Post by keith on Oct 29, 2009 1:31:14 GMT 1
**INTRODUCTIONS**
Name:
Keith Daniel Raines
Nickname:
K, Half-Note
Age & Year:
18; Seventh Year
Birthday:
May 16th,
Sexual Orientation:
Straight
Birthplace:
London, England
Current Residence:
Kingston, England
Parents:
David Raines-43; restaurant owner
Katlyn Stone-Raines; deceased
Siblings:
Haven Raines, 16; Ravenclaw
Blood Status:
Pure-Blood
**WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE**
Picture:
Looks:
Keith has piercing blue eyes-the opposite of his sister. He got his mother’s eyes while Haven got their father’s. His hair is a sandy brown-not too far from his sister’s. A trait he got from their father this time. When he’s reading he’s supposed to wear glasses, but he doesn’t like to in class. Tens to lead to problems. He stands just over six feet tall while being roughly 220 pounds. That’s due to his build. He’s worked out a lot over the years. It’s the best way for him to burn off steam with his own stressors plus the ones that have built up in his family.
Appearance:
Keith has a tattoo on the back of his calf. It’s of a treble clef with the date 3-19-2020 surrounding it. He’s really big into music and the date has major significance to him and his family. Especially with how music played into helping with his life.
Favourite Outfit:
Keith prefers a more laidback look. His favorite outfit is a pair of jeans that just fit but still have room. He has a graphic shirt with a Chinese dragon design on it. There’s a white button up with grey stripes he likes to wear over it and a pair of black sneakers.
**PERSONALITY**
How do you treat your friends:
Since Keith‘s hiatus he doesn‘t have quite as many good friends as he used to. The ones he are friends with he‘s good to but likes to play jokes and pranks on the ones he has. Nothing ever harmful, just fun. Some of his friends have pulled pranks back.
How do you treat your enemies:
Keith is polite to his enemies-until they give him a reason to get confrontational. If they rub him the wrong way, he‘s not afraid to get into a fist fight. It‘s happened more then once. He‘s learned which situations to walk away from, but sometime‘s he slips up and gets into a fight.
Social Status:
Keith is a bit of an outsider. He used to be big on the party scene-really big. But after his hiatus for a year, Keith hasn‘t been on the party scene nor talks to his old friends.
Positive Traits:
-Aspiring
-Mature
-Realistic
-Devoted
-Social independence
-Flexible
-Honest
-Generous
-Respectful(to people he's close with)
-Modest
-Protective(of people he's close with)
-Decisive
-Self-reliant
Negative Traits:
-Pessimistic
-Insists on own view
-Unrestrained temper
-Late
-Mistrusting(of new people)
-Rude
-Guarded
-Unforgiving
-Disrespectful(of people he's not close with)
-Scattered
-Honest
-Negative
[For the next part, bold your answer]
Money vs. Love/Friendship
Love[/b[ vs Lust
Dueling with wand vs. Fighting
Fighting vs Solving the situation with words
Reading vs. Writing
Purebloods vs. Muggleborns
Cats vs. Dogs
Comedy vs Drama
**SOME MORE INSIGHT**
Skills/Hobbies:
-Guitar is something Keith learned at a very young age and has continued with. After begging his parents for lessons at the tender age of six, he fell in love with it. He's gotten to the point where now he can write his own music-though no one outside his family has heard any of it.
-French is the language he learned. His sister was learning Gaelic because of their mother, but Keith wanted something more practical. Having to work at his father's restaurant more people who visit do speak French and he lieks to know what they are saying.
-Boxing is what he learned during his absence from school. It's what helped him through his hard time.
-Sketching is one thing Keith does for fun. it started has just doodling in class, but he's broaded from that to also sketching in his free time. It gives him a reason not to talk to people he doesn't really know. He designed his own tattoo.
-Quidditch is what he likes to watch. He tries to go to as many matches as possible. He tried to play a few years back, but after having problems listening to what the captain told him for advice-due to his problem with anger-he quit.
