Forum:Kaelan Jin

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.

Kaelan's a handful. That's the best way to put it. You can't sugar coat it either because he really is a handful. Consisting of questionable decisions and equally questionable motives, his lack of self-imposed limits only feeds his impulse and recklessness. He does pretty much everything on a whim with no self-control whatsoever. If he feels like skipping his classes that day, he's skipping his classes. If he feels like sneaking out in the middle of the night, he's sneaking out in the middle of the night. His motivations are usually short-lived, nonsensical, and never part of a bigger picture. He's not really a planning type of person after all, he just goes through life, taking whatever it throws at him in his stride. In some cases this is great because nothing catches him off guard and it's easy for him to pick himself back off the ground again, but more often than not, it results in him self-sabotaging himself.

You see, Kaelan is a master procrastinator, which is partly due to his nonexistent sense of urgency and partly due to his go-with-the-flow attitude. You'll often see him finishing multiple essays the night before they're due without breaking a sweat. What can he say? Bullshitting things are in his genes. His lack of urgency promotes him to do things last minute pretty much ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the time because he can't find a reason to do it earlier than that. Even in the face of danger, he's extremely relaxed, almost in the way that makes you concerned if he didn't deal with situations so easily. He's never been a person that gets easily stressed or anxious, in fact, stressful situations make him perform even better than most. He's probably addicted to adrenaline or something, so he likes putting himself in stressful and sometimes potentially dangerous situations.

Speaking of potentially dangerous situations, Kaelan lives for those. A daredevil at heart, he loves testing the boundaries of everything. Of course, he usually has people in his life from doing things too ridiculously stupid, but if they weren't there, he probably would've died by now. The truth is, Kaelan has no concern for his own safety whatsoever, and if we were to really get deep inside his head, he's apathetic towards his own life as well. He's centered on living the life the most exciting way he can, and if it means dying early from a stupid dare, so be it. He doesn't really see his own life as valuable and finds himself questioning his life among his friends and family when he often feels insignificant. As a result, he distracts himself with stupid shit, like dares. He doesn't back down to anything and under certain circumstances, he'll take anything as a challenge. He's not an incredibly competitive person but he does like a good competition.

For someone who seems so joyful and carefree, Kaelan's often bogged down by his own insecurities. Born in a family of six children, as the middle child especially, he's overlooked quite a bit, making him feel insignificant and irrelevant. He doesn't really believe he actually matters to anyone in his life, so in response, he's become something that doesn't matter to himself. Even though he does these crazy things so willingly, he's never proud of them and wishes he could just stop and be normal for once, but unfortunately, he feels like he has to do that. Despite feeling of little importance, he's deducted that even the unimportant have expectations, and his expectations are to be the stupid little daredevil that everyone knows him to be. He hates the own facade he's made of himself and has convinced himself that it's the only way to live. It's the only thing that he claims, makes him interesting or likable or even worth paying attention to.

Regardless of his own insecurities, Kaelan is generally a nice person. He's always a fan of new friends even if they're here for his facade and not him and doesn't turn people away often. He's been described to have a very open-minded and wild personality, so he attracts all types of people. He's highly adaptable to different mindsets and personas, so he can get along with a wide range of people from different walks of life. He's never been interested in purposely excluding people, though he may avoid people altogether at times if he needs some isolation to collect his bearings. Because he's seems to be constantly surrounded by people, he's kind of been labeled as popular even though he's mostly alone a good majority of the time, just obviously, no one sees it. He spends a lot of time in solitude, and when he feels like isolating himself, he makes himself unreachable. If he doesn't want to be found, he doesn't want to be found. In his solitude, he spends a lot of time indulging in his more mild interests like singing, dancing, and computer programming, the latter of which makes him feel like he has a grasp on himself for a least a small window of time.

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.

Jin Kyulkyung was a handful in his teenagers years. He was the boy your mom and dad feared when you told them you got a boyfriend. He was the acclaimed bad influence, disrespectful, reckless, and all around a bad apple. He went through both boyfriends and girlfriends like they were collectibles only to break up with them a week or two later. His academic achievements consisted of shitty papers written at three A.M. in the morning that somehow got him all the way through Mahoutokoro. Not with excellent marks, but got him through regardless. After graduation, he met his sweetheart, his one and only, and his hardest catch.

