Arabella Vogue
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Arabella Vogue
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Name: Ally
Contacts: MSN/Email: behappywearjuicy@hotmail.com
Age: 15
Code: Hermione Granger
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Full Name: Arabella Olivia Vogue
Nickname(s): Bella, Aria
DOB: October 21, 1992
Year: 5th
Blood: Half blood
House Preference: Ravenclaw
Why: Arabella is smart, plain and simple. She has a great head on her shoulders. Though she has never loved education, she has always been knowledgeable and smart with concepts. These qualities are what makes Bella out to be a prime example of a Ravenclaw student. She does love reading and writing on her own time, though she usually is annoyed with homework and any work, really, that takes away from her free time. She has attended a muggle school up until the start of her fifth year, when she transferred to Hogwarts. She has had a magical tutor all this time, however. Though she dislikes most muggle subjects, such as mathematics and science, while with her tutor she has taken a liking to magical subjects much more than muggle, and seems to be fit to Ravenclaw with the thought that she wants to learn everything pertaining to the magical world.
Physical Appearance: Arabella is a very tall young lady, standing proud and dominant at 5'10", weight steady at about 139 pounds. She possesses a thin and curvy figure, one which is toned and shaped much to her liking. She isn't notably strong, though she does have lean muscles from her years as a dancer. She is one that doesn't require much cosmetic application to feel beautiful...even though she does love black eyeliner.
Her alluring dark brown hair is sometimes seen wrongly as black. Arabella's locks come past her shoulders a good six inches or so. She prefers the style to be more loose and free, rather than pulled back and restricted. She has naturally curly hair, but it is often toned down into subtle waves, curling up or waving out as it pleases. She usually tones it down herself, or some days it feels more weighed down and does what it pleases. Though she appears to just throw some gel into it in the mornings and not care, she truly does love her hair. She does pull off the messy hair look well. Even during the days that she isn't in the mood to let her hair flow as it is, she doesn't spend any less time on it. On those days, her locks are found to be pulled back loosely, never tightly, and have some accessory thrown in to make up for the loss of her hair being more restrained. The accessories that are usually found in her hair range from small butterfly clips, to large jeweled claws, and on occasion colorful headbands or scarves.
Her skin is light, but not pale. Arabella fears sunburn, and is usually not found out in the sun more than she has to be. On occasion in the warmer months, it is hard to stay indoors. She does also burn easily, which produced the habit of always using sunscreen. She doesn't have much definition on her face...she does have a few freckles here and there, but no qualities that would scream out for attention. On her arm, however, she does have a scar that resulted in stitches when she was five. She had been a casualty in a car accident on her way to school, and that resulted in a fairly medium sized slash in her arm after the car had collided into the back passenger seat.
Arabella's eyes are dark brown, indistinguishable from her biological father's. If interested in a topic while engaging in conversation, her eyes usually sparkle with interest. When bored, however, her face gives off such an appropriate expression, though she tries to keep any kind of unwanted gesture to herself. She usually is always portraying some kind of gesture or expression, and seems interested in talking to anyone about almost anything...most of the time. She can tend to come off as intimidating to some people...dramatic and expressive are certainly her. Dependant upon what day it is, she usually does walk tall and proud, but she is often rushed, as she is a resident procrastinator. Her face is a rounded shape, not possessing any sharpened or harsh features. Because she wears her hair down so frequently, it is often troublesome to try and distinguish many single qualities that would otherwise be seen, pending her hair was pulled out of her face. Her lips are luscious and full, and she despises when they get chapped up.
While not in uniform, Arabella's style touches upon a vast amount of genres in the fashion realm. She loves articles from the free and flowing bohemian inspiration of style, to some more punk rock creative outfits, to more sophisticated and classy styles. This girl loves it all. What ever the fashion may be at the time, Arabella experiments with it, and usually comes out with something creative and inspired that fits her character. She loves clothing and fashions, and believes the Hogwarts uniform can certainly use an update. She wears her own style of clothing whenever she can, and is sometimes in need of a reminder for the dress code. Even when she is in Hogwarts uniform, she does push the limits on that...maybe by adding some sort of nonessential accessory, like crazy socks, high heeled shoes, or funky jewelry. She loves acrylic nails, too.
