Mason Brown
24-11-2007, 09:47 PM
Full Name: Mason 'Rufus' Brown
Given Name/Nickname: Boney M, Bone-Arm
Age/Date of Birth: 18 / July 3rd
Place of Birth: London
Blood Heiratage: Halfblood
Character's History: The legendary jewel-thief known as the Crimson Cat plagued the streets of London during the late 1980’s with many of the open museums having to increase their security to prevent rare treasures of the past from being pinched by the thief, yet they failed to protect their rarities as the thief managed to overcome their defences.
What the Police didn’t know and the reason they could never defeat the Crimson Cat was that he was a wizard and he used a range of magical techniques to infiltrate the museums. Creeping through the streets of London with an invisibility cloak and then transforming into gas in order to slip through the museums air vents, the Crimson Cat would manage to procure many rare treasures.
However in July 1988, the Crimson Cat attempted to liberate a priceless gem known as Raga’s Ruby, which was discovered in an Egyptian tomb centuries ago. Using his usual techniques, the Cat found himself in the lobby facing the sparkling red gem. Lifting it from its glass case, he set off a weight sensor and countless guards swarmed into the room. Gunshots echoed throughout the room, with some bullets tearing through the Cat’s chest. Metamorphosing into a cloud of gas, the Cat managed to escape through the vents, leaving the Ruby behind. The guards couldn’t explain what had happened and explained it away like many muggles explained the supernatural as having had ‘too much coffee’.
The Cat reformed himself into solid mass once he was a few streets clear of the London History Museum and looked at his wounds - it looked serious. He clasped his wound and staggered back towards his hideout where his wife, Claude Brown, would be able to heal him, since she was trained in the Healing Arts.
Reaching his front door, the Cat began to knock in a frantic attempt to alert his wife to his presence. He continued to knock until his strength drained from him and he died alone on his doorstep. His wife, pregnant at the time, had been taken to hospital during the night and suffered a terrible labour. After many hours of pushing and breathing, she gave birth to her beautiful boy, Mason. She recovered quickly from the labour, using some of her magical talents and the nursing staff, amazed that both mother and baby were days ahead of their expected condition let them go home early.
Returning to her home, Claude Brown found her husband lying dead with gunshot wounds on his chest. Covering her child’s eyes, for she did not want his first view of his father to be his corpse, she took the body and buried it in the back garden. Rather morbid, some might say, but Claude had her reasons for keeping the body close to her.
During the twelve years that followed, Claude raised her child alone, determined not to let him end up in the same fate as her husband. She struggled to keep him from stealing. He would often pick up items in the supermarket and using his limited powers would turn tins of beans into shirt buttons in order to smuggle them out of the shop, then return them to their original shape.
Realising that her son would inevitably follow in her husbands footsteps, she decided to take drastic measures. Using a very dangerous necromancer technique, she performed the sacrifice of a live animal (a rather unfortunate guinea pig) in order to raise her husband from the dead. She knew that the man that came out from under the daffodils in the back garden would not be the same man she once loved, but she knew that this would be the only way to teach Mason that stealing was wrong, by showing him the consequences - no matter how gory they might be.
A skeletal hand reached out from underneath the mound of dirt. Within moments, the decaying corpse of her late husband stood before her - the Crimson Cat was reborn. She turned to her son, Mason, who was shocked at the state of the corpse before her (and the fact that his father had been buried out behind the shed).
Claude explained to the motionless skeleton before her how Mason, only fifteen at this point, was beginning to follow in his footsteps and that she wanted him to demonstrate the fatal consequences of thievery. The corpse listened to the list of items already pinched by the teenage thief, many of which were food items found in the local Tesco Supermarket. The skeletal head turned sideways to observe his son and began to laugh loudly.
“You call that thievery?” the Skeleton’s gravely voice growled. “That’s not thievery, I can teach you about thievery”
The skeleton moved erratically towards his son and began to teach him the various methods of magical theft. Claude tried to intervene but the empty look in the skeletons blank eye sockets scared her away. She could only watch as her late husband began to instruct her son in the art of thievery.
