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Character Name: Nicodemus Cadmus Florentine
Preferred Character House: Ravenclaw
Character Age: 17 (18 on the 14th of December)
If your character is a student - what year is s/he? 7th
If you prefer, you can be a Hogwarts Staff or Hogsmeade shop owner. Please note requested position here. (Check availability first!)
What kind of wand does your character possess? A BIG one A hideous one. It's ugly, and gaudy, and heavy. Nicodemus doesn't think that it suits him at all, he'd much prefer something whippy. Unfortunately for him, he was chosen by a twelve inch mahogany wand with a unicorn hair core. Also unfortunately for him, Ollivander was exercising his artistic license when he made the wand, and so somehow Nicodemus has turned up with an intricate (but disgustingly flashy) carved wand, with polished stones set into the handle. Nicodemus has considered breaking it on purpose, but he's not entirely sure that his parents would get him a new one. For now, he'll just wrestle with the embarrassing appendage, and continue to thank Merlin that others grew tired of teasing him for his wand when he was a second year. It looks like something from a Hollywood movie.
Does your character own a broom? Which brand? *Nimbus with mod permission only* Nicodemus used to have a Nimbus. Flying was his life. Unfortunately, there was an incident in his fifth year when he fell from his broom from a great height, and he's not been able to fly since. He doesn't even like looking at brooms anymore, and so his broom is back at home in the cleaning cupboard. He has hopes to give it to his little sister, but at the same time he's not entirely sure that he wants her doing something that's so dangerous.
Describe your character’s strengths (both magically and personality-wise. Please note that Animagi and Metamorphmagi, etc. are extremely rare and you MUST have Mod Permission.): Nicodemus is pretty adept at most things, and he has a love of learning from books (though not from his professors) so he gets along pretty well. His best classes are History of Magic, Ancient Runes, and Arithmancy, because he has a deep interest in all of those. On the other hand, he is quite brilliant at charming people such as obliterating, and also is capable at silencing spells, etc. but isn't quite so good at animating inanimate objects, so if charms were to be listed as a strength, this would also need to be noted. He used to have a great strength in flying, however after his accident he put all of his effort and love into music, so that he could fill the gaps. He's now convinced that he's going to become a composer of some type (but believe me, poetry is a weakness!)
Finally, probably his most important personality strength is his curiosity. While not necessarily a good strength, it is a strength none the less and he uses it, and his ability to befriend most people, to his full ability. He likes to sneak, and watch, and store information. That's just who he is. Unfortunately, it also leads him to put his foot in it most of the time.
Describe your character’s flaws/weaknesses: As just hinted above, Nicodemus can sometimes be too nosey, which can lead to distrust. Although, for the most part people are unaware of anything underhanded that he does. His nosiness is a huge flaw in his great sense of morality, because the line between curiosity and spying is often very blurry. So too is the line between humor and insult, and unfortunately Nicodemus fails at being able to tell one from the other, leading to some very interesting revenge schemes on the behalf of his peers. Nicodemus has a great flair for dramatics, but he often speaks before he thinks and so he often says things that he wishes he hadn't. One of those areas where he's bound to put his foot wrong is the area of Sister's-significant-other. He has three sisters, and only one is older than him. Unfortunately, he feels highly protective of all of them, and anything said against them can throw him into a rage. When his sisters are involved, reason goes out the window. Especially if he thinks that they're going to get hurt.
As one might of guessed, Nicodemus is quite rash, and so you can imagine what it's like when dangerous ingredients, fire, and a reluctance to learn things from a professor instead of a book combine. The dungeons got a make-over in Nicodemus' third year courtesy of him and his lack of potions skills. He isn't sure what he wants to do, and so has continued on with potions to keep his options open. It's the one place where he is most aware of his dramatics, and the one place where he makes an effort to tone them down.
His deepest, darkest fear is flying. He gets terrified any time that he even looks at a broom, and his stomach turns whenever he remembers how he used to fly so effortlessly, but not for want of ever doing so again.
