Silvers, Emma Jane

[emmasilvers]

• Emma Jane Silvers •
I feel like they don't understand,
feel like I'm surrounded by hate,
God knows I can take the chance...

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I KNOW THAT I'M ALIVE
the basics
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full name, Emma Jane Silvers
1990's or 1970's? 1970s
nicknames, Emms.
age, Sixteen
birthday, September 26th.
year, Sixth
house, Ravanclaw
blood status, Pureblood,
wand, Alder, 11 inches, Veela hairs
broom, Emma fly? Your very funny..

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WHEN YOU CALL ON ME
the appearance
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hair color, Mousse brown
eye color, Brown
height, five feet and two inches
weight, 54kgs
general appearance

PERSONAL STYLE: Emma can be found in jeans and jumpers. Niffty t-shirts with catchy writing and generally just anything conservative but unique. However, around her family she wears dresses and heels, has styled hair and manicured fingernails.Very different from her clean but laid back appearance at school

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Emma is not at all above averagely beautiful. She is pretty, but it is how unique appearance and how she projects herself that causes such an allure about her. She is always dressed in the nicest of clothes but she wares them disheveled and combines them in unruly ways.

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WHEN YOU REACH FOR ME
the personality
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likes,
* Painting
* Reading
* Hanging with Friends
* Animals
* Muggle medical books
* Summer
* Flowers
* Cheese
* The color aqua
* Equality
* Potions
* Charms
* Defense Against the Dark Arts

dislikes,
* death eaters
* being forced into arranged marriages
* PURISTS
* the color red
* snow, cold, wet weather
* late nights
* astronomy class
* tomatoes
* chocolate
* lies
* failure
* bullies
* cowards


strengths, & weaknesses,

keen- Emma is sharp intellectually. She's taught herself to notice everything and processes information very differently from others her own age.
dependable- Emma is the type of person who thrives on being 'accountable.' she is naturally responsible. She feels guilty for letting others down and blowing things off, so she just doesn't.
trustworthy- for someone who never really trusts, Emma is very trustworthy. She puts such a high value on it, it would be hypocritical of her to betray someone.
apathetic- vEmma is known for being ice cold, not mean persay but she is certainly not the touchy-feely type. Emma tries to see everything without the clouds that emotions provide. Those closest to her know she cares, but to strangers she seemed detached and gritty.
gullible- Emma is very gullible if one were to approach her the right way. Aggressiveness will get one nowhere, but coming down to her own level..seeming in need of her help, shes easily fooled by the underdog. brave- No one does brave as stupid as Emma does. She never backs down. Even if the face of danger she's willing to take risks and stand up for what she believes in, this also labels her as..
stubborn- ever had your ribs broken because you refused to say the words "I'm sorry?" No? guess your not as stubborn as Emma then..
cleverly mouthy- There's instances were people should just bit their tongues. For example, when your older brother has his want pointed at your face and he asks you to repeat that insult..Emma on the other hand spits out something bigger, better and uncut.
ill tempered- Emma has a surprisingly short fuse for someone so composed. She doesn't show her anger though, simply just adds items to an ever growing list.
determined- Emma devotes her life to her goals. She has little social life and has pretty much forsaken fun and sleep. All in the name of experimental potions and wand less and nonverbal magical practice. She's also known to be relentless in pursuit of her goals.
unstable- Emma has inherited the Silvers trademark near psychopathy. She has no regard for her own life or safety and once shes written someone off as 'bad' to her their less then human. Just an rabid animal needing to be put down before it hurts someone else.

SECRETS,
When Emma was 12, the summer of her third year, her older brother drug her into the woods on their family's estate, and forced her to perform an unforgivable curse on an chipmunk After he left her in the trees, sobbing in shame and regret, she gathered up the poor maimed creature and cared for it until it died.
Emma has a crush on Remus Lupin.
Emma wishes she was a boy, things would be so much easier.
Emma has been stealing money from her brother in order to fund a experimental potions venture.
Emma practices advanced magic until it makes her bleed from the brain! Its a bit of an addiction really.
goals, To find a way to merge muggle and magical medicine practices.
To master wandless and no verbal magic. She has been practicing since her 3rd year and can do the fairy advanced spells.. Nothing overly dramatic as everyone has their strengths and weaknesses
patronus, Emma had a muggle friend as a child. He had a pet rat. This muggle boy was the only love and affection Emma got when young-so her Patronus is a rat in memory of that boy.
worst fear, Being unable to protect herself, and those she cares for. Becoming the monster she fights without even realizing it.
boggart, Her brother James, Murdering aforementioned muggle boy. Manifests as the sound of live electricity charging through water.
amortenia, White Jasmine. Country wheat grass. Horse shampoo, and gravel.
sexuality, straight.
overall personality,

Emma is a misguided perfectionist with a horrible case of tunnel vision. She can never be satisfied. Scored all E's on your exams? Should have been O's... She also tends to be obsessive about tidiness and order. Unlike her pure-blooded- Death Eater family, Emma isn't a purist. In face, she can't stand them. She loves all people and creatures regardless of their supposed flaws.

