Post by Gin on Sept 1, 2014 0:43:09 GMT -6
[ B a s i c ]
NAME Edward Calvin James
AGE 19 years
GENDER Male
HEIGHT 5' 10"
SEXUAL ORIENTATION heterosexual
APPEARANCE
Calvin is no man you would see hiding back in a corner, wearing baggy cloths to hide his body. No way. Calvin loves his body and takes great care of it. He is average height but you wouldn't guess it from the way he struts around. His skin is fairly dark thanks to his genes, doing nice things for his small, dark hazel/brown eyes that always seem to give away more than he would like. His hair is also dark, sometimes appearing almost black but it is generally dark brown. Like the rest of his messy, dark hair, he has dark, thick eyebrows, slanting above his eyes. His nose is fairly average though with a slight bulge in the middle as if it has been broken a couple times. Surrounding his full lips is a well maintained stubble on his upper lip, chin, and jaw. Calvin hates the feeling of being clean-shaven and he has been told many times he looks too young with a smooth face. He takes care to trim his stubble to just the right length every day without ever letting it get too long or too short. He has a long, lean face on top of a long, lean body. He keeps his muscles trim by whatever means necessary. Calvin tends to stay with the generic cloths: white t-shirts, tan leather jacket, jeans that look like they have been worn too many times. It may seem that he is dressed casually but really, it doesn't matter what he wears, he looks good anyway and he knows it.
TRAITS/PERSONALITY
Calvin, as a general rule, has a terrible temper. After 7 years are Hogwarts and putting up with his older brother's strict rules and manners he has developed a little better control over his anger. Calvin is a bit authoritative. He isn't one to keep his opinions to himself and can often be found pacing and ranting to himself in his office. While he would never resort to physical expressions of his anger, his demeanor and word choices can be rather harsh. Having to put up with his older brothers taught Cal a few things, such as not to back down with challenged but to also know when to quietly step aside. One thing Cal has great success with is reading situations and people to know how to best handle different things. Whether he takes his own advice or not is another matter.
When Calvin finds something he wants, he goes after it. A part of that stems from the wealth and prominence of his family but part of it Cal was forced to learn at school. Cal suffered his first two years at Hogwarts. Having been kicked out of every other private school he attended before turning 11, Calvin was use to being treated like a prince. Whatever he wanted, he got, from whomever he could. But the stricter teachers at Hogwarts forced Calvin to better rely on himself. And so he did. Anything Calvin wanted, he refused to ask for help after those first two years. If he needed something, he got it, by whatever means necessary. Often he had to resort to fights or manipulation but he got his way. Hand in hand with his self-reliance was the confusion that surfaced any time someone tried to do something for him without expecting anything in return. Calvin is ever-wary of people who seem to do things purely out of the goodness of their heart. Having been out of school for a couple years, Calvin has eased slightly from the harsh student he was to be a bit more tolerant of people doing things for him. But he will always prefer to do something himself if he can.
Calvin is a thinker. He is always trying to think of the best way to get something done with the least amount of effort. For Cal, it doesn't matter what worked or didn't work in the past, situations change and that requires ideas to change too. In his own way Calvin is a great motivator. He has a knack for reading people and finding insecurities or pride and poking at those just the right way to get what he needs from that person, whether it be a student getting a better grade on a test or a woman to go out on a date.
Being knowingly attractive, Calvin uses his certain charm to help him in the bedroom. Interestingly enough, Calvin completely changes gears in his personality when he is courting a woman. He is sensitive and charming, romantic and spontaneous, modest and complimenting. Occasionally, this ploy is purely to get women into bed but in many situations, Calvin is truly looking for something real and believes that he can only find a woman to like this version of him, believing that no woman would actually stick around with a foul-tempered control freak. But to his credit, Calvin does care about women and would never take advantage of them or let anyone else do so. He is very chivalrous, if a little outdated.
SPECIAL ABILITIES Usually gets what he wants, one way or another. He has a knack for picking up on a person's insecurities.
HISTORY Calvin's just a normal guy with a normal past. If you can call getting kicked out of every private school he ever attended normal. Or if you can call watching his grandfather single-handedly destroy his parent's marriage, and then later, watch as his brothers' lives are ruined by the women their grandfather forces on them. When his parents spilt, when Calvin was only 5, he didn't feel much. He had heard them fight so many nights over what they suspected of eachother. He was actually relieved when they seperated. His sister was devestated as was his eldest brother, Alexander. Alexander moved in with his father's parents. He only had a year left at Hogwarts but he wasn't ready to go out on his own. Calvin had always seen that as a weakness in his brother. Nickolas was always the understanding one. He helped his family when anything happened and pretty much took on the role of father when the kids lived with their mother. Since the three youngest siblings grew up with only one parent at a time, they learned to trust Nickolas as their parent figure more than their actual parents. Julia just grew silent and eventually moved in with their father's parents like Alexander had. Nickolas was left with his two younger brothers. Their mother had given up trying to take care of her kids and let them run her life. Nickolas was always trying to get them a nice life, ignoring his Hogwarts letter to care for his family. Lucian and Calvin tried but both of them always had such tempers and they got into trouble. Within the four years it would take for Lucian to get his Hogwarts letter, the family reduced to four had lived in 19 different towns, in 23 different schools. Lucian tried out Hogwarts but after only a few months, the Headmaster had suspended him perminantly and requested that he be sent to Durmstrang where "someone had a chance of straightening him out". Nickolas had sent his brother to the academy after many frusterating days of begging and pleading on Lucian's part that he not be sent. Two years later, it was Calvin's turn to try out Hogwarts. Learning from his brother's mistake, Calvin did his best not to screw up. He has lasted, keeping his brother happy and giving him the chance to learn magic from some of the families that lived near him and his mother. Julia never developed her magical skills enough to recieve a Hogwarts letter but with enough money from her grandfather, Beauxbatons accepted her. But with each year that passes, Calvin relearns how dreadful his mother's pushy father can be. Every few months, or so it seems for the doomed boys, their grandfather sends a letter to them claiming he has some fantastic dame waiting for them. When each of them protest, he moans and blackmails until they take the girl on a date. The women are always high-class, arrogant, manipulative, and devious. And with each women, the boys' lives grow more and more controlled and depraved. Calvin wound up graduating from Slytherin and moved in with his brother, away from all other family. Nickolas was holding down a job at the ministry but without any formal training, he could do little more than answer phones and type memos. Calvin took a job with him and managed to hold it for two years before he received a call from Hogwarts for the position of Animagi Studies professor. It had been a dying practice but more and more students wanted to learn, they said, and they needed someone who had gone through the training recently to instruct and inform students who wished to learn. Calvin accepted at Nickolas' urging and moved back to Hogwarts. This is his first year at the post but as a recently graduated student, he knows most everyone anyway.
POSITION Animagi Studies
ANIMAGUS FORM Black bear
WAND 12.4 inches of Mahogany with Eucalyptus leaf core
[E x t r a]
MEDICAL CONDITIONS none
DAY OF BIRTH August 28th
PETS Pandora (7 year old Female Saluki) & Killian (3 month old male Akita)
FAMILY
Dominic & Macie (father & mother)
Alexander & Nickolas & Lucian (older brothers)
Julia (younger sister)
PATRONUS FORM mustang