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[color=A1D3FF][h3][i]“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”[/i][/h3][/color]
[color=white][b][i]– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned[/i][/b][/color]
[i][sub]Arden looks like he hasn’t worked a day in his life - soft hands and smooth skin - though he’ll be the first to tell you otherwise. He is of Chinese and Korean descent, and stands at a perfectly respectable height of 5’11”, he’s a few inches taller than his parents, his lean, ectomorphic build only serving to further elongate his frame. Arden’s gait is tinged with the learned grace of a ballet dancer, always making sure to stand up straight, and his features contain the barest hints of androgyny. Other than that, however, he looks like your typical teenager, with long, gangling limbs that he has yet to grow into.

After discovering the wonders of the colovaria charm, Arden constantly changes his hair color, never sticking with one for more than a fortnight, though it’s always meticulously styled into a pleasing, windswept coif (he’s kinda vain like that). His eyes are dark and almond-shaped, glittering with perpetual enthusiasm for anything besides book-reading. Arden does his best to make people feel welcome, greeting acquaintances and best friends alike with a warm, toothy smile.

Arden’s clothing style is ripped straight from the pages of Teen Vogue, and he’s basically a poster boy for H&M. Almost every single article of clothing he owns is from there, with a selection from Forever 21 filling up the remainder. Needless to say, if he were to squeeze himself into a high school stereotype, he would undoubtedly be a prep. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, of course.[/sub][/i]

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[hr][hr][color=white][h3]Basic Information[/h3][/color][/center]
[color=A1D3FF]N A M E[/color]
[indent]Arden Yang Zhouyu (楊周禹/양주유)[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]N I C K N A M E[/color]
[indent]Can you even get a nickname from Arden? His dad calls him Xiaoyu (小禹), a diminutive of his Chinese given name, but that’s pretty much it.[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]B I R T H   D A T E[/color]
[indent]1st November, 1998[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]G E N D E R[/color]
[indent]Male[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]A G E[/color]
[indent]17[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]B L O O D   S T A T U S[/color]
[indent]Half-blood[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]S E X U A L I T Y[/color]
[indent]Bisexual Panromantic[/indent]
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[hr][hr][color=white][h3]Academics[/h3][/color][/center]
[color=A1D3FF]H O U S E[/color]
[indent]Warren[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]Y E A R[/color]
[indent]Seventh[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]E L E C T I V E S[/color]
[list][*]Alchemy
[*]Divination
[*]Care of Magical Creatures[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]B E S T   C L A S S E S[/color]
[list][*]Charms
[*]Defense Against the Dark Arts[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]W O R S T   C L A S S E S[/color]
[list][*]History of Magic
[*]Astronomy[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]C L U B S[/color]
[list][*]Charms Club
[*]Quidditch[/list]
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[hr][hr][color=white][h3]My Magic[/h3][/color][/center]
[color=A1D3FF]B O G G A R T[/color]
[indent]A cross between failure and rejection; Arden’s boggart manifests itself as a dozen figures cloaked in shadow, circling him as they whisper disappointedly amongst themselves about his ineptitude and lack of potential.[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]P A T R O N U S[/color]
[indent]Palm Cockatoo[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]A M O R T E N T I A[/color]
[indent]Fresh Laundry | Chocolate | New Shoes | Lavender | Aftershave | Starbucks | Chlorine[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]W A N D[/color]
[indent]Hornbeam | Dragon Heartstring | Unyielding | 11”[/indent]
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[hr][hr][color=white][h3]Mannerisms[/h3][/color][/center]
[color=A1D3FF]L I K E S[/color]
[list][*]Reality TV
[*]Chocolate
[*]Warm weather
[*]Fashion
[*]Soda
[*]Social media
[*]Flying[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]D I S L I K E S[/color]
[list][*]Staying indoors
[*]Horses
[*]Broccoli
[*]The smell of newspapers
[*]Laziness
[*]Rejection
[*]Loneliness[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]H A B I T S[/color]
[list][*]Arden always has to do something with his hands. Most of the time, you’ll find him playing with his hair, tugging at a loose thread at the hem of his shirt, or even just twiddling his thumbs. These small, repetitive movements are a way for him to expend some of that excess energy he’s always so full of.
[*]Remembering an old joke, and laughing to himself like a total creep. It’s gotten him into more awkward situations than he can count, like that time at his great-aunt’s funeral, after he remembered a particularly awful pun about a badger, and everyone turned to look at him, shock and judgement in their eyes.
[*]Arden has a tendency, when excited, to jump and flap his hands around. This is usually harmless, but sometimes, he smacks people in the face on accident.
[*]Arden snacks. [i]A lot[/i]. He doesn’t quite know why, but after a period of stagnancy, he always feels a compulsive need to stuff his face with junk food, especially the sugar-laden variety. Thank God for fast metabolism.[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]H O B B I E S[/color]
[list][*]Dancing. He started out with ballet when he was eight, but as of late, he has begun to branch out into hip-hop and modern dance.
[*]Live-tweeting his thoughts about current events, celebrity news, and just the trashiest reality TV shows he can find.
[*]Eating. He’s always hungry.[/list]
[color=A1D3FF]F E A R S[/color]
[list][*]Failure
[*]Rejection
[*]Horses, unicorns, hippogriffs, etc. He almost got kicked in the face once.[/list]
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[hr][hr][color=white][h3]Delving Deeper[/h3][/color][/center]
[color=A1D3FF]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/color]
[indent]After years of crossing oceans for people who would barely jump a puddle for him, Arden has grown to be just a tad selfish. While he used to help people out of nothing but the goodness of his heart, it earned him a reputation, and not one he particularly enjoyed. His frequent apologies have been cut down, and he is more assured of himself and his actions after feeling - for longer than he’d care to admit - like he’d lost himself somewhere along the way. If he’s bored enough, he’ll do anything for anyone. All the same, Arden doesn’t ask for anything in return when he completes a task for someone else, he’ll shoot them a salute, an [i]‘aye aye cap’[/i], and get to business. He doesn’t complain about any of the tasks that he has to do, instead he stays quiet about it, racking up the favors in return for the moment in which he might somehow need them.

