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| APPLICATION — VERSION B (TRADITIONAL) PLAYER NAME: Denise AGE: lots of years TIMEZONE: pacific CONTACT INFORMATION: yes. CHARACTER NAME: Susan Amelia Bones NICKNAMES: Susie, Suze, Susie Q AGE & DOB: 30 / August 4, 1980 YEAR TAKEN FROM: 2010 HOUSE & YEARS: Hufflepuff 1991-1998 BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood SEXUALITY: Heterosexual OCCUPATION: + Manager (Smuggled) RESIDENCE: Number 34, with Hannah Abbott Longbottom & Frankie Longbottom FATHER: Michael Bones MOTHER: Stephanie Bones nee McDermott (deceased) SIBLINGS: None SPOUSE/PARTNER: Nope. CHILDREN: None of those either. #foreveralone (Though she loves Frankie, AJ, and Chris Longbottom almost as much as they were her own. She's the cool aunt like Auntie Amelia was.) ANY OTHERS OF IMPORTANCE? Susan was very close to her father's younger sister, her auntie Amelia, when she was alive. Unfortunately, she was murdered the summer between Susan's fifth and sixth years at Hogwarts, as the Second Wizarding War began to rise in full force. Susan has long red hair, light eyes, and pale skin with freckles that she wishes she didn't have. Her body language is introverted. She is above average height and has slight curves in the places that count. She doesn't smile very much in public, but when she does, it lights up her whole face. She has a striking sillhouette, with high cheekbones and a square jaw. Many people think Susan is older than she actually is, a consequence of the many stresses she has had to live through. DESIRED PB: Jessica Chastain On first glance, Susan seems very serious, to the point where people who don't know her are intimidated by her because of it. She is quiet, but she's not severe; she just doesn't have much to smile about anymore. Over the years, she's learned to channel all her emotions into an intense focus and her hard stares are a part of that. She is polite upon speaking, even to strangers, though she may come off as curt in some instances. However, once one gets to know Susan, they find she is appreciative of the little things, and her conversation hints of a troubled past, in a sense. Most people don't get to know Susan that well, though most people know who she is and her story, or the basics, anyway: her uncle, aunt, and cousins killed in the first Wizarding War when she was only a baby, her aunt that was killed at the beginning of the second war. If they research further into the story they know that she saw her lover die in front of her at the Battle of Hogwarts and that her mother passed away two years into peacetime. It is these circumstances that close Susan off, more than she'd like to be. She still feels socially awkward sometimes, even though she's regarded with a mixture of respect and pity. Being in a position of power is a strange place to be in the best of circumstances, and while Susan loves her job, it is hard interacting with people sometimes. She clings onto people that are familiar, that she is comfortable with, that have known her a long time, because with them she can just be herself. There are very few of them, though. It is with them that she can open up and relax, and be the girl that once loved climbing trees and reading vociforously and sitting in hammocks on her front porch soaking up the sunshine. -from the point she entered Fourteen Shades the first time: see here - Susan's seventh year at Hogwarts was the most defining time in her life so far. The Second Wizarding War was in full force, and it penetrated even into the halls of Hogwarts. She was forced to learn the Dark Arts, and even showed some aptitude at it, but she had no reason to use them and even felt sick to her stomach after being praised by the Carrows for it. Her Muggle Studies classes, which before had been a pretty laid-back class with people who were interested in that kind of thing, became another compulsory class filled with outright lies. There was one bright spot in all this darkness, and his name was Jasper Dorny. They'd sort of fell into something of a relationship in the middle of their sixth year, and even when Susan was having a bad day or things just sucked overall, they were at least there for each other. They didn't really have a conventional type of relationship, but they were always there for each other and for that, Susan was glad. The end of the year brought Voldemort into the castle, and an epic battle ensued. Sides were chosen quickly, and Susan didn't hesitate to choose hers. She was going to fight for her family, fight that the rest of her family had a better life than what the Wizarding World had been subjected to for so many years. All those thoughts were cut short, though, when Jasper was killed in front of her. That moment traumatized her for a very long time. She spent half a year in St Mungos trying to get back to functioning. Her Healer/therapist pointed out to her during one of her sessions that it wasn't just Jasper's death that had pushed her over the edge; she'd had tragedy mark her