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BASIC INFO
Name: Chase River Jordan
Age & Birthday: 23. August 18. Leo.
Blood Status: Halfblood
Schooling: Hogwarts, Gryffindor, '14-'21. Quidditch commentator '15-'21.
Occupation: DJ for a show on the Quibbler Network, [NAME]*, where they play music no one's ever heard and will never hear again and talk way too much about their life. Oh, also a server at Meat Sweats whenever they remember to go in.
* Actual name
Sexuality: It's all good.
Gender & Pronouns: Nonbinary, she/they.
Age & Birthday: 23. August 18. Leo.
Blood Status: Halfblood
Schooling: Hogwarts, Gryffindor, '14-'21. Quidditch commentator '15-'21.
Occupation: DJ for a show on the Quibbler Network, [NAME]*, where they play music no one's ever heard and will never hear again and talk way too much about their life. Oh, also a server at Meat Sweats whenever they remember to go in.
* Actual name
Sexuality: It's all good.
Gender & Pronouns: Nonbinary, she/they.
APPEARANCE
Height: 5'9"
Hair: Dark brown, currently a mushroom cloud on their head until they decide to shave it off again.
Eyes: Brown.
Manner of Dress: Chase likes to be comfortable: baggy clothes, thrift shop chic jeans and jackets, clunky boots and soft socks and sweatshirts. Sometimes they'll dress it up and wear shorts or a shirt less than three sizes too big, maybe even a romper, but skirts and dresses are right out of the question.
General Vibes: That kid who asked to borrow a pencil in first grade and remembered to return it ten years later.
Notable Features: Missing second bicuspid on the bottom right. Scar from that time a kid stabbed a pencil into their left hand as a kid. Connect-the-dots tattoo of a lion on their ribs. It looks a little more like Simba than they wanted but fuck it.
Hair: Dark brown, currently a mushroom cloud on their head until they decide to shave it off again.
Eyes: Brown.
Manner of Dress: Chase likes to be comfortable: baggy clothes, thrift shop chic jeans and jackets, clunky boots and soft socks and sweatshirts. Sometimes they'll dress it up and wear shorts or a shirt less than three sizes too big, maybe even a romper, but skirts and dresses are right out of the question.
General Vibes: That kid who asked to borrow a pencil in first grade and remembered to return it ten years later.
Notable Features: Missing second bicuspid on the bottom right. Scar from that time a kid stabbed a pencil into their left hand as a kid. Connect-the-dots tattoo of a lion on their ribs. It looks a little more like Simba than they wanted but fuck it.
PERSONALITY
FOMO ON THE GO Chase doesn't sit still very well. Even when they're fully beat and falling face-first over their own feet into bed, say the right word and we're on the move again. Life doesn't STOP just because they're ready to, and Chase doesn't want to miss aaaanything. This could be the next chapter in their life!! FOMO more than anything gets them up and going every morning (or... afternoon. whatever, morning is a state of mind!!) and infuses them with a jittery sort of energy. Not only are they up for anything at any moment, they want to be ready to gooooo and get in on the ground floor of whatever shenanigans you're planning.
COMPASSIONATE Chase heard plenty of stories about the war from their parents when they were a kid—the secret army, the Hogwarts battle, the underground Potter Watch network. They were teenagers and they were so cool and so brave, and Chase couldn't wait to grow up and be just like them. They wanted to be a Big Damn Hero, and they still do. With the best of intentions, every little cause they spot along their path gets picked up and broadcast as loud as they can.
IMPULSIVE, UNRELIABLE Good intentions, bad follow through. Shit, shit, shit, they promised they'd help clean up that graffiti and then slept all morning. Ah crap!!! They have a shift in ten minutes but just last night decided to go to a concert in Cardiff and they're way too hungover to apparate!! Chase does not think things through before agreeing to them. They really, really want to help, they want to be on time and come through on their promises, it's just really, really hard to remember all of these obligations!! Oh, they should write these in a day planner?? Pfft. What even is that???
(Literally what's a day planner though)
RESOURCEFUL A skill mostly used to MacGyver bongs out of whatever's lying around. Like a Lego Master Builder, Chase has the remarkable ability to look around the room and figure out how to turn up your party, throw together an outfit for a night out, or survive for this week before payday. There's always a way to turn a situation around with three PVC pipes and four chicken eggs, even if sometimes turning a situation around really does just mean making a bong.
HYPE MAN Oh man does Chase love seeing their friends succeed. Any time they try something new, Chase is first in line or seated in the front row, cheering and crying and singing along. Not only are they supportive, they do everything they can to get the rest of the world just as excited. Got a promotion? They'll announce it on their show. Busking on the street corner? They're the one clapping and dancing and shouting at people that this is SO worth throwing just a few sickles in the hat!! It is, in a way, an attempt to make their friends' successes a little about them as well, but it really does come from a good place.
