fauxblooded @ 2008-03-06T22:19:00

2008-03-07T03:20:24Z

HELLO HOGWARTS!!

I'm BAAAACK!

fauxblooded @ 2008-02-05T10:06:00

2008-02-05T15:10:12Z

~~I AM HUNGRY~~

I think those nasty little Elves are trying to POISON ME. ~~MY STOMACH HURTS.~~ Or maybe SOME ONE HERE is trying to POISON ME. My stomach is making STRANGE NOISES and I feel SICK.

WHY DOES POISON SEEM LIKE THE LOGICAL WAY TO GO?

THIS IS ALL ~~MY FATHER'S~~ SNAPE'S FAULT. WHY DOESN'T HE KEEP THOSE MANGY ELVES IN ORDER??

~~And KEEP HARPER AWAY from MY stash!!!!~~

fauxblooded @ 2008-01-27T20:34:00

2008-01-28T01:40:18Z

IF YOU DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT MY MOTHER I AM GOING TO KILL YOU, SEAMUS. AND AS SOON AS I AM DONE DANCING IN YOUR BLOOD, I WILL BRING APHRODITE'S CAT TO EAT YOU AND CALL ALL THE OTHER CATS IN THE SCHOOL TO HELP IT BECAUSE HE PROBABLY CAN'T EAT YOUR WHOLE BODY BY HIMSELF. AND THEN I WILL GET URQUHART TO DRINK YOUR BLOOD BECAUSE HE IS OBVIOUSLY PART VAMPIRE.

SO SHUT UP.

fauxblooded @ 2008-01-23T23:31:00

2008-01-24T04:38:49Z

GINNY KISSED ME!!!!!!

She is a big fat FREAK and a DUMB GRYFFINDOR SLAG MAN WITH FAKE TITS!

AND NOW MY NOSE IS RUNNING AND I AM MAD!!!!!!!!

fauxblooded @ 2008-01-14T02:08:00

2008-01-14T07:11:37Z

AHHHH!!!

~~I think that some one has been going through my food!~~ If anyone has been going through my things ~~especially my food!~~, I would advise you not to do so! I can be ferocious when I’m angry! I’ll hex you, unnamed culprit, if I find you snooping! You won’t have seen what’s coming because I’m so fast. And then you, whoever you are, will be very embarrassed and caught red-handed and I will be victorious and make you look like a complete arse in front of the entire school. Not to mention that you’ll gain a reputation as a thief and some one not to be trusted ever!

Anyway, ~~I’m so hungry~~ now I’ll have to reorganize everything and maybe I’ll place hexes on them to keep people away. YOU UNNAMED VILLIAN will contract a horrible case of itchy, hideous splotches all over your body. I will have NO MERCY!!! Those who steal don’t deserve sympathy or mercy! They’re MY things! Don’t touch them! Ever! I will be angry! Just like I am now. I’ll make sure that ~~Snape~~ Slughorn hears about it! He’ll probably deal with it even more harshly than I will. I bet there are FINGERPRINTS EVERYWHERE. You’re lucky I’m not that invested in finding you, you lucky, NOSY little ponce, whoever you are.

fauxblooded @ 2008-01-05T04:20:00

2008-01-05T09:26:32Z

RUSTY STAINWRIGHT

NAME: Rusty Stainwright
BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood (though he is under the impression that he is a pureblood
AGE/BIRTHDAY: February 6, 1981
HOUSE/YEAR: Slytherin/6th year
CLASSES: Muggle Studies, Dark Arts, Charms, Astronomy
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual

APPEARANCE
Rusty is a slightly stout, rounded fellow with chubby cheeks and a dimpled sneer. He has a tendency to be greasy at times, from sheer laziness and he reminds me of a (much younger) sleazy used car salesman. He has thick, dark caterpillar eyebrows that crawl over a deeply set pair of dark brown eyes. He tries in vain to keep his hair tamed, but it tends to do whatever it wants after a half hour of wear. He uses quite a bit of product in it (which doesn't help the greasiness) and spends more time getting ready than should be necessary for a boy.

Rusty has a rounded, slightly curved nose. His features are all well-proportioned (save his hands and neck) and not all that unattractive. His freckled cheeks are often pale and burn easily when he goes out into the sun – for the time it takes to watch a Quidditch match, his cheeks will be an odd shade of red for upwards of a week. It is plausible that if he washed his hair, stopped applying handfuls of styling gels every day and lost some weight, he would be a very average looking stab at a 16-year-old boy.

For Rusty's build, his neck is unusually narrow and somewhat short, connecting (and often disappearing under) an awkwardly large head to a plump body. He isn't fat, per say, just unusually round and certainly overweight. He is quick to blame it on genetics and his being "huskily boned". In fact, he attributes all of his flaws (in personality as well as appearance) to "bad genes". He is also very self-conscious of his hands. He thinks his fingers are much stubbier than other peoples' and thus much thicker as well. His handwriting is atrocious as a result of barely being able to coil them about his quill.

