MELBOURNE SORIN-WARD

FORMERLY: MELBOURNE ANNIKA JOHANSON | FC: Kat Dennings

PERSONAL DETAILS

BIRTH NAME: Melbourne Annika Johanson
ADOPTIVE NAME: Melbourne Annika Johanson Sorin-Ward
NICKNAMES: Mel, Melon, Mellybean (Tenacius & family), Bean (family), Burn, others have arisen through the years.
BLOOD TYPE: O- (Universal Donor)
BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood (muggle enthusiast/supporting)
PRONOUNS: She/her
DATE OF BIRTH: April 1, 2077
AGE: 16
PLACE OF BIRTH: Wales, United Kingdom
RESIDENCE:
PREVIOUS RESIDENCE:London, England (With India Johanson), Ambleside Cumbria (With Finnlay Johanson), Melbourne Australia (with Jamison Johanson)
HOGWARTS HOUSE: GRYFFINDOR
HOGWARTS YEAR: SEVENTH
WAND: Cherry, Phoenix Feather Core 10” Supple
PATIENCE LEVEL: Ranges from non-existent to barely there
ALLERGIES: Boring People, Mushrooms, Mouth-breathers
PATRONUS: Yet-Unknown [Otter]
AMORTENTIA: Unknown -
DISORTENTIA: Unknown
BOGGART: As of yet undiscovered, likely seeing friends hurt & losing loved ones

IMPORTANT DETAILS

Melbourne is an adventurous soul. Melbourne is a mixture of the ESFP and ENTP-A personality types. Like ESFP explorer types Melbourne has a tendency to seem unfocused and not be the best with long-term planning. Mel is never the type to turn down the possibility for an adventure when one arises. While her family has traditions, such as using locations and significant places as names for pets and children, Melbourne tends to be more free-form about traditions and expectations. This coupled with her observant nature, tendency to be bold, and the drive to be “original” Mel never seems to be pegged as just one thing. Still being a creative soul Melbourne can be sensitive at times and generally tries to avoid conflicts as much as possible. Mel is constantly sassing her friends, making witty quips, and sarcastic remarks to her true friends. While some might understand these jokes and remarks as her means of trying to break the ice there can be times that she can be insensitive and even seem argumentative in nature. Still when she isn’t being persnickety the Gryffindor tends to be energetic, charismatic, and bold. However underneath everything and all of her bravado Melbourne is a softhearted girl that would genuinely try to make friends and even those that aren’t friends feel better when they are down. This coupled with the fact that she is empathetic and tends to wear her heart on her sleeve can make her seem to be easily hurt, however, most of the time her sensitivity and tenderness is hidden behind a wall of jokes and sarcastic remarks.

HAIR: Dark Brown, Normally Kept Straight, Reaches her Shoulder-Blade,
EYES: Blue, Soft, Kind, & Emotionally Expressive, with an Almond Shape
SKIN: Pale and almost Iridescent
HEIGHT: Impossibly short...or just about 5'3"

PET(s):
Tawny Owl named Moriarty
Two pygmy puffs (Pink & light blue-y purple) named Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Shih Tzu – Ealabeth, Approximately 10 years old adopted – often has her tongue sticking out (at home)

FAVORITE COLOR(s): Bright Pink, Teal, Soft Blue, Earthy golden browns - like fall leaves, shades of grey black & white, Dark blue, and green.
COLLECTIONS: Rocks sand and Seashells from beaches she has traveled to, other natural things from all the places she has been, Comic & Fandom collectibles (pinks, bags, hats (mainly weird ones) and other such fandom items; giant and weird eyewear, funny shirts, hats, ancient weapons and arrowheads she finds while on adventures.
BOOKS: Dystopian Hero Stories (Hunger Games, Hand Maidens Tale ect), Feminist Books (Where'd you Go Bernadette, The Scarlet Letter, Little Bee, Queen of the Geeks, Girl Code, Nasty Woman, A Room of Her Own | Virginia Woolf, The Bell Jar, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Mists of Avalon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Emma, ect), Comedy Books, Muggle Fantasy books, Non-Fiction (Cookbooks, potions books, books with a focus on writing and memoirs - Furiously Happy, Lets Pretend This Never Happened, Books on Mental Health, and writing fiction stories)

