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Player Info:
Player Name: Sar
Age: 31
Contact: Combeferret @ Plurk
Characters Already in Teleios: None Currently. I did play Enjolras for a short time, but the game mechanics didn’t suit him and made gameplay difficult for him and those who interacted with him. Remus is in a much better state to enjoy Teleios.
Reserve: Reserve

Character Basics:

Character Name: Remus Lupin (Moony)
Journal: myfurrylittleproblem
Age: 16
Fandom: Harry Potter
Canon Point: Following The Whomping Willow Incident In Fifth Year. Snape’s just confirmed that he’s a werewolf, thanks to Sirius.
Debt:

Class A:
Betrayal of Teachers’ Trust
Betrayal of Principles
2 Years

Class B:
Breaking And Entering
Theft
Assault on Snape

1 Year 6 months

Class C:
Animal Abuse
Aiding And Abetting
Causing Mass Mayhem and Panic

Terrorizing the Villagers/Innocent Citizens

Disorderly Conduct
Encouraging or contributing to child delinquency
Failure to Accept Responsibility
Indecent Exposure
Underage Drinking
Using Abilities To Mess With People
Giving Up On A Friend
Borrowing Books From The Restricted Section
Getting The Yule Ball Banned
Making Restricted Potions
Eating A Classmate’s Pet
Sneaking Into Opposite Gender Locker Room
Underaged Drug Experimenting
Failure To Stop Bullying
Failure To Stand Up For Others
Disgracing The Prefect’s Badge
Allowing Friends To Copy Homework
Sneaking Dungbombs into Enemies’ possessions
Acting As Teacher Distraction During Pranks
Sneaking Out At Night
Letting Friends Cheat On Tests
5 Years, 7 Months


Canon Character Section:

History: Harry Potter Lexicon Biography

Personality: At first glance, quiet and shy Remus Lupin looks as though he doesn't quite belong in Gryffindor. It’s hard to see the brave young man behind his thick fringe or the stack of books he’s usually carrying around. He’s definitely less noticeable than his best friends James Potter and Sirius Black, and tends to prefer being in the background. The less people who notice him, the better.

However, when one realizes why Remus prefers to be in the background, their assessment of him may change a bit. For most of his life, Remus has been struggling with lycanthropy, that is, he is a werewolf, and regarded as highly dangerous by the ministry of magic and by most everyone in the magical world. Up until the age of eleven, Remus was forced to hide his condition from everyone, and spent his childhood being rather isolated from other young people.
For the most part, his companions were his parents, his books and the muggle children’s librarians in the various towns and villages that he and his parents have lived in. As a result of this isolation and his condition, Remus started school with some difficulty understanding people his own age. He’s something of a miniature adult, one of those only children who seemed to be grown up at a very early age, and sometimes he still seems to take life a bit too seriously and needs to be reminded that it is okay to have fun and be a kid.

Because of his condition, Remus and his parents weren't certain he could attend Hogwarts, and when he found out that he would be allowed to go, he vowed to work hard and to be a model student, wanting to prove that Dumbledore’s faith in his ability to be successful was true. If he can do a good job in school, Remus feels as though he will have proved that Dumbledore was right about him, and that he can be trusted, even though he is a werewolf.

Remus tends to take his status as the first werewolf to attend Hogwarts very seriously, wanting to set a good example, and to prove that Dumbledore’s risk was worth it. As a result, he can often be found studying, trying to help other students and doing his best to set a good example for his friends. Remus is very painfully aware that he could be setting a path for other students with conditions similar to his, and sometimes feels as though he must be the perfect representative of werewolf kind, even though he’s never met another werewolf that he knows of. This often drives him to be very strict with himself and he certainly tries very hard to stay out of trouble as much as he can. It is partly due to Remus’s self discipline that he was named a Prefect (A hall monitor who can take away house points and acts as a leader for the younger students in their house) at the beginning of his fifth year. The other reason is that Dumbledore, and the other teachers at Hogwarts seem to hope that Remus can exercise some influence over the people he spends the most time with,

