Bowen Moore

[Bowen Moore]

BOWEN ARLO MOORE

Basics;;

FULL NAME: Bowen Moore
NICKNAME(S): Bowen, Bow (like Bo or Beau)
AGE/D.O.B.: 39, 03/07
Year: n/a
HOUSE: Ravenclaw
IDEOLOGY: Bowen doesn't really have an opinion on this specific topic. He believes in justice for all.
JOB: Professor of Divination, Xylomancy, and Arithmancy
WAND: hazel, fairy dust/kelpie hair core, 11 ⅓”
PLAYBY: Tyler Hynes

Personality;;

LIKES: abandoned buildings; rich history; classics; collecting (trinkets, mostly, from trips); traveling; background noise (it quiets out the visions); nature; danger; organized messes; flirting.
DISLIKES: card games; tutoring; feeling confined (his visions tend to do this); not knowing something when someone brings it up (languages, studies, books, etc); writing (mostly his penmanship); baking or cooking.
STRENGTHS: justice; honesty; love of learning; leadership; self-regulation; social intelligence.
WEAKNESSES: very particular; impatience; imprudent; likes to be alone; seeing.
AMORTENTIA: old books; something earthy he can’t really place; vanilla cake batter.
PATRONUS: polar bear; his mother was a skilled legillimens and occlumens. She taught him, among other things, to quiet his mind when things got too overwhelming, and the first time he managed a vision with a quiet mind is his best memory. That, and it was with his mother.
BOGGART: being used strictly for the Ministry’s purpose
MIRROR OF ERISED: to have peace in his mind.

Personal Life;;

NATIONALITY: Welsh
BIRTH-PLACE: Gwynedd
PARENTS: Arlo & Ailish Moore
SIBLINGS: n/a
HISTORY: Arlo and Ailish didn’t think they’d ever have children. Bowen had been an absolute accident after years of trying and unsuccessfully conceiving a child. And, oh, he was their pride and joy.

Raised in the Welsh countryside, Bowen spent a lot of time outside. His mother was a skilled herbalist and potioneer, and collected her ingredients seemingly in their own backyard. His father worked for the ministry, so he didn’t see him as often as he may have liked. He grew easily into sensitivity, empathy, and reading others with ease thanks to his mother, and could easily control his temperament and attitude to fit the situation. Perhaps it was a cover so people didn’t get to know the real Bowen - he always had been mysterious and people never really knew if he was being his genuine self. Except his mother, of course, who during the war ended up killed. A rogue spell, if you will. That’s what his father said.

But before that, before school, it was clear that Bowen wasn’t like other children. His mother picked up on him seemingly disassociating. Bowen remembered it like it was yesterday. He froze. He saw something that didn’t happen yet - his mother’s death. It scared him and he cried about it; his little sensitive soul didn’t understand. But his mother knew - seeing skipped three generations and it had latched its dirty hands onto her son. It was here that his mother worked with him to quiet the world. To focus. To control the vision so he could still keep himself in balance. Like Grindelwald, she would whisper. He was the only seer she knew who could manage to keep their consciousness. Who could remember all their predictions.

Bowen needed time to get to that point. But he could at least focus. His mother had also given him a basic understanding of legilimency as she was a skilled one - and when he got to Hogwarts, sorted into Ravenclaw…things got hard for him. He wasn’t a social butterfly and tended to stay in and read more often than not. He locked his mind out to try and keep from seeing visions of his classmates if he would bump them. After his third year he started to pick up on relationships - how they were key to growth and was able to make friends. He was easily the dad of the group, but he was a huge flirt…but he didn’t date. That much was too distracting.

The most frequent vision was the war, though, and it just…it just kept going back to his mother. Bowen tried to focus on his classes, spending most of his time in the tower with Professor Trelawney. She was the reason the ministry got their hands on him - she was the only person he felt like he could trust…but after the Ministry had their hands on him, he didn’t feel like they wanted him for his predictions so much as what he could tell them about the future of the wizarding world, the outcome of the elections, etc. Bowen eventually became able to control when he had visions, the ability to force them only due to the ministry. His next goal, if he retains the time to work on it, is to see into the past.

After Hogwarts, Bowen trained with Professor Trelawney, and when the work became too much for her he took over her position as Divination professor, covering the more advanced courses of xylomancy and arithmancy as well. He enjoyed it - he wasn’t the most social being, but he was a good teacher. He got along well with the staff, and while he would have preferred traveling, seeing the world…he felt safe in his tower where he’d spent so many years. During the summers he does make the move; every summer he spends living in a different country. And by now…by now he can control his being when he has a vision, and became a skilled legilimens, just like his mother…as if he needed any more reason to see into someone’s mind.

This lovely character is being played by ella! ella has been roleplaying for so many, and play hahaha on this site. ella lives in the central time zone, and you can reach them by pm ella or discord

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