Forum:Alistaire Bulstrode-Prewett

The Sorting Quiz

A. Select the option that best fits your character. (Remember, this part is a requirement for every character you make! Please italicize the answer.)

1. What are you looking forward to learning at Hogwarts the most?


 * A. Transfiguration


 * B. Magical Creatures


 * C. Hexes & Jinxes


 * D. The castle's secret areas

2. Pick one:


 * B. Stars


 * A. Moon

3. If flowers adapted their scent to attract the unwary, what would it smell of in order to lure you in?


 * A. Parchment


 * B. Freshly baked bread


 * C. A crackling log fire


 * D. The Sea

4. Pick one:


 * A. Dawn


 * B. Dusk

'''5. Four boxes are placed before you. Which one do you open?'''


 * A. The ornate one, promising secret knowledge and unbearable temptation


 * B. The small, tortoiseshell box, embellished in gold, with a small, squeaking creature


 * C. The small, pewter box that reads "I only open for the worthy"


 * D. The gleaming black box marked with Merlin's rune

6. Pick one:


 * A. White


 * B. Black

7. What road tempts you the most?


 * A. The cobbled street lined with ancient buildings


 * B. The wide, sunny, grassy lane


 * C. The twisting, leaf-strewn path through woods


 * D. The narrow, dark, lantern-lit alley

8. Pick one:


 * A. Forest


 * B. River

9. What scares you most?


 * A. Speaking in such a silly voice, people will laugh at you and mock you


 * B. Waking up and realizing your family & friends don't know you


 * C. An eye at the keyhole of the dark, windowless room where you're locked


 * D. Standing on top of something high, without anything to stop you from falling

'''10. It's late, you're walking alone, and hear a peculiar cry you believe has a magical source. What do you do?'''


 * A. Wait for developments, while mentally reviewing the most appropriate spells


 * B. Draw your wand & stand your ground


 * C. Draw your wand & search for the source


 * D. Proceed with caution, keep a hand on the concealed wand, and keep an eye out

The Character's Background

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

The Bulstrode-Prewett twins, much like Yin and Yang, share many stark contrasts from each other despite typically acting almost exactly alike. For one, Alistaire is much more reckless than his twin sister. He's the less practical of the two who does whatever he wants whenever the hell he feels like it. Couple that with his pyromania? You can easily size up what type of person he is. Don't mistake his recklessness for stupidity though. He's highly aware of everything he does and is a product of pure genius. Really, both of them are too intelligent for their own damn good. Almost nothing gets past him, and if you find yourself relieved because he hasn't called you out on your bluff? Don't. He's likely to use it against you later.

As well as intelligent, Alistaire is very resourceful as well as maliciously ambitious. His ambition typically is the forefront for a good majority of his decisions. Save for his sister, he's also incredibly selfish and would put anyone under the bus without a second thought or even the slightest amount of guilt (Okay, maybe a little guilt). Sabotage is a hobby and ruining lives is his career. What he gets paid in? Amusement and the misfortune of others, oh and his own satisfaction now that they're no longer obstacles. Some may even go as far as to call him a psychopath because it really looks like he couldn't produce an ounce of empathy or sympathy if he tried. In fact, his most commonly worn expression is a resting bitch face. Yeah, he looks pissed at everything but it's not like he's going to debunk that he's pissed at everything.

While Alistaire's favorite activity may be to sabotage other people, he's usually a victim of his own self-sabotage. He constantly hinders himself with his own emotional weight, refusing to get help for anything. He's persistent in his belief that he doesn't need other people, other people need him, and he'd rather die than accept someone else's help. A good majority of it is due to his immense pride, which is exemplified by the fact that he was raised in a pureblood family with a strong anti-muggle sentiment. The other part of it is he's afraid to let anyone see him vulnerable and doesn't trust people to see that side of him. Besides, if you show someone all your weaknesses, you're pretty much asking them to hurt you, are you not? He's grown to have a strong distrust of anyone who's not his immediate family, especially if they're not his sister.

