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inMadness

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:10 pm


___________________,,-'{ Arthur Zeek Doyle Findeler III }'-,,___________________

Hi, my name is
Arthur Zeek Doyle Findeler III
I'm a
Male
I work in
the Department of Mysteries, as an Unspeakable for the Hall of Prophecy
I'm 35 years old.
The house I was in was
Slytherin


I may seem
Tentative and Commonly secretive
but I'm really
...a loving father, and once a devoted husband. Arthur is kind but strict and puts his family's well being above all else. He became a guiding light and source of compassion and caring for his son after his wife died, being thrust into both parental roles.
My background story is

Arthur Zeek Doyle Findeler; the third, met his wife his first day working for the Ministry of Magic. To this day, what he remembered most was her smile. He came to find out, she had enchanted the visual imapact of her smile to make her more approachable in her work, but still, that image of beauty remained anchored in his mind nonetheless. Everyday, he would pass by reception to that smile, honored on those days she shared a passing word with him on his way to the lift. Arthur was a secretive man, as all Unspeakables that worked on the ninth level of the Ministry of Magic were. Details concerning the department of mysteries were forbidden to leave that secret level, and Arthur enjoyed his work too much to compromise his position, so when he, a near complete stranger, took it upon himself to ask the lively woman at reception to dinner, it was no suprise that her normally captivating expression was robbed by one of bewilderment. Still, after an unsettling moment of uncertainty for Arthur, she agreed... And the rest is history so to speak.

They were married two years later, and gave birth to a son the year after that. Together, they worked to build a life in Westminister. They bought a small secluded sect of land, with a cool stream running along the eastern border of the grassy tree spotted property. Atop a gently hill, a two-story home was commisioned to contain two bedrooms, a living area, den, and kitchen. Together, they raised their son and for nine years, their family was the realization of the dream Arthur and his wife shared. It was all too good and pure to last, for in the end, their picture perfect life came to a tear jerking halt. His wife, and mother to his son, had died, and in truth only Arthur and his colleages at the DoM knew why. Sworn to secrecy, Arthur was forced to endure the true horror and grief of events he held himself responsible for, and he was forced to feel that truth alone.

The loss of what had been an anchor in their home, had a deepening impact on Arthur, just as it had Thomas, manifesting in him through a furthered intensity in his career pursuits. He took to locking himself away in his study for hours, sometimes days, working on his next project or debunking the next inconsistency in his field. I wasn't until his aged horned owl, baroque delivered his son's acceptance letter to Hogwarts that his depressive cloud seemed to lift and he was brought to a stark realization of what truly mattered in his life.


I enjoy
Books, his work, family, the moon, and the Daily Prophet
I despise
Inconsistent time and space annomolies, house elves, the new moon, oriental style food, the current head of the department of mysteries.
I look like
Arthur
My wand is a
12'' Blackthorn; Manticore hair
My pet is a
Pays for resources concerning the care of his son's cat, and niece's toad. Keeps an old carrier owl for mail and contact with the ministry named Baroque.
Oh yes, there's something else I need to tell you!
Only a few weeks ago, I heard my wife's voice while in my study. I searched for the source of the sound, only to come up empty handed with one more mystery to solve.


Essy
PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:28 pm


___________________,,-'{ Thomas Doyle Findeler }'-,,___________________

Hi, my name is
Thomas Doyle Findeler
But I mostly go by
Thomas
I'm a
Male
I'm 12 years old.
The school I go to is
Hogwarts, Slytherin House


People say that, in a nutshell, I'm
Stoic and sarcastic. I'm intelligent and hold a certain distance from people. I'm more likely to take to locking myself away with a pile of spellbooks and recipies, than seek out companionship in others. Thomas is suprisingly focused for his age, and dedicated himself to the prospect of attending the prestigous school since he first heard his father utter the words, "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"

My background story is
Tomas was born into a loving and stable English home. His mother, before she passed, worked in secretorial at the Ministry of Magic. His father was a corespondent for the Department of Mysteries. Thanks to careers of stability, Thomas grew up happily and healthily in Westminster. He had every resource available to him, yet Thomas took interest in few of his many natural talents. A genuine love of art being his only real recreational hobby, he persued the skill with a unwavering tenacity, learning to paint and draw with astounding visual impact and technique by the time he reached his eighth birthday. On that day, his father provided Thomas with a new and beatiful method for his creativity. Bestowing on his son the very wand the man had recieved as a boy; a worn and pitted Blackthorn, he proceeded to instruct his son on basic wand technique and a bewildering charm that allowed the caster to recreate on paper any image he could hold to focus in his mind. Thomas now had the ability to truly transfer the visions of his imagination to a tangible form without so much as lifting a stick of graphite or a paintbrush, and because of that fact, that robbed him of the skill he pursued for so long, he resented the charm immediately. Claiming the use of magic took away his ability to feel his work; Only eight years old, and he knew well what passion was behind the pages of his labors; a charm that could see his imagination before he could made him feel like less of an artist.

Still he understood what learning that charm would do for him, and so he accepted the knowledge with humility and a respect at what his father hoped to accomplish in teaching him. He continued to practice, and it took a little over eighteen months before his echanted art pieces had the same visual level of skill and emotion. What provided the challenge in all those times, but maintaining the focus to recreate a mental image; with one's thoughts constantly shifting an unfocused mind could produce no more than an infant's scribblings. It took a mental control that was both draining and uncommonly steady to put the sort of detail and expression Thomas could accomplish by hand. To this day he still prefered ink stains and coal dust of a labor of love to the instant gratification of an enchanted page.

