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= Malachi Bird =

Malachi Leslie Bird (born 25 May 2018), sometimes known as Leslie Bird , Leslie Lennox , Colin Finch, or by any number of other aliases, is an international confidence trickster, thief, and ambassador to the Idreis crime empire. Like most of the Bird family, he is known primarily for his Machiavellian intelligence, good looks, and charisma, as well as his skill in an extraordinary number of criminal and non-criminal fields, ranging from cat burglary and art forgery to musical composition.

Early life
Malachi Leslie Bird was born on 25 May 2018, in Chicago, Illinois, to Mallorie Lennox Bird and Daisy Caryn Bird (née Najara). He has a twin sister, Valerie Victoria, and together the two are eleventh in line to inherit the Idreis empire. His mother, Mallorie Bird, is known as an exceptionally talented grifter, thief, and criminal jack-of-all-trades, though her reputation as a crime lord is less illustrious, as she was responsible for the collapse of the Bird ring in Boston, Massachusetts about ten years before Malachi and Valerie's birth. She married Daisy Najara, a former country singer, in 2007, some time before the aforementioned collapse, and the pair moved to Chicago to reside with Mallorie's brother Victor in 2013.

During his childhood, Malachi resided with his mothers and extended family on the Idreis estate. Like his sister Valerie and Petra Stoker-Idreis, his first cousin once removed, he was tutored mainly by Mallorie and his uncle Victor, though family friend Adel Idreis instructed him in finance and economics, Adel's wife Cressida Teller in combat, and his aunt Inaya Idreis in music. Other members of the Idreis household included Nadira Idreis, his cousin; Freya Stoker, Nadira's wife; Leila Idreis, Adel's sister; Nisha and Aidan Idreis, Adel's niece and nephew; Larkin Locklear, Aidan's husband; Melissa Teller, Cressida's niece; and Fiona Crick, Mallorie's advisor, although it is unknown whether any of them contributed to Malachi's early education. He first left the country at the age of two on a family vacation to Paris, and would go on to travel outside the United States an average of three times a year until his departure from the Idreis estate at age twelve.

In September of 2030, Malachi began his first year at Meador Academy, a boarding school in Los Angeles, California that caters primarily to the children of criminals. He was accompanied by Valerie, though not by Petra, who was still too young to attend. His mother Mallorie was valedictorian of Meador's first graduating class in 1990, and taught several guest classes there during Malachi's tenure. While at Meador, Malachi was an excellent student, receiving a number of accolades from the administration and participating in a variety of extracurricular activities: he served as first chair violin and concertmaster in the school's orchestra for four years, acted in and directed several school-wide theater productions, and belonged to equestrian, fencing, chess, and debate teams. Despite this, he did not get along well with other students or teachers at the school, excluding, of course, his mother and sister. His classmates described him as "arrogant," "patronizing," and "pretentious," and teachers noted that he was difficult to work with, prone to leading their lectures off topic, and vocally derogatory when he felt the class was not up to certain standards.

It should be noted that Meador Academy was where Malachi met his future husband, Phillip Hilliard, heir to the Hilliard crime empire, though it is possible that the two encountered each other at events in Chicago prior to that. The pair began their relationship during their fourth year at Meador, at ages seventeen and sixteen, respectively.