Your Nickname: Akira/Gris
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Full Character Name: Corinne Aimée François now goes by Sade
Character Birthday & Age: 6th of June 1990, 21 years old
City & Country of Birth: Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandie, français
Blood Purity: Muggleborn
Alma Mater: Beauxbatons
Job/Position: Thief
Wand: 11 inch Acacia wood and Unicorn hair, handle was smooth down one side to be flat so it lay flat in the palm with a small groove higher up for the index finger to hold it by. The wand is now lost, likely held by the French Ministry
Physical Description:
Sade stands around 5ft 7, with long brown hair grown out, she has been hesitant to cut it as she doesn't know in her state of undeath if it is possible to grow it back. So she doesn't really want to cut it and forever lose her hair, besides she thinks its nice. Her green eyes that used to look so reassuring and kind now seem unnerving, a hunger and desire hiding behind them.
She tends to carry herself with a slight air of predatory superiority, like she is the queen of her own jungle, graceful and dangerous like she is picking out her next target. Of course now she often is, trying to sort out who would be worthwhile to steal from.
Her skin of course appears paler now, which she tries to mask with wearing dark clothing, as well as to help her hide in the shadows. As otherwise she would be too obvious being pale, appearing like a phantom. To mask it also she tends to apply makeup, dark shades again to try hiding her paleness, although its hard to know how effective it is without access to mirrors.
Personality Description:
Corinne was always nice and friendly, being eager to learn, not top of her class but well liked, rarely stepping a foot wrong during school and afterwards. She had an adventurous side of wanting to get the most out of life, knowing that there was only so much free time at school and once working, so she did what she could with the time, enjoying playing music and physical activities such as rock climbing and parkouring.
Sade takes a more carefree approach, she doesn’t have anything tying her back, no parents who may be disappointed in her, no friends to look out for. As such she will do almost anything on a whim, however getting herself access to anything and living what she believes is the most free someone can be, has made her cocky and somewhat arrogant. Seeing herself as the most free and like a robin hood figure, however any money given away or people she helps is more to do with guilt over feeding on people then actual kindness. With this new life and bending to any idea she has, she is always looking for a new experience to take on and to experience all she can, although ultimately she can be subdued by anyone who can exert power over her, as smart as she thinks she will be, she doesn’t realize how easy it would be to control her by exploiting her desires.
History:
Corinne’s parents were both farmers around Sainte-Mère-Église, keeping herds of cows and crops of wheat. Growing up she showed traits of magical use when the hay she would be playing in catch fire when she was angry and wanted to go inside, or being able to reach biscuits that were high up on the shelf where she could not be able to reach them. Both of her parents knew something was off with her but did not have any idea of magic, just believing things turned out well in her favour when she wanted things or that these things always happened but because it happened to themselves, they didn’t think of it out of the ordinary. Maybe the biscuits fell, or weren’t out of reach. Maybe the sun was catching some dry hay and it caught onfire. There must of been a more rational way to reason it then magic.
When she turned out to be magical, if anything, her parents were ecstatic that something so different was coming to their lives, and if anything magic could help them with their farm and the skills would be useful around, and their daughter would have a much better life. Her younger brother showed jealousy that she would have this fantastical life while he would be stuck working at the farm and going to normal school.
In her first year at Beauxbatons she showed that she was a smart student and very friendly, and started to join in other activities and clubs to further expand her knowledge and skills, hearing about people who get harmed or killed with magic. She realized it was a dangerous life and the seed of there is not enough time in the world started to be sown.
Going through the next couple of years, she had partaken in more out of class activities, becoming a regular at many groups and clubs after school, she managed to make a nice little friendship group and became fairly well known with the years above herself. When she started her fourth year it turned out her younger brother was also magical, and was starting that year with her. By already being known around the school as a good student and friendly, she managed to get him into groups also and to make friends that would help him through school.
