Urquart, Asher Orlando

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Urquart, Asher Orlando

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“HE'S THE DEVILS SON SOMETIMES I THINK I'M GOING TO STUDY THAT GAME”
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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. Asher Orlando Urquart
NICKNAMES. Ash (as in "a good piece of")
BIRTHDATE. November 5th
AGE/YEAR Seventeen / 6th year
BLOOD Pure
HOUSE PREFERENCE Slytherin
CANON OR ORIGINAL? Original

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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 Blond hair he likes short, Light blue eyes which have deluded many into thinking he has no depth, and a lot of tattoos his grandfather accidentally signed permission for.
HEIGHT&WEIGHT 5'11" in height and 165 pounds.
FACE CLAIM Toby Hemingway

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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 Cedar, Floo Powder, 12", Pliant.
LIKES Riding in Cars, Gymnastics, Wearing Earings, Superiority, Tattoos, Confidence Tricks, Possessing Girls.
DISLIKES Hospitals (muggle or magic), Being under another person's power, Cornfields, Others making decisions for him, Team Activities, Politics.
BOGGART Being exposed, secrets made public.
MIRROR OF ERISED A life. Something to feel positive of. Roots to feel grounded in no matter what kind to give semblance of progress in life.
PATRONUS Asher can not cast this spell during the school years, though after school he might be able to later on. He will still try multiple times and be very angry he can not manage it till he finds a place to be happy from. When he finds that, then it will be a Clouded Leopard because he is flexible, more nocturnal, solitary, and extremely secretive.
ANIMAGUS As if to make up for his chaotic and fairly miserable early life, nature made it easy for him to become a animagus, first change happening by age eight naturally. With early training to control it, he mastered this fairly difficult magic by the time he was fourteen. And yes he is registered now, though not till he reached Hogwarts. While it is not a huge cat, the clouded leopard is a sign he has unusual magic that his classes have not tapped into much. In fact, this is the only thing besides Gymnastics and Girls he excels in; his grades are mediocre at best.

PERSONALITY

Asher has never gotten out of life what he feels would be the minimum expected; a chance. In his eyes his life has been one fateful tragedy after another so why should he have high hopes? No one has ever treated him fairly except his grandfather and that man sent him to the hospital to be checked out for things he chose himself because the old man couldn't believe anyone would chose that. What has he ever chosen? Nothing, everything bad has been thrust upon him instead. So he is soured on the good in the world and see little point in trying to be fair; he takes as he needs. The fact women are interested in bedding him? So be it; it gives him pleasure but more importantly it makes him feel desired, maybe even cared for a few brief seconds.

He has his doubts there will ever be love or family in his life. That would be a positive and nothing like that happens to him without a catch or trickery hidden beneath.

The only thing he has ever felt truly positive about is his skills form the muggle school the orphanage made him attend in gymnastics. He is a natural at it; climbing, rolls, somersaults, flips; he stays in practice, delighting only then in his physical prowess. By day he tries to sleep as much as possible and go roaming at night, he is a major night owl even if only in his room at school. Some girls might find it creepy to wake in the night to find him sitting up beside her watching her movements, gazing at their skin, but it's the time he is awake. He feels they should be happy enough he stayed there to begin with.

And there is something deeply philosophical about Asher as well.

He knows that time is fleeting and that flesh only lasts so long; time is, as they say, 'of the essence.' He has only so much youth and while his nerves are alive and at their highest point in his life for sensitivity, he throws himself into everything he thinks he should experience, especially women. Not seduction so much as mutual aggravated satisfaction of the animal inside, the salving of the inner demons all people deal with. Anyone who witnesses one of those 'moments' when he lets go knows that while he is a quiet man, that does not mean he is not thinking. He is dark and deep, a surprising person to know.

