1848 | Trystan is born, the first son and first child of the Selwyns, an old upper class family in Wales. He is the light of their lives, if he does say so himself.

1851 | Emrys is born.

1854 | Daniel is born.

1857 | By this point, Trystan is fairly secure in being his parents’ favourite. It helps that Emrys is better left to his own devices and Daniel is a sullen child. Trystan has always been bright and quick-witted and outgoing; he has a hot temper too, but his parents rarely provoke it, so instead he blossoms under their attention.

1859 | Off to Hogwarts at last, Trystan is sorted into Gryffindor and without further ado begins making friends.

1861 | Though popularity is his primary goal, he does not do badly in his classes when he puts his mind to it, and has a flair for competition. In third year, he adds Ancient Studies and Care of Magical Creatures to his classload.

1863 | In fifth year, he is awarded a prefect badge - to be perfectly honest, he doesn’t know why, but he’ll take it. Some of his classmates look up to him - he has never minded being a leader - and he has the ability to make people fall into line if he wants to. He might not be a stickler for the rules, but his father does want him to go into the law one day, so. Good practice?

1865 | He hasn’t finished his sixth year when he finds out the girl he’s been fooling around with is pregnant. Her parents find out about it which means his parents find out about it, but because he’s their golden child they agree to cover up a potential scandal and take in the baby as their own. He is allowed no further contact with the mother, but the baby is a girl and named Anthea, and in September he goes back to school for his seventh year as though nothing has happened.

1866 | Trying to make up for, you know, that, Trystan puts his head down for his NEWTs and gets Es and Os across the board. This is enough for him to be accepted into the Auror Training Program. His father would have preferred something a little more staid - he has hopes of passing on his seat in the Wizengamot one day - but an Auror is still an esteemable career, however flashy, and still in Law Enforcement, so he does not protest.

1869 | Trystan becomes a fully-fledged auror, and takes to the job like a duck to water.

1871 | At twenty-three, work is going excellently, which leaves Trystan open to... distraction. He has had a few discreet flings since Anthea’s mother, but this one is more a months-long affair with a beautiful woman of lesser status, and if anything, she seduced him.

1872 | She finds out she’s pregnant, but obviously he can’t marry her, she knew that all along. To stay in his parents’ good books, Trystan is inclined to wash his hands of her, but then she passes away after giving birth and he can’t let the baby grow up an orphan, can he? His parents are... pissed, to put it lightly, but on the upside, Trystan bringing up his bastard does overshadow Daniel’s graduation from Hogwarts, ha.

1873 | If he falls in love (or lust) again, this is no one’s business but his own. She’s a debutante this time. It’ll be fine.

1874 | It’s not quite fine. She finds out she’s pregnant, her family send her away to France and force her to give the children (twins!) up. Trystan wants to bring them to live in Wales, and though his mother is nearly convinced, she thinks a little discretion is in order, so the twins grow up with some relatives of the family and will be known as ‘cousins’ if and when they come to Wales. His father is fed up, and to prevent this happening again, decides it is high time Trystan was married. Trystan gets no say in this. Obviously, because they chose Ambrosia. Her temper is worse than his.

1875 | So it’s not fabulous for him when his wife finds out he’s slept with her maid. Also, the maid’s pregnant, whoops. Acknowledging the child is out of the question, so the boy is sent away to be raised elsewhere. (If Trystan keeps tabs on the kid, he keeps it out of Ambrosia’s earshot. Particularly because they have a legitimate child to worry about now.)

1877 | A legitimate daughter is born.

1878 | And another bastard son. Ambrosia’s mad - and also pregnant with another son. Life never slows down, does it? It’s lucky he likes children.

1880 | His mother dies. (Probably from having to endure too much drama.)

1882 | His father dies and Trystan inherits the family lands, whilst his brothers get the other companies. Trystan throws himself into work for the mourning period. Things at home have actually seemed to... dare he say settle down? Or at least find a rhythm only half as volatile.

1885 | In a surprising move, Daniel marries Freya Benwick. Trystan has always expected Daniel to be forever alone. Apparently that’s Emrys. He supposes one of his brothers has learned from his mistakes.

1889 | Having been an Auror for twenty eventful years, age is finally catching up with him. Unwilling to move to a desk job completely, Trystan takes up a position as one of the instructors in the Auror Training Program, in Concealment & Disguise. He’s been on many an undercover mission in his time... and since the public scandal he has faced is only the tip of the iceberg, he evidently can be discreet. He has always been talented at charms and transfiguration, and as such is excellent at all manner of human transformations. (It riles him a little that his wife is an animagus and he is not - but then she always had too much time on her hands.)

1890 | He has had fewer affairs in the last few years - and fewer bastard children - and this might be put down to there being too many prying people around him all the time nowadays or him actually trying to be careful... but temptation’s always round the corner.

1891 | Family marriages this year come as a surprise: first Liliana’s, not because he didn’t think she would make something of herself, but because she marries a pureblood and actually seems to care for him; next and even more shocking is Emrys’, to Angelica Vorona, because Trystan never actually expected Emrys to marry, let alone to a professor.