Describe your character's physical attributes. If you have a preferred PB, state it here -- although check the list (http://www.livejournal.com/community/hihnp_ooc/121506.html) first!: Nicodemus has light brown hair, which he usually wears long-ish, and always seems to be a bit messy. His eyes are blue, and he has to wear glasses when reading much to the amusement of his peers, who find the idea of Nicodemus and intellect together quite alien. His skin is tanned enough, though he does get quite pale in winter, as he exclaims, "I am a creature of sunshine, happiness, and warmth!" He isn't built, but he did used to play Quidditch until fifth year, and he has enough muscle on him to not look awkward and scrawny. His PB is River Phoenix
Is your character Muggle born, a half-blood, or a pureblood? Explain it.(half-breeds are rare and only with mod approval) What is this matter of blood? Nicodemus doesn't really care for it at all. Well, he was certainly glad that he knew about magic before he went to Hogwarts, being a half-blood whose a first generation wizard, but if people didn't, and yet they've still integrated successfully into Hogwarts... well, don't they have even more right to be at Hogwarts, if they've managed to overcome the struggles that the wizard-born never had to even consider? Anyway, Nicodemus' father is a Muggleborn, and his mother a pureblood who didn't care for all that fancy-shmancy stuff, she's much happier living her own life and parading about with the man that she loves.
Character Background/History: Nicodemus was born in 1987 to one Elidorium Florentine, and her husband Harold Florentine. He was the second child that they had, and certainly not the last- although he is the only boy. He grew up in Llangollen, a nice green place in Wales. He had free run there, and he adores the place still, it taught him a love of history even when he was younger, and there was always so much room to sing, and dance, and parade about. The freedom to do just that made Nicodemus' childhood into a happy one, and so he developed into something very active and fun. As a child he always loved to fly, and it was his most brilliant hobby.
His other hobby would have been singing, and playing the guitar. That comes from when he was a small boy, and his father would play the guitar and make up words and songs such as the award-winning Nicodemus Picks His Nose (he didn't by the way! Never!) So Nicodemus learnt to stumble forth with playing it, and by the time he was eleven he could play 'Skip to my Lou'. Unfortunately for him, he ran off to Hogwarts after that and didn't continue. He then fell off his broom in fifth year, after being on the team since second year.
His world crashed down around him with his new-found fear of flying, and in the months afterwards his older sister Amaryllis called him many things, with weak being the foremost. It seemed to him that his life was empty, until he went home for the summer, and Frank re-introduced his son to the guitar. From then on Nicodemus was able to fill in the empty parts of his life- the gaps between classes, the free time after dinner- with his new hobby, and so begun to heal and morph back into his happy self. Unfortunately for everyone else, he has now convinced himself that he wants to be a poet, composer, and bard, and he often subjects his peers to his works.
Next year he doesn't know what he wants to do, but he knows that he doesn't want to go to the ministry or have a desk-job. Hopefully he'll get some revelation, but he can't think of anything which combines all of his sneakery, spying, and his music. He jokes often that he'll become a goat-herd because he's had experience with it as a child. His sister is trying to convince him to go traveling with her, and he's going to give it a go this Chistmas to see how he likes it.
All in all, Nicodemus is a very flamboyant character who seems to not have insecurities, but really has them stowed away. He adores nothing more than his family, and his hobbies, and has a great sense of morality... even throughout his tendancy to stick his nose in where it doesn't belong.
Please show us a sample RP for this character. It can be anytime -- either during their experiences at Hogwarts or before then:"And it's Florentine to the left, Florentine to the right, to the le- faked to the left, continues on unhindered- Smith'll have a hard time catching him up now! Or not. Ouch!"
Nicodemus blocked out the ignorant banter of the commentator. He'd have to fix that Ryan boy after he finished up this match. For the moment, he was reflecting on how the word ouch was such a deliciously apt name for how he was feeling right now. That idiot Smith, stupid girl couldn't even ride a broom properly- she certainly didn't deserve one that went at such high speeds, one that caused such a crash when she couldn't control the damned thing. Nicodemus frowned, and forced himself to send the quaffle that he clutched so tightly to his chest off to his sister, who was hovering nearby and waiting for the pass. It would take a while before Nicodemus found himself to perform any type of manuver around the Gryffindor keeper, who was on all accounts quite a decent player.
