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Name: Ali
Age: 21
Location: U.S. Central
E-mail: onethousandnames@gmail.com
AIM sn: HappySellout
Yahoo! sn: N/A
Other contacts: N/A
What's the secret password: flobberworm
RP Experience: Justin (justapuff) & Mandy (mandy_mandy) @ vu_network
Luna (amor_da_lua) & Blaise (player_blaise @ <enluminure_rp
Ginny (redlilsis) & Harry (bedheadharry) @ n_declinazio
About the Character
Full Name: Luna Elizabeth Lovegood
Date of Birth/Age: November 26th, 1981, which makes her a Sagittarius, and therefore optimistic, good-humored, honest, and intellectual.
Parents: Adrien Lovegood (father) and Juliet Lovegood (mother - deceased)
Siblings and Other Family of Note: None.
Home: Ottery St. Catchpole
House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Fir (change, shapeshifting, objectivity), 9 1/2", flexible, Mooncalf hair
Favorite subjects: Transfiguration - Luna is fascinated by the possibility that something can become an entirely different thing, or that someone can become an entirely different creature. It's an exercise in imagination to her: if she can only imagine the way, she can make it happen.
Care of Magical Creatures - Luna loves animals of any sort, and she can definitely sympathize with Hagrid's attitude that all animals are good or at least extremely interesting in some way. She likes Hagrid's class, despite others' misgivings, and loves the chance to spend time with any animals.
Least favorite subject: History of Magic - Everyone and their brother agrees that HoM is the most boring class in the universe, and Luna is no exception. Being an imaginative sort of person, a class where all she can do is sit there and listen to a ghost prattling on and on and on is the worst possible thing for her. She usually pays no attention whatsoever, reading her own books and jotting random things down on parchment.
Potions - A typical answer, but Luna doesn't like potions because of Professor Snape. Luna may not be worse than a Gryffindor to Snape, but she certainly wouldn't be a darling of his class, and her tendency towards curiousity and experimentation doesn't help much. While she's adept at convincing herself there must be some trace of humanity in him, that doesn't make classtime anymore bearable, however serenely she takes insults from anyone.
Appearance: Luna stands out in a crowd. It's not that she's exceptionally pretty: while she is good-looking, the dreamy expression she usually wears tends to detract from her looks rather than add to them. She's of average height and average build, but she wears her hair long, falling ot about waist length. It's a medium blonde color, what's sometimes called dirty blonde or dishwater blonde. What's most distinctive about her, though, is how she dresses. She prefers unusual accessories, especially those she's made herself. Charmed earrings and bracelets are an everyday occurence with her, and she often collects corks and bottlecaps to make her jewelry out of. She doesn't usually do this for shock effect, though occasionally it amuses her to do so. Usually she selects her unusual accessories because of some color or shape that pleases her.
Luna's PB would be Ashley Davies.
Personality: Because of her own unpopular beliefs, she tends to give credence to most people's personal beliefs and very little about other people turns her away. This often makes her appear overly naive, such as when people take her things and she comments that they always return them at the end of the year. Naive isn't quite the term to use, though: optimistic would be more accurate. She doesn't expect people to treat her as they would treat other people; that would indeed be naive. Instead, she tends to hope that they'll learn to see around her oddities, or perhaps even to understand them. She does gravitate towards other outcasts, of course, simply because popular people have no real reason to try to see the person behind the beliefs, or what causes her unusual beliefs.
Because of her position on the outskirts of society, and she tends to be more objective than many people. She's not the eternally upbeat optimist of stereotype, though she does believe that good will win out over bad. But she doesn't let pessimism drag her down, which allows her to be objective about people. She's far more likely than others to try to analyze the reasons for a person's actions than some of her fellow outcasts, because she doesn't feel bitter about her own status.
As stated, many people see her as naive and oblivious: while she does often seem oblivious to insults or mockery, she simply chooses to ignore them and turn the other cheek. Getting upset only fuels a bully's desire to cause pain; smiling and agreeing or laughing with them tends to turn it aside, at least for the moment, and Luna realized this long ago. Not that she doesn't get upset about such things, but she holds it back till she can deal with it privately, usually by writing in her journal or talking to an animal. Luna has no real confidantes except those who can't talk; she hesitates to call any human 'friend' because most people simply don't want to be seen as her friend.
She can occasionally have a temper, almost always in defense of someone or something she feels close to. Usually, though, this comes off as a laughable thing, rather like a young girl stomping her foot in protest. She's not very good at coming up with angry words to say, and tends to repeat the obvious.
