Sapharon High discussion

“She sometimes asks me if I dream. Of course I dream, I tell her. Everybody dreams. But what do you dream about, she'll ask. The same thing everybody dreams about, I tell her. I dream about where I'm going. She always laughs at that. But you're not going anywhere, you're just wandering about. That's not true. Not any more. I have a new destination. My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyones. It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going. Where I've always been going. Home, the long way round.”



{full name} Albert Sapharon [Al-bərt] From the Germanic name Adalbert, which was composed of the elements adal "noble" and beraht "bright".
{nickname} He wants everyone to call him Alby but no one ever does. Evelyn called him 'thief', she usually said it was because he stole her heart.
{birthday} Born on June 12th.
{astrological sign} Gemini
✦ A Gemini’s mobility is such that they are in every place where not expected. They spend lots of time asking questions and… answering them. A Gemini’s curiosity and their quick-wittedness are insatiable. The mind is in constant turmoil, hopping from one topic to another, solving problems, accumulating anecdotes and knowledge within a short range of time. Mobility is mostly mental, it takes them afar and turns their daily life into a mosaic of intense and pleasant moments that are not necessarily related to each other: provided things are moving, their neurons are kept busy and they can meet with people, everything is fine! Geminis are expressive, lively, adaptable, quick-witted, humorous, sparkling, playful, sociable, clever, curious, whimsical, independent, brainy, flexible, ingenious, imaginative, charming, fanciful but also capricious, scattered, moody, shallow, inquisitive, opportunistic, unconcerned, fragile, ironical or changeable.
{birth place} Glasgow, Scotland.

“You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”

{post} Headmaster.
{year} He created the school for special children hundreds of years ago.

{age} 940
{appearance}




{face claim} Matt Smith.
{eye color} Green.
{hair color} Chestnut.

{gender} Male.
{sexuality} Straight.
{relationship status} Single.

“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.”




{specie} Warlock, sorcerer, wizard.
{abilities}
He is able to control the elements. He can actually create anything and destroy almost everything. His only limitations are life and death. He cannot bring back the dead and he is unable to create life out of nothing.

{weapons} He practices magic without a wand so he only carries a silver sword with him, it is the only thing he has left from his father and even when they argued a lot he still loved him.

“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”

CONTINUES BELOW

{personality} Albert has passed trough so much sorrow. He is always running from his past, from the ghosts and memories. He is the last of his family, and he has been alone for hundreds of years but that doesn't stop him from smiling. He is mad, funny, crazy, outgoing. Ambition is one of his best traits and he loves it when his students are ambitious. Always tries to see the positive parts in life and the good in people. He is an amazing mad man that loves to laugh and jump and run and dance. Albert is energetic, lively and eccentric. One of his worst traits it's his childlike recklessness but he considers it to be fun.

✦ Madness
“That word doesn't even begin explaining what I am. I'm impulsive and arrogant sometimes like a little child. You see they call me mad because they're afraid of my genius .”
In English, the word "sane" derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning "healthy". The phrase "mens sana in corpore sano" is often translated to mean a "healthy mind in a healthy body". Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the medical profession the term is now avoided in favor of diagnoses of specific mental disorders; the presence of delusions or hallucinations is broadly referred to as psychosis.

✦ Intelligence
“Intelligent? Me? I like having everyone's full attention so he can show off my intelligence..”
Intelligence derives from the Latin verb intelligere, to comprehend or perceive. A form of this verb, intellectus, became the medieval technical term for understanding, and a translation for the Greek philosophical term nous. Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving. Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but has also been observed in animals and in plants.

✦ Eccentricity
“People invented the word eccentric to describe me.”
From Medieval Latin eccentricus, derived from Greek ekkentros, "out of the center", from ek-, ex- "out of" + kentron, "center". In popular usage, eccentricity (also called quirkiness) refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual. This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably maladaptive. Eccentricity is contrasted with "normal" behavior, the nearly universal means by which individuals in society solve given problems and pursue certain priorities in everyday life. People who consistently display benignly eccentric behavior are labeled as "eccentrics".



“What if you were really old, and really kind and alone? Your whole family dead. No future. What could you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry.”

