samtheman:


IC INFO

Full Name: Melchor Samuel David Ruiz
Nicknames: Sam
Hometown: NOLA
Age and birthday: 17 & February 18, 1994
House and Year: Beauregard & senior
Electives & Schedule:
1. Latin
2. Ritual Magic I
3. Advanced Herbology
4. Charms/Wandwork
5.Lunch
6. FREE
7. FREE
8. DADA
9. Magical Craft

Wand: Flexible 12 ½ inch Birch with a fire crab shell fragment core
Boggart: A werewolf
Patronus: Sam's original patronus would have been an otter because of his cheerful attitude and outlook on life but after last summer things changed. His patronus will be a brown bear because of it's protective instincts with family.
Animagus, if applicable: NA
Religious Affiliation: His mother is a Protestant and his father is a lazy Catholic. Sam has mixed feelings about religion and is testing the waters.
Extracurricular activities:
Cheerleading
School band- drums/guitar
Brew masters

Family/Relationships

Parents: Anna Ruiz (witch) and Tito Ruiz (muggle born wizard)- Trial separation
Siblings:
Felix- deceased 04/17/1993- 08/10/2009 (would have been in his transitional year this year)
Marina- 16 twin sister (junior)
Ema- 14 (freshman)

Extended Family:
Mother's side: (all magical)
Thomas and Louisa Corey- Grandparents
Benjamin and Ellie Corey- uncle and aunt
Ellery and Michelle Corey- uncle and aunt
Scott (21) and Ophelia (18) and Justin (17) and Mel (15)- cousins

Father's side: (non-magical)
Sofia and Juan Ruiz- Grandparents
Anabella and Carlos Mendez- aunt and uncle
Jose and Micaela Ruiz- aunt and uncle
Lola- aunt
Joseph "Pepe" (15) and Julia Mendez (14) and Francisca (6) and Lidia (12) Ruiz

Familiar Harry the rat
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Significant Others (past and present): Sam dated Sibyl Ballantyne briefly, it never got too serious and it ended amicably. Sam is now dating Ginger McAvery and though they are from two completely different worlds he fell head over heels for her.


Appearance

PB: Stephen Gomez

Detailed description: Sam isn't too tall or too short, standing at 6'0. He is in pretty good shape from cheerleading, acrobatics, and running. He has his father's dark features while carrying the bone structure from his mother's side. He usually lets his hair do whatever wild thing it wants to do and hasn't taken a comb to it in years. He's always wearing a lazy, mischievous smile.

His style is pop/punk with skinny jeans, baseball caps (he has about fifty Yankees caps in about every color imaginable), plaid shirts, and band tee shirts. He wants to get several tattoos when he saves up enough money and he wants to get piercings but his mother won't hear anything about it.

He has assorted scars on his legs and elbows from falling off his skateboard and falling in general. He has five huge scars running down his back from his right shoulder to his left hip and four long scars running across his chest from his left shoulder to right below his right pectoral.

Personality

Likes: Pop punk, power punk, happy hardcore, straightedge lifestyle, music, dancing, joking about psychic twin powers with Marina, guitar, drums, ice cream, food, photography, girls, cheerleading, gymnastics, the Yankees, CCI, his bulldog/boston terrier mix Frankfort, canoes, fishing, skate boarding, Halloween, candy corn, lime flavored tortilla chips, triple rainbows, watching quodpot.

Dislikes: School uniforms, keeping secrets from his friends, his fear of camping, doxies, de-gnoming his parents garden, vocoders and auto tune in music, country music, celebrity "news" shows, fighting (he'll do it if he has to), socks, grease, over kill with popular jokes, studying, corny people, rude people, bigotry, racism, politics, the smell of cigarette smoke

Quirks:
*He has never tried drugs or alcohol and considers himself straightedge, but he knows other students are not and does not judge them or miss out on any sweet parties because of it.

*He claims that he was mauled by a bear which caused the huge scars on his body. Although sometimes it's a jaguar.

*He has gone by his middle name ever since he was five because he just doesn't like his first name.

*Sam has a really good relationship with his twin sister, she is one of his best friends.

*He speaks fluent Spanish, he also has been known to let out a stream of curse words in Spanish if he's doing something and it goes terribly wrong. He also speaks French pretty fluently as well.