She also has a very sober, serious side, but people tend to only catch accidental glimpses of this. She doesn't willingly reveal it to many people, tending to fear they'll take her even less seriously than they do now, not realizing that it would probably help her image more than harm it. What she feels more strongly than that fear, though, is the idea that perhaps some things are private, and should only be shared with real friends: something she doesn't feel she has.
Relationships: Luna, quite frankly, is friendly with anyone who'll give her the time of day. She's very optimistic about people in general, though she does tend to keep her distance. While she'll chatter away to anyone who'll sit down by her, she doesn't open up to many people. She doesn't have any real friends.
I'm pretty open on pairings with Luna. I do have to own up to having a Harry/Luna fondness, but I also enjoy pairing Luna with Slytherins and other unlikely subjects. For the most part, I like to let things develop as they will in-game.
Background: Luna had a fairly happy childhood. She was born to a wizarding family that was rather known for its oddities: her father was an absentminded-professor sort, and her mother was an artist, and both came from families of likeminded individuals. Her father went into journalism at a fairly young age, and was often almost entirely focused on the newspaper: he eventually worked his way up to becoming editor, though he still often writes articles. The Lovegood house is often overflowing with research materials of all sorts: books, articles, animals, references, etc.
Her mother was an artist with a turn towards invention. For the most part she sold artistic little novelties that didn't accomplish much but were pretty to look at. Windchimes that blow bubbles, stained glass that animates during the full moon and such things like that. She came up with a few useful inventions, though she never widely sold any of them. Her inventions, art works, and supplies competed for space with her husbands research materials. Luna grew up in a very chaotic, but supportive house: her parents, far from conventional themselves, encouraged her to think for herself and never told her something was wrong. If she came up with an idea that wasn't considered conventionally true, her parents would provide her with books on both sides of the subject and let her come to her own conclusions.
When she was nine years old, she was lone with her mother one day while Juliet was conducting some of her experiments. She lost control of the spell, and instead of enchanting a statue to act as a guard dog, the spirit instead attacked her, killing her in front of her nine-year-old daughter. Luna tried to summon help, but by the time someone arrived, her mother was long dead.
Things changed after that. Her father withdrew further into his work. Instead of talking with his daughter and trying to support her, he instead tried to show his love by spoiling her. Luna, far more used to her mother trying to talk to her than her father, anyway, retreated more into her fantasy world. She entered Hogwarts less than two years later with the situation little changed.
Luna was excited at first to go to Hogwarts; she thought perhaps she could find someone to talk to, and her parents had always encouraged her to learn, if through unconventional means and unusual things. School, she discovered, was not at all what she was expecting, though. She'd spent most of her time with her parents, and so hadn't been quite aware of how unusual she was. School was hard for her at first, but she wasn't one to change her spots simply to conform. In time, she simply developed the reputation of being too weird to bother with. She kept from being lonely by reasoning that most people were like her father: too absorbed in their own thing, but eventually she'd be noticed. She mostly made friends with animals, like she had with her father's research subjects for various articles.
Unusual circumstances had always fascinated her, and there were a lot of them at Hogwarts, particularly since the legendary Harry Potter was a year ahead of her. Luna had always loved stories and legends, and Harry Potter was a modern one. She watched most of the scenarios play out with interest: the brush with her mother's death had numbed her fear of danger, and she felt little worry for herself. She did feel sympathy for Harry, though, especially after the incident at the Triwizard tournament that resulted in Cedric Diggory's death. Having seen someone die herself, she could understand his feelings. This is part of what prompted her to introduce herself the following year on the train, albeit in her own way.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual, with bicurious tendencies.
Kinks/turn ons/turn offs: Luna, despite being knowledgeable about the most random matters (including certain areas of sex) has no experience whatsoever in this sort of situation, and therefore would be very traditional at first, and quite possibly shy. A definite turn-off for her would be coming on too strongly, and not being interested in anything but her body.
Political association: Luna is very firmly on Harry's side, and therefore on the Order's side and Dumbledore's. She tends to view Harry as a living legend, and therefore interesting and worth scrutiny. Because of the events in her third and fourth years, she also understands that he does know what it's like to be an outcast, and she therefore sympathizes with him, and will side with him. Left on her own, she would still be on the side of the Order, because of her faith that good will always win out eventually, but she'd have less of a reason to enter into any sort of battles.
Intended Journal name: lune_folle (which means approximately crazy moon in French.)
