This character is retired, and is no longer in play.
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Portrayed by Georgie Henley |
Name: |
Mabel Hawker |
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'Hawkes' 'Skipper' |
Birthday: |
Feb 10, 1921 |
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Gryffindor |
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Half-blood |
Description
A young lady of perhaps sixteen years, Mabel is a girl of average height, medium red-brown hair swept back somewhat into loose curls. Just growing into a fashionable figure, her blue eyes and average features might seem plain, though served fairly well by a touch of makeup and some attention to her hair: there's a hint of the aristocracy in her slightly-uneven upturned nose and the arch of her brows, though a dusting of tan on her fair skin and a limber strength of carriage hint at perhaps a sporting lifestyle.
She wears some nicely-made Hogwarts school robes, a school uniform in grey woolens trimmed in Gryffindor colors of red and gold, along with a black over-robe lined in Gryffindor red: Generally kept tidily early in the day, and more-casually-worn with shirt-tails out in the later afternoons, her uniform, and the recurring scuffs in practical, but well-made shoes, carry a notion of a fairly active girl accustomed to casually trying to keep herself put-together.
Background
Mabel Clarice Hawker is the daughter of Madeline Yaxley, (one of three sisters from the old Pureblood Aberdeen Yaxleys,) and Charlie Hawker: a sporting, adventurous Canadian shipping tycoon. As Madeline's sister Lilian had decided to marry a Muggle-born, 'Maddie,' a somewhat flapperish Gryffindor, determined to escape the family strife by taking a post overseas with the Department of International Magical Cooperation. There, caught up in the lavish aristocratic Muggle lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties, she'd meet the dashing Mr. Hawker at the Newport yacht races. The two would soon find themselves with an infant Witch along on their frequent junkets and adventures: Mabel spending her young life moving between between Halifax, Newport, and Bristol, she'd come to consider the family's sailing yacht to be a true home, particularly as world-spanning summer adventures were the times spent with her otherwise-busy father.
The Crash of 1929 would reduce the opulence of their lifestyle, not enough to curtail their summer-yachting ways, but the Newport mansion would be sold off, and the little family settled into a more modest estate outside Bristol. There, Mabel would come to school age astride the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, while her Muggle relations took charge of the Halifax end of the business. This change would tie her family more closely back to Aberdeen, where her father's 'new money' shipbuilding interests and her ties to the wizarding aristocracy often brush uncomfortably-close. Meanwhile, as tensions and coming war in the North Atlantic promise uncertain times for the family's fortunes, Mabel's mother hopes to reconcile with her relatives, and prove to the Yaxleys that the Hawkers are worthy of note.
Mabel, from her early Hogwarts years, would somewhat emulate her mother's attitudes toward the Wizarding world: always testing boundaries of respectable aristocratic eccentricity, particularly with regards to Muggle influences and fashions, though Madeline Hawker herself would grow somewhat more restrained in this very regard. The Gryffindor girl, trying to live up to what she saw as the best of both worlds, would therefore find herself gravitating toward whatever challenges might suitably prove some worthiness. As such, Nearly Headless Nick took an interest in Mabel's adventuresome spirit and encouraged in the girl, perhaps a little too much, something of his own quixotic knightly chivalry. The House ghost has rarely failed to cheer Mabel, even in the face of various failures and missteps: as such she's taken that version of 'Gryffindor spirit' to heart, albeit in her own 'modern' sort of way.
Passing school years would find that though occasionally struggling with some aspects of her classwork, she's grown into a dab hand at the more-active pursuits of a Witch's life, becoming a rising star in the Duelling club and perennial Quidditch reservist. (Though with good aptitudes as a Beater, her mother finds this a little too-unladylike, and insists on both good marks in class and some more-refined activities before allowing her on the team.) Still an avid flyer, (both of brooms and enchanted sailing ships,) sailor, and orienteer, Mabel's proud to be able to navigate by the stars, (Astronomy being one of her classes,) and been up in a Muggle airplane: she's a fan of the popular celebrity aviatrixes, magical and Muggle. Dreaming of accomplishing feats of such daring and exploration herself one day, she's found a personal heroine in Jocunda Sykes, the first to fly across the Atlantic on a broom in 1935, and even named her owl 'Earhart.'
Concerns for a Muggle world approaching the brink of great upheavals remain close to her thoughts and concerns, even as her mother seems to prefer she'd groom herself for the relative safety of the wizarding world.
Wand
Rowan and halcyon feather, 11", resilient.
(A reasonably-stout, gently tapered affair of reddish rowan-wood, with a darker-finished, diamond-chequered haft and brass lanyard ring somewhat reminiscent of a British revolver from the Great War.)
Pet
Earhart, a northern Great Horned owl that Mabel's particularly close to, though he often affects a rather Jeeves-like manner.
