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Full Character Name: Johanna "Jocoba" Marie Schlagenweit
Character Birthday & Age: July 31, 20
City & Country of Birth: East Berlin, Germany
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?: Muggle
Alma Mater: Landesschule Pforta, Leipzig, Germany - a muggle boarding school
Job & Description: Unemployed/Off and on student

Physical Description:
Standing about 5'11,'' Jacoba displays the trademark Schlagenweit height and slender build.  Her height and weight are reasonable proportionate, however, with neither appearing particularly out of scale with the other.  She carries the darker hair coloring of her father's side of the family, with her dark brown hair and eyes.  Jacoba, typically, dyes her hair to keep it darker. 

Personality Description:
Independent, strong-willed and spirited, Jacoba is a very vocal and opinionated young woman.  She craves learning, meeting new people and exploring new cultures.  She shares much of her brother's intelligence and loves to learn and challenge herself but she lacks much of her brother's perseverance and worth ethic.  She throws herself into activities with strong dedication but can quickly loose interest - usually moving on to find new activities.  A bi-product of her upbringing, Jacoba is wary and distrusting of those that appear to seek power or control. 

History:
The first child of Gerhard and Marie Schlagenweit, Johanna was born in a small apartment in government housing in Soviet occupied East Berlin.  Johanna was only a year and half old when the Berlin wall fell in the winter of 1989.  Finally free to leave Eastern Germany, the Schlagenweits immigrated to England where they were able work towards reuniting with their family fortune - from which they'd been separated from since Germany surrendered at the end of WWII. 

While her parents preached a very conservative and intolerant view point, during the first few years while still separated from their money, the Schlagenweits settled into the Kensington neighborhood in London.  They had no choice but to have Johanna  attend state-run schools.  Exposed to the wider culture and more diverse mindset of her classes and classmates, Johanna grew up with a very independent mindset.  Even as a young child, she proved to be difficult and quarrelsome withe her parents.  She'd just started school the same year her brother, Sasha was born.  Unaware that the boy was a product of his wife's infidelity, Gerard turned his attentions to preserving 'his son's' upbringing.  By the time Sasha was school-aged, the family had managed to be come in possession of their family money and the boy was sent to catholic school. 

Throughout their childhood, Johanna grew very close to her brother, despite Gerhard's attempts to prevent his eldest daughter from 'corrupting' the family heir.  Johanna often took it upon herself to counter the closed minded and old-world viewpoints her father often tried to instill in Sasha.  When Johanna turned thirteen, her parents sent her to boarding school during the school in Germany.  To spite and separate herself from her parents, she started calling herself Jacoba - a distinctly German name.  By the time Sasha started Hogwarts, he only saw his sister during the short months of summer.  After her 18th birthday, Jacoba left home.

Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Curious, strong-willed and independent, Jacoba is, very much, a free thinker.  She likes exploring and finding new experiences but bulks at being controlled or restrained. 

 

Caffeine During A Layover September 28th- 10:30am	After getting a strange letter from Sasha, Jacoba heads to Northern Scotland in hopes of finding him.  During a layover in London, Jacoba runs into Dreogan Eleor who tries to offer Jacoba explanations.
Oh, We're Just Talking Heads September 28th- 12:30am	Dreogan returns to Jacoba after meeting with Sasha.  He gives her Sasha's reply and helps Jacoba decide where she's going from here.
Not-So Muggle Postage October 3rd - 9th- correspondence	Neely writes Jacoba to talk to her about her brother.  They make arrangements to meet in Hogsmeade.
All Sorrows Are Less With Bread October 15th- Lunchtime	While beating the pavement in search of a job, Jacoba notices a woman drop a wand.  Intrigued, she starts talking to the woman and they go to get some coffee
Wake Up Call October 17th- noon	Adon and Akiva show up at after Dreogan apartment after Dreogan was unresponsive overnight.  Moira responds to Adon's summons for help.
Pen Pals and Poisoned Pens October 25th- afternoon	Jacoba meets Neely in Hogsmeade.
Fair Is Foul and Foul Is Fair October 31st- evening	Niobe brings Jacoba along to Maggie and Colette's apartment to get ready for the Halloween party.

