Wand: N/A

Physical Description:
Terry is lean, dark and - at about six foot on the dot - relatively tall. Only a barely perceptible sallowness indicates his vampiric nature. In spite of a naturally sullen countenance he has a wonderful and charismatic smile, the kind of smile you don't want to disappoint. The kind of a smile that knows what it means and means it often enough. Terry does so love to smile.

He carries himself with relaxed confidence, a bit like his joints are loose in their sockets. His wardrobe used to be quite colourful but lately he has taken to lounging around in black tie or the kind of clothes you would wear at a country club for unscrupulous step-uncles. Terry smells of sweet coconut and fresh limes, and an underlying hint of old jasmine.

Personality Description:
Some of his coven, quite rightly behind his back, like to say that Hooker is experiencing a kind of mid-life crisis. Or a mid-unlife crisis. They are not without their reasons.

He is a naturally theatrical and flamboyant man, full of colourful threats and salacious offers, but these things have begun to lose their allure in recent years. Terry tries to keep up the pretence of course: can't have them thinking he's gone soft or that he's contemplating becoming one of those hermit vampires who do nothing but read books for ten years straight. But it's easy to see for those who have known him long that he is less than enthused about the usual things.

On the whole, Terry is quite fond of humans. He doesn't place a high value on muggle life - or squibs really - but his attitude towards wizarding society is progressive enough. When necessary, he cooperates with the Ministry and encourages the coven to do the same as long as their 'business' is not affected. He's in this for the long game and he would prefer the Ministry's protection rather than antagonism.

Terry likes wizarding chess, sudoku, and knitting.

History:
Terrence Hooker was born on a ship docked in Glasgow in the late 1800s, to his sailor father and mother. They were both former plantation workers from the Caribbean, taken to a life on the sea. They gave up boats for good when their son was born and travelled down south to settle with extended family in the heart of London.

CHILDHOOD (1891 - 1902)
Life was not easy to begin with. His father travelled often - a junior salesmen for a moderate company that made newfangled wizarding gadgets - and his mother was a healer for hire. Terrence saw more of his cousins, as he shared his home with them and his uncle and aunt. They were close but Terrence, being the darkest and smallest, was often bullied.

HOGWARTS (1902 - 1910)
Terrence was sorted into the house of Gryffindor. He got on better with his housemates than he did with family, and was exceptional at extracurricular activities. In terms of academics he was fairly average. His friends were fond of him and could be counted on to have his back in a fight: they were a motley crew, made up of racial minorities and mischief makers. He graduated from school with NEWTs in Potions, Defences and Astronomy. His next stop was the Glasgow dockyard.

ON THE HIGH SEAS (1911 - 1938)
Though he would be hard-pressed to admit it at any point of his life, it's safe to say that Terry had put a lot of faith into the idea of fate and destiny when he travelled to the place of his birth in search of a vocation. His parents had been sailors and he was hungry to see the world, to see the methods by which they travelled and the sights they so often spoke of to him. On a chilly summer's morning, he boarded a wizarding trading ship in need of spare hands. They were smugglers, specialising in the transport of magical creatures (at the time, still largely misunderstood by wizarding society and definitely illegal to take abroad).

Three years on, after ascending to first mate, he instigated a mutiny and took over the ship for himself. He carried on with the business of smuggling, switching to more dangerous creatures and goods as trading laws continued to evolve over the years. Terrence was a little in love with the sea and he enjoyed its ever-changing lifestyle, never having to stay in one place or with one lover for very long. He was a good captain. Fair but ruthless and, as he grew older, joyous. By the time he was 47 years old, however, his captaincy had weathered four attempts of mutiny and one near-death at the hands of a rival smuggling group. He had married twice and been widowed twice, by two sister witches. His track record had taken him around the world - from Europe to the Caribbean and even to South East Asia (where he traded exclusively for the better half of a decade).

He wasn't yet tired when the second world war broke out.

THE TURNING (1939)
They were moored in Manchester when he met the vampire who would change the course of his life.  She turned out to be quite a young vampire - turned at thirty, only four years into her new life - but she was a familiar face to him. Terrence had killed her father, the captain who ship he had taken under mutiny. He was attacked on the docks, returning to his ship after a night of drinking. When he awoke, everything before that evening felt like an impenetrable haze; the haze of time, of distant memories.

