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Full Character Name: Orlaith Brianna Dewar
Character Birthday & Age: 14th of July, 1993. Age 15.
City & Country of Birth: Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn: Pureblood
House & Year: Slytherin, Fourth Year [Fifth in Autumn]
Wand: Beech wood, 14 1/4 inches with pixie hair core.
Physical Description:
Orlaith is of average height and probably won't get much taller than that even with her growth spurt. She is pale with pale blue eyes, giving her a slightly washed out look. Her hair is blonde and whilst quite healthy and well looked after it is also thin and wispy looking, rather like her body frame. She is thin all over and this is nothing due to her diet but more to genetics. You would be hard pressed to find a big boned member of family in Orlaith's heritage. This coupled with her pale skin tone gives the girl an overall frail look, and she is frail not having a great deal of physical strength to her. If she ever won a fight it was because she was against a boy who refused to hit women. She is not proud of her body but she isn't uncomfortable with it either, the only thing she doesn't mind flaunting occasionally is her characteristic dimples but even those are seldom seen for she's not a fan of smiling.
Personality Description:
Orlaith's a very confident person, perhaps overly confident you might argue, but it works in her favour because it fuels her ambition and makes her more likely to try new things. Ambition is also another one of her strengths, because if you speak to Orlaith for even only a few minutes you'll find she has very high ambitions, realistic ones, but high ones and she always intends to achieve them. She's also got great self-restraint, it's not easy to get on her nerves or upset her. Academically, her strength would lie in potions because that was where her cousins' focus always was. She also seems to like Charms a bit.
On the downside she's very literal and blunt. This comes across as her not having a sense of humour but she does. She tends to take what a lot of people say at face value unless it's blatantly sarcastic. She therefore tends to criticise people a lot because...people say a lot of dumb things around her for some reason [in her opinion anyway]. Tact is a big weakness of hers, she doesn't have it. At all. Also, whilst she doesn't get shaken easily - once she is shaken Orlaith tends to have difficulty regaining control of herself or her temper etc. In school she doesn't have any classes she's hopeless at, if she tried she could somewhat succeed in all of them. However, she's taken to shunning the classes she doesn't think will benefit her in future, only getting enough to pass. As such she's not an academically weak person... she's more... lazy.
History:
Born on the fourteenth of July to Georgiana and Declan Dewar in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. Orlaith is the third and currently last child in the family. Her older siblings are Sinead and Ainsley Dewar, both of whom are set to inherit her mother and fathers family businesses respectively. Orlaith grew up in an aristocratic neighbourhood because whilst no one is sure if the Dewar family are pureblooded or not they do know that the family always had money - which is what mattered right?
Orlaith, not set to inherit anything unless something happens to one of her older siblings, was continually shunted to her extended family members, with a large allowance in tow, whilst she was young. She met a great many people, including her childhood best friend, Jethro Delaney. She has sharp studying habits, thanks to time spent in the company of her older cousin, as well as a lot of private tutoring. But when she wasn't studying she was doing something she deemed more worthwhile. Be it shopping, playing with "friends" [she was always aware that some people only spoke to her because of her family's money] or basking in the attention of her other family members.
Something did happen to one of her older siblings, Ainsley, but not something to outline Orlaith as the heir to her fathers business entirely. Ainsley was labelled the 'laziest' of the Dewar children, because he was known to be both a dreamer and a procrastinator. Being constantly reminded of his label, Ainsley submitted to it, refusing to do anything in the way of learning to take over his father's business. The result was that Declan's interest in his youngest daughter peaked, and Orlaith's time to spend with Jethro declined. Moreover, his father's business eventually required that the entire family relocated to Brighton a few months after Orlaith turned ten.
On receiving her Hogwarts letter, Orlaith was estactic, knowing that Jethro must have been attending also as she had been there for his first magical experience. That was mainly the reason she was happy to leave her luxurious lifestyle to study at Hogwarts.
At Hogwarts, Jethro had a bit more difficulty settling in than Orlaith just due to the fact that he wasn't forced to socialise as often as she was. That bothered her and she spent a lot of her first year trying to find friends that suited both herself and her childhood friend. However, eventually she got tired of it deciding that it would have to be her and Jethro on one side of life and her and her other friends and family on the other. It was at this time she started interacting with other Slytherins and found herself becoming increasingly more popular than she had been her entire first year at Hogwarts. Most of this attention was due to the friends her older cousin had made being interested in her, but a few friends she made due to things she herself did.
