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Anastas de Kooning
Name: Anastas de Kooning
Residence/Hometown: Burnham City, NY. Lived for a few years in Hesperia, California (just outside of LA). Born in Russia.
Age/Birthday: 19, November 17, 1992.
Gender/Sexuality: Male. His sexuality changes on a whim. He'll do anyone to get what he wants, or simply to entertain himself.
PB: Tyler Riggs
Any notable differences from the pb? Stas stands at 5'11". He has a slightly muscular build and a gorgeous set of abs. His eyelids are naturally a shade darker than his skin; his eyes are blue. Sometimes when he's in a mood he'll add some kohl before heading out for the night. He has a huge scar along his left hip when his first wand backfired.

There is a colorful tattoo covering his left shoulder and part of his arm (a gift from his dad for his sixteenth birthday); it's the Temptation of St. Anthony by Salvador Dali and has a particular meaning for Stas, one he doesn't share with anyone.

Stas' style has a lot to do with stumbling out of bed and finding something that doesn't smell like last night's party. A pictorial guide to Stas' style.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: His 11 inch, inflexible, ash wand with the clabbert horn core broke during his junior year (and left him with an impressive scar running along his hip). He had to replace it with a 13 inch, inflexible, cocobolo wand with a core of jarvey fur. This wand hasn't felt right since his recovery, so he's getting a new one at Stark's: 12 inch, flexible, birch with a complicated dual core of phoenix tail feather and boomslang venom.
House and Year: Hudson. Senior.
Schedule: Core: DADA. Astronomy. Preempting Charms for Wandless. Electives: Advanced Transfiguration II. Advanced Potions II. Combative Magic. Art.
Strongest subject in school: Transfiguration, Wandless magic
Weakest subject in school: Charms ("swish and flick that wand straight up your ass")
Extracurricular activities: School paper, art, cooking (he's trying something new).
Boggart and Riddikulus: His boggart has changed since his overdose. It's himself going back to the way he was before. He hasn't quite figured out a proper riddikulus to rid himself of this image.
Amortentia smells like: His amortentia has also changed since his overdose. It still smells like 80 year old scotch, but the new scents are fresh outdoor air, and cloves.
Patronus: His patronus is the melanistic leopard (often known as the black panther). They say that leopards can't change their spots. The truth is, Anastas has all of his spots hidden by a blanket of silence, just like the melanistic leopard's spots are covered in a layer of dark melanin pigment.
Animagus Form: Black mamba snake (Picture. Info). He learned how to transform into his animagus outside of class. He learned from his family in Russia, an old and fairly powerful wizarding family. His training was intense and took place mostly over summer break last year. He asked his family to train him because he preferred to take wandless magic classes over transfiguration specialty classes (knowing he could learn transfiguration outside of school, but that it would be harder to learn the wandless skills and he couldn't take both at Blue Ridge).

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family Parents: Kostya (estranged) and Candis (deceased). Siblings: An older brother Valentin (21). Two younger brothers Kazamir (16) and Yevgeni (15). His brief family tree.
Familiar: California King Snake named Lorelai. He insists it has nothing to do with the Gilmore Girls, which he definitely doesn't own on DVD and is absolutely not hidden under his mattress.
Any other relations we should know about: Stas has a habit of burning right through girls and boys. He hasn't gone as far with the boys as he has with the girls, but that's likely to change. He was involved in a peculiar affair with Emilie Devlin. He was dating Sunny Garcia, but they broke up sometime before his overdose. Since living in Burnham City he's started seeing Diana Harvey, a muggle girl who is a force of nature.

He knew Cinnamyn and Abernathy while they were at Blue Ridge. Pretty sure he hooked up with Cinna. He and Abernathy were VERY good at getting on each other's nerves.

Personality
Likes: Drugs, booze, sex, getting his way, hard rock, tatts
Dislikes: Charms ("it is magic for girls"), authority figures, goody-two shoes
Quirks: -He's left handed (and uses his left hand for his wand work).
-Prefers muggle photography to wizarding photos.
-Still has a bit of a Russian accent.
-He doesn't use conjunctions in his writing or his speech.
-Likes to swear in Russian because he can get away with it most of the time.
Secrets: -Once walked in on his mother having sex with a man who wasn't his father; he never told anyone.
-He's terrified to let anyone in and be vulnerable with them.
-He really does own the whole Gilmore Girls series on DVD; he hides it under his bed and only watches it when no one else is around ("what? This show is completely amazing").
-Terrified that he's going to fuck up and OD again. Hasn't touched booze or drugs since leaving the hospital.
Strengths: raw power, charm, his bad boy appeal, his kisses are smoldering, he's smart, he's cocksure (but this can be a drawback in the wrong situation). Extremely gifted at Wandless magic.
Weaknesses: utterly asinine, careless towards others (except his drinking buddies) and toward his own well-being; he doesn't care about much, his bad boy behaviors (though he considers them to be strengths), hurtful to others when it benefits him, he doesn't apply himself.

