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[TRIGGER WARNINGS: ableism, gender dysphoria, death,

brodie is the second child of marcus flint-yang and yilin flint-yang and they are the epitome of a quidditch family. his mum would be the primary breadwinner of the family, marcus ending his career to be with her as she became the captain and eventual coach of the fitchburg finches in massachusetts- mainly to get out of wizarding london while the getting was good. while marcus did not take part in his families blood ideals and was disowned for marrying a muggle born witch, there is a guilty part of him that long wants to atone for abandoning ship per say instead of standing up for what was right. this reflects greatly in how he raised his children. 

his family discovered his Deafness when he was five, after being described through and through by his teachers as a problem child who would probably need to repeat the year. by nine he was declared profoundly Deaf- his family already doing decent with ASL (none more then his sister, anya.) though he was scheduled for a cochlear implant surgery in the upcoming year. the year before though he was transferred to a school for the Deaf to accommodate his loss of hearing- which he did not enjoy at all. 

there were great lengths taken at first by yilin flint-yang to ensure brody would not be attending hogwarts- due to the overprotectiveness and lack of accommodation hogwarts may or may not have had for brody at the time- as in his first year, he would not have the cochlear implant, and would be unable to hear. they tackled this with the use of enchanted quills, but this still would have many frustrating drawbacks that paired with brody’s volatile nature and confusion with his identity, would land him bad grades, detention and frequent visits to the headmasters office. luckily though, headmaster longbottom was a kind and patient man- who also made great attempts to use sign language with brody- together they studied BSL (british sign language) in times that his professors sent him to the office for misbehaviours. 

even after his implant surgery, there are many times that brody “escapes” to the world of silence. it is often a comfort for him to be surrounded by complete stillness and quiet his mind- though of course can be just as detrimental to ice out the world and be alone with thoughts bouncing around his head. 

brody is genderqueer and uses he/him pronouns, and was able to discover this at around age thirteen with the help of a seeker on the fitchburg finches, nina taqag. she is a twospirit inuk and was a huge part of brody’s life, both in family and identity. while of course google exists it was hard for brody to piece his thoughts together and with a living example right in front of him, one that his also family loved and respected made the coming out experience much easier for him

his sister would die in a quidditch related accident in 2025, in his ninth year of school. she had “dropped out”/finished school in her 7th year to pursue pro-quidditch and would land herself a second line position with the holyhead harpies- that many aquited to her being a legacy player/her mother’s influence in the professional quidditch world. brody would find out in the paper the morning after the game that she was hospitalized during the match, she would succumb to her injuries before he could make it to wales. 

the flint-yangs would not process this death well at all, each having their own special unhealthy way at dealing with it. a large part of why brody found himself caught up with the wraiths so deeply, is because many of his good friends who were there for him during this time were/are wraiths. this often led him to turning the blind eye to many wraith actions, to the point where he wasn’t aware that the wraiths wasn’t solely a student run group. 

the death of headmaster longbottom the next year would reopen the floodgates of hurt from his sister’s death- and spur him to action and would lead to his quiet defection from the wraiths to the erinyes- acting as a spy for them feeding information back. trying to atone for his previous feigning of ignorance. 

- quick authors notes for this one!!: while brody is fluent in BSL & ASL, and is more comfortable some days signing then talking. his cochlear implant allows him to hear and he was not born Deaf, and doesn’t have trouble speaking but because a cochlear implant surgery destroys any working cells- without it he cannot hear. but to break the “Deaf myths” lip reading is like 0% a thing, the best way to communicate with someone who is Deaf if u cannot sign, is to correspond through writing which is how brody mainly survived through first year ! 

- when referring to brody as Deaf it is important to capitalize the D out of respect, pls do not refer to him as: deaf, hard of hearing, hearing impaired. these are used by public/political groups as inclusive terms but they focus on what is lacking/lost, most ppl in the Deaf Community prefer Deaf, because it focuses on what they have, culture and language, rather then what they dont ! and just with the conversations ive had with my professor this is what i would be more comfortable with !