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And then bring me back to life to follow your command?
Won't you poison my coffee with a loving hand,
And then bring me back to life to follow your command?
The Player
User Name/Nick: Kippur
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kippurbird
AIM/IM: Kippurbirdy
E-mail: Kippur@mad.scientist.com
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The Character
Character Name: Theodred “Theo” Kaylin Sammeth
Character Journal:deadmanbusiness
Canon: Death God Rising (OC)
Age: 25
From When?: Theo has to figure out how to tell his teammates that he thinks the ritual murders that they’ve been investigating may be fueling a ritual that will re-empower his father’s godly powers and are being carried out by a brother he never met and thought was ‘dead’. Or at least as dead as a god can get.
Abilities/Powers: Theo is a highly powerful necromancer. In fact he should have been god of the undead, except that the current one is still around so he wasn’t able to take their place when he turned eighteen. This has left him in a state of godly limbo. He’s not really a god. He’s not really mortal. He’s not really a demi-god. Perhaps a tougher than average mortal would be the best way to explain him. His touch of divinity is shown through his silver eyes (though they’re not really a power persay). He can see in the dark like a normal person can see in the day. Back to his necromantic powers: with his blood he can raise a zombie or skeleton easily. With a bit more blood and effort he can raise someone recently dead as another type of undead. Not something he enjoys doing because well, it takes a lot of blood. He reads as undead to most people who can sense these things, and to others he’s just sort of got a creepy aura. He can command and rebuke unintelligent undead and intelligent undead will hesitate greatly before hurting or attacking him.
Non-divine abilities are that he’s an expert thief and pick-pocket. There are very few locks that he can’t pick or disable. He’s also good with slight of hand tricks. He’s gone through FBI training and is an expert marksman with several types of firearms. He’s also very good with knives. Finally, if you want to do a hostile takeover of a business, there’s very few people better than that.
Power Limitations: In the normal realm of things, Theo is highly sensitive to daylight. He has to wear sunglasses all the time during the day or in bright rooms. He also has a tendency to be nocturnal and has a mild caffeine addiction because of needing to be awake during the day when he his body says otherwise. I imagine he wouldn’t be able to raise greater undead or any undead at all, since that seems to be the purview of the forest and the fey that reside there.
Inventory Suit jacket, jeans, button down shirt, loafers, iPhone, folder of documents relating to the case, iPad, half eaten sandwich, coffee in mug, Swiss Army Knife, silver dagger blessed by his uncle the god of the moon, bracelet from his mother also blessed by his uncle, regulation pistol in holster, wallet, keys, change, engagement ring (for himself) and a black ink pen.
Personality:
Being the son of a god of death, Theo has no fears of what will happen after he dies, if he dies at all. He knows what will happen to people and it’s not a bad thing at all, if you’re a good person. Instead his fears and anxieties exist in the realm of the living.
While his father genuinely cares about him and his family and friends, his father is not a Nice Person. He’s evil (not because he’s the god of the dead, he’d be evil even if he was the god of fluffy bunnies) with the intent to take over the world and bend it to his will. His mother on the other hand was kind and loving and a nice person. Theo was never sure how they ended up together, but she was a good influence on him. Even after she died and was raised as a ghost to help take care of a young Theo. Still, Theo grew up around a man who would willingly cause people who upset him to disappear. Not in the dead sort of way, but in the no one recognizes who they are and they no longer exist in the system sort of way. It’s a scary sort of thought when you’re a kid, afraid to disobey your parent because you might end up ‘gone’ even though you know that they love you.
Somehow, Theo ended up a bit of a white knight with a terrible bout of paranoia. He strongly believes in helping those who need help, sometimes even at the point of being ruthless to those who get in his way. This is something he definitely got from his father, but he tries not to think about it. Instead he funnels his energy into stopping tweenagers from raising zombies and ending up in jail and being the FBI’s leading expert on necromancy. He is, after all, the strongest necromancer in several generations.
The paranoia comes from the fear that someone is going to try and rebuke him or try to hurt him because they think he’s an undead. Holy energy hurts like a bitch and often times priests are to busy trying to get rid of him to realize that he is, in fact, alive with a pulse. He doesn’t know exactly when such an attack is going to come from because he can’t tell who has such abilities. Also, when he was little, he got teased and yelled at for saying things like his father raised Jesus from the dead. It’s enough to make anyone twitchy about holy men from those religions.
