Post by giovannella on Dec 13, 2010 10:47:43 GMT 1
If you accept me ( ) I'll even take on a Male Cannon...Or a Female...Whichever you need May I have a chance at Frank? Or do I need to wait until you like or hate Drew?
What can be found in a name:
Andrew DeVerde
When the day I was born:
11th September 1959
(6th year)
The Angels screamed:
MOTHER: Giovannella DeVerde ne Cuciani. Italian.
FATHER: Thyodore DeVerde. English
SISTER: Amelia DeVerde. She is the same age as Andrew. If you know anyone who wants to play another character let me know. For now I will play her if that's ok?
And Hell shut its doors:
A kitten (he got as an early birthday present at the beginning of the year.
NAME: Hayron
GENDER: Male
AGE: 11 months
The kitten is right now a dirty white colour but it will be a gray/silver colour when its older.
While creatures retreated:
Pure
To depths unknown:
Ravenclaw
I hide from them:
To the left of the main doors to the school. If you follow the edge of the school you will eventually come to a tree that appears to be growing out of the castle wall itself. If you were to walk around this tree you would find a stone bench that and be transfigured into a bowl shape. Someone had taken the time to fill this piece of stone art work with pillows and a pile of Hogwarts library books. If one was able to also feel magical wards they would feel a climate control ward around the stone seat and a temperate control charm. The there was also a weak compulsion charm that told you to leave and not touch anything....so you would carry on your way to the black lake to meet your friends.
Be who they want to see:
Body build: Andrew (Drew) has always been a very attractive young man. He can be a bit on the obsessive side when it comes to being clean; his fingernails are always neatly clipped, his teeth are brushed until spotless and his breath is fresh. He bathes every day, and takes his time doing it, too.
He is tall but has a sense of delicacy about him that makes most people underestimate him. He is by no means weak, the weight that he has is purely muscle from his love of muggle style fighting and fencing. A hobby he shares with his twin sister. He has been referred to as effeminate on more than one occasion (and the few people stupid enough to say this with him in hearing range has found them selves having unfortunate trips to the hospital with a broken nose). He can be a bit intimidating at first, because although he's only average height for his age, Drew has good posture and impeccable grace so he tends to tower over other people, even if they're all the same height. When angry, he can be actually quite scary-looking.
His eyes: Like his sister; he inherited from his mother. They are a startling clear blue.
His gaze can be either powerfully intimidating or heart-meltingly scorching. Although he can disguise his emotions easily, it is his body language that will often give him away. He's good at dazzling people, and can turn on the charm on anyone, even if he'd like to strangle the person that he's using it on.
Scars:
- From his left hip and across his stomach to his navel Drew has a thin white scar from an abseiling accident during the summer after his second year.
- Like most potions students Drew had to start somewhere and for him it took a bit longer than usual to get the hang of cutting the ingredients quick enough to finish a potion on time... Throughout the years Drew has given himself a few scars on his hands from a misplaced knife where he sliced his fingers open instead of the ingredient he was aiming for. The biggest one being along the back of his thumb where he missed slicing open a fig and instead almost pealed the skin of his own thumb.
Tattoo's: No. His parents would kill him and so would is twin if he dared to get one without her...He was planning one for himself though. He just needed to find a way of escaping his family during the holidays to get it.
Piercings: Yes he has a nipple pierced. A dare off his twin when she got her belly button done. Their parents of course don't know.
As for what he wears obviously enough, on weekdays he wears the school uniform, but he usually will loosen his tie and roll up his sleeves a little, which gives him an intentionally casual look. Drew has never let 'fashion' stop him from wearing what he wants other then his school uniform Drew can be seen in clothing ranging from Muggle jeans and sweatshirt and a brown Swede jacket to completely wizarding attire such as skin hugging dragon skin pants with a silk green shirt and dragon hide boots.
But that leaves no one:
To discover that inside:
Personality:
Drew stalked where other might walk, choosing to stride the length of the hallways instead of leisurely stroll a habit you pick up after 5 years of avoiding being pranked or cornered by deatheather recruiters in the hallways.
Never one to pussyfoot around the subject, Drew prefers that everything be laid out in full upon the initial inspection, but things rarely EVER go the way he wanted them. So he's learned the finer art of weeding information and things out of people, who would otherwise be very tight-lipped about it. Even if it is not information he needs or wants to know, the idea of knowing someone has information about something he doesn't is too much for the boy to handle.
