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Application: Ashton Krum
ashton_krum for rearranged_mods.
THE PLAYER
Name: Karen
Age: 21
EMAIL: monkeyscuffle@hotmail.com
AIM: hissilentheart
TIME ZONE: central-us
RPG Experience: 10+ years, at least half of those in HP, past applications and RPGs involved in can be tracked inalienmice, and my applications are sorted here for easier browsing (the memories aren't completed yet, though).
THE CHARACTER
FULL NAME: Ashton Hertz Krum
BIRTHDAY: 31 January 2008 (2030)
AGE: 21, a little over a month away from 22
BLOODLINE: Pure, something he can't help but feel a little swell of pride in, even though he can't really wrap his mind around how blood can make him better than other people.
ALUMNI: Although the Sorting Hat wavered for a long time between Ravenclaw and Slytherin, it eventually settled on Slytherin, telling him that there he would find the people who could help him accomplish and learn all that he wished to.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Wiltshire, England
CURRENT RESIDENCE: a flat in South Kensington in London that's less than 500 metres from Hyde Park (including a large L shaped living room with access to a patio area, a kitchen, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms, one en suite.)
OCCUPATION: Before the disease, Ashton worked at a music company as one of the executive managers and had just been working with a new band -- he hopes that now they can pick up where they left off, but at the same time he's not really worried about it. After all, in the face of everything that's going on, why would people not want music?
BOGGART: Although his boggart isn't always the same, the most frequent thing Ashton sees when he looks at one is a crazed monkey with bloodshot eyes intent on killing him. He doesn't really ever see serious things like death in his boggart because it's a reality he knows is going to happen at some point. Everyone dies: it's a fact of life.
PATRONUS: an Occamy, an Indian/Far Eastern creature with a winged, plumed body that resembles a snake with two legs that reached up to fifteen feet in length. He isn't sure why his patronus forms as an Occamy, but he would guess it's because of its odd, yet beautiful appearance. (occamy on HPL)
WAND: Ash, 9 3/4 inches, slice of Graphon hide (graphorn on HPL), supple and swishy
PET: Crup (resembles a Jack Russell terrier, only they have a forked tail; extremely loyal to wizards and ferocious toward muggles) named Mei (Latin for "great one").
ASTOLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
PERSONALITY: Always having been the oddball of the family, Ashton was more often than not getting into trouble when he was a little kid -- not necessarily because he was extremely mischievous, but because he was curious about absolutely everything. He's the kind of person who can hear a loud bang in another side of the house and will walk through the dark to find out what had happened with barely a hint of wariness. He's also somewhat absentminded and often forgets things he's supposed to do, whether that be going to the store to buy food, meeting his mother for lunch, or going to sleep at night -- he also has a bad habit of being a bit of an insomniac (he's lucky if he gets to sleep before the sky starts getting light and usually has to wake up a mere three hours later for work).
Upon first meeting him, most people would probably think he's a normal, outgoing, and friendly sort of guy (if in a cheeky, silly sort of way), although after spending a bit of time with him would probably realise that he tends to hold back some of his personality at first meeting. Ashton is extremely wild, loud, and in-your-face crazy and is not the person someone would want to go to when they were bored; although he could probably come up with something to do in less than a minute, it's never anything...well, that a sane person would want to do. When he was at Hogwarts, he was fond of pulling people to the tower and handing them a sheet that he swears will save them from any harm when they reach the ground -- and when nobody wanted to try it, he had to be restrained from attempting it himself. (Of course, there were always spells on it, but they were experimental as...well, they were his spells.) It wasn't that he had a death wish, he has just always wanted to try new things and test his spells.
The one thing that he enjoys the most in life is experimenting, and he has almost always had a certain knack for spellwork, even though when he was at Hogwarts he tended to perform on a level that most of his professors deemed subpar to what he could do. Everything came easily to him, though, and he had no interest in reading textbooks and pointlessly memorising facts he wouldn't ever need. Rather than face boredom in going through the tedious motions of completing assignments, Ashton slacked off and focused on the things that really interested him -- that is, inventing his own spells. Privately, he would call himself a modern spellmaker, because he abandoned the age-old tradition of using Latin words and attempted to discover the power in more modern words. In order to do that, he studied a mixture of different languages and started combining them together with a mixture of different emphases on syllables to attempt to find out what would happen -- and since he was busy making only average grades in his classes, finding the time to study other things was no problem.
