Seth Helling

-BASIC INFORMATION-

NAME : Seth Edgar Helling
AGE : 23
BIRTHDAY : January 13th, 1998
ORIENTATION : Open
RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Single
BLOOD STATUS : Half-Blood
POSITION APPLYING FOR : Adult

-PHYSICAL INFORMATION-

What color are their eyes, hair and skin? : Amber eyes, fair skin and short, dark, wavy, brown hair with disheveled bangs that sweep across his brow. He has shaggy hair, messy hair, often too lazy to even run a comb through it.

How do they dress? : Casual most of the time in jeans and t-shirts, he prefers dark colors like navy, gray, and black.

Do they wear makeup? : No

Height? : 6'0

Do they resemble any family members? : He has his mother's eyes, otherwise looks mostly like his dad, inheriting his height and dark, wavy hair.

What is their best physical feature? : His height, he's always liked being tall, it had its advantages and his dimples when he smiles, many find his boyish smirks charming.

What is their most flawed physical feature? : The freckles that bridge his nose, as a child he always hated them and his eyes, a murky hazel, the color of puke in his opinion, though in the right light they are stunning, a bright, golden hue flecked with green. As a child he was scrawny and weedy, he's since grown into his body, gaining muscle tone and evening out, looking more like a man.

-FAMILY INFORMATION-

Where are they from? : England

Describe their past history : Seth was born of a pureblood wizard and a muggle woman. His mum was a deadbeat, on drugs to escape herself and her traumatic past history, suffering from post traumatic stress disorder from her terrible upbringing. Growing up was rough for Seth to put it lightly, he had a little sister, Tessa who was born handicapped and premature due to his mum’s uterus failing to provide oxygen to the fetus she was carrying as it ruptured, caused by all the drugs she had so selfishly consumed during pregnancy. Seth hated her for that, for cursing his sister from the very start. Seth as a young child was at first jealous of Tessa, of the affections and attention she received from his normally cold, distant mother and from multiple caregivers. He didn’t understand at that age what was wrong with Tessa medically, that they weren’t playing with her, they were doing physical therapy exercises and helping her with her speech, which she never mastered. Years passed by and nothing changed, Tessa was still wheelchair bound and mute. It was heart wrenching to witness, her lack of improvement when improvement could have been made if only their mother cared enough to work with her at home as hard as her teachers and aids did at school. Still, Tessa always had the most radiant of smiles gracing her face, she was beautiful, like an angel with her fair hair and crystal, blue eyes, the color of a cloudless, summer sky, a deep cornflower blue. She was happy for the most part, in pain due to her medical condition but yet still somehow happy, always smiling and laughing. At least their mother tried harder with Tessa than she did with raising Seth, often leaving him neglected in the shadows. He grew used to being in the background, unnoticed, unvalued and became a reserved boy, a cold boy, cold as the day he was born that storming January night.

Seth’s teenage years were the worst, the peak of this story, the dreadful climax so to speak. Seth wasn’t so timid anymore to his mother’s verbal abuse and cruelty, at the same time his mum was getting more and more comfortable with assuming that he was daft, that he was unobservant and ignorant to her drug use. By then it wasn’t hard drugs so much as it was the pills which she abused, muscle relaxers, his sister’s medication meant solely for her that his mother stole to make her sleepy, to knock her out and forget her dreary life. You could always tell when she was on those ones, she appeared drunk and very much like a zombie, sluggish with droopy-eyelids, glassy orbs and slurred speech. It was concerning to witness and disgusted Seth deeply. He didn’t want to be around that rubbish but his mother made him care for her when she was in such a pathetic state.

After his parents split up when he was two years old, long before he can remember, his mother went through a lot of bad seeds before finding someone half-way decent and enduring abuse which Seth witnessed. She married Joseph, a quiet man with a strong aura, Seth disliked the man immediately for enabling his mother’s drug abuse. He stood by and did nothing, not interfering for he didn’t want to be at the receiving end of his wife’s biting anger, a rage that would last for hours, sometimes even days, drawn out and miserable. She was good at making people's lives hell. His mum would drag Seth along while she fetched her other pills, her ‘speeder’ pills that gave her energy, causing her to not sleep for days on end and vacuum the flat at four o’ clock in the morning like some raging lunatic. Seth would go with her on these drug runs, sitting in his mum’s car in the dead of night, waiting for hours as she went into some shady flat and eventually came out, nonchalant as ever as if nothing had happened, claiming to have been ‘stopping by a friend’s for she owed him some money.’ It was frustrating, the lying, Seth was insulted she thought him so terribly stupid. So, he began speaking up, informing her that he knew of her drug use, that he was sick and tired of her shit. They would fight daily relentlessly, it took a heavy toll on Seth’s mental health and physical appearance, his anxiety disorder and depression worsened and he felt as if he were going mad, Hogwarts saved his sanity, it was an escape from his grim home life. Finally she kicked him out the summer before fifth year to live with his wealthy, pureblood father in Wales. Seth had always got on well with his dad, begged him for years to take him in but he too turned a blind eye to what was happening in his ex-wife’s home. He didn't want to take on a teenager, he had his own life and Seth was a burden to his now comfortable day-to-day routine. William Helling hadn’t a choice that June but to finally take in his son when his irate mother kicked him out to live on the streets.