*When he's studying by himself he turns his notes into songs to help him remember.

*He doesn’t let anyone touch his acoustic guitar because it's Felix's guitar. No one knows that he uses his older brother's guitar except his family and a few of his closest friends.

*He has a wonderfully Cajun accent.

*He drums on things.

Secrets:
*The origin of his scars and the death of his brother were all caused by a werewolf attack on his family in the summer of 2009 while they were camping. There is undoubtedly some speculation running around the school about where these scars came from. (There are only two people outside of the family who know the truth.)

*The stress of Felix's death and the attack caused Sam's parents to fall apart. The separation has taken it's toll on him emotionally.

*He has a pretty healthy fear of heights.

*He hasn't been able to go into the woods ever since the camping incident. Even if he gets too close to the woods he will have a minor panic attack, he blames it on his allergies and asthma and leaves immediately (although his asthma's been under control for years). The only exception to this is when he's going down to the river since he can see beyond the tree line.

What’s in your characters pockets? Wallet, guitar pick, a Polaroid of his dog Frankfort, drum sticks, usually some sort of corked bottle full of who knows what for potions, candy corn, $4.57, cell phone, and keys. Pockets

Strengths: He has tons of energy, a positive attitude, he's very clever and charming, he's incredibly loyal, and he'll defend his loved ones until the end. He's relentless, Sam does not give up easily which is why he still wakes up every morning and puts his best foot forward. He is determined to keep moving and make things better for everyone. He's very acrobatic.

Weaknesses: He is not very open about his problems and internalizes a lot of his feelings, especially about his brother's death and his parents separation. His grades have been slipping because he's been so distracted by family issues. It doesn’t help that he's easily distracted and often skips classes to hang out with friends and be mischievous. He doesn't realize it's okay to let others see him being sad, only one friend outside his family has seen him cry. He has tried flying but he's terrible at it mostly because he won't go more than five feet in the air.

Strongest subject in school: Potions and herbology
Weakest subject in school: History and astronomy, too much memorization
One thing he/she can't live without: Felix's guitar. Marina.

Detailed personality:
Sam is a pretty goofy kid with a positive attitude and an endless supply of energy. He is full of life and a great friend to have around. He's very confident and always spinning tales. He's not a liar, just an entertainer, most of the stories he tells are from his life while others he borrows from cousins, friends, and occasionally urban legend. He is the life of the party and incredibly friendly to everyone around him. Sam does not know how to hold a grudge and forgives as easily as breathing.

He is a little bit of a trouble maker and is very familiar with detention. He is behind a lot of mischief making and rule breaking at the school. He has been known to get into fights before when he gets pushed too far or if a friend has been hurt. He skips quite a few classes because he would rather just be outside swimming, fishing, setting rabbit traps, and frolicking rather than going to Latin or history.

He knows when to tone down the energy though and is capable of being incredibly gentle and thoughtful. He's protective and selfless when it comes to his friends and family and more specifically his twin. He's a very trustworthy friend and a good listener. Though he keeps most of his secrets to himself, many of his friends come to him with their problems.

Sam has a darker side to him that he doesn't talk about. He's incredibly sensitive about the events in his family's recent past but he's too stubborn to talk about it with anyone, even his closest friends. In that sense he is closed off and only shares certain bits of information with his twin, but even then it's not everything. His cheerful attitude is by no means a ruse or a way of coping. He honestly believe that in time things will get better and it does no good to let sadness and pain drag him down. He doesn't realize that not expressing sadness and pain is almost worse.


Personal History:
The Corey family has a long and proud tradition in the wizarding world that survived many witch hunts and even the infamous Salem Witch Trials. In generations of wizards and witches that spread out across the country, there wasn't a single Corey who married a muggle or a muggle born until Anna Corey came along. She lost favor among many of her more traditional relatives after marrying a muggle-born wizard but many of them changed their minds after their first son was born. Felix had captivated his relatives like no other child had and pulled together a family which was falling apart.

