✴ ELIPHAS SCOTT DUNE ✴

✴ Full Name: Eliphas Scott Dune
✴ Age: 11
✴ Birthday: 13th January, 2010
✴ Species: Human

✴ School Year: First Year
✴ House: Ravenclaw
✴ Dormitory: Steppe Eagle

✴ Wand:

✴ Patronus: Not Applicable
✴ Boggart: Unknown

✴ Hair Colour: Brown/Auburn in the sun
✴ Eye Colour: Hazel
✴ Complexion: Pale
✴ Height: 4'2

✴ PERSONALITY ✴

✴ Traits:
Well-Mannered, Moral, Empathetic/Attentive, Inquisitive, Mischievous/Playful

✴ Likes:
Warm Jumpers, Wizard Cards, Fantasy Books, Astronomy, Hiking, Exploring, Video Games

✴ Dislikes:
The Grand Staircase, Bertie Botts Every Flavour Bean, Itchy Clothes, Football (Even though all his friends are crazy about it!)


✴ Overview:
Eliphas is a relatively well mannered young boy, who was taught the importance of manners and morals from a young age by his doting mother. He is noted as being attentive toward the needs of others, and will pick up on slight changes in tone and body language to deduce when someone is having a less than splendid day.

Of course, being only eleven years old he has a naturally mischievous side, and is playful among his peers. Since finding out about the magical side of his family, he has become rather infatuated with the wizard cards found alongside chocolate frogs, and hopes to one day collect them all.

He does miss many of his muggle conveniences, having been an avid video gamer, though since his arrival at Hogwarts he has learned to enjoy a good fictional book in place of the games. Thankfully he had never been given a mobile phone during his childhood, and as such will not miss having access to such.

His childhood was happy and loving, and the only real difficulties he presently has to face (outside of schoolwork, of course) is simply the adjustment period of discovering that he's a wizard, as well as living away from home for the first time. He is homesick rather often.

✴ HISTORY ✴

✴ Hometown: Horwich, England
✴ Blood Status: Half-Blood
✴ Parents: Oscar Dune (Pure-Blood) | Ruth Dune (Muggle)
✴ Siblings: Only Child

✴ First Instance of Magic:
When Eliphas was 8 he fell when climbing the mock ruins of Liverpool Castle; surprisingly he came out the other side unscathed, and in the heat of the moment with adrenaline coursing through his veins he completely overlooked the fact that he never actually hit the ground and instead was lightly cushioned from the blow.


✴ Pre-Hogwarts:
Before receiving his acceptance letter and coming to Hogwarts, Eliphas - known most often as Eli - had what most would consider a pleasant and ordinary upbringing. He was never made aware of his father's magical past, Oscar Dune having simply been an accountant who had distanced himself from his family in his early twenties, and as such was raised purely as a muggle.

He attended the local primary school, remaining from their nursery program all the way through to Year 6, and during his time there he grew to have several strong friendships with classmates he believed he'd be going off to the local secondary school with. In fact he and his best friend George had even been placed within the same Form.

Eliphas excelled with his end of year SATs, and throughout his schooling had shown a genuine love and aptitude for literacy. During his primary school years he had an overactive imagination, always thinking up new games and worlds to play and explore in the school yard. His Sundays were often spent playing online videogames with George and their friend Ashley, though here and there he'd find a good RPG to solo through instead to scratch his fantasy itch.

Throughout his childhood, Eliphas and his parents would go on hikes up the hillsides of Rivington, exploring the old ruins scattered throughout the woods there. He would always find a good tree to climb, or try to scale the ruins whenever his parents weren't looking, much to his mother Ruth's dismay. On more than one occasion he would stumble and fall, though it was never too long before he was climbing once again.

When his Hogwarts acceptance letter arrived, everything he had known and was expecting of the near future seemed to crumble around him. His father sat him down and informed of the other side of his family, and his magical heritage. After explaining about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry his parents allowed Eliphas to decide for himself if he wanted to attend, and though it took him some time to fully comprehend the choices before him he ultimately decided to go.

It was a bittersweet decision, as it meant leaving behind everything and everyone he knew and the comforts of his home, though the promise of a true adventure - and, of course, magic! - piqued his curiosity and helped to soothe the worst of it.

✴ Diagon Alley:
His journey to London, and the subsequent wonders of Diagon Alley, was his first real taste of what was to come. He soaked it all in, marveling at the effortless magic that seemed to flow around in abundance, in store fronts and at the hands of casual witches and wizards many years his senior. He took his time hunting down the various items on his supply list, his mother sharing in his excitement and awe, and finally came upon Ollivanders wherein he was tasked with unearthing his wand.

There were, of course, several failed attempts. Cedar, Aspen, Spruce... No, none of them would do. Unicorn hair, phoenix feather... After smashing a few candle holders with his untamed and inexperienced wand waving, the wand finally revealed itself... Cherry wood, with a dragon's heartstring. Unyielding, cheeky, and malicious, the shopkeeper stated. Perfect for a wizard which might take it on exciting and amusing adventures. Even without such encouraging words, Eliphas knew that it was a perfect match.

When the time came for he and his parents to reach Platform 9 ³/₄, he felt certain that his father was playing some sort of prank on him. Run at the wall? It wasn't until he saw another student, a couple of years older than himself, do precisely that that Eliphas took the plunge and followed suit, emerging beside a beautiful red steam train. He struggled to say goodbye, leaving the loving and secure embrace of his parents for the first time, and boarded the train at the last possible moment wondering if he had made a mistake.

✴ Arrival at Hogwarts:
By the time they arrived at Hogwarts, Eliphas was tired and the sun was nowhere to be seen. He walked alongside the other unhoused students, overwhelmed by the grand sight of the castle which would be his home until the summer. Moving portraits, floating candles - and was that a ghost?! - there was much to take in, but before he could truly scrutinize his surroundings more the doors to the Great Hall were thrown open and the Sorting Ceremony soon began.

