Post by Elizabeth Cantante on Jun 22, 2008 13:54:43 GMT
and now we're grown up orphans
that never knew their names.
full name; Elizabeth Victoria Cantante
nicknames; Liz, Lizbeth, Lizzie, Lizoe, Liza, Elle, Ellie, Beth...etc.
age; 28
house; Graduated Gryffindor
gender; Female
sexuality; Straight
blood; Pure
mirror mirror on the wall, have i got it?
i'm finding it's not easy to be perfect.
eye colour; Hazel
hair colour; Auburn
height; 5'11"
other physical traits; One of the strange things about Elizabeth, is that despite her heritage, she has deathly pale skin. Her eyes are a very soft colour, but they look darker than they are at first glance. She has the sort of face that looks unnatural when she's not smiling, and has dimples from doing so. She's slender and delicately scuplted with curves in all the right places. She'll often wear her hair in bunches, even if she often says that she's outgrown doing so and it just supports the fact that she looks younger than she is.
She's not bothered by the way she looks, but she has one insecurity. There's a deep scar that runs down her left cheek. She could have got it healed magically while it was still fresh, but it's been there for so long that now it's there to stay.
clothing style; Lizzie loves bright clothes, but lacks the confidence to wear them most of the time. She doesn't really like people looking at her. She'll often be seen wearing jeans, and then a solid bright coloured t-shirt, usually in red as it's her favourite colour - Gryffindor pride and all. Her favourite jacket is a faded khaki coloured one, and you'll most likely see her in that, come rain or shine.
what i really meant to say[/font][/blockquote]
is that i'm sorry for the way i am.
good traits;
Elizabeth is your stereotypical Gryffindor. She's brave and bold and just a little bit unbalanced...and she's damn proud of it. She's one of those 'get up and go' sort of people and can't stand to be sitting round doing nothing. She likes to get things done and be on the move. She also lives her life by the philosophy 'cry a river, build a bridge and get over it'. She's very straight forward, never liking to bother trying to hide how she feels. She'll always be honest with you about anything, but especially about what's going on in her head and this is probably why she's able to move forward so efficiently. Warm-hearted and maternal, Liz is one of those people who just automatically seem to care for everything on God's green earth. She's very friendly and loves to talk to new people, but she's smart enough not to put her trust in anyone just like that. She's really very approachable and it's easy to talk to her about anything.
flaws;
Elizabeth has a real fierce streak. Past that sweet and warm exterior is a whole lot of hurt that's liable to burst out in anger at any given time, but especially if you get on this girl's bad side. Lizzie really isn't someone you want to mess with, and she'll make sure you learn not to do it again. If you so much as lay one finger on her family or bring one tear to her children's eyes, then you're as good as dead, and that is no exaggeration. Contrary to this temper of hers and to all her friendliness, she's really quite insecure and lacks the confidence to do a lot of things that people normally do. She hates to be looked at and despises it when she ends up inadvertently causing a scene, or her children draw attention in public. When she first became a mother, she was terrified to be with her daughter in public because her baby would start to cry and naturally people would look and Elizabeth would feel as if they were looking at her like she was a bad parent.
habits;
Lizzie's most prominent habit, is that when she's thinking or worried or just when she's not noticing what she's doing, she'll run her forefinger down the scar on her cheek. People take this as quite a sinister mannerism, but it's really not. It's just something she does.
She's a social smoker, and will do it when she's offered or in a group of people, but doesn't tend to do it when she's on her own. She will never ever touch alcohol of any kind, even if she used to when she was younger, now she doesn't.
three words to sum up your character;
- Loving
- Fierce
- Insecure
in our family portrait
we look pretty happy.
mother;
Joanna Victoria [Snook] Cantante (deceased)
father;
Ferdinand Francis Cantante (deceased)
siblings;
Peter Francis Cantante (deceased)
cousins;
Lucinda Stefanie Samson (24)
other relatives;
Aunt:
Joy Maria [Cantante] Samson (55)
Uncle:
Ray Harrison Samson (57)
direct family;
Fiancee:
Christian Daniel George (31)
Children:
Lilianna Madeline Cantante (9)
Isabella Victoria Cantante (7)
Helena Sophie Cantante (5)
Nameless (unborn)
it's in my past, it's in my path[/font][/blockquote]
and i can't go there.
