Post by Lysander Scamander on Jul 18, 2011 12:26:14 GMT -5
CHARACTER APPLICATION [STUDENT]
LYSANDER NEWT SCAMANDER
[/color][/font][/center]I WALK A LONELY ROAD
[/color][/font][/center]”Spare me your judgements and spare me your dreams,
Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams.”
[/font][/center]Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams.”
THE ONLY ONE I HAVE EVER KNOWN
[/color][/font][/center]Outofcharacter
[/font][/center]Your Name: Ellie
Your Age: 17
Other Characters: Lo Beckwith, Chloe Nott, Laetatia Anglesey, Molly Weasley II, Aria Matthews, Xander Hawkley, Maggie Dashwood, Luke Merryweather, Jack Hewer.
Experience: 2+ years
Secret Word/Phrase: love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again.
DON’T KNOW WHERE IT GOES
[/color][/font][/center]Incharacterbasics
[/font][/center]FACE CLAIM: Dave Franco
FULL NAME: Lysander Newt Scamander
NICKNAMES: Ly, Sander, Lys
AGE/DOB: 16, 10th September 2006
DESIRED HOUSE/YEAR: Sixth Year / Ravenclaw
BLOOD STATUS: halfblood
SEX: male
ORIENATION: straight
BUT IT’S HOME TO ME AND I WALK ALONE
[/color][/font][/center]Incharacterapperance
[/font][/center]EYES: light brown
HAIR: dark brown and slightly curly, although he keeps it cut short so it curls less.
HEIGHT: 5' 7". He's still hoping to grow more.
BUILD: in a word, fit. He's got good broad shoulders and developed musculature from holidays working with his dad, and slim hips and waist.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: multiple scars from working with dangerous animals. The most obvious is one down his left arm that he received from a manticore when he was thirteen. He has an easy, broad smile that can light up a room and very heavy eyebrows.
SKIN TONE: fair, but he tans easily and thanks to his spending so much time outside is often very tanned.
I WALK THIS EMPTY STREET
[/color][/font][/center]Personality
[/font][/center]DISLIKES: large crowds of people, being the centre of attention, meeting new people, being forced to do things he doesn't want to do, parties, people whining or complaining.
LIKES: animals of any sort, Care of Magical Creatures, being inside with a good book on a rainy day, being by himself, feeling like someone needs him for something, swimming, near-death experiences.
BAD HABITS: never makes an effort to get to know new people, never tidies up after himself, closes down and becomes uncommunicative if he feels out of his depth, charges into situations if he sees somebody he loves being threatened.
GOOD HABITS: very polite and well-mannered thanks to his upbringing, perseveres until he's finished with whatever he's trying, is always willing to lend an ear to a friend in trouble.
WEAKNESSES: never judges situations before moving into them, tries hard to see things from other people's points of view but rarely succeeds, never lives up to expectations, holds grudges against people.
STRENGTHS: very loyal once you've won his trust, almost fatalistically brave and will do anything required of him to get close to an interesting magical creature, an inspired listener.
PERSONALITY: in a word: shy. Lysander is not an outgoing lad. He gets along much better with animals than people and would rather throw himself into a good book than a conversation. He doesn't trust easily and tends to come off as very aloof. This isn't deliberate, but since it hides from people the fact that he feels desperately out of his depth in social situations he allows the rumours to perpetuate and keeps behind his mask of disinterest. In truth, he'd rather like friends to laugh with and joke with like he sees those around him doing, but he is absolutely rubbish at approaching people and trying to make friends so thus far he's been very solitary.
He's private about his emotions and finds it very difficult to talk about the way he's feeling, often deflecting questions with a joke or another question. Despite - or perhaps because of - this, he's a very good listener and if somebody has a problem or is upset then he steps out from behind his shy persona and will listen to them and offer them advice to the best of his ability. He's a good person to go to because he really thinks about his answer before he gives it and genuinely cares about what the outcome of the situation will be.
He has a very good sense of humour and can see the funny side in anything and has a quick, dry wit of his own that often surprises people when it emerges. His large, beaming smile is rare but incredibly infectious and when he does smile usually others around him can't help smiling too, since he's usually so serious-looking.
Thanks to his shyness he tends to be awkward, especially around girls. If he ever does go to a party he hangs around the edges and tries not to look too out of place - he envies those boys who can talk to any girl and flirt. If he tries to talk to girls he usually blushes and stutters over his words. He hopes this is a phase and one day he will wake up and suddenly be able to flirt, but this is doubtful.
ON THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
[/color][/font][/center]Incharacterextras
[/font]WAND: 10 ½ inches, cherry wood, unicorn tail hair
BROOMS: a very old and battered Nimbus 2001 that he uses not for Quidditch but rather for chasing magical creatures.
PET(s): Keeps all of his pets but his owl Miaow at home with his father - two cats called Hoot & Cosmo, a horse called Solace, a sheep called Waffles, a crup called Mandy, a Salamander called Hitchcock, and a thestral his stepmother found injured a couple of years ago called Mr. Invisible who adopted their family as his own. Is also somewhat friendly with the Re'em that lives a couple of miles from their house.
