Character Name: Marlene Mórag McKinnon Age & Birthday: 23 years old, october 25th. Scorpio sun, cancer moon & aries rising. Gender & Pronouns: she/her Blood type: Pureblood Sided with: Order of the Phoenix Occupation: Hit Witch Face Claim: Ana de Armas
~ Personality ~
Positive:
Loyal: Marlene is, above all things, loyal. She is loyal to her family, to her friends, to the cause and to the Order. Treason is something that she does not tolerate. She doesn’t let people in very easily, but if she does and you break her trust, there’s no turning back. For her, loyalty is everything and there are no valid excuses for disloyalty. Marlene would rather die than betray her loved ones.
Clever: She is smart; not just books smart, but genuinely smart. Even though she can be loud, Marlene observes everything and everyone. She is very quick witted and has an opinion for everything. She can act under pressure and always comes up with weird but efficient solutions.
Honest: Marlene is brutally honest and a terrible liar. She always says what she thinks and doesn’t beat around the bush. She hates when people lie to her, even when they are trying to protect her. Marlene sees herself as a tough person who can take anything, so it really annoys her when people lie to her for “her own good”.
Protective: Marlene is fierce when it comes to her people and those in a vulnerable position. Her loved ones being hurt and her not being able to help is one of her greatest fears in life.
Brave: she is a Gryffindor to the core. Marlene has a strong sense of justice and doing what it’s right. One of the people she admired the most were her parents, both aurors who were killed by Voldemort personally.
Negative:
Rude: Marlene can be really rude with the people she doesn’t like, and sometimes with the people who she actually likes. She is impulsive, so usually says what comes to her mind without thinking about the consequences.
Stubborn: Marlene is, perhaps, the personification of stubbornness. She is a sore loser and hardly ever admits when she lost an argument. She would go to ridiculous lengths to prove her point.
Impatient: The worst thing that could happen to her is to wait or to go on a surveillance mission. Marlene is a woman of action and needs to be doing things.
Reckless: There is a fine line between being extremely brave and reckless, and Marlene just loves to cross it on daily basis. She can be impulsive, so she tends to jump before checking if there’s water in the pool. Sometimes it’s fine and others she ends up with multiple concussions and fractures.
Growing up:
Marlene Mórag McKinnon was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the McKinnon Manor. Her childhood was filled with good memories. She grew up in a warm and loving environment. Her parents were permissive but not idiots. All the McKinnons siblings received the proper pureblood education and Marlene was educated to be a princess. She knows different languages like French and Gaelic; but also ballet and to play the piano. At the age of five, she learned how to ride a broom and ever since then, she became obsessed with quidditch. That same year, Marlene performed her first magical act: she levitated all the furniture from the living room.
Impressed by her ambition and cleverness, the sorting hat almost sorted her into Slytherin, but ended up by placing her in Gryffindor because she asked for it. Her oldest brother Nicholas told her endless stories about the house and she was just so amazed by it, but also because Marlene had always looked up for her brother and wanted to be like him. Classes were easy and she excelled academically without even studying too much. On her second year, she joined the quidditch team as the new seeker: she was quick and sneaky, perfect for the job.
When graduation came, Marlene decided to become a Hit Witch. She would have never endured working behind a desk, and being a Hit Witch was the ideal job for her. Marlene was one of the firsts of her friends to join the Order. She had access to it through her family, so when she found out about it, she joined without hesitation.
During the war:
Tw: death
For Marlene, it was a no brainer. Being in the Order was as easy as breathing. She joined as son as she could. The McKinnons were considered traitors amongst the pureblood community, and they never bothered with pretending to be something they weren’t. The war took a toll on Marlene, it made her go through terrible things.
During the war, Marlene did things she vowed she’d never do, like killing people (always in self defense, of course, but still). For someone as righteous as her, her first killing had been extremely hard and it took her everything in her to move on.
