In-Character
Full Name: Obedience Winsome NightshadeNicknames: Didi - had a period of time where she tried convincing people her name was Primrose
Birthdate: October 10, 1790
Deathdate: October 31, 1809
Current Age: 103 Years
Gender: Female
Race: Ghost
Occupation: Dead Debutante
Reputation: 7 or 8. Is a ghost that has a tendency for mischief. Before her death had a reputation for evading chaperones and mischief that likely was not smiled upon in a young lady.
Residence: Hogsmeade
Social Class: Middle
Family:
father: Chivalry Nightshade [1754-1858]
mother: Maria Nightshade [1760-1859]
brother: Pleasant Nightshade [1783-1884]
sister: Charity ___ nee Nightshade [1785-1813]
sister: Patience Nightshade [1788-1891]
mother: Maria Nightshade [1760-1859]
brother: Pleasant Nightshade [1783-1884]
sister: Charity ___ nee Nightshade [1785-1813]
sister: Patience Nightshade [1788-1891]
Appearance:
face claim: Isabela Merced/Monerethnicity: Peruvian-White
height: 5 ft 1 in
build: slender
eyes: brown
hair colour: dark brown
hair style: long and down to her waist. A small portion is tied up in a braided bun covered by a snood with the rest flowing freely.
wand hand: she is right hand dominant
distinguishing features: One rather distinguishing feature is that Didi is a ghost and therefore semi-translucent with a pearly white glow.
fashion: Having been on the way home from a Halloween event when she perished, Didi wears a renaissance style gown. She also sports dangly earrings on each earlobe and a necklace.
History:
a life lived
1790 - 1809
1790-1801: Obedience Winsome Nightshade was born into a middle class family as the youngest. She was a handful and constantly straining on her parents last nerves. She enjoyed a mostly close relationship with most of her siblings. Charity was always a little more religious then the rest of them were which often caused disagreements between her and Didi.
1802-1809: The time for Hogwarts comes around and Didi is sorted into Hufflepuff in 1802. She is a personable young girl and has no trouble making friends or endearing herself to staff. She is not a strong academic genius but she does well enough. When the time for electives comes around, she chooses Arithmancy and Divination.
Didi is not chosen for prefect which is fine. With her OWL results comes the brief discourse on whether she should just either go to finishing school or debut. Didi wins her case to continue Hogwarts much to her personal satisfaction.
Her NEWT courses are Arithmancy, Astronomy, Charms, Divination, Herbology and History of Magic. Her NEWT grades are at least all passing and with that, Didi debuts into society.
Didi looks forward to her first season and she greatly enjoys all the balls and parties. This is all taken from her when she is headed home from a Halloween party. It feels cliche to her to have become a ghost on Halloween but that is precisely what happens. Only a couple weeks after her nineteenth birthday, Didi perishes in circumstances that are never completely clear. The carriage is said to have been tampered with and thus Didi's death was a homicide, others profess it to have been a mere, freak accident. She attends her own funeral and is disappointed at how boring it is but pleased with the turnout.
1810 - 1890
1810-1812: Didi adjusts to being dead as much as one can adjust. At least, she has figured out some of her limitations and abilities. One benefit to being a ghost is being able to turn herself invisible which enables her to hear and be witness to all sorts of juicy gossip, secrets.
1813: Charity who had married a man who attended to same church as her dies in childbirth and fully moves on. It is jarring to Didi who had never considered that her family members might die while she remains before then.
1814: Didi discovers that Patience is actively deterring suitors - because she is more than friends with a young woman. The discovery is shocking but intriguing to Didi who had not realized such a thing could even exist. Ultimately, she is accepting of the union.
1815-1857: Didi's family proves to be rather long lived when not dying in childbirth or carriage mishaps. She spends a lot of her time simply hanging around her family, lurking among the society set and befriending fellow ghosts. There is nothing that could be considered majorly notable that happens within this timeframe.
1858-1859: Didi's father passes of natural causes, her mother falls ill shortly after. It is barely a year later when Maria follows her husband to the grave. Neither stuck around as ghosts.
1860-1870: Didi lets the wind take her wherever and does some ghostly traveling. She explores the Americas and other parts of the world before eventually coming back to her family. She marvels at how old they are now.
1877: Muggles discover magic and bad shit goes down. One by one, Didi's family members moves to Hogsmeade. She settles there as well.
1881: Murders happen and muggleborns are in danger. So Hogsmeade doesn't seem much safer. At any rate, Didi is just as scandalized as everyone else to discover it was the Minister of Magic behind everything.
1881: Murders happen and muggleborns are in danger. So Hogsmeade doesn't seem much safer. At any rate, Didi is just as scandalized as everyone else to discover it was the Minister of Magic behind everything. Another interesting aspect is a hussies scandal at the school and girls being banned from Quidditch. All the interesting stuff at Hogwarts would happen when she is no longer a student.
1883: Didi is fascinated by the Amortentia tea crisis as people get into scandals right and left due to the incident. There is a Quidditch World Cup this year as well and she is happy to acquaint herself with the players from other countries.
1884: There is yet another Hussy scandal at Hogwarts. This is wild to Didi whose schoolmates were mostly oblivious to the actions it takes to be branded a hussy. She is much more worldly now, of course.
Pleasant and his wife both die in the Laughing Plague which saddens Didi greatly. They had also been pretty old though so she supposes the time was going to come sooner rather than later anyway.
1891 - Now
1891: Patience dies, making her the last living relation that Didi actually enjoyed being around - as well as the last of her immediate family. Pleasants descendants are all rather boring which Didi feels is a letdown to their fathers memory. Charitys descendants once tried to literally exorcise her so she does not have much love for them. They are CMJ folks who call her a sinner every chance they get. She delights in messing with them.
One upside of this is meeting the people organizing the funeral. She especially takes a shine to Divona Dodderidge and considers her to be her best friend. She spends a lot of her time floating about the funeral home. She takes great joy in crashing the Celebrations of Eternal Spirit that the girls funeral home hosts.
1893: The invention of Spiritus Sancti brings with it some very interesting possibilities. She has yet to actually do anything with anyone high on the stuff but she isn't altogether adverse.
1894: One of the Spirit Division employees gets married and she invites herself to the wedding whether she got an actual invite or not. She also (lovingly) harrasses the groom for more details about how they became a couple but he just provides answers like he is reading from a script.
Personality:
Other:
| class | owl | newt |
| Arithmancy | E | O |
| Astronomy | E | E |
| Charms | A | A |
| Defense Against the Dark Arts | T | — |
| Divination | O | O |
| Herbology | A | A |
| History of Magic | A | A |
| Potions | D | — |
| Transfiguration | T | — |
01. A fairly talented singer.
02. Can smell juicy gossip from a mile away.
03. What Didi lacks in academic skill, she more than makes up for in people skills.
02: Attended Hogwarts as a Hufflepuff.
03: Is in and out of the Spirit Division offices when the mood strikes her but she has yet to be in actual trouble with them.
Out-of-Character
Name: Kit