PB: Tom Palmer

HISTORY
Rusty spent the earliest years of his life moving around frequently due to his father's personal business (of which he knows virtually nothing about). His father was born to two wealthy British aristocrats. He doesn't know it, but his father's mother (his biological grandmother) is a Muggle. Rusty is therefore only 3/4 pure and thus a halfblood, though he's under the impression that he is the purest of the pure. He's never met the family on his father's side, for good reason. His parents decided that it was best not to tell him, as his mother comes from a fairly well-known Pureblood family. Since their marriage, Rusty's parents have craftily avoided talking about Mr. Stainwright, who has become a sort of enigma, even to Rusty himself. His parents don't see very much of each other, but when Mr. Stainwright is around, the interaction is passionate and even slightly embarrassing for the boys, though it's kept behind closed doors, naturally. The distance is what allows the Stainwrights to function as a family unit. When Rusty was seven, the family settled outside of London a month before Mrs. Stainwright gave birth to Miles Angus Stainwright.

Rusty and Miles spent the next four years at their mother's proverbial petticoat, tugging on her shirtsleeves when they were hungry or pointing to their mouths when they wanted food. This sort of communication always worried Mrs. Stainwright, who was certainly not cut out for the servitude that two children demanded. She had never intended to become a housewife in the first place. Rusty is very much a mommy's boy and she is very protective of him. He knows how to exploit that to his own benefit when need be (he would never be able to recognize it though; it's a completely subconscious behavior).

The story with Rusty's father is this: Lucas Russell Baker was born a Halfblood. As a child, he was made very ashamed of this fact by grandparents who condemned their son for marrying a Muggle woman when there were "so many classy, elegant witches in Britain." Lucas grew up as a halfblood, never contributing to conversations about blood or offering his own personal experience with it. The family kept it largely a secret that their bloodline had been broken, but due to the nature of the breakage (Lucas's parents caused quite an uproar in their small corner of the wizarding world), there were a few elite families that were well-aware of the flawed lineage. For years, Lucas's parents feared that he would turn out to be a squib, and hired a tutor by the name of Bridget Stainwright (a Pureblooded widower of three years) to do all she could for him. Lucas, of course, wasn't a squib and received an invitation from Hogwarts, which the family quickly accepted.

Lucas was sorted into Slytherin, much to his parents' surprise. When Bridget received the news, she was not at all shocked. She and Lucas kept in touch during his time spent at Hogwarts. After graduating, Lucas spent a year floating around from place to place, trying his hand at different occupations and eventually falling back onto the family fortune. Lucas met Annetta Ashcroft on his 20th birthday and they were engaged to be married less than a year later. Annetta's parents naturally had problems with this, given the trouble with Lucas's lineage. When confronted with the issue, Lucas disappeared for three months, submerging into a very murky situation with both his parents and Bridget Stainwright. When he emerged, it was under the alias Lucas Russell Stainwright. He and Bridget still communicate and fondly call each other kin. The Bakers have not been seen or heard from since.

Marrying Annetta was not Lucas's only motivation, however. Living in Slytherin and having been taught to be ashamed of his bloodline, Lucas had grown to hate Halfbloods and Mudbloods. He became a supporter of Voldemort, and after failing at a dozen or so miserable occupations, he decided that he wanted to become a full-time Death Eater. This is where the whole situation becomes entirely circumstantial. Death Eaters are Purebloods. Adopting the surname of a Pureblood solved two of Lucas's problems in one. Through some manipulation and coercion, Lucas arranged for the forging of the appropriate documents. Now, it is simply not spoken of and Lucas travels frequently, performing menial chores of no real consequence under the mark of the Dark Lord. However, he has a constant, lurking fear that some one will one day discover his hidden broken lineage and ruin their entire family.

Not as intelligent or manipulative as his father, Rusty was not quite as easily able to fend for himself in school. He soon became a kind of possessive friend. Growing up, he didn't have many friends because they were moving around. When he stayed in one place long enough to meet people, they generally made fun of him for being overweight. He turned into a bully of sorts and while he has mellowed out in the last five years, he is still a fairly controlling person when it comes to his friends. He probably gets along relatively well with the other sixth year boys. He has the immature phobia of anything vaguely homosexual, though, and probably often accuses people of being ponces or poncey.

Rusty spent his time in school admiring the older Slytherins. While he makes a point to harass any girl his own age or younger, he would only harass the older students from other Houses – save any other halfbloods. He doesn't think that the older years are better than them, despite his become nearly mute when they're about. His respect for them (particularly the girls) stems from house pride and unity. In general, he probably hasn’t gained himself many friends at Hogwarts.

PERSONALITY
Petty should be his middle name as well as vindictive. It is through no fault in upbringing that he has attained these characteristics. Rusty just is – vindictive, petty, chubby, defensive and all. He's a bit dumb. Well, dumb is unfair, I guess. He's not very intelligent; not even when it comes to common sense. It would never occur to him to sit and self-analyze, or even to analyze anyone else. Other peoples' feelings are non-existent to him (that's unfair as well, but he doesn't pay them a bit of regard). Rusty is vaguely self-obsessed, but oddly aware of other peoples' opinions of him. He doesn't bother with making a good impression and gives his peers little reason to think highly of him; however, he would like for them to think highly of him. More likely than not, he is perceived as an odd little boy that sits and cackles over immature or dirty jokes while playing a loud, enthusiastic game of wizard's chess and eating compulsively whenever he's bored.

