<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Introductory Information</em>«</span></div><br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2e/Candyruby.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Caron "Aurora" Terrapin<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 6pt;">(First name is pronounced just like 'Karen')</span><br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><br/><strong>Birth Date:</strong>October 13th, 1996<br/><br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Pansexual; Demisexual<br/><br/><strong>Blood Status:</strong>Muggle-born<br/><br/><strong>Birthplace:</strong>Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA<br/><br/><strong>School:</strong>Hogwarts<br/><br/><strong>Year:</strong>6th<br/><br/><strong>House:</strong>Ravenclaw<br/><br/><strong>Wand Length | Wood | Core:</strong>11 and 3/4 inches | Spruce | Phoenix Feather | Rather stiff<br/><br/><strong>Patronus:</strong>unknown<br/><br/><strong>Apparation License:</strong>No<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/3/32/Rubyjeans.jpg) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/74/Rubyroxxlook.jpg) (http://) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/72/Librarianrubyroxx.jpg) (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e3/Rubyroxxsatan.jpg)<br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/89/Sleepyrubyroxx.jpg) </div><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Personal Information</em>«</span></div><br/><br/><strong>Physical Features:</strong>Care is a bigger gal. She stands at 5'10 and while she wouldn't reveal a petty thing like her weight, it's obvious she carries a fair amount of extra pounds. She's cushy. Curvy. Plush. Soft. Comfortable. She's Rubenesque and just fine with that. Although naturally a brunette, she loves to change her hair and leans toward red tones. Going along with her love of fiber, she often wears (https://images.ecosia.org/mBZEQkbhEyGEQIwTZ5wLTEh1JMo=/0x390/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FRhZc1SGz8MM%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg) wool (http://rosielocks.com/wp-content/gallery/wool-dreads_1/img_2276.jpg) dreadlocks. (https://images.ecosia.org/D-Zievb0H8kSbqzFKqH2XZ_NaAQ=/0x390/smart/https%3A%2F%2Ffarm6.static.flickr.com%2F5257%2F5502743806_282a341086_b.jpg) She never alters the color of her steely blue eyes. When outside school robes, she dresses in a variety of ways, depending upon her dramatic mood. Caron is just as likely to go down the Gothic road as something quite colorful and cheery. There's no reason to not experiment and experience everything! Though she has no permanent tattoos, she does like to wear a fake one on occasion. She has both sides of her bottom lip pierced as well as a few other, less noticeable, areas.<br/><br/><strong>Personality Traits:</strong>This gal loves learning, but gets excited when the subject really appeals to her. She has been known to find an odd morsel in her reading and fly off on a days-long study binge on just that one, likely little related, thing. Luckily for her, temporarily memorizing most things comes easily enough to her so she can make up for her lack of learning anything academic. She simply puts her musical mind to work filling in lines of a song she knows with important facts for an upcoming exam.<br/><br/>She's an odd mix of dedicated and flighty; studious and dismissive. Many of the other Ravenclaw students often wonder about her and she hasn't made too many friends. That fact doesn't seem to bother her; she rarely sulks for long over a rejection. It is so easy to pour her attention right back into whatever her new obsession is.<br/><br/>Perhaps what the pure bloods would think is her oddest habit, Caron is extremely crafty. More often than not, a newly fascinating topic will be some new technique or art form that she wants to try. She uses magical help on occasion, but prefers to get hands on with everything.<br/><br/>Another reason why others tend to feel so strange around her is because her social behavior can be quite erratic. One day she is furiously reading and shirks away from anyone calling her name and the next she is entering into random conversations in the halls. And she can be quite loud, too. She sings or hums often and had been scolded by the teachers about it in her earlier years while she did it in class.<br/><br/>She's an animal lover to her core and seeing cruelty done to them is the fastest way to invoke her rage, which comes in with sharp words and swift action. But aside from that, Care is actually a very understanding and open-minded individual. She likes to learn about other peoples' points of view as she believes that understanding something leads to less fear, anger and aggression overall. She wishes the rest of the world would get that concept.<br/><br/><strong>Brief History:</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Not Actually So Brief...