Post by Nathan Dawson on May 29, 2008 12:12:57 GMT
and now we're grown up orphans
that never knew their names.
full name; Nathaniel Grant Dawson
nicknames; Nathan, Nate, Natty, Natalie, Natalou...he'll respond to pretty much anything
age; 33
house; Graduated Gryffindor
gender; Male
sexuality; Bisexual
blood; Pure
mirror mirror on the wall, have i got it?
i'm finding it's not easy to be perfect.
eye colour; Bright blue
hair colour; Naturally it's a mousy brown, but he's been dying it black since he was a teenager
height; 6'1"
other physical traits; He looks sort of out or proportion, with a wide thick chest and long thin limbs. He's quite muscular but not excessively. His face is not by any means conventional, as it's very narrow with sharply cut high cheekbones and a very strong nose. His eyes are almost permanently wide, as if he's always startled, and the colour of them is quite weak, so although he does possess the bright blue eyes that are typical to his family, they look as if they've faded into the whites of his eyes. He's always grinning, even if he's in insurmountable pain, it won't wipe the idiotic wild grin off his face. He would say that his hair is his best physical feature, and by best he means most interesting rather than most attractive. He's never brushed it in his life, and hates cutting it so it hangs in long scraggly tendrils all around his shoulders.
clothing style; Now, that really is hard to put a finger on. It varies greatly from day to day, and is always a great indicator of his mood. He's usually wearing skinny jeans in an array of colours from bright scarlet to lime green...and is definitely not a firm believer in co-ordinating his clothes because they often clash. He loves to wear bright colours, it's as if he thinks his demeanour doesn't draw enough attention, which it most definitely does. He has a grand total of two jackets that he wears regularly and both are very old and beaten dark leather, which is in stark contrast with the pristine loud clothes that he wears underneath. He's also usually got a selection of wrist bands and bracelets on because he likes the colours or the sounds that they make, and has been known to wear bottle cap necklaces simply because he says that style isn't dead.
what i really meant to say[/font][/blockquote]
is that i'm sorry for the way i am.
good traits;
Nathan is very light hearted and generally good natured. He's kind and generous and all the rest, but not to the point where it's annoyingly ingratiating, he's annoying in enough other ways to make up for it though. He's almost excessively friendly and loves talking to strangers and meeting new people. His sense of humour is in permanent overdrive, and he can take most any joke but he gives as good as he gets. He loves playing pranks and even witnessing pranks, and he doesn't mind being the victim if it's a particularly good one. Although he's not quite the sharpest tool in the shed, he's sort of a lovable moron and he doesn't really mind that he doesn't understand some of what's going on around him. Easy going and laid back, he doesn't get worked up about much and just takes life as it comes, unless he comes across something that he really can't deal with. Nate knows exactly who and what he is and doesn't see himself for anything more of less. He's comfortable in his own skin and honestly doesn't care what other people think of him.
flaws;
He has a short attention span and gets distracted very easily by anything, even if he finds the conversation he's having fascinating, there's still a high probability of him getting distracted. Also, there is the fact that he is quite stupid and unobservant which don't really work in his favour. He's very forgetful and has been known to forget the spelling of his own name if he's having one of his particularly scatterbrained days, and he forgets his birthday on a regular basis. It takes a lot of reminding beforehand for him to even be aware of it. He's very immature, outlandish, wild...just generally childish. He never really matured past age five for most of his life. In the past year and due to recent events, he has grown up a little bit though. When something bad happens or he gets shaken up, he can get a little broody and wrapped up in himself. He can be very angry, even now for no apparent reason. It always makes him furious to think back to his family and everything that happened when he was a young man, and as most of the people he knows now have no idea about any of this, these angry spells are unpredictable and inexplicable. He has a lot of trouble relating to people on a serious level. He's very good at interacting with others on a light and impersonal level, laughing, joking, pleasantries...but if conversation gets any deeper, he'll just not speak.
habits;
In his youth, Nathan was a heavy smoker and occasional substance abuser. He rarely touches anything anymore though, and if he does it's only the occasional cigarette when he's stressed or sad.
