Post by ANSLEIGH PAYSON DAVIES on Jun 8, 2012 0:04:39 GMT -5
ANSLEIGH PAYSON DAVIES
INTRODUCTION
Full name: ansleigh payson davies.
Nickname(s): ans, pay, leigh, or davies.
Age: twenty two.
Gender: female.
House: former gryffindor.
Year: graduated.
Occuption: defense against the dark arts professor.APPEARANCE
Play By: elsa pataky.
Style: I've always been in touch with what it is I like to wear or what may be considered rather stylish. It could be dresses, or it could be a nice flannel with a pair of jeans and maybe a nice plain shoe or boots (something which is definitely my guilty pleasure). Sure, I've got different clothes for different occasions but I like the simplicity of my outfits, more so than the ones that I should perhaps wear on a more professional level.
Distinguishing Marks: Nothing too out of the ordinary, I'd say my eyes tend to pop because of the bright blue. But otherwise I've just got the usual piercings two in each ear, and thats really it.
PERSONALITY
Likes: quidditch, most sports, good people, friends, family, good grades, teaching, when my students get it, christmas lights, outdoors, camping, and hot drinks.
Dislikes: obnoxious students, having to be the bad guy, bad grades, disappointment, judging someone before you know them, dark chocolate, overly hot days, my bad luck, my constant stumbling/falling, and loss.
Boggart: abandonment.
Patronus: spanish lynx.
Strengths: defense against the dark arts, patience, and strength.
Weaknesses: luck, optimism, and easygoingness.
Personality:
I've always, always, been this happy person who wants to be able to spread that sort of joy to other people. To be able to run around and simply be sort of up and bouncy and doing fun things, sure its driven some people insane, and they call me this animated person that they want to squash. But I'm not going to change this sort of excitedness about myself simply because it bugs someone else, I'll probably always be that person whose up and running around just to try and find that amusement for myself. I'm happy, and excited and probably rather eccentric when it comes down to it, but how can being a happy, energetic person be a bad thing? As far as I'm concerned its not, and so there really isn't a reason to go and do anything else but continue to be the way that I am. Besides, the people that matter in my life don't care if I'm like this, and they certainly won't pass some sort of judgement on me for it either.
Besides this happiness that I tend to have and project, one of the first things people tend to notice about myself is the fact that bad luck seems to follow me absolutely everywhere. I mean it, I could be walking by a set of mirrors or something and they'll crack or I'll walk around a department store and this one time a couple of the actual rows of stuff actually fell down right after I had walked out of them. And you can bet that I've never won when it comes to carnival games either, and thats become one of my lamer life goals, actually beat a freaking carnival game. So far its had no success, but I've still come to blame it on the fact that I can't seem to go anywhere without some form of bad luck making some sort of appearance. And although it is something that I've tried getting rid of, or have been in denial of, its something that has yet to disappear, and somehow I doubt that its about to go and pull a disappearing trick anytime soon.
On top of the fact that I've got bad luck, I've always been a klutz, its a sad fact but I am the queen of tripping on air, my own feet, stairs, all that good stuff. I've broken my arm and leg several times and brused my ribs, I'm honestly surprised that I was ever able to really play Quidditch, let alone fly. I mean most of my klutzy moments are relatively humorus and I'm able to laugh at them just like everyone else but its definitely another one of those things that I wish I had more control over. I've heard that even some of the students that I have call me Professor Klutz rather than Professor Davies, not that I can really blame them but I definitely think it sucks when they can't take me seriously because of something like this. But again, like with the bad luck that follows me, there is some humor in it and I can laugh at myself, which is something I'd consider a good thing considering theres nothing I can really do about it in the end.
Now, heres something else about myself that tends to come off, and thats the fact that I'm childish. Maybe not in the sense that I'm running around crying and throwing tantrums or whatever, but in the way that I'm more than willing to wander up to some random stranger and try and make them my friend. I'm someone who easily trusts despite the childhood that I did start out with, and I don't like to admit it when someone has done something wrong. This is a blessing and a curse as far as I'm concerned, because my kindness and child like acceptance has been taken advantage of, and I've been walked all over. I've seen darker days, and even with that I'm still willing to be the eternal optimist, believe that people will change their colors and coem to repay what they've done to me. And sure, its one of those things where others have scolded me and have told me I'm stupid for doing so but I think this child in me is finally having a chance to live and put herself out there, so why not allow it? Even if in the end it means that maybe people will walk all over me at one point or another, its a risk I'm willing to make.
I'm one of those people, one of those Professors that is easily considered one of the students because of the fact that I really don't put massive amounts of pressure on what I teach. And sure, sometimes its not the best thing for me to do because I am in fact, a Professor, but I've found that its easier to teach people when they like you. Because then they're much more willing to actually listen and try to understand, to try and succeed because they feel that you'll be able to help. I mean I do get stern, and it has come out a couple of times, but otherwise I'll crack jokes and goof around with the students, its just something that I've always done, in and outside of my job. And despite how I act overall, I do know how and when the times to be serious, so I'm not all fun and games or a goofball, because when I know that something needs to happen or the mood needs to be changed its going to be done. No exceptions. I can go from the cool, level headed, funny Professor to a tough bitch that won't let people off the hook, especially when they've really fucked up.
