Penny Greenberg - Adult Application

[Aspen Greenberg]

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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Aspen “Penny” Greenberg
Gender: Female.
Age: August 4, 1941
Blood Status: Halfblood

Education:
Ilvermorny - Thunderbird

Residence:
Muggle London

Occupation
Socialite

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?
No

Requested Magic Levels:
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If you want levels above the usual 32 total, or a significantly uneven distribution of starting levels, please fill out and submit the Exceptional Levels special request form here.

• Charms: 11
• Divination: 5
• 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

Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
Circe Blackwood, Pilar Reina, Solanine Hartley, Margaux Hartley, Sebastian Hartley II, Echo Undergrove, etc

Biography: (300 words minimum.)
If Aspen’s life could be summed up into one word it would be, easy. The third born and only girl in a prominent family in America. A family in finance in New York City. It was all very thrilling from the outside looking in. Her first word was daddy and by the time she was five her favorite food was caviar -or that’s how the story has been told to her anyways.

Her brothers and her cousin Izzy were her best friends growing up. She spent a lot of time during the year in London with her mom visiting Izzy and her parents. The boys were in school at that point, so Aspen got to travel with her parents most of the time.

It was all a girl could ask for really.

Until she got pulled into school herself. Who would think of such a torturous place? She missed her tutors and her own bed.Her first year was probably the toughest year of her life, but after that she flourished being around her peers. Even going as far as graduating at the top of her class.

After school she didn't aspire to anything really besides dating. Her and her friends had made a silly little list of all the eligible men and had a bet that no one would make it through the whole list. It was certainly scandalous to say the least.

She was perfectly content, at least until Jack pulled off some ridiculous stunt and got sent back to the UK. It made her feel a bit alone.

Jack was off in the UK being an auror and Robert was at their family's company. Even though Robert was in New York it's as if he was a million miles away considering how much her brother worked. It made it all the more fun on Holidays though when she got showered with gifts. Guilt from them feeling as though they weren't showing her enough attention.

Years went by and she attended galas, dinners, and parties. One year she had an engagement every night. Had to be a record of some kind. It was all very tiring and menial. Although, raising money for those less fortunate became somewhat of a hobby.

When she turned 24 her parents decided it was time for her to settle down, but her boyfriend at the time wasn't good enough according to them. Too Boston they said.

So they went through the steps of an arranged marriage before finally settling on the bane of her existence, William Astor. They were the lesser known, magical branch, of the New York Astors -a cadet house if you will. At least that's what they had claimed since the poor no-maj boat sank all those years ago.

She was just happy they agreed to the long engagement she begged her daddy for.

During that time she saved up what little she could and a bit before she was set to get married she got on one of those no-maj boats herself. Untraceable. She stepped foot in London about a week before she was set to say I do. Hopefully the Astors would definitely take it as an 'I don't'.



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

Option One -
Amelia Nixon was many things, but she was never a pushover reporter that people could just usher away with a busy shuffle past. She was dedicated and eager to cut to the very middle of the current political tensions because she was Amelia Nixon and her articles would most certainly become front page material.

“Sir, please! It’s for the Prophet, how do you feel-“

Another one brushed passed her, the shuffling busy masses making their way through Diagon Alley for the lunchtime rush. This had been the best possible time to get people, but none of them were giving her anything to go with.

Only momentarily discouraged, the short red headed lady took a seat on a nearby bench. Her quill resting in her left hand and her notepad ready in the opposite hand. Amelia pouted, tapping the quill against her leg as she scanned the waves of people for somebody - anybody - who looked like they had something to say.

She had been dreaming of her name in bold print, Amelia Nixon: The Source of Today’s Tomorrow. She had been dreaming of the larger office and the secretaries that would fetch her the morning coffee and fetch her anything she needed. The VIP interviews and the most exclusive press passes. But all Amelia had was a page seventeen piece on the rising number of frogs in London.

Hardened by a day of no success, the reporter stood up and started to trod off down the alley. A loose stone on the cobble path caught her heel, sending the distraught girl toppling down to the ground.

“Merlin’s fog watch, my heel is broken! Help!” she yelled as she tried desperately to recover her shoe frantically in the middle of the Diagon Alley moving crowds.


Roleplay Response:
London was dull and gray. Quite like New York City, but somehow even more. Maybe it was the people. She had preferred the country home she would visit when she was little. All the greens, yellows, pinks. Grass and flowers vibrant with color.

This was just depressing.

Penny sat at a little cafe, sipping an espresso. It was really the only thing they had besides tea. The taste of the brown liquid made her miss home. It wasn't the longest she had been away, but knowing she wouldn't be able to go home for a while made her miss it even more.

To bide her time Penny enjoyed people watching. At his point in time she was watching a little, spindly woman trying to get people to comment on a story. People seemed annoyed even to be looked at in that crowd. She felt sort of bad for the young woman.

She grimaced as the woman fell over, squawking a bit. It sort of reminded her of the geese that would land near her mother's pond. It was loud and certainly not graceful.

With a sigh she got up from her seat to go and help the woman, since it seems no gentleman was about to stop and help. "Here." she said holding out her hand to help the woman up. "Never put your weight on the heel if you don't want to break an ankle, especially on cobbles." She giggled a bit.

Oh, how many times she had fallen down in the village when her and Hollis would go out. She learned her lesson more than once.

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[Calypso Ross]

Hi Aspen,

Your application looks great, there's just one thing I need to check before we can get you accepted. Do you have permission from Jack Greenberg's player to create this character? The character backgrounds/family history are very similar, so I'm assuming that Aspen is Jack's sister!

No need to repost your whole application, if you could just respond to confirm that Jack has given permission for you to create Aspen, we can go ahead and get you accepted. Thanks!

[Aspen Greenberg]

Yep! Had permission.

[Calypso Ross]

Accepted!