NAME ● His full name is Nevaeh Gӧker Bahram, but he goes by Nev.
AGE ● He's actually only 15 years old.
GENDER ● It's difficult to explain. For simplicity's sake, we'll go with both.
SEXUALITY● Bi-sexual by default.
YEAR ● Fifth.
HOUSE ● He was placed in Slytherin, after some debate.
WAND ● Nevs wand is rather springy and young, made of thick chestnut wood. It's dangerous boomslang venom core was passed down to him from his grandfather and reforged into his current wand. It's 15 inches long and rather eager and tricky, much like Nev himself.
APPEARANCE ● Given his 'disposition' his appearance can vary greatly from day to day and even hour to hour. To give his peers some semblance of normality, however, Nev usually has long blond hair, tangled and unbrushed, a tall stature and a serious face. Quite often he strides around out of uniform, even when he's supposed to be in one! Typically, though, he makes a half-hearted attempt at staying in dress code. His shirt hangs half open and his tie seldom tied, his shirt untucked and his robes splayed open, striding around with his nose in a book and a bloody pipe sticking out from his lips, of all things! He only deviates from this when he chooses to be a female (which is often enough) In which case he goes about in a miniskirt and his hair might be brushed to one side, but little else will change about his outfit, even with the cleavage added. All in all, he just looks either messy, slutty, or a healthy mix of both. It should be noted that, at the age of fifteen, he chooses to wear the appearance of someone closer to nineteen years old.
PERSONALITY ● Nev can be described in many different ways, and it all depends on where you're standing from him and what he decides to be that day. To some, Nev is a pansexual god, the epitome of keeping a cool face under pressure and the general Fonzie of wizarding schools everywhere. If you want to be anyone, you want to be this cool-a** guy. To others, Nev is a shameless poser, a kid playing dress-up with those odd powers of his and hiding whatever insecurities he has under a cool guys face. Sometimes you can see the screw-up fall back down to earth from his high horse when he screws up and gets himself hurt in D.A.D.A. or charms class. But to most adults, Nev is just a sad, sad, confused child. He puts on a front and hides his insecurities from the world in a desperate attempt to shield himself from emotional or physical trauma. Whether this behavior was developed subconsciously over long years of conditioning, or a barrier was consciously erected and rationalized after some horrific event remains to be seen.
The truth of the matter is, each of these views is correct, to an extent. Nev is, indeed, little more than a small child hiding under the exterior of a big, powerful, calm guy who just doesn't give a ********. However, what of this is an act and what of this exterior has come to be actual facets of Nevs personality... there's the question. Nev himself doesn't know, and is largely unaware of his own defensive behaviors. For the most part, he is just a cool guy. He takes everything in stride, and rarely gets to any level of anger higher than being slightly annoyed. Insults and threats slide right off of him, and he never gets riled up. But, at the same time, he lacks enthusiasm, motivation, and drive for much anything other than reading books. People mistake his lack of social skill for awesome apathy, and so put him up on a pedestal. Because apathy is the coolest thing ever, in high school. What is probably most frustrating about Nev (aside from his '********, I don't care' personality) is the fact that he is successful. He is lazy, apathetic, and unmotivated, and yet for all his lack of work, he glides through every class he takes. Except, of course, for D.A.D.A., Charms, any form of dueling.... well, he has his faults. But all the other classes!! He aces them with no problem!! It's so frustrating! One thing is certain; either you adore Nev, or you hate his ******** guts. Either way, he really just doesn't care....... much.
BIOGRAPHY ● Nev is the third metamorphmagus in a long family line known for producing them... known as in, they had one and everything after that was hype. In his line, at least, this trait seems to skip every other generation. His father, much to the dismay of his grandfather, was little more than your plain old, average, run-of-the-mill wizard child. But the man treated him as though he'd been a squib. Needless to say, when Nev was born, his grandfather was delighted. Although he didn't altogether take custody of the young Nev from his parents, the old man admittedly spent at least as much time with the boy as his parents did, if not more. Nevs grandfather, Zurich, groomed the boy as the successor he'd been previously denied. Openly scoffing those in his family who were not natural born shapeshifters, he encouraged Nev changing his appearance and experimenting with his abilities as often as possible. From a young age, Nev found that he liked switching genders the best. Some days he went out as a curly-haired little cherub girl with golden locks and big blue eyes, prancing around in the cutest, frilliest dress his parents could find. Other days, he was a little punk boy with a purple mohawk, skinned knees and a pouty lip. While his grandfather delighted in and further encouraged this, the excessive changing and shifting worried his parents. They felt that he would become unstable and lose direction without a solid set of directions and morals. They decided that always changing was not the way they wanted their son to be raised. Thus began the phase of his parents trying to wean Nev from Zurich.
Obviously, Zurich didn't take well to this and, being a clingy young child, neither did Nev. For about two years the family went back and fourth. Eventually, Nevs parents were forced to relinquish their goal of separating Zurich from their son. To try and compensate, whenever Nev was with them, they tried their best to encourage him to remain in a single form. At a certain point, it even got to the point of being forceful, going so far as to punish him when he changed too much. When he was with his grandfather, everything was the opposite. He was scolded to remaining static and holding a single form, encouraged to always move, like water. But these events were, really, the most interesting part of Nevs upbringing. When he turned eleven, he was shipped off to Hogwarts. He arrived in the form of a young... girl? Boy? It was never clear... with spiky, short red hair and big, curious green eyes. During his first year, Nev shifted forms so much that teachers and students alike had a very difficult time recognizing him from one day to the next. So he had a little trouble keeping friends around... except for one or two kids who were absolutely mesmerized by this power. But, after some time of being a showpony and displaying his tricks at request, Nev tired of his charades, and gave up. By the end of his first year, his new persona and what would later become his ticket to fame (or infamy) was solidified. What friends he had left him when he stopped showing off, he began burying his nose in books his parents and grandfather got for him, and generally just stopped caring. In his second year, he returned to school looking like he'd hit puberty about five years early. Already taller and more well-built than his peers from the year before, Nev was immediately on the thin line of either being awesomely cool, or a freak giant to be picked on and bullied. His reaction to the bullying attempts sealed his fate forevermore as 'that cool guy' in the school.
