Post by Kyle McGinnis on Feb 17, 2007 4:21:47 GMT -5
Should I accept you? Yes. Accepted.
-Frank Pratt
Name:Alisha
Other characters on the board: Gabrielle, Cecilia, Sean
Are you over 13?: I would assume so
Name: Kyle Devan Luke McGinnis
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Birthday/Sign: June 1st, 1978/ Gemini
Blood Type/Purity: Half blood
[li] Hair Color and Style: Light Brown, short and messy. He isn't really concerned about it.
[/li][li] Eye Color: Light Blue
[/li][li] Height and Build: He was unfortunately given the short and thin genes, making him look younger then his brother. It is a issue with him. He is about 5'10" and is muscular in a wiry way.
[/li][li] Regular clothing style: He likes unique and eclectic clothes. He likes to shop at Best Wish a lot. Something he would wear could include a vintage teeshirt, blazer, torn jeans and converse shoes. He likes expensive clothes, but can't buy them, so he makes sure he makes up for it by being unique.
[/li][li] Other characteristics: He always has an old beat up leather satchel that has his camera and drawing pad and pencils.
[/li][/ul]
Personality:
Being a Gemini in every sense of the word, Kyle is what you call a dual personality. He is not crazy, but one might assume so if they get the chance to see both sides of him. His duality can both interest and annoy people, depending on their own personality, as he often switches between the two.
When he is happy, he is happy to the extreme. Broad smiles and a quick laugh, he likes to tell and hear jokes and anecdotes. He can be the life of the party if he is in the mood and likes be the center of attention (Its both a zodiac and middle child thing). He is very friendly and polite, and will give anyone a shoulder to cry on if they need it. His empathy makes him a good person to confide in and get advice from, although he tends to be a bit gossipy and has a hard time keeping secrets. He also can't take advice as well as he gives it.
The other side of his personality, the quiet side, comes out when he is depressed or very introspective. It is like a whole new person. He will lose himself in a dream world and be very hard to pull out of it when in this mode. Often, when like this, he will lock himself in a room away from people and draw, read or listen to music. Trying to cheer him up when in this mood does little good, he simply needs time alone and away from others.
A big thing to remember is that he isn't what he seems. He hates appearing weak by crying and will often make himself sick by forcing himself not to do so. Often times, he is the only one who is dry eyed at a funeral or a likewise event. He is also very polite to people to their face, but will often speak badly about them behind their back if they irritate him or he doesn't like them. The reason he seems like such a people pleaser is because not that he has confidence and is always happy, like many people think when meeting him, but because of the exact opposite. He is very pessimistic and hard on himself, never thinking he is good enough and it usually depresses him greatly when he is unable to fulfill a duty he feels he should be able to do. He doesn't want other to see this weakness and will act happy and confident to throw them off. He will tease others and himself mercilessly, joking on their part and serious on his own, but it is just to make himself appear more adjusted. He hates actually hurting people, both physically and mentally, and always apologizes profusely if he ends up doing so.
Kyle hates confrontation and fighting, but true to his dual nature, he also has a sharp tongue and a quick temper. He will avoid fighting if he knows it is coming, but if you catch him off guard, he will fly into a rage. He is not physical when fighting, since his dislike of causing others pain keeps him from being able to hit someone, but he is extremely sarcastic and can say some pretty cruel things that he often doesn't mean. Although he is quick to anger, he forgives very quickly and is often seen as a pushover for it. But just because he is forgiving doesn't mean he forgets. Kyle will often keep things built up inside until a fight comes, when he lets them coming streaming out in a mixture of curses and insults. He can pull up the most obscure incidents from an incredible time before if it means he can prove his point.
In love, Kyle is a paradox. He is very romantic and loving, and likes to do things like sweep his date off to exotic places at the moments notice or buy them things he cannot afford. He loves with all of his heart and doesn't take rejection well, as it seems to break more then just his heart. But at the same time, he is a bit flighty when it comes to dating. While he tries his best to stay faithful, he is a flirt who is easily bored if the relationship becomes too routine. If a girl cannot keep him jumping, he will often find himself veering into the arms of another. Most of the time he will keep himself from falling too far and remains loyal, but it will take a toll on the relationship if something doesn't change after that.
