<![CDATA[Children of Merlin - Harry Potter 1980s RPG - Main characters]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:32:32 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[THORNHEART, Effie]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=132 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:56:53 +0000 Effie Thornheart]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=132 ~ ABOUT ME ~
Username: candlewhisperer/ Effie Thornheart
Age: 29


~ CHARACTER ~

Play-by: Imogen Poots
STATUS: Main character

NAME: Euphemia (Effie) Raine Thornheart (she only goes by Effie or Ms. Thornheart)
BIRTH DATE & AGE: June 20, 1967, 18-25 years old (1985-1992)
BLOOD STATUS: Half-blood

OCCUPATION: Nurse at Hogwarts
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Hogwarts during the school year/ Oxford, England when its not the school year
FAMILY: Mom- Ophelia Thornheart (December, 1, 1942), Dad- Albert Thornheart (June 1, 1941), Effie is an only child.
Wand: Aspen, Unicorn hair, 10 inches, Rigid. Aspen wood has an outstanding charmwork reputation and is known for attracting magical folk who are revolutionaries. Unicorn hair is the most faithful of wand cores and offers the most consistency. This wand is unwilling to be possessed by any one other than Effie. 
PATRONUS: Deerhound. Represents the comfort Effie finds in providing protection to those in need and the love she has for helping people and ensuring their safety.
BOGGART: Herself being buried alive. Possibly representing her suppressed emotions. 

APPEARANCE: Effie had been a beautiful child with blonde (almost white) hair and wide striking blue eyes. Growing up her hair darkened but remained a dirty blonde, her eyes remain blue pools and she has a peaches-and-cream complexion which is normally clear but will breakout with pimples on the chin during times of stress. Her blonde hair is wavy and goes past her shoulders, but she often has it up high in a messy bun. She’s on the shorter side measuring 5 ft 4 inches and weighs 52kg. Her eyes are soft, and she has a kind smile. Normally she holds her head up high and is elegantly poised, the only exception being when she has had too little of sleep or has had an extra difficult work day. 

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PERSONALITY: Generous and kind-hearted, Effie is always offering to help those in need. But she is not one to be walked all over, she can be firm and determined when needed. She is often sought out by Hogwarts students seeking counsel and compassion which Effie is always happy to offer. People are drawn to the genuine kindness she emits.  She loves to travel, see new things, and find adventures to go on. She enjoys flying but is not very good at it and has had many near falls off her broom, so she mainly travels by apparition and Floo Powder. Effie strongly dislikes Quidditch as she finds it too rough and has treated far too many injuries from the sport. She is extremely modest to a fault and tends to be overcritical about herself to the point where she has talked herself out of training to become a Head Healer because she feels she is not talented enough for such a role. She needs at least 8 hours of sleep during the night to function well throughout the day, anything less and she can be quite cranky. When she is cranky, she becomes sarcastic and quippy.
Besides travelling and healing, in her spare time she likes to socialize with friends although she doesn’t have many due to her busy schedule and to find quiet spots to writer in her journal. When off work she can be found either in the Library at Hogwarts or at the Three Broomsticks having a Butterbeer (she has a weakness for sweets). She likes to attend parties but does not let loose often.


HISTORY: Effie grew up in a happy traditional English household. A half-blood, her mom is a renowned Healer at St. Mungos while her father is a muggle Professor at Oxford University. She is an only child. Growing up she lived in a three bedroom brick house in Oxford. As academics, her parents raised her to be inquisitive and studious like themselves, nurturing her love for learning. Absolutely hating her ridiculous name (a family name that her mother insisted on using as it was ‘tradition’), she only goes by Effie. During her Hogwarts days she was almost sorted into Ravenclaw but at the last minute the Sorting Hat switched to Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff suited her as she had always been very kind-hearted. She shined in her classes but especially so in Potions, Herbology and Charms. Being a half-blood she did suffer occasionally from bullying by pureblood supremacists but it had been nothing too terrible and she was generally very well liked and popular in school. 

1970-1981 The Wizarding War: Effie had only been three when the war officially began. Her parents tried to shield her from most of it which was difficult given the panicked fear amongst both magical and nonmagical communities. Albert and Ophelia were staunchly against the Dark Lord and his cronies the Deatheaters given that Albert is a muggle but with Effie first in their mind they kept quiet, hoping to lay low while the situation passed. But the situation did not pass, it lingered for over a decade. Soon it was impossible to lie low. Ophelia had made such a name for herself in the Healing community by 1975 that she garnered the attention of the Death Eaters. Angered that such a talented witch from a pureblood family would choose to marry a muggle and procreate with one, word got out to the Thornhearts that an attack from the Deatheaters would be imminent. Quickly, Ophelia organized for Albert and Effie to be sent away to a secret safe house while she stayed behind to work. Work at St. Mungos had never been busier for her since the war started, the causalities seemingly never ending. She began moving around like a nomad, never staying in one place for long although always turning up at work, she could never leave her patients behind. Sick and tired of the war and constantly fearing for her husband and daughters' lives she became involved with the Order of the Phoenix. Effie was brought out of hiding to attend Hogwarts in 1978 against her mothers wishes who had wanted to keep her hidden. An education was too important to Albert however and he insisted Effie needed to go, "I'll not let some bigoted bullies prevent my daughter from getting an education", he had adamantly stated. Thus Effie was kept safe at Hogwarts for the rest of the war while Professor Dumbledore led the school. When new hit on October 31, 1981 that the Dark Lord had been defeated by the infant Harry Potter, Ophelia nearly wept with the news, immediately retrieved her husband and began to rebuild their lives, moving back into their home. 

1981-1985: Effie kept herself busy as a teenager. Excelling in school, having a healthy social life while also working a couple jobs to save money for her future schooling and adult life. She began with babysitting for friends of her parents at first, gaining quite a large clientele. At 15 she began working during the holidays at the Magical Menagerie ran by Saphira Scamander. This suited her well as she always loved animals and has a caring spirit. She worked there until she graduated from Hogwarts and began her nursing training. 

1985-88:  Effie graduated from Hogwarts as Head Prefect and one of the top students in her year. She immediately began training to become a nurse. Her life during this time was full of learning, studying and making strong friendships with her peers.

1988-Early 1990: After years of nursing training, Effie is hired as a nurse for a non-profit magical Healing organization that runs globally providing Healing assistance to those in need. The young witch loved this work. It was difficult and draining work but it put her Healing skills to the test and she was able to use her compassion and kindness to help others through their most difficult times. Effie thrived during this time abroad, experiencing new adventures and new people. While in the Middle East for work, Effie met the American wizard Charles Ibeus (38 years old), a Head Healer who was her Team Lead. The two became fast friends and soon the sparks were flying. Young and a little naive, Effie fell head over heels in love with Charles and a fast and heavy romance developed between the two despite it being frowned upon for Charles to be in a relationship with his subordinate and with their considerable age gap also being problematic for some, but none the less the two promised to move to New York City when their contracts were both done in 1990. Sure enough, in 1990 the two arrived together in New York City, a week of romance went by when Effie was confronted in a bookstore by a woman claiming to be Charles' wife. There was no denial from Charles when Effie told him what had happened and so heartbroken, defeated and ashamed Effie returned to her childhood home in Oxford, England to lick her wounds. 

Late 1990-1992: The devastated witch returned home to recover from her heartache and embarrassment, unable to forgive her naivety and stupidity for not being able to see through Charles. She had been played with and then thrown away like a broken doll. The pain of being manipulated and lied to by the one she loved and the burn of knowing the part she played in causing pain to a whole family caused her to take a new cynical approach to relationships, swearing off them completely. With a renewed focus on her career she applied  for the nursing position at Hogwarts after she saw an ad for the position in the Daily Prophet, it had been a last minute need that arose for the school. Much to her happiness she was offered the nursing position to start September 1, 1991. 

She works in this position to present day. The job suits her well  as it gives her a lot of time during the holidays to travel and she admires Madame Pomfrey who is a very skilled Healer. She has living quarters at Hogwarts for the school year and on holidays she either travels far or will stay at her childhood home in Oxford with her parents. Lately, she has been feeling exasperated with the world, she feels that the fight for equality has been convoluted and therefore has not taken a side in the current politics of the magical world.]]> ~ ABOUT ME ~
Username: candlewhisperer/ Effie Thornheart
Age: 29


~ CHARACTER ~

Play-by: Imogen Poots
STATUS: Main character

NAME: Euphemia (Effie) Raine Thornheart (she only goes by Effie or Ms. Thornheart)
BIRTH DATE & AGE: June 20, 1967, 18-25 years old (1985-1992)
BLOOD STATUS: Half-blood

OCCUPATION: Nurse at Hogwarts
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Hogwarts during the school year/ Oxford, England when its not the school year
FAMILY: Mom- Ophelia Thornheart (December, 1, 1942), Dad- Albert Thornheart (June 1, 1941), Effie is an only child.
Wand: Aspen, Unicorn hair, 10 inches, Rigid. Aspen wood has an outstanding charmwork reputation and is known for attracting magical folk who are revolutionaries. Unicorn hair is the most faithful of wand cores and offers the most consistency. This wand is unwilling to be possessed by any one other than Effie. 
PATRONUS: Deerhound. Represents the comfort Effie finds in providing protection to those in need and the love she has for helping people and ensuring their safety.
BOGGART: Herself being buried alive. Possibly representing her suppressed emotions. 

APPEARANCE: Effie had been a beautiful child with blonde (almost white) hair and wide striking blue eyes. Growing up her hair darkened but remained a dirty blonde, her eyes remain blue pools and she has a peaches-and-cream complexion which is normally clear but will breakout with pimples on the chin during times of stress. Her blonde hair is wavy and goes past her shoulders, but she often has it up high in a messy bun. She’s on the shorter side measuring 5 ft 4 inches and weighs 52kg. Her eyes are soft, and she has a kind smile. Normally she holds her head up high and is elegantly poised, the only exception being when she has had too little of sleep or has had an extra difficult work day. 

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PERSONALITY: Generous and kind-hearted, Effie is always offering to help those in need. But she is not one to be walked all over, she can be firm and determined when needed. She is often sought out by Hogwarts students seeking counsel and compassion which Effie is always happy to offer. People are drawn to the genuine kindness she emits.  She loves to travel, see new things, and find adventures to go on. She enjoys flying but is not very good at it and has had many near falls off her broom, so she mainly travels by apparition and Floo Powder. Effie strongly dislikes Quidditch as she finds it too rough and has treated far too many injuries from the sport. She is extremely modest to a fault and tends to be overcritical about herself to the point where she has talked herself out of training to become a Head Healer because she feels she is not talented enough for such a role. She needs at least 8 hours of sleep during the night to function well throughout the day, anything less and she can be quite cranky. When she is cranky, she becomes sarcastic and quippy.
Besides travelling and healing, in her spare time she likes to socialize with friends although she doesn’t have many due to her busy schedule and to find quiet spots to writer in her journal. When off work she can be found either in the Library at Hogwarts or at the Three Broomsticks having a Butterbeer (she has a weakness for sweets). She likes to attend parties but does not let loose often.


HISTORY: Effie grew up in a happy traditional English household. A half-blood, her mom is a renowned Healer at St. Mungos while her father is a muggle Professor at Oxford University. She is an only child. Growing up she lived in a three bedroom brick house in Oxford. As academics, her parents raised her to be inquisitive and studious like themselves, nurturing her love for learning. Absolutely hating her ridiculous name (a family name that her mother insisted on using as it was ‘tradition’), she only goes by Effie. During her Hogwarts days she was almost sorted into Ravenclaw but at the last minute the Sorting Hat switched to Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff suited her as she had always been very kind-hearted. She shined in her classes but especially so in Potions, Herbology and Charms. Being a half-blood she did suffer occasionally from bullying by pureblood supremacists but it had been nothing too terrible and she was generally very well liked and popular in school. 

1970-1981 The Wizarding War: Effie had only been three when the war officially began. Her parents tried to shield her from most of it which was difficult given the panicked fear amongst both magical and nonmagical communities. Albert and Ophelia were staunchly against the Dark Lord and his cronies the Deatheaters given that Albert is a muggle but with Effie first in their mind they kept quiet, hoping to lay low while the situation passed. But the situation did not pass, it lingered for over a decade. Soon it was impossible to lie low. Ophelia had made such a name for herself in the Healing community by 1975 that she garnered the attention of the Death Eaters. Angered that such a talented witch from a pureblood family would choose to marry a muggle and procreate with one, word got out to the Thornhearts that an attack from the Deatheaters would be imminent. Quickly, Ophelia organized for Albert and Effie to be sent away to a secret safe house while she stayed behind to work. Work at St. Mungos had never been busier for her since the war started, the causalities seemingly never ending. She began moving around like a nomad, never staying in one place for long although always turning up at work, she could never leave her patients behind. Sick and tired of the war and constantly fearing for her husband and daughters' lives she became involved with the Order of the Phoenix. Effie was brought out of hiding to attend Hogwarts in 1978 against her mothers wishes who had wanted to keep her hidden. An education was too important to Albert however and he insisted Effie needed to go, "I'll not let some bigoted bullies prevent my daughter from getting an education", he had adamantly stated. Thus Effie was kept safe at Hogwarts for the rest of the war while Professor Dumbledore led the school. When new hit on October 31, 1981 that the Dark Lord had been defeated by the infant Harry Potter, Ophelia nearly wept with the news, immediately retrieved her husband and began to rebuild their lives, moving back into their home. 

1981-1985: Effie kept herself busy as a teenager. Excelling in school, having a healthy social life while also working a couple jobs to save money for her future schooling and adult life. She began with babysitting for friends of her parents at first, gaining quite a large clientele. At 15 she began working during the holidays at the Magical Menagerie ran by Saphira Scamander. This suited her well as she always loved animals and has a caring spirit. She worked there until she graduated from Hogwarts and began her nursing training. 

1985-88:  Effie graduated from Hogwarts as Head Prefect and one of the top students in her year. She immediately began training to become a nurse. Her life during this time was full of learning, studying and making strong friendships with her peers.

1988-Early 1990: After years of nursing training, Effie is hired as a nurse for a non-profit magical Healing organization that runs globally providing Healing assistance to those in need. The young witch loved this work. It was difficult and draining work but it put her Healing skills to the test and she was able to use her compassion and kindness to help others through their most difficult times. Effie thrived during this time abroad, experiencing new adventures and new people. While in the Middle East for work, Effie met the American wizard Charles Ibeus (38 years old), a Head Healer who was her Team Lead. The two became fast friends and soon the sparks were flying. Young and a little naive, Effie fell head over heels in love with Charles and a fast and heavy romance developed between the two despite it being frowned upon for Charles to be in a relationship with his subordinate and with their considerable age gap also being problematic for some, but none the less the two promised to move to New York City when their contracts were both done in 1990. Sure enough, in 1990 the two arrived together in New York City, a week of romance went by when Effie was confronted in a bookstore by a woman claiming to be Charles' wife. There was no denial from Charles when Effie told him what had happened and so heartbroken, defeated and ashamed Effie returned to her childhood home in Oxford, England to lick her wounds. 

Late 1990-1992: The devastated witch returned home to recover from her heartache and embarrassment, unable to forgive her naivety and stupidity for not being able to see through Charles. She had been played with and then thrown away like a broken doll. The pain of being manipulated and lied to by the one she loved and the burn of knowing the part she played in causing pain to a whole family caused her to take a new cynical approach to relationships, swearing off them completely. With a renewed focus on her career she applied  for the nursing position at Hogwarts after she saw an ad for the position in the Daily Prophet, it had been a last minute need that arose for the school. Much to her happiness she was offered the nursing position to start September 1, 1991. 

She works in this position to present day. The job suits her well  as it gives her a lot of time during the holidays to travel and she admires Madame Pomfrey who is a very skilled Healer. She has living quarters at Hogwarts for the school year and on holidays she either travels far or will stay at her childhood home in Oxford with her parents. Lately, she has been feeling exasperated with the world, she feels that the fight for equality has been convoluted and therefore has not taken a side in the current politics of the magical world.]]> <![CDATA[JAMES, Zachary]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=121 Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:17:44 +0000 Zachary James]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=121 Character © Kieran

Play-by: Anthony Head



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NAME
Zachary Adrian James
(”Zach”)


AGE
62-69 years
(* 25/10/1922)


BLOOD
Muggle-born / english-american


OCCUPATION
An editor of Daily Prophet
* Former professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts (1971-1975)
* Former FBI Special Agent


RESIDENCE
1-12 East Vale, Acton, London, England
Flat 4
---> Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour



FAMILY



Mother: Elizabeth Hazel James (née. Austin) - * 1900 - d. 1960 | British

Father: William Carl James- * 1900 - d. 12/1941 | American



APPEARANCE



Height/Weight: 185 cm | 6'1'' / 80 kg | 177 lbs.

Eyes: green

Hair: light brown, though a bit greying already.

Animagus form: raven



He looks older than the average wizard of his age; right around a muggle of his age. Because stressful life has aged him fast, but due to the magical blood has not aged beyond his years in muggles' eyes. Despite of the middle-aged appearance he has an athletic body and the physical endurance of a 35-year old, as he has kept himself in shape for his job. His basic being is determined, calm and intelligent, as well as deep and serious. Even so he usually gives a friendly first impression, and his being may become very warm and inviting as he feels deeply and extremely. He's simply able to control his emotions very well in certain types of situations.



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~ LIFE ~


Zach was born on a small farm in Minnesota, USA, and had a happy childhood apart from being bullied at school where he was seen as a freak due to the accidental magic he manifested. Yet he had a handful of good friends, just all of them were labelled as losers for whatever reason. In the summer of 1934 the answer to everything arrived with a letter and a couple of days later further with the principal of Ilvermorny the school of witchcraft and wizardry. Zach attended it, wanting to know this new and exciting side of himself but dropped out after two years. His father was extremely patriotic and people-loving person, and had inspired the same in his son. Zach did not, back then, see how education at Ilvermorny would enable him to serve his country and other people - due to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. He'd also for several years already, dreamt of a career in law enforcement, particularly in the secret service.



In December of 1941 he wished he'd stayed in the wizarding school for a few more years or at least continued studying magic at home – maybe then he would have had skills to protect his family and friends from weapons of mass destruction. In spring of 1942, at age nineteen, he was drafted; United States had joined the World War II in the previous December after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. His own father had served in the US Navy and died there that day. From April 1942 to the summer of 1945 Zach defended his country against the Japanese and at times against the Nazi soldiers, though the first year he spent in the army training. Loss of his father, the horrors of war, and the constant worry about his family and friends' safety only strengthened his desire to aim at a career in the FBI. He wanted to make the world a little bit safer and better, to try and lessen all the death and suffering.