Though she does have certain quirks about her, she usually maintains good posture and tries to come off as a charming and mature young lady. Though not an adult, she likes the fact that she has the potential to associate with them and talk among them as if they were her own friends, and usually does display a confident attitude.
Personality: Individualistic, Idiosyncratic, and Idealistic.
Arabella Olivia Vogue's personality can, after much examination, be narrowed down to these three words. She isn't truly classified by one house at Hogwarts; she does have qualities about her that fall into all four. She is exceedingly social, anyone else that truly understands her and will stay by her when she goes through awkward situations. Friends are life to Arabella, even though she tends to associate with adults as well as she does with teenagers. She is daring and bold, and it comes out in a variety of ways. One major way is the fact that she is not afraid to say what is on her mind, no matter how idiosyncratic it is. She loves introducing new ideas in the world, and is often off starting some kind of trend...may it be fashion or otherwise. The muggle fashions of Harajuku have contributed much to her love and understanding of fashions.
Arabella doesn't follow the crowd. She would much rather be different and stand alone, than the same as everyone else and boring. Her thing is that is everyone was the same, how would people have half the things in the world that they did in the modern age? Certainly great inventors had distinguished ideas, ones that thought up such things as the light bulb and automobiles. Because this is what she practically lives by, her attitude, ideas, and style are often exotic and crazy to some. She loves cultures and all things foreign that she doesn't know, and she is very much a people-person. All the ideas she has gathered from other cultures she tries to emerge into her thinking, whether it be from a different perspective or applying knowledge she has acquired.
Alright, so she isn't perfect.
She often forgets to consider the fact that many of the students at Hogwarts have not had the opportunity to explore cultures and fashion worlds as she has, which leads her to think a bit less of people. This resulted from when people have reacted strangely to her use of knowledge, not because they are ignorant. She is very involved in muggle things, being born in the muggle world herself. It is hard for her to often find common grounds with people who are either ignorant of other cultures, or those who don't possess the maturity level and tact that she sees in herself.
She has always found the subject of Potions quite challenging, as to her it seems quite mathematical. Fill the cauldron with so much of this, and a little of that and don't forget to add the good part of this...argh! Confusing as hell. Arabella's wandering mind can not usually handle hard equations or recipes. She does better in classes such as History of Magic, where it is more memorizing facts, and Charms even, because it involves knowing a simple spells, knowing how to do it, and having the will to execute the spell. Transfiguration has given her difficulty at times, but there isn't a subject she likes less than Divination. She believes even through magic, the future really can't be told, or it is usually manipulated somehow beforehand. If she were to know the future, it would be in her mind and whatever she saw could be manipulated or not come true because she knew of it prior to the occurrence. She believes that Divination and the surrounding arts work to an extent, but she never practices or uses them at all. They annoy her at times, too, quite frankly.
Not known to many, Arabella does have a fiery temper that can set off at the drop of a pen. People, who are annoying, think they're picture perfect, have a restricted and controlled view on life, and those that reject her ways of doing things are what can set her off. It sounds like most people set her off, though that is not the case. Setting her off in this instance just angers her, and she refuses to show it. Unless the person has deeply or repeatedly annoyed or angered her, she's not going to show it, not in the least. She has made herself able to completely ignore any derogatory comments, and it does take a lot to set her temper off in a flare. She has her own annoying quirks, yes, but other's quirks can annoy the daylights out of this child.
She is deathly afraid of spiders. She is also afraid of being alone...having no friends, no special other. She also fears that she will end up like her parents, in a marriage less than perfect, unhappy and doing jobs they hate, though they pay high dollar, to afford more expensive things.
