In-Character
Full Name: Alastair Claudas Rosier
Nicknames: Al, the Viper (boxing alias)
Birthdate: 30.07.1853
Current Age: 41 Years
Gender: male
Occupation: professional scoundrel, gentleman
Reputation: 8; so far, his efforts to protect his reputation and keep a low profile have succeeded. There are some rumours though, that strange things happen at his exclusive gentlemans club in London, the Blackadder.
Residence: London
Hogwarts House: Slytherin
Wand: Aspen, 12”, dragonheart string
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Upperclass
Family:
The righteous House of Rosier
The Rosiers belong to the sacred 28 pureblood families written about in leather-bound genealogy books. They are ancient, distinguished by the purity of their blood and protected by their ironclad traditions.
These are not the cozy, merry sort of traditions. It is known that the Rosiers' long history is afflicted by death, calamity, cruelty, and madness.
There are magically enforced stipulations regarding inheritance that make sure that younger sons lack support and perspective in life. All family resources are kept for the eligible heir, resulting in a sad tradition of fratricide.
Whom the Rosiers are allowed to officially procreate with is strictly regulated and, as is the case with most pureblood lines, they are fairly inbred.
The family takes their heritage very seriously and their numerous offspring are always in dire need of pureblood matches.
The classical Rosier look includes fair skin and exaggerated facial features.
Known issues: blindness, deafness, mental illness, infertility, albinism.
The old guard (and Beatrice)
The patriarch - Bartholomew Horatio Rosier (*1813)
The first wife - Araminta Celestia Rosier née Bulstrode (1835 - 1878)
The second wife - Beatrice Rosier née Veradame (*1860)
The current generation
Born to Araminta Rosier —
The heir - Alastair Claudas Rosier *1853
The spare - Lysander Octavius Rosier *1856
The fool - Zephyrus Oberon Rosier *1859
The spinster - Cordelia Iris Rosier *1964
The darling - Lucretia Morgana Rosier *1870
The forgotten - Calliope Andromeda Rosier *1877
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born to Beatrice Rosier —
The unexpected - Altair Scorpius Rosier *1880
The fledgeling - Iphigenia Rosemary Rosier *1883
The new crop:
Born to Alastair Rosier —- Dorcas Rosier née Travers (1854 - 1887):
Araminta Lucretia Rosier (*1878)
Cressida Iris Rosier (*1880)
Family secrets:
Appearance:
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Physical features:
Alastair is a man built around a powerful internal engine. His body is strong with a broad and blunt bone structure. It is healthy and sturdy and exudes power.
Standing a little over six feet tall with jet-black hair, an aquiline nose, a narrow mouth and cold eyes, nothing about Alastair communicates softness or a yielding temperament.
Were it not for his icy-clear and contrasted coloring—black hair, fair skin, blue eyes—he might look brutish instead of aristocratic. As it is, he is a mix of both. And what you see is what you get.
Decades of boxing, sporting and hunting built him up into a very athletic man.
He is right handed and dresses conservatively, almost always in black.
Height: 6'2
Faceclaim: Richard Armitage
History:
The Rosier Chronicles
1853 - Alastair is born
Alastair is born healthy and lively. He is a great success for Araminta, who scored on her first attempt: male, looking like his father, seemingly neurotypical.
House Rosier has its heir. A grand ball is held in London to celebrate Alastairs arrival.
1856 - Lysander is born
The pair welcomes their second son Lysander. He’s underweight and scrawny, but all else seems well and it does not matter anyway; Alastair is a healthy and plump toddler now, terrorizing the house with his tantrums and already using magic to get his way.
Lysander is not as robust and much quieter than his brother. For the rest of his life, his superior intellect, great magical abilities and kind disposition will be overlooked by his family.
1859 - Zephyrus is born
A third son joins the family. It is a fine and handsome boy but his father dislikes him for having the audacity of looking not much like himself. His mother would much rather like to have a girl instead of a third son. Who needs a third son, anyways?
He turns out to be passionate and flamboyant kind of character and is assigned the role of family scape goat.
1864 - Alastair joins Hogwarts - Cordelia is born
Shortly after turning 11, Alastair takes off for Hogwarts. The talking hat sorts him into Slytherin, as is tradition.
The first girl joins the family, headstrong, morose Cordelia.
1868 - the Valor society
In his fourth year, Alastair gets together with his friends in Slytherin and comes up with a student club all about boxing, fighting and duelling. They call it the Valor society.
It starts out as harmless roughhousing among boys and quickly takes a turn. More pupils join and they start holding secret “fight nights” in the dungeon. Within the group, cruel hazing and weird rituals emerge. Alastair, who learned these types of group control tactics in his home environment, is often the instigator.
1870 - the Travers incident - Lucretia is born
In his sixth year, infighting breaks out between the members of the Valor society. In a duell between Alastair and Nicodemus Travers, the Travers boy gets gravely injured and has to leave Hogwarts. He never regains full physcial capacity.
The Travers are a pureblooded family and their patriarchs know each other well.
They deal with the matter behind closed doors. A large sum changes hands and Alastair is betrothed to Dorcas Travers (*1854).
Alastair avoids expulsion but the Valor society is disbanded by the principal.
