Nicknames: Bell
Birthdate: September 28th, 1870
Current Age: 20 Years
Occupation: Artist
Reputation: 8; general oddities for himself and his immediate family, and his uncle was a human trafficker, which is not awesome.
Residence: A London townhome, + a country estate in a vaguely northerly part of England (Bellamy is not particularly good at English geography; he forgets what county it's in but knows the floo address)
Hogwarts House: Unknown
Wand: Siberian Pine & chimaera scale, 10", supple.
Blood Status: Halfblood
Social Class: Upper
Family:
Thorben Echelon, Father [1836]Appearance:
[Name] Echelon nee [Something], Mother [1841 - 1889]
[Name] Echelon, Brother [1863 ? ]
Valentin Echelon, Brother [1866]
Eden Echelon, Sister [1867]
Eve Echelon, Sister [1873 - 1890]
Extended family: Jena Echelon-Arnost, grandmother;Sebastian, Niklaus, & Adelina Echelon, uncles/aunt; Idelle, August, Elsbeth, Ferdinand,Tobias, Siegrief & Leisa Echelon-Arnost, half-uncles/aunts; various cousins.
Muggle family in America: grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins.
A metamorphmagus, Bell nevertheless tries to maintain a somewhat consistent appearance. He insists he is the farthest thing in the world from vain (this is not true: he is incredibly vain). He has dark brown eyes (mostly) and hair that is cut fashionably (sometimes). He used to be in the habit of changing his hair color from city to city while they traveled because he couldn't really settle on what color he liked, but he doesn't want to do that in England because he'd prefer people not know he's a metamorphmagus, so — brown? His hair is brown, he supposes? That's a nice normal shade for hair to be, isn't it? Obviously his skin is clear of any blemishes (obviously). He mostly hangs out around 5'6" but does sometimes flex up or down a few inches; he has a few custom-made clothes that magically adapt with him when he does which were crazy expensive. The rest of his wardrobe consists of things picked up from all over the world, which he wears mis-matched with no real respect for the culture behind them, because he's all about the aesthetic.History:
1870 | Bellamy is born, which was clearly the best thing to ever happen to his family. He was born abroad and remains abroad for most of his life, though the family owns some property in England so that's technically home.
1873 | Eve is born.
1880 | Bellamy gets a wand in Moscow, jumping the gun on his eleventh birthday by a bit but it's not like anyone is really keeping track of them.
1882 | The year Bellamy would have gone to Hogwarts, if anyone in the family had been particularly inclined to go back that direction long enough to establish a residency, which thankfully they aren't. Like his older siblings, Bellamy learns magic (and everything else) here and there, from a collection of tutors in various locales as they move from city to city.
1885 | Bellamy starts painting and decides immediately that it's his calling in life. Also noteworthy this year: one of their uncles back in England dies and is revealed to be a Truly Awful Human, which is shocking enough that it even impacts them a little, in a way that none of the other general shenanigans and happenings of the extended Echelon/Echelon-Arnost family have previous. Impacts them in that they miss out on a few invitations because of it, anyway; since Bellamy is still a child it doesn't really impact him much, and everyone seems to have moved on by the time they relocate again.
1886 | Bellamy experiments with sculpture while in Greece, but doesn't have the same affinity for it as painting.
1888 | Bellamy learns how to paint moving paintings from a portrait master they meet in South America, though it takes several years to refine the skill; he's still not sure he's good at it.
1889 | Mother dearest passes away. Although it's neither sudden nor tragic it's still something of a shock, since she wasn't old. Their father starts to go a little off-the-rails, in that he always seems to be having a different conversation than the rest of them, but everyone assumes it's his way of grieving. They put on mourning clothes (terribly inconvenient because none of his clothes that change height with him are appropriate mourning attire) but otherwise continue their lifestyle, thinking mother would hardly have wanted them to change everything because of her death.
1890 | Bellamy's sister Eve dies in a tragic accident. Supposedly, anyway; he's not convinced. The family wears mourning clothes (again) and moves to England, where they are all going to "settle down" and presumably be safe from any more sudden deaths. The upside of all of this is that Bellamy is in England with nothing at all better to do when The Picture of Dorian Grey is released in serial form. He thinks Basil Hallward is the most Romantic figure ever created in literature and aspires to be him.
1891 | In April, The Picture of Dorian Grey is published in a complete book; Bellamy buys a copy to give to everyone he knows.
Other:
- Never learned to apparate. Thinks the floo network is the coolest thing. He asked for a map of the English floo network for his last birthday. It's the only non-art displayed in his bedroom.
- Knows about five or six words in a dozen languages but really only speaks English, because he assumes everyone else will accommodate him, not vice versa. He uses his random foreign vocabulary to pepper into his speech to make himself seem cultured.
- Has written anonymous fan mail to Oscar Wilde.
- Tends to use magical moving paints for the non-animate parts of his paintings (for instance, a potted plant behind a seated figure where the plant changes seasonally but the figure is painted in the Muggle fashion). He believes this is artistic genius and will fight you if you argue him on it.
- Almost certainly cannot actually fight you.
- Virgin and in no hurry to change that because he thinks adding sex to a relationship deprives it of its artistic beauty.
- Basically convinced that their younger sister is either 1) still alive but in disguise or 2) traveling the world as a ghost, and didn't tell them because their older brother is a tyrant and wouldn't understand. He has absolutely no evidence of either.
