Forum:Reginald Lancaster

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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.

Reginald is as complex as any adopted child can be expected to be. He's extroverted by nature - his light nymph heritage makes sure of that - but the events of his childhood have made him wary of attachment, and of rejection. As such he is very good at making himself likeable, but also very good at keeping his friendships surface-level. He has very few people who he really trusts, and the majority of them are his family members. That trust was hard-won, though: think about it. If the first people you trusted left you at age six, how willing would you be to trust others? The innate insecurities that come with a childhood like Reggie's mean that even though he tries to keep people at bay, he's also very clingy. It's not unusual for him to find one person he likes and declare his undying love for them, though it's rare that people take him seriously. That's the thing about Reggie: he's so dramatic that nobody really believes the stuff he comes out with. Often he'll come home, collapse onto the sofa and loudly declare he's in love with a girl from his Charms class and will just be met with a "good for you". However, he's also been known to overreact to trivial situations, though that's mostly just taken as part of being Reggie. He likes to be the centre of attention, after all - he doesn't ever want to feel forgotten again. Reggie is incredibly loyal to people he feels a connection with. And by that I don't mean his surface-level friends, I mean his family. He'd probably jump off a cliff if Izzy did, for example. That's another thing about Reggie - he doesn't think about consequences, usually. He doesn't take a lot of convincing in most situations, and this means he's both disregarding of others (because he doesn't think things through) and incredibly self-sacrificing. What would his friends describe him as? Stupid. If there's something he deems necessary, he'll do it - the devil works hard but Reginald Lancaster works harder.

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.