Homecoming was happy in that his mother and friends had survived and he himself hadn't suffered any major physical injuries - but very difficult with PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) troubling him for a long time and almost preventing him from choosing his dream career. Zach took small steps, patiently descended back into normal life. He spent a lot of time with his mother, and he made it forward with the help of his mother, therapy, medication as well as those friends who'd also survived the war. During these post-war years he stepped more into the wizarding society, made friends there, studied charms and generally magic further, and even became an animagus - which he figured could be useful if he ever became an FBI agent. Fortunately his animal form turned out to be very suitable for that purpose.



He had a couple of serious romantic relationships during these years but they both ended because of wanting different things from life. In 1953 Zach graduated as an FBI Special Agent for their criminal investigation department. The job took most of his time, but almost all his spare time that he did not sleep he spent with his loved ones. During longer vacations he usually took some "me-time" to be by himself. Sometimes he was certain he'd never want to bring a child into this cruel and cold world, but other times he felt like a child was the one thing still missing from his life. But 50+ hour work weeks in a mobile and dangerous job prevented any serious and long-term relationships from forming.



In the '70s Zach retired, and moved to Britain. Though he didn't find its wizarding government agreeable, at least the British didn't try to dectate who he could have relationships with. The longer he lived there the more clear it became to him that the issue of inequality are far worse than it initially seemed and that a lot of the wizardkind have a superiority complex and their governments show it especially well. He felt it was time to seek true equality and find out how many wizards and witches have the guts to truly try and change the establishment or at least the heart to start making changes on individual level.



~ PERSONALITY


His determined, persuasive and strong personality and his desire to search until the truth is revealed combined with resourcefulness, great discretion and adaptability made a path in FBI's service a natural one. Zach bases his decisions on facts and strong conclusions and he's excellent in bringing order into chaos, making him a strong leader. But he never aimed at the higher ranks in his job for especially when he was younger he desired adventure and field work. Generally in life he instinctively seeks a leadership position and rather starts his own projects than joins someone else's.



Zachin basic nature is calm and cool, and patient – on the other hand he can quickly become aggressive if the situation is painful or threatening enough which may surprise an observer – which all in part helped him return home from the war. He won't reveal even the smallest of secrets, not even under torture, his own or anyone else's. He hates that kind of betrayal as much as dishonesty in general. But he does understand the difference between a white and black lie as well as how some situations require it – after all his job demands undercover operations, and thus he does not judge all dishonesty harshly if at all. Still, his trust is extremely hard to win back if it's once been built and then lost. Especially as he is initially/basically distrustful towards new people.



Distrustful and secretive nature makes it difficult for him to form significantly close friendships. He does like to hold conversations and discuss even deep stuff, and is relatively social, but he doesn't give a very easily approachable first impression nor reveal deeply personal stuff from his past easily. Usually when he steps into a crowded room he tends to blend in and observe everything and everyone before freely socialising. Zach is brave, friendly and likes to help which has formed him a wide social circle albeit mostly acquaintances and good mates rather than friends.



He's often unyielding even when he recognises that it would be better to give in. Although he feels deeply he won't let it show outside of his nearest and dearest. Zach is very devoted to any big project he starts and has a clear value rank for them. He lives with deep feeling, is very protective and does show a lot of affection, but only family and closest friends get to experience all the colours and depths of his soul. If you wrong him he may hold a grudge for the rest of his life and may even avenge – on the other hand he also remembers kindness and good deeds as well, and takes a chance to repay.



He hates living in another person's home, literally he'd rather live in a box outside than in someone else's home for a longer period of time. Even if he paid rent. Zach always does everything in his power to find a place of his own in any given life situation. It's not so much about pride as it is about being fiercely independent and survivalist so he simply doesn't feel at home anywhere that he hasn't built or earned himself.



Results of his own work, achievements and control of his own life are extremely important to him. As serious/solemn as he is he does also have a lighter and playful side which shows especially around Halloween and young children.



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[age 19] – [age 40+]


~ MISC



* speaking voice



- Founder and leader of the secret society, Children of Merlin.



- Skilled at Occlumency, to the degree of being able to make his mind blank. Can't do Legilimency at all despite the same very good old friend who helped him learn Occlumency, offering the chance to practise that too. He simply respects people's privacy too much to do that and trusts his non-magical skill of being able to tell if someone is lying to him.



- He's very powerful in magic. Akin to the likes of Barty Crouch Jr.



- In London he grows his own vegetables and keeps a few chickens for fresh eggs.



- Still occasionally suffers from war flashbacks / suffers from mild-ish PTSD.



- Enjoys drinking on weekends, especially in bars/pubs. But only one or two drinks, as in has never been drunk.



- Loves calm evenings at home.



- Hobbies: biking on nature paths, photographing, and researching. Especially human psychology, myths, and past centuries.



- Wealthy: pension $182 280 / £137,570 per year (in today's value.)



- Plays guitar and sings.]]> Character © Kieran

Play-by: Anthony Head



[Image: 078c5c3ae018e9648844bfa1c1d3dfbd.jpg]


[photo]


NAME
Zachary Adrian James
(”Zach”)


AGE
62-69 years
(* 25/10/1922)


BLOOD
Muggle-born / english-american


OCCUPATION
An editor of Daily Prophet
* Former professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts (1971-1975)
* Former FBI Special Agent


RESIDENCE
1-12 East Vale, Acton, London, England
Flat 4
---> Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour



FAMILY



Mother: Elizabeth Hazel James (née. Austin) - * 1900 - d. 1960 | British

Father: William Carl James- * 1900 - d. 12/1941 | American



APPEARANCE



Height/Weight: 185 cm | 6'1'' / 80 kg | 177 lbs.

Eyes: green

Hair: light brown, though a bit greying already.

Animagus form: raven



He looks older than the average wizard of his age; right around a muggle of his age. Because stressful life has aged him fast, but due to the magical blood has not aged beyond his years in muggles' eyes. Despite of the middle-aged appearance he has an athletic body and the physical endurance of a 35-year old, as he has kept himself in shape for his job. His basic being is determined, calm and intelligent, as well as deep and serious. Even so he usually gives a friendly first impression, and his being may become very warm and inviting as he feels deeply and extremely. He's simply able to control his emotions very well in certain types of situations.



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~ LIFE ~


Zach was born on a small farm in Minnesota, USA, and had a happy childhood apart from being bullied at school where he was seen as a freak due to the accidental magic he manifested. Yet he had a handful of good friends, just all of them were labelled as losers for whatever reason. In the summer of 1934 the answer to everything arrived with a letter and a couple of days later further with the principal of Ilvermorny the school of witchcraft and wizardry. Zach attended it, wanting to know this new and exciting side of himself but dropped out after two years. His father was extremely patriotic and people-loving person, and had inspired the same in his son. Zach did not, back then, see how education at Ilvermorny would enable him to serve his country and other people - due to the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. He'd also for several years already, dreamt of a career in law enforcement, particularly in the secret service.



In December of 1941 he wished he'd stayed in the wizarding school for a few more years or at least continued studying magic at home – maybe then he would have had skills to protect his family and friends from weapons of mass destruction. In spring of 1942, at age nineteen, he was drafted; United States had joined the World War II in the previous December after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. His own father had served in the US Navy and died there that day. From April 1942 to the summer of 1945 Zach defended his country against the Japanese and at times against the Nazi soldiers, though the first year he spent in the army training. Loss of his father, the horrors of war, and the constant worry about his family and friends' safety only strengthened his desire to aim at a career in the FBI. He wanted to make the world a little bit safer and better, to try and lessen all the death and suffering.



Homecoming was happy in that his mother and friends had survived and he himself hadn't suffered any major physical injuries - but very difficult with PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) troubling him for a long time and almost preventing him from choosing his dream career. Zach took small steps, patiently descended back into normal life. He spent a lot of time with his mother, and he made it forward with the help of his mother, therapy, medication as well as those friends who'd also survived the war. During these post-war years he stepped more into the wizarding society, made friends there, studied charms and generally magic further, and even became an animagus - which he figured could be useful if he ever became an FBI agent. Fortunately his animal form turned out to be very suitable for that purpose.



He had a couple of serious romantic relationships during these years but they both ended because of wanting different things from life. In 1953 Zach graduated as an FBI Special Agent for their criminal investigation department. The job took most of his time, but almost all his spare time that he did not sleep he spent with his loved ones. During longer vacations he usually took some "me-time" to be by himself. Sometimes he was certain he'd never want to bring a child into this cruel and cold world, but other times he felt like a child was the one thing still missing from his life. But 50+ hour work weeks in a mobile and dangerous job prevented any serious and long-term relationships from forming.



In the '70s Zach retired, and moved to Britain. Though he didn't find its wizarding government agreeable, at least the British didn't try to dectate who he could have relationships with. The longer he lived there the more clear it became to him that the issue of inequality are far worse than it initially seemed and that a lot of the wizardkind have a superiority complex and their governments show it especially well. He felt it was time to seek true equality and find out how many wizards and witches have the guts to truly try and change the establishment or at least the heart to start making changes on individual level.



~ PERSONALITY


His determined, persuasive and strong personality and his desire to search until the truth is revealed combined with resourcefulness, great discretion and adaptability made a path in FBI's service a natural one. Zach bases his decisions on facts and strong conclusions and he's excellent in bringing order into chaos, making him a strong leader. But he never aimed at the higher ranks in his job for especially when he was younger he desired adventure and field work. Generally in life he instinctively seeks a leadership position and rather starts his own projects than joins someone else's.



Zachin basic nature is calm and cool, and patient – on the other hand he can quickly become aggressive if the situation is painful or threatening enough which may surprise an observer – which all in part helped him return home from the war. He won't reveal even the smallest of secrets, not even under torture, his own or anyone else's. He hates that kind of betrayal as much as dishonesty in general. But he does understand the difference between a white and black lie as well as how some situations require it – after all his job demands undercover operations, and thus he does not judge all dishonesty harshly if at all. Still, his trust is extremely hard to win back if it's once been built and then lost. Especially as he is initially/basically distrustful towards new people.



Distrustful and secretive nature makes it difficult for him to form significantly close friendships. He does like to hold conversations and discuss even deep stuff, and is relatively social, but he doesn't give a very easily approachable first impression nor reveal deeply personal stuff from his past easily. Usually when he steps into a crowded room he tends to blend in and observe everything and everyone before freely socialising. Zach is brave, friendly and likes to help which has formed him a wide social circle albeit mostly acquaintances and good mates rather than friends.



He's often unyielding even when he recognises that it would be better to give in. Although he feels deeply he won't let it show outside of his nearest and dearest. Zach is very devoted to any big project he starts and has a clear value rank for them. He lives with deep feeling, is very protective and does show a lot of affection, but only family and closest friends get to experience all the colours and depths of his soul. If you wrong him he may hold a grudge for the rest of his life and may even avenge – on the other hand he also remembers kindness and good deeds as well, and takes a chance to repay.



He hates living in another person's home, literally he'd rather live in a box outside than in someone else's home for a longer period of time. Even if he paid rent. Zach always does everything in his power to find a place of his own in any given life situation. It's not so much about pride as it is about being fiercely independent and survivalist so he simply doesn't feel at home anywhere that he hasn't built or earned himself.



Results of his own work, achievements and control of his own life are extremely important to him. As serious/solemn as he is he does also have a lighter and playful side which shows especially around Halloween and young children.



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[age 19] – [age 40+]


~ MISC



* speaking voice



- Founder and leader of the secret society, Children of Merlin.



- Skilled at Occlumency, to the degree of being able to make his mind blank. Can't do Legilimency at all despite the same very good old friend who helped him learn Occlumency, offering the chance to practise that too. He simply respects people's privacy too much to do that and trusts his non-magical skill of being able to tell if someone is lying to him.



- He's very powerful in magic. Akin to the likes of Barty Crouch Jr.



- In London he grows his own vegetables and keeps a few chickens for fresh eggs.



- Still occasionally suffers from war flashbacks / suffers from mild-ish PTSD.



- Enjoys drinking on weekends, especially in bars/pubs. But only one or two drinks, as in has never been drunk.



- Loves calm evenings at home.



- Hobbies: biking on nature paths, photographing, and researching. Especially human psychology, myths, and past centuries.



- Wealthy: pension $182 280 / £137,570 per year (in today's value.)



- Plays guitar and sings.]]> <![CDATA[REES, Samuel Connor]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=96 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:41:54 +0000 Samuel Connor Rees]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=96 Play be:
Matyáš Valenta

CHARACTER'S NAME: 
Samuel Connor Rees

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AGE/BIRTH DATE:
4-12 years old (*21. 04.1980)

ZODIAC SIGNS: 
Taurus, Monkey

HOGWARTS: 
TBA

BLOOD STATUS: 
Muggle-born (as far as he knows), Half-blood (from his mother's side)

WAND: 
Fir, Dragon heartstring, 24 cm, Very flexible

CURRENT RESIDENCE:
Shirley Ave, Sutton, London, England

FAMILY:
Father: Ethan Timothy Rees - *12. 09.1950 (Muggle)
Mother: Unknown (wizard) 
Aunt: Susan Wilder (née. Rees) - *26. 12. 1945 (Muggle) 
Uncle: Lucas Daniel Wilder - *31. 03. 1948 (Muggle) 
Cousin: Daniel Benedict Wilder - *01. 04. 1982 (Muggle) 
 
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APPEARANCE:
      He has a full face with his nose being perhaps a wee bit bigger. His face is dotted with freckles which get less prominent as he gets older. He can summon an annoying dimpled smirk on his face more often, than he actually smiles.

      When he was smaller his hair were very light brown, almost to the point of ginger, but as he grew older his hair got darker. One thing never changes though - his hair is very straight and he keeps he quite short. 

      His eyes are dark green, with a touch of brown inside. More often than not his eyes wandering all around the place. He rarely makes eye contact. When he does so by accident he usually quickly turn his head in completely different direction. 

      He is consistently a wee bit shorter than other kids his age. Not by a lot, but it's noticeable.  He is one of those people, who will never be big and brawny, but he never felt like it was a problem.

GROW CHART:
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Birth: 2,9 kg / 49 cm
Age 5: 17 kg / 105 cm
Age 7: 23 kg / 116 cm
Age 10: 27 kg / 131 cm
Age 12: 32 kg / 137 kg

PERSONALITY:
      Sam is very defensive. It's a trait he acquired during his stay in his 2nd school. When interacting with others he is usually quite sheepish, at least until he gets to know said person a little better. He has a low self-esteem and will endure a lot. It would take a lot to take him to a breaking point. Sam learned to control his anger and outbursts, because he is afraid, that he will disappoint his father again. And he will do anything to avoid that.

      Once Sam learns to trust someone he can be very easily influenced by that person. In a way he will try not to disappoint them as well. He is not stupid, not is he a coward, he can make his own decisions if he wanted, but it's just more natural for him to follow someone - may it be his father or his friends. 

      When talking to adults, Sam is very polite, even if he hates that person. It's just easier for him to swallow his feelings and act as a proper young man should. When he feels like he needs to speak with someone there is just one person he can completely open to - his aunt. He will tell his father when something bothers him, but he won't tell him anything, that would show Sam in a bad light. Instead he will tell it to his aunt. She always listens to him, she will get him advice and she promised she will never tell his father. This happens only rarely though. Sam is very good at keeping his anger in check and in "suffering" in silence. 

      He is generally and honest person, who wouldn't hurt anyone or steal. Not that he didn't think about it sometimes, but he is simply too much afraid, that word about it could get to his father. Fortunately for Sam, he is smart enough to keep this fear for himself, because if others knew they could take advantage of this simple fact. It's perhaps another reason why he is usually a quiet person, who does his best to stay out of sight and out of thought. 

      He isn't competitive, but he likes team sports, mostly because he can actually play without drawing too much attention to himself. He also really loves to read. He isn't very sociable, but secretly he really would like to fit well with others. He doesn't need to be exactly popular, but it would be nice to have at least few good friends. Perhaps even someone, who could learn who exactly he is and why he is the way he is...

HISTORY:
      Father never talked much about his mother. Sam was never sure why. Perhaps it was a painful story to tell? Or was there something, that he just shouldn't know? From what he learned they met during some sort of event and it was a love at first sight, almost like from a story. It seems they were happy together for some time, but only for a very short time. Shortly after Sam was born she disappeared. But the details of why or when are something his dad is very secretive about. Dad was a wealthy man, having his own factory that was creating parts of motorbikes, and even when he was searching for her, he never did find her. Sam never learned if something terrible happened to her or if she simply left. Dad never even told him her name. After some time he just stopped asking. Not that he didn't care, but his dad was always so sad after he asked about it. Or was it anger? 

      And so little Sam was growing with his father. Dad was always very kind, but he had little free time to spent with Sam. After all, he was a businessman. There were some babysitters, even a butler for some time, his aunt was trying to help when she could, but Sam felt a bit lonely. And it wasn't always easy. He decided he will earn his father's attention in another way. He started to misbehave in school. It started as simple pranks, but soon quite soon he overdid it and was expelled from the school. When his father came for him he saw something in his eyes - something he didn't see there before. It was a disappointment. There were no words, but he knew he never wanted to disappoint him again. 

      Unfortunately, his new school wasn't all that great. Yes, it was a private school and quite expansive, but Sam was the new guy there, not to mention a new guy who got kicked out of school. It didn't exactly make him a lot of friends. He grew timid, trying not to pull anyone's attention, but he was absolutely adamant in his goal of never disappointing his dad. He became a great student, but a bit socially awkward. Yet he returns every day home with a smile on his face, telling his dad what a great time he had in school. 

      He was completely oblivious, that there was a world around him completely different from the one he knew. Yes, there was the one incident when a stuffed platypus fell from the shelf right on the head of one of his classmates who was trying to bully him. But that was probably just the wind. He never even gave that a second thought. But there was this other weird thing. His room was in the attic. There was this round window overlooking the neighborhood and he always loved to look through it with his spying glass. On this stormy night he should've been in bed for a long time, but thanks to all those thunders he just couldn't fall asleep so he decided to watch the storm instead. He was looking around when he noticed this woman in a black dress that was walking slowly through the rain. It was almost like the rain didn't even hit her at all. Even stranger was, that it seemed like she was coming to their house! He couldn't be sure, since he lost her from view, but then he heard his father steps. Sam quietly opened his door, listening, only to hear the main door opening and his father talking with a woman. He didn't understand a word they were saying, so he went to bed instead, since he wasn't brave enough to sneak closer. The next day he asked dad who was he talking to last night, but dad had no idea what he was talking about. And it really didn't seem like he was lying... it was really weird. The weirdest thing was, that he started to have a feeling, that he knew the woman from somewhere. He spent more nights thinking about her then he would like to admit, yet he could never place her. Until finally he gave up upon this mystery. 
                 
