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CAIUS OSRIC SILVANUS II
Basics
Character Name: Caius Osric Silvanus II
Age: 42
House: Hufflepuff
Date of Birth: December 20, 1972
Blood Status: Halfblood
Wand: forsynthia wood, pheonix feather core, 13 inches, and best for transfiguration
Personality
Likes: Astronomy, nighttime, classic literature, his children, tea, teaching, the color yellow, stargazing, muggle fantasy, birds, mythology, chocolate, the piano, quidditch, and cats.
Dislikes: Students falling asleep, the thought that his subject is boring because it doesn’t require magic, discrimination, the anniversary of Celia’s death, cud-chewing animals (they ALWAYS spit on him), daytime, students snogging in the hallways, and violence/disrespect.
Personality: Caius could be considered that one teacher that's really random, cool, and funny. He is most known for slamming the door shut anytime he enters or leaves his classroom. The only reason he does this is to keep the students awake in class... well, it's also amusing to him to see his students flinch. He tries to make the study of the night sky as interesting to his students as it is for him. On occasion he'll let things get off subject in his class, and they'll end up talking about something random like llamas or muggle contraptions when he should be teaching something about the constellation Orion. However, when he has students that misbehave, disrespect others, don't do their work, or show no desire to learn, Caius cracks down. He can become very strict when he needs to be and will practically force that student to like astronomy.
How he acts in class could relate to how he acts with other people. He tends to be a fun-loving guy. He knows how to make people laugh with him, and (while not the life of the party or social butterfly) he has amazing social skills and has an aura of joy around him. He adores quidditch, and has his entire life. He played the position of chaser on Hufflepuff's quidditch team from his 3rd to his 7th year. He's a fan of watching muggle sports as well, like football (not the american version), tennis, and rugby. He loves reading muggle fantasy novels, as they can be fairly amusing to him.
However, everyone has a shadow that follows them. At random, Caius will become very depressed. Especially when someone mentions his wife. He and his wife Celia were practically soul mates, then she was killed in the line of duty. All that Caius has left of her are old photos and his three children; Ozzy, Valerie, and Maisie. He's very protective of his daughters and tries his absolute hardest to ensure their happiness. He would be devastated if anything was to happen to them.
History
Parents: Amelia Silvanus, muggle, 64, astronomer
Caius Osric Silvanus I- former Hufflepuff, pureblood, 67, shopkeeper
Siblings: none
Wife: Celia Comstock-Silvanus; deceased at 37. Former Ravenclaw and Auror
Children:
Caius “Ozzy” Osric Silvanus III- 17, 7th year, Ravenclaw. Has ginger tabby cat.
Valerie Priscilla Silvanus- 15, 5th year, Ravenclaw. Has white Persian cat.
Maisie Emmeline Silvanus- 14, 3th year, Hufflepuff. Has Russian Blue cat.
Character History: It was a very, very rainy April day when Caius Osric Silvanus Jr. was born to Amelia and Caius Osric Silvanus Sr. He was born in a muggle hospital rather than a wizarding one at the wish of Caius Sr's muggle wife. The family, with smaller wizarding influence than most, was happy and content. A few months later Caius Jr was baptized into the Anglican church. For about a year the family lived with one son, little Caius.
Life for Caius was simple in his early childhood. He didn't show any signs of magic until he was about seven. His mother was reading him his favorite bedtime story, and suddenly the book flew in the air and around his mother. She ran to get her husband, the wizard of the family (as Amelia was a muggle). Caius Sr. asked his son to make the book fly again, and he was barely able to. Caius at once smiled, knowing that his son was a wizard.
The rest of his childhood was uneventful. He was simply a part of a happy and content family. When he was eleven he got his acceptance letter into Hogwarts. When he arrived, he was at once placed into Hufflepuff, as his father was. He expected to only be able to make friends in Hufflepuff. After all, most people in other houses looked down upon Hufflepuff.
However, his first year was when he met the Ravenclaw Celia Comstock.
They were assigned as partners for Potions. Caius expected that Celia would be wanting to do all the work and not let Caius assist her. But instead Celia was asking for Caius' help and wanted to have him equally involved in making the potions, even if it didn't always turn out right. They began to hang out more and more outside of class. During the summer between his first and second year, Celia visited him often, as well as Caius visiting Celia often. During his second year, their friendship grew. However... Caius' emotions for Celia continued to grow as well. About half way through his second year he began to develop a crush on Celia. But he also developed a crush on a girl in his house named Lyana Jordan. When he was in his third year, Celia began dating a boy in Ravenclaw. Caius asked Lyana if she would be willing to go on a date with him, and she accepted. In his third year, he was also got onto the Hufflepuff quidditch team as a chaser.
