InsaneJournal

out of character.
 
NAME Joy, or JJ if you're feeling too lazy to reach out to that third key.

AGE Sixteen.

TIME ZONE Pacific Standard Time.

CONTACTS xxblamepandora on aim, xxblamepandora@hotmail.com on msn, ilyhearts@gmail.com for email.

EXPERIENCE I have a few, and I'll list them below, but they're mostly either friends locked or empty.
all @ gj
whatawitchxoxo - Parvati Patil for Mockery RP
missbones_ - Susan Bones for Mockery RP
oflunacy - Luna Lovegood for Wizard's Council RP
bandyloots - Luna Lovegood for Snoggers RP
knotstupid - Evie Rivers for Snoggers RP

I haven't been roleplaying on journals for very long, but I've been roleplaying and writing for almost five years now.

in character.

NAME Luna Pandora Lovegood

AGE & BIRTHDAY 16. She was born on March 13, 1981. This was a Friday. If you believe in the sort of thing, this is a very unlucky day. Her star sign Pisces, according to this site, Ravenclaw Pisceans " spend so much time dreaming or reading books of legends that it's a wonder they ever come down to earth. Care must be taken that they do not neglect their material needs, including those that involve sleep, food, and drink. These wizards are natural seers, and often specialize in things like horary astrology, cartomancy, dream interpretation, oracles, and the summoning of visions. Because they possess both intellectual acumen and emotional awareness, they are capable of great insight. They are quiet students, not always the best in their classes, but tend to be brilliant at subjects which they are personally interested in. Shy and nervous, they are easily bullied or intimidated, and need some looking after by more assertive students." Also, there is a figure of speech that one is "Mad as a March Hare", which suits Luna fairly well. HOUSE Ravenclaw

FAMILY Xenophilius Lovegood, her father, is the editor in cheif of The Quibbler. Her mother died when she was young and she has no siblings or other family she is close with.

AFFILIATION A devout memeber of the D.A. (and now that the real leaders are gone, something of a stand-in), Luna fought beside Harry in the battle at the Department of Mysteries. She is fully on the side of the Order in this war. The only thing that differentiates her from other members of the D.A. is that she neither hates nor is afraid of Voldemort. Instead, she chooses to feel sorry for him, for being so souless and inhuman. She thinks its a terrible fate even for someone as decidedly evil as he was, and that there must have been some good reason for his behaviour, in the begin. It's just snowballed out of control since. She strongly disagrees with the new authorities of Hogwarts and is willing to do her part to piss them off. She doesn't like that they've stripped Prefect duties from the Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs at all- she feels this sort of discrimation is no better than discrimation based on Blood Purity.

HISTORY Luna's mother Arianna was a strong believer of many things. Hospitals, magical or otherwise, were not on the list. So, when Luna was born, it was a home birth. She never even saw the inside of a Hospital until after she started school. For a child who never received medical care, she was surprisingly healthy, although a case of dragon pox at the age of four left her underweight and rather frail. She recovered with time, but still gets sick easily.

As a young child, nearly all of her time was spent in her room, her mother's workshop, or the little valley near Ottery St. Catchpole where her home and garden were located. Her parents often went to town or to visit nearby Wizard families (like the Weasleys), but Luna always declined to go along and instead opted to play in the strange garden that surrounded her home or the nearby creek.

Her parents, who were slightly infamous for their unorthodox beliefs, taught her to be open minded from a very young age. Being an impressible child, Luna quickly picked up on their beliefs, never once doubting them or stopping to question them. Those long summer days she spent in the garden were not spent alone, but with her imagination. She thought up many a whimsical animal, and the creations quickly turned into imaginary friends.

Soon, the line between her imagination and reality became blurred, and has remained that way ever since. She is constantly barraged by her own thoughts and is unable to tune them out. She is not able to separate what she believes to be true from reality, even when presented with considerable evidence. Her spacey, vacant personality is a result of this.

Throughout Luna's life, her mother had been working on a counter curse for the killing curse. She was a very clever witch and had made a breakthrough or two, but she was also very mistrusting of the outside world. The only people allowed in her workshop were her daughter and her husband, and even still she wrote her notes in ink invisible to anyone but herself, in a code only she understood.

