Notes for playing Primary Tension: Mentorship and Amusement. Anthony has built a stable life around gaining knowledge and everyday stories and lessons. He enjoys helping his employees sharpen their skills, his library patrons find their research, and all children find hope and excitement.
Driven by generosity towards those around him and bringing people towards God by encouraging them to improve themselves and their lives.
Character development up for grabs but will shape her ethics and her loyalties? Broken by freedom/ not knowing to do with herself ---
xxx📖BASICS🔖xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NICKNAMES Tall Anthony, “The Librarian” GENDER Male SEXUAL ORIENTATION Bisexual
AGE AT DEATH 81 BIRTHDAY July 12th, 1973 -- Cancer LANGUAGES English
BLOOD STATUS Pureblood, though he never knew that. WAND Rowan wood and unicorn hair core, 14 1/2 inches, slightly yielding. Appearance PATRONUS Augurey
FACECLAIM Morgan Freeman :O HEIGHT 6'4" (193cm) WEIGHT 190 lbs (86 kg)
xxx📖SCHOOLANDCAREER🔖xxxxxxxxxxxx ATTENDED Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry HOUSE Hufflepuff CLASS OF 1991 CLUBS Astronomy Club O.W.L. SCORES Astronomy ~ E Charms ~ P Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ E Herbology ~ D -- “D is for Dirt, so...good score for Herbology, right?” History of Magic ~ O Potions ~ A Transfiguration ~ E-- so many jokes can be made out of a rock transfigured into a cookie or a goblet of water transfigured into an inkpot. Healing ~ O Mythology~ O Study of Ancient Runes~ E Muggle Studies ~ A -- Kept missing class because it was his only class that day and he’d just forget.
N.E.W.T. SCORES History of Magic ~ O Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ E Transfiguration ~ A Healing ~ A Mythology~ O Study of Ancient Runes~ O
Other Electives Apparation: Very proficient.
DREAM JOB Librarian CAREER Head Librarian at the United Kingdom Library of Wizarding History and Literature (Librarian since 2003, Head Librarian 2018- 2054)
■ Formerly: Unspeakable, Death Chamber, Department of Mysteries (1996- 2003) ■ Formerly: Librarian manager for a muggle library in Yorkshire (1991 - 1996)
xxx📖PERSONALITY🔖xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
INTIMIDATING...or just a GIANT TROLL Most who have known him for a while know he is a gentle giant, but Tall Anthony is no less intimidating when he looms over folks with narrowed eyes and a terse command or demand for an explanation. He does this mostly to mess with people and enjoys watching their "snicker-worthy reactions". Occasionally he’ll make a pun, but even then his deadpan is impenetrable. Explanations or jokes told to him are replied to with a grunt and grade: “Dreadful” “Acceptable” “Exceeds Expectations”. Notably though, he'll kneel down to listen to children and sit "criss-cross applesauce" with them for storytime.
TERSE While he used to be impossible to shut up, Anthony prefers now to offer guidance or response with minimal words. When asked about his personal life, he will usually simply direct them to one of the books he’s authored about stories he’s collected over the years. Instead of stating his own opinions, he'll direct them to books written about the subject. Of course, this reticence vanishes when the children ask him to read, and he'll take his old animated role of storyteller, complete with dynamic voices.
GENEROUS He and his wife enjoy making little crafts and baking treats, and Anthony in particular enjoys sharing these treats. He keeps no secrets outside of those needed to protect the Library and is always willing to offer wisdom, comfort, or a second translation opinion. Raises and bonuses are very rare but hefty, and randomly he'll reward random employees with baked goods. Every Christmas he makes knitcrafts for friends and strangers, and, for every friend or employee he says goodbye to, he gifts a book of special meaning or hopeful wisdom.
ORGANIZED The library's immaculate appearance is perhaps testament to Anthony's insistence on a clean and organized space. The organization is constantly evolving, but he always has records explaining how this categorization system evolved, and everything in the Library is organized to facilitate maximum context while remaining simple to find.
