Name: Remus John Lupin
Nicknames: Moony (Sirius and James), Loony Loopy Lupin (Peter), Wolvie (Tonks).
Age: 41
Birthday: March 10, 1959
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Astrological: Pisces
Bloodline: Father was a wizard, Mother was a muggle.
Gender: Male
Year: 1976
Affiliations: Order Of The Phoenix
Address: 12 Grimmuald Place

Health: Complicated, but not good.
Eyesight: Wears reading glasses occasionally.
Hearing: Excellent
Left/Right/Ambi: Right
Disabilities/Handicaps: Just being a werwolf.
Physical Health: Good - physically fit, excellent reflexes.

Psychology

IQ: Above average, but not by much.
Extrovert/Introvert: Middling - he's reserved but he is also social.
Phobias/Fears: Hurting someone, madness, losing control of himself, the full moon, social rejection, losing more people he loves- and most of all losing.
Mental Health: Prone to depression, self-doubt, and guilt - and he is still Rock Solid

Personality

Goals/Dreams: To win this thing, once and for all. Killing Fenrir Greyback. A cure for lycanthropy.
Quirks/Habits: Besides those related to being a werewolf - ? His diet is unhealthy as anything, tends to be difficult to argue with- most of the time he smiles, nods, and does whatever the hell he wants, anyway. He sense of humor is wry, sarcastic, inappropriate - mostly it's just plain bad.
Likes: Tea, chocolate, libraries, paperwork, occasional time on his own, physical touch, and the scent of warm leather.
Dislikes: War, Quidditch, MacNair, The Ministry, perfume, arrogance, arguments, rain and asparagus.
First Impression: Unassuming and unimposing - quiet, average, guy.
Philosophy of Life: You have to live it. No matter what else is going on, or how many things are going wrong, you have got to live it. This moment may be the last one you'll ever have - you have to make it count.
Phrases they use often: Christ! Excuse me?, Easy-.

Family

Parents: John and Marcia (Smythe) Lupin (Both deceased)
Sibling(s): None
Children: None
Current residence: 12 Grimmuald Place
Pets: No.
Friends: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Tonks, Kingsley, The Weasleys, Minerva, Assorted members of The Order and former students.
Enemies: Fenrir Greyback, Peter Pettigrew (personally), Bellatrix, Death-Eaters, Voldemort (more generally).
History: Remus John Lupin was born to a wizard father and a muggle mother. He had a normal, if someone lonely (he was an only child) childhood. He exhibited magical abilities when he was seven and repaired a broken windowpane without meaning to. He was excited - it meant he got to go to Hogwarts, and he was looking forward to going to the wizarding school he'd heard about. He was really looking forward to having more time with children his age.

He'd already received his letter when his father offended Fenrir Greyback (Remus still doesn't know what his father did that upset him) and Remus was bitten. He wasn't killed, but was instead infected, and his life went straight to hell. When he recovered from the attack he was registered with the Ministry and very nearly didn't get to go to Hogwarts. Dumbledore managed to pull enough strings to get him in, and he went.

The years at Hogwarts were beyond all doubt the best Remus has every had. Remus was quieter, more bookish and more concerned with playing by the rules than James and Sirius - and he was nothing like as Quidditch mad as they were. They didn't always agree, and things weren't always perfect - far from it! - but it was a good time in his life.

Then there was the first War, and Voldemort. Things got harder, but for a while they were okay. James and Lily married, Harry was born and Sirius was the God father. But as the war progressed, things got harder, and started coming apart at the seams. His relationship with Sirius grew steadily more strained as the war progressed. Toward the end they didn't trust one another at all. The only person they did trust was the one they shouldn't have.

