Post by Maebh Breandan on Apr 4, 2011 22:49:03 GMT -5
Name: Maebh Bluebell Breandan
Maebh is named after the great warrior queen of Connacht an embodiment of sovereignty. It was one of the first stories Maebh learned to recite as a child. Her middle name is her mother's favorite flower that grows wild along the roads they travel.
Age: 29
Birthdate/place: [May-1-1990]
Species: Gypsy
Gender: Female
Family: Half blood
She's the second child of five. Conan is her older brother and as a child she idolized him.
She also has several adopted siblings, orphans and waifs her parents have stumbled on as they travel the countryside.
Both her parents were part of large families, thus she has a vast array of cousins, aunts and uncles.
Appearance:
Build/height- 5'4, slender
General Description- [Include eye and hair color]
Maebh has a unique talent of changing how she looks. Oh, her basic structure is the same but a subtle shift in posture and a swipe or two of make up and she could go from a very pretty girl to average in less than thirty seconds. Her true hair color has been a Breandan family secret since she first died it when she was seven. Currently her locks are a deep brown similar to what her natural color should look like. She has brown eyes that are similar in color and shape to that of her older brother Conan except for the fact that there is a perpetual twinkle in her eye and sometimes his can be rather void.
Currently, Maebh is downplaying her natural beauty, allowing her hair to fall in it's natural wave. Her wardrobe is simple but colorful as befits her current role as gypsy daughter turned businesswoman.
Despite living outside half of her life, her skin is rather supple but durable. She has a naturally tan coloring to her skin and can take sun very well but her younger siblings are far darker than she is. A small scar behind her left ear in the shape of an x is a reminder of the shady side of life.
Possessions- Anything particular your character owns?
A medium sized seven layer compartment trunk, that has been in the family for generations, was given to Maebh the day she settled into a theater for her first job after school. An entire compartment is filled with different kinds of make up, wigs, potions, and tools that can transform a woman into an old man. It is an eccentric collection of objects both magical and muggle that Maebh has used throughout the years, some of her own creation.
She has her own set of lock picking tools, nestled away at the bottom of her trunk. She rarely uses these and is actually ashamed of them. For they represent her criminal past. Conan had taught her how to pick locks when she'd been barely older than a toddler. Since she can unlock anything with a wand, they are really symbolic but sometimes a simple alohora charm isn't enough to get through magically trapped doors.
Personality:
Temperment/Mental Attributes-
Maebh is a charming young woman with a ready smile and a booming laugh. She has a talent for finding things to be happy about and often sees the good in things before the bad. A mischievous twinkle warms her melted-chocolate eyes, hinting at her nymph like nature. Her mind is a maze as it takes in the world around her, always searching for information. At first she comes across as a empty headed flirt but underneath her facade is a brilliant mind crafted for information rather than spellwork. Over all, Maebh is a practical person and knows more about the business of everyday living than intellectual theory. Her temperament is goodhearted, she is slow to anger but when pushed over the brink her anger is brief and violent as she loses her firm grip of control. It is rare that her more darker emotions escape her, overpowering her patience.
She is a hard worker, unafraid of using her hands or getting dirty. It was her determination and willingness to push herself that gave her success on the stage. Her minimal talents were expanded due to long hours of practice and sweet smile. She works tirelessly for what she wants. She enjoys routine and is rather uncomfortable in leadership positions, she is happiest working for someone else, her loyalty strong. She can and does work on her own but enjoys getting a few orders or guidelines from those above her.
Alliance- Gypsies and Magical Law Enforcement
Alignment- Chaotic good
Strengths/Weaknesses-
Strengths:
Patience: Years of traveling in close quarters has instilled a good amount of patience in Maebh, especially in regards to waiting for things to happen. No one can rush fate and often times good things came for those willing to wait it out. She isn't afraid to act though and has learned that sometimes waiting too long is detrimental. She dislikes quarreling and often uses humor to avoid it. As a child she quickly learned how to appease people, smoothing tempers to avoid arguments.
Steadfast: Maebh is a very reliable person despite her mask of flighty tendencies. When given a cause she will see it through the end. She can keep her head in difficult situations, rarely allowing her emotions to overwhelm her. It is often in the midst of chaos that she does her best work.
Weakness:
Beauty: One of Maebh's greatest weakness is her appreciation of beautiful things, both human, nature and objects. She enjoys a good performance, a lovely painting or a fragrant display of nature. Her sharp eyes enjoy ferreting out aesthetically pleasing objects.
Luxury: Despite being born and raised in a wagon, Maebh often longs for expensive things. She has learned to limit the number of luxuries she allows herself, as her fear of debt prevents her from over indulgence. Sometimes it is too hard to resist, comfort, good food and wine.
