MINISTRY APPLICATIONS

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M I N I S T R Y A P P L I C A T I O N S


R U L E S
1. Only players who already have characters in the game may apply for ministry spots.

2. One Ministry character per player.

3. Ministry characters can be corrupt or they can be for great justice.

4. We'll decide how many ministry members qualify, so if you see 4 apps, you can still submit your own.

5. Do NOT apply for these positions with a character who is not suited for the role. Also do not apply for these spots just to give another character a Ministry BFF. It's cool if they know them a bit, but please, no BFF's.

6. Mods may contact in terms of certain plots that need to be carried out.

7. Ministry characters are able to punish students for misbehaving. They can only takes points if they do anything evilish. For points taking, they have the same restrictions as TA's.

8. All other in game rules apply to these characters as well.


A P P L I C A T I O N
<u>Player Information</u> <b>Name:</b> <b>Timezone:</b> <b>Personal Journal:</b> <b>Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO:</b> <b>Email Address:</b> <b>Former/Other Characters in the RP:</b> <u>Character Information</u> <b>Name:</b> <b>Canon Origin/Series:</b> [A link to information for particularly obscure canons/characters would be appreciated (other than wikipedia unless it's particularly thorough because we'll check there either way)] <b>Gender:</b> <b>Age:</b> [Late 20's and up only] <b>Personality:</b> <b>Brief History in Canon</b> [This is just to give us an idea that you know your character. No copypasting, please.] <b>Background (AU!Canon; HP):</b> [200 word minimum.] <b>What do they do at the Ministry?:</b> <b>Sample Interaction Post in First Person:</b> [No minimum here, but this is an opportunity to showcase your character's voice, so more than a line or two would be helpful.] <b>Sample Interaction Post in Third Person:</b> [200 word minimum] <b>Why should this character be accepted for a ministry position?: [For the LULZ need not apply]</b>

Comments

1/OVER 9000

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Player Information
Name: Leafy
Timezone: EST
Personal Journal: feuillu
Players Contact/AIM: JesSquirl
Email Address: fillefeuillu@gmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: redwhiteandhero, head_torturter, k_ootori (dropped), squishywizard (dropped)

Character Information
Name: Christopher Chant
Canon Origin/Series: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci [Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrestomanci)]
Gender: Male
Age: 38

Personality: Christopher seems at the outset to be a very aloof and detached person. He's friendly, and usually pleasant enough, but often has a dreamy or even bewildered expression, and seems to pay little attention to what is going on around him. However, the dreamier and more zoned out he seems to be, the closer attention he is probably paying. In reality he is quite shrewd and clever. Some people may find him infuriating, thanks to not only his seeming disinterest, but also for delivering sarcasm in a way that sounds perfectly sincere. Those under his authority have described him as "terrifying," though the best attempt to explain why is an exasperated "he just is." He takes "I'm not mad, just disappointed," to a whole new level by being neither mad nor disappointed, but instead pretending that nothing at all is out of the ordinary until the guilty party is squirming in their seat and begging for forgiveness. He can actually get angry, but outside of a trusted few people or extreme situations, the most he may seem is cross.

In addition to all that, he's an incredibly snappy dresser.

2/OMG IDEK

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Brief History in Canon As a child, Christopher's parents, both powerful in both society and magic, were always at each other's throats. He spent little time with his mother and rarely saw his father, being raised instead by servants and a series of governesses that never seemed to stay long, thanks to the atmosphere created by his clashing parents. Christopher's escape came at night, when he would, in his dreams, go to a place he called The Place Between, from which one could go Almost Anywhere. He would explore all sorts of different worlds in his dreams, occasionally bringing back treasures given to him by people he met on his travels. One time he met a girl about his age called the Living Asheth, the avatar of a goddess. It's very boring being a goddess' avatar, so Christopher promises to bring her some books if she'll give him one of the temple cats for an experiment he's doing with his uncle. She agrees, although the cat she gives him is incredibly foul-tempered and Christopher has quite a time bringing it home.

For quite a long time, he did not realize there was anything unusual about his dream travels.

Eventually Christopher's parents split up after his father lost a good amount of his fortune in the stock market. Christopher was sent to boarding school thanks to his mother's brother Ralph (whom Christopher adored). He enjoyed school immensely, especially since he had never gotten to interact with boys his own age. He especially took to cricket, deciding that he wanted to be a professional cricketer when he grew up. Unfortunately, his love of cricket led to a bad accident one day, when his friend managed to crack Christopher's head open with a cricket bat, killing him.

He got better.