Another cause of paranoia is the fact that he is a high profile individual, People Magazine having named him the most eligible bachelor for two years in a row. He has fans. They can be creepy. He has a cult. They can be creepy. He’s more creeped out by the fans than the cult, because at least the cult won’t try and steal his trash and things like that. The cult just sends him holiday cards and the occasional goat sacrifice.
Generally though, Theo tries to be cheerful with a tendency for a morbid and dry sense of humor. He’s calm and level headed, always trying to think things through before going into any sort of action. He makes a good balance against his fiancée who is the fiery explosive sort. It’s not that he’s the brains of the operations so much as the sane one. Theo likes children and would some day like to have some of his own, at least two so that they don’t grow up an only child like himself. He always felt sort of socially awkward while growing up, until he got into college and away from the cliques of high school. Then he started coming into his own as a person, especially as his father started to rely on him in the daily operations of the family’s empire. This is where he learned about his more ruthless side as he maneuvered through the boardrooms and various board members trying to see reason and do what he wanted them to do.
He actually considers working for the FBI a considerable relief and a lot easier than working for his father, because at least while he’s with the FBI he’s not going to get charged with murder if he shoots a bad guy in a sting operation, where upon if he does something violent to a board member, they could sue. Not that it would actually get anywhere. People don’t threaten his father’s son and get away with it.
While he does love his father dearly, the biggest thing that he doesn't want to have happen to him is to become like his father. His father is not a good person. He's a down right evil person (though he would be evil even if he were the god of fluffy bunnies and kittens). He's ruthless and willing to destroy people's lives to get what he wants. Theo recognizes that he has inherited or at least developed some of the same ruthlessness as his father and so he worries that he may go over that line from ruthless to completely unrepentant bastard. He knows he has the power to do it. He's the strongest necromancer, strongest blood necromancer born in ages. He could, if he wanted to, raise up an entire army and do serious damage.
And it feels awfully tempting sometimes.
He struggles with that. Often wondering if he is a good person or just someone pretending to be one. He sees his family, the people he grew up with and they're not the nicest of people. His uncle tried to regain his godhood through destroying part of the western united states and virgin sacrifices (which he claimed the victims were willing participants). His older brother, he just learned, has a cult and also with the ritual sacrifices of innocents. His father, while not having done that as far as he knows, has completely destroyed peoples lives just because.
While Theo isn't a god just yet, he fears that when he does become a god he'll end up like them. Or even before he finishes becoming a god. Which is right now.
And this is what drives him. To not be like his father. To be a good person and try and get out of his, perhaps doomed, future of being a complete and evil bastard. This is why he's become a sort of white knight. It's a conscious decision of his to make himself not like his father. He never tells anyone of this. It's just deep inside of him. He will help people for the sake of helping them, not because it will get him something. He will not become king of the undead and rule over a vast wasteland filled with them and enslaved living. He uses his necromantic powers for good.
Yes. For good. Because undead aren't necessarily evil. They're just apex predators above humans which makes humans think they're evil.
It may not be the best of things for his entire drive, his entire life, to be defined by his father, or at least to not be like his father but that's how it ended up. His father in trying to raise him in the modern world's morality which has caused Theo to try and reject his father's way of doing things.
It doesn't help that both of them care about each other. It really does. He wants to make his father happy, but he doesn't want to do some of the things that his father asks him to do.
History:
Theo’s name, it should be mentioned, does in fact come from the Lord of the Rings. His father is a big fan of the series and therefore bestowed upon his son the name of Theodred. Mentioning it to him with just get an ‘yeah, yeah, I know” reaction out of him. He does also have a geek’s knowledge of the series because, well, his father is a huge fan and would read it to him all the time. He does not, however, know how to speak or read any of the languages. He’s not that bad. Okay, maybe he does a little. He’s not going to admit to it.
It is his father that things really get rolling around. His father is an ancient god of death, long forgotten, currently going around by the name of Melkor (Yes, again, from the Lord of the Rings). Melkor fell in love with the fiancé/ priestess of his brother, Ash and they eloped. Ash was naturally very upset about this and didn’t talk to his brother again until Theo was born. He did this as a loving uncle giving his nephew toys to piss of his brother and encourage little Theo to embarrasses his father like running into important meetings stark naked. This clearly led to horrible stories from his parents which were told to various girlfriends as he grew up.
