Remus John Lupin
Dec 29, 2016 19:48:30 GMT -5
Post by Remus Lupin on Dec 29, 2016 19:48:30 GMT -5
"My demons
Though quiet
are never quite silenced.
Calm as they may be,
they wait patiently
for a reason to wake,
take an overdue breath
and crawl back to my ear."
- Sarah Boswell
General Characteristics
Name: Remus John Lupin
Appearance: Remus is tall, and it has been noted that he's the exact length of a wolf from tail to nose, though he is still shorter than Sirius. He has light brown hair that has started to grey here and there, and vividly blue eyes that have the habit of turning a shocking yellow the day of the moon, usually only when he can't control his anger. His skin color is most often extremely pale, with bruises and angry red scars dotted all over the place. The largest being his curse scar which goes from his navel up to his ribs. He's thin, though still well muscled thanks to his marauder antics and the werewolf curse, and no longer looks like a good breeze will blow him away. He has defined cheek bones and a smile that, when seen, is warm and kind, and reaches all the way to his eyes.
As a wolf, he's larger than most, with intelligent yellow eyes and sharp teeth. His fur is a light brown with grey speckled in.
Other Names: Remmie, Romulus or Moony
Titles: Gryffindor Prefect
Alternate Forms: Werewolf
Blood Status: Halfblood
Theme Song: Fear the fever by Digital Daggers
Wand: 10 ¼ inches long, made of cypress with a strand of unicorn hair, pliable.
Wand Meaning:
Cypress wands are associated with nobility. The great medieval wandmaker, Geraint Ollivander, wrote that he was always honoured to match a cypress wand, for he knew he was meeting a witch or wizard who would die a heroic death. Wands of cypress find their soul mates among the brave, the bold and the self-sacrificing: those who are unafraid to confront the shadows in their own and others’ natures.
Wands with unicorn hair produce the most consistent magic, least subject to fluctuations and blockages, most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts and the most faithful of wands[1]. However, they do not make the most powerful of wands and are prone to melancholy if mishandled.
Patronus: Wolf
Affilitation: Mauraders, Howarts Prefects, Order of the Phoenix
Personal Characteristics
Birth Date: 10 March 1960
Death Date: 2 May1998
Age at Death: Thirty-Eight
Death Place: Hogwarts
Manner of Death: Murdered by Antonin Dolohov
Last Words: “I'm sorry too...Sorry I will never know him... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand. I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life."
Primary Objective: To graduate Hogwarts and find a place willing to hire a werewolf.
Secondary Objectives: To rectify his relationship with Dorcas, prove to himself that he's not a horrible monster.
Priorities: Friends
Motivation: Fenrir Greyback – making sure he's nothing like him.
Accomplishments: Being the first werewolf allowed to study at Hogwarts, helping create the Marauders Map.
Greatest Achievement: Making friends with the marauders
Failures: Controlling his temper, making his friends do the right thing.
Biggest Failure: Hitting Dorcas, nearly killing Marlene.
Self-Confidence: Remus doesn't have much self confidence. Being friends with the marauders and having past relations with Dorcas and Hestia have inched it higher. But at the end of the day he still knows what he is and that knowledge keeps him afraid and self doubtful.
Traumas: Being attacked by Fenrir Greyback at four years old, and then again on the Train in his seventh year.
Afflictions: Werewolf Curse
Embarrassments: His scars from his transformations, losing his temper.
Worries: Turning into a monster, losing Dorcas for good, losing any of his friends.
Soothers: Chocolate, Dorcas, Reading by the fire.
Instigators: Marlene, Dorcas, Fenrir, The Full Moon.
Earliest Memory: Unfortunately, his earliest memory is now the night Fenrir Greyback tore into his window when he was nearly five, and nearly killed him.
Fondest Memory: When Dumbledore came to tell him he could go to Hogwarts, When James Potter and Sirius Black befriended him on the train to Hogwarts and his first kiss with Dorcas.
Worst Memory: Getting bit by Fenrir both times, and nearly killing his friends.
Favorite Dream: A lycanthropy cure is created, and he becomes normal, and gets to live a happily ever after with Dorcas.
Worst Nightmare: His anger gets worse, and the pain of the transformations get worse, his friends leave him and he becomes exactly like Greyback.
Desires: A life with Dorcas Meadows.
Wishes: A normal life, with a career.