The War ended, but it ended with Sirius in jail and his parents, James, Lily, and Peter (he thought) dead. His world had fallen completely apart around him. He blamed himself; he hated Sirius. He hated himself; he blamed Sirius. And of course, he grieved. Remus stayed around just long enough to see Harry with his family - he wasn't (and isn't) legally considered a person by the Ministry. He certainly couldn't have taken him in legally and after all that had happened he wouldn't have trusted himself to, even if it would have been allowed.

The decade (plus a year) that followed was not happy ones. He'd lost his family, biological and chosen. He traveled, between the muggle world and the wizarding one, staying largely to extremely remote areas where the risk of injuring innocents during the full moon was the lowest, and tried to forget. He worked hard to bury the memory of Sirius with James, Lily, and Peter, and the difficulty of simple survival in a world that denied him even basic human rights (Werewolves were, and are, classified as Dark Creatures) was difficult enough that he almost, if never quite, managed.

When Sirius escaped Azkaban and was said to be headed for Hogwarts, Dumbledore called him back. He didn't particularly want to, but it was his responsibility (as far as he was concerned) and he wasn't going to avoid it. He knew he could transform there, safely, and was promised a supply of wolfsbane. He returned as a professor, and met Harry for the first time on the train. Harry really did look like James.

For the next nine months he tried to teach Harry what he needed to know to fight Dementors, without betraying who he was. Watching Harry, with Ron and Hermione, was like seeing James, Sirius, and himself years ago (he, if anyone is interested, associated himself as Hermione, Ron as Sirius, and Harry of course as James). It was bittersweet - the bitter being the conviction that Sirius was there and trying to finish what Remus had begun - and kill Harry.

Finding out that it was Peter who had betrayed them, that had cost James and Lily their lives, seeing Sirius - or what was left of him - was. To say it was shock is too mild a term. It was gut wrenchingly painful, and he was in those moments more angry than he had ever been. The sheer, bloody, hate he felt for Peter has never really left him. As proud as he honestly was of Harry for talking them out of killing Peter, not killing Pettigrew, anyway, is one of his greatest regrets.

When Snape outted him to the school as a werewolf and the school year had ended Sirius was long gone, and was being hunted by the Ministry. He wasn't angry at Snape - he honestly did agree that he was a threat and danger to the school - but he was also relieved. He trusted Harry with Dumbledore at the school, and he wanted to at least try to find Sirius. He didn't know what he was going to do, but he had to at least try and do it.

So, he left and traveled and went in search of Sirius. It was a bit less than a year when they found each other, with some interference from Dumbledore They stayed together at Grimmuald for quite some time. He - they- worked with Order of the Phoenix, and they worked on their 'relationship'. Which is to say that Sirius was paranoid and broken from time in Azkaban with hate as his only focus. Remus wasn't without his own baggage after all those years as a social outcast. He wanted, though, desperately to fix Sirius, and fix them. There were some spectacular fights, but they were trying.

They tried right up to the battle at The Department of Mysteries when Sirius fell through the veil and Remus had to hold Harry to keep him from following Sirius through the veil. All he could think was that they hadn't quite made it back, and when he grieved this time it was for the opportunity that had been lost, and all the potential Sirius had had, beautiful and laughing when he'd been a student.

He broke. He broke completely and without drama. He just shut quietly down.

He continued to work with The Order and went to infiltrate the group of Werewolves lead by Fenrir. Gathering the information was necessary, it was a job that needed to be done if it could be - to find out their allegiances and what he could of Voldemort's plans. More than that it was the opportunity to continue to work For The Order, against Voldemort, and to do it without having to live like a civilized human being, and see Harry's face. As much as he loved James and loves Harry, the cost paid to keep him alive was something that Remus was beginning to feel a bit too personally. He needed the time.

He stayed with the werwolves until the end of that Summer. Life there was brutally, viscously, primal and hard. He saw and did things that he will haunt him for the rest of his life - as thought he lives and deaths of Sirius, James, and Lily weren't enough. It also gave him an up close and intimate look at why Werewolves are considered Dark Creatures to be feared rather than people - and why Voldemort has to be stopped. Remus has seen what the world will be if Voldemort wins.


