Griffin King

1) Give a description of your character's personality. It must be at least two paragraphs long, seven sentences each.

As he’s grown in age, Griffin has become much more mature compared to his childhood days, and Hogwarts days for that matter. He stays out of the reach of trouble, nor does he often attend parties until he’s drank himself sick. In each job he’s worked for, he had taken it seriously and made it priority. His ambitions usually, nowadays, revolve around his work life and making the best decisions, career path relating. Friends and coworkers may call Griffin a workaholic with how much energy he’s willing to put into to it, which is true, and this trait can also have a negative aspect. He can often look pass friends and family or his personal well-being by making his job the most important thing. It’s even also been a tribute to a few ruined relationships, him not making time for others because of work.

Griffin has always been naturally very intelligent. He was that annoying kid in school who never studied but somehow always managed to get a passable grade. On many occasions, he’d come into class terribly hungover, yet would still get an okay grade on the pop quiz. In fact, even his OWLs and NEWT scores were decent for how much he had missed from skipping class and not doing homework ever. Griffin has also always had a taste for knowledge, and will go the extra mile to research topics he finds interesting. Usually relating to history, though, as that has always been his favorite subject. Whether having to be muggle or wizard-related, he’s always enjoyed learning about the different events that have shaped into what is today.

Griffin King is the perfect example of the middle ground between an extrovert and introvert. He enjoys being in the company of friends and talking with others, but also needs a balance and getting to stay home by himself sometimes, too. A friend from Hogwarts may have called him charismatic and outgoing while a coworker from the old school he worked at may use the word loner. Now? Well, it really just depends on the day. He’s always preferred working with kids more than adults, honestly, and is very happy with his teaching profession because of this. He’s also quite independent, and has been most of his life. He preferred solo projects over group ones, and would either take leadership role or just even be the person who did the entire thing himself when having to work in a pair or more. Which he never minded in the least, especially since he’s also a perfectionist and liked things done the way he wanted them anyway.

Griffin likes tradition. His opinion is: the less change, the better and easier for him. This doesn’t count when it comes to political topics like blood status, sexuality, race, etc. Actually, he’s a big activist on equal rights for muggles and wizards. Though, his dislike of change is more so in the sense of a fear of switching up his regular routine... or trying out a new product or brand rather than keeping with the one he always bought... or even taking the risk of moving to a different country to be close with family and also be able to refresh and restart. Taking risks - even if they’re really small - is difficult for Griffin and he rather just keep to what he likes and knows well. This can lead him into regret, after not taking great opportunities because of his fears. Perhaps he was a little more bold and adventuress as a child and teen, but lost that sense a while back and it’s been difficult to try and find it again.

2) Write about the history of your character. How did they grow up? Is there an incident that made them the way they are? It must be at least three paragraphs long, seven sentences each.

Perhaps Heidi Redding and Sebastian King could have had a more idyllic love story. In spite of the peculiar events that led to them meeting and falling in love, Heidi and Sebastian did have a fairytale romance. They weren't the kind of duo you'd expect to fall in love - an Australian fashion designer and an English paleontologist - but they worked in ways even the universe couldn't begin to fathom. They were together for many years, but friends for longer. It was that way they knew they truly belonged together. On and off and on again, the perceived instability of their relationship only came to an end when they married. It was a grand event, with high profile citizens attending from Heidi's behalf, and a pantheon of the all-time legendary scientists who collaborated with Sebastian in some of his biggest projects, that which propelled him to minute fame within his profession and inevitably sent him to Australia, where all these events transpired.

It was from their marriage that came several children. For the longest time, they yearned for a daughter; someone Heidi could confide with all the family secrets, the recipes for fashion, the ways of the Reddings - a family notoriously feminine. Instead of this, though, they had a wave of blue: Griffin was their first, three years after their marriage ceremony, and a year later was followed by twin brothers Joey and Michael King. It wasn't until years after their twin boys, in face of marital problems and a lot of issues to conceive another child, that they had their first daughter, whom they decided to name _____. For the time being, they were content with the family they had, but their wishes for another child - another girl - would inevitably make a prompt arrival. It just didn't happen until several years later, though these desires were sated quicker than the first time, taking the form of a tragedy: Heidi's sister, Addison, had passed away, taking her husband and two sons with her in that horrible car crash. Her daughter Freya was the only one to survive.

