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Elsewhere Accepted / Re: Harry Colville (Complete)
« on: 14/06/2014 at 03:16 »E L S E W H E R E A D U L T
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Henry John Colville
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Education:
Hogwarts: Hufflepuff '19
Residence:
Oldham, Greater Manchester
Occupation
Head of family
Do you plan to have a connection to a particular existing place (for example: the Ministry, Shrieking Shack) or to take over an existing shop in need of new management?
No.
Requested Magic Levels:
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- Charms: 10.
- Divination: 8.
- Transfiguration: 8.
- Summoning: 6.
No.
Please list any other characters you already have at the site:
Scoops and stuff.
Biography: (300 words minimum.)
And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
It's one of those cold London nights, when the fog persists in cloaking the streets and even the spires of Westminster seem to shiver. He hurries down the pavement, boots clacking hard against concrete, hands in his pockets. Late again (but punctuality has never been his strong suit). Juliet will be ready to burst by now, third child still late child. (Should be grateful, he supposes, that someone still cares.)
A noise, a whine, far off; it gets shriller and shriller as he rounds the corner, on and in towards the house. It's one of those with its back to two other walls (the house, not the whine) and it's a cramped affair when you think of Colville Hall, but he doesn't mind so much. Small's better. He's not the heir anyhow.
Corner of his eye catches a blip. It's not anything big, it's actually a bit fuzzy, but it's moving fast. He slows to a stop, cranes his neck to get a better look. He's still standing there when it hits.
A noise, a whine, far off; it gets shriller and shriller as he rounds the corner, on and in towards the house. It's one of those with its back to two other walls (the house, not the whine) and it's a cramped affair when you think of Colville Hall, but he doesn't mind so much. Small's better. He's not the heir anyhow.
Corner of his eye catches a blip. It's not anything big, it's actually a bit fuzzy, but it's moving fast. He slows to a stop, cranes his neck to get a better look. He's still standing there when it hits.
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will
Most things may never happen: this one will
A crash, a bang, flames and fire. A raw, red, flickering fire, and more than that the voices. He cries out and falls to his knees, palms to his ears and digging his fingers into the back of his head. It's always worse when they're united, and they are; it's just pain and fear and death and he's screaming along with them, because he can't, can't, can't do this -
But there's no choice, and he realises this when he realises he can't sense them anymore, and everything's gone wrong, and as he feels he feels a little part of him die too.
But there's no choice, and he realises this when he realises he can't sense them anymore, and everything's gone wrong, and as he feels he feels a little part of him die too.
Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others.
It means not scaring others.
The first day on the job he attends their funerals. Both of them side by side, first child second child, and maybe they really should have known better, and maybe he really should have seen it coming. But he's a practical man, and there's no point going on about the past if there's nothing to go on about.
At night, when everything is over, he will lie in bed with his wife next to him and he will stare at the ceiling and he will cry. Quietly, gently. He will let his face get wet and he will let his heart tell him that this is all wrong. But for now, he smiles tightly and says, "I'm sorry too."
At night, when everything is over, he will lie in bed with his wife next to him and he will stare at the ceiling and he will cry. Quietly, gently. He will let his face get wet and he will let his heart tell him that this is all wrong. But for now, he smiles tightly and says, "I'm sorry too."
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
He goes in front of the Board the next day. They tell him what he expects to hear. He tells them what they expect to hear.
Have always known, know that we can’t escape,
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
He goes on with his life, as he knows he must. He is not afraid, or disappointed, or sad. Sometimes he is, but most of the time he's not. Most of the time he's just angry. Angry that this responsibility was thrust onto him without warning, angry that he could do nothing about it (both position and deaths), angry that he still hears all those voices. He tries to shut them out, everything out. It does not work.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Work has to be done.
So he goes on.
Roleplay:
You come across one of these posts on the site. Please select one & reply as your character:
Option One -
Amelia Nixon was many things, but she was never a pushover reporter that people could just usher away with a busy shuffle past. She was dedicated and eager to cut to the very middle of the current political tensions because she was Amelia Nixon and her articles would most certainly become front page material.
“Sir, please! It’s for the Prophet, how do you feel-“
Another one brushed passed her, the shuffling busy masses making their way through Diagon Alley for the lunchtime rush. This had been the best possible time to get people, but none of them were giving her anything to go with.
Only momentarily discouraged, the short red headed lady took a seat on a nearby bench. Her quill resting in her left hand and her notepad ready in the opposite hand. Amelia pouted, tapping the quill against her leg as she scanned the waves of people for somebody - anybody - who looked like they had something to say.
She had been dreaming of her name in bold print, Amelia Nixon: The Source of Today’s Tomorrow. She had been dreaming of the larger office and the secretaries that would fetch her the morning coffee and fetch her anything she needed. The VIP interviews and the most exclusive press passes. But all Amelia had was a page seventeen piece on the rising number of frogs in London.
Hardened by a day of no success, the reporter stood up and started to trod off down the alley. A loose stone on the cobble path caught her heel, sending the distraught girl toppling down to the ground.
“Merlin’s fog watch, my heel is broken! Help!” she yelled as she tried desperately to recover her shoe frantically in the middle of the Diagon Alley moving crowds.
Roleplay Response:
The tie was going to be the death of him. Harry tugged on the end irritably, trying to shove it within his suit so that it wouldn't stick out oddly from under the jacket. By all accounts he was smartly dressed and comfortably confident, but he was in actuality hating every moment. More business propositions, more politicking, more having to listen to people talk about 'the future' and 'good relations' when he could tell so obviously that they were lying.
His watch wasn't working either. Harry tapped on it, his face creasing into a frown. Of all the bloody days. He squared his shoulders and trudged on towards his meeting. Muggles were probably about as punctual as wizards and he couldn't disappoint them, especially with the tie-up almost done. Just a bit more and he'd be able to go home and bloody relax.
A sudden wave of desperation struck him and Harry winced, pausing in his tracks. "The hell?" he muttered under his breath, turning around to look for the source. He had his own bloody problems; he didn't need someone else.
“Merlin’s fog watch, my heel is broken! Help!”
What the hell was a fog watch, anyhow? Harry tried to ignore her and move on, but the frantic pain and fear was shattering his head. "Oh, for heaven's sakes, woman," he growled, striding towards her. "Get over yourself and stop panicking. You're a witch, aren't you? Can't you bloody fix it?"
OTHER
How did you find us? Fate.
*Will send a spec req form soon!