Nicodemus set off to intercept one of the Gryffindor chasers, grimacing at the aching in all of his bones. He hoped that the collision had put a few dents in Smith's broom, the girl certainly deserved it. He formed an obstacle for the Gryffindor chasers, and laughed at the indignation that the fifth year of them showed, only making his friend glare harder. "I've just been bashed around and yet I can-"
BANG
As the sharpest pain that Nicodemus had ever felt coursed through his very fiber, he became aware of letting go of his broom. Soon he was falling, and the only thing that he was aware of after that was the dull, heart-wrenching thwack as he hit the ground, and everything around him leapt away.
There was something heavy on his chest, something warm, but not his cat. Ferdinand wasn't so heavy, and actually rather liked sleeping on Nicodemus' face, much to the boy's dismay. It was hard to breathe like this, with something weighing him down. He opened his eyes, fighting through the gunk that glued them shut, and looked down. He would know the head of his older sister anywhere, even if all he could see was her curly brown hair. "Amaryllis," he said aloud, shocked at how dry his throat was. "Lissy?" she didn't move her head an inch, so finally he raised his aching arm and prodded her.
She awoke with a start. "Demmy! Why on earth didn't you see that Bludger!" she demanded, her welsh lilt not comforting his head one little bit. "Oh, I got the goal, and then I saw you go down, and they've been saying that it's a wonder that you're alive. A bludger to the head, you know how lethal that is, don't you?"
"Was that what it was?" Nicodemus replied.
At the sound of his voice, Amaryllis rushed to pour him a glass of water, and helped him sit up to drink it. "Yes, it was a bludger. And Dumbledore barely had the chance to slow you down before you hit the field. It was horrible, and then I had to play even after they took you off field." She pauses in her excited speech, "we won by the way, we're in the final with Hufflepuff. The nurse says you'll be better by then." Nicodemus swallowed, and forced himself to correct the hitch in his breathing. He would be able to play in the finals! That's what he'd been training for in the past three years!
But... if he was so excited about it, why did his stomach feel as if there were a pair of manticores in there doing the hokey-pokey?
(Note, The next two answers will be known only to mods, not the list, unless you choose to disclose this information.)
Please provide any additional information that you are interested in only the Mods seeing. This could include family past that will come out throughout the RP, secrets, etc.: Nicodemus is a pretty open guy, he harbours the secrets of others and ferrets them out, but he doesn't really have any himself. What you see is almost what you get, with him. He sneaks and spies just to settle his own curiosity, but it's partly because he doesn't actually have many interesting things which are souly his own, so he adopts other peoples'. One thing though, is that he will find out during this year that his sister is a Death Eater, and will have to cope with that, and decide what to do. He's upstanding moral, so he'll tell on her to an authority, but it's going to be terribly upsetting, and it'll break his heart that he has to do it.
Does your character support Voldemort, or are they a Death Eater? (If you answer no to these and change your mind later, please notify a mod. Thank you.) Of course not! Nicodemus thinks that those ideals are stuffy, and pathetic. He cares not a whit for someone's blood, unless of course he's musing over why some certain pretty pureblood won't allow him to dote upon her- because of course, the only reason could be that her values are a little odd. (It could never be that Nicodemus just isn't wanted there!) He's actually in the future going to be slinking and sliding around, taking all the back streets around the United Kingdom so that he can summon up support of the light, and can acquire information about Voldemort's position and plans. He'd never be in the front lines, like an Auror in the ministry- that has too much structure. With his personality, he'd be very much suited to the Order, one of those members who learn all the tittle-tale and share it with his superiors to the cause. So no, he's an honest guy, and one with a great sense of morality. He could never stoop so low as to become a Death Eater (Especially not with their name!)
