Post by Professor Severus Snape on Apr 10, 2008 16:35:05 GMT 8
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Full Name:Severus
Nickname/s:None if you value any of your internal organs.
[Sev-Lily,Lad-Tobias,Self-styled The Half-blood Prince and The Prince.]
Age:37
Blood:Half-Blood
GenderMale
Loyalty:
Wand: 13" Dragon heartstring Ebony From Ollivander's
Marital Status Unmarried, single
Spouse:N/A
Children:N/A
Personality:
Severus, first and foremost, is bitter. He resents those who have had everytihng served up to them on a plate. Everything he has he had to work for. He is meticulous and domineering. However, he knows when it is prudent to feign servitude and submission. He is resourceful and logical. Being a Yorkshireman means that his practicality knows no bounds. He does not, like many fellow ex-slytherins, have many social skills. He will prefer sardonic comments sarcastic retorts and occassionally an assault on one's character. But that is all to gain respect and, if he cannot have it, Fear.
Severus inside houses a secret that makes every day worth living and at the same time, makes every food taste of nothing, every drink unable to quench, every ray of sunshine a cloud and every rose a thorn. Severus Loves Lily. Not a teenage lust, not a friendly fling. Severus loves her possessively as the child he was when he first met her. It is the perfect example of Severus' inability to discern the difference between Friendship and trust, and Love. He will never admit it but part of him wanted to smile when he heard the news that she was marrying her teenage sweetheart. She was happy. But part of him wanted to rip out both their throats for the betrayal and because he couldn't believe that she would be happy with him. He was the sortof man that his father had been. Severus saw no way of them having a relationship where she would not be hurt. He finds it hard emotionally to have heterosexual relationships because he feels like it is betraying Lily, cheating on her.
At school he wore his heart on his sleeve but now hardy anyone can recognise a heart anywhere, in or out of his body. He cahnged into exactly the kind of person today's wizarding society feared, a ruthless and cold man with a wand and the ability to kill. And Severus has Killed. He reckons that his soul must be the most shattered thing in existence, though of course the Dark Lord's soul is but dust now. Every kill he makes, every Dark thing he does, he does it all to stop the inner struggle. And because he no onger feels anything for the things. Their faces flash past in a green haze, they are unrecognisable as humans to him now.
Severus Snape is Mr. Enigma.
Likes [5+]:
+Potions
+Books
+inventing new spells of a dark nature or twist that shows his sense of humour.
+Being in control
+Lily Evans
+Dark arts [and their defence...]
+being able to trust unconditionally, Well he likes the idea anyway.
+Solice
+VENGEANCE
Dislikes [5+]:
+Himself, His looks, his personality, his life.
+Being called a coward
+A certain group of Gryffindors
+Being indebted to someone
+His father
+Helplessness
+People who are ignorant enough to compare Potions with Cooking.
+Showing too much emotion.
+A lot of other things
Strengths [5 only]:
+Logic and focus.
+Subtlety, inventiveness, resourcefulness, cunning and self-control. THe essentials of a good slytherin.
+Wit/sarcasm/Dark Humour
+Potions
+The Dark Arts and Duelling
Weaknesses [5+]:
-Slight weakness in the subject of COMC
-Hates being called a coward. Will lose control.
-Lily Evans and now the word 'Mudblood' Which he finds himself unable to use.
-Self-hate
-Blames himself
-Friendship
-A weakness that has been developing since fifth year for one Regulus Arcturus Black.
-Terry Pratchett books
-Detective novels
-Has problems smiling. Problems with the actual execution.
-Calculates everything
-His father
-small talk and social skills.
Values:
A redheaded Gryffindor
Meticulousness
Control of emotions
Intellect
Goals:
Respect. He wants respect.
To regain lily's friendship. at the very least.
REVENGE
Quirks:
A quick flick of the eyebrow. often. most usually disbelief,gloating or a challenge.
Always gestures with a knife if something is requested of him during potions. Strangely, this does not occur with the ladle. Which incidentally he stirs left-handed with.
When angry a vein will throb in his temple.
Also if displeased a nerve twitches at the side of his mouth.
He traces his lips with a finger when deep in thought.
Finds it hard to say 'nothing' in ordinary conversation and instead will use the nothern slang 'nowt'.[does not apply during lessons as he has rehearsed a lot of what he says. nowt only appears in small talk.]
Occasionally Spits.
Loses control if called a coward.
Smokes.
History:
Place of Birth: Yorkshire, near Hlaifax in a Muggle General Hospital
Nationality: English
Languages: English [dialects too], A little french, a little Eastern European. Latin.
Parents: Eileen Prince[Pureblood+deceased] Tobias Snape[muggle+deceased]
Siblings: none
Other Family Members: none on his father's side. Plenty on his pure-blood mother's but as her family ceased contact after she invited them to dinner at a muggle restaurant and brought Tobias, he does not know them.
Severus Tobias Snape was born in Yorkshire in an industrial area at a muggle hospital, to Tobias and Eileen Snape. Severus grew up, as one does, but he did not have a happy home life, He was abused verbally and neglected and his mother was beaten, posterior to her death he recieved the brunt of the drunkard's beatings and occassionally would return to hogwarts with bruises and cuts or healing bones that he would not discuss. At the age of seven Severus already was depressed and self-harming.
Severus thought that Hogwarts would be completely different and it was. during his first year Severus, who already had a huge repertoire of curses, was far too trusting as he discovered to his cost. He began to sober up and become a lot more distrustful. Slowly he made friends with a group of slytherins who had offerred him power, vengeance and respect, no-one would mock him again. He kept himself to himself, particularly his heritage. By the time he was fifteen he was well in with the slytherins and this displeased his other friend, Lily Evans. He thought that this was unfair of her, after all, what about Potter and Black and their little gang.