RP Hooks
- Rampant. Pureblood. Half-Blooding: Mabel comes from a rather divided branch of the Aberdeen Yaxleys, and despite her mother having run off and married a new-money Muggle from Canada, Mabel's related to several of the old pureblood families. (There must be a male Yaxley cousin or two, likely a Slytherin.) Rather than disown her mother Madeline and burn her from the family tree, (Being more concerned with males to carry on the name,) the Yaxleys seem to have decided to treat her marriage to a Muggle as a protracted eccentricity she might one day grow out of. Maddie sees fit to make an occasional appearance at certain Wizarding high society functions, sometimes with Mabel in tow, playing on just such a premise.
- Muggle Connections: Mabel's father is in ship-owning and ship-building, with interests in Bristol, Nova Scotia, and Aberdeen, and as such has widespread business dealings in that arena, and soon, increasingly, with military interests. Mabel has Canadian cousins in the business, some in the Canadian armed services, or soon to be, though they're ignorant of the wizarding world, at least so far as Mabel knows.
- Bristol Fashionable: The family's modest cliff-side estate at #2 Zig Zag Walk, (Prince Lane, Clifton, to Muggles) is an old house perched on a series of terraces between the Avon River shipping channel and the well-to-do Sion Hill area of Bristol: concealed wizarding-world entrances aside, Mabel's family hides in plain sight, appropriate to her father's position and mother's avant-garde ways: there's possibilities for various staff and helpers and perennial yachting crew: Bristol as a port city and near to RAF and other interests, there's plenty of potential connections there, as well as with local wizarding people.
- Mummy's School Days: Born about at the turn of the century, and graduating in the Great War years, Maddie Yaxley would be known as a fun-loving, eccentric young socialite from Gryffindor: to some, a blood-traitor: to others, 'the same old Maddie,' only now she's got a daughter coming of age, since she had Mabel rather young by some Wizarding standards.
Logs
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Quirks
- Nautically-obsessed
- Nearly-Headless Nick Groupie
- Plucky
- Wealth: Rich
Relationships
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Lois
First cousin, fellow Gryffindor, and classmate, Lois is the eldest daughter of another tradition-breaking Yaxley sister, and the two might seem a slightly-mismatched pair of bookends, Lois continually trying to help her more-athletic and quixotic sister fit in as a traditionally ladylike witch… to the extent Mabel can, that is.
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Madeline Hawker (nee Yaxley)
Mother. Mellowing flapper and prodigal daughter of Clarissa Yaxley. Maddie, a perennial liason for the Ministry in International Magical Cooperation, and treads certain lines of upper-class eccentricity in both worlds: hoping to come to some reconciliation between her sisters, she sometimes sends mixed signals about how much Mabel ought to emulate her.
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Charlie Hawker
Father. Muggle shipping magnate and yachting enthusiast. Rather dotes on Mabel when business allows, encouraging interests that keep her interested in the Muggle world, despite getting a kick out of having witches in the family, particularly the Owl Post, which he uses frequently to keep Mabel up to date on the shipping news.
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Maeve
Something of a little protege of Mabel's, Mabel's found herself in something of a big-sisterly role to the firstie Muggle-born in particular.
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Eamon
Someone Mabel'd just started being seen with, Eamon's a year younger, but fun and courtly about his thing for Mabel. Mabel's attempts to keep it that way failed spectacularly.
"*Sigh.* Well, I feel just dreadful about Eamon. I didn't think, with all the banter, it would suddenly leave him so heartbroken: one or both of us just weren't ready for things to move quite so dashed quickly as he wanted. Well, I know I wasn't. Nice one, Mabel. Hide behind class and propriety, why don't I? I do hope it'll come right some day, somehow."
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Donovan
"Alternately a gentleman, and ocassionally, a great galoot, my teammate's a goodly sort, and a lot of fun. As for Quidditch, he's destined for a whole other league, and it shows. "
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Gerald
"Simply read, gentlemanly. I've always felt quite comfortable around him. "
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Victor
"Now, this Proudmore's just full of the House spirit. Always with a smile on his face. Always. If you catch the drift of that. Rather a kindred spirit in a way, I've always thought. Perhaps that's why we haven't spoken in great depth very often, for two who would seem to have so much in common. Not that the Proudmores would see my little family as real peers, of course, but I think we both are aware that one thing that may be seen as worse than a child of means having it easy, is one -not- having an easy time of something. Therefore, I wonder if something's up. The way things have been going, we may just need to do -something- for House morale together. Or some such."
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Kimiko
"Miss Saito's just *darling,* really. Also, it appears her parents are in shipping, and some other relatives are in… Arranged marriages. Isn't it romantic? Well, not necessarily, really. But, for one, I wonder if our respective fathers should be introduced socially, and for another, should any wicked samuraied sorcerors put that damsel in distress, they'll find said damsel is a Gryffindor, with Gryffindor friends. "
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Colton
"Higgins is an amalgam of everything I *don't* like in the younger Gryffindor chaps. Therefore, I like him anyway."
