Doctor Belasco

Aurors in the Wizarding World

More interest. Yays :)

Here's the sheet. It's a bit different to some sheets, so feel free to take your time and ask questions. Or blister though it in ten seconds flat. I don't mind.

Guide to the Sheet

The first part of the sheet deals with pretty standard character information. If you want to use a picture for the appearance section, please use a realistic image (and one that isn't hyper-ginormous). I also don't like celebrities used as character-images in RPs. You can use them - provided I can't recognise them!

The next section deals with the magical aspects of your character.

Specialisms: what is your character's primary magical field of interest?
Strengths: magical abilities and other skills
Weakness: weaker magical abilities and other not-so-hot skills
Wand: wood, core, length, and characteristic
Blood Status: pure-blood, half-blood, or muggle-born. Feel free to add details about family background if you like

The last section deals with your background. Because I usually find these fields a bit useless and unguided, I've helpfully guided it for you;
Education: what your character got up to at school; where they went (probably Hogwarts); how they performed in their exams; what subjects they took; what House they were in. Any and all details that come to mind.
Career History: jobs your character has had, general timeline of their professional life after school
Domestic Life: wife? Kids? Where does your character live – and how?

“To qualify for Auror training, a witch or wizard must first have attained at least five N.E.W.T.s of no less than Exceeds Expectations. Minerva McGonagall once recommended that Defense Against the Dark Arts,Transfiguration, Charms, and Potions would be useful N.E.W.T. level classes for those wishing to pursue a career as an Auror.”

Generally speaking, your character is going to be a pretty impressive Wizard or Witch. They have graduated Hogwarts (or their educational institute) and completed three years' specialist training to become an Auror.

Anyway, these pages may come in helpful:
Aurors
Auror Training

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Personality:
Appearance:

Specialisms:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Wand:
Blood Status:

Education:
Career History:
Domestic Life:

Please keep the headers in Bold please - it's much easier on my eyes. I'd have set up some BBCode so you could just copy and paste the headers with BBCode and all, but I don't think this new forum has that coding yet.

Aurors in the Wizarding World

Good to hear, kids. Genuinely tempted to just go straight to OoC. I'm also having the same frustration with the not-quite-getting-past-the-planning-stage - I just don't know if there's some unwritten rule that, unless you sit on your Interest Check long enough, everybody ignores your OoC out of spite xD

In the meantime, I'm going to put together a character sheet and basically run this as an OoC because I really want this to be able to go ahead.

Aurors in the Wizarding World (Harry Potter-based RP)

So, there are a couple of Harry Potter styley RPs kicking around, but, hey, I can't get enough HP, so here's another; mine. This'll be in the advanced section, btw.



Premise: the dark arts have re-emerged in the wizarding world. Some practise has always taken place, but the elicit trade of dark artefacts and such has skyrocketed. What's more, the UK now seems to be the international centre for this trade, a status it has never had before. Even the muggle world is suffering; every high-ranking muggle department is under heavy threat from mind-addling curses, steering the non-magical world too. Criminal gangs emerge and vanish in the time it takes to apparate. Though their members may be sometimes captured, no leader figure has ever been identified. It is clear that there is some figure or figures behind these developments, but who they are, only time will tell. These are dark times indeed. Who ya gonna call? The Auror Office, obviously.

Notes: so, clearly an HP RP. It's not all worked out perfectly yet, but think a political thriller/crime drama set in the Harry Potter universe. That said, I'd like to steer clear of canonical events and characters. I am a bit of a freak for the world JK created, though, so I don't like it when details about the world (how magic works, details about creatures and organisations etc) are gotten wrong. I don't mind adding or inventing aspects or elements of things (creating a new creature/spell, whatever), but I'm not a fan of JK's lore being contradicted. As you'll have guessed, we will be playing (by and large, I may allow for some exceptions) Aurors, the resident badasses of the Ministry of Magic, trying to deal with the day-to-day crises of this dark, modern era, and hopefully untangle the threads to reveal the true culprit. I'm after maybe three or four other people to join me. If I get the interest, I'll make an OoC.

Peace.

Aurors in the Wizarding World

So, there are a couple of Harry Potter styley RPs kicking around, but, hey, I can't get enough HP, so here's another; mine.



Premise: the dark arts have re-emerged in the wizarding world. Some practise has always taken place, but the elicit trade of dark artefacts and such has skyrocketed. What's more, the UK now seems to be the international centre for this trade, a status it has never had before. Even the muggle world is suffering; every high-ranking muggle department is under heavy threat from mind-addling curses, steering the non-magical world too. Criminal gangs emerge and vanish in the time it takes to apparate. Though their members may be sometimes captured, no leader figure has ever been identified. It is clear that there is some figure or figures behind these developments, but who they are, only time will tell. These are dark times indeed. Who ya gonna call? The Auror Office, obviously.

Notes: so, clearly an HP RP. It's not all worked out perfectly yet, but think a political thriller/crime drama set in the Harry Potter universe. That said, I'd like to steer clear of canonical events and characters. I am a bit of a freak for the world JK created, though, so I don't like it when details about the world (how magic works, details about creatures and organisations etc) are gotten wrong. I don't mind adding or inventing aspects or elements of things (creating a new creature/spell, whatever), but I'm not a fan of JK's lore being contradicted. As you'll have guessed, we will be playing (by and large, I may allow for some exceptions) Aurors, the resident badasses of the Ministry of Magic, trying to deal with the day-to-day crises of this dark, modern era, and hopefully untangle the threads to reveal the true culprit. I'm after maybe three or four other people to join me. If I get the interest, I'll make an OoC.

Peace.

Democracy in Action: A Governmental RP

Theodorable said if you used a fictional country, as opposed to the United States

since not everybody knows how the american political system works... :)

Warped / Other World

So; I'm really really really struggling with this. I'm gonna take it back to the mushroom cupboard and see what grows. Thanks for your interest in the meantime, guys, but Other World needs a bit of space to breathe and grow, methinks.

The Heavens Aflame - A Civil War Amongst the Deities

Keeping my eye on this :)

Magic in the Wind (a Harry Potter based RP)

I was looking at (there seems to be a theme...) a male Slytherin character working in the Ministry's Department for Magical Games and Sports following a short-lived but reasonably successful Quidditch career.

Warped / Other World

Good to hear. There's been a bit of interest (more than I was expecting), so I'll put together an OoC within the next couple of days. There's been some love for '20s styley, so speak now or forever hold your peace if you particularly hate that idea. :P

Magic in the Wind (a Harry Potter based RP)

I'm still kicking about and fancy slitherin' about (fnar) but if this doesn't go ahead, I'll probably attempt to throw together an HP-World RP to get my fix anyway, so don't panic if your heart's not in it. :)