Post by arirotstrom on Dec 4, 2008 4:04:31 GMT 1
Introducing...
Name:
Ari Rotstrom
Age:
September 19, 16
Gender:
Male
Year:
5th year.
Birthplace:
Israel.
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Nationality:
Israeli/German
Blood:
Muggle born
Relatives:
Jebidiah Rotstrom - Father, Deceased
Melinda Rotstrom - Mother
Pets:
None
Wand Type:
14" hornbeam with chimera mane hair core. It is a wand of balance. It excels at both healing charms and charms that will inflict direct harm while only mediocre at general charms and less than stellar at transfiguration. It provides a good mixture of offensive and defensive capabilities.
Appearance
Picture:
Hair Colour:
Dark brown
Eye Colour:
Brown.
Build:
The wiry musculature of a middle-weight boxer that is just starting to mature to full potential.
Skin Tone:
Sallow skin that gives the appearance of always having a slight tan, even in the middle of winter.
Height:
5'10"
Dress Style:
At school he wears the robes that Hogwarts provides to students without the funds to purchase their own. The rest of his clothing shows wear and is usually what would have been in style two years ago and is now available at thrift shops. He prefers plain canvas shoes when he can get them and usually wears an open jacket over his clothes, even indoors, to ward of the English chill.
Specifics:
His nose has obviously been broken at least once in his life and more than one of his knuckles are scarred from having been split. Several pock mark scars are strewn haphazardly over his body along with a thin, two-inch wide scar on his right oblique. However, it is more his stature and the way he carries himself that sets him apart. He had excellent posture and moves with a slight, unconscious swagger that comes from physical confidence.
In Front Of Friends
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
Self Image:
Ari is not arrogant, but instead is more extremely extremely confident in what abilities he has. Despite having spent the last couple of years in the magical world, he still feels very much an outsider and at times gets angry at the ease and excess that magic provides for. He understands that his intensity can be frightening to some, but in truth, that's the point. His devotion to his mother and her care is what drives him and he would not hesitate for a moment to sacrifice himself, or possibly another, if it would help her.
To the Outward Eye:
At first meeting, Ari can come of as arrogant and standoffish in manner. He cares little about others opinions of him and will not usually go out of his way to start a conversation. His manners and speech are typically cooly respectful to strangers, but opens up with a surprisingly sarcastic wit to those that know him. If angry, he becomes embroiled with a cold fury and his eyes can be described as frighteningly dead of emotions such as pity and remorse..
Social Status:
Ari is not one to be considered charismatic by any means. He possesses only a few close friends among those that weren't put off by his demeanor and took the time to get to know him and is extremely loyal to them as a result. Romantic relationships are of little interest to him for anything other than a purely utilitarian purpose.
Positive Traits:
Negative Traits:
Skills:
Ari speaks Hebrew and German as his first languages while English and Arabic are second tier and it tends to show. He also has been studying Krav Maga since he was four.
Likes:
Exercise - He finds physical exertion an excellent method to clear his mind and allow him to relax. Running, calisthenics, lifting, etc.
Spring - Nature coming back to life again after a cold winter, as silly as it sounds, gives him hope in his own future.
Industrial Music - You just don't get the same sound in Wizard music.
Aggressive Girls - While not shy, he just isn't the type of guy to to make a move. He certainly enjoys when the girl does.
Falafel - Awesome stuff. When done right, it's the food of the Gods.
Dislikes:
Quidditch - Honestly, he just doesn't get everyones obsession with it. He find the game boring and thinks the wizarding world needs to be introduced to a real game like rugby or football.
Excess - He's seen too many people throw away more half-eaten food from their plate in one meal than he's eaten in two days back at home.
Bigots - Ari has been around (or involved in) too many problems caused by people believe they're better than someone else simply because of who their parents are or where they live or what not.
Mushrooms - Who in their right mind would eat the fungus? It grows on crap!
Will Ferrel - As a muggle, he's seen the movies and just doesn't get it. You'd think he'd had stopped after Anchorman 5...
Patronus:
A panther. Sleek, beautiful and deadly. He sees himself as a predator and prides himself in the efficiency of his nature. Just as a panther will stalk its prey for hours, he picks his goal and drives towards it.
Boggart:
His mother's grave. Improving her life is what drives him. In his mind, if she dies, he has nothing left to live for.
World Passing By
Subjects:
Transfiguration - A
Defence Against the Dark Arts - E
Charms - O
Potions - O
Astronomy - A
History of Magic - A
Herbology - O
Divination - P
Care of Magical Creatures - A
Report:
Ari is an excellent student when he wants to be. He has it set in his mind which classes are important to him and which aren't. He will devote all his effort to those that matter and will do just enough to get by in the rest.