After absorbing all the knowledge from his father, Mason decided he would attempt to steal the ruby which eluded his father all those years ago. His mother forbade him, telling him that he would not be welcome in her home if he went through with this. She had spent most of her life not knowing whether her husband would come home that night and she wasn’t willing to go through it again with her son, but her threats fell upon death ears as Mason and his skeletal dad headed off to seek Raga’s Ruby.
With his father by his side, Mason made his way into the lobby facing the Ruby and using the same skills that his father once did, he lifted the Ruby from the glass case, rem.embering to use a similar weighted item to stop the sensor from alerting the guard. The gem sparkled in his hand as he looked at it - then suddenly pain shot through his arm.
Dropping the gem, Mason fell to the ground. His arm began to tingle with pain. The gem had been cursed by a wizard in order to prevent magical theft. The museum’s manager after hearing the stories from the guards about the Crimson Cat’s magical escape, became very paranoid that another magical theft might occur and so he enlisted the help of an Enchanter who enthused the gem with a curse - harmless to humans but dangerous to those with Wizard Blood.
The curse burned Mason’s fingers off and began to work its way along his arm, disintegrating his flesh and bone. Mason panicked as he watched his arm disappear into dust up until his elbow where it stopped, leaving him without an arm. The screams he let out during the painful disStudentment had alerted some more guards, so he morphed into gas and along with his skeletal parent disappeared through the vent, leaving the guards deciding to stop drinking coffee during night shifts.
Mason returned home to his mother who attempted to reform his arm to no avail. The amputation was cursed and therefore couldn’t be healed through magical means. Claude was relieved that this misadventure hadn’t ended in death but would hopefully stop her son from meddling with thievery in the future.
However, Claude was wrong. The lure of a thief’s life was too much for her son and the skeletal remains of her husband had another idea that would further cement her son’s life in thievery. Detaching his right arm, the skeletal fused the bone onto the stump, replacing Mason’s arm with his own. Mason moved his new skeletal arm and found he could control it as if it was his own.
Appalled at this latest turn of events, Claude made the hardest decision of her life and threw her son out of her house. Mason understood her feelings over his chosen occupation but he felt so alive when he stole things and he felt as if he was walking along his destined path and that it would be futile to move away from it.
Leaving his mother and his skeletal father behind, Mason made his way out of London, stealing things to keep him alive until he found his way to Hogwarts. He had heard his mother talk of the place when she raised him. It was the place where she and his father had met. They had learnt to control their magic there and it was also where his father had learnt his skills of a thief. Deciding that he would like to follow in his father’s footsteps, he enrolled at Hogwarts School.
Character's Appearance: Mason is 5ft 8in, slim build, fair-skinned with jet black hair. He has a skeletal limb for his right arm which he can use as his own. He often keeps his skeletal limb covered by his cloak in order to stay inconspicuous. He tends to wear dark clothes in order to blend in with the background. He keeps his hair short and tidy and is very athletic.
Character's Personality: Mason believes strongly in destiny and feels that his life is a path that is pre-destined by a higher power. He has two sides to his personality - part of the duality of being a thief. He can act charming and crack jokes during public gatherings but when alone, he is quiet, calculating and serious. He doesn’t like to make mistakes and he like his father can take risks. He is a neutral person, neither heroic nor villainous. He chooses his side carefully in every battle and cannot be trusted implicitly.
Family:
-Father: Jonathan Brown (Deceased)
--Father's Occupation: Master Thief / Skeleton Head
-Mother: Claude Brown
--Mother's Occupation: None
-Siblings: None Known
Wand Type: Bone wand, 10 ½ inches
Strengths: Pickpocketing, Reading, Writing
Weaknesses: Talking to Girls, Flying, ReStudenting spells.
Favorite Class: Defence of the Dark Arts
Least Favorite Class: Charms
Pet: None yet...
