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1. What is your character’s personal fashion style?
When in public, Jasmine is always perfectly put together and dressed in a fashionably conservative style. This means a variety of dresses in solid colors or with simple patterns, a collection of skirts and blouses in solid colors or simple patterns, and occasionally she’ll get to wear slacks with a tasteful sweater. She keeps her jewelry simple, although she does indulge herself with large earrings of all kinds. They feel like her one rebellion when she’s dressed formally.
Whenever she sneaks out of the house, she wears grungy t-shirts and jeans, or she’ll steal clothes from one of the family servants so she looks like them. This means a lot of it is in browns, beiges, blacks, and navy blue, but she doesn’t care how she looks in them. All that matters is that they are comfortable and completely different from anything people would expect her to be wearing. She rarely wears jewelry when she sneaks out in case it is recognized.
2. What is your strongest memory?
Jasmine’s strongest memory is sitting with her mother in their rooftop garden, staring at the stars. Her mother would name them, and then tell her stories about the constellations and the stars. Her favorite to tell was the story of Rajah, the star-tiger, and she told it as often as Jasmine was willing to hear it. Now, whenever she starts to feel lonely, she’ll sit on the balcony, stargaze, and tell all of her mother’s stories to herself so they will never be forgotten.
3. What do they think of creation? Do they believe in evolution or do they believe in God? What is their religion like?
Jasmine’s father was raised Muslim, but he never practices publically. His political career is difficult enough as it is, he never felt the need to add Islamaphobia into the mix – especially with his stance as a feminist and the complicated view people have of Islam and feminism. He brings the whole family to a Christmas and an Easter service every year, but that is it. The only time he reverts back to his Muslim faith is when he is upset.
Her mother was raised in a Jewish household, and she was a deeply religious woman. However, on her marriage she was expected to convert to her husband’s faith, so she worshipped quietly. When he publically abandoned any faith, her mother was disgusted, although she never argued outright. Instead, she began to quietly teach Jasmine the basics of Judaism. They never celebrated Jewish holidays even in their own house, but Jasmine has often felt a stronger connection to that religion.
Jasmine has actually never heard of the theory of evolution, so she considers herself a creationist. She believes in the existence of a God, but her complicated religious childhood means that while she feels connected to Judaism because of her mother, she doesn’t particularly respect the idea of organized religion. She sees too much of it as a means to control other people, and it feels too much like a series of lies. Still, she’s interested in looking more into it, if only in remembrance of her mother.
4. If your character had one thing to say to their parents before their parents died, what would it be?
“Mother, I promise I’ll find a way to live my own life. I’ll make you proud. I love you and I’ll never forget you.”
“Father, I love you so much and I wish I could have helped you more. I just wish you could have understood me more as well.”
5. What does your character most want to change about themselves?
Jasmine is completely comfortable with herself, but she hates her status as a rich pureblood. She wants to be average because it means that she could go wherever she wanted and be involved with whoever, instead of having to deal with the stricture of needing to marry a pureblood to keep the line pure. It makes her feel like less of a person and more of a breeding horse, and it disgusts her. She’d also like to know what it was like to have friends who were interested in her, and not her wealth, power, or connections.
6. What is one of their long term goals?
The easy answer to this is that she wants to be in a position to be in control of her life and her own destiny, without worrying about what matters to anyone else. But secretly, Jasmine wants to be a teacher. She loves helping other students with tutoring, and she loves feeling like she made a difference in someone else’s life by sharing her knowledge. Since the daughter of a politician is supposed to be involved in charity work and not having an actual job, the two goals have become twined together in her mind. But she never admits to it. After all, if she does become a teacher at Hogwarts, isn’t that the same as choosing a safe life and never seeing the world? So, she wants to have adventures and be in control of her l
