Post by Prof. Darcy Travers-Densaugeo on Dec 21, 2005 23:49:39 GMT -5
Name: Darcy Travers-Densaugeo
Purpose behind the name: Her mother's best friend in highschool was named Darcy.
Nicknames: Darce, Traver
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Birthday: December 30th, 1973
Blood: Muggleborn
Short Description: Darcy has fairly average looks, but she loves to try to look different and stick out. Darcy is fairly short, at only 5'1" tall, and big boned in the way that makes her more sturdy than others, as opposed to being tall. Before school, she had begun training at the gym near her house to pass time, and she is also naturally strong(she still works out whenever she can). Darcy is fairly muscular in appearance, stronger than most other people, whether they be male or female. She is very near-sighted, but she wears contact lenses to make up for this. Her eyes are a sort of pale green, but they change color every now and then(as blue or green-eyed people's tend to do) and show a hint of the sharp intellect she possesses. Her hair is a very dark brown, mixed with slightly lighter shades of red. Well, that's what color it is naturally, anyway. She dyes it quite often, and at the moment she has it bleached and dyed radioactive green. Her hair is kept cut short, only an inch and a half long or so. Many people would mistake her for a boy upon seeing her, for her face is more masculine than feminine, with a strong jaw, fairly thick, dark eyebrows, slightly defined cheekbones, and a slightly crooked nose(it has been broken once before during a fight). Naturally, Darcy is very pale, but she spends plenty of time outside, so her skin is a bit closer to the average tone than it otherwise would be(she doesn't tan very much). Her skin has a tendency to become very dry, especially during the winter months, and during those times she often has small cuts on her knuckles from the extreme dryness. Also, her hands are almost always ice cold, regardless of the air temperature or whether she's wearing gloves or not. A couple distinguishing features she has are a single scar below her knee, as well as a group of slightly dark spots on her neck and shoulder. The scar is in a slightly crescent shape, and is from knee surgery that she had to have after an accident back in America, where she was playing in the woods and a hunter accidentally shot her(the crescent shape is the cut they made to replace her kneecap later). Apparently, the spots are caused by an unusual(but harmless) skin condition. She also has a couple of these spots on her left shoulder and lower back.
Darcy has mild scoliosis, and her lower back tends to bother her whenever she does hard work, but she often ignores it, and it very rarely gets so painful that it really affects her.
Darcy's clothing style is varied and eclectic. She's got some bright clothes and some dark ones. Most often, she wears black jeans and a pair of black leather Matterhorn boots that go up to a couple inches above her ankles. As for tops... That varies depending on her mood. Also, she loves acting, and will occasionally wear a rediculous looking hat, shirt, etc just for the heck of it.
Personality: Darcy is a pretty tough girl. She talks tough, but actively avoids swearing, and she's physically tough and has surprising willpower(she also has a particular talent for Occlumency). She's also tough with other people, and often doesn't realize that her rough way of treating others might actually be hurting them. Despite this, she can see people's emotions with a surprising clarity, and sometimes says or does things just so see if she is right in what she thinks their reaction will be. More often than not, she tends to say things that will anger them, since there are so many different kinds of anger and she likes to see how they react to those strong emotions. Darcy seems to be impervious to pain, and when she is in pain she will normally just ignore it. If it is something serious, such as a sprain or a broken bone, then she puts on a kind of mask that makes her look cold and distant, and she stays this way until the pain has gone away or lessened. She almost never cries because of pain.
In terms of her own emotions, she often hides her true feelings. This is something she is quite good at. She can convince herself that she has no emotion in a particular instance, and this can be both good and bad. For example, if something is making her sad, she locks it away and it can stew inside her for months, even years, before she lets it out(and she only ever does so in private). She does have something of a temper, but she holds it as strictly in check as she does any sadness she might be feeling. Her anger can stew within her for weeks or months as well. That said, she does not just take whatever people might throw at her with a neutral face. She is not above insults, or especially sarcasm, when given them by others. Revenge, too, is something that she is not above. She is careful though, and makes sure that when she does get her revenge, no one can trace it back to her(although they may think it was her nonetheless). If someone tries to pick a fight with her or gets her truly incensed, she has a tendency to become physically violent. She has been in fights before, and has even injured other people in her anger.