Snarky and Cynical are probably Drew's middle and maiden names, or they are close lovers because he employs them both on a constant base. It is impossible to tell when one ends and the other starts up, because Drew allows his words to flow as fluidly as the venom that laces them. Drew has no qualms about sharing his mind with anybody so stupid as to think he actually cared about their opinion.
He is brutally sarcastic to anyone and everyone, he has a witty tongue and an opinion for everything which he has no problem with telling others weather they would agree or not.
He had been labelled a 'twit' until people realised he was related to Amelia DeVerde...the girl every guy noticed but dared not to get to close to in case Drew found out.
If there was one person in the whole school who could match Drew in a verbal duel and have the boy eating his own words it was Amelia...though she had her share of losses. It was clear Drew cared very much about his sister even if he seemed not to at times if some of the things he sometimes said to her were anything to go by but Amelia knew better and she gave as good as she got.
Normally dark and suspicious, Drew is a relatively quite but out going boy, he has a close group of friends but tends to remain quiet, simply enjoying their company with the occasional input on the topics of conversation.
As you may have figured, Drew is not without emotion no matter how cold hearted he may seem to other people.
It takes a certain amount of persuasion, or just the right words to bring about his better side, a side which he rarely allows to show out of the porcelain facade he has donned since his arrival at Hogwarts. Fruit juice is a good way to get into Drew's good side for example.
This soulless being:
- Fruit juice! Any kind as long as its not banana
- He likes being bare foot. If he could get away with it Drew would never wear shoes or socks and walk everywhere bare foot.
- His sister and parents.
- Dancing and Fencing.
- Reading
Is just as lost:
- Flying
- Ice-cream. He finds it disgusting
- The Dark Lords ideals and by default all his deatheaters
- People in crowds. Or him being in a crowd. He doesn't like the idea of being trapped in a group of people....He is slightly claustrophobic.
- Herbology. He in a word 'sucks' at it. Not for lack of trying but he has never been able to keep a plant alive longer than two days. It is well known in the greenhouses that any plant drew works on will be dead in the next 72 hours...its something to do with his rough handling and accidental magic apparently but its still an annoyance for the boy who's sister and parents have 'green fingers'
As everyone else:
- Potions, transfiguration and setting wards. These are things Drew excels at without much practice.
- He is open-minded.
- He his sister. She may hate how he acts sometimes but she will always back him up even when he is wrong and this makes Drew feel tall and untouchable.
- He his reserved nature around people he doesn't know means he is mostly an 'under the radar' student so he gets away with more things that he knows he should. His book worm exterior is a strength.
- He is good at predicting others reactions (even if most of the time he doesn't care) and this has kept him out of pointless fights since he was old enough to know when one of his comments would lead to the person he was talking to to attempt physical or magical retribution.
In a world that knows only hate:
- His family mean the world to him and he would literally do ANYTHING to keep them safe. Even that.
- Knowledge. His need to know everything.
'knowledge is power, and power corrupts'; who am I to say this doesn't apply to Drew.
Further more he has been known to agree to help someone cheat on their OWLS for the chance to read a rare potions book...Whats to say he won't agree to something worse for the chance to read a different rare book?
- He abhors heights. HATES THEM. He'd sell his soul to keep his feet on the floor if he thought it would help. Unfortunately he doesn't believe it would...or fortunately.
- His need to inform everyone of his opinions even to the point of walking between to duelers to point out that he thought their fighting was stupid. He has been injured a couple of times for doing this but he always gave as good as he got and with his sister never far behind shaking her head and grumbling under her breath about 'idiotic boys'
- Mornings. Drew is what you could call a 'Night Owl' he has trouble falling asleep at night and even more trouble waking up in the mornings.
And causes pain for the soulless like me:
- Secret 1: He sometimes studies 'dark arts' and has cast more of them spells than he could count on his fingers and toes combined.
- Secret 2: When he was 12 (the same summer he got the scar from abseiling) he rubbed poison ivy over his fathers bedding on a camping trip because he was angry the man wouldn't let him go shopping for his school things before they came here. Not even Amelia knows this.
