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Post by Oliver Russell Blishwick on Aug 18, 2023 11:35:10 GMT -7
OLIVER RUSSELL BLISHWICK
WAND Black Walnut, unicorn tail core, 11 inches, solid
APPEARANCE Looks like his playby. Dirty blond hair, blue eyes, denies the fact that he needs glasses to read (but they’re always nearby just in case). | pronunciation awl-ih-ver russ-ehl bl-ish-wick nickname Ollie, Orb (just family) age & birthday 17 - 30 January 2011 gender & pronouns Male, he/him blood status Pureblood sexuality Straight face claim Rudy Pankow | |||||||||||||||||||||||
PERSONALITY Look, he tries to be a realist. And the world is many things – unpredictable, random, sometimes unfair – but there are rules too and those can be characterized into neat and orderly life lessons. He doesn’t let himself be blinded but what he wants to see, but Oliver does let himself be guided by the possibility of what could be (and what could even move from possible to probable if you work towards it enough). He second-guesses what he sees and hears, doesn’t accept the first answer as necessarily the right one, and will work harder than anyone to find that right answer first. He does have a habit of casually showing off, if only because he knows what he’s good at and doesn’t mind if everyone else knows it too. Anyway, don’t mistake that analytic outlook for being cold. Because while some Slytherins might be driven forward by the need to clear the field of competition…in the end, Ollie does what he does because he wants to help. He’s empathetic, he cares about the people who come to him for help, and he doesn’t mind taking a small and calculated risk if he thinks it might push him towards the finish line. He just isn’t selfless. He won’t offer that help if it comes at his own expense. It’s a fine line but he walks it, and he’s become very good at the balancing act. Be concerned, but don’t get too invested (that way the failure stings a little less). Worry internally if he must, but don’t let the others see it. Question the world around you, but know what fundamental truths are exactly that and accept it. It means he doesn't really let himself...be himself, since he's so worried all the time about finding that perfect balancing act. That perfect formula that doesn't close any doors. Above all, the thing he believes in most – you just gotta go with it. It doesn’t do any good to fight the inevitable once you've collected enough data to be sure what's coming, or trick yourself into believing that you can be something you’re not. Ollie is unapologetic, straightforward, but still gentle. After all, he’s afraid of the same thing everyone else is – rejection. Showing every part of yourself and having that still not be enough. So he never wants to be the reason for someone to feel that frustration or humiliation – in fact, he wants to be the one that can fix it. That can find the right words to say, that can solve the endless puzzle of what it means to be loved, and what it means to be loved right. He might not be going into the family business, but being a Blishwick still means something. ORIGIN & RELATIONS London, England Allegra Blishwick - mother, lawyer at Gringotts Bank Oliver Blishwick Sr - dad, toy inventor Jimbo Blishwick VI - uncle Jameson Blishwick - cousin Lulu Blishwick - cousin Oberon Blishwick - extended cousin HISTORY It’s tough being born into an institution. Into a family where everyone knows the name of the game and even sometimes claim to do it better. Because love is one of those things where everybody seems to be an expert, and they’ve all got the ten easy tricks and tips to unlock what it means to be happy and universally loved and find your happily ever after. Everyone thinks they know how to make themselves more attractive, or how to catch that special someone’s eye, or how to dissect everyone else’s love problems because they’ve found the secret. But what happens after you start your happily ever after? So Ollie was born into the Blishwick family, but he was never the main event. Jimbo’s line kept the ancient Blishwick love magic alive and well, and that left the other two brothers to find their passions elsewhere. And for Oliver, that meant getting a different look at what love can mean, because it’s not all about the cupids and lovesick couples. His dad branched out into the world of toys and discovered what it meant to nurture the love of a child. Y’know, that beloved stuffed animal that became your best friend? That well-loved train set that could fly three feet off the ground, just high enough to sweep you off into an adventure? And his mother was one of Gringotts’ best lawyers. The best defender for one of mankind’s (and goblinkind’s) most fundamental forms of love that can sometimes go too far – greed. For gold, and treasures that might belong to someone else, and ensuring that you have the power of the law working for you while you worked to feed your obsessive love. But anyway, what happens after happily ever after? Every fairytale that his dad read him would end that way, and even his uncle’s bright matchmaking business only seemed to take the happy couple up to and until their wedding day. After that – well, good luck, have fun, don’t get swept away by the romance. He grew up in a rather average family (according to pureblood standards, at least) with that question rattling around in his mind. Oh, there was nothing too spectacular about his childhood. His parents loved each other, despite their wildly different world views. One of those instances where fire and water learned to live together and create something new. They never tried to force him into any specific worldview – no, actually their instructions were both incredibly specific and incredibly vague. Look at the world a different way. Find your own conclusions. Don’t accept the easy bottom line. And hey! Ollie was always superb at following instructions, or at least interpreting them in such a way that served his own purposes. He grew up asking a million questions, experimenting for himself instead of accepting anything as ‘obvious’ or ‘proven,’ and he took that same way of thinking to Hogwarts. Some professors love it, some hate it. But hey, a phoenix can’t change its flame on command. As for the Blishwick family business…he’s undecided. His family has some serious skills, and the data doesn’t lie. Hundreds (maybe even thousands) of happily matched couples over generations and across cultural boundaries. But that could only be because of the family magic, not because of human nature. He’s skeptical about this idea that love can just happen (because it needs to be nurtured, right?) and he’s seen how many happy marriages can just fall apart. Sometimes love goes too far. Sometimes it’s just not enough. That must be why the field of therapy has always called to him. You can’t always answer every question, but what happens after happily ever after? They seem to have gotten the closest to finding an answer. SITE EVENTS REACTION He always seems to catch the stories secondhand, and his experience with all the events of the last few years is limited to the effect it’s had on those around him. There was a an explosion at the Quidditch stadium? Well, his mum gets bored to tears by Quidditch so the family wasn’t there. Elaine Dupree went on a terror spree at Hogwarts? Well, Ollie never knew any of the students who’d died and he’d been too young to fully understand all the wizard politics at play. He wasn’t even at Hogwarts when it got swallowed up by fire – his dad had pulled a typical Blishwick move and pulled Oliver out of school for an extra long vacation the moment he’d finished his exams. Now, the impact that these events have had on those around him…they’ve left deep scars. Trauma just lurking under the surface, major changes to the fundamental facts of the wizarding world that leave people scrambling to understand. Ollie’s fascinated by the range of reactions – from the denial to the deep depression to the solemn acceptance of everything that’s happened to them. He’s always been a good listener, someone that people just can’t help but tell their stories to. It’s taught him a lot about the magical world, but more importantly it’s taught him about the neglect. About the people who just fall through the cracks and are expected to deal with these massive changes. He’s not sure he likes that. WANT AD
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