Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2021 7:31:57 GMT -7
aiden nicoli valentino
pronunciation:
ay-den nic-Ol-eye vah-lehn-teen-oh
nickname:
Fratello or gemello by Alana (brother/twin)
age and birthday:
Sixteen
21st May
gender and pronouns:
Cis-male, he/him
basic info
blood status:
Pureblood - Valentino family to please add under Italy purebloods (closed to me, if possible)
sexuality:
Bisexual
wand:
10" acacia wood, dragon heartstring core
playby:
Harry Styles
appearance:
Aiden is the opposite to his petite sister, standing at 6'2" with as proud a stature as possible. His shoulders are always straight, he keeps his head held high and he's always impeccably groomed. His unruly Italian curls are about the only things that aren't kept in absolute control, yet he believes it just adds to his charm. When not in his school uniform, Aiden is still usually dressed in pant suits and ties, from high-end Italian boutiques that are tailored for him specifically. He favours navy blues and silver trims and his fingers are adorned with the Valentino family ring he'd gotten on his 16th birthday from Nonno and a smaller ring that is almost identical, yet slightly more masculine, to the one found on his twin sister's fingers. They're silver and the family ring holds a large sapphire.
education and jobs
schooling:
For students: Ravenclaw
schooling status:
For students: sixth year
current occupation:
N/A
personality
likes:
- Silver
- Ettiquette
- Proper breeding (purebloods)
- Intelligence
- Extensive research
- Orchestral music
- Family
- Dark arts
- Proper Italian café
- Navy blue ink
- Order
- Blondes
- Wine
dislikes:
- Village idiots and their sympathisers.
- cheap imitations
- animals in general
- mudbloods
- goody-two-shoes
- Slytherins
- elderflower wine
- Tripe (Dio, the British Isles cuisines are disgusting, aren't they?)
- weak little Hufflepuffs that he doesn't truly dislike but also f--- them.
erised:
Standing triumphant with a Philosopher's Stone in his hand that he created himself.
amortentia:
Baked goods and sunflowers. I know. Aiden sickens himself.
boggart:
- Himself, homeless and destitute in terrible clothes and stinking of the street.
- Being bottom of the class in academics
- Falling from his broom during Quidditch, plummeting to his death. To be clear, he is not afraid of the death part, but of being the laughing stock of Hogwarts by failing to stay on his broom.
overall personality:
Aiden is an extremely proud character and uses his intelligence to be superior to literally everyone around him. He strives to be the very best at everything and he only has loyalty to his twin sister... for a time, though, there was loyalty to someone else. Someone unexpected... but he's become even more closed off since the beginning of sixth year. He was an outright bully when he was younger, especially to mudbloods, but after a few detentions he'd wisened up. All of his acts are far more cerebral and usually just a look from him seems to chill the bones of the lesser students.
Aiden doesn't suffer fools, he's unwaveringly hard on himself even, and he's as direct as his good breeding allows him to be. He is ambitious and prizes intellectual pursuits above physical ones; he does however have a passion for Quidditch and he's been a beater for the Ravenclaw team since fifth year. He may have had something to do with the person leaving the team beforehand. He'll never admit it, though.
The bond he has with his twin sister, Alana, is extremely deep and they communicate often in Italian or simply by look. When they were younger, Alana would creep into the boy's dorms to sleep with her brother, particularly when she was suffering from her menstrual cramps. Now they will sit together for most classes and spend time in the evenings by candlelight with Aiden strumming and Alana pacing out dance steps after hours of study.
personal history
origins:
The Valentino family is from Italy - the twins are the first generation born in England itself. Nonno Valentino brought over his young family after the Second Wizarding War to purchase a vast amount of real estate that had become... available with the deaths of "good people" and prosecutions of the Death Eaters alike. The family are magnates in Italy and Nonno was ready to prove himself as the second son - he is now considered the patriarch and Aiden is being groomed to take over.
