Post by Douglas Pearson on May 22, 2012 20:38:07 GMT -6
Name: Douglas Arthur Pearson
Nicknames: Answers to Doug.
Age: 28
Blood: Halfblood
Appearance:
- 5'10"
- Sandy, reddish-brown hair
- Notably hairy. Doug believes in keepin' it real! He occasionally wonders if he got his job because werewolves find him relatable.
- Possesses the unruly style and crazed eyes of someone who's just stuck his finger in an electrical socket.
Personality:
- Jittery, wired, generally all over the place
- Always been a "just barely scraping by" sort of guy
- He exists in a constant cycle of slacking, procrastination, then sheer panic followed by frantic attempts at getting things done.
- Doug is not a perfectionist in any sense of the word. He lives by a mantra of "Eh... close enough."
- He's good at starting projects and gets excited about a lot of things, but lacks follow-through. His flat is packed with unfinished paintings and half-built furniture.
- Short attention span, not the best listener
- Deeply, alarmingly forgetful. He keeps a Remembrall on his desk, but as it seems to be perpetually glowing red, it's not entirely helpful.
- To be fair, he uses this to his advantage ALL THE TIME. It's hard to tell if he genuinely screwed up, or if he's just trying to get away with something.
- Believes rules are meant as "rough guidelines"
- Never met a silence he couldn't fill with incessant chatter
Background:
- Youngest of six boys (DEAR LORD) born to John Pearson (wizard) and Louise Leibowitz (muggle). As a child, Doug was unruly and mildly sociopathic in the way little boys sometimes are. Social cues and niceties were a steep learning curve for him. Also, learning not to plant fireworks in beehives.
- His parents were pretty burnt out on parenting by the time Doug rolled around, so their attitude was basically, "Eh, at least he's not dead or in prison."
- Has an aunt Susan and cousin Rory
- Culturally Jewish due to his mother's side of the family, though spiritually ambivalent
- Graduated Ravenclaw in 2002 with sub-par grades
- Got fired from his first job as a janitor at St. Mungo's. Apparently no one found Doug shouting "Bring out your dead!" as he roamed the corridors as funny as he did.
- His lifelong best friend Tom was killed by the Death Eaters in 2006 during a mission with the Auror department. Doug was 22. Despite trying his best, Doug never truly bounced back. He still avoids the floor where Tom used to work.
- Got a job in Werewolf Support Services in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, as he saw an ad in the paper and it seemed pretty easy.
- Got promoted! Whoa boy, everything's coming up Douglas!
- Due to heavy budget cuts, the department had to be dramatically restructured in a short period of time. Doug's boss got promoted and his co-workers sacked, leaving Doug as the sole member of the office.
- He literally is Werewolf Support Services. Needless to say, one frantic guy in a cubicle isn't the most encouraging sight for the brand new werewolf out on the town.
- Doug mostly tries to fly under the radar and hopes no one finds out that he has no idea what he's doing.
Characteristics:
- Talented artist! The only way he was able to stay calm and relatively well-behaved back in school was by doodling through all of his classes. Doug does mostly cartoons with a macabre/twisted sense of humor.
- He used to leave caricatures of the teachers on the desks of girls he had crushes on :)
Nicknames: Answers to Doug.
Age: 28
Blood: Halfblood
Appearance:
- 5'10"
- Sandy, reddish-brown hair
- Notably hairy. Doug believes in keepin' it real! He occasionally wonders if he got his job because werewolves find him relatable.
- Possesses the unruly style and crazed eyes of someone who's just stuck his finger in an electrical socket.
Personality:
- Jittery, wired, generally all over the place
- Always been a "just barely scraping by" sort of guy
- He exists in a constant cycle of slacking, procrastination, then sheer panic followed by frantic attempts at getting things done.
- Doug is not a perfectionist in any sense of the word. He lives by a mantra of "Eh... close enough."
- He's good at starting projects and gets excited about a lot of things, but lacks follow-through. His flat is packed with unfinished paintings and half-built furniture.
- Short attention span, not the best listener
- Deeply, alarmingly forgetful. He keeps a Remembrall on his desk, but as it seems to be perpetually glowing red, it's not entirely helpful.
- To be fair, he uses this to his advantage ALL THE TIME. It's hard to tell if he genuinely screwed up, or if he's just trying to get away with something.
- Believes rules are meant as "rough guidelines"
- Never met a silence he couldn't fill with incessant chatter
Background:
- Youngest of six boys (DEAR LORD) born to John Pearson (wizard) and Louise Leibowitz (muggle). As a child, Doug was unruly and mildly sociopathic in the way little boys sometimes are. Social cues and niceties were a steep learning curve for him. Also, learning not to plant fireworks in beehives.
- His parents were pretty burnt out on parenting by the time Doug rolled around, so their attitude was basically, "Eh, at least he's not dead or in prison."
- Has an aunt Susan and cousin Rory
- Culturally Jewish due to his mother's side of the family, though spiritually ambivalent
- Graduated Ravenclaw in 2002 with sub-par grades
- Got fired from his first job as a janitor at St. Mungo's. Apparently no one found Doug shouting "Bring out your dead!" as he roamed the corridors as funny as he did.
- His lifelong best friend Tom was killed by the Death Eaters in 2006 during a mission with the Auror department. Doug was 22. Despite trying his best, Doug never truly bounced back. He still avoids the floor where Tom used to work.
- Got a job in Werewolf Support Services in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, as he saw an ad in the paper and it seemed pretty easy.
- Got promoted! Whoa boy, everything's coming up Douglas!
- Due to heavy budget cuts, the department had to be dramatically restructured in a short period of time. Doug's boss got promoted and his co-workers sacked, leaving Doug as the sole member of the office.
- He literally is Werewolf Support Services. Needless to say, one frantic guy in a cubicle isn't the most encouraging sight for the brand new werewolf out on the town.
- Doug mostly tries to fly under the radar and hopes no one finds out that he has no idea what he's doing.
Characteristics:
- Talented artist! The only way he was able to stay calm and relatively well-behaved back in school was by doodling through all of his classes. Doug does mostly cartoons with a macabre/twisted sense of humor.
- He used to leave caricatures of the teachers on the desks of girls he had crushes on :)
