Post by McKenna Amelia O'Rourke on Feb 27, 2010 0:03:59 GMT -5
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Name: McKenna Amelia O‘Rourke
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Nationality: Irish
Speech: English and Gaelic
Blood: Pureblood
Father: Connor Jude O‘Rourke
Mother: Amelia Rose McGavin O‘Rourke (deceased)
Step-Mother: Evalyn Angela Carlton O‘Rourke
Siblings:
Step-brother: Bryce Anthony Carlton
Half-sister: Aver Elaine O’Rourke
Other Family:
Grandmother: Bronwyn Marie Connor O’Rourke
Grandfather: Bryan Jonathon O’Rourke
Step-Grandfather: Braden Andrew Carlton (deceased)
Step-Grandmother: Angela Elaine Spears Carlton (deceased)
No close cousins.
Family Interactions:
McKenna is closest to her father. They have been through quite a few things together; including the death of her mother, Amelia Rose McGavin O’Rourke, when she was five-years-old. The little family mourned the loss of the greatest figure in both their lives for nearly two years before Connor O’Rourke announced that he was going to marry a Muggle named Evalyn Angela Carlton. It was a shock for McKenna, in more ways then one. She hadn’t even known that her father was courting Evalyn until that time and it broke the little girls naïve image of her father. She had thought they were best friends and told each other everything. She was sadly mistaken and when she found out the woman her father was marrying was a Muggle she was confused. Obviously she would be in a different situation and the culture shock confused her. One day, in a rage over her new found family, McKenna coldly referred to Evalyn as a Mudblood and that completely destroyed her and Connor’s relationship.
Evalyn was confused about the meaning of the word but when Connor told her what it meant and that it was an insult, she told him gently that maybe McKenna was just confused and that it was a phase. To her utter dismay, the child continued to treat her with hostility. McKenna’s relationship with Evalyn is of her own making and choosing but sometimes, she regrets it. Evalyn has been nothing but kind to the girl, but still McKenna refuses to accept her as her new mother. She understands that she can never replace Amelia Rose’s position in McKenna’s life and is accepting of it but wishes the girl will give her a chance.
Bryce Anthony Carlton is Evalyn’s only child to a man named Anthony that ran out on her whenever he found out that she was pregnant. She wasn’t married to him so Bryce carries the Carlton name. He is one hundred percent Muggle and that has put a complete stall on him and McKenna’s relationship. He is only two years younger than her but she will have nothing to do with him as he is “the son of that Mudblood”. McKenna actually likes him, though, and thinks he is sweet and funny so she isn’t mean to him, she just ignores him.
Her step-sister Aver Elaine O’Rourke is one of her favorite people in the world. She loves her as if she were her full sister not just half. Aver is merely an infant, not even six months old now, but she still thinks that she could be promising. Her reasoning for not showing any aversion to Aver is that she is a half-blood and is therefore not Mudblood but it could also be that Aver is just adorable and actually an O’Rourke.
She is closest now to her grandmother, Bronwyn Marie Connor O’Rourke. Her grandmother is caring and compassionate and understands that McKenna only wants to be loved and was completely stricken with the news that her father was only human after all. She doesn’t have the same close relationship with Bryan, her grandfather, but they remain the two people McKenna counts on most in the world. McKenna never had a chance to know her mother’s grandparents because Amelia herself hadn’t known them. Amelia had been left in the care of an elderly woman named Alwyn Baker that had been a friend of her parent‘s. She had given their names as Edward and Marie McGavin but not the reason as to why they were not able to take care of their daughter. As for her step-grandparents, they died before Bryce or herself could ever meet them, long before they were born.
Height: 5‘3“
Weight: About 120 pounds.
Hair: Light brown, almost blonde.
Eyes: Blue.
Skin Colour: Pale, ivory.
Clothing style: McKenna tends to wear what she wants and whatever is available at the time but it could be categorized as grunge or punk most of the time. She cannot wear thin shirts that bare her stomach because she has a birthmark there that she would rather not show and she never wears shorts accept to bed and won‘t even let her roommates she her in them due to cat scratches. Her clothes are slightly loose but not all the time. When she wants to dress to kill, she certainly can.
Accessories: McKenna always wears a silver, hear-shaped locket with a picture of her mother inside. She never takes it off. She usually wears a few black rubber bracelets on her left wrist or a silver, antique wrist watch that her grandmother gave her. Other than that, she either wears clips in her hair or just an elastic if she has her hair up that day.
