PLAYER Name: Meg Personal Journal:pillowsofwind E-mail: eight_ofhearts at hotmail dot com AIM/MSN/etc: burntxscones @AIM, pillowsofwind @PLURK
CHARACTER Name: Harry Potter Canon: Harry Potter Timeline: Post Deathly Hallows (but before the epilogue) If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a
Personality: For having grown up in a neglectful household and then suddenly being thrust into a life of fame, friends, tragedy and danger; Harry Potter is, for the most part, a well-adjusted teenage boy. Everybody in the Wizarding World knows his name, but he doesn't let that go to his head. In fact, he would love nothing more than to have a quiet life where nobody recognises him and he's left to hang out with his friends and have fun like a normal kid. It seems, however, that fate isn't content to allow him to keep anybody who closely resembles a parental figure, save the Weasley's. So many people around him have died, and a part of him can't help but feel responsible. First his parents, who died protecting him during Voldemort's first reign. Then the godfather he grew up not realising he even had; and Dumbledore, who had taken Harry under his wing. Even Remus, who had been a teacher first and whom Harry had developed a close friendship with afterwards. Snape, who showed his true colours in the end. His friends--Fred, Dobby, Tonks, Cedric, Moody, and even his owl Hedwig. So many people he knows, and even more whom he never met.
He's faced down one of the most dangerous dark wizards ever known multiple times, accepted his own inevitable death, lived in an environment of ever-present danger the past few years, and has managed to overcome all of it. However, it has added up and puts a weight on his shoulders heavier than anything he's had to bear in his earlier years at Hogwarts. For this reason, he'll be experiencing some very mild PTSD, mostly in the form of nightmares and flashes. (Canonically, he's been experiencing this since at least the fourth/fifth book, because he had nightmares all summer long after Cedric's death.) It won't get out of hand in his case, however, because he's a naturally open person and isn't averse to talking about his emotions and experiences with people he trusts. I don't want it to become a focus that all of his interactions are going to hinge on, because he's strong enough to work through it, and he's not the sort of person to let it consume him; but I legitimately can't see him coming out of the events of Deathly Hallows without a few demons.
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Name: Meg
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E-mail: eight_ofhearts at hotmail dot com
AIM/MSN/etc: burntxscones @AIM, pillowsofwind @PLURK
CHARACTER
Name: Harry Potter
Canon: Harry Potter
Timeline: Post Deathly Hallows (but before the epilogue)
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a
Personality: For having grown up in a neglectful household and then suddenly being thrust into a life of fame, friends, tragedy and danger; Harry Potter is, for the most part, a well-adjusted teenage boy. Everybody in the Wizarding World knows his name, but he doesn't let that go to his head. In fact, he would love nothing more than to have a quiet life where nobody recognises him and he's left to hang out with his friends and have fun like a normal kid. It seems, however, that fate isn't content to allow him to keep anybody who closely resembles a parental figure, save the Weasley's. So many people around him have died, and a part of him can't help but feel responsible. First his parents, who died protecting him during Voldemort's first reign. Then the godfather he grew up not realising he even had; and Dumbledore, who had taken Harry under his wing. Even Remus, who had been a teacher first and whom Harry had developed a close friendship with afterwards. Snape, who showed his true colours in the end. His friends--Fred, Dobby, Tonks, Cedric, Moody, and even his owl Hedwig. So many people he knows, and even more whom he never met.
He's faced down one of the most dangerous dark wizards ever known multiple times, accepted his own inevitable death, lived in an environment of ever-present danger the past few years, and has managed to overcome all of it. However, it has added up and puts a weight on his shoulders heavier than anything he's had to bear in his earlier years at Hogwarts. For this reason, he'll be experiencing some very mild PTSD, mostly in the form of nightmares and flashes. (Canonically, he's been experiencing this since at least the fourth/fifth book, because he had nightmares all summer long after Cedric's death.) It won't get out of hand in his case, however, because he's a naturally open person and isn't averse to talking about his emotions and experiences with people he trusts. I don't want it to become a focus that all of his interactions are going to hinge on, because he's strong enough to work through it, and he's not the sort of person to let it consume him; but I legitimately can't see him coming out of the events of Deathly Hallows without a few demons.