Elias Travers
Name: Elias Travers
School: Ilvermorny
Year: 2nd
Status: Muggleborn
Appearance: Elias has thick brown hair with bangs brushing his eyebrows. He's fair skinned but not too pale. His eyes are blue and very expressive. His hands and fingers are nimble from signing so often. He is about 5 ft 3 in at the age of twelve. He can always be found with a pencil slipped behind his ear and a satchel across his person containing a notebook and self-writing quill, which he uses to communicate with people who don't know ASL. (FC: Colin Ford)
Personality: Elias is generally kind and friendly. He enjoys being around people but does value having time to himself. He isn't the brightest, but loves learning about nature, animals especially. He is a good listener (or whatever the writing equivalent is for that) and freely gives compliments. He enjoys exploring and has always been considered a soulful boy, even before he was chosen by the Thunderbird.
History:
School: Ilvermorny
Year: 2nd
Status: Muggleborn
Appearance: Elias has thick brown hair with bangs brushing his eyebrows. He's fair skinned but not too pale. His eyes are blue and very expressive. His hands and fingers are nimble from signing so often. He is about 5 ft 3 in at the age of twelve. He can always be found with a pencil slipped behind his ear and a satchel across his person containing a notebook and self-writing quill, which he uses to communicate with people who don't know ASL. (FC: Colin Ford)
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Personality: Elias is generally kind and friendly. He enjoys being around people but does value having time to himself. He isn't the brightest, but loves learning about nature, animals especially. He is a good listener (or whatever the writing equivalent is for that) and freely gives compliments. He enjoys exploring and has always been considered a soulful boy, even before he was chosen by the Thunderbird.
History:
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Elias' maternal grandmother is a squib, estranged from her pureblood family. She married a muggle with whom she had multiple children, including Elias' mother (Fidelity Parker, "Parker" Blake). Parker was raised without knowledge of her wixen heritage nor her wixen sister. Through this branch of the family, Elias has a wixen cousin, Judas Crane, of whom he is unaware. OOC: Permission was granted by Rebecca Lark.
Elias Sylvan Travers was born to Muggles Brendon and Parker Travers in a city hospital close to the coast while his parents were on their second honeymoon, on July 9th, 2011. The boy was a happy surprise for his parents, who had been told that their chances of conception were low after Parker had an unfortunate miscarriage. Elias was born deaf, never having heard a sound in his life. Brendon and Parker were saddened to find this out, but did not love their precious son any less. Brendon is an auto-mechanic and Parker works with a temp agency.
Elias spent his childhood days in the suburbs of Asheville, North Carolina. Aside from his lack of hearing, he grew and developed into a healthy child. He enjoyed learning to sign, though it frustrated him sometimes. Elias enjoyed exploring around the neighborhood, though his parents worried for him. He didn't really hang around with the other kids in his neighborhood, as most of them were older than him, but was friendly to them. Many evenings, Elias could be found signing to Cara, the girl next door, who was one of the only children who bothered to learn more than the average yes, no hello, and goodbye of ASL.
Elias attended a private elementary for the deaf for his first three years of education (ages 5-7). Unfortunately, his parents could not pay for him to go past that and so he attended a regular school. Due to his total lack of hearing, Elias was paired with an interpreter, Lance Hutchins. He and Lance became very close, Lance becoming like an uncle or older cousin figure to Eli. Brendon and Parker also liked the young man and they sort of became a surrogate family for him, as he was hundreds of miles from his own family and home.
Although Elias was a friendly and adventurous soul, he was unable to connect with many people at his school. Cara, the neighbor girl, moved away when the two were eight, leaving Elias adrift in his new world. He did not learn to speak, since he has never heard, so it was hard for the other kids to connect with him. Fortunately, his peers were not malicious, and the majority of his classmates were friendly to him. Elias never really felt lonely, either, having a deep connection with his parents and a good friend in Lance.
The only thing that plagued Elias was his inability to hear. He was haunted with silence, knowing that everyone around him heard things. He didn't know what that meant, but when he felt the vibrations of the bass from the car speakers or saw someone with their mouth open with a face of happiness, he knew he was broken. That a piece was missing.
The night before his eleventh birthday, Elias lay awake, thinking about the sun. It was so big, so bright, it must be so loud. And the moon was probably quiet, but had a beautiful sound. He wished with all his might he could hear them. In a moment, a bright ball of fire appeared above his head, circled by a bright white light. They sent out vibrations that Elias could feel. Brendon and Parker were in his room a moment later, asking Elias where the music was coming from. They stared in shock as they saw the ball of fire hovering right over Elias' face and Brendon screamed when the white light came racing over. Almost as soon as Elias' focus was broken, the two mystery lights disappeared. From the expression on his mom and dad's faces, Elias could tell that they had seen it to. So... not a hallucination? he signed.
Everyone was baffled by this. There was no logical explanation. The next day, as the bewildered family plus Lance was about to cut the cake, a knock came at the door. It was a wizard, hailing from Boston, saying that Elias was also magic, and that his little lights show was his first instance of magic. The Travers family was skeptical, as they should be, but as the wizard explained to them what was in store for the boy, Brendon and Parker were forced to accept the reality of magic as the only explanation for this event. It would be a hard journey away from his parents and everything he knew, an unbelievable one, but it was the only explanation. And Elias was ready for it. He was ready for his new adventure.
