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Lisandro Valencia
Castelobruxo Champion
Basics
Full Name: Lisandro Valencia
Name Meaning:
Lisandro means “liberator” and comes from the Greek, “Lysander.”
Valencia means “strength.”
Nicknames: Lis
Gender: Male (but like eh)
Age: 16
Birthday: March 22nd (Aries)
Ethnicity: Latino/Mestizo
School
Blood Status: Pureblood
Patronus: a Fox
Boggart: the Headmaster of Castlobruxo calling him into the office to reprimand him
Quidditch: Chaser
Preferred Classes: Herbology, Charms
Appearance
Appearance:
Lis has a small frame and is pretty short – he’s always been smaller than his peers and has a hard time coping with that, leading to him wearing a lot of platform shoes to give him a subtle boost of height, even if it’s not a lot. He used to have a very clean look with longer curly hair and no piercings or anything, he barely wore jewelry or anything. But, going through a period of rebellion, he shaved his hair pretty short and dresses a little more freely. He paints his nails black and wears a lot of comfy but well put together outfits. He also got his tongue and ears pierced right before school started, a subtle piercing he could hide while still feeling rebellious.
He wears a lot of sweaters and jeans outfits because they are comfy and he gets sensory issues. He usually prioritizes comfort in his selection of outfits but will also never wear anything that is too frumpy or plain, as having a put together look was hammered into his head so much growing up. That being said, he has a lot of soft sweaters that he cycles through pretty regularly when he needs something that has a non-abrasive non-irritating fabric. He wears a lot of blues and greens.
He will often start the day wearing some jewelry, like a necklace or bracelet, and will end up taking it off as the day goes on, whether because it was irritating or because he was fidgeting with them. This often ends up in him losing those accessories.
Scent: cedar and basil
Height & Weight: 5'5, 142 lbs
Body Modifications: His tongue and ears are pierced
Physical Disabilities: He is Hard of Hearing and uses hearing aids -- he is more deaf in his left ear than his right, but even without his hearing aids can hear a little bit out of both
Faceclaim: Jason Genao
Persona
Personality:
Lis didn’t grow up with much comfort, having to learn to self-soothe and console after his brother was taken from him, so he doesn’t have much patience for others’ emotions, unable to share his own even if he desperately needs help from others. This leads him to having struggles connecting with others even though he really does want friends. He also finds solace in being alone, managing to fill his time up doing his own things, forgetting his loneliness until he sees others having a good time without him.
That being said, he had friends for much of his Castelobruxo experience, they were just very vapid and surface level. However, they threw great parties, which were great for him to unwind, and he would participate quite often, so he knows a little bit about throwing parties and partying. He’s actually pretty fun at parties, unwinding and losing a bit of his tenseness, making him a bit easier to talk to about nothing and everything.
When he’s not partying, he’s kind of matter-of fact and blunt, always letting you know if you are wrong about something, especially if it’s something he knows particularly well. He isn’t good at filtering his thoughts, but he is often too anxious to speak in the first place, so you will either get a very quiet Lis or one who doesn’t know how to shut up (and often says things that aren’t necessarily the “right things”). That being said, he is a very good chameleon if he must interact with you, even if he doesn’t want to, due to years of going to socialite parties and interacting with people of notoriety. A lot of his silence is due to not knowing the socially accepted response and being forced to play in between the lines a lot of his life.
Recently, his life kind of turned upside down so he’s been a little more rebellious and more open to breaking the rules, whereas before he was very much a stickler for the rules. Still, sometimes he is swallowed up in his old ways and is a very by-the-rules person, imposing those rules on others and not letting others oppose the authority of things, believing it to be the right thing, even if he does not agree with it.
