Darkness Rising [Harry Potter RP] only accepting canon chars

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Darkness Rising
A Harry Potter Roleplay

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HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED RETURNS
In a brief statement on Friday night, Minister for Magic Cornerlius Fudge
confirmed that He Who Must Not Be Named has returned to this country
and is once more active.
"It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself
Lord - well, you know who I mean - is alive and among us again."

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Premise and Plot

The events to follow are ones that will change the course of history. Wizard and witch will raise and fall. Blood will spill, curse fall from lips and death will strike. These power struggles and hardships take place after the Dark Lord's invasion of the Ministry of Magic and the rebirth of the Order of the Phoenix. In this story you have your own path to follow, your own battles to conquer or lose and your own heart. Will you join the Dark Lord or fight? Will you hide and cower? Join the Ministry? Gain your place in the Order of the Phoenix, or go your own way? A long and dangerous path lays at your feet and at the feet of Britain, neigh all of Europe, so take your first step, wand held at the ready and wits bared.


Joining the Fray

Send a PM to xXPandemoniumXx with the same title as this story, the PM should include the following character form:

[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Name:[/b] (first middle last)
[b]Age:[/b] (11-17 if they are in Hogwarts)(17+ if they are no longer in Hogwarts)
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Picture:[/b] (anime preferred, provide a link)
[b]Blood status:[/b] (pure, half, muggle-born)
[b]Education:[/b] (ex: Hogwarts, Durmstrang, Beauxbatons ect.)
[b]Strengths:[/b] (2-3)
[b]Weaknesses:[/b] (2-3)
[b]Side:[/b] (light, neutral, dark)
[b]Other:[/b] (any pets + their picture URL, wand type, tattoos, important past experiences ectect)

Some Issues!

-Animagi are rare. It's extremely difficult magic. I don't want a dozen animagi running around! You may petition to be one if you are absolutely desperate, but please convince me.
-Metamorphmagi, see Animagi.
-Parseltongue is a Slytherin trait as far as I'm concerned. Riddle was the last of them. That's all you have to work with.
-Werewolves/Vampires/other dark creatures: that's nice, just be realistic and don't accept everyone to be 'cool' with the whole dark creature thing. Think of how shunned Remus is and how hard it is for him to keep a job.
-Purebloods: please not too many. If you make up a family then you have to somehow tie it to another canon family, that's just how the pureblood society is.
-Pets: nothing too crazy please, but most standard pets are welcome.

The Canon

Canon: any officially recognized set of books. eg: Rowlings work.

This roleplay is OC-ccentric, but you are very welcome to play a canon character. Please keep in mind that this RP will follow the HP canon up until the end of book 5: The Order of the Phoenix (this doesn't mean we can't steal things from books 6 and 7). If you don't think you can play the character in-character don't bother, or bother, but if people complain about it not being believable... ...

Post Expectations

Posts should be well constructed, feeling solid with description of both action and setting. That means there should be at least two decent paragraphs.
Please try to include all the roleplayers if you can. Now if you happen to post your character no where near anyone else, or in a really difficult location and go off on your own tangent, no one is obligated to go out of their character's way to 'rescue' you.
Please go ahead and keep a narrow picture of your character along the side of your post, and/or include a title for your post. Just don't go overboard with pictures and symbols. Minimalistic is best.
Sub-plots, twists and surprises are great! I have a small plot in mind that will become apparent as my lead character does his thing, but feel free to lead some action. We're making our own story here!

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The Cast & Crew

Rowling's Characters

-Draco Malfoy (xXPandemoniumXx) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron
-Remus Lupin (Breaking Paradigms) ...
-Severus Snape (Rosetta Anne River) Diagon Alley - Outside The Leaky Cauldron
-Voldemort (Breaking Paradigms) ...
-Hermione Granger (-Atems-Fairy-) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron

Original Characters

-Keaton Von (xXPandemoniumXx) Diagon Alley - The Enigmatic Emporium
-Jude Castings (blue t r a f f i c light) Diagon Alley - ?
-Bakura Night (Tozokuo Bakura) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron
-Aurelo Castillo (Pulsar profundo) Diagon Alley - Leaving Ollivander's
-Leena Tong (kippycat) Diagon Alley - The Enigmatic Emporium
-Amy Sloth (Rosetta Anne River) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron
-Sophie Quartex (Rosetta Anne River) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron
-Charlotte Riddle-Wilkes (Psycho Sparrow) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron
-Allen Harper (Zinochi) Diagon Alley - Ollivander's
-Billie Tan (Z3r0CmPerSec) Diagon Alley - The Leaky Cauldron
-Teiran Amsel (Marikaza_Icarus) ...

