Apr 7, 2024 9:38:20 GMT
DELENA ARMSTRONG
32 7/15 Keytarist for the Twisted D’s Horned Serpent Alumist pureblood Wales | PERSONALITY: This girl is something of a faker if anything, at least when it comes to her family, (family being mom and dad, her three other siblings Dahlia, Dante, and Damien know about her secret lifestyle  ) She is a wrocker, she has a copy of the Who’s entire discography under her bed (Keith Moon is her hero) and while she knows how to play the piano, she has a keyboard also hidden under her bed, cause it’s a big bed after all. On her mom and dad’s side of things though she’s hard working, she keeps to herself, and she basically has the friends that her parents kind of paid off to be her friends.She’s always wanted to be a part of a band. More on this later, but she does write music even though her parents want her to do something more ambitious with her life than sit and write music for potential royalties. ASPIRATION: After freezing in her first audition for a particular band, she got a second shot, so aspiration met, she’s been accepted into a band she’s wanted to be in since she was 11 years old. She never particularly wanted fame or fortune, her aspiration, if anything is be noticed for doing something on her own merit. Fame and fortune are just an added bonus. Money is helpful but true friendship and potential relationships are far more valuable. | LIKES: The Who Electric Violin Solos huge crowds being noticed by people that aren’t paid to notice you her sister Dahlia (she pretty much hero worshipped her as a child) her vinyl collection hidden under her bed The color Green (preferably Hunter Green, that’s her favorite shade) Reading (she would live in a library if she could.) - - DISLIKES: Her parents neediness for her to be like them Her parents prejudice toward no-maj folks Well let’s be fair, everything having to do with her parents People who disrespect her and her choices. Chocolate (not because it’s chocolate but because it’s too sweet for her.) Adulting on purpose. - - - - |
FAMILY MEMBERS. | Dedrech Arthur Armstrong - 70 Retired MACUSA Representive Delia Harlow Denis-Armstrong - 68 Ministry of Magic United Kingdom Liasion for the United States Damien Marshall Armstrong - Auror 39 Dahlia Anastacia Armstrong - Member of the D’s (guitar player) 38 Dante Andrew Armstrong - 36 - Healer at St. Mungo’s (moved to the UK after he left school) |
CHILDHOOD. | Born in Louisiana in 1968 (not me doing math like this was 2024 originally) in the middle of the hottest times of the year July, and the only one of the summer babies (and the youngest of four) Delena Margot Armstrong was born. When she was born she had a ruptured eardrum in her left ear making her partially deaf because her right one is still intact, She knows both ASL and BSL as her mother was a Slytherin at Hogwarts before she became the UK Liasion for the Ministry of Magic to the US. And truth be told, the states made her a better person….most people thought. When she was about 3 her mother decided it would be a good idea even though she was partially deaf to try to learn a musical instrument, kept going on about this guy named Beethoven and how he was deaf and played all these concertos, she didn’t have any idea what this was, but she did what she was asked to and learned the piano, she played for years, and she still plays now, on something more portable more on that later. When she was six her father taught her how to read, starting with one of the best books ever to be created, The Hobbit, and that book is what made her read more and spend a lot of time in the public library, when she wasn’t being shoved in private schools until she was ten. it was almost like she was the one that they wanted to succeed the most, so they went through everything to make sure that she succeeded before she went off to school. Min. 200 words. |
SCHOOL YEARS. | Freedom, that was the one thing that Del thought of when she finally got to school, got her wand, got to hang around with her older sister, even if she was in a different house than her. She got Horned Serpent, her sister was in Thunderbird, and this was also where her start of rock music came from. She accidentally heard Acid Queen by the Who playing somewhere, she didn’t know where, she couldn’t recall, but her love for the Who started here, and her need to play in a band. She knew her sister Dahia was in a band, and the lead of the band was really nice to her, even if she froze up on the unintentional audition that she didn’t know she was going to get. She basically asked if she could be in the band, he said play something and she didn’t have an instrument, and she couldn’t sing cause her tone was horrible. She knew she would get his attention some day. Dahlia told her to try again when she had more experience with a band. And while she was 11, she took that into consideration hard. She kept learning diffferent instruments, guitars, drums, she wanted to learn electric violin but she didn’t have time, but her main thing that she brought her craft into, keep playing the piano, she got surgery on her ear to try to fix the eardrum that was hurt when she was 12 to no success, she knew that she was going to be partically deaf for the rest of her life. She