Quidditch position: Chaser.
Given Name/Nickname: Boney M, Bone-Arm
Age/Date of Birth: 18 / July 3rd
Place of Birth: London
Blood Heiratage: Halfblood
Character's History: The legendary jewel-thief known as the Crimson Cat plagued the streets of London during the late 1980’s with many of the open museums having to increase their security to prevent rare treasures of the past from being pinched by the thief, yet they failed to protect their rarities as the thief managed to overcome their defences.
What the Police didn’t know and the reason they could never defeat the Crimson Cat was that he was a wizard and he used a range of magical techniques to infiltrate the museums. Creeping through the streets of London with an invisibility cloak and then transforming into gas in order to slip through the museums air vents, the Crimson Cat would manage to procure many rare treasures.
However in July 1988, the Crimson Cat attempted to liberate a priceless gem known as Raga’s Ruby, which was discovered in an Egyptian tomb centuries ago. Using his usual techniques, the Cat found himself in the lobby facing the sparkling red gem. Lifting it from its glass case, he set off a weight sensor and countless guards swarmed into the room. Gunshots echoed throughout the room, with some bullets tearing through the Cat’s chest. Metamorphosing into a cloud of gas, the Cat managed to escape through the vents, leaving the Ruby behind. The guards couldn’t explain what had happened and explained it away like many muggles explained the supernatural as having had ‘too much coffee’.
The Cat reformed himself into solid mass once he was a few streets clear of the London History Museum and looked at his wounds - it looked serious. He clasped his wound and staggered back towards his hideout where his wife, Claude Brown, would be able to heal him, since she was trained in the Healing Arts.
Reaching his front door, the Cat began to knock in a frantic attempt to alert his wife to his presence. He continued to knock until his strength drained from him and he died alone on his doorstep. His wife, pregnant at the time, had been taken to hospital during the night and suffered a terrible labour. After many hours of pushing and breathing, she gave birth to her beautiful boy, Mason. She recovered quickly from the labour, using some of her magical talents and the nursing staff, amazed that both mother and baby were days ahead of their expected condition let them go home early.
Returning to her home, Claude Brown found her husband lying dead with gunshot wounds on his chest. Covering her child’s eyes, for she did not want his first view of his father to be his corpse, she took the body and buried it in the back garden. Rather morbid, some might say, but Claude had her reasons for keeping the body close to her.
During the twelve years that followed, Claude raised her child alone, determined not to let him end up in the same fate as her husband. She struggled to keep him from stealing. He would often pick up items in the supermarket and using his limited powers would turn tins of beans into shirt buttons in order to smuggle them out of the shop, then return them to their original shape.
Realising that her son would inevitably follow in her husbands footsteps, she decided to take drastic measures. Using a very dangerous necromancer technique, she performed the sacrifice of a live animal (a rather unfortunate guinea pig) in order to raise her husband from the dead. She knew that the man that came out from under the daffodils in the back garden would not be the same man she once loved, but she knew that this would be the only way to teach Mason that stealing was wrong, by showing him the consequences - no matter how gory they might be.
A skeletal hand reached out from underneath the mound of dirt. Within moments, the decaying corpse of her late husband stood before her - the Crimson Cat was reborn. She turned to her son, Mason, who was shocked at the state of the corpse before her (and the fact that his father had been buried out behind the shed).
Claude explained to the motionless skeleton before her how Mason, only fifteen at this point, was beginning to follow in his footsteps and that she wanted him to demonstrate the fatal consequences of thievery. The corpse listened to the list of items already pinched by the teenage thief, many of which were food items found in the local Tesco Supermarket. The skeletal head turned sideways to observe his son and began to laugh loudly.
“You call that thievery?” the Skeleton’s gravely voice growled. “That’s not thievery, I can teach you about thievery”
The skeleton moved erratically towards his son and began to teach him the various methods of magical theft. Claude tried to intervene but the empty look in the skeletons blank eye sockets scared her away. She could only watch as her late husband began to instruct her son in the art of thievery.
