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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 11, 2017 23:20:28 GMT -5
So lately I've been kinda obsessing over the character of Newt Scamander and have really been wanting to RP him, especially during his time at Hogwarts given how little we actually know about his past at the moment. I'm hoping for someone who can write more than two or three sentences at the very least for each post, but also wouldn't mind going for a week or so between posts because of how hectic life has been for me lately. If you're interested, let me know and we can figure plot and other stuff out.
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 10:50:17 GMT -5
Hello!
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 14:30:31 GMT -5
Alright, could you tell me about them?
Also, when do you want to have this take place? I was thinking Newt's 3rd or 4th year, but I'm flexible.
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inky
I'm a free woman again! At least until the semester starts up :D
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Post by inky on Jan 12, 2017 14:40:02 GMT -5
Yeah I will post her description ! And 3rd or 4th year is perfect | Inky || || Lyra King|| Female || Gryffindor || Half blood || Wolf || Cedar with Pheonix feather core || Leo King is her other brother || Gryffinor seeker ||Lyra is a rather short girl, standing around 5'3, she is thin and has a very distinct grace to her, she is a dancer back in the muggle world so it is something she is trained in. Thanks to dance she is well muscled and small. Her hair is long, reaching to the middle of her back, she keeps half of it up most of the time, just to keep it out of her face. After all it is rather curly, but over the years she has learned to tame the frizziness of her hair, so she has perfect ringlet curls all over her head. Her hair is bright red orange in color. As for her eyes they are a pale icy blue, and are almost always done up with make up of some kind, from simple mascara to full eye makeup. Freckles are splashed across the bridge of her nose, under her cheeks, and shoulders. Her nose is small and like the rest of her body her features are dainty. When her full lips curve into a smile, or move in almost anyway for that matter, dimples pop up near the corners of her mouth. || || She is what someone could call a prankster, she loves to play pranks on people. She never means to hurt anyone, just in good fun. Lyra is that person that gets along with all kinds of people thanks to her usually happy demeanor. Her schooling is something very serious to her it is always her goal to get an A. In anything and everything. Her sense of humor involves a lot of sarcastic remarks and side comments, that and of course pranks. Over all she is a kind hearted girl. But her temper is a hot one. There are certain things that set her off, like danger to her loved ones, she becomes much like her patronus feirce and protective. She would lay her life down for any of her friends or fellow classmates. Her loyalty knows no bounds. Though her temper can often get her into serious trouble when dangerous situations arrise||
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 15:28:00 GMT -5
|| SparkyFlames || || Newton "Newt" Scamander || Male || Hufflepuff || || Pureblood || Unknown || Ash with Unicorn hair core || Has an older brother, Theseus Scamander, who has already graduated Hogwarts ||
|| Newt is fairly tall and lanky despite his age, already standing 5'8". His build and awkwardness sometimes make him clumsy, whether that be tripping over his own feet or accidentally hitting someone with his elbow, but at other times he is surprisingly nimble, especially with his hands. His wavy and often unkempt hair is reddish brown and often falls in front of his eyes. At other times, it tends to look like he just rolled out of bed, with pieces sticking up in all sort of directions. His eyes are bright bluish green. Newt's pale skin is spattered with freckles, especially across his cheeks and nose. He has rather thin lips, matching the rest of his body. || || Newt is, for lack of a better word, an outcast. Unlike the stereotype of his house, he isn't one for interacting with people, often finding it uncomfortable and awkward. His eccentricity and enthusiasm for magical creatures has a tendency to cause others to view him as strange and annoying at best. Instead, Newt throws himself into his schoolwork and independent studies, which results in him spending most of his time in the Hogwarts library or learning outside of class from Professor Kettleburn, teacher of Care of Magical Creatures. Despite all of the bullying he has received, Newt is actually rather kind, though he doesn't get many opportunities to show that side of himself to his peers. ||
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 15:40:11 GMT -5
I agree tho Newt will also be very very awkward
Any ideas for plot or how we should start?
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 15:58:26 GMT -5
Alright. What if he's just starting to put together the suitcase he has in the movie, with just a few magical creatures at the moment and it's a lot less elaborate, and a few of them get out without him meaning for them to and he may or may not get into huge trouble for it?
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 16:13:07 GMT -5
Yup! Any ideas for how we should start things out/have them meet?