She can be a bit difficult to get close to, but if someone does manage to get truly close to her she is intensely loyal, even to the point of personal injury, if it were necessary to help someone she deems a good friend. This isn't to say that she doesn't make friends. She does, but she considers them aquaintences more than anything else. She can be considered a daredevil, for she loves exploring and doing things that others wouldn't normally try. She can't stand not to know what's around that corner, or at the end of that darkened corridor, or what's behind that locked door. She is not fearless, however. Her fear simply doesn't hold her back. She can also be a bit of a pessimist, and she is extremely self-critical. Nothing she does is ever good enough in her eyes. The only place she ever seems to be satisfied with herself is in her athletic ability. She loves sports of almost all kinds, especially football and basketball(and more recently, quidditch).
Darcy is driven to succeed and prove herself, for at heart she is actually a rather insecure person, despite her confident exterior. She has closed this up however, and has convinced even herself that she is every bit as confident as she makes herself look. In her subconscious, she has a strong desire to be better than everyone else, a want to outshine the people in the popular crowd. After all, she is something of an oddball, and envies those who can make friends easily and who other people admire and praise. She works hard and tirelessly to gain some respect of her own in her own "field" so to speak, but she is not below sabotaging others' efforts to look good in some cases. In short, she will do what needs to be done in order to reach her goals, whether or not the road to that goal is admirable.
History: Darcy was born in the USA, more specifically in Maine, on December 30th, 1973. She was born in the middle of a blizzard and came a full month early, so her mother gave birth to her without any kind of medical aid. They didn't live in a town or city. Actually, they lived about five miles outside a tiny town near Maine's shore. By the time her parents could get into town, she was sick. They had no baby supplies around the house yet, no baby clothes, nothing, for they had expected her to come much later. She lived through this, obviously, and her life after that wasn't nearly so tumultuous.
She was an only child, and her parents worked two jobs each, so as soon as she was able to walk she was put in the care of a babysitter while they were away. Actually, there were two babysitters: one for the day and one for the night. She grew up with her parents only being home for about four hours a day each, and those four hours occasionally came when she was at school. As such, she learned to take care of herself early. She began walking home from school in third grade, on the condition that she go straight home and stay inside thereafter. She learned a trick, however, that allowed her to go out more often. She would go home, call her mom or dad and tell them that she was alright as soon as she got there. After that she would take her father's old cell phone and make it so that any calls that were coming home would ring through the cell phone. In this way, she could wander around in the woods or by the shore of the Atlantic ocean for hours without her parents ever knowing she was away from home. She never got into trouble, she just wanted the freedom to be able to go where she wanted to go.
Now, it may seem that she had a bad relationship with her parents because they were not there very often, but this was not the case. She convinced herself that this was how all parents were, and whenever someone would start talking about their own families she would either walk away or change the subject. It worked quite well, actually.
When she was nine, she was off on one of her excursions through the woods. It was late fall, and she had decided to go to her "secret spot" on a sort of cliff above the ocean. She wasn't dressed brightly, and a hunter nearby saw only the rustle of brush and the shadow of something large moving in the foliage. He foolishly fired, and the bullet hit Darcy in the knee just below her kneecap. It was a minor miracle that she hadn't lost mobility in her leg, but she still needed surgery to remove the bullet, which had lodged beheath her kneecap. The bullet was removed, but the doctors told her that she would have to get a replacement kneecap. So she went back about a month later and had her ruined knee fixed, the nearly shattered kneecap replaced by a metal one. After over three years of physical therapy, she regained full strength in her knee.
Soon after that happened, Darcy's father(who worked for a large construction company) was given a huge promotion. This promotion also meant that he would have to transfer. All the way over to England, to be exact. He took the promotion(after Darcy's mother had agreed) and they moved here in Febuary of that year. Darcy finished her fifth grade year at a school in England, and was surprised at the end of the year when she received a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She thought it was just a joke and put the letter away. She didn't want to throw it away, since she held some hope that it was real and true, but she had almost lost hope by July when she received no further letters.