In a nutshell, Kyle is fun loving, creative and humorous. He loves people and making them smile and hates seeing them cry or yell. But at the same time he can be flighty, two-faced and a bit too materialistic. He is often stubborn when it comes to doing what he wants and hates being held down by others. He is an enigma, which is why he is such a good artist.
History:
On a cool June morning in Shannon Ireland, Sarah McGinnis gave birth to a 6 pound, 12 ounce baby boy. She named him Kyle Devan, after her husband Brendon's father. The moment the small boy opened his eyes wide to the world he was enraptured by everything he saw, crying little and staring much. Brendon described the 45 cm baby as the runt of the litter, affectionately, as his mother described him as a slender little prince, worthy of his name. His elder sister Kate, who was 4 at the time, just commented that he appeared to be a wrinkled prune that cried when she poked its stomach. Either way, Kyle had began his journey through life with wide open eyes, and a few months later, he would be making another journey. This time it was to a new home in America.
Kyle's mother, a German born pure blood witch, was being hunted. Brendon McGinnis, her young muggle husband, didn't know it but his wife was a witch. And not just any old witch, but an undercover Auror that was working with the Wizarding government to bring down a group of dark wizards called Death Eaters. She went undercover as a DE recruit in 1975, shortly after the birth of their daughter Kaitlyn, calling herself Vivica Schwindel in order to protect her small family. Things were going well, she managed to keep her two lives separate, telling her husband that she was just a clerk for the government and was unable to talk about her work as it was top secret while she pretended to be the proper pure blood for her Death Eater comrades. However, when she became pregnant with Kyle, she began to suspect that her cover was blown and in fear of her families safety pulled herself out of the Death Eater ranks. Knowing that they would hunt her down, She decided to move her family to America. Telling her husband that she was being moved for reasons she wasn't allowed to explain, the small family relocated to Queens NY on September 24th 1978.
Things seemed alright. Sure, her husband had to find a new job in NY, settling for a low paying Roofer position that forced the family to live in a tiny apartment in a bad part of town, but the Death Eaters didn't seem to know where the elusive Vivica went off too. But despite her comfort knowing that their family was safe from the evilest of the wizarding kind, the home life started to become strained. Brendon was confused and angry about being forced to leave his much better paying job and nicer home to move to some P.O.S apartment in the middle of the ghetto. The fact that all of this was for a job that he knew nothing about and didn't seem to pay all that well anyways irritated the short fused man and they started to fight more and more. To make matters, particularly money ones, worse, she became pregnant once again a scant few months after they moved to the states. Kevin Brendon McGinnis was born a year and 2 months (And 10 days to be exact) after his brother. The two bedroom apartment the family was squeezed into became even more full, the three children forced to sleep in one room.
Things were tense for the first several years of Kyle's life. Their mother knew that there were much more dangerous things out there then the bullies and thugs that lined the streets the boys played in, but Brendon didn't and the macho man that he was insisted that his sons be able to protect themselves. He was rough with the boys, in play and discipline, much to Sarah's distress. Kyle, always the smaller and more gentle of the boys, bore the brunt of his fathers criticism. Then in late July of 1983, Brendon's career as a roofer, and as pretty much anything else, was cut short when he fell through a poorly patched roof. His leg was permanently mangled, leaving him crippled. Never the most cerebral of men, Brendon was without a job and had to be taken care of by his wife and daughter. This was a blow to his manhood and the already gruff man began to drink, and when he drank, his gruffness came out in the form of verbal abuse aimed at his sons, particularly Kyle. Wimp, wuss, weakling, Kyle endeared his fathers taunts, pretending that he was only saying them out of love to make Kyle stronger. However hard he tried, the intelligent little boy didn't fail to notice that his father reserved these names for him alone. When he asked his mother, she merely stated that he was special and that he shouldn't forget it. While it did little to quell his distress, Kyle at least felt comfort with his mother.