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Your Nickname: Mai
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If you have written other characters here, list them all: Mairead ó Fearghail,  Cináed Tawse, Sasha Schlagenweit, Tulojow Nagde, Dennis Creevey, Chris Colburn, Deaglan McDonough


Full Character Name: Johanna Clarice Schlagenweit, goes by nickname Jacoba
Character Birthday & Age: July 31 1988, 20
City & Country of Birth: East Berlin, Germany
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?: Muggle
Alma Mater: Landesschule Pforta, Leipzig, Germany - a muggle boarding school, then about six months at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Job: Sales Associate - Reducto Records; Part-time Research Assistant

Wand: Plastic - with a plastic core.  Rigid, shiny, useless except for chucking at people

Physical Description:

Build/Body type: Relatively tall and slender, but not excessively thin
Estimated Height/Weight: 5'11'' / 155#
Hair color: Very dark brown, almost black
Eye color: brown
Skin color: light alabaster
First Impression: A common trait amidst the Schlagenweit clan, Jacoba is fairly tall and leanly built.  Her height and weight are reasonably proportioned - she definitely does not give the impression of being stick-thin.  Though she's tried to avoid many of the psychological lessons from her parent's upbringing, she has retained many of her early lessons of etiquette, amongst them proper carriage and posture - she usually carries herself tall and straight.

Jacoba's skin is, naturally, rather pale, though she does try to maintain a soft tan.  This is not an easy task for the young woman; her skin is rather prone to burning if not carefully protected.  Unlike most of her family, Jacoba's natural hair and eye color are quite dark, nearing on black though the richer tones of the black coffee brown become more apparent in strong sunlight.  Her hair is relatively thick and has an gentle wave to it.  Jacoba typically wears her hair at a long enough length so that, when just washed and air-dried, its own weight tends to keep it straight but it will curl (or frizz) with humidity or sufficient priming. 

On an average day, Jacoba tends to dress casually and trendy, to the extent that her finances allow.  More often than not, this requires being a bit creative when browsing thrift and second hand stores - an activity that has become a sport for her. 

Any odd/outstanding features?: Years of late night excursions in Berlin have left their decorative marks.  Jacoba has a white rose tattooed and has a couple piercings.  Typically, only those that are especially close or who would find themselves accompanying her on more exciting endeavors would be aware of these.


Personality Description:

Through a combination of necessity and choice, Jacoba has grown into an independent, strong-willed and spirited young woman.  Since she was a young child, she found herself frequently at odds with her family, leaving her emotionally distant and isolated from those that were supposed to be the strongest source of comfort.  This emotional isolation played a key role in the development of the personality of the young girl that was Jacoba.   She shares much of her brother's intelligence and loves to learn and challenge herself but she lacks much of her brother's perseverance and work ethic.  She throws herself into activities with strong dedication but can quickly loose interest - usually moving on to find new activities.

Jacoba is and has always been a rather opinionated and vocal young woman.  She's fostered in herself a strong curiosity and desire to learn - at times, her curiosity has been strongly driven by a need to separate herself from her family.  Teenage rebellion struck Jacoba hard, fast and early - setting in shortly after she arrived in Leipzig as a fifteen-year-old.  To demonstrate that rebelliousness as strongly as she could, Jacoba would frequently take the relative inappropriateness of a behavior into account before making decisions. 

Having rarely found the companionship she craved at home, Jacoba sought to find it elsewhere.  She's quick to trust people, regardless of their obvious relative shadiness and questionable reputation.  In fact, again in a form of personal revenge, Jacoba actively sought the companionship of shadier individuals.  Weekends during school frequently found her slipping away from school to immerse herself in the underground, punk culture of Berlin. 

It has only been within the last year, after leaving Munich for Amsterdam, that Jacoba has found herself entirely independent and free from her father's influence.  She's still learning to find her own two independent feet.  Many of the traits of her teenage years linger but they are slowly fading in intensity.  A bi-product of her upbringing, Jacoba is wary and distrusting of those that appear to seek power or control. 


History:

Her mother, née Marie Anne Waldgrave, was the youngest of three daughters in a family that descended from Bavarian Counts that governered over the Northern Alps near the town of Berchtesgaden, Germany.  Likewise, the Schlagenweits were descended from Barons from near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemburg.  Both families maintained strong reputations both politically and financially up to the formation of the Weimar Republic and the fall of the feudal system in Germany.  By obtaining strong leadership positions in the Weimar Republic and, later the National Socialistic regime, the families were able to hold onto their wealth and influence until the end of World War II and the foreign occupation of Germany. 

