Alvin Dinkleburg grew up in and entirely magical and Quidditch obsessed household. His three brother’s Athletic Achievement awards covered every inch of space on the living room walls; making his Educational Achievement awards seem bluntly out of place. Alvin himself seemed out of place.
With his father being a retired keeper from the USA national Quidditch team, and his brothers all headed in the same direction, Alvin often felt as though he was a disappointment to his parents, regardless of his amazing grades.
Family:
Parents: (names, pure/half/Muggle) Witch and Wizard. Lydia Dinkleburg, and Daniel Dinkleburg.
Siblings: (names, ages) Brad (1 , Josh (16, going to school in America), and Danny (or Jr.—10)
Other IMPORTANT relationships (live-in grandparents, adoptive siblings, etc):
Appearance
Skin: (color, type, freckles, scars, etc.) Pale, with a reddish tint. Freckles all over his nose, especially in the sun.
Hair: (color, texture, length) Thin, reddish brown hair in a bowl shaped cut.
Eyes: (color, size, eyelashes, eyebrows) Light brown with specks of gold
Face: (shape, and anything specific about the size, shape, etc. of the characters nose, forehead, chin/jawline, etc. that you want to mention) He has a skinny face, and front teeth slightly on the large side.
Height: 5’0” (shorter than even his younger brother)
Weight: 95 lbs.
Body Type: (muscular, chubby, scrawny, etc.) SRAWNY, describes him perfectly.
How do you dress? Nerdy. LOL. Collared shirts, plaid vests, thick framed glasses—the works.
How do you present yourself? (What is the initial reaction of most people on meeting you?) He doesn’t. No one ever pays any attention to him anyway, why bother “presenting himself” to them?
Personality
General (give us a few paragraphs on your everyday temperament)
What are you like day to day? Happy, though he keeps to himself. Actually has a lot on energy, and can sometimes become seemingly crazy when he’s excited about something. Doesn’t have many friends. Is target practice for spitballs so, when not hiding away in the Library, is seen walking around the hallways with the bubblehead charm for a shield.
What makes you sad? What are you like when you are sad? Bad grades, and people being disappointed in him. He usually shuts himself in his bedroom and talks to his rat.
What makes you angry? What are you like when you are angry? People teasing him. His face turns bright red, and he sometimes explodes (shocking the mocker).
What makes you happy? What are you like when you are happy? Getting good grades, he skips. A bad habit of his….
What are you like when you are hyper? Bouncing off the walls, talking a lot, shaking slightly.
Are you outgoing, shy, somewhere between? Defiantly somewhere between. He’s completely unpredictable.
Do you make friends easily? Nope. Everyone seems to avoid him.
How smart are you? EXCEEDINGLY
How important is it to you to follow the rules? Extremely—unless he sees a very good reason to break them. It depends on if he’s in one of his “I’m-going-to-be-more-daring” fazes or not.
What makes you different, original, special, unique? Everything about him is unique! He is definitely labeled “different” be teachers and students alike.
Likes/Dislikes
What are your hobbies or interests? What do you do in your free time? Enjoys reading, experimenting with potions up in his bedroom, and building muggle airplane models.
What kind of people do you like to be around? What are the kinds of people you can't stand? He doesn’t seem to like anyone dumb, lol. Enjoys the company of anyone who will give him a chance.
What is your favorite color? Is there a color you really hate? Likes forest green, hates pink.
Strengths/Weaknesses
Classes? Very good in every class. Surprisingly excellent at DATDA.
Talents? He can recite every breed of troll alphabetically, and speaks Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French, and Giant.
Please list 3 major faults your character has. (and if one of them is 'too nice' or 'too perfect', YOU HAVE A MARY SUE ON YOUR HANDS!!! *runs of screaming but returns with a large mallet* And then I'd have to use this....*grim expression*)
Is what one would call “coordinately challenged”, isn’t very good at having fun or being a kid, can’t always control what leaves his mouth, and, well---you read the app, he sure isn’t what one would call “accepting to the adolescent society”.
Writing Sample
Choose one of these topics:
~During the Summer~
“Shorty, if you’re gonna lock yourself in a room, make it ANY room, EXCEPT the BATHROOM. Now get out!” Ordered the muffled voice of Brad from the other side of the bathroom door, followed by fierce pounding by his fists.
Alvin sighed. This wasn’t the best time for someone to be banging the door down. The bathtub he was kneeling over with his sleeves rolled up currently contained an eight-foot-long lizard-type creature called a Murk. He’d stayed up all night hatching it.
“Now’s not a good time!” he called back, while trying desperately to hold the creature down—he didn’t think Mum would appreciate it if the Murk got out…
“What are you doing in there?”
“Um…”
The creature’s tails (he had two of them) came whipping up, crashing into the shelf above the showerhead. Shampoo’s and creams came crashing down, right on top of Alvin, giving the enormous lizard time to escape.
“What was that noise?”
Alvin scrambled to he feet and dived into a tackle on top of the Murk.
