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Andre Terminus
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Name: Deandre Kyran Terminus
Nickname: Andre
Birthdate: November 11, 1975 (33)
Birthplace: Australia
Work/Schooling: Andre was homeschooled by his father, receiving not only a magical education (limited, of course) but an education in the family business. His work is running that business. Andre’s family owns 70% of the wine vineyards in Australia, and the business is a prosperous one. It is only a cover for his real work though, which is being the leader of Phasma Idoneus, an Australian, Wizarding, mob-like group, whose goal is to figure out how to control who has magic, so they can decide who is worthy.
Family: halfblood.
Mother: Ariel Terminus – Deceased
Father: Jackson Terminus – Deceased
lSiblings: None.
Extended Family: Son – Arram (although I’m not sure Andre ever bothered to learn his name). Some cousins/relatives who are members of Phasma Idoneus, none of whom are important enough to PP to name.
Home: Andre lives in a mansion on the vineyard – wine being his family’s business. It’s a big, lavish home with ample room for multiple people to live there if needed.

About the character

Appearance: (facial features) Andre’s hair is sometimes worn a bit messily, but in general it’s kept short and on the neater side. It’s medium brown, but when he was younger it used to be closer to a dirty blond. He rarely uses too much product in his hair, and he’s definitely not a believer in hair gel. He thinks it can look tacky, and he wants to be anything but tacky. Andre’s eyes aren’t too spread apart and aren’t too close together. He had fortunate genes, and he actually has his mother’s eyes, although he does look more like his father overall. His eyes are blue, though they are closer to a gray-blue, and not much expression can be read from them. He has his father’s dimples, strong jaw and cleft chin, and he has medium skin tone.
(other physical features) Andre isn’t extraordinarily tall, standing around 5’11”, but he’s pretty muscular. He keeps in shape because he wants to look as intimidating as possible. Though he has muscle, he’s not too bulky, which he prefers, because he is only the face of the business and the head of the mob: his enforcers do most of the physical work.
(wardrobe) Andre is rich, and that shows through in his clothing. He is always wearing nice clothes that are tailored well to his body type. He can dress casually, although none of his business associates ever see him in jeans, and he’s just not a “jeans and t-shirt” type of guy. He likes to flaunt his wealth through any means necessary, even through his clothes. He generally sticks to darker colors, as he finds them to project the right sort of image.
Strengths: Andre is very good at his job and running the mob organization, seeing as how learning about it has been his life for as long as he can remember. He’s good at strategizing and planning from a business sense. He’s good at making himself detached from situations, and he can remain emotionally closed off from virtually anything, which aids him in the ability to do his job. He is smart, and he’s able to make rational decisions. Andre has a very good public image, and he’s good at making people like him when he wants to.
Weaknesses: Andre is not all that talented with magic. He has never been an amazing duelist, and he’s always surrounded by guards and enforcers, so he never had to be. Although he’s smart and is capable of running the business, he does have a temper. Yes, he can remain emotionally closed off, but that really only affects him growing attached to things. His temper can still be invoked easily. Also, his ability to remain detached from everything also serves as a weakness: Andre has deemed himself incapable of feeling anything positive towards anyone after what happened with Eve.
Personality: (1 paragraph+) Growing up, Andre never experienced love or compassion. Never being shown it, he didn’t ever feel it for anyone else. The best he could muster was tolerance. Perhaps he was once able to feel something different, but after starting to with his former fiancée and being betrayed, he closed off that part of himself. Andre doesn’t understand family or the concepts behind it. He doesn’t let himself care about other people. Instead, he only cares about himself and his organization. In fact, sometimes he even derives a sort of pleasure from physical violence.

Andre can be patient when he needs to be and quick to anger at other times. While he might blow up sometimes, he can always tone down his reaction enough to act accordingly….if it comes to his business. He loves his business, and it’s the one real passion in his life. It’s the thing he knows how to do the best, and he enjoys doing it. He is also very focused, and not much can distract him from his business.

Andre can be pretty ruthless when it comes to business dealings, and not much fazes him in terms of violence. Clearly, he is willing to let children be injured or experimented on for the sake of Phasma Idoneus and their greater purpose. He truly believes in their cause: to find out who is worthy to have magic.

The persona he presents to the public is much different than the person he is in private. He is very charming and charismatic when he first meets people, and he just comes off as a nice guy who was very fortunate in business.