life for so long and she'd lost so many people. Still, Susan dealt with so many emotions: besides the shock and sadness of losing so many in the battle, she'd had severe survivor's guilt, along with panic attacks, nightmares, PTSD and insomnia. She cried every day for the first month she was hospitalized. She still wakes up screaming every now and again -- that is, if she's actually sleeping. It gets worse around the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. With enough time and treatment, Susan was healed enough to be released back into the Wizarding World. Her therapists had advised her to take it slow, to ease into it. Susan went back to everyday routines, and for a while, things seemed manageable. After a while, though, she began to feel restless. She felt that she needed to do something to honour her family's memory and see to it that they didn't die for her just to be a recluse at home. After talking with her parents about it, they decided that maybe working somewhere would help ease her in a little more. She started slow, as a clerk for the DMLE. She only worked a few hours a week. Her parents were worried that too much exposure too quickly would trigger her back into Mungo's, but it didn't take long for Susan to want more. She was beginning to realise how much potential she had, and she wanted to make a difference so that people didn't have to live like she did. It helped that Kingsley Shacklebolt, the Minister for Magic, knew her and her story. She began to work her way up the ranks slowly, and was performing well considering the circumstances. Then her mother died. To this day they still don't know what happened. It was some sort of sickness, yes. The people at St Mungos who had worked with her for so long reached out to her when her mother was there, knowing she'd already been through so much. It set her back for a while, but it wasn't something she could blame on anyone. She clung to her father even more and has ever since. Susan continued therapy as well as training, and eventually, after a few years, she was able to take her issues and focus them so she could perform her duties as needed. Soon, she became known not only for her story, and for her family name, but her own magical prowess and her ability to produce good work under pressure, much like her auntie Amelia before her. She's spent the last two years as a Hitwitch. She was invited to train as an Auror but she declined, citing possible performance issues due to many triggers. Being a Hitwitch is more her speed; she can defend herself as necessary but not necessarily have to go into dangerous or intense situations. In just the last few weeks, she's moved up the Hitwitch ranks as well and is starting to become more well known not only in the Ministry, but in the Wizarding world in general. To her surprise, she's gotten many requests from men to go out on dates. Susan grew up to be very beautiful, but she doesn't see that so much in the mirror. She usually turns them down. It's not that she is still fixated on someone she loved when she was seventeen, but she's so afraid to let someone in only to lose him -- again. It took her so long to get over it the first time that she's not sure it's worth the effort. Susan was coming home from her thirtieth birthday celebration (mostly just with Neville, Hannah, and the kidlets) when she was pulled... again. family. Susan will be weirded out, then overjoyed that her family is here, alive and whole. Of course, the fact that she's older than all of them now will just remind her that they're not there at home, but I'm hoping they'll fall back into their comfortable family unit that they were before. friends: -Hannah and Neville. She will cling to them like no one's business here. They're like, her only friends back home. -Ernie. She won't come back with the resentment that she used to have. I think they hashed it out one day at the DMLE considering they both work there now. She's still bitter Ernie didn't come see her in the hospital, though, and that has held back any further progression in friendship they might have had. Ernie might have to try a little harder again. -Draco. She wasn't friends with him before when she was here, but she did sympathize with his story when he became "Mad Malfoy". She might have come and seen him speak a few times. Subsequently, she will reach out to him. and then there's Jasper... also the people she befriended here before. She'll have to be friends with them again. Or not. It might depend. -susan has become so withdrawn into her shell that i want her to be able to come out of it again here in the village and become more of a "what i would have been like if everyone hadn't died on me" version of herself. -she wanted to make the people who died for her proud. hopefully they see that when she gets here. -maybe she can be part of law enforcement here? heh. that'd be awesome. |
all entries from before this point are from seventeen year old susan.
all entries past this point are from thirty year old susan.</center>