Flynn Abbott

##### Positives

> Flynn is a very helpful person - whether that's due to the years that he's had to look after his younger brother or help his dad out, he likes to help the people around him and he won't complain while doing it. He is very grounded and seems to have a solid head on his shoulders. He would be a good role model to the younger students around him, but not a lot of things stress him out. Flynn finds that he is a natural leader to those around him, whether he wants to be or not. He takes charge in situations and doesn't mind taking on that role if it gets things done.
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##### Negatives

> For as much as he tries, Flynn is not athletically inclined at all. He tries to be, and he wishes he was, but he's just kind of awkward. He loves quidditch and would love to play, but the most he can do is fly on a broom. He has a bit of a savior complex in that he wants to save the world, more or less. He doesn't think he's better than everyone, but he believes he truly is capable of great things. He was born for it. Flynn is a very agreeable person - in that he doesn't really pay too much attention to his own emotions in the grand scheme of things. He's not very open about his emotions, struggling to feel that as being important when he's too busy trying to save everyone around him.
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#### History

***TW: Mentions of murder, death, and maternal morbidity***

##### Family History

###### The Abott Family

> The Abbott family is a group of non-traditionalists as far as the other Sacreds are concerned. It is apropos when you’re a family of mainly Hufflepuffs who chose to live in Godric’s Hollow, the home of Gryffindor. They are liked by their neighbors, of course, as the Abbotts are about as friendly as a family can be, genuinely living up to their Badger name. If you’re new to the Hollow, it’s almost guaranteed that an Abbott will be the first one knocking at your door with a basket of scones and a recommendation of an Indian restaurant a few villages over that they just adore-- the owner’s name is Deepnita and she’s absolutely lovely. However, don’t let that generally marshmallowy exterior fool you, Badgers are tough and so are the Abbotts; you need to be in order to survive two wizarding wars as a group of *blood traitors*. In recent generations, their pureblood status is dwindling as more and more of the younger members are finding it less important to marry based on blood, finding more value in things like relationship compatibility and overall character; heart over blood might as well be their motto. Maybe they ought to get it on a t-shirt for their next family reunion, eh?
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> Edmond Abbott, while having a proper name and being from a sacred family, was not a very proper person. He burped loudly at the dinner table, stole sweets from his gran’s pocket when she wasn’t looking and then blamed his sister for it when he was caught. As he went through his school years he had a womanizing streak, or so some would say. He just happened to appreciate women… a lot of them, there wasn’t a crime in that. Although, the women he was involved with didn’t always agree on that front. It was remarkable then, when the rough around the edges Curse Breaker managed to find himself strolling down the aisle at his own wedding.
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> No one could blame him, of course, as he’d met Eponine while on assignment in France and immediately had attempted to bed her. This was met with a swift slap to the face and a variety of unseemly language that he hadn’t understood because his knowledge of French was extremely rudimentary. After working together for months though, the pair found that they were able to overcome their initial poor impression, or at least Edmond’s poor impression, and soon fell into an easy relationship. At least it was easy in the beginning, but the distance and the language barrier with her French pureblood family made things tricky as time went on. Then there was that one time that he got assigned to head to Morocco with his former fling and one thing led to another and…
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> It didn’t matter though as Eponine forgave him and a year or so later he asked for her hand in marriage.
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> She relocated to England shortly after their honeymoon, settling into his bachelor pad in Godric’s Hollow and changing everything about it because no respectable woman could be expected to live in an environment such as that. Edmond allowed it because he adored her and because she was carrying his son. He learned early on when he questioned her choice of pickles on toast for breakfast that you didn’t question a pregnant woman unless you were prepared to feel their wrath afterward.
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> When Armond was born, everything was perfect. They lived as a trio for ten years, happy in their little home in Godric’s Hollow until Eponine tragically died in Egypt attempting to retrieve a cursed scroll containing information on ancient Egyptian magic that was uncovered in a pyramid. Edmond was beside himself with grief but he pushed forward raising his son, teaching him the bits of French that he knew, and sending him off to Hogwarts the following year.
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> As luck would have it, his second wife was born the same year that his first had perished, although it took quite some time for Edmond to meet Fabiana Bulstrode. Being a widower didn’t suit him at first but with the space that was granted to him with his son away at school, Edmond slipped into his old ways. He found that he still remembered how to be charming and he traveled the globe meeting many different women and enjoying his time with them. He still loved and missed Eponine, so nothing lasted very long and his summers were, in a sense, very dry while his son was home from school.
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> Fabiana was just out of school when he first met her as a young and eager reporter. He hadn’t considered marrying her but three months after their very lengthy and personal interview when she told him she was pregnant, that changed everything. Another walk down the aisle, this one much more rushed than the first time, and Fabiana Bulstrode was now Fabiana Abbott.
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> His son Armond was in shock, obviously, he’d recently gotten married himself which was a perfectly reasonable thing for someone to do when they were 30 but there his father was at the age of 50 in a tux holding the hand of a woman who was ten years younger than Armond himself. He’d always hoped his father would find love again but… this hadn’t exactly been how he had been thinking it would happen. Always one to keep his optimism, he welcomed Fabiana to their family as best he could and introduced her to his wife Poppy who, come to find out, had actually been a Prefect when Fabiana had just started school.
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> Several months later, Armond was holding his half-sister in a hospital blanket and greeting her in a very surreal experience. Five years after that, he was holding a much different bundle in that same hospital room as he and Poppy welcomed their first son Flynn to the world. They tried for quite some time to have another child but were unsuccessful until six years later when he was holding onto Poppy’s hand as she squeezed it tightly as she was crowning with their secondborn. What happened after that was a blur to Armond; Arlo was born silently and the Healers rushed around to assist him as Poppy started hemorrhaging.
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> A bleary-eyed Armond came home from the hospital to his older son with just a baby and no Poppy.
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> Following in his father’s steps, he threw himself into raising his children to the best of his ability as a single dad. It wasn’t until he was at a Ministry event many years after Poppy’s passing that his hope of romance sparked once more. Lilith Yaxley was everything that he adored but she was unfortunately married and he didn’t think he stood a chance even if she had been single. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Their innocent talks turned into something more and eventually he held out hope that his boys might have a stepmother one day. Lilith helped him plan the funeral of his father and stepmother when they suddenly contracted a severe case of dragon pox and she began to set money aside so that she would have the means to leave Leander.
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> But the world went to utter chaos and their happiness was cut short when Armond was framed for Lilith’s brutal murder and then within the walls of the very department that was meant to protect him, he was hung by an enchanted blanket, leaving his two boys with no one to care for them but his younger sister.
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##### Early Years

