Bram Ian Jayden

Character Info--
Age: Twenty-seven.
Graduation: 2008 from Ireland’s Dissendium Academy of Magic.
OWLs/NEWTs: Filling these out will be a pain, so they come after everything is finished.

History:
The insanely abridged version, because no one wants to read thousands of words of history:

Bram was born to Faolan and Aeryn Jayden on June 21st, 1991 to Faolan and Aeryn Jayden. A twin, he was born mere seconds after his sister, Mia. From womb to young adulthood, it seemed to be a prevailing trend – Bram followed his sister everywhere. Unfortunately for the twins, however, Aeryn suffered “complications” (in other words, Faolan’s pureblooded family didn’t take too kindly to Faolan’s marrying a muggle and ensured she wouldn’t raise her children) after their birth and died as a result.

As he aged, Bram wasn’t much of a people-person and preferred to stay around the house with his nose in a book. His sister, on the other hand, was much more sociable, and he tagged along behind her during their early school years. She didn’t seem to mind it much, but he always wondered if she wanted more space than he gave her. Regardless, Bram spent much of his time enwrapped in fiction and grew obsessed with the idea of living a real-life storybook.

That wish would be granted on the twins’ eleventh birthday, when they each received their letter to Hogwarts. Initially excited by the revelation that magic could actually exist in the real-world, Bram found himself suffering academically – his father had not prepared him for existence in the Wizarding World and it took him years to catch up. Even when he began to catch up academically, he suffered for it socially, leaving him feeling inept around many of the students, especially those in his own blood conscious house: Slytherin. His sister, meanwhile, was sorted in Ravenclaw, and for the first time in his life, he couldn’t tag along behind her the majority of the time.

The separation would become more drastic when the twins found that they were sent to Hogwarts by mistake. As a result, they were both offered the chance to transfer to Ireland’s Dissendium Academy of Magic. Bram’s discomfort with change made him choose to stay at Hogwarts, and Mia’s thirst for it fueled her choice to attend Dissendium. It wasn’t long before Bram followed her, both to keep a watch over her and ensure that he was close to his twin again.

Dissendium was an adjustment for him, and he struggled to keep up in his studies again. It didn’t help that he had to deal with bloodhounds disguised as boys who just –adored- sniffing around his sister, not to mention falling for a murderess, Marion Fry, whose victim was his sister’s on-and-off-again boyfriend, Kieran Brynn. Eventually Marion was killed by Lucinda Simington – a friend of Mia’s – before it was subsequently revealed that Marion had been Simington’s alter and that she suffered from Wizarding Multiple Personality Disorder (WMPD).

The following year, a stressed Bram had managed to catch up on most of his studies with the exception of Potions – he had never been able to grasp the subject very well. After a critical failure in the middle of a class with the abominable Professor Damien Reed, his constant rival at Dissendium – Ivy Ballantine – began to tutor him, and they grew an awkward respect for one another. Shortly thereafter, they even schemed to keep apart his twin’s alter – Endora Aine – and her notoriously violent suitor, Silas Lysander.

By the end of the year, Bram began to feel like a changed person – he felt less withdrawn and became less of a recluse. Unfortunately, however, his contentedness would be short lived by the death of his twin in a demonstration by the pureblood supremacist group, the Blood Brothers. Completely devastated, Bram ghosted through his graduation from Dissendium Academy and immediately began outpatient counseling at Dagda – a wizarding mental hospital – to learn to cope with his sister’s death.

After several months of outpatient care, Bram entered the real-world again, and was determined to take up where his sister left off by assisting any way he could with the Irish Blood Revolution. Though he did what he could, he soon found out that his pureblooded father was a target for the injustice of marrying a Muggle. There was too much danger, not enough protection, and Bram refused to lose his last living relative. He insisted that all ties had to be cut for his father’s safety and as a result, they left Ireland, renounced magic and even went so far as to change their names so that no one could ever find them in England.

