Hugh Bradley
OOC
| Game | Journal | Portrayed By |
|---|---|---|
| Six Degrees | hugh_manatee | Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Basic Stats
Full Name: Hugh Reynold Bradley
Nickname(s): None
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Date of Birth: August 15, 1979
Zodiac: Leo
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship Status: Single
Bloodline: Halfblood
House & Year: Ravenclaw 1997
Occupation: Voice actor: Ryan Sprecher on "Timeturner Tales"
Wand: 11 in, cedar, phoenix tail feather
Pet: None
Family
Father: Donald Michael Bradley (wizard; Gryffindor 1974; magical architect)
Mother: Catherine Emily Bradley (née Clare; witch; Hufflepuff 1974; day care provider)
Sister: Chelsea Rachel Bradley (witch; Hufflepuff 2001)
History
The History Of Hugh Bradley, According To Hugh Bradley: Yea, for the world was boring and devoid of anyone worth knowing anything about. God Himself was almost ready to throw in the towel and just scrap all of humanity and start over, maybe with a bit more pizazz to the human race, when he was born. Hugh Reynold Bradley, the firstborn son of Donald and Catherine Bradley. The light of his parents' eyes, the joy of their life, the light of the whole world. The little baby Hugh Bradley was just the ticket to spicing up the human race. He veritably saved humanity with the simple act of being born. Yes, Hugh Bradley was a credit to his race. It would only be a matter of time before everyone knew his name and either wanted to be him or wanted to do him. Or both, hey, he's flexible!
Hugh was about three years old when it was decided that he required a 24-hours-a-day playmate, someone who could fawn over him and follow him around all day every day, and look up to him with pure adoration, the way only a baby sister could. Hugh is absolutely convinced that his first act of magic was to make his parents give him a baby sister, Chelsea. Unfortunately, his magic just wasn't strong enough: try as he might to get Chelsea to adore him and follow him around everywhere and look up to him, instead she was just contrary and fought with him and did not want to be his constant playmate. In a fit of anger at eight years old, Hugh demanded that his parents bring Chelsea back to the store (where else would they have gotten her?) and bring him back a better sister.
His parents refused to oblige. For better or worse, Hugh was stuck with Chelsea as his little sister.
At least he only had a few more years of having to deal with her and her non-adoration. Less than a month after his eleventh birthday, he was packed off to Hogwarts, where he was absolutely positive that he would be the center of attention in no time. But Hogwarts only brought him more disappointments. First, he was told that first years could not have their own brooms (the unfairness of it all!) and on top of that, he didn't make it onto the Ravenclaw house quidditch team (and of course he was sorted into Ravenclaw, after all! No better place for him than among the best and brightest!) in his first year, just the measley reserves. Then, when he finally made it as chaser on the quidditch team in his second year, that Harry Potter kid showed up and made it onto the team as a first year and got to have his own broom. It wasn't fair. Sure, the kid had destroyed the big bad guy when he was only a toddler, but Hugh totally could have done that, too, if he'd been given the chance.
But Hugh Bradley could be the bigger man. At least Harry Potter wasn't in Ravenclaw. And, well. Sure, Harry Potter got a lot of attention. But he also nearly died a whole lot. Hugh Bradley only liked attention if it didn't nearly kill him. Because all the attention in the world is kind of useless if you're dead and can't bask in the glow of it. So he was happy to just get his own share of the limelight by playing quidditch and leave the rest of everything to Harry Potter.
Once Hugh finished Hogwarts, he decided to harness his God-Given Dramatic Talents by attending the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts. Acting was less likely to break his beautiful face than quidditch was, after all, and he was rather skilled at commanding all the attentions when he was up on stage.
As he was preparing to leave WADA, he managed to score a role on the wireless serial drama Timeturner Tales, a sudsy daily show that focuses on the inhabitants of the (fictional) wizarding town of Port Merwyn who frequently make use of timeturners to go back in time and change things. He joined the show as Ryan Sprecher, the fun-loving, racer-wannabe son of one of the show's four central families: the Sprechers, who breed and race Aethonons. Hugh loves his role, especially when people out "in the world" recognise his voice from the wireless. He also loves that his (relatively minor) role on the wireless show allows him the freedom to pursue work on stage, as well, where people are able to watch him, in addition to listening to his completely amazing voice.
Personality
Hugh came into the world screaming and squalling for attention, and he just never stopped demanding it. He'll be quick to tell you that he will actually and literally DIE OF DEATH if he doesn't get frequent attention and adoration. He's hell on his agent because of his habit of creating large public displays of attention-seeking shenanigans. Of course, Hugh is of the mind that there's no such thing as bad publicity, and as he has managed to bring in new listeners to the show and always fill the seats whenever he does stage work regardless of whether the chatter about him was positive or negative, he believes this only confirms that. And even if it didn't, he would still seek attention from everyone by doing anything. There's pretty much nothing he wouldn't do to get attention.
Even for an actor, Hugh has a tendency for being overly dramatic. The way he sees it, he provides a valuable public service by being so over-dramatic: he helps keep life interesting. Because once life is boring, you might as well be dead. Therefore, it is really in the world's best interest that Hugh continue being overly-dramatic, because that keeps the world interesting so people don't have to just sit down and die. Hugh might also be slightly full of himself and thinks that the world revolves around him (just please don't tell him it doesn't, he might cry over-dramatic tears of sadness and deep emotional pain, and then everyone in the world would drown in the pools of his tears).
When he's actually not being an overly-dramatic attention whore (it's rare, but it happens), Hugh is a nice guy. Well, he's a nice guy regardless, but he sometimes actually notices other people long enough to ask how their day is going and actually care about the answer. He's a cheerful bloke, and even has his down-to-earth moments, but those usually only come when he's well glutted on attention and can take a brief break from trying to get All The Attentions In The World. In general, he's easy-going, up until someone or something gets in the way of him getting the attention he (thinks he) deserves, in which case he's prone to throwing fits.