Login

Johanna Applegate · February 12, 2024 – 4:34 PM

In-Character

Full Name: Johanna Eve Applegate
Nicknames: TBD IC; Hanna
Birthdate: October 9th, 1867
Current Age: 26 years
Gender: Female, perceived as female
Occupation: Fail!Debutante
Reputation: 9 | In addition to having brothers who are a little odd, Johanna is mildly off-putting.
Hogwarts House: Slytherin
Wand: Ash, 11", unicorn hair core, firm
Blood Status: Pure
Social Class: Middle
Family: Both of Johanna's parents are alive; additionally, she has at least two brothers (Ezra, b. 1865 & Byron, b. 1868.)
Appearance:

General | Johanna is tall and lean at 5'5"; she has long black hair and green eyes. She is right-handed.

Expressions | Like her elder brother, Ezra, Hanna's expressions are severe and sincere — it is incredibly easy to tell what she is feeling. (Unfortunately, this also makes it easy to tell when she is distracted, which is often.)

Deportment | Rigid, sudden movements — Johanna is a combination of confident and graceless. She knows where she is going, but may knock someone and something over on the way there. She carries tension in her shoulders and arms, which are usually close to her body.

Fashion | Yellows and blues; Johanna has committed to the big shoulders of 1890s fashions and rarely wears wizarding robes.

Accessories | Multiple, always; Johanna loves to wear more than one bracelet so she can swivel them around on her wrist.

Scent | Lavender and sage

Face Claim | Emma Stone, but specifically in Poor Things (2023)

History:

we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness

1867
Johanna is born.

1868
Less than a year later, Byron is born.

1873
Ezra goes to school. Hannah, who has become attached to her older brother, is devastated by this, and shows her first signs of magic to levitate one of his sweaters out of the closet so she can wear it.

1874-1878
As Johanna grows, she becomes more aware that her father is deteriorating — to the point where he can no longer keep a full-time job. She cannot discern why her father is so off, but becomes frightened of her father when he is not lucid.

1879-1883
First-Fourth Year Johanna goes to Hogwarts, where she is sorted into Slytherin. Byron starts school at the same time, but is sorted into Ravenclaw. Hanna spends her first few years at Hogwarts trying to ingrain herself with the other children, and becomes particularly committed to a handful of clubs, like gobstones club. She is too direct and literal to have a large group of friends, but is able to be close with some other students, and steadily is able to learn to turn her observations into phrases that are charming rather than blunt.

1883-1884
Fifth Year Johanna does well on her OWLs at the end of this year, but is not named as a Prefect, which she finds mildly devastating. She continues with five N.E.W.T. classes — she wants to be known for being smart, but does not want to pursue a career!

1884-1886
NEWTs Hanna commits herself to her classes and clubs, privately wishes that the dances they learn in etiquette came more naturally to her, and towards the end of her seventh year becomes increasingly interested in various puzzles.

1886-1888
It becomes more obvious once she becomes a debutante — it is as if there is a static electricity in her veins, and when it surges, her hands shake constantly and she says things she knows she shouldn't. Johanna has an increasingly-terrible first season, and it is only once she gets back into large puzzles that she is able to chase back the static and regain control of her life — she frequently takes over the floor of one of the studies with her activities.

There's another thing that helps, that Johanna realizes between seasons — music. When she doesn't go to enough events where she can listen to it, she becomes much more jittery. The winters are hard for her, because of this.

It's after her second season that she comes to the conclusion that she is not the only individual so afflicted — her siblings have all developed their own afflictions and habits. They can never speak of it, but Hanna is sure that it impacts all of them — especially her father. Her father. She becomes terrified of becoming like him.

1889-1890
Ezra falls in love with Rosalie Hunniford. Byron goes mad; he spends time recuperating at home and Johanna periodically watches him from the hallway and considers. Could she have stopped this, somehow? And then it gets worse — Ezra's engagement is broken off.

1891
Johanna becomes worried about Ezra. After a few months, she is sure that Ezra is going to end up even worse-off than their father — she forces him to sit with her and play his tile game for hours, until she is certain that he has come back to himself. Johanna makes him promise her to never let it get as bad.

1892-Present
Debufails Johanna cannot get anyone to marry her. By winter of 1894, she becomes very worried — she is coming very close to becoming a spinster. If she is not eligible, she is likely to be invited to fewer events during the season — and without music, the puzzles alone will not be enough to keep her hands steady.

She starts to become willing to do whatever it takes to keep herself in society.

