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Alessandra Leventis; 9th Year Styx; Design Arts
Topic Started: Aug 28 2010, 03:24 PM (197 Views)
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9th Year Styx; Design Arts

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Personal Information
Name: Alessandra Phillipa Leventis
Nickname: Less, Lexi, Ally
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Birthday: September 29
Blood: Half-blood
Wand: Seven inches long, made of cedar wood with a unicorn hair core


Academic Information
Year: 9th
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Majors: Design Arts
Previous Schooling: Local primary school, followed up by seven years at Olympus Academy (Aphrodite House).


Physical Description:
Height: 5’5”; the height allocated to the family clearly did not go to her.
Build: Small and compact, Alessandra is quite elegant in her movements. Her torso is quite short, so she tends not to use her body to create her outfits, though she has of course made a few for herself. She is naturally thin, and although she very rarely works out, she is a picky, small eater, so generally she stays that way.
Hair: Her hair is dark brown and very long, reaching past mid-back when straightened. Naturally it is curly, falling in soft waves around her face. She enjoys getting it done by either muggle or magical hairdressers, and wears it currently with darker lowlights and caramel brown highlights threaded into the brown strands.
Eyes: An eye colour that can best be described as hazel, since they are such a mix of colours. Very rarely do Alessandra’s eyes appear to be the same colour twice, appearing at times brown, green and blue, depending on what she is wearing and the lighting of where she is. Generally speaking she refers to them as green for simplicity’s sake. They are set very wide in her face, and are a nearly perfect almond shape.
Voice: Alessandra has a very light voice, fairly high-pitched, and fast-paced, especially when talking in Greek. When speaking English she tends to try to talk slower, and with a quite heavy Greek accent. Her singing voice right now can be classified as being a soubrette, since it is still maturing. However, with the instruction she has been receiving at Elysion University, Alessandra is most likely going to develop into a light lyric soprano. Though she does not have the biggest voice, she is capable of hitting quite high notes.
Ethnicity: Greek
Other: Alessandra’s features are very delicate, and quite resemble a pixie. She has a small button nose, thick, pouty lips and very wide-set, almond shaped eyes that work together to give this appearance. It makes her look a few years younger than she actually is, and many are surprised that she is nearing twenty, believing her to be a half-decade younger. Her style of clothing is honestly all over the place; some of her clothing has come from muggle op-shops, some from high-end wizarding boutiques, when she can afford it. And of course there are the pieces that she has made herself, very unique pieces of different fabrications and multiple colours. Her clothing cannot properly be described as either muggle or wizarding clothing, but rather some of both, and at times even a mixture of the two.


Psychological
Personality: Alessandra is a very understanding and quite open person, highly intuitive about other people. It’s often said that she has an uncanny insight into people and situations; she gets a feeling about something and intuitively understands it, always going with her gut no matter what logical reasoning is presented. She tends to believe the best about people if her gut says that she can trust them, even when they’ve proven themselves to less than trustworthy. In this way she is quite naïve, as her feelings are of course not always right and she can get drawn into the ploys of others; she only sees the positive side of their personality, not their darker side. This is especially true if they’ve proven themselves to be nice to her in the past; once someone has her trust and loyalty it’s hard to break, to her friends she is patient, devoted and caring.

Alessandra is very sensitive to conflict, and she cannot tolerate it very well. Situations which are charged with conflict may drive the normally peaceful Alessandra into a state of agitation or charged anger. Personally Alessandra tends to internalise conflict into herself; it isn’t unusual for her to become physically ill around times of great stress, especially when it’s personal more so than academic. While most of the time Alessandra is very open with her feelings and emotions and shares them freely with others, she doesn’t like holding anything back. At these times of stress she becomes much more closed however, she becomes a very private person who doesn’t like to talk to anyone about anything concerning herself, holding everything back until it erupts once someone pushes her too far.

Alessandra is a hard-worker, but certainly not a natural academic. Her schooling through Dusmtrang had difficult moments, and she was very lucky to have her siblings to fall back on somewhat. However, when it comes to creativity she is amazingly talented, especially in her artistic skills. Her confidence about these skills, however, is rather lacking. She has a need for praise, a need to hear that what she is doing is good and the right thing, more so than the average girl her age. Rather than being independent, Alessandra is quite dependant on her family, especially on her siblings, which was one of the reason she chose to stay in Greece and study design arts, rather than heading to New York and studying fashion design there. More recently Petra has been pushing her into being more forward, at least with her work, and she has been trying to do just that.