They left me to die:
Italian PUREBLOOD Family
MOTHER: Giovannella DeVerde (Cuciani)
- 42 years
- Botany and Potions Mistress
- Co-owner of the main greenhouse company that grows rare and valuable potions ingredients.
GRANDMOTHER: Onella Cuciani
- 63 years
- Retired Medi-Witch (Nurse level not Doctor)
GRANDFATHER: Paulo Cuciani
- 63 years
- Head of the Italian Unspeakables
AUNTS: Cristina Jakobs (Cuciani)
- 40 years
- Owns and runs a magical and muggle book store chain in America (where she met her husband Donnell Jakobs)
UNCLES: Donnell Jakobs (American Wizard)
-42 years
- Is a Professor if Ancient Runes and has a Master in Warding
COUSINS: Frederico Jakobs (15)
- 15 years
- Is in an American wizarding school. The same on his dad teaches at.
AND George Jakobs (7)
- 7 years
- He 'helps' his mother in her stores
- He wants to be cowboy when he is older!
On a bed of roses:
FATHER: Thyodore DeVerde
- 43 years
- Is a Botany Master and has a Master in teaching History of Magic.
- Co-owns the same business as his wife...they own it together :-)
GRANDMOTHER: Mary DeVerde (Simmons)
- 60 years
- Works from home as a seamstress for Madame Malkin.
- She used to model womens clothing in her younger years.
GRANDFATHER: Edward DeVerde
- 63 years
- He has pubs in the muggle world. That he helps run along with his muggle partner 'Shaun Downing'
AUNTS: None
UNCLES: Aeron DeVerde
- 37 years
- Works for Gringotts as a warder and curse breaker
- Aeron is Drew most loved Uncle...the young boy has been on a couple of jobs with his uncle and he loved it.
COUSINS: David Fitzpatrick...
- 10 years
- Unofficial son of David. He lives with the muggle Mother.
- He HAS magic.
Blood seeping through:
The DeVerde family are Pagans. And so is Drew and Amelia.
The satin sheets of fame:
Rich.
But until the grandparents die the twins won't inherit.
For now they live in a family manor given to Thyodore by his father on the day of his marriage. The two parents work as potion ingredient suppliers.
What a bitter story of love:
History - Born in a time of peace Andrew (Drew) and Amelia had many opportunities as children...if they wanted to visit the muggle world their parents took them? If they wanted to trying muggle camping they only had to ask and they could. Having parents that mostly worked in their own back garden meant the twins had the opportunity to spend more time with the two, something that is not easy for other full time workers and parents. But even one days where their parents were delivering potion ingredients the two children has their grandparents full attention.
A plus point of having parents working in providing potions ingredients was the world trips. Sometimes the family traveled to such obscure places as the Arabian dessert, on the second full moon of the new year to pick rare flowers or hunt for certain animal eggs. it was fun for two 7year old's to be able to help and then spend the night sleeping under the stars listening to stories from their mother about gods and goddesses.
Growing up in this environment to two twins quickly became interested in other cultures. At this moment in time Drew was focus more on knowledge then clothing but he had his sister to help there and he often found men's chinese, japanese and even indian tops and kimonos...even if he hardly wore them he was happy to have them.
Nickname: Ginger
How You Found Us: Google.
Contact Via: Pm here or msn me on sinelaimon@hotmail.co.uk
How You Found Us: Google.
Contact Via: Pm here or msn me on sinelaimon@hotmail.co.uk
What can be found in a name:
Andrew DeVerde
When the day I was born:
11th September 1959
(6th year)
The Angels screamed:
MOTHER: Giovannella DeVerde ne Cuciani. Italian.
FATHER: Thyodore DeVerde. English
SISTER: Amelia DeVerde. She is the same age as Andrew. If you know anyone who wants to play another character let me know. For now I will play her if that's ok?
And Hell shut its doors:
A kitten (he got as an early birthday present at the beginning of the year.
NAME: Hayron
GENDER: Male
AGE: 11 months
The kitten is right now a dirty white colour but it will be a gray/silver colour when its older.
While creatures retreated:
Pure
To depths unknown:
Ravenclaw
I hide from them:
To the left of the main doors to the school. If you follow the edge of the school you will eventually come to a tree that appears to be growing out of the castle wall itself. If you were to walk around this tree you would find a stone bench that and be transfigured into a bowl shape. Someone had taken the time to fill this piece of stone art work with pillows and a pile of Hogwarts library books. If one was able to also feel magical wards they would feel a climate control ward around the stone seat and a temperate control charm. The there was also a weak compulsion charm that told you to leave and not touch anything....so you would carry on your way to the black lake to meet your friends.