She can be stubborn , and her tendency to want now means she rushes into things without thinking. She seems to be unable to hold her tongue, and her brash, tell it like she thinks it attitude can cause problems. She'll stick up for anyone who needs it, even if they are a stranger. Despite this her every standing walls and tell it as it is earn her the reputation as harsh and unemotional She's boyish, but still indulged in minimal makeup and nice clothes. Feisty and ill tempered, she'll be the first to make a threat, especially toward older boys. As the only girl in a very old fashioned family, she always trying to prove herself. Shes ruthless, and not at all the goody goody she appears as...

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WHEN YOU BLESS THE DAY
the history
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mother & family, Raya Silvers (yaxley)
father &family, James Silvers
siblings, James S. Silvers. twenty three. Former Slytherin
overall history,

Dublin, Ireland, September. Raya Silvers, wife of James Silvers and daughter of Mathis and Eve Yaxely, gives birth to her second child. To everyone's intense surprise the baby is a girl. By the time the baby is seven hours old she has already been betrothed to a[ high standing gentleman**]] The Silvers had always had very close relations with the Black's, the Malfoy's and the Lestrange's. All of whom had very particular ideas about keeping pure blood lines free of tainted decay.

From that moment onward, Emma, just as her brother James, was groomed for the role of a Dark Princess. What her family lacked in love and affection it made up for in riches. The first signs that Emma did not think like the rest of her family appeared in the form of questions. "Mama, Why may I not go to school with the other children? "Asked a six year old Emma, as a hair brush was pulled through her long, dark hair. "The filthy muggle school?" Asked her mother, her words trembling with revolution. "Emma, you must not even think of the muggles, they are animals, lowly creatures. Contact with them will make you sick and ugly" Her mother told her, turning the girl around and smoothing her lace dress. "BUT.." Emma attempted to argued....No buts Emma. You must not speak like this while we have the Blacks as company.. and Master **** is here. Your to sit with him at dinner, aren't you existed?" The little girls response was one of person , for it was her first conscious use of sarcasm as she replied to her mother. "Overjoyed Mama"

Her childhood progressed much like this, fancy parties, whispered meetings, a strict set of standards to adhere by, but most all the girl was starving for affection. She found it in the son of a muggle gardener.

Emma was nine when the mansion across the lake from theirs got new neighbors. A pure-blood family but certainly not anything like her family-for they kept muggle servants.. Emma found a secret friend in the gardeners son. He was everything a restricted nine year old debutante dreamed of. Wild, adventures, sly and full of mischief- he showed Emma things she had never seen before, or have ever imagined existed. They would steal away together in the woods, lie side by side on a blanket and listen to 8 track tapes while they discussed anything and everything. For that short while, Emma swore she could be happy. That with Michel, who although a muggle, was the best person she ever met, she could somehow escape her oppressive life.

it all ended a summer later. Sixteen year old year old James was home for the summer. On errand of his mother, he went in search of his sister. He found her, with Michel..swimming in a nearby lake. Disgusted he drug Emma by her hair our of the water, and shot a high voltage of electricity into the water. Emma attempted to jump in after him, but James grabbed her and held her back. Her only friend died and she was forced to watch as his body sunk down into the depths.

After that she started Hogwarts, turning eleven just in time to make the cut off. Her first there year she was invisible. She spoke to no one, sought to make no friends, and quitely but diligently pursued her studies. After being sorted into Ravanclaw, much to the distress of her whole entire family, her guardianship was given over to James. Her mother had given birth to another girl, and because of the child's condition every member of the Silvers clan disappeared into the cloaked wizard underground, save for Emma and James.

Two summers later, at age twelve. She endured constant torture until she successfully, but weakly, performed onw of the unforgivable curses on small animals. She did her best to heal them after her teacher had retired from her, but still both animals died.

Her third year was better, she started to make friends. She found she enjoyed the company of a certain group of Gryffindors. Though she was a year below them and was best suited with hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws. A certain gryffindor was very kind to her on one occasion and ever since that time she had developed a crush of sorts. She made Owls in every subject but astronomy and flying her forth year.

As a sixth year, Emma begins to finally establish herself. She's stopped grieving for the life she wanted but could never have, and has started to assert herself as a separate entity from her family. She is still engaged, as the massive diamond on her ring finger adversities. Despite her odd affection for her betrothed, for they had been raised together, so emotion was not absent entirely, Emma has made it clear that she is not an item to be presented for some favor. She has her own dreams, and she was determined to pursue them.

