FOREST, grace opal

[grace]

GRACE opal FOREST



She stands at the shoreline,
With hands in the air,
Her words pierce the dark night,
Does anyone care?

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name: Grace Opal Forest
Age: Fourteen
Birthday: 28 July
Year: 4th
Blood Type: O+
Orientation: Bisexual
Blood Status: Muggleborn

APPEARANCE

Play-By: Elle Fanning
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 100 lbs.
Hair Colour: Blonde
Eye Colour: Blue
Skin Colour: Fair
Distinguishing Features: Grace's ears are pierced once on the lobes, and she has many scars from burns, cuts, and other injuries all over her body.
Dressing Style: Grace has a mixture of tomboyish and girly wardrobe items, all varying on her mood. Some days she'll wear jeans and a t-shirt with her hair tied, and others she'll be in a pink dress. No matter what style she decides on she never wears much jewelry, and the most makeup she'll put on is a coat of lip gloss. As far as footwear goes Grace always wears her canvas trainers, spare for during the summer when she'll switch to flip flops.

PERSONALITY

Personality Traits: Caring, loyal, book-smart, hardworking, shy, energetic, athletic, sweet, unsure of herself, outdoorsy, gentle.
Likes: Hiking, forests, lakes, rivers, being outside, reading, her adoptive siblings, pleasant weather, gentle rainstorms, animals, magic, dancing.
Dislikes: Her biological parents, fire, sharp things, crowds, social situations outside of family, arrogance, harsh words, extreme temperatures, sudden loud noises, being sneaked up on, alcohol, the smell of cigarettes.
Strengths: Loyal, hardworking, Quidditch, dancing, potions, charms, arithmancy.
Weaknesses: Has selective mutism, trust issues, astronomy, low self confidence, pessimistic, easily discouraged, easily frightened, herbology.

MAGICAL WORLD

Wand Wood: Willow
Wand Core: Phoenix feather
Wand Length: 13.25"
Pet(s): A Siamese cat named Bo, and a white rabbit named Charlotte at home.

BACKGROUND

Mother: Whitney Smithens, 30
Father: Christopher Hughes, 31
Sibling(s): No biological siblings
Other Important Family: Tain Forest, adoptive brother, 21
Kevin Forest, adoptive brother, 15
Martin Forest, adoptive brother, 15
Maya Forest, adoptive sister, 11
History: Grace was born to a sixteen-year-old mother and a seventeen-year-old father who clearly weren't ready for a relationship, let alone a baby. Whitney and Christopher's relationship was always unsteady, especially with his short temper. When Grace was two Whitney up and left, leaving her in the sole care of her barely nineteen-year-old father. And that was when the abuse began. She would be hit for the simplest mistakes, or left to her own devices at only four years old while he went out drinking. As Grace got older and bigger, the physical abuse became even worse. Bruises were the more minor of her injuries- her father would use her to put out his cigarettes, give her deep cuts, push her down stairs, and on a few occasions broke bones.

When Grace was five she stopped talking to anyone outside the home out of fear of doing or saying something that might make her father angry and became an exceptionally shy child. This, if anything, made the abuse even worse, as he now knew that she was not going to tell anyone about it. And she did keep it a secret, even as a small child. She would wear long sleeves and pants even in the middle of summer, would never look anyone in the eye. At six Grace discovered she could do things that other children couldn't, but only when she was frightened or angry. Glass would break, lights would flicker, things would float... Her father once witnessed it, and although he never told her, was scared of it, and reacted with violence in response.

Things continued to spiral out of control, her father drank even more heavily, and the beatings became more frequent. Grace never spoke up, though shortly after she turned nine she finally snapped. Her father had been about to force her hand onto a hot stove when the magic came out of her. Christopher fell backward, unconscious, and when he woke he had no idea who his daughter was, that he even had a daughter, and even his own name. With her father now a complete lunatic and her mother nowhere to be found, Grace was placed into a wizarding orphanage. After a few months of hiding away in the corner of the room, she was adopted by the Forest family- and went suddenly from being alone to having four siblings, and parents who did not hit her.

Grace at first was not sure what to do with the kindness or the patience, even though she refused to speak to her new family at first. Though within two years Grace blossomed into a bright, talkative young lady around her family, though remained unable to speak around strangers. At eleven Grace went to Hogwarts, just like her three elder siblings, and it was clear right from the first day of term that she was smart. Though her inability to speak to anyone outside of family did not grant her much a social life. Though that was the way Grace liked it, her life was now quiet and simple. Even now as a fourth year Grace's past and her scars are a touchy subject, and she continues to wear longer sleeves and hems to hide them.

MUGGLE WORLD

Alias: Jaqi
RP Experience: Nearly six years.
RP Sample: Excused.