It began early on in his second year. A couple kids started making jokes about him... loudly... about four feet away from Nev. A wide-eyed crowd of easily amused twelve and thirteen year olds looked on. Insult after insult, Nev didn't budge from where he leaned on a tree, nose in a book. This, of course, could be dismissed as just a nerd being too lost in thought to hear.... that was, until one of them said something about his mother being a filthy giant. There was a collective gasp and all eyes turned to Nev. He lifted those glassy blue eyes and stared at the bullies for a moment through light blond locks, raising a thin eyebrow and, after a moment, simply turning back to his book. Of course, no bully likes to be ignored, much less blatantly. Their insults became more and more harsh and derogatory, and Nev continued to ignore them. Finally, one of them pulled out a wand and shot Nev with some sort of basic, forceful spell. Nev was shoved onto the ground, where the bullies proceeded to kick him where he lay. At this point the crowd, who had mostly taken Nevs side and held some of his old 'friends' took action, and the whole thing erupted into a big, pathetic, twelve-year-old fistfight, which was quickly dispersed by a single professor, who gave the lot of them detention. Nev was helped to his feet, sporting a bruised cheek and a bloody lip. When asked by his peers why he didn't fight back or insult the bullies, Nev just shrugged and said 'I guess I just didn't feel like it.' The truth; he was too scared shitless to try. But they didn't know that. So an amazed following of second years clung to that apathy and Nev once again became popular. He only became cooler with every muttered word and light brushing off of peer and mentor alike. Apathy grew on him and, since things always worked out better when he didn't sway too much one way or the other, Nev grew more and more apathetic the older he got. This is how Nev got to where he is today, and it annoys the crap out of some people. Everyone else is too amazed.
STRENGTHS ● Nev is most thoroughly adept at avoiding pretty much any sort of attention. Whether skipping out on class or dodging fangirls and boys, Nev changes his appearance only when it suits him as a disguise these days. He tends to just sort of disappear when he wants to and reappear somewhere else later. This adds a sort of mystique that young people just eat up. As a close second to that Nev is, naturally, quite gifted in the art of transfiguration, the idea of anything shifting from one form to another coming as easily to him as breathing. If apathy can't be counted as a strength, at least it enables him to remain calm in the most strenuous of circumstances, which most certainly is a strength. No matter what is going on, Nev will inevitably shrug and breeze through it.... or fail and look damn cool doing it. He is also an excellent liar. Maybe it has to do with his always changing?
WEAKNESSES ● Either thanks to his nature or thanks to his wand, Nev is horrible when it comes to dueling/D.A.D.A. as well as any form of charms. In both classes, Nev has been known to accidentally have spells backfire on him and give him varying afflictions and injuries. Sure, he shrugs them all off as he's wheeled away to the infirmary, but it happens nonetheless. Likewise, whether or not people are aware of it, Nev has no idea how to respond to social situations, especially intimate ones. The sad thing is, despite his apathy, this isn't because he doesn't want to be close to people. Actually, the idea of having a boyfriend/girlfriend is very appealing to him, but he has absolutely no idea how to go about it. He can read social cues, certainly. It enables him to lie well. But it also enables him to shut himself off. Whether or not it is relevant, Nev is an absolutely awful cook, but since no one has the heart to tell him so (mostly pretending to love it and then throw up when his back is turned), he has absolutely no idea of this. Someone really needs to feed him his own cooking. Oh, and he can't swim. Even if he does spout fins and gills. At least he won't drown.
GREATEST FEAR ● During his first encounter with a boggart in D.A.D.A., the creature did little more than, oddly, continue changing shape, even more rapidly than it had been, occasionally stopping on apparently random faces. Despite this, Nev was quite obviously taken aback, and someone else had to force the boggart back. Hr remained in a wide-eyed trance for five full minutes, rooted to the spot, before eventually snapping out of it and claiming to not remember anything.
DEEPEST DESIRE ● Nevs sight into the mirror of Erised is a surprisingly simplistic and cheesy image. He stands alongside his parents, who are happy, content, and calm. Next to him is his grandfather, in a similar state to his parents. He and his grandfather change shape every so often, Zurich at a quicker pace. In the end, all Nev wants is some semblance of balance and normalcy. D'aw.
MISC. FACTS ● Nev is a metamorpgmagus, as was his grandfather and his great-great-grandfather. So he can change his appearance at will. He uses this power to skip class and avoid people when he doesn't want to be seen.
Also, Nev smokes. He does so as often as he can manage. He can frequently be spotted with a cigarette dangling between his lips, but when he's out somewhere alone and comfortable, he can more often than not be see with a long thin pipe instead. No one is entirely sure of exactly what he's always huffing at, but its smoke is often either multicolored or just blue.
MY CLASSES ● Transfiguration, D.A.D.A., Charms, Potions, Arithmancy, and Herbology.
THEME SONG! ● Where is my Mind? - Emily Browning version
► Karime Blackwing ◄
