Post by Bethany on Sept 30, 2010 0:22:59 GMT -5
[/color]player information!
preferred name ; John Jacob Jingleheimerschmitz or Bethy if your short on time,
age ; 26 seconds old give or take a few years.
how you prefer to be contacted ; How about a letter scrawled on Money? Yes I'd like those a lot or if your cheap Owls will work.
characters you already play ; Areyna, Mason, Neorah, Holden, Brice, Virgil, Vinny, Autumn, Charisma, Cyrus, Lady, Luna, Hunter, Tarcharacter information!
the basics
character name ; Raphael Marcellus Rathbone III
nickname(s) ; Dr. Wrath though he doesn't really pay attention to any name but his given name.
age ; 50
date of birth ; 01/17/1959
blood status; half-blood
sexual orientation ; Sexually Raphael is very ambigious he doesn't care how he gets his urges taken care of as long as the partner has a pulse and honestly he doesn't really care about that too much if the body kept moving.
wand ; 14 inch Hawthorne wand with a unicorn tail hair core
affiliation ; Extremely neutral, but he is a member of the hands so that may be where his affilation lies.
occupation ; Officially he's a unemployed disgraced Healer who lives off doing odds and ends jobs. In reality he works under the table healing people with suspcious injuries and working on his own experiments. His main resource of income comes from actually selling some of his failed experiments that have hallucigenic properties. He of course only provides the drugs to the Hand who does the dirty work of distrubuting and so such.
the appearance
height & weight ; Raphael is a very tall man that at 6'7 tends to tower over many people. His weight of 250 for a man of his height is fairly average. He is neither overly thick or skinny. He is also not all that muscled as much of his work is fairly stationary he doesn't really excercise enough to be particularly fit.
hair ; Raphael is a man who obviously doesn't care about his hair too much. More often than not it's simply combed and left alone. Soemtimes however when he is in the midst of his research his hair will be greasy and unkepmt because he won't take the time to shower or groom. His hair is a dark black with a generous helping of gray strands. He tends to keep it longer more out of habit than anything close to style.
eyes ; Raphael's eyes are at the same time both plain and unmissable. Naturally they are just light green hazel eyes that can look more yellow than anything else given what he's wearing. There really is not outstanding about his eyes physically. His eyes shape is fairly average almond and his lashes a pretty typical. What makes this unmissable is the expression in his eyes he has the eyes of man who has seen all the worse things the world has to offer and is still waiting for the worst. His eyes are weary and more than a bit forlorn and even when in a good mood this expression never really goes away.
facial features ; Raphael is in his own way a striking man. When he was younger he used to be fairly handsome, but the years have not been kind to him and his rough life style and the weight of the life he's lead weighs heavily in his face. His face is usually described a haggard though this depends on if he's smiling of not. His smile changes his face completely. However as smiling isn't something he does all that often one usually sees a time worn face. He has a large slightly crooked nose that's obviously been broken at least once. His lips are probably the gentlest part of his face one of the few soft lines he has. His lips are almost feminie, but not quite as they are usually fairly rough and dry since he doesn't waste time mositurizing.
distinguishing features ; As far as distinguishing marks go he other than a time worn face only has a few marks. The most promiminent being a scar on his right side from a surgery he performed on himself to improve the function of his liver. It's a relatively small scar as Raphael is fairly talented at leaving scars in optimal conditions he can leave a patient without any scar at all. The other fairly noticeable mark is a small cut near his neck from a very unhappy relative of one of his experiments.
style ; If doesn't care if a style that would be what Raphael would wear. He really doesn't giving a flying rat's arse about the clothes he wears as long as they keep him covered and not cold. He buys whatever is cheap and wears it until it falls apart. His clothes are usually thread bare and sometimes they don't even really match even the cleanliness can at times be questionable is he's too invovled in his work. He's not very good at dressing up either and when he tries it generally just means throwing a worn out sports coat over his regular clothes. The only part of his wardrobe that is usually fairly decent is his footware as he has to have comfortable shoes and will replace them the moment they start being less than comfortable.
play by ; Benicio Del Toro
the personality[/color]
likes ;
HEALING[/u] There are a lot of people who will laugh if they heard someone say Raphael likes healing because they beleive he's little more than a monster. However despite some of his choices Raphael has always and will always love healing. Taking something broken and fixing it makes Raphael feel whole and powerful. The fact that he now only heals the forgotten and the unwanted doesn't change any of that. While his path may have become a little dark he will always be a healer at heart.
OUTCASTS[/u] Raphael is a man who is not only obessed, but not than a little bitter. He holds a grudge against most of the world. Yet since his fall there is one group of people he's learned to accept and even enjoy. These are of course the people much like him those rejected by society for their various reasons. He feels a definite sense of community with these people and appreciates their alternative culutural. Unlike the rest of the world the people on the fringes the ones most people turn their backs on will accept just about anyone despite whatever their sins might be. While Raphael is a much harder man than he ever used to be there is still a definite soft spot in his heart for the 'outcasts' of the world.
