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Full Character Name: Amilč Gavrille Marie Vaillancourt
Character Birthday & Age: 21; 6/27/87
City & Country of Birth: London, England
Blood Purity: Pureblood
Alma Mater: Hogwarts; Ravenclaw
Job/Position: Auror- Specialty: Cursebreaking

Wand: 9.5” Elder with Dragon Heartstring; Supple and Smooth.

Physical Description: Height: 5’7
Weight: 129 lbs.
Build: Slender/ bird-like

Amilč doesn’t appear like a typical auror. She’s on the taller side of average, 5’7”, and small limbed. Her face is pale and high cheek boned with a smattering of freckles. She looks vaugely like she could float away at any moment. Don’t let that fool you. She’s extremely fast and of at least average strenth, though she is working on that. The small limbs that seem to hinder her have not an ounce of fat on them, leading to their tiny look.
Her face is heart shaped, but the top is covered by her bangs that cut straght across her forehead. Despite being in dangerous positions all day long, Amilč wears her magnificent hair nearly to her waist. It’s color is very similar to that of her cousin’s Juliette, but has more of a brown/chestnut undertone. When on the job, she braids it with hidden metal spikes. She also puts various curses. Anyone who touches her precious hair is instatly sorry that they did. Her eyes are almond shaped and a deep brown, nothing rearkable about them. Her nose is a strong aristocratic nose and her lips are normal sized and shaped. Small on the top, larger on the bottom.
She has various scars from training, but most of the time she covers them with spells. The largest is a burn scar that runs from her right shoulder to her hip bone.


Personality Description: Amilč is calm, collected and clear minded. She doesn’t overreact or under react. Her mind works quickly and accurately to send the right spells to her wand hand. When in the face of danger, she has a straight face that looks almost blank. She works like a machine. Although she isn’t the most accurate with her aim, the spells she uses and the quickness of her reactions make up for it. She doesn’t wait and see whether her spell hit, she is busy casting another one. She is relentless in her work, always striving to be the best. If she isn’t, she isn’t heartbroken; she just works harder and harder until she can reach her goals.

When walking down the street, people get an aura from her that says “don’t mess with me.” She has been called all business before by people who don’t know her well. Her closer friends, which she doesn’t have too many of due to her strenuous lifestyle, know that she is the girl that loves to slide down her hall in socks, bra and underwear, singing muggle music at the top of her lungs into a hairbrush. It seems an anomaly. That side of her is still there, but it is in hibernation. Her practical Ravenclaw mind suppressed it, believing it to not be useful to her goals. All she needs is someone to coax it out of her.

In tandem with her hyper-rationalization, the French woman loves an argument. She loves the feeling one gets when she’s right and everyone else is wrong. Sometimes, her friends make a valiant effort to help their auror friend to get rid of some stress by taking her clubbing. That usually backfires because while they’re dancing and drinking the night away, Amilč usually finds someone to have an intellectual discussion with. Lots of times they are someone French and their voices can be heard in the foreign language escalating and escalating. It’s amusing to watch and more fun to partake in, especially when it’s Amilč Vaillancourt that’s winning. She gets that thrill of the chase in her eye and she doesn’t stop until she snatches up the victory like a wolfhound.

Amilč isn’t a purist by any standards. She was raised as one and continued to be through her first 2…3 years of Hogwarts, but it slowly changed. It pretty much disappeared when she began auror training. Out there, it didn’t matter whether you were muggleborn, half-blood, half-creature, or pureblood. It mattered what you could do. Even though she’s not purist, she still enjoys the finer things in life. Being pureblood helps get her there with an extra push in some societies, so she’ll take that push without complaint.

That is what one sees only 95% of the time. The last 5% is pure flame. Despite being as calm as a lake most of the time, Amilč has days where it is just too much and she feels like screaming at everyone and everything. She’s like a volcano erupting from its slumber and she can’t help but tear down everything in her path. She’s only had one day of that type during training and she was formidable. She hates it, though. She hates it when her mind isn’t as clear as crystal and her thoughts aren’t in their perfectly organized file cabinets. She feels that the only way to succeed is through careful planning and a sudden coup, so her “volcano days” are the bane of her existence.     


