Post by karastryder on Sept 7, 2010 17:21:39 GMT
KARA DAKOTA STRYDER
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I've become much too good at being invincible
I'm an expert at play it safe and keep it cool
but I swear this isn't who I'm meant to be
I refuse to let my life roll all over me
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OH, JUST GIVE THEM ALL B-'s AND BE DONE WITH IT!
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AGE/DOB: 17 / April 19th
YEAR: Seventh Year
HOUSE: Gryffindor
AFFILIATION: Order
SEXUALITY: Straight[/SIZE]
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[/color][/font]GOYLE, WHO DO YOU THINK IS THE UGLIEST
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Other distinguishing features are her full lips and vibrant greens eyes, of which she pulls many faces with. A collage could be made up of the 'many faces of Kara'. Along with her wide smile.
Then there's her accent, although it has a posh ring to it, from her growing up in Southern England, it has a husky tone to it too - making an otherwise posh, lady-like accent more suitably tomboyish.
Lastly, is her height, standing at 5'9, Kara is tall for a girl.
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[/color][/font]MAN, BACK WHEN I HAD A BODY, OOH. I HAD MAD GAME
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+ Her family
+ Training
+ Fighting
+ Dancing
+ Singing
+ Dancing and singing in the rain.
+ Playing her piano and guitar.
+ Puddle jumping.
+ Noodles
+ Crispy Chicken in Spicy Szechuan Hot Bean Sauce
+ Cucarachas
+ Amaretto and coke aka 'cake in a cup'
+ Pulling faces
+ Being helpful
+ Smiles/making people smile
+ Honesty, brutal honesty
+ Practical work/lessons
+ Independence
+ Defense Against the Dark Arts
+ Comfy clothes, like jogging bottoms and sweatshirts
+ Her short staffs, her fighting weapon of choice other than her wand.
+ Sitting in front of a fire on a cold, winters day. Also huddling under a blanket.
+ Stars / night in general.
+ Birds
+ Flying
+ Taking walks
+ Romance
LOATHES:
+ Arrogance
+ Laziness
+ The dark side, even if they do have cookies
+ Rude people/selfish people/hypocrites
+ Anybody that harms her family
+ Salad
+ Beer/wine/cider/etc - hand her the good, strong stuff, please!
+ Drama and drama queens, oh get over yourself!
+ Bullies
+ Cheats, in games and in relationships.
+ Being sick
+ Breaking promises.
+ Being ignored.
+ Bugs, especially flying ones
+ Being stuck indoors
+ Mondays
+ Her insecurity, thinking she might not be good enough.
+ Waiting around.
BOGGART: Her biggest fear is losing her little sister and her father, after the death of her mother - it is the last thing she wants to go through again.
DEMENTOR: The night her mother died.
PATRONUS:
It's hard to conjure up a good one since her mother died, there haven't been many good memories since then. It would have to be when she was 11, the day she received her acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Her parents were so proud and her little sister all the more excited for her turn. They had visited the beach that day and despite England typical weather of wind and cloud with a chance of rain, the joy and warmth she felt inside her in that moment, making sandcastles with Denna, eating ice cream and chips that had far too much salt and vinegar on them..
Kara's patronus is a sulfur-crested cockatoo, as when she was younger her family would take trips to Australia and she fell in love with them - the way they look, their behaviour - how they stay in groups, looking out for each other and unlike most other birds and animals, they form strong family bonds.
VERITASERUM:
+ She's so scared of letting people in, for fear she might lose them.
+ She sometimes wishes she could just stop and be normal, to leave the fighting to someone else - but she knows she will never give up.
STRENGTHS:
+ Her courage
+ Love - for her family and friends
+ Her fitness
WEAKNESSES:
+ Love - for although they give her strength to fight, her judgement can also be clouded when it comes to them.[/SIZE]
+ Deep water - Kara is not a very adept swimmer and cannot stand to be in water where her feet can't touch the ground due to an indecident when she was 8 where she nearly drowned.
+ Impatience.
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[/color][/font]NOT EVERYONE INHERITED ENOUGH MONEY TO
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FATHER: Jensen Chase Stryder, 45, Ministry Worker - Improper Use of Magic, Order, Gryffindor
SIBLINGS: Denna Caelyn Stryder, 14, Order, Hufflepuff
OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES:
In their family home, the Stryder's have two budgies, Peter and Paul, named after the childhood nursery rhyme "Two little dicky birds". They also have a family owl, "Snowflake", and if you didn't guess, she's a white owl with bright amber eyes.
Kara has family dotted all over the globe, most on her father's side live in Ireland and most on her mother's side live in Australia. It is a rather large family, with her father having four sisters - all married apart from one who is a widow and two brothers, with only one married. (Two sister's live in Ireland, the other siblings live in London.)Then her mother has three brothers and a sister - one brother is married and so is the sister. (Unmarried brother lives in Australia).
As for grandparents, on Kara's father's side, her grandmother is deceased but her grandfather alive and living in Birmingham. On her mother's side, her grandad is deceased but her grandma alive and living in Australia with her son.
WEALTH STATUS: Working class bordering on middle class.
BIRTHPLACE: London, England.
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Exton, England.
OVERVIEW:
Kara Dakota Stryder was the first born child to Helaina and Jensen Stryder on April 19th. Born on a cusp between Aries and Taurus she quickly took on traits from both of these signs, being outgoing and independent like an Aries while taking on the close-booked traits of a Taurus - although the latter came later on in life. As a child she remained carefree and naive as an Aries is. During these times, her life was simple. Kara had a loving family with two parents who were still as in love then as they were when they were younger and a little sister whom she could run and play with. The two sister’s were in awe of their parents – the battles they had fought when they were younger, against the dark witches and wizards of their time. As a child, there were lessons to be learned from her parents, of right and wrong, good and evil. However, knowing these things didn’t mean Kara didn’t rebel every now and then as a teenager does.