Going by Ian Fry, he and his father lived as Muggles and made a quiet life for themselves with their only connection to wizardry being Bram’s research of WMPD. Considering Mia’s fight with the disorder, as well his memory of Marion, he became almost obsessed with devouring case studies and research. His interest in WMPD led him to expand his horizon to psychology as a whole, and he eventually became a therapist, providing a stable income for him and his father as well as enlightening him in the workings of the human mind.

While Bram found his future in psychology, his father mourned over the country from which he had been practically exiled. Finally, on the anniversary of Mia’s death, Faolan insisted on visiting her grave in Ireland. Though Bram was vehemently opposed to the notion, Faolan insisted and he reluctantly caved. Upon their arrival to Ireland, Faolan was promptly seized on false charges, with Bram narrowly escaping back to Ireland. He hasn’t seen or heard from his father since.

Thoroughly heartbroken, Bram delved back into wizardry and continued his direction in psychology – now more focused than ever and determined to keep himself busy. In the process, he reconnected with an acquaintance from his earlier dalliances in psychology, Miranda Honeycutt. A psychologist herself, and Irish to boot, he was surprised that she was also a wizard. The more time they spent with one another, the more they wanted to spend until Bram proposed to her, ready to start a new family now that his was gone. Through at first reluctant, Miranda accepted his proposal and the two became engaged after a six month courtship.

In the meantime, Bram continued his occupation as a therapist and became a dementologist, researching magic mental disorders and counseling/treating individuals suffering from them. As his career soared, however, his relationship with Miranda began to suffer. The couple saw eye to eye on nearly every aspect of their relationship and perfectly complemented the other in every way but one – Bram greatly wanted children, while Miranda shuddered at the thought. The closer the wedding date approached, the more they bickered over the detail, with Miranda declaring that she could never be a mother to a child. Disillusioned, Bram reluctantly broke the engagement.

Shortly afterwards, Bram learned from a relative of Miranda’s that she had a reason for refusing the possibility of children – she was incapable of conceiving. Feeling immensely guilty for leaving her for such a ridiculous misunderstanding (they could frigging adopt if that was the issue), he attempted to reconcile with her only to find that she had already moved on and had begun a relationship with a new (richer, better-looking) man. Frustrated, disgusted and dejected, Bram delved further into his work, spending extra hours researching and making himself available to patients in attempt to make some good out of his extra time.

Though no longer keeping his identity much of a secret, Bram had managed to develop a decent reputation as Ian Fry for his treatment of patients with mental disorders. In need of a dementologist, St. Mungo’s offered “Ian” the position as a result. Desiring a change that he would have normally despised, Bram immediately accepted the offer and continues to practice there.


Personality: I just rewrote my history and it's eight in the morning... I haven't gone to bed yet. Must I? x-x
Okay, bullet time (this will be much better soon, I swear)!

• Reserved with most people.
• Adept listener (unless in the middle of a bicker-fest, when his ability to listen dies).
• Clingy.
• Ambitious, but lacks the will or ability to meet his goals.
• Fiercely loyal to the point of absurdity.
• Intelligent, but perhaps not that wise.
• Grossly overprotective.
• Cynical of most folks' motivations.
• Patient with the little things; impatient when it comes to the big things.
• Has a long memory and keeps track of each wrong he's committed or has been committed against him (works both ways - he remembers the "rights" as much as the "wrongs.")
• Overthinks everything entirely too much.
• Unlikely romantic due solely to his leftover desire to live in a storybook
• Resistant to change
• Relatively candid unless it would cost him something like his job.

Appearance: TBC! Until I can get something of substance for this, just picture Trent up there with red hair, blue eyes and extra shortness. =p


OOC Info--
Name & Contact Information: Brock & PMs are lovely. ^-^
Previous Roleplay Experience: On this side of the roleplaying spectrum (forum-based roleplays, that is), about two years-ish? Before I was a forum-RPer, I roleplayed in MUDs and chatrooms - terribly, I might add. :]