Elias Sylvan Travers was born to Muggles Brendon and Parker Travers in a city hospital close to the coast while his parents were on their second honeymoon, on July 9th, 2011. The boy was a happy surprise for his parents, who had been told that their chances of conception were low after Parker had an unfortunate miscarriage. Elias was born deaf, never having heard a sound in his life. Brendon and Parker were saddened to find this out, but did not love their precious son any less. Brendon is an auto-mechanic and Parker works with a temp agency.
Elias spent his childhood days in the suburbs of Asheville, North Carolina. Aside from his lack of hearing, he grew and developed into a healthy child. He enjoyed learning to sign, though it frustrated him sometimes. Elias enjoyed exploring around the neighborhood, though his parents worried for him. He didn't really hang around with the other kids in his neighborhood, as most of them were older than him, but was friendly to them. Many evenings, Elias could be found signing to Cara, the girl next door, who was one of the only children who bothered to learn more than the average yes, no hello, and goodbye of ASL.
Elias attended a private elementary for the deaf for his first three years of education (ages 5-7). Unfortunately, his parents could not pay for him to go past that and so he attended a regular school. Due to his total lack of hearing, Elias was paired with an interpreter, Lance Hutchins. He and Lance became very close, Lance becoming like an uncle or older cousin figure to Eli. Brendon and Parker also liked the young man and they sort of became a surrogate family for him, as he was hundreds of miles from his own family and home.
Although Elias was a friendly and adventurous soul, he was unable to connect with many people at his school. Cara, the neighbor girl, moved away when the two were eight, leaving Elias adrift in his new world. He did not learn to speak, since he has never heard, so it was hard for the other kids to connect with him. Fortunately, his peers were not malicious, and the majority of his classmates were friendly to him. Elias never really felt lonely, either, having a deep connection with his parents and a good friend in Lance.
The only thing that plagued Elias was his inability to hear. He was haunted with silence, knowing that everyone around him heard things. He didn't know what that meant, but when he felt the vibrations of the bass from the car speakers or saw someone with their mouth open with a face of happiness, he knew he was broken. That a piece was missing.
The night before his eleventh birthday, Elias lay awake, thinking about the sun. It was so big, so bright, it must be so loud. And the moon was probably quiet, but had a beautiful sound. He wished with all his might he could hear them. In a moment, a bright ball of fire appeared above his head, circled by a bright white light. They sent out vibrations that Elias could feel. Brendon and Parker were in his room a moment later, asking Elias where the music was coming from. They stared in shock as they saw the ball of fire hovering right over Elias' face and Brendon screamed when the white light came racing over. Almost as soon as Elias' focus was broken, the two mystery lights disappeared. From the expression on his mom and dad's faces, Elias could tell that they had seen it to. So... not a hallucination? he signed.
Everyone was baffled by this. There was no logical explanation. The next day, as the bewildered family plus Lance was about to cut the cake, a knock came at the door. It was a wizard, hailing from Boston, saying that Elias was also magic, and that his little lights show was his first instance of magic. The Travers family was skeptical, as they should be, but as the wizard explained to them what was in store for the boy, Brendon and Parker were forced to accept the reality of magic as the only explanation for this event. It would be a hard journey away from his parents and everything he knew, an unbelievable one, but it was the only explanation. And Elias was ready for it. He was ready for his new adventure.
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Elias Travers
Is your character a Broom Racer? NO
Is your character a Quidditch Player? NO
Is your character a Duelist? YES
Stats: STA 9 \ Eva 8 \ Str 4 \ Wis 8 \ ARC 3 \ ACC 8
Abilities: Sixth Sense
's Grace
Is your character a Quidditch Player? NO
Is your character a Duelist? YES
Stats: STA 9 \ Eva 8 \ Str 4 \ Wis 8 \ ARC 3 \ ACC 8
Abilities: Sixth Sense
's Grace
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Elias Travers
T H E ~ F A M I L Y
and protective. Extremely logical, struggles with the concept of magic.
Methodical and orderly. Thoughtful and a lover of philosophical
discussion. Can connect everything to some sort of mechanical analogy,
it's uncanny. FC Jared Padalecki
Humorous, light-hearted, and kind. Helicopter-ish over Elias,
anxious that he's so far away at Ilvermorny. Social, loves going
out. Emotionally intelligent and fount of wisdom in that department.
FC Keira Knightley.
Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Born with congenital
hearing loss. Social and thoughtful, logical but light-hearted.
Empathetic and emotionally intelligent, but also organized and
sometimes high-strung. People-pleaser, gets himself stressed
with other people's problems. FC Colin Ford.
An absolute king at communication and smarter than, like, Einstien.
Polygot. Extremely emotionally intelligent, but good at talking it
through in a logical manner. Mild-mannered, for the most part.
Oddly disconnected from his own family for reasons unknown.
FC Nick Slater.
FC Emma Roberts.
currently unknown. FC Jensen Ackles.