3/ZOMGWTF

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However, after that his father snatched him out of the school and took him to be privately tutored in magic by a man named Dr. Pawson. Christopher was quite upset by this, since he would not get to see his friends anymore, and he had never been able to do any magic during his lessons at school. Dr. Pawson is convinced that he should be able to, however, citing the fact that he came back to life after being brained with a cricket bat, meaning he has multiple lives to go around and is, therefore, a (rather powerful) magic-user. After a lot of frustration, Pawson tells Christopher to empty his pockets, which he does, and promptly takes the roof off the place. The problem was with the silver he'd been carrying. When in contact with it, he is completely powerless (as well as constrained to telling nothing but the truth).

As it turns out, Christopher has nine lives, marking him as a powerful enchanter, and next in line to inherit the title of Chrestomanci. Chrestomanci is a post in charge of regulating the use of magic throughout the 'related worlds,' making sure no one misuses it, and that ordinary people have rights and are protected. Christopher is then sent to Chrestomanci castle to apprentice under the current Chrestomanci, a dour man called Gabriel de Witt. Christopher hates the castle and everyone in it for being so boring and adult, he misses his school friends, the Goddess Asheth, and cricket. Eventually, though, he is able to break through the spell preventing him from getting to the Place Between, he discovers that the castle has a cricket team that plays on weekends, and, after a while and several misadventures, settles into his role as the future Chrestomanci.

Eventually he marries the Goddess Asheth (called Millie now that she is in Christopher's world and no longer a living avatar) and has two children, Julia and Roger. He finds his own replacement one day in a boy named Eric Chant (a relation, the son of two of his cousins), called Cat on account of his nine lives. Although Cat's older sister Gwendolen causes all manner of problems, thanks to her dreams of world domination, Christopher takes Cat in as part of the Family, to be taught magic and prepare him for his own role as the future Chrestomanci.

4/SRSLY

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Background (AU!Canon; HP): Christopher is a pureblooded wizard of High Society, the son of Cosimo Chant and Miranda Argent. His Papa was a shrewd businessman and his Mama a wealthy social climber, a very powerful witch and wizard with Good Names. Of course, this meant that they were entirely too busy to spend much time with Christopher, leaving his care and education in the hands of nursery maids and governesses. When he was ten years old, his mother's brother appeared at the house one day, promising to get Christopher ready for school. Christopher was immediately taken with Uncle Ralph, and even more so when he gave him a muggle sixpence and a wink. After that, he was only too happy to come with Uncle Ralph on errands, talking with silly old ladies in even older houses and poking around in antique shops. He wasn't sure how this was supposed to be getting him ready for school, but he enjoyed it immensely anyway.

When school started in the fall, however, despite having already shown signs of magic as a child (he once turned one of his mother's hair accessories into a dead rat), Christopher seemed to have absolutely no talent for magic. It had even been difficult for him to choose a wand, as none of those he tried seemed to do much of anything. Even the simplest of spells would not work for him. However, he was so happy to finally be among boys and girls his own age that he didn't much care that he failed every practical assignment. Some of the other students made fun of his poor skills, but he quickly made friends anyway and tried to ignore the teasing from the others. He scraped through his first year by doing quite well on written assignments, and fudging practical assignments with some help from his friends.

That summer, he returned to his mother's house (his parents had divorced during the school year after his father lost a good deal of money in the stock market) and went back to running errands with Uncle Ralph. He noticed that the ladies always smiled at him and gave him candies, remarking on his good manners. He liked that. Afterwards, they would talk to Ralph in low voices before leading him away to another room and leaving Christopher alone. He liked that even more, since there were always a lot of interesting things to look at in the drawing room.

In his second year he tried out for the quidditch team, and quickly fell in love with the sport. He may have been practically a squib, but that wouldn't matter, he figured, when he became a professional quidditch player. His only hope was that his parents wouldn't be too terribly disappointed. (They would have been, but with his father disgraced and his mother desperately trying to salvage her own reputation, Christopher was, as usual, the least of their worries.)

Halfway through his second year, his charms professor, frustrated with his lack of improvement, pulled Christopher aside one day after class for extra instruction. After half an hour of not even moving the feather he was working with so much as a hair, his professor told him, suddenly, to empty his pockets. Bewildered, Christopher did as he was told, pulling out, among other things, the silver sixpence Uncle Ralph had given him, which he had been carrying on him ever since. With his pockets empty, Christopher tried the spell again. Not only did the feather shoot up to the ceiling like a bat out of hell, so did everything else on the professor's desk, not to mention the desk itself. Christopher was blown away. (And his professor even more so.)

Relieved of silver, Christopher got on like a house on fire, quickly shooting to the top of his class. Shortly afterward, he received an owl from his father, telling him in no uncertain terms that he was to come to live with him that summer instead of returning to his mother's house, and that he was definitely not to accompany Uncle Ralph anywhere. Christopher was a bit put out by that last bit, but as he had hardly seen his father at all during his childhood, he was so surprised by his sudden attention that he couldn't think to protest.