Positive Traits: perceptive, almost photographic memory, educated, articulate, clean, organized, dedicated, disciplined, quiet, sneaky, focused, eager to take charge when necessary, generous, incorruptible, logical, resourceful, self-reliant, studious
Negative Traits: stubborn, distant, anxious, calculating, kind of bland (due to not being able to form his own personality growing up), cynical, gullible, easily irritable, sensitive, Very regretful, hyper aware of his surroundings
MBTI Type: ESTJ (The Director)
Moral Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Temperament: Phlegmatic
Likes: music, the quiet, the moon, being outside during a peaceful night, walks by himself, gardens, reading books (usually nonfiction), experimenting with clothing, the stars, waking up early, sweaters, surrealistic paintings
Dislikes: total silence, puzzles, loud noises, large crowds of people, big, formal social gatherings, messy rooms, scratchy or fuzzy textures, styrofoam texture, overly citrus-y scents, trying new foods, metaphors, non-literal language,
Habits: biting his nails, fidgeting with basically anything around him, patting rhythms out on things, usually his legs,
Fears: owls, germs, social interactions, authority, not being real, being left behind, losing people who are close to him, thestrals, spiders, losing the rest of his hearing, losing his senses entirely, never seeing his brother again, claustrophobia, public speaking, rats
Hobbies: art (he does a lot of paintings and drawings, almost always having a sketchbook on him), playing the ukulele and piano, researching muggle history and how it intersects with wizarding history, collecting muggle coins from different locations, tending to and learning about plants, making flower crowns/flower jewlery
Mental Disorders: (undiagnosed) autism, anxiety
Background
Family:
-- Maristela Valencia - mother - witch
-- Félix Valencia - father - wizard
-- Néstor Valencia - older brother - squib
-- Santos Valencia - younger brother - wizard
-- Flora Valencia -- younger sister - witch
Hometown: Barranquilla, Columbia
Backstory:
Lis grew up in a very affluential wizarding family with very high expectations of him. His father, Félix, was a famous duelist turned auror who eventually became head of the aurors’ office in Columbia, where Lis grew up. His mother, Maristela, was a journalist and socialite who managed to quickly climb the social ladder early in life and met Félix through an interview with him for her paper. That interview turned into a dinner, and a conversation that continued through the night. Both of them were practical and understood their places in the social ladder and chose to team up to continue each other’s upward motions.
While they loved each other, they both had lost their way as time went on, concerned with their image (and by extension, eventually, their children’s images) more than the home that they had once envisioned for their children. All of the Valencia children were expected to be high achieving and social from a young age, always attending social events and meeting other affluential people’s children, doing a song and dance of pretending to like each other when often their only connection was rich parents.
Lis and his older brother, Néstor, were about two years apart in age and were very close when they were growing up. Lis was a small child and had a lot of anxieties, he wasn’t very good socially and he was sick much of the time, but with Néstor by his side it wasn’t so bad. Néstor would often talk where he couldn’t and would hold his hand when he was scared. Even when Néstor began to get older and not really show any inclination of magic, he stood strong by Lis’s side and never wavered. Until the years passed and passed and even Lis had started to accidentally make things fly or half transfigure things into something else, while Néstor had not so much as half produced something magical. Even before he was supposed to receive a letter confirming his acceptance into school, his parents had assumed that he wouldn’t have ended up a magical being and decided to send him away, a tarnish on their reputation, to live with Maristela’s similarly exiled squib brother in America. Lis hasn’t seen him since.
After Néstor’s exile, his parents treated Lis as their oldest, thrusting him into the pressure of the eldest sibling to live up to all of their hopes and dreams – a pressure that Lis was not prepared for, 8 years old and suddenly without a person who’d become his rock. His mental health quickly declined, being forced into these social events his parents attended without his shield, expected to be able to talk to others smoothly and always know what to say.
To his siblings, Lis really was the oldest because they were too young when Néstor was sent away to remember him at all, which meant that as Lis grew up he quickly had to stop mourning his personal loss of his brother and step into the role of oldest sibling. As he reached his teenage years and had to go to even more important social gatherings with his parents, he began to learn how to at least pretend he was good at them and if he said something weird or dumb would smooth it over only to agonize about it later. His fears, too, were quickly shoved to the backburner as he tried to live up to his parents’ expectations of a socially suave and talented eldest son.
