Aurelius "Rel" Quistrel

A Picrew of Rel.

## Relationships

### Family Members:

Father: Theodore Quistrel (Status: Alive)Mother: Lyra Quistrel (Status: Alive, status unknown by Rel)

## Magical

### Wand:

Redwood, Jackalope Antler Core, 12 Inches, Pliant

### Boggart:

His mother, telling him that he simply wasn't good enough to stay

> *"Fairies may be some of the vainest creatures in the world, but what's the harm in a few compliments? Oh, but please be careful. They get jealous."*
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> *- Aurelius "Rel" Quistrel*
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**Aurelius "Rel" Quistrel** is an American wizard from Tennessee currently employed in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures at the Ministry of Magic. He specializes in solving disputes between the different creature communities, as well as between them and the wizarding world. He's also interested by creatures that toe the line between Beast and Being.

## Appearance

Rel stands at 6'3" and has a lean but lithe body structure. He tends to slouch. His hands are scarred with nicks and scratches, due to improper healing. Rel's face is very expressive, but he usually has a smile alight with curiosity. His face has some stubble on it. Rel has strawberry blonde hair that's cut short, with side-swept, long bangs that do not obey the laws of physics. His dark, brown eyes are protected by rectangular glasses that have scratches on the frames.

## Personality

Rel's a generally kind-mannered guy. He's filled with a curiosity that tends to get him in trouble--and that curiosity in turn creates a nervous attitude towards danger. He's a risk-taker, but that does not mean he's a brave man. Rel tries to keep the mood light and everyone safe--safety is important! Especially for someone as accident-prone as him. Rel believes that being a nice person doesn't cost anything, but sometimes people aren't nice, and *it's really hard* to turn the other cheek sometimes. Oh no! Who spelled all of mean old Mr. Gregor's paperwork to run away from him! Certainly not Rel. That would be ridiculous (it was him).

Please call him Rel, he thinks his first name is terrible.

Rel is trying his best not to be a disaster of an adult.

## Backstory

Rel had a fairly quiet childhood. Wizard father, No-Maj mother. They both loved him very much. He thought his mother loved him very much, anyway. That idea was challenged by the fact that she disappeared when he was five, but he imagined it wasn't her fault. Those woods by his house were always whispering. Whatever was in them must have took her.

Rel's father has tried to tell him the truth. That his mother left on her own, unable to deal with the magical world. But he didn't have the heart to break Rel's.

They moved from the country to the suburbs, after that.

Rel was sent to Ilvermorny when it was his time. It was a choice that his father was reluctant to make, especially considering how much Rel mirrored his mother. He was even less pleased to learn Rel's interest in magical creatures--especially those that toed the line between beast and being. It wasn't what his father had done--a healer at heart--but Rel wasn't to be dissuaded.

This curiosity didn't abate by the time Rel graduated (is that the right word?) from school, and he took up a job in the Body for Protection of Magical Species at the Magical Congress of the United States of America. His job was marked by making contact with magical creatures and (often) running away from said magical creatures. Rel is very good at getting out of tricky situations, and especially good at solving disputes between communities of creatures. He tends to make a good impression on merpeople especially--probably due to his knowledge of Mermish. Well. He's not very good at it, so maybe they're just amused.

Rel is always looking for what took his mother. He doesn't want to think about the possibility that she wasn't taken at all, but walked away on her own. That would mean he wasn't good enough. Even if he knows it is the likely truth.

Recently, Rel has transferred over to the Ministry of Magic--specifically the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. There's a whole bunch of things he hasn't seen in Europe, and he wants to know them *all.* And maybe he can teach these British people how to *actually* make tea--ice and looots of sugar.

## Trivia

* Rel likes to release the chocolate frogs into the wild.
* Rel has a soft spot for fairies, having encountered them while he was growing up. On the other hand, he's not fond of grindylows.

Rel flatters a fairy.