<pre>Character Name : Jonathan Piersson        Height     : 5’9”<br/>Player ID      : Vandren                  Weight     : 140-150 lbs<br/>Nickname       : Jon, Professor Piersson  Eye Color  : Brown<br/>Gender         : Male                     Skin Color : Tanned<br/>Age            : 38                       Hair Color : Brown<br/><br/>House Affiliation  : None (Went to Durmstrang, Danish)<br/>Disposition        : Vivacious and outgoing, adventurous, somewhat cocky and<br/>                     overconfident<br/>Personality        : Jon is a very bright and outgoing individual.  He has a sort of<br/>                     rough and tumble personality better suited for an action hero’s<br/>                     job than a professor’s, especially a historian’s.  But, he sort<br/>                     of modelled himself after Indiana Jones, in a way.  He genuinely<br/>                     enjoys people and is one of those sorts who knows a fair bit<br/>                     about a lot of things yet tries not to rub anyone’s face in the<br/>                     breadth and depth of his knowledge.  Jon is also somewhat devoted<br/>                     to the rules, even if he’s been known to fracture a few in his<br/>                     time, which is why he made such a good Ministry worker.<br/><br/>Sexuality          : Hetero<br/>Basic Turn-ons     : Brunettes, Being protective, Mousey-types<br/>Basic Turn-offs    : Pain, Unintelligence (7 or lower), Leather/Chains<br/>Sexual Limits      : Site Rules, Male-Male<br/><br/>Fantasies<br/>- Most Wanted      : Ideally, he’d love to find someone to spend the rest of his life<br/>                     with.<br/>- Second           : Taking a pretty student under his wing and tutelege, both<br/>                     academically and otherwise (may crossover with #3 and #1)<br/>- Third            : Finding a pet among his students/faculty<br/><br/>Physical Desc:<br/>  Jon is a fairly normal looking man, in terms of height and build.  He’s around<br/>  average in both respects.  Since he was born to Muggle society, he could pass for<br/>  one at will if he so desired.  Normally he wears his straight hair down to shoulder<br/>  length, held back by a dark brown fedora-like wizard’s hat with a few runes sewn<br/>  into the brim.  Jon always keeps himself clean shaven and wears a pair of silver<br/>  wirerimmed spectacles.  Often he can be seen with an unlit pipe clamped between his<br/>  lips (it is never lit, no one knows why he carries it).  Under his cape-like<br/>  midnight blue robes, Jon wears blood red mid-calf boots with khaki cargo pants<br/>  tucked into them.  A loose white shirt covers his torso and arms, laced up the<br/>  front, itself under an emerald green dragonhide jacket.<br/><br/>Wand  : 12”, Ash, hippogriff talon<br/>Pet   : Tyr, a calico cat.<br/><br/>IQ        : 15         Strength  : 11<br/>Fortitude : 15         Prowess   : 12<br/>Charm     : 12         Endurance : 11<br/>Quickness : 10         Beauty    : 17<br/><br/>Class(es) Taught   : History of Magic<br/>Elective(s) Taught : Muggle Studies<br/>Duties Taken On    : House Head of Gryffindor<br/><br/>OWL Scores:<br/><br/>    Astronomy        : A   Charms           : E   DAtDA            : A<br/>    History of Magic : O   Herbology        : P   Potions          : E<br/>    Transfiguration  : P   Muggle Studies   : E   Care of Mag. Cre.: P<br/><br/>NEWT Scores:<br/><br/>    Charms           : E   History of Magic : E   Potions          : A<br/>    Muggle Studies   : E   DAtDA            : A<br/><br/>-- The Questionaire --<br/>- What form would his/her boggart take?<br/>  His family crest/seal (he fears being called back to assume his father’s place).<br/><br/>- What form would his/her patronus take?<br/>  Currently, a ghostly Bengal tiger (he hasn’t managed a fully corporeal one yet, see<br/>  marks in DADA).<br/><br/>- What two courses are or were his/her strength?<br/>  History of Magic, Charms<br/><br/>- What two courses are or were his/her weakness?<br/>  Herbology, Arithmancy<br/><br/>- Is he/she: Pureblood, Muggle-Born, or Mixed?<br/>  Muggle-Born<br/><br/>- Does he/she have a particular type of magic he/she excells at?<br/>  General Charms, nothing special<br/><br/>- What is a good way to describe the personality of your character?<br/>  Vivacious and outgoing, adventurous, somewhat cocky and overconfident<br/><br/>- What is your character's lineage (short parental background)?<br/>  Both parents are members of the Danish nobility, and both are Muggles.  Their<br/>  parents were Scandinavian nobles, back several generations.<br/><br/>- Why was your character sorted into his/her house?<br/>  The house he was sorted into at Durmstrang doesn’t really fit into Hogwarts’ system.<br/>  At best, it would be a mix of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.  The house upheld a mix of<br/>  those two houses’ ideals.  Jon went into the house based upon his adventurousness and<br/>  intelligence.<br/><br/>Background:<br/>  Jonathan Erasmus Njal Piersson was born in Denmark in 1979.  His father is the<br/>  illustrious Duke Piers Njalsson (both parents are, obviously, Muggles).  As the<br/>  third son of the family, Jon was never considered as part of the line of succession.<br/>  Afterall, his oldest brother is first in line for the duchy.  Since he’s still<br/>  alive, there’s no reason for anything to change.  In 1990, Jon received an owl<br/>  informing him of his enrollment at the northern wizarding school Durmstrang.  After<br/>  much discussion and argument, it was decided that publicly he’d be going to an<br/>  exclusive Norwegian private prep school.  Privately, he’d be going to the wizarding<br/>  school and no discussion of that fact would come up when he came home for breaks.<br/><br/>  The house he was sorted into at Durmstrang doesn’t really fit into Hogwarts’ system.<br/>  At best, it would be a mix of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.  The house upheld a mix of<br/>  those two houses’ ideals.  Jon went into the house based upon his adventurousness and<br/>  intelligence.  He had a fair experience at the school, with decent marks in most of<br/>  his subjects (though he has always been stymied by Transfiguration and Herbology).<br/>  He did earn reasonably good NEWTs and quite good OWLs, though.  They were good enough<br/>  to land Jon a job in England’s Ministry of Magic after graduation.  Fortunately, this<br/>  was exactly what he wanted to do.<br/><br/>  Jon spent the next twelve years working for Muggle Relations, on a magical reversal<br/>  squad.  He was kept quite busy for all of those years.  In 2009, Jon was “promoted”<br/>  to a desk job.  He chomped at the bit for years, hating that job.  He’d always been<br/>  best in the field, reversing spells and conducting field research.  When the news<br/>  that Hogwarts was reopening came, Jon jumped at the chance.  He applied for both the<br/>  Charms and History of Magic positions.  He was accepted for the latter with the<br/>  possibility of being a substitute should the Charms professor ever fall ill.  In a<br/>  pinch, he can also teach Muggle Studies.  So far, these are his only duties at the<br/>  school, though he’d be happy to take over as a House Head or any other position the<br/>  headmaster needs to fill (save only Quidditch ref, which he wouldn’t be much good at).</pre>