JUPITER QUIGLEY
Invading alien overlord momentarily distracted from task
by existence of dogs, donuts.
FULL NAME: Jupiter Aoife Soraya Quigley
NICKNAMES: (Beep Boop, it's a) Joop/Jup
AGE/DOB: 17 / DECEMBER 5 2002 / SAGITTARIUS
YEAR: Senior (Grade 12)
BLOOD STATUS: Half-blood.
GENDER/PRONOUNS: female, she/her
SEXUALITY: Whoever buys her the nicest sword. Alternatively, blacksmiths.
HOMETOWN: Philadelphia, PA
APPEARANCE:Jupiter Quigley is what you get if you transfigure a wacky inflatable arm-waving tube man into a girl. She is tall. She is thin. She is gangly. At rest, her hair occupies more space than she does. The problem is, Jup is rarely at rest. She's highly animated, talking with her whole body, throwing all of herself into every conversation - every action. She is a presence.
Boots, weird socks and brightly-colored (high-waisted) pants are staples of Jupiter's wardrobe, cycled through with any variety of tee or sweat shirts. There's a lot of pattern mixing, and overall she straddles the line between ludicrously wizardy and a more muggle trendy "quirky cute." It's hard to tell if Jup's looks are carefully chosen or are more of the "I dressed myself, today!" variety, but she works it.
Philadelphia born and raised, Jup has a prominent Philly accent. It's a source of pride, and making fun of her for the way she pronounces water or what she calls sprinkles only makes her lean into it more. What's more interesting though is that Jup isn't much of a talker - she relies on body language, facial expressions, and under-articulated speech or other interjections to convey meaning just as much as actually using her words. In short, she's frustrating to talk to.
HEIGHT: 5'9"
BUILD: A particularly fit mop
PB: Medalion Rahimi
INSPO: Pinboard What would others say is their most prominent personality trait — what's the first thing people notice about them?With grinning confidence and easy swagger, Jupiter Quigley enters a room like she owns it. Never out of place wherever she is, even when she shouldn’t fit in at all, Jup has the aura of someone who was raised by wolves and made herself the alpha. Those who know her passingly would call her fearless, assertive, impetuous, and maybe clownish. Those observations would all be
absolutely right. Jupiter does what she wants. That doesn't mean she's boorish or rude or selfish, though she certainly
can be those things. Just that she doesn't particularly care what other people think about the things she gets up to. Jupiter is goofy and she is odd, but she dares you to find a problem with it.
How would this character describe themself? What do they think are their best and worst qualities?Jupiter isn’t really going for any sort of mystique here. Sure, there are some underlying confidence issues stemming from her mother’s relentless and often ruthless nitpicking, but she’s not going to focus on that. When you stack the good against the bad, Jupiter is pretty sure you will find that she really is That Bitch. She is funny and smart, confident, quick and decisive when it counts (even if softer, more nuanced matters tend to give her trouble), unerringly loyal, fearless,
polite — politeness and boundaries are terribly important to Jupiter, who likes the simplicity of it. Jup relies heavily on the most basic of social rules to function when her social skills fail her.
Ask her what her favorite of those many excellent qualities is, and she’d say her sense of humor. Jupiter thinks she’s the funniest person in the room. She doesn’t need you to weigh in on the matter and would unironically call herself the whole package. On the other hand, if you held a gun to her head and told her to tell you what she thinks her worst qualties are—well, she’d tell you to pull the trigger and call you a coward, but, with the magic of a meta personality section, we can get a better look. Jupiter is deeply insecure about her social skills and an utter failure at emotional honesty. She’s no good at conversation, can’t talk for long periods, comfort words are hard. Don’t ask her to tell you how she feels, because she probably can’t. And, even when she can, she doesn’t generally
want to.
What drives them to action? Doing good? Getting rich? Receiving praise?Here, Jup fits neatly into the Thorntrail archetype. Even if she professes to be an asshole, Jupiter Quigley gets a little thrill when she makes people smile. She wants to do good, specifically of the small, tangible variety. That’s why she tells so many jokes. It’s why she bakes. It’s why she plays and pushes herself in sports. Jupiter does what she does because it makes people, especially her loved ones, happy. Which, of course, means if there’s no satisfying sense that she’s making someone else happy or proud, she loses the motivation to do something.
