she's basically the best and deserves to be used. but here we go, prepare for a lot of words: for the ex, she is a very self-conscious person when flirting or relationships in general. so he would have to be a very patient person lmao. and once she's comfortable with you, she latches on and has the BIGGEST heart ever so after the weird beginning, she would've been a great girlfriend and it probably ended when she got so caught up with work and opening her coffee/wine bar.
as far as the brother line goes, mom is basically gwyneth paltrow. divorced from dad when elsie was in middle school. originally i had it said that their dad disappeared but i'm open to having him around, just a distanced relationship since they grew up with mom mostly. who was basically a super-mom. their grandfather was an actor -- like jed bartlet from the west wing if he lost his filter as he got older. he's a family man, really loves them and would do anything for him. things kinda went off the rails for him in the public eye after their grandmother died ~2004. he moved in with mom and that's when he and elsie really bonded. they were always close, but he's pretty much the one person who knows her better than anyone. he pretty much funded her coffee/wine bar. i was hoping they'd be close! it's just the two of them, so she would've leaned on him a lot growing up.