Unfortunately for Remus (or maybe fortunately), his best friends don’t tend to accept his excuses for refusing to enjoy life and Hogwarts and tend to pull him into fun, adventure, and some madcap pranks. James and Sirius are the sort of bold, daring boys who love to get into mischief and to have a bit of a laugh, and they've somehow chosen Remus and another boy, Peter Pettigrew, as their other best friends. Remus is still not quite sure how this happened, but he does enjoy being around his friends, sees them as his brothers, and would do anything for them. Sadly, this loyalty does not always work out for the best, particularly as it comes to Severus Snape, a hard to get along with Slytherin in their year who has an especially strong dislike for James, and, by extension, his friends as well.

Naturally, it would be letting his friends down if Remus didn't participate in their pranks, the kind that aren't harmful to others, and his friends have been good for him, encouraging him to let go of his reservations. He’s definitely found a flair for collaborating with his friends on pranks as well, joining in on secret plans, bringing some ideas and patience to the table. Remus is a bit more prone to thinking within the box than his friends, and he’s sometimes needed to help drag them back down to earth. Within the contexts of certain projects and pranks, this doesn't involve stopping his friends so much as reminding them of things like gravity and laws of nature that need to be taken into account. He definitely doesn't want to be the fun police, even knowing Dumbledore trusts him to be responsible, and tries, instead, to encourage his friends to be reasonable in their pranking, and to keep the others from doing things that tend toward too much injury or damage while still pulling off fantastic stunts.

Needless to say, he does not always succeed, and feels a bit afraid to do more than mildly ask his friends to stop doing certain things, particularly when they involve pranking Snape, or when he thinks they are doing the wrong thing. After all, who else would want to be friends with a werewolf? Who else would be as loyal, or as kind to Remus as his friends have been? This is definitely a source of tension, and he often feels as though he’s failed the adults who gave him a prefect’s badge, even though he certainly can’t turn on his friends.

Of course, sometimes, even Remus acts like an average sixteen year, and has been known both to encourage his friends to do insane things, participate in them, and has even spearheaded a couple of them. Usually, however, Remus tended toward the understated in terms of pranks, and when he was not paired up with his friends, his pranks tended to be smaller affairs that usually ended up allowing his somewhat sarcastic sense of humor to shine through.

An example of a time when Remus’s skills were needed was during the making of the Marauder's Map, a magical map that allows the boys to see where anyone in the castle is, at any point in time, and also shows off secret corridors and exits in the school. To anyone who does not know the secret words to make the map work, it appears to be a simple piece of slightly rumpled parchment. While the entire group realized that this was an important part of the map, it was Remus who came up with the idea to have the parchment insult anyone who tried to make it work without the correct passwords.

As much as Remus enjoyed helping to map Hogwarts and researching secret corridors throughout the school, and working with his friends to learn the magic required to make the map itself, his favorite part of the entire project was coming up with the extensive variety of insults the map produced, should it stumble into enemy(Or Snape’s) hands. He might have gotten ahead of himself with preparing some of the catalog of insults, and really enjoyed learning the magic that allowed the map to recognize who was attempting to use it. This meant that the insults could be somewhat personalized, making for a somewhat unique experience that still was working in the nineties, long after Remus and his friends had left Hogwarts. As of Remus’s fifth year in school, this remains his proudest achievement outside of school activities to date. He’s certainly proud of intellectual achievement, and takes a sort of joy in his own, where he can get them.

So, how do these traits line up with Remus’s status as a Gryffindor? Well, Courage and Chivalry come in all sorts of forms and Remus’s brand of courage tends to come from his compassion toward others. Because he’s struggled with being different, Remus definitely can relate to the school underdogs and outcasts and he does his best to take them under his wing. As a school prefect, he’s really meant to be helping to control his friends, but he mostly uses the power of his badge to look out for younger students who might be being bullied, to help cheer up anyone in his house who might have a bad day, and to make himself available as a sort of informal therapist or tutor for anyone who needs help with a problem, or with schoolwork.

