Sweden. She finally found a place where she could be herself until the annual broom race of 1960.

* the annual broom race of 1960*

Guerin led a team that kept an eye out for flyers in case they got lost and to prevent them from disturbing the dragons. A few flyers ignored her warning and decided they would go for a short cut. Their shortcut  went through an area with a few breeding dragons. As predicted, a Swedish Short-Snout noticed them and went in pursuit. With her team she tried to hide the contestants with a cloud casting spell but the dragons blue breath evaporated them before it could work. During the chase the wizards and witches began to casts spells to keep the dragon away but when the spells began to come dangerously close to the eggs on the ground, Guerin made a choice.

She lit up the sky with a lightning spell to create a temporary divide between the dragon and the flying idiots. It scared the dragon off, not before its tail smacked her from her broom. As casting such a spell drained her energy levels, she wasn’t able to move out of the way in time. This resulted in a few broken ribs, a leg and a broken broom. Luckily her teammate managed to catch her before she fell to her death. During her spell she also may or may not have fried a few flyers as collateral damage. All in all, not a great day.

During the hearing about this event, things became rather heated. One of the people she fried, was apparently a popular contestant from a well known British family. Somehow the argument went from civil to personal. He stated that it was no wonder that she was so beastly, because she was a Durmstrang and that no Hogwarts alumni would make such an error. Now this ruffled a ton of feathers in the courtroom as there were Hogwarts and Durmstrang alumni in the room. Guerin kept her composure since she never understood this rivalry between schools and frankly she didn’t care about his opinion about her. She knew she would’ve gotten a warning and that was that. That was until he voiced his opinion regarding dragons as pests-which gave her an allergic reaction. This reaction manifested itself in her losing control of her fist until it landed in his face..repeatedly.

When she was pulled of him, she shouted a sentence that would change her life “ Clearly Hogwarts can’t teach you how to fly nor fight, you British pig!”

One of her teammates sighed as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. The juror, being a alumni of Hogwarts stamped the word SUSPENDED quicker than a Golden snitch.

* Suspended*




Roleplay: 
You come across one of these posts on the site. Please select one & reply as your character:

Option Two -
The snow had been falling steadily all morning and it didn't look like it was going to stop any time soon. Joshua Campbell scrunched his face up in a frown as he lifted his gaze to look to the sky. Snow. It really was quite a bother.

And it certainly didn't make it better that Diagon Alley seemed to be getting more and more crowded. Joshua sighed and pointed his wand at the large box that was currently placed on the doorstep of his shop. He had to get going. He had an order to deliver.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" The elderly man muttered and watched the box hover in the air for a moment. Honestly, did St. Mungo's really need that much tinsel? And with glitter of all things? He sighed again. If it hadn't been for the rather convincing stamp on the order, he would have been likely to believe it had been a prank by one of those orphaned rascals living up there.

Oh well, there was no point in waiting. Joshua deftly stirred the box down the doorstep and out onto the street, carefully levitating it above the heads of the crowd.

"Coming through! Coming through!" His voice sounded over the chatter of the crowd. "Keep out! Move ahead! Go on!" This was going way too slow. People were in the way and walking like they had all day! He huffed. Luckily the road was down hill.

"Coming through! Coming th--- arrrgh!" Joshua let out a loud shout as his feet suddenly slipped in the snow and sent him, the box, and several long strands of tinsel tumbling into the person who had been walking in front of him.

"For Merlin's sake!" Joshua muttered angrily as he hurried to his feet again, red and gold tinsel now decorating his black coat. "I am so sorry! This blasted snow!" He looked apologetic at the person he had crashed into.



Roleplay Response:


The sound of the stamp still echoed in her mind as she stood there, gazing at the falling snow. Suspended for an undisclosed time wasn’t how she would’ve envisioned her future. She was missing her team, the dragons and the sky. The only thing she had to remember her dragon days by, was her scorched coat.

This human giant stood in the alley, holding a piece of parchment with a small drawing of a map. Well, calling it a map was a tad exaggerated since it was a straight line between one X and another, but it still proved to be a challenge for Guerin as she was utterly lost. The innkeeper kindly drew it for her, since she couldn’t remember any of the streets from her previous visits. Maybe the world had changed so much during her absence OR she had taken a few too many blows to the head. With her track record, the latter was more accurate.

Even now, she was walking with a slight limp as her leg hadn’t healed yet from her dragon encounter. She sighed and looked back at the piece of parchment, her face grimace slightly as her ribs hadn’t healed yet either. Snow began to collect on her black coat as she stared at the parchment, getting confused at the minimalistic map. Frankly, she didn’t understand why she had to get a new broom since she wasn’t allowed to fly anyway. She frumpled the parchment in her hand and tucked it away. Well , it beats sitting around doing nothing. She’d just explore the street and hope for the best. She put her hood up to remain as anonymous  as possible since she wasn’t well liked by the dragon dealers that lurked these alleys. As she continued her journey of confusion, she felt something hit her back.

The boots she got in Sweden prevented her from slipping herself as they were suited for snowy weather, though she wasn’t easily moved because of her stature anyway. “hmm?” Guerin turned around, initially not seeing what just ran into her until she heard a boys voice. She looked down and saw a young boy apologize profusely.

When he looked up to see who he ran into, Joshua saw a hooded figure looking down at him. “I-I am so s-sorry!” he moved back a little as he realized he just crashed into a giant, a giant smelling of smoke and sulfur. The added tinsel did not bring any sparkle to this dark figure nor did it lighten the mood. Suddenly a hand shot from under the coat , he reached for his wand that he kept on his side, expecting the worst until a woman’s voice came from this menacing sparkled up figure.

“Take me here.” She  commanded. It took a few seconds for Joshua to register what just happened. “Huh?” He looked down and saw the figure holding out a piece of parchment with a map drawn onto it. He looked back up and saw that this dark figure was just a tall woman wearing a black coat. He sighed of relief and fixed his composure but when he looked back at her, her dark brown eyes glared at him. She looked angry but in reality she was just thinking this boy just came at the right time and could possibly help her.

Guerin looked at him and raised the parchment. “Bring me here and I’ll forgive you” She didn’t ask him kindly, she just told him what to do. With the directness in her voice and towering height- Joshua didn’t really feel like he had any room to renegotiate with this person. Helping this woman on her way was the least what he could do after crashing into her, right? Plus he didn’t really want to know what would happen if this woman didn’t forgive him. His eyes inspected the parchment and recognized a name“ Broomshop?..s-s-ure I know where that is”

Guerin bent down to pick up the boys box, holding it under her armpit and simply said “Perfect, lead the way”. As Joshua walked through the crowd with an uncomfortable look on his face to the Broomshop, Guerin was behind him with a content look on her face, despite looking like a charcoaled Christmas tree.


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