]]> Play be:
Matyáš Valenta

CHARACTER'S NAME: 
Samuel Connor Rees

[Image: b3f2006d87_33982555_o2.jpg]

AGE/BIRTH DATE:
4-12 years old (*21. 04.1980)

ZODIAC SIGNS: 
Taurus, Monkey

HOGWARTS: 
TBA

BLOOD STATUS: 
Muggle-born (as far as he knows), Half-blood (from his mother's side)

WAND: 
Fir, Dragon heartstring, 24 cm, Very flexible

CURRENT RESIDENCE:
Shirley Ave, Sutton, London, England

FAMILY:
Father: Ethan Timothy Rees - *12. 09.1950 (Muggle)
Mother: Unknown (wizard) 
Aunt: Susan Wilder (née. Rees) - *26. 12. 1945 (Muggle) 
Uncle: Lucas Daniel Wilder - *31. 03. 1948 (Muggle) 
Cousin: Daniel Benedict Wilder - *01. 04. 1982 (Muggle) 
 
[Image: valenta-matyass.jpg]
APPEARANCE:
      He has a full face with his nose being perhaps a wee bit bigger. His face is dotted with freckles which get less prominent as he gets older. He can summon an annoying dimpled smirk on his face more often, than he actually smiles.

      When he was smaller his hair were very light brown, almost to the point of ginger, but as he grew older his hair got darker. One thing never changes though - his hair is very straight and he keeps he quite short. 

      His eyes are dark green, with a touch of brown inside. More often than not his eyes wandering all around the place. He rarely makes eye contact. When he does so by accident he usually quickly turn his head in completely different direction. 

      He is consistently a wee bit shorter than other kids his age. Not by a lot, but it's noticeable.  He is one of those people, who will never be big and brawny, but he never felt like it was a problem.

GROW CHART:
[Image: 1513763.jpg]
Birth: 2,9 kg / 49 cm
Age 5: 17 kg / 105 cm
Age 7: 23 kg / 116 cm
Age 10: 27 kg / 131 cm
Age 12: 32 kg / 137 kg

PERSONALITY:
      Sam is very defensive. It's a trait he acquired during his stay in his 2nd school. When interacting with others he is usually quite sheepish, at least until he gets to know said person a little better. He has a low self-esteem and will endure a lot. It would take a lot to take him to a breaking point. Sam learned to control his anger and outbursts, because he is afraid, that he will disappoint his father again. And he will do anything to avoid that.

      Once Sam learns to trust someone he can be very easily influenced by that person. In a way he will try not to disappoint them as well. He is not stupid, not is he a coward, he can make his own decisions if he wanted, but it's just more natural for him to follow someone - may it be his father or his friends. 

      When talking to adults, Sam is very polite, even if he hates that person. It's just easier for him to swallow his feelings and act as a proper young man should. When he feels like he needs to speak with someone there is just one person he can completely open to - his aunt. He will tell his father when something bothers him, but he won't tell him anything, that would show Sam in a bad light. Instead he will tell it to his aunt. She always listens to him, she will get him advice and she promised she will never tell his father. This happens only rarely though. Sam is very good at keeping his anger in check and in "suffering" in silence. 

      He is generally and honest person, who wouldn't hurt anyone or steal. Not that he didn't think about it sometimes, but he is simply too much afraid, that word about it could get to his father. Fortunately for Sam, he is smart enough to keep this fear for himself, because if others knew they could take advantage of this simple fact. It's perhaps another reason why he is usually a quiet person, who does his best to stay out of sight and out of thought. 

      He isn't competitive, but he likes team sports, mostly because he can actually play without drawing too much attention to himself. He also really loves to read. He isn't very sociable, but secretly he really would like to fit well with others. He doesn't need to be exactly popular, but it would be nice to have at least few good friends. Perhaps even someone, who could learn who exactly he is and why he is the way he is...

HISTORY:
      Father never talked much about his mother. Sam was never sure why. Perhaps it was a painful story to tell? Or was there something, that he just shouldn't know? From what he learned they met during some sort of event and it was a love at first sight, almost like from a story. It seems they were happy together for some time, but only for a very short time. Shortly after Sam was born she disappeared. But the details of why or when are something his dad is very secretive about. Dad was a wealthy man, having his own factory that was creating parts of motorbikes, and even when he was searching for her, he never did find her. Sam never learned if something terrible happened to her or if she simply left. Dad never even told him her name. After some time he just stopped asking. Not that he didn't care, but his dad was always so sad after he asked about it. Or was it anger? 

      And so little Sam was growing with his father. Dad was always very kind, but he had little free time to spent with Sam. After all, he was a businessman. There were some babysitters, even a butler for some time, his aunt was trying to help when she could, but Sam felt a bit lonely. And it wasn't always easy. He decided he will earn his father's attention in another way. He started to misbehave in school. It started as simple pranks, but soon quite soon he overdid it and was expelled from the school. When his father came for him he saw something in his eyes - something he didn't see there before. It was a disappointment. There were no words, but he knew he never wanted to disappoint him again. 

      Unfortunately, his new school wasn't all that great. Yes, it was a private school and quite expansive, but Sam was the new guy there, not to mention a new guy who got kicked out of school. It didn't exactly make him a lot of friends. He grew timid, trying not to pull anyone's attention, but he was absolutely adamant in his goal of never disappointing his dad. He became a great student, but a bit socially awkward. Yet he returns every day home with a smile on his face, telling his dad what a great time he had in school. 

      He was completely oblivious, that there was a world around him completely different from the one he knew. Yes, there was the one incident when a stuffed platypus fell from the shelf right on the head of one of his classmates who was trying to bully him. But that was probably just the wind. He never even gave that a second thought. But there was this other weird thing. His room was in the attic. There was this round window overlooking the neighborhood and he always loved to look through it with his spying glass. On this stormy night he should've been in bed for a long time, but thanks to all those thunders he just couldn't fall asleep so he decided to watch the storm instead. He was looking around when he noticed this woman in a black dress that was walking slowly through the rain. It was almost like the rain didn't even hit her at all. Even stranger was, that it seemed like she was coming to their house! He couldn't be sure, since he lost her from view, but then he heard his father steps. Sam quietly opened his door, listening, only to hear the main door opening and his father talking with a woman. He didn't understand a word they were saying, so he went to bed instead, since he wasn't brave enough to sneak closer. The next day he asked dad who was he talking to last night, but dad had no idea what he was talking about. And it really didn't seem like he was lying... it was really weird. The weirdest thing was, that he started to have a feeling, that he knew the woman from somewhere. He spent more nights thinking about her then he would like to admit, yet he could never place her. Until finally he gave up upon this mystery. 
                 
]]> <![CDATA[SCAMANDER, Phoenix Levon]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=83 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:28:46 +0000 Phoenix Levon Scamander]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=83 Characters © Kieran
(Except not the grandfather Theseus and great-uncle Newt who are J.K. Rowling's characters, but only their names, occupations, blood status & Theseus' war participation are canon. Otherwise it's my fan vision, and all other characters are completely mine.)

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Play-by: Oakes Fegley

CHARACTER'S NAME
Phoenix Levon Scamander

AGE
6-14 years old
* March 7th 1978

BLOOD
Half-blood

HOGWARTS
Ravenclaw

RESIDENCE
7 Walmer Gardens, Ealing, London
* Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour

FAMILY

Father: Theodore Vincent Scamander
* 1945 | pure-blood
~ Auror
~ Animagus - (raven)
~ 190 cm / 100 kg - The additional weight is pure muscle.
~ Dark green eyes, medium brown hair but often dyes them darker.
~ Half-American from mother's side.
[photo] - [photo] - [photo]
Play-by: Chris Pratt
  • Grandmother: Ember Leona Scamander (neé. Kelly)
    * 1895, † 1980 | half-blood
    ~ Healer
  • Grandfather: Theseus Scamander
    * 1893 | pure-blood
    ~ Auror
  • Great-uncle: Newton Artemis Fido Scamander
    * 1896 | pure-blood
    ~ Magizoologist

Mother: Saphira Ella Scamander (neé. Malloye)
* 1943 | muggle-born
~ Business-owner; Owns the Magical Menagerine on Diagon Alley, and a magic shop on Charing Cross Road.
~ 183 cm / 70 kg
~ Dark brown eyes and hair.
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Play-by: Saffron Burrows
  • Grandmother: Melanie Caroline Malloye (neé. Holmes)
    * 1890, † 1980 | muggle
  • Grandfather: Louis Jackson Malloye
    * 1890, † 1975 | muggle

Pets:
~ Gibson - niffler
As an adult 35 cm long  / 3 kg. They have charmed it to appear as a short-tailed chinchilla in the eyes of a muggle.
Gibson as a baby: [photo] - [photo]


APPEARANCE

Hair: Mid-brown / Dark brown
Eyes: Pale blue
Height/Weight: Average for his age.


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PHOTO - PHOTO - PHOTO - PHOTO - PHOTO - [PHOTO]


PERSONALITY

In his early childhood Phoenix was somewhat anti-social, preferring the company of his family rather than his peers unless the other children were also magical. He has nothing against muggles, quite the contrary he's used to muggle life style and has good muggle friends but he likes his wizarding friends' company better because with them he's free to babble about magical creatures which are the love of his life and to play with magical objects.

He's barely interested in muggle school subjects, and tends to skip school upon any chance of a magical adventure or studying magic. Theory lessons are the worst, for him experiencing practical life and things comes much more naturally than listening for long. Besides the career of a Magizoologists he is dreaming of becoming an inventor, to invent some new world-changing magical object – especially as he happens to be a very powerful wizard taking after his father and grandfather.
He hates cleaning which is why he's especially happy that he's usually only responsible for his own bedroom and mum charms their cleaning equipment to clean the rest of the house on their own, except for the bedrooms. He's much messier and lazier among family than when friends or guests are around.

Phoenix hasn't quite accepted the law that everything most exciting in this world must be kept hidden from muggles. He doesn't usually break the secrecy status in terribly grand ways, but likes to feel around his new muggle acquaintances attitudes towards magic and occasionally tries to sneak some small fantastic beasts from his great-uncle's zoo out into the muggle society.

So this boy is a bit rebellious and lazy, but has a calm temper. He usually fights just in self-defence or to defend a loved one, and hasn't thrown many tantrums since age three. He's a leader soul but isn't very good at compromising and doesn't shine in co-operating but very easily ends up doing whatever he himself wants to do, if the opposing person isn't a strong enough authority figure such as his mother. If he doesn't get his will through he usually sulks for hours until gives in or does some more or less unpleasant prank on the person in question.

The scamp enjoys outdoor play and expeditions the most as well as experimental developing of magical objects, and wouldn't stay in bed even when ill. He'd have to be suffering extremely high fever to stay in bed without trouble. Because of his experimenting hobbies he's somewhat frequent patient at St. Mungo's. He's very close with his family members, but most with his mother.

From muggle society's things he's most fascinated by movies, video games, and remote-controlled and robot toys. Non-magical hobbies are photographing with his Polaroid camera, creating board games (often making use of his knowledge about the magical world and fantastic beasts), and football with his friends.


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FAMILY BACKGROUND & LIFE

Both his grandfather Theseus' and father Theodore's blood called for law enforcement and action. Both were very powerful and gifted wizards and ended up studying to become an Auror. Thesues served as an Auror for a couple of years, until the muggle government set conscription and called all men between ages 18 and 40 to serve in the First World War. He wanted to fight for his country and applied for a special permission from the Ministry, and as a respected and accomplished Auror he was granted it but was made sure to receive only non-combatant duties like any other who was legally allowed to aid in that war. After the World War he returned to his Auror career and six years later, as a veteran Auror, he was assigned to help in trying to capture Gellert Grindelwald who was raising war in Continental Europe.

A Global Wizarding War was eventually declared and ended at the same time as the Second World War of muggles. Theseus survived and returned to Britain, bringing with him a wife. A healer he had fallen in love with while in a wizarding hospital for war injuries. She was an american wicth who had left because she did not feel she belonged in the over-controlling wizarding society of United States. Their son was born a few months after the wars ended in 1945. Theodore was his father's son, grew up listening to stories about his father's war heroness and other exciting adventures, inspired to become an Auror himself as well. In 1966, just after graduating from the Auror Academy, in a Christmas party of the Ministry of Magic he met Saphira Malloye, a young witch who worked at the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Although Theo had chosen a career in law enforcement and detection, he loved helping his uncle with studying and caring for magical creatures, on his spare time. Through this common interest he and Saphira befriended each other.

Saphira had, after five years in Hogwarts, returned to a muggle state school and eventually attended a couple of years business school in the muggle society. In 1969 she purchased the pet shop Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley when its founder wanted to retire. Theo was one of his regular customers as he kept a kneazle as a pet, and was falling for the shop's new owner. After four years of dating and eventually living together, in 1974, the couple married but did not wish to bring children into the shadows of yet another war – planning to make a baby after Voldemort one day surely would be defeated.

Someone upstairs had other plans for even though they used two types of birth control, Saprhira found out she was expecting in the summer of 1978. After the initial shock the couple was surprised how excited and happy they felt about it, regardless of everything. Theo's mother got to meet his grandson before unfortunately catching a bad case of Dragon Box while caring for a patient, and lost the battle with it in 1980. As did Saphira's mother who died of old age that same year. Saphira's father never knew his grandson as he'd passed away of old age years before the boy was born.

Around Phoenix's birth Saphira hired more employees for her pet shop, so she could be a stay-at-home mum for a time. Theo continued working as an Auror, as they decided that though the job was extremely dangerous especially during a wizarding war, the more Aurors there were the sooner the war would be over. Saphira did not worry very much because Theo was one of the best Aurors out there and rarely without a partner, but she became over-protective of their little boy. During the last two years of the war she barely took Phoenix out further than their own rare yard and to shop in a nearby convenience store.

She trusted the boy out only with his father or grandfather, which was when Phoenix got to make some muggle and wizarding friends but his social skills were rather weak. Phoenix would have been quite ready to start in a state school at age five when it came to controlling his accidental magic well enough, but his mother wanted to home-school him anyway. The family lived happily and by Phoenix's second school year, in the autumn of 1984, Saphira had relaxed, believed Voldemort was dead, and agreed to register the boy into a state school.

His father gave him a baby niffler as gift for his ninth birthday. A Magical Law Enforcement Officer had saved it during the arrest of a wizard who had illegally bred magical creatures. Theo adopted it, first intending to ask if his uncle would give it a home but decided to gift it to his son who was equally fascinated by magical creatures and had expressed interest in following in his great-uncle's footsteps. Theo reckoned trying to train a niffler might be a fun and fine starting challenge for the boy, though it did live with Newt for the first few months and the initial training was done by Newt so that it would be safe as a house pet and a reasonable challenge for a little boy when it finally arrived home.

Phoenix got support and advice in its care and training from his family, but of course the niffler was mainly the responsibility of his parents. The boy named it Gibson, and managed to train it so that it doesn't attack people in pursuit of sparkly, shiny things but tries to get them by begging or doing tricks. They were not able to completely suppress its natural instincts, which is why their house has a room dedicated to Gibson with a large conteiner of dirt for him to dig in, a water conteiner to bathe in, and full of shiny and sparkly stuff – mainly worthless junk, and they've used to locking their bedroom doors whenever someone isn't in the room so that Gibson wouldn't so easily turn it into a chaotic mess.

Gibson however has during the years gotten used to the fact that their house usually doesn't have anything sparkly anywhere but in his own little treasure space. If somewhere is, it quickly ends up in his treasure pile or inside his pouch. After Gibson arrived the family has always set their Christmas tree outside on their patio and made sure the patio doors are locked.

The locked interior doors and Gibson's love of sparkly things confuse their muggle guests, as all they see and feel is a short-tailed chinchilla. Gibson even has a cage in his room, but it's mainly his toilet for the family doesn't want to imprison it in a tiny space if they don't' have to. They walk it outside in a harness, mainly on their own yard but sometimes Phoenix gets permission to walk it around the neighbourhood.

Saphira had never been excited about a niffler as a pet, but agreed to take it in hopes to encourage her son to pursue the career of a Magizoologist. Rather a niffler as a pet than the boy too choosing the far more dangerous career of an Auror. Although a niffler is a relatively high-maintenance pet, she never really considered making the boy give it up - especially not after losing her husband, at which point to the boy it became also a dear and important memory of his father.

He attended Hogwarts only for two or three years after which his mother home schooled him in magic on weekends. He took his O.W.L. level examinations in 1994. He passed six O.W.Ls, achieved Outstanding grade in three of them; for one in the Care of Magical Creatures - having been especially well trained in it by his great-uncle Newt. Overall he put far more effort in his magical studies than into other school subjects, but his mother saw to it that he passed school terms with acceptable grades so that he would have a proper chance to attend higher education in muggle society if he should ever need or want to.


ALSO

- His father was one of the aurors who caught the Lestranges and Crouch Jr., ending the Longbottoms' torture. Overall he's a very well known and liked auror, one of the top aurors of the Ministry. Thus he was featured in the wizarding newspapers especially lot during the war and a couple of years after when they were rounding up Death Eaters and killing giants.

- His mother owns the pet shop Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley, since 1969.

- In 1985 his mother also purchased a business space from Charing Cross Road,
right across the street from Leaky Cauldron. After receiving permission from the Ministry of Magic, in 1986, she founded a magic shop for muggles and wizardkind, naming it Moody Broomstick.

Of course none of the products for sale (at least on purposes) have direct magical power but are safe in the hands of muggles. While useful for wizards and witches. Such as crystal balls, cauldrons, herbs and many kinds of stuff muggles know about anyway and which do not really work without magical blood in the user's veins. As well as a wide selection of magic related books from muggle authors. In addition to friendly and helpful service she keeps reasonable prices and quality products, so many witches and wizards shop their needs from her. Especially if also interested in a muggle perspective of magic or wishing to avoid the sometimes crowded Diagon Alley.

Saphira advertises in muggle newspapers, as well as in the Daily Prophet and on Leaky Cauldron's notice board. Opening times and other essential details can be found in the shop's own in-game forum's description which is set as a sub-forum in London.