Rusty takes personal pleasure in victimizing other people. He's nice to those in Slytherin, but he harasses girls from out of house (even some younger Slytherins) mercilessly. He'll say some terribly crude and insensitive things to girls that he deems "pretty". He hates "pretty" girls because he doesn't believe he'll ever attain one. Even his fat father married a pretty girl, but he had a certain charisma that Rusty lacks.

When Rusty was six (he was chubby for his age even then), his parents visited his aunt on his mother's side in France. Rusty's cousins, Jacques and Pierre, (twins, born 6 months after him) made fun of him endlessly about his weight and his other (rather obtuse) characteristics. They attend Beauxbatons and when he sees them (from time to time), they harass him about his weight. Even Rusty’s brother, Miles, is average, causing an undercurrent of jealousy and a hateful relationship between the two.

He doesn't try to impress people (even though he'd like for the people in his House, at least, to like him) and he doesn't put on a front. His hatred for attractive people is completely subconscious and you'll never hear him utter a word about it. As a character without a lot of mental depth, Rusty is intolerably nosey and hates being left alone to his own devices. He has a childish outlook on everything, and it's hardly forgivable. All-in-all, Rusty is extremely insecure, immature and lecherous.

Being a chubby boy, Rusty has gone to great lengths to compensate, wearing strangely fitting clothing to "slim him out" and dieting compulsively. The diets are generally unhealthy and they don't last long – needless to say, they don't work. He's also very private about his dieting. As a child he was often criticized about his weight, and he's very self-conscious about it. So instead of eating his fill at meal times, he eats a bit and hoards biscuits or sweets or anything that isn't too messy to be hoarded and snacks on it throughout the day, occasionally stealing away from class or other people to eat in private. Whatever is left (and imperishable) at the end of the day, Rusty stores in a metal box beneath his bed. Having barely eaten at mealtimes, he is prone to compulsive midnight snacking, often overeating and waking up in the morning with a horrible stomachache.

Rusty is a very fitful sleeper. He tends to talk, snore, hum and thrash. Before attending Hogwarts, it had never been an issue. He had a room all to himself and was usually unbothered. He's taken to placing silencing charms over his bed for the sake of the other 6th years and consequently, himself. He sleeps for approximately four hours at a time, waking around 2 or 3 o'clock every morning to a rumbling stomach, which he feeds and puts back to bed as quickly and quietly as possible.

Rusty considers himself a dark wizard. He believes this because it's been ingrained into his head. While his mother practices a less acute perspective, she is still from a Pureblooded family that looks upon her with complete and utter disdain. That said, his father's appearances have made quite an impact on little Rusty. Hating Halfbloods and Mudbloods and things of that sort are not in the forefront of his mind. He's much more concerned with girls and his animal-like hormones. If asked, he's a supporter of Voldemort. A quiet, dormant supporter, and he doesn't intend to become a Death Eater or anything, but a supporter nonetheless.

QUESTIONS
What does your character think of the current situation at Hogwarts, especially the Carrows?
Rusty is certainly benefiting from the current situation with the Carrows at Hogwarts and has no problems at all with any of the favoritism. He thinks that it’s about time that some one who has any sense to take charge and put the Mudbloods and blood traitors in their places. He isn’t innately a person who would feel at ease while inflicting physical pain on any living thing, however, and finds their Dark Arts lessons to be quite unnerving. He’ll do what they ask, though – both to save face and to insure that the preferential treatment continues.

What's your character's deepest, darkest secret? Who might know this?
When Rusty was nine years old, his parents bought him a rat. He named if Felix and took it everywhere with him. He slept with it, shared his ice cream cones with it, took if for walks in the park and even gave it baths. Six months later, he fell into a series of bizarre illnesses. It was determined that his rat was the cause, and it was quickly exterminated, to say the least. Ever since, he has had an odd phobia of rats (and other such rodents).

Rusty doesn’t advertise his fear of rats and since he thinks that it will make him appear less of a man, and since he believes that his unconfirmed manliness cannot afford to be compromised, he at least attempts to keep his fear a secret. However, since he’s probably encountered rats during his years at Hogwarts, there is a good chance that at least his Housemates are aware of it.

Describe your character's Sorting. What about them caused them to go in their house?
Rusty’s parents were both Slytherins and many of his qualities are ingrained through his upbringing. Even though he is not nearly mature or self-aware enough to be able to utilize it, he does possess cunning and manipulative qualities thanks to his father. He also feels pressure to maintain his parents’ pro-pureblood lifestyles and believed that the easiest way to insure that he do so would entail being Sorted into Slytherin. So he certainly told the hat which House he wanted to be in, but even if he hadn’t, he would have been placed in Slytherin anyway.