[smear:#3ee619]Our love is unconditional, we knew it from the start I see it in your eyes, you can feel it from my heart From here on after let's stay the way we are right now And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow I cross my heart and promise to Give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine[/smear:#19e6e2:0]
Basics
Full Name | Graham Hagen Rosewood Nicknames | if any Birthday | February 14 Gender | Male Sexuality | Bi Occupation • Rancher/Inn Owner Grade | Graduated Age | 41 Species | Human Faction: Warlock Relationship | Single
Appearance
Face Claim | Ryan Kwanten Eye Color | Light Brown Hair Color | Brown Skin Color | White Scars/Markings | None Build | Muscular
Personality
Love It! •
+ My best friends Michael and Zoe. + Proving to myself that I'm capable of doing something good. + My children + Spending time with my best friends. + Meeting new people. + Riding across the range.
Hate It! •
- When one of my kids get hurt. - Sleepless nights. - My ex-wife messing with our son's feelings. - People not paying up front and skipping the bill. - Bad reviews of my lodgings. - Fights in the bar area.
Strengths and Weaknesses •
+ Michael and Zoe + My friends + My kids - My friends - My kids - Women
Fears •
• Losing my friends. • Losing one of my kids. • My ex-wife coming back and causing more trouble.
Dreams •
• For everything to go right in life. • To have my family grow old together and see my grandkids.
Full Personality: •
I'm a calm, cool, and collected guy. I am confident now, but I sure wasn't as a kid with my losses. With Michael and Zoe's help I overcame my life and grew to be happy. I try and enjoy life to the fullest even if it doesn't meet the standards of today's society.
[smear:#19e6e2]Positive Traits:[/smear:#191de6:0] 1)Sentimental: Being strongly influenced by feelings or emotional sentiment. 2)Charming: Having a pleasing personality; being appealing to others. 3)Friendly: Showing friendship; acting in a way that befits a friend. 4)Passionate: Being capable of or expressing deep feeling. 5)Whimsical: Fancifully spontaneous; giving in to humorous or imaginative impulsiveness. 6)Imaginative: Having an active imagination; forming clear mental images of things that have not been previously considered.
[smear:#3619e6]Negative Traits:[/smear:#9019e6:0] 1)Pessimistic: Inclined to focus on the negative and expect the worst possible outcome. 2)Superstitious: Avoiding danger because of superstitious beliefs (not walking under a ladder, etc.) 3)Oversensitive: Overly perceptive to emotion; easily hurt by external influences. 4)Gullible: Easily misled or duped. 5)Foolish: Lacking good reasoning skills that lead to misjudgments. 6)Needy: Emotionally fragile; requiring constant attention and support.
The Family Tree
Father | Unknown Mother | Mary Jo Rosewood Siblings | None Spouse | Kimmy Donavon Rosewood Children | @hagen @hudson Hendrix Cole Rosewood @holden Other family |
History
Witch persecutions were heavy back in the 16th century in Scotland and Ireland. With different decrees being made against them making hunting them down.The persecutions were mainly in the lowlands so my ancestors living in the highlands were in the height of them. Being up high in the highlands and in the middle of nowhere the covenant was mostly safe. Still when they came closer to them they up and decided to make their way to Ireland. Getting there they quickly discovered it was no better so they set sail to the America they had heard so much about.
Our ancestors came over on the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620. Being what they were of course they didn’t stay there, and they bought covered wagons and horses and carried on into the unknown. They didn’t stop until they reached where Kansas is now. Stories passed down through the generations are that they were looking for land like the highlands in Scotland. It took them a few months, and it was hilly land. Not what they were used to, but the land would be good to grow on.
So they set down roots in what they named Dark Haven Kansas. They soon made friends with the native americans who lived there. Even a few of them married into the local tribe so that we carry the blood of them as well as our immigrant ancestors. I guess the rest you could say is history.
