Post by cadencearias on Jan 24, 2009 9:33:12 GMT -5
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Name
Grania "Grace" Maureen O'Callaghan
Age
15 (Born April 14)
Sex
Female
Nationality
Irish (Clear Island)
Speech
English // Broken Gaelic (on assistance from her father - she never uses it, pretty much only knows a few phrases) // French ( Her grandmother on mother's side lives currently in Versailles, and since Grania's first year at Hogwarts, she was shipped off for a few weeks in the summer to visit her. She knows it better than Gaelic - but she's still far from fluent in it.)
Blood
Half-Blood
Father
Brendan O'Callaghan
Mother
Maureen Tiernay-O'Callaghan
Siblings
Tiernan (17), Donnel (17), Owen (19)
Other Family
Adabella Tiernay (Grandmother on her mother's side)
Family Interactions
Grania's home, nothing short of a madhouse. At any given time, there is screaming and yelling and fighting, or calling down the stairs of their split-level home. And just because Grania is the youngest and only girl of the family; this doesn't mean she does not carry her own. Charged by Owen alot for "not being a chick" she wears there critisism with pride - if she'd not 'chickly', well then, that's they're problem for teaching her.
Brendan is a muggle - but a great lover of the old myths and stories of Ireland. He has written several historical novels (none of which make reference to Wizarding Irish history - although he has always been eager for Maureen to explain this to him) Even his children's names made there way into his obsession - the actual spelling of Grania's name (which she never, ever uses - as, in her own words - "it looks retarded") is Gráinne; she is named after Gráinne Ní Mháille - Grace O'Malley in english, who is known as The Sea Queen Of Connaught - namely, a lady pirate on whom his father had wrote his first college paper on. Her brothers are also named after personalities associated with Gráinne's legacy - Donnel was her eventual husband, Owen her firstborn son, and Tiernan expected lover. Brendan, in his children's eyes, is a bit of an epic bore - spending all his time closed in with his papers and books.
Maureen, however, is a different story. She is a witch - her kids know it, her husband know it - and in around Clear Island, where all the were born and grew up, she is somewhat of a minor celebrity in wizarding circles. Maureen, you see, was once a beater for the Kenmare Kestrals Quidditch team. She had had a shot at becomming a sub on the Irish team, but had become pregnant with Owen at the time, and was somewhat forced into early retirement. Nowadays, Maureen has begun to delve in her other area of expertise - experamental charms.
Oddly enough in the family of four children, Grania has been the only one to have shown to have the capability of Magic. She is the only one to ever have gotten a Hogwarts letter; and has been the only one invited to spend some of her summers in France with her maternal grandmother. Not that Grania enjoys those summers expodentially - her grandmother is quite the nutter, about 189, and enjoys telling Grania about her legacy, which seems to entirely consist of exploits where she turned nosey muggle neighbours into squirrels, or had gotten uproariously drunk and nearly set the tree on fire in the front lot. She was nearly arrested the first year Grania was with him by the French ministry for trying a repeat of her squirrel-transformation days. Needless to say, most of the phrases Grania knows in French are along the lines of "she didn't mean it, honest" "how much exactly would the bail be?" "Grandmother, please tell me how to put out the green flames in the kitchen - they're eating the drapery" and "no, trust me sir, you never had a fluffy tail".
Her brother's have been Grania's greatest teachers for the world of life - they've taught her how to fight - both to stand up for herself and to make a little money while away at school. Although arguments are comment amungst them, there is a strong bond of sisterly-brotherly love - which Maureen steps in from time to time to be the referee.
Height
5"3
Weight
120lbs
Hair
Reddish-Brown; it hangs to about her mid back in twisty half-curls. Often, it get a little frizzy- as self-grooming is not something she is entirely concerned over.
Eyes
Hazel Brown
Skin Colour
White-skinned, but usually tanned over the summer...with a sprinkly of semi-transparent freckles across her arms and bridge of her nose.
Clothing style
No real style ever comes into Grania's wardrobe - she'd be perfectly fine with one set of clothing, which she would retrieve from it's crumpled pile on the floor every morning and wear over and over again. Comfort is a big thing for her - and she's more comfortable in jeans and t-shirts than anything formal or remotely girly.
