AU-YONG, dante tian-ning

[DANTE TIAN-NING AU-YONG]

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I NEED ANOTHER STORY,

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something to get off my chest
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MY LIFE GETS KINDA BORING,

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need something that i can confess
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[/B] Dante Tian-Ning Au-Yong

NICKNAMES: Dan, Danny, Tay (best friends only)

AGE: Seventeen

D.O.B.: September 27

WAND TYPE: Pine wood, unicorn tail hair, 10 1/2"

HOUSE: Ravenclaw; Slytherin; Hufflepuff; Gryffindor

SPECIAL ABILITIES: N/A

CANNON OR ORIGINAL: Original

PLAY-BY: Evan Yo

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’TIL ALL MY SLEEVES ARE STAINED RED,

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from all the truth that i've said
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[/B] Black

EYE COLOUR: Brown-black

HEIGHT: 5'10"

WEIGHT: 130lb

PERSONAL STYLE: In terms of apparel, Dante is often found in Ravenclaw robes. Even when the opportunity for other clothing is available, except for weekends, it is often that he will still be in his robes from earlier in the day. Often, Dante is distracted by other more interesting things. He has no particular grudge against the robes. They’re perfectly respectable, and as such, Dante finds little reason for the rush to change to his normal clothing. However, on the few times that Dante is seen in clothing that borders along the margin of casual and semi-formal. In terms of clothing, Dante likes his stuff to be fairly neat and nice, at the very least.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: First thought in anybody’s mind upon first seeing Dante is the fact that he’s Asian. Due to the rather low Asian population in the United Kingdom, Dante sticks out just like a sore thumb. From his jet black hair and narrow eyes to his rather small build, everything about him just screams his Chinese heritage. Although he is not particularly short, Dante is not particularly tall either standing at 5’10”, especially in comparison to other guys his age. With his parents’ insistence that Dante be supergenius-boy, he becomes an even bigger target to his dismay.

His jet black hair is almost always in dire need of cutting as it often hangs straight and loose in front of his eyes and ears. But Dante always finds that he forgets to get it cut, no matter how much it is in need with other things taking precedence over his appearance. It is only he starts swatting at his hair that he starts to get worried. His eyes bear the same brown-black shade as many others of his race, having a wide variety of lights to them. They glitter and dance brightly in his happiness with silent laughter, and they can be dull and downcast, full of disappointment in other situations.

His vague reputation of being a bit of a flirt can be mostly blamed on his smile. A huge transformation takes place once Dante smiles. With his bright smile, it gives him a whole different air in comparison to the times when he doesn’t. For one, it lights up his whole face including his eyes, making them dance with laughter. They show the hints of dimples at the edge of his mouth, making him that much more attractive and adorable. Having a bit of a baby-face, Dante is more cute than handsome. In fact, the chances of him growing out of the baby-face anytime soon are slim to none.

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THOUGHT YOU SAW WINK, NO,

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i've been on the brink, so
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- Studying
- Peace and quiet
- Music: listening, playing and writing (he loves his violin )
- Library
- Puzzles
- Ancient Runes
- Transfiguration
- Academic excellence
- Rules and order
- Challenges
- Spicy food
- Being in control
- Friendships
- Intelligence
- Understanding things
- Theory

CHARACTER DISLIKES:
- Mistakes (more with himself than others)
- Wasted/free time
- His kleptomania
- Fighting and arguments
- Excessive physical contacts (like hugs)
- Dirt and grime
- Care of Magical Creatures
- Non-purebloods (super secret and only slightly)
- Disapproval
- False and unsubstantiated accusations
- Violence and vulgarity (he very rarely swears... and he will scold others who do)
- Being called upon to answer a question in class
- Medication
- Enemies/Conflict/Discord

GOALS:
- To make his parents proud

BOGGART: (greatest fear)
- Ladybugs crawling up his neck (where he can't see it coming, but can feel it)
- A situation where his kleptomania and uncontrollable anger taking over him, and there would be nothing that he could do about it

PATRONUS: Siberian Crane
Although it may be difficult to believe, it took a ridiculously long time for both his parents to show up at his violin competitions. From when he started playing in them to present time, this has only happened once. It finally happened when he was ten years old. Since he had been practicing for that moment since he was about three years old, he had been more than ready to finally show his parents that he deserved to his first place awards in those competitions. The moment they praised him praised him for his talent and skill together was exactly what he yearned for years.