He really likes control, though, and he has to be the one in control. Because of this, he keeps a tight rein on his entire staff. Andre wants to be making all the decisions about everything, and he always makes sure he’s in the right position to do just that. He’s rich, he’s powerful, and he knows it.
Hobbies: Andre’s hobbies would be looked down upon by most sane human beings. He enjoys his job, which is actually one of his hobbies. He likes reading up on scientific articles relevant to Phasma Idoneus’ magic transporting projects. He also enjoys the politics of his “business”, whether that be the vineyard aspect, the mob aspect or the experiment aspect of it.
Pet: owl so he can send messages.
Wand: 11 inches, Sandalwood, Phoenix feather core.
School: Homeschooled.
House: N/A
Short History of The Character: Andre Terminus was born on November 11, 1975 to parents Kyran and Ariel Terminus. Being their only son (actually, their only child at all), Andre was important to his parents, mainly to his father who wanted an heir to the family legacy. Unfortunately, Andre’s mother died shortly after giving birth due to complications in labor. Andre never knew her, and his father wasn’t all that invested in sharing stories of her.

Andre’s father was the leader of a group called Phasma Idoneus, an Australian Wizarding group whose main goal was to discover how certain people had magic ability. They believed that only certain people were worthy of the ability of magic, and they wanted to be able to control who actually had magical ability.

Of course, they needed a generous amount of funding to fuel their research, except they couldn’t rely on normal research grants like other scientists because they wanted to keep what they were doing a secret. How they got the money? Well, Kyran was the head of a mob organization in Australia, and they made most of their money by nearly monopolizing Australia’s vineyards. Wine being one of Australia’s biggest exports, Kyran was a very wealthy man, as he owned 60% of the vineyards on Australia.

Andre grew up around that wealth and around the mob and Phas. He was always homeschooled by the best tutors money could by, so he never really had interaction with children his own age. Andre’s father was always too afraid that his son spending too much time away from the house (I.e. at school Mondays through Fridays or at a Wizarding boarding school), because Andre could be a target for rival mob organizations who wanted to exact revenge. After he was too old for a nanny to have to watch him, Andre spent most of his time by himself, watching his father conduct business (including rather violent moments of his father punishing those who disobeyed him or didn’t pay him the money they owed), or attending some of his family’s many parties.

The only manners he ever learned were how to act at social functions to come off as a trusting, nice young man. The only thing he ever learned about love was that it was a silly notion but mentions of it would most likely get women into bed. The only aspect he understood of parenthood was that it clearly didn’t involve much work.

His father didn’t seem to care about him other than to teach him the business and grooming him to take over. Although when he was young, Andre yearned for attention from his father, by the time he turned 13, he had given up on wanting his father’s approval. Instead, he resented the man and began to think of him as stupid. He couldn’t resent him for bad parenting skills, because he had never been exposed to good parenting skills. So he began to seriously learn about the business, paying close enough attention so that he could figure out where his father’s weaknesses were and exploit them.

Eventually, he came to think of his father heading the business as a mere obstacle that had to be tolerated until he knew enough to take over. So he continued normally, but eventually he began to plan his father’s demise. The man was, after all, disgustingly healthy. He’d need a little help finding his final resting place.

And, as Andre found out just a few months after his 26th birthday, it wasn’t that hard to kill him. Of course, the murder went unsolved (as all murders by his father’s his organization did). Andre had taken over, and he wasn’t about to let anyone take that power away from him.

Andre’s investment in the business over such a long period of time gave him the skills he needed to improve what his father had already done. His biggest conquest, however, came when dealing with a rival mob from Italy.

Said mob had managed to acquire a successful vineyard in Australia, and it might have the ability to compete with Andre’s wine empire, so to speak. Andre knew them to be a fellow wizarding mafia, and he knew that the leader of that mob wanted to move in on his territory and had wanted to for awhile. Well, now he was.

Although Andre had made significant gains in the business for his first two years as head of the organization, he wasn’t yet very feared by other mob organizations. He knew he needed that to change, because being regarded as new, he would be vulnerable to hits from others who wanted to strike while he still had a shaky command. He needed to change that – and fast.

His opportunity came one day near the end of 2002. The mob moving in on his territory seemed to be paying more attention to property of theirs in a different country. Andre sent his enforcers to attack that vineyard and acquire them by force. It was a bold move, to be sure, but Andre knew that people would think twice before deciding to attack him if he could pull it off.

Andre wasn’t a stupid man, particularly when it came to the business he had grown up learning. He knew when it was best to use force and best to sit back. For the first two years, he had avoided any major conflicts, and he hadn’t ordered any blatantly offensive hits. Andre was a strategist, and his business played out like a game for him – a game he was determined to win.

Playing it safe was the best way to do just that at first. He lulled people into a false sense of security. They would think he was weak, a coward, that he couldn’t handle the position he was in. It would make everyone respect him that much more when he did strike.