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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 Combloux in a rented cabin while his mother was on the run.
PARENTS
Roesia Chastain, mother, 25, unemployed DE on the run, Beaubaxtons Graduate, deceased
Corbin O'Connell, father (unknown), Owner of Rare Pet store in Hogsmeade, Durmstrang Graduate, deceased at 20
Anthony Urquart, "Grandfather," 123, Former Gryffindor, Retired Ministry man, Railroad enthusiast.
SIBLINGS
Only Child of his Mother
Half Brothers (also unknown, in birth order followed by the time difference)
Madden Jimenez, 15, Fifth year student (identical triplets, 1:17pm)
Marcos Jimenez, 15, Fifth year student (identical triplets, 1:33pm)
Maddox Jimenez, 15, Fifth year student (identical triplets, 1:42pm)
OTHER
Elphinstone Urquart, uncle, deceased
Minerva McGonagall, aunt-in-law, Animagus, Headmistress of Hogwarts.
Ties to the Ross family
Urquhart Rackharrow, distant relations from the past
Cousins:
Adalyn Jimenez, 14, Hufflepuff (still unknown!)
Shyrise Jimenez, 17, Ravenclaw (still unknown!)
Brackley Urquhart, 34, Quidditch player
HISTORY

Pre-History: Asher's mother was seriously dating an young man named Benton Urguart who was killed in a rather sensational, across-the-headline-of-the-Prophet accident involving Two gophers, a red hot poker, a 13th century tapestry, and a 20 foot deep privy. (okay, maybe the privy was also mostly full, but the accident explored the full use of the medium as it were) Seeking advantage she quickly told his parents that she was pregnant and with a fertility charm sough his real father out for a one night stand, using the baby to buy into an inheritance as the guardian of the last Urquart male.

History post birth:

Born to a mother on the run from the DE, Aster learned his French and numbers from his mother's impatience, wanting him to pick it up fast so she could stop keeping an eye on him all the time. Treated as a problem burden most of these early years, Asher learned fast to keep his mouth shut, be quiet, and never stray from his mother's fast moves. Almost always on the move somewhere, he became adaptable to new situations and travel, several times nearly caught in dangerous situations as the bad men came after his mother. Many times after she had left him in a room crying, he wished they would take her away.

Eventually they did. The hard way.

At age six while hiding out in a cabin in the outskirts of York England. The aurors came busting down the door as he was sitting up in the bed and her scream of rage and spells flying got him out of bed and underneath it fast, watching through the open door as the spells were flung furiously back and forth before there was a sudden slamming noise of a body hitting the wall and suddenly her face was visible looking right at him as her body fell in the other room. There was no doubt she was dead. His gasp as he bit his tongue drew their attention and they almost shot him with jinxes as well before they realized he was a child.

Dropped off in an orphanage for witches and wizards, he was there four years before they came for him again, scowling. He would always say later that the orphanage was the jail he had been sentenced to for 6-10. After all, no one wanted the son of a criminal DE killed while in hiding from the law, right? There was never a chance he would be adopted, frowning and always quiet, studying people around him and never extending any answers about his life or background. Adults had killed her, even though he had been wishing for it, so adults could not be trusted, could not be relaxed around. At age ten, his supposed "grandfather" (neither of them knew he was an imposter) found out finally where he was and had him transferred to his home in Cornhill-on-Tweed England.

His grandfather had worked for the Ministry and railed on about politics all the time that his grandson couldn't follow and had him sent off to a hospital many times to find out why he was so quiet and never playing. The old man had a small roundhouse for his hobby located at Alnwick which is where he kept a modified muggle train car set and a small engine. Old man Anthony Urquart loved muggle trains and had a set built with magic and muggle engineering (he thinks electricity and computers are riveting) and has been using it for traveling all over the UK and the Continent. A few of those trips he has taken his grandson on as well, but the boy's silence and grim view of things tends to take some of the joy out of the trips so not loads of them.

But this summer Asher was surprised to find out his grandfather was giving it to him, unable to travel as well with his health failing. No money to keep it up long, mind you, but still. So freedom has been offered, but not a way to keep it going.

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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.

