Yves Chevalier

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yves chevaliersixth year duckweed
anywhere with you feels right

**Appearance**

 **Faceclaim** |  | felix mallard

yves is very assured in the fact that he is handsome – he is half-veela after all! like his mother, he has light brown hair that he is fond of growing out and styling just right so that it looks the perfect amount of messy. he's been told that he got his father's eyes, not that he's ever met his father, and until now he wishes that he had inherited his mother's blue ones instead. that would be much prettier, he thinks. he is a bit short compared to other boys, standing only at *almost* 5’9” and while this might frustrate other teenage boys, yves does not see anything wrong with it mostly because he is attracted to smaller height differences. it works out! he always looks well put-together and owns a rather stylish wardrobe, though he does not put much effort into his appearance, relying instead on his veela heritage to consistently be attractive.

**History**

diana was a member of an especially traditional veela clan in zmajkovo, which, at the time had *very* strict rules prohibiting contact with humans. after repeatedly and secretly leaving zmajkovo to visit the human world, diana was eventually found out by her clan elders and banished so that she could, in their words, “be with the humans she loved so dearly”. she was only eighteen, and settled down in marseille, france, taking a series of odd jobs to support herself. after a year in france, she decided to move to london and had actually hoped to visit a lot more countries in europe, but her presence in the uk was very quickly noticed by the minister for magic himself, einar faris. it was rare during that day and age for full-blooded veela to be existing in wizarding society. he drafted her to be part of an elite squad called ‘the morituri’, tasked to go on missions that may prove to be too dangerous for the average wix. diana agreed because it was difficult finding work elsewhere and the compensation for it was amazing. a large part of her acceptance, though, had to do with her naivete. she was only nineteen after all.

nonetheless, diana would form some of her strongest friendships on the team, most notably with jade knight and donovan cuyler (who then eventually married and then separated and well... it's a long story). her involvement with the morituri also led to a brief double-agent stint with the shrouded, an organization for dark witches and wizards that was inevitably brought down by a combined effort on the ministry's and parade's ends. the allies she made with the other creatures/beings in the organization, though, would prove to be invaluable and they were some of her most trusted companions.

eventually, diana would fall for jade's brother eric and the two of them had a 'thing' that resulted in diana's pregnancy, not that eric would ever find out about that. while diana knew *she* was in love, she very quickly realized the intensity of her feelings were not reciprocated, so she kept the pregnancy a secret and left work at the morituri (bound by her unbreakable bond to return when necessary). she moved back to france during there latter months of her pregnancy and there, she gave birth to yves julien chevalier. she raised her son by herself.

yves and his mother were thick as thieves and had a very good relationship – all they had was each other and their tiny flat in the heart of paris, where diana worked as a photojournalist. however, around the time yves was eight, his mother was called back to england as per her agreement with the ministry to begin undertaking these dangerous missions again. she did not want to. she was a mother now and did not want to risk yves being an orphan, but breaking the vow would result in the same fate. other than that, they had grown very comfortable living in paris and yves did *not* want to move. his first sign of magic happened around this time, as he threw a temper tantrum that resulted in him sprouting feathers all over and developing this weird black goop that leaked from all corners of his room and messed up all the whole place. that was fun explaining to their landlord, though in the end diana settled for having a friend confund him.

they would move back to england and lived in a quaint flat somewhere in london near the ministry headquarters. it was provided for by the ministry and they had diana's bigger salary to rely on now as well, so they lived a bit more comfortably than they did in paris. yves did not really relish in this "upgrade" because his mother was now nearly never home. she was always off doing this mission and that mission, leaving yves babysat by all these vampires and werewolves and goblins and other beings of the like. this would eventually cultivate a very... peculiar-supremacy mindset in yves' mind. missions also became considerably more dangerous for his mother, but she was under a vow to continue working for the ministry. she would eventually explain this to yves once she felt he was old enough to understand, and that only solidified his distaste for the ministry.

yves eventually got his adeothorne letter at eleven and he was sorted into duckweed. he was a bit of a troublemaker, especially during his earlier years, but he is half-veela and had the incredibly skill of talking himself out of any situation. it's rare that he faced the consequences for his actions. he would often convince other students to take the fall for him rather than attempt to directly charm the professors who try to punish him, but at thirteen during the boggart lesson, his entire year would find out about yves' half-veela status. (not that he was trying to hide it very well. he would argue that it just never came up.) a clone of minister faris himself would end up stepping out of the cabinet that day, and rather than using *riddikulus!* like everyone else, yves got so worked up that he shot a fireball at the creature and got detention afterwards for scorching the cabinet.

