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Who Are You?
Name: Terri
Age: 17
E-mail: o_crazy_one14@hotmail.com
Contact Information: AIM: Teeboo23; MSN: same as e-mail
Time zone: Eastern
Availability: Pretty much all the time
Experience: I’m Sirius here…and a bunch of others, but you know this already.

Who is Your Character?
Full Name: Tala Valerie Travers
Nicknames: Tal (By a select few)
Age/Birthday: 08/31/1960
House and Years Attended: Slytherin; a 1978 graduate
Blood Status: pureblood, she’d gladly kill herself if she was anything less.
Occupation: A Death Eater needs no other occupation, but Tala keeps up appearances by working as a help-desk witch at St. Mungo’s three days a week. If she pleased, she could live solely off of her inheritance, and it’s a well known fact.
Alliance: Voldemort
Boggart: her brother dead.
Patronus: a black panther (she’s fierce, cunning, and has a talent for sneaking up on people, but to those she likes, she can be a most loyal friend.)

Personality:
Strengths: Loyal, cunning, witty, perceptive, insanely protective.
Weaknesses: arrogant, entirely too prideful, lives not for herself but others, not enough fears, spoiled.

Tala is anything but you’re typical teenage girl. She’s vindictive, spiteful, and malicious. The only person she cares for is her younger brother, Ian, and it shows. She dotes on him, and he’s one of the few people that can earn a smile out of her.

She doesn’t have any close friends, but many acquaintances. That’s the way she is. Tala doesn’t like to get close to people because she’s all too aware of how fleeting and short life can be. She’s experienced it within her family, and she’s taken quite a few herself. She doesn’t have much sense of self preservation, but she wonders what will happen to Ian if she dies. He is her one true weakness. For him, she would attempt to walk to the ends of the earth.

Tala is quite a flirt. She wouldn’t be described as a scarlet woman exactly, but she enjoys having a good time though she isn’t really in a relationship. She probably wouldn’t be half as nasty if some guy would show her affection. She’s constantly around men as well, being one of few female Death Eater’s, so she flaunts her sexuality quite openly.

She is prideful for sure, and a bit to the extreme. She feels that she is more worthy to have magic than muggles, and she isn’t afraid to tell anyone that. Tala is also very ambitious and will stop at nothing to get what she really wants. She is well aware of how to get the things she desires as well.

She has a sharp tongue and if you approach her and aren’t in her good graces, prepare yourself for a scathing reply. Tala doesn’t tolerate people who have wronged her in some way, and she is rather quick to let you know when she’s displeased. If you’re a fellow Death Eater though, she is known to look past something you’ve done in order to keep from being exploited herself.

When it comes to her duties as a Death Eater and Voldemort, she’s punctual, true to her word, and always willing to do what is asked of her. Being with them gives her a sense of unity which is essential to her fragile balance. She knows that at any moment, Voldemort or someone else could end her life, but she’s willing, knowing that she’s served her family’s purpose. It was driven into her mind as a young child that something of this sort would be her path and she wants to do what will honor her parent’s memories. Since joining, she’s become considerably harsher, more abrasive, and very resilient when it comes to pain. She doesn’t even scream under a Cruciatus anymore. To everyone except her brother and those associated with her alliance, she is truly something to fear.

Family and Friends:
Zander and Dawn Travers (parents): Tala had a strict up bringing, therefore, there was never much affection, but she did love her parents and she craved their attention until their deaths, and is attempting to live how they would have wanted her to.

(his name is tentative and can be changed if the person who decides to take him up so pleases) Ian Travers (younger brother): Ian is Tala’s everything, basically. He is her reason for existing. They were always close when they were young, because she tried to teach him everything he needed to know, hoping that he would learn from her mistakes. She has been taking care of him since their parents were killed.

Appearance: Tala is beautiful and she’s well aware. She has always been thin, but not exactly wispy. Although, she couldn’t be considered very strong either. She stands at a proud 5’ 6 ½” with a nearly perfect posture. Tala has chocolate eyes that range from dark to light with her mood. Some may say that her eyes are a bit too large for her petite nose and pouty lips, but she thinks they’re perfect. Her skin is clear with a healthy glow. Tala likes to take care of herself. She has brunette locks that fall past her shoulders in dark waves. Most of the time her hair is pristine, but sometimes she lets it get a bit messy. Clothes are just about the only thing that Tala will touch that a muggle may have. She only wears them because they seem a bit more practical, but more often than not, she sticks to her robes.