During her time at Beauxbatons, she had shown a skill in charms, transfiguration and largely in Magical Creatures, partly owing to her childhood around cows, unlike some others she wasn’t disgusted or put off with animals, especially those who thought that the entire subject would be petting cute Puffskeins or looking after three headed dogs. Never expecting they may have to clean up Pegasus droppings, tending to Diricawls or tending to Bundimun’s. With her graduation she also took with her knowledge gained from clubs, namely a music club where she learned to first the Violin, although never fully managing to get the hang of it she would continue to learn over the years. Along with learning some songs on the Guitar but more importantly knowing the basics on how to play. And oddly she grew to like the Harmonica for its simplicity but at the same time its complexity. The other club she frequently went with was on rockclimbing, as she figured while she could easily apparate to the top of hills, or fly up. It removes the challenge, as if she reaches the top while using her own skills it is more rewarding to enjoy the view then if she used magic, and who knows when she may not have her wand. Especially if after creatures high up on cliffs. This led to her after school learning to climb in more urban environments, taking up parkouring to further help and to enjoy more sights and the thrill.
Leaving school she took work as an apprentice in handling magical creatures, she did ultimately want to handle dragons but that wasn’t something she would jump to immediately, she wanted experience with other creatures first, especially with how dangerous Dragons were known to be.
On her 21st birthday. Corinne was out celebrating with her friends in Paris, while getting...slightly inebriated, she was separated from her friends as they went to relieve themselves or already went home.She went around a corner into an alley and that was the last her friends ever saw of Corinne.
She was taken by a vampire to another alley in the city, private and less visited, in their hunger they drained her to an inch of life before realizing they were going to die. They dumped her body in a bin and fled, not wanting to kill someone and not realizing she was drained to the point of turning.
When Sade awoke she found herself in a bin, covered in dirt and other things she could still smell for weeks. She didn’t know where she was, or who she was. She had a faint recollection of the immediate last moments before awakening, of being bitten and darkness.
She spent the first few weeks homeless on the streets and trying to avoid the sun, terrified of what had happened to herself, even if she didn’t know what herself was. She slowly got hungry and found it more and more difficult to avoid the sun. Soon realizing she needed shelter, but with no clues on her past self she was unsure of how to do this.
So she took the only thing she thought she could, drunk people often left their money behind, or wouldn’t notice if it went missing. She started by pickpocketing off of them, but after a few days she found that most drunk people had already spent most of their money on drinks, therefore she would need to expand her range. Stealing from more and more people, some not drunk. She got caught a couple times but managed to run off before anyone could get to her, and with it being dark they never got a good look.
After awhile she managed to get enough cash she could start renting rooms for days, although due to the dubious nature of always paying in cash, and at last minute, with no ID, she would swap every couple of days. This would not do for her to survive either. So she started staking out hotels and sneaking into rooms when they wouldn’t be cleaned or rented. Allowing herself to get days safe, but it was risky and police would respond quicker.
She adapted again, constantly following people or listening out for people who would be gone for days and getting into their flats or houses, always doing her best to cover her tracks.
Eventually it got easier for herself, she started finding rooms for rent for those belonging in the magical world, and managed to start exchanging muggle money to wizarding money. Getting a rent under a dingy apartment complex that didn’t ask too many questions.
Of course though, she needed to feed, and this was over months. At first she hated her hunger, but soon started to appreciate it as she could not take any other food, as an unregistered she couldn’t go and get blood given to her, she always regretted how she got her targets for feeding but she had to survive and she didn’t kill anyone. She preyed on the homeless, going for when they slept to prevent them from suffering the trauma she did.
Throughout this her views started to change however, although she had no clue on her past, she knew that now she was free, she could do anything she wanted, as long as she was smart, anything was open to her, she could go anywhere and do anything. Those who were stuck in jobs or tied to families were that, stuck, they couldn’t do what they wanted, if they wanted to go and suddenly move to another country, they couldn’t. They would have to save up for it, to pay for it. Give up on their old life, get a new job, a new house, get accepted by the government. She had no such problem, she could fake a passport, get to the other country, stow away, then just live free like she was now. Everything was in her grasp.