towards the end of yves' third year, diana's job would prove to be fatal and she died on a mission. until today, the details of her death are unclear. one day, he was just called to the head of duckweed's office and was informed that the body has been returned to london and was currently in the st. mungo's morgue. he was not given any answers to any of his questions, told that it was confidential and that it was part of the contract his mother was under that these details remain secret. yves was left in the custody of his godfather, a vampire named lazarus who was one of diana’s closest friends. at the time, yves was a moody, angsty teenager with the tendency to shoot fireballs and sprout feathers when he is angry (which is often). luckily for lazarus, yves has since matured.

diana’s death impacted yves greatly and it is still grief that he carries with him. for the longest time, it was just the two of them against the world and suddenly she was no longer there. while yves eventually would accept her death, there is still a part of him that is forever stuck in the anger stage of grief. he is furious with the ministry in particular. he has grown old enough to realize that his mother was basically forced into a suicide squad group because of her powers, and that minister faris took advantage of her naivete and helpless situation to goad her into an unbreakable vow that would render her a human weapon for the ministry to use as they please.

apart from this angst, yves is managing fairly well. living with lazarus is easy and the two of them get into the occasional spat, but deep down yves knows that he is cared for and that should be appreciated. he is also provided for by his godmother henrietta. sometimes he wishes he could just live on the hillsong estate, but he is vaguely aware that henrietta dabbles in some illegal activity. no one wants him mixed up in that. his veela powers are also growing stronger and stronger with each day, and he has been practicing them too. his mother was actually a very powerful veela (why else would the ministry have gotten her?) and as a result he is a very powerful half-veela. he can't turn into a harpy or anything like that, but during his angrier episodes, yves has the tendency to sprout feathers and sometimes even form claws. he is practicing calming himself not because he acknowledges his anger is a bad thing, but mostly because he thinks it is embarrassing to begin getting feathers in the middle of arguments. the fireballs are pretty cool though!

he is a very average student but that is because his interests lie do not really lie with magical subjects. his mother learned english by reading a dictionary cover to cover and as a result had the habit of pronouncing things wrong and accidentally using the wrong synonyms for things. yves grew up in the human world, so he is doing a lot better, but he shares her fascination of language and has a secret obsession with etymologies of words and names. he is studying a number of different languages, but has started with latin and greek in an effort to understand etymologies better. he is a bit of a linguistics nerd, and is actually doing pretty well in his self-study. yves is excited to graduate from adeothorne. his two biggest goals at the moment are to major in linguistics at a muggle university, and to hopefully move back to france.

**Personality**

(+): supportive, self-assured, charming(–): obnoxious, vengeful, denseyves is very... confident. he grew up with only his mother, who was his biggest fan, and she did nothing to tame the monster that is his self-esteem. on top of that, everyone is attracted to veela and that does nothing but feed his already ridiculously large ego. he has been told multiple times by various adults that his vanity will be his downfall, either because he will overestimate himself or get distracted by his reflection in a shiny object.still, despite his own excessive vanity, yves is also very quick to see beauty in everything and is a very good cheerleader. he personally does not think he is very vain. he thinks everyone could do with a bit more vanity. it would certainly make people much happier than most seem to be. he is very much here for making other people feel more confidently about themselves. yves always acknowledges, also, the efforts of other people and always pays credit where credit is due. he is one for excessive compliments, and that has often landed him the role as either the teacher's favorite or the bane of their existence. additionally, yves supports everything very passionately to the point of not really thinking things through, even when certain ideas are stupid or not very good for the person involved.he is also very easy to get along with! yves jumps friend group a lot because he just wants to be able to get along with, well, everyone! he sort of just... decides often that he will now be your friend, and you must simply deal with that. it's a fun experience, though! he is never shy about approaching a stranger or being overbearing in friendships. maybe it is because he knows everyone will find it charming anyway. the veela blood does come with its more negative traits, though. yves is also melodramatic, as evidenced by the countless scorch marks you can see around his room at home. yves tries to distance himself from people who are constantly picking fights because yves does not know how to simply bicker; it always escalates. it is in everyone's best interest that yves does not get angry, including his own. it's annoying when he starts sprouting feathers.despite his theatrics, it is very easily said that yves always means well. as long as no one is trying to purposefully anger him, everything should be okay and everyone will get out of situations with him unscathed (literally and figuratively).

yves chevaliersixth year duckweed
anywhere with you feels right