1) I could see his mother Sonia being from the Emerald Isles. If you have a Poland equivalent, that's the origin of the surname "Kaspbrak", so his father could be from there.
2) His canon friends being on the island would be six more NPCs, but if you're down for it, I figure out their backstories. Eddie and Ianto haven't had much in the way of interaction in canon, but I'm sure they'd know of each other in the AU.
3) I've decided that Chris is a painter. In the AU, Chris is female. Perhaps she comes from that industrial city, Mournstead, and arrived maybe two years back... I could see her telling people that she simply left for her health, to come to a less polluted area... but maybe she was a labor/union agitator and left because of threats to herself.
As discussed in the Discord, I'm going with "Chris is a half-elf but does not look like it. A spell was used to alter her ears as a child (make them look more human) but it was botched and caused her deafness".
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2) His canon friends being on the island would be six more NPCs, but if you're down for it, I figure out their backstories. Eddie and Ianto haven't had much in the way of interaction in canon, but I'm sure they'd know of each other in the AU.
3) I've decided that Chris is a painter. In the AU, Chris is female. Perhaps she comes from that industrial city, Mournstead, and arrived maybe two years back... I could see her telling people that she simply left for her health, to come to a less polluted area... but maybe she was a labor/union agitator and left because of threats to herself.
As discussed in the Discord, I'm going with "Chris is a half-elf but does not look like it. A spell was used to alter her ears as a child (make them look more human) but it was botched and caused her deafness".