Dion Aimon Fayette
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Full Character Name:
Dion Aimon Fayette
Character Birthday & Age:
May 23rd, 1991 / 17 / Taurus\Gemini Cusp
City & Country of Birth:
London
Pureblood, Halfblood or Muggleborn:
Halfblood
House & Year:
Hufflepuff, 7th
Wand:
11 in, Oak, Unicorn Hair
Physical Description
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Dion stands at 6’1 and weights roughly 150 pounds. He’s less muscular than his more athletic twin, but is still decently built. His complexion is fair, his neck long and his lips pouty, which works better on him than on Dax.
Both of the twins have heterochromia, meaning their eyes are two different colors – blue left and green right. They have sectoral heterochomia as well, and this is an easy way to tell the two apart – Dion has two small spots of blue on his green eye, and Dax has a large splotch of yellow-hazel on his blue eye.
Both brothers have identical lip piercings and tattoos – they have gold lip hoops and studs and celtic horse tattoos on their stomachs, just at the pants line.
Dion dresses ‘better’ than his brother, usually staying covered up because he’s “less of a manwhore.” He sticks to double layered t-shirts, jeans, sweatshirts or polo shirts. He’s good-looking like his twin but is much more conservative about showing this off.
Personality Description
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Dax Fayette prefers to show off his power in physical means; being loud, fighting, and exuding tons of energy. Dion, by contrast, has no less energy - but Dion instead focuses his energy into his studies, his work and his abilities. He's quieter than his twin, but behind his seemingly stoic appearance and large frame ticks a mind full of ambition, manipulative cunning and, at the heart of it, of a relentless drive to make the world better.
Dion is a bit of a control freak. Arrogant and over-confident, he always feels he's the best at everything he does, and will actively usurp the current leader to make sure a project, game or club is run 'properly' (i.e., his way). He is a supreme strategic thinker and while he values his friends and others as people, makes sure to be aware of them as tools, as well, trying to ensure they are all working at things they're best at. He's an organizer, an administrator; he works well with dreamers and bleeding hearts to make things actually happen.
He enjoys his studies and is also very good at budgeting his time, and is disciplined enough to keep a very rigorous, demanding schedule. To the surprise of many, he's a better fighter than Dax; while Dax has more sheer muscle, Dion took the time and dedication to get a black belt in Shao-lin Kung Fu (Southern Dragon) and finds the meditation and chi aspects of the style extremely relaxing and aiding in focus. This makes him more dangerous than Dax in a fight, and he also excels at wand dueling.
Dion, however, is driven to all these things by a crippling fear of failure and rejection. He has to be the best at everything he does; he cannot accept himself if he's not the top of everything, and if he's not feels it's because he failed to work hard enough. Most of his skills are borne not of natural talent, but plain old hard, back breaking work. While he deeply loves his brother and everyone around him, he subconsciously sets himself up to lead via example. His fear of rejection drives him the most in romantic interests; a serial crusher, he's often attracted to over twenty people at once but will never say anything to them for fear of them rejecting him. He claims this is due to romance being a distraction; this is a lie, he's simply not sure how to 'do' romance and since he can't practice it, he tries to avoid it. (Sex does not count as romance, however; he has several friends with benefits without issue)
All in all, Dion would have made a fine member of Slytherin. He sets out to win and is perfectly comfortable manipulating both friends and enemy to weaken them or to enhance their potential. He does have the hard working and undying loyalty of Hufflepuff, but only wound up wearing the Badger yellow due to his request to not be separated from his twin.
In summary, he's a clever bastard and usually good to have on your side. With a relentless drive and ambition and the brains to go all the way, he feels he's destined for great things and wants to make the world a better place.
History
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Born in London in 1991, Dion and his brother are the only sons of Roland-Jean-Louis Fayette and his wife, Anne-Thérèse. Their parents relocated to England when they realized Anne was pregnant, and opened a Divination Shop in Diagon Alley, which they make a living at to this day.
The family speaks French at home, leading to both brothers maintaining a noticeable French accent; however, any sexy ‘thickness’ of this accent is faked – both boys are perfectly capable of speaking clear unaccented English. Their normal voices have a slight but noticeable accent, however – namely the r’s coming out as rgr sounds and the dropping of H’s. (Listen or read to Fleur talk and tone it back a bit, basically)
Their mother, Anne, is a Seer; she found the other women in both the wizard and muggle world will pay plenty for her to use her ability accurately on their relationships. She’s somewhat regarded as a ‘sell-out’ in France for this, due to her pureblood heritage, but she doesn’t care and claims this has nothing to do with her impetus to relocate to England.
Her husband, Roland, is half-blood (muggle mother, half-blood father) and after the relocation took up a job working in Professional Quidditch. Over the years he rose through the ranks as a referee, and eventually quit to become the coach of the Falmouth Falcons (Curator permission needed for that, I think – will transfer him to the Department of MG&S if that isn’t alright). His enthusiasm for the sport is part of the reason both of his sons are keen on it, and also far more interested in adventure than in study.
The boys grew up in their flat over the shop, often travelling with their mother into muggle London and with their father when he got the chance to take the two to games. They received a typical wizard’s education, being taught to read and write in both French and English by their mother. Due to their upbringing they know quite a bit of Divination, and unlike his brother Dion is interested and very capable at the subject, making quite accurate predictions despite lacking his mother’s seer talent.
Their mother ran a tight ship, as she had a busy job and a husband that was often travelling. She emphasized discipline, which her sons where happy to ignore. Their father’s freer spirit was clearly genetic, as they usually did their best to slip out from under her nose and run off and have fun.
When the two were 9, Dax fell from the 5th story of their home, nearly dying from the impact with the cobblestones. He had to spend several months in the hospital, and while his brother was away Anne taught Dion divination to cheer the boy up. He and his mother are also closer than his brother and mother are, and out of the two he was a favorite (mostly for not blowing off her punishments and orders as readily as his brother did.)
The twins’s first year at Hogwarts was 2002, and they did well in school from the get go, mostly due to the threats of what their mother would do to them if they slacked off. They were both sorted into the same house, much to the relief of both. They’re quite happy to be in Hufflepuff, and Dion prefers the house, though Dax whines about not getting Gryffindor.
Dion passed his flying exams easily, to the annoyance of Dax, who is extremely fearful of heights. He felt bad for his brother and helped him study and cope enough to get his permission, but it still took until 5th year for Dax to get past the test.
Both of the boys have a great aptitude for Transfiguration, and it’s Dion’s best subject just like his brother, followed in Dion’s case by Charms. He’s considerably more studious than his twin and so does better on his subjects in general. He’s very keep on Herbology and Divination dispite his aptitude laying elsewhere.
The two of them began to study animagi magic in their 3rd year, having taken out of a bet with their previous Transfiguration professor for 1000 galleons ($10,000, in other words) that they failed to realize was in jest. They succeeded in their 6th year, both turning out to be horse animagi. They take the form of draft horses, specifically Drum Horses. Their pinto markings are identical, and they retain their heterochromic eyes. And yes, they did try to collect, but have failed. They’re both registered.
Dion was the driving force beyond them winning the bet, usually having to stop to catch Dax up to him. Their OWL scores suffered a bit due to the bet, however, as they took some time off of studying to win the money.
While Dax is firmly set on being an Auror after graduation, Dion doesn’t really know what he wants to do yet. He plans to follow his brother regardless, of course – he can’t imagine working in a different field – but is likely to become a field medic or some other type of Auror.
Dion Fayette: Auror Trainee