Background

Occupation: Head of Hogwart's Security
Education: Hogwarts
Home: Wales
Finance: BWAH. Er- Grew up middle class, and is all right now. The time in the middle should probably be left at 'below the poverty line'

Appearance

Height: 6'3"
Weight: 170 pounds.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Graying light brown
Face & Complexion: Worn, really.
Build: No longer painfully thin, but still skinny.
Defining Marks: Old, barely visible, scars from Fenrir's bite on both front and back of his left shoulder.
Dress Style: Hogwarts' security robes when he's working, jeans and t-shirts with a beat to hell leather jacket and sneakers when he's dressing muggle. Casual and careless the rest of the time - many of his robes are threadbare, and he likes them that way.
Possessions always on this person: Chocolate, Wand.
Manner of Speech: Soft-spoken and level.
Manner of Movement: Graceful- aware of his space and his body.

Magic:

Wand: Oak, dragon heartstring, 10 1/2 inches.
Patronus: A large, shaggy, white dog. (Watch this space!)
Boggarts: Full moon.
Animagus Form: None - he isn't one.
Most competent area of Magic: D.A.D.A
Least competent area of Magic: Care of Magical Creatures, Potions.
Other magical oddities/abilities: Werewolf.

Romantic/ Sexual

Marital Status: Not.
Spouse/significance other: He and Tonks are working on it.
Sexual Preference: Dead middle at 3 on the Kinsley scale.
Ever had sex: Yeah.
Believes that a person shouldn't have sex before marriage: Er, no.
Believes in casual sex: Not for him, no.
Past Relationships: Sirius Black, Nymphadora Tonks. Yes, that's really it.

Sexual Orientation: Perfectly bisexual. Sexual attraction is a complicated (or very simple) thing with Remus, but it isn't determined by gender.

Kinks: He doesn't have any, he swears. (D/s, more than B/D or S/M. It's not about power play, it's about power. Structure, Dominance, Submission. He's a perfect switch here, too, and his Dominance or submission is based entirely on his partner.)

Turn ons/Turn offs He is attracted to strong, dominant, personalities. That doesn't mean he'll submit to them, it means he'll fight for it with them and however the chips fall he'll be quite happy. Restraint and mindless, easy, 'natural' submission are all complete turn offs, and touching his throat is a surefire way to send him right past arousal and straight into blind rage. Sex is violent with him, and it's about dominance and submission - with very, very, few exceptions (like the morning after the full moon). It's not a pretty, romantic, or ritualized thing - it's primal.

Pain doesn't turn him on or off. With the monthly transformation his pain tolerance is unbelievable - serious damage would have to be done for him to even register it as significant. That, combined with unpleasant associations (to transforming), and the rate he heals, it's just nothing more than a fact of life. Not sexual at all.

General:

Morality

Ever been drunk: Sure.
Lied to a boyfriend or girlfriend: Oh, yeah.
Cheated on a boyfriend or girlfriend: No, never.
Gotten into a fight: Yep.
Innocent or guilty: According to who, and of what?
Been a hypocrite in the past: Yep.
Dark Arts: Well versed, competent, capable, but doesn't believe fighting Voldemort and his followers with the dark arts is anything but idiotic.
Voldemort: Die, plsthnx.
Political association : Dumbledore, both because he truly believes that he's right and that Voldemort is an evil dangerous man, and because he's suffered a lot of personal loss at the hands of the Death Eaters and their supporters. It's as much personal as political at this point. He wants Fenrir. He wants Pettigrew. He wouldn't mind Bellatrix. He'd like Voldemort, but that kill belongs to Harry.