Emotions are tough for Ashton, as he has never really been able to comprehend or understand them. Although he's been sexually involved with girls, he has never had a real, solid intimate relationship with anyone and it's something he would like to be able to experience at some point, but isn't completely sure if it's something he's cut out for. After so many relationships that crashed and burned due to his inability to form a deep attachment (he's heard "I just don't know who you are" and "do you feel anything?" and "if you cared about me as much as you do your spells, I wouldn't be dumping you" more times than he cares to count), Ashton has more or less given up on the hope that he'll find someone he will actually be able to get close to. He still hopes for it, but there is a very large part of him that doubts it will ever happen.
Another thing that can be somewhat annoying about Ashton is his inability to be serious -- he likes the carefree and happy moments in life, and he would rather stay that way as long as possible. There really isn't anything that bothers him or that makes him sad -- he wasn't even too bothered by being shut up in his flat for so long. It gave him lots of time to work on all of his crazy ideas. He is also very disorganised and doesn't seem to understand the concepts of a dustbin, washing clothes, cleaning the dishes, and that the little spaces under his bed and in his closet aren't for cramming junk. Unsurprisingly, after the quarantine, Ashton's flat was a complete and utter mess. Before the outbreak, though, Ashton had hired a maid to come in and clean his place every other day -- if he hadn't, his flat would have very quickly resembled a waste dump.
While most of the time he acts outgoing and crazy and wild around people, Ashton can also be extremely brooding and quiet (especially when he's trying to figure out what's going wrong with the spell he's currently working on). Another quality most people don't see in him is his desire to be invaluable to his friends and the people he loves forever so that they'll never want to get rid of him. He's gone to extraordinary lengths to keep people's interest in him before, by being extremely silly, dumbly cute, annoyingly attentive, or whatever else he can think of at the moment to make someone laugh, smile, shake their head fondly at him, or any other reaction that he considers to be favourable.
PARENTS: Viktor and Adela (née Cosmin) Krum
THEIR RELATIONSHIP: Ashton really doesn't know much about his parents relationship -- as far as he knows, they're sick lovepuppies still holding hands and whispering gooey words of affection to each other (even though they may not). Most of the time he tends to be off in his own world and can't be bothered to really pay attention to his parents, but if he did, he might notice their marriage was as rocky as any and that they argued more than they made gooey gestures of romance to each other.
SIBLINGS: An older sister, Viktoria, and an older brother, Viktor (with matching names; sometimes Ashton jokes that his parents screwed up when they named him Ashton instead of something like Vikter or something like that).
FAMILY DYNAMICS: Ashton is the youngest, and does a fairly decent job at it: he's always getting into trouble and usually doesn't understand the social consequences of his actions. He also has the endearing little brother act down pat -- he knows how to give the puppy dog eyes when he isn't getting what he wants (usually to his sister when his mother won't give in to them) and when he was little somehow knew that giving hugs randomly tugged at people's heartstrings. He is stuck between idolising his older his older siblings and wanting to question everything they do, although when something happens and he doesn't know what he should do, they're always the people he turns to for guidance.
PERSONAL HISTORY: Growing up, Ashton was always the sort of kid who got into trouble constantly -- the nightmare toddler parents always bemoaned because of how he never seemed to learn to keep his hands out of things. Although sometimes he liked to follow his older siblings around, a good percentage of the time he was off on his own -- most likely getting into some kind of trouble. To help keep his hands and mind occupied, his parents decided to get him a musical tutor who taught him to play first the piano and then, when he realised it bored Ashton easily because he had to sit down constantly, the guitar. Because Ashton wasn't naturally musically inclined, it took a lot of time and practice to get him to learn anything -- and a lot of convincing Ashton himself that he needed to learn it, because his natural reaction to something he couldn't do well from the beginning was to abandon it for something else.
Once finally at Hogwarts, Ashton was sorted into Slytherin and made several friends while at the same time managing to get into as much trouble there as he had at home. He didn't exactly make the best impression on his professors, either, because he was always either trying to use class for nap time or was doing something other than the work they had assigned him. He did pay attention to them -- as long as they were saying something he found interesting, anyway, but as soon as his interest faded, his attention vanished.
After he left Hogwarts, Ashton decided to go for a job that had been recommended to him -- working as a manager for wizarding Britain's finest music company. His credentials were that he had a musical background, so he understood what went into music and he knew bits and pieces of several languages, something that would be handy if he ever took a band to a country that predominantly spoke one of the languages he knew a bit of (he wouldn't call himself proficient in any other than English, though, and actually, he doesn't even consider himself proficient at English). He is fairly well known for having worked with some of the (newer) big acts, although most recently he has taken up a new band whose popularity had, thankfully, not had a chance to really rise before the outbreak -- so that he can introduce them as "rising from the turmoil" rather than an almost-but-not-quite made-it band.
