#Caitlyn Ceccere

[sirfluffig]

Flavio Ceccere - Updated Profile

(Art done by @praetoring)

IDENTITY

Name:  Flavio Julius Ceccere

Gender: Male

Age: 17 

Birth Date: 15th November 1972

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Species: Human

Blood Status: Pureblood

Sexuality: Demisexual 

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: British 

Residence: Ayr, Scotland  (Student) | Oxford, England (Adult) 

Myer Briggs Personality Type: INTP - The Logician

Enneagram Type: 5w6 - The Problemsolver

THE MAGE

Current Wand: 

(Art done by @lgvalenzuela)

→ Wand wood:  Ginkgo 

“These folk are knowledge oriented and are not ambitious for material wealth or objects. They are detached from their environment, and, as such, there can be issues with disorganization at their desk or home. 

Ginkgo owners are intensely private people. It takes a long time to understand them, and even longer to be considered their friend”

→ Wand Core:  Kneazle Whisker

“The prime owner would be alert to their surroundings, intelligent, and most likely introverted in nature. They can be distrusting of people at times, but are excellent judges of character.

They are aggressive towards those they’ve chosen to dislike, and it takes a lot for them to change their mind about it.  This may be revealed by their sharp tongue and caustic words, rather than physical aggression.”

Animagus: Due to an insufficient reasoning as to why he should ever become an Animagus, Flavio has taken a general disinterest in the ability of transfiguring into animal shapes. In his eyes it is quite unnecessary to put effort into gaining a magical ability without having any subsequent use for it. 

Misc Magical Abilities: 

→ Legilimency 

→ Occlumency

Boggart Form: A mirror image of himself gone mad, blank eyes and a deranged smile, staring at the young Ravenclaw like the mindless, rotten creature it has become

Riddikulus Form:  The creatures begins to shamble towards him, trips and falls over with a comedic “bleurgh” sound as it lays on the ground defeated, struggling to get up again

Amortentia: (What do they smell like?): Cold Coffee , old ink in books, freshly ironed clothes

Amortentia: (What do they smell?): Chocolate chip banana bread,  sunflowers, strawberry concoctions

Patronus: Alligator

“Alligator people tend to be assertive and self-assured, but are subtle and not overly showy. They are very proud and can be extremely dominant in their environment when they choose. But not to be fooled with a griffin's pride, alligator people tend to hide themselves a bit. They only show their true colors when they are threatened or angered. Much like the actual alligator, they can become aggressive and lash out when they feel it is necessary.  

They also are very assured in their self wisdom. Most people whose Patronus is an alligator are usually very smart and know how to do well on their own. Alligators themselves are not usually found in groups, so you won't find these people walking around with others very often. They like to be by themselves most of the time and very rarely take part in many social activities.

Along with being aggressive when need be and smart, most people with an alligator patronus are very observant. Like I stated earlier, they only lash out when they feel they're in danger or if they're angered. They don't do it for any old reason. An alligator person is observant in their surroundings and patient in deciding what they see as a threat. They observe slowly and don't make rash decisions on the fly. “ 

Patronus Memory: Flavio’s Patronus memory centers around the first time he secretly held hands with Penny behind the Owl tower on a late spring afternoon. He will never forget the look she gave him and how rosy red her cheeks have gotten as she slowly reached for his hand. It was the first time he felt true happiness of any sort. 

Mirror of Erised: As pretentious as Flavio may seem to outsiders, he is a man of simple dreams and simple wishes. The Mirror of Erised would show him, sitting on a wing chair in a fairly large personal library, holding a book in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other while tiny little raindrops hit the large window behind him. 

Specialized/Favorite Spells:

→ Obliviate 

→ Immobilus

→ Silencio 

APPEARANCE

Faceclaim: Blake Steven

Voiceclaim: James McAvoy

Height: 6’3” - 192  cm

Weight: 180 lbs - 81 kg

Physique: He has a very lean physique and is rather slim for boys of his age and height

Eye Colour: Chestnut brown

Hair Colour: Chocolate brown with white streaks growing more and more into the hair

Skin Tone: White

Body Modifications: None

Scarring: None

Inventory: 

→ Wand

→ All sorts of books and scrolls on magi-historical topics along the entire wizarding world timeline

→ Dungeons and Dragons Equipment 

→ “The Matters of Mind and Memory” - A book written by one of his ancestors about mind altering spells

Fashion: Flavio is often seen wearing long-sleeved sweaters or cardigans over a nicely ironed buttoned up shirt in combination with long dark jeans or suit pants and black high cut converse shoes. His clothing style is meant to expose as little skin of his body as possible and hide away his fragile stature behind layers upon layers of clothing. 

