Name: Kyle Hayden Baker
Date of Birth: 5^th September 2076
Born in: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Currently resides: Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
Nationality: French-Canadian
Languages: French (fluent), English (fluent), Spanish (learning), Parseltongue (unsuccessful)
Relationship status: Single
Astrological sign: Virgo

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Hair: Light brown, unruly
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'11"
Build: Thin
Distinguishing features: Prominent mouth
Face Claim: Maxwell Runko

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Heritage: No-Maj-born
Wand: 12", vine, demiguise hair and phoenix feather core. Supple.
Patronus: Non-corporeal (so far)
Boggart: Never encountered one
Amortentia: Pine trees, grass after the rain, the pages of a brand new book

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Father: Nathaniel Baker
Mother: Juliette Desjardins
Brother: Tristan Baker (b. 26^th May 2074)

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School: Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
House: Horned Serpent
Year: Fifth
Strengths: Potions, History of Magic, Charms, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures (theory only)
Weaknesses: Astronomy, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Divination, Flying

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MB Type: INTP-T
Likes: Reading, completing projects, his hair, being unpredictable, having friends, being right, being a Horned Serpent, being different, shocking people, standing out
Dislikes: His brother, flying, Quodpot, being the reason friends don't remain his friend, the constant feeling of inadequacy, being wrong, having to admit he's wrong, standing out
Personality:

Quiet and focused mostly on himself and his own thoughts, Kyle gives off a sullen, moody impression to those around him, but he craves the intimacy of meaningful friendships (something he's never really had) a lot more than he lets on. He struggles in social situations, and usually defaults to being quiet and standoffish, when in reality he simply struggles to make friends. Kyle has the tendency to unintentionally come across as rude; he frequently offends those around him, fails to provide any emotional support when appropriate and lacks the patience to try. For this reason, he tends to have acquaintances rather than friends, as he finds that the more he tries to talk to people in an in depth discussion, the more likely he is to unwittingly say something the drives the person away. Self-absorbed but not exactly self-aware. A little self-important but simultaneously struggles with feelings of inadequacy. Teenagers.

Kyle has a particular obsession with standing out; he is determined to be different, and eschews normality as and when he can. More recently, since his older brother graduated from Ilvermorny, he has developed desire to be completely unpredictable, and to surprise people all the time, so that they never know what to expect of him, and never really know who he is. He faces a constant inner struggle of wanting to stand out, but not wanting to be noticed, which leads to many impulsive decisions that he tends to later regret.

A keen seeker of knowledge, Kyle does research projects in his spare time, purely for fun, and fancies himself an academic, though his tendency to obsess over his personal areas of study sometimes mean that these take priority over his actual school work, leading to a lot of rushed pieces of homework completed in the seconds before the class starts. He is immensely proud of being a member of Horned Serpent, and for a short while developed a fascination with the creature itself, to the extent that he did, for a time, attempt to learn Parseltongue (unsuccessfully, needless to say). Lacking in friends and meaningful human relationships, he tends to get on much better with his professors, appreciating their need to keep a professional distance and preferring to indulge in discussions of a purely academic nature.

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The youngest of two boys born to No-Maj parents, Kyle was born and raised in the province of Quebec, in Canada, and was raised to speak both French and English. He had a normal enough childhood - normal but for regular episodes of strangeness which seemed to follow he and his brother everywhere. Despite sharing this experience, as the boys grew older, Kyle started to feel as though he was living in his older brother's shadow, especially when Tristan turned out to be charismatic and effortlessly popular at their elementary school, whilst Kyle struggled to make even a few friends - though he was a very bright student right from the off.

When Kyle was eight, the family were visited by a strangely dressed witch, who revealed that she taught at a school for magic - Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - and Tristan had been accepted as a student. The family was stunned, but their surprise did not last long, as the strange happenings were so easily explained by the professor that had visited them. Before long, Tristan was off to Ilvermorny, leaving Kyle and their parents behind. Kyle did not miss his brother all that much, as they mostly fought when they were together, and though he was jealous that Tristan was off learning magic, he was grateful for the undivided attention of his parents, something he had never had before.

However, this blissful period was not to last. Though Tristan was by now at school for the majority of the year, Kyle was still expected to live up to the standards set by his big brother. When Tristan came home for the holidays, he would spend his time bragging about how he had been sorted into Thunderbird, and had turned out to be a natural at flying, before regaling the family with stories about his many friends and the fun they had together. This trend continued every year, and as it did, Kyle's anxieties about whether he would even get an Ilvermorny acceptance letter were frequently pushed to the forefront of his mind. His worries turned out to be for nothing, however, as his own Ilvermorny letter showed up on the morning of his eleventh birthday. This time, though, it was not delivered by a witch or wizard, only a handsome barn owl.

Now certain of his acceptance to Ilvermorny, Kyle spent the next year poring over his textbooks, learning everything about the school and its history, and as much magical theory as he could remember. As well as having an innate thirst for knowledge, Kyle also knew that his brother (who was more of a social spirit than a scholar) had average grades at best, and he was determined to build a very separate and distinct reputation for himself, distancing himself from his brother's popularity as much as possible.

When the time came for Kyle to be sorted, and he stood before the carvings of the four house mascots, two of the carvings reacted: the Thunderbird flapped its wings, and the Horned Serpent's crystal began to glow. Given the choice between the two houses, Kyle chose Horned Serpent, a decision that ended up widening the rift between him and his older Thunderbird brother.

At Ilvermorny, Kyle finally found a way to stand out in his own right. As he had expected, he excelled in his classes, mastering both practical magic and magical theory with a natural ease. He soon established himself as an exceptional student, but his problems with making friends continued, and he managed to keep only a few select friendships going, though not for want of trying. His introverted nature stopped him from being much of a social butterfly, and Kyle still felt haunted by the fact that he was almost constantly referred to as 'Tristan's little brother'.

In the summer after his third year, and Tristan's sixth year, the boys came home to some rather upsetting news. Their parents were divorcing; having realised in the time spent together without the boys around that they had argued almost non-stop, and eventually came to the conclusion that they no longer had anything in common, and had no real desire to stay together any longer. Tristan was the more upset of the brothers, but Kyle found himself utterly unmoved.

After the divorce, Kyle redoubled his efforts to seek out a distinct identity for himself, this time distancing himself from the family as a whole. With the permission of both of his parents (who believed their son was reeling from the divorce), he moved out of province to live instead in Saskatchewan with his maternal grandparents, with whom he got along with better than he did his actual parents.

Kyle's fifth year marked the start of his brother-less years at Ilvermorny. Enthused by the prospect of finally being able to stand out as his own person, he practically jumped at the chance to go along on the trip to Hogwarts on the IMPS excursion, eager to be in a new environment and have something as close to a fresh start as he could get.