Alistaire's inhumanly good at hiding his emotions as well as reading emotions. The only person who can read him as well as he can read other people is Annie. He's a highly adaptable person in the way that he can change his facade whenever he needs to, to mask his true opinions or feelings. He doesn't do it to please people the way his sister does; he does it to avoid confronting people which would, in turn, face him to confront his own emotions. It's just a matter of the fact that he's not emotionally stable enough to be able to healthily deal with his own emotions, so he doesn't. Sometimes with a potion, sometimes with a spell, he often forces himself into a state of apathy which is where most of his recklessness spawns from. If he's apathetic towards everything, nothing can affect him. The thing he doesn't know is that in turn by forcing his brain to take on a certain disposition to avoid his problems, he's only making it worse, as well as creating a build-up of water locked feelings that are slowly turning in a monstrous version of the depression he's already trying to fight.

Fire is truly fascinating in the way that it doesn't care who's in its way. It goes wherever it wants, does whatever it wants, burns whatever it wants without hesitance. Perhaps that's why Alistaire is so obsessed with it. He finds it as one of the most beautiful things in life, and could easily be entertained by watching a fire burn just as much as he could be by watching a television show. Alistaire's pyromania allows him the one outlet he has to sort things out in his head. Sure, it's a highly self-destructive tendency (emphasis on the destructive), but he doesn't care. Maybe that's why he shares the patronus of a Phoenix with her sister. Their love of fire and his lack of concern. Both are highly independent figures who despite often being seen as joined by the hip, could easily live without the other even if they don't want to. He's stubborn and self-sustaining like a phoenix. Why not have it represent him? This is also why he and his sister share not on a magically animated phoenix tattoo on their forearms, but have it carved into their wands.

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.

No one really knows how Mercutio Prewett and Johanna Bulstrode got together, they just heard about their wedding when they were invited, showed up, had a good time, and went home. In fact, no one really knows anything about Mercutio Prewett and Johanna Bulstrode, and no one knows anything about their children. Or at least, their rumored children. You see Mercutio and Johanna met under highly unconventional means. And when I saw highly unconventional, I say they met inside a cult. They'd known each other since childhood since they'd both grown up in this cult. The cult itself was made entirely of purebloods who believed if they worshiped this obscure magical object, muggle blood wouldn't tarnish their lines down the road.

The two emerged from the cult, married, with an extremely warped view of normal society. They originally left the cult because of an accent that killed one of the priests, but as they began living a normal life, they found themselves never having the desire to go back. Mercutio and Johanna weren't in love per se, but they believed highly in continuing their lines, thinking of it as their duty, so they married. They tolerated each other well enough but Johanna was a highly independent figure, and the two clashed often. For one, Johanna refused to fully take Mercutio's name, so when they married, they became Mr. and Mrs. Bulstrode-Prewett. For another thing, Johanna wanted more than two kids but Mercutio only wanted one. Too bad they ended up with twins.

Alistaire and Antoniette came as complete surprises to their parents. They hadn't planned for pregnancy at all and had to prepare to keep themselves together long enough so that their kids grew up in a stable environment, something that they didn't have. As both were half-Korean, their kids were half-Korean as well, and it was extremely obvious when they born. While both were highly out of touch with their Korean heritage, they decided to make somewhat of an effort, giving the twins Korean middle names along with their other three names.

Alistaire grew up with his twin sister, Antoinette by his side. Often addressed as Ali and Annie when together, the few friends they had often teased them for being inseparable, but the two didn't really mind. They seemed to have a special type of bond that just couldn't be broken no matter what. Honestly, it was like one mind was sharing two bodies at some point just because of how in tune they are with each other's feelings. In fact, Alistaire's first magical sign happened when he came to his sister's rescue. When he was plagued with a bad feeling for about an hour, the six-year-old finally took things into his own hands and ran into the woods where he found his twin sister being carried away by strangers. Enraged, a fire seemed to have suddenly appeared out of nowhere, surprising the abductors who dropped Annie and allowed her to escape.

