ZABINI, Kara Talulla

kara talulla zabini 

PERSONALITY

Boggart: A faceless person taking Blaise away for good
Mirror of Erised: All. The. Gold.
Patronus: Having Blaise. He was a surprise that she'd never seen coming but she loves him with her whole heart. She will do anything for him. 

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Material possessions mean the world to Kara. When she wants something she has to have it. She's shallow and superficial, she'll make you feel like a true friend and then suddenly just stop talking to you because you either have no use to her any more or you're not interesting enough. Kara has a few friends but really, there aren't many. She probably has more enemies, or people that at least dislike her, because of the way she's treated them. To her, people are expendable. She has no need for most people and so she doesn't socialise with them, that being said, when she does care for someone, she cares deeply. Hard and true is her motto for love. He family fall under her love and she will do anything for them, especially Blaise, her son. She could not survive without her family and she wouldn't want to. Her closest friends too fall under her hard and true love. She treats them like family, forever and always. No matter what happens in life, Kara's family will always come first, no matter what the price Her lovers are expendable, her "friends" are expendable. It's easy to think you belong in her world but honestly, so few actually do.

Hard headed, strong, independent and calculated are easy ways to sum Kara up. She's not a person to take risks without having looked for the consequences first. She is loyal to a fault and faithful to those to whom she is loyal. She's very stubborn and can be quite resistant to things changing in her life that she isn't expecting, which one might think is crazy for a woman that's been married three times and is on her fourth engagement. She's prejudice a little against muggleborns and half-blood, but not enough to want them dead, just enough that she doesn't really care about them. However she is gifted with some incredible patience (able to wait a very long time for certain people to die, for instance) and she's a very sensual and affectionate individual.

HISTORY

Mother: Shanae Zabini née Selwyn, 57, pureblood, Ravenclaw Alumna
Father: Rory Zabini, 57, pureblood, Slytherin Alumni
Siblings: Leonardo Valerio Zabini , 32, pureblood, Ravenclaw Alumni, Healer/baby-sitter
Lorenzo Zabini, 23, brother, pureblood, Ravenclaw Alumni
Partners: Rufus Slughorn, deceased, would be 28, school boyfriend then husband, loved, pureblood
Talbot Travers, deceased, would be 30, husband number 2, pureblood
Erasmus Voss, deceased, would be 37, husband number 3, baby daddy (?), pureblood
Hector Elis, engaged, 56, husband number 4 in the making, pureblood
Others: Blaise Zabini, infant son, pureblood
Darius Selwyn, 52, pureblood, Slytherin, maternal uncle
Nina Selwyn nee Jenkins, 52, pureblood, Hufflepuff, aunty-in-law
Dexter Selwyn, 26, pureblood, Slytherin, cousin
Neve India Selwyn , 25, pureblood, Hufflepuff, cousin
Selina Selwyn, 22, pureblood, Slytherin, cousin
Paige Selwyn, 18, pureblood, Gryffindor, cousin
Charlotte Rose née Selwyn, pureblood, maternal aunt
Emmanuel Rose, pureblood, uncle-in-law
Raiden Rose, pureblood, cousin
Salem Lyric Rose , pureblood, cousin
Otis Rose, pureblood, cousin
Cordelia Rose, pureblood, cousin

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Kara Talulla Zabini was the second child for Shanae and Rory Zabini. She was born into a wealthy pureblooded family and she learnt from very early on that she could get others to do exactly what she wanted. It started with her older brother. Leo would always play with her and keep her happy. He was such a nurturing soul and Kara learnt a lot from him on how to be caring, kind and compassionate. Still that didn't stop her from getting what she wanted. Leo was an entertainer. His louder that life personality and his desire to please his little sister meant that whenever she wanted him, she could have him making her laugh. She learnt to cry for entertainment before she could even speak in full sentences and she discovered she pretty much just had her entire family wrapped around he little finger from the get go. Naturally she wasn't aware that she was doing this, everything was always done on a whim.

