Found Family

## Morrigan's Found Family

"*Home safe in the Deucalion, surrounded by her family.*"
―Narration of Morrigan's thoughts and the final words of the Nevermoor Trilogy[src]
Morrigan's **Found Family** — *the family she’d found at the Hotel Deucalion —* are the nine individuals Morrigan trusts and relies on like a family (including Morrigan herself).

## Members

* Morrigan Crow
* Jupiter North
* Fenestra
* Jack Korrapati
* Dame Chanda Kali
* Martha
* Kedgeree Burns
* Frank
* Charlie McAlister

## History

Jupiter North and Dame Chanda Kali knew each other from the Wundrous Society. The timeline after that is uncertain but, presumably, Jupiter met Fenestra while he was exploring and she was smuggling. Jupiter discovered the Hotel Deucalion and began to restore it back to its former glory. He hired Kedgeree, Frank, Charlie, and Martha and gave Fenestra a role she could use as a front for her other work. In the Age of Southern Influence, Year of Seven, Jack started living at the Hotel Deucalion and calling Jupiter *Uncle Jove*.

### Morrigan comes to Nevermoor

Third Age of the Aristocrats, One

**Jupiter**: "*Come back with me. Please? Your grandmother’s right, it’s not safe for you here. Come back to the Deucalion. It’s your home now. We’re your family—me, Jack, Fen, and the others. You belong with us.*"
**Morrigan**: "*Until I fail the Show Trial and get deported. Until you get arrested for treason.*"
**Jupiter**: "*Like I said, we’ll blow up that bridge when we come to it.*"
— Outside Crow Manor, on the Gossamer Line[src]

On Morningtide, Morrigan Crow was introduced to all of the members, except Jack, whom she saw but didn't talk to. Jupiter describes the 'family' that his Wundrous Society Unit members are to him and Morrigan realises that is what she is missing — but her finds her family at the Deucalion - not at WunSoc. Later on, still in Spring, when Detective Flintlock calls Morrigan a "dirty, stinking, rotten *illegal",* every family member in the lobby approached the policeman.

At the book trial Morrigan admits to the smoky exam book that "*I want to belong somewhere* and *I want brothers and sisters who will stand by me forever, no matter what,"* but three seasons later while looking at her new 'W' pin she realised she already had those things at the Deucalion. At Christmas Eve, everyonewent to the battle of Christmas Eve and Morrigan and Jack settled into a more easy-going relationship . After Christmas lunch, Morrigan believed she was endangering her found family and decides to leave the Free State to protect them. Jupiter and Fenestra convince her to stay.

On Spring's eve, all nine members were there for Morrigan's surprise twelfth birthday party.

### Morrigan Starts Lessons at The Wundrous Society

Third Age of the Aristocrats, Two

In Summer, when Professor Onstald visited the Hotel to give Morrigan lessons, all the members (except Jupiter, Jack and Charlie) found ways to make life unpleasant for the horrible teacher.

### Morrigan Announces she is a Wundersmith

In Winter, all the members (except Jack, who wasn't expected to) gave thoughtful, personal Christmas presents to Morrigan. With Jupiter at the Hotel Deucalion at Christmas for once, all nine members had lunch in his private parlour. In the private parlour, Morrigan displays her Wundersmith skills. Although we know Jupiter, Jack, Chanda, and Fenestra knew Morrigan's ability at this stage, Kedgeree, Frank, Martha, and Charlie react in a way which suggests they were also already fully aware of her secret ability.

Third Age of the Aristocrats, Three

"*Friends who were family, who would defend her against anything, like Jupiter, and run through a horde of crazed Wunimals to protect her, like Fen.*"
―Narration of Morrigan's thoughts[src]
The family (sans Jupiter) has a slumber party during the grand sulk to help their moral and the moral of the Hotel Deucalion. There is a genuine ease between the eight with Dame Chanda braiding Martha’s hair, and Frank painting Charlie’s nails.

In Autumn of Three, at Courage Square, surrounded by a horde of Hollowpox infected Wunimals, Morrigan uses thoughts of Unit 919 friends and *friends who were family* to calm down and make a plan for how to shake the Hollowpox out of the Wunimals, she then uses her outrage at Fenestra being attacked to power her Wundrous act, and finally she gets the steely resolve needed to destroy the Hollowpox when she thinks about Sofia.

## Frank

"*She'd never had a birthday before. Frank was all right, really.*"
―Morrigan's thoughts[src]
Frank and Morrigan met on Morningtide and Morrigan enjoyed his theatrics from the beginning. He gets on well with the others, and is especially nice to Dame Chandra when she is upset at Juvela De Flimsé's sickness. Frank doesn't fit in to vampire society and vampires don't fit into society at large.

When Frank is distraught at Jupiter's decision to close the Deucalion, the other members are mostly patient and understanding of Frank's distress.

## Jack Korrapati

"*You must be joking. Presents and snow? Everybody wins.*"
―Jack — laughing as he threw a snowball at Jupiter’s back.[src]
Jack and Morrigan start off on the wrong foot at breakfast and they struggle a little as they settle into their roles as step-siblings. Jack plays a joke on Morrigan with the fugitive wolf from the Hall of Shadows but warms up to Morrigan around about Christmas when he finds out that she is a Wundersmith. Meanwhile, Jack is secure in his relationship with Uncle Jove.

## Charlie McAlister

"*You know, you don’t skive off school anywhere near enough, Morrigan, I’m always saying – oof, what?"* <Martha whacks him in the side, and he laughs> *"It’s true, she doesn’t.*"
―Charlie — offering advice to Morrigan[src]
Charlie is the least prominent member of Morrigan's family perhaps because his job means he is often not in the lobby where all the action happens. In the days before the Chase Trial, Charlie probably should have gone around Jupiter and given Morrigan some horse riding lessons as a fallback plan. Interestingly, when Hawthorne introduced himself to the dragon at the Show Trial, Morrigan thought of the Crow Manor stable hands, not Charlie.

But, Charlie comfortably meets the requirements to be part of the found family. Morrigan meets Charlie on Morningtide, and soon has Morrigan helping to groom the horses. Charlie takes the evening off in order to attend the Battle of Christmas Eve even though it was a busy time for a driver. His relationship with Martha delights the other members of the family, including Morrigan.

## Jupiter's Deucalion Family

"*Friends, honored guests, and my dear Deucalion family. We have danced, we have dined, we have drunk our fill. We have bid a tender and triumphant farewell to the Olden Age, and now we must step boldly into the New. May it be a good and happy one. May it bring unexpected adventures.*"
―Jupiter's rousing Morningtide speech[src]
Jupiter refers to his *Deucalion family* at Morningtide but he means all of the Deucalion staff who form a friendly, productive workplace.

## Notes and References

1. ↑ With the possible exception of Fenestra. She is not mentioned in Winter of One, but she does go to the Battle in Winter of Two.