Last Prompt
Wer bist du jetzt?
Name: Adelor Emmerich Graf
* Reason or meaning of name? Adel meaning noble and being the wish his parents put him and his siblings into the cradle. Emmerich being his grandfather’s name. Graf meaning count, which probably leads back to his family’s roots.
Nickname: Lor, L’Or or Lore
* How’d they get it?: Lor to keep it short and less confusable with his siblings, Lore by Irmin. L’Or means gold in French but he doesn’t use it anymore.
Home: His family’s estate in Munich
*how do they feel about it? He likes the place, actually, but at the moment it’s connected with too many lies and sadness, so he can’t return.
*future home? A small hotel apartment in Paris
Abilities:
Physical strength: Low
Magical strength: Mediocre
Other skills: Can control water quite well, also heal with it. Other than that, he’s also very god at reading people.
Relationships:
Are they a virgin?: No.
Have they been in love?: Yes, plenty of times.
Do they want to get married?: He’s still not sure whether he wants to be the spoiling grandpa or the odd uncle, but I think he’ll be happy in both cases. He’ll find a way, and anyway, all he doesn’t want to be is being alone.
Are they in love right now?: Yes, very very much so.
Relationships:
Best friend: Irmin Von Sachs
Good friend: Hiltwin Schaefer, but possibly the entire Quidditch team, and possibly also the whole of Haus Bronze
Favourites:
Place
*at Schluchtenburg? The girl’s cabin in Haus Bronze, definitely, but also the river and his new Tree Buddy.
*at home? Perhaps the river too, but he’d not really consider it his favourite place.
*in the whole world? Paris. He’ll be very happy there, even if primarily because he will et himself be happy there.
Physical characteristics:
Hair cut: He’s letting his curls grow out again, the white blond will soon disappear.
Mannerisms: Always looks a people a little too closely, a little too long, rolls his lips in when he’s thinking, tugs on people’s sleeves when he wants them to be closer, to be kinder, to be happier.
Style: Very, very fashionable. Probably so fashionable that only true fashionistas can recognise it as such. He’ll completely stop wearing Wizard clothes once in Paris.
Usual Body Posture: Always looking a bit curious about everything. Ducks his head when feeling uncomfortable.
Confidence: Growing with every day.
Goals:
Short-term goals for next year: Travel with Tyl, move to Paris, figure himself out, be happy.
Long-term goals in life: He definitely wants to find a way to stay with Tyl. Whether that is by running away with him, or coming back to Germany and back to the life he is supposed to lead, he doesn’t know yet. He is also considering to turn the joke about marrying Annika Herrlich into reality, but refuses to do so if Annika is not on board. He has yet to meet her and is worried she thinks he wants to take her brother away from her. But either way, in the end he wants to be happy and free.
Opinions:
On love? The most beautiful thing in the world.
On politics? He’s getting more and more political, but he’s still very clumsy in all of it, and also quite he idealist, so he can get very frustrated when people think too rationally.
On Muggles? He wants to hide amongst them and become one of them, so he definitely doesn’t mind them.
On Squibs? Doesn’t mind them, but also hardly knows anything about them.
On differences such as sexuality or race or religions? Adores diversity as it makes life more colourful.
How do they deal with
anger? Crying, then taking a step back to cool down.
sadness? Crying, then spending time with Tyl to heal.
change? Crying, then adjusting.
I think Adelor is the character that changed the most.
Short-term goals for this year: He hopes to get his life back.
is the core of it all.
Adelor was an unhappy, unsatisfied, discontent child, who preferred sulking and putting the blame on everyone and everything around him. His anger, his sadness, his Falling, his lack of friends? Not his fault. Theirs. He wanted nothing more but to get back to how things were and return to being the person he used to be.
But suddenly he found himself caught in between people who did not like how he used to be, and people who did not like who he was now, and probably for the first time ever, he had to question himself. Question how he acted, talked, thought, felt. And when someone questions, answers usually follow.
Now, it is not to say that all answers he received were some he wanted to hear. On the contrary; from learning his mother had killed herself, over learning who he loved, to learning that gold is nothing but a metal and can buy you friends, yes, but never warmth. None of this was something he had been ready to hear. So of course he struggled, of course he started doubting everything, including himself, but it is within truth that one can find security and reassurance, find oneself. Thus this became Adelor’s new ambition.
Not to revert, but to find the core of himself, of others, and of life in general. Lies and masks and facades became uninteresting to him, as the truth beneath it all was so much more real, so much more palpable, so much more beautiful.
Of course, maybe it’s not easier to live like that, but he’s happy right now, and free, and he knows that it’s all worth it. Because at least it’s real.