And, because Andre knew the best way to utilize his men in the attack on the vineyard, his plan succeeded. He easily took over the rival mob’s properties and carried out his takeover of their land. His rivals had no choice but to comply. They did, of course, try to switch things in their favor by sending down the second-in-command and top enforcer Jason Varey.

Jason was well-known in the mob world, and Andre knew he had to be prepared for him. So he did his research before Jason’s arrival, and they captured him easily. Jason was prepared to die, and Andre knew well enough that if he could kill Jason, hardly anyone would want to go after him. But Andre wanted something better than killing him: Andre wanted the best of the best working for him, and Jason was the best in his field. All he had to do was give Jason a reason to cooperate.

So he had his men kidnap Jason’s younger sisters. It was a win-win situation for him, really. If Jason cooperated and worked for him, he let the sisters go (but would stay ready to take them back). If Jason didn’t, he would just die, and then his sisters would go off to be experimented on for Phas.

Jason, as Andre predicted, agreed to the deal and went to work for Andre. Andre knew there would be escape attempts if he wasn’t careful, so he kept all sorts of watch on his new enforcer. To assert his authority over Jason (and because he just enjoyed it), he often made him carry out hits on people Jason was formerly allied with.

Time passed, and Andre’s organization thrived. He was doing a spectacular job of picking up where he forced his father to leave off. In fact, he had most of the community liking him, especially because of his lavish parties that he enjoyed having.

Carrying on his father’s tradition, he threw an annual New Years’ Eve ball. It was always the talk of the city. Everyone wanted to go, but invitations were select. But on New Years’ Eve, going into the year 2006, Andre met someone who would change his life: Eve Hart and her sister Elisabeth were two lucky girls from south of the city who had gotten invitations to the ball.

Eve, like many of the other women who surrounded him, spent a lot of the night flirting with Andre. But Andre saw something he liked in the charming young woman and didn’t hesitate to take her to bed with him that night. Of course, he saw to it that her sister was provided with the best accommodations possible for the evening as well.

Eve was well worth his time, and Andre asked her to stay for the rest of her vacation up north. Eve agreed reluctantly and with one condition: her sister needed to be able to stay too. It wasn’t exactly Andre’s ideal situation, but his place was big enough that he could virtually ignore the sister.

And Eve turned out to be almost too good to be true. She wasn’t annoying, and she didn’t ask questions. He was surprised by the fact that he enjoyed being around her, even out of the bedroom. And she just accepted that he was rich off the wine business and was stupid enough to believe his lies about how the guards were always around him because he was rich and worried about threats.

When it was time for her to go, he surprised even himself by asking her not to. He wanted to get to know her better, to spend more time with her. Eventually, he got them to agree to stay longer, to live with him even (although they wound up living in the very large pool house in the back of the manor). It was so easy to manipulate women. Of course, he did start to wonder if he would have to get rid of them when Eve mentioned her sister wanting a job at the vineyards. Andre didn’t want either of them around the business, but after thinking about it, he figured it would be all right to keep the sister busy. She had always been the more skeptical one out of the two. So he brought it up again to Eve, saying that he thought it would be a good idea for Elisabeth to have a job, and she began work as a secretary.

Life continued on as normal for quite some time, and Andre just enforced with the girls that they would know only what they needed to know and nothing more. They seemed to be all right with that, and he was glad they could find an arrangement that worked for everyone. Andre enjoyed his time with Eve, and he started understanding what it meant to be in a relationship. Until then, he had never been involved with anyone. He’d slept with women and used them, because that was all he had known. But Eve? She seemed to demand something different of him. She got his time and attention. He did have to run the business still, but he did things he wasn’t used to doing like buying her presents or taking her to dinners. And, surprisingly, he liked it.

Of course, everything changed in October of that year, when he found out Eve was pregnant.

Now, he had been fine with Eve being his live-in girlfriend, but a child changed everything. He could potentially have a son and heir to the business, which he would need eventually. He needed someone to take over. So he began making arrangements for a trust fund for his child, and he needed to figure out what to do with Eve herself.

Clearly she was one of those sentimental types who wanted to be around the baby, and he obviously needed a legitimate child, so he began toying with the idea of marrying her. Marriage had never been in Andre’s plans, but it seemed he was going to have to. And, as much as he didn’t want to admit it, there was something about Eve that he liked. He enjoyed being with her: she didn’t ask questions, she accepted him for who he was (even though he was pretty sure she had figured out about the mob by then). He had never experienced anything like that before.

