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flynn aeolus drake

PERSONALITY

Boggart: Spiders. He shares the same fear as his little sister, so the pair of them facing a boggart together would be completely useless, neither able to support the other through their fear.
Mirror of Erised: A family. More than anything, deep down, Flynn wants to be a father. He knows it, but he struggles to get there, and struggles to settle down. There would be at least four kids running around him.
Patronus: Hyena - Flynn's happy memory is actually of his father. He remembers being very little, maybe five years old, and going fishing with his dad every weekend. He and Llian would have so much fun, and it was a time before everything went wrong, and dark, a time he wishes he could go back to.

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Flynn is a paradox of unimaginable proportions. He has the capacity to be either the greatest force of good, or a wicked little shit. There's no in-between with him. If he's not on one course, he's on the other, and he fluctuates wildly between the two. When he's good, he's generous, loving, would go to the ends of the earth for his loved ones, includes them in everything, doesn't drink, stays clean, excels at his job because it becomes his main focus and he earns a shit ton of money from the good periods.

And then the money kicks in, and it all goes downhill. He drinks, he plays, he gambles, he throws it away on all of the things that he shouldn't, and he enjoys it thoroughly. His home life suffers, his demons take control, and his work suffers, meaning he makes less money, has to sort himself out, and so the cycle begins again. When he's bad, he's very bad. He has anger issues when he drinks. He crosses the line from fun drunk, to "raging maniac" after a certain amount of alcohol, and he is a very intense person, so expect lots of deep and meaningfuls when he's in this mode.

He's drawn to the dark side. Really, truly drawn to it, and though he fights it and recognises that he has family in the light, and he needs to stay good for them, the temptation is always there. It's a wonder he hasn't become a vampire by now. It probably isn't for lack of trying. He's one of the most curious people you will meet. He has to know the ins and outs of everything. As a kid he would take his toys apart to see how they worked, even if it meant they had to be thrown away afterwards, that curiosity had to be sated. Not intellectual in the slightest, Flynn was never interested in studying, he is incredibly street smart, and has the gift of the gab. A silver tongue, so to speak, that helps him earn a bloody amazing wage when he puts it to use in his journalism. He's hard to ignore, and hard to deny, and good or bad you will have a smile on your face when he's around. He is infectious, charismatic, charming, funny, sexy, naughty, your mother will love him, but please don't take him home to her. He is the devil in disguise.

HISTORY

Mother: Evelyn Drake (nee MacMillan), 57 years old, pureblood, Gryffindor Alumna, figure skating instructor
Father: Leonidus Drake, 58 years old, pureblood, Slytherin Alumni, Death Eater
Siblings: Llian Eros Drake, 40, brother, pureblood, Ravenclaw Alumni, Dragonologist
Geralina Amara Drake 30, sister, pureblood, Hufflepuff Alumna, Hogwarts librarian
Partners: None
Others: Amarina Fawley (nee MacMillan), 59, pureblood, maternal aunt
Farquhar Fawley, 58, pureblood, uncle
Freya Fawley, 28, pureblood, cousin
Elissa Fawley, 26, pureblood, cousin
Noelle Fawley, 24, pureblood, cousin
Gabriel Ollivander, 32, pureblood, soon-to-be cousin-in-law
Isabella Ollivander, baby, second cousin

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Flynn Drake, the dreaded middle child, was always a handful. He was a live-wire as a child, and always curious and full of life. He was daddy's blue eye, the favourite, until daddy left. Flynn had just become a big brother to little Geralina when their father disappeared and never came back. Mum said it was because dad was bad, he'd done bad things and couldn't be a family with them any more. Flynn didn't like that. His dad couldn't be bad. He wouldn't accept it. It must have been the new baby. Maybe dad was fed up of having a crying, needy baby around the house, so he ran away to get away from her. Flynn would crawl underneath Geralina's cot and shake it as hard as he could until mum came in and shouted.

When they were a little bit older, he would pick on her in different ways. Steal her pocket money out of her piggy bank, wrestle with her teddies until their heads ripped off. Blast his music over the telly when she was watching cartoons so she couldn't hear her favourite shows. It became such a normal part of his routine that he forgot the reason he had started doing it. He didn't need a reason, it was just the way things were now. And Llian was crap. He was good and smart and quiet, and he made Geralina laugh. All Flynn ever did was get shouted at.

Luckily, he followed Llian into Hogwarts when Geralina was only four, so he got away from all of it for most of the year, and he loved the castle. He was place in Slytherin, just like his dad, and he made mates who were quite similar to him. They got up to a lot of shit around the castle. A loooot of shit. No secret passage was sacred, no potion not tasted, no prank not pulled, no class not ditched, no girl left un-snogged (and more). It was the best time of his life, and he thoroughly abused his freedom. Then went home on the holidays and picked on his sister a bit more.

It wasn't until he got a bit older that he realised how much of a horror he was to his family, and why. It wasn't their fault that his dad left. He knew that now. He was sixteen, smart enough to figure it all out for himself. His dad had joined the Death Eaters, and mum had wanted to protect her kids. He missed his dad every day. Vocally. It was no secret, though Flynn had lots of those. He began trying to make amends. He was nicer to his sister and his mum, he tried to be friends with his brother. And slowly, slowly, it was working. He graduated from Hogwarts with abysmal grades because he just wasn't interested in studying, and managed to talk his way into an internship at the Daily Prophet.

He worked his way up from there. He moved into his own place with his girlfriend at the time, then she cheated on him and he kicked her out and found that he didn't like living alone. He found another girlfriend to fill the gap, and a new home, and so the pattern went, new faces and new houses coming and going every few years. Flynn didn't mind it, he had a gypsy soul, though he did hope that one day he'd find the right one and have a family, a house that he liked enough to stay in. He found that he earned great money writing for the Prophet. He could charm people on a page as much as he could in person. His relationship with his sister was stronger than ever (she is actually pretty cool), and though he wasn't Llian's biggest fan, they got along in small doses.

His dad got in touch with him a few years ago. Just a simple owl saying hello, and the word proud was thrown around a bit for good measure. Flynn, for all his worldlyness, fell for it hook, line, and sinker, and wrote back straight away. He told his mum, who nearly had a heart attack and made it clear that he should cut contact with that bastard and never write to him again. Flynn ignored her, obviously, and he writes to his Death Eater dad every now and then. Leonidus wants to meet up, have a drink, strike up some kind of real relationship. Well, we all know what Flynn will say to that.

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