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]]> Characters © Kieran
(Except not the grandfather Theseus and great-uncle Newt who are J.K. Rowling's characters, but only their names, occupations, blood status & Theseus' war participation are canon. Otherwise it's my fan vision, and all other characters are completely mine.)

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Play-by: Oakes Fegley

CHARACTER'S NAME
Phoenix Levon Scamander

AGE
6-14 years old
* March 7th 1978

BLOOD
Half-blood

HOGWARTS
Ravenclaw

RESIDENCE
7 Walmer Gardens, Ealing, London
* Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour

FAMILY

Father: Theodore Vincent Scamander
* 1945 | pure-blood
~ Auror
~ Animagus - (raven)
~ 190 cm / 100 kg - The additional weight is pure muscle.
~ Dark green eyes, medium brown hair but often dyes them darker.
~ Half-American from mother's side.
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Play-by: Chris Pratt
  • Grandmother: Ember Leona Scamander (neé. Kelly)
    * 1895, † 1980 | half-blood
    ~ Healer
  • Grandfather: Theseus Scamander
    * 1893 | pure-blood
    ~ Auror
  • Great-uncle: Newton Artemis Fido Scamander
    * 1896 | pure-blood
    ~ Magizoologist

Mother: Saphira Ella Scamander (neé. Malloye)
* 1943 | muggle-born
~ Business-owner; Owns the Magical Menagerine on Diagon Alley, and a magic shop on Charing Cross Road.
~ 183 cm / 70 kg
~ Dark brown eyes and hair.
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Play-by: Saffron Burrows
  • Grandmother: Melanie Caroline Malloye (neé. Holmes)
    * 1890, † 1980 | muggle
  • Grandfather: Louis Jackson Malloye
    * 1890, † 1975 | muggle

Pets:
~ Gibson - niffler
As an adult 35 cm long  / 3 kg. They have charmed it to appear as a short-tailed chinchilla in the eyes of a muggle.
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APPEARANCE

Hair: Mid-brown / Dark brown
Eyes: Pale blue
Height/Weight: Average for his age.


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PERSONALITY

In his early childhood Phoenix was somewhat anti-social, preferring the company of his family rather than his peers unless the other children were also magical. He has nothing against muggles, quite the contrary he's used to muggle life style and has good muggle friends but he likes his wizarding friends' company better because with them he's free to babble about magical creatures which are the love of his life and to play with magical objects.

He's barely interested in muggle school subjects, and tends to skip school upon any chance of a magical adventure or studying magic. Theory lessons are the worst, for him experiencing practical life and things comes much more naturally than listening for long. Besides the career of a Magizoologists he is dreaming of becoming an inventor, to invent some new world-changing magical object – especially as he happens to be a very powerful wizard taking after his father and grandfather.
He hates cleaning which is why he's especially happy that he's usually only responsible for his own bedroom and mum charms their cleaning equipment to clean the rest of the house on their own, except for the bedrooms. He's much messier and lazier among family than when friends or guests are around.

Phoenix hasn't quite accepted the law that everything most exciting in this world must be kept hidden from muggles. He doesn't usually break the secrecy status in terribly grand ways, but likes to feel around his new muggle acquaintances attitudes towards magic and occasionally tries to sneak some small fantastic beasts from his great-uncle's zoo out into the muggle society.

So this boy is a bit rebellious and lazy, but has a calm temper. He usually fights just in self-defence or to defend a loved one, and hasn't thrown many tantrums since age three. He's a leader soul but isn't very good at compromising and doesn't shine in co-operating but very easily ends up doing whatever he himself wants to do, if the opposing person isn't a strong enough authority figure such as his mother. If he doesn't get his will through he usually sulks for hours until gives in or does some more or less unpleasant prank on the person in question.

The scamp enjoys outdoor play and expeditions the most as well as experimental developing of magical objects, and wouldn't stay in bed even when ill. He'd have to be suffering extremely high fever to stay in bed without trouble. Because of his experimenting hobbies he's somewhat frequent patient at St. Mungo's. He's very close with his family members, but most with his mother.

From muggle society's things he's most fascinated by movies, video games, and remote-controlled and robot toys. Non-magical hobbies are photographing with his Polaroid camera, creating board games (often making use of his knowledge about the magical world and fantastic beasts), and football with his friends.


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FAMILY BACKGROUND & LIFE

Both his grandfather Theseus' and father Theodore's blood called for law enforcement and action. Both were very powerful and gifted wizards and ended up studying to become an Auror. Thesues served as an Auror for a couple of years, until the muggle government set conscription and called all men between ages 18 and 40 to serve in the First World War. He wanted to fight for his country and applied for a special permission from the Ministry, and as a respected and accomplished Auror he was granted it but was made sure to receive only non-combatant duties like any other who was legally allowed to aid in that war. After the World War he returned to his Auror career and six years later, as a veteran Auror, he was assigned to help in trying to capture Gellert Grindelwald who was raising war in Continental Europe.

A Global Wizarding War was eventually declared and ended at the same time as the Second World War of muggles. Theseus survived and returned to Britain, bringing with him a wife. A healer he had fallen in love with while in a wizarding hospital for war injuries. She was an american wicth who had left because she did not feel she belonged in the over-controlling wizarding society of United States. Their son was born a few months after the wars ended in 1945. Theodore was his father's son, grew up listening to stories about his father's war heroness and other exciting adventures, inspired to become an Auror himself as well. In 1966, just after graduating from the Auror Academy, in a Christmas party of the Ministry of Magic he met Saphira Malloye, a young witch who worked at the Department for Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Although Theo had chosen a career in law enforcement and detection, he loved helping his uncle with studying and caring for magical creatures, on his spare time. Through this common interest he and Saphira befriended each other.

Saphira had, after five years in Hogwarts, returned to a muggle state school and eventually attended a couple of years business school in the muggle society. In 1969 she purchased the pet shop Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley when its founder wanted to retire. Theo was one of his regular customers as he kept a kneazle as a pet, and was falling for the shop's new owner. After four years of dating and eventually living together, in 1974, the couple married but did not wish to bring children into the shadows of yet another war – planning to make a baby after Voldemort one day surely would be defeated.

Someone upstairs had other plans for even though they used two types of birth control, Saprhira found out she was expecting in the summer of 1978. After the initial shock the couple was surprised how excited and happy they felt about it, regardless of everything. Theo's mother got to meet his grandson before unfortunately catching a bad case of Dragon Box while caring for a patient, and lost the battle with it in 1980. As did Saphira's mother who died of old age that same year. Saphira's father never knew his grandson as he'd passed away of old age years before the boy was born.

Around Phoenix's birth Saphira hired more employees for her pet shop, so she could be a stay-at-home mum for a time. Theo continued working as an Auror, as they decided that though the job was extremely dangerous especially during a wizarding war, the more Aurors there were the sooner the war would be over. Saphira did not worry very much because Theo was one of the best Aurors out there and rarely without a partner, but she became over-protective of their little boy. During the last two years of the war she barely took Phoenix out further than their own rare yard and to shop in a nearby convenience store.

She trusted the boy out only with his father or grandfather, which was when Phoenix got to make some muggle and wizarding friends but his social skills were rather weak. Phoenix would have been quite ready to start in a state school at age five when it came to controlling his accidental magic well enough, but his mother wanted to home-school him anyway. The family lived happily and by Phoenix's second school year, in the autumn of 1984, Saphira had relaxed, believed Voldemort was dead, and agreed to register the boy into a state school.

His father gave him a baby niffler as gift for his ninth birthday. A Magical Law Enforcement Officer had saved it during the arrest of a wizard who had illegally bred magical creatures. Theo adopted it, first intending to ask if his uncle would give it a home but decided to gift it to his son who was equally fascinated by magical creatures and had expressed interest in following in his great-uncle's footsteps. Theo reckoned trying to train a niffler might be a fun and fine starting challenge for the boy, though it did live with Newt for the first few months and the initial training was done by Newt so that it would be safe as a house pet and a reasonable challenge for a little boy when it finally arrived home.

Phoenix got support and advice in its care and training from his family, but of course the niffler was mainly the responsibility of his parents. The boy named it Gibson, and managed to train it so that it doesn't attack people in pursuit of sparkly, shiny things but tries to get them by begging or doing tricks. They were not able to completely suppress its natural instincts, which is why their house has a room dedicated to Gibson with a large conteiner of dirt for him to dig in, a water conteiner to bathe in, and full of shiny and sparkly stuff – mainly worthless junk, and they've used to locking their bedroom doors whenever someone isn't in the room so that Gibson wouldn't so easily turn it into a chaotic mess.

Gibson however has during the years gotten used to the fact that their house usually doesn't have anything sparkly anywhere but in his own little treasure space. If somewhere is, it quickly ends up in his treasure pile or inside his pouch. After Gibson arrived the family has always set their Christmas tree outside on their patio and made sure the patio doors are locked.

The locked interior doors and Gibson's love of sparkly things confuse their muggle guests, as all they see and feel is a short-tailed chinchilla. Gibson even has a cage in his room, but it's mainly his toilet for the family doesn't want to imprison it in a tiny space if they don't' have to. They walk it outside in a harness, mainly on their own yard but sometimes Phoenix gets permission to walk it around the neighbourhood.

Saphira had never been excited about a niffler as a pet, but agreed to take it in hopes to encourage her son to pursue the career of a Magizoologist. Rather a niffler as a pet than the boy too choosing the far more dangerous career of an Auror. Although a niffler is a relatively high-maintenance pet, she never really considered making the boy give it up - especially not after losing her husband, at which point to the boy it became also a dear and important memory of his father.

He attended Hogwarts only for two or three years after which his mother home schooled him in magic on weekends. He took his O.W.L. level examinations in 1994. He passed six O.W.Ls, achieved Outstanding grade in three of them; for one in the Care of Magical Creatures - having been especially well trained in it by his great-uncle Newt. Overall he put far more effort in his magical studies than into other school subjects, but his mother saw to it that he passed school terms with acceptable grades so that he would have a proper chance to attend higher education in muggle society if he should ever need or want to.


ALSO

- His father was one of the aurors who caught the Lestranges and Crouch Jr., ending the Longbottoms' torture. Overall he's a very well known and liked auror, one of the top aurors of the Ministry. Thus he was featured in the wizarding newspapers especially lot during the war and a couple of years after when they were rounding up Death Eaters and killing giants.

- His mother owns the pet shop Magical Menagerie on Diagon Alley, since 1969.

- In 1985 his mother also purchased a business space from Charing Cross Road,
right across the street from Leaky Cauldron. After receiving permission from the Ministry of Magic, in 1986, she founded a magic shop for muggles and wizardkind, naming it Moody Broomstick.

Of course none of the products for sale (at least on purposes) have direct magical power but are safe in the hands of muggles. While useful for wizards and witches. Such as crystal balls, cauldrons, herbs and many kinds of stuff muggles know about anyway and which do not really work without magical blood in the user's veins. As well as a wide selection of magic related books from muggle authors. In addition to friendly and helpful service she keeps reasonable prices and quality products, so many witches and wizards shop their needs from her. Especially if also interested in a muggle perspective of magic or wishing to avoid the sometimes crowded Diagon Alley.

Saphira advertises in muggle newspapers, as well as in the Daily Prophet and on Leaky Cauldron's notice board. Opening times and other essential details can be found in the shop's own in-game forum's description which is set as a sub-forum in London.


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]]> <![CDATA[KING, Stephen Hunter]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=76 Thu, 19 May 2016 14:51:29 +0000 Stephen Hunter King]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=76 Character & its info © Kieran
Play-by: Declan Galbraith


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CHARACTER'S NAME
Stephen Hunter King

NICKNAMES
None as for now, but from 04/1987 onward he goes by his middle name.

AGE/BIRTH DATE
4-12 years old (20.2.1980)

HOGWARTS HOUSE
Hufflepuff (1991-1992)

BLOOD STATUS
Half-blood / Werewolf

WAND
Dogwood, unicorn tail hair, 30 cm, semi-flexible.

RESIDENCE
~ Kingsley Avenue, Sutton, Surrey/London, England (June 1985 onwards.)
--> Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour


FAMILY

Father: Jacob Aaron King - * 30.7.1951
Mother: Carrie Isabelle Cooper * 1.10.1951
Sister: Freya Emilia King - * 17.7.1982, (squib)
Uncle: Benjamin King - * 2.3.1954, (was abducted at age 5)
Great-grandfather: Stephen King - †† 1969
Godfather: Daniel Jonah Potter (née. Giles) - * 1951
Godmother: Julie Michelle Potter - * 1951, muggle


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APPEARANCE

Height / Weight: From age 9 he's a fe inches shorter and lighter than the average kid his age, making him appear a few years younger than he is. He hits puberty late so at age 16 he looks and sounds like 13.

He has a friendly face which is decorated by a well-suiting nose, and often also by (in many people's opinion cute/charming) smile and dimples. His ears are big.

~ His hair is so dark brown that it appears to be black unless he's wearing something or standing next to something actually black. His hair is usually done in a swishy or spiky style. It's always somewhat short from the back, it could never be put in a pony-tail.

~ Lashes are long, and the eyes are intense –- that is they seem bottomless. Most often they appear brown with a touch of green, in some lights it's the other way around. But, when looked at very closely they turn out to be multi-coloured; strong brown circle around the iris, the rest is greyish-green and on the left side of this area there's a strong blue stripe going around two thirds of it.

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Wolf form:
~ Completely black fur coat, blue eyes, and looks like a normal wolf.
- Sometimes, if he really wills it, on a full moon night he can trigger minor transformations (such as eye colour change, claw-like nails, longer fangs) and then erase them, a few hours before the involuntary transformation.
- He is cured at age 13, so he doesn't have the time to grow into a full-grown werewolf.
He is just the size of a big wolf cub; (age 7) 50 cm / 20 kg – (age 10) 60 cm / 28 kg – (age 12) 70cm / 35 kg.

VOICE

~  The texture of his speaking voice is warm, and he speaks quite softly but not too quietly. There's a feel to the sound of his voice, some might say his pre-pubescent voice sounds cute. It's pre-pubescent until Hunter's 16.

~ His pre-pubescent and early-puberty singing voice is truly pleasant, and it's remarkably strong. It's clear as a bell, pitch-perfect, and he hits even the highest notes effortlessly. Usually he holds a tune very well, but he may struggle a bit at it if he tries to sing in early hours of the morning when his voice hasn't opened much even to just talking or if his throat is sore or has a confused state of mind. When he sings his British accent almost completely disappears, pushing through only occasionally while mostly he sounds like an American singer. He's not trying though, it just happens.


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PERSONALITY

Hunter is social and positive person; adventurous, very curious and spirited, stubborn, resourceful and has a rich imagination. He also loves pranking and arguing. He's easily pulled into deep discussions (relative to his age at the time), and he's happy to share his opinions and attitudes.

He tries to be polite towards everyone but doesn't always remember or care about manners. He doesn't get offended easily for he has high self-esteem and laid-back attitude about life. But he has a vengeful side so if he gets real mad at you, you might want to watch out for a more or less cruel "prank". However, usually he settles scores in a rather boyish/childlike manner and is quite a sweet kid in social terms. It's around full moon when some of his unpleasant characteristics may get especially surfaced, though not every time.

He doesn't cry very easily in front of strangers and friends, but channels his hurt through violence or questionable pranks. Before the werewolf, instead of the latter mentioned he often talked about whatever was bothering him. After that it soon takes a patient and trust-stirring being and attitude to get anything out of the boy in talking terms. Hunter  does not trust women as much as he does men. The only person he trusts unreservedly is his father, who is to him the most important person in life and they've very close relationship. But we all have things we can't share with anyone.
All in all, family is the most important thing to him.

Generally taken Hunter respects teachers and other adults, but also forgets it easily when in the middle of pranking or a heated argument. This young man breaks rules often, but not as if he necessarily wanted to or because it's fun but because it just happens when he has fun— and he may not care much. As for school work—, it's enough for him to pass with satisfactory grades. Reading for tests and doing bigger homework assignments he usually doesn't bother until a couple of days before the deadline, at the earliest. But the boy's memory is good and he takes in new information quickly. And during lessons something's bound to stick even accidentally, which in most subjects is enough to achieve the grades he cares to, sometimes even better. Into just about anything else he usually puts full effort and lots of feeling. Except maybe cleaning.

Pranking is one of Hunter's greatest joys in life, but he doesn't do it every day nor just anything. He pranks actively, but doesn't want it to lose influence or glamour. Sometimes there may be even a couple of weeks without any pranks whatsoever, but then he might be planning on a bigger one. His pranks are usually funny, creative and relatively harmless, but sometimes they cross the line of good taste by miles or even get dangerous. Such a prank once got him suspended from his primary school. He aims at originality, but appreciates also the classics.

Hunter was very compassionate and caring at first, but the years of the wolf slowly change him and eventually when it comes to strangers and not-so-close friends, reaching such emotion requires more time or more significant event. This may also source from what the infection did to his family and what happened that night when he was bitten.

He shares his mother's passion for movies and reading, but unlike her, his favourite genre is horror. Throughout the years, even as a child, he's secretly watched at least glimpses or horror movies and books targeted at teenagers and adults. These combined with the wolf's effects have him sometimes ponder what it would feel like to one night skip a potion, run away and kill a human being. For years he's very much in love with his werewolf curse.

His onset of puberty is delayed for almost a year seeing to even the latest of the late bloomers, so during his teenage years Hunter has social and some self-esteem problems. It's not always easy to be a teenager but still appear like a little kid.

Interests/hobbies:

Outdoor play, physical education (the school subject), camping, baseball and European football - (plays in his school's football team), animals, horror genre/stuff in general, Batman, Star Wars, singing, video games and board games, Matchbox cars - (collects them), RC cars and aeroplanes (toy versions), dinosaurs, exploring, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books...Other favourite books are ie. The Lord of the Rings, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Kazan (by James Oliver Curwood), and Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King. Favourite animal: wolf.

Habits:

- singing in the shower, silly songs like "Singing in the Rain" or a parody song based on an existing song. Either making it up himself or something he's heard from someone else.
- jumping into a huge pile of leaves if he spots one, and wading in them on the side of a street because it feels and sounds fun. Even as an adult.
- cheating a free bus drive on cold or rainy days on the way to school or back from school or otherwise while hanging around the town.


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HISTORY

His mum and dad met a few years before he was born, in a very dramatic and traumatic situation that was a major contributor to his relationship troubles with his mother since birth, and to his family later breaking apart. Hie was born 09:00 on a February morning 1980, in a hospital in Wandsworth, London.
He wasn't planned, but not really unwanted either. Whereas his father Jacob eventually felt that he was ready to be a dad, as the boy grew a bit older his mother Carrie came to conclusion that she's not very maternal for several reasons and so Jacob became the primary care giver to their by that time two children.