Song Yeonghui came from a pure-blood family of the elite of the South Korean magical society who were hellbent on making sure Yeonghui got married to a respectable pureblood like the rest of them. Jin Kyulkyung kinda had other plans. Sure, he was pure-blood as well and his family was loaded, but he definitely didn't fit the requirement of "respectable". In fact, he was anything but it. His parents had given up on getting him married, just hoped that he stayed in his countless flings instead of marrying a muggleborn or half-blood. Then Kyulkyung and Yeonghui met and it was like the Jins' prayers had been answered. When the two finally started dating, Kyulkyung's parents were the ones pushing the relationship forward while Yeonghui's were the ones trying to hold it back. Eventually, the two families came to an agreement and forced their children to get married.

It worked out because by then, Kyulkyung and Yeonghui were well in love, but everything was a little rushed. For one, two years after getting married, they had started popping out kids. First came a boy and then a girl and then another boy and then two girls and then another boy. You'd think they'd stop after six, but in the current day, Yeonghui is pregnant with triplets. Ouch. Pay attention to that second boy, that's Kyulsoo. By the time Kyulsoo was born, the family had moved to Britain due to Yeonghui's career ventures. Kyulkyung paid the rent through less formidable jobs but the two still worked together as a fairly decent team to make sure all of their kids were well fed and taken care of.

Kyulsoo, given the English name Kaelan at the age of one, was an unusually quiet child, a stark contrast from his present day persona. He didn't cry much when he as born, didn't smile as much as his siblings, didn't show a lot of things actually. One thing he did do was develop faster than the rest. He learned how to talk and walk quicker then the rest of his siblings but it really was a waste because he didn't talk much regardless and he spent much of his time hiding away instead of playing with his siblings. From an early age, Kaelan had always felt out of place. At some point, he tried to integrate himself into the dynamic of his siblings and feel more connected to his family but no matter how hard he tried, he always felt like he could never break through. He was never the center of his parents' attention and rarely got recognition from anyone else either. At family reunions, no one paid attention to him, and he was just as invisible in school as well.

He was eight when he decided he had to make himself more interesting for people to pay attention to him, so he turned to dangerous activities. His first magical sign actually gave him this idea. Their father had made them a treehouse in the backyard of their large home in the English countryside. The treehouse itself was also a little big, supported by three trees. It was big enough to have a room for each child, as well as a middle play area. In this treehouse, Kaelan spent a lot of time by himself because no one really played with him or made an effort to get him involved in whatever was being done. So, he sought to entertain himself by climbing out of the window of his treehouse and up the rest of the tree. One time, his little eight-year-old self climbed so high into the tree that he couldn't figure out how to get back down. So, logically, he saw the only way down was to fall. Don't get me wrong, Kaelan's bright, but his decision making skills definitely need work. He fell from the tree and luckily caught himself on a pile of mattress that had previously been a pile of leaves.

Even this little stunt didn't garner too much attention from his parents. They knew all their kids would likely be magical, so when they heard about it, there wasn't a reaction at all. So the pattern continued. Kaelan would do ridiculous things to get his parents' attention and would end up to little to no results. No matter how hard he tried, he'd get a little slap on the wrist and would be back doing whatever he could to make his parents react somehow. Finally, after he pulled a stunt a little too big the summer before his first year at Hogwarts, his mother snapped and sent him to a correctional facility. For two weeks. That's all. If anything, he came out worse than what he had been doing before. He would've gotten a lot worse too if he hadn't been scouted by Silencio Records. His parents, too concerned with the rest of their children, could barely spare a second thought about it, so before he could even get half the question out, they were already signing the papers and pushing him out the door into SR's hands.

Kaelan gathered a following of friends at Hogwarts, half of which encouraged his dangerous activities, and the other half of which was genuinely concerned about his mental health. Neither really talked to him on a level of normal human being though. He was always the cool kid who'd climb up the wall and hang from the hallway's chandelier if you asked him. Not a living, breathing human being with emotions and insecurities and a desire to be paid attention to and loved. He realized it sooner than later he was never going to get what he truly wanted, so he began settling for himself again. Playing the cool troublemaker in front of his "Friends" and his family, and stayed himself, his inferior, insecure self in his lonesome. It was when he was second year that he started becoming interested in computer science. With no one else around to either encourage or discourage him from this newfound hobby, he dedicated himself to it, teaching himself how to program with the help of the Internet and how to hack with... less formidable sources.

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 Lee Haejoon (Lee Rubin).

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.

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!)

N/A.

6) What year is your character in?

Upcoming fourth.

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?

Gryffindor possibly.

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.

15/4.


 * Rhianna Bangoura (animagi)
 * Alessio Salvacti-Romano (dhampir)
 * Nathaniel Selwyn (half-siren)
 * Kairos Vassiliou (metamorphmagus

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?