Accepted! ~Elle

Your Nickname: Natalie
Have you read and do you agree to the Code of Conduct?: Yes
How did you find us and decide to write with us? Friend
If you have written other characters here: Yes
If Yes, list them all: Dazmond Wiedman, Dominik Skye Wiedman, and Kronos here as a secondary
Is this a Primary or Secondary Character?: Primary

Full Character Name: Kronos 'Hoppus' Malvivicus, nee Neil Gordon Fergusson
Character Birthday & Age: January 13, 1920 -- 89 years old
City & Country of Birth: Helmsdale, Scotland
Blood Purity: Muggleborn
Alma Mater: Hogwarts, Slytherin House

Cover Job (If any):
Type of Criminal: Crime Boss
Allegiances / Loyalties / Political Faction: Kronos Malvivicus

Have they committed any previous crimes?: Yes
If yes, what were they and were they convicted?: Murder, kidnapping, robbery, torture, forgery, fraud, bribery, counterfeiting, repeated violation of the Wizard's Statute of Secrecy, assassination, infiltration of the Ministry of Magic, illegal wand trade, trafficking in cursed artifacts, trafficking in stolen objects from the Department of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts, trafficking in dangerous XXXXX magical creatures and their body parts (most notably now of Runespoors), trafficking in illegal potions ingredients, trafficking in dragon eggs and various other banned goods, trafficking of drugs, robbery of Muggle banks in six foreign countries, heists, being the true architect of the Great Train Robbery of 1963, repeated use of the unforgivable curses and other strictly prohibited dark magics, use of unregistered wands, corruption of Ministry officials, corruption of minors, arson, harassment, art theft, stalking, grand larceny, willynilly obliviation, Muggle-baiting, trespassing, intimidating witnesses, intimidating victims, unregulated traffic by broom, unregulated traffic by floo, unregulated traffic by portkey, game fixing (of Quidditch matches and horse races), assuming false identities, aggravated crimes against Muggles and... disorderly conduct.

No convictions to date.  Kronos has evaded capture for over seventy years now.  Although the legendary name of Kronos Malvivicus has come up in hundreds of cases since 1939, witnesses who speak his name either mysteriously disappear or are taken to be imbeciles who refuse to account for their own crimes.  Part of this is thanks to the fact that most Ministrations over the decades have merely scoffed when criminals take the oft-tread route of feeding his name during the peak of a hot interrogation.  Kronos has long been considered a legend and nothing more, so when his alias has been mentioned over the years, about half the time Aurors and law enforcement officials can't help but roll their eyes -- the most-used and most ridiculous excuse in the books being "Kronos Malvivicus told me to do it."

What crimes might you commit in the future?  Discuss all possible: Anything and everything that will get him what he wants of course.  Currently on his agenda (circa December - January, 2008-09) is the assassination of several famous and talented people in the Wizarding world (NPCs, of course) and the subsequent collection of various body parts to be used in a dark magics operation meant to give him greater strength and youthful restoration (in ability, not in looks) -- which may or may not be successful, will probably bring consequences, and will not be overwhelmingly gory in description. 

He will likely continue to murder, stalk, smuggle, steal, corrupt, infiltrate, kidnap, torture, bribe, forge false documents, commit fraud, train armies of hairless kittens, threaten, intimidate, counterfeit, execute dark magics, train schoolchildren in the execution of dark magics (as part of his commitment to community service), creep around in the shadows and seduce younger men with roses and gold.  You know, the usual. 

He's almost 89 now, so he's starting to mellow; the large heists and bank robberies are probably behind him and, having his wealth, he will probably scale back to ordinary operations and the occasional pet project that sparks his fancy.  Like his prodigy, Sasha Schlagenweit.  Or his missing alchemist who he's been watching like a hawk, Dazmond Wiedman.  Who knows, maybe we'll even see a turf war with Richard Burke.  But, always, always, kittens, rainbows, glitter, and good music.
Are you currently under pursuit by the Ministry of Magic?: Yes

Wand: Inflexible Padauk wood with a bent shaft, 13" in length, with a core of rare Chimaera scales.  This is his sixth wand, and it is unregistered.  I say sixth, but that is not counting the dozens of wands whose allegiances he has won during duels.  Those are on display in one of his offices.  He doesn't use them for anything other than intimidating his visitors.