History: The greatest day of Lindsay Vogue's life was the day she had transferred to Hogwarts. That one day, when she started as a sixth year after spending her previous five years at Beauxbatons, was the day that had the most impact on young Lindsay's life. Not only did she for once enjoy her classes and her fellow students, she met a seventh year boy that wasn't too shabby on looks, in fact he was quite the handsome gentleman.
Immediately, Lindsay fell in love with Hogwarts...but more importantly, the older boy. Mark Missoni was his name, as she had later come to find out. After Lindsay found out Mark was on the house team (They were both in Ravenclaw), she immediately signed up with the captain to try out as a chaser. Through making it onto the team, Lindsay and Mark had fallen in love. Even after Mark went off back to the muggle world to pursue a law degree while Lindsay was in her seventh year and still at Hogwarts, he always came to visit her. When there were holidays, Lindsay would visit him first before even thinking of going home to her parents and siblings.
Needless to say, they eventually tied the knot. After graduation, Lindsay had moved on to The London Potions Academy, and she took up residence in London. Mark had predicted this, however, which was why he had chosen to attend Oxford University. Once they were both graduated and holding steady jobs with a nice income, they wed in the Spring season of 1980, even though they were living apart at the time...Mark was in the affairs of the muggle world, while Lindsay was off with the magical world and their crisises and happenings. They had much dispute over where to live, either in the muggle world or the wizarding world. Mark had a father that was a prominent lawyer in the muggle world, and that was more of where he was from. Lindsay had always been tied up in the affairs of the wizarding world, both of her parents working for The Ministry. Eventually the decision was made to move out of England and to the United States of America, therefore implying they decided on the muggle world.
Fast forward to October 21, year of 1992...the day all hell was set to break loose.
Lindsay had been pregnant for eight and a half months, and she gave birth to her second child, Arabella Olivia Vogue. She had had her first child nine years before, Samantha Vogue, who was present at this event. She didn't very much like Arabella at first...she had, of course, been taking up all of Lindsay and Mark's attention away from their very well mannered and extraordinary older daughter.
Living in San Francisco, California, was the best place Arabella could imagine to live. She didn't want to move anywhere else, ever. When she was five, she had the experience of going off to New York City, to visit some of her father's relatives. That city was huge! She didn't know what to do in a situation like that. San Francisco was certainly a large city, but nothing like New York was. There were a few times she had gotten lost, which totally turned her mind off of liking the city in the least bit. She couldn't stand the country either. Her parents loved to travel and often they drove through deserted areas, which her parents told her was the country...and there was nothing there. Some cows...horses, crops, maybe...but besides that, nothing. No other place could have ever appealed to or catered to Arabella's personality or needs.
As a child growing up in the city, she resided in a large penthouse. Her father was still continuing on as a successful lawyer, very well known in the city, and her mother worked for the Ministry of Magic...more as a contact though, because she was living in the muggle world. During the school years, Samantha was off at Beauxbatons, a school for witches and wizards to learn magic. Though Arabella didn't know much about magic, her mother taught her some minimally. Lindsay firmly believed that magic should only be taught when they were of age to go off to school to learn of it. She went to a muggle private school during those years, and her mother did hire a tutor to begin to cater to her magical needs when her eleventh birthday came around, when she had recieved letters from both Beauxbatons and Hogwarts, accepting her to each of the schools.
Nobody knew the fatal disease that was eating away at Mark Missoni through these first ten years of Arabella's life. By the time he was diagnosed with cancer in his lungs, there wasn't any hope in saving him from it. Asbestos had somehow gotten into his system, taking Mark from Lindsay and her daughters. This happened only ten days after Arabella's twelfth birthday, and she had received word via an owl. She was a mere first year, and her sister, who had already graduated and was two years into the London Potions Academy, received word as well.
