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↪ not-so-brief introduction to percival ashworth.

BASICS.

full name: percival jasper charles ashworth. nickname(s): percy, pj. age: thirty-two. date of birth: 19 october 1992. zodiac sign: libra. place of birth: blackpool, lancashire, england, united kingdom. ethnicity: white, venezuelan. nationality: british. gender: demiboy ( he/they pronouns ). sexual orientation: pansexual. romantic orientation: panromantic. religion: neither of his parents were the most religious people in the world but percy was raised in an anglican household and baptized as a child. he wouldn’t consider himself religious in any capacity as an adult. education: bachelors of science in zoology ( university of derby ), masters in biodiversity, evolution & conservation ( university college london ), dphil in zoology ( university of oxford ). occupation: professor of zoology. language(s) spoken: english ( primarily ), french, german, russian, polish ( learned to the point of being able to carry on conversations during research projects across continental europe ). accent: he has a thick and immediately apparent northern english accent. though he’s lived in the united states for a couple years– it doesn’t take anyone more than a word or two to realize percy isn’t american. character inspiration: jamie taylor ( the haunting of bly manor ), newt scamander ( fantastic beasts and where to find them ).

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

face claim: sean teale. hair color: dark brown. eye color: dark brown. height: 6′2″. weight: 165 lbs. build: lanky, athletic. tattoos: a geometric lion / nature tattoo on his right forearm ( here ), an intricate, right half sleeve wolf on his left forearm ( here ), a small tattoo on the inside of his right bicep of the sun rising/falling over the ocean inspired by a drawing his baby brother gave him when they were children ( here ). piercings: he has a helix piercing in his right ear and a septum ring; he had an eyebrow piercing for a long while but took it out when he began guest lecturing and occasionally teaching in earnest– it’s healed up since then. distinguishing characteristics: his accent, how bright and warm he is, his tattoos & piercings, how smart he is ( or so he’s been told by many, many people after speaking to them for all of five minutes ).

PERSONALITY.

label: the adventurer. positive traits: adventurous, articulate, brilliant, charismatic, charming, compassionate, considerate, dedicated, earnest, empathetic, forgiving, genuine, hardworking, intuitive, loyal, passionate, sociable, sweet, warm. negative traits: ambitious, competitive, proud, sarcastic, stubborn. assertive, boisterous, excitable, haughty, obsessive, possessive, silly, superstitious. goals/desires: to make a positive impact on his community, to live a better life as an adult than he did as a child, to spend the rest of his life doing things he loves, to fall in love and have a family of his own. fears: failure, proving to everyone where he grew up that he’s just as useless as they’d always claimed, disappointing his little brother, never seeing either of his brothers again, becoming anything like the worst parts of his parents. hobbies: spending time with his family, smoking ( both weed and tobacco cigarettes ), cooking, baking, gardening when he has the time to do it and the weather’s right for it, hiking, reading, doing research of almost any kind, spending time with his friends, going out– drinking, dancing, anything that lets him be social, watching nature documentaries, listening to podcasts, playing video games, learning new things, knitting, sex. quirks: he talks with his hands extensively, he self-corrects out loud if he uses british slang for something rather than the american equivalent, he rarely raises his voice for any reason at all, he can rattle off his favorite animals and fun facts about them at any given moment with no preparation whatsoever, he almost always has some pop song or another stuck in his head and can be heard humming it until he remembers the words. likes: animals of all kinds, mystery novels, nature documentaries, david attenborough, expensive liquor, pot brownies, baked goods of almost every kind, horror movies, music, flowers, being around people, sex, flirting, star wars, most marvel movies, rpg based video games, podcasts, true crime documentaries, his little brother, learning anything new, talking to people about things they’re passionate about, his adopted parents & family. dislikes: his older brother, his childhood, people who don’t respect him & the hard work that’s gone into getting him to where he is in life, dark chocolate, milk, toxic people, accidentally killing plants, being alone for long periods of time, boredom, people who pick fights just to pick fights, bigots.

FAMILY.

father: simon james ashworth ( biological ). mark william eaton ( adopted ). mother: catherine ophelia chase ( biological ). rose katherine eaton née prescott ( adopted ). sibling(s): jack simon ashworth ( older ) & thomas rupert eaton ( younger ). michael andrew eaton ( older, adopted ). pet(s): a bernese mountain dog named luca and an australian cattle dog named koda. financial status: upper middle class.

BIOGRAPHY.

( TW: teenage pregnancy, infidelity, drug use, overdose, death )

By all accounts— by every metric Percy could use to quantify the fact as an adult— Simon Ashworth and Catherine Chase had never been ready to be parents. Was anyone ever really ready to be a parent? It was a question Percy had asked himself constantly as he’d gotten older but it had never been his place to judge– his parents hadn’t done him any favors but for at least some time they had tried to be present and helpful and Percy could never fault them for that. Blackpool– a seaside resort town on the English coast– had been home to Simon and Cat as long as they both could remember but they had remained strangers to one another until they met through a mutual friend when they were seventeen years old. The attraction had been immediate– a spark neither of them were prepared to deal with but allowed to catch and ignite the moment they met, an encounter that resulted in an unplanned pregnancy and a great deal of responsibility neither of them wanted staring them both in the face. Simon dropped out of sixth form promptly to begin working in earnest and provide for the family he certainly hadn’t expected to have but was willing to work to support nonetheless; Cat, after informing her parents, remained in school at her parents’ request though their relationship became strained from that moment on.

