Forum:Tai Andrada

NOTE: CURRENTLY AN ILVERMORNY STUDENT, BUT WILL ATTEND HOGWARTS NEXT YEAR

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.

Tai’s main major quality is he’s rebellious. If people have to do form A, he does form B. If there’s a form C, he throws away the form. It’s the way he’s learned to survive in the world since he was little, because he already understood from an early age that the world didn’t care. In terms of trust, he doesn’t have people to trust, although he does like and talk to people, especially those as troublesome as him. In terms of love, he’s not sure that’s real either. He’s never understood how people could have such amazing parents, and yet he ended up with the one woman who could hate a child from birth. His belief is that, most parents must be like that, it’s just the rest of the world is too afraid to break free.

Tai’s street senses are okay, but his academic senses never got to flourish as they should. That being said, he isn’t a terrible learner, he just hinders himself by refusing to learn unless he’s truly interested. That was part of his code- rebel unless you like it. With magic, he soon realized when he rebelled in the classes he cared about, or thought were halfway decent, he never had the fun he expected to have. He believes that the world doesn’t matter, that people don’t matter, so you should do whatever anyways.

He isn’t bad, so much as extra, and very very annoying. Most people at ilvermorny are just annoyed by him, they don't’ necessarily believe he’s evil. With the setting being more hospitable, he’s mellowed down from his window braking days, but still has trouble connecting. He might be too damaged to fix, or he might be someone worth saving. Despite his extraness and annoyingness, people have found his loud obnoxious style to also be somewhat charismatic, something he’s only picked up recently. Tai can get into a lot of trouble even without meaning to, so when he’s meaning to, he gets into twice the trouble.

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.

Demon. Devil. Satan.

Those were the words uttered by the priest overseeing Tai’s impromptu’s pop into the world in the middle of the church aisle.

Impromptu might be too strong. His mother, Liana, had planned to go to church to be for forgiveness for birthing the demon baby, or at least demon baby according to the priest.

Demonyo.

It should be known that tai in cebuano means sh-t. Liana gave birth to her evil little sh-t baby that she had no care for, but was too late and too religious to abort on a very fine sunday. As expected from all demon babies, he cried and threw things, all the while his mother cried and prayed.

The father? Oh right, the father. The whole demon baby thing began with the father. In the Philippines, where drug trafficking was strong pre-Duterte, Tai’s father was the big honcho, and everyone knew to be afraid of him. In fact, Liana was his wife- that is, until she ran away to the United States because she had been terrorized by him. It was there where she learned an unfortunate truth; she was pregnant. Everyone in the Filipino community knew who her former husband was, and they feared the child instantly.

This led to Tai’s terrible existence. People misunderstood that he was a bad kid. He wasn’t. Did he have a chip on his shoulder? Maybe. Was he energetic? Most kids are. People looked and saw what they already assumed.

By the time Tai was five, he already understood that his mother hated him. She’d always pray at him as a form of swearing, and shiver when he walked near. This led to many behavioral problems- when you’re faced with hatred and the attempt to “wash your sins”, your only options are to submit or rebel. And he rebelled hard. On top of that, it was no secret that he had really, realllyyyy bad luck. Preschool was an introduction to suspensions, where he broke windows and made kids cry, although 75% of the time he didn’t mean to, it was just bad luck. Elementary school made sure to label him the ADHD kid even though his mother refused to take him to get tested. All made sure he was the outsider, continuing this thought that maybe he was a demon like his father.

The day he cast magic was the day his mother lost all hope. Tai was about six, and his mother tried taking him to his first day in a private Catholic school. Tai squirmed against his mother, fighting until he cried “NO!” that’s when lightning struck the large cross in front of the school and made it burst into shards. With the kind of fear Liana had, she knew it was his doing. She did her best to leave him, but he followed behind. The drove in silence.

For the rest of Tai’s life, his mother avoided him. It was a wonder how he got to and from school every day. Of course, he acted out more to get her attention, and other instances of magic as part of those outbursts, but it was never enough. What he didn’t realize was, he had gotten her attention too much. He went to Juvie a few times for crimes he either didn’t commit or accidentally committed.

Liana cried tears of joy when Ilvermorny sent people to explain who Tai was. “Take him, you devils,” is all she’d say, feeling as if Satan had finally come to collect his son. They tried to tell her she would have to take him back during the summer, but she didn’t find out until it happened, and some people dropped him off at her door. It was easier to avoid him in the summer.

While fascinated internally, his external appearance was that of a wizard who literally couldn’t give a tai. He was a teacher’s worst nightmare, and only managed to pass- barely- year after year because of his impressive test taking luck. During his second year summer break, Tai accidentally ran over a kid while driving to the supermarket in a stolen vehicle, but managed to avoid serving time because the police didn’t read him his Miranda rights.

He is now a third year, at Hogwarts for the Triwizard, and still a seeming demon child. While at Hogwarts, he received a heartwarming letter from his mother letting him know she had moved, to not come back, and to not follow her with his devil ways.

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!



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!)

muggle born

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!)

no

6) What year is your character in?

third year thunderbird

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"?

Four characters, one exotic

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

Causing trouble.

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?

Tai wants to avoid all future jobs because they're boring.

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

Tai is motivated by doing whatever he wants because life is dumb and he doesn't feel like ending it early.

6) Where does your character's weaknesses lie?

Tai has many weaknesses, like his loud personality which pushes people away, and it all stems from his lack of love as a kid.

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


 * Dogwood - his life is a rollercoaster ride
 * Rougarou hair - because of some of the dark moments he's been through, and general genetics of a very evil muggle
 * 10 1/2 inches
 * Springy