Personal Statement:
He truly enjoys potions and herbology and is amazed at what the combination of ingredients can do. DADA matches well with his personality while Astrology and Divination are really not for him.
History:
Ari was born as the only child to an Israeli police officer and a German nurse. The two had met while both vacationing and after a brief whirlwind romance they were wed and moved to a growing settlement on the Israeli border. His childhood was a happy one as the only child of loving parents, but in a dangerous area they did the best to shelter him. However, the understood the reality of the situation and Ari's father did his best to help Ari take care of himself by having him take up sports like soccer and rugby so he could run when he had to and the study of Krav Maga in the event running was not an option.
When Ari was 10, things started to go down hill. His mother's kidney's started failing and she required medical care that was bankrupting the family. To make matters worse, his father was killed less than a year after the diagnosis by a random gunmen. With no family or support system left in the country, Ari and his mother moved back to Germany to be closer to family and for health care reasons. The only neighborhood they could afford to move into in his mother's home city was perhaps the worst area in the city and the tension between different factions ran high. As a poor child from Israel suddenly put in the middle of all this, Ari did what he had to to survive, a fact that more than once resulted in a hospital visit for him for stitches or to set a broken bone on someone else.
Magically speaking, he was a late bloomer. His first glimpse of his abilities came when he accidently set another boy's pants on fire in school when he was almost 13. Shortly after that incident, a wizard living in the city doing muggle research found him and was able to get him enrolled in a small magic school in Germany on a scholarship. After two years of intense, virtually year-round private tutelage he was deemed to be caught up enough to enter school with the other 4th years his age. While studying magic, Ari has seen some of the medical miracles that magical healing can provide and firmly believes that his mother can be cured through non-muggle means. This belief proved to be the motivation that Ari needed to get through the years of constant study and pushed him to near the top of his class.
At the end of his 4th year, he was cornered by two pure blood students that believed he had no business being at their school due to his muggle-born status and economic state. They pushed him enough so that he put them both in the infirmary. In order to prevent retribution from the students, Ari's transfer to Hogwarts was arranged by the school and he was sent away.
Roleplay Sample:
They had him surrounded and they knew it. There were two in front of him, and three behind, all with wands drawn and levelled at his torso. There was a mixture of age amongst them, a couple were a year ahead, two in his year and one enterprising underclassman. They were speaking, mocking him, spitting out mudblood hate speech, but he wasn't listening. It didn't really matter to him what they were saying as long as it was not the words to a curse.
He knew he had no chance of getting out of this one unscathed. In truth, he probably deserved what was about to happen for what he did to those two idiots yesterday, but that didn't mean he was just going to give in and let them do whatever they wanted. The underclassmen was not very clever in his taunts, but he was grinning and happy to be involved with the older kids, his eyes looking to the others to some sort of approval to his latest name calling. Those wondering eyes were what made Ari choose him.
As the youth's eyes glanced away from Ari again, he struck. Ari suddenly lunged towards the boy, grabbing his wand arm by the wrist and pulling him towards him while his other arm hooked around the boys shoulder and pulled him close. He spun himself and the boy around to put the boy inline with at least a couple of the others just as the first curses started to fly. He could feel the other boy's body abruptly go rigid as he was struck by a body-bind curse. Just moments later, , he lost control of his own movements and found his feet start dancing a jig on their own accord and could feel the burning pain as the boils started to form along his back...
And he jolted upright in bed, panting heavily, covered in a thin sheen of sweat. He looked around the room hurriedly at the still sleeping forms of his roommates and slowly settled back down into the mattress with a sigh. His hands unconsciously moved to the bare skin of his chest to trace over the pockmark like scars that some of the particularly vicious boils left on him. It had been a while since he had been forced to relive that experience, at least two months since he dreamed it last, and that was not long enough. A deep breath was taken with a slow release as he forced himself to calm down and closed his eyes in an attempt to get back to sleep.
Out of Character
Name:
Jon
Age:
23
Name of Playby:
Tom Wisdom.
Other Characters:
None
How you found Hex:
Some Toplist.. something foots.
Name:
Ari Rotstrom
Age:
September 19, 16
Gender:
Male
Year:
5th year.
Birthplace:
Israel.
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Nationality:
Israeli/German
Blood:
Muggle born
Relatives:
Jebidiah Rotstrom - Father, Deceased
Melinda Rotstrom - Mother
Pets:
None
Wand Type:
14" hornbeam with chimera mane hair core. It is a wand of balance. It excels at both healing charms and charms that will inflict direct harm while only mediocre at general charms and less than stellar at transfiguration. It provides a good mixture of offensive and defensive capabilities.
Appearance
Picture:
Hair Colour:
Dark brown
Eye Colour:
Brown.
Build:
The wiry musculature of a middle-weight boxer that is just starting to mature to full potential.