Accessories
Grania does have her ears pierced - but the smaller the stud, the better. She likes plain and simple things; this is the only jewlery she wears.
Other
The left side of Grania's nose is shiney with scar tissue; an old injury from a fight with her brother. Rather than covering it up with makeup (which she never wears anyway), she shows it off - her badge of honor.
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Everything about Grania is somewhat underdevloped. Not tall, she is leanly muscular - about average weight for her height, and distinctively lacking some usually-desired chest area. If it wern't for the delicate set of her face and long, red-brown hair, Grania could be mistaken for a boy in a crowd. Usually sporting a bruise or two, and boasting a scar down the left side of her nose, Grania looks youngish for her age, but nonetheless rough and tumble.
Personality
Temper Temper
Grania, for 67% of her weekly interactions, is an normal, everyday teenage girl who's an avid Quidditch fan, enjoys heading out to the three broomsticks for a butterbeer during free periods and on weekends with friends, and, while a little too loud and exhuberant - a decent gal to pass a few hours with. However, she has had a notorious history of being someone who is easily 'set off'. She's gotten into arguments on various topics - from making fun of her brothers and dad and half-blood "impurities" to favorite Quidditch teams match outcomes. (Noone should argue with her on Quidditch, anyways - her mother has seemingly passed down more than just magic skills to her - and Grania's dangerously good with a beater bat) Her temper leads her to be unruly, and she's not shy about taking a swing at students who push her buttons. This girl is no stranger to detention.
She's a lady (?)
Grania, even at her softest and gentleist of times, is no little cutesy girl who goes swooning for the guys. Lean yet taught, the girl knows how to 'rastle with the best of the boys - and she'd hang out with males more than 'feather princesses' She dislikes makeup, and famously, in her second year, started a protests, petition and one-woman rally on the fact that girl should be able to wear the boys' pants-like uniform rather than 'those drafty, daft skirts'. Other girls have sometime accused Grania's extreme-tomboyness as meaning she was 'sitting on the other side of the fence' - But Grania has since assured her preference for a male partner - a two-year relationship with a muggle boy back in Ireland. Now, Grania does not pay much attention to Romance; choosing just to remain one of the boys.
Quidditch Head
This girl is virtually a walking encyclopedia on the famous sport, and every single solitary thing related to it. Even when you don't need or want to know it, she'll gladly list off the players of every Quidditch team. Her all-time favorite team is the Kenmare Kestrals - her mother's old team. Smackdown the Kestrals, and Grania WILL smack you down. She dreams of making in on the House Team, and then onto National glory as her mother had, as a Beater.
I'm Not that Smart
Grania's grades are somewhat lacking...but it's more from lack of trying than ignorance. Grania's essays and homework is usually scribbled out the moment before a class starts. If she were able to apply herself, maybe her GPA would rise. Grania does distinctively better in practical classes like Charms and Transfigurations - Flying was her first E. But classes with lots and lots of written work, such as History of Magic or Astronomy - forget it, she doesn't have the attention span.
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
Grania has always been trying to prove her worth - it's been ingrained within her. If someone makes an off comment on how good they are at something, Grania will smile her breezy, sideways smile, and usually reply with the same thing - "you wanna bet?" She's big on the bets - after all, it's a way to earn a few Galleons, or a slave for the day; even though some of her bets have left her with more detentions than she can possibly keep track of. Put something into the context of a contest, and Grania will motor down onto it with amazing exhuberance.
Louder than Words
Grania's main volumn is loud - and it's very very hard to turn her off. She'll argue with people just for the fun of it; her bold voice usually recognizable even in the midst of the crowd. It can give a few people a headache - but what do you expect from a girl who spends a whole load of her home life screaming over three brothers and a foghorn-voiced mother?
Get By With a Little Help from My Friends
Grania is uncarring whomever she makes friends with - they could be purple aliens for all she cares. And while small arguments have broken up friendships in the past, she's usually willing to give people a second chance. To where her friend's are concerned, they are immediately intergrated into Grania's idea of 'family' - and Grania has been taught to protect family with everything she's got. Nobody better mess with a friend of Grania's - they'll end up with a broken nose. In the same note, Grania makes like she doesn't need her friends to protect her - that she's perfectly fine and never needs help. Grania is not the type of girl to cry in public, but it's easy to tell when she's upset - she tends to blink rapidly and irradically.