</div><div class="spoiler_body">Caron's mother Eleanor was a christian woman who had a poor education. She married a man of similarly low background and they began to raise a small family. Their first child, a perfect little girl they named Dawn, died tragically after complications from pneumonia. From that point on their marriage began to deteriorate but the two were stubborn and tried to tough it out. <br/><br/>The birth of twin boys kept them busy and seemed to patch things up a bit. But once the boys were in school they began to fight again. Eleanor saw what the little ones had seemed to do for them before and decided to have one more child. When another little girl came into their lives, the parents were both ecstatic and terrified. <br/><br/>Eleanor became a fiercely vigilant mother, not wanting to leave her new daughter alone for one tiny breath. At first, her husband was just as dedicated but something changed in him over time. Maybe it was the trouble of having two mischievous young boys. Or perhaps it was the stress of living paycheck to paycheck month after month; year after year... Allen began to drink. After the drinking came the yelling and he began hitting his wife. And all the while he couldn't shake the feeling of his tiny baby girl, lifeless in his arms. Caron herself only seemed to make it worse, though he did try his best to be there for her. It didn't help that Eleanor had insisted on giving their second daughter a middle name to honor their first.<br/><br/>They were too poor and he was too ignorant and stubborn to see a doctor very often. No one knew it was depression; her family hardly understood the concept. For some reason, Caron still has memories of her father. She can't recall the frantic day he killed himself but she remembers his smile, his voice... The way his beard felt rough against her tender cheek when he held her. She was not quite 4 when passed on but she still holds him in her heart. <br/><br/>Her mother moved on and married again when Caron was in First grade. He was an Army man who oozed charisma in public but ruled their household with an iron fist. If she thought the abuse with her first husband was bad, her second was a monster by comparison. Although she thought to stay with the man for a long while "for the sake of the children" eventually Eleanor came to realize the error of that thinking and she left one bold night. She would rather be loveless from then on than keep up the cycle of abuse that women in her family had been trapped in for generations. </div></div><br/>Caron moved to the UK with her mother and older brothers when she was 9 years old. After the terrifying experience they had all had with her stepfather, Eleanor needed to get as far away from him as possible. She was always enamored with Europe due to an obsession with fairy tales but had never learned a second language. Having reached the point of "fuck it" and finally having a savings for the first time in her life, they relocated and left no forwarding address.<br/><br/>Caron's mother was an odd bird. Although she was very religious, she also believed she was visited by the holy spirit and gifted with ESP. Because of that, Caron was used to strange phenomenon happening around her at times but never thought it had anything to do with her. Eleanor hadn't the slightest understanding of the wizarding world and 'real' magic but she knew that wizards and witches were the devil's workers. At first she thought the letter from Hogwarts was a joke. When it sunk in that this was<em>real</em>, she began to panic. She did everything in her power to avoid the letters and pray away the evil people that were trying to take her daughter.<br/><br/>When she began to reach out to the religious community she had become a part of, she reluctantly had to open her eyes. A pastor gave her a brief explanation of the hidden history between the muggle and wizard communities. They had always been there. There is only as much evil on the other side of that veil as there is on their own and most people are good and do good things. Having magical talents doesn't have anything to do with what religion you follow and - Hey! Hogwarts even has Christmas Break! And so it was with some reluctance that she let Caron attend Hogwarts, but only after finding out that there was free tuition.<br/><br/>Care was years behind the kids who got to have magic in their lives from an early age but she ate every bit of information about it right up. She was actually happy to have some time away from her overbearing mother, especially since she had already lost her own faith in the religion she was brought up with and it was starting a wedge between them. School became a welcome home - more so even then the one containing her family.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Even More History...