LESTRANGE, bellatrix elladora

[bellatrix lestrange]

BELLATRIX ELLADORA LESTRANGE ,

[/font]

_______________________________
STEAL ME THE KEYS TO YOUR DADDY'S CADILLAC

[/FONT]
YOU CAN TAMPER WITH THE BRAKES AND CALL IT A MISTAKE[/FONT]
_______________________________[/center]

( FULL NAME ) : Bellatrix Elladora Lestrange (née Black)
( NICKNAMES ) : Bella but only if you are very close to her; otherwise you will just provoke her wrath.
Trixie; this is used on a very rare occasion and will only be tolerated by a couple people. If anyone else uses it then the penalty will probably be extremely painful and most likely end in death.
( SEX ) : Female
( AGE ) : Friday, July 13th, 1951 - 45 years of age
( BLOOD TYPE ) : Pureblood through and through.
( SEXUAL ORIENTATION ) : heterosexual
( STATUS ) : Unhappily married
( YEAR ) : N/A
( HOUSE ) : Ex-Slytherin
( QUIDDITCH ) : N/A
( AFFILIATION ) : Death Eater
( WAND ) : Walnut, 12¾", dragon heartstring - unyielding according to Ollivander and a lifetime of experience.

[/size][/blockquote]

_______________________________
RIGHT UP TO THE END UNTIL THAT MOMENT WHEN

[/FONT]
I FIND THE ONE THAT I’LL SPEND FOREVER WITH[/FONT]
_______________________________[/center]

( PERSONALITY) : Bellatrix. Where to begin? I guess I shall start with her redeeming factors... Let's see... She is a very caring sister if you don't happen to be Andromeda, she prides herself on being fiercely loyal if you are one of these people: the Dark Lord, Narcissa, or a non blood-traitor Black family member. She could also be described as deadly honest, unless she is lying to get something out of you. Wait, that was a bad thing wasn't it? Well, this is rather difficult so I may as well outline her more interesting aspects to put it nicely.

Bellatrix is very proud of her family ancestry, her power, her untainted pure blood and her allegiances with the dark arts community and she is very willing to boast about them, even if they are not considered 'good' things. She is quite an obsessive creature and she mainly obsesses in the dark arts, revenge, black magic and the Dark Lord. Her temper is fiery and quick to flare, so any insults and she'll have a hex soaring towards you in seconds - almost like a reflex. Either that or you're a muggle-born, half-blood or enemy and she was bored. But seriously, she has a deadly temper that can make the bravest of people tremble. If you cross her, don’t think you will escape without feeling the wrath of her fury and most likely a couple cruciatus curses to boot!

Bellatrix also has an envious streak, for example she is jealous of other Death Eaters that receive praise from the Dark Lord and will resent them for it. If you have something she wants she will hate you for it and won’t even try hiding it from you. Once you make an enemy of Bella, you’ll probably never become anything else because she can hold a grudge for a very long time. You really don’t want to get on her hit list because she happens to have one in her mind which she never seems to forget.

Some might say it is due to close inter-family marriages over the centuries, some might say it was the pureblood supremacy she was exposed to from an early age, but in the end the outcome is the same; Bellatrix Black is insane, twisted and unable to feel guilt or remorse. She loves to taunt, tease and toy with her victims before finally killing them because death on it's own is too easy. Sadistic and confident, she will have you hating her before even speaking to her. That is unless you like that kinda thing. She has paranoia and a lot of personal insecurities that make her quite jumpy and volatile and she thinks nothing of teasing people whether she likes them or not and can be very condescending at times; for example she still treats her youngest sister like a child.

If you go back to her childhood, her present behaviour can be linked back to that. If Bellatrix had a shrink, she would probably be told that it was due to the brainwashing style of upbringing she received from an early age as well as the close family marriages over the years that have created such a disturbed individual. She is full of rage and hate that seems to be unexplainable to everyone including herself, but she hasn't ever stopped to think about it before.

Despite being a Death Eater and happily torturing people without a thought, Bella was still raised to be a high society lady and occasionally this side of her exposes itself, not often, but being that it was ingrained in her from a very young age she can’t really shake it. Bella knows how to blackmail and manipulate but prefers to resort to brute force since she gets more of a kick out of it and it’s much more fun anyway, isn’t it? Of course it is! Bellatrix has no problems killing and would murder her middle sister just to rid her of the connection and look purer in Voldemort's eyes.