The worst part, however, was by the end of the war. It came to a point when each week, someone died. During the war, Marlene lost both her parents and her eldest brother, Nicholas, who died in her arms. The two of them went on a mission and he died trying to protect her. It is still up to this day that she can’t forgive herself and has night terrors about it.
It was a bad time for her. Marlene was devastated and furious and terrified and completely overwhelmed and that was a dangerous combination for a highly trained Hit Witch.
The present:
Tw: death, ptsd
Marlene is just trying her best. With both her parents and her eldest brother dead, she and her twin brother Mark were the ones in charge of raising their three youngest siblings: Benjamin (14), Sophie (10) and Oliver (4). The five of them still live in the manor alongside their uncle, and Marlene’s godfather, Edward McKinnon. She’s not in a happy place, but she’s not at her very lowest either.
The war and her parents’ death forced her to grow up quickly, not to mention having her brother dying in her arms as well. Instead of going out with her friends, most of her nights she stays at home, reading bedtime stories to Oliver or comforting Sophie when she cries because she misses her mom. Marlene cries too, every night before going to bed and when she doesn’t, she wakes up in the middle of the night screaming.
When it comes to the current state of politics, Marlene has her reservations when it comes to Dumbledore, but because she always has her reservations with politicians and people in power. She also happens to spend a lot of time at the Hogs’ Head, so she hears a lot coming from Aberforth. Still, Marlene likes to think for herself, but even she can’t deny that there’s something shady going on. There was a time when she followed her Headmaster blindly, but now… now she has a more cautious approach. If there was something that the war taught her was that she should never, ever, follow anyone blindly.
Wand:
Phoenix feather: Phoenix feather wands are capable of the greatest range of magic, although this means that sometimes they will act of their own accord. Wands with this expensive material as their core are the pickiest of all the cores in choosing the most suitable owner, and allegiance is often hard-won.
Aspen: Wand-quality aspen wood is white and fine-grained, and highly prized by all wand-makers for its stylish resemblance to ivory and its usually outstanding charmwork. The proper owner of the aspen wand is often an accomplished duellist, or destined to be so, for the aspen wand is one of those particularly suited to martial magic. Aspen wand owners are generally strong-minded and determined, more likely than most to be attracted by quests and new orders; this is a wand for revolutionaries.
Unyeilding: A wand of this flexibility finely tunes itself to its original owner’s preferences and doesn’t stray from those preferences, even in the hands of a new owner; the new owner will just have to get used to it. It is particularly good for combative and healing magic. Unyielding wand owners tend to be very confident in themselves and/or in the things they believe in. They tend to be intelligent, somewhat cynical, and usually have well-defined principles that they will not stray from ever. Sometimes, this combination can lead to arrogance because of them insisting on how right they are without considering other points of view or whether or not they might be wrong.
Patronus:
Marlene’s patronus takes de form of a tiger. She is strong and independent. She is also ruthless when it comes to protecting her loved ones and will do absolutely anything for them. If you provoke her, you should expect retaliation because she will fight back. Marlene named her patronus Godric.
Boggart:
When she was a kid, her boggart took the shape of a werewolf.
During her time at Hogwarts, it changed to Death Eaters.
During the war: her loved ones being dead.
Post war: either her siblings being dead or the shape of her dead brother blaming her for his death.
Family:
Father: Richard McKinnon, Gryffindor, former Head of the Auror Deparment. Status: dead, killed by Voldemort himself.
Mother: Susan McKinnon, Ravenclaw, former Healer. Status: dead, killed by Voldemort himself.
Uncle/Godfather: Edward McKinnon, Slytherin, Potioneer. Status: alive.
Eldest brother: Nicholas McKinnon, Gryffindor, former Auror. Status: dead, killed by death eaters and died in Marlene’s arms.
Twin brother: Mark McKinnon, Hufflepuff. Satus: alive.
Brother: Benjamin McKinnon, 14 years old, Hufflepuff, still at Hogwarts.
Sister: Sophie McKinnon, 10 years old, future Slytherin.
Brother: Oliver McKinnon, 4 years old, future Raveclaw.
