i. Basic Info ii. Personality & Appearance iii. History iv. Relationships v. RPG's vi. Trunk vii. Other vii. OOC Info

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✦ Name Meaning ✦ Carra girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dear; friend; face" also means "fiery red" in Irish Margaret derived from Latin Margarita, which was from Greek μαργαριτης meaning "pearl" MacKinnon Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Fhionghuin, which is a patronymic form of the Gaelic personal name meaning "fair born" or "fair son" ✦ Age ✦ August 15, 2008 - Leo 11 years old ✦ Species & Blood Status ✦ Human Witch Muggle-born ✦ House & Year ✦ Hufflepuff First Year ✦ Wand ✦ 30.2 cm, Reed Wood, Phoenix Feather - Inflexible, highly powerful and loves being powerful, extremely difficult to control Reducio Reed Wood Bold speakers, and those possessed of an eloquent tongue are best suited to reed wands. Owners are notably protective of friends and tend to be of a loyal disposition. - WandW Reed wood is associated with scholarship and knowledge. Reed people are good with words, and steadfast in their beliefs. They are deeply rooted and extremely flexible. Reed people should trust in their ability to adapt to new situations without ever losing sense of who they are. - UO Reducio Phoenix Feather This is the rarest core type. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn or dragon cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike. Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won. - Pottermore ✦ Patronus ✦ Unknown

✦ Personality ✦ Carra is a feisty and mischevious character who loves to explore the world around her. She is not afraid to get her hands, or anything else, dirty in the process. Carra is a doer, she has trouble keeping still and often gets herself into trouble because of this. She has a fiery temper to go along with her exuberant personality. She is caring and loyal and will defend her beliefs and her friends to the end. Impulsive and gregarious, Carra can come across a bit bossy sometimes.

✦ Appearance ✦ Carra is an average height for an eleven-year-old girl, she is pretty scrawny, but perhaps she'll grow out of that. She is fair-skinned and freckles easily. Her pale long blonde hair hangs loosely around her shoulders most of the time, otherwise, it's tied back in a ponytail. Her eyes are dark green around the edges, growing lighter closer to the iris.

Born and raised in the small village of Kilmartin in Scotland with her mother, father, and three brothers, Carra is the second youngest in her muggle family. She has two older brothers, Finn and James, and a younger brother, Gilan. With no feminine influence other than her mother, rough and tumble was the way of things in the Mackinnon household. Surrounded by old castles and wilderness, Carra could often be found wandering through the glen, cooking up her next great adventure dragging either her brothers or some of the village children along. Carra was known throughout the village as a bit of a trouble maker, always getting into places she shouldn't and dragging others into her antics as well.

It was the summer of Carra's ninth birthday when strange things began to happen. She had been up to her usual hijinks when things first went awry. James, Finn, and Carra were exploring one of the villagers dusty attic, they had been told they could keep anything they'd like when James came across an old book that interested Carra very much. James, being much taller than her and in a mood to tease, was holding the book over his head out of Carra's reach, when the book danced out of James' hands and into Carras'. Dismissed as the book simply slipping out of his hands, James and Finn denied that anything strange had happened. A while later, while playing a rousing game of football with the neighborhood children, Carra managed to score every single time the ball was passed her way. Small things were now happening day-to-day, things that were out of reach would hop down to be more accessible and if Carra got upset anything breakable would break. Birds, mice and other small creatures would let Carra hold and pet them.

First Year

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Letters ✉

✦ First Year ✦ Reducio ✔ - The Sorting Ceremony | One Shot ✎ - An Adventure Waiting to Happen | Julie Shaw ✎ - A late-night meeting | Jake Morris ✎ - Reluctant Partners | Katherine Cobwebbe ✎ - Sterling Studying | Opal Ivory ✎ - New Experience | Novus Esnos (Lamik Fillestar) ✎ - Slytherin vs. Hufflepuff | Slytherin & Hufflepuff teams

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Credit for house art used in Relationships goes to Nick Blanzy

✦ Behind the Pen ✦

Hey there! I'm the person behind Carra, I generally go by Merenwe or Umbra on the web, you can call me Mere if you'd like.

I've been roleplaying for quite some time now, about six years or so. There are quite a few different genres' under my belt now, this is the second solely HP based site that I've been on. Fantasy is one of my favorite types of roleplay (and reading for that matter), so it must have been destiny for me to end up here.

Small town USA is where I was born and raised. I'm a young adult (scary!), and work as a coach for high school track and cross country.

