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Poppy Dashwood
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"[Suki] sometimes rather thought that if someone gave Poppy Dashwood sufficient leeway and 20 minutes with the ear of the Wizengemot, many of the ills of the world might be resolved with an expediency that would make Henry David Thoreau blush." - Natsuko Mountbatton

Determined Debutante
20 year old Halfblood
Determined Debutante
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Full Name: Letitia Poppy Dashwood

Nickname(s):
Poppy. Just, Poppy. She despises her first name and frankly, won’t introduce herself by it unless forced.


Birthdate: May 10, 1874

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Occupation: Willful Debutant

Blood Status: Halfblood

Residence:
Foxwood Estate in Bath; Foxwood Home in Wellingtonshire; Foxwood House in London; or, very infrequently (especially these days) Dashwood Hall, Surrey.

Hogwarts - during term; Dashwood Hall, Surrey; Dashwood House, Hogsmeade


Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw, proudly

Wand: holly wood, 8", supple, unicorn hair core (it's quite short actually, much like her)

Family:
Immediate:
Alexander Dashwood, Father [1830]
Georgiana Dashwood neé Alderton, Mother [1854]
-- Laurel Dashwood, Sister [1879-1893]
-- Lincoln Dashwood, Brother [1881]


Immediate-ish:
Langston Dashwood, Half-brother [1856], and... extensions
Lysander Dashwood, Half-Brother [1854], and family
Lorelei — nee Dashwood, Half-Sister [1858], and family


Extended:
Anthony Alderton I., Grandfather (1811-1884, deceased)
Helena Alderton (née Rabnott), Grandmother (b. 1818)

-- *Anthony Alderton II, father (b. 1838)
----------- Audrey Alderton, aunt
----------- ANTHONY ALDERTON **, cousin
----------- LUCY HUTTON (née Alderton)**, cousin
------------------ Charles Hutton cousin-in-law, deceased
------------------ Charles Hutton, Jr, cousin
------------------ Anthony Hutton, cousin
------------------ Arthur Hutton, cousin
----------- Reginald Alderton , cousin (b. 1876)
----------- Mathilda Alderton, cousin (b. 1874)
-- Viola Foxwood neé Alderton, aunt [1841]
----------- Atticus Foxwood I., Uncle [deceased]
----------- Atticus Foxwood II., (favorite) cousin [1861]
----------- Basil Foxwood, cousin [1863]
-- *Adaline ------ (née Alderton), aunt (b. 1838); and family
-- Eloisa ------- (née Alderton), aunt (b. 1843), and family
-- Arthur Alderton, uncle (b. 1847), and family

Appearance
Poppy is on the smaller side of average height and quite a dainty little thing. She has small features, small hands, and big ambitions. Dark auburn curls, freckles and hazel eyes (with grey centres) are keynotes of her facade. She weighs hardly anything and struggles with anemia and appetite. She is right handed for quills and needlepoint but wields her wand ambidextrously. She had exquisite taste in fashion and constantly goes to the modiste for new outfits, especially favoring the more recent trends from France. 

Faceclaim: Poppy Drayton

History
- May, 1874 | Poppy is born to Georgiana and Alexander Dashwood on May 10th to a brand new nursery decorated specifically for her. (Or so she’d like to think.) She is a spoiled baby and she cries a lot.

- Jan, 1877 | Poppy lives a fairly simple, charmed life. At the age of three she displays her first signs of magic by levitating a toy that the nursemaid had left just out of her reach. Likely for good reason; the eye button is loose and there’s fear she might choke on it. That said, Poppy never once touches the poor thing’s eye instead opting to pull on its ears instead.


- Aug, 1883 | At nine years old Poppy is caught, again, by her governess getting into mischief. This time she’s found with ripped tights, a muddied dress, flowers in her hair and collecting mice for one of her make-believe ‘potion’ brews. (She fancied herself a capable witch from a young age and tried to prove it to everyone.) The governess yells at her in the parlor thinking Mrs. Dashwood is from home, and calls her “a hellion sent from below”. The governess is promptly dismissed that afternoon but the phrase sticks with Poppy, always undermining her self-esteem when it comes to getting into trouble. Also this year scandalous things occur behind closed doors that Poppy is not privy to regarding her half-brother Langston. She never had much of an opinion on him, but now she feels she has reason to turn her nose up. (Even if she doesn't quite know what that reason is.)


- 1885 - 1886 | Poppy receives her official letter to Hogwarts and ships off with her owl, new quills, and a massive pit in her stomach that she’s going to be sorted into Slytherin and turn into an evil hellion. Later that year she meets Juniper — solidifying that very prophecy, even though she’s ultimately sorted into Ravenclaw.


- 1886 - 1889 | Nothing too remarkable happens in Poppy’s second, third and fourth years. She comes into her own as a student, realizing she has a penchant for academia, and she expends equal effort studying and getting into trouble. In these three years she likely looses as many house-points for mischief as she gains through her correct answers in class.