DEMENTOR:
When he was about six years old, he and his sister got into a huge war where they annoyed each other incessantly. But his sister took it to another level when Charmian broke his violin, which was his most precious possession. It was the single most traumatizing moment of his life.

AMEROITA:
- Green tea
- Old books and parchment
- Ink
- Fresh linens

BASIC PERSONALITY: (10 WORDS, MAXIMUM, THAT DESCRIBE YOUR CHARACTER. 10.)
mild. diplomatic. purist. controlled. peaceable. artistic. manipulable. ambitious. intellectual. sociable.

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AMAZING HOW WE GOT THIS FAR ,

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it's like we're chasing all those stars
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[/B] Pureblood

FATHER: Jun-Li Au-Yong, 48

MOTHER: Rong-Qiu Au-Yong (nee Zhang), 43

BROTHER(S): N/A

SISTER(S): Charmian Au-Yong, 13

OTHER:
Cuan Au-Yong, aunt
Jie Au-Yong, uncle
Chun Au-Yong, 17, cousin
Shui Au-Yong, 19, cousin
Genji Au-Yong, 23, cousin

HOMETOWN: Oxford, England

CURRENT RESIDENCE: Oxford/Hogwarts

BIOGRAPHY: Many people would be surprised to find out that Dante Au-Yong was actually born on English soil. On September 27, Dante Au-Yong was born and officially named thus in the United Kingdom. However, his family made frequent visits back to China and Hong Kong simply because it was his parents’ homeland and many of their childhood friends and relatives still resided there. It wasn’t until he was about 18 months old when his family made their first trip back to China that his parents realized that they had failed to give their first son a Chinese name, something that their parents definitely wouldn’t overlook. So a week before their trip back, Dante was given his Chinese name: Tian-ning.

There’s the question of exactly how his parents ended up in England to begin with. Dante’s mother had been an international student for University of Oxford where she made plenty of English friends who taught her the British ways. Despite there being such a huge difference in culture, his mother enjoyed the whole experience immensely. In fact, she loved it so much that she went back to Oxford for her Masters degree in Linguistics. It was there where she met Dante’s father who had been in the city for business reasons. It was a typical case of ‘OH MY GOD YOU’RE REPULSIVE, GET AWAY FROM ME’, or at least from his mother’s side while his father instantly fell in love with her. After plenty of persuasion, his father managed to get his mother to agree to let her buy a cuppa. That alone took months. It took another couple of months for her to agree to go out on an actual date with him. It was a few years after that that he proposed to her for the first time… and it took another few years before she finally accepted.

In the end, it was a good match. Unfortunately, like everything else in this relationship, only one set of parents were content with the match. His father’s family was well-known for being one of the snobbiest families in the Wizarding World. While his mother’s family was pureblooded, they were hardly the snobs the Au-Yongs were. As such, her family disapproved greatly of the match. It was largely because of the fact that Oxford’s Masters for Arts required several years to complete that the couple ended up residing in England. It was, by far, the smartest decision. This situation allowed the couple to live in peace without one side constantly chattering about having a cuppa with Dante’s mother, and the other side nagging his mother to annul the marriage because it wasn’t too late yet--until it did become too late. At that point, his mother’s family nagged about getting a divorce. They’re still looking for any reason for the divorce to occur even now.

Despite knowing that the English culture was far more easygoing than that of Chinese culture, especially in terms of academics, his mother was a firm believer that she would never have gotten where she was if she didn’t do as much work as she did in her youth. As such, Dante was forced through a similar upbringing where large portions of his time were taken up by studying various subjects. There was very little time for play, and Dante became used to the idea of having absolutely for anything but studying. Even as a child, he was a boy of little words, perhaps cultivated by his childhood that consisted almost entirely of constant studying. Most of his days consisted of going to school and then studying until dark, eating proceeded by sleep. It was a bit on the harsh side, but it was the norm for many hardcore Chinese families back in China.

