Kinsey Bole sold his conscience to buy books (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} causticsoda) wrote,@ 2021-09-22 11:35:00 |
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000// you'll never see me fall from grace
Kinsey Bole
OOC INFO NAME/CDJ: Dee CHARACTER JOURNAL: causticsodaPB: William Beckett Basics FULL NAME: Kinsey Marin Rosier Bole NICKNAMES: Kin or Kins, if you must. Pleb. AGE: 18 BIRTHDAY: 16 September BLOOD STATUS: Don't be insulting. Pure. Family/Relationships PARENTS: MOTHER: Daciana Rosier, former Slytherin, socialite of the old school: she both volunteers on the board of St Mungos and is a past president and member in good standing of the ladies fellowship and charity society Sisters of Avalon (membership by invitation only).SIBLINGS: BROTHER/SISTER: Simon Radovan Bole, age 25, former Slytherin, Healer; the brothers are not at all close. In fact it's not too much of an exaggeration to say that Simon has broken with the family. Kinsey's view is that it's no one else's bloody business.EXTENDED FAMILY: Grandma Rosier was married to Evan Rosier, raised their children alone after he was killed by "that thug Mad-eye". She then practically raised Simon while Lucian and Daciana were in prison. She's a ferocious matriarch with an iron will. FRIENDS: Kinsey doesn't have friends, he has people whose company he can tolerate. It's a club more exlusive than Slughorn's, requiring blood, breeding, intelligence, and a lack of triviality. SEXUALITY: Somewhere between asexual and bisexual; Kinsey can barely converse with most people, let alone stick around long enough to get his end away, but reproductive equipment is the last of his concerns at that point. He will, of course, marry an appropriate woman when the time comes. SIGNIFICANT OTHER: He barely has insignificant others, but there's family expectation regarding his association with Piper Flint. Living Arrangements LOCATION: The Bole family home is just outside Canterbury in Kent. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Dorford Park is the sort of sprawling, elderly manor house that looks like it should be hosting croquet matches, hunting parties, balls. Really, it's too large for Kinsey, his parents, and the occasional unannounced visit from Uncle Martin, but looking after it is the house elves' job, not his. (Simon hates the house, and hasn't really lived there since he was 11.) CLASS: Old (if somewhat tarnished and diminished) money Education HOUSE/YEAR: Slytherin / 7th CLUBS/AFFILIATIONS: Chess club. Wouldn't go to Slughorn's simpering soirees even if his parents weren't too hot to touch. CLASSES: Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, Astronomy, Charms, Potions, Transfiguration. Pointedly does not do either History or DADA due to how they have been "watered down for those of hypocritical delicacy and impoverished blood". OWL SCORES: Ancient Runes (O), Arithmancy (E), Astronomy (O), Charms (E), DADA (A), Herbology (A), History (A), Potions (E), Transfiguration (E). Politics POLITICAL VIEWS: Right up the pointy end of the wedge of conservative politics: muggleborns are a drain on and a danger to magic society; most magical families have completely lost the appropriate pride in their heritage, as can be evidenced by interbreeding; magical creatures are dangerous and should be carefully regulated in appropriate subjugation; and Dark magic is merely misunderstood by those who are weak and frightened. Probably because they've been hanging about with too many Muggles. PARENTS' ROLE IN THE WAR: Neither Daciana nor Lucian were Marked, but both served time (though not in Azkaban) after the fall of Voldemort for the assistance they gave his rise. They were part of the government's much-publicised "rehabilitation" scheme, released after five years, but they are certainly not its poster-children, remaining staunchly anti-Ministry and pro-purism. Kinsey could, crudely, be considered the result of their post-prison reunion. While Simon has eschewed the politics that effectively made him an orphan for the first eight years of his life, Kinsey follows every word of his parents' rhetoric, and has never batted an eyelash about his parents' prison sentences - which were appropriate punishment. For failure. Appearance APPEARANCE: Kinsey's what an unpleasant child of outdated and vicious peerage should look like: refined, cold and disinterested. With soft dark hair that tends to curl, and a slender physique made for lounging, he'd make a perfect, limp Byronic poet, even if that indolent exterior is belied by the amount of vitriol he can put into a single glance. Kinsey speaks with perfect enunciation on every syllable of his extensive vocabulary, and eschews flourishes in his manners and mode. True quality, after all, needs no decoration. Personality WAND: 10 1/2 inch black walnut, selkie mane core BOGGART: Being sentenced to prison for having failed like his parents PATRONUS: Heron LIKES: When people shut up and stay out of his way, edged and subtle witticisms with fine wordplay, a keen mind with appropriate and well-reasoned opinions, delicate and complicated (and expensive) flavours, proper deference, good etiquette, ignoring things that displease him. DISLIKES: Small yappy dogs, small yappy people, over-entitled muggles, people asking his opinion when they don't actually what him to give it, arguments that lack evidence, grammatical mistakes and mispronunciations, things that waste his time, punishments meted out by people who aren't worthy of the authority, mass-produced trash food, girls who giggle, teamwork, you. STRENGTHS: Magical theory and critical analysis; constructing an argument (or a vicious insult); searing, untroubled conviction; cold calm; rather more knowledge of the theory and practice of "dark" magic than the administration would like. WEAKNESSES: Political and personal bigotry; refusal to accept worldviews outside his own; disregard for rules he doesn't view as "important", lack of flexibility. DETAILED PERSONALITY: Kinsey Bole hates you, and the