Post by Grant Ellington Powell on Feb 1, 2013 0:31:24 GMT -5
ABOUT YOU
Player Name: CCB or Cierra
Do you solemnly swear that you are above the age of 13? Yes.
Other Characters you play on this board: Alayna Farbright, Rita Skeeter, Loraine Jems
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER
Character Name: Grant Ellington Powell
Character Age: 30
Appearance:
- Brief Description: Grant is a tall, trim, slightly unkempt looking man with hair just a bit too long to be called short. He walks with stride of a much younger teenager, but speaks with the voice of a much older man. With about five of the same shirt in his wardrobe, he dresses simply apart from professional wizarding robes and the offhand suit if need be. As a professor, Grant wears his usual casual clothes but with the addition of a robe or suit jacket. However, with the clarity and visibility necessary to demonstrate spells in Charms class, those formal outer layers are usually shed quickly for cuffed up sleeves.
- Eye Color: a very dark blue that looks brown half the time.
- Hair (color, length, style):dark brown, shorter, with facial scruff. My idea of him is a bit scruffier than Josh Turner is in his photos, with hair about an inch or so longer. He consistently looks like he's in need of a haircut.
- Skin Tone: somewhat tanned
- Height: 6'1"
- Body Type: Tall, thin, but not aggressively muscular.
Celebrity Claim: Josh Turner
Profession: Charms professor at Hogwarts. Hufflepuff alumni. Muggleborn.
Strengths:
-Charms casting. One of the best, according to peers and superiors alike. For whatever reason, Grant practically persuades magic into action. Although he'll likely never master the art of unspoken incantations, why would he want to?
-Public speaking, his voice. Though personally soft-spoken, in business, teaching, or public speaking Grant with convince you to listen. His thoughts are well organized and his messages are always clear.
-Outstanding Hufflepuff qualities: loyalty, friendship, care, family. However, these traits can lead him to fault...
-Music. Grant loves dancing, singing the blues, and charming any instrument near him into playing. Even as a toddler, the Muggleborn musician frequently found music chiming around him, and would turn to find instruments playing themselves.
-Teaching. Like this the public speaking, Grant does well at conveying information and skills, especially to young students when it's most imperative they learn.
-Organization.
Weaknesses:
-Personal relationships are difficult for Grant, as he tends to be too open, forgiving, and thus easily manipulated and frequently appraised by others as a pushover. Because of this, he's moved away from close companionship and instead is focusing on his students, coworkers, and trade.
-Arithmetic. Dry sciences never appealed to Grant, he'd rather see or hear it happen.
-Terrible medic. This is where his charms skills lack significant merit: medical and healing magic has always gone awry for him. Although he continues to try and practice on his own to improve, if there's ever an accident in class, he sends students straight to the hospital wing rather than exacerbating the situation himself.
-Grading. Grant is a softie when it comes to grading, and tends to give a letter higher to any student than what they perhaps have earned as long as they come to him for help or he perceives extra effort.
-Buoyancy. Grant is a terrible swimmer, and has bad luck with water travel in general. He'd rather Apparate or otherwise charm his way from A to B than go near lakes, oceans, or even pools.
Personality: Grant is a rather soft but well-spoken man. He depends heavily on other, and is a classic extrovert in that being around people fuels him and loneliness drains him. By all means he is a giver, but has had to restrain that in himself for the past several years, and he's not sure if it's helping or hurting him more to hold back. So, he focuses on his magical ability. He's relaxed and clear in his teaching, fluid and careful in his spell casting, and reserved in his social demeanor. However, he deals poorly with loneliness, intense emotional conversation, and dislikes travel, water, and surprises. With such an unstable childhood family, Grant values consistency, punctuality, and organization. He also admires enthusiasm and skill in any area.
Family (ages only apply if the current year is still 1973, see notes)
- Mother: Diane "Peggy" Margaret Muric (nee East) 46
- Step-father: Igor Kristoff Muric 48
- Father: Anthony "Tony" Leonard Powell 49
- Step-mothers: Elizabeth "Liza" Bethany Powell (nee Pewter) 35, Virginia Ruth Barker 48, Franny Jean Murtaugh 52
- Siblings:
-biological sister: Daisy Kay Powell 27, Mabel Margaret Powell 26
-half-siblings: Mary Ann Muric 23, Eloise Jane Muric 22, Eugene Powell 20, Thomas Raymond "Tommy Ray" Powell 2
-step-siblings: Marjorie Elizabeth Florence 16, Marilyn Catherine Florence 14, Gail Lynn Florence 13, Hazel Josephine Florence 11, Beverley Joyce Florence 8, Annette Ruth Florence 7, Heather May Florence 5, Dorothy Dawn Florence 3. - Other family members (if significant):
History: Barely adults, Peggy met Tony and they fell helplessly in love, mesmerized by each other. And that's how Grant came about. The sixteen and nineteen year old loved their baby and each other, and struggled joyfully to stay afloat in the beginning. But by the time Grant was 3, his parents relationship was as painful as it was passionate, and the love hate relationships went dark. In attempt to keep it together, the once lighthearted Peggy went on to have two daughters, Daisy and then Mabel, within a year of each other, to keep Tony home and fighting for the family. Tony was always threatening to leave, unable to handle the responsibility of fatherhood and felt undeserving of his wife. The more Peggy did to help he and the children, the more resentful Tony was toward her for being greater than he could be. For those torrential six years, Peggy tried.
