Post by qualapec on Aug 27, 2011 8:07:42 GMT -4
~Character Info~
Name: Johannes Cabal
Series: The Johannes Cabal series
Gender: Male
Age and year/Age and job: 26. Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Appearance: Cabal is 6’1”. He is tall, pale, and thin, with blond hair cropped close to his ears. He’s slightly photophobic, so he is often seen wearing blue-tinted spectacles. His eyes are pale blue. He wears all-black clothes for the most part, with white button-up shirts, a frock coat, and leather gloves depending on the weather and his mood. He works very hard to convey an atmosphere of distaste and aloofness wherever he goes. When he speaks, it’s with a faintly German accent, betraying his Hessen origin.
Link to a book cover : www.bookgeeks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Fear-Institute-198x305.jpg
Personality: Cabal is emotionally cold and prone to bursts of anger. He is sarcastic and his sense of humor is often vindictive and cruel. The good news is that he does not go out of his way to mess with people unless they mess with him first, however, trifling with him is a very dangerous game. He is merciless in his goals and will destroy those that trespass against him mentally and physically. Violence is not an alien concept to him, however, he avoids fair fights when he can.
At the heart of his character, he is a brilliant scientist, breaking down the world around him into absolutes and analyzing the raw data presented, with simple things like morals coming as secondary thoughts. When faced with a puzzle or a mystery, curiosity compels him and a razor-sharp intellect often guides him to the solution. He has a memory that is practically photographic. When he has a goal, he is single-minded to the point of obsession, and pity to the person that gets in his way.
Cabal does not play well with others. His genius is offset by an utter detachment from the nuances of human interaction; as a counterpoint, he’s decided that other people are not worth his time. Despite appearances, he’s not always angry. There is really nothing he enjoys more than sitting down with a good book and a cup of tea. Anybody who interferes with his alone time had better be dying.
Despite his demeanor and attitude, he does have a conscience. He despises needless killing and needless brutality. As a teacher, he restrains most of his violent urges, and he manages it only by focusing on the notion of honing potential in his students. The ability to defend oneself against the Dark Arts is something he considers a survival trait, and those that don’t wish to learn are not only not worth his time, but will deserve whatever they get should they encounter the various monstrosities of the world and haven’t a clue what to do. To him, teaching and the school system are highly Darwinian exercises.
Canon history: In the Johannes Cabal book series, he is a scientist and a necromancer. He lives in a world where magic is almost always rare, evil and punishable by death, so much of his research lacks legality. He spends the canon dealing with devils and robbing graves to perform experimentations on the cadavers. Occasionally, circumstances will result in him meddling in international affairs (by no consent of his own), and solving the odd murder mystery. His ultimate goal is to conquer death, to free humanity from the “great equalizer” (a notion he considers utter bollocks) and allow it to reach its full potential, free of ignorance and animalistic reactiveness. In canon, he’s a practiced criminal because of the potential sentences his profession carries. This is largely a function of circumstances, but he is a smart man who has turned his mind to crime, and he’s often very good at it.
~AU Info~
AU history: He was born in Hesse, Germany, to muggle parents. He has one older brother. They expatriated to Britain when Johannes was seven. Although he picked up English quickly, the customs of the new place were largely lost on him, in part because of a natural lack of understanding for nuance. He was a shy child, not handling embarrassment well, and was very quiet. Since he was less social and more serious than his older brother, his father put a great deal of pressure on him to succeed, and he often felt like his entire life was planned out without his consent.
If his father’s plans were an anathema to him, his letter to Hogwarts was escape in its finest, purest form. He threw himself into his studies while at Hogwarts. Much like he was at muggle school, he was frequently bullied both for his intellect and his accent. He learned early that circumventing the rules was the best way to protect himself and to claim a certain kind of revenge.
He fell in love with a muggle girl during a summer away from school, she was sweet and loved him for who he was, and didn’t care about his accent. She was drawn to his intellect. They exchanged letters while he was away at school and nurtured a friendship that lasted several years. She was never sure he was telling the truth about being a wizard until after he graduated. After graduation from Hogwarts, he married her, and that day is the one day he can look back on and find true happiness. As much as the end drives him, that memory is his kindest one.
When he was 20, after two years of marriage and partnership, she accidently drowned in an overflowing river. Her death sent him spiraling into an ordered, rational madness, half-driven by his guilt. With all his magic, all his power, and not being able to prevent such a simple thing, it broke him. What reformed from that was a man driven to utterly wicked ends to attain his goals. He scoured the Wizarding World for the secrets to death, resurrection, and immortality. As a result, he would embark on frequent expeditions to explore strange occurrences. His brother and school friends would occasionally accompany him on these investigations, fearing for his safety. It was on one of these that his brother was transformed into a vampire, after which his father died from strain and his mother disowned him and returned to Germany. These investigations also brought him close with muggles and muggle sciences on many occasions, so he’s more familiar than most with muggle technologies and cultural references.