Regrets: Hitting Dorcas, Hitting Marlene, Running out to the grounds during a transformation and nearly killing his friends.
Secrets: He's cursed with Lycanthropy
Confidantes: The Marauders
Soft Spots: The Marauders, Dorcas, Hestia, Lily
Cruel Streaks: Nothing, unless he's transformed, then it's anything.
Musical Instrument: None
Quirks: His penchant for melancholy and mystery or for meat done on the raw side. Could turning into a hairy monster be a quirk?
Mental Characteristics
IQ: He's one of the better students in his year, but he does have to study and try harder than his friends James Potter or Sirius Black. He's intelligent, but nothing special.
Known Languages: English, Wolf?
Lures: Dorcas, The Marauders, and though he doesn't want to admit it, Fenrir.
Manias: Being nothing like the other werewolves.
Memory: Remus has an unfortunately good memory. He remembers pretty much everything that's happened, good and bad. Even during his transformations, he remembers glimpses.
Phobias: The Full Moon
Savvies: DADA, Charms, Non-verbal magic, Healing Magic.
Ineptities: Potions
Temperament: Phlegmatic
Hobbies: Reading, Dueling
Pet Peeves: Bullying
Intellectual Characteristics
Logical-Mathematical:
Remus has come to rely greatly on Logic and reasoned thinking. He views most Werewolves as giving in to their emotions, leading them astray. So he is determined not to do the same, as his greatest desire is to lead a normal wizarding life. He is the most logical in his group of friends, with the exception of Lily Evans.
Spatial:
Being a young boy with a curse meant that Remus lost a lot of friends and ended up alone. He got very good at being able to conjure up stories and images in his mind. One of his favorite things to do when alone is to imagine a different life, with great adventures.
Linguistic:
Remus tends to fumble with spoken words, though he does have a way of guilt tripping his friends when needed. However, he's a talented writer and is often the one his friends come to when they need help on an essay or story.
Bodily-Kinesthetic:
Unfortunately Remus has pretty awful hand eye coordination. He is a fair flyer, but isn't talented at quidditch. The only bodily thing he's good at would be duelling, something he is better at than his friends.
Musical:
Remus is not a very musical person, though he does enjoy listening to it.
Interpersonal:
Remus is exceptionally empathetic. Sometimes too much so. He lets people walk all over him because he understands others and wants them to like him. It's a desperate need that gets him into trouble.
Intrapersonal:
Remus is also very in tuned to what he is and wants. He's had to be as he grew up alone and ostracized. Until Hogwarts, he was his only friend. Dealing with his curse has also helped him be intrapersonal, as he needs to be careful and know what his body is telling him.
Naturalistic:
He enjoys the outdoors, and would spend most of his time in it if possible. His wolf side gives him the ability to understand nature more than most, and he has great empathy for the creatures surrounding him.
Existential:
While not particularly good at understanding the existential side of the world, he does think about it a lot. He often asks himself what the bigger picture is, and why something is happened. Instead of just enjoying the here and now.
Philosophical Characteristics
Morality:
Unlike his friend James, Remus has a more realistic view of Good and Bad. He's had to trust that there is a grey area, in order not to lose faith in his own morality. Being a werewolf taught him that nothing is black and white.
Etiquette:
Etiquette is Remus' shield. He uses kindness, politeness and manners as a way to differentiate himself from others of his kind. From those like Greyback.
Attitude:
Ignoring how he's acted since the train attack, Remus is usually very tactful, kind and gentle. He hates hurting anyone, including with words, and tends to choose them carefully. Unless it is close to the full moon, in which case he's a little snappy and short tempered.
Outlook on Life:
He tries to have a positive outlook but he tends to be pessimistic and brooding. Though since he's a half breed, he looks at himself as being realistic.
Perception:
He percieves the world usually in the best light, trying to see the best in everyone. But as he grows older he sees it more realistically. He doesn't keep his hopes up, knowing that after Hogwarts, his chances at a normal wizarding life are slim.
Philosophy:
“We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.”
Taboos:
Kill someone (At least he hopes)
Bite someone
Join Voldemort
Spiritual Characteristics
Religion:
He has none, he rather got a distaste for religion after coming to terms with his condition.
Devotion:
N/A
Superstitions:
Remus is too realistic to believe in supersitions.
Virtues:
He suscribes to Charity, Temperance, Humility, Patience and Kindness.