This comfort did not last long. Sarah thought she had shaken the Death Eaters and was finally living her life in peace when Voldemort fell in 1980. But little did she know, but one of his followers was searching for the missing Vivica, positive she was one of the reasons the Dark Lords perfect plan failed. He managed to find out her whereabouts when he captured and tortured an Auror that had happened to work alongside her back in Ireland. He found out that she lived in Queen NY and went there, tracking down Sarah and attacking her in an alley on December 20th, while she was out Christmas shopping. The battle ended when she was mortally wounded and used her last breath to fire off the killing curse. Luckily for her husband and children, who were next on the Death Eaters list, the curse hit its mark and killed the unknown DE. Sarah died immediately, unable to hold on anymore. She was found shortly after by a pair of Aurors who had been tipped off about some powerful magic going on in that area. Kyle was 6 years old at the time.
The news was more then just a blow for Brendon and the children, it was the death of everything good in their life. It was bad enough that they lost a wife and a mother right before the holidays, but Brendon finally discovered the truth about his wife. Even though he was hardly the righteous church goer, he had been raised Roman Catholic and thought his dear wife was as well. So the fact that she was a witch, and hiding the fact from him, pretty much shattered the already broken man. Brendon lost himself in alcohol, and with it began to grow violent with his children, often beating them senseless in drunken rages.Things got worse when the 11 year old Kaitlyn discovered that she too shared the magical power that her mother possessed, shattering all the bottles of alcohol in the house one night in a rage, and receiving quite the punishment afterward as well. Brendon refused to admit she was a witch at first and wouldn't allow her to attend Coven school at first, but was forced to relent when a couple Aurors told him that if unchecked, her power could go awry and possibly hurt someone. He relented and turned his anger on the two younger boys, who were now unable to be protected by their sister during the day.
Kevin, the stronger and favored of the two, protected his brother from his fathers rage by accepting blame upon himself. Brendon saw this as a sign of strength in Kevin, protecting his brother, and a sign of weakness in Kyle, for being protected. Even though he would batter poor Kevin, he always came back the next day with apologies and gifts for the boy. Kyle received neither. Resentment settled in, and Kyle began to retreat into a shell, hating his father and even his brother and sister. He hated letting Kevin take his punishment for him, but as the years passed, he began to grow cold to it. It simply not longer seemed to affect him at all. Instead he lost himself in his art, a talent that he had proved to possess at a young age. Sure it made his father only insist upon his weakness more, but Kyle found that art was the only way he could ever feel happy.
Kyle's powers manifested itself late, coming when he was already 11 years old. Since it was too late to start Coven school, Kyle had to wait a year before starting, making him the eldest in his class. He took this as yet another blow that God seemed to like dealing him, as the realization of his powers only made his father treat him with more disgust and his peers laughed at him for being "Slow". However, one thing did change for the better, at least for Kevin and Kate. Kaitlyn came back after her first year away at some private high school for witches in Massachusetts more confident then ever in her growing power. When their father attempted to hit her one night, she deftly turned his blows back on him. Not realizing what she was doing, Brendon nearly beat himself to death before stopping. Afterward, realizing how powerful they were, the elder McGinnis never raised a hand to his children again.
Instead, he found Religion. Despite that fact that he still drank like ale was water, Brendon began to attend Sunday mass on a regular basis. Though Kate was excluded, with her being at a boarding school, Kevin and Kyle were forced to attend as well. Kevin took this turn of events as a good thing, as not only was he not getting hit any more, but he could use the whole 'Confess and be forgiven' aspect of the church to pretty much get away with anything he wanted. Kyle however saw this as just another thing that his father did to ruin his life. A Free spirit, Kyle hated being forced to believe in something that seemed ludicrous to him and he struggled with his father over going to mass. His father would not relent, using his sons previous fear of him to coerce him to go to church and even get confirmed along side his brother when they were 12 and 13. All it did was make Kyle hate his father and now the whole idea of a god and religion even more. Kyle is to this day a staunch atheist, only keeping his confirmation name of Luke because he was the patron saint of artists.
