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PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: Hawky
Age: 21
AIM: hawkyelf
E-mail: hawkelf@wheatstate.com
Timezone: CMT (-6)
Experience: Six years in chat rooms, AIM, and livejournal (marvel_mansion, relativespace, trans_9, wilderlands, etc)


CHARACTER INFORMATION
Full Name: Victor Felix Haas
Nickname(s): Vic, Bambi (gratis his grandma, because he's all awkward limbs), Bulldog (gratis his various childhood hockey teams)
Hometown: Edina, Minnesota
Age and birthday: 16 - September 15, 1993
House and Year: Beauregard - 11th grade
Electives & Schedule: [schedule]
Wand: sturdy 14" mahogany wand with a bowtruckle bark core
Boggart: an over-large, shadowy, male figure
Patronus: Fisher cat; warm, fuzzy, but sharp when poked.
Animagus Form: Moose. They have so much in common.
Religious Affiliation: Methodist
Extracurricular activities: muggle sports

Family/Relationships
Parents:
- Elisabeth Ann Skjeggestad, Victor's mother, works on the line at the local SICO manufacturing plant and part-time as a waitress at TJ's of Edina, a family restaurant. She has very strong opinions on how men should treat women, these days, and with the help of her mother, has instilled them in Victor.
- Kenneth Philip Haas, Victor's father, has been out of the picture since Victor was three. He's a wizard and teaches herbology at the Badlands School for Witches and Wizards, where Victor and his sister would have typically attended. As a husband and father, he was overbearing and abusive. Victor has very vague memories of being scared of him.
Siblings: Mia Vera Haas, only a year older than Victor, is a senior in Rienzi. She and Victor are close, in a casual, comfortable sort of way. They watch each other's backs.
Extended Family: [tree]
- Grandma Alida Skjeggestad, a retired kindergarten teacher, lives with Victor's family and is currently 'double-dipping' as a first grade teacher to help the family's income. Her husband, Grandpa Karl, died shortly after Victor was born.
- Grandma and Grandpa Caroline and Gerolt Haas are not in contact with Victor or his mother.
- Uncle Joseph, Victor's mother's brother, is a children's minister at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, and seemingly permanently single. He's pretty low-key, and Victor likes to go to him for advice and looks up to him as the only real male role model back home. He also makes a mean barbeque.
Familiar: none
Sexuality: Gay, but he's pretty good at ignoring it.
Significant Others: One or two casual girlfriends who got tired of how respectful and nice he is. None right now.

Appearance
PB: Jesse Plemons (icons)

Detailed Description:
Victor is, on first impression, pretty darn big for his age. At sixteen years old and 6'2", Vic and puberty have pretty much already met, made out really awkwardly, and parted ways. Puberty still occasionally comes back to steal the odd inconvenient grope, and Victor's still trying to talk it into giving him decent facial hair, but other than that and some acne and mental/emotional immaturity, they've pretty much already divided their belongings and moved on.

The poor boy's size is, much like his freckles and hair color, inherited from his mother's side of the family. They're just all like that, always have been, and his mom promises that someday he'll get used to his elbows. Or so she prays. Victor has doubts. It always came in handy for hockey, though, even when he was little, and even though he can't really play much anymore he still works out. Weights are his good buddies.

Maybe it's a good thing that Victor got most of his genetics from her; it means that he's done growing, and the family doesn't have a lot of money to spend on constantly buying new clothes. They used that supply up really quick when Victor was growing. In the end, his style is simple by necessity; Vic's t-shirts, jeans, button-ups are largely of the Walmart variety, or from Goodwill or the Salvation Army. It's just how they've always done things, and even when buying things with his own money, Victor doesn't think to question the logic of it. The mall is a splurge.

