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AGE: 19
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NAME: Frank Longbottom
AGE: 16
DATE OF BIRTH: October 15
HOUSE: Gryffindor
SIBLINGS: Alice Longbottom -- (this may change according to how Alice's player feels, but this is the idea I have for now) Alice and Frank had some pretty epic screaming matches when they were younger, and Frank is only 16 so there's probably still bitterness there. Alice is such a strong personality that Frank felt like he needed to work extra hard to get his own opinions heard in their house, and he felt that typical younger-sibling jealousy and pressure to be just as good as her. Frank feels like Alice doesn't take him seriously, thinks of him as a child, and since they're only a year apart, this frustrates him to no end. Growing up together, Frank and Alice have both seen each other at their worst and so, while they both have good reasons to bitch about each other to their friends, they also know that the other has equally justifiable reasons. Frank thinks that Alice is too judgmental, and that she needs to give people more chances to "prove" themselves to her. He's also incredibly miffed about the fact that he had to rely on Alice all summer to Apparate him places and perform magic when he needed it but wasn't legally allowed to do it himself. Deep down, he respects her; most of the reasons he doesn't get along with her now only bother him because they make it more difficult to get her approval.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Heterosexual

PERSONALITY/LIKES - DISLIKES - HOBBIES: Frank Longbottom is like his father in many ways; he is clumsy, prone to forgetfulness, has a tendency to worry too much and has exceptional skills in the field of Herbology. He is, however, unlike Neville in a great many other ways. While Neville, in his youth, would have kept most of his thoughts to himself and carried out his day trying not to be disruptive, Frank is constantly prodding around, subjecting people to his fantastically big mouth. A trait he inherited from his darling mother, Frank has next to nothing in the way of a filter for his self-expression and if he isn't giving away his every thought with words, he's doing it with his traitorous facial features.

He's friendly, if a little pathetic at meeting people for the first time, and will often take a long time to get comfortable enough with someone to laugh and joke with them. He fidgets constantly and his eyes are always moving, traveling around the area and making his head buzz with mostly unimportant thoughts. Frank is almost never not distracted in class, but he somehow manages to pull through with more-than decent marks. While usually appearing quite modest (having no estimates as to where he ranks on a scale of physical attractiveness, and never claiming right to academic pride,) Frank does regularly show signs of a personal brand of narcissism. When he gets an idea into his mind, and he really and truly believes it to be valid, he will try to push it onto everyone around him until they either believe him or walk away in annoyance. Frank is something of a conspiracy theorist and has believed that every single Professor at Hogwarts had a grudge against him at one point or another. Frank, like his sister, is very opinionated, with a distaste for people who choose to remain neutral; the moral compass is strong in him and he can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to support what's right. If he had to describe his philosophy when it came to conflict with other people, Frank would say: "They don't have to like me, they just have to listen to me."

Frank likes muggle video games, any occasion where he might be permitted to stuff his face and most things that have roots. He's particularly fascinated by the Whomping Willow, but his father insists that it's just an unstable enchantment and he ought to stay away from it. He likes girls a lot too, but that's sort of a given; he went through a phase throughout third and fourth year where he attempted to be suave and woo the girls his age, but he soon realized that he would always be far too spastic for the work of the ladies-man. He resigns himself to being "the friend" and enjoys the company of the fairer sex in a platonic way. Frank doesn't like shady politicians, especially the lot that's been messing with the laws lately, and he hates any kind of thinking that resembles the Death Eater ideologies. He's ever so slightly wary of Slytherins, but he knows that prejudices like that are unnecessary in this time and can learn to get along with them just fine.

If it weren't for Herbology, Frank and Neville would have nothing to talk about. Frank's interest in the field sprouted (heh) just before he hit his teens and it improved their originally bland relationship significantly. He likes to keep himself busy in the greenhouses when there's no one else around, having something to do with his hands quiets the paranoid thoughts that creep into his head and zip around like excited hummingbirds.

HISTORY: Frank, being the youngest, was the closest thing the new Longbottom family had to a brat; when he was younger he could get almost anything out of his mother with a "please" and a lopsided smile. And even today, if Frank is without a job and needing money to go out, one of his parents will hand over a pouch of galleons and they usually won't go into the lecture about finding employment (a lecture they might have given if Alice had been in the same position.) When the traditional methods failed, Frank often got his way as a child because he didn't have a problem with whining; he has since learned to control himself.

When he finally got to Hogwarts and had to sit through the sorting, he'd been terribly nervous. He'd known it was a cliché, being afraid to sort outside of the family (even if he didn't know what "cliché" meant at the time) but he couldn't help it. He was already terrified by the Slytherins, intimidated by the Ravenclaws and mostly confused by the Hufflepuffs, Gryffindor was the place with the most familiar faces. The hat had been quick in settling his fears, though, and Frank was so relieved he even hugged Alice when he got to the table; a display of weakness he'd hoped he wouldn't make in the first week.

Frank's tendency to jump to the most frantic conclusions didn't alienate him from the rest of his peers, but it didn't necessarily help him either. He struggled to make friends in first and second year, but he gained more as he got into the higher years and his opinions became less annoyingly insistent. Frank has never had a girlfriend but has been thinking about what it would be like since he knew that boys and girls could date. There were a few occasions where he actually got the nerve to ask a girl out, but the ones he liked were always way out of his league and always said no. He was rejected so many times before fifth year that he told his friends he'd given up entirely; they'd all laughed, but Frank hasn't asked a girl out since.

APPEARANCE: Frank has just enough muscle that the word "skinny" doesn't come to mind immediately when looking at him. He's slightly taller than most of his friends, at just under six feet, and he has big feet that get him into way more trouble than they have any right to. His eyes are a watery olive color and he has thick, dark hair and eyebrows. He dresses modestly, in shirts that are never less than a size too big, and his hands are always in his pockets. His face is sometimes overly expressive and, when he isn't standing, he has a tendency to sprawl his limbs out like they're sick of the rest of his body.
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PLOT IDEAS; ASPIRING PLANS FOR YOUR CHARACTER: For some sick, strange reason I want something really awful to happen to Frank, something that will stress him out enough to bring him (temporarily?) into the realm of the little-bit-crazy. I guess I just like the irony, what with his grandparents and how freaked out he is by them. So if anything comes up later in the game where a student might need to become a victim, I'm all for it!