How ambitious are they? What are their short term and long term goals?Jupiter is imaginative and quite good at starting small projects and seeing them through to the end. She’s goal-oriented and needs a clear reward in sight to motivate her, but her ambitions tend not to be sky high. She’s fairly practical in that regard. Her dream is to start her own bakery. That is complicated by her parents’ desire for her to either stay in the family business or do something
bigger. Wanting to open your own shop but being pressured to go pro with your Quidditch career is not a problem most people have, but Jupiter Quigley is not most people.
How social are they and, introvert or extrovert, what sorts of people do they gravitate toward?People are fantastic. They’re hilarious, especially when they don’t mean to be. Jupiter loves being surrounded by them and doesn’t mind spending time with friends, going to parties or hanging out in crowded places late into the night. What she struggles with is the actual engagement. Jupiter has absolutely
no interest in actually being the center of attention. With all but her closest friends, she holds a conversation about as well as she can hold a wet bar of soap. She has trouble knowing what to say next, and is never great at sharing feelings. She’s as likely to convey meaning with a look, gesture or weird sound as with a series of words strung together.
Jup can find something to like in just about anyone. She tends to fall in with and enjoy the company of eccentrics, but she most admires people who are hardworking and responsible. Jupiter does not freely give her loyalty, but when she does, she will help you kill a man and bury the body, no questions asked.
What are their opinions on rules? How do they interact with authority figures?As a Thorntrailer who finds comfort in structure and social rituals, you’d think Jupiter would err on the Lawful side of things, but she does not. Quite on the contrary, Jup delights in petty rule-breaking behavior. Backtalk, loitering, breaking and entering, trespassing? Sounds like a fun night. She has very little regard for rules intended to protect people from themselves. Unsurprisingly, she’s the exact sort of dipshit who would get herself killed doing something obviously dangerous.
Now, when it comes to authority figures, things get a little more complicated. Jup is a middle child and, more than that, the only girl. She asserted herself in that feral wolfpack of a family and found a place in the pecking order considerably higher up than anyone expected. All her life, she’s fought to be taken seriously. It’s a sore spot for her, and she does
not like to take instructions from those who have not earned her respect. While she is amenable to a gentle hand, being bossed around is a surefire way to get her to do the exact opposite of what you’re telling her to do.
FUN FACTS:
👾 MBTI: ESTP
👾 ENNEAGRAM: 8w7
👾 Sending Mr. Youngblood into early retirement is Jupiter's pet project. This is a gesture of affection. For some bizarre reason, she looks up to him. And she expresses this by making his life a living hell at every conceivable moment.
👾 Last year, Jupiter was one of Peckenpaugh's two first string Quodpot Falcons. She gave up her spot on the team to focus on captaining Quidditch and her Animagus Studies lessons. She feels a bit guilty about it, but hasn't decided yet if that guilt is also regret.
👾 Spends so much time at Pizza Pi(e)rates during the school year, Mr. Ellerby won't let her use the soda machine and has made her mop more than once.
LANGUAGES: English and just enough Farsi to be a disappointment
HOBBIES: Cooking, Quidditch, Gossip (spreading, receiving and the creation of), Collecting Mall Ninja Shit, Being Dramatic
SKILLS:ATHLETICS: You don't make quidditch captain by being lazy. Usually. You could certainly call Jupiter Quigley lazy, but that's more in the academic sense. She's an up-and-at-em person, and although she hates things like running, she enjoys being active, playing games, swimming, hiking and climbing. She's fit, she's strong, she has enough lung power to complain at length while going for a morning jog.
COMPLETE LACK OF FEAR: Someone forgot the common sense in the dry ingredient half of this human cake wreck. Jupiter is undaunted by consequences or potential danger - this makes her one hell of a Seeker.
DESSERTS: The simplest way to put this is that Jupiter likes cooking and she loves working with sugar. She loves experimenting with ice cream, candies, and pastries — especially donuts. Her creations usually have a pretty strong foundation of tastiness - so she obviously knows what she's doing on a technical level. It's the fact that she likes to try out wild things that sometimes makes her creations veer into disgusting.
MEMORY: Jup's brain does not readily forget things. Names, faces, birthdays, weird stories you told off-hand one time, details from class, from the pitch, from lunch - she remembers it all. It's a huge asset in her life, socially, academically and athletically. She doesn't have an eidetic memory, just a really good one. For your own good, though, don't do anything embarrassing in front of her - 100% chance she'll bring it up later.