Prior to end of the war, the Schlagenweits secured their family money in overseas accounts where they survived the war, largely untouched.  The Schlagenweit home was destroyed during the war but the Waldgrave property survived the war undamaged.  At the end of the World War II both the Schlagenweits and Marie Waldgarve's parents found themselves in East Germany under Soviet Occupation.  Cut off from their finances, they rebuilt their lives under Soviet rule. 

In 1982, Gerhard Schlagenweit and Marie Waldgrave met and two years later, they were wed.  Their first child, born Johanna Clarice Schlagenweit, was born in East Berlin in July of 1988 and she spent the first two years of her life in a small apartment in government housing with her parents and paternal grandparents, Ewald and Gabriela Schlagenweit.  While with the surrender and the occupation of Germany much of their isolationist and discriminatory ideologies were kept quiet in public, Sasha's father was raised in a very strict household and likewise raised his children in the same manner.  Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gerhard Schlagenweit, along with his wife, their daughter and his parents, chose to leave Germany, fearing the loss of family money to reparations.

With the savings they had from earned while working under Soviet rule, the Schlagenweits moved to London.  While her parents preached a very conservative and intolerant view point, during the first few years while still separated from their money, the Schlagenweits settled into the Kensington neighborhood in London.  They had no choice but to have Johanna  attend state-run schools.  Exposed to the wider culture and more diverse mindset of her classes and classmates, Johanna grew up with a very independent mindset.  Even as a young child, she proved to be difficult and quarrelsome with her parents.  She'd just started school the same year her brother, Sasha was born.  Unaware that the boy was a product of his wife's infidelity, Gerard turned his attentions to preserving his son's upbringing.  By the time Sasha was school-aged, the family had managed to be come in possession of their family's money and more care was taken when choosing his school. 

Throughout their childhood, Johanna grew very close to her brother, despite Gerhard's attempts to prevent his eldest daughter from 'corrupting' the family heir.  Their time together was limited, however, by Sasha's rigorous school and competition schedule.  Whenever possible, Johanna took it upon herself to counter the closed minded and old-world viewpoints her father often tried to instill in Sasha. 


When Johanna was thirteen, during a particularly heated fight between her and her father, she told her father that Sasha was, indeed, not his son and exposed her mother's affair. Convinced her outburst was an attempt to defame the family, Gerhard kicked Jacoba out of the house.  Jacoba made her way on her own for a year and a half until her grandmother intervened and paid for Jacoba to attend boarding school in Germany. 

The student protest movement, the White Rose, had always been a particular fascination of Jacoba's at school and after finishing school in Leipzig, Jacoba began studying European History at the University of Munich.  She grew impatient, however, and after a year, she left school and relocated to Amsterdam where she began working for Amnesty International, soliciting donations by phone. 

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?:

During a Halloween Party, Matilda Quinn offered Jacoba a position as a sales associate at Reducto Records.  Other than a year's work experience at Amnesty, Jacoba's only 'qualification' is being well-versed in the musical taste of muggle teenagers.  She's sure she'll be a quick study when it comes to wizard's musical tastes.  Likewise, other than being a student for many years and researching for her share of papers, she has few qualifications for the muggle law research she does for Dreogan Eleor. 

Writing Sample:
Show your character in a scene that illustrates the best and worst aspects
of their personality. Include action, dialog and thought.

Sum up your character in one paragraph:

Curious, strong-willed and independent, Jacoba is, very much, a free thinker.  She likes exploring and finding new experiences but bulks at being controlled or restrained. 

Accepted! ~Elle

Character Name: Jacoba Schlagenweit
Link to Application: Bio

Sections Changed: Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?: Muggle

History:

Her mother, née Marie Anne Waldgrave, was the youngest of three daughters in a family that descended from Bavarian Counts that governered over the Northern Alps near the town of Berchtesgaden, Germany.  Likewise, the Schlagenweits were descended from Barons from near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemburg.  Both families maintained strong reputations both politically and financially up to the formation of the Weimar Republic and the fall of the feudal system in Germany.  By obtaining strong leadership positions in the Weimar Republic and, later the National Socialistic regime, the families were able to hold onto their wealth and influence until the end of World War II and the foreign occupation of Germany.