✦ Contact Me ✦

Thread Status: Open and looking for more interactions! Feel free to send an owl my way with ideas. Check over here to see some specific things I'm looking for, RP Search

Owls: Send 'um my way, I'd love to chat and get to know ya'll.

Discord: Mere#0909 I'm not on much just so you know.

Posting Speed: Pretty erratic, but tentitively once-ish weekly, sometimes more and sometimes most of the time less.

Appearance:

Height:  5ft 5in
Weight:  105lbs

Crispin is slightly tall for his age, standing only an inch or two over most of his classmates, and is a strapping young boy.  His chocolate brown hair is slightly curled and worn longer than most boys, but not quite long enough to tie back.  To match his hair, his eyes are a chestnut brown, which can appear darker or lighter shade.  A naturally olive complexion, Crispin tans quite easily.  To round it all off, Crispin has a dashing smile that he flashes winningly and quite often.
Faceclaim - Brenton Thwaites

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Personality:

▹Enthusiastic | Indecisive
Enthusiasm and indecisiveness go hand-in-hand with Crispin.  When there is something that he's passionate about he goes at it full force, but more often than not, will abandon it once something else takes his fancy.  This isn't to say he's insincere with his enthusiasm, just that his attention doesn't always hold til things are seen through to the end.  Rather, Crispin cares too much and can't keep himself to one thing at a time but spreads himself too thin.

▹Observant | Opinionated
To say that Crispin likes to be in the know would be spot on.  He prides himself on knowing the ins and outs of his fellow classmates.  This can be a bit too much at times though, may of his classmates say that he needs to keep his nose out of where it doesn't belong.  Not to mention that his opinions of what his classmates do can be blunt and unwelcome, even if he does have the best intentions.

▹Easygoing | Independent
Crispin is a laid-back kind of guy, he enjoys hanging out with other people and will let things flow without too much interference.  He is an independent bean as well though, and though he gives his advice freely, often looks down on others who try to give him advice.  Being independent isn't always a bad thing though, it means that Crispin isn't afraid to figure things out for himself.

History:

A cold blustery day in February welcomed Crispin Rhys Finley into the world.  The youngest boy in a family of four, Crispin led a quiet life growing up along the Oregon coast with his two elder sisters, brother, mother, and father.  Of wizard heritage (but who knows, maybe some muggle in there on his fathers' side) Crispin and his siblings were mostly kept away from muggles growing up.  With his mother, Alyss, working as a west coast correspondent for MACUSA they could hardly do otherwise.  Tom, Crispins' father, often voiced his protests against this treatment of muggles.  Claiming that the magical community was much more likely to harm the muggles than the other way around.

When Crispin was born his brother, Sean, was already in his second year at Ilvermorny.  By the time Crispin was five all of his siblings were enrolled at Ilvermorny, most of his summers were then spent with his siblings recounting their adventures.  This made Crispin jealous and impatient for when he would finally begin his time at the school.  When he finally received his letter to begin his own journey at Ilvermorny, he was beyond excited, he was literally bouncing off the walls.

Crispins first year at Ilvermorny wasn't to be quite the adventure he had been anticipating.  His eldest sibling, Sean had been out of Ilvermorny for a few years and had landed himself a job in New York at the MACUSA.  He was thriving there and had met and fallen in love with, of all people, a muggle girl. Emma and Sean were soon engaged and to be married during Crispins' first winter break at Ilvermorny.  When the day arrived, there could not have been a happier couple and Crispins' father was thrilled that his son would help end the prejudice against muggles in the US.

This joy was short-lived.  Soon after returning to Ilvermorny, horrible news came to the Finley family.  While starting out on their honeymoon, Sean and Emma were attacked by an unknown group of wizards.  Sean fought valiantly but to no avail, he was soon overpowered and the group showed no mercy.  A note was left with Sean and Emmas' bodies, threatening other witches and wizards that they too would meet the same fate if they married muggles.

Sean and Emma's deaths tore Crispin apart.  He had idolized his elder brother and the sudden absence of him was like a knife that twisted deeper and deeper every moment Crispin thought of him.  The rest of his first year passed Crispin by in a hazy blur.

His second year brought with it growth and healing, but some scars never fade.  Crispin grew distrustful of other wizard-borns and also bore a resentment of muggles and muggle-borns.  They were the reason his brother wasn't here, and in his young mind there had to be someone to blame for the horror he had faced.

Now starting his third year at Ilvermorny, Crispin is beginning to come to terms with the fact that sometimes things happen without reason.  Though still not fully open with wizard-borns, muggles, and muggle-borns, Crispin is trying to see people for themselves, and not their birth.  It's a difficult road that has many setbacks, but he is plowing forward.