OOC Information
Player Name: Jaz
Player Age: 23
Player Contact: poisonparfait
Player/Character HMD: here!
Other characters in game: N/A

IC Information
Character Name: Draco Lucius Malfoy
Character Canon: Harry Potter (book canon)
Character Age/Gender: 17, male
Canon Point: At the end of The Deathly Hallows, pre-epilogue
Character Canon History: this has a pretty good chronological history! or this, which is a little less summarized.
Character Personality:
Draco is a pureblooded wizard of the proud Malfoy family. Like the rest of his family, he is stringent and unsparingly elitist towards wizards unlike him, as their family belief for generations and generations has been that blood purity is paramount. To the Malfoys and other pureblooded wizards like them, all mudbloods, half-bloods and blood traitors are seen as being worth less than the sludge of their heels. He relies heavily on the adoration of his family, and is a coddled, rotten boy. Being so spoiled certainly feeds into his tremendous superiority complex, and Draco Malfoy is spurned by Harry rejecting his offer of friendship in their initial introduction as children, and vests a deep grudge against him when he chooses to instead befriend people Draco considers below his blood purity and status.

Draco is constantly agitated by and jealous of the accomplishments of his rivals, and is perpetually under their shadows despite his own self perceived greatness. He's convincingly portrayed as a loser despite, for instance, being one of the most brilliant and talented wizards at his school, second only to Hermione Granger. For how despicably he's presented, not even readers can take Draco's accomplishments seriously--or into account at all. However, his cleverness is proved consistently again and again through the books, and finally with gains. He masters several spells that children his age can't handle, such as wordless charms and hexes and occlumency, among others.

Draco teases lower class/status wizards constantly, throwing around slurs and laughing behind (and with) the lofty frames of his goonish friends for protection. He's fond of tearing into old scars, not below getting extremely personal for the sake of hurting others--he makes fun of the legitimate trauma of other students, such as Neville Longbottom, whose parents were tortured to insanity by Dark Wizards. He also enjoys prolonging and provoking embarrassment of those he considers trash, which is almost everyone outside of his own house as far as he's concerned. At only 12, when a horrible monster is released into their school, he even jokes that he hopes Granger is murdered, as its last victim many great years ago was also a mudblood.

Although Draco is extremely antagonistic of those outside of his social status, he's rather friendly with people he deems worthy of being in his circle. As far as personal relationships go, Draco seems to utilize his friends and companions more as tools than anything else. Despite this, he does seem to care for their well being, though it could be for selfish reasons. He does develop a petty romance with Pansy Parkinson, and though they flirt through a few of their school years, Pansy claims they weren't so serious.

In addition to harboring the archaic prejudice from his family background, as well as a severely bloated ego, Draco is also sneaky and smarmy. He's known for playing dirty--for one thing, he sucks up to authority figures if he thinks it will work in his favor. He constantly tries to tattle on Harry for all of his rule-breaking adventuring (despite his just causes), jealous and spiteful of Harry's fame and adoration, though this doesn't always work out for him. In fact, it sometimes works against him, furthering his bitter disdain for his rival.

Also, when injured, Draco has in the past exaggerated the severity of his injury either for attention or to criminalize whoever he deems responsible, often in these circumstances utilizing the high rank and social status of his father to threaten and punish those who harm him. Despite this manipulative behavior and general habit of troublemaking, Draco is also very notably a giant coward. He's often shown as a comical contrast to our brave heros for how he screams girlishly in the face of danger, and for how little tolerance for pain he possesses. For how nasty he is, he's laughably delicate, probably due to excessive coddling in his upbringing.

So, basically, Draco Malfoy is extremely dislikable, and very deliberately so by effort of his author. He's almost cartoonishly unpalatable, seeming for a long time to exist solely to make the series protagonists look better as people by comparison. He continues on this way through much of the series, and is more detestable as time goes on. He continues putting kinks in Harry's path as usual, but as the series goes on, Draco's actions result in more dangerous consequence, and it is no accident. He goes from being sort of an annoying background noise to a true antagonist as his poisonous upbringing takes a more hostile tone.

However, Draco does experience change as a character, breaking the narrative tone of his trending presentation earlier in the series.

Through his sixth school year, once ordered to murder Dumbledore, Draco's behavior changes as he becomes overwhelmed by the possibility of failure; he becomes skiddish and flighty. He loses interest in his former hobbies, too occupied by his mission and new work. He leaves his Quidditch team, slips on his marks, and his performance as a prefect suffers. Additionally, he begins to avoid his friends as he works. He drops weight, likely unable to eat as much as he should from the stress, and is noted as being paler than even usual, dark around the eyes and absent in his behavior. He seems too busy for his own prejudiced bravado, or to even antagonize the series heroes, which is undoubtedly a previously favored pass time for the young Malfoy. This shows that he can't handle what it truly means to uphold his own beliefs; when made to act as he's spoken his whole life, it proves difficult to take it as far as deemed necessary by Voldemort.

