Post by Kellen McCrea on Jan 27, 2008 17:23:30 GMT -5
Accepted! Welcome to the Wizarding World!
[ Full Character Name: ] Kellen McCrea
[ Character Gender: ] Male
[Character Age:] 19, if I'm doing my math right. Possibly 20.
[ Occupation Requesting: ] Healer-in-training at St. Mungo's, or possibly at Hogwarts?
[ Country of Citizenship: ] England, now.
[ Physical Character Description: ] Kellen maintains a well-kept, if somewhat boring appearance. His clothes are usually business casual when he's out and about, though even when he's regular casual he's rarely untidy. He stands about 5'10" and is on the slender side. He has dirty blond hair and blue eyes. There is little about him that stands out, save for the patch of stone grey hair on the back of his head--the result of an accidental statue curse.
[ Personality Character Description: ] Kellen is a very focused person--sometimes to the detriment of his relationships with the people around him. He works very hard especially at attaining knowledge and learning and gets very frustrated when he's unable to do things he thinks he should be able to do. He is sometimes withdrawn and doesn't make deep personal connections with people often. That said, he tends to be a good listener.
[ History: ] Kellen discovered he was a wizard at age eleven when he received his Hogwarts letter, but it took his Muggle parents a couple of years to allow him to come to the wizarding school. At Hogwarts he was sorted into Ravenclaw which, given his educational focus and good grades in nearly ever subject was a perfect fit. He participated in many Hogwartsian adventures throughout his time there but his favorite story to tell would be the time he accidently read a cursed book and turned himself into a statue for a couple of weeks. Oops!
His desire to become a Healer, something he'd had since childhood, became renewed when his older brother Kearney fell ill again. Kearney had survived leukemia when they and their little sister were children, but the disease had weakened his immune system. Through much lobbying, Kellen was able to get his brother admitted to St. Mungo's despite Kearney's being a Muggle. There, Kearney met Magda.
Kellen stood up at his older brother's wedding--which was thankfully free of problems despite some threats the Muggle Kearney had received for marrying the Pureblood Magda--just after Kellen finished at Hogwarts. His new sister-in-law helped him to secure an internship with reknowned Czech Healer Radek Patera, an opportunity he could hardly pass up even if it meant his relocating to Prague. He's spent the last several months studying to become a Healer with a specialty in disease treatment and is freshly returned to England after completing his internship.
[ Pros and Cons : ] Kellen is very focused and really rather talented at things he works for and puts his mind to. He also tries to be a good person and does what he can to stand up against intolerance and prejudice. He is, unfortunately, still not very good at Herbology and working with plants in general. He's sought out help in this arena several times as it's an important one for his profession, but he still doesn't quite get it. He's also rather one-minded and has a hard time focusing on more than one thing at a time. Finally, when he gets withdrawn or upset he has a tendancy to shut people out or to blame others for things that aren't their fault.
[Credentials:] Kellen hasn't yet been formall employed but that's part of the in-training bit of his title. He's studied under Healer Radek Patera in Prague and is returning to England for the rest of his training. His medical focus is disease and especially long-term diseases. NEWTs: Potions O, Herbology E (barely!), DaDA O, Charms O, Transfiguration E.
[Writing/Role Playing Example:] Merlin, it was nice to be surrounded by English again. He'd picked up basic conversational Czech while he'd been in Prague and many of the Healers he worked with also spoke English, but to be surrounded by his native language--to be able to eavesdrop in on conversations he passed and be able to understand them--it gave him a nice feeling of returning home. He had a couple of days to reaquaint himself before he started his training again and he was going to use them to relax. And, of course, to catch up with people.
"Kearney! Hey, Ken!" Kellen called into the closed door as he knocked on his brother's London flat. "Oi, you just going to leave me out here or what?"
The door swung open to a familiar face. "Hey, kiddo, quit yelling. You'll annoy the neighbors." The words may not have welcomed but the tone and Kearney's smile definitely did. "How've you been, Kel? C'mon in. Magda wants to hear all about the medical stuff. I just want to hear about Prague."