Wild Child
To sum it all up, Grania, to most of the quieter, saner population of Hogwarts students, is insane. She likes partying, is loud, brash, and not afraid to call someone out or say what she means, and probably has at least half a drawer to herself in the caretaker's office. But if you can handle a little craziness, a little oddness - Grania can make a solid rock of a girl...and a good person to have on your side.
History
Grania was born at home, in her parents splitlevel on Clear Island. After her mother had suffered through labor with the twins, Donnel and Tiernan, and then Big, solid Owen - she claimed that her scrawny, bawling daughter just slipped out. She was not very special for a while, after that; just a red-faced, usually screeching baby who kept up half the household when she wanted something.
Over the years, Grania grew into a toddler, than a little girl - who even at that time, never allowed her mother to tie her hair up pretty, and who was alway deliberately ruining her special dresses so she could get out of wearing them. The neighbours clamed that the 'whole O'Callaghan brood' ran amuck on the moors, from the day they could walk - and many agreed that Grania, although the youngest and a girl, was the loudest, and usually the demanding leader of the boys. On the first day of school, Grania was sent home because she punched a boy in the mouth - and for her time in muggle elementary schools, Grania was usually in similar scrapes on a weekly basis.
Maureen O'Callaghan allowed her only daughter into her workroom, after a day the five year old stumbled across her working on a complex lumos charm that would allow the house's flashlights to glow in the dark without need for a battery. Her daughter was facinated with her mother's 'special', as she called it. Until three years since she had been a silent observe, Grania surprised her mother by picking up her mother's wand, and sending out a stream of colourful, unpopable bubbles into the air.
It was expected that the youngest O'Callaghan was a witch, as her mother was, and the confirmation came the day of Grania's eleventh birthday, when her mother's Eagle Owl, Cannaught, had picked up a acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Maureen was thrilled, as all of her son's seemed to disappoint her and have no magical prowess whatsoever. Within the next few months, Grania was packed up and prepared for Hogwarts in the fall.
Hogwarts was an entirely new experience - for a girl who may have been used to making herself heard over three rowdy older brothers, she now had to face an entire room of talking and yelling and meeting students - some of which could be equally as loud as she is. There are few things that she remember of her first year - she remembers how, at first, she was not going to let anyone put the sorting hat on her head if she had to claw the professor's arm off (she had seen it covering some students faces and, despite her bravado, she was terrified and was definately not going to take her eyes off a room of strange people for a moment). How the first night in her dorm went along - and the various sneaking out after that into the kitchens or abandoned classrooms with new friends.
Returning home for the summer, Grania was sent away to spend July in France, with a Grandmother who had never had any interest in her or her brothers until she had found out about Grania's powers. For the awkward month, Grania wrote home and vementally proclaimed she needed them to send her home now - but it never happened until her return date, and she has been returning to France (grudgingly) over all her summer holidays.
Second year, Grania broke out of the In-House radar, with a brief stint in political activism - it landed her nearly two months in detention, as not only did she disrupt two of her classes - she had stolen the pants of a male housemate, and proceeded to wear them throught the day - she refused to give them back; and kept them even after the incident, hidden away at the bottom of her trunk, for six months- giving it back to the original owner at the beginning of her third year. Her argument? She believed that girls should be able to choose between wearing pants or a skirt; just as boys, if they so choose, should have a choice also. Grania's reputation for most of second year was rather notorious - and at home, her mother keeps referring to how she does not want a repeat of the "pants incident".
Third year, Grania sucessfully debunked a rumor of her unlikely relationships because of the pants incident - proving to the few female friends she had that she had a boyfriend. Over the summer, Grania had started a love affair with a boy from her old muggle elementary school - Aden Callahan. Their relationship, although mainly through letters, as she was away at 'bording school', lasted through two rather uneventful years ; third year and fourth. But by the end of her fourth year, Aden called it off; she never saw him when she had come home during the summer.
Now, Grania is prepared for her fifth year, and the OWLs that are, admittingly, slightly daunting.
