Stefan Raddic

Stefan in "Dad Meets Dad"

**Stefan Raddic** lived in the Blue World. He was Veronica's first husband and Katherine and Ben's biological father.

For reasons unknown, only one version was known to exist within the Parallax.

## Biography

Stefan discovered Veronica cut, burned and soaking wet on the beach near the portal to the Red World and took her in. They eventually married and Veronica gave birth to Katherine on January 15, 1987.

He was devastated when Veronica disappeared, leaving him alone to raise Katherine. He was still heartbroken 13 years later. Stefan did not realise it at the time but Veronica was pregnant with their son Ben at the time of her departure. She eventually settled in the Werrinup of the Red World and married Jeremy.

Stefan was a talented abstract artist with his own gallery. However, he was very bad at handling money as he owed Mrs. Dunkly $10,000 and the deadline had been brought forward. His house was in danger of being demolished if she was not repaid. Mrs. Dunkly hoped that it would be so that she could build a new development in the area. However, Ben provided Stefan with a sketch by the famous artist Jean-Paul Lafayatte from the Red World, where it was practically worthless, and she bought it for $10,000. As such, the debt was paid and the Raddics' house was saved.

He strained under the heavy restrictions placed on the inhabitants of her version of Werrinup. Like Melinda, he regarded it as deeply unfair that public displays of pleasure, dances, pop music, milkshakes, walking on the grass and personal devices such as MP3 players were banned by the many laws, rules and regulations created by Judge Blackburn. Having discovered that Veronica was living in the Red World, Katherine hoped to reunite her parents. She got the idea after learning that Ben was organising a 1950s themed rock n' roll themed dance with masks in the Red World. Katherine and Melinda convinced Stefan that a secret party was being held in contravention of Werrinup's laws. By making him wear a blindfold, the two girls were able to bring Stefan to the Red World without him realising it. While there, Stefan danced with a masked Veronica and seemed to realise her identity. However, Veronica refused to confirm it. She was very upset by the experience as she still loved Stefan and asked Katherine never to bring him back to the Red World. For his part, Stefan realised that he needed to stop living in the past and told Katherine that it was time that he started dating.

Some time later, it appeared that Stefan's art show was doomed to failure and he would therefore be unable to repay further money that he owed Mrs. Dunkly. However, Veronica, posing as the famous New York art critic Peta Martina, said that Stefan was an undiscovered genius and all of his paintings were sold at high prices. Mrs. Dunkly and her son Martin were both confused and disappointed at the overwhelming success of the art show. With his mother's tacit approval, Martin took the paintings and left them out in the rain during a storm, ruining them in the process. As Stefan had seen the Dunklys' car stop outside the house when he was on the phone, Katherine realised who was responsible. This was one of a series of incidents across the Parallax that inspired the gang to exact revenge on the Martins.

After Veronica learned that Betti was getting closer, she made plans to take Ben as far away as possible. Jeremy then confessed to Ben that he wasn't his biological father while Veronica then told him that his father was in fact Stefan. Ben was extremely upset and travelled to the Blue World so that he could have some time alone to think. While there, he ran into Stefan and told him that he was his son. Stefan was just as astonished as Ben and found it difficult to process.

After that initial shock, Stefan received another when Ben revealed the existence of the Parallax to him. At Veronica's insistence, they took sanctuary in Otto's old hut in the Green World. Stefan was very concerned about the threat posed by Betti and wanted to ensure that both of his children were kept safe from their aunt.

It was in the Green World that Stefan met Jeremy for the first time. The two men took an instant dislike to each other, largely because Stefan was Ben's biological father but Jeremy had raised him. They began sniping at each other over everything with Stefan going so far as to compare Jeremy to his Blue World counterpart, a lawbreaker who was run out of town years earlier. Stefan also believed that Ben had gotten his impulsive nature from Jeremy and wasted no time in telling him so.