Thomas lost his mother shortly after he mastered the drawing charm. He was too young to understand why his mother had to leave and that she wouldn't return, and though his father broke her death as gently as he could, Thomas never learned the truth to how she actually died. He remembered waking up to the unnerving sound of sobs that only a man at his most desperate hour could produce, and finding his father curled over the dining table surrounded by a crowd of Ministry officials offering their prompted condolensces. Thomas didn't truly accept the wieght of his mother's death until months after the funeral, when in that moment, Thomas became a gaurded entity, aiming to severe any ties he had to anyone, so he would never have to feel the lonliness and anxiety of a loved one's passing again. He took to solitude like a shadow to the end of light's stretching reach, and stopped using magic altogether for another sixteen months... And then he recieved his letter.

Sealed with distinguished Hogwarts crest, Thomas felt a sort of benevolence drawing him to break the seal with a level of enthusiasm that had been dormant for too long in a child. As he read the page, admitely blushing with excitement, he heard a high pitched cooing, that was all too easy to distinguish. He'd only made it half a page into the letter, before looking up to see his father standing at his bedroom door, a look of pride on his face as watched his son open his letter. In the man's hand, cupped in a tiny ball of fluff was a calico kitten eyeing the boy from across the room. Thomas glanced at the feline and his father in intrigue.
"You're allowed a pet, and I wouldn't want you facing a brand new world alone." He said with a grin as Thomas accepted the cat carefully. He retreated slowly to his bed, setting the cat in his lap as he continued skimming the letter to it's end. He looked back at his father with a prideful grin, that alone spelled a deep gratitude in him, before glancing at the cat, who had already began exploring the confines of Thomas' lap. "I'm going to call you Fisch!" Thomas elated, exciting a laugh from his father when Thomas explained the irony the name presented... And with the weeks to follow, Thomas prepared and gathered what material's he'd need and awaited the day he'd get to step into Platform 9 3/4...

I enjoy
Drawing/Art; Reading; Fisch, his cat; the Aurora Borealis; Enchanted trinkets
I despise
Most vegetables; Loud, disruptive noise; Bullies; Snakes/Spiders; Excessive bathing
I look like
Thomas
My wand is a
12'' Blackthorn; Sphinx hair
My pet is a
A two-month old, callico kitten named Fisch.
Oh yes, there's something else I need to tell you!
The night after I opened my Hogwarts letter, I thought I saw my mother standing by the brook near my home, watching me.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:43 am


___________________,,-'{ Elizabeth Marie Belding }'-,,___________________

Hi, my name is
Elizabeth Marie Belding
But I mostly go by
Lizzy
I'm a
Female
I'm 13 years old.
The school I will be going to is
Hogwarts


People say that, in a nutshell, I'm
Elizabeth is soft-spoken and very gentle. She has an unwavering sense of justice and righteousness, but most of her drive and passions derive from a duty she feels she owes her mother. For as long as she could remember, she's never felt like she was as good as her mother wanted her to be. She pushed herself hard, and still her mother was never quite satisfied. The constant rejection despite her efforts are the core to what makes Lizzy seem so subdued and obedient. She deeply craves to break free of the metaphorical chains of high-society and unleash a high-spirited nature buried deep within.

My background story is
Elizabeth's mother always worried that her daughter would turn out like her late sister. There had been little things; signs that her darling infant had abilities most would consider otherworldly and malevolent. Still, she knew better than to follow her own mother's example in sending the girl to Hogwarts. As far as she was concerned, when her sister was essentially disowned and pawned off to the wizarding school, she'd been sent to her eventual and untimely grave. The Belding family estate was the crowning jewel on their bloodline; generations of businessmen's and entrepreneurs' sweat and blood poured into a lasting fortune, and her Elizabeth deserved every bit of that renown, if not simply for her own benefit, but for the memory of the aunt she'd barely known.

Elizabeth, or Lizzy as most endeared in calling her, was brought up to be graceful, elegant, and courteous. She was well-read, and highly talented; deserving of her namesake in almost every respect, save one. Her magical abilities we're manifesting more and more frequently as she aged, and she knew if would only be a matter of time before she began receiving letters. Fear and dread of her daughter's impending doom, Lizzy's mother was desperate to challenge the fates, and made certain Lizzy was isolated from her sister's family as much as possible when she started at Hogwarts. Lizzy did well there; she was studious and every bit as dedicated as her mother drove her to be, but there was always this sense of urgency between her and her mother, as if no matter how hard Lizzy tried, she simply wasn't learning fast enough. Perhaps she wasn't.

Just a few months before the end of her second year at the Hogwarts, the world she knew came crumbling down. Elizabeth never delved much into the family planning and finances, but apparently the successes of their past had been squandered, or simply ran-dry. It was like having the floor fall from under her, as they began foreclosing on property left and right, and eventually lost even the estate. Destitute, Lizzy's mother, still with little solution to bear, had no choice but to call on what she'd feared as the bringer of death from the start.

Arthur Findeler was reluctant at first; things in the ministry turbulent, his son doing everything he can to make his head throb, and a residual guilt that coincided with her mother's fears, Arthur wasn't certain he could face the girl, but he agreed. Maybe it was compassion, and maybe he'd heard some fell plea in the wind by the brook, but he resolved that he couldn't just turn her away. Elizabeth arrived at the Findeler Farmhouse by floo-network the morning after Baroque made the tiring flight to Surry to deliver his anticipated response. Lizzy's doing her best to adjust to the new surroundings, and despite her upbringing finds the rustic environment comforting and uncommonly serene, but deals with the anxiety of being so far from the only home and mother she's ever known.



I enjoy
Music; Art; World Cup Quidditch; Dark-chocolate
I despise
Garden gnomes; etiquette classes; Spoil-sports; salads
I look like
Lizzy
My wand is a
10'' Elm; Raven feather
My pet is a
speckled Cane Toad, named Delice
Oh yes, there's something else I need to tell you!
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