( LIKES ) : -Purebloods; toujours purs!
-Dark Arts and she also happens to be more than talented when it comes to them.
-The Dark Lord because he's dreamy clever. That was meant to say clever.
-Death Eaters that aren't competition but are loyal to the Dark Lord
-Slytherins because she feels they are like her very extended family since she used to be one herself.
-Curses, mainly the cruciatus curse
-Fizzing Whizbees
-Winning, at anything and everything
-Being begged for mercy
-Her sister, Narcissa
-Her wand, it serves her well
-Lestrange Mannor, although she prefers the home she grew up in but maybe it's better to be away from all the memories.
-Knockturn Alley and all it's interesting shops, sometimes Diagon Alley is just a little bit too tame or just plain crowded.
( DISLIKES ) : -Half-bloods
-Gryffindors
-Polyjuice potion - sure she'll use it but it tatses foul and she likes being herself not other people.
-Socializing with high society; it can be so pointless, boring and insufferable.
-People in the Order because they are fighting a war against her Voldemort pureblood supremecy.
-Dumbledore because too many people still say he was a better wizard that the Dark Lord.
-Sirius Black, he's a filthy blood-traitor and deserves to die.
-Blood-traitors
-Enemies of the Dark Lord
-House Elves and other magical creatures. House Elves especially because they are always ass-kissing and seeking a way to unemploy themselves for some reason. Most other magical creatures seem to avoid her or try to attack her much to her surprise but she quickly decided she didn't want them to like her and now mistreats them for amusement. How nice.
-Losing at anything is just embarrassing.
-Allowing people to survive because it's plain messy.
-Insults about self or family or Dark Lord
-Children because they are loud, obnoxious and disgusting. Bella can't understand or tolerate them in the slightest. They also kind of creep her out with their clingyness.
-Traitors of the Dark Lord for obvious personal reasons.
-Azkaban; she can't really serve the Dark Lord from there.
-Rodolphus because he is an irritating lump of a husband who get's in her way most of the time.
-Andromeda; like Sirius she strayed from the family path of pureblood beliefs, plus she looks a little too much like Bella.
-Mudbloods because they are infinitely inferior in everyway in her opinion.
-Disloyal Death Eaters because they should commit for life!
-Severus Snape; Bella doesn't trust him.
-Pretty much everyone else for some reason or another
-Cornish Pixies. Put Bellatrix in a room of Cornish Pixies and you'll find a very frustrated, seething, stressed out and murderous woman emerge once they've finished terrorizing her.
( STRENGTHS ) : -Duelling - she has a knack for it.
-Dark Magic - what else were you expecting? Cheering charms?
-Fast reflexes because she's more than a little paranoid and always watching her back. Not literally of course.
-Ruthless and merciless - begging for mercy only makes her enjoy torturing you more so she isn't about to stop is she? Oh yeah, and once she stops toying with you she'll probably just merrily Avada Kerdavra you and be gone. Have fun!
-Devious, cunning - the latter being a typical Slytherin trait and the first being something she learned after so many times being sent to bed without dinner because of mischief she'd caused. Of course she had to come up with new ways of sneaking food without getting caught, and well, one thing leads to another.
-Persistant - Bellatrix rarely gives up on something she's after. I guess you could call her relentless but if she has the slightest inkling that she may lose or has no chance of winning, she will scarper. However she will return at some point to finish the job.
-Talented at unforgiveable curses - mainly the cruciatus curse because she's always using that one but she likes the other two as well just not as much. She love's crucio.
( WEAKNESSES ) : -Short attention span - she is usually very easy to distract. For example if she was in a duel with another person and someone else badmouthed her, she would take the time to turn around and curse whoever badmouthed her and leave herself vulnerable to attack meanwhile.
-Arrogant and over confident - Bellatrix is very sure of herself and her talents. She knows she is a powerful witch and doesn't try to hide this at all and her boasting can be pretty obnoxious to other people. Also being so overly sure about her skill means she can sometimes put herself in tight situations and still not see the danger. Luckily she somehow manages to cope quite well, so far...
-Underestimates enemies - usually muggleborns and half-bloods she assumes to be significantly less powerful than herself and of course underestimating the enemy is probably one of the most stupid things you can do.
-Quick to presume - Bella jumps to conclusions very quickly which means misunderstandings can arise and cause problems in general.
-Stubborn - her stubborness also has the potential to put her in tight spots. She's sooner die than give in which would mean that her stubborness just got her killed.
-Likes to torture people first which gives them more opportunity to fight back before she kills them
-The Dark Lord - of course he is the only one who can truly control her without using the imperius curse on her. He has the power to influence her to do anything he wants because she is all too willing.
-Her mind - it's unstable in case you hadn't noticed. Insanity is a weakness for most people although I think if you were to ask some of her victims they might disagree.
( AMORTENTIA ) : -Death; to her it is an empowering scent that calms the raging temper.
-Fear; as long as the fear is that of her victim, then it becomes a motivational and exciting smell for her.
-Must, mold; reminds her of the smell of the attic in her childhood home where she used to hide things as a small child. No she was not supposed to be up there; that's why the smell is so fond because of it reminds her of the exhileration she felt disobeying her parents.
-Blood; that metallic tang is a very enticing scent to Bella. It brings back memories of the days before Azkaban when the Death Eaters would pillage muggle, mudblood and blood-traitor dwellings.
( RIDDIKULUS! ) : Disappointing the Dark Lord. The boggart turns into Voldemort repeating the words "Failure" and "Disappointment" and mocking her about her family connections. When faced with a boggart she isn't afraid as such but she is more upset by it and partly angry, not at him but the family member in question. She has huge difficulties overcoming her boggart but when she does, she manages it by imagining that Sirius or Andromeda are dead at his feet because she finds that amusing.
( EXPECTO PATRONUM! ) : Bellatrix's worst memory is a tough one. She hasn't exactly had a hard life so far, has she? Her worst memory would probably be when Andromeda left to marry Ted Tonks. She had finally accepted that her cousin was a blood-traitor and that was bad enough, but her own sister?! Bellatrix was shocked, disgusted, horrified, furious and generally in disbelief. She didn't want to accept that she was so closely related to a blood-traitor and it took her quite a while to come to terms with it. It somewhat unhinged her a little more and made her even more determined to extinguish all mudbloods, half-bloods and traitors. It motivated her, she knew she had to get rid of all scum like her sister and her sister very much included. She hasn't been able to cast a patronus in a very long time, not since her school days but when she could it was a wolverine. If she were to conjure one successfully now it would most likely be conjured with the memory of receiving her dark mark.
( MIRROR OF ERISED ) : Bellatrix's most deepest, darkest desire would be the Dark Lord himself. She longs for him to return her affections and would literally do anything for him to make him love her.