Employment&Education:
-Students-
House-
Year-
OWLs/NEWTs-
-Adults-
Former House- not applicable Attended Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic Arts
Job- Maebh is technically a hitwizard that specializes in undercover investigation. She is the person that pretends to be someone else to gather intell, she leaves the arresting to more talented spell casters. She has different aliases for her undercover assignments so no one in her family knows her real job. Currently her "day" job is managing a run down Apothecary in Hogsmeade with several younger members of her family who live near by camping near the outskirts of the village. The Apothecary allows her to freely interact with some of the more shady wizarding folk in the are and gives her an excuse to travel, looking for herbs etc.
Employer-
OWLs/NEWTs-
Other:
Magical Skills- Anything special? If applicable
Patronus- (if applicable)
Wand-
Goals/Aspirations- Optional
Other Information-
History-
As a small child, Maebh took her rightful place in the family as an entertainer. She loved performing and even before she could walk she was trying to get people to laugh. While not the most talented performer in the family, there is a certain sparkle that captivates audiences. From a young age she knew that she wanted to be a performer, to travel like her parents. She loved the life, and for a while she enjoyed always moving. As she got older though, her family wagon was like a noose tightening around her neck. By the time she was eleven she was super exciting to begin magical schooling. Despite getting an acceptance letter to Hogwarts, Maebh chose the Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic arts. Being stuck in a classroom for hours on end was not Maebh's idea of a good time. At that point in her life she could careless about learning how to defend herself against the dark arts.
In school she excelled at costumes and appearances, having created her own clothing nearly her entire life. Being away from her quirky family had been a paradise at first but Maebh didn't exactly fit in with her classmates. A four poster bed was a new experience and her mates couldn't understand her curiosity for basic immensities they took for granted.
School was the first time where the cocky child first heard that she wasn't entirely talented. Her posture was horrible and her style too outlandish. She took the criticism harshly at first, especially when her teachers commented about her family's lifestyle. After all traveling sideshows were small time, her teachers have been on actual stages. Classical dance was strange to maebh who had learned traditional Irish dances and gypsy steps from her family. Stubborn, and filled with a need to prove herself, Maebh dedicated herself to learning everything she could in school. Instead of focusing on one areas of the arts she did a general approach to her studying taking classes in various types of dance, theater and music. She was adequate to good in a variety of things and best at nothing. She barely focused on her academics, barely learning charms and spells that didn't have any application to the stage.
Holidays she spent with her family performing in small towns, weaving in and out of muggle areas. She taught what she learn in school to her younger siblings. Her relationship with her older brother, Conan was strained at best. When they were kids she had followed him everywhere, it was he who taught her how to recite her first tale. She'd envied him as a small child for his talent with words. But as her magical powers progressed their relationship became strained and was terse at best when she turned down an opportunity to study at the best magical theory school in Europe, Hogwarts. Every time she talked about magic he sneered and stalked away. Fed up she eventually left her moody older brother alone. As adult they rarely see each other, things between them tense. But she worries about Conan and the life he has made for himself away from the clan. When she became involved with Hitwizards she learned that her brother more than dabbled in crime. He was running around with an increasing dangerous crowd and she worried that one day she'd be forced to provide information on her brother.
At one year shy of thirty, Maebh is closing the curtain and settling down. Since she graduated from W.A.D.A., or Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, she has graced many a stage across wizarding Europe. Even, performing a traveling show with members of her gypsy family. The working starlet has now retired (or so she has led the world to believe) and has moved to the quiet village of Hogsmeade, where she took over the flagging Apothecary. Even her family had to admit that was odd but it wasn't before long that a stage was built in the front garden and a small troupe of gypsies invaded...came to entertain the good people of Hogsmeade.
In reality, Maebh grew tired of constantly moving and the chaos that had engulfed her life. The stage was a dangerous life filled with back stabbers, lairs, gossips, scandal and deceit. She didn't want to play anymore. Besides she had more important things to do rather than wait for the stage to no longer love her. The two years Maebh had been gathering intelligence, everyone once in a while for Hitwizards and in a rare case, an auror. She decided to make fighting crime her new job when one of the young girls she had performed with was brutally murdered. It was her anger that finally drove her to do more than occasionally assist law enforcement. The young girl did not need to die and Maebh could not sit by and allow it to happen again.
The fact that she hadn't the required 5 OWLS didn't stop her. Slowly, Maebh relearned things she would have if she had chosen Hogwarts over W.A.D.A.'s theater. Recently she has been hired to be more than just an informant. She's a junior member in training to be a hit wizard, a group of wizards and witches who throw criminals in jail, leaving the aurors to do the dark wizard hunting. Maebh's talent to blend in and change her appearance, including voice with little magical aid has made her a rather good undercover investigator. Often times spells to change ones appearance wears out but Maebh can die her hair with muggle products or simple potion ingredients. Her current day job as manager of Hogsmeade Apothecary is her cover and her home.
