#pippa strout

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PIPPA STROUT

Occupation: Bartender, University student Age: 26 Gender: Female Pronouns: She/Her Blood status: Muggleborn Allegiance: Order Faceclaim: Alisha Wainwright

America is so young compared to Europe, you thought it would be fun to see a country so steeped in history and walk the streets of a settlement completely made up of wizards. You were just a tourist and you were planning on going home right until someone threatened you and triggered your instinct to fight back. They should have known that someone willing to vacation in a warzone was willing to attack.

HISTORY:

Pippa would have made her mother proud, or at least that’s what her Dad and Granny used to sigh as she came home with bruised knuckles and an A to put on the fridge. It wasn’t that she was violent exactly, but she couldn’t keep her mouth shut no matter how many times her granny would wash it out with soap for saying “rude” words. Her mom used to do the same, and she’d gotten in loads of trouble even if she was usually doing it to protect someone else.

Still, there was a fondness there. Both dad and granny missed her mom, and it would make Pip smile even with a bloody lip to know she was like Angeline even a little bit. It almost made her smug, knowing that no matter what, she was a spitfire. She admired her just like she did her dad. John Strout was a steady man and a good one. That’s what everyone in the neighborhood said. He was a quiet man who studied at college and came back to help all of them. He was a lawyer, and he was a good one. He could have been in one of those big law firms, but he instead stayed in the neighborhood doing pro bono cases as often as he did paid ones. Sometimes it was hard, but there was always food on the table, and sometimes people in the neighborhood would pitch in to keep them in an apartment. His tiny office filled with papers of cases he was taking just to keep people out of awful sentences he was well respected. He was smart and quiet and had a habit of tapping the side of her head, telling her to think through her problems. Maybe that’s why Pip never got into that much trouble, even though when she was young, she as a bit of a menace. For some reason, she kept burning things. Even as she explained it just happened, her granny kept trying to find whatever lighter her cousins must have slipped her. When glasses just broke when she was having a temper tantrum, she thought she must have had a slingshot, although she never found it. Pip was pretty sure she was about to get an exorcism if she wasn’t careful when a lady came to the door and told her to get her Dad and Granny. The conversation was seared in her head for years to come. She was a witch. She was unique, and she was going to a private school somewhere on the East Coast. She’d never been outside of Chicago, let alone that far away from her dad and Granny, but he looked at her with such pride she couldn’t help but get a stiff upper lip about the whole thing. Even though granny seemed like she was about to cry, Pippa just focused on her dad. She noticed that he was tearing up too and that she needed to be strong for both of them. She was his little fighter, and he told the entire neighborhood how little pipsqueak is got into a private boarding school on a full scholarship. She suddenly went from a loveable menace to the golden kid in the neighborhood. Something like a bit of hope that they all could do something. That’s what dad told her; it was something like the American Dream. Still, it was hard. Pip didn’t know anything about magic, and it seemed like most of these kids did. Most of them seemed to be far ahead of her, and for the first time, she had to struggle to keep up. She’d always been smart, but they were brilliant. For the first time, she realized what her dad said made more sense, and she hunkered down at night to learn everything she could. She started relying on her brain, but she didn’t lose the spark of standing up for herself she had in her either. No matter how many times she got knocked down, she got back up again. It would be what helped her through most of her schooling and after it. Especially after she decided she was going to go to a muggle University to get a shot at going to law school. However, she had another thing she wanted to do first. Taking a year off, much to the surprise to her dad and not at all shocking to Granny, she suddenly went to England curious about all the stories she’d heard about the place. It was an adventure that she’d promised she’d be back from soon. After all, she needed to be back in her neighborhood sooner rather than later. She just wanted to see where all of these wizards were so gun-ho about and knew she could take care of herself. She always had. She was only supposed to stay a year, but six months in, she managed to get into a scrap that left her in Saint Mungos. To this day, she couldn’t tell you much about what happened, other than she was left for dead in an alley with the words mud blood spelled behind her. It didn’t take a genius for her to figure out what had happened. She was familiar with hate, and she was familiar with pain, but she’d never experienced both so solidly in the wizarding world. In some ways, she thought maybe they were better, but she figured now that the type of hate her dad dealt with in the courtroom was the same here. She would spend the next few months in the hospital, trying to remember what happened and coming up with nothing. She couldn’t even send for her dad or grandma, knowing that they wouldn’t be safe here. She almost went back, tail between her legs taking a fall she couldn’t come back from. That’s when she got an offer to not only stay but join the Order. The war might be extended, but as long as it was there, she could try to stop this to more people. She didn’t think about it. Calling her dad, she told him that there was something she had to do, and although she ended up enrolling in school, her focus has been on the war. After all, Pippa Strout didn’t always know how to win, but she did know how to take a beating to get a shot of winning later.