By the time the middle of his fourth year came around, things between him and Lyana had been slowly dying away. Lyana was the one who finally said that Caius and her would be better off as friends. Caius agreed and that relationship ended. Celia was in her second relationship after things ended with the Ravenclaw boy. Celia had started dating a boy in Slytherin. Caius was very against it, as were most of Celia's friends. But she didn't care. She let emotions cloud her mind. During the summer between his fourth and fifth year, Celia and her mother came to his house in the middle of the summer in tears. Caius was initially confused, as her house was three hours away. Celia's mother went to talk to Caius' mother. And Celia at once started to cry in Caius' arms. After Celia calmed down a bit, she was able to explain that the Slytherin boy was cheating on her the entire time. Caius was filled with an indescribable rage. How dare he hurt his Celia!? Wait- his Celia? Since when had he been thinking like that? It wasn't until a little into his fifth year that he realized he was falling for Celia. And hard.
Halfway through his fifth year he took a big risk. He didn't want to lose Celia as a friend if she didn't return his emotions, but he couldn't hide his feelings any longer. When he asked his father about what to do, Caius Sr. said to go for it. He did with Amelia, and it turned out very well. So on a cold December day, Caius asked Celia to go to Hogsmade with him as a date. Celia froze for a moment, and Caius will never forget the fear he had during that million year moment. He was so afraid that he had just made a mistake, until Celia said yes. While on their date, Celia admitted that she's liked Caius for a while, which is why her relationship with the Slytherin was going badly. For the next month the two had gone on more dates. Finally Caius asked Celia to go steady with him. She said yes. That night was their first kiss.
For the next two years, Celia and Caius were probably one of the happiest couples in Hogwarts. People always joked with them about how they were going to end up married. They didn't have many fights. They were considered to be in that "honeymoon phase," which led some to call their relationship "unhealthy" and "too idealist." But neither Caius nor Celia cared. Caius knew that Celia was his soul mate, the one he was destined to be with. He took a huge risk when he was seventeen and asked Celia's father if there was a possibility of getting his blessing so Caius could ask Celia to marry him. Celia's father accepted, knowing that Caius would take care of his daughter. So a month after Caius and Celia graduated from Hogwarts, Caius proposed to Celia. Celia said yes. When they were 18, they got married.
The couple agreed that for as long as Celia was in Auror training, they would put off having children. Besides, they were only 19. They didn’t want to be parents so early. While Celia was going through this training, Caius decided to go to muggle university to study the more scientific side of astronomy. He was accepted into a three year program in Planetary Science with Astronomy at Birkbeck, University of London. The location worked well because it still allowed him and Celia to be nearby. When he was 22, he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree. He decided that he didn’t really need to get any higher muggle education. He began to work in his father’s bookstore during the daytime and at night he would study the night sky. When Celia and Caius were 23, they decided that they wanted to try and start a family together. Six months later, Celia had finally gotten pregnant. On April 22, 1998, Celia gave birth to a boy. The couple ended up deciding to name him Caius Osric Silvanus III. The baby boy quickly became known as Ozzy to the Silvanus family. On February 8, 2000, their second child Valerie Priscilla Silvanus was born. Their third and last child, Maisie Emmeline Silvanus, was born November 13, 2001. He loved his children more than anything and each day he’d look at Celia and think about how lucky he was to have her be the mother of his children.
When Caius was around 32, he heard that Hogwarts as going to be looking for an astronomy professor. Caius applied and ended up receiving the job. He got permission for his wife and his 7 year old son, and 5 and 3 year old daughters to live with him in the castle. Four years later, Ozzy began his schooling at Hogwarts. He was sorted into Ravenclaw, his mother’s house. Two years after that, Valerie started school and was sorted into Ravenclaw as well. On the night of December 28, 2010, Celia was killed in the line of duty after a wizard she’d been tracking spotted her and used the killing curse on her. Instead of celebrating New Years with his family, he had to bury his wife and mourned.
Caius has never gotten over her death, and probably never will. For months he never talked outside of class, and was cold and emotionless during his lessons. Other staff helped him with caring for Maisie, who was only nine years old. He only started to perk up again when Maisie started school two years later and was sorted into Hufflepuff. The next year he was made Head of Hufflepuff house. Now he’s 42 years old (nearly 43), and has mostly gone back to his usual cheerful, laid back self. Though during the next few days, however, he won’t be quite as cheerful. The anniversary of Celia’s death is coming up, after all.
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