Summerby, Taranis Serphan (Adult Upgrade)

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Summerby, Taranis Serphan

“The Honorable and Steadfast Man who Shirks Nothing Needing Doing”
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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. Taranis Serphan Summerby
NICKNAMES. Taran, Tanarus (just by family)
BIRTHDATE. July 8th, 1979
AGE 34
BLOOD Pureblood
POSITION DESIRED Farmer, Owner of Laoch Llamas
CANON OR ORIGINAL? Canon by the books

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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 Well the hair has a tendency towards waves and not staying combed straight. It has always been a blond in color, the kind his mother and every other girl likes to straighten. When it gets too long it starts curling like crazy so he keeps it short. His eyes are a very soft blue in color, but come across a bit sharp, intense in whatever he is interested in at the moment. Sometimes people mistake that for a darker blue coloration, but his eyes do not change color, people's perceptions change.
HEIGHT&WEIGHT 6'2" and 220lbs, almost all of it muscle from farm work.
FACE CLAIM Steve Byers

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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 Holly, Unicorn Tail, 10", Fairly bendy .
LIKES Flying, sailing, traveling, touch sensations, luck, elusive subjects, water magic, his looks, patient people, storms & lightning, Trust
DISLIKES Assumptions, direct lies, disorganization, people who won't get their hands dirty, dark magic curses, secrets, cheaters who get caught
BOGGART Becoming his father
MIRROR OF ERISED Building his own house boat to look like a 17th century galleon and sailing the world
PATRONUS a Yellow-Shafted Flicker because it's eye catching, migratory, and stubborn as heck when it knows what it wants. Banging away at something like a woodpecker just fits him too well.
PERSONALITY His mother Annabell was able to manage both farm and daughters because of her oldest. A patient boy, he felt as the only male around that he had to step into the role of the man of the house. Slowly as he got older he worked on more and more tasks around the farm, trying to help out his mom and given pointers by men up the road who wanted to help the family out. If his father had been around, it would be doubtful he would have turned out as good a kid nor his sisters as pleasant as they did. Raised by their mom, Taran got used to hard work early on and he grew to dislike his father more and more for his perceived laziness, the absent one who had deserted them all. This meant he fought against his natural wanderlust, staying where he was by promising himself one day he would have the money to travel and make sure his family was taken care of first.

He would not be a deserter. A man's place is with his family first.

Taranis has picked up some traits of his father's, though his mother has tried not to make him aware of them being compared to the man. From half-truths and false perceptions which come naturally to his lips and a full on wanderlust, not wanting to be tied down to any place, she is reminded every time she looks at him. With a healthy belief in luck, good and bad, plus his father's ego about his own abilities & looks his confidence helps him do many things other think would not yet be in his grasp. His sisters have the half-truth and luck belief as well, though they don't share the nasty attitude and manipulative nature of so many Slytherins. Instead they have the love of their own looks, pride, and clever wits so he doesn't see the Snake house as all bad like so many others do. He simply doesn't see the Slytherins as all bad.

Don't take him wrong; their are parts of him much like a con-artist in nature, hiding his real purpose to put his best face forward to convince people to like him and want to be around him, but he is more his mother's son. He doesn't try to be deceptive, but more honest to his friends in particular. Despite his muscled frame, he is not a fighter nor a scuffler; it's from long hours and hard work on the farm doing what needs to be done. He has never been afraid to take on new things, in magic as well as he has become quite good at working with magic items and enchantments. Charms is probably his best class. If a friend is in trouble, however, he will skip his own needs to put them first, even as he does for his own family. Those he holds close to his heart he will always sacrifice for going out of his way.

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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 Ireland, In the Ring of Kerry. Between Kells to Cahersiveen. This is where his mother's family farm is located.
SPOUSE
Rosalie Summerby, 34, Wife, healer
CHILDREN
Keela Summerby - 18 - Photographer for the Daily Prophet - Former Gryffindor
Cernenus Summerby - 17 - Seventh Year - Hufflepuff
Brier Summerby - 15 - Fifth Year - Slytherin
Luchtaine Summerby - 13 - Third Year - Gryffindor
PARENTS
Poseidon Summerby, 63, Former Slytherin, Con Artist - missing for years, deadbeat British dad
Annabell Ambrose Summerby, 57, Former Hufflepuff, Housewife
SIBLINGS
Younger Sister: Airmid Summerby, pure, 29, Slytherin, Long term thinker and planner
2nd Younger Sister: Boann Summerby, pure, 27, Slytherin, tentative socialite looking for a way to raise her family's status
OTHER
Gilderoy Lockhart, 60ss (assumed), Pure (assumed), Motivational Speaker for St Mungo's (Only Inside St Mungo's) *

They know nothing about his father's side of the family, there may be many more.

