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Full Character Name:Audrey   Claude Chancelier-Dark
Character Birthday & Age:October   17th, 1971; 37
City & Country of Birth:Montpellier,   France
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn?:Pureblood
Alma   Mater:Beauxbatons Academy
Job: Fashion   Designer

Wand:
10” Holly with a carved Ivy   handle. Dragon Heartstring core.

Physical Description:
Anyone   could tell you that Audrey Chancelier-Dark was beautiful. Even if a   person had never met her before, they knew. In her prime, she was one of   the top wizarding models. Her pictures were plastered everywhere, so it   was very easy to know what Audrey Chancelier (before she was married)   looked like. But even when her name preceeded her physical appearance,   it was already known that she was a person of exceptional beauty, with   striking blue eyes and flowing blonde hair. Although she has four   children, Audrey keeps her body in great shape, with no sign of whatever   physical toll pregnancies have on a body. Of course, with magic (and a   seemingly infinite cash flow), the former French model could easily   maintain her perfect body.

Personality Description:
Riches   and beauty sometimes come at a heavy cost, and in the case of Audrey   Chancelier-Dark, that price was paid with her personality. Snobbish,   vain, and cruel-these words could easily describe Audrey, if you were   asking someone else for their opinion of the woman. But for Audrey,   these are just misinterpretations of who she really is.

Snobbish?   Not at all. Audrey only likes the best of everything, and why shouldn’t   she? If she can afford it, then there is no reason why she can’t have   it. No reason at all. And in Audrey’s opinion, everything is   purchaseable, you just have to find the right price. And the best of   everything also means keeping the best company. There are certain people   who can easily mar someone’s reputation. In Audrey’s opinion, it’s just   best to stay away from those type of people alltogether. And it doesn’t   bother her one bit to exclude people based on their social status,   looks, or family. With 6 billion people on the planet, she sees no   reason to befriend all of them.

Vain? Hardly. She just knows   that she’s beautiful and does her best to maintain that appearance.   After years of having people faun over her in photoshoots and magazine   spreads, Audrey learned the true power of her beauty and how she could   use it to gain whatever she desired.One key to keeping that power was to   make sure she always looked her best. Audrey couldn’t very well be seen   walking around in last year’s dresses; that would be a social disaster.   There is a certain look to Audrey Chancelier-Dark, and if that were to   change in anyway, well, then people might start to view her differently,   and she definitely could not have that happening.

Cruel? Never.   Ok...maybe she’d admit to this one just a little bit. But it’s not her   fault if those around are won’t listen and she had to take more drastic   measures to make sure that things get done her way. People could avoid a   lot of backlash from her if they’d just know their place in relation to   Audrey (always beneath her) and treat her with the respect that is due   to her. It should be common knowledge by now that what Audrey   Chancelier-Dark wants, she gets, no exception. And she’ll make sure to   use any means possible to acheive her goals. She’s focused and   determined, that’s how Audrey would describe herself. People who think   that her methods are cruel have become too soft by political bullshit   about equal rights for all people. Equal rights....what a joke.


History:
Audrey   Chancelier had a charmed life. Born into one of the oldest and   wealthiest pureblood lines, Audrey grew up with the world at her   fingertips. For her and her siblings, they knew that they could go   through life without lifting a finger and be completely supported by   their family wealth and heritage. But that wouldn’t make for a very   interesting life, now would it?

She knew at a young age that she   was beautiful. Her mother told her it all the time, people around town   would always talk about “that gorgeous Chancelier girl” and when she   attended Beauxbatons, boys were lining up left and right to ask her out.   And when Witch Weekly decided to do an international article   about the fashion in other wizarding schools, Audrey was an easy choice   to be one of the featured students. When it came time to graduate,   Audrey had no desire to do any behind the scene jobs, or ones that   required her to do too much work, so she thought, why not put her good   looks to work for her? She signed on to a modeling agency when she was   finished with school and her career took off. Within six months, she was   one of the biggest fashion names in the industry; her body plastered in   every magazine and billboard across all of Europe, and then worldwide.

It   wasn’t easy work, as Audrey came to realize, but by that time, she was   determined, so she stuck to it. Besides, she really did love all the   attention. Her life was even better than she imagined. And of course it   did her parents proud, to see their family name gaining even more   recognition.

But things would change in the summer of 1990.

