<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Introductory Information</em>«</span></div><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/max_1200/fc082835007785.56e69e1b15f32.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Elizabeth Nightshade<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>23<br/><br/><strong>Birth Date:</strong>February 2nd, 1996<br/><br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Lesbian<br/><br/><strong>Blood Status:</strong>Pure-Blood<br/><br/><strong>Birthplace:</strong>Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England<br/><br/><strong>School:</strong>Hogwarts<br/><br/><strong>Year:</strong>7th<br/><br/><strong>House:</strong>Slytherin<br/><br/><strong>Wand Length | Wood | Core:</strong>10.5" | Blackthorn | Horned Serpent Horn<br/><br/><strong>Patronus:</strong>Basilisk (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/5/53/Basilisk_-_FBcases.png)<br/><br/><strong>Apparation License:</strong>Yes<br/><br/><div align="center">(http://www.promod.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NicoleM024-600x750.jpg) (http://booker-dominique.s3.amazonaws.com/library/6272/20180228_153911516_M.JPG) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXebmgzW0AAXQqD.jpg)  (https://www.unique.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/NICOLE-MEYER-THE-SQUAD-MANAGEMENT-Portfolio_17_.jpg) (https://www.theplace2.ru/archive/nicole_meyer/img/1118full_nicole_meyer_(9)(1).jpg)<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Personal Information</em>«</span></div><br/><br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Elizabeth is a tall lady, near to six feet without heels on. She has a slender frame, though little in the way of muscle. She eats well but does a minimal amount of exercise. Elizabeth tends to take excellent, very particular care of her hygiene and appearance. She wears designer clothes, uses highly expensive care products and carries herself with a very easily observable amount of pride. Elizabeth sports a variety of tattoos each with significant meaning to her. At the centre of her chest, between her breasts, she has a tattoo of snakes emerging from a heart pierced by arrows. To her this represents her history's black arrows attempting to pierce her heart and corrupt her, but a strong and proud serpent emerging regardless. At her collar bone she has several lines of Nirvana's 'Come As You Are' tattooed, for her a symbol of her relationship with drugs. On her right shoulder there is a Basilisk, a representation of her patronus. On her left wrist there are two entwined hearts that represent her love for her first girlfriend. Her right wrists holds a small elephant with a balloon, more a symbol of her generally hidden sweeter side. Her left shoulder houses a crow pursuing a butterfly, a reference to a Shindedown song 'Second Chance', for Elizabeth representing her refusal to let her family history catch up with her. Across her upper back, near the base of her neck, she has a tattoo of the words 'You should see me in a Crown'. Both a reference to the Billie Eilish song and Elizabeth's own relentless ambition.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Elizabeth's Tattoos</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b9/88/d1/b988d133c64af8205db7c6634acfda57.jpg)(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EPy-0ncRf5g/maxresdefault.jpg)(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/5/53/Basilisk_-_FBcases.png)(https://i.pinimg.com/750x/03/44/af/0344af003607f1d33aae7b8be0d0bb57.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/7a/b4/3b7ab49865e5af1d45894de4796e9e74.jpg)(https://i0.wp.com/i.pinimg.com/originals/18/c3/95/18c395a288eb29dc6bdd85344c13e06f.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/c5/06/8d/c5068d17a05ecfc2b293a45bf973b251.jpg)</div></div><br/><br/><strong>Personality Traits:</strong>Elizabeth utterly despises the dark arts. Almost everything she does is with the goal of becoming an Auror, or high ranking member of the Ministry of Magic with the potential to make absolutely certain that the dark arts are destroyed. She is quietly a little concerned that her desire to combat them is the aspect of her nature that is most likely to fall into dangerous temptations and see fit to fight fire with fire. Despite this she's never actively considered turning to dark magic. Her parents made absolutely certain that she never does so.<br/><br/>Elizabeth is a person of both great pride and guilt. She is proud of her parents proving they can change, and proud of her kindly grandparents. But she remains deeply guilty of her grandparent's actions and the actions of those associated with them. She knows what the Nightshade name used to mean and while she wants to have pride in it she is also unable to help but feel some shame in her history. Elizabeth's guilt is what most often leads to her substance abuse habit, though these moments are few and far between for the most part and a closely guarded secret. It's perhaps her chaotic side when she parties that causes Elizabeth to be very regimented and controlled in ordinary life.<br/><br/>To interact with Elizabeth is often aloof, cool and calculating. Many feel she is arrogant due to the extremely high standards she holds herself to, her impatience with incompetence and lack of time for the naive or immature. She can be very cocky about her intelligence, appearance and general talents. Elizabeth functions best when life is structured and organised, controlled as it can be. Chaos and mayhem upset her and cause her to withdraw into herself or avoid others. Although often blunt she does not bully, mock or tease others. As far as she's concerned that would be a waste of time. She only ever lashes out in retaliation to the actions of others.