Day to night to morning, keep with me in the moment.
BASICS
FULL NAME: Thea Angeline Harris
NICKNAME(S): T, Harris
D.O.B / AGE: March 31, 1990 / 34
GENDER: Cis-female
PRONOUNS: she/her
SEXUALITY: Pansexual
ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Panromantic
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Engaged to Elliot Chapman
HOMETOWN: Providence Peak, CO
OCCUPATION: Owner of Holy Spirits
NEIGHBORHOOD: University Heights
PETS: 1 cat; Ragdoll cat named Percival
TW: mentions of death, childbirth death
Thea Harris was born and raised in Providence Peak, Colorado. She came from a family who had spent generations in Providence Peak. Her parents (Richard and Dorothea) were high school sweethearts. Their love story was one to be remembered. One that unfortunately ended far too soon when Dorothea was giving birth to their first child. Richard was devastated and when they came in to ask for the name of their new baby girl. He was crying his wife’s name “Thea.” And that’s how Thea came into the world. Her grandparents stepped to help raise her while Richard mourned. It was a difficult reality, but he was a strong man and put his energy into working to continue to have a successful life that he and his wife dreamed of having with their daughter.
Thea grew up in Summit Lake, where she lived an interesting childhood. While her father began working longer hours and leading a more successful career as a lawyer. And so there were times where she found herself spending time at her grandfather’s local speakeasy, Holy Spirits. She learned how to add and subtract, pay taxes, and run a successful and well loved establishment. Of course Thea’s father disapproved of her spending time there. But it was her lens of the world outside of school and living in Summit Lake.
Life also changed a bit more when she was five and her father married her new stepmother Ava. Thea had only had her grandma and a photo of her mom as mother figures before the new woman came into her life. Ava accepted Thea like she was her own daughter and although at the time she was too young to understand how wonderful that was for her as she grew older she learned to appreciate Ava even more and admire her for her tenacity, drive, and intelligence. And never once did Ava call Thea her stepdaughter. Just her daughter.
She didn’t travel far to go to university, staying here seemed right for her, so she went to Providence Peak University. She had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. There were things that she had passion for, but nothing that she felt like were careers. So she just took general classes, keeping her major undecided, and when she was not attending classes, she started helping her grandfather at Holy Spirits. He was starting to get older and it was harder for him to do things on his own. And when he passed away her father started looking at options for people who were ready to make offers on the speakeasy; Thea told him not to sell it and to keep it in the family. That day she declared her major in business and became the owner of Holy Spirits all before she even graduated.
Thea kept the nostalgia of the speakeasy, but also modernized it with her own touches. Although it is a stressful job it was not nearly as stressful as when Ava announced to her and her father that she was interested in running in the mayoral campaign. She had grown up in the town, knew plenty of people, this was her home, but she felt like she had somehow found herself under a microscope and for a while she felt like becoming a recluse. But she loved Ava and of course supported her endeavors and she was so proud when Avan won. When people started referring to her as the mayor’s daughter, it brought an added pressure even though she was an adult now. But she certainly is strong, tenacious and will not let anyone doubt her abilities. She’s the boss for a reason.
Her life was flipped upside down though when she started seeing Elliot Chapman. Thea had known him since they were kids, she’d always found him obnoxious, spoiled, entitled. And never would she have ever thought about him as anything but an annoying little pest. That is until she tripped into his bed and what started an attraction that built into something much more. Her relationship with him is still going strong, even if there is the hiccup of her wanting marriage and him possibly not wanting that.
She also through a few years cultivated a working relationship with the owner of two new bars in town. It started off with her doing events with them and finding a good groove and then they approached Thea about becoming business partners. It was an opportunity to expand and challenge herself and after so many years of just having the speakeasy she felt there was something a bit daring in trying something new. She’s now been business partners for four months now and she’s never felt better about her work. Perhaps she could turn her attention to her personal life a bit more with that type of attitude.
