In-Character
Full Name: Marmaduke Honour WarbeckNicknames: Duke
Birthdate: February 21st, 1863
Current Age: 25 Years
Occupation: N.E.W.T. Examiner
Reputation: Somewhere between 6-7, considering the eccentricities of his family (sister is a Quidditch player, sister married but never had children before becoming widowed, neither himself or his brother can dress themselves to save their lives let alone reputations, his clumsiness with the opposite sex, hanging around with Revolutionaries, that unmarried brother living on his own...)
Residence: Wales
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Wand: Rosewood, 12", flexible, phoenix hackle feather
Blood Status: Halfblood
Social Class: Middle
Family: Father: Cedric Warbeck (1823)
Mother: Dulcibella Warbeck née ----- (1831)
Sister: Favoretta ----- née Warbeck (1850)
Brother: ERRINGTON WARBECK (1852)
Sister: CARMELINA CRAMMING née Warbeck (1854)
Brother-In-Law: Walter Cramming (1848-1885)
Sister: JOSSIMA WARBECK (1859)
Brother: Goodluck Warbeck (1872)
Appearance: 5’7” (curse you, giant younger brother), gawkily built, big brown eyes and black, coarse hair. Spectacles. Right-handed. Sharing the same inability to distinguish between hues as his older brother, Duke runs into fashion faux pas somewhat regularly. It is easy to tell when Favoretta has intervened and mother(sister?)-henned in, especially around family events and get-togethers.
History:
1863: Born, filling the boyish gap that Errington’s ascent to Hogwarts leaves for 6 months.
1866: Duke clings to Carmelina’s leg as she too soon starts the Hogwarts departure. Reports from family letters mention that Duke still looks for her to read to him. Having yet to form a functioning knowledge of reading and writing, Duke takes to using ink where it shouldn’t be used to make
1868: Though quieter these last couple years, Duke starts imitating the type of art Carmelina brings home.
1869: Duke finally has a basic grasp on reading and writing and those Hogwarts owls are practically first-name basis with him as he mails Carmelina about this ‘new’ revelation and his latest art. Constantly. There are a lot of skulls, and that never really lets up.
1872: Duke experiences every human emotion over the course of ten months. Cue nine-year-old identity crisis that eventually pitters out after he realizes he gets to boss Goodluck around. Unironically, he starts writing to Carmina about the hazards of being nine years older than your sibling.
1874: Duke is ecstatic to be one of the proper Ravenclaw siblings – not that there is anything wrong with Jossima. (What kind of girl out-brooms her brother!? A Hufflepuff, that’s who!) He waxes poetry to Carmelina and Errington about the family legacy, and touts the virtue of being sorted into Ravenclaw to Goodluck, whom he is certain will follow similar footsteps with a name like that!
Or not.
Though there’s a few years between them, Duke meets Jude on one of his crusades while he’s tutoring some of the Ravenclaw stragglers. Duke finds himself simultaneously annoyed and riveted by Jude’s sanctimonious can-do attitude throughout school. While Duke himself has it pretty good as far as society goes, he finds himself more and more sympathetic to ideas against things he had taken for granted as simply normal. He finds himself gravitating into Kingsley Well’s circle within House Ravenclaw.
1881: Duke graduates, applies for various junior positions and gets a job interning at the Ministry's Department of Education to have some sort of excuse to sound smart.
Meanwhile, he may or may not have taken bets on whether his mother or Favoretta would produce the next Warbeck. He steers clear of the subject with Carmelina. Instead, he makes some ill-fated advances on one of the harried young women in the Public Information Department. Be fruitful and multiply – and broads loves suffrage, yes? no? yes? ...
1885: Boring job while living with the parents. Courtship has thus far been a failure. Revolution has been a very thin line to tread, especially as Adult Duke finds he actually abhors upsetting people. He goes through shock, dismay, and perhaps a little shameful relief to have his favorite sister back under terrible circumstances.
1888: After three years of cleaning up way too much ink, Duke applies to do the spilling as a NEWT Examiner. It is more... traditional, than he would prefer, but there is something about holding futures in his ink-stained hands...
Personality: Obsessed with literature, both muggle and classics, Duke definitely found his calling amongst the nerds of the family.
Other: Feels tremendous pressure to not drag the family down, but is also way too in his own head to pursue a traditional courtship or life successfully.
Sample Roleplay Post:
He had, objectively, made it in the Ministry. It was not Hogwarts. It was not walls upon walls of parchment and books – or at least not books. The paperwork was endless. But necessary... in theory. This was where a stunning career began and ended, after all. Tucked away from prying muggle eyes, where only the proven could step foot in.
‘Proven’ meaning moneyed. It was a sort of proof, though it was not the first time it begged him the question: proof of what? Not proof of magic, for every boy and even every girl would be schooled were that all which was asked. Proof of talent? Perhaps, but he already saw that sniveling Borthwell from a year behind him taking a seat. Proven...
They took their exams, glancing to Marmaduke between scratching quill pens. Some glanced over their shoulders as they passed him, and he curtly nodded.
Proven. What was truly proven in these corridors? It was a question that hung over him like a cloud about to rain. It was one he still asked, though never aloud.
Merlin. Was it too late to try for a library post?
Out-of-Character
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