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The Open-Ended Questions


A. Please answer the following questions as elaborately as possible. (Remember, this part is only a requirement for your third to fifteenth character! However, if you want to have more input on where you character is sorted, then please answer #6!)


1) What would you consider to be your character's strengths, and your character's weaknesses? Elaborate on your answer.

  • Catalina is quick-witted, objective and very, very determined.
  • However, she can also be very intense, sharp-tongued and thick-headed.

2) What goals and objectives has your character set out in their life? Is it to be successful and rich? Is it to find happiness? Why?

  • She's eleven, she hasn't really though about any plans past leaving her past far, far behind her.

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so?

  • A day well-spent, for Catalina, would be with her out and about, doing all sorts of stuff. She isn't picky about what, so long as she's just active. She isn't particularly against spending her day indoors, so long as she's doing something she likes, like catching up on Eurovision, but she still prefers being outside. She's always just been very active, maintaining her reasonably fit figure just like her mother had always told her to do.

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?

  • A picture of her and her father from when she was little, her dressed up in one of her mother's very expensive gowns, and her father dressed in one of his very nice suits.
  • A picture of her and Julietta, the final one their mother took of them together before her murder.
  • Her wand, because it's her key to the new world, where she her name means absolutely nothing.
  • Her paternal grandmother's engagement ring, she wears it every day. It was her father's last gift to her, before he was arrested, since his mother had passed it on to him to give his oldest daughter before she died. She's not the oldest, but it's just proof how she was her papa's baby.
  • Her mother's pearls necklace, the final gift she gave her daughter before her siblings literally ripped her from her mother's clutches.

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why?

  • She'd definitely do something about some people's ignorance and fast approach to judging her and her past, but in the end, that's something she'd change about everyone, not just the wizarding society.

The Sorting Quiz


B. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please bold the answers from an IC Point of View, and mark in italics the answers from the OOC Point of View.)


1) Which type of spell is most useful?

A. A Complex Spell
B. A Spell Of Control
C. A Combat Spell
D. A Healing Spell


2) What is most important to you?

A. Grades.
B. Getting your way.
C. Life.
D. Friends and family.


3) What would you do if a teacher caught you cheating?

A. I'm the person people cheat off of.
B. I wouldn't get caught; I'm too slick.
C. I would deny the accusation until the teacher gives up.
D. I would 'fess up, apologize, and accept the consequences.


4) What matters most to your character?

A. Wisdom
B. Reputation
C. Success
D. Friendship


5) What's the best way to get things done?

A. Putting together a qualified team and completing the task efficiently.
B. Trick someone else into doing the work for you.
C. Get some friends together and lead them in the task.
D. The right way, no matter how long it takes.



The Character's Background


1) Give a description of your character's personality. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or Humble? Anything about your character that might help the Sorting Hat decide. (Don't worry, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, personality must be at least one paragraph long for the first two characters, two paragraphs long for the third to eighth characters, and three paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth!)

Catalina - who can only be addressed as Cata or Lina nowadays - is essentially your stereotypical latina, from her quick wits to her sharp tongue. She's not the kind of gal you should think about crossing, especially with her family's dark history. A bubble of fierceness and dauntlessness, Cata is short-tempered and hot-headed, at least when she's dealing with someone she isn't familiar with. Hence, most people that know her tend to exercise caution when she's around. She has the tendency to be brash and impulsive, acting with her heart and not her mind, though in the end, it's typically for someone else's own good, at least in her own opinion. Not really.

She knows how to have her fun, too - laws don't hold her back, much less school rules. It's not that she doesn't care about them, it's just that... well, yeah, she doesn't care. She isn't a rule follower - she tends to make her own. It's what makes her her, you know? She never plays by the book, always has tricks up her sleeve. She isn't someone you should trust, at least not if you're not remotely special to her or anything of the like. She'll throw you under the bus if you're not one of her own - she won't give a fuck how much it bothers you. She only cares about herself and her people. It's funny, really, because she's an exact copy of her parents, which she'd always sworn she'd never be. She's a Polanco by blood, clearly, even if she wishes she weren't.

Catalina was the youngest Polanco, thus one of her mother's favorites. It's not a secret to the second generation that Luisa had a certain favoritism towards her five youngest children. She was a vain, pretentious woman with a pompous persona. Logically, the more time she spent with her younger kids, the quicker and deeper her ways of behaving around other people began to rub off on them. Catalina, for one, began to pay more attention to her appearance and reputation. She grew slightly vain, and began to develop her mother's self-righteousness. While it's something her oldest siblings have been quick to attempt and correct, it's not something you can just dismiss, much less when she's been spoiled her whole life, what with both her parents wrapped around her tan finger.

