Carson Ivey - Reintroduction
I’m here to reintroduce my boy after a long time of not making any official content with him! For all my old and new mutuals and followers, meet Carson Ivey, my second MC for Hogwarts Mystery and Veruca McQuaid’s childhood best friend!
Carson Ivey is a halfblood Scottish wizard, born on August 4th 1972. His father, Hudson, is a wizard and his mother Norah-Raylene is a muggle. Carson loves his parents greatly, and his mother fondly addresses him by the nickname Carsy. A name that Carson would take offense to if someone else called him that as that is considered a sacred name only his mother can use.
Carson grew up with Veruca, knowing each other when they were both five years old. Despite his parents' protests to the McQuaids paying for Carson's enrollment to attend the same performing arts school with Veruca, Elroy and Wilhelmina insisted it would be a nice experience for Carson since he showed an interest in music. Eventually the Iveys gave in when Carson said he wanted to learn how to play an instrument so he can play for them.
Out of all the instruments, Carson grew to love the violin. Carson has always been extremely responsive to music. He would sometimes cry like a baby listening to a moving piece of music. The violin is one of the most moving instruments he's ever experienced. It also helps that he was really drawn to the power of orchestral music from classic plays and the theater.
Other than classical music, Carson loves 80s rock music. His favorite bands and artists are Twisted Sister, Bon Jovi, Quiet Riot, and REO Speedwagon. Despite Carson attending a performing arts school, he lacks skills in singing. His singing is a bad, high key, out of pitch tune that can be heard from another room or down the hall. His parents love him too much to ruin his fun. Even Veruca and her family let him have his singing moments, with Wilhelmina joking that if that boy ever learns to sing perfectly that is not the real Carson. He even humors them that he has no intentions of ever learning how to sing. His bad singing is part of his character.
Carson is also a lighthearted prankster. He isn't too fond of magic related pranks, thinking some of them can go a bit too far. His pranks and jokes are meant to be for fun where everyone can laugh. Sure, the glitter prank he is most known for can get very messy, but he's always sticking around to clean it up after having a good laugh. If someone ever got caught in a prank set up for someone else, Carson will make sure that they're okay and will compensate if anything of theirs gets ruined or accidentally destroyed. One of his more lighthearted pranks is to wear odd and mismatched outfits to annoy Andre and even switch out Andre's clothes for horribly designed ones.
In Hogwarts, Carson has become adept in charms. And while he is decent with potions, he still sometimes botches the concoctions. Something he's always confused about since he follows the recipe exactly. He's not fond of Care of Magical Creatures due to how active the creatures get around him. A few occasions, the puffskeins would get loose and chase him around Hogwarts, once even cornering him completely in a room. It took more than Veruca, Rowan and Professor Kettleburn to get him out of the swarm.
Carson's closest friends besides Veruca and Rowan are Jae, Diego, Tulip, Tonks and Andre. Jae has become the group's handler in contraband and oddities, something Carson takes advantage of with his pranks. Of course, he pays using Veruca's money. Diego, it took some time for them to be friends since the two always bickered about trivial things like who was the better gentleman of the two.