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Harron Peasley
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Darwin Damon Riley


[basics]
Name: Darwin Damon Riley.
Nickname/s: Damon, Dar (only called this by Brooke Radley, his best-friend-for-life.), Dee.
Age: 11.
D.O.B: 27th June 2065.
P.O.B: Croydon, Greater London, England.
Current Residence: Croydon, Greater London, England.
Heritage: Muggleborn.
Relationship Status: “Girls are icky.”
Wand: Dragon Heartstring, English Oak, 12"..
Patronus: “What’s a patronus? Do I need to know that? Is it like special and magical?”
Boggart: Saw.
Amortentia: Chocolate, fresh grass, spearmint.
School: Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.
House: Ravenclaw.
Year: First.
Favourite Subject/s:
Least Favourite Subject/s:


[appearance]
Hair: Dark brown.
Height: 4’11.
Weight: 93lbs.
Model: Liam Aiken. (Matt Prokop post third year).

[history]
Family:

Mother:
Name: Jessica Danielle Riley [ne้ Morrison].
D.O.B: 27th June, 2032.
Heritage: Muggle.
Profession: Musical Theatre Teacher at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
Model: Parker Posey.

Father:
Name: Thomas Gordon Riley.
D.O.B: 17th December, 2029.
Heritage: Muggle.
Profession: Weapons Systems Operator, Royal Air Force.
Model: Edward Burns.

Brother:
Name: Oskar Orson Riley.
D.O.B: 15th October, 2059.
Heritage: Muggle.
School: The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
Ambition: Become a Film Director and/or Producer.
Model: George Craig.

Sister:
Name: Emiline Blaire Riley.
D.O.B: 12th January, 2061.
Heritage: "Eeeevil." Muggle.
School: The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
Ambition: Actress in Theatre.
Model: Michelle Trachtenberg.

Early Life:
SPOILER!!: _
Every year on the 31st of December, Marla Olive Morrison threw a New Year’s Eve Party; each year, she invited friends, family and colleagues, not to mention the friends, family and colleagues of whoever she was living with at the point. In the year of 2055, her boyfriend at the time was on leave from the Royal Air Force, and therefore all of the colleagues that were also on leave, or even just on holiday, and lived in London, were invited to this party. Amongst them was the man he counted as his closest friend, Thomas Gordon Riley, and Thomas quickly struck up a conversation with the hosts’ younger sister, Jessica.

At first, the pair disliked each other; each had their own views on the government and the way they handled their finances, and each of their views seemed to stamp on the toes of the others professional career (or desired career, in Jessica’s case) without them realising. He decided that she was ‘biased and belittling’, and she that he was ‘uptight and irritating’, and his abrupt departure from the house put a slighter damper on the celebrations. They shrugged their meeting off, though, as they realised that they probably never had to see each other again, let alone actually had to speak.

Three weeks later, however, they did indeed meet again, in the Starbucks where Jessica was working – at twenty three, there were no openings for a Musical Theatre Teacher in any schools, and he still wasn’t due at his base. Something the twenty six year old said made her laugh, before she realised whom it was, and the two of them got talking – this time, their differences stimulating discussion and debate, rather than argument. He continued to go to the same coffee shop, just in the hopes that he would be able to see her, although he wouldn’t admit that, and after three weeks he plucked up enough courage to ask her out, officially. It was a surprise to many when they revealed that they were officially ‘dating’, not least to Jessica’s sister, who was soon to split up with her own partner. It was on good terms, thankfully – the four of them didn’t want to imagine the awkwardness there would have been otherwise.

Little more than a month after they had begun dating, Thomas was sent back to work. There was doubt, even from the two of them, that their relationship would last, and the first months were strained – neither of them we’re used to such a sudden, long-distance relationship, but they kept in touch through letters and telephone calls, and he returned back to his home every year. Their relationship continued to blossom, an eventually they moved past the strained phase into a more comfortable routine. In early 2057, Thomas flew home for a three and a half year break, and at her ecstatic greeting at the airport, proposed. It was completely out of the blue, but of course, she said yes, and the next day was spent ring shopping. To add to the excitement of the week, Jessica secured her dream job at one of London’s most prestigious Art’s schools, they moved into their first house together, and the date was booked for them to be married the following winter.

They married on January 18th of 2058, at 26 and 29, and little over three months later Jessica announced her pregnancy; born almost two weeks late, Oskar Orson Riley graced the world on 15th October, 2059, and a more beautiful bundle of joy they couldn’t have hoped for. He was an only child for just over a year; January 12th, 2061, just after Thomas had returned to work, Emiline Blaire Riley was born. Jessica was left to bring up her two children as practically a single parent, as Thomas began to move higher up the ranks and his visits home became less frequent. It was almost lonely, but she was never short of the help offered from friends and family. In the first five years after his daughter’s birth, Thomas was only able to return home twice, although the second time was a year’s work at a London base, and during this time, his second son was born. A surprise, nearly three weeks early, on Jessica’s thirty-third birthday, Darwin Damon Riley was five years younger than his sister. The family never had to move; the first house that they’d chosen was in perfect distance to Jessica’s place of work, and had enough rooms for the two children she’d dreamt of since she was a young girl. When they’d found out that Jessica was pregnant with a third baby, they’d enlisted a team of builders over the course of seven months to complete an extension, creating a large downstairs room that was given to Oskar, and a loft conversion that turned into the youngest child play room.

