Rakiak Kyverak | First Year | Gryffindor
Name: Rakiak Kyverak (pronounced 'RAWK-ee-awk' 'KAI-ver-ack')
Personality: Rakiak tries to be friendly, upbeat, accommodating when possible. However, he often enjoys spending time alone. He typically appears subdued, but he's secretly very passionate, rambunctious, and determined. Loyalty and friendship are things he holds in very high regard. New environments make him nervous at first, but once he has time to get to know a place and the people in it, he can easily adapt.
Interests: Dinosaurs and video games (especially the RPG kind and anything predominantly featuring dinosaurs, dragons, and/or kaiju)
Appearance: This swarthy young man has thick, black hair, tan skin, and eyes so dark brown that they almost look black. He also has an endomorph body type, a lean, lanky build, and is 152.4 cm (5') tall.
Species: Human
House: Gryffindor
School Year: First
Age: 11
Wand: 26,3 cm chestnut wood and dragon heartstring
Background: Having been born and raised in the United States, Rakiak lived a fairly normal childhood. He wasn't bullied in school and achieved decent grades. This mundane experience led him to slowly, grudgingly accept his ordinary lifestyle as average and he tried to be content with what he had.
He was ten years old when he moved with his family to Liverpool, England due to new job opportunities that appealed to his parents there. Their son wasn't pleased with the decision, but he had no say in the matter. It was there, though, that he would come to realize there was more to the tedious reality he thought he knew and been raised to accept.
Some time after Rakiak's family had fully moved and settled into Liverpool, the parents decided to send their son to a boarding school. The boy wasn't fond of the idea, but before his parents could even really get a chance to look at available school choices, a stranger showed up with a letter meant for Rakiak. They told his parents their son possessed magical talent and had been enrolled in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.
Rakiak was delighted when he was asked if he wanted to go. The magical school was proof that there was more to life than society had led him to believe. Eager to shed the illusion of the boring, everyday reality he had previously dwelled in, the boy readily agreed to attend.
The way he saw it, no matter what, he was going to be attending a school that was nothing like the ones he was familiar with back in the United States. How much different could going to an English school after that be from attending a 'magical' English school?
Underage Magic: A little while after leaving the states for England, Rakiak decided to visit the famous Museum of Natural History in London by himself in order to sort out his feelings about the move. Upon visiting an exhibit displaying an Albertosaurus skeleton cast, he gazed upon it and wondered how the creature might have behaved if it suddenly came back to life, waking up in an unfamiliar habitat - just like he found himself in after having been relocated overseas.
As he considered this, the skeleton turned its head, moving to look directly at him with non-existent eyes, which caused him and other passersby to think that some animatronics might have been added to the exhibit in order to give it a more life-like feel. When the Albertosaurus skeleton threw back its head in an unheard roar, however, supports falling left and right as they were shaken loose, Rakiak saw that no electronics of any kind were responsible for moving the bones.
Simultaneously, he was struck with the revelation that had the Albertosaurus come to life as he had been imagining, the dinosaur wouldn't have bothered worrying about its new surroundings or spent its time being nervous about what others thought of it. It likely would have acted as freely as it had in its former life, indifferent to the reality it would have disrupted with its very existence.
Shortly after, the skeleton returned to its original position as if it had never been anything more than lifeless bones. The only proof it had moved at all were the fallen supports that littered the floor.
As he left the museum, Rakiak overheard the museum staff chalking up the fallen supports to kids that must have been messing with the display. He also heard a mother assuring her child that they couldn't have seen the dinosaur actually move on its own; that there had to be some sort of robotics involved.
Saddened by the idea that society seemed so willing to discount the idea that magic could exist, Rakiak kept that miraculous moment to himself. No one could pick apart or burst the bubble of his beliefs if he never exposed them to anyone else.
He often thought of the Albertosaurus when he was most upset or anxious about the move, finding great comfort in his secret memory. Little did he realize it wasn't likely to be the last show of magic he would bear witness to.
