Childhood| 1863-1874 | Cottage in Westport, Ireland; town home in Bartonburg South, Hogsmeade
June 1863: Gus is born to Lottie and Fionn in Ireland; she had wanted home roots to raise a family rather than moving from place to place, as is the life of Curse Breaker. They still visit Fionn for weeks at a time, but Ireland will always be home.
November 1864: Figueroa is born. Their family is complete. Gus loves his little sister and spends much time playing outside with her; while they have a governess, it is their mother who tucks them in each night. Their father, when home, spins tales of his time before bed each night. Gus wants to be a Curse Breaker too.
March 1866:Fionn accepts the position to be a Curse Breaker at Gringotts to work in their vaults and the family relocates to London. It is much more expensive here and they live more modestly than previously. It is their permanent home base.
February 1870: For a while, it is thought Gus would be a squib; he shows his first displays of magic at six years old, nearing the age of seven. He enlarges a slug so he can play with it outside. His parents are relieved.
Hogwarts|1874-1881 |Hufflepuff House at Hogwarts
Gus begins his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Hufflepuff. It is a magical place and he falls in love with it. Fig joins him a year later in the same house.
Life passes by quickly. Nothing of importance truly happens, outside of learning magic and growing older. He excels at Defense Against the Dark Arts. He hates Divination. He makes friends, he loses friends. He is adventurous but he knows his limits; of course he earns some detentions as most students do, but for the most part keeps his head down.
He decides he’s not interested in women after quite a lackluster experience. He tells no one.
Like most wizarding families, they are run of London and settle near Hogsmeade in 1877. The Lissington family purchases a modest townhome in Bartonburg South. Gus’ room faces the front of the house, and he finds enjoyment watching the people outside. He and Fig make up stories about their lives.
May 1881: He falls in love his final year at Hogwarts; it was fast, simple and crazy, but he wouldn’t have any other way.
Gus accepts a job as an apprentice Curse Breaker. He asks the boy he’s fallen in love with to travel with him so they could go to the ends of the Earth and be together. But he’s rejected, and all at once Gus’ world is crushed to pieces.
He still leaves for Egypt the day after graduating Hogwarts. He doesn’t look back.
Curse Breaking Years|1881-1891|Globe Traveler
June 1881-1891 He doesn’t have a home base and travels the world for the next decade. He spends a lot of time in Egypt. He avoids visiting home as time grows; Mama Lissington develops a memory problem, unbeknownst to anyone.
He eventually drops the apprentice from Curse Breaker, and thrives in his new role.
There is nothing he enjoys more than the thrill of the adventure that comes with his job; he sees mountains and creatures he’d only read of in books. He sees the ocean, a personal favorite. He earns scars that are attached to tales. Gus meets people who make him laugh, and he falls in love too easily. (None of them compare to the boy who broke his heart.)
He spends time trapped in a tomb at twenty and finds it's the story he speaks the most of. It’s a fond memory.
He is petrified by a cursed statue at twenty three and sometimes still has stiff limbs from it.
He spends a few months trapped in a genie lamp at twenty seven and laughs about it. (It's an awkward and forced laugh; it's almost an entire year of memories he can't touch even though his fellow curse breakers swear it was only a few months at most he was trapped..) He can’t remember a single thing from that stint, and has a feeling he missed something important.
Professor Years|1892-Present|DADA Living Quarters, Hogwarts Castle
November 1891: He wakes up one morning terribly homesick at twenty eight. The grand adventure of traveling the world is tiresome and lonesome and he wants to unpack his bags for as long as he’d like. So on a whim Gus decides to apply for the Defense Against Dark Arts position at Hogwarts.
January 1892: he steps into Hogwarts as a professor for the first time. He barely survives the first year.
November 7, 1892: Papa Fionn is hit with a spell during a routine vault check at Hogwarts and succumbs to his wounds. Mama is placed in an asylum in rural Ireland due to her needing assistance with some basic day-to-day functions. (Dementia doesn't have a name yet, watching his mum loss her memory and ability to function breaks his heart.)