After Halloween, and receiving news about her father, Arabella seemed a bit more distant and reclusive around the school. For legal reasons, her last name changed back to her mother's maiden name when Lindsay decided to take it back. She had chosen to attend Hogwarts, after all, as it was where her father would have wanted her to go. Her grades dropped slightly, and she didn't partake in social activities in the school. However, through her first year she did make a few friends and meet a few people in her house, but she wasn't happy. She couldn't concentrate anymore. Her psychological memory has pretty much for the most part blocked out any of the events that happened during the year surrounding Mark Missoni's death. When she would go home for holidays, her mother had a troublesome times just speaking to the girl, and Samantha, who was the spitting image of Lindsay, both with looks and personality, took and handled Mark's death much like her mother did. Neither cried or ever showed any weaknesses around Arabella. It was a crucial time in her educational years to have the death of her father ruin her life...and that almost did happen.
Her summer was spent at home in the penthouse. Her sister was off in Europe, travelling and exploring countries as she had planned, and Lindsay was in the magical world most of the time.
When she went for her second year at Hogwarts, it was a bit different. Things in her mind had cooled off, regarding her father. Also, as a present from Samantha, she had bought Arabella a baby black owl as a pet to take along with her to school. She also began to take more of an interest in school activities, which led to becoming very interested in Quidditch. She wasn't into any of the other activities. Her most vivid memory from that year is when Bobby Hurd asked her to the Valentine's Day dance, and how that had been one of the greatest nights of her life. Her grades rose to a level that was acceptable by her mother, so for the most part her mother stopped bothering her on a daily basis about her grades and coming out of the shell she had put herself into when Mike had died.
Meanwhile, Lindsay seemed to have no problem moving on. Little did Arabella know, Lindsay had met Charlie Jones, a muggle doctor that had moved across the street from the Vogue-Missoni residence. Even when she had came home the summer after her second year, neither Arabella or Samantha knew about their mother's new beau. Samantha had began to start coming home during summers, as she had a teaching position at Beauxbatons, and not even she knew about the new couple.
In her third year, her interest was still certainly there in Quidditch. At matches, she had studied the game...how it was played, the formations, et cetera. This year she was determined to make the house team as a beater, one of the two positions that had opened up after the previous occupants of them had graduated. She practiced most of her free time before try outs, and ended up making the team. She wasn't a star player in her first year on the team, of course, but this was the one year she concentrated and ran the extra mile to better herself. Sure, she occasionally socialized with friends, but she was more focused on her game. Her priorities were a bit messy this year; she really did put Quidditch before her studies, then her friends after her studies. Her third year is when she began to open up more around her peers, and started showing off her true style and individuality. Some rejected her because of her new ideas, which led to her being even more outright and open. She didn't care for the people that rejected the unfamiliar...her philosophy was to embrace everything, learn and experience everything. She did spend a good chunk of her third year in the library as well, for more than just her studies.
The summer after her third year was going to be awful, and Arabella didn't realize it until she came home. Lindsay wasn't Lindsay Vogue-Missoni anymore...instead, she was now Lindsay Jones. The relationship...not even mentioning the fact that it turned into a marriage a month before she came home from Hogwarts...more that surprised her. It irritated her. Lindsay didn't know how to talk to her daughter, either of them, and that was the reason why she didn't know about the courtship. Arabella didn't return home in the most elegant fashion either. She had come into the house and thrown her trunk and belongings in her room, went in search of her mother and found the two kissing in the kitchen. Arabella saw the wedding rings, and took off running out of the house. From that day on, Lindsay and Arabella were to never have a close relationship ever again.
The rest of the summer, she was barely ever home. Samantha had had enough of Lindsay and Charlie, and gathered the courage to move out into her own apartment in San Jose. Though Samantha and Arabella were never close, Bella longed to go and live with her sister. Ever since Charlie had moved in, that was where Lindsay invested all of her time. Charlie usually wasn't even around all that much during the day, but still Lindsay practically ignored Arabella. It seemed surreal...the man Lindsay had loved so much more than life, the children that resulted from that love seemed to be shoved aside.