He's also been known to talk to himself, either muttering furiously under his breath or murmuring dreamily and incoherently to himself. It's impossible to get him to shut up, and even if by some miracle you manage to get him to stop talking to you, he'll just talk to himself, and he talks in his sleep as well.
He fidgets a lot, having a lot of trouble keeping still. And he loves to doodle on anything and everything, including furniture, walls, himself, other people, trees, public property, private property, food, and his personal favourite - toilet paper.
three words to sum up your character;
- Immature
- Wild
- Unpredictable
in our family portrait
we look pretty happy.
mother;
Rose Alexis [Speare] Dawson (deceased)
father;
Lyall Gabriel Dawson (deceased)
siblings;
Noah Kevin Dawson (twin - deceased)
Claire Malorie Dawson (deceased)
Jacqueline Robyn [Dawson] Lawrence (25)
cousins;
Kaleb Reese Parker (deceased)
Daniel Robert Tucker (deceased)
Destiny [Tucker] Waynes (39)
Bethany Jean [Owens] Abbott (39)
Keira Lauren [Owens] Greymond (deceased)
Lorelei Madison [Parker] Warren (deceased)
David Michael Owens (deceased)
Chase Terrance Parker (34)
Jack Alan Tucker (33)
Sally Amelia [Parker] Baxter (deceased)
Charles Keiran Owens (30)
Pierre Lucas Parker (deceased)
Madeline Jane Marie Speare (28)
other relatives;
In-Laws:
Jessica Hayden [Murphy] Parker (deceased)
Ruben Hugh Abbott (42)
Marcus Emmanuel Greymond (40)
Richard Joseph Waynes (40)
Henry Jason Warren (40)
Benjamin Peter Baxter (deceased)
Rose Josephine [Eden] Tucker (32)
Grace Valerie [Red] Owens (30)
Daniel Simon Lawrence (27)
Nieces and nephews:
Amanda Christine Abbott (20)
Jonathon Gavin Warren (deceased)
Kylie Gillian Baxter (deceased)
Daniel Spencer Waynes (16)
Wendy Nicole Waynes (16)
Anthony Charles Parker (deceased)
Emma Simone Greymond (deceased)
Tyler Sean Greymond (deceased)
Allison Hayden Parker (deceased)
Poppy Hunt (13)
Aaron Charles Matthew Hunt-Speare (deceased)
Alexander Rowan Gideon Hunt-Speare (10)
Nathan Jonathon Tucker (9)
David Owens (9)
Keira Owens (9)
Abigail Claire Hunt-Speare (3)
Faith Lorelei Tucker (2)
Rose Madeline Lawrence (newborn)
direct family;
Ex-wife:
Lauren Felicity [Kendal] Dawson
Children:
Noah Robert Dawson (6)
Claire Samantha Dawson (18 months)
it's in my past, it's in my path[/font][/blockquote]
and i can't go there.
place of birth; London
date of birth; May 30th
brief history;
He was born into and grew up in a very loving home. He's a few minutes older than his brother, which he finds - or found - dreadfully amuseing as Noah was always the way more mature one. He was ecstatic when his baby sisters were born and spent a lot of time dragging them around the house. When they grew up a little more and started to develope personalities, he particularly took his sister Jacqueline under his wing and they became as inseperable as himself and his twin who had a similar bond with Claire. They also all grew up surrounded by a huge amount of cousins in a happy and secure environment.
This didn't last as long as he'd have liked and very soon members of the family started dying. He kept this out of his head and pretended that it was just as if people were going on holiday. It really sunk in when his Dad went missing. It was a whole week before they found his body and it was the week where his mothers psyche got torn apart. In a brief fit of misery, he ended up going out to get drunk with his school friend and one of his closer cousins best friend, and made a very big mistake. He had no idea at all that Scott was a Death Eater, but by the end of the evening he'd signed up himself. When he'd sobered up again, he was horrified and instantly joined the Order to balance it out, keeping his accidental alleigance a secret from every other member of his family because he was frightened about what would happen if he admitted it to anyone.
