Joshua Ethan Murray

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General
Full Name: Joshua Ethan Murray
Age: 19
Date of birth: 25th November 1996
Birthplace: Wales
Current home: Wales
Blood Status: Pureblood
Sexual Alignment: Heterosexual
Wand type: 12.5" Yew, Dragon Heartstring

Looks
Hair colour and style: Very blonde, straight hair.
Eye colour: Deep blue.
Height: 6 foot 1
Body type: Muscled from a lot of Quidditch and working out.
Dress sense: Perfect all the time. Normally in a suit when not in his school robes. Or at least shirt and nice trousers.
Birthmarks: None
Tattoos: None.
Scars: A scar from when he touched a hot vial of potion in his father's study that was cursed. It's on his right hand, and for some time people thought he would lose the use of his right hand, but his mother managed to contain it to the top of his hand, but it's not noticeable.
Piercings: None.

Personality
Likes:
- Using people for his advantage.
- Louise Grey (though he'll never admit it)
- Potion making.
- Quidditch
- Watching people suffer
- Getting his own way.

Dislikes:
- Idiocy.
- People who think they would be able to out do him.
- Affection.

Strengths:
- Josh is very cool headed under pressure - often to the extent it gets scary.
- Josh's power of manipulation is unrivalled, and almost always, nobody knows that they're even being subjected to his manipulation techniques.
- Pain doesn't register to Josh, which makes him quite strong in the mind as well as the body.

Weaknesses:
- Josh is hopeless with emotions, therefore reading other people's is insanely hard for him.
- There is no notion of remorse from Josh, which has led to him pushing many people away.
- Josh is incapable of allowing other people in, he works on his own almost all of the time where possible, because he knows he can rely on himself.

Positive traits:
- Confident.
- Natural leader.
- Cunning
- Ambitious

Negative traits:
- Selfish
- Demanding
- Arrogant.
- Inconsiderate
- Obsessive

Background
Josh grew up around parents who were too busy finalising their divorce to look after the little boy who had come about as a result of their short lived marriage. They thought the various servants and elves would keep their son occupied while they settled the long, drawn out business of dividing assets. They were right in a way, Josh was occupied but he also learned a lot about negotiating, cold treatments, manipulation and most importantly, how to get what you want. As a result, he grew up a selfish and demanding child who would throw tantrums when he didn't get his way.

When Josh started school however, he realised that his usual MO wasn’t going to cover it and after being sorted, decided to adopt his house virtues and make them his own. Today, Josh is extremely cunning, a natural leader and still hell bent on getting what he wants no matter what the price. But beneath all this, he’s still a lonely child who has no one to look up to and give him affection. At twelve, he’s learned to pretend he doesn’t need it from conventional sources but he’s open to exploring the unconventional ones.

Through his time at Hogwarts, Josh rose through the ranks, making the Quidditch team in his second year, he was Captain in by third year. In fifth year he was appointed as a Prefect, and then in his final year, he was Head Boy.

Since leaving Hogwarts, Josh went off to university to study potions to a higher level.

Family
Mother:
Name: Eleanor Murray
Age: 45
Living or Deceased: Living
Occuptaion: Mediwitch at St Mungo's, Director of the Dylis Derwent Centre of Post Mortem Investigations.
Blood type or Species: Pureblood

Father:
Name: Layton Murray
Age: 50
Living or Deceased: Living
Occupation: Independent Potioneer.
Blood type or Species: Pureblood

Family Background
Eleanor and Layton were second cousins and knew each other very well growing up. Both families decided that there couldn't possibly be a problem with them getting married but perhaps the fact that they knew each other so well was what led them down the road to divorce. Today, they maintain brittle communication with each other and formal relations with their only son. Both are unmarried and both claim to be happy this way.

Posts : 1364 Join date : 2015-12-20

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Timeline 2015/16

Main Timeline
- Nerve Wracking (with Amethyst)
- High Functioning Sociopaths (with Madison)
- Sweet Surprise (with Louise)
- Teach Me What You Know (with Madison)
- Condolences & Confessions (with Madison)
- Chocolate Recuperation & New Acquaintances (with Lisabeth)
- Just Desserts of Sorts (with Lisabeth)
- An Unconventional Opening (with Lisabeth)
- To Meet You (with Violetta)
- Mixing Pleasure with Business (with Lisabeth)
- Useful Prospects (with Lisabeth)

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Becoming the Head of the Murray Household

The pool of blood was sure to leave a stain in the perfectly polished wooden floor in the study, but it was inconsequential.

The last couple of breaths had been ragged, as if sucking on air would make any difference to the ultimate outcome. But it was inconsequential.

The Ministry would know the moment they arrived at the property that the body on the floor was not one hit by a rabble of halfwits looking for equality in the world, but it was… inconsequential.

Standing over the man who may have inspired many people in the world, Josh could only look down with distaste. For all the talent that Layton Murray possessed, he was an easy disposal, as long as you stayed away from the subtleties in life, it had been easy. Josh had known from the outset that an undetectable poison would not be the answer to getting rid of his father, nor would anything that could be ingested work.

Josh’s job had been made so much easier with the emergence of panic that had spread from the media after an attack on the Pureblood world. With the world looking for the next attack, it had been much too easy. Letting down the safety of the Murray estate had to be timed right, and with careful planning, it had tripped for all of fifteen minutes.

Just short enough for alarms to not start to go off.

It didn’t much matter, for his father’s body had lain at his feet for longer than necessary, draining itself of blood as eyes looked up to him, accusing him of something that had never been said. Josh’s eyes had simply looked back with the lack of emotion that always followed him. Emotions had died a very long time ago with Josh, thanks to the man that now lay dead, or perhaps his mother, Josh blamed neither of them but the emotion no longer existed.

The envelope opener was in Josh’s hand, a drop of red carefully perched on the top, waiting to be released to add to the pool on the floor. A multitude wounds covered what was the head of the Murray household, some slashes, some puncture wounds. But every one of them was purposeful. Opening a main artery, puncturing an important organ, each of the wounds had a purpose.

Taking out his wand, Josh produced a flame hot enough to melt the metal, watching as the droplets fell to the skin of his father’s face. A soft hiss as it burned the flesh rose in the room, but Josh didn’t flinch. It continued for a few moments, until the metal was gone instead replaced with the smell of burned flesh. Metal covered what had once been the man's face, ruining the image that his father had worked so hard to make.

Checking his watch, Josh noted that there was only two minutes left of his free time. Turning on the spot, Josh apparated back to university, to his room and his work. By the time the alarms would raise, he would be long gone, and the mark of the basilisk would be present on the wall behind his father’s lifeless body.

A statement to all, the papers would read the next morning. Warning of the horrors of The Basilisks. Filling minds with lies in the hope of keeping order.

And it is a statement to all, Josh thought to him that evening as his mother grieved for her estranged husband. It's a statement that I will not let anyone get in my way. The power of the Murray name would become his. His father's business would become his. His wealth would be incomparable, but most of all, he would have no one trying to make him answer for anything.

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Timeline 2016/17

Alternate Universe
- Christmas Truce (with Lisabeth)

» Ethan Girth
» A-A-Azalea (Joshua Murray)
» The Murray Way (Victoria)
» The Murray Heir (One-Shot)
» Ethan's Baby Brother!