Post by Gabriel Thomas on Sept 21, 2008 17:48:13 GMT -5
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(( GabrielSimonThomas ))
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds."
Full Name»»
Gabriel Simon Thomas
Date Born»» [/b]
October 20th
Age»» [/b]
Seventeen
Year»» [/b]
Seventh
Gender»» [/b]
Male
Religion»» [/b]
Islam, although much less strict as most muslims
Sexual Orientation»» [/b]
Straight
Pet/s/»» [/b]
Donovan - An iguana. Donovan is never called anything shorter than his name. He is very laid back and will let anyone hold him. Donovan has been stoned more than once with Gabriel.
Blood Status»» [/b]
Half-Blood, Son of a half-blood and muggle.
Wand»» [/b]
10 1/2 In. Spruce with a merperson fin. Pure white in color.
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personality.
personality.
First Impression»» [/b]
Gabriel is very calm all the time. He never seems on edge and never seems to be stressed out. Because of this, people feel that they can confide in him. Often when people meet him for the first time, he seems very philosophical and kindly, then he takes off his sunglasses to show eyes as red as the devil's dick. Most people find him funny and light-hearted even if he is trying to be serious.
Self Image»» [/b]
Gabriel knows what he is, an advice-dispensing, pot-smoking, reggae-listening pacifist. Gabriel would never want to trade places with anyone, he just loves his life. His philosophy is you are who you are, no point trying to change it. Sometimes he knows a little too well how he can influence people and it gets to his head.
Positive Traits»» [/b]
- Calm - Gabriel never gets mad. He never goes out for revenge. He always keeps his head cool. He loves everyone and instantly forgives any wrongdoings. He is approachable and kind to anyone, even if he has the right to be annoyed or angry at them. This personality trait is amplified by his herb use.
- Helpful - Gabriel often will drop anything he's doing to help someone. He gives out advice like candy on Halloween, not just any advice, good advice that can actually help people. People have come to expect his help. He will help with homework if he knows it. In fact, he often puts other people's well-being above his own.
- Light-Hearted - Gabriel isn't serious very often. He never takes any insults personally. Another of his personal philosophies' is "Shit happens". He rolls with the punches of life with a smile on his face and a song in his heart. This is another personality trait that is amplified by his pot smoke.
- Pacifist - Gabriel abhors violence. He has taken a beating many times and never fights back. He's decided that there will always be a group of thugs that want to cause trouble, so he has no point getting worked up about it. He uses civil disobedience and negotiating to achieve any goals. He doesn't believe that violence will get him anywhere.
- Trustworthy - In order to give advice, he needs the receiver's trust, so he has become quite trustworthy over the years. He would rather be beaten and burned than betray someone. Although he often will space out while talking and let a secret of his slip, he would never let someone else's secret slip. His body is just hardwired to never speak of people's secrets.
Negative Traits»» [/b]
- Spacey - No one lets their mind wander like a stoner. Gabriel is the king of the potheads. He often forgets what he is talking about in the middle of a sentence and stop talking, or he'll forget he's talking so he'll say whatever comes into his head. He's slipped many of his secrets this way, although he has yet to slip someone else's. Some people get annoyed by this because it can take him an hour to tell a 5 minute story. His mind just takes any detour it can.
- Stoned - Gabriel smokes a lot of the sticky icky. This impairs his ability to do much. He often does the bare minimum when it comes to school and his social life. He is often pushed into doing things like dances. His grades also suffer from this. He is stoned so often that if he is sober, people think he's on speed.
- Proud - Gabriel is black and proud. He loves his heritage and it can be seen in his dress. He wears the rasta colors and the colors of his african tribe. He also is quite proud of his helpfulness. He gets slightly offended if someone goes to anyone else for help. Sometimes the power of his influence goes to his head, although he'd never manipulate someone.
- Abused - Because of his pacifism, people often pick fights with Gabriel. He is beaten by the weak because they know he won't fight back. Gabriel often has black eyes and busted lips from these encounters with hostiles. He still treats them kindly and they still abuse him.
