♦ General Description : A charming tall man with class on his side. He acts like a proper pureblood, but he surprisingly never carried a single drop of snob while doing so.
●DECISIVE -- When Topaz decides on something, it's final after moments of analyzing. He's a calculating person himself and usually doesn't dive in situations headfirst. He's confident on what he's anchoring with and holds into his beliefs even if it contrasts compared to what he used to hear from his ancestors. He could be really stubborn, though, and really hard to convince if he barely knows the person. It would also take time for someone to change his decisions, good luck with that. However, if his decisions turns out to go the wrong ones, he ends up being self-critical, thinking that he should've done better.
●WISE -- His travels has done enough to give him enough experience and new knowledge to know what was going on. He isn't naive and he is pretty much streetsmart; Topaz' head and feet are planted right on the ground and he prefers to stay that way. Given his analytical thinking, he tends to think realistic about the things around him and believes that everything has to have a reason. Though in his personal opinion, he didn't think the background does not excuse a person from doing anything reckless.
●UPSTANDING -- Topaz is wise enough to know that his family history is a mess to begin with, something he used to escape from. He doesn't discriminate anyone and doesn't care about whatever the person has as long as they have enough morals to know that he could socialize with comfortably. He does his best to be as understanding as possible when he lends an ear to anyone, and will help anyone that is within his reach.
●SOCIABLE -- Perhaps he eventually learned not to lean of whatever people think of him as a Mortemer, and he would still try to talk to people nevertheless. Topaz isn't afraid to show that he is a really warm and personable person, since after all he is already convinced that alone would show that he is a good man. That trait pretty much surprised a few people who knew about his family, while some just were tempted to raise an eyebrow about his friendliness. However, he didn't think he needed to prove to them, since after all he thinks that almost everything he does pissed his father, hence thinking that it was nothing bad.
●PROPER -- Despite his different ideals compared to his family's, he still didn't forget the ways of proper manners. He knows his manners and doesn't mind doing so as he sees fit. In fact, he didn't really see the point of abandoning your politeness to people when it is a great advantage and a great way to get along with people, really.
● CHILDHOOD --Topaz is the first-born son to Agate and Ester Mortemer, one was a Cursebreaker while the other was an Herbologist. Topaz's parents met when Agate was traveling around Norway hence meeting a beautiful and headstrong woman named Ester. Of course, it took a really long while before he could finally win her and her family's approval, as the Eide women tend to be hard to impress. So yes, they did got married and so they moved back to England and they started a family. While they were happy of having Topaz as a firstborn son, they think one child won't be enough. So that was when Jasper came in as a second, then eventually they had twins named Lazuli and Beryl.
Anyway, Topaz was raised well and proper, same goes to reading one book after the other at home as his adventure. Of course, he enjoys spending time outside the manor and there he reads the books under a nice tree. However, when he tried to approach some of his wizarding neighbors, some of them were hesitant of approaching him, confusing the young boy. Disheartened, Topaz was used in reading stuff in solitude aside from his siblings, though there were good times that he sneaked to make friends and socialize with muggle neighbors giving him an open mind. The four siblings were raised well, all of them showing magic at such an early age. Though, their father apparently paid much attention to Topaz and Jasper with strict teachings as proper wizards, whereas Ester paid attention to Lazuli and Beryl (Since Lazuli was, for Agate, "too meek" to get on his older brothers' level). Him and Jasper's relationship were pretty much complicated, as the younger brother always wanted to impress their strict father Agate and getting all the attention, whereas Topaz just do what he was told and didn't go any further to do more. The thing was both Topaz and Jasper were a pair of naturals, and Jasper was so determined to rival against his brother, though Topaz seemed to just be annoyed about it and brushed it off as some typical younger brother phase.
As he received his acceptance letter to Hogwarts, there was only one thing Topaz had in mind: New things to learn. Not to mention that going to Hogwarts meant exploring things outside his sheltered home, so he was very excited to go to school in his first year.
● SCHOOL LIFE --It took a long minute until the Hat called Ravenclaw, as the hat once mentioned that he could have done good both in Gryffindor and in Ravenclaw. Nevertheless, Topaz took that as a compliment and was very satisfied in his sorting so he decided to join the Quidditch Team in his third year as a Seeker. The problem he had to face was that some students decided to avoid him, which left him heartbroken for his first year in Hogwarts. Eventually, he found out that his parents didn't tell him that they had a really bad reputation sticking onto them since the late 1990s, after the Second Wizarding War because apparently some of the old member in the family joined Voldemort's side and got convicted. Convinced that he was nothing like any of them, he decided to get up and prove that he's very unlike them, openly talking to anyone. The improvements were slow, of course, since some only gave him raised eyebrows. Fortunately, he made a few friends who did not mind him at all, and he turned out to be one reliable friend you count on. Because Topaz's friends mostly consist of what his family would consider "blood traitors", so he became more open and more subtly against some of his family's pureblood ethics.
