HENLEY, Kyle

[Kyle Henley]

kyle matthew henley,
what are you fighting for?



because it was nothing like we'd ever dreamt
our lust for life had gone away with the rent we hated
and because it made no money nobody saved no one's life

name: Kyle Matthew Henley - do give him a nickname, cause unless you are one of his siblings, he'll hate you for it.
age/graduating year: Twenty three
former house: Ravenclaw
alliance: Revolution
wand: 10 inch oak with Basalisk Fang core
occupation: Former beater with Orange County Quidditch team, but now works part-time at the Daily Prophet and has recently been offered a position as beater with the Chudley Cannons
patronus: Zebra
boggart: Quicksand
striking features:

All in all, Kyle’s features are rather soft, he has a long, straight nose and large green eyes. The usual male acne comes up from time to time but normally his complexion is rather clean and his skin is fair. Contrasting with the soft features on his face his sharp jaw line, making him look rather masculine. Apparently, Kyle looks a lot like his father; who passed away a couple of years ago.

Being an avid Quidditch player, Kyle’s fitness has mostly been kept at an all time high (apart from the sweet tooth him and his sisters seem to have inherited), so his build is secondary from his hard-training and long hours on the Quidditch field. It looks rather funny though, seeing as he is pretty short; so his broad shoulders contrast rather comical.

Kyle’s hair is of a lighter shade of brown, and if not wrestled with every morning it would most likely stand on end; which has happened quite a few times actually; and it’s not a pretty sight.

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personality & history:

PERSONALITY!
Kyle Henley is the guy that you are not going to like right away, if able to put up with him you would find out that he is not a bad kid, actually; but there’s the whole putting up with him part associated with him – and goodness knows it’s not easy.

Being abnormally organised is central to Kyle’s life; he believes if he wasn’t he would not have got on the Quidditch team, been able to complete his homework, or hold down his twin sister and tell her to get off her butt and clean her trunk out every month. Also following that is that Kyle is probably one of the fussiest guys you will ever have the displeasure of meeting. Having said that, clothing is something he does not fuss about too much, he’ll go out in his school robes if he needs to.

Stay on his good side however, as he has the raging temper of a bull that seen the world in flat out red. He will get mad easily, and when he does; it’s not pretty. Being an accomplished beater for the Ravenclaw team makes him a rather strong chap; so he will not hesitate to break objects around him to get his point across. However, Kyle tries his hardest only to break objects and not people’s necks, as he is responsible enough to realise how much trouble he would get in for doing that. And besides, he almost always regrets the whole thing afterwards.

Finally, his weak spot is his siblings, especially Sammy. It sounds silly, although he is not the eldest, but because he is the only sibling that looks like his father – in the odd rationalisation of Kyle’s brain it puts a lot of pressure on Kyle as he feels he needs to protect his siblings. After knowing him for many, many years, his siblings know where to pull his strings so they can get exactly what they want from him. And in all honesty, Sammy, Shawn and Josie are probably the only people who he would truthfully take an Avada Kedarvra curse for.

Politically; Kyle has very strong views and is not one to hide them from his peers. Seeing as he is muggleborn he obviously is against the purism idea that seems to have grown on pupils at school. Seeing as he is exceptionally strong in the area of History of Magic; he knows more about the backgrounds of wizards than most purebloods – he would probably be a good debater; if only his white hot rage did not cloud his judgement all of the time.

However; his wandwork is not as great as most people – in fact; in subjects such as Defense Against the Dark Arts, it was rumoured that after failing at four attempts to get rid of a boggart he threw away his wand and tried to punch the boggart, which had in fact taken the form of the corpse of his twin sister, and since she was in the same class as him; it was a pretty odd situation to be in.

With all of that down; it seems that there are probably only two reasons that Kyle gets up in the morning; for his family, obviously. But also; it is his immense thirst for knowledge that seems to spur him onwards through the day; heck, it spurs him through life, even. Kyle is the type of person who will always ask questions, and finds even the most boring topic about muggle escalators very open to many new ideas.


