#terrence flint

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Terrence Flint ✘ Ravenclaw ✘ Seventh Year ✘ FC: Sota Fukushi

Age: Seventeen Blood Status: Pure-blood Wand: Pine with phoenix tail feather

❝ “Oh I didn’t realize you were…” “What? Tall? Rugged? Handsome?” “Blind.” “You know, I always forget that one.” ❞

The only child of the once rich and influential pureblood family Flint, Terrence started out life in a safe a comfortable life. There was plenty of money and he was the apple of his parent’s eyes. From the minute he could talk and walk Terrence was becoming the perfect pureblood prince. But nothing good lasts forever and during a trip to the nearby city when Terrence was seven the family car was struck by another driver and spun out of control, crashing into a nearby building. Terrence’s father was killed on impact and both Terrence and his mother were severely injured. While they were rushed to the closest hospital by the time the witches and wizards of St. Mungo’s arrived it was too late to save his eye sight. How exactly Terrence lost his sight he has never bothered to learn, but when Terrence woke up in St. Mungo’s a few days later his world was dark. Despite the tragic loss of his sight both Terrence and his mother recovered in full, but there was nothing that could replace all they had lost. Without Marcus to lead the family and his mother utterly distraught with grief the family money slowly started to slip through their fingers. For the next few years nothing seemed to go right. Business deals went sour or fell through and the Flint family reputation started to flounder. Terrence’s mom was finding it hard to balance running the family business and helping her son adjust to a life without his sight. Those years were rough but when Terrence turned ten thing slowly started to even out and the family money stopped slipping away. The day Terrence set foot on the Hogwarts Express was the day he felt the heavy weight of his future settle on his shoulders. As the only heir to the family fortune, when he graduated it would be up to him to fix his family. Lost and afraid Terrence spent the next six years doing everything he could to not think about the future that lay ahead of him. How could someone like him restore his family to greatness? He could barely handle furniture changes let alone family finances. However, it was at Hogwarts that Terrence learned to spread his wings and fly. Smothered by his over protective mother Terrence found great freedom in being able to roam the halls as he pleased. Sure, he ran into his fair share of tables and suits of armor but Terrence was a fast learner and by his second year he’d mapped out a general floor plan of much of Hogwart’s hallways. He loved his mother, he really did, but her suffocating rules would not follow him to Hogwarts. Just because he was blind did not mean that he was incompetent or unable to function. Unwilling to let the people aroud him coddle him Terrence made it his personal goal to prove to the doubters that he could do what they could do, sometimes he just had to go about it in a different manner. While some of these quests were not successful Terrence doesn’t let on how disheartening it really is. If he can prove to the doubters that his blindness isn’t holding him back then maybe he’ll be able to prove to himself that he can lead his family to the glory they deserve. Terrence tends to be a very reserved sort of person. He doesn’t go out of his way to pull people to him, but rather he prefers they come to him. Even then though, it’s a hard feat to convince him to let them in. Terrence hides behind thick walls of dark humor and dry with, preferring to keep most people at bay. He’s not a cruel person by any means but he’s not the sort of guy who likes hanging out in the common room just to hang out and talk. Those that do wiggle their way in however find that behind all of his talk and bravado he’s really just scared. Terrence doesn’t want to view his disability as a hindrance to his every day life but there are days and moments Terrence just can’t find the light at the end of the tunnel. Terrence feels like his world is standing on shaky legs and every step forward only means to stutter steps back.

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Honest: Terrence has no qualms with telling people upfront that he doesn’t agree with them. A firm believer in harsh truth over merciful lie than anything else. He sees no reason as to why one wouldn’t tell the other the truth. Lying or telling half truths gets people no where. It’s about as useless as walking in circles to get somewhere.

Emphatic: Because Terrence cannot rely on facial expression of body language to pick up on emotional cues, he’s gotten exceedingly good at reading vocal cues and sounds. It’s not an exact science but Terrence has gotten pretty good at figuring out people’s emotions based on thier tone of voice and words.

Smart: After the accident Terrence’s mom kept him cooped up in the house for most of his life. With nothing to do once he became acclimated to his house he took to reading books his mom brought in for him to read. It took a while to learn the braille but by the time Terrence entered Hogwarts he’d read a great deal about every subject. Not everything, but it was easy for Terrence to tackle his class work day one.

Focused: When Terrence wants to learn something or get something he teds to zero in on that goal. He’ll branch out but his sole goal is to achieve that one goal. Until he can learn no more or he learns all he can Terrence stays very focused on the original goal.

Adaptable: Because Terrence can’t see he’s gotten very good at adapting how he goes about his life. Even when life throws him a curve ball he’s pretty quick about figuring a way around the problem. Nothing pleases him more than being able to adapt to a situation because it’s just one more way he can stick it to the people who can forget or don’t bother to notice that he can’t see.

Distant: Terrence doesn’t do very well in close relationships. It’s not that he doesn’t like them, he just doesn’t care to initiate them. Private by nature he tends to keep to himself. It’s easier that way. Keep people at an arm’s distance and he doesn’t have to worry about hurting their feelings too much or them hurting his.