In his third year, his brother Jasper arrived and much to Topaz's surprise, he got sorted to Gryffindor since he always thought that he would go to Slytherin. But Topaz supposed it made alot of sense, though; considering how determined and how assertive Jasper tended to be. He was relieved, though, because it meant that he didn't have to handle his brother that much. And he was wrong, because still there were times they argued with each other. It turned out that Jasper was bitter over how he always perceived that Topaz was the heir and all-knowing, even if the Ravenclaw didn't even have the intention to compete and added the fact that his views were becoming less-pureblood like. Topaz was offended by this and called him an 'idiot' for berating him about him being friendly to "lesser-bloods" before shutting Jasper out. Other than that, Topaz excelled in most subjects, nailing one test after the other. His hard work in Quidditch earned his first string position as a Seeker and lead a few cool wins for the house and so he graduated with great bliss.
● POST-GRADUATION --Right after he graduated, he was informed by his father Agate that he should get a proper pureblood wife as possible, which irked Topaz. The problem was that he didn't find any of his pureblood female schoolmates fancy, nor did he knew how to court anyone. He was very convinced that he didn't want a love life that to spite his father, he became a Cursebreaker and went to different places like a busy man just to give him an excuse not to stay at home for a long time. This travel was something he never regretted, not even once. As he travelled from one place to another, he learned a lot of things-- especially culinary arts. He decided to try studying it and found his passion for cooking.
Other than that, he visited the manor sometimes, especially when his father called him. His father was rather disappointed in him because even with all the travelling he did, Topaz "wasted it on cooking and not on finding a proper pureblood", which pretty much offended him. Also, when he found out that his brother Jasper had a son who looked alot like his father, which Topaz paid less attention to since he didn't initially care about Jasper's doings. Thus, he didn't know the treatment Agate did to Garnet for the fact that he was a late-bloomer.
A lot has changed when Topaz's father died of poison and then was later revealed that Jasper murdered him after he found out that Agate gave up about Topaz's disappointing behavior and decided to divide the will to his four children equally- though Jasper wanted to take it all. Then after his sister Beryl, Robert, and his sister-in-law Georgia died in murder leaving Lazuli injured and his newly-founded niece Esmeralda an orphan, Topaz blamed himself that he should've been more responsible, so he decided to stay in the manor as an heir and patriarch, but he'll do it in his own different way.
That was when he discovered that his nephew Garnet was treated for "his lack of magic" from Jasper's wife Amelia, which pissed off Pyrope. So, he decided to renovate the manor and remove anything that made it eerie, mainly to make his father roll in his grave, though his mother Ester didn't seem to care. He also tried to give support to Garnet as much as possible and comfort him about him "being a squib", which was pretty much working thanks to Ester. However, the family was wrong about Garnet being a squib- he turned out to be a late-bloomer when he revealed his first accidental magic at age 10.
Then one time in January, Jasper "paid for a visit" in a family dinner and want a retaliation against Topaz, Amelia, and Ester for throwing him under the bus. So after stunning their mother, the three engaged in a duel. Topaz failed to shield the fire spell his Jasper had casted and the spell wounded Garnet, and so he rushed to his nephew's aid while Amelia and Jasper dueled against one another. After she scarred her husband and forcing him to run away again, they had a lot of thing to fix in the mess- In which the most concerned was his nephew Garnet and his growing bitterness.
➽【S C H O O L xxA N DxxC A R E E R】
♦Former Education : Homeschooled
♦School : Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy
♦House : Ravenclaw
♦Year/Class of : 2019
♦Participation/Position(s) : Quidditch Seeker
♦Best Lessons : Transfiguration, Cursebreaking, Defense Against the Dark Arts
♦Worst Lessons : History of Magic, Potions, Astronomy
♦OWLS Results :
● Potions ~ A ● Transfiguration ~ O ● Astronomy ~ EE ● History of Magic ~ EE ● Charms ~ EE ● Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ O ● Herbology ~ EE ● Healing ~ EE ● Care for Magical Creatures ~ A ● Art ~ EE ● Alchemy ~ EE ● Wandless Magic ~ EE ● Arithmancy ~ A ● Cursebreaking ~ O ● Study of Ancient Runes ~ O
♦NEWTS Results :
● Potions ~ EE ● Transfiguration ~ O ● Charms ~ EE ● Defense Against the Dark Arts ~ O ● Herbology ~ EE ● Healing ~ EE ● Care for Magical Creatures ~ EE ● Art ~ EE ● Alchemy ~ O ● Arithmancy ~ EE ● Wandless Magic ~ EE ● Cursebreaking ~ O ● Study of Ancient Runes ~ O
♦Full-Time Job : Owner of a Restaurant [Past Occupation(s) : Cursebreaker]
♦Part-Time Job : None [Past Occupation(s) : ---]
➽【I N V E N T O R Y】
♦Wand : 13 inches Ebony Wood with Griffin Feather core, pliable with a spiraled shaft
●BITTER -- Garnet's attitude could be from a family drama background, though that honestly doesn't excuse him to be like that. He gets easily annoyed to certain people and specific situations, resulting something that resembles a b*tchy attitude even if it wasn't really his intention. His words tends to be rough on the edges, but he would do his best to bite his tongue since he knew better than causing a fight or making enemies.
●WARY -- He observes before he speaks or acts, and that's how Garnet rolls. He did not think that diving things headfirst is a good idea for anyone, nor was letting his first thoughts take the wheel of his actions. He could also be a bit too wary to things around him, leading him to anxious thoughts and overthinking.