The two watched the abductors burn for a couple of minutes. That's where their fascination with fire began. At first, it was playing with the lighter in the kitchen when their parents were too busy to pay attention to them. Then it extended to lighting log fires in their backyard. Before you knew it, the two were seeking out abandoned buildings to explore before burning down for their own amusement. They made a game with it. They'd find the middle of the building, and create a trail of gasoline wherever they went. Then, they'd light it up and cover their eyes with blindfolds and see how quickly they could escape using their other senses. It was an extremely dangerous game, especially because the two were only twelve and in their first year of Hogwarts when they made it up. It was miracle they hadn't died yet, really.

Remember those abductors from earlier? Oh yeah, they're back. And they're back with a vengence. Turns out they're members from the cult mentioned earlier and they've tracked down Mercutio and Johanna, and as sacrifices, they're going to burn their children to appease the spirits. The thing is, the whole family is quite observant, and seeing discreetly dressed men and women stalking the streets at weird intervals in the day would set off immediate red flags. So, they decided to play a different route. They decided to kidnap the twins during the school year.

It took two years to pull it off with extreme planning as well as the eventual gain of both the twins trust. One of the abductors was digusied as a teacher while another one was a student a year older of them who'd they eventually saw as a role model and trusted friend. They found about the twins' pyromania and used it as strategy to lour them away from the grounds where they could easily surround and overwhelm the two without a fight.

No one knows what exactly happened the three years the twins disappeared, but when they came back in sixth year, they were completely different people. For one, Alistaire had seeminly lost all of his charming personality. He had become apathetic to everything and didn't bother to make effort with anything anymore. It was rumored he had contracted depression but no could ever get close enough to him to really verify their theories. Annie, on the other hand, had become the exact opposite. She worried about everything and aimed to please everyone to distract them from the obvious: the both of them had completely fallen apart.

The following year, their parents died of highly mysterious causes. The twins, now seventeen, had already taken the claims for property and inherited all their parents' properities, including a giant cliffisde manor, millions in galleons, and a pesky problem with the media. Needless to say, the twins weren't interested in speaking about their parents' death or their disappearances whatsoever. In fact, when their parents had been alive, even they hadn't spoken about their children's disappearances. Almost as if they had been in on it.

Well, they had. The cult took sure steps to threaten the parents if they even dared to call the authorities. They even showed them pictures of their tied up children, screaming and trying to escape. After bouts of hopelessness and years of silence, the parents finally snapped and secretly told a minsitry official. This set the domino effect in place that eventually freed their children but also cost their lives. You see, instead of sacrificing the twins as planned, the cult, for some reason, protected the twins as best as possible. It was later understood that the twins were supposed "vessels" for their worshipped spirits and it was important to keep them in the best condition.

You'd think it wouldn't be as bad, considering they'd be the best treated members of the whole cult. However, the two suffered much psychological torture and brainwashing, day after day, for three whole years. And after enduring that for three years, its no wonder the two returned extremely out of it.

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!

His model is Kim Taehyung.

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 characters from the Harry Potter Universe!)

Pure-blood. He's related to both the Bulstrodes and Prewetts of the Sacred 28.

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

None.

6) What year is your character in?

Seventh.

7) The Sorting Hat has been known to take house preference into consideration. If your character could select one house they believe they are best suited for, what would it be and why?

He's literally the most stereotypical Slytherin in existence. I don't see why not to put him in Slytherin.

OOC Questions

B. Whilst the first two questions will not affect the character's house (and are mandatory), the others are designed specifically to help users come up with their character's ideal job (and are optional).

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"? If you do have exotic characters, please list both the name and the type of exotic. Remember you are only allowed one of each type with the exception of nymphs.

15 Active, 5 Semi-Active, 3 Exotic.


 * Rhianna Bangoura (animagi)
 * Ailene Griffith (legilimens)
 * Alessio Salvatci-Romano (dhampir)

3) What would people who know your character well say they're really good at?

4) What do they really want to avoid in their future job/career? Do they hate working in an office? Do they hate the field?

5) Aside from family and peers, what motivates your character the most in life? What drives their passion?

6) Where does your character's weaknesses lie?

7) Wand cores and woods speak volumes about a person's character. What is your character's wand? Why does it answer to them?