Other: She doesn‘t have any piercings or tatoos as she believes that her body is her temple and does not need to be needlessly defaced. She is very vehement in this belief.
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McKenna is very vain and is not at all modest about her appearance. She believes she looks good and it shows in her carriage. She may not dress like it sometimes but that is because she believes that the book is not defined by the cover. As stated before, she believes that her body is her temple and is therefore very careful about everything that has to deal with it. She watches everything she eats and is slender, rather than thin, because she knows that starving yourself does not make you healthy but rather the opposite. She has a balanced diet and exercises regularly and is therefore rather well-toned.
She is shorter than the average height of most girls, at 5’3”. It may only be a few inches that miss the average but it shows. Since she is so well-toned, it does wonder for her figure and she rather likes it. Her waist is small and she has just the slightest bit of curve at her hip but that doesn’t really bother her nor does that fact that she doesn’t have a large chest. She knows she would look weird if she did and she likes what she has.
Her hair is long and reaches her tailbone. She keeps it long in memory of her mother, who loved her hair, and because she is very vain about it. It’s beautiful and she knows it. It’s a mixture of blonde and brunette, sometimes seeming more brown and blonde or the other way around. It is curly and hard to straighten but she prefers it the way it is.
With her ivory colored skin, she looks breakable and fragile. It is the perfect look to go with her personality as she is neither. Mostly. She sometimes uses her appearance to get what she wants and it works. Her large blue eyes are like the color of the sky and almost almond in shape which is quite striking against her face. She has the high cheekbones her Irish ancestry gifted her with and a wide set, bow-shaped mouth which is a slight flaw but doesn’t bother her.
There is, however, a rather large and interesting birthmark on her stomach that makes it that she can’t wear shirts that bare her stomach, not that she would. It’s in a random shape, appearing as if it was an ink blob on a page. She has several scars on her thigh from when she annoyed a cat when she was younger. It had also made her extremely sick, thus leaving her with an intense fear of cats.
Personality:
McKenna likes to say that her life has made her the way she is but it‘s not the whole truth. Actually, she‘s the one who decided how it would be from the moment she decided to insult her step-mother‘s Blood. As a result of her choice, she is now rather prejudice. It‘s not her actually view on the subject but she pretends it is to keep up appearances. Her father hurt her at a young age emotionally and she feels the need to hurt him as well. Thus, she has forced herself to become what he hates the most.
She‘s actually rather more complex than she appears to be. At face value, she is the girl that everyone wants to be. She seems confidant and assured in her beliefs. Everything that she seems is just a ploy to hide the real person behind the mask. McKenna is very shy but she uses her harsh words and quick tongue to hide that. Inside, she is just a young girl that was hurt and is eternally still crying over it.
The real McKenna does not care at all what everyone says or thinks about her because she knows inside who she is and that that means that she is better than everyone else. She knows that she is strong and can get to where she wants to be in life, once she figures out what that is. McKenna will do anything to get what she wants. Even if it means hurting more people than her father.
On the other side of her personality is the sweet and caring girl she used to be. McKenna views this side of her as her weakness when in reality it‘s her stubbornness and strong will that are her true weaknesses. They enable her to appear strong but also gain her enemies were she could have friends. She is fiercely loyal and loving underneath it all and she has a certain pity for those that she deems weaker than her that stop her from being their worst nightmare.
History:
McKenna is the only daughter of Connor and Amelia O‘Rourke. Her mother died when she was five and the small family was heartbroken. They clung to each other and appeared to need only each other for two years after. Then Connor announced that he was going to marry a Muggle named Evalyn McGavin and McKenna‘s happy world shattered into a hundred pieces.
Her new family unit included Bryce Carlton, Evalyn‘s child by a man named Anthony that had left her when he found out she was pregnant. Evalyn refuses to talk about it further than that. McKenna uttered the insult “Mudblood“ and destroyed her relationship with her father and refuses to have anything to do with Evalyn or Bryce, although she tends to leave him alone because he is just too sweet to harm, one of her weak points actually. Him and Aver, her new half-sister whom she loves very much.
