//Full Character Name:\\ Malynda Vivica Reagen Viridian-Drake
//Character Birthday & Age:\\ August 16, 1990 // 18
//City & Country of Birth:\\ Cardiff, Wales, UK
//Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?:\\ Pureblood
//Alma Mater:\\ Hogwarts, Slytherin
//Job & Description:\\ -- Currently a 7th year Slytherin.
-- Soon to be the Owner of Everchanging Ink Tattoo Parlor.
-- Nighttime Bartender at the Black Chimaera.
//Wand:\\ 10 ¾'' Hazel wood with Welsh Green Dragon heartstring core. The wand used to be very plain and simple, albeit a bit rough, but over the years Malynda has carved various things into while bored. This includes a snake twisting around the tip, a skull on the handle, flames and a nude woman.
//Physical Description:\\Malynda has a sharp and angled face, with high cheekbones and curved nose, that is stretched under pale, almost luminescent skin, giving her the air of someone who has spent much of their life in leisure and out of the suns rays. Or a vampire, if you will. Setting off her angular features are soft pink lips, curved into a perpetual smirk, and a pair of large green eyes framed by dark lashes, often outlined with smoky shadow. Sleek blue-black hair frames her face in a neat shoulder length bob with blunt cropped bangs.
Her clothing tends to be black accented by vibrant colors, often reds and pinks, and are in the punk-rock style. She loves jewelry, decorated nails and funky designs. As a future magical tattoo artist, Malynda herself has several. She has a silver and green striped snake that moves, twisting up and down her arms, and occasionally on her chest. There is a small colored star on her right wrist that changes colors depending on her mood. Lastly there is a small music note on each of her fingers on her left hand that play different notes when tapped, so she can sit and play simple songs when bored. She also has a half heart on her left arm with her mothers nickname on it that only appears when it is connected with her mothers matching one.
//Personality Description:\\Unlike the pragmatic icon of the Gryffindor house, Malynda's Leo is a true blue lioness. A cunning huntress who knows what she wants and how to get it, with an ego that refuses to back down until she succeeds. Having grown up quickly and with little to stop her, she has become strong-willed, arrogant and goal orientated, doing whatever she could to get what she wanted. She strives to be the best, but often fails merely because she tries to take on too much. This has lead her to try bigger and better things, and by bigger and better I mean more outrageous and dangerous.
Her love of danger is something that has ruled her life for years. She can be very reckless and often gets into things that she can't get out of. Rebellion and fighting are just the beginning. Malynda tends to mix with the bad crowds and play with fire. She has very little concern for her own well being because she believes in the 'live hard, die young, stay beautiful'. Her mother, despite her own fast living lifestyle, often worries that Malynda's rebelliousness will be her downfall. She loves to illicit reactions out of people, especially bad ones, because she likes to see what people really think and feel behind their little masks. Her own feelings are never hidden, bluntly portrayed to the point of being rude.
She is not without her good sides though. Despite her blunt arrogance, she has an electric aura about her that is very attractive to many types of people. She is confident in herself and her skills, and exudes this confidence in a very outgoing and magnetic way. With her friends she is loyal and honest, though her honesty can be seen as rudeness to those who don't know her. She exudes charisma and can be very eloquent and convincing when she wants to be.
Romantically, Malynda has some hangups. Thanks to the 'abandonment' issues she has from her father, she has a difficult time trusting men. But at the same time, she has Daddy Issues that lead her to approaching men much older then her. Either way, she isn't ever in it for the long haul, since she can't trust them to stay nor can she deal with the restrictions of a relationship. She also, though she has stifled it for years, has found herself often attracted to other girls, namely her best friend Laney. She refuses to acknowledge these weird feelings, especially since she would never give up her friendship with Laney for anyone, and tends to stifle them as best she can. She does tend to flirt with Laney a lot, though it never goes past this.
//History:\\Compared to her later life, Malynda's birth and first years were frightfully normal for a pureblood witch. Her parents, both of pureblood stock and purist upbringing, were childhood friends who had been betrothed since the moment her mother left the womb. Though the two did not love each other, as was the problem with most arranged marriages, they still tried to produce heirs to continue the purity of their lines. Malynda Vivica Reagan Viridian-Drake was the first of these heirs, coming into the world with her mouth wide open and her tiny fists curled into angry balls, on a sweltering summer day in 1990.
Her first years were typical, with both her parents too busy to play with her and her rearing mostly done by nannies. Her father, Leander Drake, was a wizangamot lawyer while her mother, Maura 'Callie' Viridian, was an aspiring singer. Both took their jobs very seriously and would spoil little Malynda in hopes to keep her happy. This did little to keep her happy and she spent much of her time pulling pranks on her nannies and being an otherwise petulant and difficult child. This would change, however, in the eve of her 7th year, starting with two surprising announcements.
