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Full Character Name:Saffron Sylvie Dubois Padmore
Character Birthday & Age: November 29th, 1992 –-Fifteen years
City & Country of Birth:Nantes, Brittany, France (adopted)
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn: Half-blood
House & Year: Ravenclaw, 5th year
Wand: 7” Hawthorne with hair from the mane of a kelpie. Slightly springy, smooth with a decorated shaft. The shaft is engraved to look like small, looping vines.
Physical Description:Standing at 5”1, Saffron’s short, slender figure is not in the least bit intimidating. She has glossy dark brown hair that extends a few inches past her shoulders and dark chocolate eyes brimming with life. She is usually a bit pale, but in the summer and early autumn she either burns or tans (slightly). Saffron has been looking into muggle spray tans, but after one incident (in which she appeared very orange) Saffie has resolved to remain her pale self. You can tell by looking at Saffie that she is a girl who cares about the way she looks. She takes care to moisturize her skin and enjoys wearing makeup. Usually it’s not much, a touch of coverup here and there, lipgloss and mascara.
Perhaps just a part of her heritage, but Saffron’s makeup and lotions, shampoos, etc. are often a blend of magic and muggle. She’s not opposed to doing something muggle-style if she thinks it’ll look good. You wouldn’t expect a Ravenclaw to care much about athletics or looks, but she does and working out is something she cares about. Saffron’s athletics (and she’ll sign up for anything and everything) help keep her in shape. Due to her short height, she is terrified of becoming “short AND
squat” because Saffie’s metabolism isn’t the greatest and she puts on pounds fast when she’s not careful.
Personality Description:In a word, Saffron S. D. Padmore is eccentric, and that would be putting it nicely. She’s athletic, and she loves to run and fly especially though Saffie will try out for just about anything. She’s a bit obsessive about working out, terrified she’ll become short and fat due to her metabolism and love of the muggle “cheese pizza”. Being – by blood purity standards – a ‘quarter-blood’, although she usually just calls herself a half-blood to simplify matters, Saffron has no particular bias against muggles and frequently integrates their stuff into her life. Unaware of her own muggle mother’s disdain for wizardkind, she is very receptive to muggle things and finds it absolutely ridiculous that most purebloods have little to no knowledge of the way muggle things work.
Saffron is an overachiever, delighted to learn absolutely anything new and signs up happily for just about anything. Although it is sometimes a very tight fit timewise, Saffie enjoys trying to squeeze every drop of life out. She particularly enjoys learning about magical creatures. Saffie came aware of the lack of animal rights for the magical and non-magical animals and sometimes will get into a bit of a hissy fit over it, writing letters and trying to convince others that yes, it’s cruel. Similarly, she is a vegetarian and finds the practice of eating meat disgusting. Although her family doesn’t quite agree with her, they try to let Saffron pursue her passions. Saffie is just as often caught with her head in a book as she is running around.
Although she is generally very open, Saffie can be thoughtlessly cruel or blunt when she feels sad or angry ,and though generally slow to anger, she will hold a grudge forever if it’s serious enough and she’s slow to forgive or forget – the only exception being her very best friends. Saffie is somewhat shy and very self-concious. She hates being teased and tends to try and hold it in until she snaps.
History:Stephen Martin and Brigitte Dubois met each other through a blind date which they never expected to turn into anything much. One date turned into another which turned into another and soon the pair were living together, engaged, a very young happy couple. When Brigitte became pregnant, everything seemed to be going right. Everything, however, changed when Stephen decided it was time to tell Brigitte his deepest secret: he was a wizard. Stephen, a muggleborn, had decided to return to his muggle roots but magic was a big part of his life regardless. This changed everything about their relationship. Brigitte viewed Stephen as inhuman and terrifying. One night, she took her stuff and fled their Parisian apartment to the northern Brittany city of Nantes.
It was here that her daughter, Saffron Sylvie Dubois, was born. At first, Brigitte settled into a cozy if small apartment with her daughter. She found a job as a waitress and managed to juggle being a single mother and being a working parent enough that she was able to afford their place. The trouble began when Saffie was fifteen months old and Brigitte witnessed Saffie levitating a toy and summoning it to herself. After that, Brigitte felt as though she had a changeling and this was not her daughter. Disgusted, she couldn’t bear to even look at the girl.
Brigitte went to an adoption agency and put Saffron up for adoption as soon as possible, giving up all her rights to her baby girl. Saffron was a healthy little girl, but stuck in a house with numerous other children meant less attention than the formerly only child was used to.