When the boy was almost 2-years old his parents took a break, remaining close friends and under the same roof, sharing custody of him. But only a couple of months later Carrie found out she's expecting another of Jacob's children and soon they got back together and Hunter was blessed with a little sister. Freya was mostly well-behaved child who rather focused on arts and listening to stories. The siblings were too different to ever form an especially close bond. However, Hunter does feel protective over her and wants to gain some sort of hero status in her eyes, like dad has in his what with his cool and important job as a police officer.

For the first couple of years he spent most of his time with a stay-at-home mum, but never formed a real mother-son bond with her. Carrie didn't have enough authority in her and there were several deeply impacting events in her life making it difficult for her to be a mum. After the birth of his sister their father took a career break to become a stay-at-home dad for a time and their mum returned to work life. When he was five, his family moved to South London. Into a house with large yards, a garage and that was located on a quiet suburban street in Sutton which had a lot of green areas and one of the lowest crime rates in London - a town considered to be one of the best places to raise children. A town where his father had roots and fond memories, as well as bad ones after losing his parents and brother in childhood but was happy to make new ones with his second family.

Hunter was home schooled until age seven, for several reasons; he wasn't yet mature enough for full-blown school life at age five, his father felt a 5-year old is anyway too young for that, and because his father would never allow other people (except the mother) to apply corporal punishment on his children but back then cp was a common and legal practice in schools. Fortunately it was made illegal just in time when life forced them to register their kids to a state school in the autumn of 1987.

In early 1987 Hunter started to dig into horror genre more deeply and especially everything supernatural fascinated him greatly. When he heard from his wizard friends that there really were such things as werewolves, he absolutely wanted to see one with his own eyes. Were they really those cool muscular monsters walking on two feet or something else entirely? On the next full moon night, as they were vacationing in Scotland, he sneaked out of the window and made his then 4-year old sister tag along, because he wanted to show her how brave he could be, and to protect someone in a dangerous situation (just like dad.) The siblings wandered for hours on the streets of the small town but found nothing. Finally Freya's pleas to go back were heard, but on the way they got more than they were prepared for.

A werewolf found them, a muggle who had a chance to and taken Wolfsbane potion for years but gone mad from the curse. Being provided with two young delicious smelling victims he couldn't decide which one to eat first so he bit the boy and then attacked the girl. Her scream shook Hunter out of the shock and before the wolf could physically harm Freya who had managed to hide in a barn, Hunter had succeeded to chop off its front paw with a small axe he'd found on the yard.
Barely, with the strength of a distressed and badly wounded 7-year old. The children survived without further injuries and found their way back to their room. The werewolf might have returned to revenge the lost limb, but being wounded like that turned him into a victim of a werewolf hunter that same night.

Hunter didn't dare to tell his parents what had happened, didn't really even know how he could possibly explain all that, and made his sister vow to keep the secret as well. He had her believe that she'd be just as much in trouble as he, if she'd tell on him. But he couldn't hide his wound for long, - although he did clean it well at first, it started to get infected for lack of further proper care. He claimed he'd been feeding a stray dog and it'd bit him but that he hadn't told because he didn't want any trouble for the poor doggie. Of course his lie was revealed in a couple of weeks, when his behaviour started to be alarming and aggressive during the week leading up to the full moon. Still he didn't tell the whole truth but claimed he was out alone and had escaped with the help of some man.

By the full moon night they had begun to build an extra room into the basement, where a wild and angry little wolf cub soon raged and howled. Hunter was still locked in during the next full moon, even though he had taken Wolfsbane Potion every night. Jacob didn't quite trust that even any magic potion would calm his spirited son, and accidents could happen. Jacob also started studying everything he could find on werewolves, in hopes to find a cure. But he couldn't find anything that would work, while some claimed cures were out of the question and completely senseless with their brutality.

Initially Hunter was terrified, but soon after the first transformation he got totally excited about the curse as a huge horror fan. He insisted to be called by his middle name from then on. His mother refused and kept on calling him Stephen, even though it most often wasn't answered to. Even with all the precautions and the fact that this was her little boy, Carrie couldn't take it for long.

The parents came to decision that living under the same roof would not work for long anymore. There had been other problems between them as a couple, which made the decision to move apart and go on a break from the relationship, much easier. To make it easier on the children, they gave up shared custody and Jacob became a single parent.

Of course Jacob didn't tell all the reasons for Carrie's moving out and eventually absence, as the children were way too young to hear such stories and especially the boy's psyche should be cared for now more than ever. He said something about grown-ups sometimes having problems to which the only solution was to live apart for a time, and that mum and dad still loved each other very much, perhaps just in a different way than before. Carrie was supposed to keep in contact by phone and meet the kids too, after getting her life on track in Little Whinging where she'd moved back into her childhood home. But the plan didn't go quite as well as was intended.

Jacob tried to keep the kids in after-school clubs, but Hunter was often asked to leave and not return, for pranks that got out of hand. On fourth grade he got suspended for two months from his primary school, for a thoughtless prank that nearly cost a girl's life. His teachers encouraged him to aim at a career as a singer, as he truly has the talent, but it never interested him that much. But he loved singing and practiced voice control for one in music class at school and with the help of his godmother. He just needs a job where he can use his hands and resourcefulness.

Time passed, and Freya really began to miss their mother as she no longer had a close female role model in her life.– Their godmother was there actively and she loved her but could not be in their daily life, and Freya had been a mummy's girl whereas Hunter's always been a daddy's boy. They still didn't know the truth but Freya started to blame her brother for their mother's abandonment as they both had figured it had something to do with werewolves. Hunter didn't mind her absence all that much—, just that she didn't keep any contact and he wondered why. But he didn't like being blamed for something he had no power over, and he liked his mother enough to feel that disappearing like that wasn't fair. This situation had the siblings grow more distant and caused increasing quarrelling and fights.

At age 9 Hunter's growth had slowed down too much seeing to the original rate and seeing to the estimated adult height based on the parents' heights, so he was tested but nothing abnormal was found.
The matter was let go as the boy was healthy and otherwise developing normally, and even the growth rate was well within normal range. Within another year the rate had again dropped remarkably -– now to the lowest percents of the normal range, and the 10-year old boy was tested even more, yet still nothing was found. This had Jacob and Carrie believe that the cause was the werewolf infection of which muggles just couldn't find any traces because of the Wolfsbane potion.

As the boy was still very young, his parents and doctors tried not to worry too much –- as long as the growth rate wouldn't drop any more. At this point, as the wolf neared its puberty, the boys growth rate started to pick up but because of the Wolfsbane potion it remained relatively slow, raising it only to a normal growth rate of a pre-pubescent child. He remained on the low limit of normal range because he'd grown abnormally slowly for so long and the wolf was gone by the time he himself hit puberty. That too had him want some tests to be done but the results came out with nothing alarming, and his parents believed the wolf's years contributing to this as well. But partially it might have been hereditary as the boy wasn't the only one with delayed puberty in their family tree.

On a full moon night just before his tenth birthday, when his father was working on overtime, Hunter gave in to his desire to know the wolf. Secretly he'd skipped one Wolfsbane Potion that week and eventually ran away on the full moon night, letting the wolf free. However, his intentions were not to harm anyone. A lot of drama happened that night even before the transformation, and it lead him and his sister to a nearby police station (though not the one where their father worked.) Fortunately these events lead his father to learn about the real level of danger just in time and thus he was able to chase the wolf down before it could do in or infect any people. There was a victim however, a poor almost defensless German Shepherd. The wolf itself was nearly killed by a werewolf hunter.
Here is a completed one-shot story about that night I've written a few years ago, in case you're interested to read more about it.

At this point his mother returned into their life, although wasn't yet able to move back into the same house with a werewolf. Carrie and Jacob's relationship began to warm up and deepen again, until around Christmas 1990 they got back together and in the summer of 1991 she moved back in.

Hunter attended Hogwarts in the year 1991-1992, but dropped out for several reasons; his parents felt that he needs to be home more if they ever hope him and his mother's relationship to get better, in the summer of 1992 Hunter bit his little sister on a full moon night (but fortunately his transformation wasn't quite complete so she didn't get infected, just got a wolfish trait), Hunter's dreams and goals weighted more towards the muggle society's job selections, and Jacob felt like Dumbledore might be losing grip on the security of the school. What with having a vicious three-headed dog right in the middle of the castle without any sort of a lock or protection spell in the door to prevent children from entering, rumours of a detention in the Dark Forest without proper adult supervision/protection, trolls in the basement and finally the rumour of Voldemort and Harry's battle. Although Jacob doesn't think there was much Dumbledore could've done about Voldemort's arrival...but the other things are an entirely different matter.

So, although they took good care of his boy in Hogwarts and he appreciated the tolerance and kindness shown by even letting him in, Jacob decided that for every possible reason it would be better for the boy to attend a muggle secondary school and spending the rest of the time near his family. It was anyway originally intended that Hunter would drop out after three years at the most, because his father didn't think it good idea for him to grow up in a boarding school largely raised by other people, given his mental state and questionable attitude/love when it comes to werewolves, which Jacob told Dumbledore already the previous summer when he and Hunter met the headmaster privately in order to discuss the matter of a werewolf possibly attending Hogwarts.
So when Hunter dropped out they just sent a normal letter about it to professor McGonigall and then a personal letter to Dumbledore, to thank him and the staff for the education and care.

While at Hogwarts, Hunter drank Wolfsbane Potion obediently and properly every month although he did dream that he could find a way to remember the night and control the wolf without it. But he wasn't stupid - there'd be no way he could tamper with the potion without getting caught. He'd have to wait until he's grown-up and living on his own. Every full moon week at random points of a day he visited his Head of House's, professor Snape's office, to take the potion.

Hunter is cured from the werewolf infection on March 8th, 1993. (This cure is not canon/official but purely my vision.)
It happened on the morning after an extreme Supermoon. His mother decided to take another step in trying to survive her trauma, especially as she'd always felt bad that she can't even handle her own child's werewolf infection and can't support Jacob in trying to keep the boy's mental health about it in check. So the family makes a plan for Carrie to watch him transform into a wolf in the same room but Carrie backed away at the last minutes, for that night. Especially as Hunter's attitude about it wasn't the best either - he would've liked to bully/scare her after the transformation. So the boy was sent to the basement room as usual.

But in the morning just before six and when Hunter was still awake, she went to watch the transformation back into human form as it felt a bit easier and still something that would help her forward. As she sincerely talked to him about hoping to build a better and stronger relationship with him, she unintentionally used his birth name, Stephen, for she was thinking of times long past when it still was his everyday name.
The boy couldn't speak of course, but in gestures let her know it would be okay to talk, until finally the transformation process drew him into a coma-like state for a few moments as it always did when going back to human form. The next full moon came and went without any symptoms at all. And so did all the rest of his life.

Hunter did not like the cure at all an let it show and be heard in many ways...And for a time he blamed his mum and a little bit his dad too -– not as if he'd had any inkling of what happened but because he knew his mum had always had issues with werewolves and had just last night talked about wanting a better relationship with him. And dad had tried to find a cure since day one. Maybe they'd managed to do something.

As the months went by he started to believe that no one knew what had cured him. And little by little to appreciate the fact that he no longer had to endure the indescribably painful transformation every month or drink the horridly disgusting potion seven times a month. But he didn't quite know what to do with himself now that he'd have to grow up as a normal human being, for his most clear memories were from the years of the wolf as he'd been infected at such a young age.

He lost his all-year-round super-heightened senses and could not do the things he'd planned to as an adult werewolf. And he felt as if he'd lost a friend, a dark and dangerous but to him one that was "important”". For a time he felt a bit empty without the wolf inside waking up once a month, bringing tension and extra excitement.

As time went by the difficulties to let go lead him into thoughtless and dangerous choices, but in the end...although the years of the wolf changed him somewhat as a person, he finds his place and starts to notice and acknowledge the positive things about humanity that he might have missed as a werewolf.

In time Hunter gets over it, maybe is even grateful, but will always miss and fondly recall some aspects about being a werewolf. He'll never change his name back to Stephen although always keeps it in the official papers. He's too used to being called by his middle name and wants to keep it as a memory from another life.


MISC
  • PATRONUS

    a horse

  • STRENGTHS IN MAGIC:

    Charms, Potions and Transfigurations. Having inherited these strengths and been practising for half a year prior to Hogwarts, when at school he's more advanced than the average peer - except in potions which require also lots of patience and concentration.


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]]> Character & its info © Kieran
Play-by: Declan Galbraith


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CHARACTER'S NAME
Stephen Hunter King

NICKNAMES
None as for now, but from 04/1987 onward he goes by his middle name.

AGE/BIRTH DATE
4-12 years old (20.2.1980)

HOGWARTS HOUSE
Hufflepuff (1991-1992)

BLOOD STATUS
Half-blood / Werewolf

WAND
Dogwood, unicorn tail hair, 30 cm, semi-flexible.

RESIDENCE
~ Kingsley Avenue, Sutton, Surrey/London, England (June 1985 onwards.)
--> Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour


FAMILY

Father: Jacob Aaron King - * 30.7.1951
Mother: Carrie Isabelle Cooper * 1.10.1951
Sister: Freya Emilia King - * 17.7.1982, (squib)
Uncle: Benjamin King - * 2.3.1954, (was abducted at age 5)
Great-grandfather: Stephen King - †† 1969
Godfather: Daniel Jonah Potter (née. Giles) - * 1951
Godmother: Julie Michelle Potter - * 1951, muggle


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APPEARANCE

Height / Weight: From age 9 he's a fe inches shorter and lighter than the average kid his age, making him appear a few years younger than he is. He hits puberty late so at age 16 he looks and sounds like 13.

He has a friendly face which is decorated by a well-suiting nose, and often also by (in many people's opinion cute/charming) smile and dimples. His ears are big.

~ His hair is so dark brown that it appears to be black unless he's wearing something or standing next to something actually black. His hair is usually done in a swishy or spiky style. It's always somewhat short from the back, it could never be put in a pony-tail.

~ Lashes are long, and the eyes are intense –- that is they seem bottomless. Most often they appear brown with a touch of green, in some lights it's the other way around. But, when looked at very closely they turn out to be multi-coloured; strong brown circle around the iris, the rest is greyish-green and on the left side of this area there's a strong blue stripe going around two thirds of it.

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Wolf form:
~ Completely black fur coat, blue eyes, and looks like a normal wolf.
- Sometimes, if he really wills it, on a full moon night he can trigger minor transformations (such as eye colour change, claw-like nails, longer fangs) and then erase them, a few hours before the involuntary transformation.
- He is cured at age 13, so he doesn't have the time to grow into a full-grown werewolf.
He is just the size of a big wolf cub; (age 7) 50 cm / 20 kg – (age 10) 60 cm / 28 kg – (age 12) 70cm / 35 kg.

VOICE

~  The texture of his speaking voice is warm, and he speaks quite softly but not too quietly. There's a feel to the sound of his voice, some might say his pre-pubescent voice sounds cute. It's pre-pubescent until Hunter's 16.

~ His pre-pubescent and early-puberty singing voice is truly pleasant, and it's remarkably strong. It's clear as a bell, pitch-perfect, and he hits even the highest notes effortlessly. Usually he holds a tune very well, but he may struggle a bit at it if he tries to sing in early hours of the morning when his voice hasn't opened much even to just talking or if his throat is sore or has a confused state of mind. When he sings his British accent almost completely disappears, pushing through only occasionally while mostly he sounds like an American singer. He's not trying though, it just happens.


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PERSONALITY

Hunter is social and positive person; adventurous, very curious and spirited, stubborn, resourceful and has a rich imagination. He also loves pranking and arguing. He's easily pulled into deep discussions (relative to his age at the time), and he's happy to share his opinions and attitudes.

He tries to be polite towards everyone but doesn't always remember or care about manners. He doesn't get offended easily for he has high self-esteem and laid-back attitude about life. But he has a vengeful side so if he gets real mad at you, you might want to watch out for a more or less cruel "prank". However, usually he settles scores in a rather boyish/childlike manner and is quite a sweet kid in social terms. It's around full moon when some of his unpleasant characteristics may get especially surfaced, though not every time.

He doesn't cry very easily in front of strangers and friends, but channels his hurt through violence or questionable pranks. Before the werewolf, instead of the latter mentioned he often talked about whatever was bothering him. After that it soon takes a patient and trust-stirring being and attitude to get anything out of the boy in talking terms. Hunter  does not trust women as much as he does men. The only person he trusts unreservedly is his father, who is to him the most important person in life and they've very close relationship. But we all have things we can't share with anyone.
All in all, family is the most important thing to him.

Generally taken Hunter respects teachers and other adults, but also forgets it easily when in the middle of pranking or a heated argument. This young man breaks rules often, but not as if he necessarily wanted to or because it's fun but because it just happens when he has fun— and he may not care much. As for school work—, it's enough for him to pass with satisfactory grades. Reading for tests and doing bigger homework assignments he usually doesn't bother until a couple of days before the deadline, at the earliest. But the boy's memory is good and he takes in new information quickly. And during lessons something's bound to stick even accidentally, which in most subjects is enough to achieve the grades he cares to, sometimes even better. Into just about anything else he usually puts full effort and lots of feeling. Except maybe cleaning.

Pranking is one of Hunter's greatest joys in life, but he doesn't do it every day nor just anything. He pranks actively, but doesn't want it to lose influence or glamour. Sometimes there may be even a couple of weeks without any pranks whatsoever, but then he might be planning on a bigger one. His pranks are usually funny, creative and relatively harmless, but sometimes they cross the line of good taste by miles or even get dangerous. Such a prank once got him suspended from his primary school. He aims at originality, but appreciates also the classics.

Hunter was very compassionate and caring at first, but the years of the wolf slowly change him and eventually when it comes to strangers and not-so-close friends, reaching such emotion requires more time or more significant event. This may also source from what the infection did to his family and what happened that night when he was bitten.

He shares his mother's passion for movies and reading, but unlike her, his favourite genre is horror. Throughout the years, even as a child, he's secretly watched at least glimpses or horror movies and books targeted at teenagers and adults. These combined with the wolf's effects have him sometimes ponder what it would feel like to one night skip a potion, run away and kill a human being. For years he's very much in love with his werewolf curse.

His onset of puberty is delayed for almost a year seeing to even the latest of the late bloomers, so during his teenage years Hunter has social and some self-esteem problems. It's not always easy to be a teenager but still appear like a little kid.

