|| Time To Pretend || Daydream Believer || I Can't Help Myself ||
Matteo Luigi Antonio Lanzo
|| NICKNAMES ||
Matt {Most Common}, Teo {Common}, Matty {Accepted},
Grasso{Teasingly called this by his sisters}
|| AGE & CLASS YEAR ||
18 || 7th Year
|| BLOOD STATUS ||
Muggle Born
|| HOUSE ||
Eden
|| Sexuality||
Heteroflexible
|| DIALOGUE COLOR & THOUGHT COLOR ||
#51688F | #90b330
Animals & Magical Creatures seem to be naturally drawn to Matteo and he has a talent with putting them at ease, which helps with his favourite subject Care of Magical Creatures. Matteo's also rather skilled at telling jokes. Matteo's friendliness and optimisim help earn him friends. He's also surprisingly good at quidditch, possessing the needed hand-eye coordination to make a decent Chaser.
|| FLAWS ||
He's not book smart and seems to struggle with most theoretical learning. His worst subjects are History of Magic and transfiguration, the first because he falls asleep out of boredom, the second because he can't get his head around the spells. He's rather gullible given the right circumstances and has been known to have moments of extreme melancholy.
|| LIKES ||
Magic || Magdalena || Jokes || Having Fun || Animals || Care of Magical Creatures || Griffins || Hippogriffs || Food || Brunch || Quidditch || His Friends || The Outdoors || Dogs || Sailing || Beaches (Sicily's beaches in particular) || Video Games || Travel || Summer || Family Gatherings || His Grandmother's Cooking || Lazing in the sun || Motown Music || Old Records
|| DISLIKES ||
Boredom || History of Magic || Transfiguration || Potions || Detention || Being Cold || Seeing His Friends Upset || Animal Abuse || Last Minute Assignments || Essays || Horror Movies || Ghosts || Ghosts stepping through him || Crayfish || Hunting || Guns || Missing meals || Being woken too early || Alarm Clocks
|| FEARS ||
Ghosts \\ Even the friendly castle ghosts make Teo uneasy and the last time a ghost floated through him he almost fainted.
Losing His Family \\ Teo fears the death of his family and losing contact with them. The wizarding world is so different from the muggle, and he's terrified that it'll create a divide between them all.
|| GOALS & AMBITIONS ||
When he was a boy Matteo dreamed of opening a bakery and serving Sicily's best baked goods. However, on finding out that he was a wizard his interests have shifted. He now dreams of working with magical creatures, in particular stopping the extinction of endangered creatures or working with his personal favourites, Griffins and Hippogriffs. Or, if that plan didn't work he'd still like to open a bakery.
|| SECRETS ||
Teo sometimes sneaks into the kitchens for extra food between meals. He's done it so often all the kitchen elves know him by name.
22nd June
|| PERSONALITY ||
Enthusiastic || Friendly || Optimistic || Melancholic || Empathetic || Humorous
What is there to say about Matteo Lanzo that can't be seen in the smile on his face? What you see is what you get with Matteo, and generally what you get is an optimistic goofball. Friendly and cheerful, it is rare to see a frown on his face. If he's not telling a joke he'll be laughing at one. Humour is a big part of his life and he usually gets along well with anyone that has a decent sense of humour. He's rather easy-going in general, taking things as they happen and not worrying too much about little hiccups along the way. It takes a lot to get him angry, and once he is it doesn't take much to calm him down, or bring him back to his accustomed smiling self.
He isn't the smartest student around, which he would freely admit. His attention is prone to wondering when he isn't interested and any lesson where he's forced to sit down for long periods of time generally has him fidgeting too. He prefers subjects that let him use his hands. Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, even Divinition, at a stretch, are subjects he prefers to what he considers the 'boring, book subjects' such as Transfiguration or History of Magic. Care of Magical Creatures is by far his favourite, no doubt helped by his innate skill with animals. As a boy Matteo would bring home wounded animals and take care of them. He would be ecstatic when one recovered, and heartbroken when a charge died.
