Post by Henri Bijous on Aug 2, 2011 12:12:04 GMT -6
-General-
Full Name:
Gender: Male
Age, Birthplace & Date: 38, Haiti, December 12th
Bloodline: Half Blood
[The "Real you"
Alias : Lysander
Disposable time : I Haz It
Site you on which you found us : GOOGLE
Full Name:
Gender: Male
Age, Birthplace & Date: 38, Haiti, December 12th
Bloodline: Half Blood
-Appearance-
Hair: None
Eyes: Brown
Body Type: O Positive
Unique Features: None
Animagus: Snake
More Detailed Physical Description :
Dark skinned by his heritage, he is a tall lean man who seems more rugged than his shop would show. His lithely muscled frame shows quite prominently, having gained it from his constant desire for self-improvement. Standing 6’4” tall and weighing just over 200lbs, his body can be used for physical intimidation or a comforting protector depending on the circumstances in which he is introduced. He is often noticed for his strong and rough hands, a result of his many many years spent toiling with in undeveloped regions such as the jungles of Haiti or the Swamps of Louisiana, and his hard cold eyes.
Hair: None
Eyes: Brown
Body Type: O Positive
Unique Features: None
Animagus: Snake
More Detailed Physical Description :
Dark skinned by his heritage, he is a tall lean man who seems more rugged than his shop would show. His lithely muscled frame shows quite prominently, having gained it from his constant desire for self-improvement. Standing 6’4” tall and weighing just over 200lbs, his body can be used for physical intimidation or a comforting protector depending on the circumstances in which he is introduced. He is often noticed for his strong and rough hands, a result of his many many years spent toiling with in undeveloped regions such as the jungles of Haiti or the Swamps of Louisiana, and his hard cold eyes.
-Personality-
Boggart: His Father
Mirror of Erised: His Father’s Wand
Patronus: Raven
Wand: 11” Ash with a Snake Familiar Fang / Dragon Heartstring Core
Temperament/Allegiance: Neutral
Likes:
-Watching Quidditch
-Fresh Fruit
-Cigars
-Teaching
Dislikes:
-Cats
-Class Clowns
-Hufflepuffs
-Prank Toys
Strong Points
-Illusions
-Legilimancy/Occlumancy
-Hexes
Weaknesses:
-Potions
-Flying
-Healing Spells
Whims/Habits:
-Quick to levitate objects rather than walk to get them
-Works Out Daily
-Has a Distrust of Boats
-Is a rough teacher, but underneath his stern nature it can be determined that he cares a great deal about his students.
-Holds a certain distaste for Hufflepuffs, but mostly treats them fairly.
Detailed Personality :
Henri is a man determined to learn. Originally his position at Hogwarts was only taken so that he might study his own magical prowess and reach new heights when it came to magic as a whole. Fortunately for him, he found a love of teaching and could not help but learn to enjoy himself at Hogwarts. Other than teaching he often enjoys the taste of a fine cigar or brandy while winding down for the evening.
Henri’s goal in life is to surpass his father, a feat that he feels is always beyond his reach no matter how hard he works. Perfection in body, perfection in mind: a concept that pushes him every day to achieve his best. He lives the life of both Scholar and Practitioner of advanced magics but his overall power is still considered the high end of average at best.
When faced with physical or magical confrontation, he quickly seeks to gain the upper hand and leave it totally within his control before quietly offering a person the leniency in the form of kicking them from his presence by some means or another. He is quick to point out that he is his own man and has his own ethics and honor to pursue rather than worry about the factions or sides around him.
The strangest part of Henri Bijous is his reluctance to pick a side in current affairs. Some support the ministry, some support the Order (If they know about it), and some support the Dark Lord himself. Though Henri is not eager to side with the Dark Lord, his own father a Dark Wizard, Voldemort’s philosophies do speak to Henri and offer him power with which he might defeat his father. The Order has, in the past, sought to find his favor and assistance to which Henri continues to avoid. For now he is satisfied with self experimentation and teaching, desiring little else.
Character's Family :
Azzeralia (Sister): Azzeralia is currently locked away in Azkaban after attempting to kill her brother after following him to Europe. A true Daddy’s Girl, Azzeralia always followed her father’s footsteps and sought to not only reclaim Henri for her father, but decided the boy was better off dead. Her release date is not set.
