Elise Corner

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Basic Stats

Full Name: Elise Jane Corner
Nickname(s): None
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Date of Birth: September 23, 2008
Zodiac: Libra
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
Hometown: Hampstead, London, England
Current Residence: Hampstead, London, England
House & Year: Ravenclaw 2027
Occupation: Shop clerk: The Velveteen Rabbit; trainee healer
Wand: 8 in, olive, unicorn tail hair
Pet: None

Family

Father: Michael Anthony Corner (wizard; Ravenclaw 1998; b. September 10, 1979)
Mother: Amanda Celeste Corner (née Brocklehurst; witch; Ravenclaw 1998; b. November 5, 1979)
Sister: Celeste Rose Corner (witch; Hufflepuff 2028; b. August 20, 2010)

Son: Edmund Liam Corner (b. November 5, 2027)
Baby-daddy: Montgomery Alexander Wood (wizard; Hufflepuff 2027; b. June 23, 2009)

History

3 Significant Moments in Childhood

Adoption: Although she was too young to ever remember it, Elise's adoption by the Corners was the absolute most important event in her life. Her mother, Jane, was young when she got pregnant, and she was unprepared for it entirely. She lacked support from her parents and from the father of her unborn child, so she was completely lost. Mandy was a godsend to her, after having struggled through the early months of motherhood with no support. Elise has no memories of her biological mother, and although she had a few wishful-thinking dreams of her birth parents after having learned about the adoption when she was older, she has no real inclination to seek Jane out.
Rescuing injured animals: Almost as soon as she could walk, Elise was bringing home injured animals that she found around the neighbourhood and in the backyard. At first, she would ask her parents to "make it better" before learning a few ways that she, herself, could nurse animals back to health. She just couldn't bear to see a hurt animal and leave it alone. Even if it was beyond help, she had to at least try. Peter The Tabby was the only of her rescued animals to become a permanent fixture in the Corner household.
Finding out the truth: Growing up, Elise simply assumed that she was Mandy and Michael's biological daughter. After all, doesn't one always assume that one's parents are, well … one's parents? She was seven when Mandy decided that she was old enough to know the truth. Mandy sat Elise down one day and told her about how she came to be a Corner. Elise was completely shocked to find this out, and was angry with both of her parents for quite a while afterwards. For a while, she dreamed of "showing them" by running away to find her "real family," but she never got farther than pulling open her dresser drawers and trying to decide what clothes to pack. Eventually, she did come around to realise that her "real" parents didn't want her, or at least not as much as Mandy and Michael did. She still threw the "NOT MY REAL [mum/dad]" at them through the rest of her adolescence on occasion, when she was steamed at them, but always felt really bad afterwards.

3 Significant Moments During School

Sorting: When the time came to go off to Hogwarts, Elise was a little nervous. Sure, her parents had told her all about their time there, and she was positive that she'd make friends, but the one thing she never told even her mum that she was worried about was the very first task set for new first years: sitting on that chair in front of everyone while a hat decided your fate. I mean, first of all, was it going to totally ruin her hair for the rest of the evening? But more importantly, what would it see in her head? She desperately wanted to be in Ravenclaw, as both her parents had been, but was afraid that the hat would see differently and put her somewhere else … like it would be a glaring arrow saying that she Doesn't Belong to Mandy and Michael. At least her nervousness was relatively short-lived: with Corner so close to the beginning of the alphabet, Elise was among the first to be sorted. She sat on the stool, the hat was placed upon her head, and she begged over and over in her head for the hat to read her thoughts and put her where she knew she belonged: Ravenclaw. The hat taunted her a bit, saying she would do well in Hufflepuff, but Elise begged with the hat — she never thought she would do any such thing in her life! — to put her in Ravenclaw, and the hat admitted that she possessed the desire to learn that was so important to Rowena Ravenclaw. Ultimately, the hat went with her wishes and placed her in Ravenclaw. (She was mildly disappointed the following year when Celeste, her parents' biological daughter and a sure shoo-in for Ravenclaw, was sorted into Hufflepuff instead. She had hoped to share a common room with her sister!)
Montgomery Wood: Monty Wood was a Hufflepuff in Elise's year, so they had classes together all throughout their years at Hogwarts, though they were never necessarily running in the same circles. Although she never played, Elise was a fan of watching the school's quidditch matches, so she certainly knew him from playing on the Hufflepuff team. In their sixth year, they sort of started eyeing each other, and went on a few dates together near the end of the school year (Hogsmeade weekends, walking the school grounds, things like that). Elise wrote to Monty over the summer, and when they returned to school for their final year, they started officially dating. Although she had dated other boys, she was never really serious about them, and it was Monty who Elise found she could see herself marrying in the future. Which, perhaps, was why the idea of consummating their relationship over the Valentine's Hogsmeade weekend was so romantic and appealing to her: the ultimate display of love on the holiday about love!
Knocked up: Of course, we all know how that ended up. At first, Elise didn't even notice that she had skipped a period: with NEWTs looming on the horizon, she had other things on her mind. But when one of her roommates was groaning about cramps from her period in April, Elise realised that she hadn't suffered cramps — or a period! — since early February. She thought back over the preceeding months, and realised that she'd felt nauseous a bit, but had always chalked it up to stress. Of course, there was only one way to truly know for sure, and on the next Hogsmeade weekend, she told Monty and all her friends that she was staying behind in the castle to study; after they had left her alone, she snuck off to Hogsmeade on her own and found a local healer, who confirmed what Elise feared: she was pregnant. Elise had no idea what to do. Her first thought was that she knew of potions that might be able to … take care of the problem. But she dismissed the thought almost immediately, she couldn't do that! Over the next month, she thought very seriously about doing what her own birth mother had done: give the child up for adoption. She was only 18, she had no idea how to take care of a child, and she had plans for her own future. She delayed telling Monty until after they had taken their NEWTs: she didn't want to add any more stress to either of them with such important exams coming up. When she did tell him, and he admitted he wasn't ready for marriage (yet), the combination of her own overdramatic tendencies and the pregnancy hormones caused her to (irrationally, though she would never admit it) break up with him. Once she returned home from school, she told her parents the whole story and broke down crying in her mother's arms.

