â°Â ââ â introducing: andromeda tonks ! â
age:Â twenty-five
blood status:Â pureblood
occupation:Â healer
affiliation:Â the unaffiliated
positive traits:Â caring, patient, perceptive, warm, bright, funny, diplomatic, determined
negative traits:Â overfastidious, condescending, clannish, cruel streak, passive
faceclaim:Â emmy rossum
â° ââ â associations: aesthetics ! â
vases of sweet-smelling flowers from the garden you tend with your own hands, a house full of warmth like youâve never known because you put it there, the callused but tender hands of a healer, the mint-sweet-sharp of dittany and the low herbal undertones of tea, elegant simplicity because that is all you can afford, putting away the green and silver for dove grey and dusty rose and seashell blue; becoming yourself through being his, becoming yourself through having her, a tangle of dark hair and darker eyes that some say are your sisterâs but you have quietly fought for years to make your own, a past with claws like ice, a past that haunts you but vanishes every time you look over your shoulder for itâas if it were the dream.
â° ââ â known information: biography ! â
Caught between ferocious Bellatrix and elegant Narcissa, Andromeda was the often-overlooked middle sister. She loved her sisters dearly, but she always had a difficult relationship with their parents. When she arrived at Hogwarts, she quickly strayed from the path her parents had planned for her. She was sorted into Slytherin, but through the Slug Club, she became friends with people outside of her House and worse, people outside of the pureblood social circles. She joined the Quidditch team as a Keeper and in her motherâs view, made an embarrassment of herself clonking around in the protective gear like some boy. She also had ambitions beyond marrying well, throwing herself into studying rather than soirees.
Doubt had already been seeded into her mind about some of the ideals with which she has been raised, but her fate was sealed when she fell reluctantly but irrevocably for one Muggleborn, Edward Tonks. She had a choice to make, a choice that shaped the rest of her life. By choosing love, she ostensibly chose a side. Yet while she has been burned from the Black tapestry, she is still not convinced about progress on all counts and can surprise with her occasionally archaic views or tolerance of pureblood traditions that might horrify outsiders.
Nevertheless, she married Edward and had Nymphadora shortly after, now three years old and the source of both anxiety and joy for her. She is a no-nonsense but affectionate mother. She has just begun to return to full-time work as a Healer now that her daughter is a little older, but she enjoys being a bit of a homemaker as well. She has an eye out for trouble on the horizon, but she does not consider herself a fighter, and truth be told, she would rather that she and the little family she fought to make could sit out any further conflict.
She has a subtle humor and warmth and a quiet strength, none of which are immediately apparent from looking at her. Nevertheless, she can also be obsessive in her need for everything to be just so, and she grasps for control too tightly. She was brought up rich and privileged, and it occasionally shows.
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â° ââ â ministry docier: connections ! â
edward tonks: husband, loves deeply
narcissa malfoy: sister, estranged
bellatrix lestrange: sister, fears
sirius black: cousin, closest to out of the blacks
regulus black: cousin, wants to get through to
alice longbottom: cousin, watches out for