Her fourth year at Hogwarts was more awkward. Charlie never seemed to try and talk to Arabella, and at the start of her fourth year, she suddenly started receiving gifts and letters from both Charlie and Lindsay. She was surprised that her mother started sending mail and writing letters...Arabella had been home all summer, and not once had Lindsay tried to talk to her. Charlie suddenly began sending Arabella all these gifts...really expensive things. Lindsay had told him that she was into fashion, so almost everyday Arabella received letters from him saying how much he wanted them to be a strong family, including pretty expensive gifts. These ranged from clothing to diamonds. Arabella was floored...she had no idea what he was doing. She came to the conclusion that he was trying to buy her love...which hurt her. Charlie was the worst thing that could have ever happened to the family. How dare he come in and ruin the relationship or what was left of it, with her mother. How dare Samantha feel forced to move out because of him. The emotional toll it took on her was the worst she had ever felt, almost as much as she had suffered when her father died.
For Christmas break, Arabella didn't go home to Lindsay and Charlie. She went instead to Samantha.
Samantha had come home from Beauxbatons for the break, and occupied herself mostly by getting her future lessons planned out and organized for her small Ancient Runes class. Even though she was busy, Arabella felt the most at home with Samantha in a small apartment complex, in the Willow Glen area of San Jose. She loved San Jose. She met many of Samantha's friends, and even met some of her own. Samantha was active in a local church during the holidays, and Arabella became active as well. She met many teenagers her age, and it was hard on a lot of levels to return to Hogwarts. During this time, neither Lindsay nor Charlie contacted her. Little did she know, things were getting more complicated as the time passed by.
She received news of Tatum Camilla Jones when her mother was five months pregnant. No, Lindsay hadn't bothered telling her, and it was initially Arabella who informed Samantha of the new addition to the family. At school, she was still active in Quidditch, but that was about it. She had a few close friends, but was more concentrated on talking and figuring out what was happening with her family back in California. Quidditch was, however, the way she let off steam and frustrations...being a beater was certainly the way to do that. Tatum Camilla was born in late April. Samantha was furious...and she also knew what repercussions would come off of the new addition for the family in Arabella's case. She stepped in. She drove to San Francisco, with the intent to gather Arabella's belongings and move her into her apartment with her. Surprisingly, Lindsay gave almost no consideration to the fact that Arabella was moving out...Arabella herself didn't even realize she was moving until Samantha showed up in London to retrieve her from the train.
The summer that she moved in with Samantha proved to be an incredibly positive thing. She was reunited with the friends she had made over the last Christmas vacation, and they were happy to see her as much as she was them. The three girls, Arabella, Hannah, and Kaitlyn, seemed to have spent the entire summer together. The trio on occasion went into the city, but mainly drove around with Hannah's seventeen year old sister and her friends, going to the mall or the movies. For once, Arabella seemed as if she fit in the muggle world. It was easier to start to form friendships during the summer, because she didn't have Quidditch or studies to worry about.
Samantha and Arabella began to bond as well, and becoming the closest they had been in years. Though Samantha lived in San Jose, which was about a forty five minute drive from San Francisco, she still loved the city and did spend most of her time there. Arabella was with her friends more than her sister, but there were definitely the days where Bella missed the diversity and crowds of the city, insisting to go along with Samantha.
It was a hard thing to bid farewell to Hannah and Kaitlyn, both which she had shared her magical secret with. They understood, of course, but wished Arabella could have been educated in magic in California. Hogwarts was one of the most prestigious wizarding schools, and she wanted to learn from the best. She began her fifth year at Hogwarts with her head more stuck in the clouds. This was her OWL year, and that meant her classes were going to increase in workload and difficulty. Arabella continued playing Quidditch, but she also began to miss her new life at home. Neither Lindsay nor Charlie had ever tried sending her letters again, and Tatum would soon be having her first birthday. She did start to receive letters from Hannah and Kaitlyn, with help from Samantha. Arabella isn't really aware of why she is still at Hogwarts, when she does seem to have a great life at home. With being more withdrawn in her previous years, it has hurt her in the friendship department. Her best friends lived in San Jose, in the muggle world. She didn't have people like that she was close to at Hogwarts, not much anymore. That is one of the things Arabella has come to despise about herself...the fact that she was too self involved to pay attention and form close relationships with any of the other kids around her.