FAN OF: Veronica Mars, Marvels Cinematic Universe, DC Television & Cinematic Universe, Flight of the Conchords, Television shows from aaaages before, music from every generation (pretty much), playing her cello, singing, learning new music, spending time with friends, making new friends
DREAM PLACE TO LIVE: A conch shell - your house would be a fibonacci spiral not to mention never far away...really, anywhere but somewhere with water and a beach nearby would be grand.
ROLE MODEL: Rorie Hazlewood, Cutty Mordaunt, Amelia Yarborugh (sister), Hermione Granger, Cleopatera, Alexander the Great, Lady Hester Stanhope

FAVORITE ANIMALS: Quokkas, Dogs, Bunnies, almost anything and everything
LEAST FAVORITE CREATURES: Poltergeists, Spiders and did I mention Spiders?
WEAPON OF CHOICE: Wand, impaling spiky stabby things...really sharo metal-heeled stiletto shoes

RELATIONSHIPS

MOTHER: Lilian Johanson✝ (nee Darling-Williams)
FATHER: Carter Johanson ✝
GRANDMOTHER: Maddison Denaker (nee Johanson)
FATHERS (ADOPTIVE): Thunder Sorin-Ward, Dustin Sorin-Ward
SISTER-IN-LAW: Brigid Johanson ✝ (nee Masters), Fallon Crawford*
BROTHER-IN-LAW: Kaiden Yarborough
SISTER: India Johanson, Amelia Yarborough (nee Johanson)
BROTHER(s): Finnlay Johanson*, Jamison-Philip Johanson
COUSIN(s): Remy Edwards, Hadley Denaker, Marsha Hannover, Lily Hanover, Luke Masters, Hayley Masters, (and more)
NIECE/NEPHEWS: Clarissa Johanson, Jennifer Johanson, Maddox Johanson, Kaikoura "Kai" Yarborough
AUNT/UNCLES: too many to put here

FRIENDS: Althea Kenning, Harriet Patton, Noelle Summers, Azura Snow, Oliver Lupin, Oliver Borzekowski-Thomas, Hadley Denaker, Carl Leonard, Brady Somerhalder, Ava Burton, Tenacius Salander, Bentley Moore, Mishenka "Mase/Mason" Stevens, Nathan Way, Corbin Stemp, Henry Whittebrook, Kitty Valentine, Sabbath Gimenez, Katherine Moss, Kat Delgado, Kirk Forsfelle, Olivia Holden, Samantha Swynford, Ixora Lovecraft and more
BEST FRIENDS: Hadley Denaker, Noelle Summers, Azura Snow, Mason Stevens, Carl Leonard, Tenacius Salander, Kirk Forsfelle, Olivia Holden, Samantha Swynford, Ixora Lovecraft
"THE GIRLS": Althea Kenning, Noelle Summers, Azura Snow, Hadely Denaker, Mason Stevens, Olivia Holden, Samantha Swynford, Ixora Lovecraft
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Dating Kirk Forsfelle

HISTORY

2084-Present: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry
2080-2084: St. Woboldo’s Primary School (Social)
2080-2084: Ambleside, Cumbria UK – Ambleside Primary School for Witches & Wizards Ages 4-10

SPOILER!!: Examination Scores

SPOILER!!: OWLS

Ancient Runes – A
Arithmancy – A
Astrology – E
Care of Magical Creatures – O
Charms – O
Defense Against the Dark Arts – O
Divinations – O
Herbology – E
History of Magic – E
Muggle Studies – A
Potions – O
Transfigurations – O

SPOILER!!: NEWTs

*will update*

Melbourne was born to Magizoologist & Dragonologist Carter and his Potioneer & Magizolooigst wife Lilian Johanson, while they were working on the Welsh Dragon Reserve. The couple was not planning on having any more children after their previous daughter had been born; still they welcomed their newest child and treated her with a modicum of love and appreciation. Since Mr. & Mrs. Johanson wanted to dedicate more time to their work they enlisted the help of their children in order to raise their youngest child. This was partially done as they didn’t want any unsavory incidents to occur and raising a child on a Dragon Reserve was not an appealing idea. However, as they were unwilling to divulge more time to their youngest child as they felt their work in the field would prove more fulfilling then the act of rearing another child. When Melbourne was only a few months old she was sent to live with her brother Jamison-Philip Johanson and his wife Brigid and their children. Brigid had recently lost a child and took Melbourne in as her own, nurturing and caring for the young girl until her untimely death while working in her potions lab.