Interests/hobbies:

Outdoor play, physical education (the school subject), camping, baseball and European football - (plays in his school's football team), animals, horror genre/stuff in general, Batman, Star Wars, singing, video games and board games, Matchbox cars - (collects them), RC cars and aeroplanes (toy versions), dinosaurs, exploring, R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books...Other favourite books are ie. The Lord of the Rings, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Kazan (by James Oliver Curwood), and Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King. Favourite animal: wolf.

Habits:

- singing in the shower, silly songs like "Singing in the Rain" or a parody song based on an existing song. Either making it up himself or something he's heard from someone else.
- jumping into a huge pile of leaves if he spots one, and wading in them on the side of a street because it feels and sounds fun. Even as an adult.
- cheating a free bus drive on cold or rainy days on the way to school or back from school or otherwise while hanging around the town.


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HISTORY

His mum and dad met a few years before he was born, in a very dramatic and traumatic situation that was a major contributor to his relationship troubles with his mother since birth, and to his family later breaking apart. Hie was born 09:00 on a February morning 1980, in a hospital in Wandsworth, London.
He wasn't planned, but not really unwanted either. Whereas his father Jacob eventually felt that he was ready to be a dad, as the boy grew a bit older his mother Carrie came to conclusion that she's not very maternal for several reasons and so Jacob became the primary care giver to their by that time two children.

When the boy was almost 2-years old his parents took a break, remaining close friends and under the same roof, sharing custody of him. But only a couple of months later Carrie found out she's expecting another of Jacob's children and soon they got back together and Hunter was blessed with a little sister. Freya was mostly well-behaved child who rather focused on arts and listening to stories. The siblings were too different to ever form an especially close bond. However, Hunter does feel protective over her and wants to gain some sort of hero status in her eyes, like dad has in his what with his cool and important job as a police officer.

For the first couple of years he spent most of his time with a stay-at-home mum, but never formed a real mother-son bond with her. Carrie didn't have enough authority in her and there were several deeply impacting events in her life making it difficult for her to be a mum. After the birth of his sister their father took a career break to become a stay-at-home dad for a time and their mum returned to work life. When he was five, his family moved to South London. Into a house with large yards, a garage and that was located on a quiet suburban street in Sutton which had a lot of green areas and one of the lowest crime rates in London - a town considered to be one of the best places to raise children. A town where his father had roots and fond memories, as well as bad ones after losing his parents and brother in childhood but was happy to make new ones with his second family.

Hunter was home schooled until age seven, for several reasons; he wasn't yet mature enough for full-blown school life at age five, his father felt a 5-year old is anyway too young for that, and because his father would never allow other people (except the mother) to apply corporal punishment on his children but back then cp was a common and legal practice in schools. Fortunately it was made illegal just in time when life forced them to register their kids to a state school in the autumn of 1987.

In early 1987 Hunter started to dig into horror genre more deeply and especially everything supernatural fascinated him greatly. When he heard from his wizard friends that there really were such things as werewolves, he absolutely wanted to see one with his own eyes. Were they really those cool muscular monsters walking on two feet or something else entirely? On the next full moon night, as they were vacationing in Scotland, he sneaked out of the window and made his then 4-year old sister tag along, because he wanted to show her how brave he could be, and to protect someone in a dangerous situation (just like dad.) The siblings wandered for hours on the streets of the small town but found nothing. Finally Freya's pleas to go back were heard, but on the way they got more than they were prepared for.

A werewolf found them, a muggle who had a chance to and taken Wolfsbane potion for years but gone mad from the curse. Being provided with two young delicious smelling victims he couldn't decide which one to eat first so he bit the boy and then attacked the girl. Her scream shook Hunter out of the shock and before the wolf could physically harm Freya who had managed to hide in a barn, Hunter had succeeded to chop off its front paw with a small axe he'd found on the yard.
Barely, with the strength of a distressed and badly wounded 7-year old. The children survived without further injuries and found their way back to their room. The werewolf might have returned to revenge the lost limb, but being wounded like that turned him into a victim of a werewolf hunter that same night.

Hunter didn't dare to tell his parents what had happened, didn't really even know how he could possibly explain all that, and made his sister vow to keep the secret as well. He had her believe that she'd be just as much in trouble as he, if she'd tell on him. But he couldn't hide his wound for long, - although he did clean it well at first, it started to get infected for lack of further proper care. He claimed he'd been feeding a stray dog and it'd bit him but that he hadn't told because he didn't want any trouble for the poor doggie. Of course his lie was revealed in a couple of weeks, when his behaviour started to be alarming and aggressive during the week leading up to the full moon. Still he didn't tell the whole truth but claimed he was out alone and had escaped with the help of some man.

By the full moon night they had begun to build an extra room into the basement, where a wild and angry little wolf cub soon raged and howled. Hunter was still locked in during the next full moon, even though he had taken Wolfsbane Potion every night. Jacob didn't quite trust that even any magic potion would calm his spirited son, and accidents could happen. Jacob also started studying everything he could find on werewolves, in hopes to find a cure. But he couldn't find anything that would work, while some claimed cures were out of the question and completely senseless with their brutality.

Initially Hunter was terrified, but soon after the first transformation he got totally excited about the curse as a huge horror fan. He insisted to be called by his middle name from then on. His mother refused and kept on calling him Stephen, even though it most often wasn't answered to. Even with all the precautions and the fact that this was her little boy, Carrie couldn't take it for long.

The parents came to decision that living under the same roof would not work for long anymore. There had been other problems between them as a couple, which made the decision to move apart and go on a break from the relationship, much easier. To make it easier on the children, they gave up shared custody and Jacob became a single parent.

Of course Jacob didn't tell all the reasons for Carrie's moving out and eventually absence, as the children were way too young to hear such stories and especially the boy's psyche should be cared for now more than ever. He said something about grown-ups sometimes having problems to which the only solution was to live apart for a time, and that mum and dad still loved each other very much, perhaps just in a different way than before. Carrie was supposed to keep in contact by phone and meet the kids too, after getting her life on track in Little Whinging where she'd moved back into her childhood home. But the plan didn't go quite as well as was intended.

Jacob tried to keep the kids in after-school clubs, but Hunter was often asked to leave and not return, for pranks that got out of hand. On fourth grade he got suspended for two months from his primary school, for a thoughtless prank that nearly cost a girl's life. His teachers encouraged him to aim at a career as a singer, as he truly has the talent, but it never interested him that much. But he loved singing and practiced voice control for one in music class at school and with the help of his godmother. He just needs a job where he can use his hands and resourcefulness.

Time passed, and Freya really began to miss their mother as she no longer had a close female role model in her life.– Their godmother was there actively and she loved her but could not be in their daily life, and Freya had been a mummy's girl whereas Hunter's always been a daddy's boy. They still didn't know the truth but Freya started to blame her brother for their mother's abandonment as they both had figured it had something to do with werewolves. Hunter didn't mind her absence all that much—, just that she didn't keep any contact and he wondered why. But he didn't like being blamed for something he had no power over, and he liked his mother enough to feel that disappearing like that wasn't fair. This situation had the siblings grow more distant and caused increasing quarrelling and fights.

At age 9 Hunter's growth had slowed down too much seeing to the original rate and seeing to the estimated adult height based on the parents' heights, so he was tested but nothing abnormal was found.
The matter was let go as the boy was healthy and otherwise developing normally, and even the growth rate was well within normal range. Within another year the rate had again dropped remarkably -– now to the lowest percents of the normal range, and the 10-year old boy was tested even more, yet still nothing was found. This had Jacob and Carrie believe that the cause was the werewolf infection of which muggles just couldn't find any traces because of the Wolfsbane potion.

As the boy was still very young, his parents and doctors tried not to worry too much –- as long as the growth rate wouldn't drop any more. At this point, as the wolf neared its puberty, the boys growth rate started to pick up but because of the Wolfsbane potion it remained relatively slow, raising it only to a normal growth rate of a pre-pubescent child. He remained on the low limit of normal range because he'd grown abnormally slowly for so long and the wolf was gone by the time he himself hit puberty. That too had him want some tests to be done but the results came out with nothing alarming, and his parents believed the wolf's years contributing to this as well. But partially it might have been hereditary as the boy wasn't the only one with delayed puberty in their family tree.

On a full moon night just before his tenth birthday, when his father was working on overtime, Hunter gave in to his desire to know the wolf. Secretly he'd skipped one Wolfsbane Potion that week and eventually ran away on the full moon night, letting the wolf free. However, his intentions were not to harm anyone. A lot of drama happened that night even before the transformation, and it lead him and his sister to a nearby police station (though not the one where their father worked.) Fortunately these events lead his father to learn about the real level of danger just in time and thus he was able to chase the wolf down before it could do in or infect any people. There was a victim however, a poor almost defensless German Shepherd. The wolf itself was nearly killed by a werewolf hunter.
Here is a completed one-shot story about that night I've written a few years ago, in case you're interested to read more about it.

At this point his mother returned into their life, although wasn't yet able to move back into the same house with a werewolf. Carrie and Jacob's relationship began to warm up and deepen again, until around Christmas 1990 they got back together and in the summer of 1991 she moved back in.

Hunter attended Hogwarts in the year 1991-1992, but dropped out for several reasons; his parents felt that he needs to be home more if they ever hope him and his mother's relationship to get better, in the summer of 1992 Hunter bit his little sister on a full moon night (but fortunately his transformation wasn't quite complete so she didn't get infected, just got a wolfish trait), Hunter's dreams and goals weighted more towards the muggle society's job selections, and Jacob felt like Dumbledore might be losing grip on the security of the school. What with having a vicious three-headed dog right in the middle of the castle without any sort of a lock or protection spell in the door to prevent children from entering, rumours of a detention in the Dark Forest without proper adult supervision/protection, trolls in the basement and finally the rumour of Voldemort and Harry's battle. Although Jacob doesn't think there was much Dumbledore could've done about Voldemort's arrival...but the other things are an entirely different matter.

So, although they took good care of his boy in Hogwarts and he appreciated the tolerance and kindness shown by even letting him in, Jacob decided that for every possible reason it would be better for the boy to attend a muggle secondary school and spending the rest of the time near his family. It was anyway originally intended that Hunter would drop out after three years at the most, because his father didn't think it good idea for him to grow up in a boarding school largely raised by other people, given his mental state and questionable attitude/love when it comes to werewolves, which Jacob told Dumbledore already the previous summer when he and Hunter met the headmaster privately in order to discuss the matter of a werewolf possibly attending Hogwarts.
So when Hunter dropped out they just sent a normal letter about it to professor McGonigall and then a personal letter to Dumbledore, to thank him and the staff for the education and care.

While at Hogwarts, Hunter drank Wolfsbane Potion obediently and properly every month although he did dream that he could find a way to remember the night and control the wolf without it. But he wasn't stupid - there'd be no way he could tamper with the potion without getting caught. He'd have to wait until he's grown-up and living on his own. Every full moon week at random points of a day he visited his Head of House's, professor Snape's office, to take the potion.

Hunter is cured from the werewolf infection on March 8th, 1993. (This cure is not canon/official but purely my vision.)
It happened on the morning after an extreme Supermoon. His mother decided to take another step in trying to survive her trauma, especially as she'd always felt bad that she can't even handle her own child's werewolf infection and can't support Jacob in trying to keep the boy's mental health about it in check. So the family makes a plan for Carrie to watch him transform into a wolf in the same room but Carrie backed away at the last minutes, for that night. Especially as Hunter's attitude about it wasn't the best either - he would've liked to bully/scare her after the transformation. So the boy was sent to the basement room as usual.

But in the morning just before six and when Hunter was still awake, she went to watch the transformation back into human form as it felt a bit easier and still something that would help her forward. As she sincerely talked to him about hoping to build a better and stronger relationship with him, she unintentionally used his birth name, Stephen, for she was thinking of times long past when it still was his everyday name.
The boy couldn't speak of course, but in gestures let her know it would be okay to talk, until finally the transformation process drew him into a coma-like state for a few moments as it always did when going back to human form. The next full moon came and went without any symptoms at all. And so did all the rest of his life.

Hunter did not like the cure at all an let it show and be heard in many ways...And for a time he blamed his mum and a little bit his dad too -– not as if he'd had any inkling of what happened but because he knew his mum had always had issues with werewolves and had just last night talked about wanting a better relationship with him. And dad had tried to find a cure since day one. Maybe they'd managed to do something.

As the months went by he started to believe that no one knew what had cured him. And little by little to appreciate the fact that he no longer had to endure the indescribably painful transformation every month or drink the horridly disgusting potion seven times a month. But he didn't quite know what to do with himself now that he'd have to grow up as a normal human being, for his most clear memories were from the years of the wolf as he'd been infected at such a young age.

He lost his all-year-round super-heightened senses and could not do the things he'd planned to as an adult werewolf. And he felt as if he'd lost a friend, a dark and dangerous but to him one that was "important”". For a time he felt a bit empty without the wolf inside waking up once a month, bringing tension and extra excitement.

As time went by the difficulties to let go lead him into thoughtless and dangerous choices, but in the end...although the years of the wolf changed him somewhat as a person, he finds his place and starts to notice and acknowledge the positive things about humanity that he might have missed as a werewolf.

In time Hunter gets over it, maybe is even grateful, but will always miss and fondly recall some aspects about being a werewolf. He'll never change his name back to Stephen although always keeps it in the official papers. He's too used to being called by his middle name and wants to keep it as a memory from another life.


MISC
  • PATRONUS

    a horse

  • STRENGTHS IN MAGIC:

    Charms, Potions and Transfigurations. Having inherited these strengths and been practising for half a year prior to Hogwarts, when at school he's more advanced than the average peer - except in potions which require also lots of patience and concentration.


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]]> <![CDATA[KING, Jacob Aaron]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=15 Wed, 16 Mar 2016 04:13:15 +0000 Jacob King]]> https://hiddenkiss.net/nevermore/showthread.php?tid=15 Character & infos © Kieran
Play-by: Henry Ian Cusick


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CHARACTER'S NAME
Jacob Aaron King

AGE / BIRTH DATE
33-41 years old (30.7.1951)

OCCUPATION
Police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, London.

HOGWARTS HOUSE
Hufflepuff - (1962-1963.)

BLOOD STATUS
Half-blood

WAND
Rowan, dragon's heartstring, 25 cm, flexible.

CURRENT RESIDENCE
~ Kingsley Avenue, Sutton, Surrey/London, England (June 1985 onwards.)
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FAMILY

Father: Aaron King - * 1911 - † 1959
Mother: Josephine King - * 1911 - † 1959
Brother: Benjamin King - * 2.3.1954
Grandfather: Stephen King - * 1864 - † 1969

Partner: Carrie Isabelle Cooper - * 1.10.1951
(Together 6/1978-12/1987 and again from 12/1990 onward.)
Son: Stephen Hunter King - * 20.2.1980 - 0-12 years old
Daughter: Freya Emilia King - * 17.7.1982 - 0-10 years old
Kids' godfather: Daniel Jonah Potter (née. Giles) - * 1951
Kids' godmother: Julie Michelle Potter - * 1951, muggle


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APPEARANCE


Eyes: Brown.
Hair: Dark/brown and straight, usually reaching his chin at the most but most often is shorter. Casual but neat haircuts.
Height & Weight: 183 cm / 83 kg

He looks pretty much his age, a few years older at the most but even then it's not particularly eye-catching. In addition to being tall, he looks (and is) strong as he keeps himself fit by regular visits to a gym but he could never be called a body-builder. His main goal is to stay fit enough for health in general and for his job.

Even at his younger years you might get the feeling that he's seen a lot of life's darker side and gained more life experience than the average person of his age. Yet also that he hasn't lost enjoyment of life or some playfulness.

Usually his being is friendly, strong and self-confident - generally that which would stir feelings of security and trust. It can also stir respect yet he is easy to approach, as he appears stern and determined but also extrovert and gentle.

When angry, his being is intense but usually not frightening but that of a fiery determination, that he is willing and able to do anything it takes to solve the problem.

Beard and moustache in larger amount are quite rare sight on him, it's usually when he's going through especially stressful time. Most of the time he doesn't have them at all, or has a stubble.


VOICE

The texture of his voice is warm and quite pleasant, he speaks softly but not too quietly. He is capable of filling/using his voice with unwavering and strong authority and command, both with and without raising his voice, as taught in the police training.

* his speaking voice generally


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PERSONALITY

He's a hard-working man and making the world a better place is close to his heart, but he puts his children's benefit and well-being ahead of everything else. Sometimes too much at which point his friends have to half force him to be selfish. Like a true Leo, he is kind and big-hearted, energetic, optimistic, loyal, and straightforward/forthright which the latest mentioned can sometimes be a problem. Although he tries to phrase his words as politely as he can. He is also headstrong, and possessive though makes real efforts to share more easily than he did before he got kids to be an example to. The sharing difficulties however apply to bigger, more financially or emotionally valuable things, not to mundane things like drink, food, tv remote control or anything like that. He prefers to be in control in situations - but doesn't have too big of a problem to be the one who follows if a situation requires it, and has no problem taking and following orders from superiors at work.

He may at times be somewhat over-protective towards his loved ones, especially his children. And in potentially dangerous situations he attempts to do extremely thorough research and organising before he gets peace of mind, if even then. This springs from the losses during his younger years, and from the brutal truth about this sorry world that his job has forced him to view while fighting it in the front lines of the law enforcement.

It's also turned him into a hopeless realist. He does enjoy fantasy genre books and movies and all that and does let other people believe in peace on Earth and good will to all men, but he himself doesn't believe in miracles. But he was raised to try and see the best in people.

Hard life has made him believe in a higher power and guardian angels, but he doesn't necessarily view it as the christian God or any other specific god. As far as he's concerned, others –- including his own children - are free to believe whatever they want or not believe at all, as long as it stays within reason, law and safety.

He is gentle, compassionate, tolerant and broad-minded. He has an appropriate idea and attitude about right and wrong as well as maintenance of law and order is in his heart, and he doesn't hesitate to enforce it in one way or another. He's been blessed with high intelligence, lots of self-confidence and determination, so he enjoys challenges and usually doesn't give up until there is no other sensible option. He was born to be a police/detective which was also his calling because of his desire to make the world a little bit safer and better, and because of his enjoyment of action and adventure. Although, an essential nudge to the occupation choice was his long-lost little brother's abduction which he wanted to one day investigate from the best possible position. His thrill-seeking nature has lessened since he became a father, but he's still always looking for new experiences.

