Post by Jacob Tierney on Sept 7, 2011 1:56:13 GMT -5
The Basics
Name: Jacob Hunter TierneyPhysical
Nickname(s): Jake, Hunter, Jay
Age: 28
Birthday: September 2nd, 1983
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Blood status: Pure blood
Parents: Laciela Skye Tierney, Tristan Michael Williams
Siblings: Older sister, Tabitha Fae Tierney (graduated two years before Jacob)
Wand: 11 inches, Ivy, Phoenix Feather, Pliable, Knobbly
Affinities: Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts
Natural talents: Artistic, relate-able
House: (Desired) Gryffindor
Year: Graduated
Job: Desired : DADA
—Brief Job Description: Teach students about counter-curses, curses, Occulemcy, Legilimens, protective magic as well as offensive magic and wizard dueling.
Hair: Dark BlondePersonality/Demeanour
Eyes: Varies from Dark – Light blue depending on mood
Height: 6'2”
Build: Light Athletic
Other: Piercing in left ear, tattoo on back with the irish saying go deo I mo chroi (translated it means forever in my heart), large burn scar on his right arm
Likes: Renaissance and Impressionist Age Art, sketching, listening to music, engaging others in conversation, peanut butterHistory and General Biography
Dislikes: Modern/Contemporary Art, Polka, Thieves, Dark magic, Potions
Strengths: Switching spells, loyalty, secret keeping, drawing, watercolors
Weaknesses: Peanut butter, late sleeper, quills
History: Jacob was born to his two pure blood wizard parents two years shortly after his older sister Tabitha. His whole life, Tabitha has picked on him. Tabby, for short, was the golden child and could do no wrong in her parents eyes. Jacob never let this get to him though, and kept smiling throughout it, letting the insults, the pranks (including one where she wrote loser on his face while he was asleep in their parent's car, and then let him run around an amusement park all day with it. No one ever said a word about it to him) and all the other things slide off his back. Instead, he found joy and peace in listening to music, everything from Wizarding music to Muggle music (such as old school rock bands such as Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Doors, and The Ramones...) and in drawing. From a young age, he showed promise in his artistic abilities, and it surprised everyone when he decided not to encourage this ability, and to go into the Wizarding Workforce as an Auror.Belongings:
His mother Laciela fell in love with his father at Hogwarts. They only started dating their last year of Hogwarts and had Tabitha 3 short years later. They never married, to the chagrin of both of their families. Laciela is from Ireland, and Tristan is from England. Though he wasn't doted on quite as much as his older sister, Jake had a loving and happy childhood. Other families thought it was a little strange that his parents never married and speculated often about their relationship. Jake took it with a grain of salt, and learned that you didn't need to be married to be deeply in love, and have a happy life.
Jake's own time spent at Hogwarts was often fraught with drama. He became a bit of a heart-breaker in his school day's, never really committing to one girl. He never allowed these little trivialities to interfere with his schoolwork and found himself in the top not only in his Transfiguration classes, but his Defense Against the Dark Arts as well. The other classes were close, but he felt the most at ease in these two classes. Throughout his school days he continued to practice his skills in art, and was often drawn to draw his classmates and teachers, when they were unaware or when he asked them to pose for him. In his third year at Hogwarts, he began to rigorous task of learning to take an Animagus form. By the time he graduated, he had perfected his Peregrine Falcon transformation.
He did not start working immediately after graduating from Hogwarts. He spent a small amount of time trying to decide to work for the Ministry, or perhaps going back to Hogwarts as a Professor. His parents supported him during this difficult time, and helped whenever they could. He finally gets the job of Auror, at age 20. Shortly after receiving his job, he got the tattoo of the Celtic tree, a design his mother made for him. His parents paid for it as a congratulatory gift on achieving something his own sister never even attempted, being an Animagus.
General Biography:
After working for the Ministry of Magic as an Auror for 3 years, Jake found his life lacking. He was close with people, but felt he could never get too close to them, for fear of them being injured because of his line of work. He stepped down from his job and spent some time abroad, doing sketches to pay for his own way to travel. He made it to Romania, to see the dragons, and was burned by a dragon as he was trying to inspect its sleeping form. He has the scar hidden under his shirt, but if he pushes his sleeves up you can see it trailing from the inside of his wrist all the way up his right arm. He also went to Italy, France, Spain and paid a short visit to Greece as well. In that time, he remained single, not even charming his patrons. His sketches of that time period in his life mimic Da Vinci's work, though now his style has finally evolved into its own, blending his two favorite styles of art, Impressionism and the Renaissance period.
After taking roughly 2 years to travel, Jake turned to the Muggle world for his next job. At this point in his life, he felt that he needed to be more in touch with that side of the world. He spent his time working in a small bookshop, which later became famous because of the painting he did just above it stairway. It was a near perfect rendition of The Creation of Adam. He worked there until he was 27, moving up in the ranks until he was a manager. After this, he felt it was time to return to Hogwarts, to not only teach what he could to the younger generations, but to continue his studies. He was a life long student, who hungered for knowledge.
Pet: Grey Female Spotted Owl – Mia, Blue-Tortie Male Ragdoll (Cat) - Laird
Other: Sketch books, pencils, utility knife, watercolors, acrylics, oil paint, canvases, and watercolor bristol board.
