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Full Name
Epiphanes Fox
Nickname(s)
Piff
Age
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Date of Birth
19 April 1931
Department
Department of Mysteries
Personal information
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Maude M. Graves — Mother — Pureblood
Ligeia Fox — Sister
Hesperus Fox — Brother
Yseult Fox — Daughter
Arabella Jones — Ex-wife — Pureblood
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✘ Irreverent, stubborn, proud, foolhardy, cynical
Personality Description
'Ruffian' would probably be the first thing that comes to mind when you stumble across Piff. Though loud, brazen and sometimes unaware of the extent of the mischief he causes, he does make efforts to make amends when he realises he's in the wrong—that is, when he does. For many people bearing the brunt of it, unfortunately, it may not come as quickly (or as amicably) as one would expect. A need to suppress his vulnerability in front of others more often than not has him puffing out his chest trying to save face. This pride lands him in far too many scrapes than necessary. It's even worse so when confronted with enemies, with whom he often enjoys taunting before launching headlong into either fiery spats or full-on punch-ups.
Despite this fiery behaviour, Piff, surprisingly, is often not instigator to much of these spats or punch-ups. He has a strong protective instinct, and quickly moves when he feels any of the people he cares about are in danger or have been slighted—warranted or not. With them, he's always more serious. The eldest of the brood with two younger siblings with significant age gaps and parents off to work, he's used to becoming an acting father and mother of sorts. With an 8-year-old daughter on his shoulders, this tendency only served to increase.
It's with this increase, married with his family's financial situation that drives him to take on the numerous jobs he does with whomever's offering (or whomever he has to badger to get it) in multiple fields, and often doesn't care about his own well-being as long as he's able to fund his way to Christmas spreads at least vaguely reminiscent of the ones in the Great Hall—or, at the very least, better meals everyday instead of tasteless slop. However, his health isn't the only thing sacrificed in the name of providing for family. When it comes to work, his morality's flexible, tenuous, and it allows him to blend in well and adjust to the needs of whomever needs the work done, but it leaves him capable of committing acts that may not be morally upright.
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Dislikes: Not being in control of what's being revealed about him, gossipmongers, any harm coming to his daughter, self-righteous pureblood families, nosy people, smug Goody-Two-Shoes, reading long texts, being accused of things he didn't do, sermons
Secrets: He's worked as a lackey for two Dark wizards when he was younger, having been passed on from one to another after the first's death, and was unwillingly taken in as an apprentice of sorts for a year and a half until the second's imprisonment in Azkaban. It was, however, borne out of financial necessity. He's afraid that if he comes clean about this during this stint in the Ministry, it could spell the end of a good job with potentially secure tenure.
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Patronus: Badger
Boggart: Losing his daughter's respect
Occupation or What they did Before Recruitment: Of late, barkeeper and potioneer
Pets: A magpie named Wendelin
Magical Strengths: Dark Magic, potion-making, transfiguration, (some) charms, occlumency
Magical Weaknesses: Arithmancy, legilimency, divination
Biography
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Of course, that was of no consequence to Piff. With great families come equally great squabbles. By the mid-19th century, so great were the rifts in the family that whatever considerable amount of wealth the family had possessed was either unequally distributed or didn’t even reach certain branches of the family. So, instead of a castle or a large estate, Epiphanes Fox, one of a long line of successful tradesmen, was born into a low income family. The wealth and the impact of name recall were gone long before he came.
His parents strove to make themselves fairly decent despite their circumstances. The Keep, their family home situated some distance from Ilkley in a small wizard hamlet, was always clean and quaintly furnished, and Zosimus and Maude were always well-dressed, albeit in homemade garb. However, this didn’t seem to rub off on young Piff, who was always out gallivanting with the hamlet’s tearaways. Progress was slow as far as manners were concerned but he had flourished with the lessons he’d had at home, showing an early brilliance with magic. His subsequent acceptance into Hogwarts and years in schooling had been a breeze of Os and Es, although the distraction of the Muggle war had made it rather difficult to study for his O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. Despite doing well for himself, however, he didn’t really take putting himself on the job market too seriously. He did have several but whatever was left of his wages after putting into his family’s account he used for merrymaking, and would’ve continued to do so if he hadn’t later fallen in love with and married Arabella Jones in secret.
Unfortunately, upon finding out about the union, her parents, rich and powerful purebloods, attempted to separate them. These attempts became much more subtle with the impending arrival of little Yseult and started anew early into her toddler years. With mounting pressure from her parents, Arabella gave in and divorced him. The child was left with him for reasons her maternal grandparents gave that still make him sick to the stomach, although they did continually give her generous stipends to secure a comfortable life for her. (He has these stowed away safely in an account until she reaches school age.)
Stubborn as he is, he was determined to prove them wrong about him. He started to clean up and take more serious lines of work into his mid-to-late twenties in the hope that he could be able to rub in their faces the fact that a ‘pathetic, dirt-poor pureblood’ like him could have upward mobility even without the means or connections and support a child. With this appointment to the Ministry, he thinks he has a fair chance of that happening soon.
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Face Claim: Sam Riley
Theme: Figure it Out || Royal Blood
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