OBSERVANT Anthony pays careful attention to what people read or are interested in and will occasionally recommend a particular section or title. He also uses this to try to prevent conflict before it arises, though if something does happen, he is a very patient listener whose office door is always metaphorically open.
🔖HOBBIES ■ Baking and sharing baked goods ■ Stargazing ■ Translating works
🔖LIKES ■ Stories and storytelling ■ Social events and parties ■ Metadata on everything. ■ Puns and Pranks ■ Children ■ Community service projects, with or without magic
🔖DISLIKES ■ Uncleanliness will not be tolerated in my library. ■ Bad weather, but that’s what the augurey is for. ■ Telescopes, because they don't work properly for him. This is why you have friends in the Astronomy club, folks--to fix the telescopes. Also...stargazing with friends on roofs ■ Disrespect -- harmless pranks are one thing. Rudeness is another. ■ Fire and brimstone street pastors--you've got to connect with your ministry, work with them, serve them, and understand them. Judgement is between them and God; stop trying to do God's job.
🔖STRENGTHS ■ Knowing where to look something up or who to consult, even if he doesn’t know the content well himself. ■ Good listener
🔖WEAKNESSES ■ Patience-- Despite stern words and best efforts to find solutions, Anthony is very reluctant to let anyone leave him on bad terms and will always try to find a reason to give them another chance. ■ He calls it record-keeping and documentation, the employees call it busy work; either way, Anthony is a fan of it.
🔖DREAMS ■ Seeing my grandchildren grow up. ■ Haunting the library when I’m dead.
🔖FEARS ■ Losing a book I’ve been entrusted with. It happened once. It will not happen again.
xxx📖BACKSTORY🔖xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
📖EARLY CHILDHOOD I was an orphan, with no memory of my birth parents, although I must have spent some years with them. At the orphanage, I got on the caretaker’s cranky nerves and always seemed to be in trouble. I was about to get myself into more serious trouble when an American man stopped me in the street. “Where are your parents, kid?” I told him I didn’t have any. He took me directly back to Wool’s Orphanage, even though I hadn’t told him I lived there, and adopted me, promising he would raise me right if it killed him.
“My name is Jacob,” he told me. “Last name doesn’t matter. You can call yourself Jacobson.” He took me to a dinky hut in Yorkshire, furnished with a cot, a stove and three broken stools. It smelled like corn and cow. But it was mine. "Welcome home."
I never knew much about my adoptive father--he was a wizard who had done some terrible crime in the States, serving penance across the seas. We spent our life in relative poverty, taking in wizard folk, muggle folk, folk of different faiths and faces alike who landed at our door. He taught me to use magic for healing, for cooking, for crafting--but always for other people. Everyone we took in would leave eventually, when their lives were well enough for them to handle--and this was his intension and philosophy. We were left with stories that I repeated endlessly to him, occasionally throwing in an imaginary guest--Jacob was an excellent listener, and would grunt amusedly at my fictions, but said little himself.
📖SCHOOL YEARS I was sorted into Hufflepuff House once at Hogwarts, where I divided my time primarily between the Kitchens and Library. My friends and peers knew me for always having an interesting story at hand, and my professors knew me for being always willing to help organize papers or stores or sort through course content metadata. I spent all but one vacation at home, even if it meant knitting sweaters in the snow rather than telling stories by the fire at school.
📖POST-GRADUATION I returned home after graduation, and Jacob had me help build a muggle library. I helped run the operation for a few years, monitoring establishment, donations, sorting, and the bookstore. But I grew weary of being disconnected with the wizarding world, especially when it was clear there were wizards in need of protection; I resigned when I was 23 to help shelter and heal during the Second Wizarding War. Afterwards, I become an Unspeakable in the Death Chamber of the Department of Mysteries. Despite the career change, I remained in close contact with Jacob and visited frequently.