CONNECTIONS:

Constance Corner: Exes

Vladimir Krum: Friends

Caleb Goldstein: School enemies

Phoenix Lancaster: Order partners

Lisbet Almstedt: Admired by

Rovena Santiago: Idolized by

Isadora Pascal: Worried over by

CLOSED · PENNED BY ADDIE

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Happy birthday, Pippa Strout

Today is June 15th and according to our records, that means Pippa Strout is turning 27, but she’s American, so who knows if that’s true. Since she’s a bartender, I think the only way to celebrate is with drinks and make sure no one remembers how old she’s getting.

@pippaxstrout​

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Which mudbloods are doing the best job hiding it?

Did you just ask me for a muggleborn hit list? I’m not sure if they’re hiding it, but some of them are certainly keeping it lowkey.

For example, there’s Lily Potter, Juniper Dunbar, and Pandora Kane, who should really form a pregnant muggleborn club. I bet they’re all wary ladies working hard to keep themselves and their bellies safe, if you ask me.

Then there’s the likes of Pippa Strout, but I hear she’s been attacked before, so she’s not managing to hide it at all. I don’t think Nina Fedorova is doing much to hide her muggleborn heritage, but considering she’s the new sweetheart of Antonin Dolohov. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t mess with him.

@fortunexflower @juniperthelionheart @pandorakane @pippaxstrout @ninafedxrxva @antonintheviper

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        TEMPORARY SUSPENSION FOR DMLE EMPLOYEE

March 13, 1981

Despite the severe need for DMLE employees in this time of war, an example has finally been made of a member of the hitwix squad following reports of overstepping boundaries. While a bill was passed allowing the DMLE access to unforgivable curses, there is still a certain level of professionalism expected from Ministry employees and recent reports of abuse of power have prompted a fierce backlash from citizens.

Earlier today, following a bar fight provoked by unknown circumstances, Yuki Yamashita was placed on temporary suspension following a review of the incident. While it's unconfirmed, it's believed that issues of xenophobia and blood supremacy were factors in the incident. 

Other individuals caught in the fight involve bartender Pippa Strout, who works on the premises, and Patrick Finnegan. While both went to St. Mungo's, the extent of their injuries are unknown.

@upinsmoke-rp

[the-last-moody]

☎ Henry

About to Pippa 

“Yes your assigned to him again.” “Because he doesn’t have a permanent partner yet and you don’t seem to be affected by his veela charm.”“If he’s not in the field he’s going to do something stupid, and I don’t really need people doing things because they are angry.” “I’m not asking you to babysit him I’m asking you to make sure that anger is productive.” “Just do it, Strout. You know you don’t mind him. ” @fawley-en-face

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LISBET ALMSTEDT

Occupation: Up to player Age: 28 Blood status: Half-veela Allegiance: Neutral Faceclaim: Jessica Rothe, Brie Larson, Emily VanCamp, Pom Klementieff, Margot Robbie

Your father wanted a perfect daughter with hair made of gold to complete his family-- an angel fallen from the heavens. That’s why he chose you, brought you across Europe to his home, and taught you to speak his language. You weren’t as docile as he was expecting, though. Not content to exist merely to charm some wealthy man he chose for you. Sometimes, though, you wonder if you’re as much of a mistake as he says you are.