RP Sample:
One more year at Hogwarts.
Arabella sighed slightly to herself, as she came out of the Ravenclaw common rooms. She already felt her self withdrawing herself from the people around her. The Opening Feast the night before had certainly been eventful, but not spectacular. There had been so many new faces, many she didn't recognize, and she even had trouble recognizing people she had gone to school with for the last four years. She had mainly stuck around the Quidditch team, as there were many other people that didn't seem interested in talking to her. It had given her a chance to talk with the captain about new tactics, however.
Another thing weighing on her mind was the fact that this was her fifth year...one of the most important ones of her life. Not only was this her OWL year, but that also meant that this would be the year that she would have to concentrate like ever before on her studies. She had lacked more in her first two years, while learning the basics, than she did in her third and fourth years, which could only prove to hurt her in the long run. She would probably end up making more trips to the library this year to reference back to the basics and prepare for exams. Quidditch for Arabella would probably have to be limited to practices and games with how much work seemed to be ahead for her.
She didn't even think of the fact that she had a lot of family issues at home that were still going on, regarding her mother and step father, and how she had moved in with Samantha. She missed Hannah and Kaitlyn most of all, though. She had spent the majority of her morning writing lengthy letters to each of them, describing what it was like to be back, and the insecurities that she felt. She had decided, though, that it wasn't a good thing to keep herself in her room by herself, because of the long talk her sister had had with her. Arabella had discussed reasons why she wouldn't want to go back to Hogwarts, and it was more of a social thing. Samantha didn't believe the young girl, however, because that was Arabella for you...always with friends, socializing, and having a great time. She told her that she had been over reacting, and that she must have had many friends who would be more than happy to call her a friend. Therefore, one of her missions this year was to make friends. It seemed as if it was a silly thing that she was in her fifth year and just now she was concerned about making friends. The truth was, however, that for the next three years, if Arabella wasn't to have friends, she wasn't going to have an easy time in her world.
Kaitlyn and Hannah only existed in the letters they wrote, as of now. They weren't physical friends that could truly help out in situations. She was in the need of more support in her surroundings...she decided to start with Ravenclaw, and see which friends in the Ravenclaw family she could find. She had been in the common rooms all morning, and her house mates seemed more interested in going outdoors and meeting up with old friends, something she had observed while sitting on the couch writing letters. That plan hadn't worked.
Here she found herself, a bit past noon wandering down to the lake to see what was awaiting her there. Lunch had ended a few minutes before, so many were still in the dining hall, chatting it up with friends. There were some groups of girls down by the lake, ones who she assumed brought lunch outdoors to enjoy the lovely fall afternoon. She knew she would begin to make friends again very soon, the problem she had was wondering when she would. She was anxious, and she didn't know how much longer she could wait for her to begin to associate with people.
Then again, she probably did make people uncomfortable. She had that crazy style going on. Her hair was crimped and pulled back in a loose ponytail, with a crazy flower headband thrown on her head. She was in a denim skirt, and she had a long lavender collared shirt, layered over with a light blue tank top. She had pulled on scrunched lavender boots, with an inch heel on them, and black tights underneath the skirt. Maybe her individuality was a problem...especially considering the girls outside were decked up in their oh-so-fantastic Hogwarts uniforms, robes and all. It wasn't as if it were necessary for them all to be in their uniforms right now, they weren't in classes. Classes hadn't even begun yet, and why would anyone wear the boring black robes when they didn't have to?
As she looked over to one group of girls, Hufflepuffs, they appeared to be, they were staring at her. Apparently they didn't approve of Arabella's choice of attire. Or maybe they were just jealous that she was set aside from the crowd. The famous saying "You laugh at me because I'm different, But I laugh at you because you're all the same" crept into Arabella's mind.
With a brief smile to the four girls, she began to burst out laughing on the inside.
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