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Full Character Name: Pentameter Picasso Puddifoot

Character Birthday & Age: February 22, 1990 - 22

City & Country of Birth: London, England

Blood Puriry: Halfblood

Alma Mater: Hogwarts - Hufflepuff House - Class of 2008

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Job

Unspeakable, Love Chamber

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Wand

12 inches, Pink Ivory wood, with a veela hair core. Bendy.

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Physical Description

Tam is tall and skinny. He stands at a respectable 6 foot, four inches, and as he is fond of wearing heels, he often towers above those around him. He is thin, but toned, and keeps a strict exercise routine to ensure he remains fit and attractive.

He has piercing, blue/green eyes that seem to peer directly into one's soul. His nose is thin, but when upset his nostrils flare and it seems as if his nose grows to disproportionate sizes. His lips are puckered, pink, and highly kissable and though his ears are pretty large, they're covered by his hair so no one can really tell. He is a naturally hairy bloke and has a perpetual five o'clock shadow. This is doubly true because his skin is too sensitive for traditional razors.

Pentameter's hair is a chocolaty brown, and while it looks tousled and unkempt, it's actually meticulously styled and he's happy to curse anyone foolish enough to attempt to touch it. His eyebrows are sculpted and his skin is both tan and covered in tats.

He doesn't give a flying fairy fart about social norms and is just as likely to dress for the day in a couture evening gown as a pair of jeans. He enjoys looking beautiful and has an obsession for attractive heels, but he keeps a pair of dragonhide boots in his office for use around the Department of Mysteries.

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Personality Description

Overall, Pentameter is a pretty decent guy. His charm and charisma normally create quite the first impression on people, and he's very easy to talk to. He comes off as quite bubbly and eager and he tries to make friends with everyone. He is always down for a night on the town, but can be just as content spending an afternoon spent on a blanket in front of the fire. He loves his friends more than anything else in the world and tends to mother them, regardless of age, sex, or any other discriminating factor. He is incredibly loyal and would both kill and die for those he cares for (hopefully kill, because he's terrified of death).

He is vain, and a bit of a gossip, and when it comes right down to it he's a whole lot more judgmental than he lets on and that sometimes hurts people. He's a terrible liar and and an even worse flirt - sadly he's addicted to both. He loves surprises and spontaneity, but he craves routine and discipline. He says that he wants a family, that he'd like to settle down and get married and have the whole damn package, but he's so scared of commitment he won't sign more than a three month lease.

Tam is an incredibly passionate person, and very emotional, but he sometimes has issues communicating what he wants to say. He becomes so overwhelmed by his feelings that he loses the ability to articulate meaning. He's extremely hardworking when he's passionate about something and could definitely be described as ambitious.

Sometimes he parties much too hard. He spends most days hungover and almost every night drunk. He's addicted to elf-made wine mixed with Amortentia. Though the Puddifoot curse against using non-love related magic seemed to skip over him, he feels most comfortable with potions and finds non-verbal magic impossible to cast. 

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History

Though Parker Puddifoot eventually married his Hogwarts sweetheart, there was a time right after he graduated Hogwarts when the poet strongly considered marriage to a veela he'd come to know in France. The two had one child together, Pentameter, and though he was everything the couple had desired, a baby is not always enough to save a relationship. Parker and the infant Pentameter stayed in London, while Gabrielle returned to Paris. 

Eventually Parker married Mercury and they had Parody, Poem, and Prose and Tam was just a normal big brother with a dad and two mums. His relationship with his biological mother wasn't strained, though she lived far away and wasn't exactly maternal, Pentameter understood that those simply weren't traits often found in veela. He got all his maternal needs with Mercury, who treated him no differently than she did the three children she bore.

He was accepted into Hogwarts and sorted into Hufflepuff House, which wasn't much surprise (almost every Puddifoot in history had been sorted into Hufflepuff). What was a surprise, and a happy one, was that Pentameter didn't seem to have any problem performing the spells tasked for him to learn. He was the first person born into the Puddifoot family in recent memory who didn't struggle with most magics. For others in his family, enamored enchantments and love potions were about the extent of their magical potential, but at those they oftentimes excelled. Tam, however, was a perfectly average student.

Tam excelled in Potions and would have done much better in Herbology had there been less dirt, but managed to pass all of his OWLs. He struggled in his NEWT years, mainly due to the fact that he finds non-verbal spells impossible to perform. Advanced, complex magics are no problem for him, but he's unable to even float a feather across the room without muttering the incantation. He was made Prefect in his Fifth year but was not named Head Student in his Seventh.

After graduation Tam began training in the Department of Mysteries. He floated between the various sub-departments as he trained, so he is capable in most areas of the floor, but he gravitated naturally toward the ever-locked room, where the study of love was undertaken. Though Pentameter wasn't cursed with the Puddifoot magic block, he still had an unhealthy obsession for love, and after his training he began working in the Love Chamber full time.

