<strong>Name:</strong>Blossom 'Bud'  Ignatius Rose<br/><strong>Age:</strong>25<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6' 1"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>163 lbs<br/><strong>Eye color:</strong>Black<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Sexual Orientation:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Kinks:</strong>Enjoys sex outside in natural spaces<br/><strong>House:</strong>Slytherin<br/><strong>Wand:</strong>Nine inches, springy rosewood etched with roses and cored with unicorn hair  (inherited from his mother)<br/><br/>(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x94/Shadowphile/Blossoms%20wand_zpsukzagjvw.jpg)<br/><br/>Rosewood wands are quite rare. They are not very compatible with Dark magic as this wood represents love and purity. Rosewood wands are known to excel in love spells and healing magic.<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/>When not in use, he keeps it in an ornately carved box.<br/><br/>(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x94/Shadowphile/blossomwandcase.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Patronus:</strong>Due to his melancholy and that of his wand, Blossom has no Patronus<br/><br/><strong>Job:</strong>Herbology Instructor and Head of House (Slytherin)<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Blossom is deeply ashamed of how far his family has fallen.  He has finally broken the curse that has brought his family to ruin but he isn't entirely certain that he's done it in time to save his family.   He is slow to open up to people.  Once won, however, his friendship and loyalty are undying, as is his hatred of those who betray his trust.  He's lost his prejudices towards Purebloods, no longer seeing halfbreeds and mudbloods as inferior beings.<br/><br/>As the last of his line, he would very much like to find himself a wife so he can carry on the family line and prevent it from slipping forever into the history books.  Although he would prefer to make an alliance with a pureblooded family, he would certainly not resist a relationship with a Muggle-born.<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Face claim Ben Barnes<br/>(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__7s9GUTM-oY/TBq_FBdhrFI/AAAAAAAARUk/DxWSCoGXELk/s1600/caspian.JPG)<br/><br/>Tall and willowy, Blossom has the problem of hair that seems unwilling to be tamed.  It is a dark, almost earth brown mop that resists combing and even when cut short it looks like it's going every which way.  His thinness comes from a childhood illness has made him unable to eat meat.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>The Rose family was once one of the more affluent and influential Pureblood  families in the wizarding world.  Closely related to the Blacks and the Longbottoms, they were famous for their herbalists and potions, their gardens drew visitors from all over the world. That all came crashing to an end when the only daughter of the house eloped with the youngest son of the  Posada family, on the eve of her wedding to the powerful Fudge clan.  Thinking it was a planned snub, the Fudges withdrew from a centuries old pact with the Roses.  Furious with the Posada over the insult, the Roses went to war.<br/>The War of the Roses, as it was called, saw the power of one family come into direct conflict with another, something that was devastating in its destructiveness.  The end came when the errant daughter turned on her own house and, taking advantage of her father's trust, placed a powerful curse on the family. From that day forward, the Rose family fortunes spiraled downwards.  Once famous gardens now lie barren and lifeless.  Fortunes in gold stored at Gringotts suddenly vanished like leprechaun gold overnight.<br/><br/>Blossom is the last child of the line.  His mother died giving birth to him and he was raised by a father who didn't quite know what to do with him in the face of the family's failed fortunes.  An unidentified illness as a child left him weakened and bedridden for almost a year.  Unable to travel to the exotic locations visited by their wealthier peers even if his family could have afforded it, Blossom was quickly left behind.  He stopped getting invitations and was often left to his own devices.  He took to reading and still reads voraciously.  He puttered in the family gardens, while he recovered and the weather was warm enough for him to be permitted outside.  He has the families famous green thumb and is quite proud of it, even if it is one of very few things he has to be proud of.<br/>Artifacts that have been in the family for centuries were sold off to put Blossom through school, in the hope that he might be able to find some way to end the curse that has brought the house to its knees over the past five centuries.  How the curse was broken he has never said but rumour has it that the death of his father was involved.  The secret is no doubt buried somewhere in his journal.<br/><br/>(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x94/Shadowphile/blossomjournal.jpg)<br/><br/>The money Blossom makes as a professor at Hogwart's mostly goes to restoring his family gardens.  After 500 years  of cursed existence, they are slow to respond but Blossom spends all his time away from teaching tending them.  He even allows certain students to assist for extra credit.  He was surprised and elated to be offered the position of Head of Slytherin and took it as a sign that his family's fortunes were truly on the upswing.