also knew that she wasn’t going to be following her sister for much longer either, she couldn’t keep doing this forever and she knew she was graduating that year to boot. Once she got to her third year, she had the entire Who Discography, was obsessed with having a walkman in her ears at all times, and studied to the point that her parents were happy with her studies, they didn’t know she hated classical music and was learning rock music on the keyboard rather than Beethoven, Bach, and Chopin, give her Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, she would have these learned just by listening to them while she was reading in the library. By the time she graduated she was writing jingles for commercials for both television and radio (much to her parents chagrin, she also got a special gift from someone giving her another go at a band audition, a Keytar that was hunter green with backlit keys), D got back in touch with her at the end of the school career, and she passed the audition playing her own rendition of Pinball Wizard. Leading her to move out and tell her parents she was going to live with Dante in the UK. |
ADULTHOOD. | Adulthood was nice to Del, which is what she goes by now. She moved out to the UK almost immediately after she graduated. She didn’t want her parental influence hitting her hard. And with her sister in the band as well that led to three of the four of the siblings living in the UK, Dahlia did have a sidehustle to keep on mom and dad’s good books, but she did play guitar in the band, and being alongside her sister in the band was something fun to her to say the least, plus she liked the comeraderie. She still wrote to her parents all the time, let them know she was fine, she went home for holidays, while she didn’t like her parents, nor what they stood for, she was still their baby, and while that was true, she still had to hide the fact she played for a band, at least for long as possible, she couldn’t change her appearance like Dante and Dahlia could, Damien couldn’t change either. And when she first left school she wasn’t out and about playing with them yet, she needed to find her stride. She started building her album collection, Eagles, The Rolling Stones, INXS, Queen, Warrant, Cinderella, her music tastes were quite different, within a year of graduating she had two shelves, one of books and one of cassettes and cds. She did end up moving into the house after living in her own little flat for a little while, just to stay in her parents good graces and to let Dante know that she wasn’t doing anything stupid with her time. But she did tell Dante she had been in the band for awhile but she hadn’t played live yet, because she had to learn the songs, and that she was going to go out on the road with them soon. She was more than a little excited to do something that she’s always wanted to do with her time. And this has been a dream of hers since she was 11 years old, and now in her thirties she’s living her dream. She was ended up being found out by the parental units though, and while they didn’t particularly care of her career choice, or her choice of bandmates, it wasn’t their choice of what she did and what she didn’t do. She threatened to leave the family if they even tried to do anything to jeopardize her career. Min. 200 words. |
Special Situations
Does you character have any disabilities that would make it harder for them to function in a magical society?
She has been partially deaf from birth, but she makes do.
If the answer to the above question is yes, please provide details on their condition and ways in which they have adapted to a learning environment that is not typically friendly to those with disabilities. This is to reflect that you have considered this addition to your character carefully and planned for their success or failure.
Initally leading toward failure with her need to hear things, her loss of part of her hearing has made it a little difficult to get around unless someone can sign, and she does have to have the music on loud enough for her to hear, but that isn’t much of an issue, she can read lips and sign both ASL and BSL if necessary. And she can actually talk too but she prefers signing sometimes. All in all, she can still play music, she can still communicate, there’s not much of a loss here.
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She has been partially deaf from birth, but she makes do.
If the answer to the above question is yes, please provide details on their condition and ways in which they have adapted to a learning environment that is not typically friendly to those with disabilities. This is to reflect that you have considered this addition to your character carefully and planned for their success or failure.
Initally leading toward failure with her need to hear things, her loss of part of her hearing has made it a little difficult to get around unless someone can sign, and she does have to have the music on loud enough for her to hear, but that isn’t much of an issue, she can read lips and sign both ASL and BSL if necessary. And she can actually talk too but she prefers signing sometimes. All in all, she can still play music, she can still communicate, there’s not much of a loss here.
