WAGTAIL, robert shay

[ROBERT SHAY WAGTAIL-HOLDEN]

Look here, what Do you see? Are You Looking Forward to Get Tangle Up in Me? FULL NAME Robert Shay Wagtail-Holden AGE & BIRTHDAY Seventeen born 30-Nov-2007 OCCUPATION Sixth year Hufflepuff, aspiring musician BLOOD STATUS Half-blood. FACE CLAIM Christofer Drew Ingle. WAND TYPE Eleven and a half inches, unicorn hair, hemlock. PATRONUS Fennec Fox. PETS Hugsy and Bugsy a pair of sugar gliders. ABILITIES Animagus - fennec fox Tell me who you are, I'm sure you're some kind of superstar. Free Style THE PROLOGUE Life is nothing more than an illusion. It’s like a poor actor who struts and worries for his hour on the stage and then is never heard from again. Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning. -- MACBETH, ACT V, SCENE V Its funny how there are some in life who people will throw upon a pedestal and others they would throw under a bus. How power is given to a name and it can bring about war or it can bring about peace. People's lives can revolve around that of a name. They care about what this person thinks, what this person likes, what they hate and yet all they truly know is a name. Fame is not something you seek, its something given to you, sometimes thrust upon you unwillingly. You can become consumed by the shadow cast by a single name and swallowed up in worlds that revolve around it. Not everyone asks to be places up on the pedestal, not everyone asks for the fame. Its insanity the power given to names, but you learn to deal with the insanity and if nothing else, you learn to embrace it. ACT I. THE SCANDALOUS AFFAIR Emmalin Liander was not the type of girl who you would have expected to see knocked up and unwed at nineteen. She also was not the type of girl who you expected to be sleeping around with a married man, a man who was thirteen years older than herself. A man who was known though out the magical community. And that man was none other than Myron Wagtail. Myron had been an idol of Emmalin's since her youth. It was thanks to a friend that she was introduced to the Weird Sisters and from then on her room had been plastered with posters of the band and Myron Wagtail. A school girl infatuation that she carried with her into her adult life. Even though Emmalin was the girl who everyone thought would make something of herself she decided to spend her first year out of hogwarts following the Weird Sisters on their European tour. A road groupie was hardly the life anyone had ever envisioned Emmalin taking up, but Emmalin was hopeful that she would some how be able to meet her childhood idol. Myron Wagtail had been married for three years before he met Emmalin after a show in France. Myron had been the subject of magical tabloids ever since the Weird Sisters had made their musical break in the Wizarding World. His wedding had made headlines in the months leading up to the actual event. Its almost funny how some say absence makes the hearts grow fonder because in Myron's case absence made the heart grow forgetful. Emmalin was the spark that started a wildfire. It was easy at first for the two to keep the affair out of the light, that was until Emmalin became aware of the child their fire had resulted in. It was a scandalous affair that helped to sell tabloid after tabloid. It seemed that over night every witch and wizard knew Emmalin's name. It was of little shock that Myron's marriage dissolved when the affair came to light but much to Mr. and Mrs. Liander's disappointment Emmalin and Myron did not marry, at least not before the birth of their son Andrew. ACT II. THE SHOTGUN WEDDING It took five years and another pregnancy for Myron to ask Emmalin to marry him. It was a wedding that lacked the pomp and circumstance one tended to expect from a famous wedding, it should have been a sign. But not long after Robert Shay Wagtail came into the world screaming. His father might have not been Harry Potter or Ron Weasley but just like his brother before him Roberts birth made for a good news article. Of course there were a few printings that smeared his mother's and father's name but for a moment in time the Wagtail family was happy. But moments are fleeting. Emmalin didn't want her young sons on the road with Myron, which meant she was left in Britain alone tending to the boys while Myron kept living the life of a rock stair. Robert grew up knowing his mother and grandparents better than his own father. Myron was little more than postcards and toys sent to pacify and remind him that somewhere out there a man with a guitar and the voice of an angle was thinking of him. Its a shame that a child doesn't understand how to grasp such concepts. He begs his mother to call him Shay, it was the name his father picked as she had told him countless times. To him it feels like the name brings his father closer to him, it makes him something more than just a figment of his imagination that occasionally manifests itself into an actual living being. He tries his best to emulate this parental figure he knows so little about. He carries around the silly toy guitar he received for Christmas, an instrument he quickly picks up even at his young age. His mother tells him time after time how much he reminder her of Myron, the free wild spirit that grows in him more and more each day. He never did understand why her eyes looked so said when she said such things. He is five when the fighting starts. Late in the night he can hear the yelling down in the first floor of the house that is all too big for such a small family. The exchange of names and swears in dim lights with little regard of who heard. He is too young to have known this was coming and too young to understand it needed to happen. All he feels is fear, but of what he doesn't know. Its not for another two years that he will learn just what these late night spats were leading up to. ACT III. THE SPLIT OF THE DECADE At age seven Emmalin walks out of Myron's life leaving both Andrew and Robert in the care of the man who so many times she had called an unfit father. The truth was Myron had never been a good fit for Emmalin. He was a mistake that she became stuck on, a man who she thought she could change. She should have known better though, their love was a fire and fire can only destroy. Emmalin vanished to the United States of America, it was her turn to be postcards and presents. Myron was forced to step up as a father with Andrew