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Post by kassie on Dec 15, 2011 22:55:18 GMT -5
Wander, Kassandra Marie.
FULL NAME. Kassandra Marie Wander.
NICKNAMES. Kass, Kassie, and Marie.
BIRTHDATE. December 30th.
AGE 35.
BLOOD Pureblood.
POSITION DESIRED Charms Professor.
CANON OR ORIGINAL? Originial.- - - - -
HAIR&EYES
Kassandra had deep chocolate brown long straight hair. She acquires her luxurious soft hair from her mothers side of the family. Her hair is an impeccable part of her body features, as most people don't seem to underhand the importance of hair. Kassandra prefers to keep her hair in curly locks, but on the rare occasion you'll see her hair pulled back in a half bun or half up and half down. Her Latino roots are a blessing in a half for Kassie, giving her the hair she has today. Going through a change, Kassandra recently dyed her hair to a deep red color with blond(e) streaks and a few dark brown touches within them. She cut it so it was just below the shoulder line (not too much) and got products to keep it curly at all times. Her new red locks go great against her skin complexion.
Kassandra's eyes and hair come from her mother's Latino background and her fathers Mexican background. She was blessed with her mothers Latino hair and her fathers Mexican eyes. Her brother on the other hand is opposite, being blessed with his mothers Latino eyes and fathers Mexican hair. After going through her change, she does't look so Mexican as much as she does Latino. Her hair and eyes are not of the origin anymore.
If you've ever seen a chocolate frog than you've seen Kassandra's deep dark chocolate brown shaded eyes. Shaped in an almost almond like fixture make her big pupils scream puppy dog style eyes every time Kassie bats her eyelashes. After deciding to get contacts, Kassandra's once dark chocolate eyes turned a honey green and go with her new red locks nicely. Kassie was gifted with long dark black eyelashes that she combs proudly. Not a fan of makeup herself, you'll see her wearing a tiny bit of lipgloss here and there, but other than parties and major events you won't catch her in makeup, ever.
After her change she resulted in going back to brown locks with a red tint, before going completely back to her all natural chocolate brown straight hair. While she took the contacts out and came back to her choclaty hazel brown eyes and giving up her dramatic fiery red and honey green eyes for good.
HEIGHT&WEIGHT
Coming from a background of Latino's it's often common that you'll find a mixture of tall people and short people. In Kassie's family her brother and father both tower over her mother and herself, but even her mother towers over her. Kass stands a good four feet and ten inches. While she is the tiniest member in the family she is also the lightest. Kassandra weighs a good ninety pounds, no more, no less. She doesn't have to diet to help her lose weight at all.
Everybody changes over time. For Kassandra this meant hitting a growth spurt right out of Hogwarts and standing a pretty five feet six inches and weighs about one hundred and twenty pounds. Her body doing her justice by keeping the same skinny built frame she originally had.
FACE CLAIM Anne Hathaway- - - - -
LIKES
▲ Quidditch, something she has always loved and expected her children to love as well, but she once dreamed of being a professional Qudditch player.
▲ Reading and Writing, Kassandra, learned to write her soul out in a private book that she can look back and learn from. She also loves reading and growing her knowledge more so everyday.
▲ Charms, one must like what they teach and Kassandra had always said Charms is an interesting study along with Potions and other subjects.
▲ Baseball, though Kassandra growing up hated everything to do with Muggles, she has broadened her mindset and has learned of some Muggle things.
▲ Outdoors, the calm, the peace, and the vibe that the outdoors has is a like by itself.
▲ Flying, Kassandra has always loved being up in the air, being athletic flying has always been something she has taken seriously.
▲ Australia, who couldn’t love kangaroos, she did have a short fling of interest of living in Australia, but after two weeks uprooted and went to the United States.
▲ Muggle Studies, since she married a halfblood she has taken interest in the Muggle world and has enjoyed studying them.
▲ Cold/Rainy Weather, something calm and makes for a relaxing day, she loves it.
▲ Family time, Kassandra takes family time seriously and loves having a get together with her internal and external family.
DISLIKES
▼ Dragons, something’s never change, Kassandra has always hated dragons she thinks they are weird little creatures she can’t stand.
▼ Candy, while she once had a sweet tooth, she has more than less grown out of that.
▼ Distrust, Kassandra has trust issues and always had. She hates distrusting people and wishes she could trust everyone, even after they hurt her.
▼ Her father, while family is now a big thing for her…she still doesn’t forgive her father for the hurt he brought into her life.
