Post by Elle Callahan on Apr 3, 2011 19:18:04 GMT -5
Name: Eloise “Elle” Callahan
Age: 24
Birthdate/place:December
Species: human, Halfblood
Gender: female
Appearance:
Build/height- Petite, 4’10
General Description-
Vertically challenged has always been one of Elle’s problems. Once she was described to be knee-high to a grasshopper! In reality she is a giant compared to grasshoppers but to everyone else that is not the case. Most eleven year olds are as tall as she if not bigger. What she lacks in height she makes up in personality and hair. A tangled mess of curls threatens to condemn her to childhood for eternity. The chestnut brown nest has been shortened and is more often or not straightened, adding a few years to her youthful face. Large chocolate eyes engulf her heartshaped face, threatening to dominate her other features. If it wasn’t for her height her eyes would be the most remarked upon feature. She is not a overtly pretty woman. Elle is sweet and youthful looking and her beauty is innocent. She is often over looked, a second glance girl but that is not saying she is ugly just average. Not fat nor skinny her frame is rather stocky. For being a small woman she has muscles and is rather big boned. Many women are envious of her slight frame with a bit of curves. Sometimes she wished she was more well endowed but she has finally come to terms with the fact that she will never grow tall or be curvaceous.
Possessions- A leather notebook filled with pressed flowers and different ingredients related to healing. She often writes down strange remedies that people have tried successfully to cure ailments.
She has what her grandfather calls her superpower kit. It's a leather satchel that is typically filled with basic healing potions, ingredients, and bandages.
Personality:
Temperment/Mental Attributes-
Curious. One day the urge to uncover everything will probably get her killed. Elle is constantly on the move, uncovering a new spell, flower, sick person, crime etc. Questions spew out of her mouth. Not all of them polite. As a child it was endearing. As an adult, it's rude. Practice has tempered the need to question everything but sometimes the impulse overrides her caution.
She is known to have a big mouth but an even bigger heart. She might annoy her coworkers with her sharp, flapping tongue but she charms them with her eagerness to heal the world. Elle often puts the welfare of others before her own, often to her detriment.
Elle might be a thinker but she is no planer. If something is happening and she sees a solution she'll go on ahead and do it without thinking of the consequences. She's more of a do now beg for forgiveness later.
Despite offering advice and help to every living soul, Elle is fericely independent. She hates it when someone is trying to mother her, it's the quickest way to see her hot temper. She works pretty good in group work as long as she has a leadership position. She is one to rise up to the occasion and take a leadership role without being asked. To counter act her feistiness she is extremely loyal and honest. Once someone loses her trust though they will have to jump through hoops to get it back if they ever get it completely. She is quite patient but when it is tried she taps into her Irish blood. Her temper is strong but lasts for only a short time.
Elle is serious minded but she can be one for thoughts of fantasy. There can be an ethereal quality about her when she gets in a dreamy mood. Her mind is quick and can be philosophical she mulls over the question of existence and why things happen. When she is cooperative she can sometimes sense things before they happen. It is a strange sensation as if something is flying at her and she knows exactly when to duck. It does not happen often and she is scared of such events and tries her hardest not to let them happen.
Elle does enjoy a good hearty laugh once in a while and has a dry sense of humor. She can take a joke but doesn’t always laugh at what most people consider funny.
Elle doesn’t like to fight but finds it necessary to use physical force. She enjoys a good cause and when she finds one she will go all in. She is a supporter of the underdog and will help those who can’t help themselves. She dislikes limitations and the ordinary which is why books about myths and children stories hold such an allure for her.
People often say that she is absent, her head is in the clouds, especially when it comes to work place gossip. It isn't something she pays attention to. While she cares what people think of her, it's not present in her mind and rarely comes to the forefront of her thoughts. Elle is just Elle. She's a friendly, slightly flighty person with a ready smile and a rush of words. She's an odd ball, sweet but different, not realizing that something she has done can be construed as socially awkward until she's already finished it. She's a kind soul and it often hurts her. She looks at the world as one big problem she can fix. She tries her hardest to heal it and trusts most people on site until they do something to lose her trust and even then it must be major. She is disappointed emotionally which might be a reason for her detachment. She has high personal ideals and demands a lot out of her friends perhaps too much.
Alliance- All things good
Strengths/Weaknesses-
Strengths:
Listening Having a bad day? Pull up a chair and have a piece of chocolate. Elle will listen offering advice and stick her button nose into your problem. She'll usually offer a solution or a way to get even, at the end. Judgment is typically left out. She'll take your side if needed or play the middleman.
ReadingIf one could make a living reading stories to people Elle would. No book is safe around her. Elle can speed read if needed but she truly enjoys dissecting a book, taking her time to glean any information she can out it. The older the book the higher the odds she'll borrow and never return it. Myths are her favorite.