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes
-Writing music and guitar
-Sketching
-Speaking his mind
-Boxing
-His family
-Coffee
-Sour candies
-Making his own sandwiches
-Metal work
Dislikes
-People who abuse woman
-People who cheat/lie
-Alcohol(recent dislike)
-Working during the summer-though he has to
-Kyle(wants to kill him)
-Pictures taken of him
-Anything overly sweet
-Cooking or baking of any form
-Classwork of any sort
-Cleaning
Best/Worst memory:
BestKeith’s seventh birthday. It was the day his parents bought him a brand new guitar. Before he had been using a used one, but he finally got a brand new one. The same guitar he has to date.
Worst The night he cause a car accident that put a woman in a coma for three months and nearly killed two children. Something only his father, his sister Haven and his closest friend Jason know about.
Secrets:
-The car accident is a big one only a few people know about. He was drunken and T-Boned a car containing a mother and her two little boys. The mother remained in a coma for months while the children were just barely saved by massive surgeries. That’s when Keith disappeared.
-Keith has dyslexia. The words he reads gets very jumbled when he reads them but he figured out how to know which word is which. Took years o diagnosis. Only his father knows about his problem-not even his sister does.
**YOUR HOGWARTS CAREER**
What subjects are you taking this term:
-Transfiguration
-History of magic
-Care of magical creatures
-Defence against the dark arts
-Herbology
Favourite/Least Favourite Subject:
Favorite Defense against the dark arts is Keith’s favorite. Even though he prefers to fight with his fist then spells, at least he knew how to magically defend himself if it came down to a duel.
Least Favorite Keith hates his care or magical creatures class. Since Keith isn‘t looking to study for a job in the wizarding world-since he wants to just be a musician-so he picked random classes. Now he‘s wondering if he should have picked this one.
What kind of student are you:
Keith doesn‘t generally enjoy classes. While he won‘t cause trouble, if asked a question Keith will answer it sarcastically. It‘s as if he has no effort or care. While he passes his classes, he does his work the last minute he can.
What is your preferred House:
Gryffindor
**BEFORE AND AFTER**
How Did You Come To Be/Childhood:
Keith is a pureblood, born on February 16. He's the eldest of him and his sitter Haven. His parents had met back in school and just out of it got married. They waited a few years to get their careers going before they decided to have their first child. His sitter followed a couple years later. Though they had the normal childhood of fighting each other and being each other's best friend, nothing about his life was normal. They were a wizarding family living in a muggle world. Though in the house Keith saw plenty of magic-out in his father's restaurant it was something not to talk about.
Keith was nine when it happened. Keith remembers it much more clearly then his sister ever could. His mother had gone out to get some simple groceries. Keith was playing with Haven in their house next to the restaurant. It had been raining on and off all day. The roads had been slick when the driver had skidded. They slam into the side of their mother. She had been taken to a muggle hospital, where Keith and Haven's dad took them. Keith can never forget the site of his mother...her face torn up, arms swollen and bruised, all that blood.....Keith shielded his sister so she didn't have to live with the nightmare that would become his.
Over the next few years before school, Keith got into plenty of fights and dealt with sleep deprivation. Made for a rough start when school was to come.
Coming To Hogwarts:
Keith started his school years roughly. He tried to forget the site of his dead mother and the funeral. But when he doesn't think about it during the day only shows up in his dreams. His first year was filled with fights, problems in the classroom and restless nights-as well as his second. It was in his third year where he figured out how to forgot. At first it was an occassional drink. Thne every night he'd have a couple beers. After that, he started to miss classes to get over a hangover or have a bit more to drink.
It took until his fifth year before Haven and her father noticed how big a problem it had become. It was during the summer, right before school had to start. Keith had been drinking very heavily the night before at a party and the next mroning. He stumbled out of the hosue into his father's car. No one was home-Haven and their father had gone for a walk. Keith just started to drive aimlessly. That's when he hit the car.
Keith crashed right into the drivers side door. When he came to he was in the ambulance. That's when he found out what he had done. There was a woman driving-a mother-like his mom had been. But her two boys were in the back seat. It took almost nine surgeries between the two boys and three months for the mother to come out of her coma. The police charged him with reckless endangerment but instead of jail he had to go to rehab for his alcohol problem. This caused Keith to miss his entire fifth year. There was no way he oculd go to school while still dealing with his problem.
