( cis man | he/him | max irons / utp ) ââ isnât that MORGAN MACDONALD? yeah that is them, outside the three broomsticks! they used to be in UTP but apparently they now work as a AUROR with the MINISTRY OF MAGIC. sybill once said that they reminded her of at least four aesthetics which seems about right. anyway iâve heard theyâre still a bit STOIC, COLD and OBSESSIVE theyâre TWENTY NINE - THIRTY THREE now but some things never change! i wonder how being a HALFBLOOD is affecting them after hogwarts, especially now theyâre a AGENT with the ORDER OF THE PHOENIX? i guess only time will tellâŚ
mary isnât the first wix in their family line, not by a long shot. unbeknownst to her and her parents, the branch of their family stemming from her fatherâs uncle iain, which long had a reputation for being interesting where all that and more. iain being a muggleborn wizard that started the new halfblood macdonald family. the side of the family that gave rise to magnus âdent-headâ macdonald, long known to mary as MAD COUSIN MAGNUS.
eldest child of magnus, where his younger brother malcolm inherited their fatherâs temper, morgan took more after their mother in most regards. too often consigned to being the peacekeeper, the level headed one when tempers inevitably flared the fact morgan took to that as his work shocked no one. less still when he joined the order of the phoenix when it was nothing but a fledgling. but with age comes an exasperation, for his dent-headed father and also for how the war has rooted deep in his family. the tensions in the wider macdonald family are nearing boiling point and morgan has been the one trying to keep things merely simmering for too long. a younger brother and a cousin just as wild as each other with a sister tired of them both, morgan swears heâs going grey early over his one common ground with his brother putting him at odds with his sister. what he sees as the natural desire to protect their family, even their cousin mary who some days seems to seek out trouble.
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mary macdonald:Â a silly little childish thing, in mary's youth morgan had been the least favourite of the two cousins that came by in the summer to babysit them, if only because morgan did the job properly, not letting mary get into their usual scrapes that malcolm was usually right behind mary in. but being the least favourite does not bely any lack of affection between the two, even if its something they both express in ways that might seem a little foreign to the other. a staunch supporter and loyal member of the order mary's desire to fight is something morgan deeply understands even if he lacks the same fire behind his actions as the younger wix does but it's his work as an auror that has brought the two closer than they'd ever been in mary's youth. advocating for a case that too many wrote off as a prank gone wrong, mary's case. pushing his department to look deeper and when his efforts to investigate himself were stopped due to his closeness to the matter, insisting his cousin got nothing but the very best the department had to offer. and its something mary can never repay him for... though morgan says just keeping their head down from now on would be more than enough.
malcolm macdonald: it is a rare sight to see the brothers in a room together these days that doesnât end with one storming out, rarer still when you add their father into the mix, but things had never been smooth sailings between morgan and malcolm. morgan the elder and more sensible of the pair to malcolmâs loose cannon of an approach to life things have only been exasperated by whatâs become an open secret between the pair: their vastly differing stances on the war theyâve both found themselves in. but that division also plays into the common ground that sometimes seems the only thing they can agree on. that that secret stays between them and that theyâll both do anything to protect their family. both little jeannie who keeps her head down and little mary who they both played a part in babysitting summers home from hogwarts.
jeannie macdonald: jeannie and morganâs closeness is something thatâs waned a little of late. a sister once proud of her brother being a man of the law growing exasperated at the risks he deems as simply necessary. a brother once glad to see his sister keeping her head down now near pulling his hair out at how single minded sheâs becoming. its a testament to how well both preserve that things have never sunk to the level of vitriol things often reach with other members of the macdonald clan.
isaiah brinan: as the eldest in the line of cousins, and furthest in age from isaiah, especially having been fostered by the macdonalds so late in life â morgan is easily the biggest enigma to the student. he wouldnât go as far as to say morgan scared him... aloud. but heâs certainly prone to keeping more quiet, more of a distance with morgan than he does malcolm or jeannie. still, he is vaguely aware that morgan is a stable feature in the macdonald lives, and would align much more closely with the man than he would either sibling, should the chance to get to know him enough to do so truly arise.