When he began attending Castelobruxo, he immediately tried to get with the ‘in’ crowd in any way possible so that it wouldn’t be harder later on, because he knew that his parents would know everything about his time there, having been friends with many of the teachers and parents of the other students for quite some time, and that they would want him to make a name for himself. However, this also meant that he participating in some nasty treatment of other students on occasion, just falling into the rudeness and toxicity of the other “popular” kids and mirroring their behaviors, whatever it took to be accepted for once and maybe be enough for his parents.
In his private time, however, he was just an artist and a lover of herbology who wanted to be left alone and didn’t want to have to climb these stupid and ridiculous obstacles to be accepted – he didn’t even agree with the heights he was trying to reach to, his goals weren’t really his. His parents wanted him to be an auror, but he wanted to be an herbologist or perhaps a healer. However, his professors being friends with his parents caused them to kind of push him along the auror route and they would send him extracurricular materials on becoming one (which promptly got shoved into a trunk and never looked at). He had basically given up on being anything he wanted that wasn’t prescribed by his parents lest he faced the same fate as his brother Néstor.
However, the summer before his 6th year of school, his world turned upside down. He received a letter from his brother Néstor while his parents were out of the country on a business trip. While they had received letters from Néstor occasionally (mostly holidays or birthdays, basic stuff, just a reminder that he existed), it was never quite like this. This letter had had a tone of almost… defeat, detailing to Lis how Néstor had been writing him for years but he didn’t know if Lis just didn’t want to talk to him or what, but he would keep writing these letters until he got a response, and talking about his life in America with their uncle, and how he was doing okay. But Lis had never received a letter like this before, so while his parents were still gone, he dug through his father’s study to see if there were any more. He’d found eight years of letters addressed to him, correspondence about Néstor’s eight years away from his brother and a lot of Néstor’s isolation, not having his brother with him.
This crushed Lis, and he sat on it for much of the summer until he confronted his parents about it, causing a huge blowup right before he returned to school for his sixth year, leading him to be rebellious until school started and for the beginning of it, rejecting all his old friends in his friend group as he’d decided he wasn’t interested in falling into his parents messed up expectations or respecting their wishes.
At least, until his name was pulled from the Goblet of Fire. A name he hadn’t entered, but wouldn’t dare dispute, because he knew it was the doing of his parents and there wouldn’t be a real way out of it anyway. However, he determined if he was going to be forced into this that he’d do it his own way for once.
Relationships
Sexuality: Gay, questioning
Relationship Status: Single
Crush(es):
-- Baxter Flynn: He was a student who took part in one of Castelobruxo's foreign exchange programs from Hogwarts. He was in Lis' circle only in that the popular kids like to latch onto these foreign exchange program kids because they are new and exciting. He didn't really pursue the crush, because he was pretty sure Baxter was straight and Lis himself wasn't quite out yet.
-- Nico Sala: One of the popular kids in his circle who he violently rejected when he came back to school this year. Nico wasn't the meanest of them, just had his own ambitions. He and Lis never had anything directly, though they would occasionally flirt it was hard to tell if it was joking or half serious. He didn't break the friendship cleanly with Nico and wishes he'd handled the whole situation better, but he didn't really know how to have a total rejection of his past self.
(if you are interested in playing either of these characters as one of yours, i'm willing to plot and also change the name idc)
Past Partners:
n/a
Turn-Ons: confidence, tattoos (especially unique ones with stories, he likes putting meaning to things), people who can take the charge in a social situation, someone who can bring out the better side of him, spontaneity, adventurous and outdoorsy
Turn-Offs: excessive loudness, sloppiness, people who are demanding of him or tell him what to do, not being given his own space, overly emotional people, having to give up his preferences or change himself too much to fit into someone's life, someone of a high social status because he knows his parents want him to be with someone like that
Dominant or Submissive: Submissive
Etc
playlist
- silver platters by les gold
- two birds by regina spektor
- anxiety song by human petting zoo
- smile - ukuletea
- wish you were gay - ferraro
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(harry potter universe oc, made specifically for octowizard tournament)
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