Character Sheet

Character Sheet

Player Info
Name: Jess
Personal LJ/IJ: sparkysparky
YM Contact Name: queenofbabble24
Email: queenofbabble24@gmail.com
Time Zone (GMT +/-): US Eastern (GMT -5)
Availability for Playing: Mostly everyday, less often during school

Have updated just a little.



General
Name: Terry Aloysius Boot
Nicknames (and who is likely to use them): Ter, Boot
Age: 25
Birthday: 15th March, 1980
Place of Residence (an address in Hogsmeade unless something else has been decided with the mods) Hogwarts, has a small house in Hogsmeade for term breaks

Appearance
Height: 5’10
Weight: 160lbs (normal weight, at the moment about 145lbs)
Eyes: Brown
Hair Colour & Style: Brown, unruly curls
Skin tone: Pale
Build: Long & lanky
Distinguishing Marks: None
Dress Style: (remember that most wizards would wear robes, and that there is a war going on which might effect supplies) Teacher’s robes when in school, spell protected robes when experimenting, Muggle-style clothes left over from Hogwarts (which still fit and hardly looked worn due to the infrequency of their use) when playing with Ben, casual robes, usually in fairly bold, bright colors (blue, orange, green, the occasional dark purple) all other times.
Things they would always carry with them (optional): A muggle-style notebook & pen (spelled to never run out of pages or ink, and to be feather-light), his son is usually close by, their dog Bob
Other:

Health
Disabilities/Handicaps: None
Health in general – both mental and physical: Both mental & physical health is generally good,but at the moment he's underweight from poor eating habits. He's also still deeply upset over the deaths of his friends Mandy and Sophia, and to a lesser degree his wife (of convenience) Abigail. He's got low self-esteem.
Other:

Personality
First Impression (others have of you): An overall cheerful, loveable guy, somewhat scatter-brained and neurotic, very chatty but good at talking around a point if he doesn’t want you to have the information. Generally well-liked by staff and students.
General Behaviour: He can talk at length about charms, especially anything he’s created. Very social, likes people. Strong sense of humor, and laughs a lot.
Strengths: Intelligent, protective of his students, friendly
Weaknesses: Sometimes too friendly, often is too distracted by experiments to realize what’s going on in the Real World, likes to believe the best of everyone
Habits: Runs hands through hair, sometimes can’t stop talking
Enjoys: Intelligent conversation; watching Quidditch; teaching; playing with his son; small, intimate dinners; he'll be quite keen on sex once he discovers what it's like (though after a very bad experience, it will take awhile for him to be comfortable with sex)
Dislikes: Mean-spirited people; people who show impatience towards students, children, animals; brewing potions just for brewing potions (he'd rather experiment and blow something up!);
Other:

Family
Spouse/partner (if applicable): Abigail Zellar (older sister of Rose Zellar; she was 2 years older than Terry, they knew each other as children and from Hogwarts where she was in Hufflepuff)(deceased)
Parents: Cherise & Nicholas Boot
Sibling(s): None
Children: Benjamin Boot (age 4, born 05/16/00)
Bloodline: Pure blood
Family History: The Boots are an old, wealthy Pureblood family, big on blood supremacy. The elder Boots weren’t Death Eaters, but did support Voldemort's goals. They fled England early in the war (just before Terry's 6th year ended), to avoid having to choose sides officially, and took most of the family fortune with them (except for Terry's inheritance from both his maternal and paternal grandfathers, and anything that was passed to him (such as the family estate in Brighton) upon reaching his 17th birthday). They now reside in Spain, and have no contact with the British Wizarding world at all (though this could change, because the thought of Terry's parents being persuaded by Bella to join their cause interests me greatly). Cherise and Nicholas hated being parents and effectively ignored Terry throughout the years. Terry spent most of his younger years in his room, alone, and even once at Hogwarts never went home except for Summer breaks (and even then his parents were rarely there. It was not uncommon for Terry to not see his parents for a year or more.)
Pets: Bob the Dog, a great, shaggy English sheepdog that is very reminiscent of Nana in Peter Pan
Other:

