Cypress Fir

## Backstory

Cypress Fir’s family is pretty wealthy but they’re definitely new money. His dad, Douglas, invented the citrus peeler which is really just a small knife made to peel citrus fruits. But people across Orchard City, and even the entire province of Teflium were enamored by it and it sold millions which is why they’re as wealthy as they are now. His dad is a full-time inventor who’s always trying to work on something new to make them even richer, and his mom Elowen is basically a PTA mom. Cypress has an older brother, Hawthron, but he got involved with a gang called the Fudgepackers that tried taking advantage of his money and bit of fame. The gang ended up getting busted for drug smuggling and also kidnapping the king of Teflium’s daughter and holding her for ransom. But when he got caught the gang framed it so that Hawthorn would be the only one to take the fall. He got thrown into prison and the family has cut all ties with him and basically shunned him for ruining the family name. Cypress has been sending to him letters in prison and is convinced his brother is innocent, but his mother found out and tried to forbid them from communicating so that Hawthorn doesn’t corrupt his little brother.

Ever since this happened a little around a year ago, Cypress’s parents have been constantly on his ass to be the best he can possibly be. Given that he and his mother are both rangers, she has been pushing him so that she can live somewhat vicariously through her son, re-living her glory days that she gave up to protect Douglas. Elowen is very concerned with keeping up appearances and making all the other moms in their neighborhood like her. She’s the one that called for the family to all cut off Hawthorn so that she could still be in with the other moms. She’s also relying on Cypress to help redeem the Fir name by being just generally better than the other moms’ children. Especially Karen’s little daughter Fantasia. Fuck Karen and fuck her perfect little Fantasia and her perfect little opportunity to go to this mysterious Royal Wood Academy. Elowen’s tired of how high and mighty Karen always is, so the plan is to send Cypress to the Royal Wood Academy (no matter how much it costs) to prove that not only can he be just as good as Fantasia, but better. Cypress doesn’t necessarily dislike Fantasia but because of their parents’ rivalry, she has always tried to assert her dominance over him.

Cypress is a pretty mild-mannered person, especially since the whole Hawthorn fiasco. He’s not very confident in his skills as a ranger, and would way rather focus on making friends since his brother going to prison ruined all the friendships he had in Orchard City. He’s also under a lot of pressure to impress his parents at this school he’s not even sure how he got into. And he’s been sending letters to his brother in prison for months but hasn’t heard back at all so he’s just really needing a real win right now.

## Character Development

### Season 2

* Dated Fantasia
* Gets Maple
* Learns Candle Making
* Develops weed addiction

### Season 3

* Reunites with Hawthorn
* Stars a band with Sycamore

### Season 4

* Reunited with Fantasia
* Gets a "real" scar
* Adopts Astrid
* Threatened to get kicked out of RWA
* Finally asks Eryk out

## Unique Items

* *Blue Woods Shortbow*
* *Cloak of the Manta Ray*
* *Box Of Forever Frogs*
* *Candle Making Skills*
* *Maple*

## Romantic Interests

* Eryk (current boyfriend)
* Fantasia
* Jett