BAD AT BOUNDARIES Chase doesn't understand people who don't like hugs, or invasive questions, or people eating their food from the communal fridge at 3 AM like a spaghetti gremlin. As far as they are concerned, we're all family now, and family has no boundaries. This also extends to their customers and their listeners; the amount that they've overshared on the air means you're all connected and cannot escape them.
COMPASSIONATE Chase heard plenty of stories about the war from their parents when they were a kid—the secret army, the Hogwarts battle, the underground Potter Watch network. They were teenagers and they were so cool and so brave, and Chase couldn't wait to grow up and be just like them. They wanted to be a Big Damn Hero, and they still do. With the best of intentions, every little cause they spot along their path gets picked up and broadcast as loud as they can.
IMPULSIVE, UNRELIABLE Good intentions, bad follow through. Shit, shit, shit, they promised they'd help clean up that graffiti and then slept all morning. Ah crap!!! They have a shift in ten minutes but just last night decided to go to a concert in Cardiff and they're way too hungover to apparate!! Chase does not think things through before agreeing to them. They really, really want to help, they want to be on time and come through on their promises, it's just really, really hard to remember all of these obligations!! Oh, they should write these in a day planner?? Pfft. What even is that???
(Literally what's a day planner though)
RESOURCEFUL A skill mostly used to MacGyver bongs out of whatever's lying around. Like a Lego Master Builder, Chase has the remarkable ability to look around the room and figure out how to turn up your party, throw together an outfit for a night out, or survive for this week before payday. There's always a way to turn a situation around with three PVC pipes and four chicken eggs, even if sometimes turning a situation around really does just mean making a bong.
HYPE MAN Oh man does Chase love seeing their friends succeed. Any time they try something new, Chase is first in line or seated in the front row, cheering and crying and singing along. Not only are they supportive, they do everything they can to get the rest of the world just as excited. Got a promotion? They'll announce it on their show. Busking on the street corner? They're the one clapping and dancing and shouting at people that this is SO worth throwing just a few sickles in the hat!! It is, in a way, an attempt to make their friends' successes a little about them as well, but it really does come from a good place.
BAD AT BOUNDARIES Chase doesn't understand people who don't like hugs, or invasive questions, or people eating their food from the communal fridge at 3 AM like a spaghetti gremlin. As far as they are concerned, we're all family now, and family has no boundaries. This also extends to their customers and their listeners; the amount that they've overshared on the air means you're all connected and cannot escape them.
HISTORY
Notable Family Members:
Hometown: A little all over the place, but if pushed they'd say they spent the most time in Diagon Alley and Little Rodgery Stodgery Hollow.
Apartment: #33 on Floor 3 🏡 Our Lady of Perpetual Clucks
History:
Father: Lee Jordan
Mother: Alicia Spinnet
and assorted grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, ex-stepparents and siblings and more that aren't important and don't really need names.
Mother: Alicia Spinnet
and assorted grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, ex-stepparents and siblings and more that aren't important and don't really need names.
Hometown: A little all over the place, but if pushed they'd say they spent the most time in Diagon Alley and Little Rodgery Stodgery Hollow.
Apartment: #33 on Floor 3 🏡 Our Lady of Perpetual Clucks
History:
When Lee Jordan and Alicia Spinnet announced they were expecting, the reaction was a resounding "oh yikes." Which was... fair. Lee and Alicia were young, they weren't in a relationship, they only seemed to like each other every other week, and "we got knocked up because we were drunk and share trauma" is not the basis for a family. But by golly they were going to try.
It didn't work for long. Barely six months in and Lee and Alicia swore (for the fifth or sixth time) that they couldn't stand living together for another second, and the only hope of everyone getting through this alive was to co-parent in separate houses, in separate towns, in separate countries if at all possible. And so Chase was born into a family that was scattered, chaotic and confused — an energy they immediately absorbed, for better or for worse.
Chase's early life is a blur, but a pleasant one. Things like home, family, and their caretakers for the day (or week or month) all seemed mutable to them as they drifted around, from mum to dad, gramps to gran, auntie to cousin to friend-who-probably-shouldn't-be-trusted-with-kids. Their parents would get significant others, dad got married and divorced in the same year, mum floated adopting her partner's children and then broke up. The only thing Chase considered constant was change.
Which is why Hogwarts was a weird and difficult time for them. Not just being away from family, but the sameness. Every day they ate their meals at the same time, in the same place. Every night they went to bed in the same room, with the same people. And they had to stick to a schedule, a word Chase had possibly never even heard before coming to school.
But they found their niches. They corpse camped that Quidditch commentator spot, they dragged themself through the minimum number of classes, they introduced trap music to Hogwarts. Eventually, the castle became comfortable and reliable, the time passed too quickly and they found themself reluctant to leave their little Gryffindor tower nest.