LONDON (1940 - 1950)
Abandoned by the vampire who turned him, Terrence was discovered by a local coven in Manchester. A small group who had been tracking his turner, an outsider to their territories. They took him in and helped him to adjust to new realities, but Terry soon left the city for London. He journeyed to the great city for various reasons: final farewells to human friends, and also to take advantage of the war. It was easier for a young vampire to feed on muggle in a London that was under fire. Dead bodies were less suspicious and people half-expected their loved ones never to return. Some of this human friends shunned him and a select few were sympathetic to his cause. Terrence hated having to kill to live: he had done so as a smuggler but it was different here, and life on land was no agreeable to him in either living or unliving form.

GLASGOW - MANCHESTER (1950 - 1970)
In the years that followed, Terrence returned to Glasgow to find some ambition in life. There wasn't much available for a vampire with an attitude problem. He eventually joined a dining theatre in the city's red light district. It was run a coven of vampires who performed late into the night and served drinks; sometimes, they served other things. They gave him a sense of structure and belonging, and a touch of the theatrical. He travelled with them to other cities when they went on tour, often playing the role of bartender and guard. Hooker, as they had come to know him, was a good vampire to have in a tight spot. His experience in his human years had left him quick and deadly and not a little eager to fight.

Fearing suspicion by local wizarding society in Glasgow, the group moved to Manchester in the '60s. Terrence, reminded of his fall from humanity, did not take well to the move. He left the coven on amicable terms and travelled to London once more, settling for a room in the disreputable area of Camden Town.

LONDON (1970 - Present)

It was in the early '70s that Terry met Tristan Vaillancourt. The Frenchman was, like many vampires, old and ridiculous. But he was also charming and non-threatening. He was part of a society that campaigned for the rights of vampires. Terrence had never thought of his kind in that context; he had always been resigned to the role of being both More and Less than wizardkind. Tristan mellowed him in many ways, though it would be a lie to say that they had never come to fangs in a fight before.

Shortly before his friend left for Paris, Terry begun an enterprise known infamously now as the Camden Town Hookers. He drew from his work in Glasgow, setting up a legitimate bar in an area warded from muggle entry. After the first few months of regular business - he had attracted a few other vampires, all of them strays - Hooker started sending out word that they were open for wixes to give the vampire experience a try. There was a market, he knew. And they would come to the Hookers.

In 1990, Hooker realised that he had formed a coven without meaning to. Which is to say, he received a letter from Tristan asking how business was going and that he had heard "good things about your coven, trés charming". It was what he needed to officially identify as the coven's leader, immersing himself in the identity with a good deal of delight.

This was his ship, now.

Describe your job duties and how you go about them:
Hooker runs the Camden Town Hookers. His vampiric family are delegatedt o do many of the regular duties involved in taking care of a pub. Stocking it, cleaning, abiding by a particular health code. Ensuring they don't accidentally accept customers who would tell on them to the Ministry. He manages the accounts himself, of course, and has been known to man the bar.

It also falls to him to check on the members of the coven. They are generally free to do whatever they like but Hooker makes an effort to be interested in their affairs.

Elaborate on your expertise in your field:
Hooker has lived and worked with a similar coven/establishment since the '50s. He has also amassed a good deal of leader experience from his years captaining a smuggling vessel.

Sum up your character in one paragraph:
Terrence Hooker is coven leader of the Camden Town Hookers. He enjoys his work and the company of his coven. To humans, he might appear to be possession of a questionable moral code. Among vampires, he is well-aligned with coven morality and vampiric tradition. If you're squeamish about being fed on, Terry is not the man to approach - he likes his bloodbags bold and willing.

The Last Five Years...

Character History 2013 - 2017:
With the legalisation of consensual feeding, Camden Town Hookers has become a more established presence in the wizarding world. Its reputation has been far from pristine due to various rumours about past incidents[1] and so business has been steady but far from explosive. Particularly when other covens such as the Sunken Scoundrels, or restaurants like Wolf & Lamb, are more likely to attract cautious patrons.

Although competition is high, Terry has been happy to cultivate a small and loyal customer base. The coven has frequent regulars, and knows how to play up its seedy reputation for thrillseeking newcomers.

In his personal life, Hooker has taken to meeting and socialising with other coven leaders as a way of keeping up with the Vampire Rights movement. He is far from a public figure in the movement but he has felt the growing need for camaraderie within the species. The rise in unexpected vampire attacks[2] has underscored the importance of it.

Terry continues to play wizarding chess with his friend, Tristan Vaillancourt, and has taken up writing prose as a hobby. He is writing an autobiography.

1.	Stick Your Neck Out
2.	Concerning Vampires