As a younger child, she tried in everyway to return to the closeness she had had with her father before he had married Evalyn. Connor O‘Rourke could not forgive her and never accepted the apology she had made to him one night in desperation, stating coldly that he could never forgive her for insulting his wife like that and that, as far as he was concerned, she was no daughter of his. McKenna was heartbroken and ended up staying with her grandparents, Bronwyn and Bryan, for three years, from the time she was seven and a half until she was ten-years-old. It put a further gap between her and her small family unit but she really didn‘t care so much anymore. The stay with her grandparents had changed her even more and she was more determined than ever to prove her father wrong about her.
She really didn‘t have the chance to do such a thing. When she realized that her father had made up his mind about her, she gave up the naïve hope that maybe she could regain his love. This caused her to become slightly jaded and definitely more open-eyed than a ten-year-old should be. She went into school with the determination to be exactly what her father had imagined her as and turned her back on the life she had hoped to have. At school, she showed that she didn‘t give a lick for others thoughts or what they wanted. It was what McKenna wanted that mattered and only that.
Hogwarts was a dream come true for her. Here, she had a clean slate and could become whatever it was that she wanted to be. She didn‘t know anyone even though she was Pureblooded because of her fathers marriage to a Muggle and his decision to leave magic behind her. She always resented that choice, because to her, it seemed as if her father was trying to keep magic out of her life. No matter, though, because she was at school and that was all that mattered.
Openly, she was a teacher‘s dream. She was quiet and didn‘t cause any troubles. She viewed rules as guidelines that could be broken if need be but she never needed to do such a thing. McKenna didn‘t gain many friends in her first couple of years because she kept to herself. She had good marks, grades that anyone could be proud of, but she wasn‘t anywhere near the top of her class. There were others that were smarter than her and besides, she relied on her natural abilities and didn‘t study over much. If she had, she might have received even higher marks but she hadn‘t wanted recognition. Not in that respect, anyways.
She was good at Charms. Not just good, extremely good. Her grandmother told her that she took after her father in that way and she was secretly pleased by that but scowled if anyone mentioned it. McKenna is also rather good at Potions. Her weakest subject is History of Magic because dates and dead people have no meaning to her. She also finds Divination to be a soft subject as she is terrible at it. McKenna‘s Patronus is in the form of a lynx.
codeword: lemon sherbet
codeword: fizzing whizbees
Name: McKenna Amelia O‘Rourke
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Nationality: Irish
Speech: English and Gaelic
Blood: Pureblood
Father: Connor Jude O‘Rourke
Mother: Amelia Rose McGavin O‘Rourke (deceased)
Step-Mother: Evalyn Angela Carlton O‘Rourke
Siblings:
Step-brother: Bryce Anthony Carlton
Half-sister: Aver Elaine O’Rourke
Other Family:
Grandmother: Bronwyn Marie Connor O’Rourke
Grandfather: Bryan Jonathon O’Rourke
Step-Grandfather: Braden Andrew Carlton (deceased)
Step-Grandmother: Angela Elaine Spears Carlton (deceased)
No close cousins.
Family Interactions:
McKenna is closest to her father. They have been through quite a few things together; including the death of her mother, Amelia Rose McGavin O’Rourke, when she was five-years-old. The little family mourned the loss of the greatest figure in both their lives for nearly two years before Connor O’Rourke announced that he was going to marry a Muggle named Evalyn Angela Carlton. It was a shock for McKenna, in more ways then one. She hadn’t even known that her father was courting Evalyn until that time and it broke the little girls naïve image of her father. She had thought they were best friends and told each other everything. She was sadly mistaken and when she found out the woman her father was marrying was a Muggle she was confused. Obviously she would be in a different situation and the culture shock confused her. One day, in a rage over her new found family, McKenna coldly referred to Evalyn as a Mudblood and that completely destroyed her and Connor’s relationship.
Evalyn was confused about the meaning of the word but when Connor told her what it meant and that it was an insult, she told him gently that maybe McKenna was just confused and that it was a phase. To her utter dismay, the child continued to treat her with hostility. McKenna’s relationship with Evalyn is of her own making and choosing but sometimes, she regrets it. Evalyn has been nothing but kind to the girl, but still McKenna refuses to accept her as her new mother. She understands that she can never replace Amelia Rose’s position in McKenna’s life and is accepting of it but wishes the girl will give her a chance.
