|| Delia Mulciber || 18 || Pureblood || Neutral ||
“True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.”
Delia Claudia Mulciber was born on July 4th 1960 to Julius and Pamela (b. Parkinson) Mulciber along with her twin brother. From an early age she was taught the ways of pureblood families and how to be a proper lady. She was taught discipline and respect, diligence and perseverance. She was taught to use her words to her advantage and how each action, if carefully thought through, could have any consequences she desired. Like most magical children, she was homeschooled until the age of eleven. She always did well in her classes, she liked attempting to beat her brother in ever subject and most of all she wanted to make her parents proud. Academia seemed to be the only way she could do that.
Despite her best efforts at pleasing her parents, her father was a man with certain habits - that of his drinking habit being particularly bad. It was a rare occurrence that Julius Mulciber was sober, in fact, Delia and her brother came to refer to those such occasions as the ‘miracle days,’ simply because it was something they didn’t think was possible. Her father was a man quick to anger and he never failed to make that known. It wasn’t uncommon for him to take that anger out on his children. After a while, Delia simply became used to such behaviour. As for her mother, the woman was too timid to object to her husband who had once been a man far more gentle and kind.
By the time Delia was old enough to go to Hogwarts she had learnt to deal with her father’s moods although that didn’t necessarily mean that she could escape them entirely. Upon arrival at school she found the amount of people around her to be incredibly overwhelming so she tended to keep to herself, the only person she allowed herself to spend time with was her brother with whom she had always been incredibly close. Being sorted into Slytherin came as no surprise, it was family tradition after all. She studied harder than most, with such a large amount of free time it was easy, and by the time she began exams in fifth year she was achieving practically perfect results. When she reached her sixth year, she started to come out of her shell a little more. She allowed herself to participate in conversations in the Great Hall, much to those around her’s surprise. Although she didn’t have many close friends, she finally had some sort of social life. When exam season came around again, her grades started to slip much to her father’s disapproval.
When she returned for her seventh year after a summer of being berated and punished by being forced to stay in her room, she shut off again, closing everyone and everything but her studies out. Near the end of the year she received a letter from her father (written in her mother’s hand) explaining that she was to wed one such Michael King.
It was fair to say that Delia wasn’t pleased with this despite the fact it was what she had been preparing for her entire life but there was nothing she could do so she went along with it. After a while she found herself becoming less and less afraid of the future but rather excited. Upon graduation she and Michael moved into a small London flat. Delia is yet to tell her father her plans for the future don’t consist of following the housewife career path he elected for her.
Delia is ultimately a very closed off type of person, she doesn’t like opening up to any one for fear she’ll be shot down. She’s very guarded over her personal life and would prefer it if people didn’t try so hard to ‘get to know’ her. She’s very opinionated when it comes to others and isn’t afraid to tell them what she thinks of them - with some minor exceptions.
She’s not very good at dealing with other people’s emotions although on the few occasions she trusts someone she will be unwaveringly loyal and caring to the point it’s almost irritating. She isn’t very quick to anger but when she is mad there is no stopping her. She will go to extreme lengths to destroy anyone who crosses her or those she cared about, (especially if it concerns her brother.)
For the most part she is quiet, she likes to carefully assess the situations she finds herself in so as to find the best outcome for herself. This can result in her coming off as condescending or cruel but she doesn’t mind that at all. It makes her look like she fits in with her family’s reputation.
Wand: 12”, Vine, Dragon Heartstring.
Boggart: Delia’s biggest fear is never being good enough for her father and not living up to his high standards. Naturally, her boggart is her father on another one of drunken rampages.
Amortentia: Firewood, old books, freshly baked apple pie
Patronus: Crow, corporeal
x– ____ Mulciber - (Twin Brother)
x– Michael King - (Betrothed)
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