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| Boot, Damien; Ravenclaw Fifth Year | |
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| Damien Boot | Aug 3 2006, 08:26 AM Post #1 |
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Living in my [ g l a s s ] house
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CHARACTER DOCUMENTATION Character Name: Damien Michael Boot Character Nickname: Dami (some Hufflepuff first year called him this and it stuck, much to his chagrin) Character Age: 15 Character Year: 5th House/Alumni: Oh, I don’t know, just put him anywhere –cough- Ravenclaw –cough- Physical Appearance: Damien gives off the distinct impression of someone who isn’t entirely comfortable in his own skin. He hates family reunions because that always gives his nosy aunts license to go “Daphne, have you been feeding your son? Why he’s nothing but skin and bones!” He’ll be the first one to admit that he isn’t the most muscular guy on the block. Scrawny and gangly, he’s pretty used to having people ask if he’s malnourished or anorexic. He isn’t, in case you were wondering. But despite what others may assume, his thin physique doesn’t make him a weakling. Underneath those flesh-colored sticks that he calls “arms and legs”, lies a sort of wiry muscle that proves that he can still hold his own in a fight. According to Damien, he has the “most girly, annoying, stupid and any-other-adjective-you-can-think-of-that-doesn’t-relate-to-nice” hair you can imagine. He once described it as “what would happen if Harry Potter ever got his hair caught in a vacuum cleaner”. He’s given up on ever doing anything with it because it’s entirely hopeless. Framing his face with dark, jagged locks, it curls a bit at the ends, falling exactly at the juncture where his collarbone meets his shoulders. His mother has been persistently nagging him to get a haircut but he honestly can’t seem to find the time. Besides, it provides a nice barrier from the sun. Despite the many jabs at his sanity, Damien still claims that if he had to choose a favorite body part, it’d be his hands. Long, slender and a bit worn and calloused from plucking at guitar strings, they are the sort of hands that would leave a piano teacher shedding tears of joy. The rest of Damien’s housemates don’t seem to share his sentiment, however, choosing instead to call his hands “girly”and “effeminate”. Which doesn’t exactly help Terry, who is desperately trying to break away from his “pretty boy” image. If it were left up to the female population to decide which one of Damien’s attributes is the most attractive, they’d answer with an earnest “His eyes, duh!” Icy blue and decidedly piercing, they’re the sort of eyes that clichéd poems about clear skies, lakes laced with winter and drowning in pools describe about. Damien doesn’t have any idea what the big deal is though. If it were up to him, he wouldn’t even have eyes. Or a body. He’d just be a pair of disembodied hands. Which is probably why God was given the job of creating Damien and not himself. Personality and Traits: Imagine you’re walking down a random corridor in the West Tower. You’re whistling merrily to yourself because you’ve just completed your Potions homework, meaning you’ve got about a half an hour or so to waste. You pass the Ravenclaw common room entrance. Suddenly, a voice reaches your ears. You pause in your steps and listen harder. It’s a pleasant voice, melodic and soothing and crooning in dulcet tones. You’re enchanted. You’re hypnotized. You must find the identity of the singer or you’ll surely perish from curiosity. Now, if you’re not a Ravenclaw and don’t know the password, this is as far as you will go. Sorry bucko, but rules are rules. You’ll just have to live through the rest of your life, never knowing who that amazing voice belonged to. Yeah, I know. Have fun in therapy. Now, if you are a Ravenclaw, congratulations. Whisper it, please. Don’t want any shifty characters getting into your dorm. The door swings open and you’re stepping into the common room, eyes scanning the area for any sign of an angel playing the guitar. Instead, you spot a figure curled up in a squashy armchair. Squinting, you check to see who it is. It’s a boy. He’s currently got his legs tucked up under him, hunched over his guitar and comfortably leaning against the headrest. His eyes are hooded and his bangs cover about half of his face. But you don’t really notice those details because you’re too busy getting drunk on the lyrics spilling out of his mouth. You’ve never really seen pure, raw talent before but if there ever was a person who had it, it would be that scrawny boy huddled in the corner. It’s all about music when it comes to Damien. Music, music, music. Have you ever watched one of those clichéd rags-to-riches films where the protagonist starts out playing guitar in his basement and when an agent offers him fame and fortune, he replies with “I don’t care about the money. I just care about my songs.” That’s Damien in a nutshell. If it were up to him, he’d poof himself into a cottage in the woods, where he’d write songs every day and sing them to the wilderness. Just him and his blasted hands. He desperately doesn’t want to be thought of as the “soulful, sensitive musician” but that stereotype seems to paste itself on his forehead. He can’t go anywhere without a girl sighing “God, I bet he’s so SWEET and THOUGHTFUL.” He doesn’t know where there’s a rule that says every guy with a guitar pick automatically becomes an expert on women’s feelings. Because he’s absolutely clueless when it comes to the other gender. Damien is extremely inexperienced in relationships for a boy of his talent and good-looks because he is hopelessly slow on the uptake. In fifth year, there was a girl who had this huge crush on him, that Damien liked well enough and even considered asking out (not that he ever would of course - that would be the ultimate awkward position). By the time he eventually twigged that she liked him back, she was already going out with someone else. He was relieved if anything. Typical. Damien can be awfully considerate when he wants to but the reason for his kindness isn’t as benevolent as some people would hope. You see, Damien is absolute pants when it comes to uncomfortable situations. If there’s even a drop awkwardness or tension between him and someone else, he’ll bend over backwards to either distance himself from said person or try to stop the source of the anxiety. If you start crying around him, Damien’s willing to give you his entire savings account if it’ll get you to stop crying. Tears give him indigestion. He’s also not that fine-tuned in the art of receiving compliments. Flattery might get you anywhere but it won’t get you into a close friendship with Damien. If you start dishing out praise to him, he’ll immediately start blushing like mad and try to change the subject. He doesn’t want people to give him compliments because he doesn’t believe they’re true. He believes that if he acts humble and denies the compliments, then it’ll stop girls from giving them to him. To his chagrin, being humble just makes girls want to praise him more. Despite him being absolutely hopeless, Damien is actually quite intelligent if you’re willing to get past the blushing and mumbling and strange hand fetish. He places the same amount of dedication in his schoolwork as he does for his music. He has the uncanny ability to focus all of his attention on one specific thing and not get hindered by procrastination like the rest of us lowly beings. He’s a surprisingly hardworking individual. When he’s not busy writing heartfelt songs about unrequited love, he’s got his nose buried between pages 58 and 57 of Advanced Guide to Spells , brushing up on his invisibility charm. If you’re not a guitar or a particularly interesting Transfiguration textbook, good luck on getting Damien’s attention. He’s a dreamer at heart and always seems to be preoccupied with his own thoughts. In classes, he’ll usually have that distinct, faraway expression in his eyes that mean he’s off somewhere where no one else can touch him. While everyone else is stressing about the Dark Lord’s imminent return and the death of the Minister of Magic, Damien’s busy in his own world, where he can write songs and sing them at the top of his lungs and there will be no one there to hear and criticize him. But that doesn’t mean he’s in complete denial over what’s happening in the wizarding world. He’s not one of those people who responds to any mention of Voldemort by covering his ears and screaming “LA-LA-LA-I-CAN’T-HEAR-YOU!” However, he usually finds the drama of politics and societal mayhem to be too distracting from his music or schoolwork for him to place a lot of care into it. Background/Family History: If you’re wondering why Damien has such a hard time with women, look no further than his parents. If ANY guy saw how much of a tight rein his mother kept on his father, Terry, he’d be terrified of females as well. It’s pretty obvious who’s the boss in his parents’ relationship. While Terry may be the one who brings home the bacon, it’s Daphne who makes most of the decisions in the house. Controlling and a busybody at heart, the former Slytherin always has to make sure she’s involved in every aspect of her family’s life. When Daphne discovered Damien’s dreams of becoming a musician, she went on a long rant about how he was throwing away his future to live as a street entertainer. With that vote of confidence from his mother, Damien turned to his father, Terry, for support. To Damien’s complete surprise, Daphne was finally persuaded to allow her son’s pursuit in music. How did Terry manage it? To tell the truth, while Terry may seem completely whipped in regards to Daphne, the relationship between the two of them is more complex than that. If Terry truly hated the way Daphne treated him but allowed her anyway, then it would be more of a “boss/servant” type of marriage. However, Terry seemed to have no trouble taking orders from Daphne. In fact, he didn’t seem to mind at all. He claimed that he loved his wife and if that meant allowing her to take control every once and a while, then he had no problems with it. Only when he felt particularly strong about an issue would he finally put his foot down. Terry possessed a sort of quiet strength, a subtle power that only presented itself when he felt it was needed. Damien admired his father’s calm, neutral persona and eventually adapted that laidback quality. That still didn’t mean Daphne wasn’t going to employ every method possible to influence her son’s life. As soon as he was old enough to stand upright, she brought him to every possible social gathering amongst purebloods. She explained this would help “culture him at an early stage”. She also instilled in him the basics of pureblood etiquette. Even now, Damien can’t exactly shake the habit of doing everything by his mother’s “lessons”. He always has to use a metal fork and knife to eat his food, he opens doors for women, and he has to refer to every single adult as “sir” or “ma’am”. Father: Terry Boot Mother: Daphne Greengrass Siblings: Nonexistent Pet: A spotted Beagle named Snoopy and a tawny barn owl named Eloise Broom: Doesn’t own one. Wand: 10 inches; Cedar; Dragon Heartstring Boggart: Not sure; probably a hideous, obese woman crying and hitting on him at the same time Member Title: Living in my [ g l a s s ] house Role-Playing Sample: [/center] PERSONAL Name: Anna Your Age: 16 Other Characters: None. Contact Information: A PM will do. How Did You Find Us?: Got it off Potterplay. Role-Playing Experience: For about 2-3 years. Miscellaneous/Other: Not at the moment. Accepted! Welcomet to Reborn Darkness, ^^. |
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