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THE CHARACTER

Aiden Alexander MacLeod

Name: Aiden Alexander MacLeod
Age/Year: 11/First Year
Gender: Male
House: Ravenclaw
Blood: Muggleborn
Wand: 10" Elder, Dragon Scale Core
Sexuality: Heterosexual


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PERSONALITY

Cautious and Kind
Aiden is an odd little child, born frail and not made for physical combat. However, this did not diminish the kindness he had been raised to possess. But due to how he was raised, around bullies who picked on him for his smallness, Aiden has developed a shyness that has gotten him into much trouble with people, who mistake his shyness for stupidity. In truth, Aiden is over cautious, and therefore does not do anything without first thinking it through. When dealing with girls, who he has just begun to notice as "different", Aiden often clams up, refusing to speak to them unless he has a LOT of good reasons.


Friendly and Curious
While Aiden is a cautious soul, this doesn't mean he isn't friendly and curious to others. When he finds a puzzle, Aiden will be at it for hours, hoping to find some clue as to how to solve it. Often this has led to him being up at odd hours of the night, but as long as he discovers the answer he doesn't care. Because of this, Aiden loves to read and study histories and art, legends and stories, myths and epics. He is something of a book geek. Now, the only times his cautiousness gets thrown out the window is when he sees someone who obviously needs a friend (though normally they don't, but he thinks they do). At such times, Aiden will immediately strike up a conversation, usually doing something goofy to get attention and at the same time hoping for a laugh from his audience. It is in his nature to make friends with everyone, no matter who they are.


Naïve and Intelligent
Aiden believes that all people are naturally good, and that the evil people are just misguided and need someone to help them back onto the road of good. So, to that end, Aiden often seems to make friends with those that are "bad apples" in order for him to set them right. Its not just that, either. Aiden believes whatever people tell him, believing them to be true. He has not yet learned that people sometimes lie for no reason, and therefor is often taken advantage of. However, this does not mean he isn't intelligent. Far from it, actually. Aiden was gifted with high intelligence and magical power, able to cast spells that would take higher class students quite a bit of time with ease. His mastery of magic seems to be in anything relying heavily on magic, and even Potions he is good with. The only magic he seems to have issues with is Transfiguration.



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Weaknesses: Girls, Anything requiring physical activity, Shyness. He is physically weak due to his birth, and is always pale.
Strengths: Magic, Every Magic Class
Secrets: (undecided)
Patronus: Bird of Fire, the size of a fully bred dragon
Boggart: A werewolf

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Likes [list at least 6]
* Friends
* Food/Eating
* Books
* Riddles
* Puzzles
* Chess (Wizard and Normal)
* Muffins
* Intelligent Girls
* Birds

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Dislikes [list at least 6]
* Anything Stinky
* Snakes (hence his dislike for Slytherins)
* Lightning Strikes (Big BOOOOM!)
* Swimming
* Sports
* Slimy Things

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LOOKS

Appearence:
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Body Type
Aiden is a small and sickly boy, barely reaching 4' 1" in height and thin enough to be considered almost anorexic. However, he does have a bit of muscle on him, due to how often he is moving around, hoping to get better. White and almost always pale enough for most to consider him dead, which started the "Corpse" nickname they'd given him, Aiden doesn't like being in the sun at all without his umbrella. Oh, he loves the feel of the sun on his pale skin, but it burns easily, almost within minutes. His hair, long and fine dirty blond strands with a hint of red in it, frames a pair of sea blue eyes, a blue with a hint of green in them that is hereditary from his mother's side. A fine boned face as fine as an angel's, Aiden has the looks of a thirteen year old, if it wasn't for his size and demeanor. Underneath his clothes, all across his skin (except for his face), are small white lines that seem to resemble cracks. He was born with them, and no one knows where they come from, but just above his left n****e, about an inch from it, it a white outline of the Irish Symbol for Eternal Love. In the palm of his right hand there is also the Celtic Knot, though again no one has been able to figure out where it comes from. Another odd thing is that when exposed to large amounts of heat, like being near a campfire too long, or being in the sun for an hour, will cause the white cracks on his skin (they look like jagged lines) to spread up to his face and turn deep gold, something that will easily catch people's interest.

Formal Wear
The Formal Wear is the robes that he wears to special gatherings, something other than the normal school robes that every student is required to wear. Formal Robes are a bit hard to find these days, especially good ones, due to how close in appearance they are to the uniform robes of Hogwarts. But, after much thinking and much deliberation, Aiden decided to forgo formal robes and instead will don a leather vest and a neat white dress shirt beneath. Black dress pants, more commonly referred to as "slacks", end just above the ankle portion of the dark brown leather cowboy boots he wears, of the "cockroach killer" variety. With this he wears a single silver pendant attached to a platinum chain. It is a silver base designed to be in the shape of the Celtic Five Fold symbol. There are five rings in this shape, one on the top, right, bottom, and left, and one in the center that the other four intersect. The rings each have an inner ring where gem stones have been placed to define the ring. The top ring has a Sapphire ring placed into it, with yellow veins of what looks like topaz running through it. The bottom is topaz with veins of ruby. The right one is amethyst with veins of diamond, and the left is diamond with veins of emerald. The center ring is the oddest, for it is a ring of emerald with veins of all four of the other gems running through it. It it attached to the golden chain magically, and hangs down to his low chest.