On July 12th, a representative from the Ministry of Magic came to Darcy's house and spoke to her and her parents, explaining that she had shown signs of magical ability. At first, her parents thought it was a hoax, but after a demonstration by the representative, they were convinced and reasonably pleased(if a little bewildered). Darcy, for her part, had never been happier in her life. She traveled with her parents and the representative to Diagon Alley to buy her school things, and received her first owl as a present from her parents during that trip. During the time she spent in Diagon Alley, she discovered an absolutely wonderful sport known as Quidditch, and was determined to play for her house.
She went to Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin house, where she fit in quite nicely at first... Until they made her an outcast when she began dating a Hufflepuff girl. That was a rough time for her, since she was still trying to figure out her sexuality and where she belonged, but she finally settled in during her third year. She also reached her goal of playing on the house Quidditch team, and became one of the youngest Slytherins in the history of Hogwarts to play Quidditch(she became a chaser in her first year).
When Darcy graduated from Hogwarts, she went off to work in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures for a while, but it didn't suit her interests much. She then moved to the Department for the Disposal of Dark Items, and from there to the Department of Obliviators. She was never too fond of any of those though, and she left the Ministry when she was 22. At that time, she travelled back to America, where she became involved in theatre and performed in several plays/musicals, both in the muggle world and not.
When Darcy was 25, she moved back to England and opened her own little black-box theatre just outside Hogsmeade called Magical Matinee. There were evening performances, of course, but the name fit anyway. It wasn't until last year that a friend suggested Darcy take up teaching the sports at Hogwarts. Darcy considered it for a time, then decided that it would indeed be a good idea. She now teaches flying lessons, and also occasionally schedules games of other sorts such as American football and whatnot for those who wish to play.
Relations:
Mother: Lisa Travers-Densaugeo
Father: Anthony Travers-Densaugeo
Aunt(on her mother's side): Ruth Vincenzo
Uncle(on her mother's side): Angelo Vincenzo (A Half-Blood working for the Department of Mysteries)
Grandmother(on her mother's side): Martha Travers
Grandfather(on her mother's side): Patrick Travers
Grandmother(on her father's side): Priscilla Travers-Prewett
Grandfather(on her father's side): Viktor Travers-Prewett (deceased)
Friends: Several, who she keeps in contact with via mail.
Lover/Crush: None
Purpose behind the name: Her mother's best friend in highschool was named Darcy.
Nicknames: Darce, Traver
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Birthday: December 30th, 1973
Blood: Muggleborn
Short Description: Darcy has fairly average looks, but she loves to try to look different and stick out. Darcy is fairly short, at only 5'1" tall, and big boned in the way that makes her more sturdy than others, as opposed to being tall. Before school, she had begun training at the gym near her house to pass time, and she is also naturally strong(she still works out whenever she can). Darcy is fairly muscular in appearance, stronger than most other people, whether they be male or female. She is very near-sighted, but she wears contact lenses to make up for this. Her eyes are a sort of pale green, but they change color every now and then(as blue or green-eyed people's tend to do) and show a hint of the sharp intellect she possesses. Her hair is a very dark brown, mixed with slightly lighter shades of red. Well, that's what color it is naturally, anyway. She dyes it quite often, and at the moment she has it bleached and dyed radioactive green. Her hair is kept cut short, only an inch and a half long or so. Many people would mistake her for a boy upon seeing her, for her face is more masculine than feminine, with a strong jaw, fairly thick, dark eyebrows, slightly defined cheekbones, and a slightly crooked nose(it has been broken once before during a fight). Naturally, Darcy is very pale, but she spends plenty of time outside, so her skin is a bit closer to the average tone than it otherwise would be(she doesn't tan very much). Her skin has a tendency to become very dry, especially during the winter months, and during those times she often has small cuts on her knuckles from the extreme dryness. Also, her hands are almost always ice cold, regardless of the air temperature or whether she's wearing gloves or not. A couple distinguishing features she has are a single scar below her knee, as well as a group of slightly dark spots on her neck and shoulder. The scar is in a slightly crescent shape, and is from knee surgery that she had to have after an accident back in America, where she was playing in the woods and a hunter accidentally shot her(the crescent shape is the cut they made to replace her kneecap later). Apparently, the spots are caused by an unusual(but harmless) skin condition. She also has a couple of these spots on her left shoulder and lower back.
