#theo bio

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Theo

Name: Theodore Edward Grant

Alias: Theo

FC: Connor Storrie

Date of Birth: February 17th

Species: Reaper

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Orientation: Sex? Okay.

Relationship Status: Single

Place of Birth: New York

Current Residence: New York

Occupation: Mortician

Mother: Alma Grant

Father: Edward Grant

Siblings: None

Spouse/Lover(s): None

Children: None

ABILITIES

Shadow Travel

Accelerated Healing

Slowed Aging

Immortality

Seeing/hearing spirits

Soul pulling

Affinity for seeing very strong live spirit

Considering both of his parents were reapers it was no surprise that Theo inherited their talents. They ran a funeral home since before he was ever born and he naturally leaned into the family business as he got older. It certainly helped considering what they were. When he was old enough he opted to live above the funeral home (where his family had resided prior to his birth). He finds it peaceful there, even if others think it's creepy.

He often guides the souls of the lost, people who don't understand what has happened and are following their bodies, occasionally pulling one when necessary.

Theo has always been quiet and slightly reserved but not antisocial. He simply considers his words before he says them unless he's incredibly comfortable around the person he's with. In such cases, he lets go a lot more.

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NAME: Theo Corbeil GENDER/PRONOUNS: Male, he/him/his OCCUPATION: Graphic Designer // Musician FACE CLAIM: Timothée Chalamet

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

BIOGRAPHY

Growing up in privilege can have repercussions in a person’s personality later in their life, but for the most part, it doesn’t sound like a bad thing at all: what everyone wants, having everything someone could possibly ask for, going on vacation to the best places, riding nice cars and attend the best schools. This was the life of the Corbeils. Theo’s upbringing didn’t lack of absolutely anything, except for parental attention, but they usually knew well how to compensate for it later, either with something material or a two week vacation in Paris or Barcelona. He never showed any kind of difficulty, wasn’t even jealous when his sister was born four years later. He was smart, learned how to read and write at an early age and was everything a parent would wish for.

Later on, when he was around eight years old there had been some changes in his personality. He wasn’t able to focus during class, barely ever listened when he was talked to, and could never sit still through one full meal, which appeared to be disrupting for the family, since their dinners with guests were everything for his father’s occupation. Had this not been a problem, Theo would have probably gone undiagnosed but after a series of tests, he came back with the label of ADHD kid which made him feel separated from others. The treatment worked for the most part, however, and had it not been for this moment in his life, Theo would have never found his true passion. As a part of his therapy, he started taking on piano lessons, in which he turned out to be outstanding. Guitar, bass, drums and even cello lessons followed, and halfway through his teens the Corbeil family realised they were dealing with some sort of music prodigy. Still, when Theo bring up the idea of him studying music, his father, who never cared much for his or his sister’s well-being, immediately shut it down, saying music was only a hobby and he would never had a real job if he did that.

The arts had always been a strength for Theo, so once he was over the frustration, he decided to study Graphic Design, going away for all four years to the Rhode Island School of Design. During his time in school, he found out about the glory of open mic nights, and on his free nights, he would take his guitar and play in different bars around town. He didn’t do it for the money or the glory, but because he genuinely needed this for himself. And well, it in fact made it easy for him to become popular around campus, the friends and casual hook ups came and went and Theo had little to complain about. It came with complications, however, like him realising he was in fact not just attracted to women, but when a couple men had caught his eye, he realised he knew very little about himself. He never said anything, kept it all between himself and one of his closest friends, who some would have called a boyfriend, but Theo was too scared to define the relationship at all. He knew, from prior conversations at home, that it could never get out or it would mean the end of his security and stability, not just economical but risking his mind too.

Four years later, Theo came back home with a BFA in Graphic Design and the family pride. His father made sure he got into a good marketing agency in town with a well paid job. Even at twenty two, Theo had never known what struggling means, but despite it all, he had never not been generous and aware of this privilege with the people who weren’t that lucky, so it’s never been much of a problem for him to socialise. Back in Wilmington, Theo had the option of going back to live at home with his parents, but after four years away, it felt like some sort of invasion of his privacy. His family agreed, and it would also look better if the people in their circle knew they had a completely independent son, and helped him with getting an apartment downtown. Nothing flashy, but nothing he would not be comfortable with. It made things easy for him, for he could still go around and perform in different places around town (though none of them important enough for his father to know what he was up to) and act with a little bit more freedom.

While his parents relationship had never been of importance, about a year ago, Theo caught a conversation between his father and another woman. The tone of it not being friendly at all. The rumours started running around the circle, and while Theo wants to act as if it is none of his business, it breaks him to see his mother in such position, where she has to deny it all to keep up the appearance of the happy family the Corbeils have always been. Theo can say a lot of things, but he has always been concerned about what people think of him, and how could he not, when it was literally the environment he grew up with. Even if not perfect, he always saw his family, his life in a certain light that would make every other person jealous, but as he’s become aware of what surrounds him, it’s becoming more and more clear that the world is not what he thinks and the frustration between being himself and what his family always wanted him to be has grown worse. However, Theo is very good at keeping up appearances, still showing up as the charming, well-mannered young man he has always been.