She developed a reputation as somewhat of an oddball as she got older, tottering after the older kids and generally alienating children her own age as well as the odd bits of magic she triggered when she was particularly emotional. When Saffron was four, a British couple Lucy and Will Padmore came to see the children. Seeing as they spoke French, they managed to have a conversation with the little girl albeit very hesitant since neither were exactly
fluent. They took her to a park, getting to know her, and little Saffie managed to get in a fight with a little boy her age over just who could sit on the swing. Just as Lucy was getting up to tear the two five year olds apart from their scuffle, Saffron pushed the boy down – and away ten yards. The pair gaped at her – and the little boy ran away – and promptly decided to adopt her.
It wasn’t any strange urge for the supernatural, rather, Lucy and Will were muggleborns themselves. Within a few months – mostly to straighten out all the papers that came from adopting a child internationally. And so, at age four, Saffron Sylvie Dubois became Saffron Sylvie Dubois Padmore. She settled in well with her older brother Ryan Padmore, who was eight and doted on his new sister. With more attention, Saffie thrived. She had always been an eager learner and learning English was fun for her. Simultaneously, she enjoyed teaching the rest of the family French.
There was a crisis by mid-1997 when tensions over blood purity erupted in the U.K. and the Padmore family found themselves in hiding. Since they had good knowledge of the muggle world, they sold everything magical they owned – save their wands – and surrounded themselves in the urban London life as a muggle family. It worked and within a year, they were able to go back to their normal lives. Lucy and Will did not fight in any battles for fear of orphaning Ryan and Saffie. The family celebrated with the rest of the British Wizarding World every May 2nd.
The Padmore family’s life continued as though nothing had happened though Ryan and Saffie sometimes had nightmares regarding the experience. She excelled in school and learned to be more open to the other children her own age. Soon enough, Saffie was making her own friends and no longer hiding behind Ryan in the playground. They got older and some years later, in 2001, Ryan went off for his first year of Hogwarts and became a happy little Hufflepuff.
Come 2004, a nervous 1st year, Saffie became a cheerful new Ravenclaw. The quiet learner was exuberant in Ravenclaw, reading just about everything with a fervency that surprised those who didn’t know her. Life went on, and Saffie enjoyed every minute of it though she felt slightly bored with the humdrum way it appeared her life was in a rut. Even though it was the end of her fourth year, she resolved to make things…interesting.
How Do You Fit Into Your House?:Saffie is an overachiever and a very excitable, eager learner. She enjoys athletics and schoolwork and will try just about anything. Fascinated with secrets and unexplained mysteries, Saffron has an undeniable, overwhelming curiosity that probes her to explore everything within grasp (and beyond).
Writing Sample:”Hey, there!” a guy’s voice called out. Saffron S. D. Padmore, a short but lithe fifteen year old girl with dark hair that trailed a bit below her shoulders, turned around, slightly surprised to see a teen a year or so older than herself approaching. Saffie was sitting on the table part of a picnic table, a hefty book in her lap. She smiled at the teen.
“Hey,” Saffie called, tilting her head. “What’s your name?” Her heart fluttered, and her heartbeat increased and she could feel it – her fingers felt as though they were pulsing. Fight or flight instinct, she noted to herself. Facts always helped calm her down. Unless they were interesting facts, that was. Lost in her own musings, Saffie almost missed hearing him speak.
“M’name’s Jordan.” He gave her a nod, moving to sit on the other side of the picnic table. “I’m a friend of Ryan’s.” he rolled his eyes. “Y’know, when he’s around and not at that fancy boarding school or whatevs. You?” Saffie opened her mouth, hoping desperately something witty would come out. C’mon, you’re a Ravenclaw! You can do this! She thought desperately but nothing quite made it. Hurry, hurry, he’s gonna think you don’t know your own name! The panicked voice inside her pleaded.
“Saffron,” She paused, “But you can call me Saffie or Ronnie or- or-“ Was she speaking too fast? Too much? His face was blank, indecipherable, she should learn legilmancy or something “-Or Sylvie, I guess, that-that’s my middle name, whatever you want to call me.” Too much talking! She was going to blow it, just blow it and he’d tell her big brother Ryan and Ryan would tease her and laugh and oh! She’d be embarrassed. He barked a laugh, though, and Saffie turned, face flushing with embarrassment.
“Hey, you pack a lotta words into a single breath, huh?” he laughed again. “Anyways, hun, I gotta go. See ya!” and with that, he was out of there, as though he’d never been there in the first place. Idiot, idiot! Trollbrain! she screamed at herself inwardly. With a sad sigh, Saffie turned back to her book.
Sum up your character in one paragraph: Saffron S. D. Padmore is a bright, intelligent young French teen with a mind of her own and an eagerness to learn. She is very open to new ideas, and can become obsessed easily. Saffron’s nicknames are Saffie and Ronnie, although she is hardly ever called ‘Ronnie’. Saffron was adopted at a young age. Saffron is a vegetarian and athletic, sometimes a very “girly girl” and likes trying everything.
Saffron Padmore: Fifth Year Ravenclaw