Chase left because it was legally required of them and then they cast themself on the wind. Or something like that. Chase didn't have an anchor and didn't understand the concept, so they just floated, searching vainly for a passion or a project to ground them. They tried their hand here and there — a freelance stint writing blind items for the Prophet and Witch Weekly, milking squonks at a squonk farm, quality testing firewhiskey (somehow the worst of the bunch), but nothing stuck. Sometimes it feels like nothing ever will, and Chase thinks they'd be okay with that.
Recently in their misguided wanderings they joined some friends on an impromptu long weekend in the Netherlands. Three months later, covered in dirt (and in possession of hiking and camping gear now apparently) they showed back up on their doorstep... to find someone else living in their flat. Oh. Were they supposed to pay rent while they were gone? Hardly seems fair.
At any rate, the universe provides for Chase, and when their old landlady handed over their post, the only letter that mattered was the one about Henhurst Hall. Chase could really use a place to crash so hopefully there's not a weird amount of chicken stuff there or anything.
It didn't work for long. Barely six months in and Lee and Alicia swore (for the fifth or sixth time) that they couldn't stand living together for another second, and the only hope of everyone getting through this alive was to co-parent in separate houses, in separate towns, in separate countries if at all possible. And so Chase was born into a family that was scattered, chaotic and confused — an energy they immediately absorbed, for better or for worse.
Chase's early life is a blur, but a pleasant one. Things like home, family, and their caretakers for the day (or week or month) all seemed mutable to them as they drifted around, from mum to dad, gramps to gran, auntie to cousin to friend-who-probably-shouldn't-be-trusted-with-kids. Their parents would get significant others, dad got married and divorced in the same year, mum floated adopting her partner's children and then broke up. The only thing Chase considered constant was change.
Which is why Hogwarts was a weird and difficult time for them. Not just being away from family, but the sameness. Every day they ate their meals at the same time, in the same place. Every night they went to bed in the same room, with the same people. And they had to stick to a schedule, a word Chase had possibly never even heard before coming to school.
But they found their niches. They corpse camped that Quidditch commentator spot, they dragged themself through the minimum number of classes, they introduced trap music to Hogwarts. Eventually, the castle became comfortable and reliable, the time passed too quickly and they found themself reluctant to leave their little Gryffindor tower nest.
Chase left because it was legally required of them and then they cast themself on the wind. Or something like that. Chase didn't have an anchor and didn't understand the concept, so they just floated, searching vainly for a passion or a project to ground them. They tried their hand here and there — a freelance stint writing blind items for the Prophet and Witch Weekly, milking squonks at a squonk farm, quality testing firewhiskey (somehow the worst of the bunch), but nothing stuck. Sometimes it feels like nothing ever will, and Chase thinks they'd be okay with that.
Recently in their misguided wanderings they joined some friends on an impromptu long weekend in the Netherlands. Three months later, covered in dirt (and in possession of hiking and camping gear now apparently) they showed back up on their doorstep... to find someone else living in their flat. Oh. Were they supposed to pay rent while they were gone? Hardly seems fair.
At any rate, the universe provides for Chase, and when their old landlady handed over their post, the only letter that mattered was the one about Henhurst Hall. Chase could really use a place to crash so hopefully there's not a weird amount of chicken stuff there or anything.
MISCELLANEOUS
Wand: Red oak (with chunks of walnut veneer not quite sanded off), crup hair core, 9.5". The wand comes from an artisanal wandmaker who rescues old furniture into wands and he swears the veneer imbues it with extra power. He provides no proof to back up his claim.
Patronus: Ladybug. Look at it go!!!
Familiar: Odo, a crested gecko.
Favorite Quidditch Team: Wigtown Wanderersssss
Skills: Fast talker. Interviewing. Can touch their tongue with their nose but like they can really get that tongue up in there. Looking like they're listening when they're really just trying to eat fries off your plate. Making impromptu bongs.
Fun Facts:
Patronus: Ladybug. Look at it go!!!
Familiar: Odo, a crested gecko.
Favorite Quidditch Team: Wigtown Wanderersssss
Skills: Fast talker. Interviewing. Can touch their tongue with their nose but like they can really get that tongue up in there. Looking like they're listening when they're really just trying to eat fries off your plate. Making impromptu bongs.
Fun Facts:
x. Their parents both started dating the same woman a few years ago, not realizing who was on the other end. They're now a throuple and the happiest they've been.
x. They think chickens are unnatural but they'd worship a duck if you had one handy or something.
x. They think chickens are unnatural but they'd worship a duck if you had one handy or something.
NAME Alex TIMEZONE PST PB Kiersey Clemons CONTACT heydudeshutup at gmail