Personality
Likes: ice hockey, the Minnesota Wild, green, rottweilers, winter, making things, casserole, goulash, ham, lifting weights, turkey, corn on the cob, fishing, baseball, pecan pie, mince meat pie, oyster stew, cheap beer, Indiana Jones, Young Indiana Jones, Rambo, Big Trouble in Little China, MASH (the movie), Sean Connery as James Bond, the Lord of the Rings movies, meatloaf, Meat Loaf, Korn, Nirvana, Nickelback, apples, potato salad, fried food, Toyota, Chevrolet, the Edina Hornets, snow, Arlo Guthrie
Dislikes: strawberries, dolls, Justin Timberlake, cucumbers, sissy gay boys, sissy straight boys, sissy men of any kind, sissies unless they are girls, Aquafina bottled water, all foreign cars but Toyota, the Hornets losing, the Calgary Flames, the Vancouver Canucks, lamps, doilies, those stupid Hummel figurines his grandma collects, girls getting pushed around, girls not being treated right, humidity, Lady Gaga, the Calgary Flames
Quirks:
- He has 'the long goodbye' down to an art form. It's best to just leave and not get him started.
- His grandma used to listen to A Prairie Home Companion late into the night on tape, and he would sneak into the hall to listen and fall asleep. It still reminds him hugely of home and he'll listen to it on his ipod when he's homesick.
- Victor forgets about his elbows. Not so much that they exist, simply about exactly how far away from his body they are and what they may be doing at any given time. And then he remembers and it is usually painful, embarrassing, or both.
- He thinks it's weird when people don't have a winter survival kit in their cars, with a blanket, candle, pocket knife, chocolate, and chains.
Secrets:
- He's gay. No one knows. No, seriously. This is so much of a secret as to almost not be a pertinent fact.
- He'd almost made enough money over the last summer break to buy a piece of junk truck, but his grandma took him aside and explained about the mortgage, so his money went there instead. His mom doesn't know, but his sister might. He hasn't told her, though.
- He wants a pet ferret. They can't afford one, though, and they smell and are useless. Also, they are rodents.
- He feels like he needs to make up for his dad.
- He's afraid of heights. Seriously, it's ridiculous, he's tall, but he hates them. Flying is even worse. It makes him feel like he's going to break the broom, or fall off.
What's in your character's pockets? [here] pocket knife, change, wallet, keys, string, bottle opener key chain
Strengths: physical strength, hockey, good with his hands, strong work ethic, amiable, easy-going, chivalrous, loyal, personally economical, generous
Weaknesses: somewhat easy to order around, plays rough, accidentally bullying, occasionally closed minded, easily provoked, keeps things bottled up, accepts blame, will sign up for more than he can handle, cooking
Strongest subject in school: Transfiguration
Weakest subject in school: Potions
One thing he/she can't live without: Victor doesn't own anything that he couldn't walk away from or sell if necessary.

Detailed personality:
Luckily, Victor's a hard worker and a pretty mellow fellow. It's a good thing, because as much as Victor was meant to be made out of apple pie, baseball hockey, and roast turkey on holidays, he isn't. He's gay. He doesn't mean to be, and it's not what Good Sons do, or what Good Men do. Good Men get married, settle down, treat women with Respect, Faithfulness, and Chivalry, work hard to do the best they can with what they have, never complain about their lot in life, give all they can to those that need it more, and find contentment in the small things.

Victor really, really wants to be a Good Man. It's what his mom expects from him, and what his grandma demands. They were burned hard by their experience with Victor's father, and they're not taking any chances that the apple stays anywhere close to that particular tree. Vic doesn't blame them in the slightest, though he barely remembers the man. He just wants his family to be happy, healthy, and comfortable. And proud of him. It's really important that his family be proud to call him theirs.

So, as mentioned before, it's lucky that he's a hard worker, a mellow fellow; most of being a Good Man comes pretty naturally to him. Most of what isn't natural has been engrained in him since he was a toddler to the point where he doesn't really think about it. You help out, especially women, you work hard, you don't say no to a person in need, and you stay clean and honest.

If he didn't drink, he'd be perfect. Well, besides the 'gay' thing. The gay thing, however, is easier to ignore than the drinking thing. Drinking makes Vic feel good, makes him forget how tense things can be at home, how tight money is, how far he is from Minnesota's frozen lakes, that thing his sister said yesterday, and those niggling thoughts about Steve's ass in those jeans the last time he saw him.

Compared to drinking, the gay isn't even worth mulling over. Which is good, because he never has (except when he has). Everyone, he figures, has gotten a bit grabby with a friend, done a thing or two that never get discussed or certainly not thought of later. That's normal. That doesn't make a person gay. Good Men aren't gay, and Victor wants to be a Good Man. So, naturally, he isn't gay. It seems like a logical decision to him.