Remus certainly cares about making himself available to anyone in need of his help, and can often be found offering crying first year students chocolate frogs, breaking up fights in the corridors, or walking the younger kids to Madame Pomfrey if they happen to feel ill. He’s very fiercely protective toward his charges, and also toward his friends and will fight to the death to defend their lives, no matter what the cause.

Unfortunately, Remus’s sense of loyalty can, and has, gotten him into trouble. Because he never had friends until Hogwarts, Remus tends to feel grateful toward his friends for hanging around him, and subconsciously feels their friendship is something of a sacrifice on their part. Because of this, he has a hard time correcting his friends when they are wrong, and he tends to let their bad behavior slide. Even when Remus is uncomfortable with some of the things his friends, especially James and Sirius do, particularly bullying Severus Snape, an unpleasant boy in their year who has become a rival of their little gang, he has a very hard time telling them off, or punishing them for bad behavior.

While Dumbledore hoped that making Remus a prefect would encourage his friends to behave, Remus is still unable to stand up to his friends, and tends to drop most fights or attempts to stop them before they've really started. It doesn’t help that James, Sirius and Peter have also worked out a way to help Remus through the full moon and his werewolf transformations either. Because they've become illegal animagus (wizards who turn into animals) to join him on the full moon, and keep him from harming himself or anyone else, he sees this as another risk his friends are taking for him, and he has a hard time saying no to them, or shutting them down when they are doing something wrong. After all, they've done so much for him, so he can certainly be a friend and look the other way, right?

As he enters the game, however, things will be just a little different. Remus is coming from a canonpoint in which Sirius, playing a stupid and dangerous prank, explained to Snape how to find, and get to, a real werewolf. Remus, of course, is the werewolf in question, and he’s currently feeling rather betrayed by Sirius, disappointed in himself for nearly attacking Snape while he was in his werewolf form, and feels as though he was made to betray Dumbledore’s trust in him. He’s currently doing his best to avoid Sirius and might stick with that for quite a while.

But, perhaps a new world will have a new effect on Remus. When confronted with the news that he is here to stay in a new world, one run by Agents where he is meant to work off his debts in life, he’ll probably laugh it off at first. After a few days, and his first attempt to use magic (and finding out it does not exist), he’ll probably began accepting his new position and attempt to settle in as best he can. The fact that he will not be alone will be a big help, and even if he’s not speaking to one of his friends at the moment, his other friends will be here, and he can attempt to make new ones while he tries to figure out the way this world works.

Remus will be baffled if he is expected to attend school on Teleios. I think that he would very much LIKE to go, but the concepts covered will be new to him. In the Wizarding world, children are taught things like reading and writing at home, and then they’re off to Hogwarts where they learn how to use their magic and how their world functions. He’s also at a disadvantage, considering that he will be entering Teleios from a world that is literally set in the 1970’s. Remus will not, for instance, know much about science, the last several years of social studies and history, or other muggle academic issues. He does enjoy reading, and has kept up with literature in the muggle and wizarding worlds, but he’s certain to be a little lost when it comes to other matters, and concepts he’s never studied, and he’ll definitely have several years worth of material to learn and catch up on! School would be an excellent idea for getting him acclimated to the technology and social climate of a modern world.

Because his mother is a muggle, Remus definitely knows how to function without his magic, and will probably settle in to helping his friends and teaching them the use of some technology. Now,there are some technological advances, such as computers, microwaves and DVD movies that are completely new to him. He’ll probably enjoy learning and do his best to adapt to life quickly, in order to help his friends, who’ll have a lot more to get used to, as he sees it. He’d also like to meet some new friends here, since, after all, working off his debt will take a while.

And having a brand new world to explore, along with fascinating people and creatures will certainly help to make his transition much easier!

