Forum:Nikolai Dalton

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1) There are three paths. One leads to a wandering road, another to a lake, and one over a mountain. Which one?

A) None of them, I'm at home reading.

B) Lake

C) Mountain

D) Road

2) Which type of spell is most useful?

A) A Complex Spell

B) A Spell Of Control

C) A Combat Spell

D) A Healing Spell

3) How would you describe yourself?

A) Wise

B) Cunning

C) Hard-working

D) Loyal

4) Someone infuriates you in public. How do you react?

A) Shrug it off.

B) Tell them that they are worthless and to get a life, infuriate them, push them, and storm off.

C) Get up, look at them right in the eye, and walk away like it never happened.

D) They are just joking around.

5) What is most important to you?

A) Grades.

B) Getting your way.

C) Life.

D) Friends and family.

6) Give a description of your character's personality. Personality must be at least one paragraph long. 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!)

What if I stop being smart? Except I'm not even that smart. It's not like I'm the top of my class. There's no solid proof that I'm smart. Maths and Chemistry don't matter in Hogwarts. People only care about Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms and Potions. I don't like any of those things. No one cares about what I'm good at here. What if I was in another car crash? The probability is slim but what if I was? And what if something happened to my brain. I realize that nothing can happen to my brain without it resulting in my untimely death or me turning into a comatose vegetable, but what if, for some reason, I stop being smart. Would I still matter? Mom always told me 'Nikolai, you're a very brilliant boy and I love you.' but what if I stop being brilliant? Will people even bother with me anymore if I'm not special? Why do some people get born with photographic memory? Science has never found a single verifiable case of photographic memory. Does God just like them better? There's always going to be someone smarter than me to invent the things I want to invent and solve the problems I want to solve, so why do I exist? If I lose my 'intelligence', then what am I? Why can't I read minds? I mean, I know it's not an actual thing. Magic exists but apparently reading minds doesn't, I researched. There's no spell or no potion that can allow anyone to do such a thing. The number of positive real roots of a polynomial is bounded by the number of changes of sign in its coefficients. But life would be so much easier if I could read minds! I could understand when people are being sarcastic, or when they're just joking. When they're laughing at me or being mean or when they're genuinely complimenting me or when I'm annoying them. It's hard for me to relate to people. I never know what they're talking about and when I try talking about what I want to talk about, no one gets it so I have to stop. Needs Want of the many outweighs the want of the few, I guess. Which brings me to my next question... Do I really need people to like me? If I go down in history for changing the scientific world, and they print my face and name onto every textbook in the entire world, will it say 'Nikolai Dalton had many friends. They included...'? No. It'll say 'Nikolai Dalton invented the _____, which was a breakthrough for the field of ______." I can't study, sleep, and socialize. You can only pick two ends of the triangle and sacrifice the last. I need sleep to function, so it goes down to social life or studies. Studies is more important in the long run. My only goal in life is to have a theorem named after me. Not a rule, not a principle, not a theory, but a theorem. It sounds cooler than the rest. Who needs friends if you're smart, right? Right?

7) Write about the history of your character. History must be at least two paragraphs long. 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!)