Although it took him a little while to wrap his head around and get used to the idea, he decided that it wouldn’t be such a bad thing, being married. And he proposed to Eve, who immediately said yes.

Time passed, and wedding plans were under way, when some of his guards began telling him some odd things about Eve and Elisabeth. Andre brushed off the mentions at first, thinking that it couldn’t possibly mean anything. Of course they were always talking off in corners together: they were clearly planning things for the wedding. And why shouldn’t they discuss money? Of course sisters did that.

But, over time, the guards began observing things more and more, and soon Andre couldn’t deny the truth. One ambitious worker of his even finally came up with the undeniable proof. He had looked into Eve and Elisabeth and had found out all about the two women.

Andre was being conned.

The sisters – no, not sisters – were planning on stealing his money. It had never been about him as a person, just about what they wanted from him. Enraged, Andre called each of his enforcers and workers in separately, demanding to know why he hadn’t been told earlier. And hardly any of them dared argue.

But Andre was too worked up now to even think rationally. The woman carrying his child, the woman he had grown to care about, was lying. She had been lying to him the entire time. He wanted revenge, and he wanted to take care of the problem himself.

Ordering Jason and another of the guards to his side, he headed out to the pool house, nearly blinded by his fury. Eve and Elisabeth were caught red-handed in their escape attempt. They had been ready to leave, knowing they had been found out. But Andre wasn’t having any of that.

Eve began to beg, which only further enraged Andre. He had promised everything to her, and this was how she repayed him. He wanted to see her hurt as much as she had hurt him. And he wanted her to stop talking, to stop lying. Even then she was trying to con her way out of trouble by trying to feed him some bullshit about how she was actually innocent and she should just have a chance to prove it.

No chances. Andre raised the gun amidst her begging for their child’s life. Andre replied that he didn’t want any bastard child of hers. He told her what a slut she was. He told her how despicable he thought she was.

She tried to run. He fired.

He was nearly beyond reason, but his enforcer was not. Jason reminded him that he still wanted the child, even if Andre wasn’t exactly sure that was true anymore. But he figured that it was still his son and heir and he should keep it, as much as he wanted to finish Eve off.

So he walked away, needing time to himself. He told Jason and the other guard to watch Eve and Elisabeth while he went into his room. He grieved there, once and only once, and he vowed that no one would ever see him as much of a mess as he was right then. He was hurt by Eve’s betrayal, and he still wanted revenge.

So the next morning, when he had news that his son had been born, he still wanted to hurt her emotionally. He had hurt her physically, but it wasn’t enough. Composing his face into a sadistic grin, he walked right into the room where Eve was lying, clearly on the verge of death. Elisabeth was holding the newborn baby.

He taunted the girls and reached over, taking his son right from Elisabeth’s grasp. He had no time to marvel at the fact that he was holding his son, and all he could focus on was how much of a whore the mother was. He actually didn’t think he could bear to be around the child, so he decided to have him sent off to be experimented on. Maybe they would find out if he was actually worthy to be his son. After all, Phas was supposed to measure the worthy, right?

For the moment, he had a hired wet nurse take over the care of his newborn, unnamed son. He didn’t know what to name it, and he wasn’t going to let Eve do it. It didn’t matter: he couldn’t even look at the little boy without thinking of its mother and her betrayal.

Eve died three days later. Andre wished he didn’t care. He had tried not to: he had refused her any sort of medical care, and he had left her in the pool house with Elisabeth. No one would ever get the best of him again.

Determined to figure out if there were more people involved, he went down to the pool house to confront Elisabeth. He couldn’t punish Eve as deeply as he wanted to, but he could still punish her ‘sister’. The live woman hardly even noticed as he had a guard carry her back to the main house. He was going to get information out of her one way or another.

He spent the next month taking his anger out on Elisabeth. She refused to give him any information, though. At least it gave him an excuse to let out his anger and getting him some ‘target’ practice so to speak. For the next month, things continued in much the same manner until one day Elisabeth managed to escape. Andre figured out she was in the pool house, though, and managed to catch her while she was there.

To his surprise, she had a wand. She was a witch, too. With every new piece of information that came out, Andre got angrier and angrier at the lies. Elisabeth was quite good at dueling, though, and she wound up beating him and escaping.

At first Andre wanted her to be found, but he realized there were other things he needed to be doing. So he focused on his business, and he decided that he should send the kid to be experimented on. He decided to send Jason and another guard to do it, but Jason wound up making his escape from Andre, and he stole the baby away too.

No matter: Andre wound up finding out what happened to the baby and sent people to retrieve him from some Auror who was taking care of him. After briefly being experimented on, Andre has the kid back home with him, mainly taken care of by nurses.
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