Face Claim: Karl Urban	Father “Dad”: Sholto Duncan Urquhart 09.09.1990 Backstory: Reducio Sholto Duncan Urquhart* grew up in Inverness. His family had had no idea that magic was an actual thing, so they had been quite surprised when their son had received an invitation to a Magic School. While his mother gave it the benefit of the doubt, his father remained fully convinced that the invitation was a prank at first, despite the visit by a professor. A trip to Diagon Alley was what finally won him over. Duncan himself hadn't been surprised. Of course magic existed. Duh. (His favourite TV series at the time had been Charmed. He had been more confused by the lack of rhyming necessary.) Finding out that the magical part of Britain had just been through major – if short? – war had been disconcerting and made his parents dither over sending him to Hogwarts for a couple of days. In the end, practicality had won out. The boy needed to be taught at least the basics. And if he's taught the basics there anyway, he should at least be taught properly. Still, his first years in Hogwarts included a whole cavalcade of worried (frantic, really) owls – so he had resolved not to inundate his daughter in owls. If she wanted to owl, they'd reply, but he refuse to sent multiple owls each week the way his parents did. Every couple weeks to once a month at most would have to suffice. (His school years made him somewhat despise letter writing, and Greg found letters annoyingly slow. Postcards, yes, sure, but letters? Such an “inefficient way of communication”.) Besides, his old (family) owl, Merlot – it had been named by his mother – was too old now. The less trips she had to make the better and Glen could always send letters with a school owl. Family Tree: Reducio
Face Claim: Christopher Eccleston	Step-/Adopted Father “Papa”: Cornelius “Greg” Urquhart 27.07.1988 Backstory: Reducio Cornelius “Greg” Urquhart née Leifsson* was born the second son of Oscar Leifsson and Karin Leifsson née Mendel. He has an older brother by 6years: Michael, who is now divorced with two children. Oscar himself was orphaned when his parents died in a car crash when he was young. He was adopted by his former primary school teacher, Annegret, who had been looking to adopt with her husband. They chose to adopt him since they were already familiar even if their new relationship would be vastly different than being teacher and student. Trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life and curious about his adopted mother's family's origins, Oscar had taking a gap year jobbing in Germany for a year before college, where he met his later wife, whose family owned the bakery around the corner from his hostel. (They still own it, actually.) Karin moved to the UK when they got engaged and threw herself into life there. But with her family back in Germany, she wanted her children to understand the language and so they tried to raise them bilingual. While Greg had moved to Edinburgh for university and then stayed there, he had grown up in the outskirts of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His parents and brother still lived there, with his brother slated to one day take over the family's small furniture business. Just like his husband and daughter, Greg hated his first name. Unlike them he did not have a convenient middle name or could shorten his name to something he found acceptable. Despite his later becoming an author of children's books, he found genetics fascinating in school and once his friends clocked that his mother's maiden name had been Mendel, they started calling him Greg as a joke. Needless to say, the name stuck. Since he isn't a well-known author, and the pay isn't exactly lucrative; he works part-time as IT support. Family Tree: Reducio
Face Claim: Kimiko Glenn	Birth Mother: Siobhan Hanako (花子) O'Neill 27.10.1991 Backstory: Reducio Siobhan Hanako O'Neill* is a bit of a free spirit, and loves travelling. Frankly, she's a bit of a nomad. Just as she doesn't yet feel ready to settle down in one place, she didn't feel ready to be a mother at the age of 19. Especially since she and Glenys' dad weren't even a couple, they just had a holiday fling, so to speak. Siobhan had very vaguely known Duncan from Hogwarts before, being neither in the same year not the same house; but they had seen each other before and had temporarily bonded over that in an otherwise Muggle group. It had been nice to talk to someone she hadn't had to lie through her teeth on her schooling about. Since she found out her pregnancy quite late (she was in her 5th month), she had contacted Duncan, and they had come to an agreement that he (and later his partner) would raise the child and Siobhan wouldn't have to be involved but could be – hence why she's somewhat of an Auntie to Glen. At the time of Glenys' first year, she's travelling through Southern Africa and is considering a medical career path since she's been inspired by Doctors Without Borders. Family Tree: Reducio