History: The Vaillancourts are an old French family that began its exodus to England in the early 80’s. It began with the youngest brother, Jean-Paul, leaving for England in ’82 to become an Ambassador of France in the Ministry. When working in the ministry, he met a brilliant Unspeakable, Antoinette Dion, a first generation English woman who’s parents had both been French purebloods. At first the relationship was rocky. Nette was quiet and work oriented and Jean-Paul was a boisterous Frenchman. He tried to get her to go out on the town with him, but she always refused. Being an Unspeakable, “just letting go and having fun” wasn’t an option. The young man was determined. So he decided to play her game. Slowly, two years after first meeting, Nette and Jean-Paul began dating officially. Two years later, they were married and a year after that, their only child was born.
Amilč Gavrielle Marie Vaillancourt was a precocious child. She was already talking by 19 months and could read in both French and English by the time she was 3. And read she did. She would beg her mother, Nette, to take her to the library constantly. Both parents encouraged their daughter in her tireless pursuit of knowledge, but by the time she was 6 and had only a few out of family friends, they became worried. It was very obvious their daughter was smart, but how would she fare when it came time to go to school? Both Nette and Jean-Paul had been fairly popular in school and were highly perturbed at their daughter’s quiet nature. Although she was an Unspeakable, in school Nette had been a gossip-mongering Slytherin who would relentlessly claw her way up the social food chain. So at seven years old, Amile was introduced into Pureblood society. There, she learned from firsthand experience what was expected of her, how to act, and how to live her life. But Amile wasn’t happy with it. It didn’t appeal to her highly rationalizing brain. Why would someone plan out your life for you? But the quiet little girl just smiled and listened to all they said. It may come in handy.
Then the war began in earnest. Both Nette and Jean-Paul were nervous, as they both worked for the failing ministry. Yet the other Purebloods convinced them that everything would be all right. So, throughout the war, the French purebloods kept a low profile, playing the part of loyal sheep. In 1998, the battle of Hogwarts marked the end of the war, so unlike her Paternal cousins, Amile went to Hogwarts. At first, Jean-Paul was unconvinced that the place would suffice for her education, being more or less in shambles, but Nette was determined. So that fall, Amile went to the stone castle and was sorted into Ravenclaw (to both the chagrin and excitement of her intelligent, yet still Slytherin, mother).
In school, Amile floated by with near Perfect grades. Getting straight O’s on her OWLS, and only three E’s on her NEWTS, the smiley girl didn’t have much to worry about in her academics. Her best classes were DADA, Charms, and Transfiguration. Publicly, she never attained the popularity of her mother or father. She was usually known for being all business, knowing what she wanted and working tirelessly to get there. At the same time, those who took the time to know her found that the girl was far more fun than more than half the school could believe. Her closest friends realized that Amile was built in layers and as soon as you broke down the top ones, what lay underneath was a fun-loving, bright and cheery star. It was a secret that Amile worked to keep hidden. She wanted to make it to the top faster than her classmates and being seen as a party girl was the last thing that she needed.
In her seventh year, faced with a decision on what to do with her life, Amile talked to her charms teacher. Charms had been her favourite class, as well as the 2nd highest grade-wise, the 1st being DADA, and she wanted help figuring out what to do. Amile had created a few charms in her Hogwarts career, and most of them were more efficient counter curses. She and her charms teacher decided that the most obvious line of work for her was as an Auror.
Despite being far more demure than most of her classmates, Amile still had a craving for attention. Being an Auror would also satisfy that longing to be the “best.” So the following winter, after a few months of travel to learn new spells, she began the intensive training. Her father was prouder than a peacock when she announced her decision to the family, but it caused a rift with her mother. Her mother had never been fond of Aurors, but decided to not oppose her daughter. Amile had won most family battles for at least two years previous.
In the training academy, Amile moved quickly and fiercely. Her natural poker face made her unnerving to duel. Because of her quick mind, she cast quickly, though not very accurately. Over time, she may learn that less spells are better, but for the time being, she usually prefers speed.. She lacked severely when the battle turned hand-to-hand, but most people never got close enough. She never had the physical strength of her peers, but she her quick mind all but made up for it. If it were possible to end Auror training early, Amile probably would’ve. Since there is no such thing, she has just finished her training and is ready to go into the force.
She is extremely nervous to go into the Auror force. She would never show it, but the worry is still there. She’s smart, she’s quick witted, she’s calm… but what if that’s not enough? What if her two weaknesses, accuracy and strength, get her killed within the first two weeks? She knew that she was ready to move on, but she still knew that she was going to be the weakest link on the chain. She resented that fact more than anything in the world.
With problems seeming to get ever larger and down-time for the already overworked aurors getting ever smaller, Amile fears that she may just not be good enough. With blood purism on the rise again and attacks seemingly on every corner of the street, both the young auror and her family are worried for her safety… worry is something Amile knows she can’t afford. It clouds the mind. Yet, she can’t help it.     


Describe your job duties and how you go about them: Amile puts the most logical option before anything else. If she has to sacrifice ten people to save twenty, she will. If those ten people are more important to society, then it’s too bad for the twenty others.
She believes that justice must be served. The only way to make sure that the balance is preserved is to go out and do it yourself. There is no other way. She wonders how people can just sit around sipping their tea while death and mayhem revolve around them. She feels the need to do something about it rather than let it slip by unseen. She’d rather risk her own life than let someone else screw it up.
Being a curse/counter curse inventor as well also will help Amile in the field. Whenever there is something that no one can seem to break open, she can find a way. Give her a quiet room filled with test dummies and books, and she will figure it out in almost no time.   


Elaborate on your expertise in your field: Amile is eerily smart and can see options and courses of action unfold in front of her like a novel. She is a very good duelist as long as it doesn’t come to hand to hand. In school, she got all O’s on her Owls and got the following NEWTS: DADA- O, Potions-E, Charms- O, Transfiguration-O, Herbology- E, Ancient Runes- O, Astronomy- O, COMC- E. She has passed all of the tests required to become an Auror and has graduated from the Academy. She is only now in the force. 

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Sum up your character in one paragraph: Amilč is a pretty girl with a pureblooded backround, but no real respect for purism. She is dangerous to duel, but easy to fight, unless you meet her on her own turf. Her turf is her genius mind. When she catches you there, you are a fly and she is the spider. There’s no use trying to get out. She is hyper-logical and can be rightfully called all business. Deep, very deep, inside, she has a more playful nature, but that is far less likely to appear than her occasional flame-like temper.