One by one his fellow first years stepped forward and sat upon a seat in front of the rest of the school, a truly daunting prospect, wherein a raggedy old hat was set upon their heads. HUFFLEPUFF, it roared - a word he recognized from his conversations with his father after the letter arrived, in fact it had been his House when he studied there too - and then SLYTHERIN.

Soon enough, much too quickly in fact, his name was uttered and up he stepped. He tried to ignore the eyes upon him, and focused instead on his breathing. Much to his surprise, the hat began to mutter words to him, seemingly sizing him up. After a few moments his fate was decided: RAVENCLAW!

Though he was a little dismayed to not be sorted into the House his father had been, he excitedly followed the others who had been sorted similarly and slipped into a seat at the Ravenclaw table with a racing heart and a head full of questions and curiosity for what was to come...

✴ Choosing a Dorm / Steppe Eagle Dormitory:
It was a daunting task, deciding which of the three dormitories he would be perched within for the entire school year. It didn't help that he was beyond tired, overwhelmed and overstimulated, but that was probably how every first year was feeling. New spaces, new people, away from home for the first time...

And yet when it came down to it, when he quietly peeked his head into each of the dormitories and surveyed their lofty spaces, he found himself immediately drawn to one more than the rest. The towering bunks seemed to him like mini mountains longing to be climbed, the map-plastered walls snatched his gaze soon after, and finally the ceiling. Or lack thereof. It was mesmerizing, reminding him of the night sky and the stars held aloft therein.

The part of him which was often excitable, and yet which had been just a quiet squeak in the back of his mind ever since leaving King's Cross Station, bubbled up and threatened to outright burst free as he stepped across the threshold with a renewed certainty. He longed to explore it all, to seek out any hidden corners, to climb the ropes.

So enamored with the room was he that he didn't even notice the cushion pit immediately. That was simply the icing on the cake - he had made his decision already.

Next came the matter of choosing his bunk. He had been rather quick in selecting which dormitory he'd belong to, certainly faster than his other first years it would seem, so he had the luxury of time as he pondered over which he wanted that wasn't already taken. Did he want to be closer to the door, or one of the windows? Top, middle, or bottom? - well, he knew the answer to that already - Top, of course, closest to that cloudy night sky, where each morning and evening would be an adventure of ascension and descent.

Soon enough he had his bunk chosen. Top bunk, furthest from the door, and close to a window... Yeah, that would suit Eli just fine!

Next task? Break the ice, and hopefully find a friend...

✴ ROLEPLAY LISTINGS ✴

☆ Ongoing | ★ Finished | ✪ Abandoned

✴ FIRST YEAR | 2021-2022 ✴

✴ SEPTEMBER:

✴ [Open] Through Highlands Never Ventured - Orla Finch | Charles Hedge ☆

✴ [Solo] Sorting Ceremony ★

✴ [Solo] The Ravenclaw Table ★

✴ [Private] 142 Moving Staircases To Avoid - Jack Burnett ★

✴ [Private] A Friend From The Train - Orla Finch ☆

✴ [Private] A Clockwork Countenance - Pea Elena Fowl ☆

✴ [Private] Damp and Desecrated Darkness - Piper Clark ☆

✴ [Private] Where Feathers Lay - Josepheen Norman ★

✴ [Private] Through Tapestries Thin - Josepheen Norman ✪

✴ [Private] Under Wandering Stars - Rachel Davis ☆

✴ [Private] Meet Me In The Library - Simon Kincaid ☆

✴ [Private] Of Sunflowers and Squids - Elizabeth Lovett ☆

✴ [Private] Owls and Letters - Rachel Davis | Edme Achillian | Youssuf Baid ★

✴ [Private] Chocolates, Cards, and Chases - Edme Achillian ★

✴ OCTOBER:

✴ [Private] Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Henry Knight ☆

✴ [Private] Spooky Spooks - Enrico Gathorne ☆

✴ NOVEMBER:

✴ [Open] Thank You Party! - Clair Fernandez | Youssuf Baid ★

✴ [Open] I'm Not Too Young! - Clair Fernandez | Lizzy Solace ★

✴ [Errand] Celebrate Your Unique Talent ☆

✴ DECEMBER:

✴ [Private] First Snowfall Snowball Fights - Edme Achillian ☆

✴ PRE-HOGWARTS RELATIONSHIPS ✴

✴ FAMILY✴

✴ Father: Oscar Dune (Pure-Blood) {Hufflepuff}
✴ Mother: Ruth Dune (Muggle)
✴ Maternal Grandfather: Scott Parsons (Muggle)
✴ Maternal Grandmother: Eliza(beth) Parsons (Muggle)
✴ Paternal Grandfather: Edegrim Dune (Pure-Blood) {Gryffindor}
✴ Paternal Great Grandfather: Eliphas Dune (Pure-Blood) {Ravenclaw} - Deceased

✴ NPC FRIENDS✴

✴ Best Friend: George Fowler (Muggle)
✴ Friend: Ashley Rush (Muggle)

✴ HOGWARTS RELATIONSHIPS ✴

✴ Friend: Orla Finch (Pure-Blood) {Hufflepuff | First Year}
✴ Friend: Edme Achillian (Half-Blood) {Ravenclaw | First Year}
✴ Friend: Henry Knight (Pure-Blood) {Slytherin | Third Year}
✴ Role: Name (Blood Status) {House | Year}

Statistics, Abilities, & Items

Stamina: 5
Evasion: 8
Strength: 2
Wisdom: 9
Arcane Power: 6
Accuracy: 5

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