ALLEGIANCES 

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Ilvermorny House: Horned Serpent

Affiliations/Organizations: 

Great Britain

Ceccere Family

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Ravenclaw House

Hogwarts School Prefects

Hogwarts School Headboys

Ministry of Magic

Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

Obliviator Headquarters

Order of the Phoenix

Professions:

Ravenclaw Student

Ravenclaw Prefect

Ravenclaw Headboy

Obliviator

Head of the Obliviator Department

Head of the Department for Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

HOGWARTS INFORMATION

Class Proficiencies:

Astronomy:  ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆

Charms: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

DADA: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

Flying: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Herbology: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆

History of Magic: ★★★★★★★★★☆

Potions: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Transfiguration:  ★★★★★★★★☆☆

Electives:

Care of Magical Creatures: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Study of Ancient Runes : ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Quidditch: Flavio is generally not interested in playing Quidditch, however he does accompany his friends to watch some of the games on occasions.

Favourite Professors: Professor Silvanus Kettleburn

While he might not have the academical prowess that Flavio could look upto, the Ravenclaw does admire the professor's realism and wisdom. Kettleburn suffered extreme losses throughout his life:  His heart was broken and his limbs were stolen - and yet, he keeps a positive and quite optimistic outlook on the future. This upbeat personality that Kettleburn provides, despite his life trying to knock him down, is what Flavio admires first and foremostly. 

Least Favourite Professors: Professor Cuthbert Binns

Even the most knowledgeable person can’t teach something if nobody listens, and that is the case with Professor Binns. Flavio’s general dismay towards the ghost comes from the fact that even he himself almost fell asleep during the lectures, something that shouldn’t be the case. Though, despite his negative opinion towards Binns, he does appreciate that the History of Magic teacher values his dedication and ambition to the subject, awarding him reasonable grades at all times. 

RELATIONSHIPS

Brother: Nero Ceccere 

Pureblood

Nero has darkish brown hair with elaborate white streaks running across his entire head, styled in a more tapered cut

His physique is rather slim, despite his height - he seems to have a Vitamin D deficiency

The left eye is hidden behind an eyepatch - courtesy of fighting with Patricia Rakepick

Sorted into Slytherin

Natural Legilimens, Exceeding at Hexes and Curses of all sorts

25 Years old 

Nero appears to be more of a loner, he isn’t quite one for the talking and he prefers to keep to himself. He much rather spends his time analyzing and observing others, judging them quietly while making mental notes on their behaviour and their vices, in case he would need to use this kind of knowledge against them at some point. 

Despite his more intimidating appearance, he is a quite harmless person, driven by knowledge of ancient magic and cultures. Therefore it wasn’t uncommon for him, to skip classes he thought of as less desirable in order to study the curses and hexes which were used to fortify the vaults against intruders

Obviously, not many were delighted about one of their own dabbling in hexes and curses, therefore Nero was more avoided than embraced even among his own house members. This led to the young Slytherin shutting himself more and more off, becoming even more focused on solving the mysteries of the vaults. 

Only shortly before he was sealed into the Portrait vault, Nero realized that Professor Rakepick,  the only person that “recognized his potential” and “was willing to help him decipher the riddles of the vaults” actually was a traitor, though it was too late. He had already walked into her trap. 

And just as he thought, he would have to spend the rest of eternity in a portrait, he was saved by nobody less than his little brother, who pieced together the position of the vault primarily due to Nero’s detailed notes.

Despite all expectations, Nero merely apologizes for the inconveniences he has created for Flavio before he apparates out of the Vault and continues to hunt down the last vault as well as his former associate Patricia Rakepick. After all, it was her who “stole” his eye. And as the old saying goes “An eye for an eye”. 