Her closest friend was her roommate, Maria Carstofa, who was the complete opposite of her. Maria introduced things that Orlaith wasn't used to before, such as boys on a romantic level because she was constantly falling in love. That tended to be more of an annoyance and occassionally Orlaith felt threatened by these boys, as though Maria was trying to replace her with them. She was in love that frequently.
What she liked about Maria was that the girl was a lot more animated than any person Orlaith had come across before, which encouraged Orlaith to be more outspoken. Before her, Orlaith used to only talk when neccessary, after her Orlaith spoke whenever she had an opinion she felt she could express. With her roommates encouragement Orlaith did play quidditch for a small moment in time, chaser position as she didn't have the strength to play beater and she couldn't take a beating so lonely positions like keeper or seeker were out of the question.
However, studying won out. As much as she tried Orlaith couldn't balance the duty of being first string chaser and passing all her classes - including electives. She knew which one her parents would have preferred her to succeed in but Orlaith had the intention of returning to quidditch as soon as OWLs were over, because then she would have less classes and hopefully more free time to devote to a sport which did intrigue her. Even if it wasn't a traditionally feminine one.
How Do You Fit Into Your House?:
She has traits of all the houses except Gryffindor, honestly. However, I think she is a little too cold and withdrawn for Hufflepuff, friendliness is not apart of her nature and the fact that the house isn't the most ... reputable of them all would kill her motivation to do anything at Hogwarts. As for the final two houses of Ravenclaw and Slytherin, quite honestly, with her intelligence and committment to her studies, as well as her cold nature, she could do quite well in both of them. I feel she edges towards Slytherin more though, because whilst she can and does enjoy studying, she is much more people orientated that she even realises sometimes. And due to her history with her parents and with Jethro, she is much more accustomed to getting her own way, especially in getting her own way with the use of other people. Therefore Slytherin is likely to be the house that will build on the "social skills" she has as well as cater to her need for studying. You could argue it has the best traits of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw combined [kinda] which is why it appeals to the character and driver the most.
Writing Sample:
I don't think I could fit Orlaith's entire personality into one writing sample but...
Personally, Orlaith didn't see what the major issue was with three students walking into the Hog's Head together. The three of them weren't... notorious just yet. In fact, for all the loud opinions Orlaith had given in classes last year, the majority of the students attending Hogwarts this year seemed to have all but forgotten she existed. Orlaith didn't mind, she didn't like to attract attention for the wrong reasons anyway. She'd rather Hogwarts focused on her success as a student than anything she did with her housemates, especially considering the kind of mind set the three of them had.
One thing Orlaith remembered from the one time Hogwarts had allowed younger students to attend Hogsmeade was that the Hog's Head was extremely filthy. She had been warned of the kind of clientele it attracted and especially about the cleanliness of the glasses. There was no way she was buying any sort of liquid nourishment from the place and the blonde was definitely going to take the longest, most discreet route she could find to the village pub.
Upon entering Orlaith could tell why the Three Broomsticks was so packed all the time. Orlaith felt that little bit dirtier for just touching the doorhandle. She shuddered, trying to be as discreet about it as she could in case the pub owner happened to be looking her way. Orlaith couldn't even bring herself to remove her hood for fear that something might fall on her head, so the only clue Septimus and Michele had about her identity were the blonde tresses flowing out from her hood. She walked over to them, happy that she had bought a bottle of water with her, and took a seat between them both.
"Soon enough, I should think..." Orlaith said in response to Michele's question. Sure she didn't appreciate that her name was uttered in such a dodgy pub, but perhaps by her saying that the occupants wouldn't think she was the person Michele spoke of. After that the young Slytherin fell quiet, it had momentarily escaped her what the point of the meeting was so she waited on Septimus to remind her.
Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Orlaith is ambitious, loyal and strong-minded. She's not overly social although her family, needing to make connections in order to make her mother and father's business a success, have schooled her on how to be social even if she doesn't feel like it. She's not really much of a liar, feeling that lies are like blankets and she doesn't believe anyone really deserves her softening the truth for them. Her family have taught her to be overly studious so it would be unnatural for her to fail at anything academic completely unless she simly didn't pick up a quill/wand. That doesn't mean she doesn't have a lazy streak whatsoever though as she does only focus on classes that will help her achieve what she wants in life, all other classes she only does enough to pass.
Orlaith Dewar: Fifth Year Slytherin