BIOGRAPHY:

Up to player

CONNECTIONS:

Oskar Almstedt: Adopted brother

Ivar Alvarsson: Close family friend

Monika Klein: Former friends, lost contact

Jian Chang: Finds charming

Maura Mulciber (Fled): Pities

Pippa Strout: Admires

Isha Bhatt: Annoys

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[pippaxstrout]

War never changes; open

Pippa Strout already wasn’t looking to hot. She knew that there were spells that fixed bruises, but she hadn’t fixed it with magic. Instead she’d sat in the courtroom with a busted lip to prove a point. In a lot of ways magic could hid the horrific acts people did. Hell, even the unforgivable curses distanced yourself. You didn’t need to look in someone’s face while you tortured them, and Pip found that cowardliness disgusting. 

That’s why when she took the stand she didn’t flinch. She hadn’t looked sad, or beaten down. They could attack her and they would have to witness that horror viscerally, but she wasn’t going to bend to the part of a victim. 

When she finished she sat down in her nicest suit and waited for the verdict, and honestly she couldn’t help but feel a flood of relief when she found out that Alex wouldn’t be convicted for something he hadn’t done. Her mouth had trembled and she had wiped a few tears away. She’d seen to many trials that went the other way for her not too. 

That’s why when she watched Alex leave, she almost didn’t hear it. The roar of discontentment. Without thinking her hand went to her wand as if she was on auto-pilot as a part of her brain recognize what was about to happen. She heard the yelling as if it was happening to someone else. 

Violence was always the same when it came down to it. 

Suddenly, she saw a flash and without thinking she pulled down the person next to her as she saw sparks fly above their head. She didn’t know if it had damaged the wall but she decided she didn’t need to know. Instead she wordlessly called the nearest table flipping it as it smashed into the column next to them as a quick makeshift place. 

“Fuck - Get your wand out,” Pip yelled looking at the other. “Did you get hit?” 

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CHAPTER 03: TASTE OF HOPE

Litha has arrived and with it comes the heat of summer and short nights with swiftly approaching sunlight promises to fight away the darkness. After such gruesome and tragic attacks in the first half of the year, there’s a silent, but unanimous choice among the people of the wizarding world to rejoice in this light while it lasts.

Over what seems to be the course of a single night, a fair has been assembled in the same fields that would usually hold official quidditch league matches, flyers for the event tucked into copies of the Daily Prophet, the Quibbler, and Witch Weekly alike. It’s announced on the Wizarding Wireless Network and posters are plastered across boarded up shop windows, usually without people knowing how they got there.

At the funfair, the grass is lush and the air is warm, the music that permeates the grounds overlaid with shrill sounds of pleasure instead of screams of fear. There’s a risk in having so many people gather in one place, there’s always a risk, but everything looks distance from the top of a ferris wheel, even the dangers of war. 

The peace won’t last forever, just like the summer will slip away, but that is what fuels people into flocking from their homes to take part in the event. For a week, they will be able to rejoice in knowing that the days are long and the nights are short, but they still know the darkness will return.

This fair/carnival will run for the rest of the month and while you’re free to interact with whomever you please (and encouraged to respond to any open starters you see), you will also be assigned a partner for the end of this chapter. 

Please find your muse and your partner on the list below and reach out to start plotting! And for any open starters you choose to create that are related to this chapter, please tag them as smokechapter:03.