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RP SAMPLE (200 words min.)
“Lycorma delectica, otherwise known as the spotted Dragonfly, not known to most around this area because it’s mostly found in Asia, but it was found most recently in the United states for the first time a couple of years ago. Nothing too interesting other than it likes eating crops and it’s quite invasive in that respect.” She stopped taking the notes and looked at the bug, honestly it was one of the tamer ones she’s met with lately, Basically what she had learned about them was how much fruit and walnuts they lived off of. “Of course I find a tame one in Asia.” she said to herself as she looked at everything, just inspecting it.
When she decided to do bugs instead of dragons, her family was more than happy to live with that, but the travel was what they were afraid of, so she always contacted them to let them know she was fine. She went to the little flat that she was renting while she was in China, and it was more than she was willing to pay for more than two weeks, she started a small fire in the mediocre fireplace and had a small conversation with her parents “Everything went fine, I’m going to be back in London next week.”
“We’re glad you’re going to be back in the city, we should have a family meal when you get back. Arabeth is going to bring the kids, they always get so excited when you come home, for some reason they really like your stories about when you travel.” Ellie said, this was probably the one part of the powder she enjoyed, she could expect calls from it. Travelling by Floo though was a pain in the ass. And she knew she was going to have to to get home.
“And I like telling my stories, been thinking about writing a book actually. More about the bugs then the travelling but you know how it is, I’ll be home in a couple days, I’ll be using the network to get home, so you won’t mind if I use the house to pop in right?”
“Of course not, and even though I don’t particular care for it, but make sure the bugs don’t come out in the house.” Tony said.
“Of course not, I wouldn’t let animals out in the house, I’m not an idiot. And they’re all in jars anyway, so I won’t do anything too out of the ordinary and I’ll show the kids the bugs in the jars and how I got them, and keep them there.”
“See you in a couple days. I’ll bring some gifts home for you.”
They left the call, and she started to pack the stuff that she had gotten and what things she had and went to bed for the night, she had one more day of exploration left to do before she went home.
When she decided to do bugs instead of dragons, her family was more than happy to live with that, but the travel was what they were afraid of, so she always contacted them to let them know she was fine. She went to the little flat that she was renting while she was in China, and it was more than she was willing to pay for more than two weeks, she started a small fire in the mediocre fireplace and had a small conversation with her parents “Everything went fine, I’m going to be back in London next week.”
“We’re glad you’re going to be back in the city, we should have a family meal when you get back. Arabeth is going to bring the kids, they always get so excited when you come home, for some reason they really like your stories about when you travel.” Ellie said, this was probably the one part of the powder she enjoyed, she could expect calls from it. Travelling by Floo though was a pain in the ass. And she knew she was going to have to to get home.
“And I like telling my stories, been thinking about writing a book actually. More about the bugs then the travelling but you know how it is, I’ll be home in a couple days, I’ll be using the network to get home, so you won’t mind if I use the house to pop in right?”
“Of course not, and even though I don’t particular care for it, but make sure the bugs don’t come out in the house.” Tony said.
“Of course not, I wouldn’t let animals out in the house, I’m not an idiot. And they’re all in jars anyway, so I won’t do anything too out of the ordinary and I’ll show the kids the bugs in the jars and how I got them, and keep them there.”
“See you in a couple days. I’ll bring some gifts home for you.”
They left the call, and she started to pack the stuff that she had gotten and what things she had and went to bed for the night, she had one more day of exploration left to do before she went home.
OOC INFO
Alias: Lynz
Other Characters: Annaliese Montego
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Other Characters: Annaliese Montego
Activity Check:
Just to be safe: Liese: insidenewhogwarts.proboards.com/post/66214/thread
DO NOT REMOVE: Your application will be looked over as soon as possible. Please do not ask any of the admins to look over your application unless it has been two days (48 hours) since you've finished the application. You have three weeks to finish the application, or it will be archived. If this happens, you're free to apply again.
