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HARLEQUIN PINE

AGE 14
HOMETOWN Recolle
SPECIES Human, formerly Fairy
FAMILY Glaucio (father), Gertrude (mother)
LANGUAGE English
OCCUPATION High School Student
OTHERS

RELATIONSHIPS

SAKURA Middle school friend.

Xiaolang Middle school rival.

INVENTORY

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Harlequin was born fourteen years ago to Gertrude and Glaucio Pine. The two of them made up a prevalent event planning team and were constantly busy planning out other people's lives. Thus most of Quin's life was spent in the company of family friends and babysitters.

His childhood firsts were all witnessed and celebrated by Dollie, his grandmother on his father's side. She would sew stuffed animals and patch together quilts for him. In fact, she was the one who first taught him how to sew when he was still too young to use anything more than a kid's plastic needle. He loved her, admired her more than he ever did his own parents and actually listened to her when she scolded him. She passed away just before his ninth birthday. While she was babysitting him, she had a heart attack. He was playing in another room. He didn't even notice. By the time he found her body, it was too late. He was despondent for a very long time, but eventually, he picked up a real sewing needle and began to teach himself more complicated techniques, if only so that he could do necessary repairs on everything she had made for him. Over the years he came to enjoy creating things on his own.

Unlike his grandmother, his parents had always been quick to throw money at him to keep him happy, and so it was no surprise that this was how they decided to comfort him after her death. Quin was all too willing to take advantage of this. He demanded the best consoles and gaming computers available, the most expensive sewing machines and materials he could find in any given catalog, even a large trampoline for their backyard on a whim. He got it all. The only thing they denied him was their own time. Quin never complained. It wouldn't get him anywhere anyway. He had stopped expecting things from them very early on and was quite content to reap the rewards their parenting ignorance had sown.

The real problem reared its ugly head when his parents started expecting things from him.

Around the time he started middle school, Quin began to notice a change. Gertrude would ask him if he wanted to see what mommy and daddy's work was like, if he would tour the venues with them, what he thought of various design decisions. He blew her off again and again despite that when asked he couldn't produce anything else he'd rather do with his life. He wasn't interested in his parents, and so he wasn't interested in their work by extension. Besides, he had an online raid scheduled! When all of Gertrude's attempts had failed, it was Glaucio's turn to step in, have a father-son talk with his boy about their high hopes for him. Quin responded by not coming home the next day. Or the following day. Or the day after that.

Not only was he not interested in the family business, but he absolutely did not want to hear about the great expectations his parents held for him. If he listened to them, he'd think about them, and if he thought about them, he'd start imagining the many, many ways he would fail them. Just like he'd failed his grandmother.

During his stint away from home, he skipped school to hang around libraries and restaurants then stayed overnight with friends like Sakura Kinomoto. He never let on that his parents had no idea where he was, and his parents didn't tell anyone else either. When he finally walked through the front door three days later, they had retreated, not knowing what else to do except pretend that nothing had happened.

Now that he's nearly finished with his first year of high school, however, his mom has begun to poke and prod again. It's gone about as well as anyone could have expected. Quin is simply that dead set on never risking another failure, no matter how impossible this goal may be.

( codes by whambam )