Name: Sighard Wieland Valemont (Loveland) "Sig" "Siggy"
Residence/Hometown: Rapid City, South Dakota. Born in Osnabrück, Germany.
Age/Birthday: 16. April 12, 1995.
Gender/Sexuality: Male. Probably heterosexual
PB: Rocky Lynch
Any notable differences from the pb? In the summer time he lives in flip flops.

School/Magic Stuff
Wand: 10 ¾ inches. Pliable. Mahogany. Dual core of mallowsweet and boomslang venom. It's a very challenging and at times contrary wand.
House and Year: Champlain. Junior.
Schedule: Advanced Potions I. Advanced Herbology I. Advanced Transfiguration I. Divination II. Music. Literature I.
Strongest subject in school: Transfiguration
Weakest subject in school: COMC
Extracurricular activities: Chess. School paper. Intramural sports. Honor. Orchestra (saxophone).
Boggart and Riddikulus: His boggart is his father biting and turning him. He hasn't really mastered his riddikulus because while he fears this more than anything else, he also thinks it wouldn't be such a horrible thing.
Amortentia smells like: Earl grey tea.
Patronus: Shark. Cunning and agile, never sleeping.
Animagus Form: Unknown.

Family/Relationships
Immediate Family His father is the rather famous vampire Cosmin Valemont; his deeds are known mostly under the name Valemont, people rarely refer to him by his first name. His mother is a lovely witch named Grimhilt Loveland. He has an older brother and sister: Dieter (21) and Viorica (18). Dieter went to Durmstrang. Viorica went to Big Sky. Sighard chose Dresden to be his own person, much in the way that his siblings chose their schools.

He's close with his father, but from a distance. They exchange weekly/monthly letters. He admires his mother, but he's not mature enough to admit it to her. He's much closer with Viorica than Dieter, simply a matter of age.

Familiar: A barn owl named Loki.
Any other relations we should know about: His maternal grandparents are estranged. The family visits his paternal grandparents every few years (as they still live in Germany).
Significant Others: N/A at present.
Friends: Anyone who stuck with him through the Valemont ordeal.
Enemies: Still grudges some of the friends who ditched him when he reclaimed the name Valemont.

Personality
Likes: The idea of notoriety, but not the reality. Puzzles. Adventures (no matter how stupid or bizarre). The new, the unexplored, the unknown.
Dislikes: When people point out that he looks tired; thanks, he knows. The idea that people can turn on you because of something you have no control over.
Quirks: - Bilingual, speaks English and German.
- Suffers fairly severe insomnia, but he doesn't talk about it and resorts to drinking anything caffeinated to get through the day.
Secrets: He already revealed the big one he was supposed to hide.
Strengths: Adventurous, extremely smart (book and street)
Weaknesses: Dangerous risk-taking, not the best track record for sound decision making

Detailed personality: Disgustingly smart. He could probably ask for a time-turner and take every class ever, but he's not that devoted to school. He'd rather learn from a number of situations, academia notwithstanding. He finds you can learn just as much from the old man on a park bench as you can from the old man lecturing from behind a podium.

He likes adventure and danger, perhaps tipping toward stupidity.

He's learned to live with his father's reputation at school (which is vaguely threatening in an almost sexy way), but he longs to be out from under it. He's very independent and very much is own person, desperate to strike off on his own and explore (which ironically, is almost exactly how his father is).

Personal History: Shortly after Sig was conceived, Cosmin was bitten by a vampire on an expedition in the Black Forest. He tried to return to family life, but his children and wife were always in danger of his hunger. He returned to the Germany and started a new life with a circle of vampires and half-breeds, but wrote to his children often.

Grimhilt packed up her children and moved to America, too much stigma surrounding her husband's change and the shame emanating from her family at being a single mother. She was always an industrious and capable woman and quickly found a job as a wizarding robe seamstress; it was something she could do from home while raising her children. It also necessitated that her house be connected to the floo network. Cosmin helped support his wife and children and kept them as close as he could to the lush lifestyle they were accustomed to in Germany.

Sig grew up in a single parent household, too young to remember his father much. His mother told him fantastic stories of his father the adventurer, and his letters tended to concur. It was why Grimhilt fell for him in the first place.

He spent much of his time playing games with Dieter and Viorica, learning a bit of hearth craft and listening to his mother's tales of their culture and family back home.

Being from old wizarding stock, Grimhilt raised her children with the expectation that they would receive invitations to both European and American wizarding schools. Dieter had his choice between Big Sky and Durmstrang; to him the choice was made before any invitations arrived. Viorica was offered the same choice, along with Dresden (given that her father's reputation was beginning to spread and Dresden was also gaining a reputation as a lay-low school for children of famous parents); she chose Big Sky to stay close to her mother.

Sighard was not in Germany long enough to warrant an invitation from Durmstrang and so had only Big Sky and Dresden to choose from. Having his father's independent spirit he opted for Dresden. His mother insisted that he use her maiden name to register, urging her son to disassociate himself from Valemont if only to protect him from the rumors that had circled him all his life.

Around his third year Sighard decided he wouldn't mind the notoriety of being the son of a vampire and he insisted on going by his proper name of Valemont. It had consequences he didn't understand. Some of his dearest friends would no longer talk to him because their parents were afraid, or worse, they were afraid all on their own. Rumors circulated that Sighard was actually a half-vampire, that his dad had been turned before his conception. He didn't have much evidence to deny this claim because so little is actually known about vampires.

He spent most of his fourth year alone and his fifth year rebuilding some friendships. He didn't bother switching his name back to Loveland, not considering that everyone in the school knows now, but he's made up his mind to go by Loveland after graduation.

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