horse you rode in on. Actually, that's broadly untrue, too simplistic, and suggests he cares. It might be more accurate to say something like, "Kinsey Bole thinks you're ill-bred, illiterate, trivial, unrefined, gauche, intellectually impoverished, tacky and/or just generally not worth his time." But hatred is the gist, and if you act upon that assumption, you'll probably do fine. It's a cold hate, of superior looks and unspoken disdain, of languid disregard and pointed ignore, of finely drawn cuts delivered by a scalpel-sharp tongue and high-calibre linguistic skills, and - when the situation warrants - of pernicious and untraceable magical viciousness. Kinsey is, frankly, a bitch, and one who knows - unshakeably, irrevocably and intrinsically - that he's better than you. He starts off assuming that everyone's an appalling disappointment. Then if people actually have anything like breeding, etiquette, worthwhile opinions or sense, he can be pleasantly surprised, and take condescending pleasure in deigning to spend time with them, and bestowing some of his rare moments of pleasantness and actual smiles upon them. It's somewhat lonely, but Kinsey doesn't care; he's been more or less alone for most of his life, and that's how he likes it. He's self-entertaining. Books are, after all, better company than most people, and when a book is offensively and obviously wrong, you can set it on fire. He's grown up an intelligent young man - witheringly, blisteringly, caustically intelligent - and with scant patience for those slower off the mark (what a surprise). Destined to be the next Dark Lord? Who knows what the future holds? At the present, Kinsey's response would be something drawling, disdainful and acidic along the lines of the pointlessness of preserving wizarding glory for the likes of you. And the horse you rode in on. History CHILDHOOD: The first few years after they were released from prison and reunited was possibly the brightest time of Daciana and Lucian's marriage, when they were united by experience, empowered by rage, and made fonder by absence. Though Kinsey was the product of this time, he never really experienced his parents in this (quasi-)happy state, since it faced steadily, and by the time he was four or five and starting to really pay attention, they were back to their polite, united-by-theory partnership. Not that Kin had abundant opportunity to observe his parents in any sort of natural state, since most of his raising was covered by his governness, his tutor and his grandmother, with visits from his mother. There was a stern requirement for Family Dinner every night, at which Kinsey could see his parents in their fine state, and listen to their well-modulated conversation (children being Seen and not Heard). Occasionally they were joined by other excruciatingly appropriate families, or went to join them. From a relatively early age, Kinsey was included in these parties, and from that age was expected to behave impeccably. Kinsey was not and never intends to be in the habit of disappointing his parents' expectations. While the other children (not all of the Pureblood Playgroup, just those who the Boles deemed "acceptable" and who would, in turn, not be averse to continued association with the lingering Death Eater taint) may have become less quiet and polite once the children went off to the parlour to play, Kinsey remained stern, cold and... well, nasty. Even at the age of eight, he had no qualms about telling his peers precisely what he thougth of them. HOGWARTS: Kinsey's assumption upon arrival at Hogwarts was that he'd already met all of the children his age who were going to be at all worth associating with. He found this to be roughly correct; maybe he'd missed a couple, and maybe a few of those previously worthwhile revealed themselves - in a more permissive environment - to be sadly lacking. It was all a bit of a farce anyway: how could this education possibly be taken seriously when those who had lived their whole life in a magical environment were in the same class as those who'd never even heard of it until two weeks ago? Kinsey has always had a very bad habit of not paying even a whit of attention in class unless it's "worth my while". In early years, he also had a bad habit of getting into wild arguments and vicious hexing matches with people over his incendiary views. By third year, however, he'd got in sufficient trouble that his parents were informed, and Lucian explained coldly to Kinsey that it was unacceptable to allow himself to be put in a position where he was dressed down by those unworthy of the privilege, if it could be avoided. Kin didn't miss the key point, and has since taken pains to ensure that when the insult cannot be ignored, his response to it (probably) won't be traced back to him. Oh, there are people he can be bothered to speak civilly to, and classes where things are (now, finally) actually of interest to him, and when there's neither he always has a book to keep him interested. He doesn't go out for quidditch (expend all that effort for something he has to share with six other people? As if) and he's never the life of the party (in fact, he's probably not present), but he does occasionally terrorise the chess club. Mostly, Kinsey is just the iceberg in the waters of Hogwarts - cold, menacing, and generally avoided. Plot Ideas PLOT IDEAS/PLANS FOR YOUR CHARACTER: I do want a few people for him to be "friends" with - even this ridiculous bitch will unbend a little to have some companionship. Maybe even an extremely suitable girl he could have some weird courtship-arrangement thing going on with, that could be hilarious. The biggest zone is for rampant antagonism through to outright ignore. Kinsey has done horrible things in the past, and just because he hasn't been caught after third year (probably - I wouldn't be averse to one or two missteps) doesn't mean people don't know it was him what done it. Feuds? Bring it on! (Anything: bring it on. *G*) I intend to generate bastardry with him moving forward. |
