Eurydice Borgin is going places (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} eurydiceen) wrote,@ 2011-12-02 16:09:00 |
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NAME: Madeline TIMEZONE: US Pacific BIRTHDAY: August 30 MESSENGER: AIM: getmeacampari CDJ: roomonfirePB: Melanie Laurent JOURNAL TO BE USED: eurydiceen |
Basics |
NAME: Eurydice Helen Borgin. Family often calls her Cici, but on the whole Eurydice thinks nicknames are trivializing. AGE/BIRTHDAY: 27 / 15 November 1953. GRADUATION HOUSE: Ravenclaw, class of 1972. BLOOD STATUS/RACE: Pureblood. Not as pure as other lines, and the Borgins do tend to cling to their associates for prestige and rely on their shop more for a namesake than their less-than-pristine blood heritage / Witch. OCCUPATION: Officially and on paper and the like? Procurer of items for her family's shop. At least that's what she tells the Ministry. In actuality? Wizarding black market maven extraordinaire and crime ring "consultant." Eurydice knows how to get things from start to finish. And is very, very good at it. And the wizarding crime underground has taken notice. |
About |
Eurydice Borgin could have gone the path her parents would have liked. She could have settled down and married a good man with a good name, and had children by now. As the eldest child and only daughter of the old Borgin family, she was prime real estate for those purist families looking to marry their son into a noteworthy family with a well-known business. On paper, Eurydice was a good daughter of the Borgin family, that was for certain. Her father and mother, Lowell Borgin and Euterpe (a former Flint), wanted to give their family the prestige and name they thought they had missed out on - and named both of their children noble, Greek names. Their first daughter, while a disappointment when they wanted a male so badly, was named Eurydice, and their son that followed soon after was named Apollo. They tried to form connections to the purist society types who frequented their shop in times of need, but the Borgins would never be as well-to-do as the Burkes, it was clear. However, they did try. Eurydice and her brother accompanied their father to the shop from a very early age, trying to get them around the better customers. They were tutored in theory of magic by the best homeschooling wizards, around the best people, and really - it was a valiant effort. And it did work out for Apollo Borgin, as he proved himself to be a good Slytherin boy, a proud Death Eater supporter later on, and a competent businessman. He benefited from his parents' hard work, and made them proud. Eurydice, however. . .well, the influence of good connections and "business partners" backfired with their dear daughter. They should have known from the start that things were not going to go well, as she did have a knack and fascination with pocketing things and telling lies and stories when she was a young girl. She liked to see what she could get out of people, trust she could win and them exploit, even if at that age the worst of her offenses was filching candy in her overcoat from Honeyduke's. But really, it was there all along. Eurydice was sorted into Ravenclaw after a whopping five minutes in the chair with the Sorting Hat grumbling whether or not to put her into Slytherin or Ravenclaw, but the table with the students in their blue ties won Eurydice Borgin as theirs. That should have been the first sign, really. The girl differed from her housemates even from the start. Eurydice loved shortcuts. She loved finding clever tricks for saving time, whether it was a corridor you could cut through to get to a class, or a way to space a self-writing quill to make it look as if she'd written more than she had on an essay. She liked seeing how much she could hide in her robes without using her bookbag. She liked placing bets on anything she could, she liked making wagers, and she was just fascinated in anything dodgy she could get into and out of successfully. She was always interested in learning the ways of the rule-breakers and sly, cunning types, but didn't like the way they went about it usually. They all cared too much about power and fame and ambition, and Eurydice just liked the chase. She liked the self-satisfaction, she liked the sense of a job well done. When Eurydice graduated in 1972 from Hogwarts with just decent exam scores, her parents just assumed she'd help around the shop until she found a good husband. She couldn't be an Auror and had no interest in pursuing a Ministry job, but that was all the better for the Borgins. Apollo was the good one, and once he graduated he'd send the family on the up-and-up. Perhaps the business was not one for a woman, they thought, which Eurydice would have no part of hearing. They ate their words when their daughter seemed to have a knack for procuring new items to sell at the shop. But she'd been trained for it, to slip in places unnoticed, to win favour and trust and rob someone blind. She'd been doing it since she was a child, after all. And she was good at it. She loved it. She proved her "unfortunate" sorting, too - she was much more clever and intelligent at the business than her Slytherin brother was. She seemed to be able to understand people and their character, a wisdom that only came from spending so much time around different people in the shop during her childhood. She liked problem solving, and finding creative ways out of sticky situations, and was fairly good at it, too. It was just such a shame she was a woman, though, her father always said. However, in seeing the talent his daughter possessed, Mr. Borgin allowed his daughter to act as a "curator" of the goods in the shop, and to work in acquisitions. This allowed her to travel, to get away from Knockturn Alley often enough, and also keep her pointy nose out of the business, her mother thought. Eurydice liked it enough, but once again, her parent's intentions backfired. The international black market of smuggled and contraband goods was a playground for the sly Ravenclaw looking for ways around problems just for the fun of it, and the young woman wiggled her way in just as naturally as she'd always been doing it. Soon, it became less of a means of acquisition for her family's shop and more of a business for herself. People involved in the international black market of banned items across country lines and through Ministry custody sought out the Borgin's daughter to get what they wanted, because if anyone could get an undetectable poison or a dragon's egg without being caught, it was Eurydice Borgin. She "knew people." She had an underground network of "ah, yes, I know someone for that." She had "people" for that, people who she'd done a favour for that owed her a favour as well. . .and so on, and so forth. Her father had taught her well, and sent his daughter unknowingly into the abyss of the international organized crime world. But she thrived. And continued to