Once Rakepick was taken care of, Nero returned to his family home after an extended period of time, only to find everything like he left it. His family had the respect for him, not to touch his belongings or rearrange his room. They wanted to have it just like it was before he left the mansion. 

The  return of the formerly suspected Death Eater to society, was a hard step for Nero but he did it nonetheless, he moved out of the family estate and into a more rural era, applying to multiple places as a cursebreaker before the Gringotts Bank deemed themselves needy of a expert in terms of hexes and curses. 

Sister: Caitlyn Ceccere

Pureblood

Caitlyn has long wavy black hair running down to her neck kept together by a headband

Her physique is slightly more muscular even though she ends up on the shorter end 

She wears glasses and has braces for most of her school time

Sorted into Gryffindor 

Natural Occlumens, Rudimentary Seer abilities

12 years old

Caitlyn, in regards to her own family often feels like the odd one out. She doesn’t consider herself an academic genius like the rest of her family. Her interest doesn’t lie in spellwork or history but in fiction. She adores fictional stories, she almost devours every piece of pop culture that is being published and she is incredibly knowledgeable about all kinds of trends, but it doesn’t feel like she belongs among the brightest minds of her wizarding generation. At least, to her. 

The young Gryffindor spends a majority of her time reading all sorts of comics or drawing her own little one about a girl that fights off mythical monsters to save her school. The idea comes from Caitlyn's inner desire to no longer stand in the shadow of her two older brothers and show the world that she herself also is capable of fighting and defending Hogwarts when it's needed. 

She first became a hero to someone else when she actively skipped classes, knowingly she might fail her classes in order to comfort Beatrice Haywood, who was trapped in the portrait for the majority of her first year in Hogwarts. This loyalty towards the young Hufflepuff is later on rewarded by Caitlyn being one of the only people Beatrice trusts enough to open up to. 

After being freed from the Portrait, the Hufflepuff had to endure a lot of pity and belittling, especially from her older sister. Opposed to that, Beatrice felt that Caitlyn actually cared, that she was invested in the wellbeing of the Hufflepuff and that nothing would stop her from making sure that everything is in order. This and the fact that both girls realized that they somehow suffered from standing in the shadow of their older siblings, formed a bond that could very well be described as friendship. 

These two grew closer and closer as time progressed and it's no wonder to their classmates  that they became a couple shortly before graduating. Their continuous exposure to each other, after all, made them fall in love with each other and the story for sure, doesn’t end there. 

Father: Sylas Ceccere 

Pureblood

Sylas has short black hair with whitish gray tips and a black beard that has grown white at some parts

He has a lanky yet very dextrous stature. It seems like he isn’t quite used to heavy physical work

As a student sorted into Ravenclaw - now he works as a high ranking member of the International Magic Correspondence Office  and Philanthropist 

50 Years old

Sylas is a very dedicated person. Compassion and philanthropy are the two strongest traits that you would associate with him. He cares deeply about the people around him and tries to help his friends as good as possible without putting his own needs behind theirs. He counts generally as very excitable and curious with a huge interest in riddles and mysteries.

While it might seem a little childish, Sylas is a big fan of giving his guests a riddle that they may solve till their next visit and if they succeed, they earn themselves a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. 

That is mainly due to Sylas’ love for baking. He especially loves making Chocolate chip banana-bread - something that he quickly became famous for in the Cecere and Haywood family. 

Sylas is also the family member that highly values festivities and goes to great lengths to make family traditions as well as holidays as enjoyable as possible, he even researches muggle board games that he and his family can play while the kids are home. 

Mother: Delilah Ceccere ( neé Syronis ) 

Pureblood

Delilah has medium length chestnut brown hair with her fringe coloured in white hair 

She has a delicate stature, fitting for a lady of her position and age 

Delilah can often be seen wearing turquoise earrings to match her blue eyes

As a student sorted into Slytherin - nowadays she’s a retired minister of magic and author

49 Years old

While she was a very strict person during her job, Delilah has grown to be much more calm during her retirement. She now has way less responsibilities and less on her plate so she can focus on what she loves to do: writing books. Her favourite topic appears to be murder mysteries and she always has very elaborate ruses on her mind. She loves to sit back and watch her husband’s unending enthusiasm sweep everyone off their feet.

