✰ –– ‘ introducing: bellatrix lestrange! ‘
age: twenty-seven
blood status: pureblood
occupation: up to player
affiliation: the death eaters
positive traits: loyal, temperamental, determined, intelligent
negative traits: egotistical, sadistic, reckless, arrogant
suggested faceclaim: alexandra park
✰ –– ‘ ministry docier: biography! ‘
The moment that Bellatrix Black came into the world, she made it known that she had arrived. Screaming her longs out. Two years later Andromeda came into the world and two years after that, it was Narcissa. You could not exactly say that she was very welcoming over her sisters or kind, but if something were to happen to them, you better believe that she was ready to hurt or kill.
From a young age on, this girl was ready and being prepared for what the world was going to bring to her doorstep. As the oldest daughter in the Black household, she was brought up with the proper etiquette and everything else that was out there for her. She was prepared for the many socialized parties she would have to attent, she was brought up with the fact that their blood was most important and the purest of all. Anything else was not done. She was brought up with the fact that as the oldest, she was the one to get married to the heir of another important pure-blood family. She was taught that it was her duty to produce an heir in the end to the family name she would marry into.
It was all normal to Bellatrix. It was expected from her so she would go along with it. She went to Hogwarts and got sorted into the Slytherin house, just like anyone else of the Black house. Hogwarts was a time where she formed her own opinion more and more. It was along the lines of the wishes of her parents. She believed in the fact that her blood was the purest there was and that it would have to be like that in the future. She believed in the fact that she would have to marry because of that reason but saw it as nothing more as an official agreement instead of something of love. But the older she grew, the more she resented the idea of having to give birth to a child.
Her time at Hogwarts was as normal as it could be for someone like her. She was a part of a group of pure-blood Slytherin students, people she already knew before she left for the wizarding school. People who believed the same things as she did. It was during her time at Hogwarts already that her parents orchestrated an arranged marriage with the Lestrange heir, a young man she had known all her life already and was only a year older than her. Once she would graduate, Bellatrix would get married to him and so it happened. In 1969 she got married to Rodolphus Lestrange. Never has she thought about him romantically in a way. Her feelings towards him were of mutual respect, sometimes frustrations and in the end, sometimes of lust - because in the end she was still human.
The most satisfaction that Bellatrix could find when from 1970 on the rumours about the Dark Lord were growing stronger and stronger. And he represented everything that she believed in. Everything that she wanted in life. Her admiration for the Dark Lord was in the end the thing that she got the power from and her negative sides overpowered her many positive traits. She could be the person that had been hiding inside her deep down, hiding underneath the many layers of a proper pureblooded girl that her parents had raised. She could have fun now, the uprising of the Dark Lord was going to be her cover. Her admiration towards him got her close to him, until the moment she was honored by the fact that he even trained her himself in the Dark Arts. She worked herself up as one of his most loyal followers and that is exactly where Bellatrix belongs; being able to do what she wanted, being able to hide whatever soft side is left inside her - a side that she had broken down to pieces a long time ago, being able to hide away the pain of losing her sister - who died in her opinion, being able to feel nothing but the enjoyment of the pain of others.
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