The Covenant built what is known as Legacy Ranch in Dark Haven Kansas. What the covenant was called before I’m not for sure, but they became known as the Dark Haven Covenant in the supernatural world. Sure there were non magical people who lived in Dark Haven, and they had no clue about the covenant or other supernatural beings lived here. My uncle Machen’s mother was a werewolf so he’s half werewolf. So are a few others in our covenant. I have yet to meet a vampire yet, but I’ve heard that they are out there in the world.
I was born in middle of a raging storm in the middle of Kansas. My mother's screams they say could be heard over the roar of the wind from the storm. After thirty hours of labor I came into the world screaming my own lungs off. I was placed in her arms and I was told she held me lovingly for the last half hour of her life. She was only twenty years old. I was taken from her lifeless arms and placed in the arms of my sobbing grandmother. She'd been against the pregnancy at first when her daughter had come home pregnant and not told anyone who the father was. She went to the grave with that knowledge.
As the pregnancy had went on my grandmother had started to grow excited at the thought of a child. She was totally unprepared for the death of her daughter in the process. Her own husband had died of cancer a few years before. She was now left to care for the child in her arms. She gave me the name that my mother had said she wanted. Graham Hagen Rosewood. My grandmother had the help of the covenant, and her son who had started a family of his own. She couldn't imagine having a child herself at her age now. Michael and I had started seeing one another when we were around thirteen. Zoe came into the picture around that time too who I came to love and still do.. Michael fell madly in love with her, but it became a love triangle between the three of us. They never liked a girl I would date though.
With people knowing I didn't have a father I was picked on quite a bit, but my best friend Michael was there to save me. I was a bit clumsy and trusted people too easily. He was always pulling me out of trouble. Somehow it seemed to pull us closer together. I was eleven when my grandmother's heart gave out, and she passed on. My uncle and the other covenant parents made sure I was taken care of after that. A few years later my uncle and his second wife were killed in a boating accident. The other parents didn't think it was an accident, but they couldn't prove it. My cousin Martin was graduating this year, and his baby half-sister was only five years old. Martin barely graduated after that. He married his high school sweetheart Cassandra Bell soon after that, and they took responsibility for his little sister Hallie with the help of the parents still left. Though in the next couple of years all of the parents had perished in someway or another.
I ended up marrying Kimmy Donavon after she got pregnant with my child. We were together for eighteen and had four sons. Hagen, Hudson, Hendrix and Holden. With our third son she hated being pregnant. I never understood why. She had gone out partying, and ended up in labor a month early. Which put Hendrix in an incubator for a little over two months. She wanted nothing to do with him, and we split up for awhile. I stayed with Hendrix at the hospital while Michael and Zoe kept my older boys. Thankfully Hendrix survived and I was able to take him home. Zoe and Michael helped me out after that.
Kimmy came begging me to take her back about a year later, and much to everyone else's dislike I took her back. We had another son about a year later that we named Holden. I have to admit that Kimmy was good with our oldest two boys and our baby boy. Why she didn't care for Hendrix I had no idea. The years flew by after that, and twelve years later I caught my wife with another man. I divorced her right after that. The last few years I had watched her caring for our oldest two and our baby boy, but not Hendrix who seem to have withdrawn into himself. I was worried about him, but he wouldn't talk to me.
Two years later she's back in town and demanding visitation rights with our sons. My older boys were fine with it. Though our eldest was twenty and could decide for himself what he wanted. Somehow she got a judge to sign off on it no matter how much I fought it. She wanted one son a weekend a month. Only one that wasn't happy about it was Hendrix, and he seemed scared about it. I had no idea what I was going to do there, but I really didn't have a choice in the matter.
On New Years Eve we had a bonfire and shot off fireworks as the countdown ended on New Years Eve. Only the ground started to shake and I had no idea what happened next. When I woke up we were still on the ranch, but one of the boys had gone up on the hill that overlooked Dark Haven, and called us all up. To our shock the Dark Haven as we knew it was gone, and other buildings had appeared as if taking over our town. What was going on we had no idea, but our parents planned on heading to town to find out just where those buildings and people we could see had come from.
