Thaddeus Willoughby

## Relationships

### Family Members:

Drake Willoughby (Biological Father), Cadence Willoughby (Biological Mother), Amadeus Headley (Uncle. Deceased), Margret Headley (Aunt. Deceased), Marcella Russo (Adoptive mother, papers pending)

## Magical

### Wand:

Willow Wood, Dragon Heartstring core, 12 & ½ inches, supple

### Abilities:

Dark Elemental, early non-verbal

**Thaddeus Russo (Formerly Willoughby)** (b. 11 November 2012) is a Pure Blood Wizard from Lincolnshire, England. He is the son of Drake and Cadence Willoughby. He was sorted into Slytherin House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Over his last 5 years at Hogwarts, Thaddeus has shown skill in several things, mainly through pure sheer devotion and ambition. He is skilled in enchanting and transfiguration primarily, with some skill still in dueling. No longer a shrinking violet, Thaddeus cuts an imposing presence to those who do not know him. Those in his inner circle consider him kind, and thoughtful, even if his lectures make them think twice about doing anything that might result in one.

He is still friends with Mei-Xing, even if not as close as he was before. He no longer really associates with Savannah. During the last two years he has gotten quite close to Alva and Damian, their relationship surprisingly strong despite it being one of the few polys in school. His younger adoptive brother Alby both looks up to and despises him. He has also been seen as a lurking shadow to a young Jacob, not allowing any harm to befall him as long as he's around.

## Appearance

Thaddeus had grown to 5'11" during his 5th year at Hogwarts, slowly starting to fill out and look less beanpole as he gets adjusted to his height. He has started getting into the habit of dying his bangs different colours, his hair still on the longer side, but not quite as long as his boyfriends. The Slytherin has started to finally embrace his scars, instead of hiding them behind turtle necks he now wears dress shirts, and when the weather is warm enough the sleeves are often rolled up to the elbows to reveal deep gouge marks faded from time. It is clear that he's starting to respect his appearance more, hair often more neatly brushed back, clothing properly pressed and cleaned, he makes for an attractive and intimidating person to be next to.

## Personality

This 6th year prefect is equal parts kind as he is scary. He has a low patience for those around him being rude to those he cares about and isn't beyond snapping back with both magic and words to those he considers to be rude or out of line. However, he does have a softer side, only those like his boyfriends, family and Mei really see. The easiest way to soothe him is to hand him a cup of coffee and try to take his mind off whatever is making him angry.

## Background

Thaddeus comes from an almost unbroken line of Slytherins, his family proud of their pure-blood status, a belief they tried to teach Thaddy from a young age. His mother had a hard time producing an heir, resulting in Thaddeus being an only child. This resulted in both of his parents being hyperfocused on his success, for he's the only one to carry on his family line. His father has been annoyed at the timid nature of his son, find a weak backbone a failure on his part, as well as the fault of him and Cadence as parents, causing him to be concerned his son would with a *Hufflepuff.* His mother has been overly protective of her son from a young age, not wanting to let him out of her sight for too long, worried that he may cause himself fatal injury, only worsening Thaddy's already nervous disposition.

In his third year his father became angry enough to cast the Umbra Tempesto curse on his son, leaving him life long scarring that it had taken until recently for Thaddeus to finally come to terms with. He had spent the last two summers with the Russo family, finding them to be good people, and them feeling likewise to the point Marcella offered him her family name for protection. Both Thaddeus and Marcella are in the midst of working out the paperwork, with the plan that he becomes an official Russo on his 17th birthday, for he'd be able to sign the paperwork himself without them needing to fight his family for it. As far as the Russos are concerned though, he's already family, paperwork or no.

## Year One Key Events

**Rivals:** He had started the year as friends with Klaus Kruger, but as Kruger turned to bullying and rapidly losing house points, Thaddeus slowly began to resent and eventually hate the other first year Slytherin.

**Dueling:** Thanks to his attempt to rescue Savannah in the Slytherin Common Room, he wound up attracting the attention of Evan Greywood who started teaching them both dueling. He focused more on this than his studies first year.

**Transfiguring Pyxis:** One of the transfiguration assignments was trying to change your pet back from... it's half-transformed state. While he wound up relying on Alva for that, he did vow to master the first year spells. Which he did so, rather successfully.

**Escape to China:** Thaddy had been offered a chance to be adopted by his Uncle Amadeus, but it would take a few years. Not wanting to go home to his biological parents house for the summer, his group of friends hatched a plan, and he wound up fleeing to China for the summer instead, escaping the platform dressed as a girl. He found he rather enjoyed having longer hair, so he kept it upon his return for the next school year.

## Year Two Key Events

**Disappeared:** Sometime during the year, Thaddeus seemed to vanish completely...

## Year Three Key Events

**Return During the Halloween Ball:** Thaddeus had come back after the school year had already started, taller in body, shorter in hair and missing an owl. His friends thought they had seen a ghost, or a familiar stranger, not the friend they knew and loved.

**New Owl:** Thaddeus is now a proud owner of a Rufous fishing owl named Thalassa thanks to his aunt and uncle.

## Year Four Key Events

**Birbs:** Thaddeus now owns what can be considered a small flock of birds.
Rufous Fishing Owl-Thalassa
Snow Tit-Articuno
Laughing Dove-Macbeth
Mourning Dove-Puck

**Throuple:** Due to a miscommunication during the opening feast, Thaddeus has started a bit of a three way courtship with Alva Ainsley and Damian Marlow. It's still too early to say just how serious they are, and how long it will last.

**Unofficial Mentor:** Thaddeus had posted a notice on the bulletin board where he offered to help first or second years with their duelling. There he met Alby, Micheal and Adam. He quickly became fast friends with Alby Russo, and has become his unofficial mentor, alongside his real mentor Shane.

**Mentor Switch:** Due to the incident involving Donatello casting a Bombarda Maxima at young Alby, Jacob Barclay decided to turn down his mentorship with Donatello and instead asked Thaddeus to be his mentor instead.

**Dark Elemental:** Around the time of his 15th Birthday, after much study, Thaddeus had found out he was a Dark Elemental, of course only after trying each and every other one first. He is having a bit of a hard time coming to terms with this information.

## Year Five Key Events

**Throuple Part 2:** Alva Ainsley and Damian Marlow are still his boyfriends, even if it has resulted in a couple of odd questions here and there. It had taken to the end of his 5th year to confess to them that he loved them, but he did so in a deeply touching way.

**Restricted Section Visit:** Thads had caught his brother Alby sneaking out of the restricted section during Christmas break with Jake and Eli. He wound up agreeing to read the book on Nihilifors with Alby in the nasty cupboard.

**Prefect:** Thaddeus spent the entire last year as a prefect. He and his boyfriends were seen doing the rounds together a couple of times, but they mostly had shifts at different times.

**Protean Journal:** Thaddeus spent most of the year learning the Protos Akolouthos charm so he could craft his boyfriends the ultimate expression of his love. He spent months on the project and presented it in front of all his peers. Also used it as an opportunity to confess his true feelings to both of them.

**Dark Phoenix:** He had turned to Phoebe Casey and their tattoo skills to have a beautiful dark phoenix tattoo done on his back. Bee was able to use learned Legi to peer into his mind to get the exact image he wanted. The splendid piece takes up a good chunk of his back, moving with magic, and as an added touch, Bee made the phoenix's eyes match Thaddy's natural hazel ones.

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