They spoke in the french they had both grown up with, even if separately and in very different situations.

Arabelle looked unnerved from his direct eye contact, but that didn't stop her from responding quickly. "They say a lot about you in the dorms, Asher. If I listened to half of it I wouldn't be sitting here right now wishing you had a higher opinion of yourself." Asher snorted almost instantly. "I don't care what people say, they have no idea about my life. And if they are superficial enough to think I give a d@mn they are dumber then they look. I am my own and always will be; it's never changed." In his mind the words dripped as he thought 'Higher opinion? Who did she think she was? What did she know? Just because they were and had been friends did not mean she knew enough to judge his standards.' A smirk on her face. "I know how to take care of myself. I'm tougher than I look," the name was new, no one had ever given her a nickname before. She shrugged, "I'd pay a higher price than I'm willing to." Her voice turned softer as she added "I've done a lot over the years I'm not proud of, but my body, at least, is still mine."

"Pride goeth before a fall. Never make statements about what you won't do. There is always someone waiting to change that. Think it if you must, but do not speak of it." Her eyes widened at his unexpected response. There was vehemence to it, but thought also, and so she listened. "My pride is all I have," she said going on the defensive, "I know exactly what I will and will not do." She glared up at the sky responding "Let them wait." "Then you have chosen your battle lines, but do not bet your soul on them, They will shift, it is only a matter of time." He shrugged and switched back to English finding what he was going to say fit better in that tongue. "What is flesh after all? Nerves, our eyes to see the world physically. If you never use it you never learn how much you miss. I do not see a body as particularly valuable when you have no money to do what you wish in this world. It is only something we wear for a short time; I just prefer to use it and get what little pleasure there is in this life that can't be truly bought and have value." He stood, picking up his sweatshirt and began to tie it around his waist again. She eyes him as he speaks about flesh and nerves. "I think you're exaggerating" she accuses lightly, "its not that big a deal, two people lose their heads for a bit, get tired of each other and move on, there's nothing worth pursuing about that."

"Oh really? Have you ever dated? Kissed in a rainstorm, the water flowing all over and down through your clothes like the caress of a god, heartbeat pumping so loud you can hear it in your ears while your nerves scream at you for more, begging for the touch of another as they slide their hands down your skin, like wildfire on a moonless night?" Asher bends down to her face, eyes locked on hers. "Have you never discovered what the tongue can do to not only find flavors you have never discovered, but to cause you to throw back your head and scream to the heavens from the bottom of your toes?" Face an inch away, eyes on fire. "Or the first kiss, the first hand hold knowing the other wants you, to know the anticipation of that touch, to be driven mad waiting for them to make the move while beads of sweat pour out of you and your face flushes with more heat then you thought existed in your skin?"

He stands up, gives her a look of pity. "Then no, Ara, you don't know sh!t all about life. You live in a box compared to the rest of the world never knowing the treasures that the world has provided us and yes, I pity you then. For you sound more a fool to spout such nonsense where others can hear it. Anyone," he raised a finger to accent the point, "ANYONE who has been there knows of what I speak and it can never be forgotten. It changes the entire world you perceive in ways you can not conceive of. Come back and talk to me when you have some inkling of what it is to date a guy for long. The tell me I don't know what I was talking about but until you do," points at her directly before he turns to go, "don't pretend to knowledge you have no clue about."

HOW DID YOU FIND OUR SITE? Been here for Years. YEARS I tell you!
CODE WORD? Can I Slytherin?

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The Urquart Railroad Cars

A unique style of traveling, this pair of cars appears as one to those able to perceive it, with standard connections on the main end for attaching to any UK or EEC train system. Designed as a sort of magical traveling vacation home, Mr Urquart could simply appirate to it's end "porch" by focusing on a particularly clever piece of magic hidden underneath the platform itself. With his grandson's successful appiration license it took only a few hours to train him in how to do this as well. When not in use it sits in his grandfather's roundhouse building in Alnwick England where apartments are in place for the staff.

