Hogwarts School: A Harry Potter RPG

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character name: Alexandre Lecuyier

Previous and/or Current Character(s) if applicable: Euphemia Vane, Charlotte Sinclair, Sebastian Petrocci, et al.

Character age: 37

Character education:

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Gryffindor, 1921-1922
• Private Instruction: 1922-1928
• St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries: Spell Damage, Junior Healer, 1928-1931
• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Advance Guard Instructor, Medicinal Magic, 1931-1932
• St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries: Spell Damage, Healer, 1932-PRESENT

Strength and weaknesses (details please):

STRENGTHS

Interpersonal Skills: Charm comes naturally to Alexandre, but it's not a pretense; it comes from a place of genuine warmth, and the desire to make others feel comfortable, and lighthearted. Able to strike up a conversation with anyone, he's also perceptive enough to know when someone needs space, or simply a listening ear. This has always served him exceptionally well as a healer; he's able to attune himself to his patient's needs and special circumstances almost instinctively, and is renowned at St. Mungo's for his bedside manner.

Integrity: Despite his father's expectations, Alexandre was never cut out to be a politician; he abhors deceit and lying, and would much rather be straight forward with someone than beat around the bush. He does have a somewhat black and white conception of what's right and what's wrong, but this is simply because he doesn't like to deal in grey area, or the in-betweens of morality. Honesty, to Alexandre, is always the best policy.

Confidence: Though not the son his father might have hoped for, the Lecuyier penchant for self-assuredness is his birthright. Raised a wealthy pureblood, Alexandre was always certain of his place in the world, and confident of his success in every endeavor. Though for Xandre this is sometimes true to a fault, it's a great advantage as a healer; he knows what he's doing, and believes unfailingly in his own abilities.

WEAKNESSES

Obstinacy: Alexandre has always had a stubborn streak. Raised to be the family heir and his father's successor, he insisted on forging his own path and pursuing healing instead. This holds true to just about anything in his life; if he believes he is right--or even if he simply wants a thing to be true--he'll break before he bends.

Avoidance: Alexandre prefers not to deal with the harsh realities of the world. He skirted around his family's expectations for many years, content to follow his own path while avoiding all sense of responsibility and duty. He does sometimes wonder if he made the correct choice, but is hesitant to even begin to examine his own motivations or deal with any unpleasantness surrounding the ordeal. Despite his father's position as the former French Minister of Magic, Alexandre has largely ignored the political realities of the Hexenreich occupation. While in France his father treads carefully, neither wholly backing the new regime nor denouncing them, Xandre has stayed quiet. Secretly, he longs to play a role in the Resistance--but it's easier to simply avoid conflict, and keep his head down.

Vanity: On the flip side of confidence is vanity; Alexandre is a handsome man, and knows it. He's a smart man, and knows it. He's a charming man, and knows it. He is at times obnoxiously arrogant, and could stand to be knocked down a peg or two.

Physical description: Alexandre is an attractive man, tall and broad-shouldered, with patrician features, dark, wavy hair and clear blue eyes. He's quick to smile and quicker to laugh, and tends to project himself as confident, but approachable. Although he's failed to live up to his father's expectations in so many respects, he is still very much a Lecuyier at heart; he dresses immaculately, and looks and behaves like a gentleman (ninety percent of the time, give or take).

Personality (nice, rude, funny etc. Paragraph please.): Charming, amiable, and a genuinely warm person, Alexandre is quick to make friends, even among his patients. While typically lighthearted and cheerful, he does take his work very seriously, and when in a more somber mood can be somewhat intense. He's polite to everyone he meets unless given a reason not to be, and aggressive only when greatly provoked. His confidence does sometimes veer a bit close to arrogance, but he means well.

Hopes and dreams. Why are you teaching at Hogwarts?: As Alexandre nears forty, his father Augustus--the aging Lecuyier patriarch--has once more been pressuring his son to put childish things to rest and resume his rightful place as his son and heir, particularly because of the uncertain political climate and quickly shifting tides. While unwilling to give up healing or leave Britain, his father's unending disapproval has provoked him to question his life, and what he wants out of it. Alexandre has decided he needs a new challenge: and what better place to provide him with one than the school that saw his first deliverance from France, and his escape from his father's overbearing shadow? The position seems, to Alexandre, like the ideal opportunity to pursue a new path, and to perhaps find whatever it is he's lost in the years since he last set foot in Hogwarts.

