Forum:Dominic Wilshere

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:


 * A. Stars


 * B. 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.

Dominic Wilshere is virtually an embodiment of mitochondrial inheritance. Aside from the common knowledge that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, it is speculated to be related to intelligence at the chromosomal level. Turn his brain-power into energy and he can light the whole of London for weeks. It’s obvious that he’s the smartest and most logical child in the Wilshere siblings. Heck, he is smarter than the whole household combined. He outnumbers their brain cells ten to one. Raw talent is impressive enough but talent with eidetic memory? That's how people came to know him as a wonder child, a polymath, and a quick-witted genius that can easily outshine anyone who tries to best him. Thus, it’s no surprise that he is geared to become a cerebral gladiator. Everything concerning academics, whether mundane or not, is treated as a fight to the death. And no, that is not an exaggeration. Failure is no option to him. One-hundred percent is not enough. He'll slip into maximum overdrive to get a hundred and one. Shockingly, he doesn’t give a shit about competing with others. Not a living soul can surpass him but himself alone and everyone else can piss off. At least, that’s his life philosophy.

Dominic’s brain is comparable to that of a traveler lost in a never-ending expanse of the desert of ignorance. It’s constantly curious, constantly thirsting for oases of knowledge. He thinks that he’s an idiot even if nobody is telling him so. This mindset makes him abhor himself. He believes that he’s not supposed to learn something or anything or a lot of things. He’s supposed to learn everything. It’s as if knowledge is a physiological need that can kill him if he doesn’t satisfy it anytime soon. However, the downside of this "everything" is that it includes the lives of other people as well. That’s right. This smart-ass is also a nosy ass. The exposure to a large social community like Hogwarts piqued his interest to go beyond textbooks and read into what other people are up to--conversations, relationships, scandals, detention records, grades, school politics, you name it. If Erin has the shade, then Dominic has the tea. It’s not overt but his network is actually widespread yet only a select few know his identity for being the nucleus of gossip. He’s not fond of pressing his nose up to other people’s business all the time though. He admits it’s irritating because it distracts him from studying and other scholarly pursuits. Otherwise, his determination to get to the bottom of the story is unstoppable. He can also be quite convincing. Anyone who’s dumb enough to fall for his eloquence will unwittingly spill their secrets to him. Think of Dominic as the all-knowing yet devious Odin, sipping a cup of tea with Huginn and Munnin as newspaper boys. But instead of being god-like, he keeps a low-key profile which, when coupled with his cleverness, is a dangerous combination. Anything that he knows about you can be used against you. He will never spare any detail.

Regardless of his intellect and intrusiveness, he can still come off as frightening, at least to strangers. Unlike them, the Wilsheres are already accustomed to having a snoopy know-it-all in the household. So instead, they see more of his serious and uptight demeanor. A resting bitch face is practically the only expression that his face muscles can make. Happy? Resting bitch face. Sad? Resting bitch face. Angry? Yet another resting bitch face. If each family member were to be an item in the refrigerator, then he would be a block of ice in a separate cooler: frosty, frigid, and hard to break. His stiffness makes him a complete opposite of, well, all the Wilsheres. Any joke--particularly Cedric’s--that his hearing picks up is found dead in a ditch because he keeps on overanalyzing it, which inevitably kills the punchline. Likewise, getting Dominic to open up is no easy task, and family members are no exceptions. He hates talking about his feelings for the sole reason that he doesn’t know how to properly articulate them. Truth be told, years and years of being focused on the objective and rational workings of the world made him myopic to the exploration of the subjective which is his inner self, emotions and all. He’s cognizant of this problem yet it is either repressed frequently or sublimated into more productive activities, say studying and not failing subjects.

If that’s not serious enough, then wait ‘til you see Dominic make a fuss about rules. He’s strict about almost everything. He goes by the book, and anything outside it is deemed wrong. If you can’t follow shit, then he will call you out. If you can’t get your shit together, then he will call you out. He’s engrossed with the idea of boundaries and drawing lines. This is ironic because he likes prying into other people which is exactly butting into their boundaries. And when he said rules, he meant every single rule governing his life and it’s not just the study habits that disciplined him as a child. He has an obsession with putting standards on everything and that he has to satisfy these perfectly. Everything has to be exact and calculated, from every activity he does at every minute of every day (He keeps a mental timetable that he follows religiously.), to the smallest extra inch of his robes, or to how his dinner is arranged according to the color arrangement of visible spectrum from left to right. He feels as if everything within his control is chaotic. Thus, as a countermeasure, he will do whatever it takes to create and maintain order. Of course, his siblings are out of the question. He can never organize such a rowdy crowd without being dragged into their mess and has come to accept this "fortunate misfortune", as he fondly calls it.

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.