Skin Tone:
Sallow skin that gives the appearance of always having a slight tan, even in the middle of winter.
Height:
5'10"
Dress Style:
At school he wears the robes that Hogwarts provides to students without the funds to purchase their own. The rest of his clothing shows wear and is usually what would have been in style two years ago and is now available at thrift shops. He prefers plain canvas shoes when he can get them and usually wears an open jacket over his clothes, even indoors, to ward of the English chill.
Specifics:
His nose has obviously been broken at least once in his life and more than one of his knuckles are scarred from having been split. Several pock mark scars are strewn haphazardly over his body along with a thin, two-inch wide scar on his right oblique. However, it is more his stature and the way he carries himself that sets him apart. He had excellent posture and moves with a slight, unconscious swagger that comes from physical confidence.
In Front Of Friends
Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
Self Image:
Ari is not arrogant, but instead is more extremely extremely confident in what abilities he has. Despite having spent the last couple of years in the magical world, he still feels very much an outsider and at times gets angry at the ease and excess that magic provides for. He understands that his intensity can be frightening to some, but in truth, that's the point. His devotion to his mother and her care is what drives him and he would not hesitate for a moment to sacrifice himself, or possibly another, if it would help her.
To the Outward Eye:
At first meeting, Ari can come of as arrogant and standoffish in manner. He cares little about others opinions of him and will not usually go out of his way to start a conversation. His manners and speech are typically cooly respectful to strangers, but opens up with a surprisingly sarcastic wit to those that know him. If angry, he becomes embroiled with a cold fury and his eyes can be described as frighteningly dead of emotions such as pity and remorse..
Social Status:
Ari is not one to be considered charismatic by any means. He possesses only a few close friends among those that weren't put off by his demeanor and took the time to get to know him and is extremely loyal to them as a result. Romantic relationships are of little interest to him for anything other than a purely utilitarian purpose.
Positive Traits:
- Focused - Distractions have little sway of him. He has the ability to focus his mind on the task at hand to the exclusion of all else. While this is a tremendous help with his school work, it does little to improve his social life.
- Driven - His honest belief that he will find a way to give his mother a better life causes Ari to push himself to his limits. If need be, he will go without sleep, food or some other comfort or take a great risk just to achieve his goal.
- Loyal - The saying "he would take a bullet for you" applies here. Once you've earned his loyalty in his eyes, there is very little he wouldn't do for you.
- Confident - Ari believes he is very aware of his limits and knows when he is in a situation that will cause him to overstep them. As a result, in those normal situations where he is well within his abilities, he rarely thinks twice.
- Fearless - Fear for his own safety was driven out of him some time ago. While he is not the type to jump off a bridge in a river on a dare, if he dropped the weeks grocery money off that same bridge he would not hesitate to dive in.
Negative Traits:
- Angry - While the mystery and slender of the magical world still amazes him, it also pisses him off. Given the life he's had and the things he's seen, it angers him at time to see someone simple wave a wand and *poof* problem solved/dinner appears/crises averted.
- Single Minded - Ari's focuses intensity can lead him to neglect other things and alienate those around him. His eyes are on the destination, journey be damned.
- Cruel - While loyal to his friends and family, Ari's compassion for those around him is little to none. If someone is in the way of his goal, he has no problem with crushing them on his way by.
- Phsyical - Ari still has a tendency to react physically to a situation if threatened. He was brought up in a virtual war zone and has had trouble adjusting to the calm nature of the magical world.
- Fearless - Someday, it's very likely he'll bite off more than he can chew and when he dives off that bridge it will be into a foot of water.
Skills:
Ari speaks Hebrew and German as his first languages while English and Arabic are second tier and it tends to show. He also has been studying Krav Maga since he was four.
Likes:
Exercise - He finds physical exertion an excellent method to clear his mind and allow him to relax. Running, calisthenics, lifting, etc.
Spring - Nature coming back to life again after a cold winter, as silly as it sounds, gives him hope in his own future.
Industrial Music - You just don't get the same sound in Wizard music.
Aggressive Girls - While not shy, he just isn't the type of guy to to make a move. He certainly enjoys when the girl does.
Falafel - Awesome stuff. When done right, it's the food of the Gods.
Dislikes:
Quidditch - Honestly, he just doesn't get everyones obsession with it. He find the game boring and thinks the wizarding world needs to be introduced to a real game like rugby or football.
Excess - He's seen too many people throw away more half-eaten food from their plate in one meal than he's eaten in two days back at home.
Bigots - Ari has been around (or involved in) too many problems caused by people believe they're better than someone else simply because of who their parents are or where they live or what not.
Mushrooms - Who in their right mind would eat the fungus? It grows on crap!
Will Ferrel - As a muggle, he's seen the movies and just doesn't get it. You'd think he'd had stopped after Anchorman 5...