Quote from: http://www.mugglewandmaker.com/2009/07/newt-wizards-only-padauk-chaosmus.html
These wizard wands are hand-turned from solid Padauk, with styling and design intended to reign in the more chaotic metaphysical properties of the wood. Wandlore says that padauk is a powerful but sometimes chaotic wood, its energy constantly changing, randomly fluctuating. This is probably why Professor Dumbledore banned Padauk wands for students who haven't yet passed their N.E.W.T. wizarding exams. Not to be underestimated, but in the hands of an experienced wizard, these wands have a lot of potential.

Colour: Example
Chimaera Scale: Rare and extremely Powerful. 
Inflexible: Hexes and Curses. Willful disposition and doesn't back down.
Bent Shaft: Quirky and Entertaining.

Physical Description: His skin is soft and smooth, his heart is very hairy, and he is not unknown to wear coronets.

His hair, having once been a fierce and fiery red true to his Scottish roots, is now entirely white with the stray strand of errant gray.  It frames the sides of his head as well as the back, but he has -- since a rather young age -- been plagued by a rapidly receding hairline.  Sometimes his hair sticks out in two points on the sides of his head, giving him a strange, slightly crazed look. 

Kronos is five feet and eleven and a half inches tall.  He's pretty slim but a little tubby, and with a little pot-belly from his love of sweets and decadent feasts.  He is in fairly good shape for his age, although with his bad left knee he often walks with a limp and utilizes for this reason any of a great number of fancy canes to get around. 

Kronos is a somewhat dainty, sensuous man who takes frequent bubble baths and knows everything there is to know about skin-care routines and the subtlety of perfumes and a light layer of make up to accent his rosy cheeks and faint complexion.  He is never caught in anything but the most superior of embellishments. 

Kronos has expressive, beady, honey-brown eyes and he knows how to use them to his advantage; those and his somewhat phallic nose, thin curving lips and dazzling white teeth cannot be formed into any expression without being grossly disconcerting or almost frighteningly enthusiastic.  His cold stare can ruin men just as easily as his curiously sultry voice and dubiously shy eyes can seduce them into his private chambers.  If you say something he doesn't like, he can stare you into oblivion until you figure it's best to change your mind.  Even his smile can seem disturbingly demonic, almost like a dastardly hyena.

He goes nowhere without his expensive pendants, pins, rings, fine gem rosettes, silk handkerchiefs, gold chains, et cetera, et cetera.  He commands respect with the way he holds himself, enveloped in an aura of greatness with a malefic, if not just downright unsettling countenance.  He's just got the look of someone who's been transformed by dark magic and yet never lost his love of Broadway.

Personality Description: Kronos is quirky and queer, which tends to come out as a dark sarcasm laced with empty witticisms and obscure pop-culture or historical references, most of which can't be followed.  He is emotionally unstable and has many, many regrets.  He holds grudges and guilt from decades past (seven to be exact), and will probably never let them go.  In a way self-loathing, in a way off his rocker, Kronos is just the type of guy to kill off his entire family and lover with dark magic and change his name to Kronos Malvivicus.  He does not understand the concept of love in the slightest, although he thinks he does better than most.

He is highly ambitious and a natural born leader (although he had to find this out the hard way -- being constantly picked on in his youth until the desire to control others and to be served emerged).  Kronos is power-hungry and decadent, and he loves young men.  He has an incredibly short temper, and he doesn't hesitate to release it.  He can seem like your crazy uncle or a slightly senile weirdo, but he has been known to "snap" easily.  Basically, you don't really want to catch him on a bad day.

