Physical Description:Aedan's pale complexion, blue, eyes, and pale blue hair marked him as relatively unremarkable when compared to his native Irish country men and women. Aedan stands a tall 4'11" for his age, a feature which is accentuated by his long legs and waifish figure. When paired with the incredible stillness, and patience the boy portrays one would be likely to pass right over him had they been unaware of his presence.

Mental Description: Aedan rarely speaks unless spoken to, preferring to sit patiently and think or daydream. Unless one has earned the trust and confidence of the young boy it is unlikely that Aedan should even speak when spoken to, save by authorities. His voice is a soft airy whisper which hides the buzz of imagination and vocabulary which flutter behind his eyes. Aedan is more comfortable reading his books and pretending to be the heroes between the pages than he is in voicing his own desires.

Biography: While one would expect a wizarding family to be quite open with their magic in the home, that wasn't the case for young Aedan. Both his mother, Roisin, and father, Donal, had attended Hogwarts and were largely average students who had both stumbled upon each other while doing development work in the Middle East. Donal was muggle born, and while his years at Hogwarts were filled with whimsy and fun his heart held a softness for the lives of the non-magical. Donal's father was a diplomat, and growing up a diplomat's son his summers were spent not at home reading books for the next year, but in foreign countries helping supply water and electricity to the people that the magical world seemed so disinterested in. After school Donal carried on the tradition in his family and went to work with Irish Aid and found his first posting in Vietnam. By this time he'd already seen himself distanced from the magical world, though he kept his broom handy for late night flights. In all likelihood, Donal would have married a muggle himself had he not stumbled upon the strange Irish woman with the Occamy eggs, Roisin.

Unlike Donal, Roisin was raised in a pure-blood household, she'd never have known that the quiet first year she met on her third year would end up her husband, nor did she consider herself one for a family life. Roisin's first love was creatures, mundane and magical alike. Where Donal was analytical and slow to act, Roisin was passionate and active, when she finished schooling and entered the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures as a Magizoologist. Those first few years were spectacular, though her heart always yearned for more. Three years into her work she took a year long sabbatical to Vietnam to study. Where the ministry hoped for a routine return of their magizoologist, instead was a more peculiar witch.

In their year in Vietnam together Roisin and Donal bonded over their similar compassionate and kind hearted personalities. Roisin eschewed her work to help Donal build wells, and Donal lent Roisin space to keep the Occamy eggs where they'd be safe from the serpents and birds of the river delta. Donal's love for the muggle world, for the quiet, hard working world infected Roisin from the start, and when it came time to return to Ireland, they did so together.

When Aedan was born in 2010, Roisin and Donal agreed to give the boy a life more akin to the non-magical world. Television, Internet, and the like were available for the young boy. Aedan cared little for it as he grew up, he'd loved the stories his mother read to him and had little knowledge of them being from the magical world. While Roisin used magic through her day to day and returned to work for the ministry when Aedan got older, the pair did their best to keep it from the boy until he was of a reasonable age.

It's this worldly, non-magical reality which allowed Aedan to truly appreciate the people of the world. Even after his abilities revealed themselves and his parents cautiously explained what it meant, Aedan enjoyed his muggle friends, enjoyed the sounds of the Irish suburbs coming through the windows early in the morning as people rushed to work and back. While he wasn't glued to the television like others in his age group he enjoyed the occasional movie, especially anything about space. Only after his own magical accident his mother and father were much more open about the small day to day shortcuts they took, whether it be his mother's use of the Accio charm to find her keys, or his father's enjoyment for broom rides through the country side.

His father still prefers to do development work and before Aedan got his letter to Hogwarts, Donal was deployed to Sri Lanka to build wells and irrigation lines as a part of an Irish mission. As soon as Donal got the news however he immediately apparated himself to their small two bedroom home outside Donegal.

When he's home Aedan prefers to sit in his room and read or draw in his sketchbook. Occasionally his mother attempts to take pictures of him "brooding" as she puts it, or show him how to cook new recipes. Sadly, given his father's constant deployments abroad Aedan sees his father only a few times a year, though until now he'd never known how his father miraculously made each and every birthday dinner.

First Instance of Magic: Aedan was a late bloomer for magical accidents, perhaps his pensive, thoughtful nature and relative non-confrontational attitude had prevented the young boy from tapping into the latent magical nature of his birth. At nine years old Aedan was on a vacation with his mother and father in the Scottish Highlands. There along a countryside picnic Aedan had wondered off from his family to follow a family of rabbits which scampered across the fields. As Aedan approached the rabbits' warren an eagle swooped belong and picked the littlest of the rabbits from their nest. Rather shocked by the sight and the sound of the rabbit, the young boy ran towards the fleeing eagle, and although aware of the hopelessness of his mission desperately tried to reach the bird of prey. In a moment the eagle's talons opened and the fluffy creature within came to tumble towards the ground.

Hearing the cries of Aedan, Donal and Roisin rushed to find the soft brown bunny descending slowly, as if a feather. The boy's eyes were too wet from fear of what could have happened to the creature to notice until the light press of paws upon his trousers revealed the critter, only slightly injured. Aedan scooped up the rabbit and cried further, unsure of what had happened. After all the water had left the little cyan pearls Aedan returned the rabbit to its warren, though he wanted desperately to keep it. On the ride home when his parents began to explain just what had happened, what magic was, and how important it was to keep it secret. It took weeks of explaining to the curious young boy but in time it sunk in, perhaps his shy nature, or his bookish qualities were to thank but for the last year of school before his acceptance to Hogwarts, Aedan said nothing of his gifts to the other children, though he rarely said much to them to begin with.