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Name
Grania "Grace" Maureen O'Callaghan
Age
15 (Born April 14)
Sex
Female
Nationality
Irish (Clear Island)
Speech
English // Broken Gaelic (on assistance from her father - she never uses it, pretty much only knows a few phrases) // French ( Her grandmother on mother's side lives currently in Versailles, and since Grania's first year at Hogwarts, she was shipped off for a few weeks in the summer to visit her. She knows it better than Gaelic - but she's still far from fluent in it.)
Blood
Half-Blood
Father
Brendan O'Callaghan
Mother
Maureen Tiernay-O'Callaghan
Siblings
Tiernan (17), Donnel (17), Owen (19)
Other Family
Adabella Tiernay (Grandmother on her mother's side)
Family Interactions
Grania's home, nothing short of a madhouse. At any given time, there is screaming and yelling and fighting, or calling down the stairs of their split-level home. And just because Grania is the youngest and only girl of the family; this doesn't mean she does not carry her own. Charged by Owen alot for "not being a chick" she wears there critisism with pride - if she'd not 'chickly', well then, that's they're problem for teaching her.
Brendan is a muggle - but a great lover of the old myths and stories of Ireland. He has written several historical novels (none of which make reference to Wizarding Irish history - although he has always been eager for Maureen to explain this to him) Even his children's names made there way into his obsession - the actual spelling of Grania's name (which she never, ever uses - as, in her own words - "it looks retarded") is Gráinne; she is named after Gráinne Ní Mháille - Grace O'Malley in english, who is known as The Sea Queen Of Connaught - namely, a lady pirate on whom his father had wrote his first college paper on. Her brothers are also named after personalities associated with Gráinne's legacy - Donnel was her eventual husband, Owen her firstborn son, and Tiernan expected lover. Brendan, in his children's eyes, is a bit of an epic bore - spending all his time closed in with his papers and books.
Maureen, however, is a different story. She is a witch - her kids know it, her husband know it - and in around Clear Island, where all the were born and grew up, she is somewhat of a minor celebrity in wizarding circles. Maureen, you see, was once a beater for the Kenmare Kestrals Quidditch team. She had had a shot at becomming a sub on the Irish team, but had become pregnant with Owen at the time, and was somewhat forced into early retirement. Nowadays, Maureen has begun to delve in her other area of expertise - experamental charms.
Oddly enough in the family of four children, Grania has been the only one to have shown to have the capability of Magic. She is the only one to ever have gotten a Hogwarts letter; and has been the only one invited to spend some of her summers in France with her maternal grandmother. Not that Grania enjoys those summers expodentially - her grandmother is quite the nutter, about 189, and enjoys telling Grania about her legacy, which seems to entirely consist of exploits where she turned nosey muggle neighbours into squirrels, or had gotten uproariously drunk and nearly set the tree on fire in the front lot. She was nearly arrested the first year Grania was with him by the French ministry for trying a repeat of her squirrel-transformation days. Needless to say, most of the phrases Grania knows in French are along the lines of "she didn't mean it, honest" "how much exactly would the bail be?" "Grandmother, please tell me how to put out the green flames in the kitchen - they're eating the drapery" and "no, trust me sir, you never had a fluffy tail".
Her brother's have been Grania's greatest teachers for the world of life - they've taught her how to fight - both to stand up for herself and to make a little money while away at school. Although arguments are comment amungst them, there is a strong bond of sisterly-brotherly love - which Maureen steps in from time to time to be the referee.
Height
5"3
Weight
120lbs
Hair
Reddish-Brown; it hangs to about her mid back in twisty half-curls. Often, it get a little frizzy- as self-grooming is not something she is entirely concerned over.
Eyes
Hazel Brown
Skin Colour
White-skinned, but usually tanned over the summer...with a sprinkly of semi-transparent freckles across her arms and bridge of her nose.
Clothing style
No real style ever comes into Grania's wardrobe - she'd be perfectly fine with one set of clothing, which she would retrieve from it's crumpled pile on the floor every morning and wear over and over again. Comfort is a big thing for her - and she's more comfortable in jeans and t-shirts than anything formal or remotely girly.