Kronos thinks that he is royalty and this standpoint is evident in nearly all of his mannerisms and in pretty much everything that he does.  He speaks mostly in imperatives and expects to be obeyed by everyone and their mum.  He's very particular about what he likes and doesn't like and is used to ordering people around to do his dirty work (and everything else) for him, so he considers it everyone's duty to please him and satiate his whims and wishes.  Kronos is regal to a comic degree, while still having a youthful and somewhat sensuous undertone to him which is characterized by his flashy, eccentric suits and gaudy jewelry, his love of musicals and various classic musicians like Rosemary Clooney and Nat King Cole, and of course his taste for younger men and probably drag shows.

Kronos is often very difficult to follow in conversation as his mind moves quickly from one thing to the next.  His listeners and the people who don't know him well (and the only people who know him well are his long-term employees, which are few and far between due to his penchant for murdering them) are often thrown off by his colourful allusions, carefully veiled threats, and creepy foreknowledge of their own personal business.  He is sometimes taken to be a crazy old codger who has a few too many screws loose and a love for cats and old lullabies.  But it would be a mistake to take him for only this.  A mistake which could cost you your life.

History: This eccentric, 89 year old Wizard was born Neil Gordon Fergusson in Helmsdale, Sutherland, in the Scottish highlands in the year 1920.  He grew up desperately poor in a family of devout Catholic Muggle fishermen on the Helmsdale Harbor with his parents and eight siblings (being five brothers and three sisters).  He was the youngest of the lot and the only Wizard among his living relatives, so his childhood was wrought with curious magical episodes for which he was consistently disciplined.  He was by-and-large a disliked child because of this, and also due to his tendency to "act out" -- as his father might say -- like when he would dress in his sisters' clothing and prance round when he should have been doing chores (and there was always so much boring, laborious work to do).  His family did not respond well at all to his being a "Wizard" in later life, not to mention the fact that he was openly gay even in his youth.  Neil was different; he knew that from the start.  It was never okay to be different, though, and he was punished often for offenses caused by uncontrolled magic and unrestrained desires for something more. 

When Neil was introduced to his new life as a Wizard, it went straight to his head.  He fantasized that he was inherently different and worlds better than anyone he had ever known as a poor Muggle's child, and felt that he was finally going to inherit a special place in the world. His rage against his parents began to materialize.  Here they were -- punishing HIM for being magical when they were just mundane beings!  He was sorted into Slytherin for his sense of ambition and lack of concern for others, and he quickly took on Wizarding values.  Although he was muggleborn, he wanted nothing more than to erase that part of his life and completely reject the world that he came from.  In the Wizarding world, he could make anything out of himself that he wanted. 

His family having thoroughly rejected him at the age of eleven, Neil stayed the Summers with his best friend from Helmsdale, Douglas Mackay.  Douglas was a year older, and though he wasn't as blatantly eccentric as Neil, and not a Wizard, he loved to be in the lad's company more than anything.  Their relationship as children had been full of mischief and secrets and, even as a lad, Douglas was Neil's favourite person in all the world.  There was something devious and might we say romantic about their friendship.  During the Summers that they spent together, as they blossomed into teenagers, Neil and Douglas harvested something well beyond friendliness.  They would write letters to each other in a secret code across the year that was of their own fabrication, and Neil Gordon Fergusson was quite infatuated by the time of his sixth year when, he shudders, he received... The Letter. 

The Letter explained to him, in their oh so special code, how Douglas had met and fallen in love with a woman, and planned on marrying.  He could not, he said, maintain any sort of connection with Neil.  The missive was his good-bye, and a way to tell him that he was not welcome back for his last Summer.  During his last Summer then, Neil committed his first murder.  He killed the boy he loved to punish him for his dismal heartbreak.  And he kept the letter close, destroying evidence of the affair and spending the Summer after his sixth year homeless, wandering the hills of Scotland and surviving by way of burglary and wit.  Later he would frame and tie The Letter to himself by magic, so that it followed him around his homes as a constant reminder that trusting people is stupid and murdering them solves problems.

