FACECLAIM Jentzen Ramirez (till late school) Skandar Keynes (onwards)
AGE 12
BIRTHDAY June 21 2034
BLOOD STATUS Muggleborn
SEXUAL ORIENTATION (Straight/Bisexual/Gay/Other)
WAND 10in Apple unicorn hair, springy with a decorated shaft
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ATTENDINGHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
YEAR First
HOUSE Gryffindor
DREAM JOB Veterinarian
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LOVING Josh loves every creature, well maybe not stinging bugs and mean animals (even then he only dislikes them). Josh want everything and everyone to be happy. He loves showing affection. BRAVE Josh is the first to jump in the watering hole. He likes a small element of danger. He can be a bit of a thrill seeker QUIRKY Josh is weird sometimes he likes girly things sometimes boyish things. He thinks of the most random things at the most random times. He's one to play with his food at any age. CRAFTY Josh likes to find ways to do things easier. He taught his sheep to pull things! He sometimes tries to get out of chores by finding ways to get his sister to do them, to varying success CURIOUS Josh loves to work with the animals his dad treats. He likes watching and learning from him. He tries to look at his dad's vet books but some words don't make sense. STUBBORN If Josh doesn't want to do something it's not happening. No amount of punishment chores will change that.
LIKES ■ sunshine ■ books ■ sheep ■ most vegetables ■ dogs ■ visiting the city
DISLIKES ■ chores ■ selling an animal ■ meat ■ night time ■ wolves
STRENGTHS ■ loving ■ crafty
WEAKNESSES ■ squemish ■ stuborn
FEARS ■ Wolves (Sir Wooliam the First was assassinated by the wolf king)
PETS ■ Sheep named Sir Wooliam the Third
FAMILY ■ Dr. Jeffrey Sparks DVM - Father ■ Mrs. Judith Sparks - Mother ■ Juniper Sparks - Younger Twin Sister
EXTRA ■ has a scar on his left forearm from a nasty broken arm from a bad jump into the creek near home ■ he is dyslexic and has bad handwriting because of it ■ call his sisters horse “horse butter” as a joke ■ is a vegetarian
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EARLY CHILDHOOD Josh and his twin sister Juniper were born outside Winchester to Jeff and Judy Sparks and grew up on the family farm. His dad is the rural community’s veterinarian that worked on everything from cats and dogs to cows and horses. The family themselves cared for chickens, sheep, and a few horses. Josh himself had his own sheep he cared for. The first being an adult sheep he claimed and named Sir Wooliam (later Sir Wooliam the first after later Sir Wooliams.) Sadly the sheep had gotten loose and got killed by a wild wolf making Josh afraid of wolves. Sir William the second lived a good while and passed from being sick. Now he has a juvenile sheep bearing the title of Sir Wooliam the third.
His magic started showing around nine and about the same time as his sisters. As he drew a lot his crayons would break but not long after they seemed fixed. And he could swear the pictures he would draw would sometimes move. His parents assumed it was his active imagination. When the twins were ten almost eleven they got a visit from a nice person and told them he and his sister were special. They were magic! It took a bit for the parents to come to terms with it but decided it was good for them to go.
SCHOOL YEARS ■ FIRST YEAR (what happened your character's first year of school; this section will be added in after their first year is completed) ■ SECOND YEAR (what happened your character's second year of school; this section will be added in after their second year is completed) ■ THIRD YEAR (what happened your character's third year of school; this section will be added in after their third year is completed) ■ FOURTH YEAR (what happened your character's fourth year of school; this section will be added in after their fourth year is completed) ■ FIFTH YEAR (what happened your character's fifth year of school; this section will be added in after their fifth year is completed) ■ SIXTH YEAR (what happened your character's sixth year of school; this section will be added in after their sixth year is completed) ■ SEVENTH YEAR (what happened your character's seventh year of school; this section will be added in after their seventh year is completed)
PET A mixed breed mare named Butterscotch (At Home) A Flemish Giant rabbit named Clover (At Hogwarts)
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ATTENDINGHogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
YEAR Second
HOUSE Let's see now Hard-working, cautious, with a good heart You'll be right at home in Hufflepuff!
EXTRACURRICULARS ■ Writer for The Daily Dragon ■ Language Club
BEST CLASSES ■ Astronomy ■ Herbology ■ History of Magic
WORST CLASSES ■ Defense Against the Dark Arts ■ Potions ■ Transfiguration
DREAM JOB Journalist
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DUTIFUL Although she’d much rather be lazing in a hammock with a good book, Juniper was taught on the farm that there will be plenty of time to relax once the job is done. As such she has never been one to procrastinate, and instead makes a point of carefully managing her time so that she will be able to evenly balance her work and play so that she isn’t stressing to meet a deadline at the last moment like some of her peers.
ABSENT-MINDED June mind has a tendency to wonder when left to her own devices. She often walks into rooms just to forget what she was doing, and when working will drift between multiple tasks at once as she can’t maintain focus on one thing for long unless she’s putting forth tremendous effort. When doing chores at home, she is sometimes tricked by her brother into doing his part as well, as when she attempts to help him she will often start daydreaming and doesn’t realize he’s run off until the work is completed, much to her annoyance.
FREETHINKER She may be spacey, but she’s certainly not naive. Juniper is a bit of a skeptic and will not always believe the words of a stranger or those in authority if she spots any sort of contradiction. She prefers to find the answers to her questions on her own with her own research instead of blindly listening to the explanations of others. If she is not satisfied with something, she will do everything she can to uncover the full truth, even if it involves taking some risks.
