Bletchley, Arlo

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Post by Arlo Bletchley on Jul 19, 2021 15:49:40 GMT -7

Aloysius 'Arlo' Ethan Bletchley

pronunciation:

Ahlo-wish-us

Ahr-lo

Ee-than

bleh-tch-lee

nickname:

Arlo

age and birthday:

17
23rd December 2008.

gender and pronouns:

He/Him

basic info

blood status:

Pureblood

sexuality:

Heterosexual

wand:

11 ¾ in, Griffin Heartstring Core, Dogwood

playby:

Arthur Gosse.

appearance:

Pretty much exactly his playby. Perfect mix of his parents. Tall like his father 185cm, his fathers curls and jawline. His mothers green eyes and darkly coloured hair. Bigger ears he got from his Great Grandfather and name-sake Aloysius King. Wiry but broad build. Nothing too distinguishable about him. Usually clean shaven and tries to be well put together but fails. His uniform usually looks a little raggedy, tie loose and sleeves rolled up. Curly hair mussed up.

education and jobs

schooling & status

Gryffindor
Sixth Year

current occupation:

Student

personality

likes:

Quidditch.
Coffee
Food, any
His baby sister, that is not so much of a baby
Comic Books/Superhero movies (not commonly known)
Graphic novels
Flying
Video games
Being at school
Hanging with his friends/being sociable
Making people laugh
Making his parents happy
Partying
Travelling
Exploring
Keeping active/fit
Standing up for people
Fitting in with the status quo
Being seen as the best
Being Heard

dislikes:

Feeling lonely
Dealing with his feelings
People mistreating his little sister
Thinking that he’s failing his parents
Thinking he’s letting people down
Being picked on or laughed at
His ears, that he was picked on/laughed at
Being bored
Being ignored/alone
Looking weak

overall personality:

Arlo Bletchley thrives off people and always has. He is sociable and charming, and often seen as a bit of a golden boy. Prefect and Chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team, he likes to make himself appear to be the best. Though he doesn’t make it obvious he is massively self conscious and really does worry what people think of him. Well known amongst his more popular friend group, he likes to entertain and make people laugh, often trying to be the centre of attention. If the attention is not on him he’ll do something to draw attention to himself, foolish or not he Arlo doesn’t really mind. While his parents had carved out such legacies on the Slytherin Quidditch team and Prefect duties for their house they don’t exactly expect Arlo to do the same. However, Arlo has always put immense pressure on himself to do the same and live up to their (non-existent) expectations. He stresses himself out and suffers self-inflicted anxiety over achieving goals he has set from himself and maintaining peak performance. While he is intelligent in his academia, living up to his mother’s reputation he achieves good grades. But really he has all the common sense and social decorum of a goldfish, often putting his foot in it and sometimes getting himself in awkward situations. He lives on coffee, but really doesn’t need it. He’s very easily excitable and high energy even without the stimulant.

When he’s not keeping up appearances Arlo is a lot softer and can be more withdrawn. Although he thrives off people, sometimes even his social battery can be depleted. This is when he likes to hide away in the broom shed by the Quidditch pitch and read his comic books and graphic novels, or else indulge in one of his comfort Superhero movies. If not playing some of his video games. At heart Arlo is a comic book nerd and grew up reading, and sometimes even writing his own stories, although his art skills were always terrible he used to dream of publishing his own comic book. This side of himself Arlo tends to try to keep hidden, even trying and failing to hide it from his family. He worries that if people found out his fondness for all things Superhero, teamed with his studious nature that they’d bully him and call him a dork. The only one who really knows this side of him is his ‘baby sister. Georgie knows all about his secret passion and although sometimes she playfully teases him, she doesn’t really mean it. Arlo is fiercely protective of his ‘baby sister’ who is only 11 months his junior. They’ve grown up extremely close and remain so.

Despite his more social tendencies, since returning to school for his sixth year he is feeling the self imposed pressure and is feeling a little more lost and lonely than he previously had been. Although he thrives on his friends, he doesn’t really have any close confidants at the minute and is feeling it.

personal history

origins:

Kensginton, London.

relations:

Bryony Bletchley (née King). Mother. Heiress. Glamorous rich housewife when not in the greenhouse working on her Herbology research. Slytherin Prefect Alum. Very close. Arlo is a Mumma’s boy and Bryony has always doted on him, also letting him away with Murder.

Spencer Bletchley. Father. Ex-Slytherin Quid Captain, now coach of the English National Team. Influenced Arlo’s love for Quidditch. Arlo feels his father has expectations regarding furthering his Quid career but Spencer has nothing of the sort. After feeling the pressure of his own parents, Spencer just wants his son to be happy.