HISTORY!
Although their mother never told Kyle and Sammy who actually came out first; she did tell them that there was a horrible space of one hour between each of them were born (in which she said she was in more pain than ever before). Therefore, in the twins eyes; there was a significant difference in their age; and during their youth, the two would frequently bicker about who was ‘actually older’. Though as they grew older, they grew to not care as much anymore, in fact; at the present, they do not care at all – probably because even if they were told who was the oldest, it really would not change their attitude towards each other. The eldest of the Henley siblings, Shawn, was born five years before Kyle and Sammy.

Sammy and Kyle’s names were decided for them long before they were born; although Thomas and Jasmine were not expecting twins they agreed that if the baby was a boy, Thomas would name him, and if the baby was a girl, Jasmine would name her. Even though Jasmine was in a lot of pain conceiving her unexpected second child; it seemed that luck was on their side; as each of the two parents had a name in mind.

A couple of years later Jasmine had her youngest, Josephine – however, only a few short months later (for reasons currently unknown) Thomas and Josephine divorced; ach taking two of their children with them, Jasmine taking the twins, Thomas taking Shawn and Josie.

At the time of the divorce; Kyle was only three years old, and could hardly comprehend what was going on. Though he always had remembered hearing shouting from their bedroom, but Kyle only really could say a couple of words, and did not really understand or even remember what it was that his parents were bickering about. Then one day; the last he saw of his father for a year was him giving him a pat on the shoulder and promising him that he would write.


Maybe it was only because he did not live with him but as Kyle grew up; he tended to idolise his father a lot more than his mother. He only saw him every now and then, when he visited him and his little sisters on Holidays, etc. Thomas would always tell Kyle how proud he was of him and what an amazing career he would have when he was older. Within those very short periods of time in which he actually saw his father; he felt he had bonded with him more than he had ever bonded with his mother; in fact, he could go as far as saying he loved his father about two times the amount he loved his mother. He did love his mother, obviously, and he appreciated everything she had ever done for him; but even she noticed that their relationship wasn’t as brilliantly formed as the relationship between him and his father. Jasmine kept trying to get closer to Kyle; but all that resulted in was him pushing her further away – it even sometimes resulted in him having his little ‘temper tantrums’, in which his mother would scream at him “You are exactly like your father!”. Because she did not really want that to happen again, since her and Kyle still wanted to have a normal mother-son relationship, she did not try connecting to him as much as he grew older. Nevertheless, Kyle still loved his mother, perhaps in a different way to how Sammy did.

However, the person who Kyle was tighter with than anybody ever imagined was his twin sister, Sammy. Although they were very different; one was disorganised and the other a complete organisation robot, one was loving and brilliantly open and the other was fussy and rather boring. But the two balanced each other out, and always kept an eye out for each other. Before each of them received their letters inviting them to join a magic school, the two went to a state school with a very bad reputation. They made no friends, and they did not really want to either; they like their personal bubble being only shared between themselves.

As expected, Kyle and Sammy’s mother was not as pleased as the twins were when they received the letter of acceptance into a small magic school that had first opened in America. But the odd thing was, even though she was a muggle, she did not look as surprised as Kyle had expected; though, he brushed any doubt he had at the back of his mind away and went there anyway. When Kyle was thirteen, they moved to Gatwick for a reason of which his mother (not matter how many times Sammy and Kyle nagged) would refuse to tell them. There they received a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts, Kyle, having read about it a lot; was overjoyed – after all, he was accepted into the greatest magic school in the world!

The first few months at Hogwarts were not very different from his years at the state school he attended; until Sammy and Kyle made a pact to be – a little – more open. Kyle made very few friends, and became recognized in his strong classes such as HOM, and for his odd temper outbursts when anybody eyeballs his twin sister. Despite sometimes causing quite a stir in school, he passed his OWLs with very good grades, and his NEWTS also – afterwards he moved back to California for four years, where there were a few familial issues he had to straighten out, and where he had lost contact with most of his friends. Although he did have a career path in mind, he chose not to follow it as he needed to be there to financially support his siblings. The Henley siblings only returned to England a few months ago with news that there was a war that was about to happen.


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anything else:

He shares an owl of some sort with his sister.
As already established, Kyle's family is very important to him. Kyle made very few friends at Hogwarts; one of which was Persephone
Weasley - who he also had a long time crush on. However, with Kyle being Kyle, he has decided not to act on his feelings.

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