Often regarded as the matriarch of the Ceccere Family, Delilah's naturally dominant and strong appearance helps her greatly to earn the respect and attention of guests and occasionally family members in order to hold a speech and or criticize behavior.

In order to write her books as realistic as possible, Delilah spend a lot of her time studying human anatomy, efficient ways to murder people, simply biology and forensics alongside all kind of other methods of science and deduction. 

Even though she therefore has a lot of knowledge on how to get rid of people, the fighting days of “demolishing Delilah” as her colleagues at the ministry used to call her, are by far over. Nowadays she just likes to tell anecdotes and stories from her times as an auror 

Love Interest: Penny Haywood 

(Art by @lgvalenzuela )

Best Friends:

Barnaby Lee

Talbott Winger

Murphy McNully

Badeea Ali 

Rival:

Merula Snyde

Skye Parkin

Ismelda Murk

Enemy:

The “R” Organization

Patricia Rakepick

Dormmates:

Andre Egwu

Talbott Winger

Aras Wimpelfels

An empty bed belonging to a lost friend

Pets: Copernicus the Eagle Owl 

Closest Canon Friends:

Barnaby Lee

Talbott Winger

Murphy McNully

Badeea Ali

Ben Copper

Nymphadora Tonks

BACKGROUND/HISTORY

Born into a wealthy family with land and wealth in the southwest of Scotland, Flavio wasn’t like the other kids that lived in the city closeby. He never went out to play with his dog or attended muggle school. Instead he spent a lot of time inside - reading, writing, drawing. Much to the pleasure of his parents, Flavio showed academic personality traits and interests at a young age.

His passion for these kinds of interests were probably mostly fueled by his mother Delilah, who decided to take some time off of her current project and write a handful of books with vocabulary and grammar for Flavio to learn reading with. One could easily say that Mrs Ceccere, was without doubt, highly concerned with her son's education and did everything in her power to further Flavio's thirst for knowledge..

In addition, around the same age as his fascination for literary topics arose, his body also displayed the random bursts of magical energy that actually confirmed him to be a member of the wizarding society. Much to the relief of his parents, since it has taken a prolonged time for Flavio’s ability to manifest

While Flavio was not old enough to quite understand why Nero had to be gone for such a long time at once, he still was thrilled every time his older brother came home over the holidays. Sadly, his older brother did not share Flavio’s enthusiasm and often hid away in his room, mildly ignoring the Ravenclaw to take care of his own studies and research. On the rare occasion that the two brothers actually did something together, it often resulted in Nero teaching Flavio about ancient magic and long lost civilizations. Nero especially loved teaching about the Roman Empire and their superiority towards other nations of their time. 

Not long after Flavio had learned how to read, his little sister Caitlyn was born. Now with two kids on their hands that needed to learn about the world, the Ceccere’s delegated some of the educational responsibility regarding the Ravenclaw to their oldest son. While Nero first protested against this decision, he later on gave in and got to recognize that spending time with his younger brother wasn't as bad as it seemed to be. 

Flavio grasped a lot of knowledge about history, politics, science, spellwork and so on and so forth from his older brother. Nero took special interest in teaching Flavio how the world works, what actions usually cause which reactions, how to read people's body language and how to remember specific information for a long amount of time. Something that the Ravenclaw couldn’t possibly have learnt from his shrewd but reclusive brother are social skills. 

With the beginning of Nero’s fifth year at Hogwarts, the letters that the Slytherin sent home became increasingly more cryptic. Some were coded in a sort of alien speech, others disintegrated into black dust after staring at them too long. It became sort of maddening. This went on for a few months and nobody in Flavio’s family was even close to deciphering any of these letters. They contemplated visiting their son at school but feared that this could make, whatever it is what is going on right now, even worse. So they just collected these letters and sealed them away. This was, till there were no more letters. 

Around the summer break, the letters stopped coming. In fact, there was no more communication at all. And worry began to place itself within the family. While Nero was known to be moody from time to time, he was always punctual or at least, excused his absence. But neither did the Slytherin return to the family estate for the summer break nor did he write any more letters. With worry steadily growing, the Ceccere’s tried to get in contact with every possible person that might know where Nero could have gone, to no avail. Even Hogwarts Headmaster stated that he hasn’t seen Mr. Nero Ceccere in a while. 