March 19th, 2022 was the first day he didn't have a single drop of alcohol. His rehab was hard because he still found ways to get a drink. Until that day. It was teh first crystal clear day Keith had had in years. It's when Keith faced all his deamons-his mothers death, the fighting and what he had done to that family. He was signed up for boxing for a healthier way tog et out all his anger. Keith also broke down in all his times asking for forgiveness-something he didn't do when his mother died. Keith got to go back to school, only a year later.
While the boxing lessons had helped redirect most of his anger, there were times he still got into fights. It wasn't as often, but it still happened. The only difference was Keith was now sober and thinking clearly. He had his problems with being a year behind everyone else, but he got over it.
Keith's years went about nearly the same as his fifth year. Some fights, but not as much. He was doing his work but only jsut enough to pass. Only difference is he was dealing with his drunken behavior as well as the newfound guilt of what happened to his siter.
What do you want to do after Hogwarts:
-Wants to be a music instructor.
-Wants to help other kids fighting drug/alcohol problems like he did. Maybe through music.
**OOC**
ABOUT YOU –
Name/Nickname:
Ashley P
Age:
19
Have you got any other characters here on Cave Inimicum:
Haven Raines
Kristen
How did you find the site:
Through a friend
How often are you online/able to play:
Not that I have internet, almost everyday
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER –
Face Claim:
Chace Crawford
Role-playing Sample:
Keith was taking time after class to work on his music. Haven was in class and he was planning on picking her up after. He still had another hour to kill. He was in the music room with blank sheet music around him. His guitar was resting against the amp, unplugged. He was just strumming some notes to work out to the words within his mind. Today he had something a little more fun and rugged working out. Maybe it could get him some gigs and help with forming a band-getting some extra money to spend.
Biting on his pen, Keith drummed on his leg. It was a lot more rugged then what he was used to. But it was a nice change up. Keith hardly touched his guiter, a nice acoustic Gretsch, though seeing as he usually wrote softer ballads it was a bit harder to create a song on it. Maybe this was a change up he needed.
Cannonball It hit him like…a cannonball. It was the perfect name for the song. Grabbing his guitar he bit the pen as he strummed out notes. They sounded weird so he plugged in the amp. Ah better. What he heard going on in his head was now getting out in the open. It felt good when he got what he wanted out there. He felt like he was accomplishing something in his life. Making it one step closer towards a career in music.
Name:
Keith Daniel Raines
Nickname:
K, Half-Note
Age & Year:
18; Seventh Year
Birthday:
May 16th,
Sexual Orientation:
Straight
Birthplace:
London, England
Current Residence:
Kingston, England
Parents:
David Raines-43; restaurant owner
Katlyn Stone-Raines; deceased
Siblings:
Haven Raines, 16; Ravenclaw
Blood Status:
Pure-Blood
**WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE**
Picture:
Looks:
Keith has piercing blue eyes-the opposite of his sister. He got his mother’s eyes while Haven got their father’s. His hair is a sandy brown-not too far from his sister’s. A trait he got from their father this time. When he’s reading he’s supposed to wear glasses, but he doesn’t like to in class. Tens to lead to problems. He stands just over six feet tall while being roughly 220 pounds. That’s due to his build. He’s worked out a lot over the years. It’s the best way for him to burn off steam with his own stressors plus the ones that have built up in his family.
Appearance:
Keith has a tattoo on the back of his calf. It’s of a treble clef with the date 3-19-2020 surrounding it. He’s really big into music and the date has major significance to him and his family. Especially with how music played into helping with his life.
Favourite Outfit:
Keith prefers a more laidback look. His favorite outfit is a pair of jeans that just fit but still have room. He has a graphic shirt with a Chinese dragon design on it. There’s a white button up with grey stripes he likes to wear over it and a pair of black sneakers.
**PERSONALITY**
How do you treat your friends:
Since Keith‘s hiatus he doesn‘t have quite as many good friends as he used to. The ones he are friends with he‘s good to but likes to play jokes and pranks on the ones he has. Nothing ever harmful, just fun. Some of his friends have pulled pranks back.
How do you treat your enemies:
Keith is polite to his enemies-until they give him a reason to get confrontational. If they rub him the wrong way, he‘s not afraid to get into a fist fight. It‘s happened more then once. He‘s learned which situations to walk away from, but sometime‘s he slips up and gets into a fight.
Social Status:
Keith is a bit of an outsider. He used to be big on the party scene-really big. But after his hiatus for a year, Keith hasn‘t been on the party scene nor talks to his old friends.
