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Post by Selwyn Thorfinn on May 18, 2016 17:33:53 GMT -5
Selwyn Thorfinn the Younger of Glencoe 5'11" - 1/2 Veela - Transfig Daddy is landed gentry, Mummy is a veela. Of course Selwyn was an angsty child. He's an angsty adult still, between worrying that people only like him because of who he is to worrying that people only like him because of what he is. At Hogwarts, he had a reputation for being something between a prankster and an attention seeker. He was one of those arsehole kids who didn't care if his "pranks" backfired on him (and everyone else) so long as he was in the middle of a spectacle. Selwyn will probably at least try to teach the students something useful in class, but he's easily distracted. ETA: It's become clear I need to add that Selwyn doesn't actually care that much about transfiguration. Love it, hate it, be good or bad at it. It's not going to have an impact on his opinion of you. Veela related stuff - for your referenceSelwyn's true appearance is average at best. It's arguable that he's a little out of proportion, and it makes him look awkward. However the veela glamour makes people think he's attractive despite this. Selwyn does not randomly attract people, because he's been trained to repress that ability much the same way wizards and witches are trained to control their natural magic. This is because he can't direct it at one particular person; it's every susceptible person in the vicinity or nobody. If he were to hit you with it, the effect is something like hypnotism, rather than anything like a love potion. Basically, it's possible to snap out of unless you want to be affected. He can turn into the "mean form of veela" but only when he's taken by surprise or particularly angry. Recently, he's found attempting wandless magic can trigger it as well. Good TermsFriends, students who like him, whatever Bad TermsEnemies, students who dislike him, Selwyn has a habit of doing things "for your own good", he's also a bit up himself LoveSelwyn's a virgin, he's never been in a relationship, he's scared of his veela side. He'll avoid this for as long as he possibly can, he has no idea what his sexuality is because he just doesn't want to think about it. MarriageHe has to get married eventually. To continue the family line an' that. As a teacherModerately strict, because he thinks he needs to be. Also tries to be cool. If your character's a sixth or seventh year, they might remember him from school? Feel free to bully or mock him.
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Post by Jax Stevens on May 19, 2016 16:18:57 GMT -5
I think he and Jax would get along because Jax is a prankster and a skilled animagus so transfiguration is a easy skill for him. I think it would be funny to try to see Jax pull Selwyn into his pranks or try to prank him to no avail due to experience or lack there of
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Post by Mirai Kei on May 19, 2016 16:34:13 GMT -5
So since they went to school together, at least for part of the time, and now work togeter, we should totally do an rp where they meet and Mirai brings up like a number of different pranks he remembers Selwyn being responsible for or like one big one. Mirai did a good job of staying out of trouble so it's likely he either watched them go down around him, or simply heard about them.
Also, I could totally see Mirai flirting with him. He tends to flirt quite a bit with anyone his age or older. Where this goes would be up to you.
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Post by Selwyn Thorfinn on May 19, 2016 17:22:57 GMT -5
Jax StevensYES. Prank him! Selwyn would have to struggle between thinking it was funny and trying to remain professional. Or maybe he'd encourage Jax, we'll see... Also I feel the need to put up a general announcement that he teaches transfiguration because he can, not because he's particularly enamoured of it. TBH, he'd probably be more impressed if you were good at Magical Creatures, because he was terrible at that. Mirai KeiI saw this after the PM you sent me so I'm gonna assume Selwyn isn't supposed to have really noticed Mirai, but obviously, Selwyn himself is pretty noticeable. Pranks Mirai might remember are - that time he tried to sell "genuine phoenix tears" (lakewater) in the Great Hall & actually persuaded one of the professors to buy some, creating a massive slip'n'slide in the seventh floor corridor, inventing a flying game called "bannisters & broomsticks" which involved dodging the moving staircases in the Entrance Hall. You can make up the details, whether he got caught or punished or whatever. In fact, if you wanna make up some other pranks as well, go for it. Mirai is welcome to flirt. It'll probably depend on the situation what level of awkward Selwyn's response is. It might not even be awkward at all.
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Post by Mirai Kei on May 19, 2016 20:40:49 GMT -5
So I could see Mirai recognizing Selwyn and then avoiding him, so if they were going to meet again it would have to be by accident, like if Selwyn was to run into him somewhere around the castle.
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Post by Selwyn Thorfinn on May 19, 2016 22:10:17 GMT -5
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