APPREHENSIVE Juniper isn’t necessarily afraid to take a risk, but she does prefer to avoid danger and confrontation when at all possible. She is very cautious, and with her vivid imagination is able to come up with several ways a scenario could go wrong or why she shouldn’t trust a strange man peddling watches on the streets during city trips. Thanks to this she often finds herself worrying over her more courageous brother or any adventurous friends, tagging along just to be sure there’s someone to call for help in case someone gets hurt.
RESERVED To outsiders, June recognizes that she may come off as cool and aloof. It’s not intentional, it’s just for her she would rather spend her time alone or amongst those she is already closely bonded too, as socializing with new people can be tedious and exhausting for her introverted nature. She tends to keep her feelings to herself unless directly asked, in which case she will willingly express herself without mincing words. She can be tactless, but she feels speaking openly and honestly is more important, even if it can lose her a potential friend. If they can’t handle her as she is, why should she waste her time, anyway?
CHEEKY Typically serious, June does have a bit of a silly streak when she’s amongst family and friends. She loves to play games and share jokes but is especially fond of wordplay, be it puns or witty remarks. Once she had learned from her purchased text books many spells had a Latin origin, she took it upon herself to learn some Latin words and phrases in case they would come in handy to play tricks on her future classmates… Or to have a way to curse in front of her parents without a slap on the wrist.
WEAKNESSES ■ Can’t stand the sight of blood. Makes her queasy. ■ Bees
FEARS ■ BEES ■ Losing Joshua
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EARLY CHILDHOOD Juniper was born as the youngest child of Jeffrey and Judith Sparks, just three minutes after her twin brother Joshua at 12:01 AM, 22nd of June. The duo grew up on the family farm not far out from Winchester, where they raised the usual farm animals. Her father was one of the local veterinarians, and her mother stayed home to care for the children, the plants, and the animals.
When Juniper was seven, she’d been gifted her first and only horse, a mixed breed mare affectionately dubbed Butterscotch. Her first few rides had gone on without a hitch, but one day there had been an incident where she hadn’t had her helmet on properly. A garden snake startled Butterscotch and June was flung off the saddle, smacking her head against hard ground and having to get several stitches on her left temple where she now has a white, healed over scar. The injury didn’t bother her much, beyond feeling a little nauseated from her concussion, and as soon as she was able she was back to riding.
Tragedy had struck her brother once in the form of a wolf making its way into the farm and preying upon his cherished sheep, Sir Wooliam(The First). While Josh obtained what June considered a perfectly reasonable fear of wolves, she herself realized she had a severe aversion to blood after viewing the mutilated corpse and promptly losing her breakfast to the nearest blueberry bush. If she were being truthful, she wasn’t entirely sure if the aversion was sparked by her riding accident or the sheep, but she was betting on the latter. Poor Wooliam!
As she grew, Juniper had a love for tending to the plants in her mother’s garden. Everything from tulips to zucchini, she had made a point to learn the best way to raise them up happy and healthy. Her only issue with gardening had been her reported allergy to bees, as when one would buzz by her head she would always run off screaming. The bees made tending to the plants take forever.
It was through her plants that Juniper began to notice something was odd about her. She’d often talk to her plants after reading that it was proven to help them grow. She could have sworn they were moving, as if they were pleased with her company, but that was rubbish, right? Just the summer breeze. It wasn’t until after Josh had mentioned moving drawings, and the sudden revival of a wilted rose bush, that June began to question whether it was magic or the two of them simply had overactive imaginations. She was pleasantly surprised the day the governor from Hogwarts came to deliver their letters and inform them they were in fact wizards, and would need to go to a special school to learn to control their magic. Although their mother and father were initially hesitant, they were good parents and in the end supported the twins and wished them well on their trip to school.
SCHOOL YEARS ■ FIRST YEAR First year had gone well enough as far as June was concerned. In a new environment she had been cautious of her new magical classmates, but after settling in to her new house and the whole being-a-witch thing, it had been just fine. She mostly kept to herself, the only notable exceptions being when she had been with her brother, or during club hours. She joined The Daily Dragon and even the Language Club after some thought. The only event that had really caught Juniper by surprise was the discovery over the year that Clover was a much larger breed of rabbit than she had expected. As it turned out, Flemish Giants were a thing, and by the time she had made her way home for the summer Clover was as big as a small dog! At least she wouldn’t be losing track of her bunny anytime soon.
■ SECOND YEAR (what happened your character's second year of school; this section will be added in after their second year is completed) ■ THIRD YEAR (what happened your character's third year of school; this section will be added in after their third year is completed) ■ FOURTH YEAR (what happened your character's fourth year of school; this section will be added in after their fourth year is completed) ■ FIFTH YEAR (what happened your character's fifth year of school; this section will be added in after their fifth year is completed) ■ SIXTH YEAR (what happened your character's sixth year of school; this section will be added in after their sixth year is completed) ■ SEVENTH YEAR (what happened your character's seventh year of school; this section will be added in after their seventh year is completed)
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SEXUAL ORIENTATION Homosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS Single SIGNIFICANT OTHER ---
FAMILY ■ PARENTS Jeffrey and Judith Sparks ■ TWIN BROTHER Joshua Sparks
FRIENDS ■ BEST FRIEND Joshua Sparks ■ ---
ENEMIES ---
ACQUAINTANCES Second Year Students, Hufflepuff House, The Daily Dragon Staff, Language Club
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ALLERGIES ■ Bees - Moderate. Bad swelling at the sight of sting. Juniper has never been stung, only knowing of her allergy from allergy testing. Assumes if she gets stung she’ll die after seeing the death scene of a little boy from some old movie.
INSTRUMENTS PLAYED ■ Ukulele
LANGUAGES SPOKEN ■ Sparse Latin. Scattered words and phrases.
