Percy Ignatius Weasley
Age: 29
Birthdate: August 22, 1976
Family background: Middle child of Chez Weasley until he left Chez Weasley.
House in School: Gryffindor
Bloodline (and does it matter?): Pureblood, and increasingly sick of the stigma attached to it. It doesn't matter to him-- it SHOULDN'T matter, he says, and yet it still does.
Political Views: Politically disillusioned and jaded. It seems that every time Percy joins a cause with the best of intentions it ends up going awry, and now, at the ripe age of twenty-nine, he looks back at his youth when he'd wanted to be Minister of Magic with a bit of bemusement.
Appearance
Visual Representation: Simon Woods
Description: Tall and wiry, with the Weasley red hair usually combed neatly away from his face. His features are even, his skin is pale and freckled, and he wears glasses when he reads. A neat and tidy individual, Percy's clothing is typically clean, pressed and on the conservative side: while comfortable in Muggle clothing, it would be seldom that anyone would find Percy lounging around in ripped denims and scuffed Converse high-tops. Of late, due to work stress or perhaps internal conflicts of some sort, Percy looks a bit pale, and on the occasion that he visits his mother, gets told that he doesn't eat enough.
Psychology and Personality
Sexuality: Straight
Strengths and Weaknesses: Percy is a man of complexities and contradictions. Smart and bookish, but a Gryffindor rather than a Ravenclaw. Proud and stubborn, and yet insecure in a lot of ways. Obedient and courteous and mannerly, and yet willing to cut ties and not look back until he has decided for himself that it's the right thing to do. An academic sort who did well in school, receiving OWLs in all twelve subjects, Percy perhaps felt as though he had a lot to live up to, what with Bill having been Head Boy and Charlie having been Quidditch captain, and once it became apparent that he lacked the easygoing social skills of both his older brothers, threw himself whole-heartedly into schoolwork.
Devoted to rules and procedures and order in stark contrast to the twins, he was often brought up as an example to them by Molly as a means of attempting to get them to behave, which only drove the rift between Percy and his closest (in age, at least) siblings wider. Perhaps after seven years of Hogwarts and constant harassment and teasing from his siblings, not to mention sneering from those who looked down upon the Weasleys as a whole, Percy felt as though nothing he did was good enough for his family. Later, it would be that sense of futility and the fact that his father immediately assumed that Percy couldn't possibly have earned a promotion at work with Fudge from his own merits rather than a political conspiracy that would cause him to split so definitively from them. Though after cottoning onto the mess made by the Ministry and the puppet Minister Pius Thicknesse under the control of the Death Eaters he did apologise and was genuinely devastated by his sibling's death, there's still a rift between his family and himself that will never quite be healed.
In the face of this new Ministry, where a backlash from the war and sweeping new reforms seem to do nothing to heal the battered wizarding world and narrow the sense of separation between Muggles and wizards, Percy is torn. He has a plum position in the Ministry, in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement's Wizengamot Administrative Services as an Interrogator, and it is a position of more responsibility and prestige than he'd ever reached before. His family is proud of him, and theoretically it should be a position in which he can make a positive difference in a Ministry concerned with the greater good of the downtrodden. And yet, perhaps due to the ever-increasing number of skewed cases over which he'd presided, Percy is feeling more and more jaded over whether he CAN make a difference, or whether this job, respectability and rank aside, is really any different from any other he's held in the past as a fruitless pawn in another man's game. Eventually, drawing on the stubborn strength so often overlooked by his "nearest and dearest" (how near and dear is a matter of opinion), he's likely to question the reality of the situation again, and it's anyone's guess what the consequences would be when he does.
Habits\Quirks: Percy is an early riser, and even when he does not have to work in the morning, he is awake by half past five. His life is orderly and systematic, his actions precise and methodical. He drinks his coffee black and cuts the crusts off his sandwiches, and though he lives alone, his flat bears no resemblance to the typical bachelor's pad. For a man seemingly so concerned with the boring minutiae and a conservatively respectable lifestyle, his library shows an eclectic collection of literature ranging from Malecrit to Shakespeare to Tolkien. And if asked what his favourite book is, he'd answer... not some boringly statistical volume, but a battered copy of Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince, which he'd received sometime as a child. Some subconscious part of himself empathises with the title character, perhaps.
Likes\Dislikes: Percy's likes include neatness, procedure, punctuality and new quills. His favourite subjects in school were Arithmancy, Charms and Transfiguration. He dislikes rumpled robes, tardiness, loud noises and large crowds. His least favourite subjects in school were Divination and Care of Magical Creatures.
Lifestyle
Occupation: At present, Percy works as an Interrogator for the Wizengamot in the Ministry.
Financial Status: Quite secure.
Residence: Percy lives in a flat by himself in Diagon Alley.
History from student days at Hogwarts to the present time: In Hogwarts, Percy had an impressive academic record, being named both Prefect and Head Boy in his time (thereby becoming the subject of much harassment by the twins), and managed to get a job in the Ministry right out of school, working as an assistant to Barty Crouch Sr. in the Department of International Magical Cooperation. After the Imperius use and death of Crouch, for a time, he worked as an assistant to Cornelius Fudge, then Rufus Scrimgeour, much to the dismay of his family, who believed him to have turncoated against them. Percy's side is a bit more complex than that, of course, and the rift truly had more to do with hurt feelings there than any sort of political posturing. He did return to their side after the Ministry was taken over by Death Eaters, and was forgiven, of a fashion. In the wake of Fred's death, the Weasleys reached a truce of sorts, and Percy went to work for the Ministry again, this time with a lighter heart and a determination to make something of himself that was more than someone's personal whipping boy. With his attention to detail and stern, methodical manner he was assigned first to keep records for the Wizengamot as a court scribe, but worked up to Interrogator by the time he was twenty-five, making him one of the youngest men in that position currently. Despite his age, he is one of the most effective as well... and one of the most jaded.
Percy's Puppet Master is Thalia (maniacalmuse)