QUIDDITCH: There isn't a single Quigley who doesn't love broom games. It's in their blood. Jupiter's been riding brooms and watching Quidditch for as long as she can remember, and as a result she has an in-depth understanding of all facets of the game. Her best position is Seeker, and she stands out more for having an uncanny knack for knowing exactly when to get the snitch (and a willingness to smear herself across the grass to do so) than any sort of extraordinary natural talent for flying. Where she really shines is as a strategist. Jupiter's ability to interpret and implement various moves and plays is unparalleled.
FAMILY:Kian Quigley (Father, Broommaker.)While his gifts for woodworking and artifice are undeniable, Kian consistently rates at just about but not quite average for human interaction. Comically inept in a 90s sitcom father type of way, Kian somehow manages to seem utterly baffled by the fact that he has so many children, despite having had them for close to thirty years, now. And Jupiter, being a girl, is the most baffling of them all, though he is still obnoxiously protective of her. Having to interact with any of his kids beyond a few very specific topics (brooms, broommaking, sports, Ilvermorny Quodpot, and grilling) results in a lot of miserable, hopeless stammering.
Mozhan Quigley (Mother, Administrator: Quigley Brooms)Jupiter and her mother have far more in common than Jup would ever care to admit: they're both impetuous, fearless, and wholly confident in their own opinion. Unfortunately, rather than ever find common ground, it seems these traits will forever keep them at odds. Jupiter's relationship with her mother is always Code Red High Alert. The tension is palpable whenever they're in the same room, and the rest of the Quigleys know to evacuate the second someone sighs.
The Brothers Jupiter has five brothers: Orion (27, working in the Bureau of Magical Beings, former Thorntrail), Mercury (25, a Broommaker & former Mothgarden), Castor (23, a layabout & former Wildgulch), Oberon (19, a college student & former Mothgarden) and Atlas (Deeplurk sophomore). She hates each of them as much as she loves them and could best each one in single combat. She is closest to Obie both in age and connection. Practically twins, his graduating has been hard for her.
BACKGROUND:If you want to go quickly, by golly, get a Quigley.Older folks might remember a time when Quigley Brooms was a titan of flying transport. The mid-20th-century dynasty was synonymous with North American quality craftsmanship and the Quigleys rode high. They called themselves Purebloods, rubbed shoulders with the elite. But poor management through the 1980s and 90s meant the family-owned business had to file for bankruptcy before the new millennium. The intervening decades have been spent in salvage.
early lifeOur girl Jupiter was born long after the luxurious Golden Age of Quigley Brooms had ended. The Quigleys who raised her weren't leisure class socialites with a business that ran itself. Her mother and father were working hard to save a dying legacy, taking the massive business Jupiter's grandfather had destroyed and reforging themselves as broom-making artisans. So, they were busy — exceedingly so — and the brooms took priority over the kids, who were largely left to raise themselves. It’s probably a good thing there were so many of them.
Growing up in the Quigley household was, to put it kindly, absolutely looney tunes. A revolving door of babysitters and relatives were tasked with helping out, but six kids is exhausting for anyone. Jupiter’s eldest brother, Orion, just nine years her senior, was the most consistently present and responsible figure in her life. That said, it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. Just chaotic. By virtue of being baby number five, Jupiter lucked out of many of the neuroses that had been instilled in her brothers. Unfortunately, being the only girl meant that she would have to contend with a whole new host of horrors. Most notable was her mother’s singular attention. Mozhan wanted a
girl—a baby doll to dress up.
Unfortunately for Mozhan Quigley, the closest Jupiter would or will ever come to being a baby doll is a haunted stuffed bear. That is, a full-sized bear, taxidermied and also haunted by the ghost of a bigger, hungrier bear. To say that she and her mother were constantly at war is the understatement of the century. Their fights were (and still are) legendary; enough to silence five boys who have otherwise been given free reign to be as terrible as they want at all times. Mozhan had a picture of her daughter in her mind, and Jupiter has never felt like that picture resembled her at all. Her mother looking at her and seeing what seemed to be an entirely different person affected, and still affects, her deeply.
