THORNTON, benjamin samael

[BENJAMIN SAMAEL THORNTON]

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I NEED ANOTHER STORY,

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something to get off my chest
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BENJAMIN SAMAEL THORNTON[/center]

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MY LIFE GETS KINDA BORING,

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need something that i can confess
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Benjamin Samael Thornton

NICKNAMES:
Benji, Ben

AGE:
Twenty-five

D.O.B.:
March Sixteenth

WAND TYPE:
Fairy wing core
14 1/2 inches
Plum wood

PROFESSION:
Auror

SPECIAL ABILITIES:
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CANNON OR ORIGINAL:
Original

PLAY-BY:
Marcus Hedbrandh

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’TIL ALL MY SLEEVES ARE STAINED RED,

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from all the truth that i've said
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Blonde

EYE COLOUR:
Blue

HEIGHT:
6'0"

WEIGHT:
167lb

PERSONAL STYLE:
Casual, unless at work where he prefers to look more professional

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
At 25 years old, Benji doesn't have many features that make him stick out. He's an even six feet tall, but that doesn't seem to be an unusual height among men these days. He certainly doesn't tower over many. He has golden blonde hair and blue eyes, looking like some perfect prince straight out of a fairy tale. He has a square jaw and distinct cheekbones, but likes to think that he's rather handsome. He's muscular, though no body builder, because he needs to stay in shape to perform the best in his profession. He visits the gym regularly to keep up with his training.

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THOUGHT YOU SAW WINK, NO,

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i've been on the brink, so
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• Justice
  
• Family
  
• His job
  
• Women
  
• Men... maybe. Well, yes, but he's just kinda in denial 'bout that.
  
• Dating
  
• Bars
  
• Partying
  
• Quidditch
  
• Charms
  
• Divination
  
• Defence Against the Dark Arts
  

CHARACTER DISLIKES:

• Death
  
• Tragedy
  
• Injury
  
• Seeing others in danger
  
• Boggarts
  
• The fact that aurors are needed
  
• Failure
  
• Liars
  
• Dementors
  
• Dark Wizards
  
• Disloyalty
  

GOALS:

• Have a family
  
• Become head auror, someday
  

BOGGART:

• A dark or criminal wizard he was unable to catch getting ahold of his baby sister.
  

PATRONUS:

• His fifteenth birthday party, in the Summer of his fourth year. It was nothing special, just his parents, himself, and his little sister Lyra. But everything was happy and peaceful; they spent the day at a muggle science center, as muggle science was a passion of Benji's at the time. It was his last birthday ever spent with his parents. Elephant.
  

DEMENTOR:

• Discovering that his parents were dead. Everything, including his new responsibility of looking after his sister and the stress of realizing she could be taken away from him, hit him at once. It wasn't exactly a pleasant feeling.
  

AMORTENTIA:

• The cherry scented shampoo his mother always wore
  
• Roasted marshmellows
  
• Chocolate
  

BASIC PERSONALITY:

• Courageous
  
• Smart
  
• Friendly
  
• Responsible
  
• Protective
  
• A bit of a jokester sometimes
  
• Dedicated
  
• Hardworking
  
• Teasing
  
• Thoughtful
  

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AMAZING HOW WE GOT THIS FAR ,

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it's like we're chasing all those stars
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Halfblood

FATHER:
nickolas james thornton / deceased (muggleborn)

MOTHER:
patricia erin thornton / deceased

BROTHER(S):
n/a

SISTER(S):
lyra kara thornton / 17 / hufflepuff student

OTHER:
n/a

HOMETOWN:
Godric's Hollow

CURRENT RESIDENCE:
Godric's Hollow

BIOGRAPHY: Benjamin had a happy childhood. Well, the first fifteen years of it were, anyway. He was the first child born of Nikolas and Patricia Thornton, and things stayed that way until he was seven years old when it was announced that there was another bundle of joy on the way. He'd never been starved for attention for those first eight years growing up, and when his parents explained that a new baby was a lot of work for them and that he had to be a 'good boy' and become a little bit more independent, he was not happy. What eight year old wants to be independent when he's been getting all of the attention he could get for his entire life? He threw fits, he pouted, he told his mother that they should get rid of 'the thing' (as he called the baby) before it was born so that it wouldn't be any trouble. His parents quickly learned to ignore him, and his tantrums fell on deaf ears, but the little eight year old swore to hate his attention rival with every fibre of his being.

It took about five seconds of being in the room with his new baby sister for Benji to change his mind, begging and pleading for his mommy to let him hold Lyra. She was hesitant, but in the end gave in and the proud big brother held his little sister for the first time. From then on he was hooked. He proudly considered himself to be his little sister's protector as the pair grew. They were extremely close, moreso than the average brother and sister. Of course they had their fights and Benji certainly had his days when he wished he were an only child and his parents had heeded his warnings when he was young, but those days always passed.