- Clumsy - Yet another personality trait that gets amplified due to drugs. Gabriel should never be allowed to hold a baby. Anything that is held by him for more than five minutes has been dropped at least once. He never carries anything as he walks, its always put in his bag because Gabriel knows far too well that he will break anything that isn't strapped to him.
Likes»» [/b]
- Eating - Gabriel often has the munchies and will eat anything and everything. He just wants as much food in his stomach as possible. Coincidentally, his mother would tell him to finish his plate because there were starving children in Rwanda, he always did.
- Creating Art - Gabriel loves starting with nothing and having something when he's all done. He draws, paints and sculpts mostly, but he also plays a mean accordion.
- Sleeping - Gabriel loves to dream and be well rested. Guess what those two things have in common. That's right, they are both caused by sleep.
- Marijuana - One of Gabriel's very favorite things in this world. He doesn't view it as a drug, but as a medicinal herb. Any time anyone feels sick, he smokes them out. He grows his own in the green house behind the flesh eating plant-monster.
- Reggae - Being a good ol' jamaican boy, Gabriel loves the sound of reggae, its slow, chill and has a nice beat.
- Civil Disobedience - Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. are his two idols. He has read most books on the subject and has adopted it as a way of life.
- Accordions - Gabriel loves his accordion, aptly named Lil' Buster. He plays it in his dorm often. He can play it quite well and people in his room like to dance around to it.
Dislikes»» [/b]
- Being Hungry - Nothing feels worse than being hungry to Gabriel. He'd rather be getting tortured than being starved. The only time Gabe is able to go without food is during Ramadan and he struggles heavily during the month.
- Watching - Gabriel hates to watch things. T.V, Movies, Sports, they're all boring. He'd much rather participate and do something than watch something. He'd rather be active and playing a sport than passive and watching.
- Fighting - Fighting clashes with pacifism, so he refuses to fight. He'd much rather take a beating than do the beating. Its simply not in his nature to try and cause pain for someone.
- Alcohol - It makes people stupid and clumsier, not exactly what Gabriel needs. Why have alcohol when you can have cannabis. It stinks, tastes nasty and makes people into violent slobs. Pass.
- Corpses - Gabriel saw a corpse once when he was a child, it was rotting and full of maggots. The water of the beach swelled its skin and it had flesh dripping from its bones. Ever since he saw the decomposing body, even thinking of a corpse will give him shivers.
- Racism - As a black man in a white man's world, Gabriel has had his share of racism pointed at him. He actively tries to prove racists wrong by forgiving them and showing them love and kindness. He is striving to stamp at racism through peace, not violence.
Amortentia»» [/b]
Salt water, coconut, pot smoke
Boggart»» [/b]
A walking corpse - Gabriel knows that zombies aren't real, but they still freak him out more than anything.
Patronus»» [/b]
A sea turtle, it is able to defend itself without violence and it never resorts to it.
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appearance.
appearance.
Height»» [/b]
6'4''
Weight»» [/b]
150 lbs.
Eye Color»» [/b]
Brown
Hair Color»» [/b]
Dark Brown
Skin Color»» [/b]
Black
Body Build»» [/b]
Lean bordering on thin
Nationality»» [/b]
Jamaican
Distinctive Features»» [/b]
He is one of the only black students at Hogwarts.
Dress Style»» [/b]
Gabriel wears very Rastafarian clothing. He wears hats that hold his dreadlocks and comfortable Dashiki shirts. He almost never wears normal shoes, preferring his straw sandals. When in uniform, he wears it loosely so it stays comfortable. He wears his tie untied most of the time, if he wears it at all.
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school life.
school life.
Social Status»» [/b]
Almost a sage type. He hangs out with the outcast kids, but he is well known and respected by all the houses.
Alliance»» [/b]
Completely neutral, he is a pacifist, so he doesn't want to fight anybody
Career Goal»» [/b]
Gabriel has no plans for the future, for he thinks it interrupts the now.