Cabal only recently accepted a teaching position at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His extensive practical knowledge of the Dark Arts and defense methods are a blessing and a curse, and as with most DAtDA teachers, his resume is slightly strewn with question and altered in many places. While Cabal is many undesirable things, he’s also a good teacher. Although he accepted the position strictly because of the research flexibility it gave him as he looked for the secret to resurrecting the dead. However, in the last couple years he has actually found himself to be a rather proficient teacher. He rewards brilliance and punishes stupidity; teaching children is as easy to him as training dogs, only the children slowly learn how to speak.
Boggart: He sees himself, happy and placated and in love with a woman other than the one from his past. The thought of change, of moving on, terrifies him.
House: When he was a student, he was in Slytherin. Although Muggle-born, his ruthlessness, cunning, and ambitious personality place him firmly in Slytherin. His blood-status was never something he advertised, and the means-to-an-end view on life most Slytherins have is the world view that he’s most comfortable with as an adult.
Magical Strengths and Weaknesses: He is talented in many respects, but particularly gifted with Occlumency, defensive spells, and potions, and he is no stranger to dark magic. He’s willing to perfect any spell he needs for any particular task, but if it’s not something he’s usually skilled with it can have unforeseen consequences. Divination, more delicate charms, and transfiguration are not things he’s considered worth his time beyond the basics.
Wand: A juniper wand. In length, it is eight and three quarters inches long. This wand's core is hippocampus bone.
~Player Info~
Name: Qualapec
Other characters you have in the rp: N/A, first character
~Sample~
Cabal had to admit that teaching weighed easier on his ego than traipsing through a soggy graveyard, searching for God-knows-what. The pay was decent, the hours were good, and he got the pleasure of terrifying children out of their wits; a pastime he’d developed as an answer to his blatant dislike for them well before accepting the position. At times, he was disturbed that this was the future of the human race, but he other times found he even started to like some of them by their fourth year. Up until that point, he scarcely regarded them as people. He sat in his quarters, up well before the start of the first day, calmly sipping Earl Grey and reading a classic from muggle literature. Nowadays he rarely read fiction, but he’d found early morning relaxation an excellent prophylactic to committing homicide during the day.
Name: Johannes Cabal
Series: The Johannes Cabal series
Gender: Male
Age and year/Age and job: 26. Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Appearance: Cabal is 6’1”. He is tall, pale, and thin, with blond hair cropped close to his ears. He’s slightly photophobic, so he is often seen wearing blue-tinted spectacles. His eyes are pale blue. He wears all-black clothes for the most part, with white button-up shirts, a frock coat, and leather gloves depending on the weather and his mood. He works very hard to convey an atmosphere of distaste and aloofness wherever he goes. When he speaks, it’s with a faintly German accent, betraying his Hessen origin.
Link to a book cover : www.bookgeeks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Fear-Institute-198x305.jpg
Personality: Cabal is emotionally cold and prone to bursts of anger. He is sarcastic and his sense of humor is often vindictive and cruel. The good news is that he does not go out of his way to mess with people unless they mess with him first, however, trifling with him is a very dangerous game. He is merciless in his goals and will destroy those that trespass against him mentally and physically. Violence is not an alien concept to him, however, he avoids fair fights when he can.
At the heart of his character, he is a brilliant scientist, breaking down the world around him into absolutes and analyzing the raw data presented, with simple things like morals coming as secondary thoughts. When faced with a puzzle or a mystery, curiosity compels him and a razor-sharp intellect often guides him to the solution. He has a memory that is practically photographic. When he has a goal, he is single-minded to the point of obsession, and pity to the person that gets in his way.
Cabal does not play well with others. His genius is offset by an utter detachment from the nuances of human interaction; as a counterpoint, he’s decided that other people are not worth his time. Despite appearances, he’s not always angry. There is really nothing he enjoys more than sitting down with a good book and a cup of tea. Anybody who interferes with his alone time had better be dying.
Despite his demeanor and attitude, he does have a conscience. He despises needless killing and needless brutality. As a teacher, he restrains most of his violent urges, and he manages it only by focusing on the notion of honing potential in his students. The ability to defend oneself against the Dark Arts is something he considers a survival trait, and those that don’t wish to learn are not only not worth his time, but will deserve whatever they get should they encounter the various monstrosities of the world and haven’t a clue what to do. To him, teaching and the school system are highly Darwinian exercises.