When he was eight years old perhaps the most horrible thing happened to him. He and his mother were in a car accident. A terrible car accident. Theo was lucky; he survived with only a few scrapes and a broken arm. His mother, however, died instantly, so quickly that not even his father could prevent her from dying. Perhaps in not the smartest move, driven by grief, his father raised her as a ghost. She was originally not too pleased about it, but she was grateful for the chance to continue to help raise her son. (No pun intended)
Theo spent his summers in Manchester, England and his school years in the States. He’s picked up a strange accent because of it, a strange mix of Manchester and New York. When he was fifteen, his uncle had a daughter, Maya. While Ash and Maya’s mother didn’t stay together, Theo was delighted to have a cousin, even if she was nine years younger than him. It was another piece of family for the lonely teenager.
When he turned eighteen, Theo faced the biggest decision of his life. It was his time to choose if he wanted to take his place as a god with his uncle and his father. The three of them took a trip to the ancient city in the Middle East to his family’s temples. If he chose not to go through with the ceremony, he would stay a mortal and eventually grow old and die. If he did go through with it, he might die. His father had five other siblings who did not make it. Or he might live and become god of the undead, for that is what he had a knack for, the undead.
While in the valley, he visited his uncle’s temple and saw a vision of the past where his uncle’s eldest son, Aurin was preparing for the same trial. There he also saw a toddler in his own father’s arms, a brother Theo didn’t know he had. Or at least, he knew that he had older siblings, but they were so long gone and dead they never seemed real. No more real than someone else’s great, great uncle that they never met and only saw on the family tree. He wanted to know more about his brother, but his father didn’t want to talk about it, neither did his uncle. Reluctantly, he dropped the subject and made the choice.
He would go through with the ritual.
Something went wrong though. He didn’t end up a god and he didn’t end up dead. Something, someone, prevented it. The god of the undead, his brother, still lived. Where, no one knew? Instead he was tossed into a limbo of power and uncertainty of his future. An uncertainty that could only be solved by finding his brother. His father, once again, didn’t want to talk about it. Theo let it drop to the wayside, letting himself get caught up in the rest of his life, such as college.
It was at college that he met Adrienne Fraser. A young woman studying war magic at the college, they met during an elective class. She originally thought he was a stuck up snobby rich boy and he set out to prove her wrong. They flirted on and off for most of the year, their schedules not letting them spend much time with each other. He met her sister, Adrianna and brother Adrian during that time. (They’re triplets whose parents weren’t very inventive in the naming department.) And they all got along very well. Theo found surrogate siblings in Adrian and Anna, something he always wanted.
Theo was asked to join the FBI a few years out of college after he stopped a large uprising of zombies from destroying New York’s annual Halloween celebration. Rhys Owens wanted him for his team, the Department of Magical Crimes and Mischief. What Theo didn’t know was that Enne and her siblings had been recruited by Rhys just the year before. When he found out, this led to a rather nasty fight.
They broke up.
It made all the tabloids.
Eventually they made up, which made things a lot nicer at the office.
The tabloids loved that too.
A few months after that, Enne started to discreetly indicate that she would like to move their relationship to the next level. Theo did not catch onto these subtle hints. Adrian sat him down and explained to him in very plain terms that Theo really ought to ask the war mage to marry him before Bad Things happened. Theo agreed, and in fact had been trying to figure out if she wanted to get married. He took her to an expensive restaurant which he rented out for the night and proposed using his mother’s wedding ring.
This made the tabloids and a million girls started sending threats and angry letters because how dare he marry that … that… other person that wasn’t them. In a bit of a bad mix-up, People Magazine made Theo Bachelor of the Year again. Enne wanted to send a strong, explosive statement to the company, he convinced her not to. The magazine retracted the article and chose someone else. It made life a lot easier.