[ Full Character Name: ] Kellen McCrea
[ Character Gender: ] Male
[Character Age:] 19, if I'm doing my math right. Possibly 20.
[ Occupation Requesting: ] Healer-in-training at St. Mungo's, or possibly at Hogwarts?
[ Country of Citizenship: ] England, now.
[ Physical Character Description: ] Kellen maintains a well-kept, if somewhat boring appearance. His clothes are usually business casual when he's out and about, though even when he's regular casual he's rarely untidy. He stands about 5'10" and is on the slender side. He has dirty blond hair and blue eyes. There is little about him that stands out, save for the patch of stone grey hair on the back of his head--the result of an accidental statue curse.
[ Personality Character Description: ] Kellen is a very focused person--sometimes to the detriment of his relationships with the people around him. He works very hard especially at attaining knowledge and learning and gets very frustrated when he's unable to do things he thinks he should be able to do. He is sometimes withdrawn and doesn't make deep personal connections with people often. That said, he tends to be a good listener.
[ History: ] Kellen discovered he was a wizard at age eleven when he received his Hogwarts letter, but it took his Muggle parents a couple of years to allow him to come to the wizarding school. At Hogwarts he was sorted into Ravenclaw which, given his educational focus and good grades in nearly ever subject was a perfect fit. He participated in many Hogwartsian adventures throughout his time there but his favorite story to tell would be the time he accidently read a cursed book and turned himself into a statue for a couple of weeks. Oops!
His desire to become a Healer, something he'd had since childhood, became renewed when his older brother Kearney fell ill again. Kearney had survived leukemia when they and their little sister were children, but the disease had weakened his immune system. Through much lobbying, Kellen was able to get his brother admitted to St. Mungo's despite Kearney's being a Muggle. There, Kearney met Magda.
Kellen stood up at his older brother's wedding--which was thankfully free of problems despite some threats the Muggle Kearney had received for marrying the Pureblood Magda--just after Kellen finished at Hogwarts. His new sister-in-law helped him to secure an internship with reknowned Czech Healer Radek Patera, an opportunity he could hardly pass up even if it meant his relocating to Prague. He's spent the last several months studying to become a Healer with a specialty in disease treatment and is freshly returned to England after completing his internship.
[ Pros and Cons : ] Kellen is very focused and really rather talented at things he works for and puts his mind to. He also tries to be a good person and does what he can to stand up against intolerance and prejudice. He is, unfortunately, still not very good at Herbology and working with plants in general. He's sought out help in this arena several times as it's an important one for his profession, but he still doesn't quite get it. He's also rather one-minded and has a hard time focusing on more than one thing at a time. Finally, when he gets withdrawn or upset he has a tendancy to shut people out or to blame others for things that aren't their fault.
[Credentials:] Kellen hasn't yet been formall employed but that's part of the in-training bit of his title. He's studied under Healer Radek Patera in Prague and is returning to England for the rest of his training. His medical focus is disease and especially long-term diseases. NEWTs: Potions O, Herbology E (barely!), DaDA O, Charms O, Transfiguration E.
[Writing/Role Playing Example:] Merlin, it was nice to be surrounded by English again. He'd picked up basic conversational Czech while he'd been in Prague and many of the Healers he worked with also spoke English, but to be surrounded by his native language--to be able to eavesdrop in on conversations he passed and be able to understand them--it gave him a nice feeling of returning home. He had a couple of days to reaquaint himself before he started his training again and he was going to use them to relax. And, of course, to catch up with people.
"Kearney! Hey, Ken!" Kellen called into the closed door as he knocked on his brother's London flat. "Oi, you just going to leave me out here or what?"
The door swung open to a familiar face. "Hey, kiddo, quit yelling. You'll annoy the neighbors." The words may not have welcomed but the tone and Kearney's smile definitely did. "How've you been, Kel? C'mon in. Magda wants to hear all about the medical stuff. I just want to hear about Prague."