{ non binary, they/she } huh, who’s TATI GABRIELLE? no, you’re mistaken, that’s actually DOVE LONGBOTTOM. they are a 25 year old MUGGLEBORN wix. they are the adopted child of NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM AND HANNAH AN. they are known for being CYNICAL, AGGRESSIVE, and RUTHLESS but also PRAGMATIC, JUST, and LOYAL. i hear they are aligned with THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, so be sure to keep an eye on them.
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HISTORY
dove is instilled with the knowledge that the world is a cruel, unfair place at a young age. first, there’s her birth parents: a pair of brighton-based muggles, massacred before she can make proper memories with them. they’re the first child adopted by neville and hannah, a pair of people who have their own parent-based tragedies when it comes to this and the previous war. that’s how she learns — the world is a cruel fucking place.
growing up in a war, to a pair of parents in hiding, in a world where you’re not wanted, makes for a stunted childhood, that much should be common knowledge. tumultuous might be a good word to describe a young dove with — a kid who always felt like her emotions had no right to make a house of her body, who combusted and shut down. but — there is such love there. such comfort. such fear of losing that, too.
school gives room to improve, to grow, to become. dove is talented, to be sure, proves especially talented at potioneering and herbology. peace is hard to come by, but she finds it when she works with her hands. she finds it in following a recipe, when digging her fingers in soil. there’s a rage to dove that quiets down in these types of room, but when they’re elsewhere it’s apparent. it’s hard to contain themself, still.
once of age, dove enlists with the order. there is nothing else to do: she practically counted the days. see, this rage? she can channel it when she fights, when she duels, when she practices — what better to do, than to throw herself in the fight? volunteer for the line of fire. three weeks after her eighteenth birthday, she takes her first life. the thing is, it feels like victory, not like losing a bit of herself: but she does lose a bit of herself, of course. murder goes against human nature. but then, so does growing up in a war: so maybe the odds were always stacked against them.
dove proves a worthy adversary. one who pushes hard. one who pushes with bottomless rage and a black-and-white vision of the world. there’s little forgiveness in dove’s eyes: anyone who carries the mark, anyone who does the death eaters’ bidding ... if they wish to eradicate people like her, people with muddy blood, with muggle heritage — let them pay the prize for such beliefs, for acting on it. let the prize be their own blood.
moral grayness is the theme for dove longbottom. perhaps it takes a monster to destroy one, after all. and that, in the end, is where their goal lies: destruction. no small victories, but the victory. and dove, really, does not mind too much where it leaves her: she’ll coat herself in blood, she’ll cross the moral boundaries that might hold others (rightfully) back.
CURRENTLY
in the order, dove is tempestuous and destructive, mostly — it’s why she functions best on the forefront of the fight. useless as an undercover agent, really, because her impulse control around death eaters is close to non-existent. but shit, if you need to take some people out, take dove. if you need information out of someone, ask dove.
sometimes, they fear: fear what they’ve become, what they could become, what they want to become. most of the time, dove is just angry. throw in their status as eldest sibling, and there’s also a nauseating fear of losing those that dove thinks of as their responsibility; but fuck, does she fail. does she fall short. she’s not caring, not naturally, not in a way that makes sense. but she’ll die before she sees any of them hurt.
still tries and find some solace in potioneering, where she has turned somewhat experimental. healing isn’t really in her nature, but there’s more to do with potions than that, isn’t there?
PERSONALITY
asshole. etc. dove is not a good person, and the jury is still out on whether they’re a bad person. so outspoken and honest that honestly, sometimes i wonder why someone doesn’t tape her mouth shut every day. hmmm. annoying. very self-righteous. black and white thinker. you’re with her or against her, etc. hhhhm. often wonders how she turned out so different from her adoptive parents but then stops that train of thought: it just makes her sad. deeply insecure, overly confident. an aries. that’s rly all u gotta know.