Weakness:
Emotion: Elle might be a naturally empathetic creature but when it comes to sharing her own emotions she's cold, distant even. Her ability to detach herself from her personal feelings, especially during extreme high tension situations, is an asset at the hospital. It's a curse in the romance department. Elle is not your typical girl. It takes a lot of fire whiskey to get her to share her "feelings". If she has a problem she keeps it to herself until she explodes.
Independence Those are nice hands you have there. Want to keep them? Do not under pain of death help Elle in anyway. She will not take kindly to your assistance at all. If she needs your help she will ask but don't hold your breath for the moon is not blue yet.
Chocolate: Is that from Honeydukes? Please share. Elle can eat her weight in chocolate. It is very hard for her to resist a bite here or there. She has been known to blow half a pay check on rich chocolate anything.
Cooking what the water's burning? Oh well, take out it is. Elle can't cook to save the world. It's rather strange she can brew a difficult potion without sweating but she can't cook food. Her preparation is killer. Carrots neatly chopped, mushrooms sliced but putting it together to make something yummy? Not a chance. Besides she doesn't have the patience nor the energy to make something herself.
Employment&Education:
-Adults-
Former House- Ravenclaw
Job- Healer in Training
Employer-St Mungos/ Hogwarts. She works twice a week at the castle to decide if she wants to go into children's healing.
OWLs/NEWTs-
OWLS:
History of magic: O
Potions: E
Charms: O
Defense: E
Herbology: O
NEWT
Potions: E
Herbology: O
Defense: A
Charms:O
Other:
Magical Skills- Anything special? If applicable
Patronus- (if applicable)
Wand- Elle’s wand is made out of African Padauk wood. Which is known to do well with healing charms. It is a rich red color with a natural shine to it that has seemed to wear off slightly from use. There are a few scratches in the wood but otherwise well taken care of. The core is a Hair from the Mane of a Kelpie.
Goals/Aspirations- Optional
Other Information-
History-
Eloise Grace Callahan is the only daughter of a very stubborn wizard and a amazon witch. Her parent's relationship was volatile at best. Sparks flew the moment earthy DP reporter Elijah Callahan spotted the fiery Sarah James. Sharp bards and sly glances kept up appearances. Their friends were surprised when the barely a couple announced that they were pregnant. Even more surprising was their pending nuptials. Marriage? Sarah was too much of a hell raiser and Elijah too stubborn. Despite canceling the wedding twice for foolish reasons they eventually eloped. Four months in Sarah nearly lost the baby. Startled, She calmed down a bit, no riding a broom seven months pregnant, no fire whiskey, or anything remotely dangerous.
Surrounded by the biggest snow storm in recent memory, Eloise Grace was born nearly three months early. The tiny babe was given potions to assist her breathing and growth.
Despite a rocky beginning, Elle was a happy and relatively healthy baby. Her parents fought constantly but they love their daughter.
Sarah, who never fully recovered from her harrowing child birth experience, died when Elle was seven. Elijah nearly fell apart. He might have screamed at Sarah a thousand times and threaten to leave more than once but she was his life. For weeks he could barely eat and ignored his child. Elle knew her mummy wasn't coming home. It was sad but she didn't really cry about it. She was mad. Especially at the people who thought she was strange or uncaring because tears wouldn't come. She was also mad at her mummy for leaving her behind.
Elle would often spend her summers with her paternal grandfather in the Irish countryside, more so after her mother died. She preferred the rolling hills to the tight quarters in their London flat. Her favorite thing about her grandfather was his stories about history and gardening. The Callahan garden was a sight to behold, with exotic plants, healer herbs and just about the prettiest roses to be found.
Eleven years passed and Elle was sent off to school. Her sharp brain and flippant tongue landed her in Ravenclaw. The boisterous little girl made more enemies than friends but she had her own crowd. She did rather well in school but was more interested in healing than anything else. Elle never played Qudditch and didn't even learn how to fly because of a blood disease she was born with. Her body did not make enough proteins for proper blood clotting. While it was typically controlled with different potions, a fall could hurt Elle. Flying was too much of a risk at the time.
Seven years flew by fast with Elle getting high but not top marks. She ignored the classes (except history) that would not help her in healing. During the summers she interned with Dr. Asher at St. Mungos. By the time she graduated Elle knew her way around a hospital. She quickly began a training program at St. Mungo's. After six years she's ready to take her exams to become a full fledged doctor. Still, despite some of her teachers urging her to take the exams and begin her residency she has no idea what kind of healing she wants to go into. Over the last year she has been doing rotations in different wards to see if she likes that kind of healing. It was during her time in the mental ward that she met Curse Kameron and began forging a bumpy relationship with the family. The Kamerons are an interesting bunch and being their friend of sorts has been exciting to say the least. Currently, Elle began working at Hogwarts part time to see if she wants to heal there.
