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 | | Subject: Damien Peat Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:09 am | |
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Full Name: Damien Elson-Robin Peat
Age: 29
Date of birth: 8 November 1985
Birthplace: Wales
Current home: Hogwarts staff quarters, but he has a house in Wales that he stays in during long weekends or holidays.
Blood Status: Muggle-born
Sexual Alignment: Bisexual
Wand type: Hornbeam, phoenix feather. 11”.
Looks
Hair colour and style: Black, usually combed back neatly for social interactions, but messy and unkempt when working.
Eye colour: Hazel
Height: 6 foot
Body type: Slim and fit.
Dress sense: Casual but always neat.
Optional
Birthmarks: A flower-like splodge just above belly button.
Tattoos: None.
Scars: Burn marks behind his right ear, leading down towards the back of his neck from a mishap with a fire-breathing plant.
Piercings: None.
Personality
Likes:
- Plants
- Order
- Neatness
- Exploring new lands
- Making new discoveries
- Being by himself
Dislikes:
- Social interactions
- Crowds
- Too much urban noise (cars, radios, etc)
- Loud environments (that are not plant related)
- Being asked too many questions at once
Strengths:
- Herbology; Damien has always been very good at the subject, and one might think he was born with the natural ability to understand plants.
- Keeping notes; he is a very methodical person, able to keep notes on many things at once and present them in an understandable manner.
- Relating information; with his fear of people, he has learnt how to communicate precisely what he needs to in as few words as possible to avoid having to repeat himself or answer questions.
Weaknesses:
- People; this is quite honestly something that hold him back. He is literally terrified at the thought of having to interact with people in general, although he is improving and can manage not to run away.
- Herbology; yes, this is the same as his strength, but only because he is so thoroughly obsessed with the world of plants (both magical and muggle) that he simply lives it. This is a weakness because this hinders him from living normally – he only ever thinks of plants and Herbology, and never much about anything else.
- Magic; while Dami does have remarkable wandless and non-verbal skills, the spells only ever relate to what he does. He cannot perform charms or defensive spells, unless directly pertaining to his job or plants/Herbology. As such, in a duel, he would surely lose, because he only ever uses magic when dealing with plants.
Positive traits:
- Helpful; while he is definitely terrified at the thought of social interaction, he has a good heart and is willing to help those in need.
- Detailed; he is very detailed in all he does, be it plan class or taking notes.
- Open; Damien is a very open person, seeing no need or reason to keep secrets from anyone.
- Self-assured; he never listens to what people say about him, instead knowing exactly who he is and loving every bit of himself (but not in an arrogant way).
Negative traits:
- Overly obsessive; he has been known to stay up for days without rest or food when figuring out a problem or properties of a plant. In the case of the Peat Pear, for example, he stayed up for a week straight trying different lengths of boiling the fruit, simply because he ‘felt his gut was telling him there was more to the pear’. After discovering the healing properties, he promptly passed out for three days and had to be hospitalized for exhaustion.
- Blatant; Damien tends to speak what is on his mind, never realizing that what he says can be rude or hurtful. To him, he cannot understand why people butter up their words or say what they do not mean.
- Soft spoken; when he speaks, he is usually so soft, it is impossible to hear what he is saying. As such, while he never lets anyone bully him (anymore), he usually doesn’t stand up for himself or speak up.
Background
Growing up in a Muggle family, his parents sent him to numerous therapists and psychologists, concerned as he could not fit in with his peers. Receiving numerous different labels – some thought he was autistic, others said he was just a ‘slow learner’, and yet others said that it was just a normal stage – he was raised on different medications that never seemed to work. When he turned 9, he came home from school one day covered in mud; he had skipped lessons in favour of digging through the bushes in school. Telling his mother that he had “found a plant that made my cuts go away” only made her even more upset, thinking he was telling lies.
That very night, Damien was found watering the plant in their living room – via a small cloud that hovered over the pot. 10 minute later, someone from the MoM showed up to explain things to his very relief parents, who finally understood what had been causing the problems their son had been facing.
They home-schooled him for the remainder of his Muggle-schooling years until he reached 11; he went off to Hogwarts happily. Damien was, however, still a target of bullies; he failed miserably in all subjects but Herbology, for which he always received full marks. It was no surprise when Damien finished school with only one N.E.W.T – an Outstanding for Herbology; every other class had received a ‘Troll’ in his O.W.Ls.
Deciding on a rather different path, Damien worked a few small part time jobs to save up enough money before he embarked on a world-wide expedition to find new magical plants. At the young age of 20, he made head-line news for his discovery of the Peat Pear (which he named after himself), which only grows in bulks of 12 fruits during full moon every September in the mountain regions of Myanmar. It possessed a rather astounding healing property when the skin was removed and the fruit boiled for exactly 17 hours. However, the rarity of the plant that produces the Peat Pear made it far too expensive to manufacture, and so Damien spent a further 3 years coming up with a way of extracting the juice and making it into common medicine, which could then be made without the use of the pears. Successful, he was made a patent owner, and became a multi-millionaire in a matter of months.
Using some of the money – after converting it back to Muggle currency – to ensure his parents could live happily, he then used the rest to continue traveling the world in search of new and exciting plants, eventually writing a book based on his findings: A World of Plants - Discoveries that Changed Our Lives.
Many years later, sometime during his 28th year of living, he stumbled across a fire-breathing plant that left him with the scar. The fumes released by said plant was so toxic that Damien was left paralyzed for a week. After gaining back his sense of movement, he was devastated to find that the heat of the fire had affected his cochlea, leaving him unable to balance properly. While he is still able to walk and function adequately, any sudden movement on his part – or long periods of walking – leaves him dizzy. The damage was so severe that nothing could be done to help him, neither Magic nor Muggle surgery. Depression set in for about a year, with him not knowing what he could do; plants was his whole life, and if he couldn’t do that, he didn’t know if life was worth living. Fortunately, he heard that a position in Hogwarts to teach Herbology was open. Seizing the chance, he applied for the job and, with his extensive knowledge of all things related to the subject, was hired at once.
Family
Mother:
Name: Amelia Peat
Age: 65
Living or Deceased: Living
Blood type: Muggle
Father:
Name: Jonathan Peat
Age: 68
Living or Deceased: Living
Blood type: Muggle
Spouse: N/A
Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Partner: N/A
Pet:
Name: Puff
Age: 7
Living or Deceased: Living
Species: Barn owl
Family Background
Amelia and Jonathan met in their Sophomore years in University and just clicked. One might call it a typical love story, because a few months after they met, Jon asked Amelia out, and her reply had been an immediate yes. They got married as soon as they finished University, but decided not to have a child, instead focusing on their exciting jobs – Amelia was a social worker and Jon was a masseur. When Amelia was 36, she fell pregnant and had a child later that year. Giving up work, she devoted her time to raising him. While they were never a rich family – until Damien discovered the pear, that is – they had enough to live comfortably. |
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