Alain Volant

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Dane DeHaan

**Alain Eric Volant** is the younger half-brother of Lyra Black, son of Linette Volant and John Richards.

## Physical Description

He has messy grown-out hair, with a handsome face. He has a thick Scottish highland accent. He is tall, lean, and strong with lean muscles with broad shoulders. He has a slight slouch, a faded tan, and a bump on his nose from it being broken. He has light brown hazel eyes with a hint of green. He has strong bone structure, long eyelashes, and heavy brows.

He usually wears casual and practical clothes; suspenders, boots, and rolled-up sleeves. He wears earth tones such as brown, green, tan, and cream, and favors linen.

## Personality

Wide-eyed, self-conscious, rough around the edges, cowardly, careful, gentle, inferiority complex, jealous, envious, unlucky, weak, pessimistic, insecure, fumbles over words.

He has an inferiority complex and is spiteful. He is very insecure, with low self-esteem. He is easily overwhelmed, and is sick of feeling powerless. He thinks that life is unfair and the world is out to get him, so he feels he is owed something and deserves better. He is suspicious and resentful towards those better off than him. He wants to be above others as he has faced discrimination. He has abandonment and trust issues, making him hateful, mean, and self-absorbed. He is quite unlucky, and cowardly, being competitive and a sore loser. He is prone to jealousy and envy.

