Caius Ellwood-Luxe

Caius Ellwood-Luxe
Biographical Information
Full name	Caius Theodosius Ellwood-Luxe
Born	03 January, 1957
Birthplace	London, England, UK
Residence	London; Dŵrffynnonplas, Pembrey Forest, Wales
Nationality	Welsh/English
Blood Status	Pureblood
Education	Hogwarts Slytherin
Class	1975
Physical Information
Gender	Male
Hair colour	Dark brown
Eye colour	Dark brown
Skin colour	Fair
Family Information
Parents	Silas Ellwood-Luxe and Sophie Darcy
Siblings	--
Other Family Members	The Ellwood-Luxe Family; Scipio Ellwood-Luxe, grandfather; Apollinarius Ellwood-Luxe, great-grandfather; Cassius Ellwood-Luxe and Marius Ellwood-Luxe, first cousins, once removed; Jack Ellwood-Luxe, second cousin.
Magical Characteristics
Wand	Ash, Unicorn Hair. 12 in. Pliable.
Patronus	White Satin Moth (Leucoma salicis)
Special Ability	Seer (Oneiromancer)
Affiliation
Occupation	Pretentious Poet
House	Slytherin

Early Life

Born to Silas Ellwood-Luxe and Sophie Darcy, Caius' early childhood was quiet. They lived in a townhouse in London's west end, nearby Knightsbridge, which provided an easy route to the Ministry, where both Silas and Sophie worked prior to Caius' birth. After he was born, Sophie gave up her job to see to the affairs of the household full time.

They led a relatively simple life, with Caius as the only child to a doting mother and a hardworking father. However Silas, like his own father (Scipio Ellwood-Luxe), was not a particularly affectionate or communicative man, and he was prone to bouts of melancholic behavior, sometimes disappearing for days at a time, or else working at a frenzied pace, eschewing sleep. Caius does not remember him as particularly kind, and in fact has few memories of him in general: he was not often at home, and the times which he was were spent in his study. The majority of the memories of his childhood are centered around his mother, Sophie, who was a singularly kind and loving woman, and who did much work to shield Caius and ensure he had a happy, healthy childhood.

When Caius was eight or so, Sophie began to become sick rather regularly.

Application Biography, 1972

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THIRD SERVANT
Where dwellest thou?
CORIOLANUS
Under the canopy.
- Coriolanus, Act IV Scene V

AUFIDIUS
What is thy name?
CORIOLANUS
A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,
And harsh in sound to thine.
- Coriolanus, Act IV Scene V

His father’s life, Caius knew, had been marked by violence and upheaval. Jude Ellwood-Luxe had experienced the war from the diminutive perspective of a child, seen it claim his own father, watched it wither his mother. Caius knew of the suffering done during that time, the hunger, the blood, the strife. He knew the weight his name carried as a result.

Perhaps he would have shed it if he could. It was something of a burden, a cart before a horse, a token that begged assumptions. It was a stark thing, his name. It offered up visions of aged wooden halls, windblown seaside cliffs, sharp rocks in the far-down surf.

But Caius felt no connection to the sea. It was too vast, with nothing to clutch, an endless expanse of flat blues and grays. The breadth of the sky at sea was a thing of his nightmares: the sky the same circumference as the water, two intangible discs pressing endlessly against one another– and the self, a horrible floating thing, tethered to neither. The sea was cold, and ruthless, and unforgiving.

His earliest memories had the woods close at hand, teeming with life and sound, wind shifting each corner’s corner. Insects, animals, omnipresent signs of life. He had taught himself to climb trees at a tender age, calculating his linear path upward from the base of it beforehand, no thought given to the harshness of the bark on his hands. His palms were calloused, knees knobby and rough. He perched high in the alder or in the oak, where he could see everything, and everything couldn’t see him.

[...]
Hidden in the stillness of noon, in the silent croaking night.
Come with the sweep of the little bat’s wing, with the small flare of the firefly or lightning bug,
‘Rising and falling, crowned with dust’, the small creatures,
The small creatures chirp thinly through the dust, through the night.
O mother
What shall I cry?
[...]
- T.S. Eliot, Coriolan II - Difficulties of a Statesman

Caius had never himself known violence. What he knew about it came from books and stories, terse testimony from uncles and aunts and much older cousins; never his father.