</div><div class="spoiler_body">Although she had bombarded the emissary the school had sent with question after question, Caron hadn't asked for details about the school houses. She was tickled to find that they each had animal mascots and thought she might be happy to be in any of them. She didn't realize that they would be separated based upon personality traits. After she was sorted into Ravenclaw and found out about the process, she briefly pouted over the idea that she might not be brave, loyal or cunning but quickly found that the house was, indeed, her niche. <br/><br/>During her first years at the school she was flooded with regular correspondence from her mother. Her older brothers had moved out of the house and Eleanor was lonely and worried about her. It took some time for her mother to find happiness and fulfillment but once she was able to come into her own, Caron could finally give her full attention to school without having to worry about her mother's state. Losing one parent to suicide was more than enough and although she didn't believe her mother would follow suit, the thought was always lurking in the back of her mind. <br/><br/>Her mother had been inspired by what she found out about her daughter's school. It was a real castle! It sparked her old storytelling instincts and she began illustrating and writing stories. Caron was so happy to find that her mom was finally doing well again. Eleanor had always sung to her and told her stories in her youth; it was a fitting occupation for her to start. But by the time this had happened, Caron was already over the awe that came with starting school at Hogwarts and was moving on to bigger discoveries day by day. She knew her mother could never fully understand the wonder of the wizarding world but it had been amazing how much she had come to support her. Eleanor did find great amusement in Caron's interest in the fiber arts, however, as she was able to see her daughter actually work a spinning wheel. Sleeping Beauty was always her favorite story, which is why she had named both of her daughters after her.<br/><br/>Caron's grades were generally up, though they definitely had their downs. She found some subjects hard to wrap her brain around, such as transfiguration, and found a few others quite boring, comparatively. Potions was a class that she could do well in, if she focused, but she often daydreamed in class. It felt like following a strict recipe when she would be much happier experimenting in the kitchen. <br/></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong><br/>~ Animals ~ She has a general tendency of putting them at ease. Somehow she instinctively knows how to approach many animals, even if she's unfamiliar with them. She likes<em>all</em>animals. Even those others normally freak out about.<br/>~Creating things ~ Her hands are always busy making something if she can get away with it.<br/>~ Sweets ~ The main culprit in her maintained weight, Care has a major sweet tooth. It also accounts for her random bursts of energy.<br/>~ Music ~ She sings quite often and plays around with composing.<br/>~ Introverts ~ Although she can be quite bubbly and outgoing, Care is actually Introverted herself, in that she needs time to collect herself inside in order to regain energy. Calmer introverts keep that energy going rather than how some "in your face" extroverts seem to suck it out of her.<br/>~ Loyalty, honesty and kindness<br/><br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong><br/>~ Heights ~ She's paralyzed from the views up high. She can't even fathom flying a broom more than a few feet off the ground and even<em>that</em>is a stretch for her.<br/>~ Snobs ~ Care is turned off by any sort of elitism. Although she tries to understand other points of view, there's little point when someone is so enamored with themselves to have a decent conversation.<br/>~ Poor hygiene ~ Though this is somewhat hypocritical, as her study binges don't always leave her smelling like a rose...<br/>~ Statues ~ There's just something about them that has always bothered her...<br/>~ Meat<br/><br/><strong>Family:</strong><br/>Mother | Eleanor Terrapin | Writer/Illustrator | 50 | Muggle<br/>Brother | Allan Terrapin | Truck Driver | 28 |  Muggle<br/>Brother | Edward Terrapin | Accountant | 28 | Muggle<br/>Father | Allan Terrapin (Sr) | Muggle (Deceased)<br/>Step-Father | Leonard Langenberg | Retired U.S. Army Sergeant | 51 | ???<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Academic Information</em>«</span></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Marks</div><div class="spoiler_body"><span class="bbc_u">Passing Grades</span><br/>O - Outstanding<br/>E - Exceeds Expectations<br/>A - Acceptable<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Failing Grades</span><br/>P - Poor<br/>D - Dreadful<br/><del>T - Troll</del><br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/><strong>OWL Grades:</strong><br/><em>Charms</em>- E<br/><em>Transfiguration</em>- P<br/><em>Herbology</em>- A<br/><em>Defense Against the Dark Arts</em>- A<br/><em>Ancient Runes</em>- A<br/><em>Potions</em>- A<br/><em>Care of Magical Creatures</em>- O<br/><em>Astronomy</em>- A<br/><em>Divination</em>- O<br/><em>History of Magic</em>- A<br/><em>Arithmancy</em>- E<br/><em>Muggle Studies</em>- O<br/><br/><strong>NEWT Grades:</strong><br/><em>Charms</em>- E<br/><em>Care of Magical Creatures</em>- O<br/><em>Divination</em>- O<br/><em>Arithmancy</em>- E<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">»<em>Miscellaneous Information</em>«</span></div><br/><br/><strong>Familiar:</strong>None. Caron could never chose one individual sort of creature. Though there may come a time when one seeks her out or is in desperate need of her care.<br/><br/><strong>Face-claim:</strong>Ruby Roxx<br/><br/><strong>O/O's:</strong>Here (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243695.0)<br/>