Post by severus on Jan 16, 2008 10:16:09 GMT -5
A Bit About You (OOC)
Name: Rebecca
Age: 22
Gender: Female
RP Experience (other HP characters?): Remus Lupin, Severus Snape (since 2002 in various RPGS) Sirius & Regulus Black
Time On-line (how often?): Everyday. I have computer access from work, school & home
Your Character
General
Full Name (first, middle, last): Severus Snape
Nicknames: Snivellus, The Half-Blood Prince
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Nationality: British
Species (werewolves, veela, etc. are strictly limited, upon request): human
Birthday (month, day, year): January 9th, 1960
Residence: Spinner's End & Hogwarts
Occupation (if at Hogwarts put Student): Student
Affiliation (Ministry, OOTP, DE, muggle, etc.): ---
House: Slytherin
Year: Fifth
Wand: Ebony/ Phoenix feather
Broom (optional): --
Pet: --
Patronus (remember, this is a very intense piece of magic… not everyone can master this): None as of yet.
Animagus (only for Marauders or upon special approved request): ---
Blood Status: Half-Blood (A Guarded secret)
Appearance
Celebrity Claim: Trent Reznor
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Black
Height: 5'11
Weight: 180lbs
Build: Thin, lanky.
Distinguishing Characteristics: A rather large nose, and a certain shiny (one could say greasy) quality to his hair.
Description of Appearance:
Personality
Likes: Lily Evans (in a perhaps obsessive way), the Dark Arts, His Pure-blooded Heritage, Potions
Dislikes: James Potter, Sirius Black, muggles.
Strengths:Severus is strong when it comes to magic theory. The written, the developed, and the formulation of new spells, potions, and with skills that require concentration. It's the application that he suffers with.
Weaknesses: Defense Against the Dark Arts is not one of his best subjects.
Talents: Already showing some skill when it comes to the arts of Occlumency and Legilmency--both of which were taught to him by his mother, Eileen Prince.
Whims/Habits:
What form would your Boggart take?: His father, Tobias
What would Amortentia (love potion) smell like to you?: Lily Evans.
Description of personality:
Severus is, by all accounts, much to intelligent for his own good. He is the clever sycophant who hides all his true intentions and doings from others.
At fifteen, Severus has a noticeable interest in the Dark Arts which he hides from his long-time best friend Lily Evans. Snape; probably as a result of living as the victim of spousal and child abuse; is a wonderful liar and he uses it always to his advantage.
He's constantly picked on by other students his own age; a target especially for Sirius Black and James Potter; but won't ever fight back thought he's more then capable. His reasons for taking the abuse are many but the most important of which stem from the fact that he wants to be nothing like his father, and the fact that he doesn't feel Lily Evans would ever forgive him is he attacked her house-mates.
History
Parents (name and blood): Eileen Prince (Pure-blood) & Tobias Snape (Muggle)
Siblings: None.
Any other significant relatives: No.
Biography
Severus Snape was raised in a home just a little above the poverty line to a shamed pure-blooded witch and an abusive muggle father. For the most part, he kept to himself; a complete loner. He never understood his mother's reasons for staying with Tobias or putting up with his abuse. He began to see 'Muggles' as a kind of disgusting breed of human--like his father.
However, Snape doesn't have the same opinion of muggle-born or half-blooded witches and wizards that most Slytherin students have. To him, at an early age, the line was simply defined as being a muggle or not being a muggle.
One day, he met a young girl who would eventually become the reason for everything he did in life. He saw two sisters, Petunia and Lily Evans, playing with flowers in a park near his home. When he saw what Lily was able to do he knew immediately that she was a witch.
The two became inseparable; Lily being the one person he could talk to as a child. She understood him, what he was going through at home, and she was there for him as his best friend. In return, he told her all about what it was like to be a witch, what she could look forward to at Hogwarts, and how sure he was that she would end up in Slytherin--like him.
My apologies.