> Flynn had a pretty great life for about ten years and then everything just seemed to… fall apart, maybe? Look, he was trying really hard not to be resentful when his parents told him he was going to have a brother because he was convinced it was going to change everything, and then it did. His mum never came home and there was this little baby who screamed at all hours of the night and Flynn was expected to share a room with for some weird reason.
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> But then one day Arlo held really tightly onto his finger and smiled at him, his *first* smile, and it was hard to hold a grudge after that.
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> Don’t get him wrong, having a sibling much younger than him was devastatingly awkward at times. He was expected to chip in with nappy changes and make sure that Arlo didn’t get into trouble and he was *always* getting himself into trouble. How on earth was one young boy expected to prevent his brother from scaling the wardrobe so that he could drop eggs from the top of it onto the floor beneath?
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> In comparison to his brother, Flynn was an angel. He politely accepted the meals offered to him and chipped in when he could, and when Arlo was around he seemed to behave better… mostly because Flynn covered his tracks.
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##### School Years

> It was with mixed feelings that he boarded the Hogwarts Express and watched as the train pulled away and Arlo waved to him from the platform… right up until the moment that Arlo dropped a handful of trick spiders on some older woman’s shoulder and she screamed bloody murder. Then Flynn felt a bit of relief about the whole experience.
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> He was sorted quickly into Hufflepuff where the majority of his family members had found themselves placed. Flynn wrote regularly home to his dad and occasionally got a letter from Arlo, usually when he wanted to complain about how bored he was. During his fifth year, he was proud to tell his father that he’d been selected as a Prefect even if that title had come with a much heavier responsibility than usual when a serial killer was on the loose and a riot broke out in Hogsmeade. Still, though, he managed to land himself his first girlfriend so things were looking up!
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> In April, he walked to the Great Hall for breakfast to find the entire Hufflepuff table was staring at him… that was when he saw the papers.
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> Everything after his father’s death is a blur to him. Flynn mostly spent time with his girlfriend and did minimal revision, eager to go home to his brother even though he didn’t know where home would be now.
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> Their home, as it would turn out, would be in a cramped place above an archaic shop - if either of those things could be called that. It was weird having to take orders from his aunt, who was barely that many years older than him, and it was definitely a rocky start. Honestly, he really felt as if he could have simply taken Arlo himself and they would have made things work. It had been incredibly stressful, especially as he had to hold everything together for everyone around him, and soon enough, the deaths were long forgotten as the world moved on. He didn't, though, because he was strongly aware of the fact that he did not have his father around anymore, especially when he received word about being the Headboy during his final year. At least there was Clover, though, the woman of his dreams.
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### Connections

#### **Family**

###### Iona Abbott

> His aunt, and guardian. He used to be cool with her, mostly, until he found out that his dad died and she was now his guardian even though she's barely old enough to be responsible for herself. He struggles trusting her a lot of the time. He cares for her, and loves her, but right now, he doesn't trust her.
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###### Arlo Abbott

> Arlo is a bit of a headache, but Flynn cares for him deeply and is always looking out for him and trying to be a responsible influence on him if he can help it. He absolutely does not like sharing a room with him, however.
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###### Ainsley Fawley

> He's related to her somehow, cousins probably. She's cool enough.
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#### **Friends**

###### Esme van Altena

> They're currently head boy and head girl together, and he's also known her for his entire stay at Hogwarts.
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#### **Romance**

###### Clover Gryffindor

> He is IN LOVE with her. Maybe that's a strong word coming from a couple of teenagers, but they have been dating FOREVER, and he's sure they're always going to be together. They're Hogwarts' cutest couple (and most nauseating) as they're very lovey dovey and couple-like, and he loves it. She makes him happy.
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#### **Enemies**

###### Theodora Clarke

> She killed his father - he can't accept that at all, especially since he had liked her well enough when she was at school. He regrets all of the nice things he has ever said or done for her.
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