Before she attended Hogwarts, Kara and her family live in London, a big, bustling city where it was easy to find a witch or wizard companion and her parents were popular and social, often having friends and co-workers over for dinner. Her parents taught her little about magic, preferring for her to learn it when she got to Hogwarts so that she, and her sister after her, took responsibility for their own learning and progress in life. This gave the two sisters’ plenty of time to enjoy their selves, playing with the kids of other wizarding families as well as muggles. It all changed a year into Kara’s attendance at Hogwarts when her parents decided they wanted a quieter life – or so they told their kids. This meant that they uprooted from London and moved further south into Devon, for a country life. It was the very opposite of London, where they had to travel ten minutes to get to the nearest large town and 20 minutes to get to the nearest city. The Stryder’s lived in a small village, with private roads and land – secure, safe and quiet.
But alas, things were never as they seemed. While her parent’s made out they had grown bored of the busy lifestyle in London, there was a truth hidden underneath. Fighting in the war back then, her parents had made enemies with death eaters – and a few escaped back then and even though the war was over, some hid and waited, biding their time to take their revenge and rule again. Helaina and Jensen both grew to realise this just before the move to Exton – someone was looking for them at first, people said, a woman with dark curly hair and icy blue eyes. Oh, they knew her and she wasn’t good news. This sparked their movement, away from people who could tell her their whereabouts and threaten their safety, to a place where no one knew them and no wizard or witch resided.
How naive they had been when one night their family home was invaded. The female attacked, shouting words that were barely coherent. Those they did understand were of revenge and hatred. She had struck before any of them had even realized what was going on, killing her mother with one spell and sending Kara and Denna flying. Kara softened the crash for her little sister, but took the full force of it, ending up with cuts and bruises all over and a gash on her head and hand which would mark her forever. Jensen began to fight, and when the woman realised her element of surprise had worn off she was quick to flee. But she had done her damage.
Kara has carried this with her since that day; four years on she still feels guilt for not being able to do anything. Despite the fact that she knew there was nothing she could change, it had been so quick an attack and in a split second the woman she went to talk to, who helped her through all the bumps in the road as she grew up was gone. It made Kara stronger though, determined to become the best she could so she could fight for what was right. Denna was only ten, Kara fourteen, but it affected her sister more; she became withdrawn, her eyes constantly wide - like a deer in the headlights. That fuelled Kara's fire the most; no one hurt her Denna like that. She wanted her smiling sister back, the carefree, gentle little girl that had picked flowers for her family and laughed so openly.
Kara tries her hardest to be the best role model she can for her younger sister. When she was five, Kara had begged her parents to allow her to do martial arts classes with her muggle friends – now this is part of her training, although by the time she was 11 she was top of her class, she still trains as hard as she can alongside her school work. Her life is busy as she juggles with her studies, her training and looking out for her family, keeping them strong. Her ambitions are more like goals. Whatever she sets her mind to doing, she will do it. Kara Dakota Stryder never goes back on her word.
At Hogwarts, Kara took a shine to DADA and Transfiguration. She hopes to become an animagus when she graduates. She has made a fair few friends and had the one boyfriend, but for now she is single and focusing on the end of her school year.
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AGE: 19
GENDER: Female
EXPERIENCE: Around 5-6 years.
ANYTHING ELSE?: Paper!
RP SAMPLE:
"Lets see,yes I do know you very well." he said with a smirk to her."And second of all,I think you are in a pissed off mood because you havent any one night stand with me in a while."[/SIZE]
There was a scowl on her face now that looked more like that of a lion snarling before it attacked. Her eyes were flamed with the same anger that had coursed through her veins before she had sat down to play her music. There was no chance of her doing that now, so she set down the guitar to deal with him. They had never had the type of relationship where they would swap problems and feelings, he would attempt to but she always blocked him out. It had hurt him, but right now she really didn't give a fuck. "Oh no, you may think you know me," she hissed, annoyed that he would consider himself to be the problem, he was nowhere near close. "But you don't, Rafe Phillip Sexton Jr. You only know what I wanted you to know and to be fair, that was always very little, very shallow things."
She knew she was being cold and spiteful, but he dared come in here acting as if he knew her, knew what she wanted, what controlled the way she felt. Well, it was certainly not him. Kaida had cared for him, had been loyal to him as much as she would allow herself to be and he had wandered off for the sake of love, a love that had hurt him as she knew it would - love always hurt in the end. Rafe would not listen to her reasoning back then and that was his fault, whether he wanted to convince himself that she had broken his heart or not. He had known what he was getting himself into from the start.
"Well, it good place for you get ahead on your studies right now since you are in your last year and taking the newts at the end of the year. So you need to have more study time then being here, playing that piano."
Kaida narrowed her eyes at him, not pleased with his words. "My studies are none of your business," she replied, her head pulling up in defiance and pride. "I am quite capable of balancing them and my music." He was not going to be another to say she should focus on other things rather than her music, her music was her life - she studied enough and was smart enough to do well in her NEWTs but they were not as important to her as her music was, that was what her future was to be. Not what other people said, not some office job with no passion or life to it.
"Well I was suppose to pick up Akeela's stuff since my sister is in the hospital right now, but I heard you playing. That why I am here."
"So surely you should be with your sister," her voice was dry and void of any kind emotion. Kaida raised an eyebrow at him, her face blank now but the anger still raged through her body, her heart beating fast. She knew nothing good could come from tonight, every word Rafe said seemed only to anger her more and the last time she had gotten this angry very bad things had happened. "You have heard me play now, you're free to go."
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