Personality: STUBBORN | FORMERLY OBSERVANT | LITERAL | OCCASIONALLY CHARMING | LACKS A FILTER

Johanna has always been a direct person, who spends an abundance of time trying to interpret the people around her — she has also always been a bit fidgety. As a teenager and a student, she tended to make up for these things by striving to be charming, and to be the best — since the blood curse took hold when she hit adulthood, she has struggled to overcome her innate lack of filter, and when things are bad she finds herself saying things she probably should not.

Over the years, she's become very jittery — self-conscious in ways that she wishes she would not be.

When things are going well, she can still access that charm — it's accessing it consistently enough to get married that she struggles with. But now she's determined — if she becomes a spinster, she is worried that without the activities of society, she will slide into the same madness that has taken hold of her father.

Other:TBD

Sample Roleplay Post: At least a paragraph. Only required for first or canon characters.

Out-of-Character

Name: Beanie

Philomena Sprout · February 16, 2024 – 5:12 AM

Application Approved!

Your character is now all set for play! If you’re a new member, you'll be assigned a buddy—they should contact you within 48 hours. If you’re not (or while you wait!), be sure to…
— Add your character to the Character Directory
— Claim your face, if you choose to use one
— Secure your spot in Charming’s history
— Introduce yourself to the community
— Start networking, or just jump into a thread!

Please feel free to contact me or any member of our staff team if you have any questions.

We hope your time here is magical!

❧ Welcome to Evergardens ❧

we must experience everything. Not just the good, but degradation, horror, sadness
1867	Johanna is born.
1868	Less than a year later, Byron is born.
1873	Ezra goes to school. Hannah, who has become attached to her older brother, is devastated by this, and shows her first signs of magic to levitate one of his sweaters out of the closet so she can wear it.
1874-1878	As Johanna grows, she becomes more aware that her father is deteriorating — to the point where he can no longer keep a full-time job. She cannot discern why her father is so off, but becomes frightened of her father when he is not lucid.
1879-1883 First-Fourth Year	Johanna goes to Hogwarts, where she is sorted into Slytherin. Byron starts school at the same time, but is sorted into Ravenclaw. Hanna spends her first few years at Hogwarts trying to ingrain herself with the other children, and becomes particularly committed to a handful of clubs, like gobstones club. She is too direct and literal to have a large group of friends, but is able to be close with some other students, and steadily is able to learn to turn her observations into phrases that are charming rather than blunt.
1883-1884 Fifth Year	Johanna does well on her OWLs at the end of this year, but is not named as a Prefect, which she finds mildly devastating. She continues with five N.E.W.T. classes — she wants to be known for being smart, but does not want to pursue a career!
1884-1886 NEWTs	Hanna commits herself to her classes and clubs, privately wishes that the dances they learn in etiquette came more naturally to her, and towards the end of her seventh year becomes increasingly interested in various puzzles.
1886-1888	It becomes more obvious once she becomes a debutante — it is as if there is a static electricity in her veins, and when it surges, her hands shake constantly and she says things she knows she shouldn't. Johanna has an increasingly-terrible first season, and it is only once she gets back into large puzzles that she is able to chase back the static and regain control of her life — she frequently takes over the floor of one of the studies with her activities. There's another thing that helps, that Johanna realizes between seasons — music. When she doesn't go to enough events where she can listen to it, she becomes much more jittery. The winters are hard for her, because of this. It's after her second season that she comes to the conclusion that she is not the only individual so afflicted — her siblings have all developed their own afflictions and habits. They can never speak of it, but Hanna is sure that it impacts all of them — especially her father. Her father. She becomes terrified of becoming like him.
1889-1890	Ezra falls in love with Rosalie Hunniford. Byron goes mad; he spends time recuperating at home and Johanna periodically watches him from the hallway and considers. Could she have stopped this, somehow? And then it gets worse — Ezra's engagement is broken off.
1891	Johanna becomes worried about Ezra. After a few months, she is sure that Ezra is going to end up even worse-off than their father — she forces him to sit with her and play his tile game for hours, until she is certain that he has come back to himself. Johanna makes him promise her to never let it get as bad.
1892-Present Debufails	Johanna cannot get anyone to marry her. By winter of 1894, she becomes very worried — she is coming very close to becoming a spinster. If she is not eligible, she is likely to be invited to fewer events during the season — and without music, the puzzles alone will not be enough to keep her hands steady. She starts to become willing to do whatever it takes to keep herself in society.

Johanna Applegate