Hestia Jones Application for tt_mod

[tt_hestia]

Author Info
Name you go by: Becky
Age: 26
Email: queenof1000days@gmail.com
YM and/or AIM Contact: AIM: voyagerbug47
Location: US
Time Zone: US/CST [GMT -6]

Character Info
Character Name: Hestia Catherine Jones
Nicknames: Hes, Hescat
Gender: Female
Age/Birthday: 31, 1 March, 1971
House/Affiliation: Gryffindor / Order of the Phoenix / St. Mungo's
Patronus: Giraffe

Parents: Edward and Catherine (Vance) Jones
Siblings: Megan Jones
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Significant Others: Kingsley Shacklebolt. It's complicated.
Blood Ancestry: Halfblood (Her maternal grandparents are Muggleborns and her father is a a Muggleborn wizard.)

Physical Description: Photo. Hestia tops the height charts at a whopping 1.651 meters (5'5") flat footed on a good day. If she's wearing heels this can go up a whopping seven centimeters (three inches.) Hestia is aware she's on the shorter side of things. She's come to terms with that. She's got brunette hair with blonde highlights running through it on occasion. She keeps in shape by yoga, running, and eating healthy. Hestia likes the way she looks and feels when she's in prime condition.

Upon asking Hestia what her best feature is, she would say her smile. She's always gotten compliments upon it - almost as many as her arse. But those tend to come from guys trying to date her or drunk guys. She tends to ignore the drunk guys and does her best to flirt back with the other ones. She has an unknown, irrational hatred of her neck and has no idea how that happened. But if she can, her hair will be down, hiding it. If it's up, it's because it was either a horrible hair day or Hestia absolutely had to have it up for some reason.

PB Name: Eliza Dushku
Personality: Her inability to say 'no' is legendary among her family, coworkers, and friends. While she realizes that she can only be stretched so far and she must make time for herself before she loses it completely, she feels such guilt when she declines. She's gotten better over the years about saying 'no' though. That being said, she's still got a tendency to have too much on her plate at one time.

If someone she knows is in trouble, worried, or is just feeling down, Hestia will be there with a sympathetic ear and words of comfort, and possible advice. Plus a hug. However, if she can't properly advise them on her own, she'll go to others to ask their opinions and then say "Maybe you could try this way instead." She will not take it personally if they don't.

Hestia is full of imagination and creativity - it's not odd to see her lost in her thoughts, staring off into the clouds, daydreaming. Oftentimes, it's then when her uncanny insights will be brought to the fore front. While on the quiet side, she can speak for hours on something she's compassionate about and confront painful truths, if there's no escaping them. Her head is stuffed full of fantasy and fairy tales with myths and legends. She does do her best to avoid confronting those aforementioned painful truths by losing herself in these tales, but when she absolutely has to, she does. She's idealistic, wise, intuitive, adaptable, and empathetic.

Relationship history:

Family: Edward and Catherine Jones; parents. Hestia and her parents have her a positive, nurturing relationship. Hestia is closer to her dad than her mum, but Catherine was the second person to find out about how Hestia felt about Kingsley.
Megan Jones; sister. Even though Megan is ten years younger than Hestia, the two have a close relationship. Megan is the first person to know about Kingsley from Hestia.

Dating: She's had dates here and there and a schoolgirl relationship while at Hogwarts. But her main relationship to this point is Kingsley Shacklebolt.

It's complicated.

Hestia was asked to join the Order of the Phoenix in June 1995 by her former head of house, Professor McGonagall. At one of the first meetings of the reconstituted Order of the Phoenix, Hestia met Kingsley Shacklebolt. The two developed a relationship but with Kingsley's Auror duties, Hestia's job as a Healer, and their responsibilities within the Order, their relationship was mainly composed of flirting with the occasional snog (and semi-occasional shag.) Kingsley was then made to protect the Muggle British Prime Minister which meant that their time together was significantly cut back.

Then Hestia volunteered along with Dedalus Diggle to go into hiding with the Dursleys, Harry Potter's last remaining blood relatives. After the end of the second wizarding war, Hestia and Kingsley's relationship continued along as much as it had before. Kingsley's job as Minister for Magic kept him constantly busy; however, their relationship was more than what Witch Weekly called it "Hestia Jones being Minister Shacklebolt's arm candy." The year of 1999 was relatively calm for both of them. Hestia continued as a Healer in the Magical Bugs and Diseases ward at Mungo's; Kingsley remained as Minister.

Tragedy struck in January of 2000. Hestia was on her way home from a friend's house late at night. As the friend lived in Muggle London, Hestia was going to head to the Ministry then floo home. Halfway there, an as of yet unknown Death Eater killed Hestia, in retaliation for Voldemort's death, Kingsley's policies as Ministry, and Hestia supporting Muggle(born) rights during the war.
Settlement Employment: Healer.
Settlement Housing: E. Villa


Sample Post, 3rd person, present tense:

It's been a week since Kingsley's appearance on the Potterwatch programme and Hestia's emotional high from hearing his voice, knowing that he's alive is decreasing. Time spent among the Dursleys can do that. Dedalus, upon hearing Hestia's news, had given her a hug and spoken encouragingly about how all this would soon be over and Hestia would be seeing Kingsley face-to-face before they both knew it.

Hestia grins as she remembers that particular conversation and thinks that while Dedalus is still an odd choice for protecting the Dursleys, she's come to regard the man as a friend and there are very few people (now) that she would want to enter into this with. Returning her attention back to the task at hand - Sunday lunch, which consists of a roast leg of lamb with roast spuds, roast parsnips, vegetables and gravy with a treacle pudding for dessert.

One moment, she's reaching over for the spoon to stir the vegetables on the stove and the next she's...definitely not in the kitchen of the safe house. Whipping out her wand, she holds it out in front of her circling around slowly. It appears as if she's in a clearing surrounded by a forest which is not at all the scenery surrounding the house in Plymouth. She's only taken a few steps from her original position when she's approached by guards who ask her to come with them. It takes some time to convince her that no, they're not Death Eaters or Death Eater supporters and no one's trying to kill her. But the guard who says that has an odd look on their face.

It's not until she's standing in front of Kingsley that Hestia allows herself to relax (a bit).

Sample Datapad Entry, 1st person:

Right then. I suppose an introduction is in order. My name is Hestia Jones, I was a Healer at St. Mungo's in the Magical Bugs and Diseases ward. Megan Jones is my sister, and Gwenog Jones is my cousin. I'm new here and the year I left was 1998 but I've been told it's 2002 here. Please let me know if there's anything I should know. I must admit that I'm curious as to what's happened in those four years.

Filtered: Private: Self
I'm well aware that Kingsley and my relationship wasn't anything more than casual. The war made it difficult to be anything more than that. But I've come to think that I'm good at reading him, and his interactions with me upon my arrival here were...odd. I don't know what happened - but it almost seemed like he was avoiding me. I don't know what to think; I just know that my imagination is coming up with scenarios that I don't even want to acknowledge.

Godric, I don't even know what to do now.