1993 marked a good year, one of few, for Kyle. His sister, freshly graduated from the Salem Witches Institute, announced her intentions to adopt her brothers. When she brought the cases of abuse and alcoholism up to the family lawyer, Brendon was advised to give them up willingly or face criminal time. He did, and Kaitlyn promptly moved her brothers to Salem's Peak on July 7th, 1993. A month later, Kyle started attending SWIM with optimism for his future. He was sorted into Ptolemy with high scores in Astronomy and Wand work on his SMART (Gardening and cooking were never his thing). Without his fathers negative influence in his life, Kyle was finally able to bloom as an artist, a wizard and a person. He made up for being a late bloomer by eating up magic voraciously, doing well in all of his classes except for potions, since it required far too much concentration for his hyperactive mind. He went from a quiet and bitter child to a bright and fun loving teen, gathering many friends with his grandiose anecdotes and jokes. He had a few girlfriends throughout his years in SWIM, but only one he remembered with any great fondness. Her name was Marilyn Windsor, a Cliodne that was as much like him as night was like day. She would be his on and off girlfriend all the way from Sophomore to Senior years.
His Senior year was an eventful one. Halfway through, the school was attacked by non other then a bunch of misfits calling themselves the "Neo Death Eaters". Kyle was, like everyone else, in his dorms. But the light sleeper he was, he woke up before the attack officially began. It was this lucky chance and the magical camera his sister gave him for his 16th birthday that would decide his career. He managed to get pictures of the attack right after it occurred, capturing what happened clearly. When the school shut down after the attack, Kyle sold the pictures to the Salem Screamer. Not only was the money nice, but he was given an award alongside Cecilia Lark when the pictures were printed with her story. Many people, Marilynn included, saw his actions not as heroic, but as uncaring and cold. She would break up with him permanently after this, moving away to continue her education at one of the smaller schools in California. He never heard from her again, but he remembered her fondly and named a tabby kitten he adopted after her in memory. Naturally the cat seems to have a love hate relationship with him as well. He would not return to SWIM, deciding that the career he wanted would not need his final year anyways.
Currently, Kyle is living life as a freelance artist and photographer. He works part time for the Salem Screamer, selling them his services as a photographer, and part time as a artist and server at his sisters small coffee shop. He wants to be either a famous wizarding photographer or painter, but has a lot to learn about magic techniques before he can. He lives with his sister in their modest 3 bedroom apartment above their Coffeeshop, the Celtic Coffee on Summerbee St. Right now he is single, but not really looking for a long term relationship just a fling or too, or a friendship with benefits. For now he taking life as it comes and for once is enjoying it.
Likes: Art, Photography, expensive things, antiques with a unique history, collectible things, Expensive electronics, comic books and cartoons, music and reading. Girls. He also has a soft spot for kids and animals.
Dislikes: Being bored and having a routine as well as conformation, censorship and Religion really bother him and he won't have anything to do with it if he can help it. He also hates confrontation, rejection, when girls cry and cheap or badly made things. He also takes criticism with a lot of difficulty and often gets insulted by it.
Special Abilities: Very artistic and Creative, he can draw, paint, write and shoot photography. He is also book smart and pretty intelligent. He is good with both Muggle and Magical cameras
Wand: Hawthorne and Ashwinder Ash, 11 2/3rd inches.
Broom: Shooting Star, though he is saving up for a Firebolt.
Pet: tabby cat named Marilynn (After his first real love)
Position: Freelance Photographer that sells his own photos as well as helps out at the Salem Screamer. Sells his paintings at his sisters coffeeshop.
Years in profession: Almost a year. He started when his Senior year at SWIM was interrupted by the attacks, rather then going back to SWIM.
Experience: Aside from practicing his entire life, none really. It is just his passion.
Store Name: Celtic Coffee
Products sold: Coffee, Tea, Juice and other drinks, Pastries and sandwiches. Kyle sells his paintings and Photos there as well as does portraits as well.