[/size][/blockquote]

_______________________________
EVERYONE WANTS TO FEEL LIKE SOMEONE CARES

[/FONT]
SOMEONE TO LOVE WITH MY LIFE IN THEIR HANDS[/FONT]
_______________________________[/center]

( PLAY-BY ) : Helena Bonham Carter
( APPEARANCE ) : Bella's eyes are dark, dark like her soul and cold like ice. A gaze from her eyes could send shivers down the spine of a lion. Some may say they feel naked when she looks at them, as though she can see into their mind. Well she can't unless she is using Legilimens which she isn't too keen on unless it's truly necessary. Her eyebrows are shaped in a sharp curve and her eyes lashes are long without the aid of masacra or spells; something she is quite proud of.

Bella has long, dark brown almost black hair with curls that cascade down her back. Her hair has a rather sleek and shiny look and is something she is very proud of. Her hair is usually allowed to flow freely although underneath the Death Eater cloak it must be tamed to some degree, otherwise it is just plain wild, kinda like her.

There is obviously a Dark Mark tattoed on her left arm which she is very proud of and no other piercings than her ear lobes. She has scars on both wrists from her shackles she wore in Azkaban but she covers these with gloves. The rest of her body also has some less visible scars from duels over the years but these are mostly very difficult to see against her pale skin.

