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GENERAL
NAME: Damon Emery Evercreech
NICKNAMES: Dimi (Pronounced Deemi, as in "Why you do this to me, Dimi?")
AGE/DOB: 17, Apr 4
BLOOD STATUS: Halfblood
GENDER/PRONOUNS: male, he/him
SEXUALITY: Pizza Hut Personal Pansexual Pizza
HOMETOWN: Bath, Somerset, England and boy is he laying on the accent thick for his stay in the United States.
CONCEPT: Typical Gryffindor with something to prove walks line between hero and villain
PHYSICAL
APPEARANCE:
Dimi is weird cute. Pleasing to look at with a charming lopsided smile. He’s a tidy dresser, especially in uniform, but his fashion sense is distinctly British wizard, making him seem a bit frumpy when compared to many of his classmates. He rarely knows what to do with his hair, letting it fall as it pleases at exactly the middle point between waves and curls. He is bespectacled, but not consistent about wearing his glasses, which tend to slide and sit askew on his face.
HEIGHT: 5'10
PB: Jackson Rathbone
PERSONALITY
LIKES: travel, muggle public transportation, chocolate frog cards, the word "bokeh," being a big damn hero, fisticuffs and other rough housing, being right and throwing down to convince you if you think otherwise, principles (principals he can take or leave), the Gooseberry uniform, landscape and surrealist photography, particularly capturing contrast between old and new/dead and living
DISLIKES: bullies, debating brick wall types (hypocrite), messy work spaces, the saying "life's not fair," people who walk slowly, idling, busywork, bugs - especially the creepy way they move
PERSONALITY:
Dimi Evercreech is a Gryffindor in the classic sense: charming, brave, resolute, wholly convinced of his own moral superiority and exactly fifteen seconds away from launching a crusade at any given moment. At first blush, Damon projects breezy amiability. He's a boy of easy smiles, quick to laugh and eager to make you comfortable in his presence. A one-two punch of Seeming Like He Genuinely Cares About You and Knowing What He's Doing. He's magnetic, right off the bat.
Never trust a first impression, though. Scratch the surface and something darker shows through. Damon is wholly wrapped up in the idea of being a hero – The Hero, more precisely. Like Godric Gryffindor. Like Harry Potter. He fancies himself a leading man. A defender of the weak. The star of his own narrative. By contrast, nearly everyone else gets quickly cast as “sidekick” or “villain” or “uncredited cameo.” It is the rare person who figures more importantly in his life – his brother Calvin being one notable exception. The idea that other human beings are fully actualized people with their own unique lives is not one that has solidified in Damon's mind, yet. Don’t be surprised if, after your initial hobnobbing, he can’t recall your name or where he knows you from. That might explain why everyone gets generically referred to as “mate”, "chum" or "boyo." At least he tries to be polite about it.
Dimi's got strong convictions and an unwavering sense of right and wrong (which, as is common in Gryffindors, does not line up cleanly with lawful vs unlawful). Optimistically, this makes him a good person: he is highly motivated to do good and enact positive change in the world. He always has some cause he's championing. He sticks up for the little guy - putting himself between the bully and the victim. Sure, his goals are noble, but it would be a lie to say he is not selfishly motivated; every effort made is proof of his goodness. Every victory a validation: that his mother, his father and his brothers are undeserving of being snubbed by their pureblooded relatives. That his parents didn't "screw up the first one." The need to prove something about himself often supersedes his original goal. The very thing that Dimi was fighting for - be it a person, a cause or an ideal - is often reduced to a prop in his Grand Crusade, secondary to his own validation.
And this is where he gets truly unbearable. Damon has some inadequacy issues with how he fits into his family and how he fit in at Hogwarts. But by and large, Dimi’s a fat headed tosser. He's arrogant and cocksure. Aggressive and bullheaded but terribly friendly about it. The boy does not want for self confidence, which can be equal parts alluring and repellant. He is convinced of his unerring Rightness. In his mind, he is always the good guy. His is always the moral high ground and yes he will argue you on this. Coming to an impasse either means a dreadfully cheerful and passive aggressive, “Well let’s just agree to disagree, then.” (followed by social or physical retaliation down the road) or (more preferably, for him) fisticuffs. This D'Artagnan ass motherfucker is always looking to throw down and defend someone’s honor – anyone’s honor. He’s not picky. I dare you to besmirch someone’s good name. Honestly, if you just want to go out back and beat the hell out of each other for funsies, he’s up for that, too.
