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Sylvia Venus Mercury; You love me. I love you not.
Topic Started: Oct 12 2010, 02:05:11 PM (409 Views)
Sylvia Mercury


General Information:
Full name: Sylvia Venus Mercury (Sylvia hates her name, as her mum was borderline insane from all the birth spells the healers threw on her during the birth of the twins.
Nickname(s): "Venus" by her mum. "Sivs" by her dad. Or in the rare occasion, "Via" from her twin - Charlotte. Sometimes Charlotte also calls her "Sivvy"
Pronunciation: Just like the planets.
Gender: Female
Birthdate: December 25th, 10:13 pm
Age: Seventeen
Year: Sixth Year.
Blood: Half-Blood.

Wand: 8", Willow, Phoenix Feather
Preferred House: Slytherin

Appearance:
Height: 5'6"
Eyes: Sylvia has large, light blue eyes. Rather than being filled with warmth and color, as her sister's eyes are- Sylvia's eyes remind one of a dead ocean. Distant, cold, and drowning.
Hair: Sylvia has long, dark brown hair - almost black. She prides herself on it and often styles it in a classy ponytail or a headband.

Physical Description:
Sylvia's goal has never been to stand out, she prefers the shadows. This includes the way she dresses and composes herself. On the outside, Sylvia looks are basically normal. Long dark hair, well kept and her most flattering possession. Generally dark makeup, not used for anything other than to scare people off. It is flattering, in the emo isolation kind of way. Really, she mainly wears dark clothing, and keeps herself in the shadows.

She is a little bit shorter than her brother, at 5'6" you could describe her as petite and scrawny. Intimidating people has never been her goal in looks, she rather hide any day of the week. Perhaps this was fueled by Charlotte's outrageous looks and behavior. Sylvia always felt she had to step away to vouch for her sisters behavior. Other than acting like a shadow half the time, Sylvia is averagely pretty. There is nothing extrodinary about her looks, you couldn't call her a model.

Personality:
Let's face it, Sylvia doesn't exist. Okay, let's reword that - Sylvia doesn't want to exist. In her opinion, this world is hers to manipulate from behind a control box. The mask you see has never been her, not even to her twin. The true Sylvia is an indifferent, well...beotch, who doesn't care much for anything but herself. You make her angry? She'll act like she doesn't care, while secretly plotting revenge that doesn't involve herself. Instead, she plays a character - whether it'd be the sweet girl, the smart girl, or the insane girl. As long as it messes you up in some way, she's happy.

Mainly, she has a created persona full of lies. It's what everyone else assumed she was, and she stuck with it - but really, it's not her. How do people see her?

Mainly, as a quiet, sweet girl - who has a whole lot of ambition...but not a lot of motivation. Her family encourages her to follow her dreams, and she does. They just don't understand her true dreams include her standing on the top of a ruined world. A bit sadistic...if you may. They were right on one thing, she doesn't have much motivation. The world is "Meh..." to her, and she much rather be on another planet - with just herself and...well, herself.

However, on the outside - she is pretty social. Not that she wants to be, but with a crazy identical twin - she often found herself talking to complete strangers. Most Slytherin's consider Sylvia their friend, even if she secretly doesn't give a crap. She plays her part well, and distantly. The girl in the shadows, everybody thinks they know. Nobody really does.

In short, Sivs an excellent liar, and an excellent performer. However, she would be the bane of most kids existence if she made an effort. Perhaps dark secrets aren't meant to be shared?

History:
Sylvia Venus Mercury was born on Christmas in 1995. 10:13 pm seemed like the appropriate time to escape the womb, and she hadn't bothered to help her twin sister come out too. Probably why they were born ten minutes apart. Sylvia set the date to take the journey through the tunnel and into the light. Her parents had the nice, ordinary names of Jill and Bob Mercury. They never seemed sastisfied with the now, and always reached for the next step. Both were hard-working, insane Hufflepuff's with big personalities. Sylvia was pushed to the side from the start, as she wasn't anything like them. Jill was a loud, colorful individual who had one too many birth spells. Bob was another loud, more boring man who was happy his daughters were born. Especially Charlotte, the youngest and the most colorful of the bunch. Sylvia spent her childhood as the middle child- causing mayhem and blaming it on her siblings. As a result, she was often in the time out chair.

Sylvia is the other of an identical set of twins. They also have a brother who is nine months older. The Mercury's didn't know how to stop... Of course after the twins were born, it became obvious that they had to learn or risk not being able to explore the world for their jobs as much as they would like. This didn't stop them from taking Sebastian (her older brother) and the twins around to various different places over summers abroad. Sylvia didn't enjoy this trips, they seemed unnecessary. Their only advantage was to show her how twisted humanity really was.

Sylvia did worry about her sister a bit, more about her outrageous behavior than her well-being. It could prove a problem when she wanted silence. She also showed magic at a young age. Once, when at 5 years old - her dad had taken them out to pick daisies. Sylvia grew bored with this activity, and decided to play hide and go seek instead. Unfortunately, there isn't much places to hide in a flower field - so her brother found her easily.

Sylvia, angered- set the flowers he was holding on fire. Then, she threw a hissy fit and stomped to her father. He was proud of his little girl, even if her first act of magic was rather cruel. Especially since he was a naturalist, and worshiped the nature surrounding them.

Sylvia was social only because people threw themselves at her. It's not like she wanted friends, but the other kids insisted. Instead of relaying her true thoughts on little Sally's hairstyle, or Marie's glistening personality - Sylvia played a part. To them, she was the nice girl with the crazy sister and cute older brother.

At Hogwart's, everyone was surprised she was sorted into Slytherin. The twin lied and told everybody she was really just ambitious, and they tended to believe her. Nowadays, she is either trying to keep her sister from being beaten up - or lurking in the shadows. The only true passion she possesses is for eerie music.

Eerie as in viola. When not fantasizing about her dream world, she is practicing a dark corner of the dungeon. Only her family knows of this habit, and Sylvia would like to keep it that way.

Family:
Father: Robert Leonard Mercury, 39, Former Hufflepuff, Half-blood, Naturalist
Mother: Jillian Margret Mercury (Nee Smith), 40, Former Hufflepuff, Half-blood, Artist
Brother: Sebastian Moon Mercury, 17, Ravenclaw, Half-blood
Twin Sister: Charlotte Saturn Mercury, 16, Hufflepuff, Half-blood.

Pet(s): No. Sylvia has no attachment to anything but herself.

Possessions: Her viola, who she appropriately named Enigma.

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