Quirin Hyrtl



Pauli's elder brother by about 7 years. He is slowly making his way up the ladder in politics.

Most of Pauli's memories of Quirin involve the elder ignoring him, or forgetting about him. Some used the terminology 'too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good' to describe him, especially once he reached his teens, although that would imply a religious conviction. Even as a child, Quirin was too busy thinking to pay attention to anything. At least, that's what he always claimed.

The relationship between Quirin and his siblings was almost entirely built around the grounds of him being told to look after them, going out, him forgetting about them, and then something bad coming of it. Their parents were attempting to teach him responsibility; instead they ended up losing their 'free time' to cleaning up the mess Pauli and Barbl left in his wake.

When he moved to Berlin to study politics, things got worse at home. To begin with, he visited at Christmas, Easter and for a few weeks during the summer. By the time Pauli left for Vienna, it was only Easter. The Easter he was chased out of home, Quirin wasn't even there, busy with something in Berlin.

Of late, Quirin is still working in Berlin, and still writing lengthy political opinion pieces on tumblr. It had emerged that at some point in the last year to two years he hired a private investigator to track down his brother. At some point during this exercise, possibly the same point the investigator could find nothing else and concluded Pauli to be dead, he realised that he had not been a good brother and mourned alone, deciding against telling the rest of the family.

Getting a phone call was more than a little suprising, leaving Quirin to draw his own lines as to just what his brother had gotten up to in England to require him to fall off the face of the planet.