Forum:Lachlan MacLeod

-aste riea 15:54, May 31, 2018 (UTC)

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. He's talented at a lot of performance arts: acting, music, dancing, you name it. He's also super confident, and a loyal friend. On the other hand, Lachlan is insecure, attention-seeking and has an explosive temper, which obviously isn't too good.

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? Lachlan's main goal is to have friends, but he also has big dreams to become an actor. He's wanted to go to WADA ever since he first heard about it but he knows he'll never have the funds to make that happen, so he's fine with just attending Hogwarts. After all, Celestina Warbeck went to Hogwarts and she became even more famous than the WADA graduates in the same field. Why can't he?

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so? Having a movie night or going to the cinema with a big group of friends, then later on camping outside with said big group of friends. Preferably in the forbidden forest with a bonfire and some marshmallows. (and alcohol, but he hasn't discovered that yet) 

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why? His wand: magic is very important to him because it gives an explanation for all the weird things he can do. His phone: he only just discovered Witchagram but it's already his life. His name tag: he (usually) wears this so that people can tell who he is because reintroducing himself over and over gets old quite quickly. Watch: it's only about 20 years old and it's undoubtedly cheap, but it's also the only thing his father left behind when he ran off.

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why? He doesn't know much about it yet but in the future it'll probably be something to do with stopping blood supremacy since he was raised a muggle.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why? He honestly doesn't care

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!) 'Lachlan doesn't know who he wants to be, so he's everyone else instead. What can he say? He's a born actor, and natural talent has to be expressed''. He's very melodramatic, which is probably a side-effect from his acting, and he sometimes embellishes things. A lot. He lives for gossip, and knows a lot about everyone, mostly because he eavesdrops a lot (what? if you're having a conversation in public, it's fair game). While Lachlan's traits seem to change depending on whoever he wants to be that day, the core of his personality remains the same. He's mostly motivated by attention - all attention is good attention - and his main wish in life is to have friends who will actually stick by him. A leftover from his childhood, however, is the assumption that this isn't going to happen, so while he'll overshare to the max one day, the next he'll be distant (well, as distant as someone like Lachlan can get).   He also has an explosive temper, refuses to apologise for his actions, and often doesn't see the point of thinking before he acts. This rashness is something he might grow out of, but it's unlikely: it's a defense mechanism, and he's seen his mother use it enough to good effect, therefore he deems it acceptable. Needless to say, Lachlan has a worldview that needs some serious questioning.  Overall, Lachlan comes across as confident and a bit of an asshole, but he's actually very insecure about his identity. He'll flirt with half the people he meets, only to stand them up the next day, or he'll blow up at the slightest insult one day, only to cry about it in the boys' toilets the next. He's maybe not the most stable of teenagers.'''

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!) Mairi MacNeil was thrilled when she received her Hogwarts letter. She was muggleborn, you see, and her world had previously been confined to the little Outer Hebridean island she'd grown up on: the Isle of Eriskay, population 143. She thought it would be an adventure, a way to get away from her boring little island with its outdated customs and dying language.  '''Hogwarts, though beautiful and full of the magic Mairi had been so looking forward to, also brought with it a whole new kind of challenge: bullies. Pure-bloods who called her mudblood, muggleborns who mocked her thick accent. Mairi's teenage perspective put this down to the biggest new thing in her life - magic - and she started to develop a severe aversion to everything to do with the wizarding world. She dropped out at the end of fifth year, returned to Eriskay, and carried on life as a muggle. Enter Iain MacLeod of Skye. Handsome, worldly (he came from the Isle of Skye, near the mainland) and blessedly muggle. The two were married within a year of meeting one another, and soon after that came their son, Lachlan MacLeod. The family was happy enough for a time on their remote little island. Iain worked as a crofter, Mairi running one of the few guesthouses on the island - tourists were rare, not unwelcome - and Lachlan attended the local Gaelic-language school, where he made a great many friends. When Lachlan was six, a pretty blonde mainlander called Caitrìona Maguire came to teach at his primary school. The next parents' evening, only his father could make it. He hit it off with Caitrìona immediately, and bored of his island lifestyle already, he left with her for the mainland as soon as the school year ended, and immediately filed for a divorce from Mairi. Needless to say, Lachlan's mother was devastated. Having been left behind with just his mother for company, Lachlan noticed a great deal of changes in her personality. She stopped going to work, began drinking heavily, and started sleeping a lot. Lachlan went from being the centre of his parents' world to being ignored, and this was when his metamorphmagus abilities began to manifest: his father had been a wizard too, you see, but had kept it from his 'muggle' mother. The metamorphmagus ability ran in that side of the family. Regardless, Lachlan began to change who he was every day, trying to get something out of his mother: surprise, maybe. Even hatred would have been a relief. But he got nothing out of her except the occasional confused blink. It was a few years before Mairi changed again. One day the nine-year-old Lachlan came home from school and went through his usual routine of clean the house, walk the dog, cook dinner and sit with his mother until she ate it, changing his appearance over and over to try to get a reaction. Well, that day he did. All Mairi's hatred of magic and of anything that reminded her of Iain (read: Lachlan) came out in full force, and she lashed out and screamed at him to get out and never come back. Lachlan slept in the garden that night - thank god it was summer and the temperature bearable - and returned the next morning to yet another silent household. Life has continued like this ever since. Mairi improved slowly over the two years between her first outburst, to the point where she remembered more often than not to make dinner for herself - never Lachlan, though - and go to the shops to restock the cupboards. Generally Lachlan was ignored, though he came to prefer this to her fairly frequent screaming (and occasionally hitting) episodes. He just sought attention elsewhere, becoming the neighbourhood darling and joining a drama group on South Uist, another island nearby. He didn't bother telling his mother when an owl came through the window with a letter for him, or when a wizard he met on South Uist took him to Diagon Alley and bought him his books for school, or when he left for Hogwarts. He doubts she'll notice.'''

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! Levi Miller

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!) Half-Blood

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!) Metamorphmagus

6) What year is your character in? Will be first year next term.

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.

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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)? 5, 1 exotic