Anna Corey and Tito Ruiz met the summer after they graduated from CCI while doing an internship for the Administration of American Wizards. They were fast friends and kept in touch with each other for the next few years, arranging visits and writing each other letters. The after they graduated from college, Tito started playing professional Quodpot and Anna started working for a herbology shop, her dream was to open up her own herbology shop. That same summer Tito asked Anna to marry him and although she was worried about what her family would think she married Tito in 1990. A year later their son Felix was born. It wasn't long before the twins; Melchor Samuel David and Marina were born and shortly after them came their sister Ema, completing the happy family. They moved from their apartment to a more spacious home in NOLA and Tito and Anna opened up the Botique de les fleurs.

The kids had a pretty happy childhood and were all very close to each other. The family took vacations every summer and each kid got to chose from a plethora of activities as to what they wanted to do for their summer and after school programs. Marina started taking gymnastics classes when she was seven and not wanting to be separated from his twin Sam asked to start taking them too. Sam was really good at gymnastics and started winning events when he was ten years old. He also started taking drum lessons when he was seven.

Every time one of the children turned ten it was time to send that child off to CCI and the children who were left behind at home felt anxious and sad that they were not attending CCI yet. Sam was always worried that notification of his acceptance at CCI would never come and when it arrived at the same time as Marina's he was incredibly relived. Sam always fit in at CCI and was almost sad to leave the school for vacations even though he did love to hang out with his family. During summer vacation Felix gave Sam guitar lessons on his acoustic guitar.

CCI had always been a good place for Sam but once he was sorted into House Beauregard, he really blossomed. He tried out for the cheerleading team and made it, which is not common for freshmen but his acrobatic skills stood out among the other cheerful Beauregard students.

During a family camping trip last year the entire family was attacked in the middle of the night by a werewolf. Tito, Felix, and Sam took the most damage as they were the three who were out in front, trying to defend the family. After a merciless fight with magic the werewolf retreated into the woods and the entire family went to the closest wizard healing hospital. Felix died the next morning. Tito and Sam both needed emergency surgeries and blood transfusions, they were released after a week. Both Tito and Sam retain the scars from that night, fortunately no one was bitten. Tito has since retired from Quodpot and works at the family herbology shop full time.

Sam returned to school feeling lost and hopeless but it was only a matter of hours before his old spirit kicked in and he started to feel better. He made many friends and was doing pretty well for a boy who just lost his brother and whose family was falling apart. He really missed his brother's presence in the school, sometimes walking past his brother's room assignment during the day. Things were getting better though, until his parents separated. The family was devastated by the loss. Stress mounted alongside guilt and anger causing painful fights and ultimately leading to Anna and Tito's trial separation. Sam's grades started to slip. He received heavy tutoring and his marks were just enough to squeak by. Tito has been living in an apartment just outside of New Orleans with his sister Lola for the past six months while Anna has been staying at the family's home. It's been hard on the kids during their vacations, having to be sent between the two homes. This past summer was the first time that the family did not gone on vacation together, it was a lot harder on Sam than he will admit.

Recently he has been trying to put together a pop punk band and having very little success. His friends join for one song and then drop out or forget to come to practice. His music is a constant source of venting for him, as he hasn't quite found the right way to have constructive conversations about his problems. He's still growing up and learning. He knows he needs to improve his grades. He wants to conquer his fears, tell his secrets, and move on from the mess that his life has become. His dream job right now is for him to become a musician. His back up plan is to become a potions or herbology professor.

In February Sam got his motorcycle license, he now can pick between driving his dad's old ford truck which is unfortunately two months younger than he is or the bike he saved up for and he and his dad worked on together.

his junior year was not all fun and games though. His two best friends, Bobby and AB both left school. Bobby was pulled by his mother because of the dangers at school and AB chose to leave after another student committed suicide. He's been pretty depressed about it and is looking forward to summer vacation so he can visit them at their homes.

Other Fun Things:
Amortentia smells like: Camp fires, candy corn, and oatmeal almond soap
He smells like: Coconut milk Organix shampoo and the river, during October he smells overwhelmingly like his favorite candy: candy corn and that is because he washes with Candy Corn scented body wash.
Sam's handwriting is: Aerofoil which can be found here It looks like this: Melchor Samuel David Ruiz

Plot things
*The werewolf who attacked the family is still out there, maybe coincides with Vinnie's story?