Dionne Dorada de Rothschild Serrano

Dionne, a character in the Foreign Affairs book, is a student at Vancross Institute and your suitemate. She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Dionne has brown eyes, shoulder length brown hair, and tan skin. She wears a dark red turtleneck, black and white houndstooth pattern skirt, gray belt, necklace with rubellite stone, and headband with a floral diamond leaf pattern.

Personality
Dionne is sweet and caring, always willing to cheer you up and help you out of tough situations. She also emphasizes appropriate appearance for every event; almost every time you change clothes is due to her suggestion. She appears to be in the know about campus activities, such as when she tells you about the annual Soiree of Nations. Dionne is shown to be caring and supportive, especially of you. She is almost always the first person to check up on you when things go south.

At home, she volunteers at an animal orphanage near the palace and has since started a royal program dedicated to the cause.

Background
Dionne takes an immediate interest in your love life. This is the result of an arranged marriage has been in the works for her since she was five years old. In her country, this is a centuries-old tradition

Foreign Affairs

 * Chapter 1: First Term Jitters
 * Chapter 2: Political Partying
 * Chapter 3: Revisionist History
 * Chapter 4: Champagne Socialites
 * Chapter 5: Horse Race
 * Chapter 6: Gesture Politics
 * Chapter 7: Bipartisan Showdown
 * Chapter 8: Smoke-Filled Rooms
 * Chapter 9: Fallout
 * Chapter 10: Spin Doctoring
 * Chapter 11: Fishing Expedition
 * Chapter 12: Bully Pulpit
 * Chapter 13: Mending Fences
 * Chapter 14: Whistle Stop
 * Chapter 15: Witch Hunt
 * Chapter 16: Swing Vote

Your Character
You first meet Dionne in the living room of the suite you share. She tells you that she has been destined for an arranged marriage for most of her life, and as such, she will be living vicariously through you. She also self-proclaims to be your new "bestie", a title that you do not argue with her about.

Blaine Hayes
Dionne has known Blaine Hayes for years. She tells you that even though Blaine can be a little rough around the edges, he/she is not a bad person.

Peter Wallace
Dionne has known Peter Wallace for a while too. She finds it sweet when Peter talks about spoiling his cousins' kids with children's books that he picked himself, but is a little disappointed to know Philip didn't help him. You can set the two of them up in a premium scene in Chapter 14.

Philip Wallace
Phillip is Dionne's fiance, and they have been betrothed to each other since she was five years old.

Evelyn Kassis
Evelyn Kassis is Dionne's partner in World History and they keep arguing over strategy for the debate. While Dionne thinks the key to winning is to keep the audience engaged with entertainment, Evelyn believes Professor Masako would only be interested in the facts and not a display. If you decide to help them compromise, they nail their debate against Peter and Zaira. If you don't, they are unable to resolve their differences.

Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * The name Dionne is one for girls of English, French and Greek origin and means "Divine" or "Follower of Dionysus". It's a feminine variation of the name Dion.
 * Her full title is "Princess Dionne Mariana Regina Dorada de Rothschild Serrano of the Kingdom of Pavadena", known as Dionne for short.
 * Her parents let her knight her pets. One of them is called Sir Mittens Q. Fluffybottom.
 * Dionne is one of five royals currently enrolled at Vancross. Her and Peter are the only ones in your year.
 * She knows her way around Vancross as if it were the back of her hand.