-Frank Pratt
Name:Alisha
Other characters on the board: Gabrielle, Cecilia, Sean
Are you over 13?: I would assume so
Name: Kyle Devan Luke McGinnis
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Birthday/Sign: June 1st, 1978/ Gemini
Blood Type/Purity: Half blood
[li] Hair Color and Style: Light Brown, short and messy. He isn't really concerned about it.
[/li][li] Eye Color: Light Blue
[/li][li] Height and Build: He was unfortunately given the short and thin genes, making him look younger then his brother. It is a issue with him. He is about 5'10" and is muscular in a wiry way.
[/li][li] Regular clothing style: He likes unique and eclectic clothes. He likes to shop at Best Wish a lot. Something he would wear could include a vintage teeshirt, blazer, torn jeans and converse shoes. He likes expensive clothes, but can't buy them, so he makes sure he makes up for it by being unique.
[/li][li] Other characteristics: He always has an old beat up leather satchel that has his camera and drawing pad and pencils.
[/li][/ul]
Personality:
Being a Gemini in every sense of the word, Kyle is what you call a dual personality. He is not crazy, but one might assume so if they get the chance to see both sides of him. His duality can both interest and annoy people, depending on their own personality, as he often switches between the two.
When he is happy, he is happy to the extreme. Broad smiles and a quick laugh, he likes to tell and hear jokes and anecdotes. He can be the life of the party if he is in the mood and likes be the center of attention (Its both a zodiac and middle child thing). He is very friendly and polite, and will give anyone a shoulder to cry on if they need it. His empathy makes him a good person to confide in and get advice from, although he tends to be a bit gossipy and has a hard time keeping secrets. He also can't take advice as well as he gives it.
The other side of his personality, the quiet side, comes out when he is depressed or very introspective. It is like a whole new person. He will lose himself in a dream world and be very hard to pull out of it when in this mode. Often, when like this, he will lock himself in a room away from people and draw, read or listen to music. Trying to cheer him up when in this mood does little good, he simply needs time alone and away from others.
A big thing to remember is that he isn't what he seems. He hates appearing weak by crying and will often make himself sick by forcing himself not to do so. Often times, he is the only one who is dry eyed at a funeral or a likewise event. He is also very polite to people to their face, but will often speak badly about them behind their back if they irritate him or he doesn't like them. The reason he seems like such a people pleaser is because not that he has confidence and is always happy, like many people think when meeting him, but because of the exact opposite. He is very pessimistic and hard on himself, never thinking he is good enough and it usually depresses him greatly when he is unable to fulfill a duty he feels he should be able to do. He doesn't want other to see this weakness and will act happy and confident to throw them off. He will tease others and himself mercilessly, joking on their part and serious on his own, but it is just to make himself appear more adjusted. He hates actually hurting people, both physically and mentally, and always apologizes profusely if he ends up doing so.
Kyle hates confrontation and fighting, but true to his dual nature, he also has a sharp tongue and a quick temper. He will avoid fighting if he knows it is coming, but if you catch him off guard, he will fly into a rage. He is not physical when fighting, since his dislike of causing others pain keeps him from being able to hit someone, but he is extremely sarcastic and can say some pretty cruel things that he often doesn't mean. Although he is quick to anger, he forgives very quickly and is often seen as a pushover for it. But just because he is forgiving doesn't mean he forgets. Kyle will often keep things built up inside until a fight comes, when he lets them coming streaming out in a mixture of curses and insults. He can pull up the most obscure incidents from an incredible time before if it means he can prove his point.
In love, Kyle is a paradox. He is very romantic and loving, and likes to do things like sweep his date off to exotic places at the moments notice or buy them things he cannot afford. He loves with all of his heart and doesn't take rejection well, as it seems to break more then just his heart. But at the same time, he is a bit flighty when it comes to dating. While he tries his best to stay faithful, he is a flirt who is easily bored if the relationship becomes too routine. If a girl cannot keep him jumping, he will often find himself veering into the arms of another. Most of the time he will keep himself from falling too far and remains loyal, but it will take a toll on the relationship if something doesn't change after that.