APPEARANCE: With dark, curly brown hair, Ashton is boyishly cute in a mischievous kind of way. His hazel eyes always seem to be changing colours, but it's due to the fact that his clothing colours can dramatically change one day to the next, bringing out specific colours in his eyes -- sometimes brown, sometimes blue, and others green. Although by far not short, Ashton also isn't extremely tall -- he reaches 5'11", just an inch away from the masculine 6'. He has a slender build, never having really procured a lot of muscle mass (probably due to the fact that he isn't keen on weight-lifting).
As far as clothing goes, Ashton tends to buy outfits that someone else matches for him and always keeps them together so he knows that he'll always be wearing something that works. He's not really the most fashionable bloke, and he wouldn't be able to tell the difference between one shirt and another (he has no eye for seeing what looks more flattering on himself and would never be the type of guy a girl would want to take shopping with her because he would never be able to say what looked better), but he does take rather good care of himself. He makes sure to wear cologne, deodorant, and always showers before he has to go somewhere in public -- proper hygiene is something that he was somehow taught to use, even if his natural inclination was to not care. He also has a tattoo of a baby dragon breaking out of its egg on his back right shoulderblade and had plans to get another, but he hadn't decided what he wanted before the infection broke out and it has now been put on an indefinite hold.
PB: Hugh Dancy (picture example for character database page here)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: As far as experience goes, he's straight, and he'll be the first to say he finds the female body more attractive than a male's, and he hasn't ever really found himself admiring the physical aspects of another guy, but he might try it at some point just for the sake of having tried it. At the moment, though, he's perfectly content with girls and with the marriage decree isn't thinking of anything other than them.
TURN-ONS: nice smiles, brown hair, brown eyes, cute girls, boobs, intelligence, good sense of humour, love of new experiences, passion, an ability to have fun, anyone who isn't turned off by him
TURN-OFFS: shallowness, lack of opinion, ignorance
PERSONAL GOALS: Ashton doesn't really have any longterm goals, although he really wouldn't mind being an inventor for spells or charms or potions or anything rather than working in an office. He also wouldn't mind having a child or children, although he's not sure how great of a father he would make.
THE ROLE
First person roleplaying sample: I'm really glad the quarantine is finally over. There's only so much that can be done when you're shut up in your flat, and I was really getting a bad craving for some real food that hadn't been burnt. Why couldn't I have been trapped with someone who knows how to cook? That would have definitely made things easier. One more can of burnt beans and I would probably have strangled myself. How come I can cook every day for myself and after all that time still manage to burn everything? I think I just have a bad touch.
Not really sure what to think of the marriage decree, though. Sure, making babies is necessary for the survival of the human race, but I can only imagine what kind of drama is going to happen when people get pushed together. You don't have to be married to spawn kids, you know. It would probably be easier on everyone if they forced insiminated pregnancies and allowed everyone to continue living the way they want. ...I'm not really sure how I'm going to handle being married. Not that it's an unpleasing or disturbing thought, but I can't even handle a simple school relationship for more than a month. How in the world am I going to make a marriage last nine months or however long they're supposed to?
Oh well. Guess I'll just have to wait and see. I really have no idea who I'd like to have as a partner, so I guess I'll just wait and see who I get paired off with. Unless there's anyone who's willing? Hahaha. Whoever thought, back in Hogwarts, that we'd be sitting around discussing who wants to pair off to have babies together? Quite ironic and hilarious, really.
Third person roleplaying sample: When the news arrived via owl post that he was to turn on the radio and listen to a broadcast, Ashton was sitting at his desk, wearing the same shirt and pants he had been for the past week, his hair disheveled for not having brushed it since the previous...well, he couldn't actually remember the last time he had brushed his hair. His shirt was wrinkled from sleeping in it, his pants stained by the coffee he had dropped on them earlier that morning, and his face was more than a little stubbly from the lack of a motive to shave. Overall, he looked the part of a guy who had no reason to make himself presentable -- and he didn't. Why should he pretty himself up when there was nobody around to impress?