Like many others of Chinese descent, his parents also believed that music enriches your brain—not to mention is might impressive when family and friends are over and you have a musically-talented child to play for them. As a result, Dante started on the violin when he was only a little tyke. To be exact, he was three years old when he picked up his first—very small—violin. In fact, he still has that tiny violin in his room somewhere. Now twelve years later, Dante has become quite accomplished at it. In fact, he’s so accomplished at it that he has won multiple competitions with his playing. Realizing that Dante had a talent in music, his parents had wanted to enhance that talent but signing him up for piano lessons as well when he was about seven years old.

Many arguments ensued over the schooling of their children in terms of their pureblood. His father was in favour of at least teaching their children some history of their respective families while his mother was not so keen on the idea. As it was wont to do in their relationship, his mother was slowly worn down to reluctantly agreeing to the proposition so their children were educated fairly extensively on the history of both sides of the family and the pureblood that was preserved in their blood. After having been so thoroughly educated on his family’s history and past, Dante did absorb it; at least a bit more than his mother would have liked. To a very small degree, he is a pureblood elitist. How could he not after hearing all the accomplishments of his family. He never outwardly shows his belief of Muggle and Muggleborn inferiority, but it’s subtly in his actions and words.

When he was about two years old, his mother had another child. Only this time, it was a girl by the name Charmian. To his parents’ dismay, she didn’t display the unbending obedience as Dante. She essentially refused to study constantly. His parents did do their very best to tame her, but it just was not possible. So, they found ways around that. One of the most notable traits of Charmian is her utter inability to stay still. In hopes that physical activity would wear her out at the end of the day, she was signed up for various sports. Naturally, they tried the more feminine sports first; only for Charmian to ruthlessly shoot them down, proclaiming that she hated it just after a day. It wasn’t until they finally resigned to Quidditch that she was finally happy. However, her parents used that as a device to get her to study at least a bit every day. While she might never be a Dante, Charmian would indeed continue the Au-Yong family’s tradition of excellence, just to a lesser extent, and his parents just learned to deal with that.

As a child, he always found his younger sister to be annoying. She was a bright young child, vivacious and full of life, quite unlike Dante. To say that she has interrupted more than one of his study sessions would be an understatement. Charmian would disrupt at least one of his study sessions a week. For a while, Dante had a plan how to avoid it all. That is until she figured out his plans and started to interrupt him more at random so that he couldn’t avoid them even if he wanted to. The peak of his dislike for his sister was in that brief time period. It was around then that Dante had the first big explosion of anger in his entire life. Never before has such a display of temper emitted from Dante. It also happened to be the first time that his magic had spun out of control. It was so shocking and terrifying that Charmian never pushed her brother that far again. She learned from then all the signs of Dante’s ensuing anger and backed off before that could happen again.

When Dante was about ten years old, he began to develop an irrepressible urge to steal. The things he stole were never particularly valuable. But the fact that he only stole non-valuable things didn’t make the matter any less concerning. Understandably worried, Dante’s parents took him to a therapist to fix matters. It took a couple of therapists before there was one that would actually do something about his condition, which was exactly what his parents wanted. So Dante was given medication and that was the end of that for his parents. Unfortunately, Dante didn’t like the effect that the medication. It made him feel weird. So he discontinued use of the medication without his parents’ knowledge. To this day, Dante doesn’t take the medication his parents send to him.

It was not at all surprising when Dante got his letter of acceptance from Hogwarts when he turned eleven years old. With both sides of the family locked in a love affair with its pureblooded status along with his spectacular display of temper with magic, it was unsurprising that Dante would have magic running through his veins. Nothing could explain just how happy his dad was to find out that Dante had been sorted into Ravenclaw.

For Dante, the transition from home to school was ridiculously difficult. Never having had the opportunity, he didn’t understand the concept of free time. For about a week, Dante asked all his teachers about the extra homework that was customary for him back home. Most of the professors just looked at him strangely and told him just to do the assigned work. If it hadn’t been the few friends who he had made, Dante wasn’t sure how else he would have made it through his first week at Hogwarts.

