Cedric Diggory

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» PLAYER INFORMATION
Player NAME: Zoki
Current AGE: 22
Player TIME ZONE: EST
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Current CHARACTERS: Billy Cranston

» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Cedric Diggory
Canon & MEDIUM: Harry Potter (book)
Canon PULL-POINT: Post-death in Goblet of Fire
Character AGE: 17
Character ABILITIES: Magic! He's a wizard who's completed six out of seven years of magical education, so he has a decent range of spell knowledge. The spells require a wand, can be cast using a spoken incantation or nonverbally (though nonverbal magic is more difficult and requires greater concentration), and the effects are typically instant. There is no mana or magical energy depletion shown in canon---battles typically involve volleys of spells being slung everywhere.

These are some examples of the categories of spells Cedric typically uses, though there are more:

Transfiguration, the act of transforming one object into another. First year students start with the simplest spells, such as turning matches into needles, but more complex transfigurations are done by older students. Cedric transfigures a rock into a dog in the first task of the big tournament he participates in.

Charms, miscellaneous spells with various effects. There are many charms---for opening doors, levitating objects, and enabling a swimmer to breathe underwater for an extended period, among other things.

Defence against the Dark Arts: Many combat spells exist. They're primarily used to disarm and temporarily stun opponents, and these are the ones Cedric would know.

A full list of spells is found here, but Cedric would only know the ones taught to students at Hogwarts. He wouldn't know or use any spells classified under the Dark Arts (making zombies, torture, mind control...none of that stuff.)

And there are several things spells absolutely cannot do:
-Create food from nothing (but existing food can be expanded to make more or teleported)
-Alter time (an in-world device called a Time Turner could do that, but he doesn't have one and time travel is impossible for Exsilium characters outside of Initiative-sanctioned missions anyway)
-Raise the dead

Character HISTORY: Here!
Character PERSONALITY: As the most important character from Hogwarts' Hufflepuff House in the story, Cedric exemplifies most of the traits that Helga Hufflepuff valued in young wizards and witches. Justice, loyalty, hard work, and kindness are his greatest strengths, but there's a fair streak of stubbornness in there too. Cedric isn't easily swayed from his positions, and that can land him in trouble sometimes.

Cedric is particularly prone to denying his own desires for the sake of fairness. When Cedric wins a school sporting event on the technicality of the other team's star player being taken out by outside interference, he immediately offers to replay the match. When that same star player, Harry, later saves Cedric during a competition they're rivals in, Cedric insists that Harry cross the finish line first and take the glory. It's not easy, and glory is definitely something he wants to bring to his friends, but fairness is the most important thing. The pain shows in Cedric's face when his sense of justice tells him to turn down the prize, but he stubbornly refuses to take it until he believes he's earned it.

Thanks in part to the influence of his ever-proud father, Cedric is also quite motivated to achieve. It's very important to him to do well at whatever tasks lie before him. He's happy to compete and achieve for the sake of doing it, whether he wins or loses, but there's another underlying motivation. Using his talents and bringing glory to his family and to Hufflepuff will make his parents and his classmates happy, and that's what Cedric's really after: seeing people happy. Should they approve, he's succeeded. His people-pleasing tendencies, talent, and attractiveness have made him quite popular at school, but he seems embarrassed by the attention at times. In the end, though, he wants it: he's tempted by greatness and all the approval that will bring.

Cedric has very few relationships with other wizards fully expanded on in the story. He's generally polite to most people he meets: even when he believes Harry cheated to enter the Triwizard Tournament, he doesn't do much worse than give Harry a look of disbelief. He's social enough to have a wide group of followers at school and his interactions with his girlfriend seem to go well. He adores his family as well: despite being annoyed with his father's boasting, Cedric is quite close to his parents whenever they appear and his last thoughts in death are of reassuring them, as seen when his spirit asks Harry to give his parents a body to bury. Cedric only shows a harder edge at one point in the story: after being tortured by another competitor, Viktor Krum, he remarks to Harry that the culprit would deserve being eaten by the monsters in the maze. Despite this, he still sends up sparks to have Krum rescued.

