Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 12, 2013 16:56:18 GMT
This is the second application for the accepted character Tiffany Lestrange.
Tiffany Cassiopeia Lestrange
Childhood
Tiffany was born in Lestrange Manor on Halloween's Eve, the firstborn of Bellatrix & Rodolphus Lestrange. She was treated very carefully until the birth of her younger brother, Soleus, under a year later. Once a male was born into the family, Tiffany wasn't a child of neglect, but she was certainly not priority in their household any longer. Both of the Lestranges were arrested soonafter Soleus' birth, & the two Lestrange children were sent to stay with their close relatives, the Malfoys. Soleus began training to join the Death Eater ranks very young, but Tiffany didn't begin her training until just before the Azkaban breakout. Once the Lestrange's escaped from Azkaban during the mass breakout, she & her brother returned to live with their parents. Throughout her childhood, she was close to her brother, and cousins Draco (Malfoy), Esma (Lestrange), and Ophelia (Rookwood). Tiffany was always, and remains, fiercely protective of her brother.
Family
Tiffany idolizes her mother. She puts up with many bad choices, parenting-wise, in stride, to continue to stay on her mother's good side. With her mother, she speaks freely, trains hard, & strategizes. Her father, on the other hand, is not a man of many words to begin with - she hasn't had a conversation with him since before he was sent to the prison. Where her mother was driven insane by the prison, her father seemed to simply have the life sucked out of him. Tiffany has never asked, but she's quite sure that he received The Kiss during his time there. Tiffany's relationship with her extended family is strained. She did a lot of training with the other Lestrange family - Rabastan, & his wife, which strained the 'family bond' a little, since she underwent a lot of torture. She disowned the Malfoys when Lucius was arrested & his family was ostracized, completely putting them out of her life & encouraging Soleus to do the same. She lives in Lestrange manor with her direct family, a small group of Death Eaters, & her cousin Ophelia Rookwood. The Ministry of Magic is still under the impression that she & her brother live with their Malfoy relatives.
School Life
Tiffany was best friends with Daphne Greengrass & a few other Slytherin students from 'elite' family trees during her time at Hogwarts. She was relatively popular, especially within her house, though more recently, after the murder of her classmate Kevin Edwards she spiralled downward. Her mind started to slip away from her, & her body turned into a sort of hollow shell, a reminder of her past self. She currently spends most of her downtime at school alone. Her grades have stayed fairly intact, as studying helps to distract her from the bigger things that are happening during her private life. She is particularly good with charms, & potions, her worst subject by far being History of Magic. She has a bias opinion & has trouble separating the way that the books tell it from the way that her family tells it.
Private Life
Tiffany didn't retain many of her friends during her 'fall from grace', though she still keeps in contact with Daphne Greengrass, & has found a new sort of pseudo-friendship in Ashley Godfrey. On top of these friendships that really only seem to matter while in-school, Tiffany is engaged to a fellow pureblooded Death Eater, Brent Yaxely. The marriage was arranged by her mother, which is most of the reason why she puts up with the abuse that the relationship brings to the table. Brent is physically, & mentally abusive, but their relationship is twisted. Tiffany will often provoke a reaction out of her fiance, knowing that he is constantly running on a short fuse. On top of the abuse, the pair occasionally have surprisingly civil and almost caring moments, though these are rare, not to mention few & far between. During a few years in school, prior to her training, Tiffany was in a pseudo-relationship with her classmate, Thierry Montague. They were never truly a 'couple', & now that Tiffany has lost all sense of school popularity &, in a sense, completely gone off her rocker, they haven't spoken too often. When they each came back from the summer that Kevin Edwards was killed, they were rather different people - Thierry was constantly taking off to head back home to Canada, & Tiffany was, well, her 'new' self. They haven't spent much time together since then. Additionally, Tiffany has two pets: one that is able to be within the castle walls, so long as she continues to uphold the Ministry laws of keeping it de-venomed: her king cobra named Predaytor. The other pet of hers, not on the books & certainly not at school, is her female spotted hyena, Illsadryl. Illsa' was a prize won during a raid on a Nigerian mixed muggle-wizard street gang, all of whom were murdered by the death eaters.
Personality & Appearance
Tiffany is sharp-witted, quick to judge, and easily angered. Her personality seems to differ, depending on who she is with, though it always has the same base of angry, guilty, sulky, and of course, permanently tired. Since the death of Kevin Edwards, she has been abusing various large-magical-creature tranquilizers, specifically dragons, as there are still large amounts of them hidden within the castle leftover from the Triwizard Tournament. These offer a sharp, quick knock-out, though it only lasts about an hour at a time, maximum. They practically put her to sleep before she can remove the syringe, and put her under so deeply that she is unable to dream, which is her main objective out of sleep. Because of her general sleep-deprivation & seeming to have 'given up' on public image, Tiffany is gaunt, sleepless, and death-like. Her wardrobe consists almost entirely of black, save for her uniform, as she is unable to find the motivation for thinking about 'fashion', & simply owns things that she wears out on raids, at home, etc. During her earlier school days, she boasted an impressive girlish figure, curves in the right places, shiny, always-styled hair, but she has since lost a considerable amount of weight, making her figure seem unimpressive, almost boyish, & certainly not the type to drag a boy's eyes over to her. She is often seen sporting large dark circles under her eyes, chapped lips that have been bitten to death, & bruises, cuts, welts, etc, from run-ins either on the job, from one of her pets, or her fiance.