Casual Wear
Casual wear is something of a foreign concept to Aiden, who grew up wearing formal clothes no matter the situation. However, recently his mother has asked that he begin trying to do so, and while he has made an effort, Aiden still looks dressed up no matter what he wears. Wearing a lighter black vest that is laced up the front so as to keep it closed, Aiden wears a white shirt with no collar beneath his vest, with loose sleeves that end at his wrist, but which hang a full three inches from his arms at the end. The shirt is tucked into a pair of dark brown pants that are smooth and fit perfectly to his lower body, made exactly to tailor. He carries a pocket watch around, the top of which is the Celtic cross and the inside of which is empty, though there is a place to place a picture. It is magically enchanted to show time in whatever place Aiden wishes it to, down to the correct second. It it also silver, with the Cross on the top being set into it with Emerald. For shoes, he wears a simple set of black cowboy boots with black socks.


Werewolf
(To Come)



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PAST

Quick List:
* Born in one of the Forests of Ireland, where no human outside the Druids has stepped foot for centuries.
* Was blessed by the druids, but a side effect cursed him as well, as per the Rule of Three.
* Raised to respect the spirits of the world in a strict family.
* Was given a letter to go to Hogwarts.

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Detailed:
In an unnamed forest in the wilds of Ireland, a woman cried out in a final shout of agony as she pushed her son out into the world with a great heave of effort. The white robed individuals caught the child and wrapped it in a red cover, symbolic of good blood and a color to ward off death. Wrapping the child up, they severed the umbilical with a knife made from platinum mined from the depths of hidden mine in the same forests, the hilt of which had been forged from the bones of a black dragon. The blood stopped instantly, cauterized by the heat from the magic of the blade, and the robed men took the baby to an alter erected upon a stone surrounded by acorns, leaves, and other offerings. Placing the baby amidst the nature items, the offerings to Daghdha, the over spirit of the Celtic Religion. Taking up the knife, the men in the white, the Druids, readied themselves for the ultimate offering, a blessing and a curse upon the child they now held in their power. The mother had given permission, the father his blood, and now it was time for it to begin...

The chanting of the Celts is something not to be heard by mere mortals, and in fact, wasn't for the most part. As the chanting continued, the mother pulled herself to her feet and slowly made her way to the child that she had just born into the world. She had a crucial part to play as the ritual continued and wound to its end. As the chanting reached a crescendo, the head druid looked to her and nodded. Leaning over her child's head, she reached forward with trembling hands and brushed back the infant's long blond hair, already showing the deep red of an Irish child. With tears in her eyes, knowing what was to come, she finished the ritual. "From this day forward, you shall be known as Aiden Alexander MacLeod." Stepping back, she watched the ritual take place with dread in her heart, knowing that by the laws of Nature he would be three fold blessed, and three fold cursed. As the Druids stepped back, the infant began to cry, and his skin burned. Golden lines, jagged as if they were cracks, spidered out over his flesh, bleaching the tone of the flesh and changing the hair to a more dirty blond than red. The baby cried, even as its eyes changed from a deep sapphire blue to the sea blue it would be forever more. The druid turned to look at the mother, and explained. "As you requested, he is blessed with great intelligence, great magical power, and a great ability to understand and comfort those around him. But as per the Three Fold Rule, he is cursed with a weak strength, constitution, and body. Let it be known that you chose this to happen, and it shall be forever more." Taking the child, she left, weeping with the pain of childbirth and the knowledge of what she'd done, she returned home.

Years passed with the teaching of Aiden, raising him to follow the belief's of the Druids, teaching him the magic and rituals of the Faith. Aiden's parents gave him his sense of right and wrong, his love of formal clothes and the understanding of the female mind (as much as any male can understand), but it was the blessings he'd received at birth that gave him the understanding of magic that few living had at his age. As he grew, it became apparent that his skin was not made for the sun, burning and causing intense pain at the smallest amount. Because of this, they gave him the umbrella that he always carries around, one enchanted to filter out UV rays, but not light. Then, one day on the day of his birthday, Aiden received a letter of invitation from a Headmaster at Hogwarts, a school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Interested, Aiden's parents took him to the entrance of Diagon Alley, and there said their goodbyes. Giving him the necklace he wears, and the pocketwatch, and a number of other items, his mother leaned down and whispered into his ear one last message. "Remember the Spirits, for they watch over you. Make one friend this year, Aiden, and you will be blessed." With that, and a pocket filled with money along with a key for their bank, Aiden began his adventure.

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FAMILY

Mother - Famous Singer (Celtic Women), Priestess in Training, and retired at 43.
Father - Famous Auror, retired at age 42.
Grandma - Celtic High Priestess at 73 Years of Age.
Grandpa - Celtic High Priest at 74 Years of Age.

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