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lysander elius scamander
CANON OR ORIGINAL: canon
AGE: seventeen
FACE CLAIM: tom felton
YEAR: 6
HOUSE: Ravenclaw
OCCUPATION: N/A
BLOOD TYPE: Halfblood
WAND TYPE: twelve and a half inches, gryphon heartstring, black walnut
PETS: Chansy the Pygmy Owl
ABILITIES: Animal Communication, specifically birds (the more exotic the bird the harder it is to communicate with them).
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LIKES: Honey, cheese, coffee, smell of nail polish, swimming, sun bathing, beach
DISLIKES: sunburn, apples, tea, smell of daisies, splinters, sandpaper, rain
BIGGEST FEAR: Getting cornered in a dark corner or alleyway or losing his twin brother.
PERSONALITY:
SELF-CONFIDENT: While Lysander inherited some of his parents eccentric traits, he also got his mothers self confidence. People can say whatever they want, he knows the truth. If he stumbles, he was meant to learn a lesson and he just gets up and moves on. He trusts his intelligence and instincts. Of course Lysander will apologize the moment he thinks he overstepped his bounds. No one is perfect and he is bound to be wrong more than once. Actually he invented a game as a child he still plays with himself and tallies how many times he was right or wrong. Days with fewer apologies are rewarded with sweets, days with more apologies are rewarded by two chapters of his favorite novel.
HONEST: Lysander doesn’t like lying, he finds it devious and Slytherin like and he doesn’t to particularly care for that house. If you need honesty and sometimes brutal honesty, Lysander is the guy for you. Of course he can be too honest as well and get himself into trouble with people that don’t want to hear what he has to say. In the past he’s also let a few of his secrets slip because he was asked and replied honestly. Lysander learned the hard way that not everyone is his friend and he keeps personal things personal nowadays, but if he trusts you he’s very open and honest.
ACCEPTING: Okay so Slytherin isn’t his favorite, but he doesn’t paint every snake with the same brush. He knows there are good Slytherins just like there’s rude Gryffindors, oblivious Ravenclaws or conniving Hufflepuffs. He doesn’t care about gender, sexuality, species, age or house. As long as you want to be his friend Lysander will accept you. The same goes first incidents in his day to day life. He doesn’t let the bad or the good weigh on him too much. It was all meant to happen and he must accept the good with the bad. Because of this mind set he does tend to just let things like parties, or Hogsmeade weekends just slip by in a daze. He’s got plenty of friends to get him out and doing things though.
CURIOUS: Lysander got the more creative side of his mother and prefers art and music to experiments or book learning. However he’s curious about almost everything. He’s never quite outgrown asking “Why” all the time. He’s often found sitting by a window or a bench and watching the people moving around him, studying their behavior. Lysander will look up potion ingredients to find out why a certain one was used over another. In the past his curiosity has gotten him sent to the mediwitch quite often and still does really. He can’t help to poke a sleeping lion to see what it does first.
ARTISTIC: Lysander had a very good imagination as a child and it has grown with him. He’s enjoys sketching the most random scenes or landscapes and keeps a sketchpad tucked under his robes. He prefers black and white to color, though he does paint colorful imagined castles, hills and oceans. Lysander’s sketches are decent and nice to look at, but music is his real passion. Luna insisted on lessons when he was a child and he chose the violin and doesn’t regret it. When he needs to calm down or relax for whatever reason, he’ll go out by the lake and play whatever song comes to mind over and over until all is well. If asked, Lysander will play for others too, though he really loves it when he has some sort of accompaniment. Needless to say his ways of studying or problems solving are a bit on the creative side too. Second year he studied for all his exams by sitting upside down on his bed and reading the books backwards.
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MOTHER: Luna Scamander (neé Lovegood)
FATHER: Rolf Scamander
SIBLINGS: Lorcan Scamander
HISTORY: Lysander is the slightly younger of Luna’s twin sons. Having naturalists for parents meant he grew up around lots of animals. Even as a barely crawling baby he loved them, scooting across the floor on his hiney to get closer to owls and their pair of kneazles. Lysander had a bit of an on again off again rivalry with his brother as a toddler. He didn’t like sharing, especially with his brother, but would go through periods of being over protective and letting Lorcan have whatever he wanted. It passed as Lysander got older and while he was outgoing and friendly, he was shy around around girls and Lorcan’s friends. He adored his brother and didn’t want to embarrass either of them.
Lysander rode his first hippogriff when he was seven. His fathers side of the family bred and raised excellent stock. The boy LOVED it. He’d inherited his parents love for magical creatures and flying? Well that was just the best. Having been taking music lessons since he was five, Lysander rushed home and wrote a little diddle to play on his Violin. It wasn’t very good, but it was his first and he kept it tucked away safely in his trunk at all times. It was around this time that he started developing his animal communication abilities. It started off slowly with hooted words here and there with the family owls, but continued until he could even talk to the raven that hunted through the dumpster behind his favorite restaurant. His parents were ecstatic, though Luna told him she’d suspected his talents would have developed for a while. When Lysander asked how, she just smiled and mentioned something about nargles leaving her messages.
When he and Lorcan turned eleven, they received letters of acceptance to Hogwarts. Their mother had told them about her time there and how she’d helped Harry Potter defeat Voldemort. Having an active imagination, Lysander hung onto her every word and would go up to his room afterward and sketch blocky battle scenes. He hoped he could be a hero like that one day, but if he didn’t that was okay too. Being a helper like his mum was just as good.
His father took the twins shopping for school supplies and Lysander happily chatted up a pigmy owl he named Chansy. The pair were inseparable after that. Chansy was quite funny to talk to and they both admired his wand. The boy could hardly wait to use it. A few months later he was on the Hogwarts Express and then on the castle grounds itself. The sorting hat declared he and his brother Ravenclaws and Lysander happily skipped to his new table and housemates. In the next few years he learned lots and of course Care of Magical Creatures and Divination were his favorite classes. He enjoyed Defense against the Dark Arts, but hated Herbology. Plants were just not his thing. His first kiss was fourth year with a fellow Ravenclaw, and they briefly dated but it didn’t last. Mainly because he still spent most of his time chatting with Chansy or other birds around the grounds.
Lysander did some growing up in fifth and sixth years, and more readily went out with his friends. He took more interest in Care of Magical Creatures and in playing the violin. They were both his passions and even as sixth year continues by he’s not sure which he’s going to make a career out of. He still has over a year before the NEWTs and plenty of time to decide.
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HEY MY NAME IS LYSS, AND I ALSO PLAY DRACO MALFOY AND ANTHONY GOLDSTEIN. I FOUND THE SITE THROUGH Dreams & Whiskey.
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