- 1889 - 1891 | Throughout her fifth and sixth years, Poppy focuses a great deal on her O.W.Ls and N.E.W.Ts, specifically focusing on Potions, Herbology, Alchemy, Transfiguration, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. In this time she also begins to get into a new kind of mischief, one that involves boys and bears a lot more risk to her reputation. She becomes sneakier and even more rebellious than before.


- Fall 1891 - 1892 | Now seventeen, almost eighteen!, and preparing to graduate from Hogwarts - Poppy is on the cusp of being unleashed upon society. Her mother has determined this upcoming spring is to be her first social season as a debutante. Poppy is both wildly excited and secretly terrified at the prospect. She’s absolutely not yet ready to be married, but if the ‘perfect’ suitor were to come along and offer her the adventure of a literal lifetime, she supposes she’d be inclined to accept. But only after graduating from Hogwarts with the highest possible honors: all Os in her N.E.W.T courses.


- Spring 1892 - Spring 1893 |Having graduated (with honors, thank you very much) and debuted in the ball of the season, Poppy enjoys a very prosperous first season on the marriage market. She entertains a revolving door of suitors, none too seriously, until she meets Cassian Valenduris. Introduced by her former potions master, Poppy strikes up a friendship with a Ms. Sabine Valenduris first. It's only just at the very end, as the ton begins to retreat for the cold season, that the two of them seem to spark and a few letters are exchanged until Mr. Valenduris goes away to Capri on business. Poppy spares no shortage of interest but passes the time entertained with others, namely one friend she has grown quite fond of...


- Spring 1893 - Spring 1894 | Poppy's second season is again filled with visions of Mr. Valenduris. The two are more deliberate in their meetings, seeming to hedge with intention towards courting and perhaps engagement, but tragedy strikes midway through (July xx) and Laurel is killed in a carriage accident. For the remainder of the season Poppy falls into mourning, retreating to Dashwood Hall for the first time in over a year, and is not seen in English society for a good time thereafter. As her mourning period ends in December, just in time for the holidays, she makes her way to the Foxwood residence. It's good to be surrounded by the family she has come to adopt, her Aunt Viola and her cousins, Atticus and Basil, and here a scheme is hatched for her to go abroad (at last!) with Aunt Viola, just until the next season begins. It is a trip meant to shake the rust off, so to speak, but Poppy gets up to her own mischief regardless.


- Spring 1894 + | Now, going into her third season with too many experiences for a girl of merely twenty, Poppy has a renewed sense of determination to make something of her future. She is... not impressed by the idea of marriage as much as she feels she might be ready. The security of it amidst all of life's turmoil has a certain allure. Back in England once more, Poppy is again stepping out into English society with her sights set on two one particular gentleman with whom she has thankfully, not lost complete contact...


Personality
INTELLIGENT | BUBBLY | AMBITIOUS | HELLION


"Poppy Dashwood thought herself invincible, [Kristoffer] fancied – her self-preservation (which she did have: he had witnessed it before, and suffered it too) always seemed to kick in a fraction too late, like she was chasing after something more important first." - Kristoffer Lestrange

Poppy is a lot of things, but stupid is certainly not one of them. She's spirited and ambitious, though perhaps not academically even if she has the mental prowess to be... well anything she'd like. She excels in her classes and favors potions above all else. Her preference is driven by a keen fascination in the things out there that can change human desires and interactions. Things that can be bent at will.

Outside of academics however, she's very charismatic and sweet. She generally gets along with most people, regardless of status or station, and certainly likes getting into her fair share of trouble. Over the years her troublemaking has forced Poppy to try and find an inner balance given her family's... scandalous reputation. Or at least, her half-brother's. (Her siblings were perfect, just like her.) In truth, she still waffles between trying too hard to be the ideal young lady and letting loose. Her inner rebellion against everything proper makes it difficult. Once and only once, a governess scolded her by claiming she was "a hellion sent from below" before being promptly dismissed by Georgiana who'd overheard. Still, it's a phrase that has always stuck with Poppy and come to define how she sees herself on the worst of days.

She knows she can be difficult, and that her impulses drive her in the wrong direction. She also knows how futile it is to deny the sense of  l i f e  that giving in to banal whims gives her. She tries very hard to do her best, to believe the beliefs she knows she should, to get the top marks. But, at the end of the day, it's not always enough to keep her on the right side of the line. 

Other
Amortentia: Lavender fields full of sun, rose matcha tea, and amber mixed with sandalwood...


Patronus: A mink.


Boggart: Herself as a reincarnation of a hell-hound standing atop a pile of her dead, disgraced loved ones.

In a similar vein, Poppy's biggest fear is not living a life she's proud of. She has a mad adventurous streak which is where her "hellion" trait comes from. She wants to live fully, wholly, and not a stifled, cookie-cutter experience. In the words of Avicii: "One day you'll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember." This is Poppy's motto and she takes it very seriously.


Goals: Poppy has grand ambitions to marry into a family with status and power (probably wealth too) but doesn't particularly care about blood purity or, oddly enough, marrying for love.


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