Described as 'uncommonly kind' by those who know her best, Lily is the first person to offer a helping hand or an accepting ear even if it isn't the wisest thing to do. Her deep sense of compassion stems from the belief that there's good in everyone, and while this does make her a good friend, it can also make her extend more patience than some might deserve. She wants the people she cares for to be as wonderful as she believes them to be, and will stick with someone longer than might be wise to help them be better. While the loyalty she feels towards those close to her is enduring it is by no means coddling; she may not walk away from a person because they did something she believes is wrong, or harmful, she will tell them exactly what she thinks of their actions and why she believes them to be out of line. She would never do something as unconstructive as telling someone off, but she is not above giving anyone a good, analytical, dressing down.
A lot of her willingness to hold onto relationships longer than they might serve her comes from a stubbornness that years of academic success has fed into. During her time as a student, she has rarely heard that she's wrong, or going off-course, and while she isn't uncompromising, she is generally dubious of the input of others at first. She has never had a reason not to trust herself, and so she does implicitly - while having faith in yourself is a good thing, it leads Lily to believe that she can help, even when she can't.
Her enthusiasm for life is evident in her demeanor and coupled with her quick wit she can easily hold her own in conversation with and befriend both her fellow students and her professors. She loves to make others laugh, and has been described as cheeky, though she's never too rude when she takes the piss out of someone. That happiness and sense of excitement for both her life at present and her future, feed into Lily's sense of drive. She is tremendously goal-oriented, spending a good portion of her time at school neck-deep in homework to keep her marks high, thus broadening the possibilities she would be met with post-Hogwarts. Ever since she found out that she was a witch, she has wanted to get everything out of the magical world that she possibly could, and that aspiration has been her focus. She will always want to be better and smarter than she was the day before, and she hopes the same for the people she cares for.
When confronted with failure or rejection, Lily can become very obstinate and brusque, working to internalize her deep dismay over having failed. She's not above being sulky or using that cleverness her teachers love to make snide remarks, that while not hurtful aren't helpful either. Lily can move past slights with ease but will become unforgiving when pushed too far; it pains her to cut people out of her life, and will only be driven to do so after her extensive patience has been run absolutely dry. She simply doesn't like to give up, on others, or herself.
One of the most important things to keep in mind with Lily is that she's young. At eighteen years old she's grown-up between her parent's house in a working-class town in the Midlands, and a boarding school that, while magical, does not take the place of experience out in the real world. Also, a bit of a nerd really.
INVENTORY: Her wand: 10¾" long, made out of willow wood, with a unicorn hair core The clothes she's wearing Her school bag containing: fifteen pencils, and a sharpener three notebooks (one filled cover to cover with notes from various classes and meetings with professors, one partially filled with personal musings, in addition to even more notes from various classes, and another that is unused except for the first page because it fell to the bottom of her bag and she forgot about it) a sensible cardigan a smaller bag with a hairbrush, a tube of lip gloss, tissues, and an emergency ballpoint pen (blue ink) a change purse containing ten sickles, twenty-five knuts, and about £25.85 in a frustrating combination of notes and coins befitting an octagenarian a very well-loved copy of Wuthering Heights and an absolutely destroyed bag of Monster Munch, the contents of which are now pickled onion flavored powder
lily evans (wizarding world) 2/2
Described as 'uncommonly kind' by those who know her best, Lily is the first person to offer a helping hand or an accepting ear even if it isn't the wisest thing to do. Her deep sense of compassion stems from the belief that there's good in everyone, and while this does make her a good friend, it can also make her extend more patience than some might deserve. She wants the people she cares for to be as wonderful as she believes them to be, and will stick with someone longer than might be wise to help them be better. While the loyalty she feels towards those close to her is enduring it is by no means coddling; she may not walk away from a person because they did something she believes is wrong, or harmful, she will tell them exactly what she thinks of their actions and why she believes them to be out of line. She would never do something as unconstructive as telling someone off, but she is not above giving anyone a good, analytical, dressing down.
A lot of her willingness to hold onto relationships longer than they might serve her comes from a stubbornness that years of academic success has fed into. During her time as a student, she has rarely heard that she's wrong, or going off-course, and while she isn't uncompromising, she is generally dubious of the input of others at first. She has never had a reason not to trust herself, and so she does implicitly - while having faith in yourself is a good thing, it leads Lily to believe that she can help, even when she can't.
Her enthusiasm for life is evident in her demeanor and coupled with her quick wit she can easily hold her own in conversation with and befriend both her fellow students and her professors. She loves to make others laugh, and has been described as cheeky, though she's never too rude when she takes the piss out of someone. That happiness and sense of excitement for both her life at present and her future, feed into Lily's sense of drive. She is tremendously goal-oriented, spending a good portion of her time at school neck-deep in homework to keep her marks high, thus broadening the possibilities she would be met with post-Hogwarts. Ever since she found out that she was a witch, she has wanted to get everything out of the magical world that she possibly could, and that aspiration has been her focus. She will always want to be better and smarter than she was the day before, and she hopes the same for the people she cares for.
When confronted with failure or rejection, Lily can become very obstinate and brusque, working to internalize her deep dismay over having failed. She's not above being sulky or using that cleverness her teachers love to make snide remarks, that while not hurtful aren't helpful either. Lily can move past slights with ease but will become unforgiving when pushed too far; it pains her to cut people out of her life, and will only be driven to do so after her extensive patience has been run absolutely dry. She simply doesn't like to give up, on others, or herself.
One of the most important things to keep in mind with Lily is that she's young. At eighteen years old she's grown-up between her parent's house in a working-class town in the Midlands, and a boarding school that, while magical, does not take the place of experience out in the real world. Also, a bit of a nerd really.
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INVENTORY:
Her wand: 10¾" long, made out of willow wood, with a unicorn hair core
The clothes she's wearing
Her school bag containing:
fifteen pencils, and a sharpener
three notebooks (one filled cover to cover with notes from various classes and meetings with professors, one partially filled with personal musings, in addition to even more notes from various classes, and another that is unused except for the first page because it fell to the bottom of her bag and she forgot about it)
a sensible cardigan
a smaller bag with a hairbrush, a tube of lip gloss, tissues, and an emergency ballpoint pen (blue ink)
a change purse containing ten sickles, twenty-five knuts, and about £25.85 in a frustrating combination of notes and coins befitting an octagenarian
a very well-loved copy of Wuthering Heights
and an absolutely destroyed bag of Monster Munch, the contents of which are now pickled onion flavored powder
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