The first was that Malynda would soon be followed by another sibling, who was growing in her mothers womb as she announced it. Malynda wasn't sure how to feel about such an intrusion. She was used to being the only child and feared having to share the little love she had with her parents with another person. Her tantrums and pranks became worse and it wasn't long before Nannies just refused to apply for the position. When Aelys Valene Teagan Viridian-Drake was born in the start of the new year, Malynda decided she hated her. But after meeting the tiny little girl and having her own small fingers grasped by Aelys's titchy little fists, Malynda succumbed a little and decided maybe she wouldn't be so bad. It would be her decision that the babies nickname would be Lys, though Aelys would probably never realize this.
Their peace was destroyed by the next announcement, the dreaded D word: Divorce. Her mother had been given a great chance to further her singing career and, against Leander's wishes, decided to pursue it. She didn't think that she could raise both girls properly while so busy, nor did she think that it was a good environment for a newborn, so she left Aelys in her husbands care and took Malynda with her. This did nothing but drive a wedge further between the already distant couple and Leander begin to harp on Callie about her parenting skills, or lack thereof. The harping dragged on until Callie couldn't take it anymore and the two decided to divorce. Callie wanted both of the girls, but like in many divorces, Leander insisted they split them apart. He managed, with his reputation and money, to convince the judge to give him sole custody of Aelys. This devastated the small family in many ways that Malynda, who was just happy to be with her mother, did not understand for many years. Shortly after the proceedings, the two left on tour, and Malynda would not see her father and sister for quite a while.
Malynda had no complaint about this arrangement. Although she was not able to see either of her parents much as it was, she was always more fond of her loving and fun mother then her uptight father. Callie was a kid at heart and when the two started on tour together, Malynda was able to spend more time with her then she ever dreamed of. Their relationship grew steadily over the next couple of years and soon Malynda considered her mother her best friend, sister and idol. Her father and little sister were all but forgotten, left back in Cardiff, and Malynda relished life in the spotlight alongside her steadily more popular mother.
Even the war, which was being raged at the same time, didn't touch Malynda. She was too young to really care about what was happening and though her parents both had strong views about who should win and what the outcome should be, she didn't bother to understand. Her mother was very open about her views and made many friends and connections in the purist world. It was her mothers Death Eater friends that got Malynda first interested in Tattoos, fascinated as she was with their weird skull and snake marks. She didn't understand why they stopped coming around after the end of 1998, but her 8 year old mind just wrote it off as nothing. She wouldn't find out until she entered Hogwarts 3 years later what a Death Eater really was.
With the war barely affecting her, Malynda considered her mothers remarriage to a fellow singer, Joey Farelli, the biggest tragedy in her young life. The man invaded her life and brought with him children to usurp her mothers love. She quickly learned, however, that her fears were unfounded when Joey left for his own tour barely a year after they wed. Once again she had her mother to herself, but she also learned that the adage 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' was true. Her mother remained married to Joey for quite a few years, much to Malynda's chagrin. Thankfully, her acceptance to Hogwarts came soon after and she was able to escape him and his children into the school.
Hogwarts started as a difficult time for Malynda. She had spent the last four years away from other children her age and having been granted an amount of freedom that was ludicrous for a young child. Most of her 'friends' were years older and her idea of a play date was a club or a bar (though she did not drink herself). She found that the oppressive rules of the school were very much not to her liking and she did all she could to rebel against them. Since her mother, surprisingly, was very strict about Malynda receiving a good education, Mal had to keep her grades up and her detentions low. Though she managed to do well enough grade wise, she was a mouthy, disrespectful and disobedient child and later teen.
Having been sorted into Slytherin, where her ambition and arrogance would flourish, Malynda did not suffer the lack of friends for long. She was an outgoing, entertaining and confident child, once she found her place, so she made a few close friends quickly. One of these girls was Lorraine “Laney” Irving, a young Slytherin similar to Malynda in upbringing, style and personality. The two got along famously and terrorized Hogwarts for years, They even joined the Slytherin Quidditch team together in their 4th year, with Malynda as a beater and Laney as their Seeker. It was a dangerous and successful combination.
Towards the end of her third year, Callie became pregnant once again. It turned out to be a boy who was born in late 2004, who Callie named Oscar Garrek Viridian-Farrelli. The birth of a child should have been a happy time for the famous couple, but like with Aelys, Oscar's arrival brought only strife. Before long, the relationship started to crumble and Callie would file for divorce from Joey just as Malynda entered her 5th year. There was no love lost between Malynda and Joey, so she was hardly bothered by the divorce. As far as she was concerned, he could take Oscar and leave, erasing any memory of the Farrelli's from their home. Her mother, however, fought hard to keep Oscar, and managed to win custody of the child as well as a substantial amount of Joey's wealth.
