Physical Description:
Waverly has a young round face with an intense resting expression - green eyes, thick arched eyebrows, full lips. She has light brown skin and tightly curled black hair that she keeps loose and natural. Her height keeps her from looking too youthful; she’s 5’9” and fit from Quidditch.

Waverly’s entire way of comporting herself begs to be seen. While she doesn’t exactly aim for it, she’s not against an intimidating first impression. Unapproachability gives her some control over social situations. She mixes vegan leather and pastels, classic red plaid punk with modern witchy notes. Time spent on hair and make-up in the mornings (or afternoons…) is considered well worth it. She’s gotten a septum piercing since leaving Hogwarts

Her vocabulary leans toward the crude and blunt more and more, muddying up her otherwise graceful elocution.


Personality Description:
There’s always been a spark in Waverly’s heart, something bright and dangerous. Her life has had dramatic turns and that tumolt has shaped and re-shaped who she is and where she wants to be. There’s something in Waverly that’s grasping for identity and purpose and so far finding purchase only for it to be pulled away.

She finds more and more that she doesn’t recognize herself.

But all that’s inside. To everyone else, she’s animated, sly, and self-assured to the point of occasional arrogance. She’s smart but doesn’t apply herself in the ways her elders expect. Her bright moods are frequent and easily tipped into manic energy. Everything is a competition if you’re willing to compete which can make her a little mean, that dry snark she’s learned from Zora or those gleeful jabs from Iona.

The drama and trauma of her mother’s attack and her parents’ intense careers have defined Waverly against their expectations more than she’d ever admit. She wants to be seen, she wants to be left alone and approved of, she wants to know herself.

With her friends she’s a leader and more and more of a daring rabble-rouser. She schemes and when opposed, she doubles down. She loves to play with self-expression, laugh with friends, stay out late dancing and partying. She doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life as long as it isn’t working at the Ministry like some drone.

She doesn’t cry. Her peers call her Roh.


History:
Zora Roh and Iona Ballentyne adopted their daughter in 1995 when Waverly was two-years-old. The adoption records were sealed but indicated that both parents had been wix. Zora was just then full Auror and by then Iona had been a wereweolf hunter for 10 years - an intense household to join during wartime.

In 1997 with the Second Wizarding War nearing its apex of danger, her parents decided that Iona would take Waverly out of the country. Waverly was just four-years-old then and doesn’t remember anything concrete other than the frenzy and anxiety and missing her Omma. 

Her magical skill showed itself when she was seven. At that age, she was an eager reader and couldn’t wait to go to Hogwarts. She was sorted into Slytherin for her desire to be an influence on others and a tendency towards leadership and competition.

With both of her parents’ careers, she spent a lot of time with childminders or Iona’s parents until she was ready for Hogwarts. Of her two parents, she was always closer to Iona who was in the office less and with whom she shared more interests. In her early teens, she aspired to follow in their footsteps into the MLE or RCMC. She was keen to become an animagus and joined Quidditch and Dueling Club. She’s also been on the Hogwarts Howler staff and Astronomy Club.

In 2008, everything fell apart. Iona was attacked on duty; she survived but would be forever cursed to be a werewolf. As Waverly headed into her fifth year at Hogwarts, her professors and classmates couldn’t help but notice the change. Her grades slipped, she fell in with a different crowd, and started accumulating disciplinary marks. At first she didn’t talk about it with anyone and her mums tried to shelter her from the realities but it led to Waverly feeling isolated in her grief.

One of the more healthy ways to steady a spinning world and get her parents’ attention was to push hard to become an Animagus. It took her a couple years and the help of then Headmistress Minerva McGonagall, but she did it. Once it was done, the satisfaction faded. Her new feline legs wouldn’t carry her away from what was troubling her.

On the home and national front, 2010 and forward hasn’t proved to be any calmer. The world seemed to be getting more chaotic. As a result, worldview shifted. She resented the Ministry of Magic, her parents’ influence, and the looming responsibilities of adulthood. She lied about her grades, graduated Hogwarts with a few sad NEWTs and didn’t follow many of her friends into careers or apprenticeships. She’s been living at home since June 2011 with no clear ambitions other than to get on with having a good time, an unsustainable situation.

Describe your job duties and how you go about them:
Waverly is currently unemployed but passively looking for something at a place like Alohomocha or Reducto Record. She’s recently begun to deal gillyweed.

Elaborate on your expertise in your field:
Her resume skills are hard to quantify and comprise mostly of a good mathematical mind and a ruthless problem-solving angle. She communicates well and is the typical Slytherin ambitious.

Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Waverly is a nineteen-year-old bright young thing with wasted Slytherin ambition. She’s torn across multiple lines of identity and her struggle to find her place is taking her down risky roads. Above all of it, she loves life and loves herself and loves her friends. Fashionable, fearless Waverly is likely to be found disappointing her parents and having a great time.

