Garin von Brandt was raised in a large house of fourteen in Bonn, Germany. The von Brandt family were upper class bankers, and growing up in a vertically extended family meant that there were high expectations for every new child born into the family tree. Garin was the third youngest child of the family, having three older siblings (two older brothers and one older sisters) and two younger brothers. Garin's parents and their individual parents lived under the same roof, as well as the wife and child of the eldest son of the family. Evidently, the middle child of a family this large is expected to be ignored, though this isn't quite true. Garin was a smart boy and a straight-A student, which would normally outshine his siblings, if it weren't for the fact that his siblings were just the sa