Powers/Abilities:Remus is a wizard and in his fifth year at Hogwarts, where he’s studied Potions, Transfiguration (turning an item or animal into something else), Charms, Defense Against The Dark Arts (defensive spells and skills and how to use them) and some additional subjects such as Care of Magical Creatures and Ancient Runes. Remus is particularly good at Care of Magical Creatures, Runes, and D.A.D.A lessons and will probably spend his time in Teleios trying to make friends with any magical creatures who are around. He uses a wand to cast most of his spells, and I would love to work toward him regaining his magical abilities at a later point in game!

Remus is also a werewolf, who transforms with the full moon. Due to the nature of time in Teleios, and J.K Rowling’s established universal rules for werewolf biology and transformation, I am not sure of the rules regarding his condition in game, given that there are other werewolves from various other fandoms. The canon rules of Remus’s condition are that he transforms monthly on the full moon, loses his mind while he is transformed, and, if he cannot find people or animals to attack, he will turn on himself instead. His friends have recently learned how to transform into other animals who can help Remus keep from harming people, two of whom are large enough to keep him in check, but they’ll have lost their magic upon coming to Teleios and reverting to baseline humans.

I would prefer for Remus’s transformations to function in the same way that they are handled for the werewolves in other fandoms; I am just unsure of how the mechanics might work, and am willing to work within whatever guidelines are required. Please just let me know what to do and how to do it, and I’ll be happy to adjust Remus, and his reactions, accordingly!
Appearance:
Remus has sandy brown hair and usually looks a bit under the weather due to his Lycanthropy and the moon cycles. Given that a werewolf will attack himself if he has no other targets, Remus has some non visible scars that are usually covered by his clothes. He does prefer long sleeves to avoid showing scars on his arms where possible. He’ll be arriving out of his Hogwarts uniform and in pajama bottoms and a tshirt since he’ll have been recovering from the latest full moon, instead of in class.

I’ll be using Colin Ford as his PB:




Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

[Well, he certainly hasn't been idle since he got here, anyway. Of course, given that Remus has had hardly any idea where he’s going the entire time, he’s managed to get himself turned around rather badly. As much as he can SEE the temple, he hasn't been able to find a road that interconnects, to lead him back to it. Not one for panicking, exactly, he IS, however, looking for a spot in town with a few people, and, taking a few twists and turns, manages to reach a sort of park of sorts that seems a bit more highly populated.]

Errm. Excuse me? Does anyone here know their way about well? It’s only that I've been trying to find a route back to the Temple, only I keep getting turned around, and Merlin only knows, ah, sorry, whatever supernatural entity I should be mentioning here only knows,what my friends are getting up to back there without me. They...don’t exactly know how to function very well in the muggle world, let alone a world like this one.

That is...you probably won’t have heard of muggles but they’re the non-wizards among the lot of people at home. The so called ordinary humans who use technology and other sorts of things where we might use magic. Only our magic seems to be broken just now. Which wouldn’t sound too dangerous unless you think about the fact that there are a lot of things that you do here that a lot of wizards won’t know the first thing about. Like ovens or the machines for washing up or a lot of things that use electricity. It...probably all sounds rather basic but if they aren't able to use magic and were to try something like making tea...it’d all go really pear-shaped really quickly.

[He’s frowning a little, debating how honest he should be here, but then deciding that he might well go for it.]

Of course, there are a few things here that I don’t know about. My mum is a muggle but we haven’t got one of the...ah...box things that cooks food rather quickly? It was easy enough to figure out how to punch in the buttons, but there are a ton of warnings on the inside that were a bit disturbing when i looked them over. The print was very small, but I didn't fancy electrocuting myself or something, you know, so I looked that over, as much as I could at least, but I don’t think that they would have listened very much when I tried to explain it and...my friends may starve to death, or burn the Temple down if I am not back there very quickly.

I...don’t suppose someone could help with that? And if anyone here knows how magic works, in this world, that is, I would be fascinated to learn about that too, but...first thing IS first, right?

[There has to be someone who’ll take mercy on him, right?