relations:
[1] - Genaio Antonio Valentino - Nonno (grandfather), real estate mogul, patriarch of the Valentino family
[1] - Palmira Giana Valentino [nee Borgia] - Nonna (grandmother), home maker, deceased
[2] - Nicoli Genaio Valentino - father, real estate mogul
[2] - m. Elena Luisa Valentino [nee Astolfi] - mother, home maker, married to Nicoli
[2] - Antonia Giana Astolfi [nee Valentino] - aunt, owner of La Befana, a gift shop filled with specialty toys for young magical children
[2] - m. Dario Fabrizio Astolfi - uncle, works for Genaio & Nicoli, married Antonia
[3] - Alana Paige Valentino - twin sister, Ravenclaw
[3] - Felix Fabrizio Astolfi - cousin, Slytherin, son of Antonia & Dario (4th year)
[3] - Alessio Antonio Astolfi - cousin, Slytherin, son of Antonia & Dario (3rd year)
[3] - Pasqualina Astolfi - cousin, Slytherin, daughter of Antonio & Dario (6th year)
These chronicle the direct descendants of Genaio Valentino that reside in England. There are more Valentino family in Italy, and they are related to the Astolfi who also reside in Italy - it's one of the Valentino family's major connections.
pets:
A long-eared owl named simply Gufo, or Owl in English.
history:
Aiden was born the first of two twins and was by all accounts the easier child. In fact, the birth of his twin almost ended the life of their mother but no one can say that an infant did that on purpose, right? Aiden showed an early affinity to learning and the twins would be found in the estate library with books well beyond their years more often than not. Whilst Alana pursued horse riding and dancing, Aiden learnt the fine art of creating music and to this day feels his music is yet another form of magic.
When he was old enough to be trusted, Aiden would assist his mother with the preparation of various ingredients for her potions. Alana once came into the apothecary when Aiden and his mother were crushing some quills and in an angry, jealous rage she screamed and made Aiden's treasured guitar sitting on the kitchen chair explode into several pieces. Aiden's natural instinct made a shield just in time to keep him from getting splinters all in his face. Both children ran out of the manor screaming until Aiden caught Alana finally and they fell in the grass, exhausted.
At Hogwarts, Aiden and Alana both excelled at school work. Whilst other students struggled with fear due to the muggleborns dying and the attacks, the Valentinos remained largely unphased. Aiden enjoyed the fear and sometimes even profiteered ( he is his grandfather's grandchild, after all) off the fear to terrorise others to get his way. If he had been a little older, he probably would have enjoyed being a part of the attack on Hogwarts.
In his fifth year, Aiden began to settle even further into life at Hogwarts and enjoyed his new position as the Beater on the quidditch team. Near the end of the year, he'd begun to have feelings for someone he really had no reason to like and he spent the last summer exploring it. This new year, though... nothing except pain and growing frustration.
site events reaction:
- Deaths of the mudbloods - well, someone was taking out the trash. Good on them.
- Attack on Hogwarts - when the chaos began, the young Valentino twins were woken from their beds by the loud noises. Alana had crept into Aiden's dorm as she had on many other occasions, whispering curses in Italian about what she would do to whomever woke her up. Aiden had told her to shush so he could listen more closely, then the pair of them huddled in their magicked robes in the aftermath. Another bunch of muggleborns gone. Neither twin lost sleep over the stories of terror.
- Hag's Fever: this illness took Nonna to her grave, which is situated back on their ancestral home in Italy. Aiden does not like to talk about this loss, as he hates the term Hag's fever because Palmira was definitely not a hag. Perhaps it was his grief, his anger, that destroyed what was going well otherwise over summer.
- The Infestation of Ilvermony: well, that's how Aiden and Alana view it. The New World Purebloods make a mockery of the real deal and are nothing more than halfbloods in the Valentino eyes. After learning the far more strict division between the magical and muggle (they refuse to use the American term non-maj), they cannot doubt that it was a far better system... although they'd never admit it aloud. With the overwhelming flood of students, though, Aiden feels claustrophobic and like he can hardly breathe let alone study. It's making him angrier than the other situation.
alias
name:
RoadRoo
pronouns:
she/her
age:
30
time zone:
GMT+8
reference:
Bree found you and I followed like a good marsupial.
other characters:
None yet (Alana to follow)