▼ Heat, she loves being outside, but hot weather makes it hard for Kassandra to have a good day.
▼ Bugs, who wants those things crawling around anyways?
▼ Sleeping in new places, oddly enough Kassandra doesn’t like sleeping in new places, because she is still hesitant to who might show up in that place.
▼ Being late, Kassandra is very OCD and very uptight about being on time and time management itself.
▼ Large bodies of water, while she has grown out of her fear of water, she still prefers small bodies of water over large ones any day.
▼ Drinking, once an alcoholic, she is completely sober and has resulted in finding alcohol nasty overall.
BOGGART
Life is fast pace and while Kassandra once feared having to deal with her father being abusive to her along with her mother standing by and watching it. When her father and mother split shortly after her brothers first year at Hogwarts, Kassandra was kept in the eyes of her father and her mother didn't try to keep her. Ever since than, Kassandra has feared losing who she truly loves (her mother and brother) and not being able to satisfy her father, she no longer does. Instead she can fear the loss of someone she cares about and the protection of her child/children like any mother should.
MIRROR OF ERISED
She still secretly dreams of being a professional quidditch player. While she is keeping this dream between her and her husband she also dreams that her child will grow up knowing that she is loved and that she can do whatever she wants when she grows up. Kassandra hopes that her relationship with her husband, Ian only grows stronger and better from this day forward.
PATRONUS
The extinct Snow Fox. The Snow Fox has the ability to hide from enemies and has a stealthy secretive approach when approaching enemies. The Snow Fox also is very sly and quick on it's feet. Like the Snow Fox, Kassandra has the ability to sneak up on her victims. She is quick to retaliate and very sly.
PERSONALITY
Kassandra never got to enrich in childlike behaviors. After her parents split she was pretty much on her own for growing up. This sculpted Kassandra into who she is today. Kassandra's heart stoned over and her once fun and cheerful point of view of life turned cold and discreet. Kassandra started hiding her feelings from her people and refused to open up. She enjoyed torturing those of whom she did not like.
Kass was a feisty little thing. Always being the witty type she had no pressure on ever coming up with comebacks. She was quick to retaliate and fast to hex whoever stood in her way of what she wanted. Her once red heart grew black and her care for the world slowly disappeared. She began fighting and acting out for attention and drinking was one way of which she chose to act out. At such a young age, Kassandra started sneaking alcohol out of her dad's pub and became an alcoholic and a partier.
While Kassandra was smart she was, very childish in some of her decisions. Mostly, because she never got the chance to be a child growing up she decided to make childish moves now, but as Kassandra is learning her heart has began to break and she is at the breaking point of her life. Kassandra is an intelligent young woman and while drinking is still a problem, she is at the point of reaching her breaking point in life.
After her father was sent to Azkaban, Kassandra slowly began to have deeper trust issues with the world. She took to herself to close up and only become friends with new people that she learned to trust. It takes a long time for someone to earn her trust and she has a lot more enemies than she does friends. She is currently going through a stage where she is finding herself and that is her current state of mind.
Kassandra comes from the Greek, also meaning Alexandra. Kassandra had the gift to tell prophecies, but when she didn't return the love of Apollo he cursed her so nobody would believe her predictions. While she has a Latino heritage on her mother’s side, her fathers Greek/English heritage is how she received her name.
Over the years, people grow up. Kassandra did particularly with all of her beliefs. She is now has this sweet, calming personality and her dark side only arises when something sets her off. She has later rested on finding herself to be more open with people that she does trust and while trust is still a huge issue that sits on Kassandra’s shoulders, she has learned that you can trust more than you can distrust now a day versus back when she was a child.
Family is her now one of her top priorities. Since she has reconciled a once broken relationship with her brother, Andrew she has been family oriented. Her brother and her are now best friends and they confide into each other and share some regret in letting their parent’s differences getting between their relationships. She has one daughter and a husband that come first in any situation. While she knows that her daughter is strong-willed and independent, Ian, her husband is her number one best friend, hands down. After the battle and after becoming friends with a halfblood she had since stopped hating the Muggle world and instead learned of what they can really do and the fact they are humans as well.
Kassandra has taken herself and applied her knowledge to become a professor. She enjoys teaching and she enjoys being around people well rounded. She has made friends, she has lost friends she has grown deeper with others and she has really become nicer in the end than in the beginning.
Her biggest change was during her fifth year at Hogwarts, but it only grew stronger as she became more independent and could stand up for herself and be who she wanted to be without an altering person to stand in her way. The faded scars on her body are just a memory in the past that she has since grown out of and almost forgotten.