Grandmother Gooferdust: Henri’s grandmother, she moved away from her homeland of Haiti in her early fifties and took over care for Henri in her late fifties. The mother of Mentiki Bijous, she is a healer first and foremost that has accepted the Modern Magical World as well as the old ways. Kind, caring, she raised Henri without any interaction with his father. She died an old woman, a very proud and happy old woman, upon Henri’s Graduation day.
Juliet Hawthorn Bijous (Mother): Deceased: Juliet Hawthorn died during childbirth complications and left the care of her son to her mother. Rumor has it she was studying healing spells and herbs in Haiti when she met Mentiki in his younger age.
Mentiki Bijous: Henri does not speak about his father, a man who was once a proud tribal Wizard grown bitter at the modern Wizarding World for what they have done to his precious magic. Alive, at large, prominently in North America.
Boggart: His Father
Mirror of Erised: His Father’s Wand
Patronus: Raven
Wand: 11” Ash with a Snake Familiar Fang / Dragon Heartstring Core
Temperament/Allegiance: Neutral
Likes:
-Watching Quidditch
-Fresh Fruit
-Cigars
-Teaching
Dislikes:
-Cats
-Class Clowns
-Hufflepuffs
-Prank Toys
Strong Points
-Illusions
-Legilimancy/Occlumancy
-Hexes
Weaknesses:
-Potions
-Flying
-Healing Spells
Whims/Habits:
-Quick to levitate objects rather than walk to get them
-Works Out Daily
-Has a Distrust of Boats
-Is a rough teacher, but underneath his stern nature it can be determined that he cares a great deal about his students.
-Holds a certain distaste for Hufflepuffs, but mostly treats them fairly.
Detailed Personality :
Henri is a man determined to learn. Originally his position at Hogwarts was only taken so that he might study his own magical prowess and reach new heights when it came to magic as a whole. Fortunately for him, he found a love of teaching and could not help but learn to enjoy himself at Hogwarts. Other than teaching he often enjoys the taste of a fine cigar or brandy while winding down for the evening.
Henri’s goal in life is to surpass his father, a feat that he feels is always beyond his reach no matter how hard he works. Perfection in body, perfection in mind: a concept that pushes him every day to achieve his best. He lives the life of both Scholar and Practitioner of advanced magics but his overall power is still considered the high end of average at best.
When faced with physical or magical confrontation, he quickly seeks to gain the upper hand and leave it totally within his control before quietly offering a person the leniency in the form of kicking them from his presence by some means or another. He is quick to point out that he is his own man and has his own ethics and honor to pursue rather than worry about the factions or sides around him.
The strangest part of Henri Bijous is his reluctance to pick a side in current affairs. Some support the ministry, some support the Order (If they know about it), and some support the Dark Lord himself. Though Henri is not eager to side with the Dark Lord, his own father a Dark Wizard, Voldemort’s philosophies do speak to Henri and offer him power with which he might defeat his father. The Order has, in the past, sought to find his favor and assistance to which Henri continues to avoid. For now he is satisfied with self experimentation and teaching, desiring little else.
Character's Family :
Azzeralia (Sister): Azzeralia is currently locked away in Azkaban after attempting to kill her brother after following him to Europe. A true Daddy’s Girl, Azzeralia always followed her father’s footsteps and sought to not only reclaim Henri for her father, but decided the boy was better off dead. Her release date is not set.
Grandmother Gooferdust: Henri’s grandmother, she moved away from her homeland of Haiti in her early fifties and took over care for Henri in her late fifties. The mother of Mentiki Bijous, she is a healer first and foremost that has accepted the Modern Magical World as well as the old ways. Kind, caring, she raised Henri without any interaction with his father. She died an old woman, a very proud and happy old woman, upon Henri’s Graduation day.
Juliet Hawthorn Bijous (Mother): Deceased: Juliet Hawthorn died during childbirth complications and left the care of her son to her mother. Rumor has it she was studying healing spells and herbs in Haiti when she met Mentiki in his younger age.
Mentiki Bijous: Henri does not speak about his father, a man who was once a proud tribal Wizard grown bitter at the modern Wizarding World for what they have done to his precious magic. Alive, at large, prominently in North America.