“Nothing, nothing! I just…tripped.”
“That sounded more like an elephant tripping, not you.” BANG.
Brad kicked the door open, only to find his younger brother straddling what looked like a giant green monster. Without bothering to ask, he hollered down the staircase,
“MUM, POPS, ALVIN HAS ANOTHER SLIMY GREEN THING IN THE BATHROOM!”
There was a thundering, stampede-like noise as the rest of the Dinkleburg family came running upstairs.
“Alvin!” exclaimed Mrs. Dinkleburg in astonishment, “What IS that….thing?”
“It’s a—” however, he was unable to finish his reply. The Murk decided to try and escape out the window, dragging poor Alvin along with him.
Brad, Josh, Danny, and Mr. Dinkleburg all jumped out to grab him, forming a rather disorganized human chain.
“Alvin Zechariah!” barked his father, as the Murk began to actually pull all five of them closer and closer towards the window, “Can’t you EVER have a SAFE hobby? One that isn’t ALIVE?”
“Everyone hold still!” ordered Mrs. Dinkleburg, whipping out her wand and aiming it at the Murk, “Paralizationorous!”
The Lizard froze in it’s tracks.
“There,” said Mrs. Dinkleburg briskly, “Everyone get up!”
The Dinkleburg boys shuffled to their feet, all glaring at Alvin, who looked exceptionally ruffled with his glasses hanging off one ear and his plaid, collared shirt un-tucked (which it never was).
Mr. Dinkleburg raised his pointer finger in the air as if he was about to shout “eureka”, but instead said, “This is what happens when a young boy like Alvin isn’t wasting his time playing Quidditch. Haven’t I been saying this for years? I have been saying this for years! Haven’t I, Lydia?”
“Never mind that, Daniel,” replied Mrs. Dinkleburg in a disproving tone, “That has nothing to do with this. Alvin, explain please.”
Alvin scratched the back of his neck guiltily and stared at the now filthy bathroom floor,
“I found the egg in the back of Josh’s closet and thought I’d hatch it just to see what was in it. I figured it was some kind of lizard based on the size, color, and light green specks on the shell, but I wasn’t certain. It actually turned out to be a Murk, and they actually turn out to grow a lot more quickly than I thought.”
“Obviously,” said Josh, raising an eyebrow, “And what were you doing in my closet?”
“What were you doing with in the first place, Joshua?” asked Mrs. Dinkleburg crossing her arms.
“I…um…found it?”
“Where?”
“Out…side?”
“Alvin,” announced M. Dinkleburg cutting in, “You’re grounded. Josh—you too. Heck—you’re all grounded. Now everybody go to their rooms. Brad and Jr.—no back talking.”
He turned his attention to the giant, paralyzed lizard, “Think we could sell that?”
OCC: The sample writing was once again done extremely quickly and doesn’t exactly show what kind of a person Alvin is—he’ll be a lot more fun at Hogwarts. lol
Proud Resident
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(6/2/04 8:04 pm) Reply
Re: Alvin Dinkleburg
Terrific application, WW. He'll fit in well with the Hufflepuffs--probably the only house where he'd have any sort of chance of ever getting talked to.
One little comment: never ever apologize for your work! If you apologize for what you've done, whoever is judging it is going to discount it out-of-hand (if you dont' think well of it why should they...). Just a friendly tip.
IMO it's accepted but Sara gets the final say. Her dad had surgery the other day and so I'm not sure when she'll be able to get on, sorry. I'll let her know that you're waiting, though.
You-Know-Emma
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(10/2/04 1:07 pm) Reply
Re: Alvin Dinkleburg
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack...
I think he's adorably nerdy. Accepted. :-D
LDSPrincess924
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bookworm Professor
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(11/2/04 6:04 pm) Reply
eye of newt, sphinx hair, phoenix tear
eye of newt, sphinx hair, phoenix tear. those don't work though. not that it matters in hte least bit, but the 3 cores you find in an Ollivanders wand (which is what I'm assuming it is) are Phoenix tail feathers, Dragon Heartstring, and Unicorn tail hair. Like I said, It't doesn't matter one whit, but I was just saying........
lol
yes..yes....I know...I know....I just wanted to fill in anything in order to countinue w/ the app.
Besides, it isn't like anyone ever pays attention to whats in peoples wands. lol
Hooray!
Yay! Skilmer's not the only 3rd year Hufflepuff boy!
*does a cartwheel*
*flops over and lands on her face*
*"Oh...I guess I'm no good at cartwheels"*
Hooray!
--Lacole
Quote:Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy.
--Lewis Carrol, The Jaberwocky
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(4/3/04 7:19 pm) Reply
doubtful
I seriously doubt you really did a cartwheel, or fell over, for that matter......or you would probably have been to preoccupied to post. Not that everybody can't see that, I just wanted to make some random comment.... dreadful habit of mine....
, Josh (16, going to school in America), and Danny (or Jr.—10)
You-Know-Emma 
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