While you can change who you are from the inside out somewhat, you still have some characteristics that you can’t shed. Kassandra has always had a temper in which she has learned to control, but it still sits in the back of her head along with her feisty witty side as well.- - - - -
BIRTHPLACE
London, England
PARENTS
Adon Wallace Clark | father | old | ex-slytherin | owns pub in hogsmeade | death eater | abusive | dead
Laura Sophia Lopez | mother | old | ex-gryffindor | ministry of magic worker | dead
SIBLINGS
Andrew Davis Clark | brother | thirty-seven | ex-gryffindor | nice | growing relationship
OTHER
Ian Jacob Wander | husband | thirty-six | ex-gryffindor | wonderful father.
Toby Mason Wander | son | seventeen | seventh year | gryffindor | adventurous
Tanner Maddox Wander | son | seventeen | seventh year | Gryffindor | prankster
Tessa May Wander | daughter | fifteen | fifth year | hufflepuff | loyal
Trista Mariah Wander | daughter | ten | first year | gryffindor | trouble maker
Ty Michael Wander son | ten | first year | gryffindor | dumb actions
Tristan Morgan Wander | daughter | ten | first year | hufflepuff | friendly
Tavia Mallory Wander | daughter | newborn | premature
HISTORY
Kassandra Marie Clark was brought into the world at Royal Brompton Hospital at exactly twelve o'clock in the morning on December fifth. It has been an eventful night. Her mother had been in labor with her for almost twenty-six hours just, because she wanted her daughter born at the exact same time as her mother, Sophia Elaine Lopez. That was the third happiest day of her father's life at the time. Their family was now complete. They had two healthy children and a loving marriage. Her and her brother, Andrew grew up closer than two peas in a pod. They shared and did everything together. When Andrew learned how to fly, so did Kassie. They where open with each other and told each other their secrets. Kassandra's best friend was her brother.
Seven years later, things took a turn. Kassandra's father, Adon's business at his pub had started booming. Her mother had started working for the Ministry of Magic and their fighting became regularly. Growing up Adon and Laura had grown up in two different houses, her mother being a Gryffindor Alumni and her father being a Slytherin Alumni. They fell so fast for each other it was easy to put that small little fact at the time, out of the way, but when Andrew started school and was put into the Gryffindor house this angered her father. Her mother, of course was proud that her son was following into her footsteps, but this only made it worse.
It was a stormy night that Adon woke Kassandra from her sleep and took her from her life. It was that night that Kassandra was stripped of being a child. Her father filed for divorce and Laura got custody of Andrew, while Adon got custody of Kassandra. Adon would take Kassandra up to the pub and have her bus tables at the age of seven. When she wasn't working at the pub he was forcing her to study, if she missed a problem she had to scrub the pub clean with a toothbrush that night. Adon turned Kassandra into a cold-hearted person, teaching her the ways of the Dark Lord and why it was so important to follow his way. Her father remarried almost immediately following the divorce. He married a woman who could care less of Kassandra's existence. She often made Kassandra's life hell at home, making her do the chores and cooking and waiting on her hand and foot. Her father didn't seem to care what his new wife did, as long as his new wife was happy, he was happy. Kassandra attempted to threaten to run away, but this only made her life worse and it only caused more problems than what was already there.
When Kassandra received her acceptance letter into Hogwarts her father took no note of that, it wasn't until the day she was sorted into Slytherin that her father took a little pride in his face, but that still didn't stop him from growing harsher and after her first year at Hogwarts he stopped caring about her. He had set his expectations and if they weren't met he would hurt her in some type of way. She learned to accept the pain and this was when she began to hid her feelings and hides her red heart from the world. After completing year two at Hogwarts, Kassandra learned that she could easily start drinking. Her mother refused to look at her ever since she was put into the Slytherin house and her and her brother urged to have a relationship, but being divided by their parent's made it hard for them to have any sense of a relationship again. Her once close brother now wouldn't look her in the eyes. She turned her cheek when she saw him at school. It was if they didn't exist to each other, but deep down still cared. She found him defending her on several occasions to his friends and she defended him to hers, but it still didn't matter.
Her drinking problem hit home her third year, she became an alcoholic and always had to have a drink. It was her way of making herself feel better, in her opinion. Being an alcoholic only led to her getting in trouble at school, which led to her getting in trouble at home. She began focusing more on her studies and forgetting about the people around her. Kassandra just didn't have the heart to care about anyone else, but herself anymore. It was the beginning of her four-year she began to break, it's this year that's going to make changes in Kassandra's life she's never seen or expected to come.