-Training-
Former House: Ravenclaw
Occupation: Professor
Professor of: Legilimancy
Other Position: None
Former House: Ravenclaw
Occupation: Professor
Professor of: Legilimancy
Other Position: None
-Character History-
Birth and the Family
Haiti, like Africa and the Orient, is a place of old magics full of traditionalism and pride in their ancient cultures. It is in the jungles and swamps of Haiti where the Father of Henri Bijous comes from. A proud Houngan and Wizard unable to accept the way things have changed even in his own lifetime. The wizarding world as a whole had shifted and suddenly his place of power and respect was left on unsteady grounds from the past where the Isle of Haiti restricted its interaction with the larger wizarding community as a whole. Now to interact with them was not only commonplace but was openly supported by nearly all of the island’s inhabitants.
Mentiki Bijous’ wild ways were quickly swayed to peace, albeit temporarily as it ended up, when he met the beautiful Juliet and found himself romantically involved. How exactly does a fanatic fall in love with a girl seeking the knowledge of the old world to help the modern one is a question best left to the ages. All that is truly known is the fact that his temporary leave from the fanatic lifestyle lasted from when he met this woman until she died in childbirth with his son three years later.
During that time a baby girl was born before her brother, a baby girl with burnt caramel skin and deep brown eyes. That baby girl would grow to be a pain in her brother’s side for a number of years later in life. Exactly twenty five years after she sat beside him on his birth day.
School Days
Henri was given into the care of his grandmother in Louisiana after the death of his mother. It was at the request of his mother that care for him be provided by his Grandmother rather than her husband, who she had already felt slipping back into his violent and fanatical ways as he sought to stand against the modern wizarding world.
His letter came on time, his stay at Hogwarts quite pleasant despite his foreign nature. His time spent in Britain was extraordinary and he was sad that when the school year ended he was not old enough to stay in England unsupervised. Unable to convince his grandmother to come with him overseas the next school year, it was the last time Henri would see her until after his graduation from the school.
Excelling in hexes, charms, and Legilimancy Henri found himself graduating on time and travelling home after accepting a job as a translator on an expedition across the world in search of historical artifacts of the wizarding world. The mind speaks in a language other minds understand and allowed Henri to act as a translator for those who did not speak English.
Traveling the World
Using his legilimancy to translate those the expedition came across, Henri spent the next seven years travelling every inch of the world enjoying not only being a part of a few discoveries but also enjoying experiencing the world at large. It was enormous and he could not ever see enough of it.
As he matured from a boy into a man of the world, his tastes and ideals changed. He sought to improve his magics, to discover new ways to use the arcane and of course enjoy the finest the world had to offer. Fine food, fine tabacco, even fine clothes found themselves ingrained into his persona as a permanent weakness.
Luckily for the world his lifestyle appetite was curbed by the events that started in North America and dragged behind him all the way back to Europe in the years after his travels. The world was large, but not large enough to fully separate a father from his son. Using the core of Henri’s wand, Mentiki tracked him down to share a few words.
Professor
There is a time missing in the history of Henri Bijous, something he doesn’t speak about. Some general facts are known: Mentiki was seen using spells towards his son, Azzeralia was sent to Azkaban after following Henri to Diagon Alley and attempting to kill him, and that Henri was accepted as a professor at Hogwarts.
This is his first year teaching, and he expects to have his hands full as he tries to simultaneously surpass his father and keep his mind off of the affair altogether. Finally shopping for a home in Britain, he is ready to settle down and live a simpler life in more complex times. Only time will tell what direction his life will take in the following days.
Birth and the Family
Haiti, like Africa and the Orient, is a place of old magics full of traditionalism and pride in their ancient cultures. It is in the jungles and swamps of Haiti where the Father of Henri Bijous comes from. A proud Houngan and Wizard unable to accept the way things have changed even in his own lifetime. The wizarding world as a whole had shifted and suddenly his place of power and respect was left on unsteady grounds from the past where the Isle of Haiti restricted its interaction with the larger wizarding community as a whole. Now to interact with them was not only commonplace but was openly supported by nearly all of the island’s inhabitants.
Mentiki Bijous’ wild ways were quickly swayed to peace, albeit temporarily as it ended up, when he met the beautiful Juliet and found himself romantically involved. How exactly does a fanatic fall in love with a girl seeking the knowledge of the old world to help the modern one is a question best left to the ages. All that is truly known is the fact that his temporary leave from the fanatic lifestyle lasted from when he met this woman until she died in childbirth with his son three years later.
During that time a baby girl was born before her brother, a baby girl with burnt caramel skin and deep brown eyes. That baby girl would grow to be a pain in her brother’s side for a number of years later in life. Exactly twenty five years after she sat beside him on his birth day.