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Deven
"A cad, and too often an utter boor. I suspect his idea of subtlety works better in mirrors. One just wants to give him words to encourage gentlemanly sociability, right up to when those words must be 'Everte Statem.' I put up with some things from the blokes, but my modernity has limits. If he puts his mitts on Gabby again, he'll find them."
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Sir_Nicholas
"Ah, dear Sir Nicholas. Whatever would I have done without him, early on. Sometimes people underestimate the value of having a real knight about the House, really. My late friend's taught me so much, …One way or another."
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Gabrielle
A recent friendship this year, Mabel's struck up a bit of a friendship with Gabby, made a bit awkward by different economic situations and the fact that the shy, artistic Ravenclaw's better-liked than she seems to think.
"Poor Gabby, in some ways. Went through a rough spot, you see. I wish she'd realize that she's caught between so much, not because it's her fault, but because more people really like her than she thinks. But Mummy always says it's an affliction of many artistic temperaments. She seems much happier lately, with a certain magical problem sorted, and, seemed happy with our Mr. Potter, of all people. I'd never have guessed. "
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Ophelia
"Ah, everyone likes Miss Summerbee. Quite good company, I think. It'd be splendid if she did move to Bristol, really: I think she and Phae would both love it here. Two things we've got just scads of here are machines, and trees. Perhaps it's a bit selfish, as well: the end of school days seems to loom rather large lately, and I find myself feeling rather attached to the home port, as it were."
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Takeshi
"Now, this aspiring Healer is just so very shy, it can be a wonder he makes it to classes. But it seems I'm one of the people he trusts, at least since he had that bit of trouble in Astronomy so long ago. I don't imagine even now he'll ever make much of a navigator, but I'm sure he'll find his niche in the world soon enough. I know from Lois' studies that healing's a demanding sort of calling."
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Seamus
"Here's a very talented duellist, …he's my bet for a future champion, provided he keeps at it: and I do expect he will. He certainly takes that virtue of Hufflepuff diligence well to heart, after all. I rather suspect he was more disappointed at losing than I'd have expected, but it really was another close one. At least if this new tournament comes off, we'll all see some more of what we can all do.
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Lucian
This dark-knightly Slytherin from a Gryffindor family is something of a counterpoint to Mabel's sense of new-aristocratic chivalry, a study in similarities (like her attitude toward the Duelling club,) and contrasts that's yet to develop into a rivalry.
"Ah, our foremost duelist: my opposite number in so many ways, and one's got to respect his dedication to the art. Too bad he takes so little joy in it most days. I overlook his obvious contempt, of course: though whatever he's got against my House, or, doubtless, pedigree, I do worry he'll lose that honor of his if he doesn't brighten up a little. Perhaps young Josie might win him over on both counts. Have to admit he lost a tick of respect trying to make it out as if a bit of banter is some kind of cheating: ye Gods, it's a duelling stage, not a cloister. I do rather wish he hadn't quit the tournament over Jones. Left me in a dashed awkward position, that. But he's accomplished some knightly deeds we're all proud of, just lately. Bravo, Lucian! "
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Ria
"As 'ice queens' go, I rather like this one, actually, as far as it goes. She happens to have made it obvious what she must feel about my parentage, perhaps unintentionally, but at least she's not descended to that dreadful uncouth about it that seems to afflict most of the Purist old families these days: if there's hope for the Yaxleys, at least, society mustn't throw away its manners, or there's just no point, is there? It was interesting to face her on the duelling stage, however. I think she was a better sport than most of the Slytherins were about it. I do hope all that fiddle-faddle about shields, shields, shields was just strategy, not actually thinking I'd try something unsporting. One would think she'd know me better than *that.* "
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Leander
"Our Triwizard champion! That is, as soon as they deign to actually have that tournament. I probably ought to get to know him a bit better, since he's with Lois, and all. However it is that that came to be, really. But my cousin obviously is better at these things than I. Also, that little desert fox of his is just cute as a button. "
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Vanessa
A very capable woman, and I suspect she'll be an important contact with the SSS. I feel a touch deprived of her presence all these years, since the Millses shuffled her off as they did, being so near us all this time. But in these times, I think it's one place Daddy can help. As long as there's enough work for the regulars, Daddy's always glad to give a Squib a go at a job.
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Kenneth
"A very good Muggle, and in His Majesty's armed forces while raising his late wife's children, no less. He paints about as grim a picture of matters on the Continent as I feared, but perhaps I can help a little there. Discreet sea transport to Blighty or the Americas, it just so happens I might manage to arrange. I hear the shipowner's daughter is a witch, you see."
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Graham
"Cohen was a help getting my start in the Duelling Club, some years ago. Turns out he's been in Auror training. I'm sure he'll be brilliant."
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Nova
"Such an enigma, this star Quidditch player I kept running across this holiday. Seems quite at sea about being in *Britain,* though, and a bit prickly about it. Sometimes she says something just so terribly *interesting,* though. Being from a different world, I suppose."
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Jocunda
"Meeting childhood heroines isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Funny, but I suspect she feels the same about being one."
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