Post by Turner Macabee on Oct 15, 2009 8:12:15 GMT -5
[/b][/color] !>Turner Bartholomew Macabee <
"Well, that wasn't exactly how I expected it to turn out."
>> Basic Information !Name: Turner Bartholomew Macabee
Nicknames: Generally it's just Macabee
Gender: Male
Birthday: November 11th
Age: 20 (almost 21)
Blood Status: Muggle-born
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Canon/Original: Original
Occupation: Transfiguration Professor and Hufflepuff Head of House (maybe?)
>> Appearance !Hair:Dirty blonde
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6'
Weight: 160 lbs
Body type: Lean and some slight toning, but not overly muscled or defined.
Distinct features: Insanely expressive eyebrows.
Celebrity Face: Kyle Riabko
>> Personality !Likes:
-Transfiguration
-Teaching (despite the fact that he doesn't feel like he's any good at it)
-Helping people
-Getting up early
-Making people laugh (even if it has to be at him)
-People (Children in particular)
Dislikes:
-The fact that teenagers can make him nervous
-Dogs (he's allergic)
-Being uncoordinated
-Being called Professor (it makes him feel old)
- Judgemental people
-Not being taken seriously (even sometimes it's his own fault)
Strengths:
-Being friendly
- Transfiguration
- Great in a crisis situation (it sort of snaps him out of himself)
-Being able to make up spells on the spot
Weaknesses:
-Remembering names
-Being able to remember the brilliant spells
-Coordination
- Anxiety issues
Habits:
-Ruffling his hair
-Smiling sheepishly (general to cover mistakes)
-Biting his nails (in private only)
-Making up spells
Secrets:
-He likes quidditch, but was never any good at it, or any other sport for that matter.
-He never met his biological father.
- Thinks Headmaster Meyrick put too much faith into a kid protege
Boggart: Getting fired for being incompetent
Patronus: Getting hired as a Professor
Mirror of Erised: Getting married and having a family
>> Background
Parents: Mother: Grace, 45, stay at home mom. Father: Oliver (deceased). Step-Father: Matthew Macabee (uncle) 45, banker.
Siblings: Macabee is an only child
Extended Family:names, ages, occupations (all optional)
Pets:
Biography:Turner Macabee's story starts before he was even born. His parents, both muggles, met and married, but after a while found they had problems conceiving children. Miraculously after a series of miscarriages, Grace's final pregnancy held longer then any of the previous ones. However, Oliver would never get to see the birth of his son before a car accident took his life. It was a month shy of the rainy day in November when Turner was born.
His father's brother Matt stepped in to be the father figure Turner needed and eventually his mother and uncle were married. Turner knew from a young age that he was very different then most of his school mates and it had nothing to do with his strange family situation. Or the fact that he could some how trip over absolutely nothing at all. For one thing not many children could say they'd fallen out of their third story flat window without even a scratch to remember the occasion by.
When he turned eleven however he recieved a letter by owl which was followed by a visit from an elderly, oddly dressed woman he'd never met before. She introduced herself as Professor McGonagall, the Headmistress of a school that didn't sound as if it existed, but some how explained the impossible things that sometimes happened to him. Imagine, and entire magical school filled with people that could do the things he did! There he would fit in.
Except that wasn't exactly the way it worked out, at least not at first. He was sorted into Hufflepuff house, which among some of the less nice people of other houses was the butt of many jokes. Throughout his youth the horrible combination of being considered a bit of a freak (due to his being a wizard it turns out) and the added klutziness gave him no points to his popularity. It did however teach him coping skills. He'd learned making fun of himself before anyone else had a chance to kept him from being the target of the more horrible pranks students would play.
What Turner lacked in coordination in general, he more then made up for in his classes. He was considered something of a protege in spell work, in particular Transfiguration. He was also very good at coming up with spells on the spot. He also had the unfortunate ability to not remember exactly what he'd done. A fine example was accidentally turning an unlucky student's hair red. No matter what the school nurse did the previously blonde girl's hair firmly remained tinted pink for weeks afterward. He's since learned to control his magic (for the most part), except in times of real anxiety. He went on to be a prefect and would tutor younger students in effort to share his gifts.
He graduated and took up a up position in the Ministry with the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. He worked with the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad for a couple years gaining real world experience. While he enjoyed his job and was fairly good at it, it wasn't his true passion. He was helping people, sure, but fixing other people's problem wasn't what he wanted to spend the rest of his life doing. With the previous professor retiring, Turner decided to take up the post, despite not being much older then some of his students.
>> OOC Information[/b][/color] !
Name or Pen Name: mercraven
Age: 23
Gender: female
Experience: 11 or so years
Why you joined: (see Luc)
Have you read the rules?: yes
Secret word from the rules: ADMIN EDIT
Anything else: (see Luc)
RP Sample:(do i need one if i did one for Luc, just let me know)
Sample goes in here. More than three well developed paragraphs (at least five sentences each).
[/blockquote]
