Demelza Robins (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} conflicted_) wrote,@ 2017-09-25 20:43:00 |
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- Journal name: conflicted_
- Your Name: Tori
- Age: 28
- Email: serenitylives7@gmail.com
- Location/Time Zone: GMT
BASICS
Demelza Imogen Robins was born 23rd July 1981, the 4th child and only daughter to Andrea and Jacob Robins. Growing up, Demi enjoyed a decidedly upper middle-class upbringing, thanks to her father’s wealthy muggle family. This included, much to her disdain, being sent to Etiquette lessons at a young age by her parents (at the insistence of her Grandmother) who all feared she was growing up to boy-ish with that many brothers. Growing up, her parents always tried to bring her and her siblings up to understand and respect both of their heritages. This is why, until she was ready to go to Hogwarts, Demi attended the local Primary school that a lot of her father’s family had attended themselves.
Coming from a big magical family, Demelza felt always felt a great amount of expectation for when her powers would manifest. All her brothers had before her had been early ‘show-ers’ and shown some use of magic before their 7th Birthdays. Her parents had started to get concerned that she might be a squib, as she was nearly 11 years old and had not shown any signs of magic. That was until one summer’s day when her brothers thought it would be funny to lock her in the garden shed, with a particularly aggressive Doxy. After five minutes of trying to run away from the Doxy I an 6ft by 9ft shed, Demelza blast the door off its hinges and successfully ran away
Starting at Hogwarts was by far one of her proudest moments of all time. The memory of seeing Hogwarts for the first time, it was singularly the most spectacular and magical place she had ever seen in her life. While her brothers had told her many stories of Hogwarts in the past, none could compete with seeing it in the flesh. She still remembers waiting with nervous excitement to go in to the Great Hall to be sorted, and the fear that she might be separated into a different house from brothers. When she was sorted into Gryffindor quickly, it was like she was as light as air as she raced to take up a place at the table between her two older brothers.
Like for many people of her generation, the day of the last battle was one that fundamentally shaped the way that she looked at the world afterwards. The day had started normally like any other, she had gotten up and gone for her classes like she would always do. By the afternoon though it was a different story, as a weird tension filled the air and people started to refuse to come out of their dorms. A few hours later, Demelza would find herself outside of the Potions lab fighting with her wand and later with her hands when she dropped her wand. At some point during the fight, Demelza had pretty much accepted the fact that she was as good as dead, so when the dust settled and she realised the battle was over is when a different war started for Demelza. Nothing that night broke her quite as much as the sight of a dead first year she found in the rubble, she had been scouting the castle to try and bring survivors to the Grand Hall when she came across him. She was found a little while later crying hysterically over his body, and eventually had to be sedated when she couldn’t be calmed down.
After everything that had transpired during Hogwarts, all Demelza knew was that she wanted to help with fixing the then broken world. She had never been the best at casting charms, or in DADA like some of her peers, however she had always received top marks in Herbology and Potions. So, while many of Demelza’s peers were applying for various jobs in the Ministry, she took a different path and applied for the Healer training academy. What had started as her applying out of a need to fix a broken world, ended up by helping her come to terms with what had happened to her by helping others.
PB: Gemma Arterton
Height: 5ft 5
Eyes: Brown.
Hair: Shoulder length, wavy, reddish-brown.
Manner of Dress: Tends to stick to more practical, but girly clothes.
Distinguishing Features: Freckles that she hates all around her nose when she is in the sun (which would mean pretty much all the time on the island).
Other: She has a tattoo of birds on her back, on her right shoulder in the colours of the Hogwarts Houses. This tattoo is very special to her, as she sees it as her way of keeping her fallen school friends with her at all times.
She is also incredibly resourceful as growing up she had four brothers (3 of which are older), meant resourcefulness was not so much a useful skill growing up, but a necessity. Coming from a big-ish family with that many brothers, it wasn’t uncommon for the cupboards to be pretty much bare minutes after her mother had filled them up, so meals could often get very inventive in the Robins household.
Honesty is also very important to Demelza. She believes strongly that lies, even if they are to save someone else’s feelings will still hurt the other person in the long wrong. She has been in situations in the past where she has been lied to, and felt in all occasions that the lie (or omission of the truth) were worse than the lie itself. She is very much the type of person who if she lied, cheated, defrauded, or deceived anyone, even if it was for the greater good would still feel bad about it for weeks to come.
One of her worst traits is the immense pressure she puts on herself always, this has turned Demelza into somewhat of an overly emotional mess. This was probably demonstrated best when Ron once had a go at her during Quidditch and she burst into tears. While the rational part of her brain tries to talk her head down, quite often her emotions will win over and it doesn’t take much to hurt her feelings. It isn’t unknown for her to obsess about something that happened weeks ago, when everyone has moved on.
Another of her negative traits developed from growing up in a large family, is that she can also be terribly stubborn. Again, with so many voices fighting to be heard at home, this was a necessity and you only really got listened to, if you really stuck to your guns.
While Demi has had a few Boyfriends (and flings she will never speak about), her longest relationship was with a wizard named Jamie who was a few years older than her at school. While they had only known each other in passing while at Hogwarts, it was at a party a few years after they had left that they first met. She was bookish Healer in Training, while he was a soundman for the Wizard Sisters. While it was an unlikely relationship when they first got together, it worked. He brought her out of her shell more and made her more confident, while she helped him to think more deeply about the world around him. After being together for a few years the couple were engaged, counting down to their wedding when she came home from her shift early one day and found him in bed with a groupie. It was safe to say that she was devastated by his, and after breaking up with him, she lost the plot for a while, began drinking a lot and enjoying a few casual relationships.
This all died down after 6 months though and she began dating normally again, going out for dinner with a few guys, but never really feeling that spark.
Fast forward a few years, and she re-met a former school acquaintance (Justin Finch-Fletchley) through work (he was a patient at the time). While he was married at the time, and she would never cross that line, she felt that spark with him that she had not felt for anyone else. Fast forward a number of months, she had come home from work after a long day when there was a knock at the door. Justin’s wife had left him and he was a drunk mess in need of somewhere to stay. While she never planned to let anything happen that night, through a fatal combination of alcohol and mutual attraction the two of them ended up in bed together. Knowing that neither of them were ready for any sort of relationship, the two of them embarked on a Friends with Benefits relationship, until all their feelings came to a head during a heated argument one night. Since that night, the two of them have been in relationship, admitting to the world (and their long suffering friends), what others had apparently known for a while.
Up for any plotting for ex-boyfriends/flings from when she was at school, to any time up to her and Justin getting together