It would be a mistake to assume that Cedric will behave entirely as a pushover: in an unfamiliar environment with moral conflicts, his stubborn streak will tend to lead to heated confrontations with those who disagree with his values He'll particularly resent cheaters and those who would allow innocent people to get hurt. He was confident enough in his magical ability to believe that he could be the best of the witches and wizards in the Tournament, and he has the academic achievement behind him to prove it---though he'll be evasive about his magic at first, as mandated by the wizarding world's laws. All of this melds into a streak of self-righteousness and overconfidence that could be deadly, though Cedric's knowledge of his own death will undermine his confidence for the first little while.

In general, Cedric's style is like that of the famous Hufflepuff mascot, the badger: he's generally non-confrontational, laying low and out of the way, but threaten anything he holds dear and he will rise up to fight. He believes he owes the Initiative at least that much---if he does this, his world will still have a fighting chance. Once Cedric figures out that this isn't exclusively an afterlife, he'll know he's being given new life in exchange for his service, and he'll readily comply.

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Magic. Perhaps he'll slowly learn wandless magic, though any magic learned would still be within the limits of canon outlined above.
Character INVENTORY:
-Yellow and black Hogwarts sporting uniform worn at the time of his death
-Wand (12 1/4 inches, ash wood, unicorn hair core)
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» PREVIOUS GAME INFORMATION ( IF APPLICABLE )
Not applicable.

» SAMPLES
First PERSON:
[The video turns out to be the simplest option for communication. Cedric flicks it on and waves.

Hello! It'd probably be useful to introduce myself, wouldn't it? I'm sorry if I'm late to all of this, I've just had to adjust to this strange technology. I...well, you see, I came from a village where we didn't really have electricity, so this is all still new to me.

[He looks down, a telltale sign that he's hiding something---he'd always earned decent marks in Muggle Studies, but did that sound right? Anyway. Moving on.]

My name's Cedric Diggory. I've read up on all that's happened to the world, and I know I'm going to be sent on missions to start making things right. But until then, would anyone be interested in playing a game of football? Does anyone have one? I'd like to keep in shape, and it's simple enough for a quick match.

Do I have any takers?

Third PERSON:
What had the promise of the Triwizard Tournament been? Cedric searched back through his memory, thinking on those fateful words Professor Dumbledore had shared with the students of Hogwarts. Eternal glory to the witch or wizard who emerged victorious, right? How many times had Cedric dreamed of that over this past year? Holding the Cup aloft, laughing and twirling Cho around, smiling for a round of photographs with his parents. The Diggorys weren't exactly struggling for money, but that thousand-Galleon prize would've done wonders for his mother's garden or paid for a great vacation for the family.

How far had winning the Tournament gotten him? Cedric stared at his hands, remembering that awful chill when the Cup had swept him away with Harry Potter. He'd argued that it was only fair that Harry take the prize, Harry had argued that Cedric should take the prize, and they split it. That seemed fair! They would emerge victorious for Hogwarts, share the prize, and the whole school could be happy and proud.

But that hadn't happened at all. A voice had said 'Kill the spare', and the same awful green light that Professor Moody had shown his classes at the beginning of the year had rushed at Cedric. The Killing Curse, the instant kiss of death that no one except Harry had ever survived. And that meant Cedric was...dead. It was an awful thought, one he was still struggling to accept. And what had become of Harry, then? All alone in the graveyard with a murderer closing in on him?

Some reward this was. Cedric had been so preoccupied with those thoughts that he'd hardly spared a second for the person who'd given him a basic introduction to this place. It didn't feel like a next life should. All that had sunk in was that he was going to be serving some organisation to change history. Was that what people did after they died?

Well, he supposed that was all right, as far as activities for dead people went. A nice and relaxing heaven was bound to bore him sooner or later. At least this afterlife had a chance of being interesting.

» ADDITIONAL NOTES
An additional sample in Exsilium's setting with some canonmates is available here, though actionspam tags didn't seem to fit into first or third person.