Social/Romantic/Sexual
Close Friendships: Mandy Brocklehurst, Sophia Fawcett, Stephen Cornfoot, Anthony Goldstein, more TBD
Known Enemies: TBD
Sexual Preference: Men
Turn Ons: Intelligence, muscular builds, nice asses, honest eyes, men who are outgoing and a bit rough around the edges, men who take genuine interest in Ben
Turn Offs: Liars, people who are too nosey about his work with experimental, charms (well, obviously anyway. He’d be oblivious to subtle inquiries), poor personal hygiene.
Past Relationships: Abigail Zellar (married, but strictly platonic. She was gay as well, but they both wanted children and so married in 1999 and immediately conceived Ben via a insemination charm Abigail knew of as a Healer. They agreed to allow discrete, casual affairs, though Terry never took advantage of that.) Other than his marriage of convenience, Terry has never been in a romantic relationship. He's been in love with his best friend Stephen since they were children, though Stephen does not return the affection. Terry has just started to accept that it will never be. Terry has realized over time that his love for Stephen is like that of a brother, and knows that he only fancied himself in love with Stephen because it was easy.
What they think about sex and love: Terry is a romantic at heart, but has never been in love. He’s not a prude, but but never had the chance during his marriage to pursue even a casual relationship. (There was the war, and Ben's birth, and his work, and never any time for dalliances.) Since Abigail's death he's been preoccupied with helping Ben cope as well as his duties at Hogwarts to really have time for romance. (I of course would love for that to change!)
Other: After a drunken, mistaken almost-shag in the men's room of Draco's club, Terry is not too keen to repeat the experience. He also doesn't recognize that anyone would find him attractive, and would be baffled and clueless should anyone take interest. After a brief fling with Padma's ex-lover Mohinder in India, Terry had a brief flirtation with Terrence Higgs, though it didn't go anywhere. There was a short lived affair with Severus Snape ('Jack Harkness'), though that has also waned and they're simply friends now. Currently he is seeing Seamus Finnigan, though it is a secret and neither have told anyone else. Seamus broke it off after it became clear that Terry was becoming too attached. The 'break-up' was best for everyone involved and eventually they'll go back to being friends. He recently had what might be a date with Ernie MacMillan, but he's not entirely sure that's what it was. There's also the upcoming dancing lessons with Oliver Wood. What's going on there?

Magical
Wand Type: 10 ¾ inches, birch, unicorn hair, flexible
Magical talents: Charms, Transfiguration, Defense
Magical weaknesses/aversions (what your character can't or won't do): Divinations, Astronomy, Herbology, Potions (well--traditional potions. He quite enjoys using charms in tandem with plants and potions to create, well, usually really spectacular explosions.) He's also not good on a broom, and gets woozy from Apparating.
First sign of magic – when and what: When he was 4 he wanted to be read a story but his parents were too busy for him, so he exploded a few books in the library in anger.
Boggart: His son’s corpse
Knows how to Apparate (y/n): Yes
Knows how to cast a patronus (y/n – if yes what?): Yes, wolf
Knows how to use the unforgivables (y/n): He could in theory, but never has
Other:

Schooling:
Year:(in relation to Harry's year) Harry’s year
House: Ravenclaw
Other Affiliations: the DA, Charms club
Best subject(s):</b> Charms, Arithmancy, Transfigurations,
Poor subject(s):</b> (if EE’s are poor) Herbology, Potions, Astronomy
Electives s/he would have taken:</b> Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures (just to OWLs), Ancient Runes
Best Mates:</b> Mandy Brocklehurst, Abigail Zellar, Sophia Fawcett, Stephen Cornfoot, Anthony Goldstein, others TBD
Romantic interests: Unrequited crush on Stephen Cornfoot
Level of education reached (do your characters have OWLs/NEWTs – none of the above? Have they gone on to some type of training? Remember that there is no wizarding uni and that there is a war going on): OWLS ( O’s in Charms, Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, EE’s in Defense, Herbology, Potions, A’s in Astronomy, CoMC, History of Magic), NEWTS (received O’s in Charms, Arithmancy, and Ancient Runes, EE’s in Transfiguration, and Defense, A’s in Astronomy, Potions and Herbology, did not sit CoMC, HoM,)

Other:

Financial (Remember that in a war most people will not have much money – if any at all. Those who do profit from war are usually those who are willing to use exploit others. Keep this in mind when deciding on your character's monetary situation.)
Current Occupation: Hogwarts professor (Charms)
Other Occupations (side incomes, volunteer work, illegal activities): He sidelines by researching & developing new defensive & offensive Charms for the Order and the Ministry
Monetary Situation: On paper he looks to be in pretty good financial shape: he has a large inheritance from his grandfathers on both sides of the family, a large estate in Brighton, but most of his wealth is still in Gringotts, so unless or until the Goblins come back, he's relying on whatever his salary is from Hogwarts and what he makes doing R&D for the Aurors/Order.
Other:

Current situation
Affiliations & Organisations: Hogwarts, the Order
Faction this character supports: Minerva McGonagall publicly
Role in the ongoing war: Teacher, research & development


Finally
What is your character's deepest, darkest secret (one that other game characters probably wouldn't know and that he/she would prefer they didn't find out about) Also list the names of anyone who might know, or might be suspicious of this knowledge:

He knows he could have been just as easily a Death Eater as not, and is mostly on the Light side because he hates his parents (and the fact that he can’t really imagine himself murdering random people), but he admits to himself that he’s fascinated with the Darker side of magic, even if only in theory.

He had a one-night stand with Oliver Wood at a Quidditch game, however Oliver Obliviated him so Terry does not remember. This could change eventually though.

He's not been sleeping well since Mandy died and recently has been having bad headaches that he's not told anyone about (they've resulted from too much work and not enough sleep).

Since Sophia's death he's been sleeping even less and using glamor charms to hide the dark circles and weight loss. He knows he can't keep this up forever, and that sooner or later he'll have to do something to fix it.

The relationship with Seamus is something of a secret, only Cormac knows.