LEAST FAVORITE CLASS : Charms
FAVORITE CLASS: Care of Magical Creatures
WHERE THE CITY SLEEPS
[/color][/font][/center]Relationships
[/font][/center]AMORTENTIA: old books that haven't been opened in a while, black coffee, clean mountain air at sunrise.
MIRROR OF ERISED: when he looks in the mirror he sees himself, older (and taller) with sons of his own who all hunt magical creatures with him.
VERITASERUM: 1) he is a very little bit afraid of girls. He doesn't like their unpredictability.
2) he smuggles his salamander into school every year.
3) it was him who broke the window in the North Tower when he was in second year. It was an accident, mostly.
4) he gets terrible nightmares and wishes he had someone to share his bed with - not for sex, but just to keep the nightmares away.
BOGGART: himself as an awkward virgin when he's forty.
DEMENTOR: finding an injured unicorn when out on a trip with his father, once. Lysander had wandered off by himself and discovered the unicorn and tried to save her, but she died before he could. Something about the memory still gives him nightmares.
PATRONUS: finding a previously-undiscovered species of dragon in South America with his father a few years previously. He's had to learn to cast one because the places he visits often have stray dementors lurking. In the form of a leopard.
AND I’M THE ONLY ONE
[/color][/font][/center]Familyhistory
[/font][/center]FATHER: Rolf Newton Erasmus Scamander, 46, Wizarding Naturalist. Lysander hero-worships his father and has no doubts that he wants to do the same job as Rolf when he's older.
MOTHER: Luna Verity Scamander (née Lovegood), 40, Wizarding Naturalist. Lysander is not as close to his mother as he is to his father - his natural awkwardness around women extends to his mother. He loves her and would do anything for her, but that doesn't mean he goes out of his way to spend time with her. They have a teasingly affectionate relationship, and Lysander winds her up gently to show he cares.
SIBLINGS: Lorcan Scamander, 16, Hufflepuff. Lysander and Lorcan were very close growing up, but upon being Sorted into different houses have grown apart somewhat. Lysander loves his brother and enjoys winding him up, but under that he's determined that Lorcan will do well in life and does anything to encourage him in that.
OTHER IMPORTANT FAMILY: They're not technically family, but the Scamanders have know the Weasleys and the Potters for a long time and although Lysander has never dropped his guard enough to get to know any of them particularly well, he is less wary around the girls than other females and gets along well with the boys.
HISTORY: Lysander was born the older of twin boys on 10th September 2006 to Wizarding Naturalists Luna and Rolf Scamander. From an early age the twins were very close - their family moved around a lot and they only really had each other to play with. However, it was apparent that the boys were not overly similar - not only in looks but in personality too. Lysander was always the daredevil, although you wouldn't think it these days. He grew up defying death at every turn and getting into scrapes with the magical creatures his parents studied while Lorcan spent more time inside with their mother. Lysander never minded this - the way his young mind worked, this is how families were supposed to be. He adored his father from the word go and had a slightly more distant relationship with his mother, although she was always the one he ran to if he had nightmares.
He grew up very healthy and robust and to this day rarely catches the bugs that sweep through Hogwarts every now and again. This is probably thanks to the battering his immune system took as a child when his father was always forgetting to tell him to wash his hands after taking care of magical creatures - now the illest he gets is a cold every now and again.
He saw a lot of the Weasley and Potter families while he was growing up and, although he was too shy to integrate into the loud, loving family while he was young he loved to watch them at play and loved it even more when they included him, although he was always too shy to push his way in.
He went off to Hogwarts with Lorcan aged 11 and was both horrified and elated to be Sorted seperately from his brother. He never wanted to fall into the trap of being constantly compared to his brother and was grateful to go into Ravenclaw, although he's still not sure the Sorting Hat made quite the right choice. Lysander, you see, quickly proved to be among the least academic of students imaginable. He never pays attention in class, lost in his thoughts, and only tries in Care of Magical Creatures where he displays a knowledge so thorough he's practically a walking encyclopaedia. However, he does have the Ravenclaw wit, and, perhaps more importantly, a constant drive to know absolutely everything and anything about magical creatures. His memory is exceedingly good - although naturally he rarely uses it for practical means - and if you showed him a picture of a random magical creature he could probably name it, tell you where it is most abundant and five interesting facts about it before you could tell him to stop.
Keeping to himself, Lysander has made few friends, and as he moves through the school he's beginning to worry that he'll never have any real friends. It doesn't bother him overly because he tends to find people quite irritating but he'd like someone to laugh with and have in-jokes with and get lost around school with rather than having to sit reading a book at meals so nobody feels sorry for him and starts talking to him, or at the very least somebody who was interested enough to hear about the latest creature he's been studying.
AND I WALK ALONE
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MY SHADOW IS THE ONLY ONE THAT WALKS BESIDES ME
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