It should be said that there are some things that haven’t changed. He is still disgustingly organized, friendly, and extroverted. He’s an incurable optimist at heart, and has a tendency to see the glass as half full. Loyalty is one of Arden’s strongest traits; once you give him a good reason to trust you, he’ll be by your side and stick up for you no matter what, even if he knows you’re wrong. His impulsiveness is another key trait, making decisions with little thought of how he’s going to accomplish it, or what the consequences might be, but he’s hard-working enough that once he makes a decision, he sticks to it and sees it through to the end. Arden also prides himself on being creative; he loves clothes, dancing, and uses any means necessary to make his expression known.

While Arden generally makes it a point to avoid confrontation - and believe me, he’s [i]very[/i] hard to anger - he can at times be a tad overbearing. Of himself, he accepts nothing but the best, and he expects the same from those around him. He rarely gets violent, though his words can sting. Reputation means a lot to Arden, more so than anything; grades, friends, even family. So when he doesn’t receive the attention he thinks he deserves, he is quick to become anxious. He feels a strange sort of paranoia that one day, the whole of Salem will turn against him, and socially exile him to loneliness, or worst still; [i]the library club[/i]. Arden has developed a need for closeness and reassurance in his relationships, often coming across as jealous or even pushy in his attempts. It’s not uncommon for him to find himself getting overly attached to anyone who shows him even the least bit of niceness.[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]H I S T O R Y[/color]
[indent]Arden was born in Daegu, South Korea, but was raised, for the most part, in Palo Alto. His father is the head developer for a NuTech, a computer company, which meant he had to uproot and move his family to the tech capital of the US in order to further develop the project. Needless to say, Arden has grown up fairly immersed in NuTech; the Muggle World has always been fascinating to him, because after his mother’s big reveal six years before his birth, he’s essentially grown up with one foot in both. In spite of their financial security, Arden’s parents were always kind of disengaged from his life, their work always taking priority, which was why he began to grow particularly close to his older brothers. It wasn’t until he was around eight years old that he found his true calling.

What started as a simple tryout for the junior ballet troupe blossomed into a seemingly lifelong endeavour for Arden. The moment class began, he found himself entranced by the instructor’s movements. Somehow, she managed to turn even the simplest of movements into an impressive exercise in elegance. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the art form, and it proved to be an invaluable way for him to expend some of that energy constantly buzzing through his veins. By the age of eleven, the same year he received his acceptance letter to Salem, he was just starting to learn how to dance en pointe, before he branched out to other genres.

One of his brothers, however, turned out to be a Squib, and while he tried to hide it, Arden was secretly relieved that he had inherited his mother’s magical ability. He’d waited for a nail-biting three years, wondering if he’d end up going to Muggle school like Amos. After living a life that’d been fully enmeshed in the Wizarding World, the last thing he wanted was to resign himself to one without any magic. Still, he thought it wise to banish the thought from his mind. Amos didn’t seem bothered by it, and neither should he.