He had been working on the same spell (he was trying to figure out how to make foods cook perfectly without having a prior knowledge of how long they should cook -- something he was having no success with) when the actual broadcast started. Because he was so caught up in what he had been doing, Ashton didn't actually start listening until he heard something about procreating. Arching his eyebrows, he stopped what he was doing (which resulted in a spark being cast across the room by his wand, although luckily that was the extent of the damage) and turned toward the radio which had been on since he had read the letter earlier that morning, just in case he forgot what time it was and missed the broadcast. His thoughtfulness was more a result of his wondering what could be so important to say now after a lengthy silence than it was an actual desire to hear what officials had to say. Ashton hadn't ever really cared for what they ministry had to say about anything -- it was in his nature to rebel against authority.
The announcement was probably about what had happened and why they had all been locked up, but he hadn't been prepared for them to have already decided on new regulations to meet the demands of a post-disaster population. He definitely hadn't been expecting for them to require people to pair off and start having babies -- although the idea of pairing off wasn't unpleasant at all (after a month with only his right hand for company, he definitely didn't mind the idea of a little female company), he wasn't sure about getting married and making babies. Not that he didn't want to have kids and get married to a cute girl, he just hadn't been planning on it happening anytime soon -- even though he wasn't the typical image of a bachelor afraid of being tied down, Ashton definitely had some commitment issues he didn't want to face for a while. But getting married now...at the young age he was? That definitely hadn't figured into anything he had ever thought about the future.
He didn't even know any girls that he immediately would want to get married to -- or any that he knew would want to hitch up with him. Of course, he couldn't really remember any other than a couple of exes and friends, but he couldn't see anyone who knew him really well wanting to marry him. He knew he was a slob, after all, and...maybe he would just sit back and let the ministry choose for him -- after all, they thought they could do everything else, so why not let them suddenly control their personal lives as well? Bristling, he stood up and walked over to the radio, which was repeating the announcement for anyone who might have tuned in late. "Such bollocks," he muttered, shaking his head. Maybe he would try to find a wife. "Could always put out a personal ad," he added with amusement to himself before deciding maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea -- providing the papers were still running.
Plot Ideas/Pairings/etc...: Someone interesting? His muse is interested in the ad idea he had in his sample post, but I think he would just as likely end up being paired off by the ministry. Maybe someone he would either have a lot of chemistry with or none at all -- someone he wouldn't get along with or who wouldn't get along with him or who has nothing in common with him. I'm open to anything -- it could be a girl he used to date (which I think would be interesting) or it could even be someone who has romantic plans to be with someone they're not going to be married to. Any plot would be good for me!
Additional Information:
FAVOURITE BOOK:porn err...he doesn't really enjoy many books.
FAVOURITE MUSIC: rock and roll and anything that has a good beat to dance to.
FAVOURITE COLOUR: blue
FAVOURITE FLAVOUR: ketchup
FAVOURITE FOOD: at this point, anything that wasn't made by him
FAVOURITE PLACE: anywhere he can be surrounded by people
FAVOURITE ANIMAL: ostrich, which he has joked about wanting to keep as a pet
DISLIKED BOOK: most of them
DISLIKED MUSIC: he hasn't disliked any music he's heard so far
DISLIKED COLOUR: grey-grey and all other boring, quiet colours
DISLIKED FLAVOUR: burnt.
DISLIKED FOOD: ravioli
DISLIKED PLACE: small spaces like closets, only like cells with steel walls where he doesn't have anything to do except sit around -- not that he's ever been in a place like that, it's just a fear he has.
DISLIKED ANIMAL: at this point, he hasn't interacted with any that he had a disliking toward, but it's possible he'll develope one later.
What is the object in his bedroom that he loves? the solar system model he built and hung on his ceiling and then charmed to move in the same rotations as the actual planets and stars are moving.
What object is in the hall closet that he never uses but don't want to part with? A book he was given as a gift by perhaps a family member or an ex-girlfriend that he doesn't have any desire to read but won't get rid of.
What was the happiest day of his life? He can't really say, because he isn't sure what makes one day better than another and none really stand out in his mind as particularly memorable.
What even made a lasting impression on him? suffering through music lessons when he was younger, which taught him dedication to something even when it seems impossible.
What is his favorite saying? Live and let live.
What is his favorite hobby? spellwork.
What is his major regret? Maybe not working harder to make relationships work -- either with his family or his ex girlfriends.
What will be his deathbed advice to others? Do what makes you happy.
What's one place he always wanted to go? Outerspace. Or Australia or California.
Who is the biggest influence on him? Maybe his older siblings.
What one thing has he always wanted to learn but never has? Maybe how to ski or surf.
What is the craziest thing he has ever done? Probably the time he tried to climb out a third floor window of Hogwarts and down to another window on the floor below.
What's one thing he has always wanted but doesn't have? Peace of mind.