Then the incident with his uncle happened. There was nothing that could put a damper on things than discovering that his uncle was involved in a ritual that was designed to return him to power by destroying the western half the North American Continent. And then he learned that his uncle had apparently gone off his hinges because he thought that a teammate was a long lost love of his, reincarnated. Since Ash was his uncle, he got put on leave without pay until the investigation was certain he had nothing to do with it. He did not.
Still there was something of a scandal. Which the tabloids also loved. One tabloid ended up going mysteriously bankrupt after insinuating that Theo intentionally allowed Ash access to FBI records to find victims. Theo’s father says he has nothing to do with it. Honest. Really.
Things settled down quiet like for a while with no big cases. At least none traumatizing or involving Theo’s family. Then they got a new case with a very similar MO to the one involving Ash. It was a similar looking ritual. And not only that, it looked like it was going to re-empower his father’s godly powers that had waned over the years. And then, not only that, it looked like that missing brother of his was now a movie star who was using his fan base to commit the murders to power the ritual.
Yeah. That kinda sucks, doesn’t it?
First Person Sample: [5-10 Sentences]
There are some days I don’t think it’s worth getting out of bed. Especially when the bed contains the most beautiful girl I’ve ever known and especially when the reason why you’re getting out of bed is to sit in a meeting with a bunch of men while they walked around the subject you wanted to talk about, not wanting to commit to anything.
Yeah. Politicians suck.
Sometimes I wish they were vampires, because while they still sucked, I might be able to get them to do something. I don’t know how my father gets them to do it, but I’ve yet to figure out how.
Well, one more chance at it. Hopefully it’ll be short.
Likely it won’t.
Prose Sample: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV]
"What do you think about Greenland?"
Theo looked up at his father from his desk. He was going over an acquisition contract for some company or another. He wasn't sure which, it was one of his father's subsidiaries that was acquiring it. "Not very green. I think it has good oil reserves." He pondered asking why his father was asking and decided against it.
His father got a thoughtful look on his face. "I wonder if I should sell it back to them."
His father owned Greenland.
Of course his father owned Greenland.
Why wouldn't he own Greenland?
Theo couldn't think of a reason. "I think their economy is a bit weak for that right now," he said.
"You're right." His father put down the old sheet of paper he was looking at and stuck it into a drawer.
With a shake of his head, Theo went back to his work.
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And then bring me back to life to follow your command?
The Player
User Name/Nick: Kippur
User LJ:
kippurbirdAIM/IM: Kippurbirdy
E-mail: Kippur@mad.scientist.com
Other Characters: n/a
The Character
Character Name: Theodred “Theo” Kaylin Sammeth
Character Journal:
deadmanbusiness Canon: Death God Rising (OC)
Age: 25
From When?: Theo has to figure out how to tell his teammates that he thinks the ritual murders that they’ve been investigating may be fueling a ritual that will re-empower his father’s godly powers and are being carried out by a brother he never met and thought was ‘dead’. Or at least as dead as a god can get.
Abilities/Powers: Theo is a highly powerful necromancer. In fact he should have been god of the undead, except that the current one is still around so he wasn’t able to take their place when he turned eighteen. This has left him in a state of godly limbo. He’s not really a god. He’s not really mortal. He’s not really a demi-god. Perhaps a tougher than average mortal would be the best way to explain him. His touch of divinity is shown through his silver eyes (though they’re not really a power persay). He can see in the dark like a normal person can see in the day. Back to his necromantic powers: with his blood he can raise a zombie or skeleton easily. With a bit more blood and effort he can raise someone recently dead as another type of undead. Not something he enjoys doing because well, it takes a lot of blood. He reads as undead to most people who can sense these things, and to others he’s just sort of got a creepy aura. He can command and rebuke unintelligent undead and intelligent undead will hesitate greatly before hurting or attacking him.
Non-divine abilities are that he’s an expert thief and pick-pocket. There are very few locks that he can’t pick or disable. He’s also good with slight of hand tricks. He’s gone through FBI training and is an expert marksman with several types of firearms. He’s also very good with knives. Finally, if you want to do a hostile takeover of a business, there’s very few people better than that.
Power Limitations: In the normal realm of things, Theo is highly sensitive to daylight. He has to wear sunglasses all the time during the day or in bright rooms. He also has a tendency to be nocturnal and has a mild caffeine addiction because of needing to be awake during the day when he his body says otherwise. I imagine he wouldn’t be able to raise greater undead or any undead at all, since that seems to be the purview of the forest and the fey that reside there.