School Days
Henri was given into the care of his grandmother in Louisiana after the death of his mother. It was at the request of his mother that care for him be provided by his Grandmother rather than her husband, who she had already felt slipping back into his violent and fanatical ways as he sought to stand against the modern wizarding world.
His letter came on time, his stay at Hogwarts quite pleasant despite his foreign nature. His time spent in Britain was extraordinary and he was sad that when the school year ended he was not old enough to stay in England unsupervised. Unable to convince his grandmother to come with him overseas the next school year, it was the last time Henri would see her until after his graduation from the school.
Excelling in hexes, charms, and Legilimancy Henri found himself graduating on time and travelling home after accepting a job as a translator on an expedition across the world in search of historical artifacts of the wizarding world. The mind speaks in a language other minds understand and allowed Henri to act as a translator for those who did not speak English.
Traveling the World
Using his legilimancy to translate those the expedition came across, Henri spent the next seven years travelling every inch of the world enjoying not only being a part of a few discoveries but also enjoying experiencing the world at large. It was enormous and he could not ever see enough of it.
As he matured from a boy into a man of the world, his tastes and ideals changed. He sought to improve his magics, to discover new ways to use the arcane and of course enjoy the finest the world had to offer. Fine food, fine tabacco, even fine clothes found themselves ingrained into his persona as a permanent weakness.
Luckily for the world his lifestyle appetite was curbed by the events that started in North America and dragged behind him all the way back to Europe in the years after his travels. The world was large, but not large enough to fully separate a father from his son. Using the core of Henri’s wand, Mentiki tracked him down to share a few words.
Professor
There is a time missing in the history of Henri Bijous, something he doesn’t speak about. Some general facts are known: Mentiki was seen using spells towards his son, Azzeralia was sent to Azkaban after following Henri to Diagon Alley and attempting to kill him, and that Henri was accepted as a professor at Hogwarts.
This is his first year teaching, and he expects to have his hands full as he tries to simultaneously surpass his father and keep his mind off of the affair altogether. Finally shopping for a home in Britain, he is ready to settle down and live a simpler life in more complex times. Only time will tell what direction his life will take in the following days.
[The "Real you"
Alias : Lysander
Disposable time : I Haz It
Site you on which you found us : GOOGLE
Sample RP:
A deep inhale, that is what was required to enjoy a fine cut cigar such as this one. Bittersweet smoke poured into Henri’s lungs and filled them with a taste only the finer cigars could provide. The smoke is expelled as a slow and steady stream that coils and curls like an eastern dragon. The spell was a simple one but always impressive to first years as the smoke turned and churned into a dragon’s maw and expelled a mock flame jet of black smoke erupting from the white.
“Good afternoon, I am professor Bijous. Today you will all be instructed on Legilimancy, the art of infiltrating the mind. If you will open your copies of ‘The Mind over the Matter’ to chapter one, we will begin with basic communication.”
An eye was cast over his shoulder back at the classroom as he stepped away from the blackboard and allowed the chalk to finish writing out both his name and chapter number on the blackboard while he watched the class expectantly for any signs of would be trouble makers.
“You will find that the harder you try in my class, the more you will learn and if you learn enough I might even teach a trick or two from my own personal experiences to you. Now who can tell me the name for communication using only the mind?”
A deep inhale, that is what was required to enjoy a fine cut cigar such as this one. Bittersweet smoke poured into Henri’s lungs and filled them with a taste only the finer cigars could provide. The smoke is expelled as a slow and steady stream that coils and curls like an eastern dragon. The spell was a simple one but always impressive to first years as the smoke turned and churned into a dragon’s maw and expelled a mock flame jet of black smoke erupting from the white.
“Good afternoon, I am professor Bijous. Today you will all be instructed on Legilimancy, the art of infiltrating the mind. If you will open your copies of ‘The Mind over the Matter’ to chapter one, we will begin with basic communication.”
An eye was cast over his shoulder back at the classroom as he stepped away from the blackboard and allowed the chalk to finish writing out both his name and chapter number on the blackboard while he watched the class expectantly for any signs of would be trouble makers.
“You will find that the harder you try in my class, the more you will learn and if you learn enough I might even teach a trick or two from my own personal experiences to you. Now who can tell me the name for communication using only the mind?”