29,6 cm black walnut wood and snallygaster heartstring
Damian has naturally short and lightly curly dark brown hair, but in the past year he started wearing them half blonde, straight and longer, dark blue eyes and a bunch of very light freckles on the nose and cheeks. Both his height and his weight are average for his age, with an height of 160cm and a weight of 49kg.
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Stubborn, hot-tempered and proud perfectionist; Damian likes to win and loves to excel in what he's doing or studying, and is always tempted to drop any sort of activity if he isn't immediately good at it.
When not angry or frustrated he is actually very calm and collected, but his burning frustration can explode every time he fails or something doesn't go right: his rage is usually pretty destructive or loud as he needs to push out all the negative emotions he can't handle well.
It's very easy to make him angry, but if taken with the right words he can become a really good friend: he will push his friend toward success and help them pursue their dreams, or simply intrigue them every once in a while with a new hobby of his.
He is suspected to be dyslexic, but he hasn't been diagnosed yet.
Damian was born in London, in an english pure-blood household where nothing below excellence was accepted. His parents wanted him to be perfect like them and even if they loved him to death they gave him a very strict education. He was homeschooled by his family and learned to play the piano and basic french, even if he hated both. He spent most of his childhood learning whan his parents taught him and bossing around with a small circle of kids, children of his parents' friends. Maybe it's because of his family's obsession with perfection and roles that Damian gradually accumulated so much frustration and terror of failing and manifest them in small bursts of anger every here and there.
His first accidental use of magic occured when Damian was around 5 and was starting to learn how to read. His mother was teaching him with her usual kindness, meaning that she was forcing again her child to read one of her books and getting angrier and angrier because Damian couldn't read most of those words, and also him was clearly getting upset: when he was finally done, he threw an enormous tantrum that culminated in a small spark on the book that could have started a fire if only his mother didn't extinguish it immediately. From that day on, no more forced reading.
Nobody was surprised to see the letter coming when Damian turned 11, but they surely expect him to be the top student of his year.
II. Discovering the gene
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Even if Damian’s family has always been a pure-blood one, there weren’t many cases of metamorphmagi in it. They obviously knew the trait and what it meant to have it, but apparently the only one who was a metamorphmagus was a distant grandfather on his father’s side, who lived many decades before the birth of Damian and also before his own parents. And since the trait wasn’t inherited by anyone in the family many started to believe generation after generation that the newborn could have had it. And generation after generation, the trait never appeared.
The family never lost hope, though. They knew that one day a child would be born with it, and each time a new baby entered the family, the elders grew a maniacal interest in the newborn to see if they would be the one. Damian wasn’t an exception: he was carefully observed during his first days and months by his parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents who kept trying to trigger a potential transformation by upsetting him or making him laugh at the most random times.
Damian didn’t show any signal of having inherited the trait, no matter the efforts of everyone to manually force the activation of the trait, and after many attempts his parents asked everyone to stop harassing their child, who clearly wasn’t a metamorphmagus. The family gradually stopped, and even if they were a bit disappointed they didn’t stop loving Damian and treating him as usual; everyone was simply curious to see if the next generation would have finally been the one to inherit it. After all, the trait couldn't simply disappear, right?
But Damian’s family didn’t know that in his mother’s family tree there was another metamorphmagus, and neither did her. It was also a distant relative who had the gene, and it never showed again in any of the offspring; the family didn’t really care, and they eventually forgot about it. Damian’s mother was totally unaware of that since no one in her family spoke about that relative, and relied only on her husband’s family to bring the gene.
Everything changed when Damian was ten months: since the gene should have manifested way before, nobody was paying constant attention to his actions, thinking that if he was truly a metamorphmagus he should have shown some signals way before. He was in his crib sleeping, and outside a storm had just started. Some bolts and thunders appeared as the storm approached the house, and one louder thunder suddenly woke Damian up, terrifying him. The shock made him cry loudly, and as soon as his parents heard that he had woken up his mother came to comfort him. “Uh... dear?” his mother called her husband once she got Damian in her arms. “Damian has half of his hair blonde.” she added, almost speechless. It was true: Damian had involuntarily changed his hair color, only partially, as a reaction to those bolts that had seen and thunders that woke him up. Damian’s father rushed to check with his own eyes, he double checked to make sure it was really what they were both thinking: even if a bit later compared to all the others, their child had finally inherited the trait hidden for generations in both sides of his family, and was the first metamorphmagus in Hills family after centuries.
Damian’s parents were so proud of him and supported any small transformations that the child could make: the hair was the most common one, and Damian went around very often with half of his hair in another color; sometimes it was the eye color, especially when Damian was in a really intense emotional state, and given his hot-tempered personality it wasn’t rare to see his eyes bright red.
He still needs a lot of training despite all the support received by his family since he was the only metamorphmagus after so many years, but it’s one of the few things his parents can’t put pressure on since there isn’t a “perfect” way to be a metamorphmagus, being one is just enough.
III. First Year
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Damian was truly convinced that the Sorting Hat had made a huge mistake. He surely wasn't a Gryffindor at all, right? He was such an ambitious and smart boy that the only two houses that made sense in his mind were Slytherin and Ravenclaw, so why was he in the Gryffindor dorm all of a sudden?
He couldn't believe it, but there wasn't much to do. If Gryffindor was going to be his house, better start working and bring pride to it.
During his first year, Damian quickly reached the top of his classes by studying a lot and cutting out any sort of hobby or activity. His goal was just to become the top student as quickly as possible, so that his parents could see him fullfill what he thought was his only purpose.
His homeworks were always impeccable, and even though his study method wasn't optimized at all, he showed no signs of fatigue whatsover, almost as if he wasn't even trying. And of course, he showed no interest in socializing with the other.
In fact, all he did was argue with other Gryffindors, hating his house even more, and making little to no friends outside the dorm. He tried to join some clubs, but he quickly lost interest in everything, making study his whole world.
The months passed, and before he could notice, the year was over. Top marks, no friends to celebrate with, and a long ride back to London where his parents were waiting for him.
IV. Second year
Reducio
TBD.
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