Post by Jethro Hunter on Mar 20, 2011 8:12:40 GMT -5
| [atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 460px; background-image: url(http://i44.tinypic.com/34fb0ns.jpg);-moz-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; -webkit-border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; border: 4px ridge #7a9aa9, bTable][tr][cs=2] jethro darius hunter. 26. ministry employee. henry cavill. | |
[rs=2] | Jethro Darius Hunter was born into one of the wealthiest pureblood families around. The origins of the Hunter family were more or less lost in obscurity, although the story was that they had originally been known as Cacciatore (literally 'hunter' in Italian) and that their history was dark and violent, having been the insigators of the 'hunting' of the likes of werewolves, vampires and even Muggles. In England, however, the family were rich and respected, and the name change may have been an attempt to distance themselves from those ancient origins. However, it is undeniable that there is a streak of madness in the Hunter family, and it is said to have come out in Abdiel Hunter, Jethro's father. Abdiel was always odd and unpredictable, with a wild temper, strange obsessions, and some very skewed morals. Sorted into Ravenclaw at school, his thirst for knowledge was unquenchable, and he had a definite taste for forbidden knowledge, a fascination which led him to the dark arts. His interest in them was almost entirely academic. He wanted to know how they worked; he wanted to know their history, and how to use them. He did not want to use them in order to hurt others. In character, he was high spirited and enthusiastic, sometimes overly so, and a little wild. It was that, along with his unusal brain, that attracted Imogen Vaughn to him. The Vaughns were a different sort of family. They were purebloods, but lacking most of the snobbery notable in the Hunters (the Hunters were not quite pureblood supremecists, but there was the definite feeling that they considered themselve better than most others), although they were relatively well off. Imogen was also a Ravenclaw, a neurotic, slightly brittle girl, who lived in her books and her studies and had no real idea of how to deal with the real world. She, like Abdiel, was extremely clever academically, but was much better at theory than actuality. Somehow, however, the two hit it off. Neither family was entirely happy. The Hunters had planned to find a suitable match for their only son and heir, and the Vaughns disliked the Hunters' attitudes. In the end, it was almost an elopement, both families agreeing to it very grudgingly, although in fact, the Hunters adapted better; Imogen was, after all, well-off, pureblooded and beautiful, so it could have been a lot worse. Her little squib sister was a fly in the ointment, but after all, even the best families produced squibs every now and again. The Vaughns, however, remained suspicious of Abdiel; Imogen's mother had died when she was eighteen (she married Abdiel when she was twenty one), but her father never entirely liked his son-in-law. Her sister married a Muggle and moved into his world, having little contact with anyone in the magical world other than her father; she and Imogen all but lost touch. Within a few years, Abdiel's sisters, Layella and Leslyn, also married, both to suitable purebloods - Layella married the youngest Anglesey brother, while Leslyn married Henry O'Malley. It was Layella's marriage that was to change things for the Hunter family. The Hunters had always had links with the Anglesey family, but they had lapsed in recent generations, as the Angleseys stuck to the hardline pureblood view, and the Hunters became slightly more relaxed. However, with Kaius' marriage to Layella, the Anglesey brothers were keen to mend bridges and re-establish their old links. Abdiel became close to them, taking an interest in the shared family history, which Julius Anglesey was also very keen to research. Both family libraries were a mine of information, and Abdiel began to make it his newest obsession... However, by this time, he had a son. Imogen, never entirely emotionally stable, struggled to hold it together after Jethro was born, and it fell to Abdiel to hold the family together, which he managed admirably. Always there to provide a strong support for his wife, he also took charge of his small son and was the best father that could be imagined; his daily descent into his study in the cellars to conduct research and experiments made no difference to that. As Jethro grew up, he grew used to the fact that for several hours a day, his father would be unavailable, and that on no account was he to attempt to enter the study ever. The rest of the time, Abdiel more than made up for this; he was full of fun, crazy games, and ideas for mad bu exciting trips and adventures. Sometimes Imogen joined them on these, but more often she did not feel well enough, although she was always there with a smile and a pair of welcoming arms to greet them when they came in, and hear all about their day. Abdiel was a keen mountaineer, and introduced his son to the joys of climbing, something Jethro