Patronus:
A panther. Sleek, beautiful and deadly. He sees himself as a predator and prides himself in the efficiency of his nature. Just as a panther will stalk its prey for hours, he picks his goal and drives towards it.
Boggart:
His mother's grave. Improving her life is what drives him. In his mind, if she dies, he has nothing left to live for.
World Passing By
Subjects:
Transfiguration - A
Defence Against the Dark Arts - E
Charms - O
Potions - O
Astronomy - A
History of Magic - A
Herbology - O
Divination - P
Care of Magical Creatures - A
Report:
Ari is an excellent student when he wants to be. He has it set in his mind which classes are important to him and which aren't. He will devote all his effort to those that matter and will do just enough to get by in the rest.
Personal Statement:
He truly enjoys potions and herbology and is amazed at what the combination of ingredients can do. DADA matches well with his personality while Astrology and Divination are really not for him.
History:
Ari was born as the only child to an Israeli police officer and a German nurse. The two had met while both vacationing and after a brief whirlwind romance they were wed and moved to a growing settlement on the Israeli border. His childhood was a happy one as the only child of loving parents, but in a dangerous area they did the best to shelter him. However, the understood the reality of the situation and Ari's father did his best to help Ari take care of himself by having him take up sports like soccer and rugby so he could run when he had to and the study of Krav Maga in the event running was not an option.
When Ari was 10, things started to go down hill. His mother's kidney's started failing and she required medical care that was bankrupting the family. To make matters worse, his father was killed less than a year after the diagnosis by a random gunmen. With no family or support system left in the country, Ari and his mother moved back to Germany to be closer to family and for health care reasons. The only neighborhood they could afford to move into in his mother's home city was perhaps the worst area in the city and the tension between different factions ran high. As a poor child from Israel suddenly put in the middle of all this, Ari did what he had to to survive, a fact that more than once resulted in a hospital visit for him for stitches or to set a broken bone on someone else.
Magically speaking, he was a late bloomer. His first glimpse of his abilities came when he accidently set another boy's pants on fire in school when he was almost 13. Shortly after that incident, a wizard living in the city doing muggle research found him and was able to get him enrolled in a small magic school in Germany on a scholarship. After two years of intense, virtually year-round private tutelage he was deemed to be caught up enough to enter school with the other 4th years his age. While studying magic, Ari has seen some of the medical miracles that magical healing can provide and firmly believes that his mother can be cured through non-muggle means. This belief proved to be the motivation that Ari needed to get through the years of constant study and pushed him to near the top of his class.
At the end of his 4th year, he was cornered by two pure blood students that believed he had no business being at their school due to his muggle-born status and economic state. They pushed him enough so that he put them both in the infirmary. In order to prevent retribution from the students, Ari's transfer to Hogwarts was arranged by the school and he was sent away.
Roleplay Sample:
They had him surrounded and they knew it. There were two in front of him, and three behind, all with wands drawn and levelled at his torso. There was a mixture of age amongst them, a couple were a year ahead, two in his year and one enterprising underclassman. They were speaking, mocking him, spitting out mudblood hate speech, but he wasn't listening. It didn't really matter to him what they were saying as long as it was not the words to a curse.
He knew he had no chance of getting out of this one unscathed. In truth, he probably deserved what was about to happen for what he did to those two idiots yesterday, but that didn't mean he was just going to give in and let them do whatever they wanted. The underclassmen was not very clever in his taunts, but he was grinning and happy to be involved with the older kids, his eyes looking to the others to some sort of approval to his latest name calling. Those wondering eyes were what made Ari choose him.
As the youth's eyes glanced away from Ari again, he struck. Ari suddenly lunged towards the boy, grabbing his wand arm by the wrist and pulling him towards him while his other arm hooked around the boys shoulder and pulled him close. He spun himself and the boy around to put the boy inline with at least a couple of the others just as the first curses started to fly. He could feel the other boy's body abruptly go rigid as he was struck by a body-bind curse. Just moments later, , he lost control of his own movements and found his feet start dancing a jig on their own accord and could feel the burning pain as the boils started to form along his back...
And he jolted upright in bed, panting heavily, covered in a thin sheen of sweat. He looked around the room hurriedly at the still sleeping forms of his roommates and slowly settled back down into the mattress with a sigh. His hands unconsciously moved to the bare skin of his chest to trace over the pockmark like scars that some of the particularly vicious boils left on him. It had been a while since he had been forced to relive that experience, at least two months since he dreamed it last, and that was not long enough. A deep breath was taken with a slow release as he forced himself to calm down and closed his eyes in an attempt to get back to sleep.
Out of Character
Name:
Jon
Age:
23
Name of Playby:
Tom Wisdom.
Other Characters:
None
How you found Hex:
Some Toplist.. something foots.
