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October Alcott
Topic Started: Dec 3 2016, 08:27 PM (720 Views)
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Finally Free | Finding Herself | Ballerina | Violinist | Fifth Year | Seeker

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The Basics

Name: October Avery Alcott
Meaning: October - Born in the month October, Avery - ruling with elf-wisdom, Alcott - Cottage
Birthdate: October 14, 2030
Zodiac: Libra
Strengths: Diplomatic - Graceful - Peaceful - Idealistic - Hospitable
Weaknesses: Superficial - Vain - Indecisive - Unreliable
As a Libra born on October 14th, you're a social, analytical, and loyal individual. There are few settings more appealing to you than a social one. You use your sharp mind to present your thoughts in an interesting and engaging way. While your friends and family appreciate your intellect and charm, they may appreciate your loyalty even more. In all your close relationships, you are devoted and reliable, as these are qualities you feel everyone should possess.

Hometown: Dunedin, New Zealand
Birthplace: Paris, France
Blood Status: Mixed
Wand: Straight 9 1/2 Inch Flexible Elm Wand with Phoenix Tail Feather Core

Length: On the shorter side of things, this wand offers excellent control and aim - easily an extension of one's own arm.
Style: Straight and smooth: what else is there to say?
Wood: A complex wand capable of the most advanced magic, Elm does not often make a mistake or fuddle a spell - it is highly dependable to a well matched master.
Core: Phoenix tail feathers are not easy to come by. The animal is known for its versatility, making wands with this core useful for wand casters who seek to become good with different types of magic.
Flexibility: Flexible: Not easily broken, this wand performs under strenuous circumstances with little effort - though how well it performs is ultimately up to its weilder.

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

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Appearance

Hair: Thick and curly, falling in tight brown ringlets down to her mid back.
Eyes: Dark brown, with long, thick lashes.
Build: Slender, and very short for her age. October will never reach five feet tall.
Complexion: Darker than the rest of the Alcott family due to her black birth mother, with freckles dotting her face.
Style: October doesn't have much interest in fashion, preferring to wear simple, plain shirts and skirts or jeans in soft pastels.
Distinguishing Features: October's very short height, perfect posture, and thick hair generally draw the most attention.
Playby: Ashley Moore


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Personal

Personality: On the surface, October is a cheerful and friendly, if somewhat guarded, young girl. She is extremely intelligent and well accomplished, and works hard for all of it. Beneath the surface though, October is constantly stressed and under extreme pressure from her father to be the best at everything she attempts, always doubting herself, and with very little sense of self-worth outside her accomplishments. She bottles up and hides all her negative feelings, pretending they don't affect her, and tries publicly to focus on the positive, always wanting to seem bright and happy and successful.
Strengths:
-October is very smart, and finds it easy to see the most practical and efficient way of doing things. She looks at life in a logical and practical way, and as a result is always very organised when going about things.
-October isn't afraid of hard work, and knows that to achieve things you have to focus and do what needs to be done and then some. She doesn't shy away from a challenge, and all of her intelligence and talents are hard-earned.
Weaknesses:
-October doesn't know her own limits and is near-constantly studying and practising to a point of burning herself out. Her fear of failure drives her to over-work to her own emotional detriment.
-Outside of her accomplishments, October has very little sense of self-worth, and she only feels like a worthwhile person when she's pushing herself to her limits to be the best of everything.
Hobbies:
Music - Kyle passed his deep love for music and performance on to his daughter, teaching her to sing and play piano, violin, and guitar from a young age, and although October came to resent how strict he always was about practising, she finds it enjoyable to make music by herself, for nobody but herself.
Dance - October has been doing ballet since she was four years old, and finds it a favourite of her hobbies. It perfectly suits her dedication to technical accuracy, and though she had to stop lessons before she was old enough to perform or compete, she keeps up her practice in the hopes of returning to it someday.

Personality Type: ISTJ (The Logistician)
The Logistician personality type is thought to be the most abundant, making up around 13% of the population. Their defining characteristics of integrity, practical logic and tireless dedication to duty make Logisticians a vital core to many families, as well as organizations that uphold traditions, rules and standards, such as law offices, regulatory bodies and military. People with the Logistician personality type enjoy taking responsibility for their actions, and take pride in the work they do - when working towards a goal, Logisticians hold back none of their time and energy completing each relevant task with accuracy and patience.

Strengths: Honest and Direct, Strong-Willed and Dutiful, Very Responsible, Calm and Practical, Create and Enforce Order, Jack-Of-All-Trades
Weaknesses: Stubborn, Insensitive, Always by the Book, Judgemental, Often Unreasonably Blame Themselves

History: October was born in France to a surrogate mother, to two fathers, Kyle Alcott and Dorian Boulay. Kyle was overly devoted to the relationship with Dorian, having failed at his Broadway dreams due to his lycanthropy. Dorian had doubts though, and had only gone along with the pregnancy to make Kyle happy. With the stress of raising a child their relationship fell apart and Dorian left, leaving Kyle alone with a daughter. His family's relative wealth meant that he had people to fall back on, and with nothing else to do with himself, he devoted himself to taking care of October. She was raised in France until she was five, when Kyle moved to New Zealand, so October could attend the same schools he did. Even early in her life, Kyle took October to preschool classes, wanting her to have the best possible start in life so as to avoid the crushing of dreams he had experienced. Kyle found work in a restaurant to pay the bills and devoted himself totally to October, helping her study and taking her to after-school classes in music and dance, wanting her to share his passions. October grew up with her father's constant presence, reminding her that she had to work hard at everything and be the best, or her life could all fall apart and took that message to heart, throwing herself fully into everything she did and achieving top grades in both school and all her hobbies. Through October's ballet classes, Kyle met another single father, Matt Ward, and the two gradually began a budding romance, expanding their bubble for the first time, though the relationship is still in early enough stages that October doesn't consider Matt a stepfather or his daughter April a stepsister yet.
Health: October is in excellent health, and extremely fit for a child her age.