Vices:
He exhibits Lust, Envy, Despair and lately, Wrath.
Highs and Lows
Likes:
Chocolate
Dorcas
Hestia
Marauders
Hot Cocoa
Books
Hogwarts
Classes
Dislikes:
Full Moon
Wolves
His Temper
Fenrir Greyback
His earliest memory
Having to lie
Being disliked by someone
Favorite Animal: Dogs
Favorite Band: The Beatles
Favorite Book: Jekyll and Hyde
Favorite Color: Red
Favorite Country: Scotland, there was more land there to hide when he was growing up, and it was close to Hogwarts.
Favorite Drink: Hot Cocoa
Favorite Excuse: “Sorry, my aunt has fallen ill”
Favorite Food: Chocolate
Favorite Pastime: Reading
Favorite People: The marauders, Dorcas, Hestia
Favorite Place: The Chair by the fire in the common room
Apparel
Dress Style/Wardrobe:
Remus isn't fashion forward by any means. He wears slacks or jeans, usually with rips in them, and loose shirts with a sweater or cardigan, even during the summer, to hide the scars and bruises and occasional starved look he has going on.
Most Prized Possession:
His wand, since he never thought he'd be allowed to have one.
Most Valuable Possession:
Again, his wand, everything else is second hand.
Trinkets:
He carries a small potion that Peter gifted him the christmas of his seventh year. It's supposedly able to help him during his transformations, but he hasn't had the guts to try it yet.
Social Characteristics
Communication:
He isn't direct, though he's always wished he could be. He tends to speak only when he feels he has something important to say. He'd much rather listen.
Criminal Record: None, being a werewolf is enough.
Discriminations:
Recently he's begun to feel ill towards other werewolves, though he realizes not all are like Greyback.
Dominance:
He's usually not firm at all. He tends to be a push over, especially when he's around friends. He's too scared of losing them. However, if it's something he really believes in, or if it's close to the full moon, he tends to be firmer and more dominant in his views.
Ego:
Remus has zero ego usually, unless he's having an especially moody Pre wolf syndrome. He often hates himself.
Emotional Stability:
Remus used to think he'd never make it to seventeen with his self intact. The last year has shown that he has a breaking point, and reaching it brings some devestating results. He can take a lot; he breaks all the bones in his body and goes through other horrific transformations once a month, was attacked and nearly killed by Fenrir twice, and regularly spends days in the Hospital Wing.
Expression:
He tends to express himself by what book he's reading, or by the aura he's emitting.
Humor:
He has a dark sense of humor, and often finds karma quite funny as well.
Liveliness:
He moves carefully and with precision, often because he's been injured by his wolf side. So he only does what he has to do.
Mannerisms: Remus is known for being mysterious and well mannered.
Patience: He's also known for being extremely patient, much more so than any of his friends.
Reputation:
Because of his friendship with the marauders, he's held in high esteem. He's well liked by his teachers and peers, though the latter often find him mysterious and closed off.
Sociability:
Growing up, Remus didn't believe he'd ever have a social life. So even though he can be quiet and shy, Remus thrives on social interaction. He never knows when he might lose it all.
Status: Mysterious and popular.
School and Work
Average Grade: He averages in O's, though he's always gotten A's in potions.
Education: He was home schooled until he was put into Hogwarts.
Extracurricular: Marauder antics.
Study Habits: Remus studies every day if possible, though he tends to spend most of that time nagging his friends to study as well.
Learning Type: Remus is an auditory and visual learner.
Occupation: Right now he's a student, after Hogwarts he works for The Order, and after that's disbanded he is unemployed until he's a teacher for a year.
Transportation: His parents car, or Floo Powder, he's also a fair flyer.
Wealth
Class: Lower-Middle
Debt: None, right now the debt belongs to his parents.
Dependents: None
Funds: Not much, his friends Sirius and James are usually kind enough to make sure he doesnt' need any.
Income: None, unfortunately he'll have to rely on James and Sirius.
Intrapersonal Connections
Immediate Family: His mother Hope was a muggle and his father Lyall was a wizard well known for his work with dark creatures like Boggarts, spirits and werewolves.
Close Relatives: His grandparents on both sides, though usually only during Holidays.
Distant Relatives: None
Ancestors:
Remus doesn't know much about his ancestors, though there have been rumors that he is related to the Remus and Romulus twins of Rome.