Georgia ‘Georgie’ Beltchley. Baby Sister. Only 11 months old Arlo's junior; himself and Georgie have grown up extremely close. They fight of course, but nothing too serious. Arlo is extremely protective of Georgie and always has been, even more now that she’s getting older and is being noticed by the opposite sex.

@augusto Uncle, Bryony’s brother. Uncle Gus. Spencer’s best friend and Bryony’s half brother. Uncle Gus has always been a firm fixture in Arlo’s life along with the extended Mulciber family. Brought up very close with the Mulciber family, Gus is like another father to him.

pets:

A simple owl, more for convenience than a pet. He’s always wanted a big dog but hasn’t been allowed.

history:

When Bryony King and Spencer Bletchley realised they were going to have a baby, they were nowhere near prepared. They had been living their young, free, socialite lives, and then Arlo happened. Though she doesn't regret it, Bryony never would have planned it like that. Each member’s of two Prominent Pureblood families, they had been sort of destined to find each other and fall in love. Celeste King, Bryony's Grandmother who raised her, had always said it was her biggest wish for Bryony to 'find a nice pureblood boy and settle down'. Although Bryony originally had other ideas, when she was a year Graduated from Hogwarts she met Spencer Bletchley at a Gala event and fell head over heels for him. Although he was five years her senior, she remembered him from school and the crush she had on him. And well the rest is history. Arlo came along after about a year and a half of dating and although they were shocked (out of wedlock!!), they were pleased.

Shortly after Arlo's birth they were married in a surprisingly low key affair, and a month after that they discovered Georgie was on the way.

Despite the initial hiccups in their family planning, Bryony & Spencer have provided quite a stable, loving home for their children. Of course their financial security from their separate inheritances and the King Townhouse in Kensington helped with this, but still. Arlo and Georgie grew up in a caring home, devoid of the societal pressures that had once been placed on their parents. Although Bryony had been raised by her hell-heathen Grandmother and really had no idea how to be a mother, shockingly she made quite a good one. Doting on Arlo from day one, they've always had quite a special bond. Where Georgie was a daddy's girl, Arlo was quite definitely a Mummy's boy. Bryony ruled their house (with the help of a nanny) with a definite level of authority and set of rules, she has allowed her children to be mature and make their own decisions in life. Even if Arlo is far from mature. Leading to him mostly getting away with murder (within reason). Whilst Arlo feels expectations from his parents, sometimes working himself to the bone and stretching himself too thin over them, they actually have very little expectations for him. They felt the heavy weight of what their parents & guardians wanted from them, and they vowed to never do the same to their own children. In his heart Arlo just wants to make them proud. Which he has already done. He is studious and book smart, while still being easy going and sociable which made him a perfect choice for Prefect in his fifth year like his Mum. And while he didn't make Quidditch Captain like his father, he made the team all the same. He takes his Quidditch playing very seriously as an outlet for his high energy as well as a way to again, make his parents proud of him when they come to see him play. He enjoys his position of Chaser and has good camaraderie and relationships with everyone on the team.

He's not quite sure where it came from; but Arlo's secret love is in Comic books and all things Superhero. He had been sneaking off to the broom shed intermittently in his earlier years at Hogwarts to play his video games or indulge in his love of Superheros, but as the pressures of his later years became greater, so did his escapes. Although he is sociable and loves being around people, sometimes he just needs downtime that isn't in the Library or bustling common room. Especially as the common room has been a little busier as of late with the Ilvermorny transfers; mostly he doesn't mind them, and has found friends in a lot of them but sometimes it's just a little too busy for his liking.

Between Quidditch, studying and hiding Arlo leaves himself very little time to sleep and lives of Coffee in all forms. In reality it makes him jittery and even more hyper excited, but he deals with it. It does also worsen his anxiety and self-consciousness, but he tries to push that down and not think about it so much.

With regards to recent sit events he has been largely un-phased. If anything he has welcomed the Ilvermorny transfers. He was at the Wimbourne Wasps Vs Yorkshire match where there was 'firework malfunctions' with his father and some of his Quidditch bigwig co-workers in one of the private boxes. Although they were on the opposite side of the Stadium from the Ministry box, Arlo felt a level of survivors guilt. It very well could have happened to their box. He feels deep down there is more to the surface story of a firework malfunction, but he tries not to think too much on it when there's nothing he can do to change it. It has still left him a little bit shaken up. Returning for his sixth year after that, it was hard to not feel a little bit lost and lonely, but as always, he just sets his feelings aside and gets on with things.

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