Who does he envy? His dog.
ashton_krum for rearranged_mods.THE PLAYER
Name: Karen
Age: 21
EMAIL: monkeyscuffle@hotmail.com
AIM: hissilentheart
TIME ZONE: central-us
RPG Experience: 10+ years, at least half of those in HP, past applications and RPGs involved in can be tracked in
alienmice, and my applications are sorted here for easier browsing (the memories aren't completed yet, though).THE CHARACTER
FULL NAME: Ashton Hertz Krum
BIRTHDAY: 31 January 2008 (2030)
AGE: 21, a little over a month away from 22
BLOODLINE: Pure, something he can't help but feel a little swell of pride in, even though he can't really wrap his mind around how blood can make him better than other people.
ALUMNI: Although the Sorting Hat wavered for a long time between Ravenclaw and Slytherin, it eventually settled on Slytherin, telling him that there he would find the people who could help him accomplish and learn all that he wished to.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Wiltshire, England
CURRENT RESIDENCE: a flat in South Kensington in London that's less than 500 metres from Hyde Park (including a large L shaped living room with access to a patio area, a kitchen, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms, one en suite.)
OCCUPATION: Before the disease, Ashton worked at a music company as one of the executive managers and had just been working with a new band -- he hopes that now they can pick up where they left off, but at the same time he's not really worried about it. After all, in the face of everything that's going on, why would people not want music?
BOGGART: Although his boggart isn't always the same, the most frequent thing Ashton sees when he looks at one is a crazed monkey with bloodshot eyes intent on killing him. He doesn't really ever see serious things like death in his boggart because it's a reality he knows is going to happen at some point. Everyone dies: it's a fact of life.
PATRONUS: an Occamy, an Indian/Far Eastern creature with a winged, plumed body that resembles a snake with two legs that reached up to fifteen feet in length. He isn't sure why his patronus forms as an Occamy, but he would guess it's because of its odd, yet beautiful appearance. (occamy on HPL)
WAND: Ash, 9 3/4 inches, slice of Graphon hide (graphorn on HPL), supple and swishy
PET: Crup (resembles a Jack Russell terrier, only they have a forked tail; extremely loyal to wizards and ferocious toward muggles) named Mei (Latin for "great one").
ASTOLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
PERSONALITY: Always having been the oddball of the family, Ashton was more often than not getting into trouble when he was a little kid -- not necessarily because he was extremely mischievous, but because he was curious about absolutely everything. He's the kind of person who can hear a loud bang in another side of the house and will walk through the dark to find out what had happened with barely a hint of wariness. He's also somewhat absentminded and often forgets things he's supposed to do, whether that be going to the store to buy food, meeting his mother for lunch, or going to sleep at night -- he also has a bad habit of being a bit of an insomniac (he's lucky if he gets to sleep before the sky starts getting light and usually has to wake up a mere three hours later for work).
Upon first meeting him, most people would probably think he's a normal, outgoing, and friendly sort of guy (if in a cheeky, silly sort of way), although after spending a bit of time with him would probably realise that he tends to hold back some of his personality at first meeting. Ashton is extremely wild, loud, and in-your-face crazy and is not the person someone would want to go to when they were bored; although he could probably come up with something to do in less than a minute, it's never anything...well, that a sane person would want to do. When he was at Hogwarts, he was fond of pulling people to the tower and handing them a sheet that he swears will save them from any harm when they reach the ground -- and when nobody wanted to try it, he had to be restrained from attempting it himself. (Of course, there were always spells on it, but they were experimental as...well, they were his spells.) It wasn't that he had a death wish, he has just always wanted to try new things and test his spells.
The one thing that he enjoys the most in life is experimenting, and he has almost always had a certain knack for spellwork, even though when he was at Hogwarts he tended to perform on a level that most of his professors deemed subpar to what he could do. Everything came easily to him, though, and he had no interest in reading textbooks and pointlessly memorising facts he wouldn't ever need. Rather than face boredom in going through the tedious motions of completing assignments, Ashton slacked off and focused on the things that really interested him -- that is, inventing his own spells. Privately, he would call himself a modern spellmaker, because he abandoned the age-old tradition of using Latin words and attempted to discover the power in more modern words. In order to do that, he studied a mixture of different languages and started combining them together with a mixture of different emphases on syllables to attempt to find out what would happen -- and since he was busy making only average grades in his classes, finding the time to study other things was no problem.