It didn't work, and finally, Peggy was the one to walk out. None of the three children have much memory now of their parents together. Now going by her full adult name, Diane moved on quickly to marry Igor Muric, mostly in hopes of providing a solid home for her three children again. That didn't keep the children from seeing how painfully she missed Tony. Igor, was a distant but consistent man. None of the children saw him much, but he provided for them all the same. Soon, more sisters were added to their blended family, Mary Ann Muric and Eloise Jane Muric. Meanwhile, Grant's father kept his nickname of Tony, and searched for another Peggy. In doing so, he found Franny, Virginia, and Liza. For Grant and his two biological sisters, visiting their father was a confusing ordeal. With Tony's first wife, he had Eugene, then the second had no children, and then the third (and current) came with eight new step-sisters. Grant spent most of his summers outside Hogwarts being passed between parents, so the stability of school was a welcome reprieve in the fall. Tony's third wife Liza was married for many, many years to a man named David Florence, who left her based on her inability to produce a son. But now, there is tiny, two-year-old boy Tommy Ray running around his father's house, and the now-grown children refer to him as Tony's 'mid-life crisis' baby. Yet the presence of this little boy running about Tony and Liza's home has brought joy to the aging couple, and has actually brought some of the siblings together again in raising him.
It was while living with his Mom, Igor, Daisy, Mabel, Mary Ann, and Eloise, that he received his Hogwarts acceptance letter. This was a total surprise to everyone, but turned out to be a relief. Diane and Igor had one less mouth to feed for the school year, and Grant was given a break from the family drama and bonded strongly with boys in his year. Yes, Grant was finally around other Hufflepuff boys! As time went on, all of Diane's biological children received their Hogwarts letters. Daisy, Mary Ann, and Eloise were sorted into Hufflepuff like their brother, but much to everyone's surprise, Mabel was sorted into Ravenclaw. Well, it was a surprise to all but Grant, as he had long watch Mabel overachieve and struggle to individualize herself among all her sisters. That was part of why he had bonded so much with her despite being 4 years her senior. Anyways, it was clear that the wizardry must have come through Diane's bloodline. Grant came to suspect that somewhere in his mother's family was another witch or wizard, whether it was a Muggleborn or Squib. It became a pet project of he and Eloise, tracing through heritage to find a source, and is an ongoing question in their minds.
Now, most of Grant's many, many sisters are married and some remarried, with a few children of their own. The only members of his family he invests much time in now are his mother, Daisy, Mary Ann, Eloise (and her long-time sweetheart Ethan Spriggan), Mabel (and her fiancee Teddy Goodwin), and his little half-brother Tommy Ray. Eloise was the only one to keep in touch with any of the Florence sisters. The less investment, the less stress and worry, is what the rest of them decided. So many years he tried to keep couples together and take care of all the girls with little to no reward. He'd rather focus now on taking care of students, and teaching them, which is the most rewarding form of care-taking he's ever found. Thus, he always knew he wanted to teach.
Having spend so much of his childhood and life around girls, hasn't married or even dated much. After he moved out on his own right at 17, he got his Educational License at the Professorial Academy of Wizarding Mentorship, with concentrations in Charms, Transfiguration of Non-Living Objects and Generalized Spell-Casting Form. After doing an internship in the Ministry working on spell-reversal, he was hired on to teach short trainings to help other employees learn additional office-keeping spell-casting. It was incredibly dull. After a year, he applied at Hogwarts to work alongside Professor Flitwick and taught himself whenever the professor was on leave. Now he's been able to take over his own class sections for first through third year students, and it's the most rewarding work he's ever had the privilege to do.
Anything else?I wanted to challenge myself to build a complex family, since usually the families I make the back-story with are mom, dad, done. I'm hoping this will help me give Grant a textured past.
Notes:
Diane(1927) & Tony(1924) married 1943-1949 (Grant 1943, Daisy 1946, Mabel 1947)
Diane & Igor(1925) married 1950-present (Mary Ann 1950, Eloise 1951)
Tony & Franny(1921) married 1952-1955 (Eugene 1953)
Tony & Virginia(1925) married 1957-1968
Liza(1938) & David Florence(1938) married 1956-1966 (Marjorie 1957, Marilyn 1959, Gail 1960, Hazel 1961, Beverley 1962, Annette 1965, Heather 1968, Dorothy 1970)
Tony & Liza married 1968-present (Tommy Ray 1971)