During her time on the up and up, learning of her freedom she started to pity those who weren’t in her situation, and still felt guilty she had to feed on those who were free but were less fortunate then her. She would still keep paying for her room but she would start giving money to others living on the streets, viewing herself as a modern robin hood. Of course this was false, she did it out of pity, superiority and guilt. Not out of the goodness of her heart.
But eventually she was found, obviously the person sneaking out at night and sleeping all day, always paying in shady cash was a criminal, and a vampire criminal at that. She only just managed to get away as Hit Wizards stormed into her apartment. She made to leave the city as soon as possible, nearing a train station. She tried to take someone's ticket but they caught her in the act, trying to call police for her theft. She struggled and made a wrong move. Killing them.
She took the ticket and ran again, not looking back. She managed to escape and spent the next month on the run across France, her goal was to escape the country, to a land border would be convenient but it was easier for wizards to catch her, she could cross at any point of the borders but the only easy way is the checkpoints. And those are easily guarded. The paths predictable, she made her route to Normandy, not knowing of her history there. And got a port, managing to smuggle aboard in the lower sections of a Ferry, she hid. As they reached land she stowed herself away in a vehicle and into the new land of Portsmouth. England.
She had another chance of starting a new life, this time with her skills already there instead of starting from scratch, she had some money to pay for things. She knew the effective methods and was to learn from her mistakes. Although of course, nothing in life, especially those on the run, were predictable. Or ever easy...
Describe your job duties and how you go about them:
Permanently borrowing items from people without them catching her. Hoping one day she will be taken on an adventure with 13 dwarves and an old man to steal from a Dragon
Elaborate on your expertise in your field:
Trained by herself in Paris
Writing Sample:
Carefully she moved through the crowd of people, mostly drunks but there were a few sober people, usually the friends of those who were drunk. She slipped between them, like water through a crack. No one really noticed her, or cared to notice. They had their own business to do, why would they care about a girl with her head down.
They should care however, gently she brushed against someone, her hand moving from her jacket pocket into to slide against the pocket of their trousers, sliding their wallet up from the recesses of their trousers and into the open, before delicately she removed it, as one would pluck a splinter from a finger. Her hand delved into her own pocket again to place the object away before it was noticed.
Another man, stumbling and laughing, hanging on his mates shoulder, but butt juttered out behind him as he was leaned forwards, that wasn't hard to grab the items peaking from his back pocket. No matter what she took however she couldn't escape the hunger, the void of emptiness was not to be filled by materials carefully taken from their owners. She needed to feed.
She hated it, it was always present, just grew stronger over time. Now it was hard to ignore, it had been three weeks and she was hungry. Another week and she would be starved, she needed it now.
She stowed away into an alley, taking to the shadows. She hated it, she hated being a leech, she hated preying on the weak. But she had to, a house or apartment was too risky for feeding. She checked no one else was around, it would be hard to explain her actions, and descended upon them.
The poor man, just trying to live, sure she stole, but that was from those with money, she wasn't draining their lifeforce, yet she was forced to do so on those who's lives are on a knifes edge, and she has to feed on them, as a parasite.
Laying down some of the money she took, making sure to put it where they would find it and not be seen with it, 300 euros, but it would not be enough, never enough to truly pay them back. She closed her eyes and her fangs sunk in...to the warm depths of his blood...
Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Sade was a well liked student from Beauxbatons mainly focused on magical creatures before being turned into a vampire on her 21st Birthday. Not knowing anything of herself and without anyone to support her she took to thievery to afford shelter from the accursed sun. Over time she took to viewing herself as being truly free as there is nothing to restrict her anymore, pitying those who are not free like her. Tends to act on whims of whatever she feels like. After nearly being caught in Paris by the Ministry she fled to escape, making her way to England.
Corinne Aimée François now goes by Sade: Thief