Rhodes, Rhianon

Pen Name: Totoro
E-mail: Foweryam(at)comcast.net

Character Information

House Preference: Lagamore
Full Name: Rhianon Rosemary Rhodes
Age: 16
Birthday: September 27th (Libra)
Blood Type: Mixed + O
Height: 5�8�

Year: 2

Appearance: Rhianon is one of those few lucky people who can roll out of bed, throw on dirty clothes and still manage to look sophisticated and soft. Yes, soft. Despite dozens of body experiments to change her appearance Rhianon�s facade has a tendency to make others think of a delicate, gentle creature. Strange considering some of these experiments include: coaxing her gorgeous, long, light blond hair into careful strands of dreadlocks and then dying them an eye shocking orange and getting her right ear pierced six times, her left seven times, and her right nostril once. All the changes had ever managed to do is earn her disrespect for adults and have clingy teenyboppers attach themselves to her in hopes of being punk.
Despite the various changes to her appearance Rhianon still has the posture and arrogant smirk that creates the image of one stuck up prep. It has always been a joke among the family that the day Rhianon slouches is the day the world ends. As for the smirk, it�s not seen nearly as much as the large grin that is usually splayed out on her face. Yes, soft was mentioned earlier. A horribly clich� dusting of freckles spread over her nose and just barely make it to the edges of her slightly high cheekbones. Unlike the majority of her family Rhianon managed to avoid getting the typical pert little nose of the Rhodes. Instead she has one of the longest noses ever that still manages to look stylish. Well, it would manage to look stylish if Rhianon hadn�t managed to break it several times. Even with the advantages of magic several bumps very slightly throw Rhianon�s nose to the left. Her eye�s on moderately eyelashed and have the blue-silvery film of the blind. Often she has been complimented on the unique color of her eyes. Or people usually start to. They usually stop when they actually realize she�s blind.
Rhianon�s clothing patterns really can�t be neatly fit into one category. Because of her piercings many assume she is aiming for the goth/punk look, but they couldn�t be further from the truth. In actuality Rhianon couldn�t care less what she looks like as long as it doesn�t enhance her �soft� look. With that in mind Rhianon�s shopping preferences tend to be second-hand shops and bumming off of friends- female and male. Eventually all the clothes she owns or borrow end up paint stained. The only clothing option that changes rarely is her choice of footwear. When in the great out doors, middle of the city or doing something active Rhianon is always with her sturdy hiking boots. You see, when you�re blind it�s usually good to have solid footwear for when you run into things. When Rhianon is inside however, her choice is polar opposite. As a child one of her favorite pastimes was sliding down halls in her socks. Well, not just as a child. On boring weekends students have known to see a crazy Rhianon dressed in only her pajamas and socks running and sliding down the hall. You�d think the various several bones would have stopped her by now�

Notable Traits: Blind, emotionally impulsive, craves love from at least one person (relies heavily on twin brother Sydney), big spender, soft on the outside- fairly tough and sometimes selfish on the inside, flirt.

Personality: Rhianon is a social butterfly and knows it. Born with a personality that seeks to understand other people she has always been intensely interested in other people. With that interest comes a strange diplomatic aspect to her personality that will make her radiate leadership in extremely dangerous situations. However on a usual basis Rhianon hates making decisions. And therein lies her major fault. With her dislike of making decisions she can be described as lazy or even passive aggressive. She has opinions but forcing her opinions into choices is something she avoids like the plague. Her other most noticeable fault is her prickliness when it comes to being ignored. Although it�s not really about being ignored, but rather getting attention. Can you say grudges? She is quick to dive into a new friendship, but because of all her social interests she�s fairly quick to lose close friends. The only way she has ever been able to keep close friends is if they�re related (like Sydney) or they make a concerted effort into making sure she is the sole focus of their interest and won�t let her go. Being a love hog Rhianon is very much bi and with her flintiness and eagerness of understand humans she jumps quickly into relationships. Sexually she has been described as a slight slut, but when it actually comes to the actual �act� she reverts back to her inability of make a decision and backs off, usually ending the relationship. After such relationships she usually goes through a very deep depression for several hours and then bounces back. She is fairly quick to forgive but she is never the one of initiate the asking for forgiveness. Can you say pride? As a general rule she hates people that have similar personalities to herself.
Despite her various choices of appearance and mutilation to her body Rhianon is actually pretty confident with her body. Unless the topic of her being blind comes up. It�s not something she�s ashamed of, but gather something that might make other�s think of her of inferior. With that in mind she can be particularly aggressive when the subject is raised and very quick to take the defense.

History: Rhianon and Sydney were born and raised the beginning of her childhood in the middle of Idaho by the snottiest family many have ever met. Being the heirs of some great-great-great grandfather�s gold digging fortune Rhianon and Sydney were raised in a great old mansion by their Australian wet-nurse. Despite being greedy the parents got along fairly well with the children. Well, it probably helped that they only saw their children at lunch, dinner and on the Sunday outing to church. Everything was hum-hum until Rhianon and Sydney started to develop their personalities. Having picked up strength, selfishness, charismatic personalities and pride from their parents and a sense of poetic justice and inertest in knowledge from their wet-nurse the twins started to clash with everything around them. Their parents had no patience for their foolish need of love, the wet-nurse got fed up with their pride, and their private tutor had exhausted his store of knowledge. So they were sent off to a east-coast private school. Where surprisingly enough, they flourished. If along the twins would have likely turned out to be horrible people, but because they leveled each other out and provided the love both of them needed they were able to not thrive on their past. In fact, they consider it absolutely normal and don�t think twice about it.
Magic was known to pop up know and then in the family so when Rhianon showed a great skill for jinxes and Sydney proved to be top rank in defensive spells and potions the Parents found a magic school as fast as they could and transferred the twins from their extremely expensive boarding school to � Shastina. Interesting change.

Wand Wood & Core: Willow wood cored with siren feather twined with slyph wings
Classes: Elements, Potions, Transfiguration, Herbology, History
Sports: � she�s blind
Pet: A 75 year old spirit in the form of a coal black cat named Pippin. Well, it�s supposed to be black. It�s often hard to tell it�s not a freak of nature what with the various splotches of paint Rhianon has managed to color Pippin with. Pippin is probably the only reason (well, only reason besides Sydney) that Rhianon is still alive. Bonded and enslaved to serve Pippin has been in charge of Rhianon�s safety and strangely enough enjoys the job. Even though he�s often too lazy to do it�

Theme Song: Rhianon by Fleetwood Mak