This means that the formerly so harmonious and caring family was now forced to live under the impression that their oldest son had gone missing … or worse. Which took a toll on everyone's mood for a short amount of time. But they never stopped searching for Nero, they never gave up hope to one day reunite with their long lost son. 

By the time Flavio received his Letter to Hogwarts, Nero had been missing for almost 3 years. More forcibly than anything, the Ceccere’s had tried to move on and focus on the future of their other two children. Yet when Sylas and Delilah handed Flavio the envelope they implored that Flavio should take some time off of his studies as often as possible to investigate the disappearance of Nero. 

And with that, the Events of Hogwarts Mystery begin… 

PERSONALITY

Intellectual: Due to his superior intellectual prowess, Flavio can be considered one of the brightest wizards of his age and time. And while it is true that Flavio has memorized a multitude of knowledge, which can be helpful in all sorts of situations, he certainly lacks streetsmarts. Therefore he might be able to quote books word for word or calculate specific statistics within seconds, but in return he has almost no social intelligence or a grip on how to deal with less theoretical problems. Yet this doesn’t stop him from taking pride in his expanded knowledge. 

Perceptive : While he is not much of a spotlight character, Flavio has honed other talents in his time at Hogwarts. Instead of playing the forward hero, the Ravenclaw prefers to stay back and pay attention to his surroundings, inspecting changes in someone's body language and making mental notes of some people's behaviors. This information, as Nero has taught him, later on helps to read people like a book, knowing what they think about the people  they interact with and piecing together parts of the other people like a puzzle. 

Socially Awkward:  Because Flavio was given into the educational care of his more reserved and reclusive brother, he never quite gained a grip on the social aptitude that the rest of his family displays. While he might be a genius on a variety of topics, he certainly appears to stumble when it comes to holding natural conversations as well as talking in front of a large sum of people. He struggles with giving wrong answers or saying the wrong thing and therefore obsesses over every word that comes out of his mouth. Therefore Flavio prefers to keep to himself and his books. 

Witty: “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.” - While Flavio might lack the charisma that other purebloods use to charm their way into the minds of others, the Ravenclaw has found his own way with words. He uses his natural aptitude for words or ideas to create humor or counter arguments in an inventive way rather than bluntly insulting someone. 

MISC

Flavio is fluent in English, German, French and Russian as well as Latin

He is highly addicted to Coffee and is only rarely seen without a cup of coffee in his hand

Flavio can legally be classified as a genius due to his measured IQ of 187

He also developed the talent of quick-reading which granted him the ability to read approx. 20.000 words per minute

Chemistry Jokes are endlessly funny to the Ravenclaw

Some suspect that Flavio was sorted wrongly and actually belongs into Slytherin house instead

Flavio is very passionate about the few fictional texts he he read and absolutely loves everything regarding the Lord of the Rings, 

When he was a child, Flavio always dreamt of becoming a private investigator and solving crimes like the ones his mother wrote 

After graduating and moving to Oxford, Flavio visited a course to attain a PhD in Psychology

[sirfluffig]

~ LINEAGE CHALLENGE - Day two @kathrynalicemc ~

The Ceccere Family is known for its generally growth during the rise of the British Empire, due to the nature of the high ranking political and cultural positions they gained - which attracted quite a lot of admirers and love interests. Even after the British Empire's power began to decrease - the Cecceres were able to keep up a long and quite healthy bloodline with only a few so called "traitors" to their name.

The alliance with the Vaughan Family in the early 19th century is what brought together the branch of Cecceres that Flavio and his family originate from which later splits off into the Cecceres and a different wizarding family. Yet there are many more branches spread across the country, profiting from their former alliances during the time of the Empire!

Even nowadays it is quite common to see Cecceres in Positions of high power such as Sylas Ceccere - Correspondent for International Magic Legislature, Leona Ceccere - Captain of Aurors or Flavio Ceccere - Head of the Ministrys Department for Accidents and Catastrophes

Includes @risobox 's OC Leo Blinar