Bryce Anthony Carlton is Evalyn’s only child to a man named Anthony that ran out on her whenever he found out that she was pregnant. She wasn’t married to him so Bryce carries the Carlton name. He is one hundred percent Muggle and that has put a complete stall on him and McKenna’s relationship. He is only two years younger than her but she will have nothing to do with him as he is “the son of that Mudblood”. McKenna actually likes him, though, and thinks he is sweet and funny so she isn’t mean to him, she just ignores him.
Her step-sister Aver Elaine O’Rourke is one of her favorite people in the world. She loves her as if she were her full sister not just half. Aver is merely an infant, not even six months old now, but she still thinks that she could be promising. Her reasoning for not showing any aversion to Aver is that she is a half-blood and is therefore not Mudblood but it could also be that Aver is just adorable and actually an O’Rourke.
She is closest now to her grandmother, Bronwyn Marie Connor O’Rourke. Her grandmother is caring and compassionate and understands that McKenna only wants to be loved and was completely stricken with the news that her father was only human after all. She doesn’t have the same close relationship with Bryan, her grandfather, but they remain the two people McKenna counts on most in the world. McKenna never had a chance to know her mother’s grandparents because Amelia herself hadn’t known them. Amelia had been left in the care of an elderly woman named Alwyn Baker that had been a friend of her parent‘s. She had given their names as Edward and Marie McGavin but not the reason as to why they were not able to take care of their daughter. As for her step-grandparents, they died before Bryce or herself could ever meet them, long before they were born.
Height: 5‘3“
Weight: About 120 pounds.
Hair: Light brown, almost blonde.
Eyes: Blue.
Skin Colour: Pale, ivory.
Clothing style: McKenna tends to wear what she wants and whatever is available at the time but it could be categorized as grunge or punk most of the time. She cannot wear thin shirts that bare her stomach because she has a birthmark there that she would rather not show and she never wears shorts accept to bed and won‘t even let her roommates she her in them due to cat scratches. Her clothes are slightly loose but not all the time. When she wants to dress to kill, she certainly can.
Accessories: McKenna always wears a silver, hear-shaped locket with a picture of her mother inside. She never takes it off. She usually wears a few black rubber bracelets on her left wrist or a silver, antique wrist watch that her grandmother gave her. Other than that, she either wears clips in her hair or just an elastic if she has her hair up that day.
Other: She doesn‘t have any piercings or tatoos as she believes that her body is her temple and does not need to be needlessly defaced. She is very vehement in this belief.
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McKenna is very vain and is not at all modest about her appearance. She believes she looks good and it shows in her carriage. She may not dress like it sometimes but that is because she believes that the book is not defined by the cover. As stated before, she believes that her body is her temple and is therefore very careful about everything that has to deal with it. She watches everything she eats and is slender, rather than thin, because she knows that starving yourself does not make you healthy but rather the opposite. She has a balanced diet and exercises regularly and is therefore rather well-toned.
She is shorter than the average height of most girls, at 5’3”. It may only be a few inches that miss the average but it shows. Since she is so well-toned, it does wonder for her figure and she rather likes it. Her waist is small and she has just the slightest bit of curve at her hip but that doesn’t really bother her nor does that fact that she doesn’t have a large chest. She knows she would look weird if she did and she likes what she has.
Her hair is long and reaches her tailbone. She keeps it long in memory of her mother, who loved her hair, and because she is very vain about it. It’s beautiful and she knows it. It’s a mixture of blonde and brunette, sometimes seeming more brown and blonde or the other way around. It is curly and hard to straighten but she prefers it the way it is.
With her ivory colored skin, she looks breakable and fragile. It is the perfect look to go with her personality as she is neither. Mostly. She sometimes uses her appearance to get what she wants and it works. Her large blue eyes are like the color of the sky and almost almond in shape which is quite striking against her face. She has the high cheekbones her Irish ancestry gifted her with and a wide set, bow-shaped mouth which is a slight flaw but doesn’t bother her.
There is, however, a rather large and interesting birthmark on her stomach that makes it that she can’t wear shirts that bare her stomach, not that she would. It’s in a random shape, appearing as if it was an ink blob on a page. She has several scars on her thigh from when she annoyed a cat when she was younger. It had also made her extremely sick, thus leaving her with an intense fear of cats.
