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Player Information
Name: Augustine
Timezone: AKST
Personal Journal: nymphadoraklutz
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: AIM; augustinehiver
Email Address: dorseyhorsey@hotmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: Taiga, Chie, Lili, Tamaki, Puck
Character Information
Name: Sid Jenkins
Canon Origin/Series: Skins (UK version)
School Year: 5th
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Out of school living location: Bristol, England
Blood status: Halfblood
Personality: Sid Jenkins is, quite honestly, a completely average teenager. His bedroom is a mess, he procrastinates on homework, and likes to start his morning off with a wank. He doesn't always get along with his parents, but not because of some dark and traumatic event in his childhood, because that's just how it is when you're sixteen. He's not at the top of the social heap, but not quite at the bottom. He's not a total party animal, but he isn't squeaky clean, either.
It is because he is so normal compared to the people around him that he is the butt monkey of the group. He is beaten up on multiple occasions, has to use his balls as collateral in a drug deal, is chased through the woods by an angry Russian man, suffers constant verbal abuse at the hands of his supposed-to-be best friend, Tony, and is literally pissed on. He takes all of it with little more than a snarky comment muttered under his breath, because honestly? Sid is a bit of a wuss. A total pushover, actually, the boy can take a remarkable amount of crap before he snaps. Most of which comes from his friend, Tony, who he is eternally trapped in the shadow of. Tony is smarter and more popular, the girl he likes prefers Tony, even Sid's father asks him why he can't be more like Tony. He ignores it, and remains devoted to his friends past the point where a more reasonable person would refuse, and he does it with a smile. An awkward smile, but a smile nonetheless.
Unlike a lot of the boys he hangs around with, though, Sid is a genuinely kind person. He doesn't trick or take advantage of people, and he shows real concern for people who appear to be in trouble, whether he knows them well or not. He hardly ever does anything mean, not intentionally, anyway, any vicious action on his part would have to be a result of much provoking, or an accident caused by his own obliviousness. And obliviousness he has in abundance. He finds feelings difficult to vocalize, and difficult to interpret. By the time he realizes that Cassie is hopelessly in love with him, she's already tried to kill herself as a result of his rejection.
Sid is also kind of a dork. He spends three months trying to best some jerk from Denmark on an MMO (spoiler: it's Tony), wears shirts of cartoon dogs with buttons that yell catchphrases, and has a glow in the dark Batman which is definitely NOT a nightlight. He isn't very motivated towards schoolwork or his future, pulling average grades in school through his preferred method of working: all-nighters the day before the big assignments are due.
Despite all of his initial herpin and derpin, Sid grows up a lot throughout the series. His hostile relationship with his father grows into a more understanding one, and Sid becomes less oblivious and more aware as a result. Over time, Sid grows a pair, and becomes willing to stand up to people and be honest about how he thinks. When he really puts his mind to something, he doesn't give up, and will literally cross oceans to get it.
Canon Background: The first episode of Skins is about Sid's best friend, Tony, trying to set him up with someone so that he can lose his virginity at a party that night, because if he turns seventeen and is still a virgin, he simply will be too much of a loser to hang out with Tony anymore. The lucky lady is well-known spacecase fresh out of rehab, Cassie Ainsworth, but it doesn't go down quite as planned, because Sid is too hopelessly infatuated with Tony's girlfriend, Michelle, to want much to do with Cassie. Oh, and earlier that day, Sid was bullied into buying £300 of weed, on credit (and the deadline for payment is 48 hours later!), from a psychopath dealer named Mad Twatter.
...yeah, it's a teen drama, okay?
To make a long story short, he loses the weed, and is totally broke, and Mad Twatter starts stalking him, trying to get reimbursed. At the same time, Sid is blissfully unaware of the fact that Cassie's started to fancy him. By the time he gets the drug dealer off his back (a process which includes getting beaten up by a pair of terrible wannabe rappers), Cassie is asking him out on a date, which he accepts, because things are pretty much hopeless with the girl he really likes. And even if they weren't, he doesn't want to do that to Tony.
But here's the thing about Tony: he's a douche. After Sid cancels his date with Cassie because he's grounded (shit happens when you're failing your classes), Tony convinces him to sneak out to see his choir sing. At the concert, he and Michelle have a very public break-up due to Tony making out with other girls, and Tony encourages Sid to go comfort her, which he does. When he gets home, Cassie is there waiting for him, and she throws a fit over getting stood up for Michelle, and runs off to attempt suicide via overdose on pills. After she recovers and Sid goes to visit her in rehab and apologize, she appears to be completely over him. Additionally, any shot he had with Michelle was also shot, because the next time he sees her, Tony shows up and the two make up, while Sid has no choice but to sit back and watch.
Sid realizes that he doesn't really love Michelle, and loves Cassie instead, and he writes her a love letter to try and win her back. He eventually gives up, and just goes to the clinic where she's recovering, but by the time he gets there, Cassie is gone, on her way to Scotland. He does manage to find her and deliver the letter before she leaves, and they begin a long-distance relationship. But don't worry, he loses that pesky V-card before she takes off.