If you happen to see Bellatrix on your travels, she will most likely be wearing some sort of long black dress with a corset or some gothic inspired style to it. She takes great care in what she wears and never ever wears pants, shorts or any masculine clothing - mainly because of the family she was raised into, high society ladies don't wear men's clothes. In the unfortunate chance you catch her in her Death Eater garb, you will probably recognize her by the hooded cloak and ornate mask that she wears, and the fact that she is one of the only women there and has a particularly noticeable insane cackle.
( HEIGHT / WEIGHT ) : She is 5'6" and weighs in at around 117lbs. Running around the English coutryside killing and torturing mudbloods burns more calories than you might think! Plus Azkaban is partially to blame for her malnourished appearance.

_______________________________
MY BEST FRIEND GAVE ME THE BEST ADVICE

[/FONT]
HE SAID EACH DAYS A GIFT AND NOT A GIVEN RIGHT[/FONT]
_______________________________[/center]

( HISTORY ) : Bellatrix was raised to believe that pureblood wizards and witches were far superior to muggle-born and half-blood wizards. Being a member of The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, she was lead to believe that she was practically wizarding royalty. At Hogwarts she was a Slytherin as was custom for her family and found herself to be very talented in the Dark Arts.

As a young child, she took great pleasure in setting small insects on fire and catching stray cats that passed her way so that she could 'experiment' on them. Namely, she would try casting spells and using magic on them without a wand. Usually she would just manage to make their whiskers disappear but from time to time (usually when they scratched her and made her angry) she would succeed in making one or more of its limbs vanish and once even blinded one after it tried to maul her. It was almost a way for her to vent the vast amount of fury and frustration she had pent up inside as well as a form of entertainment.

Her sister Andromeda she saw as competition. They were close in age and appearance which made Bellatrix feel she had to be better than her in every way. This lead to her playing various pranks on her sister and doing her best to make her unhappy. Narcissa was young enough not to be a threat to Bella's ego so as the eldest she felt it her duty to take her under her wing although Andromeda seemed to have beaten Bella there, only worsening the one-sided vendetta.

Bella's seven years at Hogwarts were spent socializing with Slytherins, learning the Dark Arts from the pages of restricted book and mercilessly teasing students from the other 'inferior' houses. As soon as her middle sister followed her into Hogwarts, she began distancing herself from her. It was quickly becoming apparent that Andromeda was not quite as much of a Slytherin as the rest of her family, Sirius exlcuded. As her sisters one by one joined her at Hogwarts, she felt it her duty to keep them under her thumb and not doing anything Cygnus and Dreulla wouldn't be pleased with.

Shortly after Hogwarts, she married Rodolphus Lestrange, a wizard from a respectable pureblood family. Bellatrix and Rodolphus had an arranged marriage as all the Black sisters were intended to. Bellatrix knew the boy from school as they were in the same house and the same year but she hadn't ever had a crush on him, in fact, she had never had a crush on anyone before. The thought of taking him as a husband wasn't a big deal to her, she would make an appropriate marriage and please the family.

About four months into their marriage, the unhappily married couple decided to become Death Eaters and join Voldemort's cause. Once initiated into the group, Bellatrix distanced herself from her husband and found in herself a great desire to please her new master. To her, he was the most powerful wizard she had ever met, a man of excellent values and morals and he commanded the whole group with such skill and mastery that it took her breath away. Bellatrix found herself longing to be praised and favored by him, striving to stand out from the others and prove that being a woman didn't make her weaker than the other Death Eaters.

Bellatrix's ruthless power and brutality did catch the eye of the Dark Lord, he saw her eagerness and loyalty to be invaluable qualities and made the decision that he would give her one to one tutoring in Dark Arts, Legilimency and Occlumency. Bellatrix was greatly honored to be taught by one who she revered and respected so much but these one on one sessions sparked a weakness for Bella, she developed feelings for the Dark Lord. She didn't notice it at first but when she did, she had trouble accepting it fully because love was alien to her and had always been something she mocked. Now she was experiencing it herself. While doing the Dark Lord's bidding, she was experiencing an inner battle with herself over her unwanted attraction to her master. Finally she broke and gave in to the emotion but it quickly worsened into something of an obsession.

During this time her relationship with Rodolphus began to deteriorate into begrudging tolerance. He seemed ignorant of her obsession with the Dark Lord and gradually began to expect her to be less and less of the idealistic wife he had imagined.