Taken Courses&Grades»» [/b]
- Care of Magical Creatures :: E
- Transfiguration :: A
- Herbology :: O
- Divination :: A
- Charms :: A
- History of Magic :: D
Favorite Classes»» [/b]
Gabriel loves Care of Magical Creatures because he loves all of Allah's creatures. He gets to see the most bizarre and mystical of these creatures. He also loves Herbology for obvious reasons........
Hated Classes»» [/b]
The only class that Gabriel truly dislikes is Defense Against the Dark Arts because it goes against his beliefs as a Conscientious Objector. He dropped it in his sixth year. Although he doesn't hate it, he gets discouraged by History of Magic because he can't seem to remember those damn dates.
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history.
history.
Family»» [/b]
- Dean Thomas father - Age 38
- Wendy Valentine mother - Age 36
- Susan Thomas sister - Age 9 (Has Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but was caught in the early stages)
Past»»
[/li][li] Dean Thomas was shaken by the Battle of Hogwarts. So many of his friends had died. It really did bad things to his psych. Dean, under the pressure of all the death, looked to God, and his name is Allah. After converting to Islam, Dean went to live with his fellow black men. He ended up in Jamaica where he fell in love with a muggle girl named Wendy Valentine. She was a member of Nation of Islam and so they married. Dean became active in Nation of Islam and worked for the advancement of his people. He and Wendy had their first son, Gabriel. Gabe was a kind-hearted young boy who took home many animals that he found. His father had to release all these "injured and alone" animals and explain to his son how they must be free. At the age of seven, Gabriel had a little sister named Susan. She was very sickly and was in the hospital on and off her entire infancy. She became healthier through toddlership, though. Dean told his children that he was a wizard, but strongly preached peace to them.
[/li][li] At the age of eleven, an owl from the UK had managed to track down the Thomas's on their small island. It had delivered a letter for Gabriel, saying he was accepted into his father's school. Gabriel and his father left for Britain using the Floo Network. In Diagon Alley, Dean bought Gabriel his first pet, an iguana. Dean took his son to a soccer game, Dean's favorite team, West Ham. While in the muggle section of London, Dean bought his son an accordion because he thought he needed some way to pass his time. While walking down the streets, the iguana was yelled at by a homeless man. He called the lizard Donovan and said it owed him twenty dollars because he paid for their heroin last time. The name Donovan managed to stick to the poor lizard. Gabriel boarded the train and was recognized as Dean's son, which lead to questioning about where he went. Gabe had to dispel many rumors of substance abuse, prison, death and even one of his father going to win American Idol. And so Gabriel went to Hogwarts and got decent grades.
[/li][li] Gabriel was 13 years old and at home in Jamaica when he first tried his now favorite of plants. His childhood friends, a majority of which were Rastafarian, had begun to rock the ganja. Dean and Wendy didn't care much, why live in a predominately rastafarian village in Jamaica and be angry about such a thing? So Gabriel packed up some seeds and went back to school. A couple years past and Gabriel became wiser. He was often in "fights" with racists. The most common type he encountered were the pureblooded slytherin types. He had to serve many detentions for fighting, although he would take the abuse and never raise an arm in defense. Gabriel believed that the universe tended to come out as it should and these racists would get their just reward. So he would serve detention with a smile on his face. During his fifth year, Gabriel received a very fateful letter, explaining how his little sister had the condition known as Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The good news was it was found early in its development, but the chemotherapy would be dangerous for such a young child. Gabriel went home during the Christmas break for Ramadan. He had become clingy to his little sister, praying and fasting to Allah for her health. Right before Gabriel left for his seventh year and final year of Hogwarts, the doctor said his sister will most likely make an almost full recovery. This marked the first good event of what Gabriel thought was going to be the best year of Hogwarts yet.
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ooc.
ooc.
Your Name»» [/b]
Tribe
Age»» [/b]
16
Other Characters Here»» [/b]
Alleister, Howl, Laretu
How You Found the Site»» [/b]
Cyan (Where has she been?)
Character's Playby»» [/b]
Model Mayhem - Justin M Williams
Secret Word 1»» [/b]
I'm not gonna put it in!
Secret Word 2»» [/b]
You can't make me, Ella!
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