Be who they want to see:
Body build: Andrew (Drew) has always been a very attractive young man. He can be a bit on the obsessive side when it comes to being clean; his fingernails are always neatly clipped, his teeth are brushed until spotless and his breath is fresh. He bathes every day, and takes his time doing it, too.
He is tall but has a sense of delicacy about him that makes most people underestimate him. He is by no means weak, the weight that he has is purely muscle from his love of muggle style fighting and fencing. A hobby he shares with his twin sister. He has been referred to as effeminate on more than one occasion (and the few people stupid enough to say this with him in hearing range has found them selves having unfortunate trips to the hospital with a broken nose). He can be a bit intimidating at first, because although he's only average height for his age, Drew has good posture and impeccable grace so he tends to tower over other people, even if they're all the same height. When angry, he can be actually quite scary-looking.
His eyes: Like his sister; he inherited from his mother. They are a startling clear blue.
His gaze can be either powerfully intimidating or heart-meltingly scorching. Although he can disguise his emotions easily, it is his body language that will often give him away. He's good at dazzling people, and can turn on the charm on anyone, even if he'd like to strangle the person that he's using it on.
Scars:
- From his left hip and across his stomach to his navel Drew has a thin white scar from an abseiling accident during the summer after his second year.
- Like most potions students Drew had to start somewhere and for him it took a bit longer than usual to get the hang of cutting the ingredients quick enough to finish a potion on time... Throughout the years Drew has given himself a few scars on his hands from a misplaced knife where he sliced his fingers open instead of the ingredient he was aiming for. The biggest one being along the back of his thumb where he missed slicing open a fig and instead almost pealed the skin of his own thumb.
Tattoo's: No. His parents would kill him and so would is twin if he dared to get one without her...He was planning one for himself though. He just needed to find a way of escaping his family during the holidays to get it.
Piercings: Yes he has a nipple pierced. A dare off his twin when she got her belly button done. Their parents of course don't know.
As for what he wears obviously enough, on weekdays he wears the school uniform, but he usually will loosen his tie and roll up his sleeves a little, which gives him an intentionally casual look. Drew has never let 'fashion' stop him from wearing what he wants other then his school uniform Drew can be seen in clothing ranging from Muggle jeans and sweatshirt and a brown Swede jacket to completely wizarding attire such as skin hugging dragon skin pants with a silk green shirt and dragon hide boots.
But that leaves no one:
To discover that inside:
Personality:
Drew stalked where other might walk, choosing to stride the length of the hallways instead of leisurely stroll a habit you pick up after 5 years of avoiding being pranked or cornered by deatheather recruiters in the hallways.
Never one to pussyfoot around the subject, Drew prefers that everything be laid out in full upon the initial inspection, but things rarely EVER go the way he wanted them. So he's learned the finer art of weeding information and things out of people, who would otherwise be very tight-lipped about it. Even if it is not information he needs or wants to know, the idea of knowing someone has information about something he doesn't is too much for the boy to handle.
Snarky and Cynical are probably Drew's middle and maiden names, or they are close lovers because he employs them both on a constant base. It is impossible to tell when one ends and the other starts up, because Drew allows his words to flow as fluidly as the venom that laces them. Drew has no qualms about sharing his mind with anybody so stupid as to think he actually cared about their opinion.
He is brutally sarcastic to anyone and everyone, he has a witty tongue and an opinion for everything which he has no problem with telling others weather they would agree or not.
He had been labelled a 'twit' until people realised he was related to Amelia DeVerde...the girl every guy noticed but dared not to get to close to in case Drew found out.
If there was one person in the whole school who could match Drew in a verbal duel and have the boy eating his own words it was Amelia...though she had her share of losses. It was clear Drew cared very much about his sister even if he seemed not to at times if some of the things he sometimes said to her were anything to go by but Amelia knew better and she gave as good as she got.
Normally dark and suspicious, Drew is a relatively quite but out going boy, he has a close group of friends but tends to remain quiet, simply enjoying their company with the occasional input on the topics of conversation.
As you may have figured, Drew is not without emotion no matter how cold hearted he may seem to other people.
