Brandon Quevedo O'Brien, Calypso Wizard (1987-Present)

Born to Marlon Quevedo O'Brien and Dionne Masimba Clarke, Brandon Quevedo O'Brien was the first member of the O'Brien line to exhibit an aptitude for the wizarding arts and sciences. By the age of three, he inadvertently turned his neighbor into a cat, temporarily lifted a local teacher to the top of the Holy Trinity Cathedral clocktower, and likely caused a traffic jam at the intersection of Belmond Circular and Queen's Park – all by reciting poetry. These initial incidents caused his parents must consternation, most notably because they had intentionally exposed him to the great literatures of the world, and it was, they noted in a later interview, rather difficult to explain why this was causing such difficulties for the neighborhood.

In 1996, Brandon was invited to the West Indies School of Wizardry on Mount Tucuche via a letter delivered by a red-rumped agouti who identified himself as Archibald Singh, Professor Emeritus of Transfigurative Poetics. Brandon gratefully accepted – to his parents' equal joy, both for their son's successes and for the fact that they would no longer have to explain why the trees kept trimming themselves – and enrolled as a 1st year in the school. There, he learned of the school's history. It was originally established after the fall of the West Indies Federation in 1962, when efforts to establish an official school of wizarding arts and sciences fell through after Jamaica left the federation – partly over its desire to house the official school in Kingston; Jamaica was overruled by a simple majority, and the original West Indies School of Wizarding Science was formed in St. John's in Antigua (now known as the Kincaid Institution of Poetic Wizardry). Jamaica went on to form the Garvey Academy of Wizarding Science while Trinidad took the original name for itself, founding the WISW in 1964.

Brandon excelled at WISW, showing particular aptitude for Calypso Poetics, Counter Poetics, and Recitation Training, the latter of which only the most dedicated wizards could achieve, as it required learning to recite exceptionally long works for exceptionally strong magical effects, including temporarily stopping the sun, growing avocados in the Arctic, and convincing tourists to respect the locals. By his final year, he could recite the entirety of Derek Walcott's Omeros, a feat which earned him special marks because the resulting effect was the immediate recession of flood waters in Port of Spain due to a tropical storm in 2001.

After graduation, Brandon took the opportunity to travel to other schools of the wizarding arts and sciences, including the Roosevelt Boy's Academy of Poetic Divinity, the Chamberlain Wizardry School, and Trường Pháp thuật Trần Nhân Tông. There, he helped foster international cooperation among the magical schools, founding the first Federation of Poetic Wizardry and the International Exchange of Wizarding Arts and Sciences (later called the Union of Wizardry).

In 2024, Brandon came into conflict with Simon Strain, who had spent the better part of 15 years establishing an imperialistic and ritualistic alliance of wizards determined to destroy the IEWAS. Ostensibly a neo-fascist regime, Strain's deconstructionist Night Poets attempted a coup in July 2024, attacking several schools, destroying two major cities, and waging a propagandistic campaign to consolidate power. With a collection of powerful wizards, Brandon helped defeat Strain at the Battle of Kingston, temporarily trapping the man and his commanders in the empty pages of a composition book. With Strain's power dissolved, Brandon and the now-Union of Wizardry helped undo the damage of the coup, sought (and largely procured) restorative justice for the victims, and instituted the first Wizarding Code of Restitution and Reconciliation. While Strain would eventually escape from the composition book, he was later caught and imprisoned on the Island of Poetic Destitution, where he was unable to use his abilities for further acts of violence or mayhem.

Currently, Brandon serves as the professor of Counter Poetics at the West Indies School of Wizardry in Trinidad. He is supposedly writing a memoir of his life, though his parents hope he will leave out any mention of tree trimming or traffic jams, as all of their neighbors are new and know absolutely nothing about such things.