When she was four Kara was gifted a little brother. She didn't think much of him at first but she followed nine year old Leo's lead. She behaved herself and would try and make her baby brother happy. Kara would sing to him like their mother sang and she would read just like Leo and father. She would shh the crying baby and stroke his head lovingly while he settled.

Once Enzo was able to take commands Kara used him like her own personal servant. Just a little at first, having him help her carry the cushions from the sofa to the playroom so they could build a fort until he was big enough to manage on his own, then he would do all of the heavy lifting while she sat back and prepared the dollies and teddies for the tea party. Kara also learnt she could get a little longer out of bed time. The need of a little water, an extra cuddle, just one more story. She loved the attention it got her and she enjoyed getting her own way.

When Kara went to Hogwarts she found it was no different than what she’d grown up with. She was able to compliment people into doing what she wanted and as she got older she found boys responded a lot faster and more positively than most girls. She definitely used it to her advantage until she met Rufus. He was impossible! He saw through her act and he wouldn’t do as she asked just because she’d asked. He was a kind person and he let other people walk all over him which drove her absolutely nuts. Why would he do things for others and not her?! It made no sense. She was beautiful! Did he not see that?

Kara carried on with her life, ignoring Rufus as much as possible, which was hard because they shared a Common Room. At least he was a year older than her so she didn’t have to have lessons with him. Rumours started circulating that he was Becca Rowse and for the first time in her life Kara found herself jealous. It was never something she’d ever had to feel before, she’d never not had a boy desperate to date her and yet there he was infront of her on a Wednesday morning, just before first lesson, talking in the hallway with Becca Rowse. Never before had Kara lost her mind but she did. She took a breath and with sheer determination made her way up to Rufus and kissed him, and boy oh boy, it wasn’t just a little kiss either! After she was done making her point she flipped her hair and went on her way, as you do, but Rufus had excused himself from Becca’s company and chased after Kara. The pair had a minor argument, he stated some nonsense that she couldn’t just do that but obviously she could because she had and what was more he’d clearly liked it because he was more than happy to snog her back, right in front of his supposed girlfriend. The look of anger on Rufus’ face changed to confusion and then to amusement and soon he was laughing. He walked backwards, clearly enjoying the bewildered look on Kara’s face before he turned around and went into class. No amount of her calling after him was making him come back. Even when she stomped her foot - an action she’d never had to do in her life!

That kiss was life changing. Literally. While Kara had been kissing him she had been lost in visions of a wonderful life together. She could see it clearly, they were married and happy, they were making plans to go on holiday and they were even cuddled up on a cold winters day in front of the fire. Everything Kara had been lead to believe about romantic relationships seemed to play out before her very eyes during her kiss, but the second that kiss broke she saw something she just put down to her fantasies. Rufus' death had flashed before her, some kind of freak accident but that couldn't be so.

It was nearly two months before Kara and Rufus were face to face again, but as fate would have it they were after the same book in the library. Rufus seemed surprised by her choice and said something Kara deemed insulting and stupid. She yelled at him and he just found her temper tantrum amusing but he was able to stop her by kissing her. This time there were no images and Kara melted in to his lips. From then on they were dating.

All through her sixth and seventh year Kara dated Rufus. It was tricky because it meant she couldn't flirt with other guys to get them to do the majority of her homework, but she was an incredibly bright witch so she just took the time to do it herself. Rufus helped her often, although in her final year he was graduated and she could only settle for contacting him via owl and meeting him in Hogsmeade on the Hogsmeade weekends. 

Nearly as soon as Kara was graduated, Rufus proposed. Kara was over the moon and she planned the wedding as quickly as she could. They were married in August, almost exactly as she'd seen it the first time she'd kissed him. She never made the connection until it was too late. A year and a half of marriage came to an end when Rufus was at work. It started with a nose bleed and then a searing headache followed. The healers were summoned quickly but there was nothing they could do. Rufus had died, an aneurysm claiming his life. It was all too familiar for Kara. She'd seen his nose bleed, she'd seen him fall, one kiss had shown her everything about her future with Rufus that she'd needed to know and it had ended exactly as she'd seen. At 19 years old she was a widow. At 19 years old she was grieving the love of her life.