Character Name: Nicodemus Cadmus Florentine
Preferred Character House: Ravenclaw
Character Age: 17 (18 on the 14th of December)
If your character is a student - what year is s/he? 7th
If you prefer, you can be a Hogwarts Staff or Hogsmeade shop owner. Please note requested position here. (Check availability first!)
What kind of wand does your character possess? A BIG one A hideous one. It's ugly, and gaudy, and heavy. Nicodemus doesn't think that it suits him at all, he'd much prefer something whippy. Unfortunately for him, he was chosen by a twelve inch mahogany wand with a unicorn hair core. Also unfortunately for him, Ollivander was exercising his artistic license when he made the wand, and so somehow Nicodemus has turned up with an intricate (but disgustingly flashy) carved wand, with polished stones set into the handle. Nicodemus has considered breaking it on purpose, but he's not entirely sure that his parents would get him a new one. For now, he'll just wrestle with the embarrassing appendage, and continue to thank Merlin that others grew tired of teasing him for his wand when he was a second year. It looks like something from a Hollywood movie.
Does your character own a broom? Which brand? *Nimbus with mod permission only* Nicodemus used to have a Nimbus. Flying was his life. Unfortunately, there was an incident in his fifth year when he fell from his broom from a great height, and he's not been able to fly since. He doesn't even like looking at brooms anymore, and so his broom is back at home in the cleaning cupboard. He has hopes to give it to his little sister, but at the same time he's not entirely sure that he wants her doing something that's so dangerous.
Describe your character’s strengths (both magically and personality-wise. Please note that Animagi and Metamorphmagi, etc. are extremely rare and you MUST have Mod Permission.): Nicodemus is pretty adept at most things, and he has a love of learning from books (though not from his professors) so he gets along pretty well. His best classes are History of Magic, Ancient Runes, and Arithmancy, because he has a deep interest in all of those. On the other hand, he is quite brilliant at charming people such as obliterating, and also is capable at silencing spells, etc. but isn't quite so good at animating inanimate objects, so if charms were to be listed as a strength, this would also need to be noted. He used to have a great strength in flying, however after his accident he put all of his effort and love into music, so that he could fill the gaps. He's now convinced that he's going to become a composer of some type (but believe me, poetry is a weakness!)
Finally, probably his most important personality strength is his curiosity. While not necessarily a good strength, it is a strength none the less and he uses it, and his ability to befriend most people, to his full ability. He likes to sneak, and watch, and store information. That's just who he is. Unfortunately, it also leads him to put his foot in it most of the time.
Describe your character’s flaws/weaknesses: As just hinted above, Nicodemus can sometimes be too nosey, which can lead to distrust. Although, for the most part people are unaware of anything underhanded that he does. His nosiness is a huge flaw in his great sense of morality, because the line between curiosity and spying is often very blurry. So too is the line between humor and insult, and unfortunately Nicodemus fails at being able to tell one from the other, leading to some very interesting revenge schemes on the behalf of his peers. Nicodemus has a great flair for dramatics, but he often speaks before he thinks and so he often says things that he wishes he hadn't. One of those areas where he's bound to put his foot wrong is the area of Sister's-significant-other. He has three sisters, and only one is older than him. Unfortunately, he feels highly protective of all of them, and anything said against them can throw him into a rage. When his sisters are involved, reason goes out the window. Especially if he thinks that they're going to get hurt.
As one might of guessed, Nicodemus is quite rash, and so you can imagine what it's like when dangerous ingredients, fire, and a reluctance to learn things from a professor instead of a book combine. The dungeons got a make-over in Nicodemus' third year courtesy of him and his lack of potions skills. He isn't sure what he wants to do, and so has continued on with potions to keep his options open. It's the one place where he is most aware of his dramatics, and the one place where he makes an effort to tone them down.
His deepest, darkest fear is flying. He gets terrified any time that he even looks at a broom, and his stomach turns whenever he remembers how he used to fly so effortlessly, but not for want of ever doing so again.