There’s a lot of good in Dimi, but he’s an unfocused whirlwind who needs a steady guiding hand to keep him on the right side of things. The moral compass may be strong, but Damon’s self-assuredness is a blindspot that has him teetering between Robin Hood and bully tyrant. On good days, Damon is fun and friendly. He teases and rough houses and tries to get along with almost everyone. At his best, he’s sensitive and empathetic. When he senses something is wrong, he’ll always ask, and while he may not retain the information he receives, he’ll always at least seem like an attentive listener. He wants to help – to see people happy.
Damon is creative and clever. Though not particularly academically driven, he’s a bright student, just one that is happy to coast by on average grades. His true passion is photography and he is Very Serious about it. To an obnoxious degree. He has very real plans of becoming a travel photographer (good luck with that kiddo) and he collects photobooks and travelogues compulsively. It’s not just fantasy – Dimi is a genuinely gifted photographer with a good eye for striking shots, the occasional “this represents my soul” teenaged nonsense notwithstanding. Of course, it wouldn’t be Damon if his ego didn’t get in the way, and he has an insufferable habit of throwing around jargon even when talking to laypeople. It makes him seem more artsy and professional, right? Right??
Summary:
+ Friendly, Charming
+ Brave
+ Compassionate
+ Motivated to do good in the world
= Artistic, Creative
= Adventurous
- Self-absorbed, motivated by his own validation first
- Arrogant
- Overly aggressive
Here Are Some Superlatives:
- Most Likely to Kill the Younglings
- Second Place Black and White Photo of Some Ivy Growing on a Dilapidated Building, Somerset County Fair 2011
- The Harvey Dent Award for Living Long Enough to Become the Villain
HISTORY
FAMILY MEMBERS:
⇢ Angelica Evercreech (nee Avery), mother. Pureblood. Personal assistant to a successful wizard fashion designer. Angie is often stressed out, and finds extended family get-togethers exacerbate that. No one on her side was thrilled she married Morris, and Morris' family is just put out he exists at all.
⇢ Morris Evercreech, father. Halfblood. Morris is an aspiring painter who doubles as a stay-at-home dad. Now that all his boys are in school, he has a lot more time to get work done. Morris' grandmother ran off with the halfblood Emery Evercreech, creating the Evercreech offshoot of the Bulstrode line. As a result, his relationship with the Bulstrodes can be strained.
⇢ Edmund Evercreech, younger brother. 6th year Gryffindor. Eternally in trouble. Edmund is brash, and gets into fights on a weekly basis. In many ways, he's the worst kind of Gryffindor. Damon is convinced that Eddie's aggression is a very poor attempt at copycatting himself and cannot say his brother's name without rolling his eyes.
⇢ Calvin Evercreech, younger brother. Former Slytherin / Ribbonfin Sophomore. Calvin has always seemed a bit more cunning, clever and sensitive than the rest of the Evercreech herd, which is perhaps why Dimi has always been particularly fond of him. It certainly helps that Calvin idolizes Damon, but sometimes it's nice to have a conversation with someone you shared a womb with that does not end in trying to hide the hole someone put in the bloody wall.
⇢ Nathaniel Evercreech, younger brother. 3rd year Gryffindor. Always in trouble. Nate's disregard for authority landed him in Gryffindor. Nate is the second most tolerable of Dimi's siblings, but it's a distant second.
⇢ Rupert Evercreech, youngest brother. 2nd year Slytherin. Constantly in trouble. Rupert is a snotty boy with a love of pranks. Damon often finds himself thinking, "Where did this one come from? When did we get a fifth one??"
HISTORY:
Damon was hotly anticipated. His mother and father had shelves of books on child-rearing and enough advice on the subject to pen their own tome. As is often the case however, no amount of reading could prepare them for a child, especially one as rambunctious as Dimi. He was the sort of kid that needed a leash: curious, quick and squirmy – a constant handful. He drove his parents batty, which was why it was so surprising to everyone when a little more than a year later Anjelica announced she was pregnant, again.
