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abidingpercy (abidingpercy) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-08-16 12:29:00

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ooc: character introduction

Intro the 2nd
Hey all! Jaime here again with my 2nd character, the ever-Percyish Percy Weasley. Feel free to take a look at his bio, which I've strived to keep from turning into a novel, but here are some of the more pertinent facts:

Percy is mostly the same old stick-up-his-arse Ministry man, though somewhat tempered by his experiences up till the end of the last war. He was monumental in getting many of the Death Eaters and sympathizers who had taken over the Ministry put in Azkaban thanks to his recording every detail of everything he witnessed and making copies of every document he could get his hands on. He was also a member of Minister Shacklebolt's reform team, and is now deputy head of the Department of Magical Transportation and Director of Broom Regulation Control.
Percy has a 6 year old daughter named Lucy who is the apple of his eye and the one person guaranteed to make his face light up. Lucy's mother and Percy aren't exactly on good terms - they were only together the once for a drunken hookup the night after Fred's funeral (a night Percy wanted to be anyone but himself and acted very un-Percylike) - but they at least agree mostly about Lucy's welfare and manage to remain civil enough to agree on custody arrangements. I've deliberately left details about Lucy's mother vague so that anyone can step in, if they're interested! (The more potentially embarrassing a link the better, imo!)
Percy's a frequent enough visitor at Finnigan's when he doesn't have Lucy with him - he cheers for Puddlemere United, is super-competitive at the pub quiz, and brushes up on his defensive skills at the Duelling Club. He also enjoys watching wizarding chess matches.

Am very excited to bring my Percy here! Feel free to poke me with plottages of all kind - I'd love friends, rivals (especially on the pub quiz), etc etc. Am also open to most ideas, so hit me up!

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_alicia_
2014-08-16 06:55 pm UTC (link)

First off: eeeeee! Percy!

And now that that's out of the way:

Alicia definitely remembers Percy from school and may have been chastised a couple of times by him or gotten in trouble courtesy of the twins. If things simply were that, she would probably still be seeing him as the git with the broomstick up his bum, however... things are not simply that. Alicia's twins, Isla and Liam, will be 6 this December, so there's always the single parent aspect (though yes, Percy does have shared custody over Lucy, but it's still something) and their kids are going to be in the same year at school, so :D

And Melinda (who I'm still trying to get ready to introduce), I doubt would really know Percy, other than he was a strict Prefect who dated one of the older girls from her house. She was Ravenclaw and is 3 years younger than Percy, and she runs Sweet Nothings, a pâtisserie in Monument Alley.

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abidingpercy
2014-08-16 08:23 pm UTC (link)

Eeee back!

Definitely some discipline if she followed the twins into trouble (though she may have noticed he was harder on them most of all - for him, it was his way of trying to help them/keep them out of trouble and protect them like his mum wanted him to do). Oh, and Alicia now has a whole new empathy for what it's like to deal with a pair of twins! Percy's heart goes out for her for that ;) Interaction potential: since their children are so close in age, maybe they connected at one point to arrange playdates to socialize the children?

As for Malinda, she would definitely know Percy as the doting father regularly being pulled in by an over-eager child asking for sweets.

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_melinda_
2014-08-16 08:31 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, my apologies about that, but for all his uptightness and being a prat, Percy's been a favourite of mine since I read the books.

I wouldn't say that Alicia so much followed the twins into trouble as much as they were her friends and trouble seemed to happen around her when they were present. But, she was also a teenager and you know how everything and everybody are just unfair to you at that age ;) Yes, to playdates. I see Alicia as still being friends with George and though Percy may not be as close with his family, it is a connection that could have let to interaction away from a Weasley setting. Alicia's kids are attending Muggle school, or will once the school year start, but they still need connections and socialisation with wizarding kids.

LOL. Melinda would remember him, and she probably won't be helping him with having treats or small cookies for the children when they visit. She will try, though, if it looks like he needs help.

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abidingpercy
2014-08-16 08:41 pm UTC (link)

No worries - I appreciate fellow Percy-lovers ;)

Excellent! Though despite his adherence to rules, he would have appreciated who were the actual troublemakers and who had just been at the wrong place/time. As for the children, etc, Alicia would have definitely seen the different side of Percy coming out with Lucy. I can see them having interesting discussions about Muggle school vs home-school (which is what Percy is doing) - so all in all it sounds fun!

No worries, Percy knows just how long and far he can indulge his daughter (plus it gives him an excuse to get a treat for himself), and he's very good at putting his foot down. But either way, it can mean intersting interactions at the shop!

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	_melinda_ 2014-08-16 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Hehe, yeah, I think Percy would have seen a different side of Alicia as well; she's not quite as lenient with her kids as she is with regular people. She's mild and gentle, of course, and she may have wide boundaries, but she will not tolerate those boundaries being broken. Ooh, those discussions ARE bound to be interesting. Definitely plenty of opportunities :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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