Special Ability

Character Name: Waverly Roh-Ballentyne
Age: 19
Character Biography:
Do any of your other Characters have Special Abilities?: Yes
If Yes, then Please provide their name and a link to their bio: Tamzin Ollivander - Animagus
Athena Marrowbone - Legilimens
 
Special Ability: Animagus

What level is this ability at?: Beginner

At what age did your character gain this ability?: 16

How did they learn or hone this ability?:
This is a re-submission of previous iteration of this character's Animagus status with some slight adjustments, including a different species of cat and a change to the timeline to match revamped history: https://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=13164.msg110801#msg110801



Waverly started her efforts in her fifth year (2008). In her seventh year, Waverley approached Headmistress McGonagall for help after struggling on her own. Her parents helped her out as well.

Part of her challenge was her hestitation to completely commit, her paranoia heightened due to being acquainted with the old Hogwarts caretaker Felinus Woodward.

Describe how the Special Ability influences their life.  What do they use it for?:
The primary motivation to engage in this grueling process was to conquer it, to prove she could do it, to impress people. The pride that comes with that hasn't made her hesitate to show off and engage the world in the way only an Animagus can.

She uses the form to be elusive when she wants to be and stay mobile out late in London.

Write a description of what happens when your character is exhibiting this Special Ability: Waverly transforms into a small wildcat called a serval, which are small, long-legged, short tailed, and spotted.

Revamp

Character Name: Waverly Roh-Ballentyne

Sections Changed: This is the third iteration of this character. Her height and style have been tweaked, but there are significant changes in her history to account for the NPC Althea Ballentyne being replaced with Iona Ballentyne whose werewolf attack during Waverly's fifth year had a big impact on her personality. I also chose a wildcat instead of a domesticated cat for her Animagus.

Other characters this may affect: Waverly hasn't been actively written for five years, and the characters she interacted with in school are also inactive for awhile. In reading back, there'll be a conflict between her personality as described in this bio vs her characterizations in the past. Also, her interactions with her NPC mum will be overritten based on the new Iona character. Waverly wasn't involved in any major plots, so these changes shouldn't upset the greater flow.

(Note: I thoroughly appreciate and enjoyed past characterizations of the character, so much love to Navaura and SJ. These changes have come from the evolution of the Roh-Ballentyne family and finding an interesting place for Waverly in the adult magical world.)

Revamp

Character Name: Waverly
Character Biography: https://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=20295.0

Sections Changed: I want to add Waverly's adoption story.

Requested Changes:
Zora and Iona wanted to raise a daughter and after much thought began considering adoption. The norm they'd both be familiar with is adopting within the magical community. They quietly shared this with their close friends and some family, including Athena Marrowbone at St. Mungo's.

In 1995, Athena came to them with the story of a patient in St. Mungo's, twenty-two year-old Clio Twelvetrees. Clio was a witch: pregnant, struggling with a curse-induced mental illness. She wasn't on good terms with her family, and was not in a relationship with the father. St. Mungo's midwives had begun to pressure her into placing her baby for adoption, unethically taking advantage of her wavering lucidity.

Zora and Iona, unwise in this process were unaware of this when they signed the adoption agreement. Clio's signature was there - what else did they need to know?

A baby girl was born on February 1st and Zora and Iona named her Waverly. The adoption record was sealed as was common in the system at the time.

Clio was in and out of St. Mungo's for several years and is now in a permanent in-patient care in a group home near Ottery St. Catchpole.

Why do you wish to change these area(s):


Other characters this may affect:
Iona and Zora.
I ran this by Mel, and we're good to go.

Character Name: Waverly Roh-Ballentyne
URL link to the Character's Bio: https://absitomen.com/index.php?topic=20295.0

Character Age: as of January 2018 February 1, 1993; 24
Character Occupation: as of January 2018 Witch Weekly Wireless

Why did your character change occupations and what qualifications do they have?:
In early 2012, Waverly stumbled on and hijacked Witch Weekly's old wireless set-up. She began broadcasting whatever she wished: music, old programmes, interviews with her friends, and commentary on social and political events. Over the months, she gained a cult following. Eventually she was found out and after much clamor, she was allowed to continue officially.

Character History 2013 - 2017:
Waverly has kept on with the aloof party-girl lifestyle in London with her bright magical friends. She as surprised as anyone when she found roots at the Witch Weekly, officially taking over their wireless channel (this time with the blessing of the magazine). In many ways, she's been given total creative control, with the exception of being required to engage with Witch Weekly's magazine content.

2014 was an important year for Waverly's family life. She made contact and eventually visited her birth mother Clio Twelvetrees. Her parents moved out of London to Waverly's late grandparents' countryside farm. Her mother Zora began to foster a better relationship with her own parents, allowing Waverly to get to know them better. Overall, Waverly is finally starting to figure herself out, or at least, understand better where she came from.

Regardless, Waverly is restless.

Summary:
Waverly hosts a night-time wireless broadcast through Witch Weekly. She's living a youthful life in London and getting on better with her family.