BIOGRAPHY
Father: (birth) conner salvadore.
(adoptive) roger davies.
Mother: (birth) hannah declan.
(adoptive) romilda vane.
Siblings: tyler james davies, younger brother, eighteen.
----- ---- davies, younger brother, sixteen, ravenclaw.
benjamin owen davies, younger brother, sixteen, gryffindor.
Pets: brother australian sheperds chip and dale.
Other Important People: Schuyler Walker, interested in.
General History:
Despite the fact that my last name is the same as my parents, I wasn't the first born to Romilda Vane and Roger Davies, in fact I didn't even become part of their lives until I hit the age of seven. Thats right, I was adopted into the Davies Family, and was given the last name Davies, though originally as I found out later in my life that I was orihinally Ansleigh Payson Salvadore, my birth father being Conner Salvadore and my mother being Hannah Salvadore, both muggles. Or at least, thats what it says on my birth certificate, and when it comes to those two I honestly can't say that I know much more about them than anyone else. I never met them, and have come to assume that they died, or that they never really wanted a child from the start. I honestly don't remember them and instead those first seven years of life are the ones that I choose not to remember. The ones where if I had the ability to simply forget, I probably would.
I guess for this sort of thing I'll give you some information, basically for the first seven years of my life I either jumped between whatever family members I did have, and then the foster care system. I don't know how many different homes I was in by the time I was five, but it was a lot, and some of them were just fine. Don't get me wrong, not all foster care homes are like what many talk about, I had a very nice foster mother for a good six months, Daisy, before she ran out of beds for all the kids she had. But there were definitely those foster parents that were very bad, I suffered several forms of abuse from different homes and I don't think I need to go into detail to get the point across. I mean, really, I'm not even going to go into that sort of detail, all you need to know was that before I got to the Davies Home, I had my good days and my bad days.
However, enough about the sob story, because for me that was just the first seven years and thats in the past. Sure, it is part of who I am today, but I think that the way that my mother and father raised me is truly the way I have been molded. Probably the first thing I remember about coming into the Davies house is the fact that my new mother was gorgeous and that my new father was obviously in love with anything that had to do with Quidditch. And then of course there was the new baby brothers that I had as well, (okay, he was three, and they were one, but it was still a big deal to me). And the second thing that I can remember as clear as day, is the sort of feeling that I had at the end of my first couple of days there, that for once this was the place that I would get to stay. That, these were the sort of people that wouldn't throw me away when I wasn't a cute infant, or a well behaved four year old. They adopted me, because they wanted me, and there was no way that I would, or could do anything to have them change their mind.
That was probably why I didn't really get along with TJ, I felt like a fair amount of the time there was that awkward tension or that sense of competition when it came to the attention of our parents. I could never really blame him for seeming to dislike me, I mean...I wasn't even related to him by blood and was basically dumped into the family when he was three. But as the years went on, there was at least some sort of mutual peace treaty and even more so when I found out that I wasn't some ordinary girl like the rest of my family thought I was. Seeing as how the day that I turned eleven, I got my letter to Hogwarts, needless to say, I was just as surprised about the fact that I was a witch as both of my parents were.
When I actually got to school, I was sorted into the house known as Gryffindor and actually found myself fitting in rather nicely, I was always the sort of person who made friends easily so that was just another added bonus for me. My years at Hogwarts were always fun, hell I even joined the Quidditch team and one was bad ass Seeker for the Gryffindor Team for a few years. I could tell that this was one of those things that my father was especially proud of, that even though we weren't of blood, that my love of Qudditch definitely came from him. However, the one thing that I truly loved about my years at Hogwarts was Defense Against the Dark Arts; I was always a decent student, not the best but never the worst, just average. Except when it came to Defense Against the Dark Arts, I aced that every time I took it and always found myself reading about it.
It was probably why, when given the oppurtunity to really think about my future I knew that I wanted to do something where I could really utilize my abilities with flying and Quidditch, or with Defense Against the Dark Arts. Well, the first didn't really work out, and so instead I went with the second, I thought about becoming a Hit-Witch or going into the Auror training program, but when it came down to it I would rather be able to go back to a place that I really enjoyed. And so, as of this school year, I became the new Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, and I do think that I'm quite awesome at it. Thank you very much.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Your name/alias: tals.
Your age: twenty.
RP Experience: 9+.
How you found us: jiggyyyy.
Other characters: dominique weasley, emerson frobisher, lorcan scamander, delilah boot, tabitha liddel, keaton wood, and mckenna cauldwell.
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