Lance Alexander Beckett Ilvermorny

Name: Lance Alexander Beckett
Age: 11
Year: First Year
Race: Human
Blood Status: Wizard-born
School House: Pukwudgie

Appearance:
Rich brown hair runs through the Beckett family and Lance is no exception to this lineage. He is a tall, fair-skinned boy with a skinny frame. Oftentimes, he can be seen with a persistently tired expression. His choice of clothing is usually formal, but not overly stylish. He prefers keeping things simple, but not unkempt.

Personality:
Lance is a reserved and soft-spoken individual. Beneath this unassuming exterior, there boils an unfaltering determination to liberate his family from bigotry. He is an artful gentleman, possessing the cunning of a tactician and the etiquette of a noble-born to fit. Preferring to remain in the shadows while he unveils his plots, it is rare to see him drawing attention to himself unless it is out of necessity.

History:
The Beckett family is an old and well-established pureblood family, but it too has its slew of conspiracies and collusion. James Beckett III was born in 1905. He was a politician in the Wizarding World, advocating against muggle-borns and in favor of blood purity.

In the aftermath of the First World War (1927), 22-year-old James ventured to America to take advantage of the economic boom that accompanied the jazz age. It was during his tours that he met and eventually began a relationship with a witch by the name of Maria Young (b. 1903). They had a whirlwind romance which ended up with Maria bearing him a male heir before they were legally married. However, the purist James soon discovered something about his paramour that had been kept from him. Though she claimed to be a pureblood, she had neither the pureblood appearance nor the lineage to prove it. The truth came soon after. She was a muggle-born. She had hoped that by bearing him a child and earning his love under the guise of being a member of the social elite, she would open his eyes to the unfairness of blood purity. But angered at being manipulated by the object of his passion, James promptly left America without a word and denied ever having any sort of relationship with his old flame. He would not marry for another 20 years out of weariness against the likes of women who sought to charm him. At age 42 he finally found his love in a British pureblood, Bianca Addington. In 1950, at age 45, she bore him a son, Alexander Beckett IV, who he named as his legitimate heir.

Maria Young, after being abandoned by her thoughtless husband, remained in the United States with her son, Fremont Beckett, who was named in place of the soaring aspirations of the free world in the west. In the absence of his father, he existed as the product of an illegitimate relationship. He would carry this shame upon his family name even when he attended Ilvermorny and into adulthood. His bastard status was often a cause for discrimination, especially among the pureblood circles. He worked tooth and nail for his family to get by, and eventually married at age 25. He had a single male child that year, Arthur Beckett (b. 1952), named after the Arthurian character of the same name. Under financial constraints, it was difficult as it was to raise a single child, let alone more than one. Arthur also attended Ilvermorny and was sorted into the house of Wampus. In his adult years, he found success and recognition as a MACUSA agent, later marrying his quartermaster, Colleen Aronin, a second-generation Jewish-American witch who migrated after escaping from Germany during the Second World War. Together, they had an eldest son and two daughters: Tristan, Makayla ‘Kay’, and Morgan. With a limited inheritance from their grandfather, the three siblings grew close over years of scornful treatment from other pureblood families as a result of their illegitimacy. Tristan Beckett later married his Ilvermorny sweetheart, Annabelle Otters, and had three children. The eldest son, Lance Beckett, was named after the Arthurian character Lancelot and is the character this biography is dedicated to.

Throughout the 20th century, the illegitimate Beckett line has struggled with the prejudiced opinions of others. However, upon learning that the current heir to the Beckett family fortune is locked away in Azkaban, leaving a single troubled daughter to tend to the future of the family name, it appears that an opportunity has arrived for the bastard Becketts to reclaim the pride they lost nearly a century again.

And this is where our story begins.

First Instance of Magic

As a child, Lance grew up exhibiting common signs of magical ability. When he was fearful or confused, objects around him would begin to tremble, becoming outlets for the outpouring of his emotion. As he grew older, these events decreased in frequency and eventually ceased altogether when he matured. Nonetheless, his wizard parents made a point to prepare him for a wizard’s education by teaching him basic wand control and the responsibility entrusted to him when he finally acquired that precious tool; which at the utterance of a misguided word, could be turned into a deadly weapon.

His childhood was filled with unsatisfied promise, the echos of James Beckett III’s I love you existing on within him. The emotional conviction that had once enthralled a pair of lovers was now a shattered mirror of his own dreams. He set his sights on Britain, as his family had influenced him to over the years, yearning to meet and reconnect with the family he had lost all those decades ago.

Stats:
Stamina: 5

Evasion: 10

Strength: 0

Wisdom: 10

ArcPower: 0

Accuracy: 10

Abilities:
None

Approved Edits were made regarding blood status so bio is approved. I removed under abilities "Perfectionist" as there is no application so it cannot be accepted.