Hey hey when you have the chance, I really want to know more about the queen family. What's the story behind them? :3 =^_^=
sorry for letting this sit too long, i've been contemplating their story but i havent really writ writ them down so i'm using bullet points!
Shirokuro is a centuries-old nekomata (a two-tailed cat yokai with mysterious origins), was travelling around Japan when he stumbles into a redhead camping around Mount Nekomadake
Harper was in Japan for her sabbatical and a little research, checking out the wildlife-- when a man with minimal supplies stumble to her camp
Harper offers him to sit by the fireside & a meal, which the then-disguised Cat man agrees to
They get talking, to popping out drinks, which progressed to making a bet that Shirokuro wins-
Shirokuro asks for company in his journey bc honestly it's kinda lonely
Harper agrees because a bet is a bet, goes for one trip, then becomes two, three-- (they encounter a lot of creatures & plants)
They kinda spend a year and a half discovering (or rediscovering, for Shirokuro's case) Japan
By the time new year came, they were like 😳 @ one another,,,
It took them several more months but they finally start dating (because courting makes it sound so old, Shiro!) and it just felt like a natural progression
Harper had to go back to Europe after that, but promises to get back to him :) (I'll be waiting, Harper)
They do long-distance, Shirokuro still wandering, but hopping around Asia this time
It takes them 2 years before they see one another again, and the reunion is sweet as you can imagine :3
By then, Harper quit her job because she wanted to go back to travelling
They get married a year into their second bout of travels, which was more crazy than the last--
Anyways Sasha comes right after, and they all settle back in Japan. Harper takes a job as a healer, and Shirokuro mostly stays with their half-human, half-cat yokai daughter.
Their focus was spent monitoring Sasha's progress, almost missing Britain's second Wizarding War.
When it does end, Harper is called for her Healer/Herbology expertise, which she talks over with Shirokuro.
They move to Wicklow, where the Queen manor is hidden, until such time Wizarding Britain was stabilized.
Anyways Sasha picks Hogwarts over Mahoutokoro because she wants to take a look into it after her brief stint as a student :3
General stuff about the Queen family:
A house that fell a long while back, so squibs turned to the muggle world & scattered across the globe
Harper is the first 'Queen' witch for generations, and mostly identifies as muggleborn because the line was long assimilated to mundane society
Line specialized with Plants, Healing, and Potioneering
Harper wasn't at all influenced by that history-- nonetheless, she graduated Hogwarts and took a joint apprenticeship for Healing & Herbology
Stuff about Shirokuro & the spirit fam
Shirokuro is the only Nekomata of his line permanently residing the human world. His siblings, on the other hand, visit periodically, but otherwise stay in the Spirit half.