thrive. And continued to bring just enough good cursed items back to England through Ministry detection to keep her father happy. Sure, there were rumours of the Borgin's daughter getting involved in illegal dragon fighting in Asia, and aiding in smuggling magic carpets to Britain, but those were just rumours. Right? Right. The black market was a gateway that Eurydice waltzed on through in her search for wisdom, a path that led right on to the doors of the most influential and dangerous organized crime syndicates and groups in the wizarding world. They went to her when they needed something important, they knew she'd be able to get it for them with little trouble and no detection and no issues if, say, they were to send in their hired wands in and muscle something out of someone. Her success rate was brilliant, really, and Eurydice Borgin was the go-to for weapons, assassin's tools, contraband, business deals, and anything else you needed. She'd have it for you. She'd just have to check her journal and make a quick trip to "see a man about that." If there's anyone that can put together the convoluted web of things and where to find them, it's Eurydice. However, nothing's more convoluted than the search for the ultimate find in cursed items everyone wants their hands on - the horcruxes. It's gone past herself knowing she can get things other people want, and this has become a point of pride for her. If anyone can get the horcruxes, she can - or so she thinks. The Order are just Dumbledore's darlings and not a threat, especially if Dumbledore himself hasn't located them yet on his own. The Ministry can't even catch her hauling loads of dragon eggs across borders of their jurisdiction, much less a cursed item of that magnitude. And the Death Eaters, who she is slightly more familiar with? Even worse. Even more fragmented, and a clash of egos at that. Thus, Eurydice thinks she can find them on her own - and maybe make a pretty penny doing so at that. It all boils down to the chase and the payoff for Eurydice Borgin. While others fight to find the horcruxes for their own noble causes, hers is money in the end. Let her associates in the crime organizations fight over their turf or power or control, but she just wants money and recognition - and she wants to do it on her own and prove her family wrong. Eurydice Borgin is a subtle woman. She appears to be wise and calm most of the time, and holds her temper surprisingly well. She is very comfortable in her skin, mostly, and knows if someone crosses her, they will not last too long. She has her ways, after all. This is not to say she relies on others for everything, and is not the "gangster's moll" type of woman, so to speak, so much less men because they're terribly unreliable - especially the types she knows make up the mobs and mafias and crime families she frequents. She is simply very comfortable in her standing and protection. She can come off as very judgmental and critical, and of course, she is. Eurydice is always trying to read people's faces and actions, their intentions, their hidden words, looking for something to exploit. She loves nothing more than working her way into and out of situations in clever ways, saving time, getting "in a pinch" and coming through in the end. For a woman who spends her time working with assassins and black market runners and such, Eurydice is very gentle and polite - showing anger or a temper would be very unwise, as someone else could pick up on it and use it to their advantage, after all. She doesn't partake in too many vices; once again, weakness to be exploited. Eurydice doesn't enjoy drinking heavily, doing illegal drugs, or entering into risky relationships. She's strictly professional, really, because she has to be. Letting her guard down could potentially mean her death or worse, her downfall in good standing with the world she works in. She lets others take care of the dirty work for her, when she needs to. She does, however, enjoy cigarettes and literature - one thing she will use to unwind. Eurydice likes seeing uses in people, she likes people-watching actually, and men that are old enough to be her father. She doesn't like to grin, as she knows her face is not conventionally pretty, though people say "oh but she does clean up well, really." She's average with angular, harsh features - a pinched nose, a cleft chin, pointy teeth, and aloof, green-blue eyes. . .definitely not pretty, but for some reason it does work for her. There's an elegance in it, almost - a foreign carelessness that makes her look casual and effortless. Her voice is low and drawling, and her eyes often tell a person everything they need to know about how she feels about them or what they say. She knows she doesn't need to be a glamour girl or a sex kitten to get what she wants. She can do that all by herself, and she has for years now. |
Just for fun |
FIVE THINGS:  • I want to write a girl! I write all men and have only written all men so far in this game, so writing a girl is way out of my comfort zone. Though I feel like Roadmaps gives me the opportunity to work out all kinds of characters, and interactions I wouldn't get anywhere else, so I think this is the perfect opportunity for me to do so. Though I am a little worried about writing a female character, so we'll see how this works out. • Plot idea - international underground black market of items, goods, animals, people, etc. . . Eurydice knows this, this is her "turf," so to speak, and can either accidentally or purposely bring the associated groups in on the action as well. Especially if different crime groups are all looking for the horcruxes as well, but to make some cash? Could work? • WIZARDING CRIMINALS. You know, apart from international terrorists who have a cause and political leanings. I mean hardened criminals, people only looking for a buck, existing on the underbelly of the wizarding world. Writing a Death Eater, I know how important family is to them, which is a dynamic I like, so I'd like to maybe explore wizarding crime families and mafias and bosses and all. I'd hope to bring other characters in on it as well.  • Changing locations - I'd like to keep her on for as long as I can, depending on where they go and where the hunt takes them. Ideally maybe she could tag along or at least follow the Death Eaters, because she at least knows some of them through schooling and family ties and her father's shop, but she'd also talk with the Order also. Anyone who can get her what she wants. Maybe she could bring in more pressure onto the Order to protect what they have? • Horcrux knowledge - without a Dumbledore or a Slughorn, the horcruxes are still such a mystery. I think Eurydice, in her contact with the contraband underground and cursed items in general, could provide that lost focus back onto finding the horcruxes - especially if the groups know someone knows more about them. USE THAT HOWEVER YOU LIKE, ROADMAPS. MI CASA ES SU CASA. |