This death not only hit Melbourne hard as Brigid was like a mother to her, it hit Jamison and his daughters Jennifer (surviving youngest), Maddox, and Clarissa equally as hard. This death prompted Melbourne to be sent off to live with her brother Finnlay Johanson as he did not have any children of his own and unlike his brother could presumably dedicate more time to the wayward child. Finnlay had his hands full from day one. This was impart due to the fact that not soon after moving to Finnlay’s home near Ambleside Cumbria Melbourne met her neighbor, and future best-friend Tenacius Salander. The young girl would run away from her brothers house only to be found moments later playing with Tenacius Salander or covered in mud attempting to reach her neighbors house. Through living with her brother Melbourne met Emmaleigh Swynford, a woman with whom Melbourne looked up to and feared in a respectful way. This was due to the fact that Emmaleigh had a very maternal way of speaking with her, it was later when Emmaleigh became her best friend Tenacius’ mother that Mel’s true anxiety with the older woman began to grow. This was more due to the fact that Melbourne didn’t want to cross the Salander woman or to get reprimanded by a woman that she dearly respected. Through meeting Emmaleigh and Tenacius, Melbourne became friends with Samantha Swynford. Samantha though she lived farther away was a constant figure in her childhood due to the fact that Sam’s sister, Emmaleigh worked along side her brother Finn.

When Finnlay Johanson began a new relationship Melbourne immediately got a new babysitter through the interaction. This baby sitter was none other than roller-derby star and Slytherin Extraordinaire Rorie Hazelwood – the niece of her brothers girlfriend. Soon after this her brother Finn was hired to work with the Ambleside Cumbria Wizarding University and the time he could dedicate to his sister was limited at best. This prompted Melbourne to move in with her sister India Johanson in the city where India was building her clothing store. While India was busy she made an executive decision to put her family friend and someone her parents had considered to be family down as a joint guardian along with herself. This originally was meant to be a preemptive measure incase anything happened to any of the siblings, however, things changed. The change happened in the form of a marriage between Thunder Ward and Dustin Sorin. The couple thusly became the Sorin-Ward family, and as both men had grown to love Melbourne they petitioned the siblings for custody of the young girl as they felt she deserved a stable home. This all took place while Melbourne was beginning her first years of Hogwarts and the custody agreements were finalized by the end of her second year.

It was in Hogwarts where Melbourne became good friends with witches and wizards of all walks of life. The newly sorted Gryffindor even met her best friend nearly instantly in her first year at the school, which proved interesting as the girl became to be known as family. This new feeling of family shared with Hadley Denaker wasn’t short lived as it so happened that Melbourne and Hadley’s single grandparents met while they were attending school and developed a relationship. The couple even planned to marry in the summer of 2092.

SPOILER!!: through the years

*add things here*
1ST YEAR: met & became friends w/ Carl Leonard at the train - met & became friends with Hadley Denaker & discovered a (hopefully) lasting friendship *
2ND YEAR: started living with Dustin & Thunder Sorin-Ward over winter break when her brother Finn was on a business trip - moved in on a more 'permanent' basis after a discussion with her siblings & a dinner with the two
3RD Year: met Kirk Forfselle (Ravenclaw 2nd year) while in Diagon Alley over summer & became instantly friends with him over a mutual fondness for Jarveys - was adopted by Dustin & Thunder Sorin-Ward - met new adopted brother Wyatt Sorin-Ward & became an older sister,
4TH YEAR: lots of drama w/ friends & family - was honestly heartbroken at the near-death of friends (her words) - kissed a few of her male-friends (drama)
5TH YEAR: went on a date with Carl Leonard - Went on a Date with Tenacius Salander - was asked to a ball by Kirk Forfselle - later started dating Kirk (christmas break) -
6TH YEAR:in a relationship with Kirk Forfselle, excited that Tenacius & Olivia started dating , roomies with Olivia Holden
7TH YEAR: STILL dating Kirk Forsfelle (start of term/summer)