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Application~
All About You
Your name: Erin
Are you 17 years of age or over?: Mm-hmm [see, told you the app still said 17!]
Do you have a sense of humour?: Yes’m
Character you are applying for: Su Li
Were they held?: Yep
All About Your Character
Age & Date of Birth: 16, born 18 February 1980
House & Current Year: Ravenclaw, going into year 6
PB: Diana Eng
Physical Description: Su is surprisingly tall for an Asian girl at 5’6”, and likewise kind of lanky. She actually used to be rather chunky, having never really shed her baby fat, but thinned out dramatically the summer after her fourth year during a particularly extended illness. One can tell the most in her face, which doesn’t necessarily look unhealthy in and of itself, but it’s obvious she lost a lot of weight in a short time. That said, she looks rather plain – she has the typical Asian black hair and dark eyes, offset by a small pair of glasses, but lacks the stereotypical Asian ‘cuteness.’ She perpetuates this by throwing her hair back into messy ponytails or updos, though will sometimes leave it down if she’s feeling particularly lazy. She wears literally whatever she happens to pull out of her wardrobe in the morning, though when she actually stops to think about it is addicted to scarves, no matter the weather.
Background Details
Home: Southwark, London, England
Parents: Huang Li and Hye Yoon Li [née Song]
General personality: Su is the type of girl that a stranger would swear they’d met before, or that an acquaintance would feel like they’d known forever. She’s very open and friendly, almost boyishly so, not to mention honest – almost to a fault, as she tends to spout off things [mostly about herself] that are entirely unnecessary. She is brilliant – ‘gifted’ by Muggle standards – and indeed does spectacularly in classes that genuinely interest her. She leaves many of her teachers baffled, as she’ll get perfect test scores, but make bad marks in class overall for forgetting homework, or she’ll look like she’s doodling and daydreaming, so they’ll pick on her to catch her off guard, and she’ll rattle off the answer. That said, she is excited about learning, and whenever a topic of conversation comes up that she isn’t familiar with, she’s commonly known to scream “Research project!” and head to the library to look it up. When she finds something interesting, good luck trying to tear her away, even for meals or sleeping.
Character Biography: Just past St. Valentine’s Day, the world was blessed with Sino-Korean beauty Su Li… no, I lied. Actually, Su was due on V-Day, and likewise that’s when her mother went in, late on the night of the 14th, in labour. Three days later, when she still hadn’t dilated enough, they finally decided that this baby was just too big to be born naturally anyway. So, not even an hour into the new day, weighing nearly eleven pounds, Su finally came into the world.
Your name: Erin
Are you 17 years of age or over?: Mm-hmm [see, told you the app still said 17!]
Do you have a sense of humour?: Yes’m
Character you are applying for: Su Li
Were they held?: Yep
All About Your Character
Age & Date of Birth: 16, born 18 February 1980
House & Current Year: Ravenclaw, going into year 6
PB: Diana Eng
Physical Description: Su is surprisingly tall for an Asian girl at 5’6”, and likewise kind of lanky. She actually used to be rather chunky, having never really shed her baby fat, but thinned out dramatically the summer after her fourth year during a particularly extended illness. One can tell the most in her face, which doesn’t necessarily look unhealthy in and of itself, but it’s obvious she lost a lot of weight in a short time. That said, she looks rather plain – she has the typical Asian black hair and dark eyes, offset by a small pair of glasses, but lacks the stereotypical Asian ‘cuteness.’ She perpetuates this by throwing her hair back into messy ponytails or updos, though will sometimes leave it down if she’s feeling particularly lazy. She wears literally whatever she happens to pull out of her wardrobe in the morning, though when she actually stops to think about it is addicted to scarves, no matter the weather.
Background Details
Home: Southwark, London, England
Parents: Huang Li and Hye Yoon Li [née Song]
General personality: Su is the type of girl that a stranger would swear they’d met before, or that an acquaintance would feel like they’d known forever. She’s very open and friendly, almost boyishly so, not to mention honest – almost to a fault, as she tends to spout off things [mostly about herself] that are entirely unnecessary. She is brilliant – ‘gifted’ by Muggle standards – and indeed does spectacularly in classes that genuinely interest her. She leaves many of her teachers baffled, as she’ll get perfect test scores, but make bad marks in class overall for forgetting homework, or she’ll look like she’s doodling and daydreaming, so they’ll pick on her to catch her off guard, and she’ll rattle off the answer. That said, she is excited about learning, and whenever a topic of conversation comes up that she isn’t familiar with, she’s commonly known to scream “Research project!” and head to the library to look it up. When she finds something interesting, good luck trying to tear her away, even for meals or sleeping.
Character Biography: Just past St. Valentine’s Day, the world was blessed with Sino-Korean beauty Su Li… no, I lied. Actually, Su was due on V-Day, and likewise that’s when her mother went in, late on the night of the 14th, in labour. Three days later, when she still hadn’t dilated enough, they finally decided that this baby was just too big to be born naturally anyway. So, not even an hour into the new day, weighing nearly eleven pounds, Su finally came into the world.
After that trial, her parents decided they weren’t going to try for another child, at least for a while. Su didn’t mind; she chatted with the Muggle children in her little Chinese neighbourhood amicably, as well as with the other Wizarding children they’d set her up on play-dates with. However, she went through a distinct phase where she portrayed herself as a boy – she’d dress in baggy clothes, climb trees, play pranks, dip girls’ pigtails in paint, and even insist that they’d gotten her name backwards, and should refer to her as Li rather than Su.
When she was seven and the phase eventually died down to where she was at least not using male pronouns anymore, the whole family got quite the surprise – another baby! Her parents were excited, and with good reason, since it was going much better along than the previous pregnancy had. Su was a close enough call; they didn’t need another incident like that. They’d found out it was another girl, and had already decided to call her Minhee. Su was ready to be the best big sister in the world, and would sometimes ‘knock’ on her mother’s swollen belly to see if her new sister would answer and tell her when she was coming. On the decisive day, 3 November 1987, after a sudden onset of complications much like before, Minhee Li came into the world… stillborn.
Her parents were inconsolable.
Su promised them that she’d grow up and have a daughter and name her Minhee to make up for it. She’d even keep her last name so the whole name would be the same as the sister she was supposed to have.
Eventually, the time came for her to go off to Hogwarts, and it was no surprise for the ever-precocious Su to be Sorted into Ravenclaw practically before the Hat ever touched her head. She found herself well-integrated and well-liked, having at least one friend in every social ‘group.’ Her friends were probably evenly split in the way of gender, and she liked to think of herself as ‘evenly split’ as well. She could play-wrestle and make dirty jokes, then turn around and shoe-shop and paint her nails. She often found herself being asked for love advice from both genders, despite her glaring lack of experience on the subject – she was just seen as being able to see all sides of a situation, and actually make a decision that would avoid hurting anyone involved if it could be helped. She figured the guys asked her because she was a girl and thus understood them, and the girls asked because she hung out with the guys and knew how they worked.
As the years passed, she started finding alternate solutions to problems, hers or otherwise. For example, after stumbling across a Muggle medical text, she decided she had attention deficit disorder, and thus took a dose of a Muggle friend’s Ritalin to test her theory. [It worked, of course, and after prodding her parents, she was diagnosed and put on her own prescription so the poor kid could have his meds back.] She actually rather likes regaling this tale, among others. Currently, she’s grappling with the realization that she likes girls – does she really, or is it just from hanging out with boys too much? Does she actually identify as a boy still, somewhere in her subconscious, or is she just a lesbian? How is she supposed to have a daughter if she isn’t going to be with a man? And why is this the very first thing she hasn’t been honest about?