Yaxley, Benjamin - Pure Assure Employee

[Benjamin Yaxley]

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Full Character Name: Benjamin Isaac Yaxley
D.o.B./Age: April 30, 1997/31
Place of Residency: Dublin
Blood Status: Pureblood
Wand: Ash, Hippogriff Heartstring, 11.5"

Position Requesting: Face of Pure Assure

Credentials:
Pureblood Elitist who is very good with people, especially women.

Charms Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for 6 years (2022-2028)
6+ years experience working in the Education Department at the Ministry of Magic

NEWT scores
Arithmancy - E
Astronomy - O
Charms -O
Defense Against the Dark Arts - E
Divination - O
Herbology - E
History - E
Potions - E
Transfiguration - O

History:

Parent(s): Dionnel Yaxley and Selene Yaxley, nee Gagliardi
Sibling(s): Deanna (Yaxley) Grindel, Isobel (Yaxley) Greengrass, Lumina Yaxley
Other(s): Georgiano Grindel (brother-in-law), Anthony Greengrass (brother-in-law), Adelina Hampton (adopted daughter)
Economic Status: Moderately Wealthy

Benjamin's family history is tied to a very dark past. It concerns purity, lust, and the sorcery of dark magic.

Yaxley is an old name, passed down through generations of pureblooded Wizards who have taken pureblooded women in marriage. Once Hogwarts opened for students, the Yaxley clan poured into the school, sorted between two Houses, Slytherin and Ravenclaw. Over the last couple of centuries, the Yaxley population has shrunk, but not due to bad breeding, instead because of the pureblooded lines dwindling.

Each time a Dark Wizard rose in the Greater Britain area, claiming dark ways were the only way, the Yaxley family sided with the newest temptation, and the Greatest Dark Lord of them all was no exception. The entire Yaxley family followed his lead, many going to Azkaban for him, others believing the best way to help their Lord was to evade prison. Therefore, after his fall, many claimed to have been hoodwinked. But everyone knew better, yet evidence always seemed to be lacking.

Life was never different for any Yaxley member born, though some had to marry 1/2 or 3/4 bloods to due to lack of available purebloods. Dionnel and Selene were no different a pair. Dionnel was fresh out of Hogwarts when his betrothed arrived on the doorstep from Italy. A woman from a half-blood and a pureblood, having been raised exactly as Dionnel. She was of good breeding, knew her place in society, and was intelligent enough to make the family she was married into work for her.

Purity in the household was of absolute importance and necessity, and the two purchased a home in Hogsmeade, refusing to settle anywhere near the Muggle settlements surrounding them. They bore four children, three girls - Deanna, Isobel, and Lumina - and just one boy to carry on the Yaxley name - Benjamin.

Life growing up was full of magic. Toy broomsticks, magical creatures, servants, balls, dinners, gatherings of pureblooded families with the same views on life and society. Everything was as it should be. Benjamin and his sisters were exposed early to the cruelty of creatures, painful thoughts of relationships with muggles and traitors, and they knew not to associate personally on any levels with those beneath them.

Once at Hogwarts Ben was sorted into Slytherin. He was highly intelligent and learned quickly, but started off on the same levels as all in his classes. He found it difficult to associate with anyone at first, and couldn't get past his home teachings for the longest of times. By the third year he'd made his friends, and chose his classes wisely. Though no one could recall a seer in the Yaxley family line, Ben showed early signs of some ability. As fifth year rolled around he was pleased to have received a number of OWLs in which he'd been allowed to continue onto NEWT level classes with.

Seventh Year soon followed and his strengths were shown to him, his professors, and those who conducted the NEWT examinations. Right out of school Ben was taken into the Education Department of the Ministry of Magic. For almost six and a half years Ben worked quietly with the Ministry to improve the education curriculum at Hogwarts and smaller surrounding schools. He administered OWL examinations the last couple of years, and also worked with school governors. It was a good life - easy.

However, when he heard of the opening in the Charms positions at Hogwarts, Benjamin was quick to submit his resume. He was also quite pleased when he was welcomed by the Headmaster into the school as the newest Professor. However, he had more than one reason to be pleased, because this gave him a chance to infiltrate the school. But it also got him away from the pressing matters of needing to find a wife for his parents, though, ironically, he was now closer to their home than he'd ever been since leaving Hogwarts as a student.