History: Alessandra Phillipa Leventis is the second last of the Leventis children, born to Patrick and Zoe. The family have been based on the island of Drionisi, a small Greek island that is completely magical not far from Paros, a larger muggle island nearby. Living with muggles so nearby, or even on the island of Drionisi itself, albeit those who knew that magic existed, Alessandra learned from a young age all about the muggle world, and feels as comfortable with muggles as she does with wizards and witches; provided that she remembers not to pull out her wand of course. Alessandra has four older siblings; three older sisters, Sara, Petra and Megan, and an older brother slotting in between Petra and Megan, by the name of Callum. She has one younger sister by the name of Demi.

Growing up Alessandra was very close to her family, and was very much doted on by them. Although she was not the youngest, from an early age Demi showed her jaded and sarcastic ways, and as such, it was Less’ job to be the youngest in spirit, naive and curious, innocent to a fault. Like her brother and sisters, Less attended the local muggle-run primary school, learning magical theory and muggle subject as well, where she first learned the amazing thing of drawing. She was always an artistic person, the one whose pictures covered the fridge, just because she made so many of them. Her parents were tempted to send her to a muggle school where this gift would be worked upon more, but Alessandra didn’t want to go anywhere but one of the magical schools her older siblings had gone to.

Given the abilities of her siblings, her parents were quite old hat at the signs of magic and further powers, and hers was spotted rather quickly by her father. Alessandra didn’t know that she had her power until her father pointed it out; it is unsure when exactly her power developed. It was clear though, when the new lamp was lying broken on the floor and Less could tell her father exactly what had happened to it just by touching it, that something was going on here. Finding someone at Olympus Academy, which some of the siblings went to, to explain what was going on was quite easy; and Alessandra learned that she had the power of psychometry. She was very pleased with this development, not wanting to be a Leventis child without one.

And so Alessandra attended Olympus Academy, being placed in the Aphrodite House, where she made fast friends and developed her talent. Although she was happy with her classes, and a hard worker, it was always the extracurricular things that interested her most of all. Clubs she joined where she was able to develop her drawing and singing skills were much loved; although the latter was more populous and likely more helpful, it was the former that she loved more than anything. Into her teenage years this developed into a love of fashion, and specifically of designing fashion; she has made many outfits for her sisters over the years. Alessandra spent seven years at Olympus Academy and graduated there with decent, though not amazing grades. She knew that, like her older siblings, she wanted to study; however, deciding what to do was a more difficult choice. The choice of schools was easy; choosing again to stay closest to home, attending Elysion University in Greece. After careful consideration and support from her family, Alessandra decided to study Design Arts, with the goal of finally becoming a fashion designer.

Family: Alessandra is part of a very big family, both in her immediate family, and through various aunts and uncles, cousins, etc. Her immediate family starts with her parents Patrick & Zoe Leventis, happily married for many years, and completely supportive of whatever their children want to do. Except perhaps bum around doing nothing, that is. Alessandra has three older sisters, Sara, Petra and Megan, and an older brother Callum. Petra is probably the closest to Alessandra, often acting like a mother to her, and always supporting Less when she needs it. Less and Callum are also very close, joining together as the ‘naive ones’ against the all knowing rest of the family. Alessandra is also very close to her little sister Demi, having learnt what sarcasm was from her; though sometimes Less still misses it.


Miscellaneous
Pet: None, though Danches might as well be hers.
Knowledge/Talents: Although her natural language is Greek, Alessandra can also speak fairly good English. Her English is not fantastic, and she can often get her words for certain nouns mixed up, but generally people can understand it. Where she really shines is with anything creative; her favourite is drawing and designing, though it isn’t limited to that. She also is quite proficient at the piano, though the violin is her favourite instrument; her singing voice is passable, but not something that she works on as vigorously. Magic wise, her strengths were always in anything that was an on-hands subject, such as Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures.
Magical Weaknesses: Not having the best memory means that theory subjects were quite difficult for Alessandra, especially anything involving theory of wandwork. She is adequate at Charms and Transfiguration, but nothing that anyone with a modicum of talent could easily surpass. Spells aimed towards artistic pursuits, which are used more often, are naturally easier for Less to perform. The further away from quidditch Alessandra stays, at least in terms of playing, the better.
Special Ability: Psychometry; a psychic ability in which Alessandra can sense or "read" the history of an object by touching it. When Alessandra touches an object she is able to know information about it; where it has been, who has had it, as well as limited knowledge about the people who have owned and/or touched the object, and sometimes even things that have happened around the object. The older the object is, the harder it is to get a clear reading on it; with a newer object Alessandra will be able to know more, even see in her mind’s eye things that have happened to or around the object, where it has been, because there is less history to sort through. Older objects have more history, and as such, it is more difficult for Alessandra to get a perfect ‘lock’ on the history, even if she is looking for something in particular. This ability was developed fairly well at Olympus Academy, although Alessandra does not have a use for it very often.
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