Adelaide Boot and Luka Petrov

Hestia Jones and Pippa Strout

Iliana Solace and Zephyr Bell

Alastor Moody and Yuki Yamashita

Mafalda Hopkirk and Oskar Almstedt

Daisy MacNair and Patrick Finnegan

Han Lee and Narcissa Malfoy

Odette Vogel and Tristan Rojas

Bailey Shaw and Mirek Yaxley

Edith Clearwater and Zahi Shafiq

Henry Fawley and Miriam Clearwater

Cassidy Runcorn and Sofiya Nott

Leona Podmore and Valentina Nott

Nicholas Chastain and Vanja Novak

Juliette Fortescue and Zara Ivanova

Hilda Dagna Finnegan and Nathan Chastain

Alexander Church and Marcus Bulstrode

Kirsi Salo and Valerija Novak

Aliya Shafiq and Liliana Zabini

Levi Bulstrode and Lucius Malfoy

Felicity Grant and Rowan Montague

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CALEB GOLDSTEIN

Occupation: Up to player Age: 30 Gender: Male Blood Status: Halfblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Aneurin Barnard, Casey Deidrick, Nathan Parsons, Zane Holtz

The thing is, you’ve never thought of yourself as a bad guy. You don’t look like a bad guy, everyone you meet compares you to a puppy and yet you know that in the eyes of your family, your beliefs are wrong. You grew up hearing about Grindelwald’s time in America as well as how your cousins were there, as if it matters when you’ve never met them. Everyone was so proud of you when you decided to go to Britain for the war, you just never said what side you were joining.

HISTORY:

Up to player.

CONNECTIONS:

Rosa Lee Xiadani: Hated by

Monika Klein: Avoided by

Hilda Dagna Finnegan: Pretending to date

Patrick Finnegan: Intimidated by

Luka Petrov: Trying to befriend

Pippa Strout: School enemies

Oswyn Dawlish: Friends

Levi Bulstrode: Despised by

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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ISADORA PASCAL

Occupation: Up to player Age: 30 Gender: Female Blood status: Halfblood Allegiance: Order Faceclaim: Adria Arjona, Eiza Gonzalez, Erendira Ibarra

Patience. That’s what they told you every time you made a mistake, urging you to become perfect. Patience, you were waiting that day they attacked Diagon Alley, you heard the screams and smelled the smoke first-hand, you watched joy turn into terror on the face of your family. Patience, you finally learned it when you were stuck in St. Mungos and it’s a trait that you’ve perfected while coming to terms with being a widow. Now you’re the teacher with a lesson to share and someone out there has made a deadly mistake in crossing you.

HISTORY:

Up to player

CONNECTIONS:

Cassidy Runcorn: Distrustful of

Septima Vector, Esme Silva: Becoming friends

Rita Skeeter: Admires

Pippa Strout: Worries about

Haruha Utada: Finds childish

Yuki Yamashita: Looked up to by

Leona Podmore: Former friends

Balthazar Silva: Suspects

Odette Vogel: Formerly looked up to by

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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The following blogs have 72 hours to resume activity or they will be unfollowed. If you need a hiatus or if you think there’s been a mistake, please contact the main.

Activity Warning:

@benjy-andthejets

Hiatus:

Maye (Lily Potter) - 08/06

Semi-Hiatus:

Addie (Alastor Moody, Marcus Bulstrode, Nathan Chastain, Pippa Strout, Luka Petrov) - 04/06

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PHOENIX LANCASTER

Occupation: Up to Player Age: 23 Gender: Female Blood status: Muggleborn Allegiance: Order Faceclaim: Lana Condor, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Adeline Rudolph, Fivel Stewart

You’ve been reborn time and time again through your life, the changes taking you across countries and through three last names. You’re a survivor first and foremost and if people expected you to be easy prey when you moved to a country at war against your very existence, they were wrong. Testing you is a bad thing to do and every time they try striking you down, you rise up in an even bigger burst of flame because you don’t know how to live in peace.

HISTORY:

Up to player.

