Jānis Smiltiņš

personality

Positive Traits: caring, protective, somewhat selfless, athletic, enjoys jokes and fun

Negative Traits: bitter over being bitten, prone to tantrums, not concerned with his own safety, impulsive, melancholic, afraid of commitment, indecisive, spiteful

Quirks and Habits:
Jānis looks so much like his twin that he can switch identities with him sometimes--something that comes in handy when he needs to go somewhere he isn't supposed to.



He misses being in his home country, and always wears a bracelet with Latvian patterns on it so he can feel connected to it. He believes strongly that the patterns are magical ever since he learned about the magical world.



He drinks milk all the time, which he uses to give credit to the fact that he's never broken a bone even with all the Bludgers that have hit him over the years.





Ever since he was bitten, he's taken up smoking and is practically a chimney. He tries to only do it outside, not wanting to cause anyone discomfort with the cigarette smoke.

Likes: Quidditch, his brother Jēkabs, herbal tea his grandmother makes, pīrāgi, animals,strong liquor, strong cigarettes.

Dislikes: his brother's girlfriend, gloomy British weather, milk in his tea, not being at home, himself,

Boggart: Jēkabs and Laura dead, killed by his own fangs.

Mirror of Erised: Himself, playing Quidditch.

Patronus: Lynx

history

1995.
Some people never seem to have luck on their side. Ieva Eglīte was one such person. That must have been why she ended up having identical twins Jēkabs and Jānis when she was barely eighteen, because apparently just one of them wasn't enough. Instead of going to university, she moved into an apartment with her boyfriend Kaspars Smiltiņš and did her best. It was all she could do.

1997.

The twins were two years old and, to put it lightly, a handful. So that was the year when their father decided he couldn't deal anymore--not with the fighting between Ieva and himself and the struggles of raising children. He left town, sending child support but not much else over the years.


2001.

Being an energetic Muggle child would have gotten Jānis in trouble enough, but then there were the strange things that kept happening. How in the world he was supposed to explain how, when he walked by the clock, it suddenly jumped forward to allow them to leave school earlier, he didn't know. He only figured it was somebody mixing up Jēkabs and himself again, as always seemed to happen, and didn't think too much of it.


2006.

That was the year when some people in weird robes showed up at the door, asking to speak to the family. Not only were they there to explain that the twins were wizards, but also to give them a choice: what school they would go to. After all, Latvia didn't have a wizarding school of its own. Durmstrang was a common choice, but there was one problem there--they didn't accept Muggleborns. And as neither of them spoke French, Beauxbatons was out. So it came down to Koldovstoretz or Hogwarts, and Ieva made the choice for them, sending them to Scotland.


2007.

Two Muggleborn boys making the Hufflepuff Quidditch team together after only a year of flying lessons? They weren't quite Potter-level prodigies, but it was clear that Jānis and Jēkabs were naturals at the sport. Maybe it was all their basketball practice as kids that made them such good Chasers. For Jānis, it was something that occupied his mind from the fact that he missed home, and he threw himself into the sport, practicing even when the weather was awful.


2014.

Graduating from Hogwarts as Hufflepuff’s star Chasers meant that Jēkabs and Jānis could have played in the British and Irish Quidditch League, but instead they went home to play for their country’s national team. They started off as reserves, but found themselves in a regular spot in the next couple years as they prepared to compete, hoping to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.


2018.

Quidditch World Cup qualifications. The Latvian team wasn't sure that they had a chance to make it very far, but they did their best--they must have, because the Chudley Cannons' coach approached Jānis and Jēkabs, trying to recruit an entirely new team for the next year. As they explained, the team hadn't won a League Cup since 1892, so they were trying to pull in talent from outside Britain. And since the twins had been educated in Britain, they would already be familiar with living there.


It was only when they arrived there to start practice for the season that everything went wrong. They had gone out to a party to celebrate their new jobs, and why would they have thought that a werewolf would be in attendance when the full moon would be coming that night? But it was a trap. Jānis had gone home with someone, expecting a night of fun, but as soon as the moon rose, he was attacked.



If losing his spot on the Cannons, as well as being barred from jobs altogether, wasn't bad enough, then someone else was kicked off the team as well--and into their apartment. Tuuli was going to be the mother of his niece or nephew, though she didn't seem particularly happy about that, not when Jānis was a werewolf. She became his enemy, making everything about being a werewolf even more difficult.

2019.

Three young adults, an infant and a cat in one tiny apartment is a combo just calling for trouble. Jānis and Tuuli fought almost every day for months on end, and finally, they all had enough. Jēkabs broke up with Tuuli, agreeing to share custody of Laura. Despite Tuuli trying to forbid Jānis to be anywhere near her daughter, Jēkabs didn't let her bully his twin brother any longer.

Things might have become a little calmer in the apartment, but the split didn't change the fact that Jānis was a werewolf and Jēkabs had no real way of helping him, no matter how many crazy plans he hatched. They weren't going to pretend to be each other so that Jānis could earn money, they weren't going to try and get him wolfsbane from the black market for a cheaper price. Jānis kept sinking even deeper and deeper into depression, until one day he packed up the few things he owned, took some cash from his brother's wallet and left the apartment without so much as a goodbye note.

roleplayer

RP Alias: Leo Sorrel
Pronouns: He/him
Hogwarts House: Slytherin
Other Characters: WOLFGANG KALLENBACH , RODRIK BELANGER , HUGO BELANGER ,LARS SUNDBY , AUGUSTS STRAUME , IVAN KAREV ,RICHARD LINWOOD ,PASCAL SNYDER ,@ludwigkallenbach ,ASKOLD PANIN
Roleplay Ivan threw his head back, laughing at Hope's comment. "Oh, it's even worse, the last time I was on a date, single cell organisms were all the rage." Of course, some part of him felt upset that he'd wasted half of his life waiting for a woman that didn't even love him, while he could have been happy all this time, but there was no point in crying over spilled milk, so Ivan went right ahead, taking the piss out of himself along with Hope.


"But no, really, it's been something like 22 years by now? Better late than never, and all this waiting has certainly paid off, if I consider how much fun I'm having right now." Those words were followed by a bright smile, before Ivan went off to ramble about TV's.



And then he was standing by the sink, Hope holding his hand while the wound closed up right in front of their eyes, the pain gone in an instant. "Thank you," he said, turning his palm around so he could take Hope's hand and lace their fingers together, "I've never been any good at healing magic so I'm glad I have you here."