Two potential plot-bunnies!: 1) Luna gets ahold of a color-changing spell that misfires, and she spends a few days turning orange, pink, violet, and green at random intervals. (... Yay for random humor plots?)
2) Luna and another student get trapped down in the dungeons, and there is some forced bonding before they're freed.
Journal Entry Sample: I found a fascinating book in the library today. Madame Pince seemed surprised that anyone wanted it, but then she looked up at me, and said simply, "Oh, it's you, Lovegood." I'm always surprised that she recognizes so many students, considering how many there are at Hogwarts.
It's made wonderful reading. It's from the 1500's, published in the Germanic region, and is all about monsters from the period. The descriptions are especially interesting; most of them can be traced to modern creatures, of course, and a few offer further proof of things like the Black-Toed Skreecher, long considered a myth by certain scientific circles. I wonder that no one checks this out more often; the last date is stamped almost fifteen years ago.
RP Sample: Luna was stumped. She'd earned detention yet again: this time for wearing a rainbow-colored scarf that was six feet long to class. Professor Snape had told her that only house colors were allowed to be worn, and had seemed unimpressed with her protest that all the house colors were in her scarf, even when she'd pointed out the green, blue, red, yellow, black, bronze, and silver. The additional colors had simply complemented the others, but she would gladly remove the violet and orange if he liked. He'd still given her detention.
Now, having finished cleaning out the cauldrons, she was supposed to write an essay on just why students were only allowed to wear house colors, and more specifically, their house colors. She dutifully noted down the merits of identifying your house at a distance, in case you got lost from the group, but other than that she didn't understand. Conformity wasn't something that even entered into her mind, quite obviously, and therefore the merits of it were invisible to her. She'd already been working on it for half an hour, and she still only had three sentences.
Luna sighed, letting her mind wander. Perhaps there was some sort of spell encoded into the colors? Her interest perked, and she began writing.
Another half an hour passed, and she handed over her essay cheerfully to the returning Professor Snape, who dismissed her as he sat down to read the paper. Luna, meanwhile, cheerfully tugged on her navy-and-bronze tie, secure in the knowledge that the professors tracked their every movement by their house-colors... purely for their own safety, of course.
Notes: I made up parent names, Luna's middle name, and a few other random details to throw in with the canon. If anything's noticably off or you don't want it added in, let me know.
Name: Ali
Age: 21
Location: U.S. Central
E-mail: onethousandnames@gmail.com
AIM sn: HappySellout
Yahoo! sn: N/A
Other contacts: N/A
What's the secret password: flobberworm
RP Experience: Justin (justapuff) & Mandy (mandy_mandy) @ vu_network
Luna (amor_da_lua) & Blaise (player_blaise @ <enluminure_rp
Ginny (redlilsis) & Harry (bedheadharry) @ n_declinazio
About the Character
Full Name: Luna Elizabeth Lovegood
Date of Birth/Age: November 26th, 1981, which makes her a Sagittarius, and therefore optimistic, good-humored, honest, and intellectual.
Parents: Adrien Lovegood (father) and Juliet Lovegood (mother - deceased)
Siblings and Other Family of Note: None.
Home: Ottery St. Catchpole
House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Fir (change, shapeshifting, objectivity), 9 1/2", flexible, Mooncalf hair
Favorite subjects: Transfiguration - Luna is fascinated by the possibility that something can become an entirely different thing, or that someone can become an entirely different creature. It's an exercise in imagination to her: if she can only imagine the way, she can make it happen.
Care of Magical Creatures - Luna loves animals of any sort, and she can definitely sympathize with Hagrid's attitude that all animals are good or at least extremely interesting in some way. She likes Hagrid's class, despite others' misgivings, and loves the chance to spend time with any animals.
Least favorite subject: History of Magic - Everyone and their brother agrees that HoM is the most boring class in the universe, and Luna is no exception. Being an imaginative sort of person, a class where all she can do is sit there and listen to a ghost prattling on and on and on is the worst possible thing for her. She usually pays no attention whatsoever, reading her own books and jotting random things down on parchment.
Potions - A typical answer, but Luna doesn't like potions because of Professor Snape. Luna may not be worse than a Gryffindor to Snape, but she certainly wouldn't be a darling of his class, and her tendency towards curiousity and experimentation doesn't help much. While she's adept at convincing herself there must be some trace of humanity in him, that doesn't make classtime anymore bearable, however serenely she takes insults from anyone.