Favourites

Friend: Tonks
Academics: D.A.D.A
Animal: Most animals respond to him really badly. He likes the ones that don't.
Book: Most of them.
Colour: Brown
Drink: Assam tea
Food: Red meat and sugar tie.
Flower: Daffodil
Music: Anything with a driving bass
Scent: Warm leather.
Thing To Do: Curl up with a fire and a book

Least Favourites

Person: Fenrir Greyback.
Academics: Care of Magical Creatures
Animal: The ones that don't like him.
Book: Quidditch Through The Ages
Colour: Green
Drink: Wolfsbane - Blergh!
Food: Plants - yes, all of them.
Music: Anything with sliding high pitches, or that sounds chaotic.
Scent: ...He doesn't want to talk about it.
Thing To Do: Sacrifice lives.

History, War, and Misc Facts
Birth place: Wales
Hogwarts House: Gryffindor
Educational history: Good education, good grades, got along well with most of the teachers, followed the rules more than James and Sirius - Prefect
Significant traumas, injuries: When he was eight he was bitten by Fenrir Greyback as 'payback' for some offense. Spying for The Order - Yes, all of it. No, he doesn't want to discuss it. Yes, the player knows why.

Role in the war thus far:
* Was a member of the original Order of The Phoenix
* Rejoined as a member when Voldemort returned
* Spy for the Order within Fenrir's group of werewolves from fall of 1996 until Dumbledore's death in April of 1997.

Losses Due To War
James, Lily, Sirius, Dumbledore.

Werewolf Stuff:

It's a cycle that waxes and wanes with the moon. Leading up to the full moon his reactions become more primal, his reflexes get faster, his senses (hearing and smell, specifically) become more acute, and his 'wolfish**' traits become more pronounced.

As a result he reacts more quickly, and there's more for him to react *to*, because there's more sensory input. Basically - he's much more likely to 'snap' if he's not paying attention. It peaks at the full moon and then subsides until the new moon, when he's at his most 'human' -- then it starts building again.

Sure, there are benefits. He heals very quickly from most injuries illnesses (a cursed wound or werewolf specific toxin are obvious exceptions). Old scars (from being bitten) have even faded over the years. But he heals quickly because if he didn't he wouldn't survive the massive trauma of transforming, and illness is fought off because his immune system and metabolism are ramped up trying to fight off the virus responsible for lycanthropy.

Because of the increased immune system activity he's always physically warm - like he has a low grade fever. He's used to it and it doesn't bother him, but anyone having any physical contact with him could notice that his hands are always warm. Any healer working with him would certainly notice the raised temperature as well as a higher pulse and respiration rate. And the increased metabolism means he eats, a lot. Having regular meals certainly means he isn't as painfully skinny as he once was, but he's still thin and missing even a couple of meals makes a difference - and while that's hardly going to starve him he *would* get into trouble faster than your average bear- er, person.

The Transformation itself is also traumatic. It does a lot of very ugly damage very quickly, and it hurts a lot. The damage heals fast enough, but it's still a lot of massive physical change, and it happens not once a month but twice within twelve hours (he has to change back to human, too) Morning after is worst - he's exhausted, really hungry, and grumpy.

As he gets older and the more he uses wolfsbane the worse the transformation is- and the harder it is on him. Age slows him down in general of course, and wolfsbane not only keeps him from losing his mind (and causing a blood bath in the castle) but it's another thing his body has to try to fight off. It also, minimally, slows how quickly he heals. He is not aware of the affects of wolfsbane - he thinks he's just getting old.

That's the physical trauma.

The other, that I hadn't planned on pointing out but what the hell, is that for (an admittedly brief) time it leaves him helpless. He loses all control of himself, in nasty ways. He can't use magic, he can't speak, and for the time it takes him to heal he's not capable of anything else either - he's in pain and in shock. He. Hates. It. He avoids anyone seeing him transform.

The general stress on his body on a regular basis and the strain of transformation - means his life span is shortened. He is in no way going to live to reach a normal wizarding life span. Normal human is possible, barring sudden death via violence.

PB: Liam Neeson