Positive Traits:
-Aspiring
-Mature
-Realistic
-Devoted
-Social independence
-Flexible
-Honest
-Generous
-Respectful(to people he's close with)
-Modest
-Protective(of people he's close with)
-Decisive
-Self-reliant
Negative Traits:
-Pessimistic
-Insists on own view
-Unrestrained temper
-Late
-Mistrusting(of new people)
-Rude
-Guarded
-Unforgiving
-Disrespectful(of people he's not close with)
-Scattered
-Honest
-Negative
[For the next part, bold your answer]
Money vs. Love/Friendship
Love[/b[ vs Lust
Dueling with wand vs. Fighting
Fighting vs Solving the situation with words
Reading vs. Writing
Purebloods vs. Muggleborns
Cats vs. Dogs
Comedy vs Drama
**SOME MORE INSIGHT**
Skills/Hobbies:
-Guitar is something Keith learned at a very young age and has continued with. After begging his parents for lessons at the tender age of six, he fell in love with it. He's gotten to the point where now he can write his own music-though no one outside his family has heard any of it.
-French is the language he learned. His sister was learning Gaelic because of their mother, but Keith wanted something more practical. Having to work at his father's restaurant more people who visit do speak French and he lieks to know what they are saying.
-Boxing is what he learned during his absence from school. It's what helped him through his hard time.
-Sketching is one thing Keith does for fun. it started has just doodling in class, but he's broaded from that to also sketching in his free time. It gives him a reason not to talk to people he doesn't really know. He designed his own tattoo.
-Quidditch is what he likes to watch. He tries to go to as many matches as possible. He tried to play a few years back, but after having problems listening to what the captain told him for advice-due to his problem with anger-he quit.
Likes/Dislikes:
Likes
-Writing music and guitar
-Sketching
-Speaking his mind
-Boxing
-His family
-Coffee
-Sour candies
-Making his own sandwiches
-Metal work
Dislikes
-People who abuse woman
-People who cheat/lie
-Alcohol(recent dislike)
-Working during the summer-though he has to
-Kyle(wants to kill him)
-Pictures taken of him
-Anything overly sweet
-Cooking or baking of any form
-Classwork of any sort
-Cleaning
Best/Worst memory:
BestKeith’s seventh birthday. It was the day his parents bought him a brand new guitar. Before he had been using a used one, but he finally got a brand new one. The same guitar he has to date.
Worst The night he cause a car accident that put a woman in a coma for three months and nearly killed two children. Something only his father, his sister Haven and his closest friend Jason know about.
Secrets:
-The car accident is a big one only a few people know about. He was drunken and T-Boned a car containing a mother and her two little boys. The mother remained in a coma for months while the children were just barely saved by massive surgeries. That’s when Keith disappeared.
-Keith has dyslexia. The words he reads gets very jumbled when he reads them but he figured out how to know which word is which. Took years o diagnosis. Only his father knows about his problem-not even his sister does.
**YOUR HOGWARTS CAREER**
What subjects are you taking this term:
-Transfiguration
-History of magic
-Care of magical creatures
-Defence against the dark arts
-Herbology
Favourite/Least Favourite Subject:
Favorite Defense against the dark arts is Keith’s favorite. Even though he prefers to fight with his fist then spells, at least he knew how to magically defend himself if it came down to a duel.
Least Favorite Keith hates his care or magical creatures class. Since Keith isn‘t looking to study for a job in the wizarding world-since he wants to just be a musician-so he picked random classes. Now he‘s wondering if he should have picked this one.
What kind of student are you:
Keith doesn‘t generally enjoy classes. While he won‘t cause trouble, if asked a question Keith will answer it sarcastically. It‘s as if he has no effort or care. While he passes his classes, he does his work the last minute he can.
What is your preferred House:
Gryffindor
**BEFORE AND AFTER**
How Did You Come To Be/Childhood:
Keith is a pureblood, born on February 16. He's the eldest of him and his sitter Haven. His parents had met back in school and just out of it got married. They waited a few years to get their careers going before they decided to have their first child. His sitter followed a couple years later. Though they had the normal childhood of fighting each other and being each other's best friend, nothing about his life was normal. They were a wizarding family living in a muggle world. Though in the house Keith saw plenty of magic-out in his father's restaurant it was something not to talk about.