took to instinctively, loving nothing better than getting to the top of the nearest cliff or mountain. In fact, in many ways, Jethro had an idyllic childhood; he certainly never felt deprived of anything he needed. With plenty of money, and parents who doted on him, he was slightly spoiled, both emotionally and materially. He had his father's wild, adventurous spirit (although less of his love of academics), and threw himself into whatever he did. He loved to be active, to be having adventures, and as he grew older, discovored the thrill of risk-taking. However, although he took everything he had for granted, he also had a loving and generous nature, always ready to share, and to befriend those less fortunate than himself, not that he encountered them very often. His closest companions were the Anglesey children; both his cousins, Muirin and Liadin, and their cousins, Niall and Nevin (Laetatia, of course, was too young to be much of a playmate). When he stared Hogwarts, he was sorted into Gryffindor, where he fitted in immediately, despite being mildly disappointed not to be joining Niall in Slytherin, or following his father's footsteps in Ravenclaw. He was friendly and outgoing, and talkative to the point of being a complete chatterbox - he was well known for being able to talk utter nonsense at great length. At the end of his first year, however, everything changed. One night in the summer holidays, shortly after his twelfth birthday, he was woken by his mother's scream. Shooting out of bed and downstairs, he located her in a place he had never been before; his father's study. She was dressed for bed, her hair loose, but in the study, his father was slumped over his desk, dead. It was the first time Jethro had been in the cellars, but at the time, he hardly took in the things in it, which were all clearly and sinisterly dark; all he felt was panic. His father would not wake, and his mother had gone to pieces, collapsing on the floor, and it was Jethro who, sobbing wildly, had to finally floo the Anglesey house and summon help in the form of his aunt and uncle. The shock, the grief and the loss changed Jethro completely, from a happy, gregarious little boy to an angry, feral young man. The Angleseys rallied round to support the family and try and pick up the pieces; they welcomed Imogen as one of their own and offered her every protection and support they could, even as she fell apart, but Jethro rejected all help. He was looking for answers, for someone to blame, and he was also dealing with the gradual realisation of what he had seen in his father's study, and the way it tainted his memories. He blamed himself for not being able to save his father, he blamed Abdiel himself for dying, he blamed the authorities for failing to find his father's murderer, and he even blamed the kindly Angleseys for drawing his father into the kind of researches he had been doing, which had led to him being in his study that night. In his pain, he would lash out at anyone who came near him, both verbally and physically, and he became almost totally unmanageable, a constant ticking bomb ready to go off at any moment. Having been a popular boy previously, people now avoided him, afraid of his unpredictablity. He started fight after fight, careless of whether his opponent was bigger and stronger than he was; he constantly wore scabs and bruises, and there was not a week went by the hospital wing did not treat a bleeding nose or split lip, courtesy of Jethro Hunter's fists. He attended fewer than half of his lessons, was rude and disruptive in class, and when he was told off, would explode in a string of screamed expletives and curses, and storm out of the room, frequently overturning desks or flinging books around before he went. His teachers, of course, knew what had happened and at first tried to cut him slack and talk him through it, but it was to no avail, and he refused all attempts to help him. At home, he closed himself off and spent as much time as possible out of doors, doing hard physical exercise. The only people he showed any softness to at all were his mother, and little Letty Anglesey. His mother was gradually recovering, but she was unstable and emotional, and with her, Jethro became gentle and protective. Letty was his pet, and although he was sometimes gruff with her, he never lost his temper. This state lasted for two years. By the end of his third year, he was being seriously threatened with expulsion if he could not clean up his act. His response was to swear vocally at the Headmistress and stalk out of her office, so he would probably have been expelled, had it not been for Tessa Marquise. Tessa was a couple of years older than him, but also in Gryffindor, but she befriended the angry, grieving boy, and gradually won his trust, and gave him a channel for his anger by suggesting that he could revenge himself on those he saw as responsible for his father's death. Over the next couple of years, Jethro gradually pulled himself out of whatever dark place he had sunk into (in the process falling head over heels for Tessa - she was, after all, beautiful and kind, and he was fourteen