I had many relationships over the years, starting as early as my Hogwarts years, with guys and gals of both wizarding and muggle descent with all kinds of strange and interesting stories. The relationships were mostly short, but amicable. These ended when I met Sparrow, a fellow Unspeakable from the Thought Chamber. Work brought us together, a shared love of sweets and baked goods brought us closer, and the endless banter and prank-avenging kept our relationship stable and fun. Our courtship lasted 5 years before she got frustrated and proposed in the middle of an argument. We had one child, named for her family. Shortly after Cohen’s birth, Jacob himself passed away mysteriously. He was buried with the rest of Sparrow’s family. Per his request, his name will be lost to history when I die, but his lessons and our experiences together are immortalized in the books I've written.
📖LIBRARY TENURE When I was almost 30, I travelled to Somerset and the Wizarding Library there. It was love at first sight-- Within a year I had resigned from the Ministry to work as a librarian there. This was my calling-- helping patrons find their work amongst the shelves, protecting the collection, and of course, cataloging the endless amount of metadata. I lost a single item in this time--a page somehow stolen from a book on necromancy. I know the thief’s face, but they have never been tracked down. Despite this mishap, I was promoted to Head Librarian fifteen years after I started, when the previous Head Librarian retired.
Life now revolves steadily around the Library: my son was married in the Cathedral above, and my daughter-in-law works between the two libraries. I watch over the wizarding library with careful eye and do my best to be a mentor for the volunteers and employees that pass through my care. In age I’ve come to resemble my father’s curt manner, but I haven't lost the penchant to prank a little and can never resist when children ask me to read to them or tell them a story. It never ceases to amuse me to send my employees on a short puzzle or goose chase for a book that turns out to be a parcel of baked goods--keeps their skills sharp too.
📖DEATHAnthony died at the Winchester Massacre on 29 December 2054, dueling the Illusionist who had started the fire.
xxx📖RELATIONSHIPS🔖xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FAMILY ■ WifeSparrow Winchester, Unspeakable, Thought Chamber, Department of Mysteries (pureblood) ■ Adoptive FatherJacob, hermit (unknown)-- deceased ■ ChildCohen Winchester, Unspeakable, Time Chamber, Department of Mysteries (pureblood); Eliana Zeshu Winchester, nee Li, manager (squib) ■ GrandchildrenWren Winchester, Slytherin student (pureblood); Sparrow Winchester II, Gryffindor student (pureblood); Robin Winchester, future student (pureblood); Phoebe Winchester, baby (pureblood); ■ Pets Kethia (augurey) [Appearance]
FRIENDS ■ The Library ghosts; the books; employees and patrons, past and present.
xxx📖UPDATES🔖xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CREATED 7 September 2018 UPDATED 08 January 2022 UPDATES MADE ■ To death. ■ (recent update) ■ (recent update)
He has a special floo connecting between his house and office. You can apparate into the upper floor of the cathedral, but not into the library itself (as stated in existing), and NOT within the library. It used to be allowed, but not all people apparate quietly and the loud crack of a patron moving from one side to the other of the library was startling others. The splinching cases were occasional but frequent enough from people just vaguely imagining "Books, lots of them" and ending up in strange places. There was some first aid available, but it was bad for the environment and the people who tried it, so they just decided to remove the temptation. It would also prevent would-be thieves from apparating directly to the floo.
Favorites Book ??? Food Danishes, baked goods? Clothes Hand-knitted cardigans
Typicals Outfit Collared shirt, light-colored slacks, and a dark blue jacket he's had for forever.
Other life things
Eliam, as the surviving patriarch, has the final say on things, but mostly that's left to younger folks. His greatest contribution was the estate itself and the libraries. Anthony laid the foundation for the Library Wing and the separation of muggle and wizarding sections. Cohen, primarily influenced by his father, established a very generous and open door policy: Every winter the main doors (to the foyer and ballroom/ sitting room) will remain unlocked. welcoming anyone who is homeless and needs a place to stay the night. Initially just Anthony and Cohen, the rest of the family has adopted this habit of sitting to talk as well.