That was the pattern from there out: go a little crazy, have another one. Four more tries and by the time they’d finished their home was an overcrowded war zone. After Damon was Eddie; the Pretender, Dimi sometimes calls him now, or “my evil doppelganger.” If it were possible to hate someone to death, it’s hard to say who’d perish first – Damon or Edward. Suffice it to say, many a toy was broken and a window shattered in their disputes. Thankfully, Dimi’s loathing for his younger brother has mellowed to a cool, exasperated disgust and he hasn’t allowed himself to be pulled into a physical fight with Edward for more than a year and a half.
After Eddie was Calvin, who while not wholly innocent was a great deal more innocent than Edward. A great deal more likeable, too. Also, smarter, more creative and all around more fun. As the boys grew older, and Nate and Rupert were added to the mix, it became obvious that Dimi and Calvin had formed not just an alliance but a strong bond, preferring each others’ company to that of their other brothers.
As the oldest, it was expected that Damon be the most patient, most mature and most helpful, which he wasn’t – that was Calvin. He liked the idea of being the older brother – the one they all looked up to – but it never worked in practice. He was the playroom tyrant, detested by Eddie and Nate and Rupert, and the Evercreech living room was constantly on the brink of civil war. In an attempt at mediating, Morris tried to steer his eldest toward some less aggressive, more creative outlets. Surprisingly, it worked. Drawing and painting were fine enough, but it was fooling around with the family camera that really interested him. Taking pictures was far more interesting than putting Eddie through a wall although his first big project was artistically cataloging the various holes he and his brothers had put into their tiny house.
Dimi’s eleventh birthday was great. He got a camera of his own, that year, and a letter to Hogwarts. Just as expected, that September, Damon wound up in Gryffindor. He started the school year well enough – he was obviously a bright student, and he seemed to embody the best of Gryffindor’s values. But as weeks stretched into months, Dimi’s disinterest in academia reared its head. His bossy, know-it-all personality made him difficult to teach in general, too. He’d question his teachers, talk back in class and frequently wind up in physical scuffles with older students. He received mixed messages from the faculty; some of the more eccentric teachers were willing to turn a blind eye to Dimi’s aggression so long as it was in response to the actions of bullies. This only made him worse – convinced him that he was some kind of superhero. By the end of the year, he was leading a pack of wild Gryffindors with his two closest friends, Rory Montague and Erin St John.
Dimi’s troubles escalated in year two; Edward was there and sorted into Gryffindor. Now, on top of interhouse competition, there was intrahouse strife as Eddie and Dimi were constantly butting heads. When he wasn’t arguing with Edward, Damon was playing hero with Rory and Erin, losing points but gaining the adoration of weaker students. By the end of Dimi’s second year, he and his brother were forcibly separated and not allowed near each other except when going home for breaks. There were three Evercreeches on the Hogwarts Express when Damon returned for his third year and he was thrilled to have Calvin there with him. In retrospect, he probably should’ve expected that his younger brother would not wind up in Gryffindor, but it still came as a shock. Worse still was that Calvin found friendship with the sorts of kids that Dimi had spent three years “policing,” himself. Damon’s disappointment, both that Calvin had gone to Slytherin and that he’d fallen in with bullies, was obvious. Dimi’s relationship with Calvin strained noticeably. It didn’t help that puberty hit him that Autumn like a pile of bricks and he was just terribly moody for the entire year.
Starting in the summer before his fourth year, Damon began submitting yearly applications to the Gooseberry transfer program. He was passed over each time. The first one he’d done as a lark, thinking it’d be fun to travel. That year at school, things between him, Rory and Erin started getting weird in a way he didn’t quite understand. Feeling sullen and alienated from his closest friends, his behavior worsened and owls were sent voicing concern for what Hogwarts staff perceived to be spiraling behavior. The next summer, miserable in school, he applied again, hoping more earnestly that he’d get one of the spots. He didn’t. That September, on the Hogwarts Express, Erin came on strong and sudden and Dimi started the academic year in his first relationship. While neither was particularly serious about the other, it didn’t stop them from being a maelstrom of dramatics. What Dimi didn’t realize at the time was Erin’s interest was not in him, specifically, but in making Rory jealous. It strained his friendship with Rory, which upset him far more deeply than any argument with Erin.