Since becoming a fully trained Unspeakable, Pentameter has began to open up more, as much of an oxymoron as that might be to say. When his training was finally complete, he began to feel free to go out and let loose and he's now a regular patron at places like The Closet. He began sipping from the vat of Amortentia in the Love Chamber last year and has now begun to carry a flask full everywhere he goes that he likes to mix with expensive elf-made wine.

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Job Description

Pentameter is an Unspeakable, meaning he is an employee of the Department of Mysteries. He specialises in the study of love, but is trained in other sub-departments as well. He conducts experiments on the nature of love and submits reports for review. He reports directly to the Department Head and has quite a bit of flexibility in his chosen pursuits.

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Elaborate on your expertise in your field

Tam has been working for the Department of Mysteries since he graduated in 2008. He has worked in the Love Chamber almost exclusively since he finished his training in 2009. He is extremely gifted in potions and has unique skills in regards to love magic.

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Sum up your character in one paragraph

Pentameter is a loving guy who cares a little too much what others think of him. He's a caring and loyal friend, but he's also judgmental and shallow. He likes to overindulge in all things and has an addictive personality. He gets attached much too easily and can't keep his overflowing emotions in check. He's the type of person who loves love and just wants to see the world happy.

Character Name: Pentameter Puddifoot
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Character Age: 28
Character Occupation: Unspeakable

Character History 2013 - 2017:
In early 2013, Pandora Puddifoot, matriarch of the Puddifoot line, finally gave Pentameter one of the family's various properties: Lovehaus in Moonstone Mews. The spacious, five bedroom mews was far too much space for the bachelor Puddifoot, but the carriage house made the perfect location for him and Atticus Roark to work on unravelling the secrets of the Puddifoot Family Curse. Later that year, Atticus moved into the Lovehaus for reasons personal to the now-auror and to be closer to help with their studies. His only requirement was space for himself - and as Tam was very bad at personal boundaries, he quickly accepted to giving Roark his own 'brooding corner'. There was enough space for one, to be sure.

On Valentine's Day 2014, Tam went on a blind date with the auror Chadwick Blish. The two seemed to be a perfect match: Tam - loud, overbearing, so focused on the big picture that details slipped right past and Wicky - quiet, contemplative, so detail oriented they made little triangles out of the toilet tissue after every use. Their differences made them fit, somehow. Soon enough the two were an official item and for a while it was nauseating to be around Pentameter.

They eventually settled into a rhythm, as all couples do, and life continued on as normal. He found Atticus to be an excellent roommate, though their work on the Puddifoot issue had been put on hold while Atticus was training to become an auror and because they'd exhausted all their ideas. Tam continued his work on Level 9, keeping his focus in the Ever-Locked Room, but also branching out more, assisting the other sub-departments. His experience being thrown through a time loop had been traumatic, yes, but also invigorating and Tam found that while he couldn't understand some of the things the other departments studied, he could at the very least try.

By 2016, the golden couple had grown apart. There was nothing wrong with their relationship, Tam and Wicky just no longer fit. They split, amicably. Still, emotions don't always fit with logic, and Tam found himself growing irrationally irate. It was one thing for Tam to want to move on, but for Wicky not to fight for him? Did he think he could find someone better than Tam? Did he not know that Tam was the best thing that ever happened to that mediocre piece of human garbage? Anger lasted him a few weeks, then sadness hit. Why hadn't Wicky fought for him? Did he think he could find someone better? Had he already? After sadness came longing, and after longing came peace.

It was a misconception that they studied Love in the Ever-Locked Room. Yes, love was the focus, but what Tam and his colleagues truly studied was emotion. Like planets rounding the sun, emotion endlessly circled love - and like moons circled planets, feelings and intuition circled emotion. One couldn't study one without studying the others. After all, was any hate stronger than one born from love? Was love not terrifying, yet the safest feeling on the planet at the same time? Was love not exhilarating, pushing one to action, but also comforting and peaceful? So, after having his heart shattered and mended, Tam decided to spend a year in the field.

He put forth a proposal, he would travel to various places around the world and enmesh himself in their magical culture for a set period of time. He would study, not only the magic of the land, but the way emotion effects their magic. The places he would visit would be those that humans had already given emotion to: Rome - the city of glory, of conquest, war and victory, Las Vegas - the city of indulgence, of greed and lust, Jerusalem - for belief, for faith, for that feeling of intangibility, and he would end his year in Paris - city of love.

Pentameter returned from his travels in mid-2017 a changed man. Heart healed, he had a newfound understanding on emotional magic and a better understanding on how to recognize and handle his own emotions. He's spent the last few months getting reacquainted with his roommate, going on dates, and experimenting in the Ever-Locked Room.



Summary: In the past five years, Pentameter became a homeowner and gained a tenet and friend in the process. He had an incredible love, found happiness, and then let it go. He went on a trip of self-discovery and of learning, making him a better person and Unspeakable in the process.