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 16:31:08 GMT -5
Ooh, I like the second option.
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 16:36:25 GMT -5
Um, could you start?
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 17:17:06 GMT -5
Newt sat alone at the end of the Hufflepuff table in the Great Hall, his nose--which had a smudge of ink on it that he hadn't yet bothered to wipe away--buried in one of his textbooks. Not looking up, he reached for his drink and brought it to his lips. And then it wasn't a cup, the smooth glass chalice shifting into something dry and bumpy. Newt jerked away, his ears burning bright red as his classmates burst into laughter. Very funny. Newt stuffed his book back into his bag with his free hand, cradling the trembling toad to his chest with the other. He left the Great Hall with his shoulders hunched, murmuring softly to the toad to calm both it and himself down.
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 12, 2017 17:18:11 GMT -5
(Oops, I wrote that without seeing that you'd edited your post. Want me to change it?)
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 13, 2017 10:52:27 GMT -5
Newt flinched when he felt someone touch him, not having expected it. He'd been so caught up in his own thoughts, he hadn't even caught what they'd said. "Please, not right now. Wasn't the embarrassment in front of half the school enough?" he mumbled softly, more to himself than to whoever was behind him. He knew that a lot less than half the school had been in the Great Hall, but it certainly had felt like that much from the laughter. And it wouldn't be long until the entire school knew that the boy who loved animals would even kiss them.
Newt reminded himself to actually turn around, his eyebrows raising in surprise at the girl in front of him. He'd been expecting more laughter, not for someone who looked obviously guilty, even to him. His lips curled down in a thin frown. "Is this your toad?" he asked quietly, holding out the animal in question. Whereas before it had been shaking, eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets when it had transformed back, the toad now sat calmly in Newt's palm. It croaked once at Lyra.
"Do you have any idea how much transfiguration hurts, especially into an inanimate object?" he continued, not waiting for her to respond. "It's bad enough when we have to do it in class, but at least those animals are used to it. Doing it to your own pet, on the other hand? I can't even imagine how you could rationalize doing that, especially just for the sake of a cruel prank. A pet isn't a toy that you can just use however you wish for your own personal gain, it's a living creature that you should treat with the same dignity that you would allow for a person. And another thing, I..." Newt trailed off, realizing that he was rambling quite a bit. His ears, which were still warm from before, blushed bright red again as he ducked his head. His voice had never risen from the volume it had started at, but he doubted that it had helped his case regardless.
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inky
I'm a free woman again! At least until the semester starts up :D
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Post by inky on Jan 13, 2017 16:33:29 GMT -5
The girl frowned as her turned to look at her, merlins beard did she feel bad. She had only ment it as a small joke on her friend, but he had grabbed the wrong cup. Snapping out of her thoughts of self scolding she nodded "Yeah, he is my brother toad.." Lyra's voice was close to a whisper, she felt terrible to pranking the poor boy. She had no idea who he was, just an innocent bystander caught in the fire of pranks between her and her friends.
Her lips opened to answer his frist question but then much more followed after so she slowly closed her mouth and bit her lip. Her gaze trailed down to her shoes, she felt worse than when she was lectured by professors. Then she heard it gave the toad pain; she'd had no idea it hurt them. If she had known she would have never done it. It was things like this that she missed when she didn't pay attention in class. Once he was down talking she instantly picked up herself, "I-I didn't know it hurt them, I-if I had had know I w-would have never done it!" She said, her eyes rested on the toad in his hands and she frowned, poor little guy. All cause she wanted to tease her friends.
"I am sorry." She said, her eyes were locked on the small bumpy creature in his hands. "I won't try to transfigure you again I promise." Lyra but her lip again still feel terrible. Then he gaze shifted to Newt "And in sorry I played the trick on you. Ya see my friend was sitting next to you and you grabbed the wrong glass.. Well wrong toad I guess. B-But now that I know it hurts then I won't do it again. I really should pay more attention in class." Her hand moved to rub the back of he neck her fingers moving under the thick layer of long ringlet curls. Again the icy gaze returned to the toad "Froggy you are going to get all the treat in the world even if I have to steal them from my brother." She said reaching out the toad with one gently rub of her finger.