Maebh is named after the great warrior queen of Connacht an embodiment of sovereignty. It was one of the first stories Maebh learned to recite as a child. Her middle name is her mother's favorite flower that grows wild along the roads they travel.
Age: 29
Birthdate/place: [May-1-1990]
Species: Gypsy
Gender: Female
Family: Half blood
She's the second child of five. Conan is her older brother and as a child she idolized him.
She also has several adopted siblings, orphans and waifs her parents have stumbled on as they travel the countryside.
Both her parents were part of large families, thus she has a vast array of cousins, aunts and uncles.
Appearance:
Build/height- 5'4, slender
General Description- [Include eye and hair color]
Maebh has a unique talent of changing how she looks. Oh, her basic structure is the same but a subtle shift in posture and a swipe or two of make up and she could go from a very pretty girl to average in less than thirty seconds. Her true hair color has been a Breandan family secret since she first died it when she was seven. Currently her locks are a deep brown similar to what her natural color should look like. She has brown eyes that are similar in color and shape to that of her older brother Conan except for the fact that there is a perpetual twinkle in her eye and sometimes his can be rather void.
Currently, Maebh is downplaying her natural beauty, allowing her hair to fall in it's natural wave. Her wardrobe is simple but colorful as befits her current role as gypsy daughter turned businesswoman.
Despite living outside half of her life, her skin is rather supple but durable. She has a naturally tan coloring to her skin and can take sun very well but her younger siblings are far darker than she is. A small scar behind her left ear in the shape of an x is a reminder of the shady side of life.
Possessions- Anything particular your character owns?
A medium sized seven layer compartment trunk, that has been in the family for generations, was given to Maebh the day she settled into a theater for her first job after school. An entire compartment is filled with different kinds of make up, wigs, potions, and tools that can transform a woman into an old man. It is an eccentric collection of objects both magical and muggle that Maebh has used throughout the years, some of her own creation.
She has her own set of lock picking tools, nestled away at the bottom of her trunk. She rarely uses these and is actually ashamed of them. For they represent her criminal past. Conan had taught her how to pick locks when she'd been barely older than a toddler. Since she can unlock anything with a wand, they are really symbolic but sometimes a simple alohora charm isn't enough to get through magically trapped doors.
Personality:
Temperment/Mental Attributes-
Maebh is a charming young woman with a ready smile and a booming laugh. She has a talent for finding things to be happy about and often sees the good in things before the bad. A mischievous twinkle warms her melted-chocolate eyes, hinting at her nymph like nature. Her mind is a maze as it takes in the world around her, always searching for information. At first she comes across as a empty headed flirt but underneath her facade is a brilliant mind crafted for information rather than spellwork. Over all, Maebh is a practical person and knows more about the business of everyday living than intellectual theory. Her temperament is goodhearted, she is slow to anger but when pushed over the brink her anger is brief and violent as she loses her firm grip of control. It is rare that her more darker emotions escape her, overpowering her patience.
She is a hard worker, unafraid of using her hands or getting dirty. It was her determination and willingness to push herself that gave her success on the stage. Her minimal talents were expanded due to long hours of practice and sweet smile. She works tirelessly for what she wants. She enjoys routine and is rather uncomfortable in leadership positions, she is happiest working for someone else, her loyalty strong. She can and does work on her own but enjoys getting a few orders or guidelines from those above her.
Alliance- Gypsies and Magical Law Enforcement
Alignment- Chaotic good
Strengths/Weaknesses-
Strengths:
Patience: Years of traveling in close quarters has instilled a good amount of patience in Maebh, especially in regards to waiting for things to happen. No one can rush fate and often times good things came for those willing to wait it out. She isn't afraid to act though and has learned that sometimes waiting too long is detrimental. She dislikes quarreling and often uses humor to avoid it. As a child she quickly learned how to appease people, smoothing tempers to avoid arguments.
Steadfast: Maebh is a very reliable person despite her mask of flighty tendencies. When given a cause she will see it through the end. She can keep her head in difficult situations, rarely allowing her emotions to overwhelm her. It is often in the midst of chaos that she does her best work.
Weakness:
Beauty: One of Maebh's greatest weakness is her appreciation of beautiful things, both human, nature and objects. She enjoys a good performance, a lovely painting or a fragrant display of nature. Her sharp eyes enjoy ferreting out aesthetically pleasing objects.
Luxury: Despite being born and raised in a wagon, Maebh often longs for expensive things. She has learned to limit the number of luxuries she allows herself, as her fear of debt prevents her from over indulgence. Sometimes it is too hard to resist, comfort, good food and wine.