Biography (500 words minimum. There is never such a thing as too much.):

Alexandre Emile Lecuyier, born exactly two minutes after his twin brother, Armel Elie Lecuyier, by all rights ought to have had exactly the life he wanted: a second son, with all of the tiny freedoms that entailed. Always a prince, but never a king.

It was not to be.

Sickly from the start, his brother Elie's afflictions only seemed to worsen with age. Alexandre was constantly at his side, a warm, cheerful presence amid healers and hospitals and potions. Elie was confined to a wheelchair; Xandre ran on two strong, healthy legs, but he never left his brother behind.

Still, it was clear to Augustus Lecuyier from the moment his twin boys opened their eyes: Alexandre's, bright and inquisitive and the bluest blue; his twin's, grey and shadowed with pain. Elie could never be the heir.

That Alexandre would be his father's successor was an unspoken reality. Whatever their future destinies entailed, the two boys were raised together with every advantage the Lecuyier name afforded. Every effort was made to temper Alexandre's unchecked enthusiasm; every effort was made to treat Elie's increasingly frail body. Endless potions, tonics, and charms were tried; countless specialists were consulted, and even Muggle treatments were considered. As the boys grew, Elie reached a sort of stasis: his health stable, but not improving.

Just before they reached their eleventh year, Augustus was named French ambassador to the British Ministry; instead of attending Beauxbatons, as expected--as every Lecuyier before them had done--the twins were enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Alexandre was ecstatic, even when he joined the Gryffindor table, and Elie was sent to Slytherin. This was something that was just theirs. This was something that was just his.

It would soon come to an end, though; Augustus' sway in the French Ministry was strong, and he was recalled to their home when he was appointed the next Minister of Magic. His family, of course, would go with him. The boys completed their schooling in France. Alexandre was not just the son of his father, not just the heir to the Lecuyier fortune, but the heir to the Minister.

And still he refused to bend to his father's expectations. To his family's great surprise--Alexandre had never been studious--and against Augustus' wishes, he decided to continue his education at St. Mungo's, as his sister Olivia had done. Alexandre became a junior healer in the Spell Damage Ward, and then accepted a temporary post at Hogwarts as an instructor for the Advance Guard. When he returned to St. Mungo's, he was awarded the status of full healer--and it was on this premise that he extended his stay in Wizarding Britain indefinitely, avoiding the censure of his father and promising to do his duty when the time came.

After all, Augustus Lecuyier--by now no longer Minister, but still deeply entrenched in wizarding politics--did not need an heir while still in his prime. And there was always Elie, Alexandre took care to point out sardonically at every possible opportunity, though his twin had no more love for politics than he, and whose health had never improved.

And so the years passed, and the detente between Xandre, St. Mungo's healer, and Alexandre Lecuyier, the heir that never was, continued.


SAMPLE ROLEPLAY

Roleplay Response:

Alexandre was late.

He knew this, and yet the knowledge changed the reality not at all. He accommodated for the discrepancy by quickening his pace, but his legs were already long, and he wouldn't embarrass himself by running. Headmistress Ivanova was surely a reasonable woman, and it was only a matter of a few minutes.

This opinion was quickly remedied when he opened the door, a greeting dying on his lips. The woman was not happy, and he suspected she was not reasonable, either.

"Apologies, Headmistress," Alexandre said evenly, a slight breathiness in his voice the only suggestion of just how quickly he'd been walking. An easy grin spread across his features--his natural defense mechanism, and the only weapon he had to wield in the face of such obvious disdain. "It seems I've been too long gone from Hogwarts. It's as labyrinthine as ever."

He should have stopped talking then, he knew. But he had never seen a woman glare so, and this job was important to him. He had to win her over.

"Might I suggest directional signs? Perhaps a house elf escort?" His grin widened another degree; his lips stretched painfully, but he didn't relent.

And then he did the worst possible thing a man might do in his situation, and laughed at his own joke.