Tools (NPCs)
Prevalent characters that anyone can use.
- Tom from The Leaky Cauldron
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emerging.from.the.darkness

I had never really fancied myself a hero, or the kind of person who would stand up when no one else would. I could never see myself playing that role, having people look up to me. I had always been an observer, a silent force when need be. I liked my anonymity. In school, I was slightly above average, but below enough people that I was nothing exceptional. I made friends, but not too many. So this role that was left to me was not something I was interested in. Luckily, I wasn't required to do anything but guard some molding paper work out of some false sense of duty to my deceased grandfather. But just as before, the world I know is standing at the precipice, staring down into a fissure so deep no one can see the bottom. They can guess, but they can't know. Everyone is hoping there will be a soft landing, some light, some hope. Realistically, there's sharp stalagmites thirsting for blood.
This precipice, this gaping maw was a choice, looming at me. I could fall with the rest, or with bloodied fingers cling to the edge. I never asked for this...

Keaton paced restlessly back and forth across a thread bare carpet, dust rose up from his scuffed black shoes. It tickled his nose, and with a great convulsion he sneezed. The whole room was full of dust, as if barely used. Keaton's hazel eyes were distant, but flashing with volatile emotion that couldn't seem to settle one way or another. He was agitated, his fingers fidgeted in his trouser pockets. A discarded copy of the Daily Profit sat across the room against a baseboard. Across the front page: HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED RETURNS seemed to scream silently at the young man. With another rib-busting sneeze he gave up his pacing and descended down a obnoxiously rickety staircase to the back room of The Enigmatic Emporium. He hadn't opened the shop this morning, and had sent Wynd out to inform his single part-time employee that he had the day off.

The store its self was an odd collection of books and trinkets, mostly books. Many had broken spines, faded letters, and generally looked well loved. In short, Keaton ran a used book store. A trading post of sorts, he liked to joke. Though this day he was in no joking mood. He shouldered his way out the back door and through a dank alley way and into Diagon Alley proper, robes snapping about his ankles. Business was bad, people didn't care about books or ice creams or frivolous summer shopping with the Dark Lord risen. Keaton stalked down the wizarding shopping district towards The Leaky Cauldron with an near deranged gleam to his eye, his mind spinning circles.

[Tozokuo Bakura]

A boy no older then 17 was moving through the
differnt people in the Leaky Cauldron as his fingures moved snaching many differnt
things. From Watches to cheep pocket change anything that he could get his
hands onto With out being notesed by the people he was taking things from. Sure
his outfit was very differnt then the other people here but that was just him since
he was very differnt then others. Moving over to the corrner he counted out the
money he had pocketed to see if he had enough for something to drink.

The Daily Profit news didn't even seem to faze him at all. He already knew all this
well enough anyway. Yes! Enough here for some thing to drink! He thought
to himself as he smirked a bit, but something cought his eyes. It was another boy
who was just comming into the Leaky Cauldron. Who was this boy? Past through
his mind since he wondered about this boy since there was just something about
him that intrested him.

[heartbreak country]

〔 * ＣＡＰＯＥＩＲＡ ｃｒａｚｙ 〕+

[ ☠ ]++++++ jude castings.

Thanks to the long tan trench coat, no one could identify Jude for her tattoo sleeve. Her pink hair, now that was a different story. She honestly didn't care if people could indeed identify her; she had done nothing wrong, she wasn't on the run from Azkaban or anything of the like. No, she was just an ordinary girl. An ordinary half-werewolf girl. She trekked through Diagon Alley aimlessly, her ankle boots clicking against the stone path. Her pink hair had been pulled into a ponytail, save for her bangs, and bounced with her as she walked along. She had nothing to do but wander, since that's all she was good for. Wandering. She kept places like The Leaky Cauldron in business, but that was about it. Jude huffed a sigh as she continued on, her eyes diverted down to her feet. The clicking noises her heels made annoyed her; she didn't know why she bought them in the first place. She figured because they looked good, which they did. They looked fantastic.

But no one looked at her shoes, anyway.

Jude walked into The Leaky Cauldron silently, avoiding the gazes of the men that sat around, stinking up the joint with their drinks and bad breath. She was used to it, having been in both better and worse places than this, but she still didn't like it. She was above all that, and she bloody well knew it. She avoided everyone within the pub and just made her way up to her room, where she was quickly greeted by her two cats, Miso and Myles. "Good day, Miso. Myles. Look what I've brought for you." Jude reached inside of her trench coat and pulled some tiny items out of the inside pocket. She set them down on the nearby table, taking out her wand. She waved it about just a tad, and the items grew in size. They were grocery bags. Miso climbed up onto the table, whilst Myles decided to take a little detour out of the room through the slightly opened door. While Jude took out some milk and cat food, among other items she could use for cooking, Myles made his way down the stairs and into the pub.

Jude took notice rather quickly, forgetting all about the groceries for the time being. "Oh, shoot. Myles? Where are you?" she called out into the hallway, walking out of her room. She closed the door so Miso wouldn't get out, and tip toed the best she could down the hall, attempting to find one of her two stray cats.

[Tozokuo Bakura]

The boy was wathing the other boy move around
but then something else caugh his eye. another person who walked into the
building. This was odd to see that pink color of hair with the trech. Along with that
his intrest was peaked as he watched her move silently around and then up the
stairs. Sighing a bit he moved over to the counter to get himself a drink.

