Damien Mulciber

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Name

 * Legal: Damien Mulciber

Family in RP

 * Adelaide Mulciber (mother)
 * Alphaeus Yaxley (first cousin twice removed)
 * Anya Montague (first cousin)
 * Graham Montague (first cousin once removed)
 * Richard Nott (grandfather)
 * Theodore Nott (uncle)

Early Childhood
Coming from an upstanding Pureblood family with many talented relatives, a lot of pressure was put on Damien to do the family proud. His mother and father were particularly strict with him, and the stricter they were, the more he rebelled, preferring the company of his wilder paternal grandparents to his more straight-laced, by-the-book parents and maternal grandparents. He often snuck out of his home at Nott manor to spend time at the Mulcibers’. As time wore on, he escaped the family home more and more, because his father, Sabellicus, became suddenly abusive toward his mother, Adelaide. During this time, Damien felt helpless, and so escaped into working with his hands and figuring out how things worked -- even if, at times, he got out his frustrations and aggressions on the parts and machines and had to start work on them all over again. He had a few neighbors he played with on occasion and he went into nearby villages to fix up kids’ bikes and put minor enchantments on the Muggle kids’ skateboards to make them hover in the air a few seconds longer than physics normally allowed. He was very clever about avoiding detection for underage magic when around Muggles; figuring out and testing the Trace and finding the charm’s minute limitations and where the line was that he could not cross.

Hogwarts Years (1973-1980)
During his adolescence, full rebellion set in. He was tired of stuffy traditionalists and the backwards mentality of blood “purity.” At Hogwarts, Damien was sorted into Hufflepuff, to the dismay of his parents. He specifically asked the sorting hat NOT to put him in Slytherin, just because he could stick it to the man that way and undo all of their hopes and dreams for him. (Well, okay, not all, but enough that he could do at this point.)

Most of the Slytherins he’d grown up with in childhood avoided him and made fun of him for his House, but people who normally wouldn’t have associated with him suddenly did. He made friends among all houses, though least among Slytherin. But Regulus Black was one of the few Slytherins he did grow close to. Damien also admired Sirius Black, but Sirius was older and too cool to hang out with him. When Damien would visit Grimmauld Place sometimes, he did get Sirius to talk to him when he started in on one subject, and that was motorbikes. Damien always brought Sirius magazines with the latest bike models and they spent hours going over pros, cons, specs and speeds for each model. They did this with brooms as well.

As he grew older and the war grew more unsettling and intense, the members of his family who were Death Eaters pulled him aside and told him very scary things. He was expected to join them and, if he proved himself, take the mark by the Dark Lord himself. Damien had done pretty well in school thus far, but around his fifth year at Hogwarts his grades plummeted due to all the stress of this news. When he came home on Christmas break his father, Sabellicus, laid into him about it, and about all that was expected of Damien, only to take all of this out on Adelaide, Damien’s mum -- Adelaide had just returned from a grueling shift as a nurse at St. Mungo’s. Something snapped in Damien then. He cast a spell he’d seen Severus Snape bragging about to others in the know, and that Sectumsempra curse almost killed Sabellicus. Before rushing his father to St. Mungo’s, he leaned over his father’s bleeding body and said, “I’ll do what you want. I’ll study harder, get as many O.W.L.s as it takes to make you happy. I’ll be the most lethal weapon your Lord has ever seen, and I’ll let him utilize me however he wants. But if you ever lay a hand on mum again, I’ll torture you into next century, and when your body finally gives out, I’ll turn you into an Inferi with all your memories still intact.” This episode strangely cleared the air between all of them, and Sabellicus, while still not the most savory fellow, treated his family with more grudging respect than they’d thought possible.

Damien took the dark mark the month before his graduation ceremony at Hogwarts.