Emotions are tough for Ashton, as he has never really been able to comprehend or understand them. Although he's been sexually involved with girls, he has never had a real, solid intimate relationship with anyone and it's something he would like to be able to experience at some point, but isn't completely sure if it's something he's cut out for. After so many relationships that crashed and burned due to his inability to form a deep attachment (he's heard "I just don't know who you are" and "do you feel anything?" and "if you cared about me as much as you do your spells, I wouldn't be dumping you" more times than he cares to count), Ashton has more or less given up on the hope that he'll find someone he will actually be able to get close to. He still hopes for it, but there is a very large part of him that doubts it will ever happen.
Another thing that can be somewhat annoying about Ashton is his inability to be serious -- he likes the carefree and happy moments in life, and he would rather stay that way as long as possible. There really isn't anything that bothers him or that makes him sad -- he wasn't even too bothered by being shut up in his flat for so long. It gave him lots of time to work on all of his crazy ideas. He is also very disorganised and doesn't seem to understand the concepts of a dustbin, washing clothes, cleaning the dishes, and that the little spaces under his bed and in his closet aren't for cramming junk. Unsurprisingly, after the quarantine, Ashton's flat was a complete and utter mess. Before the outbreak, though, Ashton had hired a maid to come in and clean his place every other day -- if he hadn't, his flat would have very quickly resembled a waste dump.
While most of the time he acts outgoing and crazy and wild around people, Ashton can also be extremely brooding and quiet (especially when he's trying to figure out what's going wrong with the spell he's currently working on). Another quality most people don't see in him is his desire to be invaluable to his friends and the people he loves forever so that they'll never want to get rid of him. He's gone to extraordinary lengths to keep people's interest in him before, by being extremely silly, dumbly cute, annoyingly attentive, or whatever else he can think of at the moment to make someone laugh, smile, shake their head fondly at him, or any other reaction that he considers to be favourable.
PARENTS: Viktor and Adela (née Cosmin) Krum
THEIR RELATIONSHIP: Ashton really doesn't know much about his parents relationship -- as far as he knows, they're sick lovepuppies still holding hands and whispering gooey words of affection to each other (even though they may not). Most of the time he tends to be off in his own world and can't be bothered to really pay attention to his parents, but if he did, he might notice their marriage was as rocky as any and that they argued more than they made gooey gestures of romance to each other.
SIBLINGS: An older sister, Viktoria, and an older brother, Viktor (with matching names; sometimes Ashton jokes that his parents screwed up when they named him Ashton instead of something like Vikter or something like that).
FAMILY DYNAMICS: Ashton is the youngest, and does a fairly decent job at it: he's always getting into trouble and usually doesn't understand the social consequences of his actions. He also has the endearing little brother act down pat -- he knows how to give the puppy dog eyes when he isn't getting what he wants (usually to his sister when his mother won't give in to them) and when he was little somehow knew that giving hugs randomly tugged at people's heartstrings. He is stuck between idolising his older his older siblings and wanting to question everything they do, although when something happens and he doesn't know what he should do, they're always the people he turns to for guidance.
PERSONAL HISTORY: Growing up, Ashton was always the sort of kid who got into trouble constantly -- the nightmare toddler parents always bemoaned because of how he never seemed to learn to keep his hands out of things. Although sometimes he liked to follow his older siblings around, a good percentage of the time he was off on his own -- most likely getting into some kind of trouble. To help keep his hands and mind occupied, his parents decided to get him a musical tutor who taught him to play first the piano and then, when he realised it bored Ashton easily because he had to sit down constantly, the guitar. Because Ashton wasn't naturally musically inclined, it took a lot of time and practice to get him to learn anything -- and a lot of convincing Ashton himself that he needed to learn it, because his natural reaction to something he couldn't do well from the beginning was to abandon it for something else.
Once finally at Hogwarts, Ashton was sorted into Slytherin and made several friends while at the same time managing to get into as much trouble there as he had at home. He didn't exactly make the best impression on his professors, either, because he was always either trying to use class for nap time or was doing something other than the work they had assigned him. He did pay attention to them -- as long as they were saying something he found interesting, anyway, but as soon as his interest faded, his attention vanished.
After he left Hogwarts, Ashton decided to go for a job that had been recommended to him -- working as a manager for wizarding Britain's finest music company. His credentials were that he had a musical background, so he understood what went into music and he knew bits and pieces of several languages, something that would be handy if he ever took a band to a country that predominantly spoke one of the languages he knew a bit of (he wouldn't call himself proficient in any other than English, though, and actually, he doesn't even consider himself proficient at English). He is fairly well known for having worked with some of the (newer) big acts, although most recently he has taken up a new band whose popularity had, thankfully, not had a chance to really rise before the outbreak -- so that he can introduce them as "rising from the turmoil" rather than an almost-but-not-quite made-it band.