Disorganized: Despite the fact being organized would make his life easier to keep track of Terrence can’t find it in him to stay organized. He’s tried, but it’s simply easier for him to leave ten minutes earlier than usual and use those ten minutes to locate his wand or his robes. Life is far too short to be meticulously organized, at least according to Terrence.

Envious: Terrence knows it’s a stupid notion, and knows that the people around him can’t really help it, but he has a tendency to get darkly jealous of those around him who can see. He’s good at keeping it in, but he doesn’t make it secret when the envy starts in.

Inhibited: While Terrence prides himself on his adaptability he is acutely aware of the fact that there are some things he simply cannot do. As much as it bothers Terrence to admit it his life is defined by his blindness. He is often on edge, trying to make sure he misses nothing. It is very hard for him to relax in any situation.

Pessimistic: The glass is half empty for Terrence, or at least, it has been ever since he lost his sight. With so many perceived hurdles to over come in his life it’s hard for Terrence to find the silver lining in most situations. For him it is better to look at things as if they won’t work rather than to look at things like they will work. For Terrence it is better to be surprised by the outcome rather than let down.

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// General Information //

Full Name: Terrence Michael Flint

Nicknames: None

Age: 17

Birthday: January 31

Occupation: Hogwarts Student (Ravenclaw)

Species: Human 

Gender: Cisgender

Orientation: Homosexual

// Background //

Hometown: London, England

Education: 7th Year Hogwarts Student

Pet(s): Declan (Dog)

Parent(s): Marcus Flint (Deceased) and Marie Rowle

Sibling(s): None

Significant Other: None

// Extras //

Title: The Anticipator

Virtue: Temperance

Sin: Envy

Jung Type: ISFP (Fi - Se - Ni - Te)

Song: “Do Better” - Say Anything [X]

Moral Alignment: Neutral Neutral

Head Canons: 

When Terrence started to buy books for school he was disappointed, if not angry, at the lack of text books available to him in Braille. Not only did he have to jump through hoops but he had to pay extra too. So over the years he’s developed a spell that does a pretty good job of converting printed text to Braille and then another spell for putting it all back. It’s not perfect yet but this spell has been a work of love for him since firs year and he’s deeply proud of how far it’s come.

Terrence fits the trope “Don’t You Dare Pity Me” very well. He hates when people pander to him like he is unable because he’s blind. He doesn’t want their pity. He can do what they do. Who are they to say he can’t? As far as Terrence is concerned anyone who thinks less of him is nothing.

Terrence’s wand wood is pine and his core is the tail feather of a Phoenix. 

While Terrence has accepted his blindness the only thing to come of it that Terrence actually enjoys is his seeing-eye dog Declan. While he leave Declan at home when he’s at Hogwarts he loves him dearly. The two are very close and work very well as a team.

Terrence has most of Hogwarts mapped out in his head. It’s not a perfect map but with the moving staircases it’s as good as it can get. It’s his road map to classes and places like the Great Hall and the Library. He tends to travel the same path at all times. He’s got a pattern down so he doesn’t get lost. It makes him predictable, but he hates getting lost and there is no way he can memorize the entirety of Hogwarts.

Terrence lost his sight when he was nine years old in a tragic car accident. His father was out trying to make a business deal with an affluent muggle family and in an effort to appear muggle brought his family to dinner in a car, which crashed two blocks away later that night. Killing Terrence’s father and rendering Terrence blind by the time wizarding doctor’s managed to reach them.

Of all of the things Terrence misses about being able to see it’s colors he misses the most. He enjoys when he reads beautiful descriptions of things or when people take time out of their day to describe what something looks like. Touch can only take you so far according to Terrence.

Terrence's boggart takes the shape of earmuffs which render his sense of hearing useless. Terrence's deepest fear is to lose his hearing, the one sense he relies most heavily on.

Terrence's mom is a mother hen. If he doesn't check in at least twice a week via owl post she'll ry and pay him a visit to make sure he's still alive. It drives Terrence nuts but he knows she does it because she loves him.

Very wary of all muggle styles of transportation Terrence hates riding the Hogwarts express. He does it because he mom asks him to and that's it.

Terrence was a hat stall. Not a very long one, but he wasn’t about to allow the hat to put him where it thought he’d fit best. I might be many years later but with a name like Flint attached to himself he didn’t want to be another lost cause Slytherin pureblood. While the hat wanted to put him there because it felt he was resourceful and driven in life, Terrence felt he belonged in Ravenclaw. The house where knowledge was held in high regard and he could start anew. Terrence doesn’t regret arguing it out with the hat at the slightest. He enjoys being a Ravenclaw ad he wouldn’t have it any other way.

// Notes //

Terrence is OPEN for plotting. Feel free to ask me questions about him and get to know more about him. Or just ask about plotting with him!

Terrence is a Next Generation Harry Potter character.

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"Oi. Get your own piece of furniture to sulk on, will you?"

"How did you know it was me?"

"Eva, I'm blind. Not mentally deficient. Besides, I never said I knew it was you."

Terrence Flint and Evangeline Wolpert, taken by Dem.