Long before the word entered a stage of regression, Dorian Lancaster fell in love with Dean Cantrell. It was a short-lived summer romance between a tourist and a local, over before it even began. Dean was from the Colonies, and his parents were nothing short of homophobic. Then you had Dorian, who was given anything and everything he wanted except the liberty to love who he wanted. Perhaps that's why he was so enthralled by Dean, even after he left for America - he embodied everything Dorian wanted but could never have. Dorian and Dean didn't exchange a word until long after they graduated. It was an encounter by chance, when they were both on vacation in Greece. They were close by all means, but nobody realized the extent of it until a year later, when Dorian introduced his now boyfriend to his parents. It was a dark day for him, and he ended up homeless and left out of his father's will. Ironically enough, it went drastically better for Dean, hence why it was a no-brainer that he move to the United States with his boyfriend. Come another year, and the duo were to be wed. Yet another, and they were well on their way to having their first child with the aid of a donor and a surrogate. By no means was it easy to bring Isabelle Celeste Lancaster into the world. Finding a donor was hard enough, let alone someone who was willing to carry their child to term. They were lucky to find Karina Porter when they did, more than eager to contribute where she could. Furthermore, her carrying their firstborn snowballed into her becoming the maternal figure in her life. Karina was there with Isabelle and later Chandler, Reggie, Piper, and Jonah. Their life was hectic, but there was no other way they'd rather live it. Dorian was able to become an American citizen while retaining his UK citizenship, whilst Dean went on to join the Marine Corps. Now, Reginald Lancaster has not always been Reginald Lancaster. He was, in fact, born in Kerala, India, to two unmarried teenage muggles (well, I say muggle. Really his dad was a light nymph, but that's details). Reggie was actually one of a set of triplets: Vidya, Priya, and Amar (that's Reggie). So, how did he end up halfway across the world, with a different name, minus two sisters and plus two distinctly white parents? Well, that's easy enough to answer. With their mother freaking out about her pregnancy, it's a miracle she even carried the triplets to term. Of course, their father refused to take responsibility for his mistake, as so many teenage fathers are apt to do. So Vidya, Priya and Amar were raised mostly by their grandparents for the first few years of their life. The triplets' family didn't really have a lot of money, so their first few years were characterised by hunger (you try feeding six people on the salary of just one teacher), their grandparents' love, and Kalaripayattu lessons from their grandfather, who taught the martial art. It wasn't much, but it was enough for Amar - even if his mother was more interested in all the young men she could date than in her own children. It was this fixation of hers that finally brought Amar's life crashing down around him, when she finally married one of her many boyfriends. Problem was, she'd neglected to tell him about her three children, and when they moved in together he was not pleased with their existence, or their penchant for generating bright lights in the middle of the night, to put it kindly. Reggie still hasn't forgotten how absolutely terrified he was that night, when the new boyfriend told his mother to get rid of them. He honestly thought he meant murder them or something. That's how, aged six, the triplets ended up in a run-down orphanage in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Miles from their grandparents in Kochi, who were possibly the only ones who could have gotten them out together. The orphanage itself, despite being pretty run-down, was one that was often visited by foreign couples looking for an Indian orphan to adopt into their family. Problem was, they really didn't care about keeping siblings together, and girls were oh so popular. Vidya and Priya were whisked away to Australia and Germany respectively, and Amar was left alone in the world. It remained this way for a few months, until the head of the orphanage received a call from an American couple, the Lancasters, who wanted to adopt. They'd heard about the orphanage through a charity that Dorian's café had tried to raise money for, and decided they'd be the perfect home for a potentially fragile child. The orphanage thought it was a perfect time to get rid of the boy who had a proclivity for breaking things without touching them, so they packed him and his single stuffed elephant off to America to meet his new family. The first few months with the Lancasters was... difficult. Amar, now renamed Reginald, was far from the best behaved child normally, but in a strange country surrounded by weird-looking people where everyone spoke a language he'd never really taken to in his lessons? Reggie was not having it. He refused to speak for a solid 6 months, tried his very hardest to not eat (but in the end he always gave up. Sweets are the way to any small child's heart, after all) and just generally tried to make enough trouble that they'd send him home. But it never happened - his new dads enforced their rules, but they were still patient with him, even introducing him to a Keralite-American family with kids around his age who sometimes came in to the café. It took a while, but eventually Reggie embraced his new life with the Lancasters (though privately he still calls himself Amar). Once he finally started to show an interest in his adoptive siblings, he pretty much attached himself to one or more of them at all times. Reggie absolutely detested being alone, but his siblings didn't seem to mind too much. Life started to run more smoothly, with the only bumps in the road being when Izzy, Chandler, and then Reggie himself went to Ilvermorny. Ilvermorny was difficult at first, as Reggie was not dealing with being separated from his family very well. However, within a few weeks he'd managed to make friends with almost everyone he'd met in his house, Thunderbird, and he settled in well enough. The next few years, he thrived at school, getting decent grades and making a multitude of close friends. Recently, a change happened within the family. Dean had served for over 20 years in the Army - long enough that he could retire with pension. Now able to live comfortably, he made the ultimate decision to retire and move with Dorian back to the UK. Dorian had the opportunity to reconnect with his parents after two decades and a half, and he wanted to take them up on it. How could he not? So the whole family uprooted, and for his sixth year Reggie's been relocated to Hogwarts. He just hopes he fits in as well as he did at Ilvermorny.

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!

Suraj Sharma

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!)

Muggleborn??? I think anyway, might come under half 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!)

Half Light Nymph

6) What year is your character in?

Sixth

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"?

8 characters, 1 exotic.

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

Making friends? Maybe healing magic, too. It's in his blood.

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?

He doesn't want to work in an office. Merlin, that sounds boring. He has way too much energy for that - he needs something high-stakes.

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

He wants to help. Everyone and everything.

6) Where does your character's weaknesses lie?

He's ridiculously insecure.

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

Willow: it's adept at healing magic, and selects those with great potential rather than those with little to learn. And hell, does he have a lot to learn. Dittany Stalks: this is an odd wand core, and labelled inferior by some wandmakers, just like Reggie is by half the world. It's also very gifted at healing magic, which is kind of Reggie's strong point.