He felt his point proved when a near successful attempt on his life was made by Black.
{REMOVE IF NOT TO YOUR LIKING}
Severus Was saved by James potter though he doesn't remember it, in fact he remembers a bloody great Stag breaking three of his ribs and fracturing a fourth before dumping him outside the groundskeeper's hut Where he was apparently found, bleeding to death and was quickly taken to Madame pomfrey who managed to seal the cuts though they scarred and he now wears high collars whenever he is with esteemed peers. {end}
Severus' Friendship with Lily ended when he having suffered so much at home and at school was hung upside down and this was the last straw, Lily had stepped in before, but she couldn't help him at home and she hadn't helped him a lot of other occassions. So when she finally came to his aid Severus' anger was directed at her and in that one second of pressure, he said something that he would never say again, to anyone;"Mudblood". But he could not take back his slip of the tongue and Lily suddenly hated him. Severus constantly tried to apologise and every time he was told it was too late. Severus drifted away from everyone and became even moreof a recluse than ever before. Severus loss of friendship was the trigger for a serious suicidal depression. Severus generally keeps it in check as his wish for vengeance is greater than his wish for solice through death..
After his sixth year he was introduced to some, as wizarding society would put it, 'unsavoury Characters'. Though many were older than him, he got on well with them and attended many social gatherings. THrough some financial help of the Malfoy family, Severus took his Potions Mastery before returning to hogwarts for his last year.((<-REMOVE IF NOT TO YOUR LIKING->)) THough he no longer needed a Potions NEWT he still did his utmost in this particular subject. Severus still experiments with variations of potions and spells. He occassionally goes into a depression and self-harms or in some cases attempts suicide though he has not yet been successful.
Severus' Hatred of muggles grew ever stronger while his father ruled his life. In a moment of uncontolled magic, all that changed. At the hearing he claimed Self-defence and the muggle inquest 'found' liver failure and an aneurysm to be the cause of death. He felt also, that Dumbledore does not value him he calls the memory of the Shreiking Shack incident as proof to his claims. Everything was adding up...
When Severus Left hogwarts at the age of eighteen he was still unMarked but a year later he joined the ranks of the deatheaters after promises of respect and vengeance finally got through to him.It may also have been triggered by the marriage of two old School...of two ex-classmates...
At 21 Severus was disillusioned with the deatheater way of life and brutality. He did not know where to turn.
But then he discovered that a prophecy that he had relayed to the dark Lord was believed to contain Lily Evans. And so, fearing for her safety he went to Dumbledore. THere he sought redemption. HE was offered a place as Potions Professor and Head of Slytherin where he worked comfotable for thirteen years until the Dark Lord's return. Having given satisfactory answers to
the Dark Lord's questions he returned and Relayed his new information to the Headmaster. Two years later, the situation had grown to a catastrophic level and once more, there was enough doubt over Severus' loyalty that he was no longer able to discover plans until they were acted upon. Finally, a plan was made when it seemed Draco had been burdened with the task of killing Dumbledore and Severus was under an unbreakable vow to complete the task should Draco fail.The rest, as they say, was history....
Now returning as Potions master for a second time, Severus must keep his cover up everymoment of the day and even as he sleeps. Bella has never trusted him and now she is the Headmistress, Severus finds less and less opportunities to speak with Dumbledore the only person to know his true loyalty.
He dreads the final day of reckoning that must surely be coming...
RP Sample (min of 3 paragraphs): Severus slowly pulled off his jumper, here in the dungeon he was in his element. No potter to torment him, no Lily to haunt him. Just him and a gently simmering potion. He baegan to roll up his sleeves to the crook of his elbow and he donned an apron. He smoothed his hands over the front and felt so very in control. He walked over to a large storecupboard.
Running his fingers along the glass jars he selected carefully the ingredients he would need. You would never find this combination in a textbook.Severus pushed his hair back from his eyes and reached up for a jar of pickled murtlap growths. Returning to his seat he measured carefully the powdered octopus and counted out a number of small yellow leaves. He finely chopped them and scattered them into the bubbling liquid, slowly stirring it once clockwise and three times anticlockwise. It instantly turned blood red and gave off a foul rotting stench.
Wrinkling his nose Severus noted the change in his Battered book and picked up the jar of Murtlap growths and deftly twisting off the lid he sniffed in order to check they were still useful and fished one out with a long finger.Using his trusty potions knife he bagan to quickly slice it into slivers that was translucent. Though he did this rapidly, he did it extremely accurately. Severus slid them off the chopping board into the steaming cauldron. As he did so his fingers brushed the edge of the cauldron but fortunately his almost constant presence in the potions labs had caused him to develop calluses on his fingers and so he no longer felt the normally burning temperature of splashes of potion and cauldrons.
He glanced at the clock, he had precisely 4minutes and 42...41 seconds until the next phase. Lifting it off the wall he pulled it towards him and kept close watch. He pulled a book of logic puzzles out and a muggle ballpoint. Sighing he closed his eyes and a languid smile crossed his lips as he crossreferenced the numbers and began to create a picture in the grid. He wouldn't need a pencil, He couldn't make a mistake with pure reasoning.
THere was a click as someone unlocked the door and Severus' head snapped round focussing on the sound. He glared at the door as it was opened and then shut again after a wise decision by the opener. HE turned back to his cauldron and stood.He had 57 seconds to prepare for the next stage of His unique brand of Veritaserum...
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