So really, Victor's just that guy. Not That Guy, but the one that's just kind of always there. He's good if you need help, or if you want a friend, or something off a tall shelf. People don't always remember how they met Vic, or how long they've known him. He's just there. And if sometimes his opinions seem to be a bit conservative - as they are - or boorish and uncouth - as they can be - or he gets a little rough in his play, well. That's just Victor. He means well, makes a loyal, accommodating friend, and a quiet, patient enemy.

Personal History:
Elisabeth Skjeggestad left home at eighteen to find her way in the world, absolutely sure that that way was not to be found in Edina, Minnesota, or any college. She made her way south, getting a job here and there to support herself. It took her until Kansas City to realize that south just wasn't her way, and then to Manhattan to realize that neither was west. Deciding that hey, maybe Canada was worth a shot, she headed north again.

In the end, she settled for Fargo, North Dakota. It was her kind of town, not too busy, but not too boring. She got a couple jobs, one as a waitress at Sammy's Pizza & Restaurant, and one in ticket sales at the Fargo Civic Center. It was on her walk to that first job every day that she'd see a certain guy. They used the same crosswalk, generally at the same time every day, and if he was a crazy hobo - he certainly dressed like one - well, at least he was nice enough.

They started talking, and so did Elisabeth Skjeggestad meet Kenneth Haas, her future husband. They got to chatting on a near daily basis, and then one day he showed up at Sammy's while she was working. It was weird, but kind of cute, and by this point she wasn't getting any younger. He kept coming back, and then he was living with her, and then she was pregnant, and then they were getting married

Then she learned that he wasn't actually homeless (or crazy), and that he was actually a wizarding professor at a school hidden in the Badlands. After she got done laughing until she nearly pissed herself, he took her to see and she... nearly pissed herself.

After that, things went okay, Mia was born, and if Kenneth got a little pushy, well, it was the school year, he was under stress. Not long after Mia was born, however, Elisabeth got pregnant again with Victor. Kenneth's temper went out the window, and shortly after Victor was born, he became physically abusive. Elisabeth gave up her job, and the next three years were hard ones spent with her and the kids hardly leaving the home. They even missed her father's funeral.

When Kenneth finally left, it was a mixed blessing. They were free, but couldn't afford to stay in their current living conditions. Without a job, Elisabeth was forced to take the kids back to Minnesota to live with her mom. Soon, a new life was being built. Elisabeth got a job, the kids got a babysitter who watched them plus ten others, and life got a certain semblance of normalcy. Elisabeth and her mother jived surprisingly well as a duo raising Victor and his sister, both absolutely adamant that both children knew how they deserved to be treated and, more importantly, how to treat other people.

As Victor got older it became increasingly clear that their expectations were especially high for him. The rest of his life was hockey, friends, and pretty normal, but money was tight at home and tensions could be high. He quickly learned to be a normal boy at his friends' houses, especially Steve's across the street, and in the mite hockey teams that he played in, and a quiet, eager, respectful little hard-worker at home. And that was how it went for a long time; hockey, school, home, and work, be it a paper route, washing cars, or bagging groceries.

Then they got the letter that Mia was magic, and the household kind of flew into a steel wall forged of panic. They did a lot of scouting around for different schools, as Elisabeth was still terrified of how far her husband's (they never actually divorced) influence reached within the wizarding school systems. Louisiana seemed like an almost reasonable distance to the women, and so that was where they sent her. It was tough on Victor, even though it was only one year and he was already pretty independent. At home, she provides the happy medium between the adults and Victor, and without her there were fewer mediators preventing Vic from running himself into the ground trying to please Mom and Grandma. He was glad to be able to join her the next year, though leaving behind Steve - who he was nigh inseparable from - and hockey sometimes felt like dying. You know, when he was feeling dramatic.

He adjusted pretty well, though, and still gets to see Steve and step on the ice when he's home, which is almost enough. He's learned that field and street hockey could both be worse, though he'll never play quodpot, and he's made a share of friends, even had a couple girlfriends here and there. He's not the best in classes, but he tries real hard and generally does at least okay. When he's at home, he picks up seasonal work at both of his mom's jobs (she has a deal with her managers), and tries to make money where he can during school too, be it in his side work for Aune or his low-hour part time job at the hardware store. A lot of it goes directly to his grandma, but that's fine. She and his mom have done a lot for Victor. When he's out of school he can work full time, maybe join the army or something, and work for the future.