and had previously been too angry to notice his hormones developing). He went to lessons again, and behaved himself reasonably, and his grades began to pick up. He had friends again in Tessa's circle, although admittedly, he was only really there for Tessa herself, and because she allowed him to be there; his relationship with her best friend and cousin was always antagonistic. Typically of Jethro, his crush became an obsessive, hero-worshipping love, and she encouraged this. He lost his virginity to her during his fourth year, and although deep down, he knew that it was nothing more than a casual thing to her, he convinced himself that she did have feelings for him. At the end of that year, she even invited him to spend the summer with her, at her grandmother's villa in Italy. He found her family welcoming to him, and with Tessa's encouragement, began to pull away from his own family, increasingly blaming the Angleseys for what had happened to his father. Things continued in this way for another year, his love for Tessa complete and all-consuming, as they continued to sleep together, despite the two year difference in age. He once again returned to Italy with her at the end of his fifth year, which was her final year at school. Whilst there, however, he overheard a conversation between her and her cousin, Evianna, which told him that he meant less than nothing to Tessa, it was all a game to her, and that she had only ever intended to use him and betray him. Completely destroyed, for the second time in his life, he fled the villa, and Italy too, giving no explanation for his sudden disappearance. He returned to his family, and spent the rest of the summer hiding from everyone and confronting all his worst thoughts and fears. More than once, he considered killing himself; the only thing that kept him alive were the thoughts of what it would do to his mother, and that he had not yet avenged his father. By the time he returned to school in September though, he had faced it down and come out the other side, the old smile (which he hadn't really worn for most people since before his father's death) and his real feelings completely hidden. From then on, Jethro returned to being the chatty, outgoing, friendly boy he had been at twelve, although with a thoughtful, gentlemanly side to him that was new. He regained old friends and made new ones, and at the end of his seventh year, graduated with a decent set of NEWTs that got him a job in the Department for Magical Law Enforcement. He also mended relationships with his family, becoming the model son, cousin and nephew. Jethro had learnt to hide. Now aged twenty six, Jethro's life appears to be entirely on track. His career is going well, and he is very much in love with girlfriend Saoirse Flynn (there were other girls in between school and Saoirse, but nothing very serious). He broke contact with Tessa Marquise entirely, although he still keeps in touch with her grandmother, who was always good to him, and believes himself entirely over her (although the fact that he still cannot talk about her shows that the wound has still not completely healed). He is mostly diligent about his job, although he is not completely above bending rules for his family (turning a blind eye to his cousin's illegal potions business, for example, and conveniently forgetting to mention that wanted criminal Rabastan Lestrange has been in his uncle's house). Personality-wise, he is outwardly friendly, flirtatious and charming, and still has a tendency to talk nonsense a lot of the time, although it's a 50-50 chance on whether he's talking nonsense out of genuine light-hearted fun (which he enjoys) or to hide his real feelings (which he's not good at expressing) - only those who know him extremely well stand any chance of being able to tell the difference. He loves a good argument, and will never back down, even when in the wrong; he is skilled at debate, and could convincingly argue that black was white if he had to. His temper still exists, although he has it tightly under control the vast majority of the time these days; if something happened to tip it over the edge, though, it would still be furious and violent. Generally, though, he works his annoyance out by going and flinging himself up dangerous cliffs (he has never lost his taste for risk-taking) and then throwing himself off the top - he is an Animagus (something not many people know, although it's not a secret and he is fully legally registered) who takes the form of a peregrine falcon, so falling off cliffs doesn't pose quite the same danger to him as to someone who can't transform and fly in midair. He has a protective nature, and will always instinctively protect those weaker than himself, particularly Laetatia Anglesey and his mother, whose emotional health is still unstable and who relies on him a great deal. However, there is still a part of him who is a little boy who lost the rock in his life and has been looking to replace it ever since, perhaps the reason why he is always attracted to strong women; deep down, he is looking for protection too. |
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