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Face Name: Kim Jongin
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Your Name: Kim Jongin
House & Year: Gryffindor & Year 6
Blood Status: Muggleborn
Classes: Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions, Transfiguration, Herbology; Alchemy, Care of Magical Creatures; Apparition
Extra-Curricular: Quidditch (captain, center chaser if possible)
What are three moments in your childhood life you feel have shaped you?: Three things, huh? I've never been good at these essay format type questions, so bear with me. First would be... finding out I was a wizard, of course. That has to be number one. Can you imagine? All your life you think the closest you'll get to magic is sleight of hand and then... this happens. It's what I learned, you know? I didn't think magic existed, so I learned table magic. I guess it probably doesn't mean anything here but that's the first magic I ever learned.

Second - but not less important - has to be when my mom died. I was seven. She had cancer. Do people in the wizarding world die of cancer? Is anyone looking for a cure? I wonder a lot if I knew then what I know now, if I could have saved her. Probably not, right? I was closest to my mother though. Only child. I love my dad, but we aren't close. He changed after she died. I don't think he ever recovered. I'm not sure he ever will. They were soulmates.

Third was the moment I learned to fly. Does that still count as a part of my childhood? Would it help if I tied it in with my childhood? When I was little, I used to look up at the sky or read comics and think about how great it would be if I had wings. If I could just... soar beyond the cloud bank. But what kid doesn't want to fly? I climbed trees, houses. Anything. Anything that could get me closer to the sky.

What are three personality traits you feel help define you and why?: As for three personality traits.. pride would be one of them. Definitely. A lot of the time you hear about too much pride, right? Hubris? That thing that causes the downfall of characters in ancient lore. I might have an excess of it. Sometimes. But most of the time it does me a world of good. I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of where I came from. Remembering all of that defines me.

Stubbornness goes hand in hand with pride I guess. That'd be personality trait number 2. I can be stubborn to a fault. I stand my ground if I believe in something, and I don't like admitting I'm wrong. I try to keep an open mind and usually that's not a problem, but if I get attacked I'll go on the defensive. It's something I'm working on.

And uh.. last... last is something my mom used to like to call me. Spontaneously reckless. I've always been a firm believer that decisions should be made quickly and decisively. And I guess.. because of that, a lot of the time it seemed to my mother that I was deciding to do stupid things out of the blue. One minute I'd be by her side, and the next I'd be climbing to the tallest part of the house to jump down on the trampoline just to see how high I could go. Stupid decisions made quickly. It's not always bad. I make a good leader, if I do say so myself. But sometimes I get ahead of myself too.

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Friends from before Hogwarts, enemies, Gryffindor friends, fellow sixth years not in the same House that Jongin might have befriended prior to sorting/throughout classes, Quidditch teammates and rivals, fellow curfew breakers, Potions desk partner, current classmates, etc (anything else you've got, we're open to!).

I am EST but keep odd hours. Prefer para, but don't mind action. I can be reached via AIM or PM.