Keith was nine when it happened. Keith remembers it much more clearly then his sister ever could. His mother had gone out to get some simple groceries. Keith was playing with Haven in their house next to the restaurant. It had been raining on and off all day. The roads had been slick when the driver had skidded. They slam into the side of their mother. She had been taken to a muggle hospital, where Keith and Haven's dad took them. Keith can never forget the site of his mother...her face torn up, arms swollen and bruised, all that blood.....Keith shielded his sister so she didn't have to live with the nightmare that would become his.
Over the next few years before school, Keith got into plenty of fights and dealt with sleep deprivation. Made for a rough start when school was to come.
Coming To Hogwarts:
Keith started his school years roughly. He tried to forget the site of his dead mother and the funeral. But when he doesn't think about it during the day only shows up in his dreams. His first year was filled with fights, problems in the classroom and restless nights-as well as his second. It was in his third year where he figured out how to forgot. At first it was an occassional drink. Thne every night he'd have a couple beers. After that, he started to miss classes to get over a hangover or have a bit more to drink.
It took until his fifth year before Haven and her father noticed how big a problem it had become. It was during the summer, right before school had to start. Keith had been drinking very heavily the night before at a party and the next mroning. He stumbled out of the hosue into his father's car. No one was home-Haven and their father had gone for a walk. Keith just started to drive aimlessly. That's when he hit the car.
Keith crashed right into the drivers side door. When he came to he was in the ambulance. That's when he found out what he had done. There was a woman driving-a mother-like his mom had been. But her two boys were in the back seat. It took almost nine surgeries between the two boys and three months for the mother to come out of her coma. The police charged him with reckless endangerment but instead of jail he had to go to rehab for his alcohol problem. This caused Keith to miss his entire fifth year. There was no way he oculd go to school while still dealing with his problem.
March 19th, 2022 was the first day he didn't have a single drop of alcohol. His rehab was hard because he still found ways to get a drink. Until that day. It was teh first crystal clear day Keith had had in years. It's when Keith faced all his deamons-his mothers death, the fighting and what he had done to that family. He was signed up for boxing for a healthier way tog et out all his anger. Keith also broke down in all his times asking for forgiveness-something he didn't do when his mother died. Keith got to go back to school, only a year later.
While the boxing lessons had helped redirect most of his anger, there were times he still got into fights. It wasn't as often, but it still happened. The only difference was Keith was now sober and thinking clearly. He had his problems with being a year behind everyone else, but he got over it.
Keith's years went about nearly the same as his fifth year. Some fights, but not as much. He was doing his work but only jsut enough to pass. Only difference is he was dealing with his drunken behavior as well as the newfound guilt of what happened to his siter.
What do you want to do after Hogwarts:
-Wants to be a music instructor.
-Wants to help other kids fighting drug/alcohol problems like he did. Maybe through music.
**OOC**
ABOUT YOU –
Name/Nickname:
Ashley P
Age:
19
Have you got any other characters here on Cave Inimicum:
Haven Raines
Kristen
How did you find the site:
Through a friend
How often are you online/able to play:
Not that I have internet, almost everyday
ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER –
Face Claim:
Chace Crawford
Role-playing Sample:
Keith was taking time after class to work on his music. Haven was in class and he was planning on picking her up after. He still had another hour to kill. He was in the music room with blank sheet music around him. His guitar was resting against the amp, unplugged. He was just strumming some notes to work out to the words within his mind. Today he had something a little more fun and rugged working out. Maybe it could get him some gigs and help with forming a band-getting some extra money to spend.
Biting on his pen, Keith drummed on his leg. It was a lot more rugged then what he was used to. But it was a nice change up. Keith hardly touched his guiter, a nice acoustic Gretsch, though seeing as he usually wrote softer ballads it was a bit harder to create a song on it. Maybe this was a change up he needed.
Cannonball It hit him like…a cannonball. It was the perfect name for the song. Grabbing his guitar he bit the pen as he strummed out notes. They sounded weird so he plugged in the amp. Ah better. What he heard going on in his head was now getting out in the open. It felt good when he got what he wanted out there. He felt like he was accomplishing something in his life. Making it one step closer towards a career in music.