He went to school when he was eleven, sorted quickly into Hufflepuff much to his delight. Being so far away from his sister for much of many years separated their childhood tight relationship, but they made up for the distance in the Summers. He made seeker on his Quidditch team in his third year, and kept the position in his fourth. In his fifth year he was again named seeker, but this time he was also a prefect. He was pretty proud, to say the least.

Then in the middle of his fifth year of schooling something terrible happened. Benji remembers it like it was yesterday, because he's relived it often enough in his dreams. He had been in his favourite class, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and ironically enough that day they had been revisiting the idea of dementors that they'd gone through in third grade. The headmaster rushed into the room, without even knocking, and quickly summoned Benji to his office. Of course the fifth year had thought he'd done something wrong. Had he been caught kissing Selena Jordans in the third floor corridor, three nights ago? Had someone rated on him and his friends and their frequent exploits to the forbidden forest? He would have preferred a months worth of detentions for either of those offences than the news he got, however. His parents were dead, and Benji was sent by Floo Powder home to be with his little sister and relatives, still very numb from the news.

He could have gone back to school. He could have left Lyra with a relative, or a family friend or something, and returned to Hogwarts. But the idea of leaving his sister all alone with nothing familiar didn't sit well with him. He didn't want to be separated from her in any way. It wasn't fair to place the burden of raising her on someone unrelated to their immediate family. She was only seven years old. She needed someone closer to her there to protect her and guide her. So he made the decision he'd never seen himself making; he dropped out of Hogwarts to look after her.

He was fifteen, he could do odd jobs. That's exactly what he did. He brought in money, and then of course they had the money left behind from their parents... When he turned sixteen he got a job at Diagon Alley, at the Daily Prophet office, and went there each morning using Floo Power to return regularly throughout the day to look after his sister (occasionally she was able to come to work with him, too).

One of the worst moments of his life, well, besides finding out his parents were dead, is a rather shallow one that he hates to admit. It's of when he was nineteen, dropping his bubbly little sister off for her first trip on the Hogwart's Expresso to the school. He was proud of her, sure, but the realization that she would be able to have an education and enjoy her childhood at the school completely while he was never able sent such a rush of anger through him that he had to make an excuse to go to the washroom to calm down. She was sorted into Hufflepuff, as he had been, and remains there to this year.

While she happily went off to Hogwarts he stayed home and worked, sending her letters every week to make sure she was all right, etc. He'd taken on the parent role, and it didn't really suit the nineteen year old well, but what could he do? She was eleven years old, and it wasn't like their parents death had been her fault. She hadn't planned to be so young and helpless that he'd had to drop out of his education for her, right?

He told himself that monthly, which then turned into weekly, which very nearly turned into daily when Lyra entered her fifth year of schooling. The fact that he'd dropped out in his fifth while she sailed through hers ground his gears, for lack of a better term. He pent up those thoughts for so long that they exploded over Christmas when the two got into a rather nasty argument, ending in Lyra leaving back for Hogwarts with the two still simmering in frustration. There was a stony silence between them, on Benji's part anyway, until Easter when she returned home with a solution. She was going to get a job, and help him speak to the headmaster about possibly finishing his education. A small part of Benji still wanted to say no, likely the prideful part, or maybe the just plain old brotherly type who didn't want his little sister to have to work in her childhood, but he spoke with the headmaster anyways and an arrangement was made. He'd missed two years of schooling, but couldn't return to school full time because he still had to bring in income for the family. So he was given books, lots of them, and lesson plans. His days consisted of waking up an hour early to do schoolwork, going to work at the usual time, and coming home to hit the books sometimes until midnight or later. He worked his ass off, but it paid off. He took exams at Hogwarts the following December, and passed. Somehow he'd managed to cram two years worth of schooling into eight months. Needless to say he was more than a little proud.

From there he was free to pursue his dream. No longer stuck to meaningless jobs to get money thanks to Lyra's support, he could enter auror-training. Perhaps because he'd been looking up on the job since he was young, or perhaps because he was already accustomed to working so hard to get what he wanted, or perhaps just because he was already much older than many auror trainees, he completed his training in a short period of time and became a real auror, as he'd wanted to do since he was young.

So that's where he stands now. 25 years old, single, and entirely dedicated to his work and sister. He hopes this year will be a great one.

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AND EVERY DAY I SEE THE NEWS,

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all the problems that we could solve
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RP EXPERIENCE: A long time

HOW YOU FOUND US:

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RP SAMPLE:

Please please please don't deny this. I'm sorry it's taking so long, life sucks. I'm going to finish the history ASAP.

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SICK OF ALL THE INSINCERE,

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so i'm gonna give all my secrets away
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