At Hogwarts, Neil became enamored with occult subjects and the Dark Arts early on.  He was attracted to purist propaganda, the mysterious power of the dark arts, and the fame and notoriety of many great Wizards.  He joined the dueling club and used blackmail to order other students around, amassing a gang for himself that wreaked havoc in the halls of Hogwarts in the 1930s.  In his last year of schooling, he was even approached by Tom Riddle, a lad six years his junior, for advice in the use of dark magics.  Reclusive and with a well-developed superiority complex, he was from his introduction to Wizarding society an eccentric curiosity with a distinct lack of heart.  But bless him, he was meticulous in his studies, and one of the best students of his class; he could have gone on to Auror training after, but that was just simply beneath him.  Instead, when he graduated, he dropped off the map entirely.

Shortly after graduating Hogwarts, Neil killed his entire family and changed his name to Kronos Malvivicus, destroying his former identity.  We might add the random trivia fact that much later in his sixties he interjected the middle name 'Hoppus' to account for the funny way he began to walk with his bad knee, often commented upon by children, but that would be a tangent.  In the following years, however, he amassed a fortune by a carefully calculated string of murders and bank robberies in the United States, France, Italy, and Switzerland, violating in the process several Wizarding decency laws as he preyed on clueless, inferior Muggles.  He acquired as many posh houses as he could across the British Isles with the millions of dollars he made, or rather stole, never relenting in his studies or his mischievous schemes. 

In his early years he was incredibly suave and dramatic with the intricacy of his projects, hiring both Wizards and Muggles to do his dirty work, though almost always favouring Wizards.  In his early forties he orchestrated the Great Train Robbery of 1963 in England for which several of his Muggle henchmen were caught but, as was planned, his primary and most-favored Kronie escaped to a non-extraditing nation with a large cut of the monies where he still owns a hotel.  In exchange, Kronos acquired more wealth and privileges in his heightened station, as well as the unbridled joy that comes with such faceless fame and the game-like gloriousness of evading the Authorities.

He watched Riddle's rise and the first and second wars from the shadows, laughing at his follies and weaknesses and sure he would be soon spent, despite his fervent quest for immortality.  If he was ever approached by Voldemort, he most assuredly didn't acquiesce.  But what is more likely is that Voldemort could not locate him or, simply presumed him dead. 

Kronos, nowadays, has several homes across the British Isles.  He also has a legion of lackies who will follow his every whim (affectionately referred to as his 'Kronies'), house-elves to wait on him hand and foot, and is always looking for more servants to lift him ever higher away from his humble beginnings.  He has continued to lead a life uncommon and to constantly acquire new pets who seem to take to him as if he were a magnet.  Kronos now has many heavily guarded mansions all across the British Isles, his main base of operations being on the Isle of Skye in the Outer Hebrides, specifically on the remote Strathaird peninsula.  He has long been a legendary but unidentified crime boss, thought to be operating in the UK, who is second on the Ministry of Magic's most wanted list. 

Now, however, he has been identified.  But he has a rabbit in his hat.

Writing Sample:

Sum up your character in one paragraph: Stay out of his way!  And do as he says!  Second on the Ministry's Most Wanted list and recently identified after a 72-year long murder spree, Kronos Malvivicus (as he calls himself) is a dainty, well-clad, creepy old man who is jolly strange fun when he's getting what he wants but bloody murderous when angered.  He has several henchmen called his 'Kronies' operating on the Black Market and beyond, and is always looking for new employees.  He is known to pay in ten pound bags of galleons, often and rather whimsically.  He is also known to murder his employees for putting one lump instead of two in his morning coffee.  If you are a young man of fine taste, you're on his watchlist; he may be scoping you out for use as his own personal Rimbaud.  Quirky and dangerous, Kronos is a wealthy Muggleborn Crime Boss with more than a few scores to settle and games to play.