Darwin grew up with a normal home environment, with loving parents and a safe house. But his father wasn’t always there, and each time he left fear was instilled in the heart of all his family; Darwin missed him, a lot, and he looked to Oskar as the main male influence in his life when the man who was an inspiration to him was absent. Each day he was gone a little part of the little boy was terrified that he wouldn’t return, that the next letter due wouldn’t turn up, that he’d miss the next phone call. However, so far Thomas was fine, if not exactly safe.

From the age of five, Oskar, Emiline and Darwin all attended Croydon Primary, the Muggle Juniors School across the park from where they lived. Oskar left a year after Darwin started, and Emiline left the year after that, both moving to the BRIT school that their mum taught at. Oskar fell in love with the technology, and having the ability to control and create something that people could love and admire, whereas Emiline fell in love with her Mother’s lesson; she adored acting and singing, and wanted to perform, to be able to connect with an audience and create emotions. She was never inclined towards the film industry, instead opting for stage, and desiring to perform on the west end. They both slowly began to achieve their dreams; in 2074, Oskar won London’s Short Film Competition, and in 2075 Emiline began the audition process for the role in ‘Santa Claus’ on the West End.

But while his siblings were slowly climbing up the success and fame ladders, Darwin was more focused on enjoying his time in Primary. It was at his school that he met his ‘bestie-for-life-with-no-takesies-backsies-or-swapsies’, Brooke Radley – the two became close in their early years, both teaming up to evade class bullies such as Ryan Parker. The two would never admit that Ryan and his friends were more popular than themselves, though; to the children, they were THE coolest people on the face of the planet, except, in Darwin’s opinion, Spiderman. The boy had an obsession with the comics and the films from an early age, and everything for many years revolved around the character – his bed clothes, his school bag, his Halloween costume.

That was, until shortly after Darwin’s tenth birthday.

During a mad game of hide-and-seek in Year 4, Darwin and Brooke stumbled across a hole in a fence halfway up the road from school. The hole was barely visible, covered in brambles and branches, but the curiosity of the eight year olds got the better of them, and they passed through to find an old, rusty, abandoned park. They saw past the derelict appearance of what became known as the ‘Abandoned Playground’, and to the fact that it could be such an amazing place. It was their secret, the place that they could venture and no one else knew about, and that filled the children with a sense of accomplishment, a sense of pride in themselves. The fact that no one found out where they were going when they were supposed to be at the big park between school and Darwin’s house made them feel like super spies, or something to that effect.

Two weeks after Darwin’s tenth birthday, the nervous feeling in his stomach was growing – it had been about a month since he’d realised that he could make things move without touching them, even things that shouldn’t even be able to move in the first place. He knew that he had to tell someone, and who better than his best friend? After all, they shared everything. And so one day, while they sat in the park after school, he confided in her that he was scared. Scared that he was ‘weird and evil’, and terrified that she wouldn’t want to be friends with him anymore.

Contrary to what Darwin had thought would happen, Brooke had at first hugged him, and then made her own bag fly across the floor. She told him all about magic, about her being a witch, and him being a wizard, and about how sorry she was that she hadn’t told him sooner. She told him about Muggles, and secrecy, and about Hogwarts, the school where her older sister CeCe was studying. It was that same day that they prayed he would be magical enough to get in, that they wrote and posted a letter to the Headmaster asking such, and, a year later, it was in their special place, the Abandoned Playground, that they eventually compared their letters, and spoke about how excited they were.

It was then that things, didn’t stop, but didn’t revolve around Spiderman as much – the comic character was replaced by something cooler, something BRILLIANT. Magic.


School Years:
First Year:
Darwin joined Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on 1st September 2076, and after much degree of panic, was sorted into Ravenclaw, although he'd never seen himself as clever due to the fact that he is confused and distracted easily. To be continued...

SPOILER!!: Exam Results (Yet to be taken)

Ordinary Wizarding Level’s: Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test’s:
(to be taken 2080) (to be taken 2082)


[personality]
Darwin is hyper, constantly – he likes to run and jump, and seems to have limitless amount of energy. His favourite thing is Spiderman and he one day wishes he could be like this; climbing on walls and ceilings with super strength. Due to this, he has a Spiderman costume, a Halloween outfit that's now a little short on the arms and legs. A complete child at heart, he gets scared easily, like when he first performed magic, and is always terrified of turning into the ‘bad guy’ and being disliked by anyone. He’s bubbly, energetic and hard-working and gets on with anyone who isn’t horrible to him or his friends; this can sometimes make him jealous and over-protective, although he doesn't mean anything bad by this. He’d never hurt a fly purposely, unless they hurt him first.

Favourites:
Colour: Green.
Food: Pepperoni Pizza.
Place: The Abandoned Playground.
Film: Spiderman.
Animal: Spiders.

Likes:
Being with his best friend Brooke, Spiderman, his Spiderman Skateboard, his Spiderman costume, running REALLY fast, being a wizard, MAGIC!, Summer, his wand, chocolate, chocolate ice cream, Oskar, Oskar showing him his port-olio, his dads shiny uniform.

Dislikes:
Ryan Parker, the ‘Saw’ films, getting into trouble, getting hurt, Ryan stealing his Spiderman Skateboard, being called Darwin, Emiline, being called ‘idiot’, being abandoned, his dad going away all of the time, anything pink, concentrating, reading LONG books.

Pets:
- A Border terrier dog named Ace. (This is really Oskar’s, but Darwin wishes it was his.)
-A purple Pygmy Puff called Paul.

Motto: ‘Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.’

Post Colour: #228b22
Other Links: Drabbles, FanFic.
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