In a nutshell, Kyle is fun loving, creative and humorous. He loves people and making them smile and hates seeing them cry or yell. But at the same time he can be flighty, two-faced and a bit too materialistic. He is often stubborn when it comes to doing what he wants and hates being held down by others. He is an enigma, which is why he is such a good artist.
History:
On a cool June morning in Shannon Ireland, Sarah McGinnis gave birth to a 6 pound, 12 ounce baby boy. She named him Kyle Devan, after her husband Brendon's father. The moment the small boy opened his eyes wide to the world he was enraptured by everything he saw, crying little and staring much. Brendon described the 45 cm baby as the runt of the litter, affectionately, as his mother described him as a slender little prince, worthy of his name. His elder sister Kate, who was 4 at the time, just commented that he appeared to be a wrinkled prune that cried when she poked its stomach. Either way, Kyle had began his journey through life with wide open eyes, and a few months later, he would be making another journey. This time it was to a new home in America.
Kyle's mother, a German born pure blood witch, was being hunted. Brendon McGinnis, her young muggle husband, didn't know it but his wife was a witch. And not just any old witch, but an undercover Auror that was working with the Wizarding government to bring down a group of dark wizards called Death Eaters. She went undercover as a DE recruit in 1975, shortly after the birth of their daughter Kaitlyn, calling herself Vivica Schwindel in order to protect her small family. Things were going well, she managed to keep her two lives separate, telling her husband that she was just a clerk for the government and was unable to talk about her work as it was top secret while she pretended to be the proper pure blood for her Death Eater comrades. However, when she became pregnant with Kyle, she began to suspect that her cover was blown and in fear of her families safety pulled herself out of the Death Eater ranks. Knowing that they would hunt her down, She decided to move her family to America. Telling her husband that she was being moved for reasons she wasn't allowed to explain, the small family relocated to Queens NY on September 24th 1978.
Things seemed alright. Sure, her husband had to find a new job in NY, settling for a low paying Roofer position that forced the family to live in a tiny apartment in a bad part of town, but the Death Eaters didn't seem to know where the elusive Vivica went off too. But despite her comfort knowing that their family was safe from the evilest of the wizarding kind, the home life started to become strained. Brendon was confused and angry about being forced to leave his much better paying job and nicer home to move to some P.O.S apartment in the middle of the ghetto. The fact that all of this was for a job that he knew nothing about and didn't seem to pay all that well anyways irritated the short fused man and they started to fight more and more. To make matters, particularly money ones, worse, she became pregnant once again a scant few months after they moved to the states. Kevin Brendon McGinnis was born a year and 2 months (And 10 days to be exact) after his brother. The two bedroom apartment the family was squeezed into became even more full, the three children forced to sleep in one room.
Things were tense for the first several years of Kyle's life. Their mother knew that there were much more dangerous things out there then the bullies and thugs that lined the streets the boys played in, but Brendon didn't and the macho man that he was insisted that his sons be able to protect themselves. He was rough with the boys, in play and discipline, much to Sarah's distress. Kyle, always the smaller and more gentle of the boys, bore the brunt of his fathers criticism. Then in late July of 1983, Brendon's career as a roofer, and as pretty much anything else, was cut short when he fell through a poorly patched roof. His leg was permanently mangled, leaving him crippled. Never the most cerebral of men, Brendon was without a job and had to be taken care of by his wife and daughter. This was a blow to his manhood and the already gruff man began to drink, and when he drank, his gruffness came out in the form of verbal abuse aimed at his sons, particularly Kyle. Wimp, wuss, weakling, Kyle endeared his fathers taunts, pretending that he was only saying them out of love to make Kyle stronger. However hard he tried, the intelligent little boy didn't fail to notice that his father reserved these names for him alone. When he asked his mother, she merely stated that he was special and that he shouldn't forget it. While it did little to quell his distress, Kyle at least felt comfort with his mother.