His father wore their name like a military jacket. He bore it starched and clipped, as though to hold on to the shape it once had been but now couldn’t muster, years of wear softening its edges despite any best effort. A colonel whose best days had faded in the throes of peacetime. He had never been one for excessive sentiment– that was women’s work, the concern of nursemaids, governesses, and mothers– and to Caius he resembled little more than a wall he occasionally railed against, charging at and bouncing off of the immovable force of his father’s will.

It was women’s work that caught him on the way back down, his mother and her softness culling worry and offering sweetness where the bitterness cut its wounds.

When Caius was nine, his mother took ill. When he was ten, she succumbed.

Her funeral was short, the cluster of black umbrellas like a brief thundercloud over her gravesite as Caius tossed the dirt onto her casket six feet below. The governess led him away after that; his father had already gone.

FIRST SERVANT
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull'd, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
- Shakespeare; Coriolanus, Act IV Scene V

“Give me that,” his cousin was saying. Jack was a tall boy with discerning eyes and sharp teeth, and he loomed just a little as he stood over Caius in the study, one hand palm down on the arm of the chair Caius occupied.

Caius had blinked at him. It was a book he’d found in the manor’s library, some thin work of literature that Caius had lifted purely for something to look at.

“No,” he said.

”No,” Jack repeated, mocking. He leaned down further. “You’ll do as I say or I’ll spit in your dinner again. The servants do as I tell them.”

“I said, n–”

But Jack rarely needed an excuse to do as he pleased; he was seldom held back by paltry things like impulse control. He snatched it from Caius’ hands and turned, shifting his weight, and flipped through it.

Caius did not hesitate. He stood and snatched it right back, scowling, and made to leave the room through the door to the hall. He thought he’d made it one or two paces before the blow he expected came: two hands pushed him hard at the shoulderblades, and Caius caught himself in the stumble that came next, turning on his toes and swinging the book up in a singular arc. It connected, corner-first, at the base of his cousin’s jaw. Jack’s hand flew up to cup his face, the shock played out across it as the punch Caius threw with his opposite fist found its mark on Jack’s bare cheek.

His cousin stumbled against the chair and fell onto the rug, hissing in pain. Caius stood over him for a moment, then turned, stalked across the study and out into the hall. He made sure to close the door behind him, silencing any rebuttal his cousin might have mustered.

He’d find somewhere else to read, he supposed. He'd deal with the consequences later, after he'd finished his book.

Pedigree

Pedigree chart

Lucan Ellwood-Luxe IV

Atellus Ellwood-Luxe

Ariellia Ellwood-Luxe

Apollinarius Ellwood-Luxe

Clyde Black

Sylva Black

Ella Heathrow

Scipio Ellwood-Luxe

Theodore Astor

Marcelle Astor

Jane Englund

Aderyn Astor

John Penberthy

Achethe Penberthy

Carolina Heathrow

Jude Ellwood-Luxe

Ebenezer Abernathy

Robert Abernathy

Thalia Blackbourne

Oscar Abernathy

Ezekiel Crewe

Jane Crewe

Eva Abernathy

Thomas Chaucer

Benedict Chaucer

Charlotte Englund

Arielle Chaucer

Thaddeus York

Genevieve York

Gemma Ellwood

Caius Theodosius Ellwood-Luxe

Stephen Darcy

Oliver Darcy

Vivienne Mercier

Harrison Darcy

Hedin Blackbourne

Flora Blackbourne

Glospin Battersea

Peter Darcy

Liam Ellwood

Roger Ellwood

Stella Warlach

Carina Ellwood

Peter Heathrow

Anna Heathrow

Cora Darcy

Sophie Darcy

John Penberthy

George Penberthy

Carolina Heathrow

John Penberthy

Arthur Crewe

Arabella Crewe

Drusilla Hurst

Adair Penberthy

Winston Rose

Daniel Rose

Cassandra Darcy

Victoria Rose

Oliver Englund

Lobelia Englund

Luciana Ellwood-Luxe

See also: The Darcy Family, The Ellwood-Luxe Family