Damon’s third application to Gooseberry went ignored. When Calvin was accepted, it was a terrible embarrassment for Dimi and he avoided his favorite brother utterly for the last few months of summer. He remained stubbornly pouty until he boarded the Hogwarts Express for his sixth year, when he realized what a huge jerk he’d been – a rare accomplishment. That night he sent off an owl with a roundabout apology to his younger brother and an earnest request to keep in touch. This seemed to reopen some floodgate that had been shut years before and Calvin began to confide in Dimi all the goings on at Gooseberry. Hearing about how his brother was being treated made him lash out at the bullies at Hogwarts even more.
His relationship with Erin had been cold for a while, but lasted a full year and a half before ending. She dumped him unceremoniously over winter break and returned to school afterward with the prize she’d wanted all along – Rory. Dimi was not as upset about losing Erin as he thought he’d be, but terribly jealous that she’d paired off with Rory. The rest of his sixth year was spent attempting to hold his once firmest friendships together as they fell apart and busying himself with personal photography projects. At the end of the year, feeling confused and lonely, he attempted to confess long held feelings to Rory, who panicked and rejected him very dramatically. He left for home that summer so dejected he shared a train cabin with Eddie and didn’t once snap at him. That summer, he didn’t apply to Gooseberry. Dimi focused on putting together a portfolio but otherwise spent the summer lazing around the house, distraught at having obliterated relationships with his two closest friends. For once, he seemed content to spend time just goofing off with his brothers, which his parents took to mean he was finally growing up.
When his seventh year at Hogwarts began, Damon avoided Erin and Rory and attempted to kindle new friendships with other people in his orbit. But he was in his last year. The cliques were already firmly cemented. He diligently kept up his correspondence with Calvin, gently encouraging him to be more outgoing and sure of himself, but otherwise was listless. He tried a little bit of everything: studying, quidditch, dating, forming a fight club out by the Whomping Willow. His teachers noticed his grades improving (and also the fight club; he got a lot of detention for that) but also that Damon seemed isolated and depressed. Damon rebuffed any attempts by faculty to broach the subject overtly, but he didn’t think anything of it when the head of Gryffindor asked for a copy of his photography portfolio.
The professor sent the portfolio along with a carefully worded recommendation to Gooseberry after a spot in the roster opened. Within a week, Damon was accepted. He only took a day to decide, and told Calvin before anyone else. His family and friends wondered what on earth he was thinking, leaving Hogwarts at the end of his last year, but Dimi was ready for a change.
Damon comes to Gooseberry cautiously ready for fun. The initial excitement at the prospect of FINALLY traveling has not yet worn off, but he’s also aware through Calvin’s gossip that he’s coming into what sounds like a volatile situation in his cabin. He also has a list of names of people who have bullied Calvin. Sylvester Stoker I am looking at you this is not a threat it’s a promise.
That was the pattern from there out: go a little crazy, have another one. Four more tries and by the time they’d finished their home was an overcrowded war zone. After Damon was Eddie; the Pretender, Dimi sometimes calls him now, or “my evil doppelganger.” If it were possible to hate someone to death, it’s hard to say who’d perish first – Damon or Edward. Suffice it to say, many a toy was broken and a window shattered in their disputes. Thankfully, Dimi’s loathing for his younger brother has mellowed to a cool, exasperated disgust and he hasn’t allowed himself to be pulled into a physical fight with Edward for more than a year and a half.
After Eddie was Calvin, who while not wholly innocent was a great deal more innocent than Edward. A great deal more likeable, too. Also, smarter, more creative and all around more fun. As the boys grew older, and Nate and Rupert were added to the mix, it became obvious that Dimi and Calvin had formed not just an alliance but a strong bond, preferring each others’ company to that of their other brothers.