He is very proficient officer and gained some honour especially as a detective. That is, he's a remarkably good judge of human nature; reading behaviours and gestures and in stepping into the mind-set/thought-process of a person. And able to gather/handle information well, even in a tired or stressed state of mind. By no means flawlessly, but very, very good. He's not easily manipulated, on the contrary he himself has that skill...although he hasn't practised it after he left CID a few months after his son was born thus later in life it might not be on the level it used to be.

He is almost extremely responsible, which is his strength and weakness in many ways. He's not a workaholic, but can't really concentrate well on his spare time activities if anything important work-related is much unfinished.

His patience has grown to remarkable amounts after his first child was born, with exceptions of very tired or stressed state of minds. But he is very capable of controlling his mind and emotions even in terrible situations, as he is a well-trained police officer. On a normal day he is stable and friendly as his stress tolerance has also become strong by fatherhood and police work. He does not yell easily if it isn't necessary, especially not at children, as he doesn't believe it to deliver messages very effectively.

Jacob has always been a child loving person and thus gained experience of those little persons ever since his teenage years. If you met his own children when they were young, you might not believe they were raised by the same parent if you don't get to know them in daily life where both of their best characteristics come to show. He draws a lot of strength from watching his children grow and develop and enjoy their lives and from his son's ever-lasting optimism. On the other hand, although he'd never say it out loud, he thinks of Hunter's longer lasting visits to a friend's house and such and being only with his super easy-going daughter, as mini-vacations. And yet, already in a few days he finds himself missing his boy.

Although he's very family-centred and loves his children more than anything else in the world, he has many hobbies outside the family. Including camping, bowling, gym-visits and other healthy and social outings, often with a friend or a group of friends. Of course, sometimes he's happy to take his kids along. Healthy lifestyle includes also near absolutism when it comes to dangerous substances. He doesn't condemn people who use them reasonably, but he doesn't smoke or drink at all and would not allow his children to, either. He could down some alcohol in bakery goods or candy, but as for drinking, never. Not even wine. His best relaxation methods are withdrawing to as much privacy as possible to read Sherlock Holmes and to listen classical-type of music, or going to movies, fishing, or camping.

To him magic, in which he is powerful, has always been a spice in life - one that he greatly appreciates. In everyday life he uses it only if truly needed or in occasional fun and otherwise prefers muggle life style. In raising children and household chores he uses magic only if necessary. However, he likes spending time in the wizarding society and actively keeps himself up to date on its events and news. He dislikes magical transportation (except apparating which he uses because it's convenient, though he prefers not to apparate in muggle areas too often.)

Some of his most notable weaknesses are that he's prone to worry about his family even with little to no need, sometimes resulting in loss of sleep. And his pain tolerance level is so high that he might get seriously crippled if the injury wasn't fixable by magic or someone there to make him take it easy. And, he suffers from automatonophobia - fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being (such as ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, or wax statues. This is not stirred by normal statues or mannequins or such as they don't have the same feel.)


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HISTORY

Jacob was born in South London, in Sutton, to a half-blood witch and wizard couple. When he was 8-years old his parents were killed in an incident involving muggles and illegal fire-arms, the couple was looking for their youngest son who'd been abducted a few weeks earlier and the trace had ended in a bad part of London. They both died immediately, on the street. His brother's case was classified as an abduction because of the situation where he went missing and how the owl post could not reach him, which confirmed that the kidnapper was or at least knew someone with magical powers who apparently had cast a spell on the child preventing any magical form of tracking known at the time. The muggle police and the aurors - including Jacob's grandfather, carried on searching but within a year or two the case turned cold and after seven years of not seeing or hearing anything that would turn out to be true, Benjamin King was declared legally dead by the muggle police. Throughout the years and even after searchers included family and friends, the magical law enforcement and Cold case detectives from muggle law enforcement.

After his parents' death, Jacob and his lost brother's custody was granted to the only close family member they had alive - their father's father. Grandpa retired from the auror work soon after this. They lived in Sutton for the first year, but then his grandfather came to decision that time away from the family house might help the boy to survive better and they moved into his house in Wandsworth, near central London. Though there were lots of memories of his parents and brother there as well, still much less than in their own town and house and the boy had friends in Wandsworth too.

Jacob lost part of his childhood when spiritually he spent the next few years in a dark place making bad choices, as at such a young age he did not have the ability to cope with such traumas and pain properly but wanted a quick solution. For one, he messed with alcohol whenever he could somehow get his hands on some. But he didn't sink too deep or ruin his life or health, because he was looked after by a loving, devoted grandfather as well as his best friend Daniel with whom he was and still remains as close as brothers. Later in life, Daniel and his wife became the godparents of Jacob's children. Jacob chose to attend Hogwarts partially out of genuine interest, but also because his grandfather convinced him that a total change of scenery and lifestyle for a while might do him good. And it did, during his Hogwarts year he returned more to his old self and had a better grip on life in general, had strong ambitions and goals again.

He was academically gifted enough to skip a couple of grades already in primary school, but he wished to remain on the same grade as his peers. He dropped out of Hogwarts after the first year, because he now knew what he wants to be when he grows up. He transferred into muggles' secondary school, and eventually entered a University at age 17, one year earlier than is usual. He majored in Criminal Justice and achieved a Bachelor's Degree in the typical four years, graduating in Spring 1972.

Alongside his studies, since he left Hogwarts, he studied magic at home with the help of his retired grandpa and his friend Daniel who continued at Hogwarts. This self-education in magic was of course most active during school breaks and excluded most only-theoretical subjects. As a young adult, during annual leaves form work he sometimes took courses to gain at least some official papers on his skills, in case he'd like to have a magical occupation after retirement age from the muggle work life.

In 1969, the 18-years old Jacob lost his grandfather, too when the man battled a Dark wizard. Even though he'd retired after getting custody of Jacob, sometimes old enemies return to cause problems.

This time he didn't get lost in the grieving process, as now he and his friends were much older, Daniel's parents were there for him, and he had set goals and dreams. He had also long ago decided to try and live so that he'd make his loved ones proud, because even though they were gone they were still a part of him and he considered that as them being with him as he goes on.

Although he had now lost his entire family, they had seen to that the children they leave behind would not face financial hardships. His grandfather's house was highly valuable, his own and fully paid, and Jacob inherited it along with the other property. The same situation with his parents' house, the first childhood home. As his brother had been declared legally dead, Ben's half of everything legally belongs to Jacob but he doesn't want to use them as he believes he'll one day find his brother alive. His grandfather had only rented the Sutton house during the years, thinking Jacob might some day wish to move back in. Or Ben, if he ever came home. Jacob continued renting the Sutton house, for he didn't feel like living in the middle of all those childhood memories would be a good idea at that time.

In July 1973 Jacob graduated from the police academy and was trained also in fire-arms, becoming one of the few Metropolitan Police officers to carry a gun on occasions. He got a job at Charing Cross Police Station. By August 1976 he was a Detective Constable. He got a job at the same station, being a very competent new detective. He joined a team dedicated to investigating abductions.

He could not directly investigate his brother's case as it was a Cold case which type require highly experienced detectives. As a family member and even the only one alive, he however is contacted and asked for private help if anything significant comes up possibly relating to Ben's case.

During the '70s as Voldemort gained power in Britain and the wizarding war got worse and worse, Jacob focused on solving crimes in the muggle society and did not participate in the magical fighting. Although he did always carry his wand and was extra cautious. But, because of his brother's disappearance evidently relating to the wizarding society's crimes and generally him being one of the few magical people inside the muggles' law enforcement system and thus able to strengthen the secrecy status of magic, he does have an official link to the Ministry of Magic's law enforcement division and a supervised access to the Werewolf Registry. This link just isn't constantly used, but only when a situation demands and he personally can help, as in his work focuses and revolves around just muggles and muggle crimes.

In May 1975, on a full moon night just before midnight, the 23-years old Jacob on his way home from work happened to spot a disturbing scene, and saved a young woman, Carrie, from a deranged werewolf. (The man had partially transformed and tried to rape Carrie in order to see if a werewolf and human female could reproduce. He did not get far but his intent was obvious.)

Jacob and Carrie formed a friendship, became very close and later began to feel even more deeply, until three years later they became a couple. About a year later they found out Carrie was expecting a child - it had not been planned but on the other hand raising a family together did not feel like an impossible idea at all, to either of them. It just wasn't wished for this particular time in their life. But abortion was out of the question in their moral views, so they decided to keep the child and Carrie moved in with Jacob, into his house.

At this point Jacob sold his childhood home, unaware that the new owner was its old resident –- his brother. Otherwise he of course would've just given the house to him. Ben either did not know, the town and house had just drawn him as they are, though the neighbourhood had stirred some long-forgotten memories he could not explain or be sure of if they were even real.

Stephen Hunter King was born in February 1980 and was his happy parents' little prince. Originally he was called by his first name Stephen. During his first year, Jacob left detective work behind, considering them too high risk for a family man. He'd been transferred to covering just the duties of a regular constable and he also resigned from the use of a fire-arm. Of course the job was still  as dangerous as ever but less so than it was when downright chasing high profile criminals all over the country, especially when his focus was on abduction cases. Around the birth of his son the wizarding war was at its worst but as Voldemort did not manage to take over the Ministry of Magic, his family was relatively safe even with Carrie being a muggle-born. Still, risks existed so they were seriously considering to leave the country for a while. Before they could make a decision, little Harry Potter was said to have defeated Voldemort and the war was over.

Their relationship was strong and natural, but the stress and emotional roller coaster from taking care of a baby in itself and especially in the middle of a war taxed it enough for them to take a break a little bit after the war ended. They were not sure anymore about the state of the emotional aspect of their relationship. They continued living together and to raise the boy together, but remained just close friends without sex, while they were thinking things over and seeing other people and planned to move apart if it seemed like the right choice. Their first and most important goal was to keep their son's life as unchanged and secure as possible, thus they didn't even bring their dates home.

Only a couple of months from the start of the break it turned out Carrie was pregnant again and the child was Jacob's. In the following months they ended up back together.

In July 1982 they welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world, and Carrie named her Freya Emilia.

Up until this point Carrie had been a stay-at-home mum, trying to grow into the role. She loved her son but motherhood just didn't seem to come easy for her. She never managed to form a true mother-son bond with him. Carrie did not have enough authority in her and among other things her experience with the werewolf had affected her emotions about motherhood. As she was expecting Freya, they decided to switch places with Jacob; a couple of months after the girl was born Jacob took a career break becoming a stay-at-home dad and Carrie returned to work life. Jacob's career break was the maximum possible –- five years - for whatever the situation then, the kids would be school-age and it would make both parents working a bit easier to pull off.

When the kids were five and three years old, the family moved to Sutton, into a better place for children to grow up; they wanted further away from the central London, larger yards, a garage and a house on a quiet suburban street.

Around that time they noticed their son to have an exceptionally good singing voice, as it had developed stronger by age. The boy loved performing, but Jacob and Carrie did not even consider the possibility of pushing their child into the entertainment world, especially at such a young age. The gift of singing was mainly kept for the joy of the family and friends.

In 1987 on a holiday in Scotland, their life was turned upside down. The 7-years old Stephen was getting more into the horror genre as a fan, and had heard about werewolves being real. He sneaked out on a full moon night and took his then 4-year old sister with him  About the latter mentioned Jacob and Carrie did not know until many years later. The wolf inside the boy naturally was revealed within a few weeks. Having known of Fenrir Greyback and his reputation for a long time by then, Jacob was naturally terrified and paranoid, kept extremely close eye on his son for a while, but eventually Carrie and the kids' godparents managed to convince him that if it had been that man the boy would've been gone already within the weeks before the first full moon when they weren't yet aware of the infection. As the months went by Jacob let himself believe that Greyback had nothing to do with his son's condition.

In December of that year,after Jacob had his physical tests as well as courses relating to the changes in police work, and had returned to work and arranged babysitter matters, Carrie moved away. The plan was to stay in contact, especially with the children. It just didn't go very well - in the following months the contact lessened more and more because she wasn't mum material but largely also because she needed time to really work on the trauma and some ghosts from her past. They had again put their relationship on a break when she moved away. It had been considered before, but breaking up the family had been too unpleasant even as a thought.

Jacob got a job at the police station of his home town for his boss liked him and understood that a single-father could not work too far from home. For the same reason he was given a lot of day shifts. He had nine years of service behind him and had managed to learn and practice well the many changes that had happened in the police work during the early and mid-'80s, so after a year, in late 1988 he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.

On a dark and cold February full moon night, his 9-years old son - by then called by his middle name, Hunter - let his love for werewolves win and let the wolf be free. Literally, he secretly skipped one Wolfsbane potion that week and fought his way out of the house after the transformation. Fortunately, the skipping of a potion was revealed before that point and Jacob was relatively on top of the situation. The child was only almost killed, and the wolf ended up hurting only one living creature; it tore apart a dog. Shortly afterwards Carrie returned to her family's life, although did not move back into the same  house.

During the '90s Jacob's life took a completely unexpected turn to better. The relationship with Carrie started to warm up again and just before Christmas 1990 they got back together, and in the summer of 1991 Carrie moved back in. And in the spring of 1993 his son got completely cured from the werewolf infection as in never transformed again or anything. More about that in his own character profile.

In the summer of 1996 when Voldemort's return was confirmed with the public declaration of war, Jacob planned moving to United States. He did not want to try and survive through another, possibly even worse war and risk losing more family members. Especially now that many hardships in his life had finally passed. But in the end he and Carrie decided to not panic right away, that it would be better for the children not to be torn away from familiar surroundings and old friends unless absolutely necessary. So only Carrie left the country some time before the fall of the Ministry, revealing her whereabouts only to Jacob and intending to return home after the war. She reckoned that in her muggle-born status she'd be the biggest security threat to her family if the Ministry should fall, and that if she lived abroad and Jacob alone had the custody of the children, maybe the Death Eaters wouldn't target them so much if at all. Jacob and his kids lived in London through the second wizarding war, occasionally in contact with Carrie via phone.


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MISC

PATRONUS:

- a lion

SPECIAL TALENT:

- Trained in two Japanese martial arts, and is competent in them.

They interested him as a little boy even as it is, but an additional motive was knowing what he wanted to be when he'd grow up and knowing that in police academy the training for weaponless self-defence would be in the minimum. So, he has practised martial arts since he was 13-years old. But after his new family in the '80s he hasn't practised much on his free time, just enough to not lose the skills or grow too rusty.

~ Art / level of skill and knowledge:

* Judo / 3rd degree black belt.
* Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu / 2nd degree black belt.
(That is, in both he has mastered and perfected the basic skills and knowledge. He has no intentions to go for the coloured belts or any further at all, these lower ranks being enough for his needs.)

WEALTH STATUS:

- Upper class.

The police pay in the 1970's was outrageously low, and thus even the 45% raise given to them in the turn of the decade did not make it very high. But Jacob and his family has always enjoyed financial stability and upper class standard of living, because of his inheritance from his parents and grandfather who held high paying jobs for most of their lives. Technically he and Carrie wouldn't have to work for many years but they want to, for several reasons.

For one they'd feel like bums if they only lived on money that was handed down to them by people who worked hard for it, they want to set a good example for their kids, and there is of course always the satisfaction of receiving a pay check for something you earned on your own, and finally the security of eventual pension. And for Jacob, police work indeed is also a calling.

POWERFUL IN MAGIC:

* Skilled in Legilimency, on the level that normally he can dig into a person's thoughts, feelings and memories and correctly interpret them. But he cannot manipulate them in any way, and he doesn't use this skill unless he feels it absolutely necessary as he considers it a serious violation of privacy. And, if practisable/safe, he asks permission first. He does not need a wand for this but must say the indication out loud. He does not use this skill in police work.

* Skilled in Occlumency, on the advanced level where he can just hide specific memories and emotions. Practiced this well because it is an extremely useful skill to master. Both this and Legilimency were initially taught to him by his ex-auror grandfather and he carried on the study with his best friend Daniel.

* Skilled in potion brewing, including the challenging types such as the Wolfsbane Potion. His mother was a professional potioner. He inherited this potential and interest in the matter.

* Skilled in Charms, particularly in defensive and protective types and DADA and non-verbal casting. His grandfather was an auror for numerous decades. So he has both genetic and unofficial education ground for this.]]> Character & infos © Kieran
Play-by: Henry Ian Cusick


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CHARACTER'S NAME
Jacob Aaron King

AGE / BIRTH DATE
33-41 years old (30.7.1951)

OCCUPATION
Police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, London.

HOGWARTS HOUSE
Hufflepuff - (1962-1963.)

BLOOD STATUS
Half-blood

WAND
Rowan, dragon's heartstring, 25 cm, flexible.

CURRENT RESIDENCE
~ Kingsley Avenue, Sutton, Surrey/London, England (June 1985 onwards.)
--> Nearly photo-realistic 720° Virtual Tour




FAMILY

Father: Aaron King - * 1911 - † 1959
Mother: Josephine King - * 1911 - † 1959
Brother: Benjamin King - * 2.3.1954
Grandfather: Stephen King - * 1864 - † 1969

Partner: Carrie Isabelle Cooper - * 1.10.1951
(Together 6/1978-12/1987 and again from 12/1990 onward.)
Son: Stephen Hunter King - * 20.2.1980 - 0-12 years old
Daughter: Freya Emilia King - * 17.7.1982 - 0-10 years old
Kids' godfather: Daniel Jonah Potter (née. Giles) - * 1951
Kids' godmother: Julie Michelle Potter - * 1951, muggle


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APPEARANCE


Eyes: Brown.
Hair: Dark/brown and straight, usually reaching his chin at the most but most often is shorter. Casual but neat haircuts.
Height & Weight: 183 cm / 83 kg

He looks pretty much his age, a few years older at the most but even then it's not particularly eye-catching. In addition to being tall, he looks (and is) strong as he keeps himself fit by regular visits to a gym but he could never be called a body-builder. His main goal is to stay fit enough for health in general and for his job.

Even at his younger years you might get the feeling that he's seen a lot of life's darker side and gained more life experience than the average person of his age. Yet also that he hasn't lost enjoyment of life or some playfulness.

Usually his being is friendly, strong and self-confident - generally that which would stir feelings of security and trust. It can also stir respect yet he is easy to approach, as he appears stern and determined but also extrovert and gentle.

When angry, his being is intense but usually not frightening but that of a fiery determination, that he is willing and able to do anything it takes to solve the problem.

Beard and moustache in larger amount are quite rare sight on him, it's usually when he's going through especially stressful time. Most of the time he doesn't have them at all, or has a stubble.