This comfort did not last long. Sarah thought she had shaken the Death Eaters and was finally living her life in peace when Voldemort fell in 1980. But little did she know, but one of his followers was searching for the missing Vivica, positive she was one of the reasons the Dark Lords perfect plan failed. He managed to find out her whereabouts when he captured and tortured an Auror that had happened to work alongside her back in Ireland. He found out that she lived in Queen NY and went there, tracking down Sarah and attacking her in an alley on December 20th, while she was out Christmas shopping. The battle ended when she was mortally wounded and used her last breath to fire off the killing curse. Luckily for her husband and children, who were next on the Death Eaters list, the curse hit its mark and killed the unknown DE. Sarah died immediately, unable to hold on anymore. She was found shortly after by a pair of Aurors who had been tipped off about some powerful magic going on in that area. Kyle was 6 years old at the time.
The news was more then just a blow for Brendon and the children, it was the death of everything good in their life. It was bad enough that they lost a wife and a mother right before the holidays, but Brendon finally discovered the truth about his wife. Even though he was hardly the righteous church goer, he had been raised Roman Catholic and thought his dear wife was as well. So the fact that she was a witch, and hiding the fact from him, pretty much shattered the already broken man. Brendon lost himself in alcohol, and with it began to grow violent with his children, often beating them senseless in drunken rages.Things got worse when the 11 year old Kaitlyn discovered that she too shared the magical power that her mother possessed, shattering all the bottles of alcohol in the house one night in a rage, and receiving quite the punishment afterward as well. Brendon refused to admit she was a witch at first and wouldn't allow her to attend Coven school at first, but was forced to relent when a couple Aurors told him that if unchecked, her power could go awry and possibly hurt someone. He relented and turned his anger on the two younger boys, who were now unable to be protected by their sister during the day.
Kevin, the stronger and favored of the two, protected his brother from his fathers rage by accepting blame upon himself. Brendon saw this as a sign of strength in Kevin, protecting his brother, and a sign of weakness in Kyle, for being protected. Even though he would batter poor Kevin, he always came back the next day with apologies and gifts for the boy. Kyle received neither. Resentment settled in, and Kyle began to retreat into a shell, hating his father and even his brother and sister. He hated letting Kevin take his punishment for him, but as the years passed, he began to grow cold to it. It simply not longer seemed to affect him at all. Instead he lost himself in his art, a talent that he had proved to possess at a young age. Sure it made his father only insist upon his weakness more, but Kyle found that art was the only way he could ever feel happy.
Kyle's powers manifested itself late, coming when he was already 11 years old. Since it was too late to start Coven school, Kyle had to wait a year before starting, making him the eldest in his class. He took this as yet another blow that God seemed to like dealing him, as the realization of his powers only made his father treat him with more disgust and his peers laughed at him for being "Slow". However, one thing did change for the better, at least for Kevin and Kate. Kaitlyn came back after her first year away at some private high school for witches in Massachusetts more confident then ever in her growing power. When their father attempted to hit her one night, she deftly turned his blows back on him. Not realizing what she was doing, Brendon nearly beat himself to death before stopping. Afterward, realizing how powerful they were, the elder McGinnis never raised a hand to his children again.
Instead, he found Religion. Despite that fact that he still drank like ale was water, Brendon began to attend Sunday mass on a regular basis. Though Kate was excluded, with her being at a boarding school, Kevin and Kyle were forced to attend as well. Kevin took this turn of events as a good thing, as not only was he not getting hit any more, but he could use the whole 'Confess and be forgiven' aspect of the church to pretty much get away with anything he wanted. Kyle however saw this as just another thing that his father did to ruin his life. A Free spirit, Kyle hated being forced to believe in something that seemed ludicrous to him and he struggled with his father over going to mass. His father would not relent, using his sons previous fear of him to coerce him to go to church and even get confirmed along side his brother when they were 12 and 13. All it did was make Kyle hate his father and now the whole idea of a god and religion even more. Kyle is to this day a staunch atheist, only keeping his confirmation name of Luke because he was the patron saint of artists.