It takes a certain amount of persuasion, or just the right words to bring about his better side, a side which he rarely allows to show out of the porcelain facade he has donned since his arrival at Hogwarts. Fruit juice is a good way to get into Drew's good side for example.
This soulless being:
- Fruit juice! Any kind as long as its not banana
- He likes being bare foot. If he could get away with it Drew would never wear shoes or socks and walk everywhere bare foot.
- His sister and parents.
- Dancing and Fencing.
- Reading
Is just as lost:
- Flying
- Ice-cream. He finds it disgusting
- The Dark Lords ideals and by default all his deatheaters
- People in crowds. Or him being in a crowd. He doesn't like the idea of being trapped in a group of people....He is slightly claustrophobic.
- Herbology. He in a word 'sucks' at it. Not for lack of trying but he has never been able to keep a plant alive longer than two days. It is well known in the greenhouses that any plant drew works on will be dead in the next 72 hours...its something to do with his rough handling and accidental magic apparently but its still an annoyance for the boy who's sister and parents have 'green fingers'
As everyone else:
- Potions, transfiguration and setting wards. These are things Drew excels at without much practice.
- He is open-minded.
- He his sister. She may hate how he acts sometimes but she will always back him up even when he is wrong and this makes Drew feel tall and untouchable.
- He his reserved nature around people he doesn't know means he is mostly an 'under the radar' student so he gets away with more things that he knows he should. His book worm exterior is a strength.
- He is good at predicting others reactions (even if most of the time he doesn't care) and this has kept him out of pointless fights since he was old enough to know when one of his comments would lead to the person he was talking to to attempt physical or magical retribution.
In a world that knows only hate:
- His family mean the world to him and he would literally do ANYTHING to keep them safe. Even that.
- Knowledge. His need to know everything.
'knowledge is power, and power corrupts'; who am I to say this doesn't apply to Drew.
Further more he has been known to agree to help someone cheat on their OWLS for the chance to read a rare potions book...Whats to say he won't agree to something worse for the chance to read a different rare book?
- He abhors heights. HATES THEM. He'd sell his soul to keep his feet on the floor if he thought it would help. Unfortunately he doesn't believe it would...or fortunately.
- His need to inform everyone of his opinions even to the point of walking between to duelers to point out that he thought their fighting was stupid. He has been injured a couple of times for doing this but he always gave as good as he got and with his sister never far behind shaking her head and grumbling under her breath about 'idiotic boys'
- Mornings. Drew is what you could call a 'Night Owl' he has trouble falling asleep at night and even more trouble waking up in the mornings.
And causes pain for the soulless like me:
- Secret 1: He sometimes studies 'dark arts' and has cast more of them spells than he could count on his fingers and toes combined.
- Secret 2: When he was 12 (the same summer he got the scar from abseiling) he rubbed poison ivy over his fathers bedding on a camping trip because he was angry the man wouldn't let him go shopping for his school things before they came here. Not even Amelia knows this.
They left me to die:
Italian PUREBLOOD Family
MOTHER: Giovannella DeVerde (Cuciani)
- 42 years
- Botany and Potions Mistress
- Co-owner of the main greenhouse company that grows rare and valuable potions ingredients.
GRANDMOTHER: Onella Cuciani
- 63 years
- Retired Medi-Witch (Nurse level not Doctor)
GRANDFATHER: Paulo Cuciani
- 63 years
- Head of the Italian Unspeakables
AUNTS: Cristina Jakobs (Cuciani)
- 40 years
- Owns and runs a magical and muggle book store chain in America (where she met her husband Donnell Jakobs)
UNCLES: Donnell Jakobs (American Wizard)
-42 years
- Is a Professor if Ancient Runes and has a Master in Warding
COUSINS: Frederico Jakobs (15)
- 15 years
- Is in an American wizarding school. The same on his dad teaches at.
AND George Jakobs (7)
- 7 years
- He 'helps' his mother in her stores
- He wants to be cowboy when he is older!
On a bed of roses:
FATHER: Thyodore DeVerde
- 43 years
- Is a Botany Master and has a Master in teaching History of Magic.
- Co-owns the same business as his wife...they own it together :-)
GRANDMOTHER: Mary DeVerde (Simmons)
- 60 years
- Works from home as a seamstress for Madame Malkin.
