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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
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Due to the family's penury, Snape often went underfed, with only the tattered remains of too-small clothes to keep him warm. He was frequently left to his own devices without the guidance or support of either parent; and the most prominent memories he has of his parents is of them fighting, both verbally and physically. His mother was emotionally distant, though not entirely unloving towards Severus. His father, on the other hand, was an angry man who had little patience for children and magic. His drinking problem only served to make his anger problems worse. As both an understated act of loyalty to his mother and his pride in his magical abilities, he secretly began calling himself The Half-Blood Prince.
When he was nine years-old, he met Lily Evans in the park in Cokeworth. He recognised that Lily had a gift for magic and the two quickly became close friends. He helped Lily recognise her magical abilities and grew exceedingly fond of her as their friendship deepened; having experienced little to no affection or love at home, Severus became rapidly and deeply infatuated with Lily. His feelings for her followed them to Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry; he had high hopes of Lily being sorted into Slytherin and was gutted when she was instead sorted into Gryffindor.
In First Year, he was taken under the wing of Slytherin prefect, Lucius Malfoy, who recognised that Severus was a very astute young wizard, particularly in the realms of the Dark Arts. Though Severus and Lily were inseparable for the first two years of school, their friendship was looked down upon by fellow Gryffindors and Slytherins alike, and Severus quickly found himself on the brunt of schoolyard bullying from Sirius Black and James Potter, which would only escalate as the years went on.
A severely misguided youth, Severus became increasingly torn between who to seek approval from as the years progressed: Lily, the secret and unspoken love of his life, or his fellow Slytherin would-be Death Eater friends. He had a great deal of poison tipped in his ear about Muggles, Half-bloods, Muggle-borns and those without Blood Purity (something which provoked a lot of anxiety in him, knowing full well that he is himself Half-blood; the thought of being outed or found out about his Blood Status and risking ostracisation from his Slytherin friends was a constant worry of his), which validated his worldview of his father and his own hatred of being related to him.
Becoming mixed up in the affairs of would-be Death Eaters, the promise of ultimate acceptance, and in the Dark Arts, was a medium through which Severus vented his anger, frustrations and loneliness. An unhealthy medium, at that. He became obsessed with both, particularly in the last two years of his schooling, due to having no other outward, "acceptable" way of coping, and that obsession rapidly began to take shape as a strong form of identity for him. The more of an identity he found in the Dark Arts and in Death Eater pride, the darker in nature and mindset he became. So poisoned was he by those around him and by the desperate sense of justice he wished to exact on his father, and by a desperate need for acceptance, that he was unable to see just how dark and twisted he was becoming.
As the years went on at Hogwarts, Severus was known to turn a disparaging attitude towards younger and less knowledgeable or astute students, often going out of his way to belittle First Years, particularly those in Gryffindor. He was dealt more than a fair share of detentions, a few of which he was forced to endure with Potter and Black. His hatred for the two, especially Potter, escalated to its height in Fifth Year, when Severus was humiliated by Black and Potter to the point where he lashed out at Lily when she was trying to defend him; a move that cost him their friendship, something that devastated Severus to his core.
He slipped deeper into depression as a result, fuelled by bitterness and resentment, and found himself further swayed by the intoxication of power and an unhealthy desire to be accepted by his Slytherin peers. Severus' hatred for Black took an even more severe turn in June of '76, when Black tricked Severus into following Remus Lupin into the Whomping Willow at full moon. It was here that Severus discovered Remus' truth about being a werewolf; and it was here that Severus almost lost his life had James Potter not saved him. Much to Severus' disgust, Potter's actions were considered a life debt, to which Severus now owed.
After finishing his N.E.W.T.s in June of 1978, Severus graduated from Hogwarts with straight-O's (straight Outstandings), an allegiance to the Dark Lord, and no job to speak of. Upon graduation, he was indicted into the Dark Lord's circle by receiving the extremely painful Dark Mark and became one of the Dark Lord's most trusted proteges outside of Barty Crouch Jnr.
Occasionally, the realisation would come through to him in "blips" of how deep he had gotten himself into the Death Eater mentality and identity - momentary glimpses of recognition that this was not the man he truly wanted to be. But he was in too deep now; and so whenever those "blips on the radar" happened, he relied heavily on denial to justify his reasons for staying loyal to the Dark Lord. And the Dark Lord had a terribly influential and charismatic way of making the most evilest of agendas seem just and dignified. Of course Severus wanted to rid the world of those like his father; it made sense to his young mind to join a league that would stop such filth from infecting the world. And the utter acceptance that he felt upon being thought of as one of the Dark Lord's most favoured accomplices: that alone was so terribly intoxicating that he was willing to do anything to please the Dark Lord. It was, in essence, the personification of a drug addiction.
In early 1980s, while hoping to procure a job teaching at Hogwarts, he overheard a conversation taking place between Professor Albus Dumbledore and Sybil Trelawny; she spoke of a prophesy in which a child would be born in July that would defeat the Dark Lord. Knowing it would gain favour of the Dark Lord, Severus immediately returned to Voldemort to relay what he'd overheard.
