mysterious business

[marlon]

♦ THE MYSTERIOUS BENEFECTOR ♦
So how is someone as poor as Marlon at Hogwarts? Well, he has a mysterious benefactor! This person has been paying for his tuition, books, etc since he first went into Hogwarts. This person can be doing this for any number of reasons. One idea that I have (but you don't have to go with) is that they somehow know about how he's a Seer and they've apparently known since he was a young'un. They were planning on holding him in huge debt and then making him work for them to pay off the debt (that he may or may not eventually finish paying). By work, I mean using him to See things for them (as if he could control what he Sees). Or possibly, holding him in debt and making them do their general dirty work.
Alternatively, they could be doing it for altruistic reasons, possibly blending into what I'm looking for described below. Nothing about this benefactor's motivations are set in stone.

♦ HIS FAMILY! ♦
Our dear Marlon here comes from a long line of Squibs. Currently, he doesn't know about his true ancestry. He's just all sorts of ignorant and thinks that he's somehow a special little Muggleborn in a not-so-Muggleborn-happy place. I was hoping to shake him from this erroneous belief at some time... Now, the Squibs have to get their wizarding blood from somewhere... Anybody interested? Anybody with even an once of wizarding blood will do =)
There's the possibility that Marlon came from a very blood purist family who immediately outcast any and all Squibs in the family so they can make the claim that their family is so pure that they don't give birth to Squibs at all. Now, one of two scenarios can exist:
1) The family is now very accepting of Muggles, Muggleborns, etc. Possibly after they found him and recognized him as an offshoot of their family, there will be happy rainbows and galloping unicorns. Again, throwing ideas out there.
2) The family is still as strongly blood purist and still look down on Muggles and the like. And... I'm not sure where it goes from there. It could lead to evilness or whatever.
One of the ways that they can possibly identify Marlon by is his Seeing gift or maybe a physical characteristic or Marlon has a super old family heirloom that went missing? I was thinking that it might run in the family. But of course, this is just me throwing things out there. More definitive plotting can and will take place if you're even the least bit interested in volunteering your character's family for the role.

There's a lot of flexibility involved in both of these plots. If you're even a bit interested, we'll plot it through and work something out that helps develop both our characters. If you want a bit of a background history on Marlon, here's his profile.

Reply or PM me if you're interested in one or both of the dramas xD It would be greatly appreciated!