Blanche Broomhead

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Name: Blanche Dorothea Broomhead
Meaning: Blanche - Pure, Dorothea – Gift of God
Birthdate: 1/9/2044
Zodiac: Leo
Strengths: Analytical – Observant – Helpful – Reliable - Precise
Weaknesses: Skeptical – Fussy – Inflexible – Cold - Interfering

Being a Virgo born on August 24th, you are known for your trustworthiness, discipline and generosity. While others struggle to focus and stay on task, you take to tasks with great attention to detail. Your work ethic is greatly appreciated by your employers and peers, but your generosity may be your greatest quality. There are few things that you wouldn't be willing to do for a loved one and you often find that you cater to the needs of friends and family over your own.
Hometown: Bluff, New Zealand
Birthplace: Windsor, England
Blood Status: Mixed Blood
Wand: Curved 13 Inch Swishy Ash Wand with Kelpie Hair Core
Length: A strange length for a wand and a number which symbolizes misfortune.
Style: Bending to its side, this wand is more difficult to aim than its straighter counterparts but provides character that some simply cannot pass by.
Wood: 'Ash is Stubborn,' as the saying goes. Ash wands bond to their owner and do not do well in the hands of others. The master of an Ashen wand may well be stubborn, but arrogance and pride will be met with a wand that is even more stubborn than the wizard!
Core: Although a popular wand core in the past, Kelpie hair has fallen out of favour in recent years. It is useful for transfigurations.
Flexibility: Swishy: A wand which can quickly cast spells but may need to cast more than one to accomplish the job.

Hogwarts House:
Slytherin

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Hair: Blanche's hair is black with a tight curl pattern, and she usually wears it in small, well accessorised braids.
Eyes: Blanche has deep brown eyes, dark enough to almost look black.
Build: Slender and lanky, Blanche is tall for her age and bordering on gangly.
Complexion: Rich, warm brown.
Style: Blanche's style is eccentric, and leans towards a punk aesthetic.
Distinguishing Features: Blanche's ears are quite prominent, and she has a scar on her right knee from falling from a broom.
Playby: Willow Smith


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Personality: Blanche tends to keep her emotions below the surface, preferring to assess a situation before throwing herself into it headfirst. She cares for the people around her but prefers to show it in more subtle ways, by helping them out in ways they might not even notice. She's a dedicated artist, enjoying abstract work in particular. When she has decided a project, cause, or person is worthy of her focus she is extremely dedicated and will give 100% of her time and attention. She has trouble with authority at times, pushing back often aggressively against rules she finds unfair or nonsensical.
Strengths:
-Blanche is a very focused person, finding it easy to dedicate herself to whatever catches her attentions.
-Blanche is a creative thinker, and often finds unusual ways of doing things and solving problems.
-Blanche is a subtle person, preferring to do things behind the scenes rather than make a scene, and can accomplish her goals through unconventional means.
Weaknesses:
-Blanche can get caught up in a grudge, and often hangs on to negative feelings longer than is necessary.
-Blanche finds it difficult to change her mind/direction once she's chosen a path, and while she'll try and think of creative ways to take things, abandoning her original course of action often doesn't occur to her until it's too late.
-Blanche sometimes neglects other needs/responsibiliites when she's fixated on her current project.
Hobbies:
Painting - Blanche has enjoyed painting her entire life, and loves experimenting with new styles and techniques.
Fashion - Blanche has an eccentric sense of fashion, and loves finding new ways to express herself through clothing.
Poetry - Unlike her painting, Blanche doesn't like letting anyone know she writes poetry. She doesn't feel like she's very good at it, but she enjoys expressing her feelings in words.
Snorkeling - Growing up in Bluff, Blanche spent a lot of time by the seaside with her brother swimming and snorkelling.
Crochet - Blanche learned to crochet young, and enjoys making clothes for herself and her friends to wear.

