and honey, you should see me in a crown.

Dean Flint ✦ Wizard ✦ Shop Keeper

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it

▷ FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Age → 30 Alliance → Neutral Alumni → Slytherin House, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

▷ TAKE ME TO THE P A S T

It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, and Dean knows that. Working alongside, being kind to and helping people only works for the sake of keeping the peace in the wreckage that is the world. To keep the cogs turning in everyone’s mind, to keep everyone from trying to tear each other’s throats out. It’s violent and the best way to keep alive is to thrive rather than simply surviving.

Money. The world practically spins around the ideal that is certain paper is worth something. For muggles anyway. Whereas Dean grew up knowing the value of wizarding coins. Pureblooded as far back as his family know, Dean’s bloodline is something his family treasure as much as the next pureblooded family. They knew that in order to keep the name respected, they’d have to teach their son how to set the best example out in the world. He would appeal to the person in front of him; his personality would depend on theirs, what they wanted to see and who he needed to be in order to get what he wanted. Truth be told, Dean doesn’t really understand his own personality. Everything’s complicated. He keeps his mind occupied at almost all times, leaving him little time to spend by himself wondering what he could possibly do. Did he like to watch television? Maybe, but he didn’t know what he wanted to watch. Did he like to read? Perhaps, but he was unsure on what genres he loved. Who was he when he wasn’t around anyone else?

The answer was quickly answered. One day, Dean had literally nothing to do. And he realized, in that moment, that he mastered in the art of manipulation. Not maliciously, however, because the satisfaction he felt after helping people wasreal. He went about it by knowing a person, working with what he had and playing on facts he knew or had gathered. After playing a general character each time he was faced with a certain time of person, those personalities had become who he was today. A two-faced guy with loyalties on each side of the coin. It was better that way. You received a wider audience, you made friends in all the right places but there was a risk. Making sure you didn’t state that you had joined one side. Picking a side means getting caught when you help the opposition. Whereas if you help both without explicitly stating your alliance, you could get away with it. They had nothing to hold you against.

So, in terms of the ‘war’, Dean remains neutral. Helping out the resistance here and there, helping out the Ministry in return too. Nothing extreme. Dean wouldn’t be stupid enough to give valuable information to either side. Some will, and Dean will send people their way if he has been paid enough. Asides from his ‘extra-circular’ activities, there isn’t much Dean does for himself. Instead, he does things for other people. Requests here and there, Dean is more than happy to help out those who ask for it. Kind to those who hope for him to be kind and rigid for those who are less-than-happy to deal with someone bubbly, Dean knows how to work his way around people even if it’s not an instant effect –  but when has it ever hurt to have large numbers of contacts?

▷ FAMILIAR F A C E S

Dominique Weasley → With age comes wisdom… or so Dominique believes, anyway. The two of them haven’t been friends for very long -about a year- and she finds herself able to tell him as many things as she tells her closest friends. Dean usually isn’t bothered about what she has to say, but every piece of information she tells him adds more to his knowledge and makes it easier for him to get on her good-side.

Raelyn Burke → Dean doesn’t agree with the majority of what Raelyn says. But because they’re family and because of what his parents taught him, Dean is more than happy to sit there and nod whenever she says something. Unless he truly feels strongly about what she has to say, he’ll sit back and let her talk while not trying to have much of an agreeable or disagreeable input on it. 

Annika Lovett → Annika has a kind heart, one that Dean truly admires and respects. Whenever he’s down, Annika and her herbal-teas are at the ready to help boost his spirit. It’s easy to see why Dean would value her as a friend, even if the basis of their relationship was built around the fact that she was easy to manipulate into getting what he needed.

▷ A BOOK NOW O P E N

{ + } optimistic, vigilant, intelligent