Forum:Nicolás Bostwick

The Open-Ended Questions

A. Please answer the following questions as elaborately as possible. (Remember, this part is only a requirement for your third to fifteenth character! However, if you want to have more input on where you character is sorted, then please answer #6!)

1) What would you consider to be your character's strengths, and your character's weaknesses? Elaborate on your answer.

Strengths: Charming, good work ethic, creative, proud

Weakness: arrogance, flippant, non-committal, thick headed,

2) What goals and objectives has your character set out in their life? Is it to be successful and rich? Is it to find happiness? Why?

He has two paths that he wants to do. One is opening an art gallery and the other is to take over the family business. He wants to be successful and noticed, especially by his father.

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so?

In a studio

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why?

1. His clay

2. His art supplies

3. A soccer ball

4. Rolex watch

5. His wand

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why?

Get rid of the royals

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why?

He thinks he'd fit Gryffindor. Most of his siblings are Hufflepuff, so he wants to stand out.

The Sorting Quiz

B. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please bold the answers from an IC Point of View, and mark in italics the answers from the OOC Point of View.)

1) Which type of spell is most useful?


 * A. A Complex Spell


 * B. A Spell Of Control

''':C. A Combat Spell'''


 * D. A Healing Spell

2) What is most important to you?


 * A. Grades.

''':B. Getting your way.'''


 * C. Life.


 * D. Friends and family.

3) What would you do if a teacher caught you cheating?


 * A. I'm the person people cheat off of.


 * B. I wouldn't get caught; I'm too slick.

''':C. I would deny the accusation until the teacher gives up.'''


 * D. I would 'fess up, apologize, and accept the consequences.

4) What matters most to your character?


 * A. Wisdom


 * B. Reputation

''':C. Success'''


 * D. Friendship

5) What's the best way to get things done?

''':A. Putting together a qualified team and completing the task efficiently.'''


 * B. Trick someone else into doing the work for you.


 * C. Get some friends together and lead them in the task.


 * D. The right way, no matter how long it takes.

The Character's Background

1) Give a description of your character's personality. Are you noble or sneaky? Arrogant or Humble? Anything about your character that might help the Sorting Hat decide. (Don't worry, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, personality must be at least one paragraph long for the first two characters, two paragraphs long for the third to eighth characters, and three paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth!)

Nico could be considered the definition of a privileged child. Growing up on the tailcoat of his grandfather's budiness, Nico doesn't have much experience with the 'real' world and has been slightly sheltered. However, he's still arrogant and cocky, flaunting his families influence and power. Highly competitive, he would never back down from a challenge and his pride is something incredibly important to him. Despite his own birth lottery, he still brags that his family's power was self made unlike families such as the Royal's or the sacred 28. He's not one to keep his mouth shut about his opinions, though he doesn't scream it from the rooftop.

Nico does take after his father in s lot of ways. Though his work ethic is admirable, he struggles with commitment, especially to those he dates. He's been known to cheat and sleep around with other people, having a different girlfriend every other week. Not that this bothers him. Not one of them is worth more of his time. However, Nico knows how to win over people and can be charming when he wants to be. Not that he does this without gaining something at the end of it. Nico tends to believe life is rather transactional and doesn't understand why people would do something out of simple kindness. However, Nico can be quite dramatic and tends to exaggerate anything that happens to him. Honestly, he just likes the sound of his own voice.

There is one thing that does surprise people. Nico's creativity. He could spend hours inside a studio using whatever medium he could find. Though he tends to lean on blowing glass and sculpture, he's adequate in a lot of other areas and wants to work in an art gallery eventually, maybe even sell his own work. He is reckless, though, and struggles to think through his actions and decisions. He has a large appetite, however, and can eat a kitchen if no one stopped him. Being a teenage boy, Nico tends to sleep a lot and can sometimes be a bit thickheaded. However, Nico wants approval from the people, especially his father, and is afraid of disappointing him. However, part him resents his father's distance and magnitude of children, knowing he'll never be more than a face in the crowd to his father.

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? etc. (Again, you can copy this onto your character page later!) (Remember, history must at least be two paragraphs long for the first two characters, three paragraphs long for the third to eighth character, and four paragraphs long for the ninth to fifteenth character!)

Sofía Hernández hated every bit of who she was; she was Guatemalan, poor, and had little to no chances of ever getting herself a better life. She was just eighteen, fresh out of school, and was working a job as a waitress where her shifts were a constant nightmare. Until she met Jonathan Bostwick. He was just there for a visit, trying to close a deal for his own father's company. He was around her age, just out of Hogwarts, and was trying to fill in his father's shoes. He'd wound up at her diner, lost and hungry. Fast forward to a couple hours later, and they were conceiving one of Jonathan's many kids.