Prior to end of the war, the Schlagenweits secured their family money in overseas accounts where they survived the war, largely untouched.  The Schlagenweit home was destroyed during the war but the Waldgrave property survived the war undamaged.  At the end of the World War II both the Schlagenweits and Marie Waldgarve's parents found themselves in East Germany under Soviet Occupation.  Cut off from their finances, they rebuilt their lives under Soviet rule.

In 1982, Gerhard Schlagenweit and Marie Waldgrave met and two years later, they were wed.  Their first child, born Johanna Clarice Schlagenweit, was born in East Berlin in July of 1988 and she spent the first two years of her life in a small apartment in government housing with her parents and paternal grandparents, Ewald and Gabriela Schlagenweit.  While with the surrender and the occupation of Germany much of their isolationist and discriminatory ideologies were kept quiet in public, Sasha's father was raised in a very strict household and likewise raised his children in the same manner.  Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gerhard Schlagenweit, along with his wife, their daughter and his parents, chose to leave Germany, fearing the loss of family money to reparations.

With the savings they had from earned while working under Soviet rule, the Schlagenweits moved to London.  While her parents preached a very conservative and intolerant view point, during the first few years while still separated from their money, the Schlagenweits settled into the Kensington neighborhood in London.  They had no choice but to have Johanna  attend state-run schools.  Exposed to the wider culture and more diverse mindset of her classes and classmates, Johanna grew up with a very independent mindset.  Even as a young child, she proved to be difficult and quarrelsome with her parents.  She'd just started school the same year her brother, Sasha was born.  Unaware that the boy was a product of his wife's infidelity, Gerard turned his attentions to preserving his son's upbringing.  By the time Sasha was school-aged, the family had managed to be come in possession of their family's money and more care was taken when choosing his school. 


Requested Changes: Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?: Muggleborn

History:

Her mother, née Marie Anne Waldgraf, was the youngest of three daughters in a family that descended from Bavarian Counts that governered over the Northern Alps near the town of Berchtesgaden, Germany.  Likewise, the Schlagenweits were descended from Barons from near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemburg.  Both families maintained strong reputations both politically and financially up to the formation of the Weimar Republic and the fall of the feudal system in Germany.  But, like most families, the Waldgrafs did have a few skeletons hiding in the family's historical closet - a diluted magical gene had a tendency to shadow the family through history.  Otto Waldgraf II, Marie's oldest uncle, was a muggleborn wizard who was killed during the Second World War.

By obtaining strong leadership positions in the Weimar Republic and, later the National Socialistic regime, the survivors from the Waldgraf and Schlagenweit families were able to hold onto their wealth and influence until the end of World War II and the foreign occupation of Germany.  Prior to end of the war, the Schlagenweits secured their family money in overseas accounts where they survived the war, largely untouched.  The Schlagenweit home was destroyed during the war but the Waldgraf property survived the war undamaged.  At the end of the World War II both the Schlagenweits and Marie Waldgarve's parents found themselves in East Germany under Soviet Occupation.  Cut off from their finances, they rebuilt their lives under Soviet rule.

In 1982, Gerhard Schlagenweit and Marie Waldgraf met and two years later, they were wed.  Their first child, born Johanna Clarice Schlagenweit, was born in East Berlin in July of 1988 and she spent the first two years of her life in a small apartment in government housing with her parents and paternal grandparents, Ewald and Gabriela Schlagenweit.  While with the surrender and the occupation of Germany much of their isolationist and discriminatory ideologies were kept quiet in public, Gerhard was raised in a very strict household and likewise raised his children in the same manner.  Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gerhard Schlagenweit, along with his wife, their daughter and his parents, chose to leave Germany, fearing the loss of family money to reparations.

With the savings they had from earned while working under Soviet rule, the Schlagenweits moved to London.  While her parents preached a very conservative and intolerant view point, during the first few years while still separated from their money, the Schlagenweits settled into the Kensington neighborhood in London.  They had no choice but to have Johanna  attend state-run schools.  Exposed to the wider culture and more diverse mindset of her classes and classmates, Johanna grew up with a very independent mindset.  Even as a young child, she proved to be difficult and quarrelsome with her parents.  Fearing any rebellion on her daughter's part was 'abnormal' behavior, was a sign of the family's hidden secret coming forth, Marie was especially careful to mold appropriate behavior in Jacoba.

