In-Character
Full Name: Emrys Riegan SelwynNicknames:
Birthdate: October 10th 1851
Current Age: 38 Years
Occupation: Owner of Seabound Sorcery Trading Company
Reputation: 8; although his brother is publicly a bit of a cad, there hasn't ever been a scandal large enough to truly tarnish his reputation, and he keeps his own nose clean. There have been some rumors that less-than-respectable things tend to happen during or after some of his parties. Unsubstantiated rumors, of course. Just juicy enough that all the respectable folks wish they'd been invited.
Residence: Bristol, near the main office of the shipping company.
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff
Wand: 10" pear and unicorn hair, supple.
Blood Status: Pureblood
Social Class: Upper Class
Family:
Ephraim Selwyn, father, d. 1882Appearance: Emrys has typically considered himself fairly average; he has light skin and dark hair typical of his family and is 5'10" tall. His default look is serious, which is strange, because he usually isn't. He dresses fashionably, but modestly; not much in the way of flair or overt color to his wardrobe.
Rhea Selwyn nee -----, mother, d. 1880
[Brother] Selwyn, brother, b. 1848
----Ambrosia Selwyn, sister-in-law; and family
Daniel Selwyn, brother, b. 1854
----Freya Selwyn, sister-in-law
Tanwen Selwyn, sister, b. 1860
[Sister] Selwyn, half? sister?, b. 1865
History:
Childhood
Emrys is fortunate enough to be born male and into a wealthy family, so has a fairly pampered childhood. He gets along passably with his siblings but tends to prefer the company of friends when sporadic play dates are organized. His first sign of magic, at six, is underwhelming, but he doesn't much mind. What he does mind is being the victim of his siblings' unintentional magical outbursts on occasion, but endeavors not to hold it too much against them.Hogwarts
Hogwarts offers Emrys a whole new world of opportunities, which he takes great pains to explore fully. During his first year or two he is frequently lost in the castle, but by third year has a better command of the secret rooms at Hogwarts than any of his classmates, and has learned a great deal from talking to the portraits. He adds two classes in third year but drops both of them in favor of others after the first two weeks of class. He never properly catches up from having missed the first few weeks, but it doesn't seem to bother him much. He tries out for and makes the house Quidditch team as a fifth year, but is not much devoted to it and drops off the following year. The same happens with several clubs that he joins and then tires of. Overall, at Hogwarts, he is happy but bored. He is quite popular and makes many friends, though, and often goes to visit them over holidays.
His father, having noted to some degree his restlessness at school, begins to ask what he would like to do beginning sixth year. Emrys has no particular ideas, though he does know that as the second son he really ought to do something. The issue of what is still unresolved by the time of his graduation.
Young Adulthood
Believing that he may benefit from some travel and possibly some time to "find himself," Emrys' father invents some sort of managerial task that needs doing in the shipping company he owns and sends Emrys out to sea. He spends the next two years bouncing between offices in India and China, and while he isn't sure he's found "his true calling," if such a thing exists, the multicultural aspect of his work is at least passably interesting. He realizes retrospectively that being shipped off this way was probably an effort on behalf of his parents to prevent him from following in his older brother's footsteps — at least if he goes sowing wild oats abroad, the resulting progeny are significantly less visible than the ones born in England. He doesn't mind, though. When he has concluded his initial "job" he switches to one in America, where he stays for about a year.He returns to England for his older brother's wedding in 1874, which seems rather rushed. The household isn't an entirely pleasant place in the aftermath (and is more crowded than he remembered it from years ago), so he starts looking for an opportunity to go somewhere else. An opportunity to acquire a nice house in Bristol arises and he takes it, occupying himself for several months thereafter with plans for renovations and refurbishing; the resulting house is something he is quite happy with.
Emrys now finds himself with a small pile of money (acquired from his pay for the four years abroad, since his living expenses during that time were covered by his father's company as a business cost) and no particular ideas what to do next. He starts half-heartedly working on a book and throws some nice parties at his new estate. He becomes an investor, which seems to pay off fairly well, and he considers possibly just doing this (which is to say, not much of anything) for the rest of his life. It's not a bad gig, being rich.
He is quite convinced that his mother's death in 1880 is a murder, though he has no proof of this, nor any clear ideas about who might have killed her or for what purpose. His growing understanding of the dynamics of his older brother's family, however, just leads him to believe that house is the sort of place one might be murdered in, so it seems perfectly reasonable to conclude this has been his mother's fate. He makes a point of visiting less frequently.
After That
The passing of his father sees Emrys quite unexpectedly in possession of the shipping company that he had briefly worked for. This is a delightful opportunity to go abroad on a tour of all of the company offices and ports of harbor, which takes him out of England for the dreadful mourning period. He returns over a year later and goes back to throwing parties and generally enjoying life, and makes business decisions when it's required of him. The company does well, as do his investments. His younger brother gets married in 1885, and the developments that follow just further convince Emrys that marriage is a terrible idea. Some people just aren't cut out for married life (the older branch of Selwyns), and for everyone else, there's in-laws.
He continues living it up and traveling whenever the mood strikes him for several years. He invests in a few things here and there, some of which go well and some of which do not, but his income is generally not terribly affected, and with a small household (one man and several servants), his expenses are not significant. In recent years, however, a rival shipping company based in America has had an increasingly strong presence in Britain, which affects his profits and therefore his lifestyle, to an extent. How obnoxious.
News that a member of the Delaney family has gone to America following a wedding early in 1890 gives him hope that perhaps they will go away, but that seems not to be the case. Seeing that ignoring them has not helped matters much, Emrys decides to try a charm offensive: the Delaneys have at least one unmarried daughter, and he supposes if he does marry, there are worse things to be gained in the bargain than his top competitor's trade secrets.
Personality: Emrys has often been compared to one or the other of his two brothers: like his older brother, he can be quite charming when the mood strikes him; like his younger, he can be difficult to read and many who know him are not confident that they know him well. He is generally laid-back and easy to get along with. He is frequently amused, but just as frequently the things that amuse him are not funny to anyone else, so he tends to keep them to himself. He gets bored of things easily and is generally considered too lazy to really belong to his Hogwarts house of Hufflepuff, though he is capable of getting things done well and quickly when he cares about them.
Other: Falmouth Falcons fan, partly because they have a few ships docked in Falmouth and partly because their games are just more exciting than regular Quidditch matches.
Out-of-Character
Name: Lynn
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