that’s totally fine! elliot grew up in foster care for the majority of his early life and was adopted by his adoptive parents at 11. i think he grew up in cambridge when he went to live with them but i have to double check with his sister. BUT he has a very strained, touch and go relationship with his biological mother. she’s an alcoholic and has attempted to get clean many times, come in and out of el’s life quite a lot. she’s never been a mother to him but he can’t just write her off at the same time. i was thinking during one of her sober stints she told him about some of his extended family? which could have been morgan’s mom and that he had cousins. which could have lead to el reaching out to them and these two getting close? i was thinking it all happened when he was around 18