*Gilderoy has done such a good job of hiding his origins, it's pretty much lost in the faked records, mislaid paperwork, and memories erased over the years. One wonders why he went to such an effort to hide his background, but here is the unfindable truth just for the Admin's knowledge. Lockhart was born in Ireland, but there were so many blood-ties even he would not know of this connection. There is no known family tie, but there is a genetic marker connected with the Summerby's, quite a bit back though. This means at some point in the past, the Lockharts and the Summerbys had family connections, but nothing recent. Taran's similar looks are just a genetic throwback of chance.
HISTORY Taran was always a big kid. As a toddler he grew like crazy, rapidly growing out of clothes. He followed his father around until his youngest sister was born, hanging around her more and playing with her to give his mother a often needed break. His father left right after the conceiving of his youngest sister and little Taran insisted on helping his mother more directly, something she could not refuse. The family struggled badly after that and for several years it seemed the family line would most definitely die out right there, but somehow they made it through some rough lean years with the help of others up the road. By the time Hogwarts sent the letter to their doorstep, Taran was rapidly becoming a most important cog in the family's survival having filled his father's responsibilities. Fortunately most of the field work had to be done during the summer with harvest in the fall, something she managed to hire a neighbor to help them out with. On school breaks he worked even harder, developing a wiry strength early on from field and barn work.

Though pure blood, they live in a muggle-heavy area originally as concealment, but now with their survival having been due to nearby muggles they can no longer justify in their minds the isolation from muggle society. Annabell still wants her children to marry pure for the best possible genetics, but she has determined marrying outside of the UK would be the best for the family. She has always stressed this with her children tyeing it into the idea of saving the family name. On their own, the three children see the family troubles as not their fault being dropped in a terrible spot by their father. Getting ahead means helping each other; all they now want is their fair share of some success. As a poor family with good bloodlines, it's hard to feel you compare to the older richer families.

In school he proved to be adept at charms, picking up the working with items easily and he had an interest for astronomy as well. The last few years showed a talent for divination, though mostly from Aeromancy which he is fairly good at. Not that the current Divinations teacher is very good at it herself; she just assigned him some books to read and he has stumbled through the rest of it on his own. Odd that a boy named for the Celtic god of storms would prove to be really good at atmospheric divination... DADA and Potions, however, were some of his worst subjects (Who knew you could melt a hole through both table and flagstone flooring so quickly?). Taran dated a few girls, mostly from outside his own house, but nothing longer then a few months before they separated.

His looks and manners also became an issue during his fourth year when Lockhart taught at Hogwarts and people started asking him if he was Lockhart's son. Being he was so bad at the subject to begin with he found himself more then a little embarrassed and the teasing (though good natured usually) drove him up the wall. Mostly because he can see a bit too much of his father in Lockhart; the wandering, conning nature which trapped his mother and ruined their lives. For a short time he even feared his father might be truly Lockhart till he found proof of his father being in another country in the Daily Prophet one day. That was a great relief! In his last years he 'realized' his wonderful wife Rosalie and they fell in love, getting married just before the end of the school year. With money from her family they were able to rebuild and transform the farm, returning for the Battle of Hogwarts and eventually having four lovely children as the farm became solvent, cementing his dreams and his family's future.

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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 or Shavabear
OTHER CHARACTERS Marcos Jimenez, Asher Urquart, Candra Selwyn, Vincent Silver-Moon, Darius Silver, Ayr Selwyn , Taranis Summerby, and the fabled Lindsey Moon. Crazy old fart is a regular personality, not a character I play.
RP EXPERIENCE? More then you want me to tell you again, I suspect :/
RP SAMPLE.

Once the water was running fine and the tank filled, Taranis turned the knob for a manual release and watched with extreme satisfaction as it did as it was supposed to and water went down the pipes under pressure. As the sound reached the level he recognized, he stepped quickly back across the room releasing the knob in time t miss the fine spray the plants began receiving for about two minutes before it dropped of. A satisfied smile and he was back to the front room to put tools away he had gotten out and he was done. About time too as it was getting dark now.

Going back to the old farmhouse Taranis knocked on the door, then entered saying "Mom?" "Coming dear, just closing stuff up, lock the front for me would you please?" Grinning, Taranis entered and bolted the door then put the bar across the door before beginning to snuff lights in the kitchen. A minute later she was out and they were nearly done. "You or me?" "I'll do it, dear, makes me feel useful." With a smile and a nod, Taranis submitted to his mother's hand on his shoulder as she snuffed out the last light and appirated them to the bridge. As they walked towards the house he said "Mom, hold up a moment."

When she flashed him a look, she knew it and stopped, surprised. "Already?" Taran admitted "Just asked me about an hour ago. Said they had already been talking about it. We're not going to tell the kids yet and I want to tell Rosalie first, can you pass on the word to the girls?" His mother frowned a second before she answered, giving him a nod. "Certainly. You're sure?" Taran nodded, "Pretty sure. You know how I am with clouds. I'm sure he will wait till they are at his place, said he wanted to see how she could deal with his family first." Looking more relieved, she walked with him again and they headed up, Taranis out of habit giving his mother an arm.

As always, she preferred him to the handrail.

At the top they split up and Taranis headed to the kitchen, seeing his wife working at the sink on cleaning something up. The kitchen was nicely warm, even with the window open and he knew supper was pretty much done. Stepping behind her he slid his hands around her and into her front pockets with familiar ease. At the same time also by long habit she leaned back into him as he did so, turning her head to kiss his cheek. "Well love, Boann just won ten galleons it seems." He didn't sound disappointed so much as wistful, half remembering their own engagement and half wishing he had been wrong. It was very hard to let go of one whose fingers you could remember clutching at your ears with little pink digits.

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