As the oldest, it was expected that Damon be the most patient, most mature and most helpful, which he wasn’t – that was Calvin. He liked the idea of being the older brother – the one they all looked up to – but it never worked in practice. He was the playroom tyrant, detested by Eddie and Nate and Rupert, and the Evercreech living room was constantly on the brink of civil war. In an attempt at mediating, Morris tried to steer his eldest toward some less aggressive, more creative outlets. Surprisingly, it worked. Drawing and painting were fine enough, but it was fooling around with the family camera that really interested him. Taking pictures was far more interesting than putting Eddie through a wall although his first big project was artistically cataloging the various holes he and his brothers had put into their tiny house.
Dimi’s eleventh birthday was great. He got a camera of his own, that year, and a letter to Hogwarts. Just as expected, that September, Damon wound up in Gryffindor. He started the school year well enough – he was obviously a bright student, and he seemed to embody the best of Gryffindor’s values. But as weeks stretched into months, Dimi’s disinterest in academia reared its head. His bossy, know-it-all personality made him difficult to teach in general, too. He’d question his teachers, talk back in class and frequently wind up in physical scuffles with older students. He received mixed messages from the faculty; some of the more eccentric teachers were willing to turn a blind eye to Dimi’s aggression so long as it was in response to the actions of bullies. This only made him worse – convinced him that he was some kind of superhero. By the end of the year, he was leading a pack of wild Gryffindors with his two closest friends, Rory Montague and Erin St John.
Dimi’s troubles escalated in year two; Edward was there and sorted into Gryffindor. Now, on top of interhouse competition, there was intrahouse strife as Eddie and Dimi were constantly butting heads. When he wasn’t arguing with Edward, Damon was playing hero with Rory and Erin, losing points but gaining the adoration of weaker students. By the end of Dimi’s second year, he and his brother were forcibly separated and not allowed near each other except when going home for breaks. There were three Evercreeches on the Hogwarts Express when Damon returned for his third year and he was thrilled to have Calvin there with him. In retrospect, he probably should’ve expected that his younger brother would not wind up in Gryffindor, but it still came as a shock. Worse still was that Calvin found friendship with the sorts of kids that Dimi had spent three years “policing,” himself. Damon’s disappointment, both that Calvin had gone to Slytherin and that he’d fallen in with bullies, was obvious. Dimi’s relationship with Calvin strained noticeably. It didn’t help that puberty hit him that Autumn like a pile of bricks and he was just terribly moody for the entire year.
Starting in the summer before his fourth year, Damon began submitting yearly applications to the Gooseberry transfer program. He was passed over each time. The first one he’d done as a lark, thinking it’d be fun to travel. That year at school, things between him, Rory and Erin started getting weird in a way he didn’t quite understand. Feeling sullen and alienated from his closest friends, his behavior worsened and owls were sent voicing concern for what Hogwarts staff perceived to be spiraling behavior. The next summer, miserable in school, he applied again, hoping more earnestly that he’d get one of the spots. He didn’t. That September, on the Hogwarts Express, Erin came on strong and sudden and Dimi started the academic year in his first relationship. While neither was particularly serious about the other, it didn’t stop them from being a maelstrom of dramatics. What Dimi didn’t realize at the time was Erin’s interest was not in him, specifically, but in making Rory jealous. It strained his friendship with Rory, which upset him far more deeply than any argument with Erin.
Damon’s third application to Gooseberry went ignored. When Calvin was accepted, it was a terrible embarrassment for Dimi and he avoided his favorite brother utterly for the last few months of summer. He remained stubbornly pouty until he boarded the Hogwarts Express for his sixth year, when he realized what a huge jerk he’d been – a rare accomplishment. That night he sent off an owl with a roundabout apology to his younger brother and an earnest request to keep in touch. This seemed to reopen some floodgate that had been shut years before and Calvin began to confide in Dimi all the goings on at Gooseberry. Hearing about how his brother was being treated made him lash out at the bullies at Hogwarts even more.