POSITIVE TRAITS: + Disciplined + responsible + amicable NEGATIVE TRAITS: – know-it-all – condescending – pessimistic

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So Theo had a really crappy father. His mother died giving birth to him and his father could never look past that, he started to drink and always blamed his child for it, making a big part of the boy blame himself too. He would punish him by beating him up pretty badly, what made him grow up without a parent figure and scared. Theodore comes from a small town, and his father was living there his whole life, he was friends with pretty much every police officer, so the boy always thought he had nobody to help him and he never asked for help.

The only person he trusted in town were his literature teacher, who always tried to help him even if the man had no idea what was really going on, and a friend of his mother who gave Theo his first job, in a diner after school. The would sometimes take him home to have dinner with them and would allow for him to crash at her house when she could see that the last thing he wanted was to go back home, but he didn’t took her offer often, his father beatings were always worse when he spent any night away. 

His father died when he was sixteen, got into a car accident for driving drunk and didn’t survive. The only relative he has was an uncle that he had never met before, the guy went over and looked nice the first week, but when he realized his brother in law had no money anymore he gave Theo a couple of bucks and took off. He couldn't ask his mother’s friend for help, the woman didn’t had that much money herself and a family of her own to take care of, so he decided to drop out of school and take another job. The only thing he wanted to do first was tell the one teacher who cared for him, who was always impressed with Theo work (to be fair literature was the only class he actually tried to do well, he liked the books bc they allowed him to live a life better than his own) and made him believe that he could actually do something with his life. Of course, all of that went out of the window now. But to his surprise, the man wouldn’t let him drop out, he talked with Theodore for hours and hours until he could convince him to come live with him, and don’t give up on his education. That’s what made Theo decide to be a teacher if he could help only one student, make their life better like that one teacher did for him, he would be happy with himself. 

After he finished uni and started teaching he found one big problem: He never found out how to deal with people, especially younger ones. Besides his teacher and his mother’s friend he really didn’t had no one he actually talked to, not with small talk or about his life anyway. He never figured out how to let people in, how to trust someone new, and apparently, he was unapproachable.  None of his students saw him as a bad teacher, far from it, he was fair and always made sure everyone could catch up and understand, but it caught his ears that he didn’t had a face that made people wanted to ask for help, and that he always looked unhappy or angry with something (what wasn’t far from the truth, but also not the image he wanted to give). Except for a couple of people students who have “crushes” on him, nobody was brave enough to come talk with him about anything, but he figured it was better than being seen as an asshole and a crappy teacher. 

Things changed when he met River tho. He could remember like it was yesterday, the new bright teacher who just arrived. He could see that the dean was introducing them, talking about something, but it was like Theodore brain couldn’t catch up, couldn’t hear anything. He knows it sounds ridiculous but it was like River had a light just for himself, and it was shining so bright, daring Theo to come closer, even if it meant to burn himself. The dean caught his attention back when he asked if Theo was okay with showing River the school and explaining everything he needed to know, and he was nodding before he could stop himself. It was a really awkward first meeting, Theodore was usually bad with people, even worse if it was someone as beautiful as that, who made him feel... things. It was weird. It wasn’t like Theo didn’t had his fair share of sleeping around, it was easy. He wasn’t dumb and knew he was someone that people found attractive, it wasn’t hard to find someone interested in a one night stand when he wanted to get off. They went to the person house or a hotel, never his, they fucked, he got his things and walked out. He never slept with them, never gave them a change of anyone seeing him vulnerable. And there he was, this guy who he just met, and Theodore wanted to know him, was actually interested. It was scary and was much as a part of him who wanted to get away, there was a way bigger, louder, part that wanted to just get closer. 

Somehow he managed to not fuck it up enough to make River stick around after that first day, and they slowly got to know each other. The more Theo got to know about the other man, the more he wanted to found out, and not just that... He wanted to let River in, he wanted to let him know him too. But he know he couldn’t just throw himself into the new relationship, whatever it was and whatever they would end up as. He couldn’t just drag River for a mess that he didn’t even knew how to deal with himself. So after a couple of months, when he realized it didn’t looked like River was going anywhere, he started to clean up his mess. He actually did something he knew he should had done years ago, that his teacher and his mother’s friend said it would be the best for him, and he finally went around to look for professional help. He started to see a therapist and slowly found out how to deal with his shit. 

Around one year later he actually got enough courage to ask River around, and somehow this beautiful man agreed to do so. Somehow he was lucky enough to not make River run away, even after he was brave enough to tell him everything, all the mess, and River still stuck around. He still got awestruck sometimes, how River didn’t run away, how he stayed even after he got to know everything, how he accept him for what he is and loved him for what he is. Enough to go live with him. Enough to marry him. To stay with him for 8 years and not stop loving him since. 

The change didn’t just helped him with his husband but also with his students. He knew a big part of him still saw him as the grumpy unapproachable teacher, but he had a couple of students who talked with him now, who asked him for advice. There was still a lot he had to work on, but he was definitely for happy now.