It's no secret Catalina Polanco is a very passionate girl. When she goes about something, she goes about it good. She's very passionate about a lot of things, especially if it's over a topic within her area of expertise. It titters onto overconfidence, but it's something she generally knows how to handle. She makes it seem cute, not all too bad, rather than overbearing and annoying. She has to keep it in check, you know, especially when there's people that harbor ill-fated feelings against her for her family's actions, and don't need to be told twice to lash out at her. She gets it, Isak and Luisa weren't the beat people, but there's no actual reason to hate Adrian, Beatricia, her, Dante, Eloisa, Fausta, Gavino, Horatio, and Kara, not when they've done their best to cut all family ties after the sudden death of Julietta. Regardless, it happens. She hates it.

Compassionate and empathetic, it's easy for Cata to understand people. She's good at analyzing people - she knows how to break them down and understand them as a whole, be able to relate to what they're going through as humans. While its a big strength for her, its also a big weakness. It makes her an even softer person. It makes her see people with an even more gentle view, when she shouldn't. Though her loyalty still remains tightly with herself and her people, the fact that she's open to see - and sometimes even feel - how other people feel makes her less prone to being a big bitch, with well-protected barriers.

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc. (Again, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, history must at least be two paragraphs long for the first two characters, three paragraphs long for the third to eighth character, and four paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth character!)

Luisa Michielin was a fledgling politician from San Marino, who was forced to abandon her homeland and migrate to Puerto Rico. Her disappearance was understandable - she was being hunted down, her father was wanted for corruption and they believed Luisa had knowledge of what her father had been up to. There was no way to escape them, unless she left Europe as a whole. That's exactly what she did; however, rather than heading for mainland (USA), she opted for making a home out of Puerto Rico. She was out of jurisdiction, she wasn't in a well-known place, it was the perfect hiding spot. She honestly would've been forgotten, a long-passed scandal, but she didn't count on meeting Isak Polanco. Isak, oh, Isak. He was your typical Puerto Rican guy, if you didn't include his raging passion for politics. A brilliant man, everybody that ever met him deemed him the next governor of the small island of Puerto Rico. They weren't wrong.

As a matter of fact, just how Isak's career in politics developed, so did his relationship with his secretary, Luisa. It started off as a friendship, a light bantering once he'd stumbled across the fact that she'd also been a politician, oh so long ago. They talked politics often, how messed up the government was, how he wanted to reshape it and reshape the economy. Slowly, though, it began to evolve into something beautiful: a relationship. They knew it couldn't happen while he was her boss, and quite frankly she needed the job more than she needed romance in her life, so she opted for trying to move on from Isak. That was... easier said than done, definitely.

She was lucky, though, because by the time they were aware of their feelings and knew for sure they weren't going to falter any time soon, Isak was already beginning to garner support to campaign for governor. If she resigned, she could become the First Lady, right? She's really lucky Isak was the kind of guy that kept true to his words. Just a couple of months before the election, Isak and Luisa got wed. A couple of months after his inauguration, their first child was born. Adrian Polanco. Then came Beatricia, Dante, Eloisa, Fausta, Gavino, Horatio, Julietta and Katya, before their final child (finally, thought everyone, because who the hell forgot to use contraceptives enough times to become a family of eleven?) and the protagonist of this story, Catalina Polanco, was born.

Cata never lived in La Fortaleza, she and Katya were born once he had served his two terms. However, he still remained in politics. This time, Luisa was able to enter Puerto Rican politics with him, due to her experience as First Lady. Nobody understood why they wanted to remain in the world of politics, especially after eight years of being directly at the top. Nobody really understood, but it was crucial they stayed where they were. They'd gone corrupt at some point, but to be fair, someone should have seen it coming a mile away. Nobody could be as untouched as Isak was, not for that long in direct power. He earned a lot of money, he was so used to it, he wanted the good income to stay steady. They were out to do anything and everything to make sure it remained that way; however, there was a key difference between Isak and Luisa.

Isak had taken well to having such a big family. He loved all his kids equally, he wanted to provide all the love possible for each and every single one of them. He gave them each his attention when he could, always finding new things to do for when he had an hour or two off. For instance, he took his older kids to do stuff like go to the movies and paintball and do laser tag, he played in the backyard with his younger sons, he played tea party and dressed up with his little girls. He was a very involved parent. On the other hand, Luisa was more into watching after her younger children, from Gavino and younger.