Detailed personality: Something of a sadomasochist. He enjoys causing and receiving pain, particularly in regards to his relationships. It's also a safety mechanism, helping him keep people at arms length. He doesn't want people to get too close; he doesn't want them to fail him in the way that his parents did.

He doesn't believe in love. Having only had his parents' messy marriage to go on he doesn't have a strong idea of what genuine love is. He certainly hasn't felt that kind of connection in his lifetime and he wouldn't know what to do with the feeling if he had.

Since discovering drugs and sex Anastas has been perfecting the art of self-destruction; his general attitude toward life is that if it ends he might as well go out having a good time.

He's actually kind of fun when he's drunk, but he can turn into a bit of a soccer hooligan if not properly entertained. He's wild and loud and generally wacky when he's out to have a good time. He has never crossed his drinking buddies; he feels closer to them than to his own family.

Stas is actually a closet foodie (considering his amortentia). He has a very developed sense of taste (which is dulled a bit by his chain smoking habits). He'd join the cooking club, but he doesn't want this to ruin his bad boy image. He hates to appear to have any kind of weakness and goes out of his way to make sure others will think he's a waste of time.

He's quite talented at magic, but he has no finesse in his spell work. He doesn't care to learn any. He's smart, but he doesn't care enough to apply himself (except for transfiguration and wandless magic; he feels like these are useful talents to pursue).

He's more honest and open on paper than he is in person. This is because he has time to be thoughtful about his words; he can carefully chose what to say next, which part of himself to reveal.

It's difficult to find Stas' redeeming qualities, but underneath the self-destructing man is a fairly decent human being that got covered up by a rough past.

Personal History: Anastas had a rocky childhood to match his parent's rocky marriage. Case in point, he once walked in on his mother having sex with a man that was not his father. His father was not an honorable sort of man in any way, but in Stas' mind at least he hadn't traumatized him so completely at the age of 5.

The family was forced to uproot from Russia after Candis' death. Stas was too young at the time to understand why, but he's begun to suspect that it was more than just grief that had their father packing them up in the dead of night and getting out of the country. This occurred just before Stas received his letter for wizarding school. Candis' death affected Stas oddly. He immediately sided with his father because of his mother's proclivities. He didn't mourn in the way that other boys might mourn their mother. He would later describe her funeral as a happy day.

Her death affected Valentin the most, because he had always sided with his mother and now he had to move to America in a hurry and transfer schools. With the upheaval surrounding their family and the shift to America (and having to learn how to speak English, of which he was a surprisingly quick study) Stas started school a year late. He adjusted very well to the abrupt culture shift. He seemed to blossom with the move, even while being delayed in his studies.

When he did start school he was just a bit taller, faster, and more interesting than the other boys in his grade and he used that edge to his advantage. Anastas had a tendency to burn through girls like it was no big thing. When he was younger it was mostly just making out, but in the 8th grade things started moving south; in the 9th grade Stas lost his virginity. Once he started having sex there was pretty much no going back. He's all about the conquest. Once he had a good grasp on wooing and breaking women (or rather girls in his experience) he moved on to men. Now Stas moves back and forth between the genders. When he's bored with one he'll try the other for awhile.

Stasi was a total party boy (in or out of school). He drank regularly ("do not start throwing down big words like alcoholic") and had done several varieties of drugs. He seemed to like cocaine the best when paired with a night of boozing (which needless to say was just a bad idea). He had several black out nights, and once woke up on a complete stranger's couch on the other side of Atlanta. He had definitely spent at least one night in jail for disorderly conduct ("and I would do it again"). This hadn't slowed his partying one bit.

In his school career at Blue Ridge, Anastas strived to do the least amount possible to get him the farthest. He pruned out all the muggle studies ("it is utter, pointless shit") and any classes he had no interest in ("fuck care of magical creatures"). More often than not, Stas couldn't be bothered/was too hungover to go to Charms; if he could have dropped it he would have done so the previous year. He got it, he really id; he just didn't care anymore. He was exceedingly good at transfiguration and showed an aptitude for wandless magic (thus why he really wanted to drop charms).

He didn't really have any goals for himself. He had no idea what he was going to do outside of school. He was thinking of getting into his father's tattoo business, but he didn't know if he could spend that much time with the man on a daily basis. He had a hard enough time working as an apprentice with him over the summer of his junior to senior year. His interest in photography could be turned into some freelance work, but he hadn't applied himself enough to really develop the talent.

During May of his senior year over spring break, Anastas suffered from an accidental drug overdose. He went into a coma for a month; his brother Val has been tending to him. During his recovery he decided he didn't want to redo his senior year and opted to move in with his brother until he can stand on his own.

Val however kept pushing Stas to think about finishing school, if not at Blue Ridge (which had too much baggage for him to get the fresh start he needed) then maybe somewhere else. Stas finally settled on the idea of Dresden Academy and enrolled in January to finish his senior year.

Other Stuff:
What’s in your characters pockets? Pack of cigs, lighter, cash in his wallet, some chick's phone number from last night, a squished mint, condoms.



Dresden Academy
Hulett's Landing, New York

Anastas de Kooning




Hudson House
Senior

 
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