Darcy has mild scoliosis, and her lower back tends to bother her whenever she does hard work, but she often ignores it, and it very rarely gets so painful that it really affects her.
Darcy's clothing style is varied and eclectic. She's got some bright clothes and some dark ones. Most often, she wears black jeans and a pair of black leather Matterhorn boots that go up to a couple inches above her ankles. As for tops... That varies depending on her mood. Also, she loves acting, and will occasionally wear a rediculous looking hat, shirt, etc just for the heck of it.
Personality: Darcy is a pretty tough girl. She talks tough, but actively avoids swearing, and she's physically tough and has surprising willpower(she also has a particular talent for Occlumency). She's also tough with other people, and often doesn't realize that her rough way of treating others might actually be hurting them. Despite this, she can see people's emotions with a surprising clarity, and sometimes says or does things just so see if she is right in what she thinks their reaction will be. More often than not, she tends to say things that will anger them, since there are so many different kinds of anger and she likes to see how they react to those strong emotions. Darcy seems to be impervious to pain, and when she is in pain she will normally just ignore it. If it is something serious, such as a sprain or a broken bone, then she puts on a kind of mask that makes her look cold and distant, and she stays this way until the pain has gone away or lessened. She almost never cries because of pain.
In terms of her own emotions, she often hides her true feelings. This is something she is quite good at. She can convince herself that she has no emotion in a particular instance, and this can be both good and bad. For example, if something is making her sad, she locks it away and it can stew inside her for months, even years, before she lets it out(and she only ever does so in private). She does have something of a temper, but she holds it as strictly in check as she does any sadness she might be feeling. Her anger can stew within her for weeks or months as well. That said, she does not just take whatever people might throw at her with a neutral face. She is not above insults, or especially sarcasm, when given them by others. Revenge, too, is something that she is not above. She is careful though, and makes sure that when she does get her revenge, no one can trace it back to her(although they may think it was her nonetheless). If someone tries to pick a fight with her or gets her truly incensed, she has a tendency to become physically violent. She has been in fights before, and has even injured other people in her anger.
She can be a bit difficult to get close to, but if someone does manage to get truly close to her she is intensely loyal, even to the point of personal injury, if it were necessary to help someone she deems a good friend. This isn't to say that she doesn't make friends. She does, but she considers them aquaintences more than anything else. She can be considered a daredevil, for she loves exploring and doing things that others wouldn't normally try. She can't stand not to know what's around that corner, or at the end of that darkened corridor, or what's behind that locked door. She is not fearless, however. Her fear simply doesn't hold her back. She can also be a bit of a pessimist, and she is extremely self-critical. Nothing she does is ever good enough in her eyes. The only place she ever seems to be satisfied with herself is in her athletic ability. She loves sports of almost all kinds, especially football and basketball(and more recently, quidditch).
Darcy is driven to succeed and prove herself, for at heart she is actually a rather insecure person, despite her confident exterior. She has closed this up however, and has convinced even herself that she is every bit as confident as she makes herself look. In her subconscious, she has a strong desire to be better than everyone else, a want to outshine the people in the popular crowd. After all, she is something of an oddball, and envies those who can make friends easily and who other people admire and praise. She works hard and tirelessly to gain some respect of her own in her own "field" so to speak, but she is not below sabotaging others' efforts to look good in some cases. In short, she will do what needs to be done in order to reach her goals, whether or not the road to that goal is admirable.
History: Darcy was born in the USA, more specifically in Maine, on December 30th, 1973. She was born in the middle of a blizzard and came a full month early, so her mother gave birth to her without any kind of medical aid. They didn't live in a town or city. Actually, they lived about five miles outside a tiny town near Maine's shore. By the time her parents could get into town, she was sick. They had no baby supplies around the house yet, no baby clothes, nothing, for they had expected her to come much later. She lived through this, obviously, and her life after that wasn't nearly so tumultuous.
