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Jo fam
The Jo family is a powerful Wizarding conglomerate family from South Korea, they are best known for their 5-star chain of hotels Altair International and rapidly rising Sky High Entertainment (involves investment and distribution of international and domestic music). Though having only established themselves more or less than 10 years ago, their impressive rise to fame and power has enabled them to make a name for themselves, even amongst the families who have been in the business for a longer period of time.

The Metaxas family descended from an ancient Macedonian aristocratic family, the Metaxas family are the masters of the Magical sector of Metaxas in the region of Macedonia. They are detached from the rest of the Wizarding world, preferring their seclusion in the magical barrier-protected, much bigger Magical sector of Metaxas where they control the production of their Metaxa spirit brand in secret. A dark secret within their family is their genetic curse as the price paid by their ancestor in order to gain power and glory.

Two separate families from different continents. All it took was a visit to Greece for them to collide and have their strings of fate intertwined.

Jo Jae-Kyung is the eldest child and only son of Jo Il-Hoon and Kim Eun-Bi, heir to the Jo Conglomerate and the self-appointed bodyguard of Kae Jin-Hee, a scion of close family friend and business partner Kae family, whom he consideres his younger sister in all but blood (he has 3 biological younger sisters but Jinhee was too Pure of a soul to not activate his innate Big Brother instincts). When Jinhee announced that she'd be going to Greece to visit her elder sister and her brother-in-law, Jaekyung was quick to follow after her under the reason that his father is meeting up with a Greek business partner but everyone knew that it was just Jaekyung acting on his protective brotherly instincts.

Upon arriving there, the two Koreans met who, unbeknownst to them, they would respectively marry in a few months' time. While Jinhee was being charmed by the ever magnificent Sokratis Michelakakis, Jaekyung was meeting his match in both intellect and attitude in the form of Galatea Metaxas, eldest daughter of his father's business partner Euphrasia Metaxas and the former partner of Sokratis.

From the start, he and Galatea never got along, even when Galatea formed a bond with Jinhee and began to treat the other girl like a sister. Jaekyung and Galatea always argued and fought over the smallest things, although both secretly admired how the other could handle their fiery personalities. Eventually their fights simmered down to intellectual debates over the chessboard that would last for hours. It was through these debates that they got to know each other more and it's quite possible that this was the pivotal part in their relationship where their feelings of admiration shifted to that of pure, romantic love that neither of them noticed.

One of the first to notice the subtle shift in the atmosphere between the two was none other than Jinhee, which was why during her wedding with Sokratis (something both Jaekyung and Galatea are vehemently against for the sake of Jinhee) she chose them to facilitate over the decorations together. Being forced to work together was initially a very bad move since they both had opposing ideas, but eventually the two found a common ground and started treating each other as more like friends than intellectual rivals.

Their relationship only improved from there and one day, two weeks before Sokratis and Jinhee's wedding, everything fell into place and Jaekyung and Galatea acknowledged their mutual feelings, thus starting a romantic relationship and eventually marrying three months after Sokratis and Jinhee did.

Two months after, Galatea was announced pregnant with a girl, much to the joy of the couple. Galatea herself was especially excited, she loves kids very much and having one of her own was a dream come true. The following months was a time of bliss for the couple, waiting with bated breath for the new addition to their small family who they already picked out a name for: Asteria Eun-Byul. However, it wasn't to last.

'''Trigger Warning: Mentions of stillbirth. Skip to the line after CLEAR if you are sensitive to the aforementioned topic.'''

Galatea encountered complications in the 7th month of her pregnancy and gave birth to Asteria prematurely. Asteria, however, didn't survive.

Holding her baby in her arms and never getting to see her eyes nor her smile, never getting to hear her laugh or cry or talk, it broke Galatea. Jaekyung felt his wife's pain and could do nothing but hold Galatea close, whispering words of comfort and love in her ear but both know they'd never be the same after this.

The nursery that they'd lovingly and painstakingly prepared for their Asteria was turned into a memorial for their lost child. The couple never let anyone else besides themselves enter the room. They were the ones who maintained the room and sometimes they'd spend long nights in there, just thinking and talking about what could have been.

 CLEAR 

It took them two years to even think of trying again and when they did, they were blessed with twin girls: Glykeria Hee-Jin and Melina Hyun-Jin, just about the same time Sokratis and Jinhee had their own set of male-female twins. Soon enough, Glykeria and Melina were followed by Emmanouil Da-Reum, Vasilius Hyun-Woo, Zoë [insert Korean name], Varvara Yeon-Ji, Silas [insert Korean name], and lastly Gavriil [insert Korean name] with one to two year intervals between.

Vasilius was one of the quieter and physically weaker children, along with his younger, more energetic sister Varvara. He was withdrawn and far more interested in the world of books, even having his own private nook of fluffy pillows in their home's gigantic library where he would hide whenever the Michelakakis family came over. When he made friends, they were few and far in between and were children of his parents' friends and coworkers, most notable of which were Malia Sakellarios and Aikaterine Vassalos. Vasilius was, and still is, closest to Malia, close enough that they even had a playground marriage and kept close contact until they reunited a decade or so later.

Though the Jo and Michelakakis families were very close, Vasilius never did show any interest in befriending any of them. The closest interaction he had with any of them were with the identical Michelakakis twins Chrysanthos and Theofanis, both of which were very mischievous and often got to Vasilius' nerves with their constant need to pester him. Despite that, the twins would soon cement themselves as his