Vincent Pennyapple
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| Vincent Pennyapple | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 25 December 1992, 25 |
| City of Birth | Blackpool, England |
| Blood status | Pure-blood |
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| Gender | male |
| Hair Colour | Brown |
| Eye Colour | Brown |
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| Education | |
| School | Hogwarts |
| House | Slytherin |
| Class of | 2011 |
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| Playby | Guntars Asmanis |
| Waker | |
Vincent is simultaneously very much like and very different from the rest of his family... which seems a markedly Pennyapple characteristic. He can be quiet or engaging at the drop of a knut, and has a penchant for mastering new magic. While he is rather gifted in terms of wand talent, he is still looking for his path in life. Vincent flits between being a docile, pensive peacemaker and someone on the hunt for new, sometimes dangerous or questionable entertainment.
Physical Description
Vincent is tall, lean, lanky, olive-complexioned, and sometimes slouchy in that way that only teenage boys are.
Inheriting his father’s darker features, Vincent possesses slightly-curly, sometimes-unkept dark brown hair and rich, expressive brows. His eyes are murky and sharp, sometimes a bit intimidating, but they tend to light up with his smile.
A pleasant nose and unassuming ears balance the contours of his face, while his high cheeks, jawline, and pretty mouth only contribute to that instinctively “old money” air that his brother William, in particular, seems to exude.
Personality Description
The youngest of the Pennyapple brood, Vincent nevertheless acts like more of a buffer between the older two. Close with Atticus, and on vaguely civil terms with William, the teen is also something of a mediator when he has to be... not that Vincent enjoys such a role. Like Atticus, he can be pensive, and prone to bouts of seclusion when the mood strikes. But rather than get lost on a blank stretch of canvas (like Atticus), or take out his aggression on a broom (like William), Vincent prefers to read up on new Charms, generally of the vaguely-dodgy persuasion.
Despite this, and a knack for sarcasm, he is usually more mild-mannered than either brother. He has a low, lazy, echoing laugh, which is often accompanied by glances at the ground and hands in pockets. He likes to bump shoulders with strangers, and is a naturally curious, inquisitive young man.
Though he is not obsessed with making the best marks in his year, Vincent does well in school. He does not have to try particularly hard to earn good grades, being both a good writer and a great absorber of information. He can leisurely read something the night before class, and generally pull off decent marks. This said, he does like most of his subjects and willingly tackles most of the homework he’s assigned with a decent amount of passion. He is not much of a complainer when it comes to schoolwork, unless busywork is involved. Vincent cannot stand busywork. He believes an easy way out for professors. He is one of those odd children who will challenge the method to a professor’s madness at the least opportune moments.
Any good Slytherin will tell you that a Slytherin isn’t quite a Slytherin without that streak of slyness. It has a quality which, particularly given the identities of his older brothers, has not escaped Vincent. Though he is not a troublemaker in the maniacal sense, nor a bully running with a gang, he does have the habit of blurring lines in clearly-defined rules when he can find ways around them and reasons to break them. He has broken curfew and missed class on more than one occasion, but the latter is not an habitual occurrence.
Despite an abundance of ambition, Vincent isn’t quite sure at this moment what drives him.
History
The youngest Pennyapple, Vincent has looked up to his brothers from the start. Even if he is still technically finding his own little niche in the world, he values their opinions, talents, and natures. His earliest memory is stepping into William’s shadow when the older boy threatened to blame Atticus for an epic destruction of the family’s yuletide tree. (While it solved very little, William being an ambitious and envious oldest brother, and Atticus being... Atticus, it marked Vincent as the tagalong peacemaker, who, nevertheless always managed to find his own little bit of trouble).
Vincent was one of those smart children who, despite his inner intelligence, did not speak with frequency until the age of four, assuming his brothers could do all of the talking... even if one of them wasn’t always the most verbose of children, either.
Other childhood memories include William using him as a human drawing board in early displays of artistic talent which would later resonate more obviously in Atticus; hiding in the attic at the advice of a female cousin, who assured the child that terrifying old Father Christmas was coming to claim him, the little boy born on the winter holiday; a neighbor child falling through a patch of ice after trying to pull some ridiculous jumping stunt during which Vincent refused to be the prop (only his brothers could abuse him like that, thanks very much); and other such crazy, stereotypically naughty-and-curious-little-boy activities.
When William went away to school, Vincent was only six. It was at this time that the youngest Pennyapple grew much closer with Atticus, to whom he had arguably always been closest anyway. Vincent became slightly more talkative without two brothers around to do all of the bargaining, and he definitely began to prove to the people around him (Atticus excluded) that he could not be talked into just anything. In a streak of rebellion, he spent an entire night (alright, two-thirds of a night) camped out in the woods with his dog.
When Atticus went away, Vincent consoled himself with knowledge. His appetite for books became voracious. He would ignore the eye-rolls form sassy cousins, and absorb whatever text interested him. His ambitions soared, but in which direction, no one knew.
The sometimes-quiet, sometimes-charismatic, always-complex child was sorted into Slytherin like his brothers before him. He grew in Salazar’s house, having both a flourish for the traditional school system and for Slytherin sneakiness. There was a great comfort in having Atticus at school with him, and Vincent rarely pined for home. Hogwarts had much more to offer, he privately felt.
Now in his fifth year, Vincent is finding a curious balance between studiousness and exploration. His impending OWLs do not make him nervous about measured success, so much as they force him to ponder a post-Hogwarts life. The idea of Atticus graduating and moving on is also unsettling, particularly since his darkly creative older brother seems to have a strange turn over the summer past.
How Do You Fit Into Your House?
Vincent is determined and usually succeeds in achieving his goals, even when he does things in nontraditional ways. Like each of his brothers, he too has a sly streak that is most befitting Slytherin house.
