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Name: Elliot Patrick Hughes.
Nickname: Eli. [e-lie]
Birthdate: October 31st 1980.
Birthplace: He was born at a hospital in Paris, France since his father was there on business and his mother usually always came with him.
Work/Schooling: Made it to his fourth year and then he dropped out. Currently he's out of a job but has no motivation to begin looking for one again.
Family: Muggle born but he'll lie and say he's pureblood if he thinks it'll make himself look better.
Mother: Teresa O'Connell.
Father: Eric Hughes.
Siblings: N/A.
Extended Family: N/A.
Home: He does have his own small flat near Diagon, but he doesn't stay there often; He doesn't like to stay in one place too long. Usually hotel rooms are his home.

About the character

Appearance: Eli has short brown hair that looks black in some lights. He has a few little flecks of red in it too but it's hard to catch. He isn't that caring about his looks so usually he'll just throw on a button up shirt and some jeans and be done with it. His hair is usually messy except for the rare day he decides to care and brush it out more. He doesn't wear his emotions in his expression so it could be easy to assume he looks angry all the time even if he isn't. On days that he has to meet up with someone important he'll throw on the same old worn down gray suit that his father gave him when he was younger (simply adjusted with spells as he grew up). If he stood up straight he'd be 5'8, but he tends to slouch a little too much; It's habit more than anything now.

Strengths: Eli knows how to talk up a person. If he wants something he'll be persuasive and persistent till he gets it. He's a manipulator really and he'll use what you want most against you. Or on the other hand he'll use something he knows against you that you wouldn't want others to know. He does it to survive and over the years he's gotten pretty good at it. He's good at playing mind games which goes hand in hand with the other.

Weaknesses: He's defensive in all sense of the word. If he assumes someone's talking about him he'll get snappy and lash out. The same goes with criticism--he doesn't take it well. He thinks highly of himself so any deeming comments get him worked up. Thus his short temper that he hasn't learned to control. Like his father he has a tendency to throw things if he really snaps. If not he'll go out and take a walk to cool off. Due to dropping out of school he doesn't know nearly as many spells, or at least hasn't gotten them down as well as he should by now, so it puts him a step behind a lot of people. As good as he has gotten with people he still has problems striking up a conversation. He can get rather jumpy and normally it'll take a drink for him to relax.

Personality: (1 paragraph+) Basically living on his own has taught Eli how to survive. On the other end of that it makes him jumpy around people because he's seen how evil people can really be. It's one thing that changed his way of thinking over the years. He has a nervous habit of tapping his fingers either against his leg or on the table top. Most of the time he doesn't even realize he's doing it anymore. He's fine once a conversation gets going, but starting one gets him anxious, and he's not so inclined to let anyone know who he is. Giving out his name is a rarity. A lot of times he'll tell people his name is his middle name if he can get away with it.

Eli hates staying in one place too long. His flat is barely furnished since he rarely stays there. On the days he does he sleeps on the couch and otherwise he'll travel and stay in hotels for about a day and then move on. Drinking has became not a addiction really, but habit. If he's having a bad day he goes for it. If he gets nervous about something he goes for it. It's sort of like a security blanket for him. He has been known to pit-pocket but that's another of those little things he does to give it a try. He's experimental as far as some things go whereas others he'll immediately shy away from.

Puzzles and mind games are his thing. He's used his years of freedom away from home and those demons to become better at it. He's also not one to show his emotions on his face so he tends to look angry all the time, but he just keeps things to himself. The way he grins, however, is more eerie than he would intend for, but despite his age he hasn't ever understood the correct way to show emotion.
Hobbies: Standing to the side in Diagon alley to watch the people, traveling, hanging around at the bars.
Pet: N/A--Doesn't have time for one and he doesn't really know anyone that he needs an owl to stay in touch with.
Wand: 11 inch Oak.
School: Hogwarts up till fourth year.
House: Ravenclaw.
Short History of The Character: (minimum 2 paragraphs) Elliot Patrick Hughes was born to Teresa and Eric Hughes. His parents married young and had Elliot only five months after getting married. When he was born his mother was nineteen and his father was twenty-one. At the time he was born they were in Paris, France on business for Eric and his father Greg. Essentially Eric and Greg were con artists getting money any way they could get it. A lot of gifts like jewelry or cloths to Teressa were stolen items, but even though she knew she never argued against it. After an extra week in France after Eli was born, they traveled back to Dublin where they were living so Teresa could be closer to her mother. There was always four phones in the house at all times and no one was to use them for fear a call would come in that Eric would miss.

During the time they lived in Ireland (up till Eli was five) Greg frequently stopped in and occasionally brought in some rather nasty people to do business with. With a bit more money in their pockets the family relocated to England to start anew. Eric started working odd and ends jobs to make a honest living and Teressa stayed at home. Till Eli was ten they lived in a cramped two bedroom flat on the outskirts of London. After that they got a house in a London suburb.

Eli was already showing signs of magic at age four when he would get a toy that was refused or he cried and something would end up broken. Being assumed he would it wasn't a surprise. Like most kids he went to Hogwarts when he turned eleven, but he wasn't that excited about it. He had grown up wanting to work like his father had, but his father liked to argue that it had been the wrong way to go about things. His first year wasn't anything special. He made a couple of friends but he didn't socialize well even at that age.

It was that summer that Greg came to the house saying he wanted Elliot to go home with him and his grandmother Sara. Of course the parents argued against it because Eric knew exactly why he wanted to. Despite disagreements Greg eventually got his way and Eli was sent to live in Ireland with his grandparents. Frequent letters from his parents were sent but Sara made sure that Eli never got them. The summer's up till his fourth year went on in the same fashion of accompany his grandfather to his various business trips and seeing the job first hand. In some cases even murder first hand.

Convinced by then that that was what he wanted to do he dropped out of school much to Greg's happiness. Sara then occasionally tutored him, but both her and Greg thought the job was more important. That continued till Eli was eighteen and Greg told him he had the skills and know how in order to make it on his own. With a fair amount of money in hand Eli took very little with him as he went back to England. By then his parents had moved out of their former house and were no where to be found.

Now on his own he picked up the skills he learned on manipulating people and persuasion in order to survive and get money. At twenty-two after living basically on the streets once he ran out of money, he had saved up enough from small jobs to get his own flat.

These days he's doing just what his father did and his grandfather taught him and its paid well. Stolen money or not. A lot of things he owns are in fact stolen too and he doesn't see anything wrong with it considering that was how he was raised. Not much has changed for him except that he's older and wiser. He plans on staying in England but he still travels to Ireland to see Greg since Sara passed away when Eli was twenty.
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