Inventory Suit jacket, jeans, button down shirt, loafers, iPhone, folder of documents relating to the case, iPad, half eaten sandwich, coffee in mug, Swiss Army Knife, silver dagger blessed by his uncle the god of the moon, bracelet from his mother also blessed by his uncle, regulation pistol in holster, wallet, keys, change, engagement ring (for himself) and a black ink pen.
Personality:
Being the son of a god of death, Theo has no fears of what will happen after he dies, if he dies at all. He knows what will happen to people and it’s not a bad thing at all, if you’re a good person. Instead his fears and anxieties exist in the realm of the living.
While his father genuinely cares about him and his family and friends, his father is not a Nice Person. He’s evil (not because he’s the god of the dead, he’d be evil even if he was the god of fluffy bunnies) with the intent to take over the world and bend it to his will. His mother on the other hand was kind and loving and a nice person. Theo was never sure how they ended up together, but she was a good influence on him. Even after she died and was raised as a ghost to help take care of a young Theo. Still, Theo grew up around a man who would willingly cause people who upset him to disappear. Not in the dead sort of way, but in the no one recognizes who they are and they no longer exist in the system sort of way. It’s a scary sort of thought when you’re a kid, afraid to disobey your parent because you might end up ‘gone’ even though you know that they love you.
Somehow, Theo ended up a bit of a white knight with a terrible bout of paranoia. He strongly believes in helping those who need help, sometimes even at the point of being ruthless to those who get in his way. This is something he definitely got from his father, but he tries not to think about it. Instead he funnels his energy into stopping tweenagers from raising zombies and ending up in jail and being the FBI’s leading expert on necromancy. He is, after all, the strongest necromancer in several generations.
The paranoia comes from the fear that someone is going to try and rebuke him or try to hurt him because they think he’s an undead. Holy energy hurts like a bitch and often times priests are to busy trying to get rid of him to realize that he is, in fact, alive with a pulse. He doesn’t know exactly when such an attack is going to come from because he can’t tell who has such abilities. Also, when he was little, he got teased and yelled at for saying things like his father raised Jesus from the dead. It’s enough to make anyone twitchy about holy men from those religions.
Another cause of paranoia is the fact that he is a high profile individual, People Magazine having named him the most eligible bachelor for two years in a row. He has fans. They can be creepy. He has a cult. They can be creepy. He’s more creeped out by the fans than the cult, because at least the cult won’t try and steal his trash and things like that. The cult just sends him holiday cards and the occasional goat sacrifice.
Generally though, Theo tries to be cheerful with a tendency for a morbid and dry sense of humor. He’s calm and level headed, always trying to think things through before going into any sort of action. He makes a good balance against his fiancée who is the fiery explosive sort. It’s not that he’s the brains of the operations so much as the sane one. Theo likes children and would some day like to have some of his own, at least two so that they don’t grow up an only child like himself. He always felt sort of socially awkward while growing up, until he got into college and away from the cliques of high school. Then he started coming into his own as a person, especially as his father started to rely on him in the daily operations of the family’s empire. This is where he learned about his more ruthless side as he maneuvered through the boardrooms and various board members trying to see reason and do what he wanted them to do.
He actually considers working for the FBI a considerable relief and a lot easier than working for his father, because at least while he’s with the FBI he’s not going to get charged with murder if he shoots a bad guy in a sting operation, where upon if he does something violent to a board member, they could sue. Not that it would actually get anywhere. People don’t threaten his father’s son and get away with it.
While he does love his father dearly, the biggest thing that he doesn't want to have happen to him is to become like his father. His father is not a good person. He's a down right evil person (though he would be evil even if he were the god of fluffy bunnies and kittens). He's ruthless and willing to destroy people's lives to get what he wants. Theo recognizes that he has inherited or at least developed some of the same ruthlessness as his father and so he worries that he may go over that line from ruthless to completely unrepentant bastard. He knows he has the power to do it. He's the strongest necromancer, strongest blood necromancer born in ages. He could, if he wanted to, raise up an entire army and do serious damage.
And it feels awfully tempting sometimes.