After torturing the Longbottoms' to insanity and Voldemort's fall, she, along with her husband and his brother were arrested and sentenced to life in Azkaban. After fourteen years of incarceration she finally escaped the wizard prison to seek out her master. Hell-bent on revenge for her master and her incarceration and determined to carry out the Dark Lord's bidding.
( PARENTS ) : Druella Black (née Rosier), her mother. Druella wasn't the working type, in fact she never had to work a day in her life. Being a pureblood and extremely wealthy, she decided to live a life of doing what she wanted, socializing with the upper class and upholding family tradition. She wasn't a particularly loving mother but Bellatrix looked up to her and took on her morals. Her mother would often sit her down and tell her about the difference between purebloods, half-bloods, mudbloods and muggles, making it very clear where each stood. That is before she died, the same year Narcissa was born. Druella was a pureblood and a Slytherin.
Cygnus Black III, her father. Often tucked away in his study or somewhere else away from the children, Bellatrix didn't see much of him. When she did though, he also liked to lecture her on the importance of blood and who you socialize with. Bellatrix as a young girl admired her father and wanted to spend more time with him but was jealous whenever he paid attention to her sisters. He was a Slytherin in his Hogwarts time and a pureblood. He supported Voldemort up until his death, shortly after Bella got out of Hogwarts.
( SIBLINGS ) : Anromeda Tonks (née Black), 43, has been disowned from the family. Bella has cut her off completely and hates hearing her name being mentioned. She was a Slytherin, a pureblood and supports the Order.

Narcissa Malfoy (née Black), 40, aka Cissy is very close to Bella although they do have their little sisterly spats, Bella usually being the instigator of them. She was also a Slytherin and very much a pureblood. She does not work as she is rich and she supports Voldemort; she has to since her husband is a Death Eater.
( OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS ) : Sirius Black; her blood-traitor cousin, allied with the Order, whom she loathes.
Nymphadora Tonks; her half-blood, Auror, Order allied niece whom she also loathes and wishes dead.
Draco Malfoy; her newly recruited Death Eater nephew who she recently met for the first time and is quite fond of.
( OTHER ) : She is very wealthy, being the eldest daughter, she inherited the most.

[/size][/blockquote]

_______________________________
AGAINST THE GRAIN SHOULD BE A WAY OF LIFE

[/FONT]
WHAT’S WORTH THE PRICE IS ALWAYS WORTH THE FIGHT[/FONT]
_______________________________[/center]

( ALIAS ) : Olive
( EXPERIENCE ) : 5 years
( CONTACT DETAILS ) : PMs or my email/msn: [e-mail]
( OTHER CHARACTERS ) : Not yet
( RP EXAMPLE ) :

Bellatrix Lestrange, loyal servant of the Dark Lord and sadistic murderer, knelt in her Azkaban cell chained tightly by the wrists. It had been a couple weeks now and the dark mark on her arm was burning again. Since then, she had been getting stronger, biding her time until she would break out and return to His side once more. An insane grin was plastered over her dirt-smeared face and her hands gripped the chains that restrained her to the point where her knuckles were white. Her face was a hollowed out shell of what it used to be and her tattered prison ‘clothes’ were very loose fitting now, they had originally shown more shape when she had arrived but since she had lost a lot of weight.

A dark cackle escaped her lips as she knelt there, she knew it was now time. Soon she would be free and helping the Dark Lord to rise once again to full power. Bellatrix was not happy, she was crazy and desperate; fortunately emotions the dementors were unable to sense. Suddenly, she felt a rush of power and determination and gave an almighty pull, managing to pull the chains from the wall that held them in place. Raising her wand arm high into the air, she summoned her wand with a mad glint in her eye.

It was a matter of minutes later when her wand finally made it to her. It flew sharply through the air and snapped into her hand almost magnetically. A blood-curdling shriek erupted from her and quickly dissolved into a loud, insane cackle. Convincing the dementors to support the cause proved easy enough for Lestrange and soon the remaining imprisoned Death Eaters caught on that they could free themselves. Bellatrix had given herself a headstart to reach the Dark Lord, she wanted to prove her loyalty by arriving first. He would be pleased with her, she would prove her devotion and worth and see him first. No one could stop an insane woman on a deadly mission.

[/size][/blockquote]

[SORTING HAT]

ACCEPTED !

*thumbs up* great appie! don't forget to post in the claims & sign ups. =]