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Is this a Primary or Secondary Character?: Secondary

Full Character Name: Garry Bruce
Character Birthday & Age: April 11th 1984, 25
City & Country of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Blood Purity: Halfblood
Alma Mater: Hogwarts

Cover Job (If any): Sometimes short order cook at the Lazy Kelpie/ Circus worker
Type of Criminal: Necromancer, Grave Robber
Allegiances / Loyalties / Political Faction: None

Have they committed any previous crimes?:
Yes
If yes, what were they and were they convicted?:
Garry is a compulsive grave robber. He just doesn’t feel right if at least once a month he’s gone into the boneyard and dug up a body. He’s done it countless times. He is also a skilled necromancer; he’s made many inferi in his day. He was caught in 2005 and sentenced to three years in Azkaban for the creation of inferi, as well as for the grave robbing.

What crimes might you commit in the future?  Discuss all possible:
Without any doubt Garry will continue to rob graves, and will also continue to create servants out of dead bodies using nefarious magic. It’s also likely given his mental state that he might start committing murders to get access to fresher bodies. Because he likes to steal any jewelry or tokens of their life that the corpses may be buried with, it stands to reason he would also steal from his living victims if he were to progress in that way. It’s also likely that he will continue to experiment with the Dark Arts.
Are you currently under pursuit by the Ministry of Magic?: No

Wand: 13 inches, yew with Dragon Heartstring core, brittle and knobby.

Physical Description:
Garry stands above most people at six foot three. While his actual weight fluctuates depending on if he bothers to eat anything in a given week, his physical shape always remains on the skin and bones side of skinny. Even before he ever went to Azkaban we was slightly emaciated looking. All over his skinny frame are a number of tattoos, some of them done at professional places like The Inkwell, others were done by friends by hand, others were done in Azkaban, including his number on the back of his neck.

Garry’s got a face that people either find attractive in an odd sort of way, or it just puts them off. His mouth is wide and his lips are thin. His cheeks are sunken, as are his weary hazel eyes. The bridge of his nose is long and thin, his nostrils are wide, and the tip pokes out quite a bit. His jaw, and face as a whole, is mostly sharp angles. Though he’s still quite young his face is host to a number of deep cut lines, especially around his eyes. His hair is dark brown, and he keeps his hair in a short high fade/mohawk combo. He’s usually quite bearded, though it grows in sort of raggedy.

Clothes are something that Garry never cared much about, outside of comfort. Robes tend to get in the way when one is digging, so he’s more likely to wear muggle clothes that compliment manual labor. Long sleeved thermals and work pants are common articles of clothing for him, usually with work boots. He’s been known to hang around in pajama pants when he doesn’t have any late night plans.   

Personality Description:
Garry is about as odd as they come. While he doesn’t strictly prefer solitude, he is very choosey about who he spends his time with. If they are alive that is, he’s much less choosey with the dead people who he is often around. Garry does however have one close friend/cohort that he trusts entirely. Even in his youth Garry had odd hobbies, things like collecting the bones of animals, or collecting newspaper articles on criminals. Garry has also never had the best hygiene. He’ll often go days on end without showering and upwards of a week without changing his clothes. The smell of fresh turned earth and rot tends to cling to him; he uses the old go to trick of dousing himself in cologne for covering this up. So the sickly sweet scent of flowers often follows him around.

Garry’s time in Azkaban didn’t seem to affect him too adversely. It’s hard to judge if his lack serious change in behavior was due to the lack of Dementors, or because he was remarkably strange going in. Garry, of course, also has odd eating habits. He will force down vegetables only when honest to goodness forced. Fruits he would die before eating. His diet consists nearly entirely of meat, with the occasional piece of bread.

When it comes to meeting new people, Garry is usually pretty quiet. This tendency has proven to be disquieting to most people he meets. He doesn’t really even seem to hate people, he just prefers them when they are dead and will do everything he says. Garry has a need to feel in control no matter what. If he ever starts to feel like he is losing control of a situation he will react violently. Garry also is a chronic abuser of illicit substances for a multitude of reasons, including because he finds it easier to deal with people in altered states of consciousness.   