Canon history: In the Johannes Cabal book series, he is a scientist and a necromancer. He lives in a world where magic is almost always rare, evil and punishable by death, so much of his research lacks legality. He spends the canon dealing with devils and robbing graves to perform experimentations on the cadavers. Occasionally, circumstances will result in him meddling in international affairs (by no consent of his own), and solving the odd murder mystery. His ultimate goal is to conquer death, to free humanity from the “great equalizer” (a notion he considers utter bollocks) and allow it to reach its full potential, free of ignorance and animalistic reactiveness. In canon, he’s a practiced criminal because of the potential sentences his profession carries. This is largely a function of circumstances, but he is a smart man who has turned his mind to crime, and he’s often very good at it.
~AU Info~
AU history: He was born in Hesse, Germany, to muggle parents. He has one older brother. They expatriated to Britain when Johannes was seven. Although he picked up English quickly, the customs of the new place were largely lost on him, in part because of a natural lack of understanding for nuance. He was a shy child, not handling embarrassment well, and was very quiet. Since he was less social and more serious than his older brother, his father put a great deal of pressure on him to succeed, and he often felt like his entire life was planned out without his consent.
If his father’s plans were an anathema to him, his letter to Hogwarts was escape in its finest, purest form. He threw himself into his studies while at Hogwarts. Much like he was at muggle school, he was frequently bullied both for his intellect and his accent. He learned early that circumventing the rules was the best way to protect himself and to claim a certain kind of revenge.
He fell in love with a muggle girl during a summer away from school, she was sweet and loved him for who he was, and didn’t care about his accent. She was drawn to his intellect. They exchanged letters while he was away at school and nurtured a friendship that lasted several years. She was never sure he was telling the truth about being a wizard until after he graduated. After graduation from Hogwarts, he married her, and that day is the one day he can look back on and find true happiness. As much as the end drives him, that memory is his kindest one.
When he was 20, after two years of marriage and partnership, she accidently drowned in an overflowing river. Her death sent him spiraling into an ordered, rational madness, half-driven by his guilt. With all his magic, all his power, and not being able to prevent such a simple thing, it broke him. What reformed from that was a man driven to utterly wicked ends to attain his goals. He scoured the Wizarding World for the secrets to death, resurrection, and immortality. As a result, he would embark on frequent expeditions to explore strange occurrences. His brother and school friends would occasionally accompany him on these investigations, fearing for his safety. It was on one of these that his brother was transformed into a vampire, after which his father died from strain and his mother disowned him and returned to Germany. These investigations also brought him close with muggles and muggle sciences on many occasions, so he’s more familiar than most with muggle technologies and cultural references.
Cabal only recently accepted a teaching position at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His extensive practical knowledge of the Dark Arts and defense methods are a blessing and a curse, and as with most DAtDA teachers, his resume is slightly strewn with question and altered in many places. While Cabal is many undesirable things, he’s also a good teacher. Although he accepted the position strictly because of the research flexibility it gave him as he looked for the secret to resurrecting the dead. However, in the last couple years he has actually found himself to be a rather proficient teacher. He rewards brilliance and punishes stupidity; teaching children is as easy to him as training dogs, only the children slowly learn how to speak.
Boggart: He sees himself, happy and placated and in love with a woman other than the one from his past. The thought of change, of moving on, terrifies him.
House: When he was a student, he was in Slytherin. Although Muggle-born, his ruthlessness, cunning, and ambitious personality place him firmly in Slytherin. His blood-status was never something he advertised, and the means-to-an-end view on life most Slytherins have is the world view that he’s most comfortable with as an adult.
Magical Strengths and Weaknesses: He is talented in many respects, but particularly gifted with Occlumency, defensive spells, and potions, and he is no stranger to dark magic. He’s willing to perfect any spell he needs for any particular task, but if it’s not something he’s usually skilled with it can have unforeseen consequences. Divination, more delicate charms, and transfiguration are not things he’s considered worth his time beyond the basics.
Wand: A juniper wand. In length, it is eight and three quarters inches long. This wand's core is hippocampus bone.
~Player Info~
Name: Qualapec
Other characters you have in the rp: N/A, first character
~Sample~
Cabal had to admit that teaching weighed easier on his ego than traipsing through a soggy graveyard, searching for God-knows-what. The pay was decent, the hours were good, and he got the pleasure of terrifying children out of their wits; a pastime he’d developed as an answer to his blatant dislike for them well before accepting the position. At times, he was disturbed that this was the future of the human race, but he other times found he even started to like some of them by their fourth year. Up until that point, he scarcely regarded them as people. He sat in his quarters, up well before the start of the first day, calmly sipping Earl Grey and reading a classic from muggle literature. Nowadays he rarely read fiction, but he’d found early morning relaxation an excellent prophylactic to committing homicide during the day.