Audrey   had been sent to Wales for one of the biggest wizarding runway shows of   the year. All the big name designers were showing their fashions and   for the models who were lucky enough to make it in the show, it was   their big break, if they were not already established. Audrey was   excited because she was the opening and finishing model for Jean Pierre   de La Marquis, the top name in French wizarding fashion. The   show was a great success and it was during the after party that Audrey   met Michael Dark. She was immediately attracted to him. He was cute,   confident, and obviously came from money; what wasn’t to like? They   flirted shamelessly as the night wore on, sharing drinks and eventually   finding their way to his hotel suite. And it wasn’t until the next   morning that Audrey had a clear enough mind to recall his last name, and   realize that he was from the Dark family.

Everyone at some   point in their life knew of the Dark family, and none of it was ever   good. But how could this charming man laying beside her be a part of   that family? She had seen nothing wrong with him. That didn’t matter   though. In a society where reputations were everything, Audrey knew that   if news of her little adventure got back home to her parents, there   would be hell to pay.

So she said nothing, and was very grateful   to find out that there had been no pictures in the papers of her on the   arm of a mysterious man. There was something about him though that kept   her thinking about Michael, and Audrey found many excuses to travel   back to Wales for fashion business. They kept on with their secret   relationship for a while, until Audrey realized some unsettling news in   February of the following year. She was pregnant. She didn’t think it   was possible, they had taken so many percausions, but sure enough, there   was a young boy growing inside of her. Audrey had immediately made her   way to Michael’s place, in a panic about what to do. This was serious.   If news got out that Audrey Chancelier was pregnant it would be an end   to her career. Not just with modeling, but everything would be ruined,   even socially. Her family would feel the shame from the incident as   well, and Audrey knew she would be a burden in their eyes. Michael   understood the severity of the situation, and offered up the one   solution that would bring the least amount of drama: they needed to get   married.

Audrey wasn’t opposed to marriage, she always intended   on taking a spouse one day, but she was also still very young. But she   agreed, for several reasons. First, Audrey really did believe that she   loved Michael. Despite his sullied family history, he had never treated   her poorly. And the idea of being in love, married, and with a family is   one that every girl wants to complete. Also, being married when she   gave birth to their son would mean that no one would have to know   underlying reason for the marriage, if they did it all quick enough. It   wasn’t that difficult to cover up the truth. When Mikey was born in   October, all it took was some shifting of paperwork, and a little bit of   monetary incentive for things to get set up how they needed. As far as   anyone knew (with the exception of Audrey and her husband), young   Michael Dark III was born premature, making his date of conception just a   few weeks after their marriage.

There were still issues to deal   with, like the fact that her family was completely surprised, and not   pleased, by her marriage into the Dark family. But Audrey was an adult,   and in the end she told them all where they could shove their opinions.   It was her life, not theirs. As for her modeling career, Audrey retired   as a model right after the wedding, citing her reason being that they   wanted to start a family. She didn’t leave the fashion industry though,   but easily transitions from modeling clothes to designing them.

The   family lived in Wales for a while, but after the birth of their last   child, Erin, Audrey was finally able to convince her husband that they   needed to leave. Wales was too dreary, and the estate of the Dark family   was just....creepy. She had no fashion motivation there. Besides,   London was where all the really great fashion was coming out of. Audrey   already had a name for herself with her past modeling endeavors, and   moving to London would make her even more accessible to the industry.

Life   went on as normal, Michael running off to his Ministry job, Audrey   working on her fashions, and the kids running around the estate, being   cared for by the various nannies which had been hired for each child.   But with her husband away so much, Audrey soon grew bored, and needy. It   was obvious that her husband was not going to be working any less   hours; he was married to his job as much as he was to her. So Audrey   starting finding her own ways to satisfy her needs.

The first   guy started off innocently enough, someone she had met through a fashion   show, and after a few too many drinks, things ended up on a much   different note than they had started. Audrey didn’t mind though, she was   getting her attention. But after a while, she grew bored with him as   well, and moved on to someone new. It wasn’t that she intentionally   started out to cheat on her husband, but it was a progression, which   seemed easier each time it happened. And it added an extra sense of   adventure to her life. Sometimes it was a game for her, to see how close   she could come to getting caught, and still keep Michael out of the   loop of what was happening.

Well, she found out just how close   she could come on the night that Michael came home early, and found   Audrey and her most recent lover asleep in their bed. The other man was   lucky, he barely got out of the house alive, with Michael shooting one   spell after another at the guy. The next few days were rough, with lots   of arguing and accusations, and Michael finally discovering the full   extent of his wife’s infidelity.