It was a scandal that many had anticipated would come to light eventually. Jonathan was a manwhore, he'd led many girls on during Hogwarts, and to be fair protection was never really on his mind. So left and right, he had women popping up claiming to have his kids. Of course, because he had the support of his father and a vast amount of money at his disposal, he was able to pay off every one of these women and silence them indefinitely. He refused to recognize his children, with very few exceptions. He first got married at age of 25, to Sofía herself, who he managed to reunite with during a follow-up on the mall he had invested in in Guatemala. Of course, she wasn't as mayo as his father wanted, hence why Sofía underwent physical changes. She legally changed her name, to something a little more fitting (i.e Linda). Their marriage was rushed, though, and it didn't last long.

Jonathan's second wife was a local pure-blooded witch who was, for the close-minded society, more socially acceptable. Sharon, was her name. Like with Linda, their marriage didn't last long, but two kids did come from the marriage. He also had children with Linda, when he married her again, and with Susan, whom he married when Linda divorced him after catching him with three different women at the same time. His marriage with Karen Westcott - his fifth one overall - also led to a couple more of his children. A pattern was presenting itself; he never really went more than five years with the same wife, until he got married for a sixth and final time, again to Linda. His life had become a joke, of sorts, and that wasn't a fact that went by unnoticed by the wizarding public of the UK.

Jonathan's father retook control of the company that he'd given to his son when he first got married. It was a rational decision that had to be made. Of course, that didn't mean Jonathan saw it that way - he fought and fought and fought, and even threatened to sue his old man for wrongful termination. He actually went ahead with it, though he and his father were able to reach to an agreement; whichever of his kids took the company the most serious, would inherit his shares and thus control. Which posed issues. From the children Jonathan had, none of them were interested in taking control. Why would they? That would mean having to oversee the development of over a hundred different businesses. That's an issue that the Bostwicks have, even today, which is a real bummer, because Arthur Bostwick is only getting older, nearing a hundred years old, and if if he dies before he announces an heir to the fortune, then... it's all gonna be for nothing.

Nico was the product of the sixth marriage and was the eldest son out of this union. At a young age, Nico was a needy child, constantly calling for attention and despised his siblings, especially his younger siblings. Growing up, he constantly sought the approval and love of his father, which proved difficult considering his father’s short attention span to both his wives and his children. Nico was prone to throwing tantrums, especially when he noticed his younger siblings were being given attention, and was a bit of an attention seeker. It was during this period that his metamorphic abilities began to display themselves, having begun to change into his younger siblings whenever he felt ignored. When he grew out of this phase, he found himself acting out anyway, even if it was just to get his father’s attention. When he was nine, he had his first magical incident. He was riding a bike down a hill, not bothering with the brakes, and was ignoring his families yells at him to slow down. This proved nearly fatal when the bike went over a pothole. Nico went flying and should have been severely injured. However, his magic snapped into action, allowing him to bounce off the ground and remain unharmed. Though he was punished for his recklessness, he was quite proud and smug of the event, knowing that, like his family, he was a wizard and was going to go to Hogwarts.

At Hogwarts, Nico was popular and he loved it. He loved getting the attention and when his last name was Bostwick, it came naturally to him. He wasn’t bad at school, he was good in the more practical classes, excelled in DADA, charms, transfigurations. But theory? What a bore and when something didn’t interest him, he gave none of it his time or attention, thus he slacked in classes such as history of magic. In the summer after his second year, though, he was introduced to the arts. Having originally been open to the idea of his father’s company, taking it over, he soon lost interest to that dream when he began to create. Though his forte was both sculpture and glass, he wasn’t a stranger to the more mainstream areas of art, such as painting. He spent most of his time in a studio and though he was terrible at first, by the time he was fifteen, actually had some skill in the areas. Now in his fifth year, Nico isn’t ready to slow down. He was two short years away from being an adult and honestly? The world wasn’t ready for him. As of right now, Nico was just moving through Hogwarts, sleeping around, and living the life he deserved.

3) Write about your character's appearance. What do they look like? Are you planning on using a certain model for your character? If you already have a picture in mind, you can put it here!



4) Is your character a Pure-Blood, Half-Blood or Muggle-Born? Do you have any notable magical relations? (Remember, you cannot be related to important Harry Potter characters!)

Pureblood

5) Does your character have any special magical abilities? Or special abilities in general (photographic memory, etc.)? Is he or she of a different magical race, such as Veela, Vampire, Werewolf or the like? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have a character with special abilities/of a different magical race as one of your first two characters!)

Metamorphagus

6) What year is your character in?

5th year

OOC Questions

C. These do not affect what house you're sorted to, but everybody must answer them!

1) Is this your first character?


 * A. This is my first character.

''':B. No, this is not my first character.'''

2) If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic" (of a different magical race/have a special ability)?

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