Personality:
McKenna likes to say that her life has made her the way she is but it‘s not the whole truth. Actually, she‘s the one who decided how it would be from the moment she decided to insult her step-mother‘s Blood. As a result of her choice, she is now rather prejudice. It‘s not her actually view on the subject but she pretends it is to keep up appearances. Her father hurt her at a young age emotionally and she feels the need to hurt him as well. Thus, she has forced herself to become what he hates the most.
She‘s actually rather more complex than she appears to be. At face value, she is the girl that everyone wants to be. She seems confidant and assured in her beliefs. Everything that she seems is just a ploy to hide the real person behind the mask. McKenna is very shy but she uses her harsh words and quick tongue to hide that. Inside, she is just a young girl that was hurt and is eternally still crying over it.
The real McKenna does not care at all what everyone says or thinks about her because she knows inside who she is and that that means that she is better than everyone else. She knows that she is strong and can get to where she wants to be in life, once she figures out what that is. McKenna will do anything to get what she wants. Even if it means hurting more people than her father.
On the other side of her personality is the sweet and caring girl she used to be. McKenna views this side of her as her weakness when in reality it‘s her stubbornness and strong will that are her true weaknesses. They enable her to appear strong but also gain her enemies were she could have friends. She is fiercely loyal and loving underneath it all and she has a certain pity for those that she deems weaker than her that stop her from being their worst nightmare.
History:
McKenna is the only daughter of Connor and Amelia O‘Rourke. Her mother died when she was five and the small family was heartbroken. They clung to each other and appeared to need only each other for two years after. Then Connor announced that he was going to marry a Muggle named Evalyn McGavin and McKenna‘s happy world shattered into a hundred pieces.
Her new family unit included Bryce Carlton, Evalyn‘s child by a man named Anthony that had left her when he found out she was pregnant. Evalyn refuses to talk about it further than that. McKenna uttered the insult “Mudblood“ and destroyed her relationship with her father and refuses to have anything to do with Evalyn or Bryce, although she tends to leave him alone because he is just too sweet to harm, one of her weak points actually. Him and Aver, her new half-sister whom she loves very much.
As a younger child, she tried in everyway to return to the closeness she had had with her father before he had married Evalyn. Connor O‘Rourke could not forgive her and never accepted the apology she had made to him one night in desperation, stating coldly that he could never forgive her for insulting his wife like that and that, as far as he was concerned, she was no daughter of his. McKenna was heartbroken and ended up staying with her grandparents, Bronwyn and Bryan, for three years, from the time she was seven and a half until she was ten-years-old. It put a further gap between her and her small family unit but she really didn‘t care so much anymore. The stay with her grandparents had changed her even more and she was more determined than ever to prove her father wrong about her.
She really didn‘t have the chance to do such a thing. When she realized that her father had made up his mind about her, she gave up the naïve hope that maybe she could regain his love. This caused her to become slightly jaded and definitely more open-eyed than a ten-year-old should be. She went into school with the determination to be exactly what her father had imagined her as and turned her back on the life she had hoped to have. At school, she showed that she didn‘t give a lick for others thoughts or what they wanted. It was what McKenna wanted that mattered and only that.
Hogwarts was a dream come true for her. Here, she had a clean slate and could become whatever it was that she wanted to be. She didn‘t know anyone even though she was Pureblooded because of her fathers marriage to a Muggle and his decision to leave magic behind her. She always resented that choice, because to her, it seemed as if her father was trying to keep magic out of her life. No matter, though, because she was at school and that was all that mattered.
Openly, she was a teacher‘s dream. She was quiet and didn‘t cause any troubles. She viewed rules as guidelines that could be broken if need be but she never needed to do such a thing. McKenna didn‘t gain many friends in her first couple of years because she kept to herself. She had good marks, grades that anyone could be proud of, but she wasn‘t anywhere near the top of her class. There were others that were smarter than her and besides, she relied on her natural abilities and didn‘t study over much. If she had, she might have received even higher marks but she hadn‘t wanted recognition. Not in that respect, anyways.
She was good at Charms. Not just good, extremely good. Her grandmother told her that she took after her father in that way and she was secretly pleased by that but scowled if anyone mentioned it. McKenna is also rather good at Potions. Her weakest subject is History of Magic because dates and dead people have no meaning to her. She also finds Divination to be a soft subject as she is terrible at it. McKenna‘s Patronus is in the form of a lynx.
codeword: lemon sherbet
codeword: fizzing whizbees