Like most other young people his age, he planned to travel and see the world after graduation, but his mother grew very ill mentally at this point, so he and his twin decided that they had to put their lives on hold. Being the most sensible and capable of running a household, Noah moved back into the family home and began caring for his mother and two little sisters, whereas Nathan got a job at the ministry - something he'd always loathed the idea of - to bring in much needed money. They were careful to keep the situation from their cousins, aunts and uncles as they were determined to deal with it themselves. After a while, Nate's work as an auror took him all over the place and he felt a little better about the whole situation and really started to enjoy the work he did, much as he never thought he would. He started to get his life back on track.
When he returned home for a few brief months, he found that all of his cousins were around again. Surprised but - for the most part - happy, he gratefully became reinvolved in the life he left behind. That was until the cousins that were left started dying all over again. Noah was one of the first to go in an attack on the house that he was in at the time along with a few others. He fell apart at this point, trying desperately to cling to the last shreds of sanity. It was only a few weeks later when his sister Claire disappeared in the same manner as their father. They still haven't found her body, ten years later. Then both himself and his mother were judged unfit guardians and Jacqueline was taken away from them and into care. Before eventually, he was hanging around with his favourite cousin and best friend, Rory, when their other cousin Perry, took offense by their mere existence and killed them both.
Months and months later, he turned up again with a very strong case of amnesia, it was so severe that he didn't have the faintest idea who he was. He spent a haunted few weeks being bothered by a few people who claimed to be his family and friends but who he had no recollection of, and dreams of people that he didn't remember but was sure that he knew. His only solace was being able to return to the ministry every day as that was the one part of his life that he was sure of.
Eventually, news filtered through to his sister that he was alive, and she convinced her adopted parents to let her see him. She did, and after the initial first few seconds of panic where he didn't recognise her and she realised that he had no idea who she was, it all clicked into place and everything came back right up until the point where he was killed.
The next few months were pretty hard and he was frequently overtaken by fits of inexplicable depression or unexplainable bright moods that swamped him.
However, he got his life back on track once more and continued that way. His mother grew very sick and died, and the house was left to him but he sold it on and used some of the money to get a better appartment, and put the rest of it in his sister's vault in Gringott's for her when she graduated.
She did graduate, and eloped almost immediately afterwards which Nate wasn't happy about but let slide after he got used to his new brother-in-law and came to the conclusion that he was alright.
His only real enjoyment came out of his Auror work, which he worked tirelessly at. Being an auror is the only thing he's ever been able to do with such dedication after all.
And then he got a new neighbour. The auror in the cubicle next to him went missing and didn't come back, and it's new occupant took a particular dislike to Nathan. Nathan disliked her right back.
He thought Lauren was a stuck-up, arrogant, smartass, not that he was wrong. She thought that he was an immature idiot, not that she was wrong. And they passed a few months trading insults whenever one of them entered of left their cubicle or whenever one of them made a noise that they other picked up on.
It was only when Jackie came to see him during his lunch hour one day and pointed out under her breath that it was so obvious, that he even really took notice of Lauren as anything more than a nuisance.
They got together pretty soon after that, and their first child was born when Nathan was 26. He named his son after his twin brother, who he was always very close to.
When Noah was two, Nathan and Lauren got married and they spent a very happy few years together before the birth of their daughter, who was named after Nathan's sister.
When Claire was a couple of months old, Nathan and Lauren started to have arguments. Petty at first and meaningless, brought on by nothing at all. And then they got more personal and painful and far more loud to the point where they would both be unaware of Noah getting upset by his parents fighting.
Claire was six months old when her mother left. Nathan and Lauren had been having a particularly bad fight, and she left, never to return.
In the weeks that followed, they had no contact with her, until she finally wrote a letter about a month later to say that she'd been seeing someone else for a while and that was her life now.
Nathan's not technically divorced as they've had no further contact since, but they're definitely seperated. Now it's about a year later, and he's sort of adjusted to the role of single parent even if that's never what he envisioned for himself or his children.