Jacoba had just started boarding school the same year her brother, Sasha was born.  Unaware that the boy was a product of his wife's infidelity, Gerard turned his attentions to preserving his son's upbringing.  Early evidence of magical ability was slow to develop during her childhood.  More so, oblivious to the potential for magic, Jacoba was quick dismiss any sporadic occurrences as luck or not relating to her.  Throughout their childhood, Johanna grew very close to her brother, despite Gerhard's attempts to prevent his eldest daughter from 'corrupting' the family heir.  Their time together was limited, however, by Sasha's rigorous school and competition schedule.  Whenever possible, Johanna took it upon herself to counter the closed minded and old-world viewpoints her father often tried to instill in Sasha.

When Johanna was thirteen, during a particularly heated fight between her and her father, she told her father that Sasha was, indeed, not his son and exposed her mother's affair. Convinced her outburst was an attempt to defame the family, Gerhard kicked Jacoba out of the house.  Jacoba made her way on her own for a year and a half until her grandmother intervened and paid for Jacoba to attend boarding school in Germany.  During her years on her own, she developed life habits and addictions that often masked or inhibited her ability to gauge or judge her behavior. 

The student protest movement, the White Rose, had always been a particular fascination of Jacoba's at school and after finishing school in Leipzig, Jacoba began studying European History at the University of Munich.  She grew impatient, however, and after a year during a low point in her life, with the help of a friend, she left school, cleaned up and relocated to Amsterdam where she began working for Amnesty International, soliciting donations by phone.

Still oblivious to her own abilities and the existence of the wizarding world, a year later, Jacoba received a letter from her younger brother, explaining about his own transition to life as a wizard.  Convinced this would provide her the opportunity to reconnect with her brother.  She attempted to find her place in her brother's life, despite the challenge of not having focused magic with which to navigate the wizarding world.  With no real explanation why, she managed to find her way despite the lack of a wand.

Why do you wish to change these area(s): Changing her blood status would allow her access to rping and plotting potentials.
Other RPed Characters this may affect: This change doesn't effect much of her back story or previous thread history so the change would primarily effect plotting and inter-personal interactions from this point forward.  Certainly, there'd be a transition for those she knows and interacts with on a regular basis but, other than her brother, it shouldn't require significant changes in other characters. 

Career Change

Character Name: Jacoba Schlagenweit
Character Biography: Bio
Previous Job/Position: Full Time Sales Associate Reducto Records
Position Applying For: PT Sales Associate / PT Muggle Cultural Consultant for the DoMAC

Why have you chosen to change careers?:
The idea of Jacoba joining the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes was posed by Edwin Glass when the two first crossed paths at the 2009 Halloween Ball.  Intrigued by the idea of having Jacoba on board, Edwin invited Jacoba to visit the Ministry and interview for a position on staff.  

Jacoba adores working for Reducto Records and plans to continue working the evening/closing shift to help cover the cost of letting the attic flat.  However, the prospect of working for the Ministry and having a real, 'grown up' job in the wizarding world is far too intriguing to pass up.  

Elaborate on your expertise in this new field:
By wizarding world standards, Jacoba brings very little in the way of credentials.  Like any squib, she has no OWLs or NEWTs.  She's a relative newcomer to the wizarding world and Britain.  But, she brings a wide range of personal experiences that provides her with a wide range of useful skills and knowledge.  

On an official, academic capacity, her muggle education provides a solid foundation for her role as a Muggle Consultant.  Though she missed several years of school growing up, her secondary education in Germany focused on Languages and Cultures and she has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Western Asia.  She's fluent in English, German, Russian and Hebrew and has a strong working knowledge of Dutch.  Her University studies focused on Modern European History so she comes with a solid academic background of the cultural, historical and linguistic culture of Europe and Russia.  

Additionally, Jacoba has a uniquely broad familiarity with a wide range of muggle cultural groups.  She grew up in a very privileged family and is familiar with the etiquette and dynamics of the social and economic elite.  She also spent several years, on her own on the streets.  She's equally as familiar with social elite as she is with the grunge, underground youth culture.  

Describe your new job and how you go about doing it:
A new role for Level 3, there will be a bit of settling in and working out the ideal role.  Jacoba's primary duty is to provide day-to-day lower level advice and recommendations for the muggle-oriented operations of the Accidents and Catastrophes office.  These may include things as mundane as fashion advice for Level 3 employees looking to blend in at a muggle night club.  

As work loads fluctuates, Jacoba will also be generally on call to fill in and help out where needed.