His relationship with Erin had been cold for a while, but lasted a full year and a half before ending. She dumped him unceremoniously over winter break and returned to school afterward with the prize she’d wanted all along – Rory. Dimi was not as upset about losing Erin as he thought he’d be, but terribly jealous that she’d paired off with Rory. The rest of his sixth year was spent attempting to hold his once firmest friendships together as they fell apart and busying himself with personal photography projects. At the end of the year, feeling confused and lonely, he attempted to confess long held feelings to Rory, who panicked and rejected him very dramatically. He left for home that summer so dejected he shared a train cabin with Eddie and didn’t once snap at him. That summer, he didn’t apply to Gooseberry. Dimi focused on putting together a portfolio but otherwise spent the summer lazing around the house, distraught at having obliterated relationships with his two closest friends. For once, he seemed content to spend time just goofing off with his brothers, which his parents took to mean he was finally growing up.
When his seventh year at Hogwarts began, Damon avoided Erin and Rory and attempted to kindle new friendships with other people in his orbit. But he was in his last year. The cliques were already firmly cemented. He diligently kept up his correspondence with Calvin, gently encouraging him to be more outgoing and sure of himself, but otherwise was listless. He tried a little bit of everything: studying, quidditch, dating, forming a fight club out by the Whomping Willow. His teachers noticed his grades improving (and also the fight club; he got a lot of detention for that) but also that Damon seemed isolated and depressed. Damon rebuffed any attempts by faculty to broach the subject overtly, but he didn’t think anything of it when the head of Gryffindor asked for a copy of his photography portfolio.
The professor sent the portfolio along with a carefully worded recommendation to Gooseberry after a spot in the roster opened. Within a week, Damon was accepted. He only took a day to decide, and told Calvin before anyone else. His family and friends wondered what on earth he was thinking, leaving Hogwarts at the end of his last year, but Dimi was ready for a change.
Damon comes to Gooseberry cautiously ready for fun. The initial excitement at the prospect of FINALLY traveling has not yet worn off, but he’s also aware through Calvin’s gossip that he’s coming into what sounds like a volatile situation in his cabin. He also has a list of names of people who have bullied Calvin. Sylvester Stoker I am looking at you this is not a threat it’s a promise.
SCHOOL
YEAR: Senior
HOUSE: Coppertale / Gryffindor
SORTING:
While a small group including his brother Calvin and Ms. Vector waited outside, Dimi headed into the cave for what was supposed to be a formality - he would surely wind up in Coppertale, both because that's where the vacancy was and because it seemed to be such an obvious fit.
Instead, Dimi spent a full five minutes listening to Ebonhide and Coppertale duke it out over who should get him. Azurcrest had seen him as a lost cause despite feeling he was a good fit and Ribbonfin didn't want to make waves. His sorting ended when Ms. Vector stepped into the cave to find him doubled over laughing as the Bear and the Fox emblems argued heatedly over whether or not Damon was Coppertale's by default. Of course he was.
WAND: Apple, unicorn hair core, 11" and rigid. Broken about an inch from the end and held together with tape. Dimi's been saving all year to get a replacement since breaking it in a scuffle in September. His parents don't know it happened. Over break he pretended he'd left it at school and "borrowed" Eddie's.
FAMILIAR: A small medium haired calico named Elle. Elle is sweet but timid and is absolutely freaked out by the mid-year move. Damon consults with her on all things. It takes concentrated effort not to slip into a baby voice when talking to her.
CLASSES: (Core) Charms, Herbology, History of Magic, Outdoor Education, Potions (Elective) Aesthetic Magic, Magizoology, Wizard Lit
SENIOR PROJECT: LOL wait what do you mean senior project????
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE:
Damon is a bright student, though not driven to shine. He coasts through his classes with ease, unbothered by the occasional D on a test so long as he is not failing. His Hogwarts instructors long ago gave up on trying to coax an amazing student out of a middling troublemaker. It remains to be seen if Gooseberry's faculty can convince him to try a bit harder.
At Hogwarts, Dimi's favorite classes were Charms and Herbology. He is excited to try out Gooseberry's more unique offerings and is, in particular, looking forward to Wizard Literature and Aesthetic Magic.
EXTRACURRICULARS: Damon plans on showing up to everything at least once to give it all a try, but will most likely end up sticking with Archery, Drama, Duelling & Fencing (until he gets kicked out) and Outdoor Exploration
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