Shortly after the divorce, as if having a new baby brother was not bad enough, Malynda and Callie were once again reunited with Aelys. Her mother had been trying for years to get her child back from Leander, with little success up until then. She finally managed to convince the judges that she was ready to be a mother to the 9 year old girl. It helped that Callie had also decided to settle down and produce music rather then make it. Aelys, thanks to having been raised by Leander for the last 9 years, was Malynda's opposite in many ways. Not only had Leander brainwashed Lys into believing that Callie had abandoned her, but he had spoilt the child until she was rotten. Because of this Lys had trouble fitting in with Malynda and Callies rather eccentric lifestyle, and Malynda had trouble relating to someone so stuck on being anyone but herself. Needless to say, home life was chaotic for the last couple of years and Malynda relished being in Hogwarts and away from the intrusion in her life.
Now in her seventh and final year at Hogwarts, Malynda is making plans for her future. Unlike many of her classmates who studied like fiends for their NEWTS, Malynda is taking it in stride. She has no intention on following her father into a boring desk job at the ministry. Rather, she had long ago decided that when she graduated she was going to use her graduation money her mother had set aside to buy her own shop in Knockturn Alley and open up the first professional wizard Tattoo shop. She has spent the last several years of her life studying potions for her inks and the art of magical painting to perfect her abilities, using herself and her friends as her practice dummies. It will be a hard road fraught with difficulties but If anyone can take that road, it is Malynda V. R. Drake.
//What is your occupation? How do you go about it?
How did you get your current occupation?
How does your past and abilities justify your current skills?:\\Malynda is brand new to the business scene, so she works both in her new tattoo parlor as well as a bartender at night. She has always been a very artistic girl who was fascinated by the Dark Mark so many of her parents friends possessed, and after touring with her mother and meeting many wrockstars, she became fascinated with the world of tattoos. Using special potions, she can make a wide arrange of tattoos, some of which are brand new ideas. She decided to use some of her inheritance ahead of time and start her own Tattoo Parlor, called Everchanging Ink.
//Writing Sample:\\Malynda sat, cross legged, on one of the dusty desks located in the far classroom of floor four. In front of her, also on the desk, was her best friend Lorraine, prostrate on her chest and her shirt somewhere on the floor. Dipping a thin paintbrush into a vial of silvery potion, Malynda regarded her friends shoulder blade. "So... what exactly do you want?"
Her friend stared at the table in thought for a moment before mumbling “The moon.” and then, louder, “The cycles of the moon” with a smirk.
"Oh how original... Do you want a wolf howling at it too?" Malynda laughed playfully, prodding her friends back with her wand. Shaking her head, she dipped her paintbrush into a potion made of silvery white ink. "I will see about adding some weather effects. We could always make it reflect the weather outside as well..."
“A wolf?” the tone in Laney's voice was intrigued and Malynda mentally smacked herself for suggesting it. It wasn't that wolves weren't cool or that the image didn't fit her best friend... they were just so... overused. She was about to remind Laney of this when she spoke again “Mmm, that’s tempting. Maybe we’ll add that on when we graduate? I need to celebrate, And my back can bare its teeth at whoever tries to skip us in the queue at Signature, I love the idea of it reflecting the weather. How boring would my skin be without you, Lele?”
“Lala, your skin could never be boring...” Malynda teased, and then tensed when she realized what she was saying. It was a good think that Laney couldn't see her face at the moment, since there was a hint of a flush tinting her cheekbones. Brushing any thoughts aside, Malynda immediately focused on the painting, carefully drawing out the circle that would be the moon. “... Because...” She said in an attempt to salvage her pride “... You will never be without me... You are stuck with me!” She put down her brush and proceeded to tickle Laney viciously.
“Mal!” Laney squealed out, laughing so hard that it was surely heard several floors below. This only encouraged Mal to tickle harder, a grin on her face. Just as she was about to get Laney to wet herself, the door burst open.
"What.. the... hell..." The intruder, who Mal recognized immediately as the 5th year prefect for Hufflepuff, stared at the two girls with wide eyes. It seemed that the joy of catching wrongdoers was quickly outweighed by the joy of seeing two girls wrestling, one with only an undergarment on, because the prefect paused and stared at them, open mouthed.
"Quick!" Malynda yelled, grabbing her potions and inks "Hex his ass!" Throwing her bag over her shoulder, he grabbed Laneys hand and started to drag her towards the door. "Out of the way, muggle licker!" She sneered, sticking her tongue at the prefect as she pushed past him, nearly toppling him into the wall in the process. Her laughter, mixed with Laneys, could be heard down the hall.
//Sum up your character in one paragraph:\\Malynda likes to think of herself as the Lioness of the Slytherin house... and now that she is about to be out of that hellhole she calls school, she is ready to prove to the world that this Lioness has poison fangs and is ready to take on the wizarding art world!
Malynda Viridian-Drake: Holyhead Harpies Beater