Character Basics
FULL NAME: Clarabell Marie Westland.
NICKNAMES: Bells. Only a select few call her by her full first name. Mostly it's her family and her betrothed that use it and that's how she'd like to keep it.
AGE: 16.
BIRTHDATE: December 1, 1993.
YEAR: 11th.
GRADE POINT AVERAGE: While she's not the best student in the world, Bells strives to maintain mostly A's and B's, though she has received a C here and there. Of course once she received her C she studied her butt off to get it up to at least a B. She hasn't received a C since the beginning of her sophomore year.
CLASSES ENROLLED IN: Core Classes + Literature & Writing and Art Appreciation.
ACTIVITIES: Choir
BLOOD STATUS: Pureblood. Clarabell's family can trace their wizard and witch bloodline back as far as eight generations. They could probably trace it back even further if they felt inclined to.
POLITICAL VIEWS: While Bells doesn't hate muggles, muggle-born wizards/witches, or even half-bloods, she is usually more inclined to spend her time with Purebloods. This could be because she attends a school full of purebloods, but doesn't see how that really makes a difference. She won't go out of her way to avoid the non-purebloods in the world, but neither will she go out of her way to interact with them. Her family on the other hand do their best to avoid anyone or anything that isn't of the purist of bloodlines. It's as if they're afraid they'll catch their non-purity or something like that if they should even be in the same room as them.


Family/Relationships
PARENTS:

MOTHER: Adelaide Westland. Socialite.
FATHER: Lucas Westland. Magical equivalent of a successful surgeon.

SIBLINGS: Jonas Westland, 24. He's married through the AMP. Currently, his wife is expecting their second and final child. Jonas is a successful author. He's beliefs in blood status go hand in hand with the rest of the family.
Dominic Westland, 20. Also having been apart of the AMP, he's currently engaged to be married next summer. He's a successful seeker on the Land Sharks Quodpot team and hopes to someday be the proud owner of the team.
EXTENDED FAMILY: Clarabell's mother has two siblings, while her father has three. All of her aunts and uncles have kids of their own, which could easily make it so that Bells has cousins in game.

AMP Status: At the young age of five, Clarabell's parents set about arranging a worthy match. Seeing as how all of the Westlands had been successful, they sought a family who strove for the same excellence. It didn't take Bell's parents long to find a suitable match. The young boy she was now betrothed to would be taught to let nothing stop in his way of attaining his goals. He must be the very best at whatever he did and most of all be successful in his pursuits no matter what they be.

Appearance
APPEARANCE: Standing at a mere 5’5”, Bells has a small frame and weighs in at only 115 pounds. Wearing her brown hair long, she can wear it straight or curly, but usually leaves it slightly wavy. As for clothing, she tends to try and be as trendy as possible though she doesn't have to have all the designer labels. At least four out of the seven days in a week, you can usually find her in a skirt or a dress. The other three or so days she's usually got on a pair of jeans and a cute top. Heels are a must for her since they usually compliment her outfits so well, though she does wear sneakers from time to time. When she's alone or just lounging around the dorm, she tends to skip the pretty and goes with a nice pair of sweats and sneakers.
PREFERRED PB: Leighton Meester



Personality
LIKES: Cheesy romance novels. Cheese puffs. Potions. Romantic comedies. Sports.
DISLIKES: Horror movies that could be semi-realistic. Broccoli. DADA. Promiscuous girls. Whiners.

STRENGTHS: Intelligent. Romantic. Cooking. Kind. Caring. Polite. Potions.
WEAKNESSES: Romantic. Naive. Sports. Too willing to believe the best in people.

DETAILED PERSONALITY: When you first meet Clarabell, she'll introduce herself as Bells. She's not the biggest fan of her first name, therefore she only allows her family and her betrothed to call her by it. While she's not 100% purist, she does tend to associate with more purebloods than not. One of her wishes in life is to please her family, so if that means turning her nose up to others when family or people who might have a connection with her family are around, so be it. Now, she wont go as far as to cause any sort of physical harm to someone or be cruel with her words. Bells will simply ignore or give them a look of dismissal and be on her way. She hates to cause anyone any amount of pain, whether it's physical or emotional.

When she's alone, whether it's in her room or around campus, she usually spends her free time reading those cheesy romance novels. Perhaps they've skewed her idea of romance, but she hopes that her own love life will follow some plot she's read before. Bells honestly believes that the idea of an arranged marriage is romantic. Sometimes you don't fall in love with someone, sometimes you learn to love someone... at least that's what she thinks after reading so many novels. When she's with her friends or her betrothed, she can be quite kind, funny, and caring. She'll go out of her way to try and please those she's with, even if she's not completely comfortable with the situation.

Bells is book smart, but that doesn't mean she lacks common sense. She works hard to maintain good grades, but she doesn't spend all of her time working on assignments. She knows how to have fun, but she also knows her limits and when to back down. If she's in over her head, she'll find some excuse to leave. When it comes to someone she loves, whether it's friend, family or her betrothed, she is sometimes blinded by their faults. Bells will let things slide, though only so far before she says something about it. She's loyal to those that are important to her and will do what it takes to stand up for them should the occasion rise.