When Arden got to Salem, however, he got lost in the mix of things. While his mother and oldest brother had both been sorted into Good, Spencer was sorted into Warren, and to be quite frank, he always felt a little out of place there. The Warrens’ approach of [i]logic over emotion[/i] was something he could never quite get used to, and some days, he thought he would’ve been better off in Tituba. It was tough at first, even more so when Asher graduated from Salem in Arden’s second year. Without Asher there as a sort of crutch, he shrunk into himself, growing desperate for acceptance from his peers. Unable to harm a fly or breathe without an apology falling from his lips, Arden was easily taken advantage of in his first two years at Salem.

It was only after Arden returned home on break that Amos realised something was wrong. Arden had always been a sweet child, naive to a fault, and it took a good talking to from his brother to grow him a backbone. If there was anyone’s advice he could trust, it was his brother’s. Amos understood him like no other, even better than Asher did. The months that followed were transformative in more ways than one. Puberty hit him like a freight train, and he returned to school more self-assured than ever. Gone is the meek twelve year old who wouldn’t even [i]dream[/i] of standing up for himself, though some would say that after he’d had his first taste of popularity, he’s been overdoing it a little.[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]F A M I L Y[/color]
[indent][url=https://media.giphy.com/media/tUXwaNjgcBA2s/giphy.gif]Eric Yang Jingguo[/url] (Father, 46) - Mr. Yang is a Muggle, and the head developer of a computer company. He’s a little bumbling, though he makes up for it by being incredibly hardworking. Needless to say, he got quite the shock when his first child got his acceptance letter to Salem.

[url=http://49.media.tumblr.com/7321cc1447d561f200218a39b1cbc4d8/tumblr_nxcv823Ja11qa4l1ko3_500.gif]Yvette Shin Hyo Rin[/url] (Mother, 46) - Mrs. Yang is a pureblooded witch, and she holds a fairly important position in the Republic of Magic. She’s loud, hot-headed, and perhaps a tad too opinionated, but despite her many shortcomings, she’s fiercely dedicated to her line of work.

[url=http://33.media.tumblr.com/763b9073d4a221bbf09f29e8553cefae/tumblr_mvg42pZwWg1qhaciho3_r1_500.gif]Asher Yang Shengxun[/url] (Brother, 23) - Asher is a newly-appointed Auror, having just finished the year-and-a-half long training program. Unlike his younger siblings, he’s generally rather blunt and no-nonsense, preferring to deal with things head on.

[url=https://49.media.tumblr.com/0b26801d20609eb0bfba4f1a6c9b053b/tumblr_nwdx1bQgxb1ui8e6do1_500.gif]Amos Yang Zhengxian[/url] (Brother, 20) - Arden’s older brother and a Squib. Amos is currently in his second year at Boston University, specialising in Music Composition and Theory. Despite his lack of magic, he’s always been close with Arden, and he likes to think his zest for life makes up for it, anyway.[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]F A M I L I A R[/color]
[indent]A [url=http://owlsofniagara.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/0/6/3206994/5324464_orig.jpg]long-eared owl[/url] named Houdini (ha, get it? HOO-dini?). He’s slightly overweight, flying a little less gracefully than the rest of his feathered brethren, though who could resist those [i]cute widdle ear tufts[/i]? ...Seriously though, Arden should probably stop feeding him so much.[/indent]
[color=A1D3FF]T H E M E   S O N G[/color]
[indent][url=http://youtu.be/5bpcS1UfsIE]Behind The Sea – Panic! At The Disco[/url]
[sub]“A daydream spills from my corked head
Breaks free of my wooden neck
Left a nod over sleeping waves
Like bobbing bait for bathing cod”[/sub][/indent]
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[color=A1D3FF]E X T R A N E O U S   I N F O[/color]
[list][*]Arden is trilingual, fluent in English, Mandarin, and Korean.
[*]Chaser for the Warren Quidditch team.[/list][/color][/hider]
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[quote][color=8dc73f]♫[/color] – Best Friend
[color=8dc73f]☮[/color] – Friend
[color=d3d3d3]☯[/color] – Neutral
[color=ed1c24]⚡[/color] – Rival
[color=ed1c24]⚔[/color] – Nemesis
[color=firebrick] 💔[/color] - Ex
[color=f49ac2]♥[/color] – Love Interest
[color=f49ac2] 💕 [/color] – Boyfriend/Girlfriend[/quote]
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