He struggles with that. Often wondering if he is a good person or just someone pretending to be one. He sees his family, the people he grew up with and they're not the nicest of people. His uncle tried to regain his godhood through destroying part of the western united states and virgin sacrifices (which he claimed the victims were willing participants). His older brother, he just learned, has a cult and also with the ritual sacrifices of innocents. His father, while not having done that as far as he knows, has completely destroyed peoples lives just because.
While Theo isn't a god just yet, he fears that when he does become a god he'll end up like them. Or even before he finishes becoming a god. Which is right now.
And this is what drives him. To not be like his father. To be a good person and try and get out of his, perhaps doomed, future of being a complete and evil bastard. This is why he's become a sort of white knight. It's a conscious decision of his to make himself not like his father. He never tells anyone of this. It's just deep inside of him. He will help people for the sake of helping them, not because it will get him something. He will not become king of the undead and rule over a vast wasteland filled with them and enslaved living. He uses his necromantic powers for good.
Yes. For good. Because undead aren't necessarily evil. They're just apex predators above humans which makes humans think they're evil.
It may not be the best of things for his entire drive, his entire life, to be defined by his father, or at least to not be like his father but that's how it ended up. His father in trying to raise him in the modern world's morality which has caused Theo to try and reject his father's way of doing things.
It doesn't help that both of them care about each other. It really does. He wants to make his father happy, but he doesn't want to do some of the things that his father asks him to do.
History:
Theo’s name, it should be mentioned, does in fact come from the Lord of the Rings. His father is a big fan of the series and therefore bestowed upon his son the name of Theodred. Mentioning it to him with just get an ‘yeah, yeah, I know” reaction out of him. He does also have a geek’s knowledge of the series because, well, his father is a huge fan and would read it to him all the time. He does not, however, know how to speak or read any of the languages. He’s not that bad. Okay, maybe he does a little. He’s not going to admit to it.
It is his father that things really get rolling around. His father is an ancient god of death, long forgotten, currently going around by the name of Melkor (Yes, again, from the Lord of the Rings). Melkor fell in love with the fiancé/ priestess of his brother, Ash and they eloped. Ash was naturally very upset about this and didn’t talk to his brother again until Theo was born. He did this as a loving uncle giving his nephew toys to piss of his brother and encourage little Theo to embarrasses his father like running into important meetings stark naked. This clearly led to horrible stories from his parents which were told to various girlfriends as he grew up.
When he was eight years old perhaps the most horrible thing happened to him. He and his mother were in a car accident. A terrible car accident. Theo was lucky; he survived with only a few scrapes and a broken arm. His mother, however, died instantly, so quickly that not even his father could prevent her from dying. Perhaps in not the smartest move, driven by grief, his father raised her as a ghost. She was originally not too pleased about it, but she was grateful for the chance to continue to help raise her son. (No pun intended)
Theo spent his summers in Manchester, England and his school years in the States. He’s picked up a strange accent because of it, a strange mix of Manchester and New York. When he was fifteen, his uncle had a daughter, Maya. While Ash and Maya’s mother didn’t stay together, Theo was delighted to have a cousin, even if she was nine years younger than him. It was another piece of family for the lonely teenager.
When he turned eighteen, Theo faced the biggest decision of his life. It was his time to choose if he wanted to take his place as a god with his uncle and his father. The three of them took a trip to the ancient city in the Middle East to his family’s temples. If he chose not to go through with the ceremony, he would stay a mortal and eventually grow old and die. If he did go through with it, he might die. His father had five other siblings who did not make it. Or he might live and become god of the undead, for that is what he had a knack for, the undead.
While in the valley, he visited his uncle’s temple and saw a vision of the past where his uncle’s eldest son, Aurin was preparing for the same trial. There he also saw a toddler in his own father’s arms, a brother Theo didn’t know he had. Or at least, he knew that he had older siblings, but they were so long gone and dead they never seemed real. No more real than someone else’s great, great uncle that they never met and only saw on the family tree. He wanted to know more about his brother, but his father didn’t want to talk about it, neither did his uncle. Reluctantly, he dropped the subject and made the choice.
He would go through with the ritual.
