Rosamund Carstairs

[[File:File:RosamundCarstairsAvatar.png|250px]]
Rosamund Carstairs
Biographical Information
Born	13 June 1993, 25
City of Birth	Oxford, England
Blood status	Pure-blood
Physical Information
Gender	Female
Height	160cm (5'3")
Hair Colour	Strawberry Blonde
Eye Colour	Hazel
Skin Colour	Fair
Education
School/House	Unknown House or School
Class of	2011
Character Information
Biography
Amara

Rosie is an intelligent, caring and gentle young girl, at odds with her more manipulative and distrustful family. Trusting, sweet and genuinely nice, she is nevertheless a force not to be trifled with the second you have betrayed her trust one too many times. Desperate not to disappoint, she was placed in Ravenclaw, but despite her love of studying and her joy of learning, she lacks the wit and harsh realistic views of the world she feels her housemates have.

History

Born to Briallen Carstairs née Morgan and Alphonse Carstairs, Lyra, as she's called by her father or Sioned, her mother, has had a fairly normal childhood. If a bit lonely. Her parents' focus had always been Rhiannon, her older sister, so she'd been left alone most of the time. She was a curious child, always on with the whys and whats, but there wasn't always anyone there to answer them. So she read a lot, explored the lands surrounding the manor or played with her many, many cousins.

It wasn't necessarily that her parents completely ignored her, but while Rhiannon got a "Well done, darling" or "That's my girl" whenever she succeeded, Rosie only got a distracted "That's nice, dear" or, simply an acknowledging nod. If it were anyone but Rosamund, perhaps she would've grown up bitter and insecure, but Rosie made the best of it. While some children may be the black sheep of the family, Rosie became the white one in a family of black sheep. Her parents, some of her extended family and even Rhia, are all jaded, distrustful, apathetic to the joys of life and own a very peculiar set of morals, but Rosamund somehow managed to fall furthest from the tree.

She remained obedient and smiling, and continuously tried to grasp the attention of her parents. That is, until she finally received her letter from Hogwarts. Sure, she still aimed to please them, but it wasn't the sole focus of her life anymore, because who could even have time for that with all the fascinating classes, new people and the amazing library? She adapted quickly to life in the castle, having grown up with stories of her sister's and being a genuinely open, friendly person.

Coming back home each summer, she was a bit wiser, a bit less affected by her parents' indifference, but still, deep down, craved the affection. Regardless, each year away from home was another year in which she became more and more her own person, with her own dreams and her own moral compass, straying further and further away from the family values she had been expected to embrace.

In the year attending school, she's made a few friends and got closer to her Hogwarts-attending relatives, growing to care deeply for them, worrying more about them than herself and constantly attempting to make sure they are all right. She is diligent in her class work, always going the extra-mile, asking for more reading material and genuinely fascinated by everything she studies.

She doesn't have any grand dreams, she wants to learn everything she possibly can about the subjects that truly challenge her mind and maybe teach, sometime in the future. Because of her nature, she's gotten her heart broken and expectations trampled over quite a few times, but she never let it get her down. She's anxious to finish Hogwarts at the top of her class, so maybe she would finally get the appreciation she deserves from her parents. But, mostly, so she can finally go her own way, sit down and have a talk with herself about what she really wants from life.