Character’s full name: Amanda Jane Potter
Reason or meaning of name:
Amanda- Fit to beloved. (one day I’m switching to Amelia just watch me)
Jane- It is of Hebrew origin , and means “God is Gracious.”
Character’s nicknames: Manda
Reason for nickname:
Birth date: July 31st, 1980
Physical appearance
Age: 11
How old does he/she appear: 12
Weight: 84lbs
Height: 4”9
Body build: Ectomorph.
Shape of face: A rounder heart shape.
Eye color: Hazel.
Glasses or contacts: Currently none.
Skin tone: Caucasian. Leans on the pale side since she can’t tan well.
Distinguishing marks:
Predominant features:
Hair color: Black.
Hairstyle: It’s layerless and straight, and goes down to her elbows. Sometime in the middle of the summer she decided to grow out her bangs, and they are currently hovering in the middle of her eyebrows.
Voice:… I never really considered this and how would you even describe it
Overall attractiveness: She’s more ‘cute’ than anything.
Physical disabilities: None.
Usual fashion of dress: She absolutely loves sundresses, and on more casual/lazy days will wear large sweaters and shorts.
Favorite outfit: An oversized, navy blue knit sweater with white stripes made of a lacey white material paired with white shorts.
Jewelry or accessories: Silver bangle styled bracelets with a single charm on each bracelet.
Magical stuff
Blood Status: Half-blood.
Wand: Why don't you take a look at this, a detailed willow wand? The length is ten inches long. It has a core of vela hair.
“A willow wand signifies that you care deeply about emotions, art, and intuition, and that you have a particular knack for charms. The veela hair as a wand core means that you are slightly unpredictable but very powerful."
Boggart:
Patronus: Blackfooted cat
Broom: Silver Arrow. Her mum used it as a kid, and rediscovered it in the attic when Amanda was ten.
House: Ravenclaw
Quidditch position: Not allowed yet, but she loves the idea of being a beater.
Personality
Good personality traits: Considerable of other’s feelings, kind, studious
Bad personality traits: Incredibly dependent, too afraid to speak her mind in fear of losing friends/making people mad, will tell a friend want they want to hear, not what they need to hear, overly concerned about what people think of her, will go along with any plan presented by a friend
Mood character is most often in: Self-conscious
Character’s greatest joy in life: Being right.
Character’s greatest fear: Managing to anger those she loves dearly.
Why? If she considers them a loved one, there’s a 99% chance she has become close enough with the person, that she has a much more charismatic personality and an actual sense of humor with them. Losing them means total blame on herself.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? Waking up to realize all of her friends have turned on her.
Character is most at ease when: With a close friend.
Most ill at ease when: Alone with a group of strangers.
Enraged when: Someone attacks her loved ones.
Depressed or sad when: Failure.
Priorities: Friends, grades,
Life philosophy: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
If granted one wish, it would be: To be braver.
Why?
Greatest strength: Knowledge
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Her concern for what others think.
Biggest regret: Eventually? She’ll begin to regret being so dependent on a select few and will try to branch off and make more friends.
~*eventually*~
Minor regret:
Biggest accomplishment:
Minor accomplishment:
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about:
Why?
Character’s darkest secret: She doesn’t truly get what happened to her biological parents, and has always assumed they left her because they didn’t love her.
Does anyone else know? Nope.
Goals
Drives and motivations: His parents; the knowledge that his future will be a great one if he keeps everything as is.
Immediate goals: Grades.
Long term goals: Becoming more independent and forming her own identity.
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Any means necessary.
How other characters will be affected: [I mean if I ever speak my mine wouldn’t they become very offended?....]
Past
Hometown: Faversham
Type of childhood: A quiet one, she really just played her one best friend and read.
First memory: Finger painting all of the walls in her room pink and purple. Yeah, she got caught, but it was fun. Age three.
Most important childhood memory: Making her best friend in kindergarten.
Why: She was Amanda’s only really close friend, and taught her how to make friend. (however in reality Amanda just agreed with everything the girl said)
Childhood hero:
Dream job: Something with animals
Education: Went to private school, and then Hogwarts.
Religion: ‘Christian’, she went to church a couple times when she was younger but it’s not really like she remembers any of it.
Finances: Higher-Middle class.
Present
Current location: Same.
Currently living with: Parents
Pets: Same
Occupation: Student
Finances: Same.
Family
Mother: Biological, Lily Potter. Adopted, Fiona Cianciolo.
Father: Bilogical, James Potter. Adopted, Andrew Cianciolo.
Relationship with them: Very close, and she plans on sending multiple letters every week.
Siblings: None.
Spouse: None.
Relationship with him/her: N/A
Children: None.
Relationship with them: N/A
Other important family members: None.
Favorites
Color: Navy blue.
Least favorite color: Brown.
Music: Hasn’t formed much of an opinion on music. She pretty much enjoys all of it.
Food: French fries.
Literature: She's willing to try anything. She secretly loves high school romance books.
Form of entertainment: Reading, mainly. She also loves just walking around town and window shopping.
Expressions: Doesn't really have any.
Mode of transportation: Walking, and the occasional supervised broom ride.
Most prized possession: Her bangles.
Habits
Hobbies: Reading.
Plays a musical instrument? Was forced to play the recorder in the third grade. It was a bad scene.
Plays a sport? No.
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Inside, napping or reading.
Spending habits: She is mildly frivolous, but with major buyer’s remorse.
Smokes: No.
Drinks: No.
Other drugs: No.
What does he/she do too much of? Worry about others.
What does he/she do too little of? Worry about herself.
Extremely skilled at: Ironically enough, debating. She was on the team at her private school, and was surprisingly alright with offending strangers she’d never need to see again.
Extremely unskilled at: Telling people what they need to hear.
Nervous tics: Playing with her hair.
Usual body posture: Typically standing straight, with her legs in what looks like a ballet position.
Mannerisms:
Peculiarities: Stated above, she doesn’t mind offending strangers if she is assured she’ll never need to see them again.
Traits
Optimist or pessimist? Realist.
Introvert or extrovert? Wishes to be the latter, mainly the former.
Daredevil or cautious? Cautious.
Logical or emotional? Emotional.
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat? Methodical and neat
Prefers working or relaxing? Relaxing
Confident or unsure of himself/herself? Unsure.
Animal lover? Major one.
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: [I don’t get how everyone can be so mean to others, I mean, it just makes it really hard to wake up the next morning knowing they hate you.]
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? Yes.
Person character most hates:
Best friend(s):
Love interest(s):
Person character goes to for advice:
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of:
Person character feels shy or awkward around:
Person character openly admires:
Person character secretly admires: Politicians
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Best friend, Tiffany.
After story starts:
Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:31 am