Things got better from there, no more fighting, not more being around all the negative drama each holiday, those long three months going by at an agonizingly slow rate. Things were peaceful for once and it was nice. Still, Seth felt terrible, for years he lived with his father, staying with him each summer and rarely seeing his mum and Tessa, leaving her alone there with that deadbeat mother of their. Two years later, luckily, in his final year at Hogwarts his mum finally got clean and went into a rehabilitation center and they worked on steadily rebuilding their damaged relationship, salvaging what they, could piece by piece.

Things got better upon graduation, Seth got a job at Borgin and Burkes and purchased a flat on the upper floor of a shady shop in Knockturn Alley. Things were finally getting better, Seth was on his own and enjoyed the freedom until Tessa died the following autumn. It destroyed his mum and step-dad, who had adopted Tessa as his own for she and Seth had been born of different fathers, Tessa's a muggle man who bailed out of the pregnancy and Seth's a wizard. It destroyed Seth as well, someone so youthful, full of joy and laughter, so beautiful and innocent and pure, dying at the unjust age of fourteen. It was tragic. Him and his family soon recovered as much as one can recover from such a harrowing loss, he still misses Tessa everyday and tries to be a better person for her, in her memory. That’s what compelled him to became an Auror, to do something good with his life, be selfless for once and help those in need. He’s close to his family, his dad’s side, the magical side and his mother and step-dad who still reside in the muggle world in the flat that him and Tessa were raised in, her room untouched. They get by, though they’re only shells of what they used to be and seeing someone die so slowly, decay more and more each day is just as painful as losing them to a physical demise...

As for Seth, he carries on.

Who are their parents? : Jesse and William Helling II, stepfather, Joseph. Extra note: Seth and William Helling II are direct descendants of The Bloody Baron. Seth found out when researching his family history in school, curious to know more of the magical side of him.

Do they have siblings? : Tessa (deceased)

Do they have any children? : No

Is their any history of mental illness in their family : Yes a lot of dark stuff trailing all the way back to the Bloody Baron's grim life of murdering his lover when she no longer wanted to be with him and then struck with immense grief and guilt took his own life.

-PERSONAL INFORMATION-

What do they hate? : Ignorance, hypocrites, liars, sloths, weakness, selfishness, and evil.

What do they love? : Damaged people, he gravitates towards them, towards people who can share in his pain. Optimism, since he's an eternal pessimist, he needs people to give him hope, help him see the light at the end of the tunnel. Being in control. Succeeding in things he sets out to accomplish. Doing something good, making a difference in this horrorshow world, even if it is small. He's striving to be a better person, warmer, kinder, more courageous and strong. He's naturally very self-preserving and that makes him cowardly at times.

Seth loves the Pixies, a muggle band, and listens to a lot of alternative rock music. In school he enjoyed Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, as well as a secret love of Divination.

What can they not live without? : Nothing, he does not get attached to anything anymore for nothing is ever permanent.

Have they ever been in love? : No, he's had romantic partners, he keeps a distance emotionally, not wanting to get invested and have them leave. He hates feeling out of control.

What is their most traumatic memory? : The letter he got from his mother, telling him of Tessa's death the night before.

What is their happiest memory? : His days spent at Hogwarts and living with his dad, some small, happy moments of bonding that him and Tessa shared as children, him playing with her, acting silly to make her laugh. He loved to entertain her.

Describe their personality : Seth is cold and reserved but has a good hard deep down beneath his icy exterior, his life has made him bitter and resentful, he's trying to fight what his upbringing has molded him to be and become the man he wants to be making him posses a great deal of inner turmoil. He's an eternal pessimist with a dry sense of humor, he's witty, adventurous, and daring to the point of being a bit reckless and impulsive, though he's getting better at that, he's growing up. He's generous, especially with his money and he's empathetic, able to place himself in another's shoes easily. He is open-minded, imaginative, ambitious and driven. When he has a set goal nothing can stop him, he gets things done and makes things happen. He's fiercely determined and a bit stubborn. He's also attracted to dark things, anything absurd and strange as well, making him seem a bit weird.

What would be a stranger's first impression of them? : Handsome, charming, an air of mystery around him, there's a deepness in his gaze, a darkness that makes him interesting to those who share in that darkness.

How would you, the writer, describe them? : "He's trying to fight what his upbringing has molded him to be and become the man he wants to be."

Any special magical abilities? : Skilled duelist, trained at occlumency and legilimency and Seth is a parselmouth an inherited trait from The Bloody Baron, though he keeps this ability a secret, only his father knows for he shares the gift as well. 

Any special skills? : Posesses a strong intuition and a bit of 'The Sight'. He gets visions in dreams but has no control over this gift, things just come to him out of the blue.







Current Occupation : Auror

Where did they go to school? : Hogwarts

Was school a good time for them? Describe their school life : He was a bully with a gang of followers who laughed at his witty insults. He took out his anger of his home life out on his peers, making them his victims. As he grew older he mellowed, became shy and reclusive, distancing himself from his prior group of friends and keeping to himself. He sought solitude and felt guilty for his the way that he had treated people. It wasn't fair of him to lash out at them, tear them apart verbally and point out their weaknesses, it was wrong and in doing that he was no better than his mother.

Did they have a lot of friends? : At first yes, by graduation he was a loner.

Have they worked previously? If so, where? : Borgin and Burkes as a cashier.

Writer's Name: Rachael

Roleplaying Sample: Not needed.