<br/><br/><strong>Brief History:</strong>When Danika Spindle met Olin Nightshade her parents were apprehensive. The gentler side of pure bloods they were nervous around Olin's parents, Arem and Azolia Nightshade, who were suspected death eaters. Regardless Danika was convinced that Olin was different, and the two married. Just two years after the birth of their child, Elizabeth, both Arem and Azolia were killed in the Battle of Hogwarts when they fought on Voldemort's side. Olin, who'd grown up around the dark arts, took to lecturing on the dangers they represented. His mother, wishing to disassociate their family name from darkness, became an Auror. Danika's parents, Snow and Grove Spindle, remained gentle and informed Olin they did not hold his parents deeds against him.<br/><br/>But the two were still stuck raising a young child with a black mark on the Nightshade name. Olin held no love for the memory of his parents, and Danika felt immense guilt, leading the pair to raise Elizabeth to be as vehemently against the dark arts as possible. It was disturbing, then, when the young Elizabeth developed the skill of speaking parseltongue as a young age. It seemed the new member of the Nightshade household had an affinity for reptiles and snakes, but her parents tried to remind her that they were only ever considered guilty by association. Snakes were not inherently evil, and neither was she.<br/><br/>When her blackthorn wood wand, a dark thing to behold, with a horned serpent horn core selected her she felt even more as though she was being pushed down a single path, worrying herself greatly that she was in some way doomed to fall into the dark arts. The day she was sorted Elizabeth almost passed out when the hat exclaimed Slytherin. Of course she was. Her entire family always had been. And she was, if nothing else, incredibly ambitious. Though in her case her goal was less personal power and more the obliteration of anything that remained of the dark arts. It was perhaps the hat's sense of her willingness to lower herself to worrying depths in that goal that placed her in Slytherin above any others. One of her favourite aspects of her parseltongue was that it meant she could keep a highly venomous bush viper familiar and know she could be safe as she could speak to him.<br/><br/>At Hogwarts Elizabeth became an incredibly dedicated student, throwing herself into her studies with the enthusiasm of someone who desired to achieve a very particular goal. She learned well, pushing herself most when it came to duelling and competing with others or learning to combat the dark arts. It was in her later teen years that Elizabeth developed what would become a problematic drug and drinking habit. The stress she placed her mind under to better herself became overwhelming at times, as did the sense that the dark arts relentlessly tempted her. The thing that broke her spirit was her patronus's appearance. A basilisk. The king of serpents and a beast bred by dark wizards. Her brutal downward spiral of alcohol and drug abuse caused her to become incredibly withdrawn.<br/><br/>It was only one eventual choice that lead her to believe she had a chance of being something else. She had remarkable talent and dedication, and had still not shown any real signs of wishing to utilise the dark arts. Therefore she was, like her parents taught her about snakes, not guilty by association. She'd done no evil. Resolving to be 'The parselmouth snake-surrounded grandchild of death eaters who did the right thing' she managed to recover, though she has since suffered several more downward spirals that caused her extreme personal trauma. She shared her drug habit with her first girlfriend, who passed away after an overdose. Since then her will has been more resolute, and Elizabeth pushes herself as hard as she can to exceed in all things. She's glad the triwizard tournament is returning, enjoying fostered competition, but she does not know if she will personally involve herself.<br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Applying herself to Education, Duelling, Competition, Snakes, Aurors, Rules, (Secretly: Opportunities to be more relaxed and 'cute'), Playing the Piano, Metal and Rock Music, Horror Movies, Drug & Alcohol Use (Problematic), Reading, Sketching<br/><br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>The Dark Arts, Her Paternal/Familial History, Suggestions her traits link her to the Dark Arts, Naivety, Immaturity, Chaos,  Her On/Off Drug & Alcohol Problem<br/><br/><strong>Family:</strong><br/><br/>Mother | Danika Nightshade | Auror | 51 | Pure Blood<br/>Father | Olin Nightshade | Anti-Dark Arts Lecturer | 48 | Pure Blood<br/><br/>Uncle | Otis Nightshade | Formerly Death Eater | Died at 27 in 1998 | Pure Blood<br/><br/>Paternal Grandmother | Azolia Nightshade | Formerly Death-Eater | Died at 52 in 1998 | Pure Blood<br/>Paternal Grandfather | Arem Nightshade | Formerly Death-Eater | Died at 54 in 1998  | Pure Blood<br/><br/>Maternal Grandmother | Snow Spindle | Magical Animal Carer | 73 | Pure Blood<br/>Maternal Grandfather | Grove Spindle | Magical Animal Carer | 75 | Pure Blood<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Academic Information</em>«</span></div><br/><strong>OWL Grades:</strong><br/><em>Charms</em>-  O<br/><em>Transfiguration</em>- O<br/><em>Herbology</em>- E<br/><em>Defense Against the Dark Arts</em>- O<br/><em>Ancient Runes</em>- O<br/><em>Potions</em>- E<br/><em>Care of Magical Creatures</em>- E<br/><em>Astronomy</em>- E<br/><em>Divination</em>- E<br/><em>History of Magic</em>- O<br/><em>Arithmancy</em>- A<br/><em>Muggle Studies</em>- A<br/><br/><strong>NEWT Grades:</strong><br/><em>Charms</em>-  O<br/><em>Transfiguration</em>- O<br/><em>Herbology</em>- A<br/><em>Defense Against the Dark Arts</em>- O<br/><em>Ancient Runes</em>- O<br/><em>Potions</em>- A<br/><em>Care of Magical Creatures</em>- E<br/><em>Astronomy</em>- O<br/><em>Divination</em>- O<br/><em>History of Magic</em>- O<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Miscellaneous Information</em>«</span></div><br/><strong>Pet:</strong>African Bush Viper (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Atheris_hispida.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Face-claim:</strong>Nicole Meyer<br/><br/><strong>O/O's:</strong>Here (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=295203.msg14467576)<br/><br/><strong>Notes:</strong><br/><br/>