CONNECTIONS:

Vladimir Krum: Looked after by

Yulia Lindell: Feels vengeful towards

Pippa Strout: Order partners

Iliana Solace: Distrusts

Jian Chang: Uncomfortable around

Valdis Hawthorne: Indebted to

Marcus Bulstrode: Makes uneasy

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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VLADIMIR KRUM

Occupation: Up to player Age: 32 Gender: Male Blood status: Pureblood Allegiance: Order Faceclaim: Brant Daugherty, Zane Holtz, Kit Harrington

You know the reputation your school has, but just because most of your classmates are proud for turning out one of the most famous dark wizards doesn’t mean that you are. It’s a blight on wizarding history as far as you’re concerned and as the war in England continues to rage, you know there have to be good people there trying to stop it. Grindelwald was before your time, but maybe you can help redeem your country by fighting for someone else’s safety.

HISTORY:

Up to player.

CONNECTIONS:

Pippa Strout: Friends

Phoenix Lancaster: Worries about

Monika Klein: Former school rivals

Yulia Lindell: Hurt by

Imani Diggle: Doesn’t get along

Ewan Holmes: Friends

Zara Ivanova: Trains with

Tandy Xiadani: Found foolish by

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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ROVENA SANTIAGO

Occupation: Up to player Age: 20 Gender: Female Blood Status: Halfblood Allegiance: Order Faceclaim: Georgie Flores, Barbie Ferreira, Emily Tosta

You’ve been living the war since it claimed the lives of your parents when you were a child and you wanted to grow up so you could fight since the moment you watched their bodies go into the ground. Pretending the war doesn’t exist has never been an option for you and the only people who want the violence to be ignored are those that perpetrate it, but you’ve always seen them for what they are and your revenge will be cold.

HISTORY:

Up to player.

CONNECTIONS:

Omar Santiago, Paloma Santiago: Adoptive parents

Jandira Santiago: Twin sister

Edith Clearwater: Argues with, makes uncomfortable

Pippa Strout: Idolizes

Haruha Utada: Used to date, now awkward

Gilderoy Lockhart: Despises

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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LISBET ALMSTEDT

Occupation: Up to player Age: 28 Gender: Non-binary Blood status: Half-veela Allegiance: Neutral Faceclaim: Jessica Rothe, Brie Larson, Emily VanCamp, Pom Klementieff, Margot Robbie

Your father wanted a perfect daughter with hair made of gold to complete his family, an angel fallen from the heavens to keep in a cage. That’s why he chose you, brought you across Europe to his home, and taught you to speak his language, but you weren’t the docile, fragile little bird he was expecting. Not content to exist merely to charm some wealthy man he chose for you, you fought back and flew to freedom at the first chance, but sometimes you can’t help wondering if you’re as much of a mistake as he always said.

HISTORY:

Up to player

CONNECTIONS:

Oskar Almstedt: Adopted brother, came after them

Ivar Alvarsson: Close family friend

Monika Klein: Former friends, lost contact

Jian Chang: Finds charming

Maura Mulciber (Fled): Pities

Pippa Strout: Admires

Isha Bhatt: Annoys

OPEN · APPLY HERE

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CONSTANCE CORNER

Occupation: Up to player Age: 25 Gender: Female Blood status: Pureblood Allegiance: Death Eaters Faceclaim: Kiana Madeira, Aurora Perrineau, Jessica Sula

Being a vigilante sounds all well and good, but it’s not exactly a good way to pay the bills. You think the Order is trying to do good, you really do, but there are some debts that being a good guy just can’t pay off and you know which side is more likely to have you pay with your life. You don’t know who’s going to win, you just hope that history remembers not everyone had the luxury of choosing their side.

HISTORY:

Up to player.

CONNECTIONS:

Cyril Corner: Siblings

Oswyn Dawlish: Hates

Pippa Strout: Exes

Imogen McLaggen: Looked down on by

Tristan Rojas: Viewed sympathetically by

Casper Shunpike: Worries about

Kveta Yaxley: Feared for by

OPEN · APPLY HERE