Zachary Bishop

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**Appearance**

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Zachary very much looks like your stereotypical prince charming, complete with blond hair and blue eyes. His biggest frustration in life is that he's one inch short of being six feet tall, and that he's always been the shorter twin compared to Clarence. Despite this, he's still broken his fair number of hearts and was considered attractive by most even when he was still a teenager at Adeothorne. When he was younger, he definitely wasn't one for dressing so formally but now that his occupation requires it, it has bled into his life to the point that he always seems to be in some sort of business casual attire.

**History**

Daniel Bishop, CEO of multi-million corporation Bishop Hotels, was married three times before finally getting a divorce and living life as an eternal bachelor. The first marraige resulted in Cressida, the second was short-lived (as was the bride, who died in a car crash), and the third resulted in Clarence. Where does Zachary come into this? He was the result of an affair. Daniel could never tie himself down to one woman and was a serial cheater, and one of his hook-ups ended in an accidental pregnancy. He'd have paid the mother off to keep Zach away from him, but she died in childbirth and honestly, after having Cressida, Daniel was overjoyed to finally have a son that could inherit the business. What is quite unfortunate, perhaps, is that Zach was born only eight hours ahead of Clarence, not that Zach believes his brother might have had much interest in inheriting the hotel chain.

Having grown attached to the child so quickly (Daniel had always wanted a *son*), he decided then and there much to the opposition and distress of his wife at the time that he would take Zach in and legitimize him so that he could properly take over Bishop Hotels one day. He even went as far as to pass Clarence and Zach off as twins in order to explain the same birth date and neither really thought to question it.

Of course, his wife at the time resented the child. In her opinion, she was robbing Clarence of what was rightfully his to inherit and Zach was also the physical manifestation of her husband's infidelity. She never let the truth come to the surface though, so Zach spent most of his childhood wondering why Clarence was so obviously his mother's favorite. He once expressed this concern to his dad, who reassured him that it was fine because Zach was his father's favorite. He did not find that so reassuring.

Growing up, he was the one with the weight of the world on his shoulders. He learned pretty early that he had a lot of expectations to live up to. He attended his first board meeting when he was nine. He had a lot of teenage angst about this, which was only further exacerbated by his sister's influence on him. Zachary and Cressida had always been close and she was prone to rebelling against what their parents wanted for them, so it opened his eyes to the reality that he is not necessarily required to do everything it is they say. While he might have taken things a bit too far initially especially in his later teen years, it did teach him to relax and not be too concerned with the path that his father had laid out for him.

That is not to say that he strayed from it. In fact, the older he got, the more he realized that it was actually a career that was very well-suited for him. He did not flourish in Adeothorne, but shined brighter in muggle schooling that he decided to embark on after his seventh year. On the other hand, Clarence and Cedrica (who was Zach's girlfriend at the time), began laying the foundation for their own wizarding technology empire. Zach would eventually break up with Cedrica in their seventh year. Their relationship always had a rocky foundation anyway, having started just a couple months after she slept with his best friend, Greg. Not to mention, it was obvious to anyone with eyes that she was a better match for his brother.

Other than that his struggles with academics and a bit of a complicated love life, Zach's time at Adeothorne was enjoyable and he had a good time. he was in Duckweed with his best friends Gregory Blake and Nikki Sutton, though the latter of the two did move away to America in their fourth year. He and Nikki maintained a regular correspondence that eventually became less and less frequent, though that does not speak anything of their friendship. It was just a matter of life becoming increasingly busy. Until now, he is nostalgic about that friendship and wishes her well. Zach was able to maintain his other friendships, though. He was rightfully sorted into Duckweed because of his unwavering loyalty. Even throughout his stay at a muggle university and succeeding MBA program, he kept in close contact with all his friends.

At some point in seventh year, Zach would also learn the truth behind conception and it drove a rift between himself and his father for a couple months before Zach decided that his inheritance was too important for him to risk losing. He is not very materialistic (despite his tendency to splurge on gifts for others), but he knows the power that comes with what he is set to inherit one day and at this point, there is no one, he thinks, that is more capable than he is for this job. He acknowledges that a big part of his success comes from being the CEO's son, of course, and it is not as if he is entirely self-made so it is not *that* impressive, but he's been training for this since he was born and it would be much more trouble than it's worth for his father to find someone else to do this. Nevertheless, their relationship has remained strained ever since.

After completing a course in business and graduating with latin honors then getting a Master's degree, Zach began more closely working with the company. His father would eventually send him to America when he was twenty-six to oversee the US expansion of their hotel chain. Zach would live there for the next decade, meeting a nice muggle girl named Fiona who he would eventually fall in love with and propose to after four years after dating.

The two were married for two years, but eventually fell out of love. Zach is too much of a romantic to stay in a marriage that lacks romance. To add to that, the subject of children was a point of division between the two of them and he loves and respects his ex-wife too much to hold such great influence a decision that should be wholly hers. They probably should have discussed it more before getting married, but he had always assumed they were on the same page. Until now, Zach and his ex-wife are on stellar terms and he even got an invitation to her upcoming wedding next fall.

Now thirty-six, Zach has recently been 'promoted' by his father to CFO of the entire company, which required him to relocate back to Scotland. He is thrilled to be back home and closer to his family, especially his nieces and nephews given that he wants to be there for them in the light of his brother's affair. Aside from that, he hopes he will be able to do a good job as CFO before he is inevitably promoted to COO, then of course, fulfilling his 'destiny' and inheriting the family business.

**Personality**

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