Dymonde, Nightingale Ashes

[NIGHTINGALE ASHES DYMONDE]

NIGHTINGALE
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ASHES & DYMONDE[/center]

AGE

GENDER

SEXUALITY

CLASS

ALIAS

[/i]; Even if it is a nickname, this is the name most people tend to call Nightingale, whether they know he is a male or not.[/ul]

ETHINICITY

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POSITIVE TRAITS

[/color] Confident - Some would call Night a bit egotistical, while he prefers to say he’s confident. It’s not as though he thinks of himself as higher than others, he just tends to see the flaws in them. Whether this is a positive or a negative thing is yet to be determined.
& Intelligent - After a conversation, or more likely argument, with the boy, it’s easy to tell that he’s quite intelligent and quick with words. Some find it difficult to understand how he’s merely sixteen, which he’s quite proud of.
& Responsible - There’s never something that, if Night does it, he won’t take responsibility for. If it’s something that will get him in trouble, so be it. He’s also quite good with managing what all he’s supposed to do.
& Honest - One can always rely on Nightingale to tell them the truth. Sometimes he finds ways around it, or just flat out avoids it, but he won’t ever lie to anybody.
& Observant - There’s not a lot that can escape this boy’s eye. He’s grown quite used to picking up small details, whether it is in a setting or in a person’s behavior. Sometimes, this is helpful to him. At other times, it’s quite a pain, especially when he’s trying to ignore someone.
& Patient - Not a trait people often think of when they picture a person, Night uses his patience to deal with others to the best of his ability. Of course, even he has his moments where the thread snaps, but more often than not, he keeps his temper in check.
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NEGATIVE TRAITS

[/color] Blunt - If the boy is honest, it’s easy to say he is brutally so. He doesn’t take what people may feel about what he says into consideration. If he feels it needs to be said, he says it. This gets him into quite a few situations, especially since he’s never apologetic for what he says.
& Argumentative - To stand up for ones beliefs is said to be a good thing. Unfortunately for Night, he tends to go about it a rather rash way. Because he’s stubborn, though, he often won’t back down until he proves that he’s right, which usually includes dragging it out to the point that no one remembers the argument in the first place.
& Cold - It’s easy to see how Night doesn’t allow himself to be attached to others. He keeps them from getting close with blatant remarks and cold comments. The few who refuse to see his point are ignored, even though he’s not one to initiate social situations to begin with.
& Naive - One of the only traits that actually helps Night towards disguising himself as a female, his naivety is not a trait he’s proud of. He knows a lot of things, but the innocence of his mind is something that remains intact, much to the amusement of those he speaks with.
& Anti-Sociable - Along with an extreme dislike of people comes the tendency to avoid them. Nightingale doesn’t get along with people, and in return, most people don’t get along with him. He finds it easier to just thrive on his own mind and written words. They seem much more companionable to him.
& Sarcastic - If he’s not one to lie, he has to get his point across some other way. Sarcasm is Nightingale’s best friend, and one he uses often. Just as with his inability to consider other people’s feelings, his sarcasm is one of the ways he enjoys getting into people’s heads.
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LIKES

[/color] Sweets
& Games
& Music/Piano
& Animals
& Tea
& Writing
& Stuffed Animals (secret)
& Exploring
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DISLIKES

[/color] Acting
& Vegetables
& People
& Lack of information
& Happiness and some other choice emotions
& Wealth
& Being used
& Feeling inferior
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PERSONAL ITEMS

[/color] His sapphire ring, which is the one thing of his father’s he feels an actual attachment to.
& His stuffed animal, Lucky the Frog, which is one secret he aims to keep, maybe even more than his gender.
& His journal, which is kept somewhere hidden so no one can find it except him… He hopes.
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EXTRA INFORMATION

[/b][/i] - Born a recluse, always a recluse, one could say. Nightingale Ashes Dymonde was never meant to happen, and the proof lies in how he lived. Even as a babe, he was outcast. No one ever knew of his birth, despite how powerful his family was. The only ones who knew he existed were the caretakers who watched after him and his father. No one knew who his mother was. His father was rarely around, usually out tending to the affairs of the state. More often than not, the only one in the house who knew of his existence was Theodore, his ‘guardian’ and eventual teacher.

As he grew older, Night was restricted to the house. He was never allowed outside, though he often lost his supervisors in order to get some fresh air. His schooling began at a young age and was one of the things he actually enjoyed doing. Though visitors were often on the grounds to see his father, Night didn’t often see other people, and as a result began to grow more and more naïve to what people were actually like. It wasn’t as though he didn’t want to meet people; he didn’t give up that thought until much later.

Family situations went south in the Dymonde family extremely quickly. Somehow, his father’s brother figured out he had a child, and went berserk. You see, without an heir, anything they owned would have gone to his uncle if his father were to die. With Nightingale in the picture, the inheritance was snatched out of his reach. Yet there was something in the will, a limiting factor, even if it were old fashioned. And that factor was that the child had to be a male.

Something most people didn’t know about Night’s uncle was that he was certifiably insane. It was shortly after he learned about the boy’s existence, fourteen years after his birth, that his father died. Some people said it was assassins from a random, small town that were tired of being looked down upon. But a month after it happened, men appeared at the estate claiming to be lawyers that would handle his father’s will. Once they were distracted, Night was swept out the back door.

Three months were spent on the run, keeping Nightingale away from his uncle’s men. They came close to getting him once; an incident that resulted in his right eye being blinded as well as becoming discolored. It was after this that they decided the man was completely serious in obtaining his inheritance. They used the fact that no one knew Night to their advantage, though. Simply; they turned him into a female. Theoretically, of course.

It wasn’t that hard, making him appear as someone other than who he really was. The problem was how he acted. Yet when they were brought to meet his uncle, he seemed to fall for it. Or maybe he had taken into consideration that his father’s will was in a code and one only someone as close to him as his offspring would know how to decipher. Either way, Night was safe, if only temporarily. He did figure out what the will said; something along the lines of how everything went to him only once he was eighteen, at which point Theodore would help him find it.

They left his uncle’s quickly, and only after he caught Nightingale and his tutor discussing what the will said. As a result, he knew that, if something were to happen to Night before he turned eighteen, he would receive the inheritance. Afterwards, the boy could do what he needed with it, including give it to someone else. The chase began again, except this time he was reckless. He figured that Night was a girl, and as a result, figured he didn’t need to go after him right away.

They made it to Stella Fiore before he figured out that was a very bad choice to make. Nightingale was enrolled in the school, if only in order to keep up his pretense as a female. He wasn’t very good at it, and most people who knew him could figure out he was a male right of the bat. Yet it was still worth a try. What was three years worth of acting in order to keep his family’s wealth away from his uncle and stay alive?[/ul]

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