Her husband had clearly begun to corrupt his older kids, in the sense that they were always out and about, he was getting them to do stuff involving sports and being sweaty and for fuck's sake he'd gotten their eldest daughters to like boy stuff. As you can see, she was very adamant on keeping gender roles. Or at the very least, maintaining a nice image. Thus, she taught her younger kids to be well-educated, to recognize how powerful they are and how they're relatively better than most other kids, due to their position in the social classes. Her husband, while he didn't necessarily approve, he never made a move against his wife's doings. But then, then it happened. The weird stuff began to happen.

It started with Adrian, he was able to do freaky stuff once he turned nine. Like, when he got angry, the lights would flicker. Then it followed with Beatricia, with Dante. Of course, each kid got their explanation in the form of an acceptance letter and the Muggle Liaison of MACUSA. The news that his kids were magic, well... Isak took better to it than his wife, though that's solely because he knew about its existence, from his mother who he knew for sure to be a witch. He just never thought anything of it, let alone brought it up, thinking it was impossible for his kids to be magic, when he hadn't been. But it happened. Luisa just couldn't believe it; she had a bunch of freaks for kids. It was breaking the typically venial woman. Fortunate for her, however, she talked her husband into sending the children she knew to be freaks to a boarding school, at least until they could each be shipped off to that school of magic for seven years. Then they wouldn't be tied to her anymore, not legally.

Fausta and Gavino didn't experience the same freaky things. They were easily accepted by Luisa, who'd thought the worst of it had been over. Isak was just relieved the worst of it seemed to have passed. But then Horatio began to experience his magical signs, and shit hit the fan again. The very same shit that hit the fan when Julietta and Katya seemed to express making objects levitate, change colors, etc. It seemed Catalina was headed down the very same road, too... but Luisa couldn't bear to see more of her kids become freaks... she had to do something about it. A week later, Julietta was found dead in her room. Nobody knew what happened, not even Catalina, but in just a blink of an eye, her father was being arrested and Luisa was whisking her, Horatio and Katya away. They wound up in San Marino.

Catalina was seven when she met her mother's family. They sort of liked her, but it didn't seem like that sentiment was returned. In Cata's defense, she didn't know them, and she'd known Katya and Horatio her whole life. The trio... they grew close. Very. Especially as the changes began to happen. Catalina became Lina, to her mother and family, while Horatio and Katya were assigned nicknames that were uttered more often than their own names. Everything was changing drastically, but no change was as bad as losing Julietta. She hated not having her sister around. Julietta had been her favorite by far, but now... she didn't have her. Just Katya and Horatio. Don't get her wrong, she loves them both, but Julietta was special. She was her best friend. Not even her new best friend could make her forget Julietta.

One day, Horatio just... disappeared. He was gone, something about a new school. At least according to her mother. He disappeared, and the family of three (the ones that remained), were moving to another part of San Marino. The same thing happened when Katya abruptly disappeared. By now, Catalina was beyond confused. Her mother wasn't giving her much to go on, which was frustrating. She was losing everyone, she could barley even hang out with her new friends anymore. It's as if they were... running from something. Or someone. It was annoying, seriously. Things got really freaky one day, when Catalina went down to the local park and fell from the monkey bars, right on her arm. She felt a sharp sensation of pain, as if her arm had been broken, but just as quick as it came... it left. She told Luisa, who just... became distant. As if she were... resigned about something.

Things cleared up when people she'd nearly forgotten about came one day, claiming to be there for Cata. She was confused at first, but her siblings were willing to elaborate on why their mother kept relocating. It wasn't information a girl her age should have, but it was crucial for her to know, to understand, if they wanted her to come with them. Her siblings... Adrian, Beatricia, all of them... they'd come for her, to save her from their mother. From what that she-devil could do. And, you know, let her know she was a witch and was supposed to go to a school of magic, but those were details that could and would be addressed later on, should the ten year old understand how awful Luisa is.

In hindsight, they probably should have tried to prepare Cata more before breaking the news of their father's status in prison and the hunt for their mother. But they didn't, and that's probably why she hasn't taken well to those news, or the ones of her magic when they laid it on her. How can she possibly learn how to practice magic, when her mind is fixed on her father? Her sweet father, who turned out to be her sister's killer...

3) Write about your character's appearance. What do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here!

Her FC is Laneya Grace.

4) Is your character a Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!)

Muggle-Born

5) Does your character have any special magical abilities? Or special abilities in general (photographic memory, etc.)? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!)

No

6) What year is your character in?

First


OOC Questions


C. These do not affect what house you're sorted to, but everybody must answer them!


1) Is this your first character?

A. This is my first character.
B. No, this is not my first character.


2) If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic" (of a different magical race/have a special ability)?

6/1

Comments[]

Gryffindor crest The Sorting Hat has placed Catalina Polanco into Gryffindor!


"You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart."


Cause your dream in life is to be a footballer's wife. 17:32, April 10, 2017 (UTC)

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