Accompanied by Melinda, Stefan and Jeremy then travelled to the Silver World as it was there that Veronica had last been seen. While there, they witnessed Enforcement Officer Garcia about to arrest Francis Zapmeister on the charge of being a truant minor and staging his own disappearance as he had mistaken him for his Silver World counterpart. In order to prevent Francis from falling into Betti's hands, Stefan and Jeremy confronted Garcia and demanded that he stop harassing him. Stefan claimed to be Francis' father but this idea failed as Garcia knew Mr. Short. Jeremy was able to use his own Silver World counterpart's reputation as a troublemaker and a thief to his advantage. He and Stefan threatened and intimidated Garcia, providing a distraction which gave Francis the opportunity to escape.

After they returned to the safety of the Green World, Jeremy told Stefan that he was glad to have him aboard and the two men shook hands, putting aside their differences. As no one had ever seen another version of Stefan, Jeremy speculated that he was part of the grand plan in some way.

Betti eventually discovered that Veronica had been using her stave to send coded messages and decided to set a trap. She hid her stave under her hat and told her sister of her plan to send the Krellicks to the Silver World as a prelude to blandishing it. Mundi and Ben heard Betti's plan over the stave and informed Katherine. Equipped with Super Soakers, Stefan, Ben, Katherine, Francis Zapmeister, Una, Due, Melinda, Mundi and Jeremy were able to defeat the Krellicks with the help of the Mr. Short of the Silver World. A senior municipial employee who worked in Werrinup's park, he turned on the sprinklers in the park at Ben's request and the water killed all the Krellicks. Although the Parallax gang had won the battle, Betti won the war as she enacted her plan to infect the Silver World Werrinup's entire water supply with the blandishing substance. Aberrants, including Mr. Short, began disappearing.

After the battle in the Silver World, Stefan, Katherine, Francis and Jeremy tried to decipher what the position of Veronica's pots meant but their efforts were fruitless until Katherine and Ben located the lost Guardian Otto. Using the diagram of the pots created by Stefan, Otto realised that they formed a map to the Reading Room, the fount of knowledge for the entire Parallax.

Stefan built a 3D schematic model of the configuration of the pots in the hope that it would help him to determine the location of the Reading Room. To Melinda's annoyance, he claimed that he had a better sense of spatial orientation than either herself or Katherine because he was a man. She was amused when he called himself and Jeremy alpha males. Stefan then travelled to the Red World in order to obtain Jeremy's assistance. At that point, he was observed entering the portal by the Martin of the Blue World and exiting it by the Martin of the Red World, which resulted in both of them discovering the existence of the Parallax.

Using the model as his guide, Stefan accessed hitherto unknown skills and devised an advanced mathematical formula which he believed would lead him and Jeremy to the Reading Room. He claimed that the two of them could reach it by pressing 1 and 7 on the Parallax symbol. It instead led them to the Orange World. Tiffany followed them through as she was concerned that they would discover the secret forest - in other words, the Green World - and Ben would be annoyed. After arriving in the Orange World, the unprepared trio spilt up with Tiffany accompanying Stefan, to his annoyance. They eventually discovered that Betti, who often came to the Orange World when she needed time to think, was present. Calling himself "Steve," Stefan claimed that he had gotten lost. However, Tiffany mistook Betti for Veronica and referred to her as Ben Johnson's mother. Katherine then arrived to rescue Stefan and Betti correctly concluded that she was Veronica's daughter with whom she had been communicating over the stave. She learned Katherine's name from an indiscreet Tiffany. When Betti threatened them, however, Tiffany proved unexpectedly useful. She threw sand in Betti's face, giving herself, Katherine and Stefan the opportunity to escape. Once they had returned to the Red World, Stefan admitted that he and Jeremy had gotten in over their heads and the two men promised to leave Parallax travel to the experts in future.

Stefan was extremely concerned after Veronica, who had just been rescued from her captivity in the Purple World, was injured by the fireball that Betti had released to destroy the Johnson house. Like Jeremy, he stayed with her during her convalescence.

Shortly afterwards, he was delighted when he learned that Katherine had fooled Betti into blandishing herself as, with Ben and Katherine being the only other people in the Orange World, she was the aberrant.

## Behind the Scenes

Raddic was played by Igor Sas, who is the real life father of fellow *Parallax* actors Kazimir Sas and Francoise Sas.