The divorce was inevitable, but   Audrey had no shame in what she had done. In her eyes, she had merely   sought out her own ways to satisfy the way she felt neglected by her   husband. The process was rough though, with the children in the middle   of it. In the end, Michael took off with Beatrix to Wales while Audrey   stayed in London with the rest of the children. Audrey kept at her work,   and took her new-found freedom from the marriage as reason to be   involved with whomever she wanted.

One thing that did change   though was a slightly renewed interest in the lives of the three   children that remained at their estate. Bellatrix became her new   project, and she was determined to see her daughter follow in her   mother’s footsteps. Audrey knew that Bella missed her twin sister   greatly, but she just figured if she got Bellatrix’s mind off of Bea,   and off of their father, then she would forget about them. Of course   Audrey took every opportunity to spread rumors and speak poorly of the   two, trying to convince her other children that Michael and Beatrix were   the bad ones of the family, and that was why they never associated   anymore.

The slippery downhill slope on which Audrey was   standing continued to slide further south as developments in the recent   years following the divorce made life even worse.

Mikey was a   squib. Audrey thought that his abilities were just coming late, but that   eventually they would surface. But it never happened. Their only son,   Michael’s only way of passing on his family heritage, was magicless. Of   course that brought up new arguments between the adults, and accusation   that Audrey had been cheating on him before they got married. But that   was actually something that wasn’t true. As much as Michael resented his   son, Audrey did as well. He was the firstborn, and the whole reason   that they two had even gotten married. Now they discovered that he was   worthless in the eyes of the wizarding community. He was a shame to the   family, and nothing more. Audrey’s interest in her son’s well-being   ended at that point, and she never paid him mind, unless it was to order   him around about picking up materials for her.

Her relationship   with Bellatrix fell apart. It was great for a while, Audrey taking   every opportunity to pour her work into her daughter, to show off how   beautiful she was becoming. Until Bella snapped one day, in public, of   all places. Her mother was horrified that Bella would speak to her in   such a manner, and that she would cause such a public disturbance. That   event led to a series of fights between mother and daughter, and even an   incident where the children had all run off, with the monetary   assistance of their father. It had taken her two weeks to find them, and   boy did they get a harsh punishment when she finally came across their   location. The relationship between Bellatrix and her mother has never   been mended.

And then it turned out that Michael really had   inherited the bad reputation of his family. He was caught spying against   the Ministry, and shipped off to Azkaban. Personally, Audrey couldn’t   have been more relieved to hear that he was taken away. Except it caused   another problem for her: Beatrix.

Audrey had decidingly   disowned her other daughter the day she decided to happily run off with   her father after the divorce. And now then the girl was forced to come   back and live with the family again. It was definitely not acceptable   for Audrey, but she had no say in the matter. At least it kept Bellatrix   out of her hair. Personally Audrey didn’t care what her daughters got   into at school, she didn’t let it bother her at home. And at home, it   wasn’t like Audrey cared for them anyway. Why do that when she could   hire someone to do it for her?

With Mikey being useless to her   family, and the two older girls evolving into half-crazy versions of   their father, Audrey only had one last hope for her legacy, and that was   in the form of the youngest, Erin. The same way that Audrey had put her   attention into Bellatrix, she now brought her focus on Erin. It wasn’t   too difficult to get the girl on her side, since her older sisters   basically ignored Erin. So far Erin was reciprocating well to her   mother’s attention.

So with the girls off at school, Mikey being   cared for by anyone except his mother, and Michael locked away in some   god-forsaken cell in Azkaban, things were starting to look good again   for Audrey Chancelier-Dark.

If only it would stay that way.

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?:
Audrey is currently a fashion designer,   working out of London. Only wizard fashions, of course. She wouldn’t dare   be seen trying to create something for muggles. After she ended her   modeling career, fashion design was the obvious progression for her   life. When the Dark family moved to London, Audrey started working with   one of the designers for whom she used to model. Now she owns her own   studio and works independently on her designs.

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: One word: selfish. Life for Audrey Chancelier-Dark   is all about herself; getting what she wants, at any costs. Sure, she’s   got the kids and all, but Erin’s the only one that Audrey had any hopes   for, or even cares to have hopes for. She likes to be seen, to be known,   and to be adored. And Audrey has no problem with stepping over anyone   in her way.