5/Derp derp

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His father's letter was soon followed by a Howler from his mother, instructing him under no circumstances to listen to his father. Thus began a series of angry letters, seemingly directed more at each other than at Christopher, which caused him no end of embarrassment in front of his peers with the end result that he would have preferred not to stay with either of his parents. In the end, though, he went with his father. As it turned out, his father had already arranged a summer job for him-- an internship with the Ministry of Magic. At thirteen-going-on-fourteen he was mostly assigned pageboy duties, but his father was very optimistic that if Christopher showed promise, he would be asked to stay on the following summer, and could work his way through the ranks. After losing his (wife's) money, Christopher's father had fallen out of favour with the rest of his family, and was looking to Christopher to gain it back for him.

Christopher hated Ministry work. When he thought he could get away with it, he would skive off to visit friends, or to visit Uncle Ralph, who was glad to have his help again. He managed to avoid too much punishment merely by being young and charming: a talent that he had always had, but only recently begun to purposefully exploit.

While he was working in the Ministry, he began to hear other employees talking about a Dark Wizard called the Wraith, who traded in dark objects and cursed artefacts. No one knew where he got these things, or how he managed not to get caught, but he had a steady supply of merchandise flowing into Knockturn Alley, seemingly out of nowhere. As the summer wore on, Christopher realized, sickeningly, that some of the suspected accomplices sounded a bit familiar. His Uncle Ralph was the Wraith. This realization of course broke Christopher's heart, but with his information and help, the Wraith was soon discovered and caught. This, of course, made sure that he would be back in the stuffy Ministry offices the next summer.

The next year at Hogwarts was sickeningly easy. Now that he was able to do magic at all, he discovered that he could just as easily slack off. He'd figured out how to work the system: now he could get good grades with the bare minimum of effort. Some of his classmates began to hate him. Others were so charmed by him that they couldn't hate him. Christopher enjoyed himself even more immensely than ever. Even when he returned to his internship the next summer, he found he could enjoy that as well, with the same tactics of minimal effort expenditure that he used at Hogwarts. Now that he was a bit older, they had begun to give him a salary as well (a pittance, but still a salary-- 122 knuts an hour, since he couldn't accept payment in sickles), which he mostly spent on quidditch supplies and clothes. In his time off with friends, he found himself growing closer and closer to Millie, a Hufflepuff girl in the year below his. They started dating in his fifth year. In his seventh year he was made Head Boy. After leaving school, he applied for a full-time job at the Ministry, and was accepted with open arms. The following year he married Millie, once she had left Hogwarts as well. Christopher moved quickly through the ranks, becoming one of the higher-ups in the Improper Use of Magic Office within five years. He takes great pleasure in his job, and even more pleasure in putting together new and fabulous outfits for every day of the week (and he owns more dressing gowns than the average person has clothes).

What do they do at the Ministry?: He works in the Department for Magical Law Enforcement, specifically the Improper Use of Magic office.

6/Okay that's it.

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Sample Interaction Post in First Person: So, it's off to Hogwarts for me again in the fall. I say, that does take me back. It ought to be nice to take in a quidditch match again. I used to play a bit, back in the day. It seems Roger and Julia haven't got much interest in the sport, more's the pity.

What is it that young folks are interested in these days? Tell me, I shall be fascinated to hear about it.

Sample Interaction Post in Third Person: Christopher woke up early that morning. He woke up early nearly every morning, as he was a firm believer in the morning constitutional, and the quiet, dewy minutes just after dawn were the best time for that sort of thing. He rose from the bed (that night he had been wearing pyjamas of red silk, decorated with Chinese-style dragons picked out in gold thread) and summoned the house elf with his morning coffee. He sipped it slowly as he walked to his closet, considering what he ought to wear that day. It was his first day on the new assignment, after all, and one had to make a good impression, without seeming like one was trying too hard.

His closet was quite spacious-- much larger on the inside than it was on the outside-- and completely full. Despite the selection, however, Christopher knew exactly where everything was. He first picked out a dusky grey suit with faint mauve pinstripes, enchanting first the trousers, then the waistcoat and the jacket to float after him on their hangers while he continued to assemble his ensemble. A silk mauve shirt completed the outfit, and then-- aha! He picked out a royal blue dressing gown which seemed to change colors in the light, to purple or green depending on the angle. It was covered all over in tiny, five-pointed stars, reminiscent of the sky on a clear night. Very appropriate for Hogwarts, if he did say so.

Why should this character be accepted for a ministry position?: In canon, Chrestomanci is in charge of regulating proper use of magic for not only his world, but for every known world in the universe. He does his job so well that many people don't even realize that he's doing it.

Magic Words? Mouth Grape

Accepted as a Ministry Member!

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Re: Accepted as a Ministry Member!

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Woohoo~! /o/