APPEARANCE: With dark, curly brown hair, Ashton is boyishly cute in a mischievous kind of way. His hazel eyes always seem to be changing colours, but it's due to the fact that his clothing colours can dramatically change one day to the next, bringing out specific colours in his eyes -- sometimes brown, sometimes blue, and others green. Although by far not short, Ashton also isn't extremely tall -- he reaches 5'11", just an inch away from the masculine 6'. He has a slender build, never having really procured a lot of muscle mass (probably due to the fact that he isn't keen on weight-lifting).
As far as clothing goes, Ashton tends to buy outfits that someone else matches for him and always keeps them together so he knows that he'll always be wearing something that works. He's not really the most fashionable bloke, and he wouldn't be able to tell the difference between one shirt and another (he has no eye for seeing what looks more flattering on himself and would never be the type of guy a girl would want to take shopping with her because he would never be able to say what looked better), but he does take rather good care of himself. He makes sure to wear cologne, deodorant, and always showers before he has to go somewhere in public -- proper hygiene is something that he was somehow taught to use, even if his natural inclination was to not care. He also has a tattoo of a baby dragon breaking out of its egg on his back right shoulderblade and had plans to get another, but he hadn't decided what he wanted before the infection broke out and it has now been put on an indefinite hold.
PB: Hugh Dancy (picture example for character database page here)
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: As far as experience goes, he's straight, and he'll be the first to say he finds the female body more attractive than a male's, and he hasn't ever really found himself admiring the physical aspects of another guy, but he might try it at some point just for the sake of having tried it. At the moment, though, he's perfectly content with girls and with the marriage decree isn't thinking of anything other than them.
TURN-ONS: nice smiles, brown hair, brown eyes, cute girls, boobs, intelligence, good sense of humour, love of new experiences, passion, an ability to have fun, anyone who isn't turned off by him
TURN-OFFS: shallowness, lack of opinion, ignorance
PERSONAL GOALS: Ashton doesn't really have any longterm goals, although he really wouldn't mind being an inventor for spells or charms or potions or anything rather than working in an office. He also wouldn't mind having a child or children, although he's not sure how great of a father he would make.
THE ROLE
First person roleplaying sample: I'm really glad the quarantine is finally over. There's only so much that can be done when you're shut up in your flat, and I was really getting a bad craving for some real food that hadn't been burnt. Why couldn't I have been trapped with someone who knows how to cook? That would have definitely made things easier. One more can of burnt beans and I would probably have strangled myself. How come I can cook every day for myself and after all that time still manage to burn everything? I think I just have a bad touch.
Not really sure what to think of the marriage decree, though. Sure, making babies is necessary for the survival of the human race, but I can only imagine what kind of drama is going to happen when people get pushed together. You don't have to be married to spawn kids, you know. It would probably be easier on everyone if they forced insiminated pregnancies and allowed everyone to continue living the way they want. ...I'm not really sure how I'm going to handle being married. Not that it's an unpleasing or disturbing thought, but I can't even handle a simple school relationship for more than a month. How in the world am I going to make a marriage last nine months or however long they're supposed to?
Oh well. Guess I'll just have to wait and see. I really have no idea who I'd like to have as a partner, so I guess I'll just wait and see who I get paired off with. Unless there's anyone who's willing? Hahaha. Whoever thought, back in Hogwarts, that we'd be sitting around discussing who wants to pair off to have babies together? Quite ironic and hilarious, really.
Third person roleplaying sample: When the news arrived via owl post that he was to turn on the radio and listen to a broadcast, Ashton was sitting at his desk, wearing the same shirt and pants he had been for the past week, his hair disheveled for not having brushed it since the previous...well, he couldn't actually remember the last time he had brushed his hair. His shirt was wrinkled from sleeping in it, his pants stained by the coffee he had dropped on them earlier that morning, and his face was more than a little stubbly from the lack of a motive to shave. Overall, he looked the part of a guy who had no reason to make himself presentable -- and he didn't. Why should he pretty himself up when there was nobody around to impress?
