Name: Charles (prefers Charlie) Hamlyn
Gender / Preferred Pronouns: Male | He/Him
Age: 17
Birthday: 3rd March
Sexuality: Straight
Appearance: Charlie stands at average height, at just over 5'10, with a constantly upright posture - he never slouches, and corrects himself immediately if he finds his posture slipping downwards or lacking. He's fairly lean and lightly muscled, not nearly to the extent that you'd notice it immediately or anything like that. His fiery ginger hair is carefully combed and preened into a style that looks neat, but not too neat, just the way he likes it. As with any ginger his skin is fairly pale, and he has a smattering of freckles around his nose and underneath his eyes. He has a long scar on his right ankle that he got when he fell out of a tree aged 12.
Despite the formal way he presents his attitude, his general attire is pretty much what you'd expect for an average teenager. Hoodies and regular t-shirts along with jeans - his favourites being a pair of black ones which he wears all the time. He generally does prefer darker clothes, which contrast to his bright hair and pale skin. All this is of course not when he's donned in proper ritual magic robes.
Personality: If there was a simple way of describing Charlie it would probably be "a bit pompous", but if Charlie was saying it, it'd be "rather pompous." That is to say, his mannerisms are quite formal and not at all casual enough for a person of his age. He rarely swears harshly if he can help it - he doesn't consider saying "bloody" a swear for the record, so he often abuses that word. This formality could potentially get irritating, but he can't exactly help it, and he has tried to tone it down in recent years after this has been relayed to him.
This is because, despite the fact that he may sound audibly like someone who would be an arrogant elitist, Charlie does in fact have his moral compass pointed in the right direction. He's a loyal friend and companion who enjoys the company of others, and tries his best not to put anybody down intentionally, even though he can sometimes seem to do this without thinking due to his mannerisms. He's a bit of a fountain of useless information and is fond of spouting useless, occasionally interesting trivia and facts about a variety of subjects to people whether they really want to hear it or not.
Maybe this is the wrong section for this, but it still needs to be addressed - his accent. He was raised in posh rural southern England for the first 11 years of his life, and then suddenly whisked away to Virginia. He's largely shed the extreme accent that he once had, but his voice is still vaguely noticeably British, and he still uses words and turns of phrases from back there. Perhaps in 10 more years he'll have shed all these as well, but for now he keeps them.
Biography: Charlie's backstory isn't exactly the most straightforward. 18 years ago, a with from the UK was making an extremely brief visit to Virginia, where he ended up meeting a gorgeous redheaded woman who he ended up spending some...quality time with. He left to return to the UK a few nights later, none the wiser that said woman became pregnant. 9 months later Charlie was born, and it only took a few days for the new of his birth to reach the UK. A few days after that, Charlie's father and a couple of his family members visited Virginia, and after some discussion it was decided that he would have a better life back in a coven in the UK. Charlie's mother reluctantly agreed to this.
So, Charlie spent the first 11 years of his life near a coven in rural Herefordshire in the South of England. He obviously attended Primary school with non-magical children first, as witch parents tend to do. Live growing up there was decidedly average, but everyone that Charlie grew up with was decidedly extrmely posh, as people from rural Surrey tend to be. So, Charlie picked up these mannerisms as well, like the sponge of information that young children are. The rolling hills of where he grew up were a very pretty place for a child to be raised, lots of woods and interesting stuff to explore with his friends - of which he made plenty, being a fairly extroverted young boy. Life was certainly smooth sailing.
However, when he was 11, the unthinkable struck - Charlie's father had gone on the tail of a rogue werewolf, who managed to ambush him and land a killing blow. Charlie's father was dead instantly. The death of a witch was a fairly uncommon event anyway, but one who was still quite young and the father of a young boy was rarer still. Charlie was, obviously, devastated, as anyone would be in this situation. Some members of the coven convened and decided that being raised by the extended family of your father was not the most healthy way to be raised, and so, after some discussion it was decided that Charlie would be sent back to his mother in Virginia.
Charlie was extremely nervous about this, but his mother welcomed him back with a loving embrace and open arms, and she soon made it clear that she was going to look after him as if she had been there for the last 11 years. He settled into the swing of things in America fairly quickly, the landscape of rural Virginia being perfectly suited to his enjoyment of exploration and the outdoors. After being quiet for a brief period at the beginning, he began to become more outgoing after a few months and made just as many friends as he had made back home, helped by the fact that his accent and mannerisms were a bit of a novelty. Over the years, of course, the novelty has worn down and his accent has gotten a bit more Americanised.
At the moment, he awaits his initiation with the sort of interest and excitement typical of his personality.
Notable Rumours: There was a rumour that Charlie is some sort of agent from a foreign coven here to destabilise this one and steal magical secrets, which is of course nonsense.
Greatest Fear: Due to the circumstances of his father's death, anything to do with wolves, really. Their howls, and obviously just seeing one.
Magic: Charlie's best form of magic is easily charms. Specfically, he's extremely adept at charms involving light - bright bursts of it, plunging a region into darkness, or stealing light from existing light sources with charms. He found this ability extremely interesting as a young kid and just honed it ever since. He's also pretty good at other more general types of charms, like making items float or blasting stuff away, or charms that impediment people, like ones that freeze people in their tracks. If it's magic that can be helped with the use of a chant, then he's usually pretty good at it.
However, on the flipside, he's pretty terrible at potions. He was never good at maths, and so splitting up all the ingredients into their exact quantities and amounts often goes over his head, and he also just doesn't enjoy it. He's alright at healing magic, and hasn't tapped into elemental magic that much - but he's tried some earth elemental magic before that have all gone pretty well, so he's currently working on delving into this a lot more.
Other: His surname is that of his father, which he has kept in his name out of respect. His mother's surname is Warner.
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