Prose Sample:

It had been another of those long and boring summers. Remus had managed to see his friends a few times, and they’d met up in Diagon Alley just last week for their school shopping, but he’d still MISSED all of them a lot. Tomorrow, finally, he would be leaving the tiny muggle village of Rushden and going back to Hogwarts. He could hardly wait.

At the moment, he was packing, carefully folding sets of robes and trousers and placing them into his trunk, which was a bit of a mess since he hadn't looked at it since coming back for the summer term. As he worked, he sang under his breath, a song that had been popular a few years before his time, but one that put him in the mood for school anyway.

“Don't know much about History...don’t know much Arithmancy...Don't know much about Potions books, Don’t know much about the Charms I took…”

Right, speaking of Charms...the book ought to be around here someplace…

His room, usually so organized was covered in all KINDS of books, including the textbooks he’d started looking at early, wanting to have a head start for Fifth year. He always tried to do that where he could, hoping that by working ahead a little, he could keep himself from falling behind during transformations and the time he lost due to the full moon. In theory, it had been a great idea. Right now, it was a bit of a pain in the arse as he glanced around for a book he wasn't allowed to use magic to find until he got onto the train tomorrow. Maybe in the pile there, along with some of the muggle novels he’d worked through this summer, and wanted to bring back to share with the others.

He might not be very well informed as to how most normal muggle teenagers lived, but he DID like to read and, given that his family had moved to the most boring, smallest village ever, he had spent the parts of summer that he didn’t spend on holiday homework with his nose burried in a book, of various kinds.

Sorting through those piles, thinking back on how he’d spent the lazy days, lounging around in the yard with a comfortable lawn chair and a cold drink by his side, Remus knew he wanted to bring his friends the same sort of pleasures if he could, and at least the thrill of losing themselves in another world was one that he could pass on, at least. Now then, what should he bring back with him, and for whom? A thinner book, with a brightly printed cover caught his eye, and Remus smiled, reaching for it.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh was written for children, admittedly, but Remus had still liked it quite a lot, and, even more importantly, it’d made him think of Peter, who, of all the animals in the world that he might have become when he’d become an animagus, had become a rat.

He ought to get a laugh out of it at the least, and it was short enough to be good light reading and distract Peter from feeling badly the next time McGonagall was short with him. Nimh’s rats were brilliant and reading about them could very well lift his friend’s spirits when he needed them lifted, couldn't they? Peter deserved the chance to feel important, and for something that he read to be enjoyable, instead of boring and connected to school, so the book about smart rats that made him think of the rat that he knew best just had to come along with him to school. Settling it into the trunk, Remus considered what ought to go next.

There was, of course, The Princess Bride, and for all the faked “editorial” asides, it seemed like just the thing for Sirius to sink his teeth into. Swordfighting, pirates, epic journeys, and everything else were just the sort of thing his friend would like. And then there were the rhymes as well, and the fact that Inigo and Fezzik reminded him of James and Sirius, even though he couldn't say who was who just yet. Besides, Sirius would probably jump at the chance to read a muggle book if he was reading anything. It might as well be something special, right? Into the trunk it went.

James was a little harder. Picturing him settling down to enjoy reading something that wasn't for a class, or the paper, or to further some goal of theirs was definitely a bit harder. Remus tended to associate James with action, as opposed to quietly enjoying something. He would much rather be DOING, wouldn't he? Remus didn't quite have anything in the way of that, per say, but he wanted to try finding SOMETHING.

Of course, right as he reached to flip through the pile again, he could hear his mum’s voice drifting up the stairs, calling him downstairs to supper. Tomorrow, he realized, it would be quite a while before he heard her voice again, so he might as well make the most of things just now. After, he could finish packing, or maybe in the morning, if he remembered to get up that early. For now, though, excited about the friends that he was going to see again, but already missing his parents, sort of, Remus pushed himself up off the ground, and started for the stairs, the words from his song still repeating themselves in his head.

“But I do know that I love you, and if this one could be with you...What a wonderful world this could be…”

He was hoping that he got a shot at another wonderful world through school this year, at least.