Merlin Gaunt III;; OLD.

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The Creation

Name: Merlin Gaunt III

Nickname: None

Species: Human

Gender: Male

Age & Birthday: August 7 | 26 years old

Appearance:


Merlin is compactly built at two hundred pounds, with squared shoulders, like a West Point plebe. He is six-foot-two inches tall, with rich olive colored skin. He has small straight white teeth, a small straight nose, and full lips. He has a thin athletic waist, and a hard flat stomach. He has a heart shaped face, and occasionally he has a thin five o' clock shadow. He has rather thick slightly arched eyebrows, and all his life he was told that he had his mother's eyebrows. Merlin has jet-black hair that is neatly trimmed and his prominent widow's peak is styled in a swept-back coiffure.

Attire: Merlin wears tailored pinstriped black robes almost all the time. With his robes, he will either wear highly-shined black dress shoes, of the finest leather, or just plain black tennis shoes, depending on the occasion. On his wrist is a gold watch, with stars circling around the face instead of hands, and sometimes a diamond pinkie ring.

House: Slytherin House

Wand: Mahogany and Phoenix tail feather; 12 3/4"; Nice and Supple

Patronus: Wolf

Boggart: Banshee

The Potential

Alignment/Occupation: History of Dark Magic teacher | Death Eater | Loyal to Voldemort

Personality:
Merlin is naturally curious, preferring to observe and store the information that is show to him rather than charging in headlong to a situation and avoiding the limelight where applicable. He’s methodical almost mechanical in his workings and he’s usually slightly quiet, foolhardy bravado is not what you would see from him. He has his head on straight and tends to rely on his gut feeling or instinct because that force has saved him on numerous occasions over the years and he had learnt to trust that over time. In a battle of head versus heart, he’d back his intelligence and ability to sort through the numerous possible outcomes until he can guarantee the best possible resolution for him. Merlin is tough both mentally and physically and so really, it’s probably best not to get into a fight with him any time soon, you’d pretty much come off that little bit worse.

Skills:

Parselmouth: Merlin is a Parselmouth, a trait he inherited from his ancestor, Salazar Slytherin. It seems that most of his Gaunt ancestors inherited this highly unusual trait; such traits are commonly passed down through families through inbreeding, a practice employed by the Gaunt family.

Occlumency: Merlin is a highly accomplished Occlumens, and is able to shield his own mind from penetration.

Expert Duelist: Merlin is a highly talented duelist.


Strengths:
Just that, strength. He has extraordinary brute force which people tend to laugh as due to the shape of his frame but he really expresses that quality. His ability to remember and recall vast amounts of seemingly random facts and information at a moment’s notice. After time, he soon realised that he needed to remember how to treat the more temperamental plants that he came in contact with and also how to be able to protect himself, where the venom was stored, how to extract it and how to treat himself if he was affected by it. That skill had also come quite in handy to passing examinations at school. Determination and focus. Even in the thick of things, he is not easily distracted, perturbed or swayed when his attention was riveted on something or other, there could be a fully fledged riot outside and he wouldn’t blink.

Weaknesses:
His holier-than-thou attitude. Being a Pureblood, by definition, that came with the territory to think that he was above the people that he had the misfortune to come into contact with. Looking out for number one. Merlin had learned from a young age that the only person he could fully rely on, was himself for the desired results. As he was so content to be focused on one thing, all of his brainpower would be taken up by that. Failure. There has to be trail but no error involved, he is such a sore loser. He knows that he has to record his mistakes in order to get things right at a later date but he just doesn’t like to do that all that much.

The Story

History:

Merlin Gaunt, Jr. had recently married his pregnant girlfriend, Elizabeth Flint, a pureblood witch, when Elizabeth started to have contractions. Three hours later, Merlin Marvolo Gaunt III was born at the Gaunt Estate in Wiltshire. Merlin III's father, had made a fortune conning wizards and witches out of their money, and this lead to the wealthy and priveleged lifestyle Merlin III was to have.

Merlin would be an only child, and while many believed he may have missed out on the "Joys" of being a big brother, he didn't miss not having a brother and sister one bit, in fact, he was quite happy to be an only child. His early years were spent haering about how muggle-borns, "Mud-bloods" as his parents called them, didn't even deserve to polish a wizard's wand.

When Merlin was eleven, he recieved his acceptence letter, to a then normal Hogwarts. Immediatly upon his arrival at the castle, he was sorted into Slytherin the moment the Sorting Hat touched his head. His school years would be spent tormenting muggle-borns and he would find himself in detention on more than one occasion. During his sixth year, when Voldemort attacked Hogwarts in his search for Harry Potter, Merlin "Left" with the other Slytherins, but returned to fight with the Death Eaters and his great-uncle Voldemort. Yes, Merlin knew Voldemort was his great-uncle, and wished to help him.

During the Second Battle of Hogwarts, Merlin was injured in a duel against then Headmistress Minerva McGonagall. After the battle was over, and Hogwarts was forever changed, Merlin returned to Slytherin house to finish his seventh year. After he had graduated, he went to his great-uncle, and asked to join him as a Death Eater. Seeing that he had worked along side the other Death Eaters at the Second Battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort agreed, and Merlin was branded with the Dark Mark.

Now, nine years after being made a Death Eater, Merlin still holds the intense loyalty to his great-uncle that he had as a sixteen year old, except now he is more ready to die now than he was at sixteen. Merlin wants to keep the Purebloods in charge by any means nessecary, and now he can do it by molding minds to think like the Death Eaters, for Merlin is Hogwart's History of Dark Magic teacher, and he will use his position to instill Voldemort's propaganda into the minds of those youths who enter the halls of Hogwarts.

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Roleplay Sample.

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The classroom door opened, and Merlin entered the room, with his robes billowing behind him. Turning to face the class, he pulled out his wand, and flicked it in the direction of the chalk board, and words appeared.

History of Dark Magic
Professor Merlin Gaunt
Lesson 7: The History of the Unforgivable Curses

After the words had been there for a few seconds, Merlin cleared his throat and began to speak. "These so called Unforgivable Curses, have long since been an important staple to help Purebloods become powerful. These curses were once so "Unforgivable," that it would land a user of one of them, a life time sentence in Azkaban. That was long ago though, and now these curses are about as common as the 'Windgardium Leviosa' and 'Alohamora.' Now there are three."

Merlin waved his wand again, and the words that were on the chalkboard before, were now replaced by new words:

The Cruciatus Curse- Causes Intense Pain; Incantation is "Crucio"
The Imperius Curse- Controls a person and removes their free will; Incantation is "Imperio"
The Killing Curse- Kills instantly and there is no stopping it; Incantation is "Avada Kedavra"

Merlin let the students study the board a second, and then he waved his wand and the words were erased. He looked at the class, and then he continued "Dark Magic is important to a wizard, for if that wizard doesn't do everything to defend himself he will end up dead. Now today we shall learn, the history of those three curses. Quills and Parchment out please!" and there was a scrambling as students began to pull out their quills and some parchment. Once all the students had them out, Merlin started the lesson.

Codeword: Lemon Drop

[evie]

Very lovely application - I enjoy the fact that you actually put your strengths and weaknesses in paragraph form, xD Most of us (iuncluding me) are lazy, so we just make lists, lmao.

Now, your character does have a relationship, of course, to a canon character - Voldemort. However, it isn't a close relationship, and it is believable. It's not like he's Voldemort's long lost brother who is secretly his aunt's cousin's nephew twice-removed, xD So it's alright.

Accepted! In my book anyways, and I'm sure Omi will agree! [/color]