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I GET WINGS TO FLY
the player
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name/alias, Dott
gender, Female
age, 21
contact, Aim: Whenkittyspurr
other characters, ------------------
experience, Ten years
how you found us, Erised
roleplay sample.
Notes to Admin. So Emma has had a face change and a few things about her personality are different. Mainly, shes a bit more jaded as thats just how shes been coming to me lately. I also changed her year, from 7th to 6th. I included a new sample because im rusty as all heck. That being said, if you guys will have me i'd love to come back :D

Emma Silvers did not know how she had come to the decision to approach McAllister on the matter but somehow she found herself standing outside his office. Her hands were wrapped around an amber colored bottle of Peroni , which was according to Vaynar was the man's very favorite beer. Emma tapped lightly on the wooden door. She passed the split seconds between knocking and response by tossing the icy bottle from one hand to another, over and over again until a voice boomed from inside.

"ENTER AND BE DAMN SURE TO REMOVE YOUR HAT, IF YOUR WEARING ONE THAT IS!"

Emma, who did happen to be wearing a hat in that instance, pulled the purple eight point cap from her head and tucked it under one arm. Reaching out, she grabbed the knob and turned, pushing open the door to reveal the man's office.

The room was painted green, and smelt of shoe polish. The walls were bare, save for a large banner that read USMC and a Hufflepuff banner. Emma eyed the Hufflepuff banner with resentment for a moment. Not because she disliked badgers but because she had dearly wished to be placed in that house. She still remembered, when she had told the sorting hat where she would like to go; the thing had actually laughed at her. "You don't have the heart to be a Hufflepuff.." whispered the hat into her ear.. "But if you would truly detest yourself that much in your proper house, lets go with RAVANCLAW. Just like that, her fate had been decided. To this very day Emma still believed she belonged in a different house.

Striding over to the mans desk, Emma placed the beer bottle in the very center of Gunny's neatly ordered desk. She remained standing but crossed her arms across her chest and began to address him.

"Let me start off by saying that this isn't a bribe for grades, Emma nodded toward the beer. "your free to fail me just because you can't stand the sight of me, which I can tell you wouldn't be a first time occurrence."

Emma shifted her weight from one foot to the other. She leaned on his desk now, her gaze bouncing between the very shinny floors to Gunny himself. "Its not a welcome wagon gesture either..or something I'm doing because I'm just a sweet little thing either." Emma licked her lips. "It seems I'm in a position where I need to ask for help. This is something I never do.. and its killing me more then the actual problem I'm seeking help on. I would have went to Vaynar, but despite his brilliance I don't think he can help me. Thats the truth, and this is me asking you for help from the bottom of my shivered little, black, jaded heart."

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I CAN TOUCH THE SKY
the player
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[chelz]

Here at NINETEEN SOMETHING, we like to have a high level of standards for both OCs and canons alike. There's a level of detail that goes into the creation of a real character. As we read over an application, the main admin and myself discuss each part of the application. Sometimes issues arise, and sometimes we feel like it's a straight off yes.

With your applications, there was one technical issue and a few other conflicting issues.

Your general appearance is lacking. It meets the bare minimums of the requirements. It has no detail beyond scratching the surface of what your character should look like in our heads. There has to be something more that you can describe Emma as. Appearance is not just clothes and how pretty they are -- it's about appearances in general; how the person looks to other people, if there are any unique features to them, etc.

That was the technical issue. However, there are other things about the personality and history that brought red flags to our attention.

The first being her family life. It's fine for a girl to be a rebel to the family. Absolutely. That's an interesting story. However, if she's adverse to most of what her family is forcing her to do, why is she alright with being betrothed? Why is it that she hates arranged marriages; but, still willingly wears and engagement ring and harbors an "odd affection" toward her betrothed? It's either she dislikes it or she doesn't. Betrothal plots are absolutely fine. Sometimes, they're even fun. but you can't play both sides of the game. Also, there are issues with her brother. Why would he have custody? It doesn't matter if the parents ran away for a while. He wouldn't get custody. And how could he possibly get away with murder, much less throwing Unforgivables indiscriminately? The Ministry tracks the use of those. Even if they didn't find out who was casting the Unforgivables, the fact that a Muggle boy was murdered by him wouldn't just fly under the radar with the authorities. It just doesn't work. Even the fact the wizards next door had Muggle help is nebulous. The fact wizarding society is separate from the Muggle one is to prevent Muggles from finding out they exist.

On that note, her personality is conflicting. How is it that a girl you have described as unemotional and harsh react to things in a feisty and ill-tempered manner? You cannot be both apathetic and empathetic at the same time. This also runs into another conflicting fact about her -- you describe her as being very intelligent and very clever. And yet she is extremely gullible and runs into situations without thinking. Not only is this not Ravenclaw behavior; but, it's not the behavior of someone who is intelligent and analytical. This is a girl that can somehow cast advanced and non-verbal spells in her 3rd year -- a feat that Harry Potter himself could not achieve. It doesn't make sense.

I'm very sorry; but, we cannot accept your character at this time. The only way we can is if an entire revamp of the character is put into action. I'm sorry if this is not something you wish to do. If you feel your character is fine as is, then it is just not right for our site.

Again, I am very sorry. Hopefully this can work out. But, for now, I am going to have to reject your application.