Appearance: Luna stands out in a crowd. It's not that she's exceptionally pretty: while she is good-looking, the dreamy expression she usually wears tends to detract from her looks rather than add to them. She's of average height and average build, but she wears her hair long, falling ot about waist length. It's a medium blonde color, what's sometimes called dirty blonde or dishwater blonde. What's most distinctive about her, though, is how she dresses. She prefers unusual accessories, especially those she's made herself. Charmed earrings and bracelets are an everyday occurence with her, and she often collects corks and bottlecaps to make her jewelry out of. She doesn't usually do this for shock effect, though occasionally it amuses her to do so. Usually she selects her unusual accessories because of some color or shape that pleases her.
Luna's PB would be Ashley Davies.
Personality: Because of her own unpopular beliefs, she tends to give credence to most people's personal beliefs and very little about other people turns her away. This often makes her appear overly naive, such as when people take her things and she comments that they always return them at the end of the year. Naive isn't quite the term to use, though: optimistic would be more accurate. She doesn't expect people to treat her as they would treat other people; that would indeed be naive. Instead, she tends to hope that they'll learn to see around her oddities, or perhaps even to understand them. She does gravitate towards other outcasts, of course, simply because popular people have no real reason to try to see the person behind the beliefs, or what causes her unusual beliefs.
Because of her position on the outskirts of society, and she tends to be more objective than many people. She's not the eternally upbeat optimist of stereotype, though she does believe that good will win out over bad. But she doesn't let pessimism drag her down, which allows her to be objective about people. She's far more likely than others to try to analyze the reasons for a person's actions than some of her fellow outcasts, because she doesn't feel bitter about her own status.
As stated, many people see her as naive and oblivious: while she does often seem oblivious to insults or mockery, she simply chooses to ignore them and turn the other cheek. Getting upset only fuels a bully's desire to cause pain; smiling and agreeing or laughing with them tends to turn it aside, at least for the moment, and Luna realized this long ago. Not that she doesn't get upset about such things, but she holds it back till she can deal with it privately, usually by writing in her journal or talking to an animal. Luna has no real confidantes except those who can't talk; she hesitates to call any human 'friend' because most people simply don't want to be seen as her friend.
She can occasionally have a temper, almost always in defense of someone or something she feels close to. Usually, though, this comes off as a laughable thing, rather like a young girl stomping her foot in protest. She's not very good at coming up with angry words to say, and tends to repeat the obvious.
She also has a very sober, serious side, but people tend to only catch accidental glimpses of this. She doesn't willingly reveal it to many people, tending to fear they'll take her even less seriously than they do now, not realizing that it would probably help her image more than harm it. What she feels more strongly than that fear, though, is the idea that perhaps some things are private, and should only be shared with real friends: something she doesn't feel she has.
Relationships: Luna, quite frankly, is friendly with anyone who'll give her the time of day. She's very optimistic about people in general, though she does tend to keep her distance. While she'll chatter away to anyone who'll sit down by her, she doesn't open up to many people. She doesn't have any real friends.
I'm pretty open on pairings with Luna. I do have to own up to having a Harry/Luna fondness, but I also enjoy pairing Luna with Slytherins and other unlikely subjects. For the most part, I like to let things develop as they will in-game.
Background: Luna had a fairly happy childhood. She was born to a wizarding family that was rather known for its oddities: her father was an absentminded-professor sort, and her mother was an artist, and both came from families of likeminded individuals. Her father went into journalism at a fairly young age, and was often almost entirely focused on the newspaper: he eventually worked his way up to becoming editor, though he still often writes articles. The Lovegood house is often overflowing with research materials of all sorts: books, articles, animals, references, etc.
Her mother was an artist with a turn towards invention. For the most part she sold artistic little novelties that didn't accomplish much but were pretty to look at. Windchimes that blow bubbles, stained glass that animates during the full moon and such things like that. She came up with a few useful inventions, though she never widely sold any of them. Her inventions, art works, and supplies competed for space with her husbands research materials. Luna grew up in a very chaotic, but supportive house: her parents, far from conventional themselves, encouraged her to think for herself and never told her something was wrong. If she came up with an idea that wasn't considered conventionally true, her parents would provide her with books on both sides of the subject and let her come to her own conclusions.
When she was nine years old, she was lone with her mother one day while Juliet was conducting some of her experiments. She lost control of the spell, and instead of enchanting a statue to act as a guard dog, the spirit instead attacked her, killing her in front of her nine-year-old daughter. Luna tried to summon help, but by the time someone arrived, her mother was long dead.