During her fourth year, Kassandra befriended Draco Malfoy and they started to hangout and become really good friends. This is when she also befriended one of her best friends; Blaise Zabini and he helped her clean up her act. She stopped drinking and started standing up to her father during this year. Kassandra remained at Hogwarts during the break and she did excellent in all her classes. Her professors wrote good things about her and she started to mature towards the end of the year.
During the summer between her fourth and fifth year, Kassandra stayed with her grandmother on her mothers said in Spain. She spent the time with her older cousins and other family. Towards the end of her summer, Kassandra's mother came out to visit and her mother and her worked things out. She returned to Hogwarts in the fall and that's when she had a short relationship with Brandon Quinn, which they both realized they where too much alike to date. Kassandra and Draco's relationship began to get serious.
On November 1st, 1980, Kassandra's father was taken to Azkaban for trying to steal from Gringott's. There was a particular item that he was after and before he could retrieve it he was caught and arrested right then and there. Since the arrest Kassandra is trying to become her own person and change herself to break away from her fathers existence. The arrest was well known around the Wizarding World and that has since drawn attention to her as well. "The girl whose father is a theft" has been pointed out to her a numerous of times.
Her sixth year was actually a slow year and while the anticipated seventh year had came and went, Kassandra has grown up and matured since then. She fled London after the battle in hopes to shed magic once and for all. When she moved to Minnesota she left her beloved best friend, Ian behind. She didn’t want anything to do with magic and she left a note telling him where she was going and that she wasn’t coming back. She actually went to Muggle College and got her degree, before getting a career at a multi-million dollar corporation. Changing herself back to her original hair and eyes she was able to fit right in and live amongst muggle magic free.
It was only after about three months later that Ian hunted her down and found her…within the next three months she announced her pregnancy and her and Ian built a small quiet life in Minnesota. After giving birth to their first set of twins, Toby and Tanner, their lives became more hectic. Enrolling them in t-ball at just four years old, Ian’s new favorite past time outside of working was taking his boys to the Twins game. You could say that Kassie loved family time and was pretty much always in a family frenzy and when it came to her boys, they took top priority.
Two years later Kassandra became pregnant with a beautiful baby girl. Tessa May was brought into the world four months after the twins second birthday and she was a lot different than her brothers. You could tell since the day she could talk and walk that she was a lot more laid back and quiet compared to her two rowdy brothers. She and her brothers didn’t get a long at first, the twins being jealous of her of course, but once she could walk and play around with them they fell very close and loved each other.
Like the twins, Tessa too wanted to play t-ball and started at the age of four as well. She actually grew up learning from her brothers along with her father how to play. The Wander’s growing family came to be when Kassandra announced her pregnancy once more, only this time…they wouldn’t be the small Minnesota family they once where.
Shortly after announcing her third pregnancy, Hogwarts contacted Ian asking him to become the History of Magic’s Professor. After eighteen years of almost no magic, Kassandra was a wee bit weary by this job offer. This had been the only time that Kassandra and Ian really had a true argument. Ian argued that magic should be apart of their children’s life, because that’s how they grew up and he wanted his children around the same environment they had.
Kassandra on the other hand wanted nothing to do with magic after the fight at Hogwarts. Losing too many loved ones along with her past burning behind her just made it hard for her to focus on magic again. It wasn’t until Ian convinced her that this would be the best move for their family that she agreed. Somehow, Ian was able to get her to believe that magic wasn’t as bad as it once was and the Wizarding World had changed. Unlike Ian, this would be Kassandra’s first time going back to the Wizarding World since the battle. While many memories lie on those grounds, Kassandra knew that her true love really wanted this to happen and so the move began.
Shortly after moving across the world to London, the Wanders settled in a mansion like old style home that had no magic what so ever. When Ian first tried to use magic on the house, Kassandra refused to allow him to do so. It took Kassandra two and a half years after moving back that she used magic herself and thus when Hogwarts asked her to be a Charms Professor. While Kassandra wanted to turn down the offer, she knew that her husband would want her to take it and accepted it, still a bit wary of the situation.
She herself tried to keep magic out of her kids life for quite a bit, but she finally caved and each of her kids began to learn magic. Ian was joyous that Kassandra finally realized that magic has changed and her once Muggle-like family was Magical again.