Describe your character's physical attributes. If you have a preferred PB, state it here -- although check the list (http://www.livejournal.com/community/hihnp_ooc/121506.html) first!: Nicodemus has light brown hair, which he usually wears long-ish, and always seems to be a bit messy. His eyes are blue, and he has to wear glasses when reading much to the amusement of his peers, who find the idea of Nicodemus and intellect together quite alien. His skin is tanned enough, though he does get quite pale in winter, as he exclaims, "I am a creature of sunshine, happiness, and warmth!" He isn't built, but he did used to play Quidditch until fifth year, and he has enough muscle on him to not look awkward and scrawny. His PB is River Phoenix
Is your character Muggle born, a half-blood, or a pureblood? Explain it.(half-breeds are rare and only with mod approval) What is this matter of blood? Nicodemus doesn't really care for it at all. Well, he was certainly glad that he knew about magic before he went to Hogwarts, being a half-blood whose a first generation wizard, but if people didn't, and yet they've still integrated successfully into Hogwarts... well, don't they have even more right to be at Hogwarts, if they've managed to overcome the struggles that the wizard-born never had to even consider? Anyway, Nicodemus' father is a Muggleborn, and his mother a pureblood who didn't care for all that fancy-shmancy stuff, she's much happier living her own life and parading about with the man that she loves.
Character Background/History: Nicodemus was born in 1987 to one Elidorium Florentine, and her husband Harold Florentine. He was the second child that they had, and certainly not the last- although he is the only boy. He grew up in Llangollen, a nice green place in Wales. He had free run there, and he adores the place still, it taught him a love of history even when he was younger, and there was always so much room to sing, and dance, and parade about. The freedom to do just that made Nicodemus' childhood into a happy one, and so he developed into something very active and fun. As a child he always loved to fly, and it was his most brilliant hobby.
His other hobby would have been singing, and playing the guitar. That comes from when he was a small boy, and his father would play the guitar and make up words and songs such as the award-winning Nicodemus Picks His Nose (he didn't by the way! Never!) So Nicodemus learnt to stumble forth with playing it, and by the time he was eleven he could play 'Skip to my Lou'. Unfortunately for him, he ran off to Hogwarts after that and didn't continue. He then fell off his broom in fifth year, after being on the team since second year.
His world crashed down around him with his new-found fear of flying, and in the months afterwards his older sister Amaryllis called him many things, with weak being the foremost. It seemed to him that his life was empty, until he went home for the summer, and Frank re-introduced his son to the guitar. From then on Nicodemus was able to fill in the empty parts of his life- the gaps between classes, the free time after dinner- with his new hobby, and so begun to heal and morph back into his happy self. Unfortunately for everyone else, he has now convinced himself that he wants to be a poet, composer, and bard, and he often subjects his peers to his works.
Next year he doesn't know what he wants to do, but he knows that he doesn't want to go to the ministry or have a desk-job. Hopefully he'll get some revelation, but he can't think of anything which combines all of his sneakery, spying, and his music. He jokes often that he'll become a goat-herd because he's had experience with it as a child. His sister is trying to convince him to go traveling with her, and he's going to give it a go this Chistmas to see how he likes it.
All in all, Nicodemus is a very flamboyant character who seems to not have insecurities, but really has them stowed away. He adores nothing more than his family, and his hobbies, and has a great sense of morality... even throughout his tendancy to stick his nose in where it doesn't belong.
Please show us a sample RP for this character. It can be anytime -- either during their experiences at Hogwarts or before then:"And it's Florentine to the left, Florentine to the right, to the le- faked to the left, continues on unhindered- Smith'll have a hard time catching him up now! Or not. Ouch!"
Nicodemus blocked out the ignorant banter of the commentator. He'd have to fix that Ryan boy after he finished up this match. For the moment, he was reflecting on how the word ouch was such a deliciously apt name for how he was feeling right now. That idiot Smith, stupid girl couldn't even ride a broom properly- she certainly didn't deserve one that went at such high speeds, one that caused such a crash when she couldn't control the damned thing. Nicodemus frowned, and forced himself to send the quaffle that he clutched so tightly to his chest off to his sister, who was hovering nearby and waiting for the pass. It would take a while before Nicodemus found himself to perform any type of manuver around the Gryffindor keeper, who was on all accounts quite a decent player.