Fugitive Status as a British Expatriate to the United States
A kinesthetic learner, from an early age Damien developed a penchant for fixing things. He became especially interested in mechanics and worked with his grandfather, Faustian Mulciber, to enchant magical artifacts and Muggle technology, anything from radios to vehicles -- he has since even tried his hand at room-sized computers from the 60s and gotten further than most wizards in making magical modifications to them. To the dismay of his parents, Damien grew to appreciate things that Muggles made to an “inappropriate” extent (though fortunately, he has a better understanding of what they do than, say, Arthur Weasley). Shortly after graduating from Hogwarts, like his father before him he was initiated into the Death Eaters, albeit reluctantly, viewing it more as a duty than something he really wanted. Many of his magic-tech creations were utilized by the Death Eaters and were confiscated by the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office.

Shortly after the killing curse rebounded in 1981 and Voldemort “disappeared,” Damien’s father, Sabellicus, was imprisoned in Azkaban for murdering Gideon and Fabian Prewett. Damien’s grandfather, Faustian, was also arrested and imprisoned for this group offense. Damien had also been in on the attack against the Prewetts, and so, wanting to keep her son out of Azkaban, Adelaide Mulciber moved to the United States and convinced Damien to come with her.

In the U.S., without his overbearing father or the threat of the Dark Lord, Damien found a freedom he had never previously experienced. His mother, Adelaide, became simultaneously a professor at the Salem Witches’ Institute and an author devoted to being the #1 authority on pureblood wizarding families in the U.S. Damien frequented the Salem Witches’ Institute and started fixing so many things for them that he ended up working as the head of its maintenance department. When it came to his mother’s pureblood mania, he was rather uncomfortable, but he went through the motions of “cleaning up good” when obligated to meet with prominent families.

The Road Warlocks
Damien spent most of his free time as the head of a notorious, outlaw biker gang, the Road Warlocks, in the Berkshires. The Road Warlocks welcomed both wizards and Muggles, but the Muggles who joined did so under an Unbreakable Vow, swearing absolute secrecy about wizards under pain of death. Many of the gang members thought Damien’s forearm tattoo was so cool that they wanted it to become their gang symbol; to get their own tattoos and sew it onto their leather jackets -- but whenever this was expressed to Damien, a look so dangerous and so deadly would pass over his face that they were shaken and never spoke of it again. One especially foolish Muggle biker went ahead and got an imitation tattoo of it anyway. When this biker showed his imitation dark mark tattoo to Damien at their favorite bar, the whole bar went quiet and, before anyone could blink, the biker found himself with all the flesh peeled away from his left arm. No one was allowed to heal him, and the man died from the blood loss, while Damien, wand already back safely in its holster, finished his drink and cigarette.

Being head of the Road Warlocks kept him sharp and shrewd, and his crew got involved in several biker wars over the years.

Return to the U.K. and the Recent War
One day, Damien felt his dark mark tingling for the first time in over a decade. Though it would not burn fully until later that year, he suspected it meant the inevitable. He left the Road Warlocks in good hands and returned to England while his mother, Adelaide, stayed behind in the ‘States. In England, he resumed his work as a magical mechanic and inventor, doing whatever the Dark Lord and Death Eaters wanted until they lost the war. In addition to dutifully fighting in battle, Damien put his tech knowledge to use as the head of security and infiltration tactics. Believing that rebels, Undesirables, and Order of the Phoenix members, or anyone on the run, would think that Pureblood Death Eaters would not deign to use Muggle tech, Damien felt that the Death Eaters would be at an advantage in leaving no stone unturned. He tapped phone lines, added surveillance backups to the Trace, and attempted to crack into secure frequencies transmitting through the Wizarding Wireless Network.

After the Dark Lord’s death, the travel ban was lifted and his mother was able to join him back in the U.K. He is currently in Azkaban awaiting trial, with good chances of getting off on parole, as he is a prime example of the repentant Death Eater. His mother wants him to pursue a political career under the new regime and thinks he’d be a poster child for reform; whereas Damien would rather go back to inventing things and tinkering with technology.