History
CHILDHOOD: It was early for snow, but the day Clarabell was born there was more than a light dusting of it. In fact there was a good two inches worth that December 1st, 1993. The Westland's planned each of their children, as evident the four year difference between each of them. Jonas was born first, a year after Lucas and Adelaide were married. Four years later, Dominic was welcomed into the family. While the Westland's were quite pleased with their two sons, Adelaide really wanted a daughter, so they tried one more time and were successful.

To say that she was spoiled, is an understatement. Growing up she had all the pretty dresses and dolls a girl could ask for... except she didn't ask for them. Clarabell was basically her mother's living doll. When she wasn't being carted from private language lessons to play dates with influential friends or private tutors in magic, she spent her free time with her brothers. Though she was only three when her oldest brother left for boarding school, she still played with him over breaks and of course she grew extremely close to her brother Dominic when it was just the two of them at home.

It was when Dominic went off to school, that Bells learned to love books. They were her way to escape playing dress up for her mother and bide her time when she was left alone. Around the age of nine, she'd just finished reading a book about a girl who was betrothed and had actually fallen in love with the boy as did the boy with girl that her parents sat her down and told her about her arranged marriage. Having just read a story similar to the situation and being so young, she fell in love with the idea of being betrothed to someone. It wasn't until she turned eleven that she finally met the boy she would someday marry and it was that day that she fell in love with the idea of being in love, especially when there was a boy who already had to love her.

AT ELIGERE. Freshman year at Eligere wasn't so hard for Bells. She'd attended boarding school since she was eleven, so living away from home wasn't so bad. In fact, she loved being away from home. It gave her a little more freedom to be who she wanted and to do what she wanted. Granted, she still stayed on the respectable side of her mini-rebellion. Bells began reading more adult romance novels, you know the trashy kinds with explicit love scenes in them. Having never yet kissed her betrothed, she could only imagine what it would be like and could only hope it was half as romantic as the books portrayed it.

During her first year at school, Bells unfortunately received two C's in the first half of the year. She was utterly mortified, plus her parents were none to thrilled. Hitting the books hard, she worked diligently to bring her grades up and managed to get B's in those two classes overall. Since then, her love of potions has increased tenfold and has actually become her best subject to date.

On her fifteenth birthday, Bells asked her betrothed for one thing. A kiss. She was ready for it and he willingly gave it to her. Sparks flew for her and fireworks went off. It wasn't the best kiss she'd ever experience, but it was her first and it had been good. Now that they'd kissed once, she hoped it would happen more often.

Her sophomore year went by relatively quickly. She worked hard and managed good grades. The friendships she'd created her first year at Eligere were strengthened and she'd managed to get a few more kisses out of her betrothed. When Bells wasn't working on her homework, hanging out with friends, or getting to know her betrothed better, she continued to read her romance novels. In the end that will probably hurt her, rather than help her. She's created this idea of love and how it should be in her head, but nothing ever goes as one plans and rarely as one hopes. A lesson she's bound to find out eventually.

((OOC: can be adjusted once she has an actual betrothed so that it fits the guy's history as well.))



Examples
JOURNAL ENTRY: I'm nearly seventeen and already an aunt once over. Soon, my sister-in-law will be having my second nephew or first niece. I'm secretly hoping its a girl though. There are far too many boys in the Westland family for my liking. I wish my parents would have had a fourth. Maybe it would have been a sister for me, which I would have loved. Sadly, I'm the lone girl, aside from my mother obviously, but you know what I mean. Here's hoping for a girl!

RP SAMPLE: Book in hand, Bells was desperate for some alone time. She'd spent the day in classes and before and just after dinner with friends working on homework. Right now she needed a major dose of losing herself in reality and escaping into the world of passion and lust. The last places she could read this kind of material was her bedroom, since her roommate was there, nor could she in the common room lounge.

Heading back towards the school building, she knew of a secret alcove she could escape until curfew. Bells eyes darted around as she hoped to stay out of sight of anyone in particular. She'd hate to have to try and explain herself to anyone, let alone about a romance novel. Sneaking up a few flights of stairs, she slowly crept down the hallway. Just as she turned the corner to find her alcove, she bumped into someone head first. Looking up, she met his eyes... the eyes of her betrothed. "Oh... I didn't expect to find you here."

OOC Info
NAME: Sabrina.
AIM SCREENNAME: AncamnaSulAimend.
E-MAIL ADDRESS: sabrina.rp.replies@gmail.com.
TIMEZONE: US/ Eastern [GMT-5].

JOURNAL TO BE USED: bellswestland.
LINK TO PUBLIC BIO: Link.
HANDWRITING FONT: Jellyka - Saint Andrew's Queen
BLURB: Clarabell is what you'd call spoiled. As the youngest of three and the only girl, she's always been given what she's asked for. Though, honestly, she hasn't asked for all that very much. She has her designer clothes, shoes, and accessories, but those are her only true vices when it comes to being spoiled. A hopeless romantic at heart, Bells hopes her prince will come and save her from her loneliness. With all the material things she could want, why is that she's not satisfied? Her heart knows the truth. All she wants is love... true love.