1993 marked a good year, one of few, for Kyle. His sister, freshly graduated from the Salem Witches Institute, announced her intentions to adopt her brothers. When she brought the cases of abuse and alcoholism up to the family lawyer, Brendon was advised to give them up willingly or face criminal time. He did, and Kaitlyn promptly moved her brothers to Salem's Peak on July 7th, 1993. A month later, Kyle started attending SWIM with optimism for his future. He was sorted into Ptolemy with high scores in Astronomy and Wand work on his SMART (Gardening and cooking were never his thing). Without his fathers negative influence in his life, Kyle was finally able to bloom as an artist, a wizard and a person. He made up for being a late bloomer by eating up magic voraciously, doing well in all of his classes except for potions, since it required far too much concentration for his hyperactive mind. He went from a quiet and bitter child to a bright and fun loving teen, gathering many friends with his grandiose anecdotes and jokes. He had a few girlfriends throughout his years in SWIM, but only one he remembered with any great fondness. Her name was Marilyn Windsor, a Cliodne that was as much like him as night was like day. She would be his on and off girlfriend all the way from Sophomore to Senior years.
His Senior year was an eventful one. Halfway through, the school was attacked by non other then a bunch of misfits calling themselves the "Neo Death Eaters". Kyle was, like everyone else, in his dorms. But the light sleeper he was, he woke up before the attack officially began. It was this lucky chance and the magical camera his sister gave him for his 16th birthday that would decide his career. He managed to get pictures of the attack right after it occurred, capturing what happened clearly. When the school shut down after the attack, Kyle sold the pictures to the Salem Screamer. Not only was the money nice, but he was given an award alongside Cecilia Lark when the pictures were printed with her story. Many people, Marilynn included, saw his actions not as heroic, but as uncaring and cold. She would break up with him permanently after this, moving away to continue her education at one of the smaller schools in California. He never heard from her again, but he remembered her fondly and named a tabby kitten he adopted after her in memory. Naturally the cat seems to have a love hate relationship with him as well. He would not return to SWIM, deciding that the career he wanted would not need his final year anyways.
Currently, Kyle is living life as a freelance artist and photographer. He works part time for the Salem Screamer, selling them his services as a photographer, and part time as a artist and server at his sisters small coffee shop. He wants to be either a famous wizarding photographer or painter, but has a lot to learn about magic techniques before he can. He lives with his sister in their modest 3 bedroom apartment above their Coffeeshop, the Celtic Coffee on Summerbee St. Right now he is single, but not really looking for a long term relationship just a fling or too, or a friendship with benefits. For now he taking life as it comes and for once is enjoying it.
Likes: Art, Photography, expensive things, antiques with a unique history, collectible things, Expensive electronics, comic books and cartoons, music and reading. Girls. He also has a soft spot for kids and animals.
Dislikes: Being bored and having a routine as well as conformation, censorship and Religion really bother him and he won't have anything to do with it if he can help it. He also hates confrontation, rejection, when girls cry and cheap or badly made things. He also takes criticism with a lot of difficulty and often gets insulted by it.
Special Abilities: Very artistic and Creative, he can draw, paint, write and shoot photography. He is also book smart and pretty intelligent. He is good with both Muggle and Magical cameras
Wand: Hawthorne and Ashwinder Ash, 11 2/3rd inches.
Broom: Shooting Star, though he is saving up for a Firebolt.
Pet: tabby cat named Marilynn (After his first real love)
Position: Freelance Photographer that sells his own photos as well as helps out at the Salem Screamer. Sells his paintings at his sisters coffeeshop.
Years in profession: Almost a year. He started when his Senior year at SWIM was interrupted by the attacks, rather then going back to SWIM.
Experience: Aside from practicing his entire life, none really. It is just his passion.
Store Name: Celtic Coffee
Products sold: Coffee, Tea, Juice and other drinks, Pastries and sandwiches. Kyle sells his paintings and Photos there as well as does portraits as well.