He's been teaching at Hogwarts for some time, but has yet to figure quite a bit out. He has learned that there was no drowning his visions, but he can make the headaches lessen by imbibing. But his mother refuses to believe he will remain a forever bachelor, and pushes unwanted affections of well bred woman onto him quite often. In more recent years, Ben has grown quite fond of loving for a night and leaving the next morning. However, with the demanding responsibilities of prefessorship and even more recently, his adoption of Adelina Hampton, he's calmed his ways.

Personality Description:

Benjamin first strikes a person as the tall, dark, and handsome variety. He's quiet, and therefore mysterious to many. Because he prefers to disassociate himself from others, no matter their bloodlines, he has developed a reputation for himself as constantly playing hard to get. But the truth of the matter is he feels awkward in social situations, despite having grown up attending matters that his parents' appearance was required at.

Humor is not foreign to the man and he does have his own dark and twisted sense. His chuckle is deep when heard and often a surprise to listening ears. Little tricks and jokes tickle his fancy, and he's always found Peeves amusing. Despite his strive for great maturity and composure, get him around a Weasley joke and he's golden as a six year old boy with an ice cream cone.

While he most often displays a quiet nature, the man is very aware and intelligent. He tries to be cunning and conniving when it suits him, but he can be easily intrigued and amused. If a person can give him a creative, plausible response that sounds reasonable, he'll take it at face value and pretend nothing ever happened.

Honor and pride mean everything to him. Even to dishonor another is a sign of bad upbringing, and he'll do what he finds necessary to right it. While he discourages fighting in public, no matter the reason, he detests incompetent fools who ruin everything families like his have held onto for centuries.


Physical Description:
Height: 6'1"
Weight/Build: 212lbs, slim
Skin Tone: fair
Hair Color and Style: brown, normal cut
Eye Color: blue
Personal Scent: Expensive manly mystery, and woodsy musk

Ben has the Yaxley look, the ability to turn any look into a smoldering scene. But with his mother's Italian features, his hair is dark, eyes intense like both of his parents' and he has his mother's famous smile. Usually walking around with a scruffy beard, for he doesn't see the point in shaving every day when it'll just grow back again so soon afterward. His style of clothing is what he's found to be quite normal. Despite the Muggle look forcing its way into the Wizarding World, it is one thing he finds great comfort in of being a Muggle's. Jeans, t-shirts, long sleeves, aviator jackets, hooded sweatshirts. You name it, he'll wear it. Even when playing a pick-up game of Quidditch he likes to trend around in sweats.


Likes: {at least List 3}

• Purity
  
• Women
  
• Clove Cigars
  
• Magic
  
• Cats
  
• Weasley Jokes
  

Dislikes: {at least List 3}

• Muggleborns and Blood-traitors
  
• Density
  
• his visions
  

Special Talents:
Highly skilled in Charms and Transfiguration, Benjamin has been able to get through life quite easily without needing to really do too much. He's talented in the outdoors as well, with an avid love for hiking trails, both wizarding and muggle. Divination is his sore mark though, he doesn't understand why he's talented as he is, but is more than willing to keep it on the down low in order to stay away from media for that attention. He's quite a charmer when he wants to be, easily fits into society, but has little quirks when he's had enough.

RP Example:
Unpacking his office, decorating as some would call it, Ben took a look at the four unopened boxes sitting on his desk. They all contained various items, some books, others portraits, others Weasley Jokes he just couldn't get through his day without. Yes, he knew the whole family was full of blood-traitors, but he couldn't help that he enjoyed a good laugh as much as the next Wizard, and they had the best of the best on the market.

Opening one box, he removed a photograph that made him ultimately sore. It was the image of a young woman he'd been brought up with, one he'd been expected to marry, and one who ran off with a muggleborn once the two of them had graduated from Hogwarts. The only reason he kept her picture around was because he needed the reminder that not everyone could succeed in the life he was meant to do well in. It was a reminder that he sometimes had to cut his losses early, and that anyone could turn on you.

Slipping the photograph into a desk drawer, Ben continued pulling out small reminders of life's ways, though he doubted anyone else would ever be able to relate, or figure out their true meaning. The very last possession in the box was that of a Slytherin flag, and he proudly mounted it on the wall behind his desk, the biggest reminder of exactly who he was. And as he finished using a spell to stick the ornament in place, he heard a soft knock on his door, perhaps someone rushing in to welcome him further into the school...


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