RAW MEAT[/u] Raphael isn't sure if this particular like is due to his own psychological changes or an side effect of the few expriments he has tried on himself, but he now has a taste for raw meat. He doesn't just gobble down meat right off the animal, but does enjoy steak tar tar and sushi a lot more than he should. He eats bacon that's just barely hit the frying pan much less having stayed in the pan. He eats his steaks very much so on the rare side. He will eat cooked meat, but raw has tasted better for as long as he can remember. Logically he knows he had to have preferred cooked meat when he was a child, but he just can't remember it.
THE SLUMS[/u] Most people will bend over backwards to avoid the rougher areas of town. Raphael however embacres them. He feels a hundred times more comfortable in a run down little hell hole of a slum that he'll ever feel in a safer part of town. There are several reasons he likes the rougher side of town the first being he simply fits in better. No one gives him a second look in the more desitute areas. Then there is of course the fact that Raphael feels nothing, but contempt and anger towards the average citizen only in the slums can Raphael usually find people he can relate with and not hate.
CIGARETTES[/u] Being a healer Raphael knows how deadly smoking is, but he doesn't care as he takes genuine pleasure from the unhealthy habit. Smoking helps smooth the his rougher edges and lets him relax at least for a moment or two. He isn't quite a chain smoker, but if you are in his company for more than 15 minutes you will undoubtedly see him light up. There is no better way to get him in a bad mood than to tell him he can't smoke. Of course if you do that he'd still light up anyways and probably take great care to carefully send all the smoke in said person's direction.
dislikes ;
GOVERNING BODIES[/u] Raphael has always been a mad who didn't much like limits. Even when he was a fairly good hearted young man with big dreams the near sighted rules unknowing bodies created always chafed at him. He never really understood why people mostly who really have no business making rules for the things that they do got to do so especially over healing. Very few of these people ever actually understand what it is like to have to operate under such strict guidelines. After the death of his father be began to truly resent the rules and the guidelines that had kept him from being able to save his father. The fact that he was disgraced and banned from healing of course didn't help. He despises the governing bodies who made ridiclous limiting rules where as if they would have let him have free reign instead of being squeamish he would have not only saved his father, but rejuvenated the healing world.
THE SQUEAMISH[/u] There are just some point in life when you have to do whatever necessary to do waht you need to do. Times when you can't back down no matter how untasteful a task might become. The man aboslutely hates people who are unwilling or even incapable of getting their hands dirty when necessary. People who are squeamish and unable to make the hard decisions for the right reasons make him sick. Of course what he really really hates about them is the fact that their squeamishness effects him. The reluctance to engage in certain activities restrains him and he hates that their squeamishness gets to decide what is good and bad. He hates that they get to decide where to draw the line rather than him. He also hates the fact that if it were for their bloody rules and limits that he just might have been able to at least save his father.
LOSING[/u] Raphael is not a very competetive man. He doesn't really enjoy games or contests. However once he decides to do something he hates failing the very idea eats at him. He can't let certain things beat him. He will enver ever give up on certain goals and he won't let him adversary no matter how abstract beat him he can't. *DISEASE NAME HERE* has been his biggest competitor for years. The fact that he lost the battle for his father tears at his soul, but he won't let himself give up and can't stand the idea of not winning the war.
DEATH[/u] Raphael is not afraid of death. In fact there is a large part of him that believes that death is the only way he will ever find peace. But he still dislikes it mostly because death is the big loss. It's the point where you go beyond winning and one has to admit defeat. He resents death as a symbol of his failure that his skill was not enough to beat back the early death. In Raphael's opinion the only accetpable death is by freak accident, murder, or old age. Every time a disease takes away one of his subjects he takes it personally because to him that's exactly what it is. It's life or god or whatever showing him that he's a failure and that his best efforts aren't good enough.
HOPE[/u] Hope is a fraud one that Raphael has no tolerance or pateince with. In his world it is pretty much the cruelest thing to do to someone. Feed them hope let them start beleiving they could win out in the end only to have fate come and snatch that hope away in the most brutal way possible. He resents hope and in his own way fears it because there is no better way to get hurt than to harbor hope in your heart. Of course hope is so hard to deny, because it's so tempting to hold and to beleive in because no one really wants to be hopeless even if it is the better way to live.
strengths ;
INTELLIGENT[/u] For whatever moral fiber Raphael might be lacking and the many many people who will never really approve of him no one can argue about his intelligence. He is by no means a genius, but in the medical field there aren't too many people who are in his league. His intelligence can at time be fairly limited since he devoted almost all of his efforts into the art of healing, but there in no denying that the man is bright. He can learn very quickly when he wishes to and his intellect is insatiable when he finds a subject that interests him. In school he was always near the top of his class if not at the top of some. In healer training it was much the same. He is also a very logical man that is ridicilously good at figuring things out in a very moethodical and through way.
