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  Jo Kyung's family was pretty well off despite having 8 children, owning a chain of hotels all around South Korea and a part of Europe, mostly around the countries in the Mediterranean, which means Kyung was able to go around the continent visiting the various cities where their hotels were located. When his parents told them that they'd be immigrating to Greece right after his graduation from Mahoutokoro, it wasn't much of a big change to the Jo children seeing as they've already learnt the language and culture.

It was in Greece that Kyung met Galatea Metaxas, the daughter of his father's business partner and most probably the most intelligent woman Kyung ever encountered. Through Galatea, he met Theseus Sakellarios and Alejandra in extension. All four ended up working for the Greek Ministry. Eventually, Galatea and Kyung, and Theseus and Alejandra ended up being wed.

The Jo couple had eight children, with their eldest child Glykeria being born not a year after their marriage. Melina, Gongchan chara, Vasilius, Zoë, Varvara, Silas, and finally Gavriil followed, all with one or two year intervals.

Vasilius Hyunwoo Jo is their third child and second son, born _ years after Gongchan chara. Even at a young age, he showed an impressive intellect and a passion for knowledge, sucking up facts like a sponge, more specifically in the areas of music and psychology, an unusual mix. Unlike other children, Vasilius actually asked for tutoring sessions and advanced lessons, the curriculum for his age group not satisfying his thirst. By the time his youngest brother Gavriil was born, Vasilius had a steadily growing collection of books of all subjects. The boy had also assigned himself as his younger siblings' tutor, a fact he was very proud of.

Glykeria and Melina often joked that the amount of time he spent reading books was the reason for his resting b**ch face, often commenting that he looks really scary whenever he is deep in his reading. Vasilius was concerned at first, but eventually embraced this weird trait of his. It did decrease his chances in socialising, but Vasilius was too busy burying his nose deeper into his books to care.

The Jo family kept close ties with the Sakellarios family, not even wavering when Theseus became the head of the department of Magical Law Enforcement and Alejandra became the Senior Undersecretary. Because of this, the Jo children grew up with the Sakellarios children. Vasilius was the same age as Malia Sakellarios and the two clicked, even with their wildly differing personalities, Vasilius preferring to stay sedentary with a book while Malia was out enjoying the outside world.

Everything was as peaceful as you expect it to be, until Perseus died when Vasilius and Malia were six years old. From there, it was a horrible domino effect. Alejandra followed her husband with a necklace of rope, scarring Malia who was the one to discover her mother's corpse. Vasilius noticed Malia change from that day, drawing gruesome illustrations of Alejandra's corpse and causing odd things to happen around her. Magic and PTSD don't work well together, Vasilius figured out. The youngin tried to help Malia cope, but even he couldn't do anything. Kyung and Galatea tried their best to help the orphaned children through until Phoebe and Achilles managed to get jobs at the Ministry.

However, come their eleventh birthday, Vasilius and Malia went to different Magic schools, Vasilius to the local one with the other Sakellarios siblings while Malia went to Hogwarts. It did upset Vasilius quite a bit, but he soon came to terms that Malia needed a change of scenery. They could still keep in touch using letters after all.

Once Galatea and Kyung were sure that the Sakellarios children can take care of themselves well enough, they decided that the Jo family themselves needed a change of scenery too in Vasilius' third year. The Jo children were introduced to their father's homeland and culture in South Korea and continued their schooling in Kyung's alma mater, Mahoutokoro, with Vasilius adjusting to the fact that people call him Hyunwoo now.

The rest of Vasilius schooling years went uneventfully, passing with flying colours and well on his way on succeeding in life. Of course, Vasilius was able to pick up some boyfriends along the way, but none of them ever stuck with Vasilius claiming that he 'didn't feel a spark' with any of them. But one thing was for sure, he was straighter than a perfect circle, something his family was surprisingly accepting of. His little coming out of the closet gave his younger sibling Varvara enough courage to reveal her own bi-ness on Vasilius's seventh year.

As Vasilius wasn't the eldest child in the family, he wasn't set to inherit the chain of hotels his family owns, instead only inheriting his share of the fortune and given freedom to choose any career. He chose to be a freelance writer and flute instructor.

What made Vasilius return to the Western world was one wedding invitation from his favourite person, but unfortunately a ruckus at the Korean Ministry stopped the creation of international Portkeys for two weeks, forcing Vasilius to take a Muggle plane instead and miss the wedding. However, he is looking to make it up to Malia once he orients himself in the UK first.