The Train * The Staff

The train (nicknamed the Golden Caboose) has five possible entrances, although only three are ever really used by the staff (the top access trapdoor, bottom access trapdoor, and the Support car door to the normal train itself); the two main ones are the Platform door which is always at the back of the train and the Side Car Door which bring access directly into the observation car mid way down it's length on the right side. The staff include two house elves, Rigby & Gerda who are a couple. Trained in train maintenance, Rigby does mostly structural maintenance and care as well as all hookups and Gerda runs the kitchen and all the interior housekeeping. Jaiveer is an Indian squib who has served for ten years now and provides all the service oriented jobs for family & guests; he also makes the arrangements at stops and transfers for train switches.

The Living Room * Observation Deck

The living room is the end car with the small platform on the end, the main entrance used for the train. Done in bright and bold colors like an Indian Palace, the living room is the place for views behind the car in particular and is always the first room guests see when invited in. The observation deck on the other hand is halfway down the car and is named for the small circular stair that lets one onto the hidden upper deck (Wizarding expanded, it has magic specific for avoiding tunnel and bridge collisions) where an all glass room gives tremendous access to vistas in all weather, plus a small greenhouse space on the back end mostly for growing flowers found in guest rooms.

Dining Car * The Bar

The dining car is a set of two tables located across from the bar which allows a party of four at each one. Especially pretty at night,this is the only truly stabilized space in the car to prevent slippage and spillage of drinks and food as well as sliding items. Thus in here the movement of the train is far lessened, making meals much simpler for serving and eating pleasure. The bar space is not just for drinks, but the main port-a-key entrance for staff to the Support car where the kitchen and storage areas are. This is where Jaiveer is stationed most of the time, though a button in any room will summon one of the staff where needed.

Guest Bedrooms * Guest bedroom

There are four wizard expanded bedrooms on the train, each adequate enough for two people to rest comfortably in luxury. With views off the right side and passageway on the left, they include a large bathroom, desk,dressers, small closet, and sitting area. There are wizarding portraits in each and throughout the train allowing the portrait of the builder and the first owner to circulate throughout to monitor activity and issues. The patterns in each of these are Indian, but the rooms are in four colors: green, yellow, blue and orange.

Master Bed * Master Bath

The Master suite (which now belongs to Asher) Is a continuously long suite down the right side of the train. Beginning with the bathroom area and desk areas on one side of the entrance, it continues with a living space of white leather, large window, and then into a closet and bedroom space. This and the support car are the only places with a computer and net from a satellite dish. The office also contains a small fridge and the two main portraits, both above the couch of his grandfather and the magical engineer who helped in it's design. Both work with staff to keep the place in tip top shape and to keep tabs on all visitor comforts. Both will talk at the drop of a hat with quite a lot of knowledge in the train history and facts about the famous ones. A copy of the Engineer's portrait can also be found in Urquart seniors home.

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Both Cars were made over a period of a month with a muggle train engineer designer, a magical engineering space specialist, a house elf, and Anthony Urquart himself. It was designed to be a perfect blend of both technology and magic and thus has several features which should be explained. The train cars are unplottable, contain muggle repelling charms, and is guarded by a secret keeper (first Anthony and the house elves, then added in his grandson and Jaiveer). Much like the houses of long magical residences, it can not be found unless one is involved in the spell or with one who is. Thus Muggles can not see it thus allowing it to be added to any train without the knowledge of those pulling it. Because of a special charm, it always seems to be the last car in the train row as well (with the support one only there for the House Elves and Jaiveer).

It is hooked up into the wiring of which train line it is attached to, but had solar panels and a battery as well for independent operation. The Support car is the same look as the first, but contains the kitchen supplies, preserved pantry, storage, and quarters for the staff. Upon command, the magic will let it be turned into a large steamer trunk on wheels for switching between tracks or shipping across waterways. With attachments it can also be set for (with some work by the house elves) other railroad track designs in the world.