History:
Garry was born on a crappy day in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a squib that chose to live amongst muggles. His mother was a regular muggle from a muggle family, save for her wizard brother. No one expected much from Garry. They all figured he’d grow up and maybe do something better than his bus driver father, but not much more. Growing up in Edinburgh was tough, even as a kid. He was from a primarily rough and tumble sort of neighborhood, and as such would often get in fights or just beat up. The latter often happened at home at the hands of his dad as well. Because of all of this Garry became more and more introverted. He started hanging out in graveyards, and as he got older the graveyards became the place he spent the majority of his time.

When Garry got his Hogwarts letter it was a shock to everyone. No one expected him to be a wizard. His father became more resentful of him, and his mother had to take him to do all of his shopping for school. While Garry was at Hogwarts he remained a reserved child. He didn’t make many friends, and people often took a disliking to the skinny, weird little Slytherin who might as well be a mudblood. When he was home during breaks it was often just as bad if not worse, his father was a cruel man who was genuinely jealous that his son was a wizard and he was just a lowly squib. The only reprieve he had was his mother who was a kind woman, but sadly not especially strong willed or brave.   

By the time he was in his third year the Second Wizarding War was in full swing. He was often brutalized by the likes of Alecto and Amycus Carrow, and other members of Slytherin house, on account of his nearly muggleborn status. He did however avoid going to Azkaban with many of the actual muggleborn students during Voldermort’s regime. By the time Voldermort was finally defeated, Garry had learned a valuable lesson. He did not like pureblood fundamentalists. He didn’t really like anyone a whole lot though to be fair, except his collection of animal skulls and bones. Garry went so far as to talk to the skulls in his collection, often more often than other students.

When Garry finally graduated Hogwarts it was a relief to him. His marks weren’t great, they were actually not even especially good, but they were passing. He was however, good at performing charms. He’d learned how to animate the bones of the animals that he’d collected, and practiced the charm as often as he could. After that he went home and lived with his parents again, this didn’t last very long though. Not a year after moving in back in Edinburgh, Garry’s mother passed away. While this was devastating to Garry enough on its own, it also meant that he had no wear to stay since his father kicked him out almost right afterward. To afford rent in a crappy rundown apartment that was barely bigger than a closet, Garry started to work afternoons and nights as a short order chef in a muggle bar.

Eventually Garry got lonely. He didn’t have any friends in his life. So he went and made some. It started out innocently enough, or so he thought. He’d go dig up an old corpse and bring it back to the gigantic basement of his apartment building. He’d take all the things of value off the corpse, selling the jewelry, and keeping the sentimental things in a shoe box under his bed. Then he’d enchant the corpse to move around a bit, that way he could pretend he was talking to it. So when he came home from work he always had friends to talk to. Eventually through research and trial and error, he became more competent at the Dark Arts he was practicing. After a couple of years he was skilled enough to create inferi. It was around this time that he forgot to reinforce an antimuggle barrier he’d enacted in the basement of the apartment building. Two muggle handymen were killed by the inferi. The Ministry acted quickly and dispatched the inferi and brought Garry into custody.

Garry was found guilty of practicing the Dark Arts and was almost sentenced to life in Azkaban. It was only because of a progressive behavioral health specialist in the Ministry that he got three years instead. It was decided that he created inferi because he couldn’t deal with normal people in everyday life; the specialist also insisted that he couldn’t deal with social situations because of the abuse he suffered during the Death Eaters’ control of Hogwarts. She went even further, saying that the muggles being killed wasn’t his intention or fault. Garry did have to do the three years in Azkaban for practicing the Dark Arts, but when he was let out he was given his wand back.

Since his release he’s been working as a part time short order chef at the Lazy Kelpie as part of his mandated employment. He’s also been known to follow different circuses as of late, sometimes being hired on for his ability to enchant skeletons to dance or perform tricks. Eventually he always drops out and makes his way back to the kitchen of the Kelpie though. He’s also finally out of the between house he had to stay in after his release. He now lives in a tiny apartment in Knockturn Alley, a tiny apartment that happens to have a large cellar with sewer access. 

Writing Sample:


Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Garry Bruce is odd to say the least. He likes the dead, a lot. He likes them more than the living in fact. He’s a compulsive grave robber and necromancer who did a bid in Azkaban for his awful hobby. He’s lanky and sort of dirty. He’s also a short order chef and part time circus performer.