At the root of it, it's because Teo hates to see any person or animal upset and hurting. He's extremely empathetic to others' feelings. Even if he might not always know what to say, he'll try his best to make those around him smile. He wears his own heart on his sleeve and it isn't hard to tell when he's distressed. While not often unhappy, when it does hit him it seems to hit hard. There may be a cause, there may not. Often times when he feels a mood coming on he'll take himself down to visit the beasts kept for lessons or up to visit his Owl, Casper.
|| ORIGIN ||
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
|| HISTORY ||
Born on the beautiful island of Sicily, Matteo has spent the majority of his life beside the sea. In fact, until he took the trip to Magdalena, he'd never been more than a day's short travel away from the beautiful Mediterranean waters that surrounded his home. His family called Sicily's largest city, Palermo, home. His father, one Franco Lanzo, worked as a teacher at a local primary school, while his mother Antonia Lanzo was a veterinarian. As he comes from a family of muggles, his childhood was spent reading muggle fairy tales, playing video games, struggling through maths homework and skipping stones at the beach. He is also the youngest of four and the only boy, and spent much of his childhood trailing after his older sisters. More times than he could count he'd find himself being dressed up and having makeup smeared across his cheeks. His sisters would giggle and laugh as Matteo tried to toddle round the living room in a pair of his mother's heels. He still goes red whenever his parents bring out the proof of the childhood dress-ups.
As he got older two interests grabbed Matteo's attention, the first being food and the second animals. His father's parents, who lived just around the block were frequent visitors to their son's home and vice versa. These family visits were usually punctuated with overflowing plates of food, loud music, and seemingly bottomless bottles of wine. While Teo might not have been able to enjoy the wine, he certainly took advantage of the food. His sisters took to calling him Grasso, or 'Fatty' in English because he ate so much and often compared him to his childhood hero, Winnie the Pooh. Of course, the growing boy never seemed to gain weight, which only amazed his sister's further. This wasn't magic, merely the quick metabolism of a young boy. His other interest, animals, saw Matteo adopting and tending to little animals. If he found a wounded animal he'd carry it home or to his mother's clinic. Antonia helped when she could and taught Matteo how to properly care for sick animals. You could often find Teo chirping to his birds or carefully making a cast for a rabbit's broken leg.
It was while chasing after a limping cat at the tender age of nine that Matteo first realised there was something different about him. Somehow, and he still doesn't understand how, he found himself jumping from street level and landing thirty floors up. Strange things kept happening to him, things that his sisters and parents took for stories that he'd made up. Then, sometime after his tenth birthday a representative from Magdalena arrived on his doorstep, claiming that Matteo was a wizard. The family was surprised, to say the least. Once they'd gotten over their initial shock his parents were incredibly supportive and, with the help of their Magdalena contact, learned all they could to help their son enter the magical world. Matteo's sisters took a bit longer to come around, especially Isabella, whose jealousy kept her from accepting it for a long time. Eventually they came around, but there was a time when no one could bring up magic without Isabella leaving the room.
For Matteo, Magdalena was like a dream come true. His time at the magic school has been just that, magic. While he wasn't able to prove himself as a top student (something he hadn't achieved in his muggle school either), the many friends he has made, the creatures he's learned about and the food he sampled (to name a few), have made these some of the happiest in his life. He always returns home with stories of magic staircases, intense quidditch matches and house elves who make the best desserts. Now, entering his last year, he's determined to make the most of it, even as he looks forward to the future.
|| FAMILY ||
Antonia Lanzo \\ Mother \\ Muggle \\ 49
Franco Lanzo \\ Father \\ Muggle \\50
[X] Alessandra Lanzo \\ Older Sister \\ Muggle \\ 25
[X] Gianna Lanzo \\ Older Sister \\ Muggle \\ 23
[X] Isabella \\ Older Sister \\ Muggle \\ 19
|| FAMILIAR ||
[X] Casper, Owl
|| WAND ||
Larch Wood, Unicorn Hair Core, 12", Slightly Springy
|| PATRONUS ||
Seagull
{Note: Matteo's Patronus is only semi-corporeal}
Portrayed by || Cloud
Face Claim || Luke Pasqualino
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