#I wanna do this w other families too! (next ones are Vole family :3)

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Turner family headcanons

I posted this earlier on Twitter and my Discord thread, but I wanted to share it here as well (so for those who read them before, these are copy pasted for the most part)

There's not a lot we don't know about Lottie and her family lore, even Y2 leaving a lot things unexplained. Because of that, I wanna share not only just my headcanons about her family, but also my own expansion of it's lore. I may rewrite it at some point, given I started to develop it rather recently, but here's the current version:

• Turner family was a dynasty of painters who portrayed British aristocratic pure blood families, akin to how painters would paint royal families basically and were very valued for their skill to capture the essence of them to keep them sorta immortal in form of a painting (the whole butterfly symbolism and such)

• The magical brush is a family heirloom that was crafted by one of their most famous ancestors, designed specifically to accommodate each painter's style while still keeping that "Turner" feel to it and it was passed through generations on each new descendants' 17th birthday

• One of the ancestors, Ambrose's grandfather (Lottie's great grandfather), however, fell in love with a muggle woman (or muggle born witch, it's still up for me to decide), which put the Turner family to shame, disconnecting them from their status as pure blood family's esteemed painters.

•After that, the Turners started to wander around the world, seeking new things to paint and make a living of.

• Despite losing their high status, the heirloom was still viewed as valuable item and was still passed down to descendants, Ambrose also receiving the brush on his 17th birthday

Ok now as for the present day Turner family headcanons:

• Ambrose Turner was in Ravenclaw house back at Hogwarts. If Lottie's mom was at Hogwarts instead of Castelobruxo, she'd either be Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff

• Ambrose is a travelling artist, who visited many countries in search of inspiration. He mostly paints landscapes, but he would sometimes draw portraits of people passing down on the streets or more urban scenery

• Lottie's mom is originally from Peru and is of African and Indigenous American descent. Studied in Brazil in Castelobruxo. Knows both Portuguese and Spanish.

• Lottie's mom is a dancer and singer! Ambrose met her on the streets of Brazil during one of her performances and was enamored by it. She became his muse.

• The two started talking after Ambrose approached her after attending another performance of hers. They immediately hit it off.

• Unfortunately, Ambrose had to return to Britain at some point, but his beloved decided to go with him. The two later got engaged and married in Britain and continued travelling together, later with their daughter Lottie (who was born about a year ot two into their marriage)

• Lottie is their only child but she has cousins on her mother's side of the family who still live in Brazil/Peru

• Lottie knows a bit of Spanish and Portuguese because of her mother. She understands it and can read it but she still struggles with talking on it

• Lottie also inherited her mother's abilities in singing and dancing

• Lottie's mom usually wears her hair in long dreads. She usually does Lottie's hair bc they have similar hair texture, although hers in curlier than Lottie's.

• Ambrose himself particularly feels a little distant from his ancestor's history of association with pure blood families but does keep the family tradition of passing the brush heirloom, like his father and grandfather did

• Both parents are pretty well off because of their respective families but prefer to live a humble life

• They live on a countryside in a little cottage, the inside of the house decorated with Ambrose's paintings, the ones he painted with Lottie and of his wife (the ones he painted for himself and his family,that is). The painting he didn't sell are usually kept in a separate room.

• Ambrose keeps Lottie's childhood drawings in an album and loves looking through it, keeping memories of his daughter's drawing journey.

• Ambrose suddenly disappeared when Lottie was around 10 years old and it affected both her and her mother greatly

• Lottie's mom refused to believe Ambrose would just leave them like that and was looking for him until she was informed of his death by Lottie

• Despite not having a body, Lottie's mom held a funeral for Ambrose in his honor