It only took a year for Kara to bounce back onto the dating scene. She met a man named Talbot Travers after three months of playing the pitch, so to speak, and she thought he was okay. If nothing else then he was a little fun to play around with. She'd had a couple of one night stands, a short-lived boyfriend but nothing serious. Her first kiss with Talbot was something she'd not expected. Just as her first kiss with Rufus, so was her first kiss with Tal. She saw them planning a wedding, she saw them celebrating their wedding, she saw them celebrating their wedding and then she saw him dead. Kara pulled away from the kiss, her brow furrowed as she looked at him confused. It was happening again. Was he going to die too? She'd kissed plenty of people and none had died, she'd not seen anything kissing other guys but this all looked very soon.

Feeling bad about what she'd seen, Kara gave Tal a chance. He was funny and sweet but not the sort of guy she was really interested in, not in a romantic way. She thought her littler vision was silly so she planned on breaking it off but the night she went to end things was the night he proposed in front of family and friends. Kara was stunned. She didn't want to break his heart in front of so many people so she said yes. They got married six months later and then a month later they were celebrating his birthday. Kara knew it wasn't long until he'd be dead. Sure enough, a week before Christmas, Tal died in an horrific accident. She was 20 and had lost one husband to illness and another to a falling Christmas tree Tal had insisted on cutting down himself. 

Unlike Rufus' death where she'd inherited nothing, Kara inherited a small fortune and a home from Tal's death. She mourned him for six months before she started dating again. He'd been a sweet man, he'd left her everything he could but most of what he spent on her was tied up with his family, still his own little fortune and his house was enough to up Kara's tastes. She started enjoying finer things and she wasn't rushing in to anything. She kissed many men, she saw a few untimely deaths, but she wasn't willing to play the grieving widow again for men that had less money than her or with money tied up in their families.

Her money from Tal's death was starting to run thin and so Kara started looking for husband number three. She knew that it wouldn't be hard because men were always falling over themselves so that she might just glance their way, what was harder was finding a rich husband that was going to die soon. Kara had decided it was easier to marry someone that would die because over the years she'd lost hope of finding love again. Rufus had been her love, she wasn't going to find a love like that again.

Along came Erasmus. He was confident and cocky and Kara got on well with him. They got their hands on every drug and elixir under the sun that would give them some incredible highs. They got married, people calling them 'soulmates' but Kara knew it was all short lived, he was going to die and she'd already seen how the first time she'd kissed him. Leading up to the wedding Kara stopped everything they'd been taking. She was done with it. She'd seen he was going to die from an overdose and she didn't want to follow him into a dodgy, early grave.

Erasmus died and Kara was sick. Literally. To her stomach. She was constantly sick and it turned out she was pregnant. She hadn't foreseen that when she'd married Erasmus because she'd only seen up to his death, not after it. With all that they'd done, with all the people they'd shared, there was no telling who the father was. Kara had inherited Erasmus' entire family fortune and homes and she told the world that she was pregnant with her dead husband's child. Her child would be known as his, although he would have her maiden name for she'd already gone back to her former name before she'd even realised she was pregnant.

With a little person on the way, Kara looked for husband number 4. Her growing belly deterred a few men but her now fiance was old and had no family. He had no siblings and he had no children of his own. She gave birth to a boy and her fiance was supportive. Kara even started to love him a little, although more like a friend. Still she plans on marrying him in May and is prepared for his demise which she's estimated to be around August, almost a year after first meeting him.

OOC

Play By: Ri Ri, beaches!
Your Alias: Coco!
Pronouns: Her/she Him/he etc.
Age: Nearly the same age as Izzy again! Eep!!
Other Characters: Seriously? C'mon!
Where did you find us: Splashing around in my mug of hot chocolate