Misc Wand Rowan wood = defensive spells, clear-minded, pure-hearted, and a bit gossipy. unicorn hair = consistent and loyal even if not strongest core. 14 1/2 in = flair for the dramatic (useful in storytelling) Patronus Augurey -- a portent of the inevitability of death. he does not fear death, only failure. + Kethia is his omen and protector. formerly: magpie = smart, curious, inquisitive, trickster, but also a homebody
Best Memories:
About five months into his work at the Library, just a random late afternoon at the Library with the sunlight pouring in through the magically-enchanted windows. He was finishing some work on a book, his wife was reading across from him, Verine (3) and Cohen (1) were plopped on a beanbag next to them staring at a picture book or, in Cohen's case, asleep and hugging a visual encyclopedia. It was a moment of serenity, a moment of home, and an assurance that even though he'd upheaved his career so soon after their kid was born, he was in the right place. Meeting Kethia, his augurey. The first glimpse of the hut in Yorkshire after being adopted.
Worst memories:
Watching a thief escape with a page from a book in the Library. Staying up all night Christmas of his fourth year, the only Winter Break he had stayed at Hogwarts. The previous day had been amazing, filled with story telling, drinking butterbeer and having fun by the fire. But that night, he couldn't sleep, knowing that there was a kid in Yorkshire that was cold that night while he was partying. From then on he would always choose to spend winter knitting and baking and giving so that at least that night he could rest knowing he'd done what he could.
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📖🔖ANTHONYCLYDEJACOBSON 77 years || Hufflepuff Alumnus Head Librarian United Kingdom Library of Wizarding History & Literature _______________
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7:00-- Anthony spends a solid hour each morning reading and praying before breakfast. He tells Kethia a joke every morning. Usually someone groans. Gets into the Library around 8:30 and makes sure Wren and Sparrow are situated with work before going about Library tasks.
He regularly walks around the space to reshelf books or help, but will otherwise be in his office working on metadata or reading. The blinds are usually open unless he is talking to someone or requires other privacy.
Evenings:
Monday: --- Tuesday: Hosts a small group study with young adult muggles, usually those in or right after college. Wednesday: --- Thursday: Hosts a small group study with Christian wizards. Usually involves a larger family. Friday: Service night of some sort. Usually to do with kids.
Any free evenings for one reason or another are usually him and Sparrow messing around, relaxing with the rest of the family. Occasionally they invite Verine and Elmond over. Callum and Scytharia visit often as well. Otherwise he'll just go work on writing or grooming Kethia and Sparrow will work on wand projects. Anthony dedicates at least an hour each evening to other reading, such as reading other religious texts, which he does with an open mind.
Weekends
Saturday mornings is usually the quietest day of the week with everyone at home.
There is definitely a knitting or baking thing going on at any point. Otherwise, Anthony will be working on the home libraries or writing a book. Eliana usually works in the garden, sometimes with Wren. Sparrow sometimes makes wands. She has specialty items imported depending on the project. Sparrow II practices lines somewhere. And movie marathons. Cohen likes watching Sparrow. Or painting rocks in the garden.
Eliam sometimes has people over for discussion and high tea (17:00) on wizarding history discussions. They conduct this usually in the Library Wing. There is usually something else going on Saturday evening as well:
Anthony is part of an Astronomy Club that meets once a month or other special occasions. He and a few other wizards go onto someone's roof to stargaze and talk about the sky. Eliana will usually drag people off to a wizarding party (her, Cohen, Wren, Sparrow usually). She also frequently hosts parties. Sparrow II might have a show.
The entire family goes to church on Sunday mornings.
Eliana and Cohen usually go to lunch with friends. Sparrow and Anthony will occasionally join, but usually have some kind of service project. They'll go to the Library sometimes as well, if there isn't anything else.