One day, while her mother was experimenting, a curse backfired. Luna was in the workshop when this happened and witnessed her mother's death. It was not a quick and painless death, but rather a slow and painful one. While her mother was dying, she informed Luna urgently that she must never tell anyone what the incantation to the spell was, and to this day, she never has.

After her mother's death, Luna became extremely withdrawn. Her health was in steady decline and she refused to speak with her father, who she had always been close with before. Even when she got her acceptance letter to Hogwarts, she was still spending her days locked in her room, pouring over her mother's notebooks (the ink had become visible to her after her mother's death, even though she could not read the code) trying to figure out what had happened to her. She was positively convinced that she would be able to reverse it if only she could find the correct incantation.

Her father tore her away from her work to take her to Diagon Alley. This trip was the furthest she had ever been away from home, and her father expected this to make her anxious or even more withdrawn. On the contrary, the escape from her lifelong home lifted her spirits. She met Ginny Weasley and several others in her year there and was fascinated with them. She'd never spoken at length with somebody her age before, and this new experience was enough to distract her from her sorrows.

By the time the start of term rolled around, she was beside herself with excitement. She sat with Ginny Weasley on the train, who was kind to her even though she was the over-excitable oddball of her year within the first ten minutes of the ride. People made fun of her Dirigible Plum earrings (even after she had calmly explained that they were for clarity of thought and she wouldn't be able to concentrate without them) and her odd way of talking. Most cutting were the remarks made about the cork necklace her mother gave her right before she died. Still, nothing would put a damper on her glee.

She had a thirst for learning and even though she was slightly alienated from the rest of the Hogwarts population, she became good friends with Ginny. Ginny was her only friend. Because of this, she was highly perplexed and confused when she started acting weird. She was even further distressed when Ginny disappeared. She viewed Harry as some godlike war hero for the remainder of her first and her second year for saving Ginny from the chamber.
In the summer after her first year she became highly involved in the writing, editing, and publication of the Quibbler. She and her father traveled through England looking for stories. They even managed to hire some new journalists. She completely immersed herself in the work, finding that it was one of her true passions.

When she returned to the school, she brought the Quibbler with her. People again teased her for her eccentric tastes. For the most part, she disregarded it. Her second year was fairly uneventful, as even when the school was in a panic over the escape of Sirius Black, she truly believed he wasn't a danger. Over the summer, it had been published in the Quibbler that he was merely a singing sensation. Even when she tried to sooth people with this thought, they just laughed at her.

The next summer was spent in similar fashion to her first and until her fifth year summers continued in this fashion.
During her third year at Hogwarts she made a new friend in Colin Creevy and began spending more time with him as Ginny was really coming into her own and couldn't spend all her free time with Luna anymore. She was one of the few outspoken supporters of Harry's and supported him the whole way through the competition.

In her fourth year, she joined the DA. She enjoyed her time spent in the DA a lot because she enjoyed learning (which they weren't doing a lot of in DADA), and she also enjoyed being respected for her talents and having people who liked being in her company. She felt like this was the only real group of people she'd ever been in a club with that she could classify as friends. She joined various groups at Hogwarts throughout her first, second, and third years, but never quite fit in.

In her fifth year she continued with her support of the DA and made up with Ginny, spending most of her time with her. She was still friends with Colin and some of the other 'outcasts' of her year, but she began spending less and less time with them in favor of Ginny and her friends.

PERSONALITY Luna is a very intelligent and clever girl, although she chooses odd ways to express this. She truly believes what her parents taught her, even though most of these things are not true. She's gotten better about accepting that some of her fantasies are not true recently, and has been coming down to earth. That's not to say she doesn't still have a whole slew of odd beliefs bouncing around in her head, though, and it certainly doesn't mean she isn't willing to verbally express those beliefs, either. It's just that she has accepted that not everything her father writes in the Quibbler is true. She's always been spacey, and that will probably never change. Perhaps it's genetic, but she seems to lack the ability to push a thought to the back of her mind. She, instead, has to think the thought all the way out before continuing with other thoughts. This gives her a somewhat laggish response time at times, or just makes her sound distant and disconnected when she's talking, as if she's off somewhere else.