He had been working on the same spell (he was trying to figure out how to make foods cook perfectly without having a prior knowledge of how long they should cook -- something he was having no success with) when the actual broadcast started. Because he was so caught up in what he had been doing, Ashton didn't actually start listening until he heard something about procreating. Arching his eyebrows, he stopped what he was doing (which resulted in a spark being cast across the room by his wand, although luckily that was the extent of the damage) and turned toward the radio which had been on since he had read the letter earlier that morning, just in case he forgot what time it was and missed the broadcast. His thoughtfulness was more a result of his wondering what could be so important to say now after a lengthy silence than it was an actual desire to hear what officials had to say. Ashton hadn't ever really cared for what they ministry had to say about anything -- it was in his nature to rebel against authority.
The announcement was probably about what had happened and why they had all been locked up, but he hadn't been prepared for them to have already decided on new regulations to meet the demands of a post-disaster population. He definitely hadn't been expecting for them to require people to pair off and start having babies -- although the idea of pairing off wasn't unpleasant at all (after a month with only his right hand for company, he definitely didn't mind the idea of a little female company), he wasn't sure about getting married and making babies. Not that he didn't want to have kids and get married to a cute girl, he just hadn't been planning on it happening anytime soon -- even though he wasn't the typical image of a bachelor afraid of being tied down, Ashton definitely had some commitment issues he didn't want to face for a while. But getting married now...at the young age he was? That definitely hadn't figured into anything he had ever thought about the future.
He didn't even know any girls that he immediately would want to get married to -- or any that he knew would want to hitch up with him. Of course, he couldn't really remember any other than a couple of exes and friends, but he couldn't see anyone who knew him really well wanting to marry him. He knew he was a slob, after all, and...maybe he would just sit back and let the ministry choose for him -- after all, they thought they could do everything else, so why not let them suddenly control their personal lives as well? Bristling, he stood up and walked over to the radio, which was repeating the announcement for anyone who might have tuned in late. "Such bollocks," he muttered, shaking his head. Maybe he would try to find a wife. "Could always put out a personal ad," he added with amusement to himself before deciding maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea -- providing the papers were still running.
Plot Ideas/Pairings/etc...: Someone interesting? His muse is interested in the ad idea he had in his sample post, but I think he would just as likely end up being paired off by the ministry. Maybe someone he would either have a lot of chemistry with or none at all -- someone he wouldn't get along with or who wouldn't get along with him or who has nothing in common with him. I'm open to anything -- it could be a girl he used to date (which I think would be interesting) or it could even be someone who has romantic plans to be with someone they're not going to be married to. Any plot would be good for me!
Additional Information:
FAVOURITE BOOK:
FAVOURITE MUSIC: rock and roll and anything that has a good beat to dance to.
FAVOURITE COLOUR: blue
FAVOURITE FLAVOUR: ketchup
FAVOURITE FOOD: at this point, anything that wasn't made by him
FAVOURITE PLACE: anywhere he can be surrounded by people
FAVOURITE ANIMAL: ostrich, which he has joked about wanting to keep as a pet
DISLIKED BOOK: most of them
DISLIKED MUSIC: he hasn't disliked any music he's heard so far
DISLIKED COLOUR: grey-grey and all other boring, quiet colours
DISLIKED FLAVOUR: burnt.
DISLIKED FOOD: ravioli
DISLIKED PLACE: small spaces like closets, only like cells with steel walls where he doesn't have anything to do except sit around -- not that he's ever been in a place like that, it's just a fear he has.
DISLIKED ANIMAL: at this point, he hasn't interacted with any that he had a disliking toward, but it's possible he'll develope one later.
What is the object in his bedroom that he loves? the solar system model he built and hung on his ceiling and then charmed to move in the same rotations as the actual planets and stars are moving.
What object is in the hall closet that he never uses but don't want to part with? A book he was given as a gift by perhaps a family member or an ex-girlfriend that he doesn't have any desire to read but won't get rid of.
What was the happiest day of his life? He can't really say, because he isn't sure what makes one day better than another and none really stand out in his mind as particularly memorable.
What even made a lasting impression on him? suffering through music lessons when he was younger, which taught him dedication to something even when it seems impossible.
What is his favorite saying? Live and let live.
What is his favorite hobby? spellwork.
What is his major regret? Maybe not working harder to make relationships work -- either with his family or his ex girlfriends.
What will be his deathbed advice to others? Do what makes you happy.
What's one place he always wanted to go? Outerspace. Or Australia or California.
Who is the biggest influence on him? Maybe his older siblings.
What one thing has he always wanted to learn but never has? Maybe how to ski or surf.
What is the craziest thing he has ever done? Probably the time he tried to climb out a third floor window of Hogwarts and down to another window on the floor below.
What's one thing he has always wanted but doesn't have? Peace of mind.
Who does he envy? His dog.
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