Personality: Rakiak tries to be friendly, upbeat, accommodating when possible. However, he often enjoys spending time alone. He typically appears subdued, but he's secretly very passionate, rambunctious, and determined. Loyalty and friendship are things he holds in very high regard. New environments make him nervous at first, but once he has time to get to know a place and the people in it, he can easily adapt.
Interests: Dinosaurs and video games (especially the RPG kind and anything predominantly featuring dinosaurs, dragons, and/or kaiju)
Appearance: This swarthy young man has thick, black hair, tan skin, and eyes so dark brown that they almost look black. He also has an endomorph body type, a lean, lanky build, and is 152.4 cm (5') tall.
Species: Human
House: Gryffindor
School Year: First
Age: 11
Wand: 26,3 cm chestnut wood and dragon heartstring
Background: Having been born and raised in the United States, Rakiak lived a fairly normal childhood. He wasn't bullied in school and achieved decent grades. This mundane experience led him to slowly, grudgingly accept his ordinary lifestyle as average and he tried to be content with what he had.
He was ten years old when he moved with his family to Liverpool, England due to new job opportunities that appealed to his parents there. Their son wasn't pleased with the decision, but he had no say in the matter. It was there, though, that he would come to realize there was more to the tedious reality he thought he knew and been raised to accept.
Some time after Rakiak's family had fully moved and settled into Liverpool, the parents decided to send their son to a boarding school. The boy wasn't fond of the idea, but before his parents could even really get a chance to look at available school choices, a stranger showed up with a letter meant for Rakiak. They told his parents their son possessed magical talent and had been enrolled in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy.
Rakiak was delighted when he was asked if he wanted to go. The magical school was proof that there was more to life than society had led him to believe. Eager to shed the illusion of the boring, everyday reality he had previously dwelled in, the boy readily agreed to attend.
The way he saw it, no matter what, he was going to be attending a school that was nothing like the ones he was familiar with back in the United States. How much different could going to an English school after that be from attending a 'magical' English school?
Underage Magic: A little while after leaving the states for England, Rakiak decided to visit the famous Museum of Natural History in London by himself in order to sort out his feelings about the move. Upon visiting an exhibit displaying an Albertosaurus skeleton cast, he gazed upon it and wondered how the creature might have behaved if it suddenly came back to life, waking up in an unfamiliar habitat - just like he found himself in after having been relocated overseas.
As he considered this, the skeleton turned its head, moving to look directly at him with non-existent eyes, which caused him and other passersby to think that some animatronics might have been added to the exhibit in order to give it a more life-like feel. When the Albertosaurus skeleton threw back its head in an unheard roar, however, supports falling left and right as they were shaken loose, Rakiak saw that no electronics of any kind were responsible for moving the bones.
Simultaneously, he was struck with the revelation that had the Albertosaurus come to life as he had been imagining, the dinosaur wouldn't have bothered worrying about its new surroundings or spent its time being nervous about what others thought of it. It likely would have acted as freely as it had in its former life, indifferent to the reality it would have disrupted with its very existence.
Shortly after, the skeleton returned to its original position as if it had never been anything more than lifeless bones. The only proof it had moved at all were the fallen supports that littered the floor.
As he left the museum, Rakiak overheard the museum staff chalking up the fallen supports to kids that must have been messing with the display. He also heard a mother assuring her child that they couldn't have seen the dinosaur actually move on its own; that there had to be some sort of robotics involved.
Saddened by the idea that society seemed so willing to discount the idea that magic could exist, Rakiak kept that miraculous moment to himself. No one could pick apart or burst the bubble of his beliefs if he never exposed them to anyone else.
He often thought of the Albertosaurus when he was most upset or anxious about the move, finding great comfort in his secret memory. Little did he realize it wasn't likely to be the last show of magic he would bear witness to.
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