Accessories
Grania does have her ears pierced - but the smaller the stud, the better. She likes plain and simple things; this is the only jewlery she wears.
Other
The left side of Grania's nose is shiney with scar tissue; an old injury from a fight with her brother. Rather than covering it up with makeup (which she never wears anyway), she shows it off - her badge of honor.
Paragraph Format
Everything about Grania is somewhat underdevloped. Not tall, she is leanly muscular - about average weight for her height, and distinctively lacking some usually-desired chest area. If it wern't for the delicate set of her face and long, red-brown hair, Grania could be mistaken for a boy in a crowd. Usually sporting a bruise or two, and boasting a scar down the left side of her nose, Grania looks youngish for her age, but nonetheless rough and tumble.
Personality
Temper Temper
Grania, for 67% of her weekly interactions, is an normal, everyday teenage girl who's an avid Quidditch fan, enjoys heading out to the three broomsticks for a butterbeer during free periods and on weekends with friends, and, while a little too loud and exhuberant - a decent gal to pass a few hours with. However, she has had a notorious history of being someone who is easily 'set off'. She's gotten into arguments on various topics - from making fun of her brothers and dad and half-blood "impurities" to favorite Quidditch teams match outcomes. (Noone should argue with her on Quidditch, anyways - her mother has seemingly passed down more than just magic skills to her - and Grania's dangerously good with a beater bat) Her temper leads her to be unruly, and she's not shy about taking a swing at students who push her buttons. This girl is no stranger to detention.
She's a lady (?)
Grania, even at her softest and gentleist of times, is no little cutesy girl who goes swooning for the guys. Lean yet taught, the girl knows how to 'rastle with the best of the boys - and she'd hang out with males more than 'feather princesses' She dislikes makeup, and famously, in her second year, started a protests, petition and one-woman rally on the fact that girl should be able to wear the boys' pants-like uniform rather than 'those drafty, daft skirts'. Other girls have sometime accused Grania's extreme-tomboyness as meaning she was 'sitting on the other side of the fence' - But Grania has since assured her preference for a male partner - a two-year relationship with a muggle boy back in Ireland. Now, Grania does not pay much attention to Romance; choosing just to remain one of the boys.
Quidditch Head
This girl is virtually a walking encyclopedia on the famous sport, and every single solitary thing related to it. Even when you don't need or want to know it, she'll gladly list off the players of every Quidditch team. Her all-time favorite team is the Kenmare Kestrals - her mother's old team. Smackdown the Kestrals, and Grania WILL smack you down. She dreams of making in on the House Team, and then onto National glory as her mother had, as a Beater.
I'm Not that Smart
Grania's grades are somewhat lacking...but it's more from lack of trying than ignorance. Grania's essays and homework is usually scribbled out the moment before a class starts. If she were able to apply herself, maybe her GPA would rise. Grania does distinctively better in practical classes like Charms and Transfigurations - Flying was her first E. But classes with lots and lots of written work, such as History of Magic or Astronomy - forget it, she doesn't have the attention span.
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
Grania has always been trying to prove her worth - it's been ingrained within her. If someone makes an off comment on how good they are at something, Grania will smile her breezy, sideways smile, and usually reply with the same thing - "you wanna bet?" She's big on the bets - after all, it's a way to earn a few Galleons, or a slave for the day; even though some of her bets have left her with more detentions than she can possibly keep track of. Put something into the context of a contest, and Grania will motor down onto it with amazing exhuberance.
Louder than Words
Grania's main volumn is loud - and it's very very hard to turn her off. She'll argue with people just for the fun of it; her bold voice usually recognizable even in the midst of the crowd. It can give a few people a headache - but what do you expect from a girl who spends a whole load of her home life screaming over three brothers and a foghorn-voiced mother?
Get By With a Little Help from My Friends
Grania is uncarring whomever she makes friends with - they could be purple aliens for all she cares. And while small arguments have broken up friendships in the past, she's usually willing to give people a second chance. To where her friend's are concerned, they are immediately intergrated into Grania's idea of 'family' - and Grania has been taught to protect family with everything she's got. Nobody better mess with a friend of Grania's - they'll end up with a broken nose. In the same note, Grania makes like she doesn't need her friends to protect her - that she's perfectly fine and never needs help. Grania is not the type of girl to cry in public, but it's easy to tell when she's upset - she tends to blink rapidly and irradically.