{history} Albert Sapharon was born in Scotland on June 12th in 1073. He was born in a rich family that held lots of the grounds around Glasgow but eventually his family moved to a little village near the beach because of his father's new wife. Albert was only sixteen when he arrived into the village. There he met Evelyn a girl that caught his eye from the first instant. She was his age and she worked as a servant in their house. Albert used to stay in the room she was cleaning pretending he was reading only to watch her. Three years later he was obsessed with her, he knew he had fallen in love. At the age of nineteen he spoke to her and after a few months the girl was in love with him too. He wanted to take her back to Glasgow, to escape together but she died the day before their trip. Albert., consumed from the pain, tried to jump into the cold water from a cliff knowing under him the rocks would smash him. An old woman saw him, she slowly walked over and spoke.
✦ “Young man, you have a great power and a great destiny. You'll help so many..” she said softly.
“I don't want to help many, I want to die, to be reunited with the love of my life.” Albert answered as his voice cracked.
“The same child will be born hundreds of years from now. Don't you wish to see her again alive?” a wicked smile decorated the old woman's face. “Here have this, wait a few years and if you still want to see her, drink it.” the woman continued talking handing him a bottle of a silver shining potion.
“Why are you helping me?” he asked untrustworthy taking the potion and looking at her confused.
“Let's say I'll need your help someday and you can't say no if you drink it.” she whispered as she disappeared.
Albert waited five long years. He was living in Glasgow again and he was twenty-four by the time he decided he couldn't live without Evelyn anymore. He drank the potion that gave him immortality and magical powers but at a big cost. What he wanted to avoid most, happened. He had to live for hundreds of years without the girl only with the hope he might see her again. His family died and he had to run away so people wouldn't hunt him down for being a wizard. He soon started forgetting about his life, or that's what he liked to think. Evelyn never left his memory even if he couldn't remember her smell nor her touch. In 1897, Albert was on a vacation in Venice, Italy. A young woman came to him explaining she was the same woman from the cliff. She asked him if he had met his Evelyn again and when she heard the answer she disappeared again. “I'll wait for you to find her and then I'll ask for the favor.” Albert heard in his mind. When he returned to the school he tried forgetting again as his hope to meet his true love for the second time slowly vanished.



{family} Albert was in love with a young woman when he was only nineteen. He used to follow her home but never really talked to her. Albert's family was rich and this girl was poor so they never approved of her. Eventually, only because his father prohibited him to go near her, he talked to her and she fell in love with him too. In 1092, high tides caused a great flooding in Scotland. Evelyn, the young woman, had a house on the beach and the flooding was so bad she died drowning in her sleep. Albert never forgot her. Decades later he created the school. He doesn't have a family of his own but he treats his students like his own children.

{likes}
↪ “Bow ties are cool.” Albert never walks out of his house without a bow tie. His favorite colors are red and purple, that's why all his bow ties are red. He loves traveling around the world. He has visited many countries in Europe and Asia but he decided to create the school in North America because most of the special children were from there. When he is stuck at home or at the school he reads, fantasy books are his favorite. I can travel to different worlds without getting up from the couch, he says. He also enjoys having crazy adventures once he found the history teacher on a tree afraid to jump, a student had put him up there. Albert made a magic to make the teacher fly and he flew away all the way to London. That's why he had to look for a new history teacher.

{dislikes}
↪ He mostly hates people who are greedy, arrogant and selfish. A stupid person can make him angry in a matter of seconds. Once he was in Egypt and a man there was all of the things above, greedy, arrogant, selfish and stupid. He was supposed to buy the school grounds in America from him but instead, since the man changed him mind and was going to give them to a industrial company, Albert turned him into a frog. He thought it was the most suitable animal for that man. He signed the contract left the money and walked away. A few months later he had created the school making everyone forget about him. From then on, everyone who gets closer to the school sees a factory.



{strenght}
↪ Albert's biggest strength are his students. He believes that as long as the school prevails he will have a reason to live. To help the children. His kindness is remarkably big and his love for his work makes him happy. He is glad he can help so many around him that sometimes he believes his life is amazing, he believes he is very lucky.

{weaknesses}
↪ His past is probably one of his biggest weaknesses. He has been running away from it since his father rejected him for having powers, he felt alone and lost. That's why he created the school, so no child would have to feel the same way he did. He also tries to forget about Evelyn because it causes him great pain to remember her.

{pets} Albert has a black Chinese air dragon.
{other} Nope.

“We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”

I do have permission she told me that I can create him and to make a new topic.