3 Significant Moments Since School

Edmund: Elise spent the summer after finishing Hogwarts and the following fall as a complete bundle of nerves. What if she couldn't do this? But when Edmund came charging into the world (or at least that's certainly what it felt like … why did NOBODY tell her how PAINFUL childbirth was?!), Elise fell absolutely in love with him from the moment he was placed into her arms. Although she'd had to delay her own planned future to care for the unplanned part of her future, she wouldn't trade her baby boy for anything in the world. Deciding to keep him was one of the best decisions she had ever made.
Adjusting to motherhood: Making the change from teenager to mum was an entirely different story. Although she had months to prepare for her son's arrival, it was still a complete shock to Elise how different her life was now. For months, she was lucky if she got five hours straight of sleep at night. She couldn't just go out with her friends anymore, and just leaving the house with the baby was at least a half-hour affair of getting everything together to go. The baby's needs came before her own, and she just wasn't used to that! She had more than a few breakdowns in those first few months, where she definitely appreciated the support of her parents being there for her. She doesn't think she'd have been able to survive if she'd been trying to take care of Edmund on her own.
Healer training, deferred: Elise had been accepted into Healer training, pending NEWT results, when she found out she was pregnant. After discussions with her parents that summer, and a meeting with the head of the programme, she got her acceptance deferred by a year, so that she wouldn't have to take time out of her training to have the baby. Elise was eternally grateful to the head of the programme for holding her place in training, because she didn't want to have to choose between her baby and the career that she had always wanted. She is looking forward to starting her training, though she's nervous about being away from Edmund for so long at a stretch, too.

Personality

3 Positive Traits

Friendly: Elise likes people. Pretty much all people, really. I mean, if you're really dirty and/or sweaty and/or grungy, she might not hug you or anything, but you have to be a really nasty person for her to not at least give you a chance. She takes her healer's vows (which she hasn't actually taken yet, but that's just semantics!) seriously: to do no harm, to help the sick and injured, etc etc. She is all about helping people. And being nice to people. She has never had trouble making friends, whether it was with other neighbourhood children, or classmates at school.
Compassionate: It is because of Elise's big heart and deep sense of compassion for others that had the Hat debating putting her into Hufflepuff. There's more to Elise than just a pretty face and great clothes: she truly wants to make the world a better place. She was always rescuing animals when she was a little girl (usually releasing them after nursing them back to health, but Peter The Tabby stayed with her and joined her at school until she was fifteen and he died in his sleep), and she has wanted to be a healer for almost as long as she can remember (there were times in her young childhood that her future occupation dreams centered around being a princess, but after that, it was all about becoming a healer). She just wants to help people. Sure, she might come off as a bit nosy and meddlesome with her frequent questioning of "are you ok?" and offering unaskedfor advice, but it's really just because she just cares so much!
Bookish: From an early age, Elise has loved to read. She chalks it up to spending so much time in her mum's bookstore when she was growing up. She loves to read almost any sort of book, and she'll give nearly any book a chance, no matter how many negative things other people might have to say about it. She particularly loves muggle fantasy books, marvelling at their imagination and how close they (sometimes) come to the truth.

3 Negative Traits

Naive: Elise has a tendency to be just a bit too trusting … in that she will believe almost anything she's told (so long as you're not being too obvious that you're pulling her leg). She's plenty book-smart, but her street-smarts are a little lacking, she just hasn't seen enough of the world outside her own little bubble to really understand.
Overdramatic: To Elise, there are no minor events in life: everything is major. A broken nail can absolutely ruin her whole day. On the plus side, this has allowed her to perfect her indignant flounce. On the negative side, she is nearly always in a state of high emotion, whether it's happy, sad, angry, scared, or whatever. And being in a near-constant state of high emotion is exhausting. She'll sometimes break down and cry for no reason other than she just has too much emotion and adrenaline running through her body.
Vain: Elise has always cared deeply about her looks. She was the girl in school who spent hours in front of the mirror in the washroom in the morning, doing her hair and makeup, making sure her clothes were sitting just right. She was appalled if she was ever seen by anyone (outside of her roommates, because that was just unavoidable) without being "presentable." She goes beyond simple basic grooming, with routines for hair care, facial care, skincare, nail care, etc. Having a baby and having less time to care for her own appearance just completely threw her for a loop. But even still, she can't leave the house without looking presentable.

Boggart: Something happening to Edmund. It's probably every parent's worst fear, but while Elise doesn't normally have that vivid of an imagination, all sorts of possibilities have occurred to her as to what could happen to Ed to hurt or kill him.
Mirror of Erised: Honestly, right now, even though she was the one to break up with him, Elise would see Monty asking her to marry him.
What is your character's outlook on life? Generally positive and optimistic. Life is a wonderful thing! Very shiny and happy.