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 13, 2017 17:13:43 GMT -5
Newt's gaze flickered around the nearly abandoned corridor, checking to make sure there weren't people watching, that this wasn't some elaborate follow-up joke, because this girl was acting far from how he had been expecting. But no one seemed to be paying them any attention. His attention returned to the girl, studying her body language. His own shoulders relaxed. Either she was being genuine, she was a really good actress, or he was truly rubbish at reading people. Or maybe all of those things. Definitely at least the last one.
"To be honest, I'm pretty used to getting pranked. I was more worried about this little guy," he mumbled, looking down at Froggy. "Most people don't know that transfiguration hurts them or seem to even stop and think about it. Professor Dumbledore's only mentioned it once in any of my classes, but given how often we practice the spells on animals, he probably thinks ignorance is bliss. Not that anyone seems to care when I tell them about it, except you, it seems, which is weird in its own right, but still, it's important that people know and-" Newt snapped his mouth shut, realizing that he was rambling, again. And calling her weird, which he was pretty positive most people did not like to be called.
He gently deposited Froggy on her shoulder, then ran his now free hand through his hair. "Anyways, I should probably get going. My next class is starting soon." A lie, but he didn't want to insult her any more than he probably already had, calling her weird and all but outright stating that she had basically tortured her brother's toad. Given, that last part was true but people didn't seem to like to hear it.
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inky
I'm a free woman again! At least until the semester starts up :D
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Post by inky on Jan 15, 2017 13:34:00 GMT -5
Lyra listened to him as he spoke, it was obvious this was something he was very passionate about. It was kind of sweet how much he cares about animals and she couldn't help but smile a bit, it was very hufflepuff of him. Well the sorting hat had never really been wrong as far as she knew so it was a good fit she guessed. Her smile only grew as the toad was set on her shoulder and she turned her head as best she could to see Froggy, the name she had given him when she was about six her brother at the time was eight and protested the name because it wasn't a frog at all it was a toady. But Lyra had insisted toady wasn't a cute name. Of course she won but it took a lot for the name to still. Looking back was her brother right, yes. Was she going to admit that ever? No.
Snapping her attention back to Newt she turned her head while petting the toad. "Well now I know, and I can promise you I won't be transfiguring any more animals for practical jokes." She said with a short nod. Lyra had picked up on him calling her weird but she had a brother and played Quidditch so weird was something she was used to. After all the ginger haired girl was a bit on the odd side sometimes. Her oddness was something her friend enjoyed and others didn't, but she didn't really care what other thought of her. Lyra did what Lyra did and had fun. Minus this of course, she cared what Froggy thought of her, and right now he probably didn't think to highly of her.
"Oh, Yeah of course you should get to class! I'm Lyra King by the way. You can call me Lyra, or Ly. Which ever I don't really care either way. I guess I will see you around sometime hopefully my pranks don't misfire again. " She smiled once more at him and turned away, quickly she turned back and rubbed the back of her neck. "I almost forgot to ask for your name."
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 15, 2017 21:12:35 GMT -5
(No worries!)
"Oh, er, I'm Newton Scamander. Most people just call me Newt, though, it's a lot less pompous sounding than Newton. A lot more... me." Even if most people took his name as yet another way to pick on him, he did actually rather like it. Unlike a lot of his classmate's names, his was short and simple. And there was nothing wrong with newts. He scratched behind his ear with one finger, his head tilted slightly. "See you around, Lyra. And, um, thanks." He gave her a small, awkward smile. It was nice having someone his age actually listen and take his ramblings seriously for a change, even if the conversation hadn't come around from the best of circumstances.
(Sorry this is a little short, I've been cleaning my room all day and my brain is kinda fried)
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Post by SparkyFlames on Jan 15, 2017 21:58:30 GMT -5
Newt scrubbed at the spot of ink on his nose all the way to, fittingly enough, Transfiguration. By the time he slipped into the classroom and sat at his normal seat in the front corner, most of his classmates still had yet to arrive. He smiled slightly at Professor Dumbledore before getting his stuff out, doing his best to ignore the small pieces of paper being charmed to fly at the back of his head by someone behind him. He was still thrown off by his interaction by Lyra. Nothing in how she had behaved lined up with what he'd previously experienced, especially from someone who was obviously such a prankster. But, then again, people were incomprehensible like that, so much more difficult to understand than beasts. He just hoped that anyone who had seen them didn't give her too much of a hard time for putting up with his ramblings.
(Sure, what class were you thinking?)
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