As he was about to order he felt something agenst his leg and looked down to see
a cat. This was odd to him but he just gently moved and petted the cat a little
bit before he changed his drink to milk and then also to have a bowl as he took
the bowl and the glass of milk with him and looked to the cat wondering if it would
follow as he sat down in one of the far corner tables and poored some of the milk
into the bowl for the cat as he soon took a drink from the glass himself.

[heartbreak country]

〔 * ＣＡＰＯＥＩＲＡ ｃｒａｚｙ 〕+

[ ☠ ]++++++ jude castings.

Left and right and up and down Jude looked for Myles, but he was nowhere to be found. Her constant clicking against the wooden floor annoyed her even further, so she went back to her room and slipped out of her boots, instead putting on a pair of warm socks and a pair of pink bunny slippers. From there, she looked to Miso, who looked quite lost without her male counterpart. She mewed at Jude sadly, wanting Myles to come back. "It's alright, Miso. I'll go search downstairs for Myles. You stay here." she said to the cat, who mewed happily in response. Jude smiled and scratched her behind her ears, before walking to her door. She slipped out of her trench coat, left with a loose gray t-shirt that was tucked into her black shorts (but it was longer, so part of it flopped over top), and her thigh-high gray socks with the pink bunny slippers on her feet. Her tattoo sleeve was quite evident on her left arm, but she didn't care.

Who would identify her from a tattoo?

Jude closed her room's door behind her softly, as to not alarm anyone else in the hallway of her presence. She walked over to the staircase that led her downstairs to the pub, and from there she searched for Myles. She felt a little silly, wearing bunny slippers in a pub, but who were any of the men to judge? She didn't care. She walked up to the counter, asking Tom if he had seen Myles anywhere. Yes, he had said, over with that man over there. Tom pointed the man in the corner to her, and there she saw Myles. She approached the man with caution, her eyes on Myles. "Um, excuse me," Jude started, looking from Myles to the man. "I'm sorry if my cat disturbed you. He escaped from upstairs." she said, hoping that he wouldn't think much of it and just let her go with the cat. Some people were rude enough to try and take her on. They were petty fools for doing so.

[Tozokuo Bakura]

The boy just turned and looked to the girl that
had come over. "You're Cat? Thought it was just one of the cats that
roamed around here." He said in a calm but dark voice as his hand
moved and gently petted the cat's back. As he moved his hand acrossed it's back
his eyes glanced to the girls looks. as if it was strange to dress that way but he
couldn't complain he dressed offly weird himself.

"Best to not let this cat out since there are some Wolves looking for a meal
around in this place." He said though the tone in his voice didn't
change though he caught a serten type of smell on the girl sure it was faint but it
was just something that he could smell and do. It was another reason why he
was seeked out. Looking to her his scars over his right eye showed themselfs from
under the hood he wore.

[heartbreak country]

〔 * ＣＡＰＯＥＩＲＡ ｃｒａｚｙ 〕+

[ ☠ ]++++++ jude castings.

Jude stood firmly in place, gazing at the hooded man before her. He seemed a bit strange; it felt as though he were giving her a once-over, but not in the way many a man intended. He seemed to do it out of pure curiosity rather than desire. She liked that, but either way she was a little creeped out. He didn't know who she was; he couldn't. She wasn't a well-known witch, and her bloodline wasn't very praised or famous. As the man said he had mistaken Myles for a stray cat, she shrugged slightly. "Well, he was a stray once upon a time, but not anymore." she informed him, watching as he pet her cat. He felt rather eerie, and she didn't want Myles around him any longer. It was like watching your own child hanging out with a group of bad kids. Jude didn't say anything more, however, and just gazed the man over like he was her.

His last sentence caught her off guard, however, and she froze in place. She swore all of the heat in her body disappeared, and she held her breath for a moment. "Wolves, you say?" He couldn't have meant werewolves. Could he? If that were true, then she would have to leave. She couldn't go anywhere near other werewolves; she was only a halfling, and she was shunned by a lot of those that she had met. Some had even told others of who she was; she couldn't risk anyone knowing who she was. "Well, thank you for your concern, but I wasn't planning on letting any wolves get near Myles." Jude said, walking a bit closer so she could pick Myles up. She scratched behind his ears with her tattooed arm first, before picking him up and holding him in her arms. "Thank you for taking care of Myles." she thanked, turning herself around, wanting to get back upstairs as quickly as she possibly could.

[Tozokuo Bakura]

The boy smirked as he looked at her. "The
Wolves i ment was really one.. but i guess the other men could also be wolves as
well.." He said as he turned to look at the ground as something white seemed to
move and soon enough wraped around him and then peaked his head out at the
girl. It was a Snake a white albino Python.

He carefully petted the snake on the head as he just seemed happy.
sure he got really weird looks now since a snake was a symble of You know who
but he didn't care it kept a lot of people away from him. "Don't let your
cat's wonder around since Apep here likes to eat anything he can get his coils
around." He said as the Snake he called apep wraped around him
more and slowly sliped under his red coat to wrap around his body and get warm.