When Jack was born the couple was delighted— Simon took to being a father rather quickly and seemed to enjoy it while Cat was an absent mother at best in spite of Simon’s many attempts to help her feel more present in their son’s life. It was no secret to anyone at all that Cat was cheating on Simon with what was rumored to be every eligible man in Blackpool and though Simon was heartbroken by the rumors and the confidence he felt in their truthfulness– he never brought the issue up with Cat– choosing instead to look after their son and try to hold their family together as best he could. It was yet another accident that marked Cat’s second pregnancy when Jack was five and though Simon wasn’t even reasonably confident that the child was his he again prepared himself to be a father as best he possibly could. Percy was born on a cool October morning and from the moment he uttered his first cry his father was devoted to him and for the first time his mother dove headfirst into caring for both of her children with a zeal she’d never demonstrated prior.

Though they were on the poorer side they were happy for a great deal of Percy’s initial childhood and seemed to be primed to be that much happier when Cat found out she was pregnant with her third child when Percy was seven. It was yet more of the same in the Ashworth-Chase household until Tommy was around two and Cat eloped with a family friend and informed Simon plainly that she couldn’t handle being stuck in a dead end town with a dead end life and three children she hadn’t wanted in the first place. Simon was devastated but for the first year or two following Cat’s departure he managed to hold both himself and the family together rather well. Percy– already a brilliant boy intellectually and a spot of sunshine in the world as far as his father was concerned– began to help around the house to take some of the worry away from his father even going so far as to look after his baby brother whenever he wasn’t at school. Jack, who was sixteen, more or less stopped coming home and though Percy was aware he was essentially living at a friend’s across town he considered his absence in his life nothing short of abandonment and even as an adult holds a deep resentment towards him for that fact.

Things for the Ashworth family began to unravel slowly— Simon began to spend what money he earned from work on cocaine and other drugs– he was still present and still loving but Percy found himself more and more becoming a parent to Tommy rather than a brother. When he was twelve Simon’s habits escalated to a rather expensive heroin addiction that Percy could hardly process, let alone deal with and though he tried his best to raise his brother and himself it was difficult for a child to raise another child. He was nearly thirteen when he came home from school with Tommy in tow to find their father had overdosed in their kitchen— an overdose that would, even after his frantic call to emergency services, eventually lead to his death. Without extended family to look after them and with Jack’s refusal to take on the responsibility of raising siblings he hardly knew both Percy and Tommy became wards of the court.

Percy– already with a reputation for being a brilliant student– threw himself into his studies with that much more zeal as he and Tommy adjusted to life with their first foster family; his IQ was tested and he was placed into progressively more advanced courses until he was taking university classes part-time by the time he entered year eleven. His foster parents supported him fully and there was frequent talk of adoption for both himself and Tommy— who was easily the most important person in his life bar none. He was very nearly eighteen by the time the adoption paperwork was processed and both he and Tommy were officially members of the Eaton family in all but name. Though he was reluctant to leave Tommy behind when he’d been his primary caregiver for so many years prior to being placed with their adoptive family it was the encouragement of his adoptive parents Mark and Rose that finally reassured Percy to the point of feeling comfortable applying to universities about as far away from Blackpool as he could get without leaving the country. Higher education was a world of splendor for Percy who had always been so fiercely curious and sharply intelligent– he finished his undergraduate degree six months earlier than most of his graduating class before moving on to study further.

Animals and zoology had been passions of his from the moment he visited a zoo for the first time on an outing with his parents when he was still very young. He was fascinated by animals of all sorts and wanted to know everything about how to care for them and preserve the environments they called home. It seemed the logical choice for him to follow his chosen course of study as far as he could– and when he was twenty-six he walked away from Oxford with a doctorate in zoology to his name and several research positions made available to him over the whole of continental Europe and beyond if he chose to take them. Traveling across Europe to do the thing he loved more than anything in the world was a gift Percy had never had any inkling of taking advantage of and he eventually began to give guest lectures at universities in major cities near his work sites as well as develop a passion for photography he found delightful to explore when he was researching in far away countries he’d never imagined even seeing as a child. When his research positions drew closer to their deadlines and the projects he’d been working on were finalized he began to search for another place to call home– though he had not, for a moment, imagined that that home would be in the United States.

He debated the prospect thoroughly— spent hours on the phone to his parents and his brothers before he committed to a job offer in Crossroads, Washington. It was a change in a great many ways but Percy had never been the sort of person to shy away from change and teaching, along with his research, had become passions for him unlike anything he’d ever known. Four years in and Crossroads felt as much like home to him as his parents’ home in Blackpool always had— his work was going well, his students seemed happy to have him and Percy was delighted to be in a place where he felt he was genuinely doing what he was meant to do with his life. At the very least, Percy was ready and deeply excited for the endless possibilities stretching out in front of him and an entire life in a place he’d come to love just over the horizon.

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