In the same year, Lucretia is born. She grows up to be the golden girl of the family.
1871 - Alastair graduates Hogwarts - engagment to Dorcas Travers
Alastair get’s middling NEWT-results and graduates Hogwarts.
His parents promptly call him back to London to make good on their promise to the Travers. He meets Dorcas, who did not attend Hogwarts and was homeschooled, and immediately dislikes her.
She is pretty but mentally very unwell.
Nontheless, they get engaged.
1872 - Alastair and Dorcas marry
The two teenagers marry in a rushed ceremony. Alastair is unhappy but puts up with it. They do not consumate and at the first opportunity he goes away to his uncle to learn about running a business. Dorcas stays at Rosier Manor in Scotland.
1872 - 1876 - building a double life
Busy avoiding his wife, Alastair spends his time in London aimlessly. He visits boxing rings in disguise and participates in illegal fighting, animal baiting, poaching, and dueling. He sows his wild oats indiscriminately but is smart enough to keep a low profile. His dominating father allows him no say in family affairs, but his uncle Aldred buys him a derelict gentleman's club to turn profitable.
He revives the Valor society, and their former members invest generously. “The Blackadder,” located in the hidden magical enclave on Doubt Street, becomes THE secret address for young upperclassmen who are up to no good.
The Blackadder, of course, offers facilities and instruction for boxing, fencing, and dueling. The members take regular hunting trips both in Great Britain and overseas.
1877 - Calliope is born - Araminta dies
The third Rosier girl is born, and Araminta dies shortly after, exhausted from a stressful life of catering to her narcissistic husband and six children.
Little Calliope is handed over to Dorcas and Rosier senior makes up his mind to remarry.
Bartholomew Rosier is shaken by this death and worries about the future. His heir is refusing to bed his wife, his spare is too mellow and shy for leadership and his third seems too queer to be good for anything. Something has to be done!
He calls on Alastair, accuses him of impotence and threatens to disown him.
Alastair, deeply insulted, takes his wife away from the family manor. To everyones surprise, something like mutual regard blossoms. They are not teenagers anymore, after all.
1778 - Araminta the 2nd is born
At last, after six years of estrangement, Alastair and Dorcas welcome their first child, a frail girl named Araminta after her late grandmother.
1879 - Rosier senior remarries
The old Mr. Rosier remarries a pretty pureblooded debutante 40 years his junior, Beatrice Veradame. She is a veritable juwel on his arm, meant to represent his enduring power and virility.
His actual virility, however, is questionable.
1880 - Altair and Cressida are born.
To everyones surprise, Beatrice soon gives birth to a healthy blonde boy named Altair.
A month later, Dorcas gives birth to little Cressida, second daugther of Alastair. This is regarded as a failure for Dorcas due to the child not being male.
Rosier senior rejoices in his own superiority over his son and continued ability to produce male offspring. But at the same time, Altair is (supposedly) not the heir the family needs, just another wayward son who will have very scarce resources to support himself.
1883 - Iphigenia is born to Beatrice Rosier née Veradame. This is almost as surprising as Altairs birth. Rosier Senior turns 70 this year.
1885 - Dorcas Rosier née Travers declines rapidly due to mental health concerns.
1887 - Dorcas dies under unclear circumstances at the Rosiers manor in Scotland.
Alastair is ordered by his father to remarry immediately but drags his feet about it. Pushing 40, he is very sick of being ordered around. He makes good money from the criminal empire he bas built in secrecy and is not as dependent on his father anymore.
He is involved in illegal fighting rings, betting and trading of illegal wildlife and artifacts. He’s sort of white collar wizard crime lord.
1892 - Zephyrs banishment
Alastair banishes his younger brother from the family, almost killing him in the ensuing fight. Refer to section family secrets.
1894 - arriving in the now
By now Alastair resignes to the fact that he does need an heir soon to be eligible to inherit the estate. Worringly, if Rosier senior dies, the only son with an actual male heir is Zephyrus - he has Altair. There is a slim chance he could ursurp his eldest brother and take everything.
Alastair resolves to find a wife. He has his sights set on Ginevra Blackwood.
Personality:
A design of competition
Alastair is all about competing with himself, with others, and others competing with him. He is always keeping score and comparing, and he influences his environment to do likewise. He wants to be first and wants to be the best.
A design of instincts
His body produces powerful impulses to act at the right time. It's like an inner voice that speaks only once and then quiets. It says: "Do this, now." This trait is all about timing and survival, and he has learned not to rationalize his instincts. They are what make him such a vicious, dangerous fighter in the ring. He can not explain it. He just knows. When he hears the voice, the world is his for taking.
A design of unpredictability
Alastair is primed to thrive under pressure because he is himself a pressurized, unpredictable personality. He swiftly moves from rigid order to chaos and back to order. There is an undercurrent of melancholy when life is in order. Maybe about a lack of excitement. Or about not knowing what to fight for.
A design of doubt
He has a rational, distrustful mind that asks endlessly: what if?
Alastair views the world within preconceived mental concepts and comes to conclusions on that basis, which are not necessarily true. His way of thinking is set and inflexible.
Other: The Rosiers will be plottable/adoptable! Tbc
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