In-Character
Full Name: Jonas Albert HopkirkNicknames: Joe, sometimes.
Birthdate: March 25th, 1866
Current Age: Twenty-Five Years
Occupation: Werewolf Capture Unit Member
Reputation: 9. He's known in the workplace for his short temper.
Residence: London, England
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor Alumnus ('85)
Wand: Blackthorn, 12 inches, Dragon heartstring, Unbending
Blood Status: Halfblood
Social Class: Middle Class
Family:
Jonathan Hopkirk, Father [1840]Appearance:
Josefina Hopkirk (née -----), Mother [1842]
Jameson Hopkirk, Brother [1863]
Juliet Hopkirk, Sister [1867]
History:Jonas is, to put it plainly, average. He stands at an unimpressive five feet, six inches tall, and has always been more thinner and agile than he has broad and strong, which might not be noteworthy if not for the fact that he looks terribly unimposing when compared to the men he works alongside. He has a fair, freckled complexion that burns rather than tans—and it does burn, as he takes very little care to protect his skin against the elements and as such always looks a shade or two redder during the sunnier months.
His hair is blond and his eyes blue, and his features have always been so sharp and bony that in certain lighting he appears as though he's missed a handful of meals. His nose is thin, his mouth wide, and his cheekbones high on an already too-long face. His smile, wide, white-teeth, and dimpled, might be his best feature if he was more eager to show it. Jonas dresses for practicality and prefers muggle clothes to his work robes. He is left-handed.
1866 | Jonas is born the second-born son of Jameson and Josefina Hopkirk, a pair of Hogwarts sweethearts who married not too long after leaving Hogwarts.Personality:
1867 | Juliet Hopkirk, the first daughter—and the last child—of the Hopkirk family, is born.
1870 | While fighting over a toy with his elder brother, Jonas sends the seven-year-old flying backwards onto the drawing room couch in a first display of magic that causes him to bruise a rib. Jonas is immediately apologetic, but Jameson holds it against him for months.
1872 | While shadowing her mother in the garden, Juliet causes a row of flowers to bloom in her first display of magic. She's dubbed the "little flower" of the family, and Jonas takes to calling her "flower" on the regular.
1874 | Jameson goes off to Hogwarts, and Jonas is jealous. He loved his brother despite their differences (and there were differences, like how Jameson had always preferred books and was so snobbish about it) but there is a certain satisfaction that comes from suddenly being the oldest boy at home during the school year. He and Juliet only grow closer in their time spent together. She is the calm to his fire, and is is the knight to her princess; he is protective of her and she always calms him, and they rarely argue.
1876 | Until the January of Juliet's ninth birthday. The family rarely went out at night, but they're invited to dinner at the house of a family down the block, and Josefina is insistent that they go on foot and make a proper entrance. Things go wrong, and no one is able to stop it when a werewolf exits an alleyway and into the street and severely injures Juliet. She is not bitten, but scratched—and the scar does not fade, even as weeks and months pass. The fact that the werewolf in question is never apprehended does not help; at only ten there is little Jonas can do but let the anger fester inside him—anger for his sister's marred features, for the loss of her bright smile, for the loss of time spent together as she cowers away from any social interaction. And the fact that the werewolf is never apprehended does not help.
1877 | Jonas reluctantly leaves his sister behind to attend Hogwarts. He's sorted into Gryffindor, which serves him well until the fights start. He's in detention far too often, and at one point he's even threatened with expulsion if he does not learn to control himself. He does—at least in public, because he engages in at least three private fistfights and one failed duel with a second year by the year's end. He's an angry person in general, at times for no apparent reason, but he does nothing to help himself. He allows it to grow, to fester, to invade different areas of his life until he walks around with a figurative storm cloud over his head.
1878 | His second year does not start off any better. Juliet is set to begin Hogwarts, but is adamant that she doesn't want to. Apparently raising a daughter with an emphasis on beauty is harmful when only years later she is pressured to wear her cloak to hide her face in public. Their parents' attempts to change her mind only make her more stubborn, and when September comes Jameson and Jonas leave without her. She is instead tutored by a governess in the basics of charm work and magical theory, alongside the subjects relevant to a young woman. Jonas is loath to leave his sister at home, and is even more distraught when he realizes her absence in first year means she will never attend, period.
1879 | Jonas adds Care of Magical Creatures and Ghoul Studies to his course load. With the added work Jonas has much less time to get involved in skirmishes; in fact, he spends more of his time in the library than anywhere else, researching werewolves and dueling spells and anything that would allow him to one day avenge his sister. (He spends way too much time daydreaming about it for a thirteen-year-old boy, and is even once caught doodling himself killing a werewolf in DADA class, which - does not go over well at the time.)
1882 | The time to take his OWL examinations roll around, and Jonas does exceptionally well for someone who wasn't known to be particularly studious or bookish. It's his drive to do something honorable (or so he claims) with his life that drives him to do well, and he does. At the beginning of sixth year he has a full roster: Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Ghoul Studies, Herbology, Potions, and Transfiguration. His vibe becomes less "ticking time bomb" and more "aggressively determined".
1884 | He takes his NEWTs and graduates, and although his grades prove well enough to enter the Auror Training Program, he's deemed a little to hot-headed to be a viable candidate for the program, so he enters hit wizard training instead. They are more than willing to work with his temper, and even put it to good use—it turns out that his reaction time is exemplary, and he proves himself a capable dueler even against capable adults.
1885 | Juliet is given the chance to properly debut and has all the trappings of a proper debutante, but she - doesn't. She instead spends hours of the day writing in her bedroom, and Jonas only knows this because because he seems all the crumpled parchment and ink stains when he visits her bedroom to check on her every evening, but he's not sure exactly what she's doing with her time.
1886 | Jonas becomes a full hit wizard and thrives on the force.
1887 | The Minister's daughter is outed as a werewolf, and Jonas is pissed—not because there's another werewolf in the world, but because the werewolf who hurt the girl is never captured. He resolves to solve the crime himself, just to prove that it can be done (and to feel a little less hopeless over his own sister's case, but).
1890 | Jonas transfers to the Werewolf Capture Unit, eager to do his duty to his family, to the Ministry, and himself.
Hotheaded. Jumps to conclusions quickly, but can usually be talked out of they—usually. Generally good at keeping secrets. Obsessive. Always assuming the worst. Problem-solver. Street smart. Determined.Other:
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