Name: Stefan "Steve" Bauer
Age: 11
Personality:
A quiet, ever-smiling and well-behaved farmer's boy from the the rural outskirts of Bamberg. He and his family knows the virtue and purity of farm-work; up at the crack of dawn, working in the crisp wind of the German hills, and going to bed in a strict and comforting German-honored schedule. As such he values order, loyalty, persistence, and good ole' sticktoitiveness. While he may be slow on the up-take, he strives to get his share of the work done. His mannerisms led many of his friends to jokingly point at how much of the "country-hick" he is -despite the rapidly modernizing world- of which he took with a smile and a laugh.
History:
Stefan lives comfortably in a modest homestead with his loving parents and 2 sisters. As far as Stefan knew, his family had been toiling the earth since the age of feudal kings and serfs. Hell, his family name is a fantastic reminder of that. Still, encroaching modernization meant he was better off than his ancestors, he having access to a nearby school and town with basic amenities, and his family being able to cultivate and sell their acres of barley with the help of but a few farm-hands.
Stefan was content to live out his life such as it is, but on his 9th birthday, he started to exhibit strange and abnormal behaviors that started to frighten his family. He was adamant in trying to ignore it at first and go about his days, but as the symptoms grew worse the stark reality became more and more apparent. For a time he resigned to keeping contact with family and friends to a minimum, drastically affecting his happiness of which his parents noticed, however they didn't know how to go about this, they certainly didn't want their son ostracized by his country and poked at by the government.
Their lamentation were finally answered by a swift knock on the door during their evening dinner. A tall, imposing man introduced himself as "a long distant cousin, thrice removed, from his mothers side, wishing to offer aid to young Steve." He went on to explain the storied history of one of the "greatest" German wizard families, of which was promptly dismissed by Stefan's parents. The man simply smiled and offered a small demonstration -upturning the family's harvester with a flick of his wand. Now convinced they offered their ears to the the mystery man,
"I'd say Durmstrang, but I'm in a bit of a disagreement with the Headmaster; and your son doesn't have enough X chromosomes for the fancy pants french school. Plus, The Russians forbade me to send correspondence to Koldovstoretz, so, if you'd allow me to send a letter to Britain, I can get your son the treatment he needs."
Set with a final destination, the odd man gave him a "storied and ancient" family wand, that looked more like a over-sized piece of wrought-iron, and some simple robes and dated textbooks and a peculiar -albeit cute- boar piglet.
Blood Type: Muggle-Born(ish)
Wand: Ironwood, 16", Dragon-Heart String
Pet: Bacon-Rashers
