Selwyn, Basilius Fairburn (Adult Upgrade)

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Selwyn, Basilius Fairburn

“All for One and One for Myself”
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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. Basilius Fairburn Selwyn
NICKNAMES. Ayr, Daddy
BIRTHDATE. October Fifth
AGE Thirty
BLOOD Pure (Half-Veela) **
POSITION DESIRED Author And Underwater Explorer
CANON OR ORIGINAL? Original

*This only really shows itself in his voice (although some girls may argue it's in his face too), but his voice does tend to catch one's attention more then most, even in a loud room, though usually only the fairer sex. It does not have the ability to fascinate as a full-veela would.
*Unknown to anyone but the sons of his father, Ayr's parents are a full Veela & a Metamorphogus. Legally they are listed as Selwyn pure bloods however as this is an extremely well guarded secret.

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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 A mix of blue and grey, very soft looking.
HEIGHT&WEIGHT 6'2", 170 pounds and in surprisingly good shape!
FACE CLAIM Dylan Patton

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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 Ivy, A Veela Hair, 10", Lightly flexible. *
LIKES The water, Swimming, His perfect skin, Feeling of wind on his skin, People who really listen to him, Power over others, Semblances, Enjoying Life
DISLIKES Being reminded of his modeling, Being told what to choose, Nastiness, Loss of Control, Hoarding, Hates power over large numbers, People who don't get subtlety, Avocados
BOGGART Being trapped into a future he does not choose for himself.
MIRROR OF ERISED Having a house under the water someday
PATRONUS An Octopus. Their skin can change texture & color to hide in their chosen environment, they are poisonous, and are very intelligent.
PERSONALITY As a child, Ayr learned from watching his family that each person has two sides. His father was cheerfully open seeming with outsiders, carefully calculating and recording their every word in secret at home. His mother presented a cold face to those not of a certain rank, but was warm and caring with her children. Even his older brothers had two different ways, one for outsiders, one for family. Ayr decided he would have two as well, one for everyone to see and another for himself. Thus he loves the idea of semblances, presenting one impression to the world hiding your true nature. Over time he has learned to present things in such a way that people can be fooled into predicting his behavior and he can surprise them with a twist they never see coming and, ultimately, win whatever he wants.

He wants to be in control.

He does not care for controlling lots of people or having a position of importance; he sees control over those closest to him the most important as they effect his future directly. And if he holds the reins, why, then he can do as he pleases. Controlling many is too much work and can easily backfire on you. His fascination and love of being in the water is extreme, one of the few students at Hogwarts to use the Room of Requirement as a personal play pool, spending hours under the surface of the water with a bubble head spell enjoying the peace and tranquility of the underworld as his skin wrinkles. He enjoys figuring things out but figuring out people is the most interesting. Besides, once you know them well, you can use that information to control their actions, much as his father does for the Goblins. He acts the part of a pureblood who doesn't care what others do at all and in fact finds the whole pureblood thing ridiculous!

Why, if everyone just married a pure from another country you would cancel out every argument the rest of wizarding kind can come up with! And yet they don't do it! Stupid. In addition, they seek power over everyone in politics which makes no sense to him and infringes on something he will not have interfered with; his own rights. Thus while he hates the loud mouth braggarts of the Lions, he also dislikes the politics of blood purity which through his family also control him. Traditionalism he speaks with his mouth as a fake front. He preens in his natural good looks and youthful charm, enjoying the way others admire him. As an adult he has always sought his own way with his wife, choosing to do things most find unimaginable; he has never felt like being normal!

DIVINATION Ayr actually has a very rare divination talent known as Hydromancy. With it he can 'read' knowledge about nearly any situation as he has been doing it for the last twenty years and powerfully. Few people know about it, but those who do have come to ask him for insight on current situations many times as the "future" is a bit harder for him to actually read with accuracy.

* The Family has several wands from past wizards kept around after they died as family heirlooms. When a wizard or witch shows magic talent, they will often have them try all of these wands first (there are twelve currently of old origins) and one actually worked for Ayr. This particular one does have a family hair in it from the old ancestor, the first veela in the family. When he waved it, there was a wave of rainbow colored drops like water which very interestingly landed in a hexagon pattern on the garden stone, creating embedded gems in it's surface magically. Of course they pried it up and put it in a bookcase inside as a new trophy.