Employment&Education:
-Students-
House-
Year-
OWLs/NEWTs-
-Adults-
Former House- not applicable Attended Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic Arts
Job- Maebh is technically a hitwizard that specializes in undercover investigation. She is the person that pretends to be someone else to gather intell, she leaves the arresting to more talented spell casters. She has different aliases for her undercover assignments so no one in her family knows her real job. Currently her "day" job is managing a run down Apothecary in Hogsmeade with several younger members of her family who live near by camping near the outskirts of the village. The Apothecary allows her to freely interact with some of the more shady wizarding folk in the are and gives her an excuse to travel, looking for herbs etc.
Employer-
OWLs/NEWTs-
Other:
Magical Skills- Anything special? If applicable
Patronus- (if applicable)
Wand-
Goals/Aspirations- Optional
Other Information-
History-
As a small child, Maebh took her rightful place in the family as an entertainer. She loved performing and even before she could walk she was trying to get people to laugh. While not the most talented performer in the family, there is a certain sparkle that captivates audiences. From a young age she knew that she wanted to be a performer, to travel like her parents. She loved the life, and for a while she enjoyed always moving. As she got older though, her family wagon was like a noose tightening around her neck. By the time she was eleven she was super exciting to begin magical schooling. Despite getting an acceptance letter to Hogwarts, Maebh chose the Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic arts. Being stuck in a classroom for hours on end was not Maebh's idea of a good time. At that point in her life she could careless about learning how to defend herself against the dark arts.
In school she excelled at costumes and appearances, having created her own clothing nearly her entire life. Being away from her quirky family had been a paradise at first but Maebh didn't exactly fit in with her classmates. A four poster bed was a new experience and her mates couldn't understand her curiosity for basic immensities they took for granted.
School was the first time where the cocky child first heard that she wasn't entirely talented. Her posture was horrible and her style too outlandish. She took the criticism harshly at first, especially when her teachers commented about her family's lifestyle. After all traveling sideshows were small time, her teachers have been on actual stages. Classical dance was strange to maebh who had learned traditional Irish dances and gypsy steps from her family. Stubborn, and filled with a need to prove herself, Maebh dedicated herself to learning everything she could in school. Instead of focusing on one areas of the arts she did a general approach to her studying taking classes in various types of dance, theater and music. She was adequate to good in a variety of things and best at nothing. She barely focused on her academics, barely learning charms and spells that didn't have any application to the stage.
Holidays she spent with her family performing in small towns, weaving in and out of muggle areas. She taught what she learn in school to her younger siblings. Her relationship with her older brother, Conan was strained at best. When they were kids she had followed him everywhere, it was he who taught her how to recite her first tale. She'd envied him as a small child for his talent with words. But as her magical powers progressed their relationship became strained and was terse at best when she turned down an opportunity to study at the best magical theory school in Europe, Hogwarts. Every time she talked about magic he sneered and stalked away. Fed up she eventually left her moody older brother alone. As adult they rarely see each other, things between them tense. But she worries about Conan and the life he has made for himself away from the clan. When she became involved with Hitwizards she learned that her brother more than dabbled in crime. He was running around with an increasing dangerous crowd and she worried that one day she'd be forced to provide information on her brother.
At one year shy of thirty, Maebh is closing the curtain and settling down. Since she graduated from W.A.D.A., or Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts, she has graced many a stage across wizarding Europe. Even, performing a traveling show with members of her gypsy family. The working starlet has now retired (or so she has led the world to believe) and has moved to the quiet village of Hogsmeade, where she took over the flagging Apothecary. Even her family had to admit that was odd but it wasn't before long that a stage was built in the front garden and a small troupe of gypsies invaded...came to entertain the good people of Hogsmeade.
In reality, Maebh grew tired of constantly moving and the chaos that had engulfed her life. The stage was a dangerous life filled with back stabbers, lairs, gossips, scandal and deceit. She didn't want to play anymore. Besides she had more important things to do rather than wait for the stage to no longer love her. The two years Maebh had been gathering intelligence, everyone once in a while for Hitwizards and in a rare case, an auror. She decided to make fighting crime her new job when one of the young girls she had performed with was brutally murdered. It was her anger that finally drove her to do more than occasionally assist law enforcement. The young girl did not need to die and Maebh could not sit by and allow it to happen again.
The fact that she hadn't the required 5 OWLS didn't stop her. Slowly, Maebh relearned things she would have if she had chosen Hogwarts over W.A.D.A.'s theater. Recently she has been hired to be more than just an informant. She's a junior member in training to be a hit wizard, a group of wizards and witches who throw criminals in jail, leaving the aurors to do the dark wizard hunting. Maebh's talent to blend in and change her appearance, including voice with little magical aid has made her a rather good undercover investigator. Often times spells to change ones appearance wears out but Maebh can die her hair with muggle products or simple potion ingredients. Her current day job as manager of Hogsmeade Apothecary is her cover and her home.