Meanwhile, Tony is in a coma due to being run over by a bus! Sid is by his side the entire time, but when he wakes up, he's forgotten a lot, and his motor skills have deteriorated, and the relationship between the two becomes strained. Also strained: his relationship with Cassie, who Sid believes is cheating on him, due to a ridiculous understanding that would have been solved in seconds if this was real life and not a TV show. But it is a TV show, and Rule of Drama dictates that this is the perfect time for Sid's dad to die, and so he does.
Grieving and vulnerable, Sid and Michelle (who has pretty much given up on Tony, who is recovering slower than expected) hook up, making him the real cheater, not Cassie. Just in time for her to come home, of course. Sid and Michelle don't last long, as they both know they're still in love with their previous partner. Cassie, though, has gone off the deep end, into heavy drugs and having sex with anything that moves. Sid tells her off for that, and for not being there for him when his dad died, and the two eventually make up. Then someone dies, and the traumatized Cassie runs away again, this time to New York, and 1st Generation Skins ends just as Sid arrives in New York with little more than the clothes on his back to look for her.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): (Dog) Sid was born in Bristol to Mark and Elizabeth Jenkins. Sid's father, a pureblood, was already a bit of an outcast from the rest of his family, and his marriage to a muggle woman only estranged them further. Growing up, Sid was raised with both magic and non-magical influences, and it became apparent at a young age that he would follow in his father's footsteps in wizardry when, while being chased by a bird at the age of six, he accidentally set it on fire.
He went off to Hogwarts when he was eleven like any normal magical child, and that was the point where his parents' relationship began deteriorating. It had actually begun to go down the drain prior to that, but the couple kept it together for the sake of their kid. Now, with Sid gone for the majority of the year, it became difficult for them to get along, and Sid's mother left. Just in time to coincide with Sid's angry teenager phase, which manifests itself primarily in profanity aimed at his father.
Sid's time at Hogwarts is mostly spent avoiding homework. And Quidditch. Seriously, aren't they afraid they'll be pecked by birds, or something? Miraculously, he manages to pull high marks in History of Magic and Herbology, while being okay to rubbish in everything else. Don't ask him how that happened. (Days)
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor: Bravery is...something he really doesn't have much of. When given the option between fight or flight, Sid will pick flight. He's not the guy that you want on the front lines, he's the guy you want if you need someone impressionable and easily manipulated. He does learn to stick up for himself eventually, but it's hardly a regular occurrance. One thing he does have, though, is determination. He sticks to his guns, no matter what, even if he's reluctant to pick one up in the first place.
Hufflepuff: Sid has loyalty in abundance, probably too much for his own good. He continuously plays second fiddle to his manipulative jerkass of a best friend, and despite a few major bumps, at the end of the day, Sid will always call him his best friend, no matter how horrible he is. The Hufflepuff stereotype, he's certainly got down. Hard work, though, he's not quite as adept at.
Ravenclaw: Despite his affinity towards passive-aggressive snarking, intelligence and learning are not Sid's strong points. He is average, at best, when it comes to schoolwork, and is not the brightest bulb outside of the classroom, either. He does have some talent for art, though, but it's hardly one that he exercises very often.
Slytherin: Honestly? No. Just no. Sid is the opposite of everything that Slytherin stands for. He's more of a follower than a leader, he panics under pressure, he hasn't a clue what he's doing with his life after he graduates, and the only manipulating he'll ever do is getting someone to agree that his Ozzy impression is anything but horrid.
Sample Journal Entry:
I've never been so glad that I don't take Care of Magical Creatures. The last time I got exited over a zoo, I was eight. And do you want to know what happened? I was kicked, by a goat, below the belt. And all my dad said was, "Sidney, man up, you little tit!" I was fucking eight.
So no, I don't think I'm going, thanks.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person:
There was just something about the fact that OWLs were coming up in just a couple months that made Sid completely immune to productivity. From the time he got up (half an hour behind his dorm mates, he'd started a nasty habit of either being late to Transfigurations or skipping it altogether), to the time he went to bed (also late, he was very busy drawing his nightly doodles where his bullshit predictions of the future were supposed to be), no work was getting done at all.
On one such occasion, when it had gotten to the point where Sid didn't even know what he was doodling, he got fed up with it. It was quite a while past curfew, but this was some pretty epic boredom he was dealing with, here. With a mighty groan, he slapped his textbook against the table in the common room and got up from his seat, the imprint left by his bum for the many hours he'd attempted to write an essay finally returning to normal.
Sid grabbed the jacket from the back of the chair, and his hat, which he had thrown across the room in frustration about an hour ago, and stormed out of common room.
...only to run right into the caretaker, who, evidently, wasn't having the best of days, either. Oh, well, at least detention was slightly different from the same-old same-old.