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Physical Description: Standing a bit below average height, he’s always been very sure that he was a boy, even though his attitude towards traditionally feminine and masculine traits have stayed quite indifferent. His hair is short and wavy, being dark brown in color and freshly cut upon arrival to school at his own insistence. Martín has heterochromia— one deep brown eye on his left and a light hazel-green on his right. He’s very proud of this, and thinks it makes him look quite cool. His skin is tanned and slightly freckled, although skinny, he's quite lean and athletic. From various sports (his favorites being futbol, baseball, and quidditch.) he also has bumps and bruises here and there from his beloved yellow bicycle as well.

Mental Description: Marty is a very humorous and happy go lucky child. He sees situations optimistically, even when a little uncertain or nervous. He’s very open about his opinions, carrying his emotions on his sleeve and can be quite expressive about them when encouraged. Overall, he’s very well meaning if not a bit blunt, and always offers a kind glance to any stranger.

Biography: It was July of 2014 when Martín was born to wizard-born Lucia Murdoch and halfblood Arturo Bernal in the sunny land of East Los Angeles, where he would be raised for the first few years of his life, and his younger sister, Daniela, would also be born just before his third birthday. Going back two generations, Los Angeles was where his father’s extended muggle and wizarding family resided. Much of his exposure to the magical world was also through his parents and their professional lives as trained doctors and practicing healers. They loved their work, and during this time, he and his parents would visit Dublin a few months out of the year in order to stay close with their other side of wizarding heritage as well.
At 3, after his first instance of magic and sister's birth, his parents made the decision to make the move to Dublin, where Lucia had grown up, and her family was located.
Of course at first, the move came as a challenge for Martín. But with time, he does consider Dublin his beloved home. Aside from summers, the other piece of his heart, Los Angeles, stayed now on the other side of the wizarding world. One thing Marty could never be rid of was his American hobbies inherited from Arturo and the other side of his family, even growing up so far from them the last few years.

First Instance of Magic:
At age 3, Martín found himself wandering a busy birthday celebration in a backyard. With Aunts and uncles chatting, his cousins running around, he isn’t quite sure where to turn— when a familiar cheer arises with the reveal of a colorful piñata. It’s what every child was waiting for at the party. Even with magic imbued amongst them, his family kept the piñata traditional, only the handmade animal hanging from a rope in a fight with a wooden stick in the hands of many children, waiting eagerly for their turn. As his cousin went up for her turn, she beckoned for him to do the honors of making the first hit. Small Martin ran ahead with a lack of any caution at all. Where the piñata was secured to a scrawny tree, the mediocre knot loosened. A weighted paper-maché animal full of candy was about to fall full force upon Martín, who was mid swing with his scrawny stick. Suddenly, with magic out of the boy’s control and before many of the unaware parents even noticed, the piñata began to float up as if the candy inside it had been replaced with pure, light air.