The environment was so vastly different from what he was used to, which was exactly why Dante continued on his familiar study time to the bewilderment of others. His friends who were frustrated with this attitude tried their best to get Dante to do other stuff than study (because for one, it’s boring to hang out with someone who’s always studying). To pacify them, Dante has slowly acclimated to their requests and saves studying for other times like when his friends can’t see. His friends are aware that Dante does more studying than he admits to, but they simply don’t know when he devotes this time to pure studying. Now in his fifth year at Hogwarts, Dante has all but perfected managing his time between his friends and studying, or at least he seems to think so.

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AND EVERY DAY I SEE THE NEWS,

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all the problems that we could solve
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[/B] Kiiraena

RP EXPERIENCE: ~8 years

HOW YOU FOUND US: Proboards ad

OTHER CHARACTERS: Josceline Nott

RP SAMPLE:

While others may have found the bitter cold too much to handle, Dominique rather enjoyed it. It bit at her cheeks, bringing colour to her cheeks while her fingers slowly became numb in the cold. There was beauty to be found that snow and ice brought to the landscape; she couldn't help but admire it. Hence the reason for her walk. While the lake was beautiful in all is icy and snowy glory, it was also bone-chillingly cold outside. Dominique was hoping that the cold would keep most people inside thus leaving her alone to ponder her thoughts. In fact her hopes were based on the Gryffindor common room close to reaching maximum occupancy, thus giving it a startlingly strong resemblance to family reunions: cramped and just too much to take at one time. It wasn't until she had broken free from the crowded space and out in the corridors that she had started to feel a bit better. From there, she had eventually ventured out into the cold by the lake where she was now.

For someone who grew up around cousins who thought it was hysterical when one emerged from the shower with green hair or when one started sputtering out distasteful bird feathers, Dominique was surprisingly unreceptive to such antics. If anything, she disliked them greatly and hoped that she may nevcr see her red-blonde locks succumb to that horror of a colour that was bright neon green. In fact, it made her feel a bit sick to even think of that time. It had taken forever for her to track down the mischevious prankster to reverse it due to the fact that there simply were too many of them roaming around the household. That prank alone was enough to make her dislike the whole thing altogether. It make her wish that her cousins were not quite so content to go around pulling pranks everywhere and using her as an occasional fun victim. However, wishes seemed to give little of the desired effect; after all, it was always funner to have a victim that unwilling and more likely to make more of a fuss. How she wished all pranksters didn't live by that rule. Plain and simple, Dominique was, in no way, a fan of pranks despite it apparently being a majority of her family's way of life.

Hence the reason why she was so annoyed to find herself suddenly lifted off the ground and suspended upside, yelping at the unexpected motion. While it only took a few seconds for the incident to occur, Dominique could feel the adrenaline running through her veins from the sudden movement. The sudden change in gravity also had the unfortunate effect of pulling her wand out of her reach and towards the snowy path, where it clattered gently. Huffing annoyedly at her current predicament, she pushed her cloak and robes out of the way enough to see what it was that had her suspended in the air as she was. It didn't take too much effort to see that it was simple rope that held her in this position. How amateur. But as amateur as this 'prank' was, there was still the fact that Dominique had fell for it. Perhaps that was why she felt so much annoyance surge through her when she saw that rope.

Dominique cast an irritated glance at her surroundings, absolutely sure that the perpetrator was in the general area, searching for even the slightest movement. After all, the 'best' part of being a prankster was watching the results unfold. She was also almost positive that it was one of her cousins as they were the usual suspects. “Alright you got me. Now let me down,” she called out, irritation clearly colouring her tone. “Lucy? Roxanne? James?” After a few seconds of silence, she grew a bit doubtful that it was any of them playing this prank, especially if they hadn't revealed themselves yet. “Riley? Ryleigh?” Or maybe one of her roommates who had always had this irritating inclination towards pranking. Merlin, she was surrounded by pranksters and it was something that she did not appreciate in the least.

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SICK OF ALL THE INSINCERE,

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