VOICE

The texture of his voice is warm and quite pleasant, he speaks softly but not too quietly. He is capable of filling/using his voice with unwavering and strong authority and command, both with and without raising his voice, as taught in the police training.

* his speaking voice generally


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PERSONALITY

He's a hard-working man and making the world a better place is close to his heart, but he puts his children's benefit and well-being ahead of everything else. Sometimes too much at which point his friends have to half force him to be selfish. Like a true Leo, he is kind and big-hearted, energetic, optimistic, loyal, and straightforward/forthright which the latest mentioned can sometimes be a problem. Although he tries to phrase his words as politely as he can. He is also headstrong, and possessive though makes real efforts to share more easily than he did before he got kids to be an example to. The sharing difficulties however apply to bigger, more financially or emotionally valuable things, not to mundane things like drink, food, tv remote control or anything like that. He prefers to be in control in situations - but doesn't have too big of a problem to be the one who follows if a situation requires it, and has no problem taking and following orders from superiors at work.

He may at times be somewhat over-protective towards his loved ones, especially his children. And in potentially dangerous situations he attempts to do extremely thorough research and organising before he gets peace of mind, if even then. This springs from the losses during his younger years, and from the brutal truth about this sorry world that his job has forced him to view while fighting it in the front lines of the law enforcement.

It's also turned him into a hopeless realist. He does enjoy fantasy genre books and movies and all that and does let other people believe in peace on Earth and good will to all men, but he himself doesn't believe in miracles. But he was raised to try and see the best in people.

Hard life has made him believe in a higher power and guardian angels, but he doesn't necessarily view it as the christian God or any other specific god. As far as he's concerned, others –- including his own children - are free to believe whatever they want or not believe at all, as long as it stays within reason, law and safety.

He is gentle, compassionate, tolerant and broad-minded. He has an appropriate idea and attitude about right and wrong as well as maintenance of law and order is in his heart, and he doesn't hesitate to enforce it in one way or another. He's been blessed with high intelligence, lots of self-confidence and determination, so he enjoys challenges and usually doesn't give up until there is no other sensible option. He was born to be a police/detective which was also his calling because of his desire to make the world a little bit safer and better, and because of his enjoyment of action and adventure. Although, an essential nudge to the occupation choice was his long-lost little brother's abduction which he wanted to one day investigate from the best possible position. His thrill-seeking nature has lessened since he became a father, but he's still always looking for new experiences.

He is very proficient officer and gained some honour especially as a detective. That is, he's a remarkably good judge of human nature; reading behaviours and gestures and in stepping into the mind-set/thought-process of a person. And able to gather/handle information well, even in a tired or stressed state of mind. By no means flawlessly, but very, very good. He's not easily manipulated, on the contrary he himself has that skill...although he hasn't practised it after he left CID a few months after his son was born thus later in life it might not be on the level it used to be.

He is almost extremely responsible, which is his strength and weakness in many ways. He's not a workaholic, but can't really concentrate well on his spare time activities if anything important work-related is much unfinished.

His patience has grown to remarkable amounts after his first child was born, with exceptions of very tired or stressed state of minds. But he is very capable of controlling his mind and emotions even in terrible situations, as he is a well-trained police officer. On a normal day he is stable and friendly as his stress tolerance has also become strong by fatherhood and police work. He does not yell easily if it isn't necessary, especially not at children, as he doesn't believe it to deliver messages very effectively.

Jacob has always been a child loving person and thus gained experience of those little persons ever since his teenage years. If you met his own children when they were young, you might not believe they were raised by the same parent if you don't get to know them in daily life where both of their best characteristics come to show. He draws a lot of strength from watching his children grow and develop and enjoy their lives and from his son's ever-lasting optimism. On the other hand, although he'd never say it out loud, he thinks of Hunter's longer lasting visits to a friend's house and such and being only with his super easy-going daughter, as mini-vacations. And yet, already in a few days he finds himself missing his boy.

Although he's very family-centred and loves his children more than anything else in the world, he has many hobbies outside the family. Including camping, bowling, gym-visits and other healthy and social outings, often with a friend or a group of friends. Of course, sometimes he's happy to take his kids along. Healthy lifestyle includes also near absolutism when it comes to dangerous substances. He doesn't condemn people who use them reasonably, but he doesn't smoke or drink at all and would not allow his children to, either. He could down some alcohol in bakery goods or candy, but as for drinking, never. Not even wine. His best relaxation methods are withdrawing to as much privacy as possible to read Sherlock Holmes and to listen classical-type of music, or going to movies, fishing, or camping.

To him magic, in which he is powerful, has always been a spice in life - one that he greatly appreciates. In everyday life he uses it only if truly needed or in occasional fun and otherwise prefers muggle life style. In raising children and household chores he uses magic only if necessary. However, he likes spending time in the wizarding society and actively keeps himself up to date on its events and news. He dislikes magical transportation (except apparating which he uses because it's convenient, though he prefers not to apparate in muggle areas too often.)

Some of his most notable weaknesses are that he's prone to worry about his family even with little to no need, sometimes resulting in loss of sleep. And his pain tolerance level is so high that he might get seriously crippled if the injury wasn't fixable by magic or someone there to make him take it easy. And, he suffers from automatonophobia - fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being (such as ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, or wax statues. This is not stirred by normal statues or mannequins or such as they don't have the same feel.)


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HISTORY

Jacob was born in South London, in Sutton, to a half-blood witch and wizard couple. When he was 8-years old his parents were killed in an incident involving muggles and illegal fire-arms, the couple was looking for their youngest son who'd been abducted a few weeks earlier and the trace had ended in a bad part of London. They both died immediately, on the street. His brother's case was classified as an abduction because of the situation where he went missing and how the owl post could not reach him, which confirmed that the kidnapper was or at least knew someone with magical powers who apparently had cast a spell on the child preventing any magical form of tracking known at the time. The muggle police and the aurors - including Jacob's grandfather, carried on searching but within a year or two the case turned cold and after seven years of not seeing or hearing anything that would turn out to be true, Benjamin King was declared legally dead by the muggle police. Throughout the years and even after searchers included family and friends, the magical law enforcement and Cold case detectives from muggle law enforcement.

After his parents' death, Jacob and his lost brother's custody was granted to the only close family member they had alive - their father's father. Grandpa retired from the auror work soon after this. They lived in Sutton for the first year, but then his grandfather came to decision that time away from the family house might help the boy to survive better and they moved into his house in Wandsworth, near central London. Though there were lots of memories of his parents and brother there as well, still much less than in their own town and house and the boy had friends in Wandsworth too.

Jacob lost part of his childhood when spiritually he spent the next few years in a dark place making bad choices, as at such a young age he did not have the ability to cope with such traumas and pain properly but wanted a quick solution. For one, he messed with alcohol whenever he could somehow get his hands on some. But he didn't sink too deep or ruin his life or health, because he was looked after by a loving, devoted grandfather as well as his best friend Daniel with whom he was and still remains as close as brothers. Later in life, Daniel and his wife became the godparents of Jacob's children. Jacob chose to attend Hogwarts partially out of genuine interest, but also because his grandfather convinced him that a total change of scenery and lifestyle for a while might do him good. And it did, during his Hogwarts year he returned more to his old self and had a better grip on life in general, had strong ambitions and goals again.

He was academically gifted enough to skip a couple of grades already in primary school, but he wished to remain on the same grade as his peers. He dropped out of Hogwarts after the first year, because he now knew what he wants to be when he grows up. He transferred into muggles' secondary school, and eventually entered a University at age 17, one year earlier than is usual. He majored in Criminal Justice and achieved a Bachelor's Degree in the typical four years, graduating in Spring 1972.

Alongside his studies, since he left Hogwarts, he studied magic at home with the help of his retired grandpa and his friend Daniel who continued at Hogwarts. This self-education in magic was of course most active during school breaks and excluded most only-theoretical subjects. As a young adult, during annual leaves form work he sometimes took courses to gain at least some official papers on his skills, in case he'd like to have a magical occupation after retirement age from the muggle work life.

In 1969, the 18-years old Jacob lost his grandfather, too when the man battled a Dark wizard. Even though he'd retired after getting custody of Jacob, sometimes old enemies return to cause problems.

This time he didn't get lost in the grieving process, as now he and his friends were much older, Daniel's parents were there for him, and he had set goals and dreams. He had also long ago decided to try and live so that he'd make his loved ones proud, because even though they were gone they were still a part of him and he considered that as them being with him as he goes on.

Although he had now lost his entire family, they had seen to that the children they leave behind would not face financial hardships. His grandfather's house was highly valuable, his own and fully paid, and Jacob inherited it along with the other property. The same situation with his parents' house, the first childhood home. As his brother had been declared legally dead, Ben's half of everything legally belongs to Jacob but he doesn't want to use them as he believes he'll one day find his brother alive. His grandfather had only rented the Sutton house during the years, thinking Jacob might some day wish to move back in. Or Ben, if he ever came home. Jacob continued renting the Sutton house, for he didn't feel like living in the middle of all those childhood memories would be a good idea at that time.

In July 1973 Jacob graduated from the police academy and was trained also in fire-arms, becoming one of the few Metropolitan Police officers to carry a gun on occasions. He got a job at Charing Cross Police Station. By August 1976 he was a Detective Constable. He got a job at the same station, being a very competent new detective. He joined a team dedicated to investigating abductions.

He could not directly investigate his brother's case as it was a Cold case which type require highly experienced detectives. As a family member and even the only one alive, he however is contacted and asked for private help if anything significant comes up possibly relating to Ben's case.

During the '70s as Voldemort gained power in Britain and the wizarding war got worse and worse, Jacob focused on solving crimes in the muggle society and did not participate in the magical fighting. Although he did always carry his wand and was extra cautious. But, because of his brother's disappearance evidently relating to the wizarding society's crimes and generally him being one of the few magical people inside the muggles' law enforcement system and thus able to strengthen the secrecy status of magic, he does have an official link to the Ministry of Magic's law enforcement division and a supervised access to the Werewolf Registry. This link just isn't constantly used, but only when a situation demands and he personally can help, as in his work focuses and revolves around just muggles and muggle crimes.

In May 1975, on a full moon night just before midnight, the 23-years old Jacob on his way home from work happened to spot a disturbing scene, and saved a young woman, Carrie, from a deranged werewolf. (The man had partially transformed and tried to rape Carrie in order to see if a werewolf and human female could reproduce. He did not get far but his intent was obvious.)

Jacob and Carrie formed a friendship, became very close and later began to feel even more deeply, until three years later they became a couple. About a year later they found out Carrie was expecting a child - it had not been planned but on the other hand raising a family together did not feel like an impossible idea at all, to either of them. It just wasn't wished for this particular time in their life. But abortion was out of the question in their moral views, so they decided to keep the child and Carrie moved in with Jacob, into his house.

At this point Jacob sold his childhood home, unaware that the new owner was its old resident –- his brother. Otherwise he of course would've just given the house to him. Ben either did not know, the town and house had just drawn him as they are, though the neighbourhood had stirred some long-forgotten memories he could not explain or be sure of if they were even real.

Stephen Hunter King was born in February 1980 and was his happy parents' little prince. Originally he was called by his first name Stephen. During his first year, Jacob left detective work behind, considering them too high risk for a family man. He'd been transferred to covering just the duties of a regular constable and he also resigned from the use of a fire-arm. Of course the job was still  as dangerous as ever but less so than it was when downright chasing high profile criminals all over the country, especially when his focus was on abduction cases. Around the birth of his son the wizarding war was at its worst but as Voldemort did not manage to take over the Ministry of Magic, his family was relatively safe even with Carrie being a muggle-born. Still, risks existed so they were seriously considering to leave the country for a while. Before they could make a decision, little Harry Potter was said to have defeated Voldemort and the war was over.

Their relationship was strong and natural, but the stress and emotional roller coaster from taking care of a baby in itself and especially in the middle of a war taxed it enough for them to take a break a little bit after the war ended. They were not sure anymore about the state of the emotional aspect of their relationship. They continued living together and to raise the boy together, but remained just close friends without sex, while they were thinking things over and seeing other people and planned to move apart if it seemed like the right choice. Their first and most important goal was to keep their son's life as unchanged and secure as possible, thus they didn't even bring their dates home.

Only a couple of months from the start of the break it turned out Carrie was pregnant again and the child was Jacob's. In the following months they ended up back together.

In July 1982 they welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world, and Carrie named her Freya Emilia.

Up until this point Carrie had been a stay-at-home mum, trying to grow into the role. She loved her son but motherhood just didn't seem to come easy for her. She never managed to form a true mother-son bond with him. Carrie did not have enough authority in her and among other things her experience with the werewolf had affected her emotions about motherhood. As she was expecting Freya, they decided to switch places with Jacob; a couple of months after the girl was born Jacob took a career break becoming a stay-at-home dad and Carrie returned to work life. Jacob's career break was the maximum possible –- five years - for whatever the situation then, the kids would be school-age and it would make both parents working a bit easier to pull off.

When the kids were five and three years old, the family moved to Sutton, into a better place for children to grow up; they wanted further away from the central London, larger yards, a garage and a house on a quiet suburban street.

Around that time they noticed their son to have an exceptionally good singing voice, as it had developed stronger by age. The boy loved performing, but Jacob and Carrie did not even consider the possibility of pushing their child into the entertainment world, especially at such a young age. The gift of singing was mainly kept for the joy of the family and friends.

In 1987 on a holiday in Scotland, their life was turned upside down. The 7-years old Stephen was getting more into the horror genre as a fan, and had heard about werewolves being real. He sneaked out on a full moon night and took his then 4-year old sister with him  About the latter mentioned Jacob and Carrie did not know until many years later. The wolf inside the boy naturally was revealed within a few weeks. Having known of Fenrir Greyback and his reputation for a long time by then, Jacob was naturally terrified and paranoid, kept extremely close eye on his son for a while, but eventually Carrie and the kids' godparents managed to convince him that if it had been that man the boy would've been gone already within the weeks before the first full moon when they weren't yet aware of the infection. As the months went by Jacob let himself believe that Greyback had nothing to do with his son's condition.

In December of that year,after Jacob had his physical tests as well as courses relating to the changes in police work, and had returned to work and arranged babysitter matters, Carrie moved away. The plan was to stay in contact, especially with the children. It just didn't go very well - in the following months the contact lessened more and more because she wasn't mum material but largely also because she needed time to really work on the trauma and some ghosts from her past. They had again put their relationship on a break when she moved away. It had been considered before, but breaking up the family had been too unpleasant even as a thought.

Jacob got a job at the police station of his home town for his boss liked him and understood that a single-father could not work too far from home. For the same reason he was given a lot of day shifts. He had nine years of service behind him and had managed to learn and practice well the many changes that had happened in the police work during the early and mid-'80s, so after a year, in late 1988 he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.

On a dark and cold February full moon night, his 9-years old son - by then called by his middle name, Hunter - let his love for werewolves win and let the wolf be free. Literally, he secretly skipped one Wolfsbane potion that week and fought his way out of the house after the transformation. Fortunately, the skipping of a potion was revealed before that point and Jacob was relatively on top of the situation. The child was only almost killed, and the wolf ended up hurting only one living creature; it tore apart a dog. Shortly afterwards Carrie returned to her family's life, although did not move back into the same  house.

During the '90s Jacob's life took a completely unexpected turn to better. The relationship with Carrie started to warm up again and just before Christmas 1990 they got back together, and in the summer of 1991 Carrie moved back in. And in the spring of 1993 his son got completely cured from the werewolf infection as in never transformed again or anything. More about that in his own character profile.

In the summer of 1996 when Voldemort's return was confirmed with the public declaration of war, Jacob planned moving to United States. He did not want to try and survive through another, possibly even worse war and risk losing more family members. Especially now that many hardships in his life had finally passed. But in the end he and Carrie decided to not panic right away, that it would be better for the children not to be torn away from familiar surroundings and old friends unless absolutely necessary. So only Carrie left the country some time before the fall of the Ministry, revealing her whereabouts only to Jacob and intending to return home after the war. She reckoned that in her muggle-born status she'd be the biggest security threat to her family if the Ministry should fall, and that if she lived abroad and Jacob alone had the custody of the children, maybe the Death Eaters wouldn't target them so much if at all. Jacob and his kids lived in London through the second wizarding war, occasionally in contact with Carrie via phone.


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MISC

PATRONUS:

- a lion

SPECIAL TALENT:

- Trained in two Japanese martial arts, and is competent in them.

They interested him as a little boy even as it is, but an additional motive was knowing what he wanted to be when he'd grow up and knowing that in police academy the training for weaponless self-defence would be in the minimum. So, he has practised martial arts since he was 13-years old. But after his new family in the '80s he hasn't practised much on his free time, just enough to not lose the skills or grow too rusty.

~ Art / level of skill and knowledge:

* Judo / 3rd degree black belt.
* Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu / 2nd degree black belt.
(That is, in both he has mastered and perfected the basic skills and knowledge. He has no intentions to go for the coloured belts or any further at all, these lower ranks being enough for his needs.)

WEALTH STATUS:

- Upper class.

The police pay in the 1970's was outrageously low, and thus even the 45% raise given to them in the turn of the decade did not make it very high. But Jacob and his family has always enjoyed financial stability and upper class standard of living, because of his inheritance from his parents and grandfather who held high paying jobs for most of their lives. Technically he and Carrie wouldn't have to work for many years but they want to, for several reasons.

For one they'd feel like bums if they only lived on money that was handed down to them by people who worked hard for it, they want to set a good example for their kids, and there is of course always the satisfaction of receiving a pay check for something you earned on your own, and finally the security of eventual pension. And for Jacob, police work indeed is also a calling.

POWERFUL IN MAGIC:

* Skilled in Legilimency, on the level that normally he can dig into a person's thoughts, feelings and memories and correctly interpret them. But he cannot manipulate them in any way, and he doesn't use this skill unless he feels it absolutely necessary as he considers it a serious violation of privacy. And, if practisable/safe, he asks permission first. He does not need a wand for this but must say the indication out loud. He does not use this skill in police work.

* Skilled in Occlumency, on the advanced level where he can just hide specific memories and emotions. Practiced this well because it is an extremely useful skill to master. Both this and Legilimency were initially taught to him by his ex-auror grandfather and he carried on the study with his best friend Daniel.

* Skilled in potion brewing, including the challenging types such as the Wolfsbane Potion. His mother was a professional potioner. He inherited this potential and interest in the matter.

* Skilled in Charms, particularly in defensive and protective types and DADA and non-verbal casting. His grandfather was an auror for numerous decades. So he has both genetic and unofficial education ground for this.]]>