Lucy Feldspar's Application

This application is for an original character using a concept mentioned in news char restricted. As we say in the news files, these are not forbidden concepts, and current players who are applying for additonal characters are welcome and encouraged to creatively include them in their applications. This application was approved in January, 2005.

Corinne and Darius Feldspar own an import business that benefited greatly from Minister Sirius Black's lifting of the ban on flying carpets in 2004. It grew from a small but profitable niche company to a large and widely known brand. The wealth came at exactly the wrong time for their only son Martin, whose teenage years were filled with new money. He never really quite found his direction in life, and after he left Hogwarts, he dabbled in this and that, indulging himself in whatever passing fancy captured his attention for the moment.

After Martin married Fennel Covington in the spring of 2016, the young couple was surprised but willing to agree to his mother's pressing suggestion that they make their home in the no longer modest Cheshire house in which Martin had grown up. Fennel in particular was not too keen on the arrangement, but she reasoned that her work as an anthropologist specialising in muggle communities often took her away from home for long periods of time, so the situation might be tolerable. And it would provide some companionship for Martin, who, she thought, did not have as many friends as he really ought.

A link to an existing PC family (in this case the Covington clan) is something we encourage highly, especially for an alternative character. Talk to other players and see if they have any openings in their family tree. Most people will be able to accomodate.

So the pair moved in. And the arrangement seemed to work: Martin's unfocused activities were lightly supervised by his parents, while Fennel's career consumed more and more of her time and attention. Fennel did take the time in 2020 to have a child, a daughter which they named Lucy, after a childhood friend of Martin's. However, Fennel felt strongly that living amongst muggles was no place for a child, so she usually left Lucy at home with her father when she was involved in a project.

Lucy didn't really miss her that much. Fennel did not have the way with children that Martin had, and with Lucy to raise, Martin began to take some time away from the projects and schemes that never seemed to come to anything. The two had a jolly time together, with occasional interruptions by Lucy's grandparents, who made certain that there were also boring things like vitamins and clean sheets in the house.

But in spite of the veneer of happiness, one that the young Lucy didn't have enough experience to penetrate, there was a tension in the household. The older she got, the more intrusive her grandparents became, especially her grandmother. She pestered Martin with increasing frequency, demanding to know what he was up to -- and it is true that he had several 'special' projects that he didn't even share with Lucy.

It all came to a head shortly after Lucy's 8th birthday. One day, Lucy discovered that the door to her father's study was unlocked, something which had never before happened when he wasn't there. And, being a typical curious little girl, she took full advantage of the opportunity presented. It was during her investigation that the accident occurred. One of the special projects, an attempt to recreate and improve upon the highly regulated Time Turners controlled by the Ministry, did not take kindly to Lucy knocking it roughly to the floor. It exploded, knocking Lucy down and out.

When she woke up, she found herself in bed, with her grandmother hovering over her. A grandmother who asked her who she was, and looked surprisingly young.

The restricted concept here is time travel. The young age of the person involved made it easier to approve this child travelling back from the future, since an 8 year old wouldn't be expected to know lots of details about current events or the recent past.

Witches and wizards are used to strange things, though perhaps not often so strange as this. Lucy's grandparents sorted through her confused tale and found they could believe it. They decided for the time being that they would do nothing; contacting the Ministry would, at the least, bring an unwelcome invasion into their lives, and would be premature anyway -- surely someone from Lucy's time would come back to retrieve her. In the meantime, they would keep Lucy and raise her, passing her off as a distant relative whose parents were away under mysterious circumstances.

Three years later, Lucy is still here, and now old enough to attend school. She and Martin, just a year older than herself, have become great friends, much to her grandmother's consternation. In the interests of discouraging excessive contact between Lucy and Martin (and Fennel too, for that matter), she announced this summer that Lucy would be going to Poudlard instead of Hogwarts.

Lucy, aside from the insatiable curiousity which she inherited from her mother's side of the family, is a very ordinary girl. She's taken in stride the upheavals in her life, and now only occasionally slips up and says something she shouldn't.