Only then did they realize they weren't at a point they could comfortably raise a baby. Freya was just four when she moved in with her godparents, too young to understand what was going on yet too old to fully fill that gap in Heidi and Sebastian's hearts. Whatever gap she didn't fill in their hearts, she certainly filled in their hands and their time. Freya was a firecracker, and it wasn't until they realized this that they decided they were better off as a family of 7 - Freya included, of course. It was at that point the paleontologist took a step back from his responsibilities to his career, as little as he liked the fact, and became much more hands-on - Heidi had always been the main source of income, however, so it wasn't like they struggled following his decision. The Kings had reached a point where all they wanted to do was restrengthen their familial bonds, so that's exactly what they did; sure, they ended up with two dogs and a cat, but it was all worth it. For the first time in what could be considered as ever, they felt content with the place they were in.

Griffin King was the first born of all his siblings, yet he never fit into that responsible oldest sibling role throughout most of his childhood and teen years. As a toddler, he was a chaotic little thing that always kept his parents on their toes. He’d always found a way to make his father worried, whether it was by running off alone to go ‘explore’ for hours or how he always somehow managed to ruin or break every item he touched. Griffin’s first ever magical experience was, in fact, the result of one of his crazy acts. He was six, and decided to run away from his house and explore with a small backpack and compass only, sneaking away from his parents sight as he was so skilled at doing. It wasn’t until an hour later of following the north arrow of his compass that Griffin had realized he hadn’t had a clue where he was and where to find his parents. He almost began to panic even before the arrow on his compass began to spin and point to the direction of where his house was. He followed it and managed to safely get back, only to find his parents scared half to death and even with the police.

When Griffin started Hogwarts at the age of eleven, he was, surprisingly to most, sorted into Slytherin. Many believed he’d fit into Gryffindor more, but he still had qualities that made his selected house understandable. Throughout his earlier years in school, Griffin was one of those kids that the teachers either loved or hated. He was naturally intelligent and talented in magic, but was also known to be the class clown and always goofing around. Despite often making jokes in class, he almost never got into big trouble. Maybe a snap or two from the teacher, but he didn’t lead himself anything worse enough to take him to the headmaster’s office. If things had stuck to the way they were in Griffin’s first fourth years, perhaps he would look back at his time in Hogwarts more positively. Yet, it wasn’t all that easy. It started off with hanging out with the wrong friend group in fifth year. He had a girlfriend at the time, in which her friends became his friends, and when the two broke up, the friends stuck. He went to parties with them that lasted all night, where they drank and drank and drank. Being so hungover and tired the next day, he found himself skipping classes, not doing homework, and flunking quizzes. By the time OWLs came around, he did much poorer on them than anyone who truly knew the smart wizard had expected. He was lucky to scrape by seventh year without having to repeat it, but almost felt better if he had. Upon graduating, he hadn’t had a clue of what he wanted to do for a living.

After Hogwarts, Griffin decided to go back to Australia to be close with his family again, in which he would enroll into a muggle college there. He still parties ever so often, but still managed to put his grades as priority. In the middle of his second year, Griffin would meet Zara Elliott. The two shared a class, and quickly took a liking into each other when meeting. They began dating not long after and continued their relationship all through the rest of school. After graduating college, the two moved into a cheap apartment together, paying the rent from their new jobs as a history teacher in a muggle school and working at the local gallery. Griffin had decided to follow into the path of teaching because, as he’s gotten older, he figured out that he was decent with kids and wanted to work with them full-time.

Griffin would say he loved Zara dearly, even when and after they broke up. Though, he was also the one that ended the relationship at twenty-six. There was multiple reasons for the split, one being that Griffin wanted to settle down and have kids one day while Zara didn’t want to have none of that ever. As well as the fact, the two weren’t truly as happy as they were back in college. That was largely Griffin’s fault, becoming largely focused in his work rather than his girlfriend. The break up wasn’t anything dramatic; they were upset - as most would be after dating a person for six years - but not with each other.

After the break up, Griffin dived head first into making work his sole priority. He was a hard worker and always wanted best for his students, which was a positive aspect that many of his fellow employees praised him on, but it also left him into not making time for others. He rarely made time to hang out with friends, nor even his family. Although he loved teaching, that being his only priority left him unhappy. Though, he didn’t try to change any of it until he turned twenty-eight. Griffin wasn’t good at all when it came to change, but he realized he needed a refresh for his own well-being. So he packed his bags and traveled all the way back to England, where his brothers now lived, with plans to stay... at least for a bit.