And she is- there is a whole world living inside her head. Her imagination has always been active, and she sees the world differently than most people do- even during the war, she managed to find the upside in everything. It's not a vain attempt to keep spirits light, it's just how her brain works. She's a very sharp girl, none the less, and is good with charmwork and spells. She isn't much for Quidditch or anything else that requires good stamina, and for the most part is slightly uncoordinated. She's bad at abstract subjects like Divination and Potions, where there is no set answer, but is fantastic at History of Magic- she's got a knack for remembering facts. She loves listening to Professor Binns talk (and, next to Hermione, is probably the only student at Hogwarts who's never tuned him out) and consider what it would have been like to be any given historical figure. She claims her eccentric clothing choice and odd beliefs have nothing to do with her father, and she is a complete individual, but this is really just another one of those things she believes to be true that isn't, entirely.

APPEARANCE Her large, doeful eyes and frequently vacant or bemused expression convey her personality quite well. With pale coloring- light blonde hair, grey eyes, pallad skin- she often looks washed out by her eccentric and colorful clothing selections. She makes her own jewelry from things you would not normally make jewelry from- for example, she uses a pair of 'Dirigble Plums', a turnip-like plant she grows in her garden, for earrings quiet frequently. She also has a necklace made from butterbeer corks her mother made for her when she was a small child. She's small and willowy in build, and her uniform always seems to be a little too big for her. She wears her uniform to class regularly, not owning many other clothes, and often pairs it with mismatched, clashing knee high socks. She has very little sense of cohesion- if she likes one sock and likes another she'll wear them, even if they look horrid together. Normally she leaves her hair down but sometimes will put it in a braid.

PLAYED-BY Emilie de Ravin is my first choice, would she be appropriate?

WRITING SAMPLE The castle was quiet, as most of the students had gone to sleep. It was a Sunday night, after all, and there were classes tomorrow morning. Normally, Luna Lovegood herself would have been in bed, but tonight was a special case. Creeping through the deserted hallways, Luna pondered the sound of her footsteps. It had a hallow quality to it, it was a very empty sound. Almost sad, almost forsaken. It was odd, she though, as the war was over and times were generally considered happy times. She was very happy herself, despite having suffered a few loses, and yet, despite that happiness, her footsteps were still sullen. Finally, she reached her destination. She set her cold palms against the wood of the door and paused for a second.

This was her favorite part about opening a door, the raw anticipation of what would lay on the other side, the possibility that while she stood there contemplating the possibilities, somebody might open the door from within and leave her palms suspended midair. Or, perhaps, if she were to lean into the door, some perfect stranger would open it just then and she would fall in them. Somewhat lost in repose, she rolled her fingers into fists and pushed the door open. As it turned out, there was nobody inside the Owlery Tower, human or avian. The birds must all have been out and about, being nocturnal, Luna reasoned. Still, although the room was abandoned, she skipped over to one of the many windows, leaning out and examining the countryside. She breathed in the cold, crisp autumn air and then sat back to wait for her bird.

Luckily, she wasn't left alone with her thoughts for long, as her tawny owl lighted down in the window. Chirping his greatings, he dropped the newest copy of The Quibbler on her lap, receiving a large smile from the small blonde girl. She ruffled the bird's feathers good-naturedly, picking up the magazine and opening it. She didn't really care that she was in the Owlery, or that it was half past midnight. Nobody would bother her here, and she had some good reading. It was going to be a good night.

List three things that you would like to play out with your character through out the game. These can be considered development goals and we plan on having members try and complete them as individual storylines that fit into the main plot.

{I'm really really bad at this sort of thing ^^; if you have any suggestions of how I could improve it that'd be great... }

one. Realize that even her new 'best friends', Ginny and Neville, need personal space sometimes. Instead of stifling them or being completely distanced frome everything, find a happy medium. two. Learn some social skills. She's been so distanced from society for so long that she really doesn't know how to act, especially so when the D.A. starts looking up to her as a leader. She's very smart, but sometimes has difficulty showing it. three. The last thing I was looking forward to playing is when she's kidnapped. I think it would be good if she had the journal with her but she was a bit mentally shook up by being kidnapped that she can't tell anyone where she is or what's happened to her, but can still communicate with them, to a point.