Nicodemus set off to intercept one of the Gryffindor chasers, grimacing at the aching in all of his bones. He hoped that the collision had put a few dents in Smith's broom, the girl certainly deserved it. He formed an obstacle for the Gryffindor chasers, and laughed at the indignation that the fifth year of them showed, only making his friend glare harder. "I've just been bashed around and yet I can-"
BANG
As the sharpest pain that Nicodemus had ever felt coursed through his very fiber, he became aware of letting go of his broom. Soon he was falling, and the only thing that he was aware of after that was the dull, heart-wrenching thwack as he hit the ground, and everything around him leapt away.
There was something heavy on his chest, something warm, but not his cat. Ferdinand wasn't so heavy, and actually rather liked sleeping on Nicodemus' face, much to the boy's dismay. It was hard to breathe like this, with something weighing him down. He opened his eyes, fighting through the gunk that glued them shut, and looked down. He would know the head of his older sister anywhere, even if all he could see was her curly brown hair. "Amaryllis," he said aloud, shocked at how dry his throat was. "Lissy?" she didn't move her head an inch, so finally he raised his aching arm and prodded her.
She awoke with a start. "Demmy! Why on earth didn't you see that Bludger!" she demanded, her welsh lilt not comforting his head one little bit. "Oh, I got the goal, and then I saw you go down, and they've been saying that it's a wonder that you're alive. A bludger to the head, you know how lethal that is, don't you?"
"Was that what it was?" Nicodemus replied.
At the sound of his voice, Amaryllis rushed to pour him a glass of water, and helped him sit up to drink it. "Yes, it was a bludger. And Dumbledore barely had the chance to slow you down before you hit the field. It was horrible, and then I had to play even after they took you off field." She pauses in her excited speech, "we won by the way, we're in the final with Hufflepuff. The nurse says you'll be better by then." Nicodemus swallowed, and forced himself to correct the hitch in his breathing. He would be able to play in the finals! That's what he'd been training for in the past three years!
But... if he was so excited about it, why did his stomach feel as if there were a pair of manticores in there doing the hokey-pokey?
(Note, The next two answers will be known only to mods, not the list, unless you choose to disclose this information.)
Please provide any additional information that you are interested in only the Mods seeing. This could include family past that will come out throughout the RP, secrets, etc.: Nicodemus is a pretty open guy, he harbours the secrets of others and ferrets them out, but he doesn't really have any himself. What you see is almost what you get, with him. He sneaks and spies just to settle his own curiosity, but it's partly because he doesn't actually have many interesting things which are souly his own, so he adopts other peoples'. One thing though, is that he will find out during this year that his sister is a Death Eater, and will have to cope with that, and decide what to do. He's upstanding moral, so he'll tell on her to an authority, but it's going to be terribly upsetting, and it'll break his heart that he has to do it.
Does your character support Voldemort, or are they a Death Eater? (If you answer no to these and change your mind later, please notify a mod. Thank you.) Of course not! Nicodemus thinks that those ideals are stuffy, and pathetic. He cares not a whit for someone's blood, unless of course he's musing over why some certain pretty pureblood won't allow him to dote upon her- because of course, the only reason could be that her values are a little odd. (It could never be that Nicodemus just isn't wanted there!) He's actually in the future going to be slinking and sliding around, taking all the back streets around the United Kingdom so that he can summon up support of the light, and can acquire information about Voldemort's position and plans. He'd never be in the front lines, like an Auror in the ministry- that has too much structure. With his personality, he'd be very much suited to the Order, one of those members who learn all the tittle-tale and share it with his superiors to the cause. So no, he's an honest guy, and one with a great sense of morality. He could never stoop so low as to become a Death Eater (Especially not with their name!)