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character name: Bellatrix Lestrange (née Black)Fandom: Harry Potter
Timeline: Just before her death at the hands of Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 1998.
character's age: 47
powers, skills, pets and equipment: Bellatrix Lestrange enters Anatole in possession of her wand (walnut, 12¾" with a dragon heartstring), her clothes, but nothing else to speak of. She is an extremely skilled witch, ranking second to Voldemort (and Dumbledore, to be fair) and easily the most powerful of all the Death Eaters. She is well versed in the Dark Arts, highly adaptable with her magics, and is also a skilled Occlumens. This is not to say that her mind would be closed at all times, just that it would be extremely unlikely for someone to read her thoughts and memories if she had reason to suspect that they were poking around in her brainparts. Of course, the Mist may likely make some of her skills randomly ...malfunction as the mods see fit.
Adept at all of the Unforgivable Curses, Bellatrix is extremely fond of the Cruciatus Curse. Although she shows no restraint in wielding all three, she seems to take an immeasurable amount of pleasure in torturing her victims into insanity.
She is a great duelist, and is able to defeat many highly skilled wizards and witches, including Aurors - not to mention having amazing agility with regards to deflecting spells, and also physically dodging them. Although phycical skills are not her strength, she is incredibly energetic and agile for her age, often outstripping younger opponents.
Bella has a great range of magics at her disposal - and though her focus and true love would be in the realm of the Dark Arts, she is not limited to spells from this school alone. She also has been shown to have the ability to cast nonverbal magic, but to what extent it is not specified.
canon history:
Bellatrix grew up amongst the Wizarding elite, from the most ancient, noble (and pureblood!) house of Black. She attended Hogwarts and was, like a great number of her clan and peers, sorted into Slytherin House. Not much is said of her time at Hogwarts, other than shortly after graduation she became a Death Eater, and evolved into Voldemort's most loyal servant.
She killed countless mudbloods in the first war, and showed no restaint in torturing or outright killing any halfbloods of purebloods that stood in the way of Voldemort's mission.
Due to her crimes during that war, Bella was imprisoned in Azkaban, growing still more fanatical and insane. After escaping the infamous wizard prison during a mass breakout, she was responsible for many more deaths, including her own cousin, Sirius Black (a death she very much enjoyed taunting Harry about) and was involved in the kidnappings of Luna Lovegood, Mr.Ollivander, the torture of Hermione Granger, and the murder of Dobby.
She murdered her own niece, Nymphadora, an Auror, in the Final Battle of Hogwarts, before she was killed by Molly Weasley for taunting the witch about the death of her her son.
(From the wiki here)
personality: Bellatrix is a fanatical believer in blood purity, not only as a result of indoctrination by her family from a young age, but also as a result of her own very, very twisted world-view. It is because of these beliefs that she became fiercely (and obsessively) loyal to Lord Voldemort, and is still loyal to his vision, even after his presumed death.
She is sadistic, possessed of a dangerously violent temper, and utterly devoid of sympathy/empathy. Circling the outskirts of her rage are high levels of paranoia. Because of this, and the fact that Voldemort was the only one she ever truly trusted, she works best alone.
She is arrogant and often reckless with her magics, in part due to her state of mental unbalance - but she makes up for this with skill, so she has rarely ever met her match.
Incredibly cruel, and fascinated by torture, Bella also exhibits disturbing childlike qualities. She loves to taunt and belittle, to rub salt in the wound before she strikes again - to drag death into many painful stages for her own amusement. She is easily distracted, though, and this is a definite weakness. She will almost always overestimate her own power.
She eats, lives and breathes her hatred for muggles/any non-magic folk, and any person who would defend or associate with them. There are no exceptions to this rule, as she was all too willing to show by killing her niece and torturing purebloods when the situation called for it.
Bella prizes her loyalty to Voldemort above all things - to the point that she scoffed at Narcissa's worry over Draco, as she believed that her sister should consider it an honor to lose her son in the Dark Lord's service.
She may be reckless and mad, but she is also tireless. Out of that madness comes a bravery born of visceral glee.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Bellatrix is agressive, deluded, cruel and insane. She is an unsympathetic antagonist and may be a genuine threat to the native Anatolians (with mod approval). This sort of thing would likely be on the DO NOT WANT list of any decent and saner Scorched, bringing with it a whole host of ....interaction.
The atmosphere of Anatole is fairly familiar to Bella, and would likely remind her of the Wizarding World, her own deluded mind telling her that she was brought here through this Door by Voldemort's will, possibly by his last breath, to continue his mission.
Bellatrix doesn't play ...well with others, but that doesn't mean she won't play.