Only when Severus realised that two prominent wizard families - the Potters and the Longbottoms - were both expecting children in July of that year did Severus realise his mistake at telling the Dark Lord the prophesy. At first, he begged Voldemort to spare Lily's life, to take James and Harry in her place. Unconvinced that Voldemort would keep to his word, however, he decided to go to Dumbledore to beg for Lily's protection. Dumbledore agreed but asked Severus what he would do to ensure Lily's safety. "Anything," was what Severus replied with, and so Dumbledore told Severus that he was to become a spy for the Order of the Phoenix. Severus agreed.
Despite Dumbledore's efforts to keep the Potters safe, they were murdered on Halloween night of 1981 by Voldemort, who was tipped off by their Secret Keeper, Peter Pettigrew, who was in secret allegiance to the Dark Lord. Distraught by Lily's death, Severus confronted Dumbledore, only to be urged to protect Lily's son, Harry, out of respect for her memory. Severus was most reluctant at first, too caught up in despair and grief and remorse to want to listen to Dumbledore. The old professor talked him around, however, by beseeching to the most human part within Severus: his love for Lily. And so, Severus agreed, but on the condition that that most human part of him - his love for Lily - never be revealed to anyone, especially to Harry. Severus wanted to labour in secret, without public recognition or emotional reward. Severus chose to take on the task in the most self-flagellating way; motivated entirely by remorse and a strong conviction to seek repentance for his terrible choices that had ultimately cost Lily's life.
In 1981, after swearing Severus' loyalty to the Order in front of the court at the Wizengamot trial of Death Eater, Igor Karkaroff, Dumbledore employed Severus as Potions master to keep him safe. Severus had wanted the position of Defence Against The Dark Arts professor, however Dumbledore refused on account of the fact that the position was cursed by Lord Voldemort (a fact he didn't share with Severus), who had jinxed the teaching position after Dumbledore refused to hire him as DADA professor. However, unbeknownst to Severus at the time, Dumbledore had also refused Severus the position on account of not wanting to allow Severus access to something that would most surely lead him back down a dark path. Severus recognised this later in his life - he recognised, as he continually paid penance and repentance for the bad choices he'd made earlier in his life - that Dumbledore was protecting him from an addiction, for the Dark Arts was very much like a drug addiction to Severus.
In the years following, Severus made no attempt to find Voldemort; though he believed Dumbledore that Voldemort would one day return, he fabricated the story that he didn't look for the Dark Lord on account of believing the Dark Lord to be dead as an alibi to the Death Eaters so that he could remain loyal to the Order. Despite coming under immense scrutiny from the Dark Lord's more fanatical followers for his lack of loyalty, Voldemort forgave him and resumed considering Severus as one of his most trusted Death Eaters due to Severus being able to provide thirteen years of information on both Dumbledore and the Order; all of which he was very careful to reveal only information that would not lead to the detriment of both Harry Potter or the Order, while keeping Voldemort satisfied at the same time.
During all of Harry's schooling at Hogwarts, Severus treated the boy with unyielding disdain, not only disgusted by the way in which Harry reminded him of James, but forever reminded of his guilt for his unintentional involvement in Lily's death. He also maintained a fierce dislike for the Longbottoms' son, Neville; had Voldemort decided to target the Longbottoms instead, Lily would still have been alive. Despite his immense prejudice and antipathy towards Potter and Longbottom, Severus stuck to what he'd sworn to Dumbledore: he protected Harry, and indeed the rest of the children at Hogwarts, despite his draconian, bordering on cruel methods of teaching, until the very end.
In 1997, he was forced to take on protecting Draco on top of everything else, taking the Unbreakable Vow to swear to look out for Draco and to fulfil the duties expected of Draco should he fail. In that same year, after Dumbledore had come to Severus gravely ill with a curse that was rapidly killing him (a curse caused by a ring in which, unbeknownst to Dumbledore at the time, was one of the Dark Lord's seven Horcruxes; Dumbledore had found the ring and, recognising the Deathly Hallows symbol on the Resurrection Stone forced into the ring, put it on in hope to resurrect his dead relatives, which activated the deadly curse), Severus managed to contain the curse to Dumbledore's hand but told the old professor that he would die a slow and most agonising death within a year. There was nothing he could do to rid Dumbledore of the curse. Dumbledore made Severus promise that, when the time was right, he was to kill Dumbledore himself.
On the night that Death Eaters invaded Hogwarts, Draco, accompanied by Bellatrix Lestrange to ensure he would carry out the act of killing Dumbledore, was unable to go through with committing murder; and so Severus, as planned by both Dumbledore and in accordance to the Unbreakable Vow, killed Dumbledore himself. He fled Hogwarts that night to rejoin the ranks of the Death Eaters. With Voldemort now in control of the Ministry, Severus was appointed Headmaster of Hogwarts. He appeared to be operating under the title of loyal servant to the Dark Lord, but was in actual fact protecting the school and its staff and students to the best of his ability.
It was during the final battle of Hogwarts that Severus was killed. Voldemort, erroneously believing Severus to be the master of the Elder Wand, had his snake, Nagini attack and kill Severus in the belief that this would make Voldemort the rightful owner of the Elder Wand. It is at this point that Severus enters Ruby City.
[Reposted as I realised I had made a cut/paste error! Sorry about that. c:]
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