Faculty Profile

Cecilia Linfield

Full Name: Cecilia Solenge Linfield

Nickname: Celie, Aunt Cessy

Position: Divination I-VI

Birthday: December 18th

Blood: Pureblood

Wand: 6 1/3", White oak, Unicorn hair

Friends: None

Family: None, thank Merlin

Enemies: Antoine Deveraux, Deveraux family in general, most students, herself.

Groups: None

Quotes: "Discipline is required in all the magical arts."

Most Commonly Ordered Food in the Court: Salad and oysters, though a bit of lobster doesn't go over badly every so often.

Graduated From: Penn State, house of Rakin until winter of her fifth year; received the rest of her education at home.

Appearance:

Cecilia's most noticeable feature is her height, at least to her. She stands exactly five feet, one inch and a half tall, shorter than either of her siblings and a fair few of her students. Her hair is thick, black, and almost always kept pulled back in a stern chignon. She has a fine-boned, delicately structured face with small features characterized by a vague, hard-to-pinpoint quality and large black eyes inherited from her bayou-born Grandmother Linfield. Her robes are usually of a sturdy, plain cut with square necklines and are almost always white. Those few that are not tend towards subdued shades, with very little that is decorative or colorful. Though she owns several fine pieces, the only jewelry she routinely wears takes the form of two rings on her right hand, an opal in silver on the ring finger and the heavier gold Linfield crest on the central finger. She has every intention of having them buried with her.

Personality Quirks:

As an adult, Cecilia has learned how to make herself believe whatever it is necessary for her to believe through sheer force of will, which is how she has almost completely buried the neurosis of her younger days with only minimal help from a therapist, though her obsessive-compulsive tendencies, stubbornness, and old-fashioned ways proved less easily repressed. Her love of the color white has been carried far enough to be counted as an eccentricity, as has her obsession with cleanliness, order, control, and rules. Dirt, disorganization, excesses of bright colors, and rulebreaking never fail to put her on edge, with often less-than-favorable results. She is a control freak, and more or less proud of it. Though she is an aunt several times over and a teacher, she does not like children, holding to the opinion that they are not held to strict enough standards of discipline, which is her favorite word in every language she speaks. She is fiercely overprotective of her brother and sister, territorial about what she considers hers, and short-tempered with any and all who, in her opinion, act like idiots.

Family Life:

Though Cecilia would sooner die than admit it, her relationship with her family is completely dysfunctional and entirely without communication. Her disinheritance from the Linfield family after she disgraced said family with a divorce lead to the majority of her relatives severing all ties save that of name with her, and so far only one distant cousin has relented. The family is comprised of hot-tempered drunks, psychotics, and pureblood supremacists scattered across Louisiana with little more than a name, a saying, and a crest to unify them.
Her relationship with her parents ceased almost nine years ago when they 'took their leave', as the saying goes, and had been falling apart for years. Closet drinkers, social climbers, and locked in a lifelong feud, they paid little attention to any of their children until Cecilia was fifteen and shocked them into noticing her. For the remaining seventeen years of their lives, their constant disapproval was marked by threats to disown her, and she has yet to forgive them for forcing her into a wretched marriage for politics.
Cecilia's love for her two siblings, eight-years-younger brother Christopher and twelve-years-younger sister Delia, is one of what she considers her few redeeming factors, but her sisterly devotion has been under strain for five years due to their joint refusal to acknowledge her existence. Her relationship with Christopher had been growing increasingly volatile, hostile, and more frequently violent for two years before he pulled patriarchic authority and disinherited her, an action that left her harboring a good bit of bitterness. Delia, the most radically pureblooded of the three, married a Frenchman, lives in France with him and her two children, and has recently cut off all familial ties. Her, Cecilia would like to forgive without making her do penance or apologize, but it's not likely to happen any time soon.
Her interactions with her nieces and nephews can be easily summed up in the term she uses to refer to them: unholy brats. Cecilia's dislike of immature children is nothing new, as Chris and Delia discovered to their displeasure when they were still speaking to her.

History:

Born in northern Louisiana to estranged socialites Richard and Marguerite Linfield, Cecilia, along with her brother Chris and sister Delia, was shunted from relative to relative until she turned eleven and began at Pennsylvania State University of the Art of Magic, where she was a Rakin. She began struggling with compulsions and an anxiety disorder that lead to her becoming dependant on a sedative potion given to her by her grandmother's Mindhealer, an overdose of which nearly killed her in her fifth year. She never returned, finishing her studies at home once she recovered from the experience and following in her parent's footsteps by taking up drinking and gambling to amuse herself.
To hold off her marriage, which seemed inevitable if matters were left to take their own course, Cecilia worked to deliberately cast doubt upon her sanity in social circles. She had quite a lot of fun with it until she was thirty-two, at which point her father gave her the options of marrying or being disowned. Having no idea how to support herself and less desire to, she chose the former, and was married to Antoine Deveraux, a marriage that hit the rocks before the honeymoon ended due to his desire to control her and was set on a one-way track downhill when Richard and Marguerite, the chief restraining influences on her, died in a fire at a friend's cocktail party three months after the wedding. A miscarriage lead her into depression, and she was briefly interred in a closed ward after an ill-planned attempt on her own life. When she was released, she obtained a divorce, setting off a scandal. When her Grandmother Linfield, her greatest and perhaps only supporter inside the family, died two years later, she was cut off from the family fortune, though Chris' desire to uphold his grandmother's wishes meant that she was never formally disowned.
She struggled to support and recreate herself for five years afterwards before chance lead to her becoming the Divinations professor at Pennsylvania State - an ironic appointment, considering the fact that while she did believe in Seers and was in fact related to one, she was deeply skeptical about the art of divination. The defensive personality she had developed after her grandmother's death held up very well thanks to her natural dislike of children, and she does not see herself leaving or warming to her job any time soon.

Fears:

Losing one of her siblings, marriage, dirt, spontaneity, internment, therapy, disownment, failure, and several other vague things she has trouble describing accurately.

Hopes:

To be reinherited by the Linfield family, to see her ex-husband die a slow and painful death, and for authorization of the Imperius Curse against family members and disruptive students.

Interests:

The moon, Astronomy in general, bourbon, writing, French, discipline, perfection, white, magnolias, and money.

Talents:

Charms, dancing, deception, making enemies, repressing memories and emotions.

Her Classroom and Chambers:

Cecilia's classroom is not precisely what one would expect from a Divination classroom. Plain, sturdy two-man tables of the palest wood she could find, complete with matching, decidedly uncomfortable straight chairs stand in four precise rows in the center. Bookshelves of the same kind of wood run halfway down either side of the room, leaving a quarter open at the front and back. The windows feature pale, obsessively dusted off-white linen curtains. A large cabinet/ hall tree combo painted a color Cecilia refers to as 'pearl' stands against the front left wall, taking up a fair bit of that open quarter. Inside, one will find the Divination supplies needed to run class. When they are not needed, one will also find two small, folding tables (painted white, obviously) tucked inside it. Opposite it is her desk, a large piece designed to sit partially against the wall and curve out in front of the person sitting behind it. The dark, highly polished wood stands out dramatically against all the white. The door to her private room stands directly behind the desk, conveniently placed for an escape. A blackboard runs across the front wall, the only black thing one will find in Cecilia's quarters.
Her own room is rigidly arranged along straight lines, featuring square furnishings of the same dark wood as her desk. Everything fabric, however, is white. Most would consider the setup old-fashioned, slightly crowded, and so obsessively clean as to restrict breathing.

AIM Screenname: Loreleiriviera

"Regardless of whether or not it pleases you to believe in my subject, I will have your respect."

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