She was an only child, and her parents worked two jobs each, so as soon as she was able to walk she was put in the care of a babysitter while they were away. Actually, there were two babysitters: one for the day and one for the night. She grew up with her parents only being home for about four hours a day each, and those four hours occasionally came when she was at school. As such, she learned to take care of herself early. She began walking home from school in third grade, on the condition that she go straight home and stay inside thereafter. She learned a trick, however, that allowed her to go out more often. She would go home, call her mom or dad and tell them that she was alright as soon as she got there. After that she would take her father's old cell phone and make it so that any calls that were coming home would ring through the cell phone. In this way, she could wander around in the woods or by the shore of the Atlantic ocean for hours without her parents ever knowing she was away from home. She never got into trouble, she just wanted the freedom to be able to go where she wanted to go.
Now, it may seem that she had a bad relationship with her parents because they were not there very often, but this was not the case. She convinced herself that this was how all parents were, and whenever someone would start talking about their own families she would either walk away or change the subject. It worked quite well, actually.
When she was nine, she was off on one of her excursions through the woods. It was late fall, and she had decided to go to her "secret spot" on a sort of cliff above the ocean. She wasn't dressed brightly, and a hunter nearby saw only the rustle of brush and the shadow of something large moving in the foliage. He foolishly fired, and the bullet hit Darcy in the knee just below her kneecap. It was a minor miracle that she hadn't lost mobility in her leg, but she still needed surgery to remove the bullet, which had lodged beheath her kneecap. The bullet was removed, but the doctors told her that she would have to get a replacement kneecap. So she went back about a month later and had her ruined knee fixed, the nearly shattered kneecap replaced by a metal one. After over three years of physical therapy, she regained full strength in her knee.
Soon after that happened, Darcy's father(who worked for a large construction company) was given a huge promotion. This promotion also meant that he would have to transfer. All the way over to England, to be exact. He took the promotion(after Darcy's mother had agreed) and they moved here in Febuary of that year. Darcy finished her fifth grade year at a school in England, and was surprised at the end of the year when she received a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She thought it was just a joke and put the letter away. She didn't want to throw it away, since she held some hope that it was real and true, but she had almost lost hope by July when she received no further letters.
On July 12th, a representative from the Ministry of Magic came to Darcy's house and spoke to her and her parents, explaining that she had shown signs of magical ability. At first, her parents thought it was a hoax, but after a demonstration by the representative, they were convinced and reasonably pleased(if a little bewildered). Darcy, for her part, had never been happier in her life. She traveled with her parents and the representative to Diagon Alley to buy her school things, and received her first owl as a present from her parents during that trip. During the time she spent in Diagon Alley, she discovered an absolutely wonderful sport known as Quidditch, and was determined to play for her house.
She went to Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin house, where she fit in quite nicely at first... Until they made her an outcast when she began dating a Hufflepuff girl. That was a rough time for her, since she was still trying to figure out her sexuality and where she belonged, but she finally settled in during her third year. She also reached her goal of playing on the house Quidditch team, and became one of the youngest Slytherins in the history of Hogwarts to play Quidditch(she became a chaser in her first year).
When Darcy graduated from Hogwarts, she went off to work in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures for a while, but it didn't suit her interests much. She then moved to the Department for the Disposal of Dark Items, and from there to the Department of Obliviators. She was never too fond of any of those though, and she left the Ministry when she was 22. At that time, she travelled back to America, where she became involved in theatre and performed in several plays/musicals, both in the muggle world and not.
When Darcy was 25, she moved back to England and opened her own little black-box theatre just outside Hogsmeade called Magical Matinee. There were evening performances, of course, but the name fit anyway. It wasn't until last year that a friend suggested Darcy take up teaching the sports at Hogwarts. Darcy considered it for a time, then decided that it would indeed be a good idea. She now teaches flying lessons, and also occasionally schedules games of other sorts such as American football and whatnot for those who wish to play.
Relations:
Mother: Lisa Travers-Densaugeo
Father: Anthony Travers-Densaugeo
Aunt(on her mother's side): Ruth Vincenzo
Uncle(on her mother's side): Angelo Vincenzo (A Half-Blood working for the Department of Mysteries)
Grandmother(on her mother's side): Martha Travers
Grandfather(on her mother's side): Patrick Travers
Grandmother(on her father's side): Priscilla Travers-Prewett
Grandfather(on her father's side): Viktor Travers-Prewett (deceased)
Friends: Several, who she keeps in contact with via mail.
Lover/Crush: None