CHARACTER INFORMATIONCharacter name: Calypso San Wildebeest
Previous and/or Current Character(s) if applicable: Vladamir Slade, Phoenix Kilgour
Character age: 28
Character education: Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry
Strength and weaknesses (details please):Her obvious strength is divination, and has troubles with simple things like charms and transfiguration. Calypso is an incredible seer, but when it comes to things like spells, she’s really quite terrible. Since she’s a bit on an airhead, she’s really spacey and can forget the most simple of spells, like lumos, ect.
Physical description: Calypso has fair, porcelain skin with almost transparent green eyes. she has long, thick golden hair that's practically the color of fresh hay.
Personality (nice, rude, funny etc. Paragraph please.): Calypso is a very spacey, air-headed teacher. She forgets things constantly, and can never find the things she needs. Some would call her on the dumb side, but dumb she is not. She’s incredibly intelligent, and when it comes to divination she’s simply brilliant. she is very kind and gentle, and never scolds her students, ever. She’s like the quirky new girl, everyone just simply loves her. She’s adorable, and can be surprisingly funny. On the flip side, she is very sensitive so when a student is rude to her, she bursts into tears. She is like a little girl really, but mature.
Hopes and dreams. Why are you teaching at Hogwarts?: Calypso is teaching at Hogwarts because she wants to spread the love. She wants to, "Touch the students and make them see a new side of teaching." she wants kids to love divination, because she just loves it. She wants more people to go into her craft and appreciate it. Also, calypso just loves children and human interaction.
Biography (500 words minimum. There is never such a thing as too much.): Calypso grew up in a very normal, sheltered life style. She was raised by muggles, because her wizard parents died. Growing up, she was raised by poor, but very kind, muggles. They had no idea that she was a wizard, and was treated like a normal child. Her foster parents lived in the middle of nowhere, out in Kansas. It was really lonely, with lots of fields. Calypso enjoyed that, and often would tell the story of the fields she would wander for days on end, with a picnic basket full of food and a blanket to gaze at the stars. “The stars are the keys to someone’s past” she would always say. She was always odd as a kid, and lots of kids ignored her when she was younger. She grew up very lonely, so she made up imaginary friends, which made the few kids that would talk to her, also ignore her. They called her mean things like freak, but she was simply so innocent and pure that it never got to her. Lots of times, when the little kids would play together, she would just adventure in empty fields. When she was eleven though, she got a letter for Salem saying she was a wizard. When she went to Salem, the people there were quite stuck up and rude, so after her first year, she transferred. After so long of being alone, she wished for some friends. When she went to Hogwarts, she made a few friends, and her quirkiness grew on them. They just adored her. For the first time in calypsos life, she was being loved. But don't think there weren't any haters though. Still, people at Hogwarts would taunt and tease her, calling her an airhead and a bimbo. Throughout her schooling she picked up a huge gift in divination, and because of that, people would also call her a freak for 'seeing the future. She would often shelter the fact that she was seeing visions, and that she could tell certain facts of the future. After she graduated though, some people encouraged her to let the world know her gift, and for her to shine. She became a world renound seer, and became very famous. The fame never got to her head though. She stayed as modest and innocent as she was when she was young. One day, while wandering around in her usual fashion, she overheard some people say there were job openings at Hogwarts. Knowing that there were others like her, hiding their talent because they were scared, motivated her to apply.
SAMPLE ROLEPLAY(Please respond to to this in third person past tense. Do not write the other characters' reactions. Only your own.) The water by the lakeshore rippled, dark under the overcast sky, and thick with moss growth. Ripples grew into small waves, spreading in concentric circles that sloshed against the rocks and sent a small family of mice living in a rotted out log above the waterline scurrying for cover.
And then the lake exploded.
A fountain erupted, splattering muddy water and assorted bits of lake bottom. Something very, very large thrashed and roiled, tentacles slapping wildly at the surface.
Elizabeth despised the squid, and more importantly, she disapproved of it. It was disorderly. Truth be told, she was the sort of woman who disapproved of a great many things, the disorderly ones most particularly. A tall, severe woman in her forties who never smiled, Elizabeth was so parsimonious with praise that it was said that if good will could be saved up she'd be sitting on a pile of it like dragon over a horde. The school's Headmistress was very good at disapproval.
Brown water flowed in a tent around her upraised wand, blocked by an invisible umbrella.
“He has a cold again!” Pythagorea Proud, the school’s much-harried Deputy Headmistress fussed, as she shook a spatter of mud off of her arm. She hadn’t been as quick with her wand work.
“He won’t take his medicine. We’ve been trying all morning. Someone is going to have to deal with him!”Arms folded, the tip of Elizabeth’s pointed black and very sensible shoe tapped against the rocky bank. She glanced over at their newest Professor, her expression thoughtful. “You’ll do,” she offered flatly, her tone leaving little room for argument. This was going to prove to be a very different sort of interview...
Roleplay Response:Calypso was humming a little tune, gliding and wandering throughout campus as usual. She would smile at the students, and confused and sometimes creeped out, they would smile back. This was calypsos favorite part of the day, talking to students. There were so full of life! To be a teenager again.
Suddenly, calypso got a headache and could feel danger, anger, and terrible feeling nearby. She could sense it, like a black mist seeming into the atmosphere. Trying to ignore it, she spinned and twirled throughout the grounds, until suddenly she heard an explosion from across the lake. She skipped over to see the commotion, and once again she felt the same headache and emotions. So this is what was going to happen.
It looked like the lake exploded, and it pretty much had. There was a silly looking squid flailing about, and calypso couldn’t help but giggle. Squids were funny.
He has a cold again!” the deputy headmistress fussed. What was her name again? Calypso mused. Penunia? Polly? Pythienna? Oh, she was so forgetful. Was it Pansy? Puetsia? Pe-
And her train of thought was cut off by the scowling headmistress. “You’ll do” she grunted.
Scowling and grunting isn’t a good look for her, calypso thought. So pretty, too many wrinkles, to many scowls. She twirled over towards the mess and inspected it. If she was correct, the aurora that was given off from the squid was very…bleak. Angered. Sad, maybe. What the source of the emotion she felt earlier from this poor creature?
Calypso felt very bad, so she placed her hand upon the squid, and ran her hands through it, with the mud and all. The squid flailed a bit, so she walked into the lake fully clothed and muddy. She hugged the squid, and sent it positive aurora, until the squid slapped her away. She frowned, and stated very clearly.
“That wasn’t nice.”
She continued chasing the squid around, until finally she gave off some of her positive aurora to the poor creature. Getting out the lake, she was covered head to toe in filthy water and mud. She smiled at the headmistress and… Pulei? And said, “All better. Now, I’m quite hungry, so I’m going to find some food now. byebye!” she skipped off, and while students gave her the craziest look, she went by completely oblivious.
But calypso was oblivious.
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