Dylan Walker | Riku's Replica

PLAYER: Frudence
CHARACTER: Riku's Replica
CANON: Kingdom Hearts

AU NAME: Dylan (tentative)
AU AGE: 20 (thanks Abi)
AU OCCUPATION: College (Music/Theatre/tbd)
BLURB:
This is Dante Rantanen's darkinferno long lost identical twin brother. Per Dante's AU, their parents split and Mom got Dylan here. (I'm not totally settled on Dylan yet, but for now we'll call him that.) His birthday is April 9th - thanks Abi.

So he grew up surrounded by music and theatre, being the child of a famous opera singer, tentatively named Lara. She's Australian (with family roots being Welsh/English and German/Danish) and pretty nice to Dylan - as long as he behaved - save for neglecting to mention he was a twin. Instead of having combat instilled him, his Thing in the AU will be music. He was made to practice several instruments (piano, violin, drums) and languages growing up (Welsh & German) and was rewarded by Lara booking gigs in Wales and Germany so that he could travel with her and get some practice in. They always returned to Australia after a few weeks/months abroad though. When Dylan was about to start middle school, they moved into the very ritzy Cremorne Point neighborhood facing the Sydney Opera house across the harbor. That's when the pressure really ramped up and Dyland started being spoken to about his eventual career in the music industry.

Dylan was being groomed to become a great composer / librettist, so he was asked to recite and compose poetry in his languages (French and Italian came later). None of this is something he's naturally good at, but instead had to practice a whole lot while feeling like a disappointment for not "getting it" as quickly as he'd been expected to. He's actually more visual oriented, with a good memory and imagination. (He'd be better suited to storyboarding or directing, but hasn't been allowed to develop those skills.) When he's in a bad mood and stressing out, he becomes a #firstworldproblems poster child, not realizing how good he has it and that his mother has tried her best to be very present in his life for a woman who didn't plan to have a child at the height of her career. He knows cousins and aunts and uncles and his mom's parents, just only sees them once a year if that and never all at once. They're spread out across Australia and New Zealand.

Lara is a lightweight when it comes to holding her alcohol since she normally abstains for the sake of her voice. One night, a month before Dylan arrives in Recollé, she got more than tipsy and let slip that he had a twin brother. Dylan didn't take the news well. He'd lived 20 years and never had any inkling about a brother, let alone a twin. His anger ends up directed at his brother for even existing, since Dylan was already struggling in his mother's shadow and living up to her expectations. Now he had to deal with this too. With all the brashness of a 20 year old with nothing to lose, he pulled as many strings as his mother's name would let him to 1) find Dante and 2) get transferred mid-year to Recollé to confront him.

LOOKING FOR:
- Childhood friend he was super protective over and wanted to keep mostly to himself (Naminé)
- Childhood friend he perceived to be taking up all of Friend #1's time and grew to resent them (Sora)
- Middle school / high school acquaintance who got him into trouble and scapegoated him (Axel)
- High school acquaintance that he sabotaged to get ahead in school / impress his Mom (Zexion)
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: Done