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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 In a house on the edge of Salcey Forest in Northampton. The place in the woods he enjoys the most is here
CHILDREN
Candra Selwyn, 15, Student,
Evander Selwyn, 14, student
Marcus Selwyn, 14, student
Maya Selwyn, 11, student
PARENTS
Father: Paulus Selwyn, 68, Gringotts Loan Collector, Former Slytherin
Mother: Samantha Selwyn (Reece), 60, Housewife, Former Slytherin
SIBLINGS
Antonius Selwyn, 34, Ministry: Beasts division, Former Slytherin, Married, three children
Evander Selwyn, 32, Ministry Bounty Hunter, Former Slytherin, Married, six children
Camilla Selwyn, 28, Magical Orphanage Operator, Former Slytherin, Widowed, two children
OTHER They have married into the branch of the family which was involved in the DE and now are the descendants as they rest were jailed or killed.
HISTORY Born of a roman senator's line by family history, Ayr hated his name since he could barely talk, calling himself by the last part of his middle name. The nick stuck within the family as the strong willed child wouldn't respond to any other part. Cute as a button, he was able to charm most of the neighbors easily and often, caging advantages with a nature which showed he was a sly little boy. As he grew older, his family began to change their views about blood and started to disengage themselves from those who in the first wizarding war had expressed dangerous views. Realizing their danger, they also made sure not to go to far away, aiming for a middle ground between the two sides on purpose, a tricky enterprise. In this mind set, they tried to stay open to their muggle neighbors instead of hidden away and Ayr was raised in that type of thought.

As he grew and began learning to 'fake' what his family wanted to see, his mother tried many things to get him to stay open to her. In this regard he was often trusted to play in the woods edge where a creek ran through near their property in the forest. Often his playmates were vacationers children, mostly muggle and half-bloods and he learned how to fake a muggle understanding as well as they learned 'cops and robbers' when he couldn't convince them to creek play anymore. One of those friends, one girl named Ginnie, was a regular every year with her family, their rental place practically next door. Since both families had magic (even if different blood) it was a relief to have one group you could talk normally to and they became if not friends, close acquaintances. Ginnie and Ayr thus got to play every summer together during holidays and know far too much about each other. Since they both loved to play in the water, it was a natural connection to bond on.

And thus the families became connected more.

During a trip to Egypt, the family was alarmed when ten year old Ayr's footprints began sprouting grass and flowers and they began trading off carrying him everywhere. At night sand under his sleeping bag would turn to glass. With these magical effects continuing from halfway through the vacation no matter what they did, they returned and tested him with the family wands and knew they had another wizard in the family. Thus before he got his letter, Ayr knew he was going to study in the most famous wizard school which boosted his ego even more. As a first year though, he found himself annoyed at older students (except his brothers of course) who knocked, tripped, or shoved him out of their ways. He hated it and even those in his own house who did it, sure in their own right to do so. This reinforced his desire to control those around him even more and find most people to be quite annoying.

Now much older and wiser, Ayr has matured into a thoughtful young man who still adores the water and keeps his own council. Though Ginnie has survived childhood to become a close friend despite what others tell him to do, he stubbornly refuses to be pressured into doing things he does not choose himself. Interestingly, his personal hobby of trying to make an animated metal pet didn't draw anyone's attention till they saw it ambling through the dorm one night! Now he explored the rivers and lakes of Great Britain and writes books about the species he is able to observe and study in detail and is becoming a big name author slowly in that narrow field. His first book has gotten into Hogwarts and with several more likely to make their way there behind it he feels very accomplished.

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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.

As the kids played in the backyard, Ayr watched over them in his swim trunks, feet in the edge of the pool. Letting them run around in the forest had proved to be too dangerous sometimes so the pool had been added because muggle science did some pretty handy things sometimes. Currently only at mid thigh on him, the kids were having a great time playing Marco Polo. Candra was behaving today, though she had her hair way short for the water right now instead of tying it up, lazy child.

Ayr grinned as Evander dived and caught her ankles which caused a look of surprise and panic as she fell into the water. Sometimes he wished his brothers had been closer to his age so they could have played more this way so he had made a point of making sure his kids stayed trusting with each other as much as possible when they were growing up. It seemed to have worked as even at school he got reports about them being tight-knit. Catching little Maya and pulling her into his lap while her arms flailed at being caught in pretend panic, Ayr laughed out loud.

Merlin kids were fun! And tiring!

As he released her with her brother's attempt to distract daddy while Candra got her legs and helped her escape under water, Ayr was pleased to see them work together and let them go back to their game when they were successful. Feeling a hand on his shoulder, Ayr kissed his wife's hand as she slipped her shoes off and sat with a leg on either side of him, running her hands down his naked back. It had taken him only a short time to adjust to her possessive hands, he remembered, feeling her run them around under his arms to grip his front as if to announce loudly "MINE! MINE!" "Well hello gorgeous, come to check how your chickies are doing?"

Hearing the chuckle in his ear with an added whispered "And that the rooster is good form..." He turned his head and caught her lips in an enthusiastic kiss, earning an "Ew! Daddy!" from in front of him.

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