ABOUT:
Character name: Marlene McKinnon Age & Birthday: 21 & April 27th Gender & Pronouns: Cis-female & She/Her Occupation: Auror Blood status: Pureblood Previous house: Gryffindor Affiliation: Order of the Phoenix Face claim: Kiana Madeira
BIOGRAPHY:
Marlene McKinnon grew up in a loud household. If it wasn’t her older brother and three younger sisters running through the halls, then it was her cousins screaming that they didn’t get an equal share of the ice cream. Family was everything to the McKinnons and Marlene’s childhood was damn near perfect in her eyes. Being less than two years younger than her brother, the two were incredibly close. Marlene was always ready to partake in any shenanigans he might be cooking up and they often came home with broken bones and scraped knees. His friends were her friends and vice versa, with the distance between them growing only slightly when they were both at school. As a child, she was obsessed with the stars and loved roaming around their country home late at night harassing the local fauna. Everything was an adventure to young Marlene and all she ever dreamed of was growing up to be someone epic. She wanted to travel, fall in love, change the world. Everything for her was big, and bold, and dramatic, and she could not be tamed.
At Hogwarts, Marlene was an absolute menace. If she could cause a scene in any classroom then she would and she was always ready to defy authority. All she ever wanted was to have fun, and she wanted the people around her to have fun too. Never one to take life too seriously, Marlene was always ready to provide her professors with a giant squid sized migraine, party until dawn, and even flirt with the likes of the Slytherins- just to see how much she could rile them up. She was the life of every party, a class clown, a thrill seeker. Marlene backed down from no dare or challenge, whether it be her pride or anger driving her. What most infuriated her professors, however, was that Marlene McKinnon was an exceptionally bright student, but for some reason she had gotten it into her head that being smart wasn’t cool. When the sorting hat suggested that she would make a fine addition to Ravenclaw, Marlene very nearly tossed the thing across the room. She made school look effortless as she breezed through almost every class, but the truth was that every night she would be awake cramming for every test or studying what she had covered in that day’s lessons and hoping no other student would wander into the common room and catch her. It was exhausting, and silly, and Marlene could only keep it up so long until she was finally outed as a bookworm- shockingly not as mortifying as she had expected.
During her final year, the entire world came crashing down around the McKinnons. Unknown to Marlene, her parents and brother, Nathaniel, were members of a secret order; a society founded by Albus Dumbledore to oppose Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Up until then, she had been under the impression that her parents were simply investigators for the Ministry of Magic- essentially desk jobs where they analysed information for petty crimes- little did she know that while she was studying for her N.E.W.T.’s, they were out on missions and fighting in a war that she was all but oblivious to. It was Dumbledore himself that woke her one night to inform her of the attack. The McKinnons had been tracking the movements of Fenrir Greyback and his werewolves when her father had been called away for a more pressing mission, leaving her mother and Nathaniel alone. They were only supposed to be gathering information and neither of them had been ready for the attack. Nathaniel tried his best to protect their mother, but he was only nineteen years old and, at the time, inexperienced on the battlefield. Meredith McKinnon was admitted to St. Mungo’s and, a month later, found herself howling at the moon.
The events following the attack were devastating for the McKinnon family. Their father became obsessed with finding the wolf who turned his wife, leading him directly into an early grave. Their mother withdrew entirely from the Wizarding World, finding it too difficult to live there with her affliction- now working an office job in the Muggle World and rarely seeing her family as she struggles to get her life under control. Nathaniel was forced to become a father figure to his four little sisters, two of which hadn’t even started at Hogwarts yet. Marlene tried to help him out as much as she could, but her auror training had taken over her life. They had their father’s brothers and their mother’s sister, but for the most part it was just the two of them trying to keep their family afloat. After losing their dad, Nathaniel had taken a step back from the Order of the Phoenix, but Marlene couldn’t stay away from it once she knew of its existence. The more she tried to ignore the war, the more the weight of it crushed her. She had to do something. This is not the future she dreamed of and she refuses to live in this world.
OOC INFO:
Played by: Kayleigh Time Zone: GMT