Age: 24
Birthdate/place:December
Species: human, Halfblood
Gender: female
Appearance:
Build/height- Petite, 4’10
General Description-
Vertically challenged has always been one of Elle’s problems. Once she was described to be knee-high to a grasshopper! In reality she is a giant compared to grasshoppers but to everyone else that is not the case. Most eleven year olds are as tall as she if not bigger. What she lacks in height she makes up in personality and hair. A tangled mess of curls threatens to condemn her to childhood for eternity. The chestnut brown nest has been shortened and is more often or not straightened, adding a few years to her youthful face. Large chocolate eyes engulf her heartshaped face, threatening to dominate her other features. If it wasn’t for her height her eyes would be the most remarked upon feature. She is not a overtly pretty woman. Elle is sweet and youthful looking and her beauty is innocent. She is often over looked, a second glance girl but that is not saying she is ugly just average. Not fat nor skinny her frame is rather stocky. For being a small woman she has muscles and is rather big boned. Many women are envious of her slight frame with a bit of curves. Sometimes she wished she was more well endowed but she has finally come to terms with the fact that she will never grow tall or be curvaceous.
Possessions- A leather notebook filled with pressed flowers and different ingredients related to healing. She often writes down strange remedies that people have tried successfully to cure ailments.
She has what her grandfather calls her superpower kit. It's a leather satchel that is typically filled with basic healing potions, ingredients, and bandages.
Personality:
Temperment/Mental Attributes-
Curious. One day the urge to uncover everything will probably get her killed. Elle is constantly on the move, uncovering a new spell, flower, sick person, crime etc. Questions spew out of her mouth. Not all of them polite. As a child it was endearing. As an adult, it's rude. Practice has tempered the need to question everything but sometimes the impulse overrides her caution.
She is known to have a big mouth but an even bigger heart. She might annoy her coworkers with her sharp, flapping tongue but she charms them with her eagerness to heal the world. Elle often puts the welfare of others before her own, often to her detriment.
Elle might be a thinker but she is no planer. If something is happening and she sees a solution she'll go on ahead and do it without thinking of the consequences. She's more of a do now beg for forgiveness later.
Despite offering advice and help to every living soul, Elle is fericely independent. She hates it when someone is trying to mother her, it's the quickest way to see her hot temper. She works pretty good in group work as long as she has a leadership position. She is one to rise up to the occasion and take a leadership role without being asked. To counter act her feistiness she is extremely loyal and honest. Once someone loses her trust though they will have to jump through hoops to get it back if they ever get it completely. She is quite patient but when it is tried she taps into her Irish blood. Her temper is strong but lasts for only a short time.
Elle is serious minded but she can be one for thoughts of fantasy. There can be an ethereal quality about her when she gets in a dreamy mood. Her mind is quick and can be philosophical she mulls over the question of existence and why things happen. When she is cooperative she can sometimes sense things before they happen. It is a strange sensation as if something is flying at her and she knows exactly when to duck. It does not happen often and she is scared of such events and tries her hardest not to let them happen.
Elle does enjoy a good hearty laugh once in a while and has a dry sense of humor. She can take a joke but doesn’t always laugh at what most people consider funny.
Elle doesn’t like to fight but finds it necessary to use physical force. She enjoys a good cause and when she finds one she will go all in. She is a supporter of the underdog and will help those who can’t help themselves. She dislikes limitations and the ordinary which is why books about myths and children stories hold such an allure for her.
People often say that she is absent, her head is in the clouds, especially when it comes to work place gossip. It isn't something she pays attention to. While she cares what people think of her, it's not present in her mind and rarely comes to the forefront of her thoughts. Elle is just Elle. She's a friendly, slightly flighty person with a ready smile and a rush of words. She's an odd ball, sweet but different, not realizing that something she has done can be construed as socially awkward until she's already finished it. She's a kind soul and it often hurts her. She looks at the world as one big problem she can fix. She tries her hardest to heal it and trusts most people on site until they do something to lose her trust and even then it must be major. She is disappointed emotionally which might be a reason for her detachment. She has high personal ideals and demands a lot out of her friends perhaps too much.
Alliance- All things good
Strengths/Weaknesses-
Strengths:
Listening Having a bad day? Pull up a chair and have a piece of chocolate. Elle will listen offering advice and stick her button nose into your problem. She'll usually offer a solution or a way to get even, at the end. Judgment is typically left out. She'll take your side if needed or play the middleman.
ReadingIf one could make a living reading stories to people Elle would. No book is safe around her. Elle can speed read if needed but she truly enjoys dissecting a book, taking her time to glean any information she can out it. The older the book the higher the odds she'll borrow and never return it. Myths are her favorite.
