MELANA DOBREVA

[MELANA KARINA DOBREVA]

MELANA KARINA DOBREVA



16 years old • 29th December 2005 • 6th year
Durmstrang
Pureblood
Hilary Duff

LIKES:
Writing
Cooking and baking
Having close bonds with her family
Being ahead of others
Her hair

DISLIKES:
Change
Moving around the country
People trying to get too close (emotionally) to her
When the weather is too hot
Divination

STRENGTHS:
Charms
Determination
Ambition
Looks
She has the smarts to get what she wants
Down-to-earth
Honest
She's a good, loyal friend if you get past her ambitious barriers
Potions
Herbology
Strong-willed
Protective
Tough
Imaginative

WEAKNESSES:
Ambition
She hates super hot weather
Brown eyed boys
She's an only child, and was spoiled rotten, and this reflects in her daily life and interactions with others.
Brutally honest
Detached
Cold-hearted with those she doesn't know
Downright nasty when provoked
Greedy (in a material way)
Secretive
Stubborn to a fault
Ruthless
Divination

ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE
MYSELF

The first thing you should know about me? I can be a bit of a bitch. I can't say that this is on purpose, but I don't hold back. I'm not one of those people that will keep her mouth shut just to save someone's feelings. If I have something to say, you're gonna hear it. I don't pull any punches. Ever.

Even as a child, my mother used to call me a spoiled brat. I admit, I was spoiled, and I was an only child, and I blame her and my father completely for the way I was when I was younger. And mostly for the way I am now, though I don't see that as a bad thing. I'm a good person, at heart. So sue me if I'm honest. Wouldn't you much rather hear the truth than some sugar-coated crap that you know, deep down, is a complete lie made up to make you feel better about yourself? I believe that the best way to feel good about yourself, is to let yourself see the truth, and find a way to come to terms with it, and be happy regardless of it.

So, yeah. I'm quite wise for my years. I suppose it has something to do with being a Capricorn? I'm meant to be all serious and worldly or something. I can be. I really can. But I know how to have fun. Some people think otherwise, because I'm from Bulgaria and we're all supposed to be a bunch of straight-laced stiffs. Not me! I may have been born there, but I only spent the first five years of my life over there. After that, my parents moved to Seattle in the United States, so I developed a sort of American accent, and a looser way of being. The only thing about me that didn't need loosening was my tongue, really, but what ya gonna do about that, huh?

We had to go back to Bulgaria for my schooling, which was good, since I have a lot of family there, and I love my family. They mean the world to me. I like having a sense of belonging, and feeling that I have roots somewhere. It's important to me to feel a part of something bigger, like I have this legacy that's gonna be left behind in the world, making it's mark way before, and long after my time. I'm pretty close with my grandparents. A lot of people say I'm the double of my grandmother, in looks and attitude. She has the same dark, wavy hair as me, and the golden brown eyes and perfect smile, and she used to be my height, around five foot three, though she's shrunk somewhat these days. I'd say it was insulting to compare me to an old woman, but my grandmother is one powerful lady. Nobody messes with her, even now while she's closing in on her nineties. I hope I'm exactly like that one day.

I've always had a bit of a strained relationship with my parents, though. I know I said family means a lot to me, but that doesn't mean they don't know how to push all the wrong buttons with me. My parents are very, I suppose you could call it "unconventional". Like I said, they picked us up and moved across the world when I was a kid - the only good thing I can see that I gained from that is being able to speak quite a few different languages. I'm fluent in Bulgarian, Russian, German, and French - and they had no qualms about packing me off to England when the opportunity came up for me to be able to transfer schools. I didn't even want to go. Not that they cared. They said it would be good for me, and a great learning curve. Life experience and all that bull. I'm doing it, don't get me wrong, but I would prefer to be where I've always been, with people and places that I've always been around.

Hogwarts isn't so bad, I suppose, but I don't make much of an effort to fit in. I keep to myself, have maybe a handful of people I can call friends, and a ton of enemies, you could say. People don't tend to take to kindly to my honesty. Or my ambition. I admit that I would walk all over any of these people to get what I wanted. They mean nothing to me. They're my classmates. That's it. It's not like I'm going to have them in my life forever. Once I graduate, I'll probably never see them again. So why the hell shouldn't I push them out of the way to better myself? Nobody else is going to get me where I want to be, are they? I have to rely on myself and my own wits to get by in life. And I don't plan on having any kind of ordinary life, I'll tell you that right now.

I want to be someone important. Maybe work my way through the ministry into some sort of position of power. I'd even consider being an Auror if it helps me get one step higher up the ladder. So I'm working my butt off in classes to get the best grades possible. I'm smart enough to do it, I don't doubt that for one second. I just have to make sure I don't lose focus or let anyone get in my way. I'm not gonna be one of those little Pureblood girls whose only goal in life is to find herself a Pureblood husband and keep the Pureblood line going, and yadda, yadda, yadda. I'll get married when I'm good and ready, thanks. And yes, most likely to some Pureblood guy, because I do think blood status is important to the future of our kind, but I'm not gonna discriminate against people who aren't. If you've got the magical ability and talent, then you've got the magical ability and talent. End of story. But I don't want to weaken my line. Not that I'm even sure if I'll have kids or not. That's something I'll think about when I'm older. Like, forty or some reasonable age like that.

I probably sound like some sort of boring, evil psycho, don't I? I have a fun side, too. I mean, doesn't everyone? Isn't that a part of all human beings? I like to have down time and hang out with these so called "friends" of mine. They're good for a laugh on occasion, I guess. I like to write. In my diary, but mostly stories. Not that I ever tell anyone how vivid of an imagination I have, but I do like to write about fictional things that I've made up in my head. Worlds that don't exist, supernatural characters. Whatever comes into my dark little mind, really. And if I do say so myself, I'm a pretty darn good cook. I sometimes bribe the house elves into letting me in the kitchens to cook. Mostly I bake sweet things. Cookies and cupcakes and sponge cakes of all kinds. I always make cakes for my grandparents birthdays. They won't settle for anything else, bless their souls. I'm pretty good at making things, too. Or fixing things. I've always had a very practical way about me, where I can figure things out easily and put things together without needing instructions. As far as practical things go, anyway. Maybe that's why I'm good at Charms. Who knows? And as far as boys are concerned, they're ok to toy with for now, but they're dumb-asses if they think anything is gonna come from a bit of flirting, or a few innocent kisses. I have a life to live before I'll even consider letting myself think of things like love. If that means I break a few heart as I go along, then so be it, but it's not like I don't let them know what my intentions are from the start. All's fair in love and war. That's what I say.

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QUINN
24 years old
England. GMT
RPing for almost 4 years
I made this site. 8P

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