Forum:Maximus Carlisle

~ Thistle 02:31, March 26, 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. Strengths include ambition, resourcefulness, cunning, and his ability to be unpredictable in such a way that it throws anyone off their game.

Weaknesses include inability to trust, submissive behaviors, and an outlook that is absolutely miserable and downbeaten.

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 just really wants to escape the home he lives in. That's all, just wants to escape the hellhole and make his own way without fear.

3) What's their ideal way of spending a free day? Why so? Uhhh, free day? Maximus never gets a free day, being made to work and clean every day he's home.

4) If your character could only keep 5 possessions, what would they be? Why? 
 * 1) His Wand
 * 2) His trunk
 * 3) Small amount of survival equipment
 * 4) A small locket he's had since he was born, probably a gift from Amber.
 * 5) His very small book collection he's added to from the library.

5) What one thing would your character change about the wizarding society? Why? He wants to change the possibility of stopping abuse in the wizarding society.

6) What house does your character want to be in? What house does your character not want to be in? Why? Slytherin. Through and through. No other house is acceptable.

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!) Growing up in such an unstable household combining with his natural submissive behaviors brought by his spirit-nymph heritage, Maximus is a boy of secrets. He rarely likes to draw attention to himself, preferring to remain in the shadows and watch. He also hates having attention on himself, maybe something brought from his life in the abusive hellhole. Maximus tries to keep everything hidden inside and prefers to avoid having one-on-one conversations.

He uses his ambition and resourcefulness to draw attention off of himself, and tries to come up with ideas that could help the Serpents. Maximus is a guy of hidden talents, dangerous as the rising moon, and definitely a guy with walls as thick as three Great Walls up. He is a guy who tries to secretly support those he trusts, albeit those few that he trusts, but so far, no one has gotten him to break down those walls he spent fifteen years building.

However, if someone gets past his facade he puts up and holds for incredibly long times, they'll find a boy who's just trying to make his way out of the bad stuff that life has thrown at him. Maximus really just needs friends and people to encourage him, to listen to him, and to help him... However, his unwillingess to trust easily has reared its' ugly head with his years at Hogwarts, and he is still terrified of letting anyone know about the life he experiences when he's not at school.

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!) Stephen Carlisle is, well, a womanizing sex-driven machine. He spends his days and nights trying to seduce women in between bouts of drunkenness. One night, he managed to coax one incredibly stunning woman into his bed, and before anyone knew it, they were rocking the trailer hard. The next morning, Stephen woke up with a pounding hangover and found the bed empty of the stunning woman he had slept with the previous night. All that was left was a small note thanking him with a signed name: Amber Monroe. Amber was a full spirit-nymph through her ancestry, and was a frequent visitor in the Welsh club scene. However, all that changed when those two dreaded lines showed up on a pregnancy test two weeks later.

Nine months later, Maximus Blair William entered the world, and found himself dumped at Stephen's front door when he was barely three days old. Amber vanished after that, no one knowing where she went, and Maximus was unwillingly taken into Stephen's custody. The boy grew up in a seriously abusive household, being forced to take on the chores from the mere age of four years old. By the time he was five, he was cooking and burning himself on the stove. At the age of six, his magic appeared during a particularly nasty beating session, sending Stephen flying back into the kitchen and giving the boy enough time to run to his basement bedroom.

When he was ten, his spirit-nymph abilities appeared, and if he had thought his life before was hard... it only got worse. When he wasn't busy with chores or even if he was, Stephen hurt him even more than before. It got so bad that he escaped during the nights and vanished out to the local library to sneak in and steal books he could read when he was locked into his basement room. However, things soon changed when he received his Hogwarts letter. Stephen only got worse, and by that time, Maximus was looking forwards so much to see what Hogwarts could bring... Maybe they could get him out of the hellhole.

Sadly, it wouldn't be, and before he knew it, his first four years passed normally. It was school breaks and summertime that he returned with injuries left and right covering him, and he retreated into the darkness that was his solace for so long. Somehow, and he still doesn't know how this happened, but he ran into a few members of the group known as the Serpents. Over the months, Maximus got more involved with them, and soon, is now known as a member of their ranks, albeit he still has to go through the initiation. He has managed to keep everything quiet from the serpents, but he doubts how long that'll last, especially with the initiation he has to put up with.

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! Maximus is modeled by Hunter Parrish.

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!) Muggle-Born...? I think? No relations

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!) Half Spirit-Nymph by his mother.

6) What year is your character in? Fifth.

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)? 8/1?