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Post by Dorian Michael Humbert on Jun 11, 2018 22:16:08 GMT -8
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Dorian Michael Humbert
~ Portrait ~
~ Basics ~
Born: [Late February or Early March, 1948] Age: [27] Alignment: [Neutral] Occupation: [Auror] Blood Status: [Unknown] House: [Ravenclaw alumnus] Relationship: [Single] Face Claim: [Gillies, Daniel]
Appearance:
[At 5'11", Dorian stands tall and strong. His hair is meticulously neat and he is almost always found in a suit. His OCD-like habits about his professional appearance became exaggerated after his parents' deaths.]
~ Personality ~
Patronus: [Griffin];[conjured by the memory of his parents signing the adoption papers] Mirror of Erised: [Himself with a family; a wife, two children, and a dog] Boggart: [His adoptive mother as a zombie]
Dorian was a true to form Ravenclaw when he attended Hogwarts, and as such he is the typical book worm. He does all of his own research while working a case, and in his leisure time he enjoys reading non-fiction. However, he also is a bit of a workaholic and allows himself very little down time. He prides himself on being a professional, and does not often mix work with pleasure. He is confident in his ability to track and bring to justice dark wizards and witches, and prefers to work alone when possible. That being said, he is not opposed to training potential new Aurors or giving professional advice, so long as mentoring does not interfere with his actual duties.
In his personal life, Dorian tries to be very respectful, but is afraid to allow anyone too close for fear that they may be used as a way to take revenge on him for the capture of a dark witch or wizard. He is a very passionate man below the surface but appears stoic and it has been mentioned on occasion that he comes off as somewhat of an “old man”. He has also been requested to remove the broomstick from his backside. Dorian doesn’t see a problem with closing himself off from people, believing that they are safer at a distance from him. His fears are, of course, completely founded and based in history that only reinforces Dorian's self-imposed social isolation.
Dorian spent the first four years of his life in an orphanage with no Christian name given to him at birth and he was left on the stoop of a wizarding orphanage in Watford, England. One of the women working at the orphanage when he arrived was reading an Oscar Wilde novel and suggested to the rest of the staff they call the babe after the character in her book. Dorian was a social child and played well with the other youngsters at the orphanage.
When he was four he was adopted by Karl and Barbara Humbert. His adoptive parents were upfront about him being adopted, but never treated him as anything but their own flesh and blood. He was so loved by the Humberts that it never crossed his mind to attempt to find his biological parents. Even after the untimely death of his parents, he was never concerned with finding the people who gave him away as an infant.
The Humberts were pleased when Dorian began showing signs of magical abilities and overjoyed when his Hogwarts letter came. Upon arrival at the school, Dorian was promptly sorted into Ravenclaw with very little hemming and hawing from the Sorting Hat. Dorian studied hard while in school, getting excellent marks in all of his classes and serving as Prefect in his sixth and seventh years. After graduating from Hogwarts, he joined the Ministry of Magic as an Auror-in-training. He quickly proved himself worthy of the position and was hired as a full-fledged Auror by age 19 – earning the title of the fastest trainee in modern history having finished his coursework with top marks in a year, instead of the traditional three. He worked hard and was assigned increasingly difficult cases.
When Dorian was 23 he tracked a dark wizard to Argentina where he was taken captive along with his partner and close friend, Jasper. Dorian managed to escape and captured the dark wizard, Alonsa Ruiz, but the villain’s henchmen got to Jasper before Dorian could save his friend. Jasper's mangled body haunted his dreams for months and the man's family blamed Dorian for not doing more to stop Jasper's death. In essence, Jasper's parents were lenient compared to the amount of blame Dorian put on himself for Jasper's murder.
Six months later, when he was 24, one of Alonso’s henchmen hunted down Dorian’s parents as revenge for the capture and imprisonment of their leader. The Humberts were missing for 16 days. When Dorian finally found them, it was a gruesome sight. His father, Karl, had been decapitated and his blood used to write a message on the wall of the cave where the Humberts were trapped. The message simply read “unfinished”. The wizard had also captured Dorian’s mother Barbara and tortured her to the brink of insanity. When Dorian found her in the cave she was lying in a puddle of her own waste, holding her husband’s headless body as if they were napping together. She later committed suicide in her room at St. Mungo's after scrawling anti-demon protection charms on the walls in her blood and screaming for two days straight. She was found hanging from the rafters by her straight jacket, though it was unclear how she managed to free herself from the restraints without assistance. The circumstances of her apparent suicide were considered suspicious by the brilliant Auror, but deemed unfounded by the Department Head. No official investigation was ever opened in what Dorian determined to be a homicide rather than a suicide.
Since the events leading to his parents' deaths, Dorian has struggled with his desire to have close relationships (platonic and otherwise) and to keep the ones he loves at a safe distance. He threw himself into his work, staying unfathomably long hours, working weekends, and not freely taking holidays. Any holiday time he did use was at the orders of his superiors and Dorian spent the duration of his ‘break’ researching his parents’ kidnapping and murder/suicide.
