Somewhere over the Rainbow

Characters: Susan Bones
Place: Town house in Whimsic Alley
Date: May 2, 2001
Summary: Susan wakes at home
Status: Complete

( Was it all a dream )

Character Application
 

Player information

About You
Name: Sarai
LJ/IJ Name (specify which journal): Anijade for both
YIM (required): xyontwist    
Email: yepheth@aol.com
Age (Over 18): 32
Timezone/Location (GMT +/-): -5 GMT
RPG experience (not required): Millie and Neville in Enigma
Availability for playing: most evenings

Character Information

Name:  Susan Bones

Age (origin-verse age and age if they would have been in the amnesty-verse of May 2, 2001)  Origin verse: 24, Amnesty verse: 21

Birthdate – March 3^rd, 1980

Date that character left his/her origin-verse (any May 2^nd from 1980 on) and date entering

Amnesty (any day starting with May 2, 2001): April 15^th 2004

Physical description: 5’4 slim build, blue eyes, occasionally uses colour charms to make her hair dark brown or even blonder, naturally a strawberry blond
PB (name and link) – Kellie Garner http://asylums.insanejournal.com/frakkingcylon/11735.html

 

School (house if applicable) – Hufflepuff

Affiliation (Order, Ministry, Death Eater, Other)- DA

Original RPG (Name and timeframe, link if wanted, brief explanation of the rpg)- Enigma Rpg, a game with a darker turn with people going missing and Death Eaters  trying to take over the Ministry.

Personality – Usually very upbeat but can suffer from mood swings that make her very hard and bitter. Usually people who keep asking her about the death of her Aunt set her off.

Wand-  11’ Ash with Demiguise Hair core

Family

Those left behind:  Parent  James and Barbara Bones, older brother Peter.

Amnesty-verse- While James and Barbara are still themselves mostly Susan now has a younger sister ,Grace,  as well as older brother Peter and has gone from being the youngest child to middle.

History – Brief recap of his/her life in origin-verse with origin-verse job, social position, other:

Once the war was over, Susan felt empty and without purpose, she had taken her NEWTs and had done well passing with seven NEWTs and scoring highly with Transfiguration and Charms. After graduation Susan applied to the Ministry who put her through a slew of tests before making her a general trainee

As a trainee the work the Ministry tasked Susan, gave her a purpose again and allowed her to bury herself in research and application without having to really explore the feelings. These feelings of grief and anger came out in other ways in her life. Her flat was spotless all the time. In free time that wasn’t spent with her friends, Susan cleaned a lot.

She found it relaxing and restful to be able to scrub the floor by hand. In addition, there had been occasions when she had gone to visit Hannah at the leaky that she had been forced to leave because of a panicked feeling from so many people. They were little things but she managed and for the most part didn’t have a negative impact on her life.

After two years as a trainee, Susan was approached by her mentor about an opportunity within the Ministry working for the Committee for Experimental Transfiguration and suggested she accept the position as it seemed suited to her creative endeavours in the subject. Honoured at being considered, Susan accepted the position and had been working for the Committee ever since, happy being able to work in her little lab trying new things with varying degrees of success.

On New Years Eve, while out with her best friend Hannah, Susan met Richard and the three of them shared and encounter that led to Susan moving in with Richard along with his other lover Lavender. It was a highly situation with both girls worried and frustrated that Richard preferred the other.

During a Death Eater attack, Susan was severely injured by a blasting hex and spent a couple weeks at St Mungo’s regrowing her intestines. Uncertain about the state of her life Susan came home but found herself one morning in her old flat Whimsic Alley confused.

Other information:

Susan suffers from OCD and it becomes more obvious when she is highly stressed out. Every day Susan fights being angry, she uses her anger to give her energy. At this point she doesn’t know why she’s angry she just is. She longs for the day where she won’t be anymore.

She envy’s her brother’s ability to flit in and out of love, she’s never been in love because she’s afraid she would loose that love.

 

Amnesty-Prime information – should be generic and close to generally accepted canon -   In the Amnesty world Susan is a clerk in the MLE office

Writing sample – should be three to five hundred words – third person

Susan stood in the kitchen with her mother watcher her write out a list of guests for the yearly holiday party. While her mother called out names, Susan had started pulling out the ingredients for sugar cookies. That was the agreement; Susan would help with the party on the provision that she could also do the baking by hand. It had been a bit of a fight but her mum had agreed not seeing the appeal of doing the cooking by hand.

 “Susan? Susan, are you listening to me? What do you think of us putting Cousin Elsie next to that wizard from Daddy’s office, what’s his name—yes, Eubanks, Mr. Eubanks.”

Susan paused to think how Cousin Elsie was likely to react, if she thought it was a case of matchmaking or not. “Well, I don’t know mum, is Mr. Eubanks single?  I’d check with daddy to make sure he is otherwise we’d probably have a conflict of interest somewhere. Since it’s the holidays we should try to avoid that.”

 Her mum hummed and nodded placing a question mark next to Mr. Eubank’s name on the list. The yearly dinner party was one of her mum’s most favourite events and even though it was usually a small group it made her happy so who were they as family to complain about such a small once a year event.

 “What about your brother? Do you know if he’s bringing a date or even seeing anyone?”  There was more than a bit of unsubtle probing in the question but Susan was bound not to go there. “Not sure mum, actually. Peter hasn’t mentioned seeing anyone recently but then who confides in their little sisters these days, right?”  It was usually easier to go along to a point with her mum’s questions since they all knew she just meant well in the end.

Pertinent information : Susan loves to cook, clean, paint  and play her guitar. She has an African Gray familiar named Caesar who loves to talk.

 

Any other information you wish to provide:

Susan loves to sing, she’s not half bad so she goes to a karaoke bar in London to have fun.

 When Susan is stressed she has this need to make something be it papier mache or cookies as long as her hands are busy

When she is in deep though Susan often sucks on her hair to concentrate which is part of the reason she tries to keep it up when working.

A point to remember: your character will be physically transported from the universe they originate from into the Amnesty-verse. In other words, they will go to sleep at home and wake up in a strange bed with only what they had on them at hand - including their wand, of course, as that is really an extension of the witch/wizard. They will be the same age and in the same condition as they were when they went to sleep even if they jump all the way from the Marauder Era.