Every once in a while, the cartoonish absurdity of Jupiter’s childhood teetered toward something more genuinely concerning, but she navigated it all well enough. Not that it didn’t require quickly developing a certain set of skills to get by: learning to assert herself, to establish boundaries, and how to cook a meal for herself and her baby brother Atlas to name a few. Confidence came to her naturally, as it does all Quigleys, (even as her mother seemed to do everything in her power to thwart it) and loyalty she grew as a matter of course — when it’s you and your five hellion brothers against the world, bonds become important. All that said, Jup couldn’t
fuckin’ wait to get out of the house and go away to magical boarding school.
time for schoolOf course her brothers had to complicate that for her. While Quigley Brooms slowly rebuilt its brand after years of neglect, the Quigley children made a personal brand of being feral little monsters—from years of neglect. Even comparatively angelic Orion had his fair share of run-ins with authority, though blame for the Quigley Disaster of the Century was eventually laid on Mercury’s shoulders. Jupiter was nine when all three of her school aged brothers transferred from Ilvermorny to Peckenpaugh. Her parents, King and Queen of the Downplay, tried to pass this off as being because of business. Everyone knew that the Quigley boys were terrors that Ilvermorny was tired of dealing with, though.
So, instead of getting to go away to Ilvermorny when her sixth grade year rolled around, Jupiter stayed in Philly. Junior high sucked, but junior high sucks, just, as a rule. And, thank God, it eventually ended. Jupiter packed up and shipped off to Peckenpaugh.
high schoolThe thing about being a Quigley is that people only really ever pay attention to how much
bad you can do. Jupiter came into Peckenpaugh hot and ready to live up to every unkind stereotype people had for her family. What she hadn’t expected was a school where the teachers were utterly undaunted by the prospect of another Quigley in the classroom. On the contrary, for the first time, adults seemed to
notice that Jupiter was more than just one more in a long line of badly behaved teenage monsters.
Not that that stopped her from being a badly behaved teenage monster, but now she was being pushed toward something other than destruction. Her talent for Transfiguration was fostered (at least in part without her even realizing it), her skill on the pitch encouraged. On top of that, being sorted into Thorntrail (
Orion’s house, an embarrassing realization) helped Jupiter to find a direction for her energy, and a good use for all of that loyalty. Jupiter would never be a straight A student or a prom queen, but things outside her own interest became important to her: Quidditch, Quodpot, friends, the approval of certain teachers.
She played three full years of Quidditch and Quodpot, earning the seeker spot on Thorntrail’s quidditch team after a year on reserves, and eventually spending her junior year as a first string Quodpot player, as well. When news came over the summer that she would be Thorntrail’s next captain
and she had been selected for a spot in Animagus Studies, she had some tough decisions to make regarding her extracurriculars.
That was weird. Going into her senior year, Jup realized how invested she’d become in so many aspects of her life at Peckenpaugh. It was a sobering realization given that most of the rest of her family seemed so devoted to chaos.
Eventually, she decided she would cut Quodpot to focus on captaining Quidditch and pursuing Animagus Studies— the first time she’d ever chosen academics over what seemed fun. Jup enters her senior year with a pile of new responsibilities and a growing realization that
maybe being responsible for something isn’t as bad as it sounds.
WAND: Pistachio heartwood, Gargoyle's claw clippings, 8.5", rigid. Jupiter's wand is a pleasing purplish brown color and it has a less-than-pleasing knack for going above and beyond the call of duty in spellwork. It's a touchy thing, well suited to bangs-and-smells magic, and it and Jupiter don't always agree on spell magnitude. The wand likes things to be big and loud and Jupiter only wants to die ~50% of the time. Her spells are reliably far noisier than they
ever need to be. Forget about stealth casting magic. Even
lumos fizzles when she casts it. The wand also, being made of pistachio heartwood, glows under black light.
FAMILIAR: A Long-Eared Owl named Bunny, though she frequently also claims that P A R T Y N U G G E T, Kermit's cat, is her child.
CAREER GOALS: Artisan baker Pro-Seeker The family business is
okay she guesses.
PART-TIME JOB: Zippy Dip Ice Cream Engineer
CLASSES: No amount of competence or cleverness can overcome the fact that Jupiter just begrudges schoolwork. After years of not "you can do better, see me after class," but "yes, this sounds about right for a Quigley girl," she can't be assed to do even half her work. Eligibility was her primary concern for most of her academic career, and it has only been within the last two years that she's found a bit of a spark, a desire to do well, in Transfiguration.
Charms: Jupiter's B in Charms is wholly the result of her excellent memorization skills. She finds the coursework boring and does the absolute bare minimum in class. When test time rolls around, though, she always knows the material.
(H) Transfig: There's a chance Jupiter does not even realize she's in the Honors version of this class and has just been tricked into thinking that everyone else is doing the same amount of work. Jupiter has a clear gift for Transfiguration that has been gently (and covertly) encouraged for the last four years. It comes naturally to her, and she hardly understands why others find it so difficult.