Weakness:
Emotion: Elle might be a naturally empathetic creature but when it comes to sharing her own emotions she's cold, distant even. Her ability to detach herself from her personal feelings, especially during extreme high tension situations, is an asset at the hospital. It's a curse in the romance department. Elle is not your typical girl. It takes a lot of fire whiskey to get her to share her "feelings". If she has a problem she keeps it to herself until she explodes.
Independence Those are nice hands you have there. Want to keep them? Do not under pain of death help Elle in anyway. She will not take kindly to your assistance at all. If she needs your help she will ask but don't hold your breath for the moon is not blue yet.
Chocolate: Is that from Honeydukes? Please share. Elle can eat her weight in chocolate. It is very hard for her to resist a bite here or there. She has been known to blow half a pay check on rich chocolate anything.
Cooking what the water's burning? Oh well, take out it is. Elle can't cook to save the world. It's rather strange she can brew a difficult potion without sweating but she can't cook food. Her preparation is killer. Carrots neatly chopped, mushrooms sliced but putting it together to make something yummy? Not a chance. Besides she doesn't have the patience nor the energy to make something herself.
Employment&Education:
-Adults-
Former House- Ravenclaw
Job- Healer in Training
Employer-St Mungos/ Hogwarts. She works twice a week at the castle to decide if she wants to go into children's healing.
OWLs/NEWTs-
OWLS:
History of magic: O
Potions: E
Charms: O
Defense: E
Herbology: O
NEWT
Potions: E
Herbology: O
Defense: A
Charms:O
Other:
Magical Skills- Anything special? If applicable
Patronus- (if applicable)
Wand- Elle’s wand is made out of African Padauk wood. Which is known to do well with healing charms. It is a rich red color with a natural shine to it that has seemed to wear off slightly from use. There are a few scratches in the wood but otherwise well taken care of. The core is a Hair from the Mane of a Kelpie.
Goals/Aspirations- Optional
Other Information-
History-
Eloise Grace Callahan is the only daughter of a very stubborn wizard and a amazon witch. Her parent's relationship was volatile at best. Sparks flew the moment earthy DP reporter Elijah Callahan spotted the fiery Sarah James. Sharp bards and sly glances kept up appearances. Their friends were surprised when the barely a couple announced that they were pregnant. Even more surprising was their pending nuptials. Marriage? Sarah was too much of a hell raiser and Elijah too stubborn. Despite canceling the wedding twice for foolish reasons they eventually eloped. Four months in Sarah nearly lost the baby. Startled, She calmed down a bit, no riding a broom seven months pregnant, no fire whiskey, or anything remotely dangerous.
Surrounded by the biggest snow storm in recent memory, Eloise Grace was born nearly three months early. The tiny babe was given potions to assist her breathing and growth.
Despite a rocky beginning, Elle was a happy and relatively healthy baby. Her parents fought constantly but they love their daughter.
Sarah, who never fully recovered from her harrowing child birth experience, died when Elle was seven. Elijah nearly fell apart. He might have screamed at Sarah a thousand times and threaten to leave more than once but she was his life. For weeks he could barely eat and ignored his child. Elle knew her mummy wasn't coming home. It was sad but she didn't really cry about it. She was mad. Especially at the people who thought she was strange or uncaring because tears wouldn't come. She was also mad at her mummy for leaving her behind.
Elle would often spend her summers with her paternal grandfather in the Irish countryside, more so after her mother died. She preferred the rolling hills to the tight quarters in their London flat. Her favorite thing about her grandfather was his stories about history and gardening. The Callahan garden was a sight to behold, with exotic plants, healer herbs and just about the prettiest roses to be found.
Eleven years passed and Elle was sent off to school. Her sharp brain and flippant tongue landed her in Ravenclaw. The boisterous little girl made more enemies than friends but she had her own crowd. She did rather well in school but was more interested in healing than anything else. Elle never played Qudditch and didn't even learn how to fly because of a blood disease she was born with. Her body did not make enough proteins for proper blood clotting. While it was typically controlled with different potions, a fall could hurt Elle. Flying was too much of a risk at the time.
Seven years flew by fast with Elle getting high but not top marks. She ignored the classes (except history) that would not help her in healing. During the summers she interned with Dr. Asher at St. Mungos. By the time she graduated Elle knew her way around a hospital. She quickly began a training program at St. Mungo's. After six years she's ready to take her exams to become a full fledged doctor. Still, despite some of her teachers urging her to take the exams and begin her residency she has no idea what kind of healing she wants to go into. Over the last year she has been doing rotations in different wards to see if she likes that kind of healing. It was during her time in the mental ward that she met Curse Kameron and began forging a bumpy relationship with the family. The Kamerons are an interesting bunch and being their friend of sorts has been exciting to say the least. Currently, Elle began working at Hogwarts part time to see if she wants to heal there.