Never in a million years did the Wilshere family think they'd attract so much attention all over Europe for doing something they were so passionate about. Football, along with dueling, has been a part of them for as long as they can remember. Muggle-born matriarch Sienna Wilshere, née Hawkins, hails from a family closely involved with different European football teams, mostly based in the United Kingdom with several key exceptions. On the other hand, Atticus Wilshere is a magical native with a family that carries a long history in the arts of dueling. Expectations ran high for both of them ever since they were born; they needed to do this, be good at that. While Atticus' displays of magic, and consequent acceptance to Hogwarts, put him on the right track, it put Sienna at a disadvantage when compared to her brothers and one sister. Her family was understandably perturbed, and for the years between her manifestation of magic to her leaving for Hogwarts, it affected her training to join the professional leagues once she became of age. This left her embittered, resenting her immediate family for being a hinderance on her professional development. She likewise resented Hogwarts, magic, and wanted nothing to do with it; she purposely flunked on her classes and picked fights, hoping she'd be expelled and could return home to focus on her true passions. Unfortunately, her Headmaster at the time saw right through her, and instead of giving her what she so desperately sought, became an avid supporter. He offered her advice and encouraged her to pursue her dreams while also focusing on her studies; she could make lasting change if she was successful as a football prodigy and a Hogwarts student. Perhaps she could be the key to integrating muggle culture to the wizarding world.

Being so used to living in the limelight, it came as a surprise to Atticus when he realized the attention that would normally be spent on him was being allocated elsewhere: to a muggle-born Gryffindor that hoped to integrate muggle culture with wizarding culture. Hah. He could see her failure coming from a mile away. Detesting this lack of focus on him, he grew to detest Sienna, and often went out of his way to disrupt her peace, throw her off her game when practicing with other muggle-borns, and ensure she failed academically, whether it was by misplacing her books or stealing her assignments. He just knew he needed to get rid of her, he didn't care how. From here, their hateful relationship was born. It was based on pettiness, and from it, came many arguments and hex exchanges. It wasn't uncommon to find one or both of them in the Hospital Wing, nursing wounds delivered by the other. Students often encouraged this behavior, wanting to cause as much riveting drama as possible, whereas professors wanted to put an end to it. Collaborating with their parents, who hated the idea of their children focusing on anything other than their academic success and success in their respective athletic fields, the Potions professor at the time assigned them to be partners for the entirety of their third year. The goal was to get them to work together instead of against each other. They had brilliant minds. They'd be unstoppable, if only they stopped being at each other's throats long enough. During third year, another two things happened: spiteful Sienna made the dueling team, solely to get back at Atticus, and he founded a football club at Hogwarts to revel in the feeling of denying her entry to it. Things were definitely not getting better. Until they did.

Come the end of third year, the sharpness to their arguments and impromptu dueling sessions dulled out. Their competitive streak had dimmed considerably and become a more friendly affair. Where glares once war, confused and nervous glances remained. To anyone that wasn't them, it was clear there were newfound feelings they were struggling to cope with. And struggle they would, until their fifth year. Their friends were tired of seeing them skirt around each other and sleep with others to avoid dealing with how they felt. It was time they worked through their emotions, hence why they devised a plan to get them together: set them up on a blind date, and block off the exits to the restaurant. They'd get together by the end of that evening, yes or yes. Would it work? (It did.) In spite of what everyone thought, though, they weren't that cute power couple everyone suspected they would be. They were toxic. They detested their relationship, and it quickly became an on-and-off thing where talking about their emotions was taboo, they insulted each other constantly, relied on alcohol to drown out the other's voice, and stumbled into the arms of others. What they had was unhealthy, but it wouldn't be for seven months after their blind date that they called it quits - for good, they'd said. After their break up, they went their own ways, their friendship group fell apart, and nothing was ever the same. They both thrived in their own ways during seventh year. Atticus threw himself into dueling, having become captain for Slytherin, and quickly was scouted to play internationally as a UK representative. Sienna devoted herself to football, and ended up graduating already committed to a renowned muggle football club as a forward - the first female to ever play for them, they'd said, and probably the best player to grace their main roster. Take that, Wilshere.

They were both incredibly successful people who, throughout the years, had dated other people and made other friends. They were in each other's pasts, a constant reminder to always be careful with the people you fell into a romantic relationship with. However, this "reminder" went to shit the second they ran into one another at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor one hot summer day. They were instantly attracted to one another, unsurprisingly. They'd always had that fiery chemistry. They were understandably wary of reconnecting, let alone getting back together, but they took things slow. They'd matured significantly, and it showed. They were always communicating about how they felt, they were very respectful, they didn't make backhanded comments or sleep with other people, etc. Together, they made it through a lot: petty exes, disapproving parents, and judgmental fans being just some of these obstacles. At 25, they got engaged. At 27, they had an extravagant ceremony with a stunning reception and killer after-party. They didn't have kids immediately afterwards, though. They felt they still had more to give in their careers. Thus, it wasn't until they were 30 that they started thinking about kids and actually began trying to conceive. After many furniture christenings in several countries, they conceived their firstborn: a beautiful little girl named Erin. After her came Evan, Celeste, Cedric, Dominic, Zachary (Zack), Zeke, Briar, and Wyatt. Because it was one kid after the other in such a quick succession (truth be told, only Erin and Celeste were planned; the others were instances where they forgot to use protection), Sienna was forced to quit playing football, though she did continue to work by coaching professional teams, until she began going up the administrative latter. Nowadays, she's president of UEFA, while Atticus trains aspiring duelers/people struggling with magic, and coaches professionally.

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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 face claim is Bill Skarsgård.

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!)


 * Dominic is a 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!)


 * Dominic has a high degree of photographic memory.

6) What year is your character in?


 * Dominic is a seventh year repeater because he failed his N.E.W.T.s the first time around.

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?


 * Ravenclaw. His personality and special ability say it all.

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.


 * I have two characters and none of them are exotics.

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?