- She used to model womens clothing in her younger years.
GRANDFATHER: Edward DeVerde
- 63 years
- He has pubs in the muggle world. That he helps run along with his muggle partner 'Shaun Downing'
AUNTS: None
UNCLES: Aeron DeVerde
- 37 years
- Works for Gringotts as a warder and curse breaker
- Aeron is Drew most loved Uncle...the young boy has been on a couple of jobs with his uncle and he loved it.
COUSINS: David Fitzpatrick...
- 10 years
- Unofficial son of David. He lives with the muggle Mother.
- He HAS magic.
Blood seeping through:
The DeVerde family are Pagans. And so is Drew and Amelia.
The satin sheets of fame:
Rich.
But until the grandparents die the twins won't inherit.
For now they live in a family manor given to Thyodore by his father on the day of his marriage. The two parents work as potion ingredient suppliers.
What a bitter story of love:
History - Born in a time of peace Andrew (Drew) and Amelia had many opportunities as children...if they wanted to visit the muggle world their parents took them? If they wanted to trying muggle camping they only had to ask and they could. Having parents that mostly worked in their own back garden meant the twins had the opportunity to spend more time with the two, something that is not easy for other full time workers and parents. But even one days where their parents were delivering potion ingredients the two children has their grandparents full attention.
A plus point of having parents working in providing potions ingredients was the world trips. Sometimes the family traveled to such obscure places as the Arabian dessert, on the second full moon of the new year to pick rare flowers or hunt for certain animal eggs. it was fun for two 7year old's to be able to help and then spend the night sleeping under the stars listening to stories from their mother about gods and goddesses.
Growing up in this environment to two twins quickly became interested in other cultures. At this moment in time Drew was focus more on knowledge then clothing but he had his sister to help there and he often found men's chinese, japanese and even indian tops and kimonos...even if he hardly wore them he was happy to have them.
It was snowing again. Nothing new or surprising really since it was December and he was in Scotland but it was worth mentioning. Drew sat snuggled into his transfigured stone 'dish' the cold stone had been covered in soft pillows provided by his sister, so he was warm at least. The thick woolen blanket he had wrapped around his legs and pulled up to his chin helped to protect him from the harsh wind. He had been here since 6am and seeing as it was now 1pm he would hazard a guess to him having missed breakfast and maybe lunch but that was fine. He was too cold to feel the hunger, too cold to care for anything but the view before him. It was hypnotic the way the snow fell over the frozen lake, being blow by the wind in swirls of flakes. It was comforting, imagining himself sitting in the middle of the snow storm, no one else around...he did wish someone was there but they had insisted on going to a different school, that didn't stop them from exchanging letter via owl though. Glancing down at the letter he had clenched inhis frozen hands, grinning to himself as he read over the spidery scrip once again; it detailed another 'potion mishap.' He had read it so many times now the words where practically imprinted on his eyes.
"Testing out a theory indeed" He chuckled to himself as he tucked before mentioned letter under his thick blanket, he had never been so grateful for his sister forward thinking before now. The wind was cruel this morning and had only gotten worse the longer he sat there as though it wanted him to go, like mother nature knew something he didn't and wanted him to leave before whatever it was arrived.
Well if there was one thing about Drew that he hated it was his stubbornness to the point of stupidity and that is why he had sat here and would until this 'thing' happened/arrived "Drew DeVerde will not be pushed about by his own mother never mind the mother of all things " He muttered though blue tinged lips. Pulling out his wand he waved it at the ward he knew to be there. It would change the climate inside the ward to something a bit warmer...he didn't know why he didn't think of it before.
"Testing out a theory indeed" He chuckled to himself as he tucked before mentioned letter under his thick blanket, he had never been so grateful for his sister forward thinking before now. The wind was cruel this morning and had only gotten worse the longer he sat there as though it wanted him to go, like mother nature knew something he didn't and wanted him to leave before whatever it was arrived.
Well if there was one thing about Drew that he hated it was his stubbornness to the point of stupidity and that is why he had sat here and would until this 'thing' happened/arrived "Drew DeVerde will not be pushed about by his own mother never mind the mother of all things " He muttered though blue tinged lips. Pulling out his wand he waved it at the ward he knew to be there. It would change the climate inside the ward to something a bit warmer...he didn't know why he didn't think of it before.