Post by Franco Shackleford on Dec 16, 2012 13:35:20 GMT -8
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FREDERICK THEODORE SHACKLEFORD III
28. Syndicate member. Wandmaker. Ravenclaw.
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ALIAS(ES): Almost exclusively referred to as Franco by his friends.
BIRTHDAY: April 19th, 1984
BIRTHPLACE: London, England
CURRENT: The City of Shadows
FAMILY:
• Mother: Antonia Shackleford, aged 61. Pureblooded status. Citizen.
• Father: Frederick Theodore Shackleford II, aged 65. Pureblooded status. Independently wealthy pureblooded wizard citizen.
• Wife: Sylvanna, aged 32. Full-blooded Veela. Musician.
BLOOD: Pureblood
ORIENTATION: Bisexual; used to experiment heavily with this, but has more recently chosen to live a heterosexual lifestyle with his wife Sylvanna.
WAND: 14”, larch, sliver of a unicorn horn (not his first wand, this one was made by him)
DESCRIPTION: Franco is rather gifted as far as his looks go, and he knows it. His lithe, almost lanky form stands at six foot three inches, and comes in at around 180 pounds. His hair is naturally both dark blond and highly curly; usually he keeps it fairly short, but occasionally he lets it get longer so that the curls are more obvious. His eyes are an extremely noticeable blue, though they also hold a hint each of gray and green, depending on what he's wearing. He smiles easily, and with an expression that lights up his entire face.
Overall, his facial features and body structure suggest the ultimate British aristocrat, one to be noted for his wits and intelligence.
PLAY-BY: Tom Hiddleston
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PATRONUS: A swarm of bees
BOGGART: Losing those close to him. If he saw a boggart, it would likely take the forms of his wife and best friends as corpses.
MIRROR OF ERISED: To be allowed to make wands for more than just the Syndicate members. In the Mirror, he would see himself sitting in a shop of his own on Diagon Alley or in Hogsmeade, making wands for the masses. He has another deepest wish, however... he and Sylvanna have been trying for several years to have children, and so far have met with failure. In the Mirror, he would also see several children running about his shop.
HABITS: Franco often bites his nails when truly nervous. He also smokes occasionally, under similar circumstances.
PET PEEVE: People with no sense of humor. Injustice for the sake of gaining power.
TRAITS: Franco loves games, and his favorite one is the “Let's Pretend I'm an Idiot So That People Will Tell Me Anything” game. While actually extremely intelligent, the perfect fit with his former house of Ravenclaw as far as wits go, he actually enjoys playing the fool so that people underestimate him. All of his close friends know this about him and therefore write off his blustering and strange, archaic slang as being “just Franco,” knowing all of his tricks, but for someone who has never met him before he comes across as a complete twit. He is highly devoted to his wife, also, lavishing every affection on her, but to see him in a crowded room one would think him the ultimate flirt; due to his extensive history as such while in school, he is very skilled at winning people over with a few choice words and gestures.
He enjoys being generous and giving people presents, as evidenced by his work as the Syndicate's wand-maker: he could very easily charge his customers a great deal of money for his creations (people outside the Syndicate are required to pay vast sums, as much as 100 galleons), but Franco thinks nothing of giving away his finest work to the refugees, asking nothing in return.
Nothing pleases Franco more than a good challenge of any kind, and he often seeks out such challenges just to “keep busy.” One of his favorite methods of challenging himself is through dueling; his dueling skills are top-notch – mostly due to his thousands of hours of practice and his deep understanding of wand lore – and he is in possession of some 20 or so wands that he has won from others, all the way back to duels in school.
If Franco were to be said to have a “fatal flaw,” it would have to be that he sometimes has patience issues. He will occasionally lose his temper over having to wait for a very long time, or over having to deal with someone particularly dense (when he knows they can do better). He used to have a great deal more trouble with this when he was school-age, but meeting Sylvanna has helped him to learn a bit more patience. He does still struggle with it occasionally, though.
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HISTORY:
As a pureblood, Franco never really understood the idea of what it was like to be considered “lesser,” and as a result he was rather spoiled when he was in school. Always the handsomest one in any room, he attracted and in fact sought the attention of literally everyone, not just the females but the males as well. His intelligence, his wittiness, and his good looks earned him many friends, but only the true ones – Jacob Sullivan, Cedric McGarret, and Kitty Kittiwick – have stayed with him.
He learned the art of creating wands from his father, who had learned the art from generations past, and pursued it as a career without a second thought (though he did have longings to become a professional duelist when he was young, due to his extreme talent in that field). While on a solo mission in 2006 (at the age of 22) to collect rare woods and cores, he ran into a bit of trouble and wound up having to live with a tribe of “wild” Veela for several months. He fell for one young Veela named Sylvanna and, wanting to give up his formerly-wild ways for her once he found out the feelings were mutual, married her (forsaking his previous preference for men) and brought her back to England. Some time later, he helped to form and organize Sullivan's rising group known as the Syndicate, backing his friend by offering to be the group's resident wand-maker for any and all applicants without wands. He has served in that position ever since.
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NAME: Gemma
EXPERIENCE: Over two years
CONTACT: email: blue.phoenix.fire.09@gmail.com YIM: blue_phoenix_fire_09
HOW'D YOU FIND US? I know one of the admins
CHARACTERS: No others at the moment
SAMPLE RP: Look at stuff from before I left, please.
ANYTHING ELSE? Franco's personality and vocabulary is somewhat based upon a literary character, Lord Peter Wimsey, who features in novels and short stories by Dorothy Sayers. I highly recommend them.