<strong>Name:</strong>Michael Styx<br/><strong>Age:</strong>30<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6' 1/4"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>193 lbs<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Pale Blue<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>Dirty Blond<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Kinks:</strong>Likes girls that bite<br/><strong>House:</strong>Ravenclaw<br/><br/><strong>Wand:</strong>Nine inches, Smooth and supple willow with a strand of unicorn tail.<br/><br/>(http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=43063243)<br/><br/>Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and Ollivander noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it.  While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand at Ollivanders (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) the willow wands there have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn.<br/><br/>Unicorn hair can be used in wandmaking; they 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. However, they do not make the most powerful of wands and are prone to melancholy if mishandled.<br/><br/><strong>Patronus:</strong>A ferret that he calls 'Trinket'<br/><br/>(http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/images/cache/cache_9/cache_5/cache_f/ferret-c38a5f59.jpeg?ver=1453384609&aspectratio=1.556420233463)<br/><br/><strong>Job:</strong>Potions Instructor<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>It took Micheal most of his time in school to overcome his shyness and it took the help of several good friends to break him out of his shell.  Once out of that shell he became quite outgoing.  He has a tendency to assume that he is right all the time and occasionally needs to be reminded that he's not perfect.  Once terrifed of flying, he now collects vintage brooms as a hobby and plays a mean jazz saxophone.  He is a hopeless romantic, firmly believing in soul mates and love at first site.<br/><br/>Being able to take the shape of a lion has increased Michael's confidence considerably.  For him it is his ultimate ace in the hole.  He was quite pleased to be able to register with the MoM.  Michael considers his ability to be the ultimate example of how things can be achieved when you really put your mind to it.<br/><br/>There is a moment or two of adjustment as Michael's human mind recalibrates to deal with the altered sense of balance and increased sensory input.  After this he tends to enjoy the feeling of power and the hundredfold increase in the subtleties of what he can smell.  He tends to feel a little smaller after he returns to his normal shape and takes a few moments to go back to normal human interaction.  Michael loves kids and is careful not to do anything that might injure one while he is in lion form, especially amongst children who have not yet learned to fear large animals.<br/><br/>Possessed of a photographic memory, he occasionally forgets that the majority of students need more time to perfect their potions work.  Once reminded, he will be more lenient.  That same memory has allowed him to become fluent in French, German and Spanish.<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Face claim Gabriel Aubrey<br/><br/>(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x94/Shadowphile/Michaelteaches.jpg)<br/><br/>Michael is a youthful looking 30, with eyes that are a startling colour of blue. They seem almost translucent, they are so pale. Those pale eyes seem to miss very little, and are constantly moving, unless they are fixed on a task. His hair is dirty blonde and he prefers to keep it above his collar.   It is difficult to not call it a 'mane' and it is one of the distinctive elements of his animagus (lion) form.  He has a neatly trimmed beard and mustache.  He is fractionally over six feet tall, with an athletic build.  Close examination of his face will reveal that at some point his nose was broken and almost perfectly reset.  If he is seen with his shirt off, he has a series of three parallel scars running diagonally across his stomach with the central scar catching the top of his navel.  They came from a spectacular crash into the viewing stands during his last Qudditch match, although he occasional claims they came from a Christmas Eve encounter with a werewolf.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Michael was almost educated at Beauxbaton, the school his Muggle mother (a lawyer) chose from all those available.   Michael's father pulled some strings and got him admitted to Hogwart's instead for his first year.  Initially afraid of flying, Micheal proved to be a natural and in his second year was drafted onto the Ravenclaw Quidditch team as the seeker, winning his first two games.  He was injured in both of them, the second one badly enough to require hospitalization and resulting in his stomach scarring.  His mother ended his Quidditch career at that point allowing him to 'retire' undefeated.  He dedicated the time freed up from Quidditch to learning how to become an animagus, finally completing the process during his final year at Hogwart's.<br/><br/>Early on he developed a reputation for protecting the underdog and for pyrrhic victories in duels.  It was a common joke that there was always a bed reserved for him in the hospital wing.   It was several years before he learned to pick his fights.  He served as Prefect for House Ravencalw and was appointed Head Boy in his final year, graduating with honours.<br/><br/>He applied to the Werewolf Capture Unit on the advice of a family friend and after going through a grueling interview process, was offered a position as much for his animagus ability as on any other factor.   A chance meeting in a hallway introduced him to a representative of the French WCU equivalent and his fluency in French won him a liaison position. The job left him very little time for relationships but he makes an effort to keep in touch with old school friends.<br/><br/>For years he lectured on the subject of werewolves and  animagi, teaching the difference between the two.  A heated argument regarding the Wolfsbane potion ended with him humiliating the Hogwart's potions master, who stormed off in disgust.  Two days later news that the man had quit his position at the school and retired began circulating and everyone looked at Michael as the cause.  He offered to replace the man until a better candidate was found; that was five years ago.<br/><br/>He enjoys teaching, although he occasionally remarks that he'd rather face another werewolf than teach another class how to make exploding potions.