A poor liar, he is agreeable, honorable, old-fashioned, and chivalrous. He is direct, but not very open. He deals with PTSD from his father, and is quite anxious and depressed. He is popular though he is quiet.
DEPRESSION. WITHDRAWS FROM FRIENDS AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. AVOIDS EYE CONTACT OF OLDER ADULTS OR KIDS. UNUSUAL SHYNESS. EXCESSIVE FEAR OF CARETAKERS. ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR, TRUANCY, DRUG ABUSE, RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME. OVERLY WATCHFUL, ON EDGE, AS IF ANTICIPATING SOMETHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN. RELUCTANT TO GO HOME. FEELS BLAMED, AFRAID, ANXIOUS, GUILTY, DISAPPROVED OF, UNWORTHY, UNDESERVING, INADEQUATE, INCOMPETENT, INSECURE, SELF-CONSCIOUS, RESPONSIBLE FOR ABUSER’S FEELINGS.
DUE TO HIS FATHER’S ALCOHOLISM-
CAN ONLY GUESS AT WHAT HEALTHY BEHAVIOR IS. HAS TROUBLE COMPLETING THINGS. JUDGES HIMSELF WITHOUT MERCY. HAS TROUBLE ACCEPTING COMPLIMENTS. FEELS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS. CONSTANTLY SEEKS APPROVAL AND AFFIRMATION. HAS DIFFICULTY WITH INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS. TAKES HIMSELF VERY SERIOUSLY. OFTEN TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROBLEMS BUT NOT SUCCESSES OR VICE VERSA. HAS TROUBLE HAVING FUN SINCE HIS CHILDHOOD WAS LOST/STOLEN/REPRESSED. EITHER SUPER RESPONSIBLE OR SUPER IRRESPONSIBLE. OVERREACTS TO THINGS BEYOND HIS CONTROL. EXTREMELY LOYAL, EVEN WHEN FACING OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THAT IT IS UNDESERVED. LIES WHEN HE DOESN’T NEED TO, IT WAS A SURVIVAL TACTIC AT HOME, TO AVOID HARSH PUNISHMENT OR GET NEEDED ATTENTION. EXPECTS OTHERS TO JUST KNOW WHAT HE WANTS. CAN’T EXPRESS WHAT HE WANTS DUE TO DISAPPOINTMENT AS A CHILD, AND LEARNED TO STOP ASKING FOR THINGS. IMPULSIVENESS WHICH LEADS TO CONFUSION, SELF-LOATHING, AND LOSS OF CONTROL OVER HIS ENVIRONMENT, SPENDS A LOT OF ENERGY BLAMING OTHERS, FEELING VICTIMIZED, AND CLEANING UP MESSES. TENDS TO LOCK HIMSELF INTO A COURSE OF ACTION WITHOUT GIVING SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO ALTERNATE BEHAVIORS OR POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES. LOW SELF-ESTEEM (CRITICIZED OFTEN). JUDGES HIMSELF AND OTHERS HARSHLY. TRIES TO COVER UP HIS POOR OPINIONS OF HIMSELF BY BEING PERFECTIONISTIC, CONTROLLING, CONTEMPTUOUS, AND GOSSIPY. ISOLATES HIMSELF OUT OF FEAR, FEELS UNEASY AROUND OTHER PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY AUTHORITY FIGURES. DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO LET GO. AFRAID OF BEING ABANDONED. AFRAID OF LOSING OTHERS. INTIMIDATED BY ANGRY PEOPLE AND PERSONAL CRITICISM, ADDING TO FEELS OF INADEQUACY AND INSECURITY. DESPERATE FOR LOVE AND APPROVAL AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE HIM. DOESN’T WANT TO HURT OTHERS, REMAINING LOYAL WHEN UNDESERVED. EXPECT OTHERS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SOLVING HIS PROBLEMS, AVOIDING BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR OWN LIVES AND CHOICES. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SOLVING OTHERS’ PROBLEMS. ATTRACTS EMOTIONALLY UNAVAILABLE PEOPLE WITH ADDICTIVE PERSONALITIES. LIVES LIFE AS A VICTIM, BLAMING OTHERS FOR HIS CIRCUMSTANCES, ATTRACTED TO OTHER VICTIMS AND PEOPLE WITH POWER AS FRIENDS AND LOVERS. CONFUSE LOVE WITH PITY AND LOVES PEOPLE HE CAN PITY AND RESCUE. CONFUSES LOVE WITH NEED. DENIAL, ISOLATION, CONTROL, SHAME, AND UNDESERVED GUILT, FEELING HELPLESS AND HELPLESS. DIFFICULTY WITH INTIMACY, SECURITY, TRUST, AND COMMITMENT IN RELATIONSHIPS. LACKS CLEARLY DEFINED PERSONAL LIMITS AND BOUNDARIES. BECOMES ENMESHED IN PARTNER'S NEEDS AND EMOTIONS. OFTEN BECOMES CODEPENDENT. TENDS TO PROCRASTINATE, HAS DIFFICULTIES FOLLOWING PROJECTS THROUGH FROM BEGINNING TO END. HAS A STRONG NEED TO BE IN CONTROL. FEELS GUILTY WHEN STANDING UP FOR HIMSELF OR ACTING IN HIS OWN BEST INTERESTS. GIVES IN TO OTHERS’ NEEDS AND OPINIONS INSTEAD OF TAKING CARE OF HIMSELF. DENIES, MINIMIZES, AND REPRESSES HIS FEELINGS. UNAWARE OF THE IMPACT THAT HIS INABILITY TO IDENTIFY AND EXPRESS HIS FEELINGS HAS. DEPENDENT PERSONALITY WHO IS TERRIFIED OF REJECTION AND ABANDONMENT, SO TENDS TO STAY IN SITUATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE HARMFUL. HIS FEARS AND DEPENDENCY STOPS HIM FROM ENDING UNFULFILLING RELATIONSHIPS AND PREVENTS HIM FROM ENTERING FULFILLING ONES. FEELS SO UNLOVABLE AND IT IS DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO BELIEVE ANYONE CAN REALLY LOVE HIM, AND WON’T EVENTUALLY LEAVE ONCE THEY SEE HOW “BAD” HE IS. FEELS EMPTY AND NUMB. FEARS BEING DEPENDENT, FEELS DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT DEPENDING ON ANYONE, TAKES GREAT CARE TO NOT NEED HELP, SUPPORT, OR CARE FROM OTHERS. UNREALISTIC SELF-APPRAISAL. DUE TO NEGLECT AS A CHILD, DOES NOT KNOW HIMSELF AS WELL AS HE SHOULD. FINDS IT HARD TO KNOW WHAT HE IS CAPABLE OF. DOES NOT KNOW HIS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, WHAT HE LIKES, WHAT HE WANTS, OR WHAT MATTERS TO HIM. FEELS ASHAMED FOR HAVING NEEDS AND FEELINGS, AND MAKING MISTAKES. GUILT, SHAME, ANGER, AND BLAME, ALL DIRECTED AT HIMSELF. TENDS TO GO STRAIGHT TO GUILT AND SHAME WHENEVER A NEGATIVE THINGS HAPPENS IN HIS LIFE. DIFFICULTY FEELING, IDENTIFYING, MANAGING, AND EXPRESSING EMOTIONS. FEELS FATALLY FLAWED. KNOWS THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG IN HIS LIFE, BUT CAN’T PINPOINT WHAT IT IS. THINKS IT IS HIMSELF, THAT HE IS NOT LIKABLE, DIFFERENT, AND THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG. HAS NO COMPASSION FOR HIMSELF, BUT PLENTY FOR OTHERS, HARD FOR HIM TO SHARE HIS PROBLEMS.

## Skills & Abilities

He throws a mean right hook and can take a punch.

## Possessions

* Wand: Acacia and dragon heartstring, 9 inches, unyielding. A very unusual wand wood which created tricky wands that often refused to produce magic for any but their owner, and also withheld their best effects from all but those most gifted. This sensitivity rendered them difficult to place, and Garrick Ollivander kept only a small stock for those witches or wizards of sufficient subtlety, for acacia was not suited to what was commonly known as 'bangs-and-smells' magic. When well-matched, an acacia wand matched any for power, though it was often underrated due to the peculiarity of its temperament. Acacia wands were not used often, as in the wrong hands it would either be overpowered or extremely weak. Dragon heartstring: Powerful and easy to learn spells, though could easily be committed to another owner

## Songs

* good 4 u, Olivia Rodrigo
* Heather, Conan Gray

## Trivia

* He tends to swear.
* He is not a morning person.
* He can play the fiddle, but prefers the cello.
* He is cleanly.
* He is poor.
* He gets decent grades.