Post by kiplandwelles on May 24, 2010 1:24:49 GMT -5
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Student Record
WELLES, Kipland Clark
Student Record
WELLES, Kipland Clark
BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Kipland Welles
NICKNAMES: Kip
DATE OF BIRTH: February 14th, 1972
HOMETOWN: Liverpool
HEIGHT: Six feet and three inches
HAIR: Brown and a mess of curls. He encourages the volume and is known to put a fair amount of effort into the way his hair looks.
EYES:A non-descript brownish gray. Very large and extremely expressive, Kip is unable to hide anything when he looks someone in the eyes.
BLOOD: Half-blood.
HOUSE: Ravenclaw, Slytherin
APPEARANCE
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Kip is not stunningly, film-star handsome--but he has the right features in the right places: straight nose, dark skin, sensual eyes, and full lips. He is quite tall for his age (being over six feet) and is thus rarely physically vulnerable. Yet his slight frame and boyish expression makes him hardly intimidating. His appearance is identifiably male, but exudes feminine grace that many young men go without. His wide eyes and quirk of mouth make him seem much younger than he is. In short, Kip is attractive in a comfortable and sweet manner.
PERSONAL STYLE: There are few things that Kip enjoys more than outfitting himself. Instead of using fashion as a vehicle to fit in or make himself look better, Kip uses his fashion sense to express his mood. He likes scarves, collared shirts, hats, and bright effeminate colors. His motto when it comes to style is, “I want my clothes to be as interesting as I am.”
PERSONALITY
LIKES: Queen, David Bowie, Duran Duran, nice clothing, a good read, and space to be unique. He loves the “glam” persona because it is innately fun and contributes to his sexual ambiguity. He likes sweet-faced boys with slight frames and “fat-bottomed girls” who “make the rockin’ world go ‘round.”
DISLIKES: Bigotry, cheaters, boredom, and organized religion.
DEMENTOR: Kipland will often have psychotic episodes wherein he hallucinates. Once, when he was around six years old, he thought that there was someone in his bed with him. It was a man with white hair and black eyes who spoke a language that Kipland didn’t understand. The man was gone as soon as he appeared, but the aftermath stuck with him. He hallucinated that this figure followed him everywhere and after several weeks of extreme paranoia, he had a complete psychotic breakdown and was hospitalized at St. Mungo’s for a few months. He will always remember that time as his own personal hell.
BOGGART: Discovering that his hallucinations are actually real. He will have nightmares where the man with the white hair becomes real and destroys all that he loves.
PATRONUS: Meeting his father for the first time. It was a brief lunch in a cheap diner, but meeting the man who he’d always wanted in his life was a freeing experience. Kip was finally able to let go of his need for a biological father during that lunch. Whenever he thinks on that luncheon with his father, he feels incredibly free and light.
ERISED: Kip is never really sure of what he wants. For the most part, he is content with himself. But he would like to be able to distinguish reality from his hallucinations. The mere thought of never seeing the man with the white hair again, of not having to take potions to stave off his insanity, is wonderful.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Kipland is mature beyond his years. At a very early age, he was forced to learn to embrace his personality and appreciate simplicities due to his schizophrenia. He is comfortable with himself and never shies away from introspection. Nothing makes him happier than to simply think about things and reason through a problem. He is known for locking himself away for hours at a time trying to reason through an enigma.
Kipland is comfortable with his ambiguous sexuality because it is one less thing that limits him. He is comfortable with his dysfunctional family and eccentricities. The only thing he regrets about himself is his mental health. Gradually he grows more and more comfortable with himself as he assimilates into the wizarding world, because it seems that everyone is slightly more than mad here.
Although he acts young--Kipland is terribly mature when necessary. He uses his buoyancy to levy him up above the faults of his personality and the darkness that the world can present. He figures that there is no point in sadness when happiness is readily available.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
PARENTS: Eloise Welles and Oscar Brown
SIBLINGS: None
OTHER FAMILY: None
BIOGRAPHY: Kipland was raised by his single mother in the ghetto of Liverpool. His mother Eloise, a muggle, had a long love affair with Oscar Smith and together they conceived Kipland when Eloise was nineteen years old. At that point, Oscar wanted to marry her and raise their lovechild together, but when he told Eloise that he was a wizard, she rejected him from her life and vowed to raise Kipland on her own. Eloise says that it was because she wanted her son to live a normal life (and look where that got him) but Kipland suspects she really rejected Oscar because of the lie. At any rate, Kipland only met his father once and since then he has kept no contact. He and his mother live happily and comfortably as their personalities are conducive.
Their biggest hurtle was around Kip’s eighth year when he developed severe schizophrenia. This was a few years after Kipland had developed his magical abilities and was a difficult time for Eloise: she was unsure whether it was the magic or Kipland’s mind causing the disturbing images. She took Kipland initially to a normal muggle hospital, but when that proved ineffective, she conceded to talking to Kipland’s father who suggested St. Mungo’s. The treatment was immensely superior to the muggle hospitals before and Oscar was allowed to see his son.
Kipland’s sexuality was something that developed over a short period of time. His mother has always been accepting of his choices and thus, when Kipland discovered he was bisexual, his mother was neutral, but accepting. Kipland’s sexuality is not a major part of his identity: it merely allows him to accept and give love in any form. He rather likes that.
OOC INFORMATION
NAME/ALIAS: J.
ROLE PLAY EXPERIENCE: HOTW REFERRED BY: KT(AD, current characters, web search)
OTHER CHARACTERS: Ofelia Sturm (on this site)
ADDITIONAL INFO:
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