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Details

Goals: To work until she is unquestionably the best at everything she attempts.
Fears: Failure.
Secrets: October desperately wishes she could hold herself to looser standards, and do things because she enjoys them, rather than feels like she has to.
Regrets: Not speaking up against the way her father pushes her at a young age, before it was ingrained in her.

Favourites
Colour: Pastel blue and pink
Food: Sushi
Smell: Lilac, highlighter ink
Music Genre: Classical
Animal: Hummingbird


Family

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Father
Name: Kyle Alcott
Date of Birth: 2011 (35)
Blood Status: Mixed Blood
Occupation: Scrivenshafts Deputy Manager
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Biological Mother*
Name: Marie Laurent
Date of Birth: ????
Blood Status: ????
Occupation: ????
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Stepfather
Name: Matt Ward
Date of Birth: 2007 (39)
Blood Status: Mixed Blood
Occupation: Hogwarts New Zealand Professor
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Stepsister
Name: April Ward
Date of Birth: 2032 (14)
Blood Status: Half Blood
Occupation: Hogwarts New Zealand Student
House:
Hufflepuff

*October has never met her birth mother.
Edited by October Alcott, Apr 28 2018, 08:45 PM.
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First Year
Attending Hogwarts was simultaneously a dream and a nightmare for October, going to such a prestigious school to learn such exciting things was a big dream, but on top of her ordinary fear of failure was the fear and knowledge that everything she had studied for the last six years was going to slip away, especially her ballet training. She kept her head down for most of the year, studying hard and doing her best to find time to practice her dance and violin, the only true passions she had left in this strange, unfamiliar school. She found it hard to make friends and spent most of her time alone, other than school holidays, when she returned home and had to once again keep up the pretense to her father's partner and his daughter that there was no such thing as magic and she was away studying at an elite ballet academy, a ruse that terrified October, because she knew eventually the gap in her training was going to start to show without regular classes to keep her improving.

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R O L E P L A Y S
A big new journey
A spot of glory
Back to basics
Family Reunion
Pas De Deux


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Second Year
October began her second year lonely, a loneliness that was only highlighted by discoveries made at the start of the year. Matt and April were also magical, and would both be making their way to Hogwarts. Now joined by her more sociable stepsister, October felt more isolated than ever, and bitter and angry about the family bonds they felt for her father, bonds she had been entirely left out of. Trying to get out there more, October joined Heta Omega, and actually managed to make some friends, in Jessica Matthews and Amber Wilson. Her concerns about the state of her family continued though, culminating in a nasty confrontation with Matt, who she felt was unworthy to know about her father's lycanthropy. The conversation going nowhere, October ended the year bitter and untrusting of her new step-family.


R O L E P L A Y S
Farewell Surprises
Finally Departing
Small Steps
So.
As Long As It's Worth It
In the Sunshine


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Third Year
Having made a couple of friends in second year, October felt much more confident in herself going into third year. She felt less confident in her family though, clashing constantly with them, and avoiding her stepfather and stepsister whenever possible. Ever one to push herself further, October threw herself with all her energy into her classes, and on a whim tried out for the Quidditch team, and was taken on as an alternate. As excited as she was, October was terrified of the humiliation of trying to do something she wasn't very good at in front of large crowds of her classmates.


R O L E P L A Y S
Family
Reading in the Roses
What Needs to be Said
Broken Strings
Play That Song Again

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Fourth Year
October had a blissfully quiet holiday period, relieved to return to school. She quickly reconnected with some friends, and threw herself back into her studies. Her distaste for Arithmancy was challenged when a girl from her year accidentally ruined all of October's Arithmancy notes, a subject she had no desire to spend time recreating notes for. A discussion with her new professor about replacing the notes changed her perspective on the subject however, to October's surprise. She struggled a little bit with her classes in the first semester, and became deeply depressed after a letter from her father berating her for her falling grades and pushed harder, working herself to constant exhaustion to get through her exams. October was relieved for the chance to blow off steam at the Yule Ball, attending as friends with Jessica, where they had a wonderful time, and she got the chance to one-up Tristan to her delight. The second semester began as a quieter one for October, her world suddenly shaken up however when she witnessed Professor Pendleton collapsing in the Entrance Hall. The anxiety this caused was only heightened by a difficult experience being put under the Imperius curse in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and October expected to fall apart during exams again. To her own surprise though she held her own this time, and even had the energy during exams to reach a strange truce with her unwanted stepsister when April needed some advice, and to confront a troublesome girl treading in dangerous waters.


R O L E P L A Y S
Reunited
An Interesting Read
Unappetizing
Honing
Missing Notes, Missing Sense
Disappointment
I Live for Glitter, Not You
School Supply Shopping:
More to Read, A Knife?
Rose for October (Recieving Valentines Rose)
Collapse
Shaken
Uncharted Territory
Ideas Are Dangerous

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Fifth Year

R O L E P L A Y S
School Supply Shopping
Reading Material - Gazing
Your Happy Ending's Up To You
Party Hard
Sort of Sleepover
So...
King and Queen
Crushed
Your Word
Our Kingdom at Our Feet


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