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Tio Kyber
Status:
Pure-blood
Nationality:
Irish
Residence:
Dublin, Ireland
Function:
First year, Gryffindor
Wand:
30,9 cm cherry wood and dragon heartstring
"The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it."

The Kyber family has been a permanent, if not exactly prominent, name in the Irish wizarding community since the early victorian era. Originally tailors, they made their money by being one of the first businesses to mass-produce wizard robes, and have kept the business alive through the ages as well as built a sizable family fortune. There has always been a Kyber blending in somewhere among the sea of faces at high-society parties, diligently observing the proper formalities and walking the line between politeness and ruthlessness, and as such the Kyber name is a respected, yet unobtrusive, mainstay among the upper class. This is how it has always been; and how Michael Kyber, the current family head, hoped it would always be.

He was wrong.

While his first son Kane turned out to be the heir he'd wanted, his second son, Tio, turned out to be the epitome of a social disaster! Conniving, negligent of proper etiquette and eccentric to the point of madness, Tio had fallen so far from the family tree that his parents wondered if he was genuinely insane! He had an overwhelming love for acting (or more accurately impersonation. Rude impersonation.) As well as other theatre and art skills such as disguise, painting, dancing, a few circus tricks and playing the drums. He developed some proficiency in larceny by hanging around with a group of poor muggles (something his mother was determined to never forgive him for,) and turned out to have a natural instinct for pushing people's buttons in order to annoy them into doing what he wanted. Whatever pride they could have found in the more acceptable of these skills however was negated by the way he used them. Tio had a devious mind and a mischievous streak a mile wide, and so turned his talents towards pulling pranks and sowing havoc wherever he went. After one particular incident where he charmed a chocolate fountain to violently erupt in the middle of an important politician's birthday party his parents decided that enough was enough, and carted Tio off to Hogwarts in the hopes that proper education would be able to straighten him out (or just get him out of their hair long enough to repair the damage he'd done to their good name.)

Tio has had more psychological tests than he'd care to admit, however the majority of them have revealed that his is, surprisingly, sane. A pathological liar at worst, and just an over-enthusiastic, easily bored normal guy at best, there doesn't seem to be anything to explain his eccentricities. Tio acts as weird as he does because for some reason he consciously chooses too. The reason why is something only he knows, and has never shared with anyone to this day.

When you first meet Tio, the thing that stands out about him perhaps the most is his bubbly enthusiasm. He is energetic and youthful, full of foolishness, ambition and adventurous spirit, and always seems to go with his own flow in a slightly childish manner, making jokes or other carefree remarks as he does his own thing. There is an undeniably macabre edge to some of the things he says and the way he behaves, though if pressed to follow through on his words with actions he rarely will. There is an overwhelming amount of eccentricity in him, reflected in his flair for the dramatic and vain love for his own appearance, which tends to make events he is a part of spiral out of control (often by his own design.) His game is all about entertainment, and it shows in his fondness for mischief, lies and trickery as well as his adamant refusal to do anything that he believes will be even a little boring. Tio is not in truth very good at the majority of the magical arts; possessing neither the patience, clarity of mind or dedication to focus on whatever doesn't immediately strike him as entertaining, but is at least semi-decent enough in potions and duelling to get by. What he excels at is not the magic itself, but figuring out how to use even the simplest spells in the most advantageous way by combining them with other non-magic skills or unleashing them at just the right moment. Rather than achieve success academically, Tio believes that the best way to truly improve himself is to constantly challenge people better than himself. This philosophy of 'improvement-through-conflict' is the reason for his obsession with defeating those he considers his rivals.