Corbin O'Connell

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O'CONNELL, CORBIN

“EXPERIENCE COMPROMISES ILLUSIONS LOST RATHER THAN WISDOM GAINED”
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution.- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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FULL NAME. Corbin O'Connell
NICKNAMES. Corb
BIRTHDATE. May 24th
AGE Nineteen (Durmstrang Institute Graduate)
BLOOD Half (pureblood and veela)*
POSITION DESIRED Owner of Magizoology
CANON OR ORIGINAL? Original

* While he has the attraction in his looks which maybe from his mother, he mostly inherited the fireballs temper which is uncommon in male Veela. He does not have the voice charm effect.

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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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HAIR&EYES Light brown, short cropped hair & blue eyes both of which are throwback in his family's gene pool. Both his siblings are far more Irish looking than himself.
HEIGHT&WEIGHT Six foot two and 200 lbs even
FACE CLAIM Ryan Gosling

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I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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WAND Hawthorn, Dragon claw (Catalonian Fireball), 12", Unbending.
LIKES
Music, Unusual magic creatures, Aggressiveness at Defense, Prestidigitation, Driving cars, Moroccan tea, Graffiti.
DISLIKES
Shoes, Animal Abuse, Kicking cigarettes, Being obvious, Headaches, Choosing sides, Drinking.
BOGGART Foxes (from very early memories of childhood nightmares of being attacked)
MIRROR OF ERISED To play both sides against each other and come out unscathed
PATRONUS An aggressive rabbit, probably because of their unusual reactions, sexual habits, and being surprisingly fast.
PERSONALITY
Corbin is a product of his education, having learned how to fool and fight when amongst darker minded people from Durmstrang and since. While he doesn't consider either side right (he believes in the blood's magic potential) he refuses to be forced to choose either. Taking the money for a franchise upon his graduation, he aims to help out the muggleborn in the UK against the DE under their noses, thumbing his noses at them because in his eyes they are dangerous and therefore worth messing with. He has already gotten his wanderlust out of the way as his parents took him with them when they visited his siblings in the schools, often making time with the lovely ladies who fell for him along the way.

Unlike his father however, Corbin does not have a sellers instincts and has met up with others who lacked funding to make their dreams come true. This way he can seem to be a profitable and successful businessman while having copious free time for his own ends. The money profit going back to his parents says it all and keeps them off his back, something he far prefers. Unfortunately he picked up the habit of smoking in school and it's grip on him has convinced him to avoid any others even as he tries to stop himself from smoking unsuccessfully. Thus caffeine, alcohol, and drugs he finds himself completely turned off of and strongly tries to avoid. Irritated at it's hold on him, he hates the habit even as he does it.

Being raised in a magic household however, there are several muggle things he has taken an attraction in, especially cars and the act of driving (even if he does use lots of magic in the process) as well as the muggle illusionist's art. In addition in his travels he found out about how muggle graffiti often is a signature process and now finds himself drawn to it out of sheer curiosity, following patterns and learning to understand the meanings and group signs in different styles. Learning these odd points to muggle life, he comes across as a character caught between two worlds and sampling heavily from both to make his own niche in the world hard for others to follow sometimes.

Few realize this is on purpose to keep those who are interested in him from delving deep enough to find out who he truly is. He has learned from illusionists that distraction is the best trick in the book...

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Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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BIRTHPLACE York England.
CHILDREN A few scattered children, none known to him (sometimes suspected), and mostly outside the United Kingdom.
PARENTS
Jerry O'Connell, 47, Owner of a series of successful stores in Ireland, Former Ravenclaw
Linda O'Connell, 46, Housewife, Veela
SIBLINGS
Regan, 21, US Ministry in International Relations, former Salem Witches Academy
Keane, 17, current student at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
OTHER
none
HISTORY
Born while his parents were on a business trip, Corbin has always been a child who never settled for what was easily given. Always going out of his way to select things which seem unconnected, he has spent most of his time in school learning how to hide his truth under different levels of trickery. Well traveled, he has sampled enough of other cultures to become an oddity in his own, something his parents have always found mystifying. Very smart, he prefers not to study hard on the most obvious things believing that to follow the way of others is to never prove yourself an individual in your own mind, the place he believes it matters most. How can you be satisfied in life if you don't like what you are doing? Those who conform to their families expectations he considers all the more fools or sheep being led astray.

His parents wonder what will become of their boychick (his siblings sense he is fine, but they can not convince their parents of course not to worry), who seems to bounce from one thing to another. His recent choice to set up an unusual animal store in that most magical of places Hogsmeade, they hold their breath wondering if he has finally settled down on something solid for once. They would not be surprised to find out the truth, but Corbin has been careful to hide that from even the store employees themselves who have no clue. For deep inside the stylish pet store which draws the eyes of the elite in wizarding society is a well hidden secret.

