Dion Aquato

Dion Aquato is a minor character in Psychonauts 2. He is an acrobat in the Aquato Family Circus and the oldest Aquato sibling.

Appearance
Dion is a lean teenage boy with yellow skin, a square head, and brown hair, styled into an asymmetrical pompadour and tied into a small ponytail in the back. He wears the standard male Aquato family circus skivvies, a green-and-white striped jumpsuit, with colorful patches on the arms and knees. Over this, he wears a blue vest embroidered with turquoise swirls, brown shorts with blue trim, and a red cummerbund. He wears green boots, blue cloth tied around one ankle, and a red sweatband on one wrist.

Personality
Dion is gullible, stubborn, and belligerent. Having been taught from childhood that psychics are dangerous and responsible for his family's suffering, he is furious and hostile when his father and brother reveal that they are psychics. His hostility for psychics is bolstered by even more outlandish beliefs (such as that psychic powers come from drinking human blood) courtesy of his little brother Queepie, which he doesn't dispute until getting to know Gisu.

He is proud of his family's work, and angry with his brother Razputin for abandoning them. Although Dion verbally bullies Raz and doesn't hide his disgust for psychics, regretful expressions indicate that Dion is cognizant of when he's crossed a line. When visited in the postgame, he expresses willingness to learn the truth about psychics and accept that much of what he knows is false.

Notable Psi-Powers and Skills
Dion possesses no psychic abilities.

Non-Psychic Abilities

As an acrobat, Dion has exceptional strength, agility, and balance.

Major Relationships
Razputin Aquato

Dion is furious at Raz for both running away and being a psychic, both of which he sees as embarrassing and damaging to the Aquato family name. He doesn't mince harsh words with his brother, threatening to tie him in knots and openly wishing they'd never found him after he ran off, though visibly expresses shame in himself upon saying this. When Raz uses telekinesis and psi-blast to help Dion assemble the Aquatodome, Dion acquiesces to admitting that it saved time.

Gisu Nerumen

Dion and Gisu exchanged flirtatious looks upon meeting. He is astonished and excited when Gisu dispels many of his preconceived opinions about psychics.

Frazie Aquato

Dion has an antagonistic relationship with his younger sister Frazie, slinging personal insults and, in Frazie's case, pinecones at each other. Despite this, they cooperate when performing and training, in both a memory vault in Psychonauts, and in the performance of the Devil's Firehose.

Queepie Aquato

Dion places full trust in his baby brother Queepie, and whole-heartedly believed every outlandish fact he told him about psychics, for example, that crystal balls are "fortune-teller eggs."

Backstory
Dion was the first child born to Augustus and Donatella Aquato. His father terrified him with stories of "fortune-tellers" as a child, creating a vicious hatred of psychics within Dion as a teenager. He cultivated a reputation of being "a total jerk" to his younger siblings, although he taught Raz how to dive in midair.

Roles
Psychonauts

Dion appeared in a memory vault, performing and training with his family. He was present when Augustus destroyed Raz's Whispering Rock Summer Camp pamphlet, which caused Raz to run away from home.

Psychonauts 2

Dion joined his family in visiting the Motherlobe to support Raz in his new job as a Psychonaut. Dion balanced atop the Pelican and exchanged flirtatious glances with Psychonaut intern Gisu Nerumen before the Aquatos set up camp in the Questionable Area, the campgrounds beyond the Motherlobe.

After the collapse of the first demonstration of the Devil's Firehose, Dion ran off to assemble the Aquatodome circus tent. Raz assisted him at their mother's behest, where he learned that Dion was bitter at him for both being a psychic and for running away. During Maligula's rampage, Dion joined the family in comforting his father after Augustus's psychically-buried memories returned, and used the Devil's Firehose to propel Raz into battle. After the battle, Dion is found chatting with Gisu in the Questionable Area, astonished to learn that his many of his ideas regarding the dangers of psychics are untrue.

Behind the Scenes
Dion is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal, who voiced many minor characters in Psychonauts 2, including several Motherlobe agents, and the dragon in Cassie's Collection.

Trivia

 * Nona Aquato says that Dion is her favorite grandchild, and Raz in her second favorite.