Something went wrong though. He didn’t end up a god and he didn’t end up dead. Something, someone, prevented it. The god of the undead, his brother, still lived. Where, no one knew? Instead he was tossed into a limbo of power and uncertainty of his future. An uncertainty that could only be solved by finding his brother. His father, once again, didn’t want to talk about it. Theo let it drop to the wayside, letting himself get caught up in the rest of his life, such as college.
It was at college that he met Adrienne Fraser. A young woman studying war magic at the college, they met during an elective class. She originally thought he was a stuck up snobby rich boy and he set out to prove her wrong. They flirted on and off for most of the year, their schedules not letting them spend much time with each other. He met her sister, Adrianna and brother Adrian during that time. (They’re triplets whose parents weren’t very inventive in the naming department.) And they all got along very well. Theo found surrogate siblings in Adrian and Anna, something he always wanted.
Theo was asked to join the FBI a few years out of college after he stopped a large uprising of zombies from destroying New York’s annual Halloween celebration. Rhys Owens wanted him for his team, the Department of Magical Crimes and Mischief. What Theo didn’t know was that Enne and her siblings had been recruited by Rhys just the year before. When he found out, this led to a rather nasty fight.
They broke up.
It made all the tabloids.
Eventually they made up, which made things a lot nicer at the office.
The tabloids loved that too.
A few months after that, Enne started to discreetly indicate that she would like to move their relationship to the next level. Theo did not catch onto these subtle hints. Adrian sat him down and explained to him in very plain terms that Theo really ought to ask the war mage to marry him before Bad Things happened. Theo agreed, and in fact had been trying to figure out if she wanted to get married. He took her to an expensive restaurant which he rented out for the night and proposed using his mother’s wedding ring.
This made the tabloids and a million girls started sending threats and angry letters because how dare he marry that … that… other person that wasn’t them. In a bit of a bad mix-up, People Magazine made Theo Bachelor of the Year again. Enne wanted to send a strong, explosive statement to the company, he convinced her not to. The magazine retracted the article and chose someone else. It made life a lot easier.
Then the incident with his uncle happened. There was nothing that could put a damper on things than discovering that his uncle was involved in a ritual that was designed to return him to power by destroying the western half the North American Continent. And then he learned that his uncle had apparently gone off his hinges because he thought that a teammate was a long lost love of his, reincarnated. Since Ash was his uncle, he got put on leave without pay until the investigation was certain he had nothing to do with it. He did not.
Still there was something of a scandal. Which the tabloids also loved. One tabloid ended up going mysteriously bankrupt after insinuating that Theo intentionally allowed Ash access to FBI records to find victims. Theo’s father says he has nothing to do with it. Honest. Really.
Things settled down quiet like for a while with no big cases. At least none traumatizing or involving Theo’s family. Then they got a new case with a very similar MO to the one involving Ash. It was a similar looking ritual. And not only that, it looked like it was going to re-empower his father’s godly powers that had waned over the years. And then, not only that, it looked like that missing brother of his was now a movie star who was using his fan base to commit the murders to power the ritual.
Yeah. That kinda sucks, doesn’t it?
First Person Sample: [5-10 Sentences]
There are some days I don’t think it’s worth getting out of bed. Especially when the bed contains the most beautiful girl I’ve ever known and especially when the reason why you’re getting out of bed is to sit in a meeting with a bunch of men while they walked around the subject you wanted to talk about, not wanting to commit to anything.
Yeah. Politicians suck.
Sometimes I wish they were vampires, because while they still sucked, I might be able to get them to do something. I don’t know how my father gets them to do it, but I’ve yet to figure out how.
Well, one more chance at it. Hopefully it’ll be short.
Likely it won’t.
Prose Sample: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV]
"What do you think about Greenland?"
Theo looked up at his father from his desk. He was going over an acquisition contract for some company or another. He wasn't sure which, it was one of his father's subsidiaries that was acquiring it. "Not very green. I think it has good oil reserves." He pondered asking why his father was asking and decided against it.
His father got a thoughtful look on his face. "I wonder if I should sell it back to them."
His father owned Greenland.
Of course his father owned Greenland.
Why wouldn't he own Greenland?
Theo couldn't think of a reason. "I think their economy is a bit weak for that right now," he said.
"You're right." His father put down the old sheet of paper he was looking at and stuck it into a drawer.
With a shake of his head, Theo went back to his work.
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