After absorbing all the knowledge from his father, Mason decided he would attempt to steal the ruby which eluded his father all those years ago. His mother forbade him, telling him that he would not be welcome in her home if he went through with this. She had spent most of her life not knowing whether her husband would come home that night and she wasn’t willing to go through it again with her son, but her threats fell upon death ears as Mason and his skeletal dad headed off to seek Raga’s Ruby.
With his father by his side, Mason made his way into the lobby facing the Ruby and using the same skills that his father once did, he lifted the Ruby from the glass case, rem.embering to use a similar weighted item to stop the sensor from alerting the guard. The gem sparkled in his hand as he looked at it - then suddenly pain shot through his arm.
Dropping the gem, Mason fell to the ground. His arm began to tingle with pain. The gem had been cursed by a wizard in order to prevent magical theft. The museum’s manager after hearing the stories from the guards about the Crimson Cat’s magical escape, became very paranoid that another magical theft might occur and so he enlisted the help of an Enchanter who enthused the gem with a curse - harmless to humans but dangerous to those with Wizard Blood.
The curse burned Mason’s fingers off and began to work its way along his arm, disintegrating his flesh and bone. Mason panicked as he watched his arm disappear into dust up until his elbow where it stopped, leaving him without an arm. The screams he let out during the painful disStudentment had alerted some more guards, so he morphed into gas and along with his skeletal parent disappeared through the vent, leaving the guards deciding to stop drinking coffee during night shifts.
Mason returned home to his mother who attempted to reform his arm to no avail. The amputation was cursed and therefore couldn’t be healed through magical means. Claude was relieved that this misadventure hadn’t ended in death but would hopefully stop her son from meddling with thievery in the future.
However, Claude was wrong. The lure of a thief’s life was too much for her son and the skeletal remains of her husband had another idea that would further cement her son’s life in thievery. Detaching his right arm, the skeletal fused the bone onto the stump, replacing Mason’s arm with his own. Mason moved his new skeletal arm and found he could control it as if it was his own.
Appalled at this latest turn of events, Claude made the hardest decision of her life and threw her son out of her house. Mason understood her feelings over his chosen occupation but he felt so alive when he stole things and he felt as if he was walking along his destined path and that it would be futile to move away from it.
Leaving his mother and his skeletal father behind, Mason made his way out of London, stealing things to keep him alive until he found his way to Hogwarts. He had heard his mother talk of the place when she raised him. It was the place where she and his father had met. They had learnt to control their magic there and it was also where his father had learnt his skills of a thief. Deciding that he would like to follow in his father’s footsteps, he enrolled at Hogwarts School.
Character's Appearance: Mason is 5ft 8in, slim build, fair-skinned with jet black hair. He has a skeletal limb for his right arm which he can use as his own. He often keeps his skeletal limb covered by his cloak in order to stay inconspicuous. He tends to wear dark clothes in order to blend in with the background. He keeps his hair short and tidy and is very athletic.
Character's Personality: Mason believes strongly in destiny and feels that his life is a path that is pre-destined by a higher power. He has two sides to his personality - part of the duality of being a thief. He can act charming and crack jokes during public gatherings but when alone, he is quiet, calculating and serious. He doesn’t like to make mistakes and he like his father can take risks. He is a neutral person, neither heroic nor villainous. He chooses his side carefully in every battle and cannot be trusted implicitly.
Family:
-Father: Jonathan Brown (Deceased)
--Father's Occupation: Master Thief / Skeleton Head
-Mother: Claude Brown
--Mother's Occupation: None
-Siblings: None Known
Wand Type: Bone wand, 10 ½ inches
Strengths: Pickpocketing, Reading, Writing
Weaknesses: Talking to Girls, Flying, ReStudenting spells.
Favorite Class: Defence of the Dark Arts
Least Favorite Class: Charms
Pet: None yet...
Quidditch position: Chaser.