Potions: Unsurprisingly, Jupiter struggles immensely with Potions. She wants to do her own thing while Berzelius is already three chapters on from the page she's looking at. Jup has no passion for Potions, but it is the one class she seeks tutoring in. It's important that she stay enrolled because understanding it is vital to her kitchen experiments.
Artificing: Artificing is the family business, so even if Jupiter weren't into working with her hands, she'd still be enrolled. She enjoys the class when she's there, but doesn't particularly care for project deadlines and has a bad habit of procrastinating on everything, resulting in a B that sometimes dips to a C.
(H) Home Mag-Ec: Kind of underwhelming, but Jupiter's favorite class by a country mile is definitely Home Mag-Ec. She sees a lot of value in learning truly practical skills, first of all, and more than that, Jupiter loves cooking, baking and eating snacks. Which is half the class, so.
Outdoor Magic: Active, athletic and daring, Jupiter does well in Outdoor Magic. She's always eager to try whatever insane thing Mr. Youngblood's cooked up for the class, even if she bitches about all the running.
Animagus Studies: (Eurasian Jay) Jupiter was not expecting a recommendation to Animagus Studies last year. Receiving it sparked a level of pride she's never before felt when it comes to academics, and maybe that's why she actually puts effort into the class. Also likely? She just wants to be able to turn into a cool ass animal.
EXTRA-CURRICULARS:Quidditch (Captain, Seeker): Raised in a family of broom-makers, it's no surprised that Jupiter is intimately familiar with broom mechanics, flight and Quidditch. She's a superlative strategist with a thorough knowledge of the game, if not an All Star player, and has the makings of being a great coach someday. Quidditch is one of the few things Jupiter takes seriously, and even then, nothing's that serious - it's high school sports, guys, not The Hunger Games. This doesn't mean Jupiter doesn't give a shit. She wants to win for her team, and she's not soft by any stretch of the imagination. Jup roasts her players like they're her own family, but she cares and she pushes them to be the best they can be. Obnoxiously, she loves blasting death metal and other similarly edgy musical genres during practices.
Culinary Club: Jupiter brings a cutthroatedness to the kitchen that she should probably actually be taking to the quidditch pitch, instead. She takes cooking and baking very seriously and absolutely will not tolerate being corrected or talked down to. Which is a problem. Because she tends to get a little too experimental with flavors.
Film Club: Look don't make her contribute to discussion she's just here to eventually maybe see Terminator 2.
Adventure Club: Field trips! Field trips! Field trips!
Bowling Club: Supporting Kermie and granny bowling her way into notoriety.
SORTING?:Prone to impulse, young Jupiter buzzed right through the Sorting Path. Not even Wildgulch's question about whether Broommaking was
really what she wanted gave her pause. It wasn't until Mothgarden asked her to make a real, meaningful decision that she stopped to think. Her curiosity placed her well in the spring house, her creative spark and drive in Wildgulch. The Path had chosen Deeplurk for her, though. She had her hand on the Winter House's door. Very nearly turned the knob. No other Quigley had
ever chosen Deeplurk, though. Her brothers were all assholes, sure. But so was she. So, Jupiter went to Thorntrail, where her relentless drive and fighting spirit would thrive, and, maybe, just a little bit, because it's the house of family.
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TIMEZONE: EST
SLP: Quidditch Captain - Thorntrail
POSITION: Quidditch Captain, Thorntrail
WHY THIS SPOT?: Few students know the game the way Jupiter does. She's been playing in some form since she was old enough to ride a broom, and has spent ample time in nearly every position. That makes her a jack-of-all-trades sort, yes, and other captains certainly outshine her in their respective positions, but rare is the player who can actually surprise her in play. She's analytical, clever and dedicated to her team of four years. Jupiter's in her first year as captain, having inherited the spot from a graduating senior, but she conducts herself with the confidence of a captain who's been running the show far longer. There was no more natural a choice.
IDEAS?: Jupiter's a rough and tumble captain who doesn't see victory as life-or-death but nevertheless works her team hard. Expect regular team wards that split earnest outreaches for player input with absurd but affectionate roasting of her teammates (will shoot for regular quidditch ward posts). She sees the importance of team bonding, but also adopts the unofficial Thorntrail motto of "Work Hard, Party Harder." So, bonding's as like to be running drills until you want to die on Wednesday as it is a game of Truth or Shot on a Saturday night (small, closed ic/oocs). She's also open to collaboration, and loves running scrimmages with the other houses (larger, open ic/oocs).