place of birth;
Barcelona
date of birth;
April 15th
brief history;
Elizabeth was born in Barcelona as the first child to a Spanish father and English mother. She loved her parents very much and they were very happy. Her little brother was born when she was six, and they got on very well as well. Her childhood was picturesque and perfect. When she neared Hogwarts age, her mother talked her father into moving to England so that Elizabeth could attend Hogwarts like the two of them. Eventually, he gave in and left his beloved home country to live in London instead. Both Joanna and Ferdinand were Gryffindors, so it really was no surprise when Elizabeth was sorted into Gryffindor as well.
When she was fifteen, her mother had been out walking in the muggle world and was the victim of a hit and run. She knows it's irrational, and that it's been thirteen years, but Elizabeth still really doesn't like the muggle world that much. She tolerates it, but doesn't like it. After the accident, her father wanted to move back to Spain, Elizabeth agreed, but Peter was desperate to stay in London because that was where he remembered his mother, so they stayed. For nearly a year she lived with her father and brother, and they all tried to move on, but just after things started to get easier, Peter fell very ill.
Her father searched desperately to find what was wrong with him, and Elizabeth dropped out of school for a few months to stay with her brother while he grew sicker and weaker in St Mungo's. He died a few months before his twelfth birthday, and Elizabeth's distraught father moved them both back to Spain to start over. She did out the rest of her schooling at home with her father's teaching, and then when she was of age she decided to move back to London, because the city was her home much more than Barcelona was.
She got her own flat in London with her father's financial support and lived there happily for a year or so. She started seeing a man, but only a few months into the relationship, she fell pregnant and he left. She was terrified, but didn't want to get rid of the baby, so she kept it. Before she even got the chance to tell her father, she received a letter telling her of his death.
He'd been on a lot of pills to help him sleep and to help with his depression, and had very stupidly, mixed them with alcohol. She'd had no idea of the escalating problems that he had, so she blames herself for his death even now, thinking that if she'd known, she could have helped him and he would still be alive now.
After the birth of her daughter, she grew very depressed and often left her daughter with friends to babysit her, so she could go and out and have stupid meaningless one night stands. These resulted in the birth of her other two daughters.
After Helena was born, she decided that she couldn't go on this way as it wasn't fair to her children. She got a job to better support the family rather than living off benefits and inheritance and tried to be a better mother to her children.
She set aside one day every week, usually a Saturday as it was her day off, where she'd take her daughters out to do something of their choice. One Saturday, they ended up eating at a restaurant where the owner happened to be particularly good with children. So, it became a regular occurance to go back there every week.
Her and the owner, Christian, started to become friends and he'd often come and sit with them. He ran the place on his own, but his wife would often come in as well, and Elizabeth got to know the couple very well over the next few weeks and they'd often babysit for her when she had to go to work and couldn't find anyone else.
She'd known Christian and his wife, Kelly, for about five months when she ended up sleeping with him. She felt awful at first, as she'd never knowingly been the 'other woman' before, but it sort of became a regular occurence. Kelly found out and was understandably distressed. She left her husband and came knocking on Elizabeth's door, and it turned out much to Liz's misfortune that Kelly was a witch as well. After a confrontation that still has her daughters frightened at times, and that left Elizabeth with the scar on her cheek, the fight was broken up.
Realising the full extent of what she'd done, Elizabeth moved out of her flat with her daughters and broke it off with Christian. Then, shortly afterwards as she couldn't stay away as well as she thought she could, ended up getting back together with Christian.
This was four years ago, and Christian and Elizabeth have been living together happily since then. They've been engaged for two years and intend to get married as soon as they have the money. For the past three years, they've both run the restaurant together and they have a nice little life built for themselves. Elizabeth's about two months pregnant with the first child she's ever going to have with the father still around, but they haven't told anyone just yet. They intend to get round to getting married, whether they have the money or not, when the baby's born.