PB: Summer Glau

Sexuality: heterosexual

Achievements:
OWLS
Transfiguration: O; Potions: E; Charms: O; DADA: O; Astronomy: E; Herbology: A; Divination: P; Arithmancy; P
NEWTS
Transfiguration: O; Potions: O; Charms: O; Astronomy: E
Was made a Death Eater the day after graduation.

Hobbies : Tala never was one much for Quidditch, but she loves Astronomy, she enjoys practicing her spell work, getting dressed up, dancing, listening to music, reading, having the occasional drink, and serving her Master.

Biography : Tala Valerie Travers was born into what was considered near royalty on the last day of August in 1960. Her pure blood was something that she was taught to prize. In her house hold, her purity made her worthy of praises and she considered herself to be a person of great honor. Her parents, however much they told her to up hold herself, were very strict with her. She spent every waking moment trying to please them in everything she did. The focus of her childhood was instilling in her the pureblood mania ideals and becoming a proper young woman.

Upon Ian’s birth when Tala was two, her parent’s focused more on the male heir than her. She only craved their attention more, but found that Ian was nice to be around too. She took him under her wing, and as he grew, she told him all the things she knew and he became sort of her best friend. She was protective of him, and honestly, she loved him more than anyone else. They were one another’s play mates growing up, and at school, Ian was the familiar face Tala looked for in the crowds. She was a bit of a loner, not choosing to make close friends with her house mates, but she was content with herself.

Tala is exceptionally bright and did well in everything she attempted at school except Divination and Arithmancy. She enjoys reading and could often be found curled up with a book, but she would also disappear for long periods of time to practice any and all magic that she could. She was quick with her wand and quicker with her mind. She earned a fair amount of OWLS, and only took four NEWTS, choosing to drop Defense despite her good grade because she felt that she didn’t need it.

In the middle of her seventh year, Tala’s parents were killed by muggles and she was made legal guardian of Ian. It only increased her hate towards muggles, for taking their parents away. As soon as she graduated, she joined forces with the rising power of Lord Voldemort who supported her ideals. She took pride in being part of the group that terrorized muggles and muggleborn wizards. They should suffer for all that they had done. In her view, they were hardly better than vermin.

That’s where she’s situated now, though she works a bit at St. Mungo’s as a secretary of sorts at the help-desk. She keeps in close contact with Ian and has high hopes for him to join in with the Death Eaters when he graduates. She’s very content with her life at the moment, pleased with the choices she’s made. Every muggle they kill is one less she has to worry about screwing up her life.

Journal Sample: Its horrible, what’s happening to all of those poor muggles and the muggleborns. Such a pity really. They barely know what’s coming, and then its just all over. Perhaps its best that its almost painless. At least they aren’t suffering too much. Though they really should. I wonder how those people, the ones who did it all, got into St. Mungo’s so undetected. Surely someone would have noticed them. It was such a blessing that I was off that day. Who knows what could have happened to me?

[ Private to Death Eaters ]
They deserved it, the scum. I have to say, I had fun torturing that whiny little bint that’s been bothering me for the last two weeks. A lot of fun, indeed. Everyone here is still in an uproar. We did well.

RP Sample:

Tala dressed warmly for the still biting air of early April. Spring didn’t seem to want to make its appearance. She figured since the attack, it was better to apparate near by work and come in the muggle London entrance. She would have to disinfect later. It was with distaste that she entered the hospital and walked behind her desk. More people than usual were milling around. Ministry personnel were still coming in and out frequently, and there had been several Healers from other hospitals come in to help with the efforts to get the St. Mungo’s back to normal, though the commotion they had caused was still quite obvious. It made a small, pleased smirk grace Tala’s lips.

A stout wizard with a barking tea pot stuck to his hand approached Tala forlornly. She gave him a disgusted look. He was quite obviously not of pure blood. Hardly anyone in the forsaken place was. Purebloods knew how to watch out for themselves. They knew that if you wanted quick and proper help if you’d done something to get yourself in a predicament or if you’d fallen ill, you should call a private Healer. They were much better, much…cleaner.

“Fourth floor,” she told him before he was able to get any closer. Thankfully, he turned without question and walked away. She could tell that it would be a long day already, and it had barely begun.