and Robert, a task much harder than it seemed. The rock star lifestyle was no way to raise children, but that didn't stop Myron. The boys quickly were following their father around behind curtains and stages, they lived in different towns each night it seemed. And when Andrew was off at Hogwarts Robert was left behind. Robert was more exposed to the lifestyle of his famous father than he had ever been in his entire life. He went to countless interviews and after parties. He watched his father take strange women into rooms and come out disgruntled and sweaty. It was a confusing time for the young boy, but in all the confusion he always found clarity in the music. It was the one thing that Robert carried in his life that no one could take away from him. It was easily his heart and soul. Just like his father. And yet Robert was nothing like Myron. He was quiet and tender and enjoyed watching the rain patterns on the window when the downpours came. He wandered barefoot around the cities his father and the band dragged him too and tried to find friends the only way he knew how, with his silly little guitar that he was starting to out grow. He took pleasures in the little things in life, such as the way the bakeries in Paris smelt in the early morning hours, or the way a happy little song could make a baby smile. He was nothing like Myron and yet everything like him at the same time, he was the shadow of his father the tender Wagtail that no one seemed to remember. Six months before Robert was to enter Hogwarts Emmalin returned to Britain, but no longer was she Emmalin Wagtail or even Emmalin Liander. While in the states Emmalin had married again, a man by the name of Micheal Holden who had three sons and a daughter of his own. A new name and new brothers and a sister, Robert was left baffled that his own mother had abandoned him and his brother only to find herself a new family. Maybe his father wasn't the best parent but at least Myron had never tried to replaced his sons. ACT IV. THE UNGRATEFUL SON Entering Hogwarts put an end to the endless touring for Robert. The wild child who knew little more than the rock star lifestyle was no forced into a uniform life. No more sleepless nights of rock concert after rock concert. Instead it was classes at set times and study hours that lasted for what felt like eternities. The dusty old hat had not taken much time to figure Robert out, there was only one place for the free spirited boy even if the world often felt as if it was trying to hold him down. He was seated in the house of yellow where a friend would always be found. It was the same house that Myron had been placed in. One more reminder to his mother that he was his father's son. Robert now carried the name of his father and a man he barely knew. He avoided the step-siblings that his mother had replaced his brother and him with, a task that proved difficult when holidays would be spent at the Holden house hold. The Holden's were nothing like Myron. Where Myron lacked in rules in discipline the Holden household had plenty to go around. He endured hair cut after hair cut as his mother tried to shape him into a Holden. But he wasn't. He was a Wagtail. Soon, Emmalin gave up and Robert started to find himself. it didn't take long for Robert to realize he didn't want to be like his mother but he also didn't want to be like his father. Two middle aged adults who bickered like children and cared more about themselves than the kids who they should have raised. No, he did not want to be like that at all. ACT V. STEPPING OUT OF THE SHADOW Robert never did manage to become a perfect student. He walked around with his head in the clouds as his bare feet padded along the stone corridors. Of course there were certain subjects that caught his attention, transfiguration being one of them. So often he had compared himself to others he sought to do something for himself, something that would make him different if only in his own mind. That was when he started to study the art of the animagus. It took countless hours of practice, hours that he should have spent on his other studies, but to him this was more important. There were times when he was ready to give up and thought the challenge too hard but some how he pushed on and kept studying hoping the end result would be worth the work. And it was. There was a freedom that Robert found in his animal form, an escape from the stress of a human life. It was his first step in making sure he followed his own path and made his own way. Robert knew he would become a musician, not like his dad, different. He would bring a new light to the Wagtail name, not the drama that his father had collected. While classes tended to be difficult for Robert he was determined to pass the ones he found himself in - he was not going to be a drop out like his father. So he stuck with what he knew best, classes where he could connect with what he worked with. He was determined to be seen, not as the son of Myron Wagtail, not as the son of Myron's ex wife, but as his own person. He wanted to carve his names into history for being himself, not for being someone who was lucky enough to be born into a name of fame. Fame might have been thrust upon him, but he was throwing it back. He would make his own name in his own way and nothing was going to stop him. Let's us all just be friend, And together we can start a new trend. ALIAS: Bonzi AGE: 27 DISCOVERY: Paige ♥ and I basically live here CHARACTERS: ALEKSI NIKITA IVANKOV, ALTAIR MAE POYNTER, AMERY CATHAL CAMBELL, AMITY CATHLEEN PARRIS, ANTOINE MARQUEZ LETOURNEAU, APOLLO JAMES BORDEN, AUBREY CAMILLA SCIARRA, AUGUSTINE VENIA IFINOH, AXEL TOBIAS MEAGHER, BAILEY IVO MCCONNELL, BEATRICE ADELAIDE DURSLEY, BRYONY CATE BUCHANAN, CASPIAN DMITRI CROSSHEART, DANTE APOSTOLOS CARPETHOS, ELEANOR CORDELIA WORRALL, EMILLA PÄIVÄ AALTO, EVIN MIKHAIL GREKOV, GERONE CARLOTTA CARPETHOS, GIDGET ANABEL HALE, ICARUS ALAWN LLEWELLYN, IMOGEN NIAMH MERRITT, IRINKA AKSINYA XANTHOPOULOS, ISAAC RYDER MCAVOY-GREYBACK, JACOB SAMUEL BLENKINSOP, JACQUELINE AURORA TALBOTT, LACHLAN WALLACE MONTGOMERY, LENNOX ELASIS BRYNJAR WILKOŁAK, NATHANAEL ANTOINE CLEMENCE, NYX DIONE MOON, OROCHI TACHIBANA, PASCAL ARISTIDE BORGIA, PAXTON POLARIS PRESCOTT, PHINEAS AJAX PAKARINEN, ROBERT SHAY WAGTAIL-HOLDEN, TAWNEE RAE ADDAMS, TIBERIUS DEAN THREASHER, YŪKI SATŌ NOTES:  made by paige

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