Acquaintances: The Prewitt Twins and Benjy,
Allies: The Marauders
Enemies: Fenrir Greyback and Voldemort
Followers: He's the follower
Friends: The Marauders
Heroes: He admires James and Sirius, and their gusto. He also tends to be a greek and roman hero fan.
Inspirations: James and Sirius
Pets: At home he has a dog, a cat and a turtle.
Rivals: He doesnt' have any rivals, though his wolf side tends to view Sirius as one.
Role Models: James, Sirius and Peter
Subordinates:He doesn't have any subbordinates.
Combat
Signature Move: He's quite adept at the Patronus charm
Specialty: DADA
Strengths: Duelling, Defense against the Dark Arts spells
Weaknesses: Potions, transfiguration
Physical Characteristics
Nationality: Welsh
Skin Color: White
Height: 6'2 (187cm)
Weight: 160lbs (72kg)
Scars:
Large one that goes from navel to right rib
Myriad of ones all over arms
Large one on left side of back from being pierced by James
Bite scars on legs
White, thin one on his cheek to his lip
Piercings: None
Tattoos: None
Health and Fitness
Abnormalities: He has none
Addictions: None
Aids: None
Allergies: None
Diseases: None
Disorders: Lycanthropy
Medication: None yet
Vulnerabilities: Silver
Fitness: Keeping up with the marauders and Dorcas is fitness enough
Hygiene: He showers daily
Martial Arts: None, unless you count what he does as a werewolf martial arts.
Maximum Load: Normal, he can carry about half his body weight. As a werewolf he can pound down doors, break sturdy furniture, and smash windows without injury, so he can carry a lot.
Posture: He has a slight hunch from his unconscious need to protect his secret.
Scent: He smells like a mix of paper, ink, chocolate and a scent that all werewolves have, and is quite wolf-like.
Sexual Characteristics
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Sex Life: Monogomous, quite lively as of late.
Virginity: Lost as of his seventh year
First Love: Dorcas
Love Interests: Dorcas, Hestia
Marital Status: Unmarried
Significant Other: He hopes it is still Dorcas
Residential Characteristics
Citizenship: British
Culture: He doesn't really have a culture
Hometown: Cardiff, Wales
Traditions: He doesn't really have any traditions
Sleep Patterns: Remus loves sleep, it's the only time he doesn’t worry. He tends to sleep whenever his friends let him sleep, and if he could, he would sleep until the afternoon. When it's closest to the Full Moon he sleeps even longer and heavier.
Vocal Characteristics
Accent/Dialect: Welsh
Impediments: None
Laughter: He has a low, quiet laugh
Pitch: Low
Range: He doesn't have much range
Volume: He likes to keep his voice quiet
Development
Personal:
Remus has had a lot of personal development, especially as he came to Hogwarts. He's had to find faith in himself and other people, in their kindess and his. He's learned about his darker side and is trying to learn how to control it.
Social:
Before Hogwarts, from the age of 4 until 11, he had zero social life apart from his pets and parents. He was too dangerous to have friends, and so his social development has widened considerably. He's had to learn how to be friends, without being too much of a push over, he's also had to learn how to trust and believe in others. And have a girlfriend.
Physical:
He's grown stronger and healthier since arriving at Hogwarts. Before he looked pale, like a good wind would blow him away. While he's still thin, he's filled out and no longer looks near death all the time. His werewolf side has also grown, and is now strong enough to need extremely strong protective spells to keep him inside.
Spiritual:
Remus' spiritual growth has lessened as of late. He is constantly worried he'll turn into Greyback, and it's an all consuming thought that has had dire consequences.
Defining Moment
He hasn't had his defining moment yet.
Biography
Infancy:
A happy, healthy little boy, he showed early signs of magic and both parents imagined that he would follow in his father’s footsteps, attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in due course.
Childhood:
By the time that Remus was four years old, the amount of Dark magical activity across the country was increasing steadily. While few yet knew what lay behind the mounting attacks and sightings, Lord Voldemort’s first ascent to power was in progress and Death Eaters were recruiting all kinds of Dark creatures to join them in their quest to overthrow the Ministry of Magic. The Ministry called in the services of authorities on Dark creatures – even those as minor as Boggarts and poltergeists – to help it understand and contain the threat. Lyall Lupin was among those asked to join the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, which he did gladly. It was here that Lyall came face-to-face with a werewolf called Fenrir Greyback, who had been brought in for questioning about the death of two Muggle children.