A soundproof, hidden space sealed away with no entrance containing two vanishing trunks and a pair of bunk beds.

The secret is part of a plan hatched amongst a few carefully chosen friends in school who have set up a few similar places across the UK and Europe, six all told in sealed places similar to his. Their version of an Underground Railroad will allow a passage out for those muggleborn and halfs who wish to escape from the DE's clutches far away by a magic route into Morocco where a sympathetic crowd has arranged for muggle air access to other lands. Not only will they be able to thumb their noses at the DE (a group whose politics they disagree with but do not hate; they are fanatics however and those should always be resisted), but funnel undesirables out of their country at the same time. A year in the making, it is only just being finished and word spread to blood traitors across the land trusted to be on the lookout for those they can "save."

His cover? A store designed for the unusual and rarest of pets approved through the Ministry with a partner who is fanatical about the saving and home placing of his "beloved pets." With a pure staff and a high fashion appeal, he expects to take the money from the elite to fund his game, a distraction from the real work at hand while he gets to play figurehead. With a grin, he plays at being a successful businessman with no office hours and plenty of time, distracting those who might watch him for his politics and see only one who doesn't care. And if he can have fun along the way? Perfect. He already has a built in escape route in case he needs a retreat so why not play the game under the enemies nose while promoting his own personal cause?

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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NAME/ALIAS Shava
OTHER CHARACTERS Taranis Summerby, Lindsey Moon, Professor Mateo T. Alencar, Lord Voldemort, Ayr Selwyn,  Draco Malfoy, and Professor Olivia Ambrose.
RP EXPERIENCE? More then you've been alive
RP SAMPLE.

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Driving up in the old british army jeep to the garage in the village of muggles, Corbin hit the control and backed up as the garage door opened right up inside and then hit the control for the reverse before exiting and walking around to the back. Soon as the door was fully shut, he opened the back of the jeep and then the secondary cover, revealing a family of four. "Allright, come this way when you get unstiff," he said as he turned and walked to the door leading into the small house. In here was a small den, nothing special, but without windows except for one carefully shuttered and curtained. Opening another door he stepped through carefully closing it and checked to see what could be made ready in the microwave quickly. Setting up four pot pies, he returned to the first room as the kids staggered in followed by their parents as he motioned they should shut the door.

"Right! Stay here for about an hour and I'll be back soon enough for you, If you hear knocks or anything else stay here and don't respond. There's enough books and things to keep you occupied and away from the window, got it?" As they thanked him for his help he waved it away and returned a few moments later with the four pies and four tumblers of milk. The wife kissed him on the cheek while the man pressed a bag of galleons into his hand which he refused; his return would be better made if they used that money to stay away. "No no," he said playing the selfless hero and enjoying it, "You'll need that probably later. Just stay quiet and we're even, mate." Leaving, he stepped into the garage (sportscar on one side, jeep on the other) and appirated from there to the edge of the village of Hogsmeade about fifteen miles away.

Walking into the shop he stopped long enough to flirt with the front counter girl who was blushingly cute and clearly unprepared for his attentions and grinned when he got called away by his partner in the back room. Thinking another day and he could entice her fairly easily into the upstairs apartment, Corbin stopped in the backroom long enough to glance over the employee schedule and see she would be getting off about the right time ('In more ways then one...' he thought) he cheerfully grasped hands with Murlin the manager and was handed a bunch of papers to look through. Dropping into the couch he looked over them, made some swift verbal decisions and handed them back before Rick Moreskin stepped in from downstairs and asked if he wanted to see the new peel frogs they had just gotten in. "You go ahead, I'm going to go and enjoy China for a few minutes for some privacy and then I'll be there, all right? Give me five..."

They all laughed as he headed for the meeting room they used for clients, the two unaware of the secondary use he had for it often. Stepping into the wizard expanded room, made to look like the China coastline, he knew the office would be empty downstairs as they scurried to make things right for him and appirated back to the garage. Gathering the family (who had cleaned up their glasses he noticed with a smile) he appirated them to the space hidden behind the downstairs office in the wall. With a lit wand he pointed to the right chest, held up his finger for silence, and then motioned to the instructions above it before patting the man on the back and getting a quick hug from each of them before he appirated back to the meeting room. Brushing off his suit and headed back out, feeling the double satisfaction of more muggleborn gone and feeling the hero at the same time.

A wink at the front girl and he headed downstairs to see the little monsters his partner was so tickled at, knowing he had earned some couch time with little Ms Innocent for pulling the wool over the eyes of the enemy once more...

HOW DID YOU FIND OUR SITE? Oh I've been stuck here awhile
CODE WORD? Can I Slytherin?

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