Draco does make a few sneaky and failed attempts to murder his headmaster out of desperation, and slowly becomes disillusioned by his own former beliefs as he struggles through his terrible task. He quickly unravels under the pressure, and even begins to make visits to Moaning Myrtle for consolation out of desperation as he has no one to properly confide in on the manner, even though she is a deceased mudblood. His personal distress even causes him to cry at some point, and he is enraged and horrified when he notices that Harry has caught him in such a state, thus attacking Harry in his utter mortification at being exposed so vulnerably to his nemesis. This doesn't go well, and Draco is defeated by a deadly spell.

At some point, Snape even offers to assist Draco in his mission, pointing out that Draco is obviously horrified and not up to the burden. Draco, again, despite his cowardice, stubbornly and insistently refuses, since it's his life and his family that is at risk. In part, this comes from recent distrust in his favored teacher; he suspects that Snape is jealous of Draco having taken Lucius's position with the Death Eaters. With this, he further withdraws from people he ordinarily confides in and trusts, isolating himself as he continues to spiral downwards.

Even though it means the loss of his family's lives and the loss of his own life, Draco ultimately fails to kill Dumbledore, and when Dumbledore offers to protect Draco and his family from Voldemort, even after everything the Malfoys have done, Draco lowers his wand. He clearly doesn't want to be doing what he's doing, which had been made apparent much earlier on. For all of his previously spouted disdain for Dumbledore, and his talk of his ilk being better off dead, Draco is horrified when Snape steps in to make up for Draco's failure, murdering Dumbledore.

When the Death Eater's withdraw to the Malfoy's manor, Draco continues to do Voldemort's bidding, but with continually displayed reluctance and disassociation. When his muggle studies teacher is murdered on his dining room table by a horrible curse, Draco faints. He is also made to torture Thorfinne Rowle. His family is held at arm's length by Voldemort despite his use of their home, and Draco shakily abides by all of it, likely unwilling to risk their lives. When called to identify Harry (disguised by a disfiguring spell), Draco deliberately does not identify him. When Hermione is tortured by his aunt, Draco is uncomfortably present, but does not watch.

Draco also pleads for Crabbe to not murder Harry in one of their final confrontations, as Voldemort wants him captured and alive. Crabbe, having grown more distant and rebellious of Draco due to Draco's unavailability with his Death Eater status, disobeys Draco's pleading and loses his life to his own recklessness. Though Crabbe was generally shown as a grunt sort of lacky, Draco is very upset with his loss.

Ultimately, Draco rejects the Dark Lord and sides with his family, saving themselves permanent imprisonment in Azkaban for their late betrayal to Voldemort, consequence of their loyalty to eachother. However, understandably, the Malfoys have created a lot of animosity for themselves. Draco no longer knows his place among the wizarding community; he doesn't seem to subscribe to the beliefs of Dark Wizards enough to do as they expect of him, but he's done too much damage to go to the other side. Besides, he's got far too much pride, and so having once been of great status, he is now in an alienated middle ground.

Despite what's happened, I feel he is probably still pretty bigoted, but he's also probably more aware of how much of a reflex it is and is looking at himself more analytically. It's likely that Draco hasn't had a lot of time to think about all of what's happened, especially the most recent events, and that it will take him a long time to really change in any significant way, as the roots of one's upbringing are stubborn and strong.  However, the seeds have been implanted, and, so to speak, Draco was really made to eat his own horrible words. Poetic!

AU Information: N/A
Character Abilities: here!
Character Inventory:
• His mother's wand, which allows him to use magic. However, as he's not its proper master, it misbehaves.
• A lighter suitcase he'd been packing, including a few change of clothes and some personal reading.

Samples: a bakerstreet thread!

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third person; (NOT REKINDLED CANON FTR)

"Draco."

The boy addressed snaps his head upwards and blinks. His father, from across the table, holds an expression that is somber but firm, commanding his son for his attention. The table is long, and rather empty—Draco's mother is attending to something else, and Draco hasn't been able to keep thoughts long enough to talk. At this table, his mind goes into a delirious fuzz, and Draco doesn't feel present; it's hard even to hear his father's voice, at first.

All he can think about is the many nights spent with many more people seated at their manor's dining room table, and the horrific visage that kept himself comfortable where his father currently sits. The woman who was killed where Draco can no longer will his appetite enough to eat when he looks upon the dark oak.

"Yes?" Draco responds obediently, fighting to get his spotty focus back to its full footing.

"Have you spoken to your mother?"

"Regarding Hogwarts," Draco tests for confirmation, and Lucius nods. "I did."

"And what have you decided?"

"It's only one more year," Draco responds, shifting in his seat. He glances at his hands, and wets his dry lips nervously. He finds his father's eyes again. "Even if things will be tense... Really, what could go wrong? It would be a waste to not return, and mother agrees."

"You'll be okay, then."

"Father," he says, his expression muting somewhat. "I have endured far worse than graduation, at Hogwarts."

Lucius gives pause, studying his son's expression, analyzing his response. Draco doesn't waver, and his father seems to relent, understanding his son's point.

"Well then," Lucius says, straightening his cuffs. "Get yourself to packing."

Draco nods, a tight, tense gesture, and does as he's told, leaving his table to ready himself for leaving his home. After all, a year away would, for once, do him some good. Even among dregs with no class, he hopefully at least will not be subject to the haunting emptiness of his family dwelling.