Donovan Salinger Ilvermorny

As if he needed to be more predictable, Donovan has a very simple look to him;
blonde hair, blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and a tight-lipped smile. His jangly appearance is often due to his skinny arms and legs, and his face that never has a serious expression on it. Though he considers himself painfully average, and sometimes even ugly, he got lucky with the developing bone structure in his face. That being said, he hasn't quite figured his appearance out yet and continues to shuffle around with a goofy, dumb look on his face to try and avoid having to smile for a camera.


A common complaint amongst adults when speaking about Don is the simple fact that he has an answer for everything, and in just a few seconds. He'd heard it all, how he should be a lawyer, if he spoke to his mother with that mouth-- whatever it was, he knew what to hear, and he had an rebuttal to that statement in its own.
His biggest fault is that he thinks he knows everything. Not quite when it comes to science, or math, but when it comes to how people think. Once he has his opinion of you, it will likely stay that way for a long time unless you give him a reason to think otherwise. He's stubborn, but his heart is the biggest. He's passionate, emotional, and often succumbs to his bad habit of his feelings clouding the way he sees things logically.
He can be a joy to be around, as he's goofy and expressive, but he loses his energy quickly and will become grumpy if pushed too far into a social situation. He could write letters for decades, draw pictures and comics, or make short films as a back and forth, but communication isn't necessarily his strong suit.


You're not usually destined for greatness when both of your parents decide they aren't ready for a kid about a week after they've had you, but some of us are lucky.
Both Maeve and Curtis Salinger decided that baby Donovan was too much for them, and oh-so gracefully handed him over to Curtis' older brother once they found out he'd pined over Don the second he met him. There was no need for name-changing, just some legal documents, and the baby was all Sam's.

Both Sam and Donovan did everything together, no matter what. Whether Don was laying by Sam's desk and drawing while Sam did work, or Sam taking a stroll around town, it was done as a duo. Don likes to remember these things whenever life gets heavy, he knows he had a good childhood and holds on to it with all he's got-- it wasn't always domestic like he'd often fantasize about, but it was rich in love, care, and a more genuine father-son relationship than his biological father could ever offer him.

Sam would often encourage Don to do what he loved most, no matter how many times he did it. The ones that stuck? Politics, social justice, drawing, film-making, and writing. Don went through many phases of interests, but Sam stuck by his side and funded the ones he noticed made his nephew the happiest. It was a good distraction from the fact that his parents thought lowly of their son, Don was pretty good at oppressing his dark thoughts until he was able to take them out on a piece of paper or film.

Don doesn't have trouble making friends, per se, he just has trouble connecting with other people. He has a small group of people he spends time with at Ilvernornmy, and while they don't quite see him for the person he'd like them to, he figures that it'll have to do, for now. He likes to write to people more, anyway.

Approved

Being a wizard-born he would obviously be surrounded by magical people primarily. The political climate in America is a separation of these groups, while not upheld by law it has been deeply ingrained into the culture of wizard families and there is little mixing due to a general sense of fear expressed by wizards of muggles. One could go as so far as to say that some wizards "find muggles to be very dangerous because they fear what they both do not understand what they do not have." A lesson that may have been passed onto you, although it is up to you if you share in those fears of course.

One of the few wizardborns participating in the event, one would think that the muggleborns and half-bloods were the "special ones" but no, it was Donovan. [An owl will be incoming.]