Things changed after that. Her father withdrew further into his work. Instead of talking with his daughter and trying to support her, he instead tried to show his love by spoiling her. Luna, far more used to her mother trying to talk to her than her father, anyway, retreated more into her fantasy world. She entered Hogwarts less than two years later with the situation little changed.
Luna was excited at first to go to Hogwarts; she thought perhaps she could find someone to talk to, and her parents had always encouraged her to learn, if through unconventional means and unusual things. School, she discovered, was not at all what she was expecting, though. She'd spent most of her time with her parents, and so hadn't been quite aware of how unusual she was. School was hard for her at first, but she wasn't one to change her spots simply to conform. In time, she simply developed the reputation of being too weird to bother with. She kept from being lonely by reasoning that most people were like her father: too absorbed in their own thing, but eventually she'd be noticed. She mostly made friends with animals, like she had with her father's research subjects for various articles.
Unusual circumstances had always fascinated her, and there were a lot of them at Hogwarts, particularly since the legendary Harry Potter was a year ahead of her. Luna had always loved stories and legends, and Harry Potter was a modern one. She watched most of the scenarios play out with interest: the brush with her mother's death had numbed her fear of danger, and she felt little worry for herself. She did feel sympathy for Harry, though, especially after the incident at the Triwizard tournament that resulted in Cedric Diggory's death. Having seen someone die herself, she could understand his feelings. This is part of what prompted her to introduce herself the following year on the train, albeit in her own way.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual, with bicurious tendencies.
Kinks/turn ons/turn offs: Luna, despite being knowledgeable about the most random matters (including certain areas of sex) has no experience whatsoever in this sort of situation, and therefore would be very traditional at first, and quite possibly shy. A definite turn-off for her would be coming on too strongly, and not being interested in anything but her body.
Political association: Luna is very firmly on Harry's side, and therefore on the Order's side and Dumbledore's. She tends to view Harry as a living legend, and therefore interesting and worth scrutiny. Because of the events in her third and fourth years, she also understands that he does know what it's like to be an outcast, and she therefore sympathizes with him, and will side with him. Left on her own, she would still be on the side of the Order, because of her faith that good will always win out eventually, but she'd have less of a reason to enter into any sort of battles.
Intended Journal name: lune_folle (which means approximately crazy moon in French.)
Two potential plot-bunnies!: 1) Luna gets ahold of a color-changing spell that misfires, and she spends a few days turning orange, pink, violet, and green at random intervals. (... Yay for random humor plots?)
2) Luna and another student get trapped down in the dungeons, and there is some forced bonding before they're freed.
Journal Entry Sample: I found a fascinating book in the library today. Madame Pince seemed surprised that anyone wanted it, but then she looked up at me, and said simply, "Oh, it's you, Lovegood." I'm always surprised that she recognizes so many students, considering how many there are at Hogwarts.
It's made wonderful reading. It's from the 1500's, published in the Germanic region, and is all about monsters from the period. The descriptions are especially interesting; most of them can be traced to modern creatures, of course, and a few offer further proof of things like the Black-Toed Skreecher, long considered a myth by certain scientific circles. I wonder that no one checks this out more often; the last date is stamped almost fifteen years ago.
RP Sample: Luna was stumped. She'd earned detention yet again: this time for wearing a rainbow-colored scarf that was six feet long to class. Professor Snape had told her that only house colors were allowed to be worn, and had seemed unimpressed with her protest that all the house colors were in her scarf, even when she'd pointed out the green, blue, red, yellow, black, bronze, and silver. The additional colors had simply complemented the others, but she would gladly remove the violet and orange if he liked. He'd still given her detention.
Now, having finished cleaning out the cauldrons, she was supposed to write an essay on just why students were only allowed to wear house colors, and more specifically, their house colors. She dutifully noted down the merits of identifying your house at a distance, in case you got lost from the group, but other than that she didn't understand. Conformity wasn't something that even entered into her mind, quite obviously, and therefore the merits of it were invisible to her. She'd already been working on it for half an hour, and she still only had three sentences.
Luna sighed, letting her mind wander. Perhaps there was some sort of spell encoded into the colors? Her interest perked, and she began writing.
Another half an hour passed, and she handed over her essay cheerfully to the returning Professor Snape, who dismissed her as he sat down to read the paper. Luna, meanwhile, cheerfully tugged on her navy-and-bronze tie, secure in the knowledge that the professors tracked their every movement by their house-colors... purely for their own safety, of course.
Notes: I made up parent names, Luna's middle name, and a few other random details to throw in with the canon. If anything's noticably off or you don't want it added in, let me know.