Tom Ellis / Genderfluid / they/he
Is that MATTHIEU DIXON that I see over there? You know they have quite the reputation of being the THE DEVIL around town. The 41 year old has been around these parts for THREE YEARS. and within that timeframe has landed themselves a job as a CHEF AND DRUG DEALER/CRIME BOSS while living in ROLLING HILLS. I overheard that they can be quite HEDONISTIC but their saving grace is that they are ALTRUISTIC. Rumour has it SECRET, and it’s just a matter of time before everyone knows. but you’ll have to decide that for yourself. PINTEREST || WANTED CONNECTIONS || STATS
BASICS
FULL NAME: Matthieu Etienne Dixon
NICKNAME(S): Mattie, Matt.
AGE: 41
DATE OF BIRTH: July 24th, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England/Paris, France
CURRENT LOCATION: Rolling Hills, Juniper, WA.
ETHNICITY: Caucasain
GENDER: Genderfluid
PRONOUNS: they/he
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual
RELIGION: agnostic
OCCUPATION: Chef/Owner and head chef at Soliel Restaurant/Crime Boss
FACECLAIM: Tom Ellis
HEADCANONS
Matthieu Dixon sings, and plays the piano and the guitar, mostly self-taught but with some training from their childhood.
Matthieu has two cats, Cain and Abel, who they love like they are their children.
Matthieu owns homes in London, Paris, and Italy.
Matthieu is known as “The Devil in Ravenswood” to a lot of people. There are quite a few whispers about them around town, some are positive, and some, not so much. While they are a philanthropist and mostly kind, there are rumours about their shading dealings.
Matthieu takes their coffee black, with a splash of oat milk and far too much sugar.
BIOGRAPHY
tw drug use, alcohol use, past child abuse, tw crime
All Matthieu Dixon has ever known is violence.
Matthieu Etienne Dixon was born on July 24th in London, England to Edward Dixon and Isabelle Francois, a real estate mogul and a nurse. They were a relatively normal family, religious, upper middle class, happy. Until Edward started drinking. The problem was that Edward Dixon for some reason didn’t like his son, or his wife, and the alcohol exasperated this. A man who claimed to be godly, a man who went to church on Sundays, and put up a front of them being the perfect family, tormented his young son, from five years old on, he verbally and physically abused Matthieu, telling him that he could see something bad in his son and that he had to beat the devil out of him. Matthieu, not fully understanding why this was happening, kept quiet, hidden in fear that their father would hurt them more, or maybe, hurt their mother, no one knew what was happening. When Matthieu was eight years old, Isabelle found out that Edward was cheating on her, and she divorced her husband. She relocated them to France, her hometown, giving them a new lease on life, or so she thought, but without Matthieu telling their mother about the abuse at the hands of their father, Isabelle sent young Mattie to London to see his father often. She remarried Antonie Francois when he was 15, and the man became an actual father to Matthieu, bringing along his son, Matthieu finally felt like they were a part of a real family, filled with people who loved them.
Matthieu having people they trusted back in France allowed them to finally push back against their father, fighting back asthey grew older, although, a little voice in the back of the young kids head held them back from telling anyone about it, it was a secret they were set on enduring alone.
Matthieu, in between London and France, was fairly popular, smart and charming, they always girls, boys and everything in between, after them, and Matthieu loved experimenting, and soon experimenting was no longer just that, and Mattie knew that it was something more, not just a phase at all. When they were eighteen years old, ready to move out and go to school, they decided that was the best time to finally come out. Isabelle and Antoine were receptive, if not a little bit confused, but loving. Edward, of course, was an entirely different story, cutting their son off completely. Matthieu didn’t feel like this was a loss, instead, they took the opportunity to uproot their entire life and go to Culinary School in New York.
Once they touched ground in the US, they didn’t speak to their father ever again. They also didn’t tell a soul about the abuse from their childhood, not till years later, when they started seeking therapy.
New York wasn’t easy, and without their father's money, and minimal support from his mother, who was working on a nurse’s salary, Mattie had to find alternative ways to make money. How it came about is fuzzy now, but soon they was peddling drugs to high-end clients, from marijuana to cocaine, there was something for everyone, and Mattie was the person to call when you needed a fix. It put Matthieu through culinary school, and, as they went on they rose up the ranks, bringing in much more than he’d make doing anything else.
Not long after graduating, Mattie’s life started to slowly come together They were offered a job at a top restaurant with their old teacher in New York, where they would learn to cook from some of the greats, and they began running things on their own in the criminal underworld of the city, Mattie went from a simple drug dealer to a full-time crime boss. With a boss that wanted to step down, and saw potential in a younger Mattie, he handed over the ranks. By day, Mattie worked in the restaurant, and by night, they were running the city’s criminal underworld. Matthieu’s dealings were simple, they’d grant favors, called deals with the devil, an IOU system of sorts, they’d sell drugs, do arms deals, and more. The world truly was their oyster.
A celebrity chef in the city, and an underground crime boss, Mattie was a known name for many different reasons, in many different circles, it gave them the opportunity to become a philanthropist, donating to some of their favorite causes, especially for LGBT youth.
Matthieu’s coming out as genderfluid was a slow, winding process. Discovering that they weren’t exactly cis gender hadn’t been news to them, as they had always defied gender norms, but finding something that fit them was a journey all of it’s own, but Matthieu finally settled into their identity comfortably. New York and Matthieu’s friends, welcomed this identity, and Matthieu, with open arms.
When they were around 36, Matthieu met the person they thought they would be with forever. Penelope was someone Mattie had fallen sort of quickly for, and at the time they should’ve known that was a bad sign. Mattie ended up giving up their life of hedonism, trying to prove that they could be a good partner. Something they had never done before, as they had never fully seen the point of monogamy, or, maybe they just hadn’t met anyone they were willing to be monogamous for. One night, nine months, and a ring later, Matthieu was engaged, happy, and a father to twin girls Elodie and Rosalie.
Everything was great until it wasn’t. Penelope ended up choosing her job over Matthieu and the twins and left them with newborn twins to raise alone so that she could move across the country for a job opportunity. She signed over full custody to Matthieu. A year later, Matthieu decided that they, and the twins, needed a change of pace, a new city, new schools, new people. New York wasn’t the same as it used to be, and, the memories there were far too much. Vacationing there a few times in their twenties, Matthieu was surprised to find that Juniper’s economy and nightlife was booming, and it was becoming a bigger deal than it ever had been, and even more surprised that the idea of a new home in a smaller city felt like the right calling.
With their political connections, Matthieu found a connection with the Mayor of Juniper and after offering a hefty sum to help their campagin, Matthieu had the Mayor wrapped around their finger, and so they packed up their things, the twins and their entire life, and moved their family to Washington.
Helping rebuild the city was kind of enthralling, they got to build Soliel, their restaurant and lounge, from the ground up, designing every bit, from top to bottom and corner to corner. They bought a home in Rolling Hills, near The Hoh and a beach. It was nice to meet the other residents, both old, and brand new, and now that they have the reassurance from the city’s politicans, Matthieu can carry on with business as usual. Everything seemed sort of picture perfect.
Except, Matthieu is raising the twins as a single father, trying to juggle single parenthood, new business ventures, two full-time careers, and not admitting to themself that they might not be able to do it all alone.
Everything may seem great on the surface, but for Matthieu Dixon, things might be falling apart
