Post by Duke Daniel Jones on Apr 11, 2023 13:48:59 GMT -7
DUKE DANIEL JONES
WAND 13½, cherry, unicorn hair, very flexible
APPEARANCE Much like his playby. 188cm. Wiry. Lanky Heavy set brows. Often serious, frowned face. Slightly domineering, looming presence which he hates. Usually found in old jeans and tee shirts, with converse or battered runners. | pronunciation jook dan-yul j-own-s nickname DJ by the lads Dukey by his Mum age & birthday 19 20th sept 2008 gender & pronouns he/him blood status Half-blood Wizard sexuality Bisexual face claim Hero Fiennes Tiffin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
PERSONALITY Although Duke initially presents as a looming, intimidating presence because of his physical form; he's far from it. In reality, as soon as he opens his mouth and breaks out of his awkwardness he gives off massive golden retriever puppy energy. He is friendly and eager to get chatting to people to make mates. Despite growing up as an outsider and being brought up away from Hogwarts castle, he's keen to throw himself into the middle of things even if he doesn't know much about things. He can be ditzy and a clown, with big people pleaser tendencies. He's easily swayed into mischief; a long standing issue from his childhood, and quite easily led in many other ways. As well as this, he can be rash and impulsive in his decision making and often jump in before thinking things through entirely. It tends to get him in trouble a lot of the time when it's not been entirely his fault. In saying that he still tends to continue to see the best in people. Kind and forgiving, with loyalty and love at his core, almost to a fault. Although he seems stupid, he can be quite clever when needed. ORIGIN & RELATIONS Bradford Tower Council Flats, Manchester City. ➛Patricia 'Trish' Jones; 38. Mum. Muggle. Lower-Working class. Raised Duke on her own with some input from her family & financial support from his father. Extremely close with Duke. ➛Granny Annie (Jones); 58. Grandmother. Muggle. Irish immigrant to Manchester. Lower-Working class. The best ever in Duke's eyes. One of his best mates. Raised Duke while Madeline went out to work. Lives in the flat two doors down from Duke and his mum. ➛Maximum Monteith; 52. Father. Very poor relationship, near non-existent relationship. Upper Class Wealthy. Australian. Pureblood. Ex-pro Quidditch Star. ➛Maria Monteith; Step-mother. ➛Monteith half-siblings; 3. Not in Duke's life at all. ➛Winifred 'Winnie' Haywood; Middle-aged. Half-Blood Witch. Duke's private magical tutor from a young age. His authority on all things magical. Has become good friends with Granny Annie and now is found most days chilling in her flat and smoking fags while watching corrie. ➛Danny Jones; 19. Muggle. Cousin. The closest thing Duke has to a brother. was taken into care and raised by their Granny from a young age. Raised together. Duke's best friend. HISTORY Young Muggle Trish Jones met the fairly older Maximum Monteith on a seemingly harmless night out in Manchester. Although he was considerably older than her, she was easily taken in by his charming personality and good looks. He was a sports star and even if she had no clue what 'kwid-ditch' was, she was too drunk to care and it didn't stop her from falling for his Aussie accent or sporty physique. It was the start of a short-lived fling that her mother Annie did not approve of and she was almost relieved when it all seemed to fall to pieces pretty quickly a few weeks in. Except, less so once it was revealed that Trish was actually up the duff. It was even less of a surprise that after he found out Maximum decided it was time to head back to Sydney. Trish was less than ideal as a young mum, and although Duke is from a highly deprived and working-class area of Manchester, single-mum Trish made sure he never wanted for anything. His upbringing while not ideal or traditional in any way, was full of love and familial closeness. Physically and emotionally distant; Max kept in touch and tried to have a relationship with his son. Although things had ended in a less-than-ideal way between him and Trish, he made some attempts to see his son. Or always planned to anyway, even if usually he got caught up at work or with some other 'bullshit' as his Mum liked to say. The phonecalls and visits became even less frequent when he got married and had kids of his own. It was just easier to stay in his own bubble and not upset Duke, or at least that was the line he fed them all. In his mind he couldn't miss what he didn't know, or so he told himself. The topic of his magic blood was a touchy subject. At first, Trish didn't really understand it all. Thought it was some fabricated nonsense and flat-out refused to believe him, shutting down any attempts to discuss it. It was only when Duke was about six years old and he started showing of magic she had to concede and work out how to go about carrying on. Thankfully Max's pockets were deep enough to cover a Wizarding World liaison as such, a half-blood with closer to home who could support Trish in raising a half-wizard son. When the time came for Duke to attend Hogwarts Winnie explained it all, it sounded like a grand adventure but once he realised his cousin Danny wouldn't be able to come to visit him, and he wouldn't be able to come home on the weekends to visit the lads, he refused to go. Trish wasn't overly upset as she hadn't wanted to send her baby off to some practically foreign world anyway. So it was agreed that Max would up Winnie's pay and she would tutor the boy privately while he got to still stay in the Muggle World and be educated there. Then when he was of age he could make up his own mind about his future. It didn't entirely keep him out of trouble and it turned out the group of lads he and Danny had fallen in with were not good news. There was a turbulent period in Duke's life at sixteen when he dropped out of his Muggle schooling like most of the lads had and he acted out like a typical teenager. Trish and Annie did not take this lying down and made him get out and work. He was a smart lad and had gotten good grades so he easily picked up an electrician apprenticeship. It was easy work for him, but not really a challenge. During that time he was able to keep up his lessons with Winnie, even if he didn't particularly want to, he knew he had to learn the control. He got decent enough OWLs from this, but decided that was as far as he wanted to go. By this time Winnie was more like a family friend, or an aunt and stuck around anyway. She knew pushing him to pursue anything else in the wizarding world would be pointless unless it was something Duke wanted himself. Two years ago Danny was picked up and jailed for aggravated assault on a night out, and Duke did not take it well. He turned in on himself and other than getting out to go to work, he didn't do much else. Winnie and Annie were determined to shake him out of it. Winnie took this chance to draw him more into the wizarding world and open up his options. It was during a visit to St Mungos to visit Winnie's sister (a patient there) one day that it opened his eyes to the world of Healing and the magical application of it to Health in general that fascinated Duke. He had never thought about being a doctor in the Muggle World, he had never felt smart enough. But there was something about the Healers in Mungos that intrigued him. Annie & Winnie's plan had worked. It wasn't long before Winnie was dragging him through his NEWT studies so he could apply to formally sit them at L.I.F.E at the end of this year and hopefully join the September intake of trainee Healer's following that. It wasn't something he never thought he'd be doing in a million years. At times he still feels out of place; being slightly older than the average student pursuing their NEWTs isn't easy. As well as being fairly disconnected from the whole magical world for the whole of his life, it hasn't exactly been easy to assimilate but he's getting there. SITE EVENTS REACTION Overall Duke has been widely disjointed from the magical world and is mostly ignorant to the goings-on, good or otherwise. He is kept briefly aware of the news from Winnie, who chats about it with his Muggle Granny just for something to talk about. But most of the time he doesn't think it as relevant to him so he doesn't bother paying attention to much of it. He'd seen the explosion of Kings Cross on the muggle news and various other acts of terrorism, however he's never realised they were linked to his magical world. While aware of Hogwarts and the fact it has been blown to smithereens and rebuilt in it's new format; it's all on a strict need-to-know basis and he hasn't really taken much of it in or thought about how these things may have affected real-life peoples lives. It's all been a bit distant to him, as if it's going on on another planet. As a caring person, he'll be saddened as he's faced with these real-life people who have experienced it all first hand and still may be struggling with it all. WANT AD
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