Role Player
Username • Graham Age • 52 Cbox/Discord • Angie How Long Have You RP'd? • Over fifteen years Comments • nope How Did You Find Us? • Made the site with Cindie Any Other Characters • Who Plays Who
RPG Sample
Jordan was grinning, and he started to say something, but got a weird look on his face as he was definitely thinking now. Images of the food were coming to mind, but he couldn’t for the life of him think of the names of the establishments the food was at. Now that he thought about it parts of it were blurry, but for the memory of the food and how it tasted. Thinking some more he let out a laugh. “Now that I think about it I can tell you the foods, but not the places.” He smirked as he chuckled a little more. “Cause we usually hit them after our pub run even though we eat a bunch while at the pub.” He was trying to piece together where they went after their pub run. He knew his wallet was usually empty the mornings after. The bar tab was only paid once a month so it hadn’t all been spent there either. “Well there is a Shepherd's pie to die for, at one of the places. Another has some excellent Applewood smoked BBQ Ribs. Oh there’s the lemon-herbed chicken that seems to melt in your mouth. There’s a sticky toffee pudding somewhere too that blows your mind.” He stopped to think some more about the food. “Josh always gets the steak and Kidney pie somewhere that’s in a bread bowl. I hate the kidney part though.” He admitted, but if it was something she liked. “Oh there’s Cornish pasties that are awesome, uhh somewhere too.” He furrowed his brow knowing they had to be here in Diagon Alley somewhere. He knew if he looked he’d recognize the place, but he still couldn’t think of the names of the places. “Hey you should join us for a pub night sometimes! Almost every one there is a Quidditch player or in the business of Quidditch. It’s not very well known in the community though to be honest. It’s been around for years though, cause my dad and his buddies used to hang out there. He’s the one who told us about it.” He grinned at her.
Jordan laughed hearing her and shook his head. He had more than his share of Quidditch things. He didn’t think he had better admit that though. Especially when he kept adding to it. Though the place where he and his brothers lived was more than big enough for it. Their friends were always crashing at their place. “Never know when something new might come in handy.” Was all he said to that. He grinned widely at her. “No definitely no lover. The youngest of the Matheson’s. Drew and Angel. Angel has her own Quidditch gear and clothes, but ours just seem to disappear and show up later with her either carrying it or wearing it. Since that’s been happening since she was little we are used to it now, and just replace it.” He shrugged since it was nothing new to him, and would probably still be happening when they were old and gray. “She’s not spoiled either. She works for what she gets the same as us boys. If she’s not thinking about Quidditch she has animals flocking to her.” He knew that could get a little overwhelming at times. He pointed over at the bookshelf in the far corner when she asked about the books. “There’s a whole section of books over there.” He grinned at her wondering if she had a one track mind when she came in here. He definitely didn’t. “Or you could come over and check out our library, and borrow some books.” He offered. He could spend hours in this store, and go back looking again seeing something he had missed the first time. Which sometimes wasn’t a good thing cause if it was something cool he’d pick it up for his siblings too. With how much he picked up he had bags full which was hard to get home then. Trying to apparate with that much stuff was unbearable. After losing some of his stuff one time he started taking the knight bus home.
“Follow me darling.” Jordan grinned when she asked about the gloves. He led her over to the gear section and pointed out the display of gloves that they had that was pretty impressive of the new brand Ollie’s Gloves. There were practically every color you could imagine there. “Ollie is a friend of mine. When he comes up with something new he has me and some others try his stuff out. After I try them out if they're good then I send whatever it is to Angel to try out at Hogwarts. If it’s not ready I let Ollie know for sure, and he works on it till he perfects it.” He explained to her. Sometimes it was a lot of fun trying out whatever Ollie came out. Other times it was disastrous. His brother Gregory had ended up at St Mungo's after one of those incidents. His mother had sent him more than one angry howler over that one. What was great was she had sent them to Ollie too telling him he better get his head on straight! “What’s awesome about these gloves too is that they come in one size, but they form to your hands after you put them on. So they are perfect then!” He said handing his items he had picked up to the clerk who came over to take them from him so he could pick up more if he wanted to. He hadn’t even noticed the girl checking him out and giving him a come hither smile.