DEVOTED FRIENDS[/u] Some people would probably think it odd that an apathetic man largely villianized by popular opinion would have good friends. However Raphael has more than just good friends. He has devoted friends who would do just about anything for him. Because of his habit of picking up and taking care of the discarded cast offs of society Raphael has built a small but solid group of friends that are utterly reliable. A good example of this is his assitant Knighton. Knighton is a good boy who Raphael rescued from a squallid orphanage and raised. Knighton is not only his ward, but a solid friend that Raphael can rely on no matter what happens. And he has several other friends much like Knighton. He may not have a million friends, but the ones he does have are of very high quality.
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weaknesses ;
MORALLY GRAY[/u] Raphael is pretty much infamous for his less than stellar moral character. His choices have led him to losing his healing license and being a healing leper with no choice, but to continue his studies in the shadows of a much darker one than the one he used to live in. Really the man never set out with the intention of hurting one despite many beliefs Raphael isn't quite the textbook defintion of evil. He simply whole heartedly believes that the ends justifies the means. He sees a world free of a disease that kills thousands of Wizards every year and he sees no reason not to get a little dirty to acheieve this goal. He does have rules morals they are simply much more lax than your average person. Where most people will see an option too dark to try Raphael see's a path only a coward wouldn't take as long as you embark down this path with the right goal in mind. What is a few mistakes a few unfortunate incidents in the face of so much potential?
APATHATIC[/u] As a young man Raphael was practically a bleeding heart. It was this that led him to become a healer as it almost made him physically ill to see other people suffer. However that changed drastically during the desperate fight to save his father from ENTERHORRIDDISEASEHERE and the following loss of his father and just about everything else. When his father passed, his license was taken away, and he was tossed into the street villified and despised the part of Raphael that bled everytime another person hurt died. He would never stop caring about his obession the burning fire he will probably always feel to accomplish his task, but he stopped caring about people. Why should he care for people when those same people are ultimately responsible for him losing everything that mattered? The only exception to this are the people he considers just as outcasted and misfit as himself basically the dregs of the underworld.
SOMESORTOFADDICTIONBETHYBECREATIVEANDDONTSUCK[/u] CUTTING? Prostitutes? (ask luce)
boggart ; Losing is Raphael's biggest fear. Of course it's not just any little contest, but the big one that he started years ago against *add disease here when you make it up bethy.* He is terrfied he will die before he finds the cure and that everything he's every done will be all for nothing.
amortentia ; rubbing alocohol, cauterized flesh, and cigarette smoke.
erised ; To beat *add disease here when you make it up bethy.*
veritaserum ; He secretly feels that if he had been a little more ruthless with his experiments he would have found the cure to save his father.
dementor ; The day his father died despite Raphael's best efforts. All he could do was sit there and watch as death stole his farther away. It would be this day that would wipe the thought of hope from Raphael's mind.
patronus ; It would take a miracle for Raphael to ever produce a patronus however once upon a time it took the form of a phoenix. Of course Raphael has been unable to produce the charm since the death of his father so has no way of knowing what shape if any different in might be. Raphael honestly doesn't really bother thinking about his good memories very much anymore, but his best memory would be the first day his father introduced him to the art of healing. He had stumbled across a bird with a broken wing and after taking it to his father he was shown exactly how to fix the bird's wing and how to help ease it's pain. It would be this day that would start his crusade to become the best healer ever.
personality ; Driven, obesssed, methodical. stopped caring a long time ago. angry. wants the world to pay, bitter
the school life[/color]
school attended ; Hogwarts
former house ; Ravenclaw
favourite subject ; Raphael was from the beginning a gifted potions student. He not only found the subject to be important to his already budding dreams, but fascinating, and fun.
worst subject ; Raphael in his younger gentler years was never much of a DADA fan. His much gentler younger persona didn't approve of inflicting injury on people so he rather disliked the subject.
OWLs gained & grades ; in list format please
NEWTs gained & grades ; in list format please
the family life[/color]
partner ; Raphael was once married, but his wife divorced him when he lost everything else.
children ; Latisha Rathbone,19, halfblood
Michael Rathbone, 16, halfblood
Trevius Rathbone,13, halfblood
mother ; Eliza Rathbone, 26, half-blood (deceased)
father ; Raphael Marcellus Rathbone II, 60, half-blood (deceased)
siblings ; Raphael is an only child
other significant magical relatives ;
Cayleigh Ruthridge (ex-wife), 47, half-blood
residence ; An old modified warehouse in the east end of London
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