Wild Child
To sum it all up, Grania, to most of the quieter, saner population of Hogwarts students, is insane. She likes partying, is loud, brash, and not afraid to call someone out or say what she means, and probably has at least half a drawer to herself in the caretaker's office. But if you can handle a little craziness, a little oddness - Grania can make a solid rock of a girl...and a good person to have on your side.
History
Grania was born at home, in her parents splitlevel on Clear Island. After her mother had suffered through labor with the twins, Donnel and Tiernan, and then Big, solid Owen - she claimed that her scrawny, bawling daughter just slipped out. She was not very special for a while, after that; just a red-faced, usually screeching baby who kept up half the household when she wanted something.
Over the years, Grania grew into a toddler, than a little girl - who even at that time, never allowed her mother to tie her hair up pretty, and who was alway deliberately ruining her special dresses so she could get out of wearing them. The neighbours clamed that the 'whole O'Callaghan brood' ran amuck on the moors, from the day they could walk - and many agreed that Grania, although the youngest and a girl, was the loudest, and usually the demanding leader of the boys. On the first day of school, Grania was sent home because she punched a boy in the mouth - and for her time in muggle elementary schools, Grania was usually in similar scrapes on a weekly basis.
Maureen O'Callaghan allowed her only daughter into her workroom, after a day the five year old stumbled across her working on a complex lumos charm that would allow the house's flashlights to glow in the dark without need for a battery. Her daughter was facinated with her mother's 'special', as she called it. Until three years since she had been a silent observe, Grania surprised her mother by picking up her mother's wand, and sending out a stream of colourful, unpopable bubbles into the air.
It was expected that the youngest O'Callaghan was a witch, as her mother was, and the confirmation came the day of Grania's eleventh birthday, when her mother's Eagle Owl, Cannaught, had picked up a acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Maureen was thrilled, as all of her son's seemed to disappoint her and have no magical prowess whatsoever. Within the next few months, Grania was packed up and prepared for Hogwarts in the fall.
Hogwarts was an entirely new experience - for a girl who may have been used to making herself heard over three rowdy older brothers, she now had to face an entire room of talking and yelling and meeting students - some of which could be equally as loud as she is. There are few things that she remember of her first year - she remembers how, at first, she was not going to let anyone put the sorting hat on her head if she had to claw the professor's arm off (she had seen it covering some students faces and, despite her bravado, she was terrified and was definately not going to take her eyes off a room of strange people for a moment). How the first night in her dorm went along - and the various sneaking out after that into the kitchens or abandoned classrooms with new friends.
Returning home for the summer, Grania was sent away to spend July in France, with a Grandmother who had never had any interest in her or her brothers until she had found out about Grania's powers. For the awkward month, Grania wrote home and vementally proclaimed she needed them to send her home now - but it never happened until her return date, and she has been returning to France (grudgingly) over all her summer holidays.
Second year, Grania broke out of the In-House radar, with a brief stint in political activism - it landed her nearly two months in detention, as not only did she disrupt two of her classes - she had stolen the pants of a male housemate, and proceeded to wear them throught the day - she refused to give them back; and kept them even after the incident, hidden away at the bottom of her trunk, for six months- giving it back to the original owner at the beginning of her third year. Her argument? She believed that girls should be able to choose between wearing pants or a skirt; just as boys, if they so choose, should have a choice also. Grania's reputation for most of second year was rather notorious - and at home, her mother keeps referring to how she does not want a repeat of the "pants incident".
Third year, Grania sucessfully debunked a rumor of her unlikely relationships because of the pants incident - proving to the few female friends she had that she had a boyfriend. Over the summer, Grania had started a love affair with a boy from her old muggle elementary school - Aden Callahan. Their relationship, although mainly through letters, as she was away at 'bording school', lasted through two rather uneventful years ; third year and fourth. But by the end of her fourth year, Aden called it off; she never saw him when she had come home during the summer.
Now, Grania is prepared for her fifth year, and the OWLs that are, admittingly, slightly daunting.
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