Greyback sat in silence while Lyall was laughed at by his fellow committee members (‘Lyall, you just stick to Welsh Boggarts, that’s what you’re good at’). Lyall, generally a mild-mannered man, grew angry. He described werewolves as ‘soulless, evil, deserving nothing but death’. The committee ordered Lyall out of the room, the head of the committee apologised to the Muggle tramp and Greyback was released.
Greyback lost no time in sharing with his friends how Lyall Lupin had just described them. Their revenge on the wizard who thought that werewolves deserved nothing but death would be swift and terrible.
Shortly before Remus Lupin’s fifth birthday, as he slept peacefully in his bed, Fenrir Greyback forced open the boy’s window and attacked him. Lyall reached the bedroom in time to save his son’s life, driving Greyback out of the house with a number of powerful curses. However, henceforth, Remus would be a fully fledged werewolf.
Lyall did all he could to find a cure, but neither potions nor spells could help his son. From this time onwards, the family’s lives were dominated by the need to hide Remus’s condition. They uprooted themselves from village to town, leaving the instant that rumours of the boy’s odd behaviour started. Fellow witches and wizards noticed how peaky Remus became as new moon approached, not to mention his monthly disappearances. Remus was not allowed to play with other children, in case he let slip the truth of his condition. In consequence, and in spite of his loving parents, he was a very lonely boy.
While Remus was small, his containment during his transformation was not difficult; a locked room and plenty of silencing spells usually sufficed. However, as he grew, so did his wolfish self, and by the time he was ten years old, he was capable of pounding down doors and smashing windows. Ever more powerful spells were needed to contain him and both Hope and Lyall grew thin with worry and fear. They adored their son, but they knew that their community – already beset with fears at the mounting Dark activity around them – would not be lenient on an uncontrolled werewolf. The hopes that they had once had for their son seemed in ruins, and Lyall educated Remus at home, certain that he would never be able to set foot in school.
Shortly before Remus’s eleventh birthday, no less a person than Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, arrived uninvited on the Lupins’ doorstep. Flustered and frightened, Lyall and Hope tried to block his entrance, but somehow, five minutes later, Dumbledore was sitting at the fireside, eating crumpets and playing Gobstones with Remus.
Dumbledore explained to the Lupins that he knew what had happened to their son. Greyback had boasted of what he had done and Dumbledore had spies among Dark creatures. However, Dumbledore told the Lupins that he saw no reason why Remus should not come to school, and described the arrangements that he had made to give the boy a safe and secure place for his transformations. Due to the widespread prejudice around werewolves, Dumbledore agreed that for Remus’s own sake his condition should not be broadcast. Once a month, he would leave for a secure and comfortable house in the village of Hogsmeade, guarded by many spells and reached only by an underground passage from the Hogwarts grounds, where he could transform in peace.
Remus’s excitement was beyond anything he had known before. It was the dream of his life to meet other children and have, for the first time, friends and playmates.
Sorted into Gryffindor house, Remus Lupin was swiftly befriended by two cheerful, confident and rebellious boys, James Potter and Sirius Black. They were attracted by Remus’s quiet sense of humour and a kindness that they valued, even if they did not always possess it themselves. Remus, always the underdog’s friend, was kind to short and rather slow Peter Pettigrew, a fellow Gryffindor, whom James and Sirius might not have thought worthy of their attention without Remus’s persuasion. Soon, these four became inseparable.
Adolescence:
Remus functioned as the conscience of this group, but it was an occasionally faulty conscience. He did not approve of their relentless bullying of Severus Snape, but he loved James and Sirius so much, and was so grateful for their acceptance, that he did not always stand up to them as much as he knew he should.
Inevitably, his three best friends soon became curious as to why Remus had to vanish once a month. Convinced by his lonely childhood that his friends would desert him if they knew that he was a werewolf, Remus made up ever more elaborate lies to account for his absences. James and Sirius guessed the truth in their second year. To Remus’s astonished gratitude, they not only remained his friends but thought up an ingenious method of easing his monthly isolation. They also gave him a nickname that would follow him all through school: ‘Moony’. Remus finished his school career as a Prefect.
Adulthood:
Yet to be seen
Seniority:
Yet to be seen.