"I was born on March 3 at exactly 3:00AM. Three's always been my favorite number now. Anyway, so mom and dad were always fighting and I was a smart kid so I saw the end soon. They divorced when I was seven, so I had this really fuzzy memory of what he was like for a very long time. "Mom was kinda overprotective and I never found it too overbearing even though my friends at school thought she was crazy. She was really strict, there was a clear set of rules, and if I wanted to do most things I'd have to ask for her permission. I was not allowed to watch TV while she was in the room because something inappropriate might come on. I was not allowed to eat candy or junk food – just stay healthy. I was not allowed to listen to popular music, only classical. I was not allowed to read books on my own until she was done reading them first, so by the time I got them there'd be paper taped over inappropriate parts. "You know what kind of books can't ever be inappropriate though? Textbooks. My grandfather on my mom's side was a Chemistry prof at uni and Mom still had a lot of his books and his syllabi lying around. I love Science and I love Math. There's just something pleasing about the fact that everything has a solution. It might irrational, it might be imaginary, but there will always be one. You just need to analyze the problem. And I love Science because it's this definite proof that we're all equal and that everyone is made up of the same stuff. We're like a giant lego set, except instead of lego, we're made up out of atoms and bits of DNA that trace back to the very first living thing on earth. There will always be a part of me connected to someone else. I will never be alone. "I found out I was magic at the age of nine and I really didn't want to believe it. There had to be some genetic defect that was causing me to act this way, but the accident where it happened was fun enough. I could make the Bunsen burner light up without it being connected to a source of gas, and I could control the flame and make it non-luminous even without opening the airhole. Plus, I could change the color of the flame without even having to do the flame test! Some man in robes came to my house to explain it to Mom, and she understood after extensive research. I got my letter to Hogwarts at the age eleven, like anyone else. I was sorted into _________ the moment the hat touched my head. "I didn't have a lot of friends at Hogwarts. I blame knowledge. They don't teach Maths in Hogwarts, and they don't teach Chemistry or Biology or Physics or any kind of Science. Come second year I started bringing books with me. I got a copy of my muggle friend's curriculum and printed it out and when we're not having classes, I study. "Mom died the summer after I turned thirteen. We were in the car together and someone tried running a red while Mom was driving and it hit us. I made it because it hit her side of the car. The probability of her survival was small but this was the one time I wanted the numbers to be wrong. Still, death is a part of life. It hurts but you have to deal with it. "Now, I live with my Dad. He has a new family now with this lady who's a witch like me, and her daughter who's magic too. Lilli, her daughter, is in my year but I had never made the connection. Dad's as cool as the Pythagorean theorem. During the first few days we didn't talk much then a while passed and he got me an entire plastic bag of candy. I had never tasted chocolate before. His wife, Anna, is cool too. Anna lets me sleep past nine-o-clock and watch TV. Actual TV. I don't have to wait for the DVD box set anymore. I've found that commercials aren't that bad like Mom said they were. Plus, Anna let me watch rated R movies without any adult around even if I was only (But I still miss Mom.) And my stepsister, well, we don't talk much – rather, she doesn't talk to me – but when I'm not around she smiles, proving that she's a proton like me. Maybe that's why we repel one another."

8) Write about your character's appearance. How 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!

Uriah Shelton.

9) Are you 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

10) 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 likes? Part or half of that magical race counts! (Remember, you cannot have an "exotic" characters as your first two characters!)

None.

11) What year is your character in?

Incoming fourth.

Any House You DO NOT Want to Be In? (No Promises, Sorry)

Any House You REALLY Want to Be In? (Sorry, Again, No Promises)

Ravenclaw or he might die of embarrassment.

Out of Character Questions (These do not affect which House you'll be sorted into)

1. How much time will you have to participate on this RP site? (This does not affect which House you'll be sorted into).


 * A) I have a lot of other responsibilities, and although I really want to be a part of this wiki, there may be days on end I won't be able to participate in anything.


 * B) Although I do have some other responsibilities, and there may be times I'll be absent, I should be able to participate on a weekly basis, around my other schedule.


 * C) I should be able to participate at least some every day.


 * D) I have loads of free time, and don't see participation to be a problem at all.

2. Is this your first character?


 * A) This is my first character


 * B) This is NOT my first character.

3. If your answer to the previous question is B, how many characters do you have? How many of them are "exotic"?

I have five. One exotic.

4. Please post your time zone in relation with the UTC time zone (ex. Eastern Standard Time is -4), but if you don't understand how to calculate that then please simply put the name of your time zone below.

UTC+8

Number of A's: 4

Number of B's:

Number of C's:

Number of D's: 1