Personality Type: INFJ (The Advocate)
Advocates may be the rarest personality type of all, but they certainly leave their mark on the world. Idealistic and principled, they aren’t content to coast through life – they want to stand up and make a difference. For Advocate personalities, success doesn’t come from money or status but from seeking fulfillment, helping others, and being a force for good in the world.
Strengths: Creative, Insightful, Principled, Passionate, Altruistic
Weaknesses: Sensitive to Criticism, Reluctant To Open Up, Perfectionistic, Avoiding The Ordinary, Prone To Burnout

History: Blanche was born in England but raised in New Zealand, to Phillip Broomhead and Edith Sedgewick. The Broomhead family is notable for having once been renowned broom manufacturers, whose reputation was permanently destroyed after an incident in 1869, where a team of all Broomhead brooms malfunctioned and flew out of the pitch during the World Cup, forfeiting the match. Since then the Broomheads have kept their heads down, viewing the incident as a source of great same. As a result, Blanche had a very low-key upbringing in Bluff, far from the family history. The twins were born in England on a visit to see family, but other than that she has spent her life in relative isolation in New Zealand, homeschooled by her mother alongside her older twin brother Silas. She grew up almost never separated from her brother, who she viewed as the other half of herself. Unfortunately, due to the different in their birthdays, Silas wound up being accepted to Hogwarts a year before Blanche, an experience she found traumatising as she had to learn to fend for herself for the first time.
Health: Blanche has always been in good health, other than a mild allergy to some pollens.

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Goals: To find a way to restore her family's good name.
Fears: Hurting the people she loves, being alone.
Secrets: Blanche is more bothered than her family's history than she likes to admit.
Regrets: Blanche regrets not making more of a fuss when Silas started Hogwarts. She often wonders what would have happened if she had made a proper complaint with the school and petitioned to be allowed to join him.
Favourites
Colour: Black and Brown
Food: Salmon
Smell: Salt water, paint
Music Genre: Metal

Animal: Cat


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Mother
Name: Edith Sedgewick Broomhead
Date of Birth: -
Blood Status: Mixed Blood
Occupation: -
Father
Name: Phillip Broomhead
Date of Birth: -
Blood Status: Mixed Blood
Occupation: -
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Brother
Name:
Silas Broomhead
Date of Birth: 8/2044
Blood Status: Mixed Blood
Occupation: Hogwarts New Zealand Student
House:
Hufflepuff
Zodiac information from here and here. MBTI information from here.
 
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Blanche started her first year at Hogwarts bitter - being separated from her twin by a full year still stung, and made it difficult to enjoy the experience when she knew she ought to have been here a year sooner. Her discomfort and frustration haunted her all year and made it difficult to make friends, and other than joining the arts club she mostly kept to herself.
Blanche knew she should be happier, but all she could really think was how this wasn't how it was supposed to be. She should have been here for a year already, sitting with her brother, not in a group of strange kids without him. She tried to fight down the bitterness and focus on the fact that at least she was finally here, even if she'd forever be doomed to be a year behind her twin. Following the group of first years into the Great Hall, Blanche looked around, quickly spotting Silas at the Hufflepuff table. She was hardly one to clamour and wave but she caught his eye and gave him a nod, stomach twisting with the need to go over and sit with him. A year apart was much too long, and she was ready to start putting the universe in something closer to its proper order. Even if things would never really be right again - they would never have classes together. He would graduate first. It was all so wrong.

But she was here, at least, and that was something. She listened as the Headmistress spoke, though she had already heard all this from Silas. Because he was already here. The hat's song was kind of interesting but she zoned out a bit, looking around the room. It was even more grand than she had expected, and it stung all over again that Silas had been here for a whole year already. Separating twins was deeply unfair, and Blanche was struck with another flash of need to complain to the school. Mum had discouraged her last year, but it just felt wrong, and now Mum wasn't here to stop her...

"Broomhead, Blanche!"

The sound of her own name drew her out of her thoughts, and Blanche realised they were underway already. Her heart skipped in her chest as she took a step forward, having to fight the urge to run. Surely the hat would see how badly she needed to be in Hufflepuff, let her at least reunite with her brother in that way. Even if it wasn't everything, it was something. Her heart thudded as she settled on the seat and felt the hat settle on her head. 'Hufflepuff, please... please let me be in my brother's house, we've been apart for so long...' She thought insistently as the hat's brim slid slowly further down her forehead.

"Hmm, hufflepuff? For you? I think not...you and your brother will just have to be apart a little more because, for you, it'll be....Slytherin,"
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