The return to the Wizarding World actually brought her brother and her closer and while the trust issues are still hanging, she has learned to grow in a relationship with her brother. She learned that her mother had died of sickness and her father died after rotting in Azkaban. With them finally out of existence, Kassandra was able to truly enjoy living a Magical life again.
She accepted the Charms position at age thirty and has been the Professor ever since. She has learned to enjoy teaching and is now thirty-five. Kassandra currently just gave birth to the newest addition to the Wander brood shortly before winter began and while she is almost a month old, she is two months premature. Being born that early has caused a bunch of problems and like Kassandra learned, magic can’t fix everything.- - - - -
NAME/ALIAS Kass.
OTHER CHARACTERS ON THIS SITE? none.
RP EXPERIENCE? too long, six years maybe more?
RP SAMPLE.
This morning was going to be a hectic morning, but Kassandra liked to start the day off spending some quiet time with herself getting ready for what the day had to bring. She had gotten up quietly, before the sun had even started to rise and gotten dressed in her lucky pair of skinny jeans and her favorite blue plaid shirt. She twisted her hair into a twisty bun slipping on her feather necklace and the matching earrings. Lastly she put on her black toms that where comfortable for walking and grabbed her guitar slipping out of the dormitory, carefully not to wake anyone. By the time she had gotten out of the castle the sun was raising and a pinkish orange color filled the air. It was a chilly morning and you could see the air that you breathed. She slipped her guitar strap over her shoulder and started to strum walking across the lawn.
Always being a morning person, Kassandra was use to spending the morning outside alone with no one to bother her. She enjoyed the quiet, especially when she had breakfast with Brandon, homework with Draco, and shopping with Izzy later on that day. She needed a strategy to get through all three things. She stifled a yawn and started to hum to herself, "I'm mad as hell, I ain't gonna take it no more. My bags is packed at the back of your door, 'cause I don't know who I am no more. You won the battle, but you lost the war. I've been in denial, now I'm living the truth. Been down for awhile, now I'm standing up to you." she sang softly. Something Kassie learned to do as a child to escape the pain and everything going on around her was playing the guitar. She had four guitars to her name, but she always brought her first guitar she had ever had to Hogwarts with her. She normally carried it around everywhere she went, but with recent events she had left it tucked securely in it's case under her bed.
Singing had always been something her mother loved to do. They sung together when her parents where still together, but after the split Kassandra ventured out on finding her own passion, which led to the guitar. It helped her get over the pain of her parents splitting up. It helped her find her own rhythm and beat that she liked. Her own style that she would adapt her music too. She wrote songs a lot of times, but every now and again she would learn a song that she just had to play over and over again and this song was one of them. "ohhh, this time, this time, I'm going to do it my way. This time, I'm finding out the hard way, this time, I'm going to go back to the girl I was the night you found me. No more holding back the real me, just wait, in a minute you'll see. This time, it's been time, it's my time getting back to the real me." she continued to sing.
By the sound of her voice you could tell the song had meaning, something Kassandra made sure to add in every one of her songs she played. This song in particular had to do with her recent breakup with Brandon. It had been a breakup that she wasn't prepared for, but a needed one. She started being nicer and opening up to people while dating Brandon, but now it was time to close herself and go back to the true Slytherin she really was. "Don't try to stop me with the words you'll say, 'cause I'm sick and tired of the games you play. I'm going to free myself, going to make a change. Like a butterfly I'm going to spread my wings. Been crying for too long, now I'm drying my eyes. Grounded for so long, now it's time for me to fly. This time, this time, I'm going to do it my way. This time, I'm finding out the hard way. This time, I'm gonna go go back to the girl I was the night you found me. No more holding back the real me. Just wait in a minute you'll see. this time, it's been time, its my time getting back to the real me. I'm mad as hell, I can't take it no more. My bags is packed at the back of your door." she hummed, not paying attention to where she was going or what she was doing.
She continued to sing, "I promise you this time, this time I'm going to do it my way. This time I'm finding out the hard way. This time, I'm gonna go back to the girl I was on the night you found me. No more holding back the real me, just wait in a minute you'll see. This time, it's been time, it's my time getting back to the real me. ohhhh, this time I'm going to do it my way. Just wait for me you'll see, no more. Oh Oh Oh, I'm mad as hell I ain't gonna take it no more." She finished out the song, by this time she was so secluded into her music and so focused on her guitar that she hadn't noticed she was in the middle of the quidditch field about to be hit by a bludger.
CODE WORD? pigmypuff
