Tealeaf

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The following page may contain spoilers about the plot of the Hous SMP. It is also a roleplay page, so keep this in mind.*

## Basics

### Aliases

Tea, Heds (By Lowkey), Blossom, Apprentice Spring

## Other information

### Builds

Green Dragon Inn, Moonshine Dragon, Several homes in Moonshine, Bleat & Moo

### Conflicts

L's continued existence,

Tealeaf has reportedly travelled for 'an age and a half' and seems to be confused by the passage of time. He currently lives in Moonshine, protecting a portal that he claims called out to him. He lives in Moonshine with Nouk, Star and Lowkey. Tealeaf calls Star his traveling partner, and Nouk his business partner.

## Appearance

Tealeaf is a short ram man, who wears flowy green clothes and often forgoes traditional pants due to his goat legs. His tabard means nothing shows however, and he has shorts on underneath often. He has red hair and some facial scruff, and keeps himself well groomed. He wears a lily pad like bracer on his arm, and won't let anyone see under it. His horns are pale and unadorned normally. He has viridian eyes that are a tad unnerving to look into for long periods of time. He has freckles covering everywhere, is quite stocky and well built.

He stands at 5"4 (1.62m) and is slightly shorter when he is using human legs as he can't stretch them up as tall as he naturally does on his goat legs. Currently, he is often seated in a chair with hoof like legs that walks around. He alternatively uses crutches to get around, mostly inside his home. He has a flower over one of his eyes, and a broken horn.

## Personality

Tealeaf is a really easy going guy. He is more prone to spitting wisdom of ye olde variety - cryptic warnings and vague promises - rather than anything else. He's cheery and friendly, trying his best to accommodate the people around him, but sometimes he will do so while ignoring his own discomfort.

He is prone to saying words of comfort in order to avoid conflict, but rumour has it that he has a fierce temper when awoken. Tealeaf has never forgotten a grudge he holds. He forgives but never forgets. Years in the Feywilds have left him with a fondness for theatrics and trickery, as well as a good handful of odd, ritual like habits that he insists upon performing.

Tealeaf feels love very strongly, be it platonic or familial love, but anger is a slow build up with him. It is difficult to make Tealeaf angry, but once you've got him there, it's harder to calm him down. He tends to stress, however, worry taking up the bulk of his negative emotions. Anger, in his opinion, is misdirected determination.

Tealeaf hates being treated as fragile or small, despite his lack of fighting skills. He tends to pretend his fear and anger are non existent, in order to put on a calm, happy face to soothe others. He is a placating sort of person, but has a fierce streak that L has seemingly brought out in him.

## Habits

Tealeaf has a handful of habits he maintains - he has done them since he left the feywilds and insists he will do them 'Til I can no more'. The majority of these are simply superstition - or so it seems.

* Puts a piece of bread on the window after baking any
* Hangs small bells over his window and doorframes
* Carves wards and symbols into tree bark and walls
* Says thank you whenever he leaves a building
* Sometimes stops dead and stares into space, then will change direction like he's seen something
* Braids people's hair often
* Always has something to offer on hand - things like thimbles, flowers, small beads. Gifts he doesn't offer up to folks
* Refuses to wear anything tight on the back

## Ideology

Tealeaf is of the thought that people should get to determine their own fate. However, he believes that one cannot change long in place systems, something he is often saddened by. Tealeaf has resigned himself to his duties as a future lord of spring but has and will express misery about the whole concept. He believes in loyalty above all, and will die in order to keep his family safe (if he ever gets the chance. His family is remarkably good at doing the same for him).

He believes that people deserve a chance at getting help, and is normally a pacifist. He has expressed that his feelings on pacifism seem shakier around the topic of L, however.

## History

### Pre-Feywilds

Tealeaf was a small boy living in a village with his twin, Lowkey. As kids he was small and sickly for a good while, resulting in often being treated like he was fragile. As a kid, he could always see fae, and despite Lowkey's insistence that they weren't real, Tea would talk about them with his father. His father made sure he knew some very basic rules about the fey - Don't tell them your name, don't takes gifts from them, never step in a fairy circle, be home before dark, etc. He always followed these rules, aware they were both he and his brother's safety, as Lowkey couldn't see them.

When the Nether Church came to the village, they originally were going to take Tealeaf, but Lowkey got between them and instead volunteered to go in his place. Distraught, Tealeaf was inconsolable for weeks, feeling guilty for not being able to protect his brother just one time. This feeling of guilt lead him to make a similar sacrifice his brother had made - when the Church of the Feywilds approached the village, he offered himself up in return for the village's safety.

### Church of the Feywilds

Tealeaf in the Church of the Feywilds was treated objectively better than most. He was kept in his room and raised there, given lessons, very rarely being allowed outside or to talk with people other than worshippers or the head Priest. He was raised and taught that he was to be a sacrifice for the Spring Lord, a powerful fey. He met Star a couple of years into joining the church, and mourned his brother during this time, presuming him dead with the information given to him about the Nether Church by the priest.

Star and him opened up to each other, becoming fast friends within the walls of the church. Tealeaf was treated more as a valuable bargaining chip than a person within the church, something Star didn't do. One solstice, the head priest came to enforce a deal he'd made with the Spring Lord - a successor for the Spring Lord's title in return for magic for the church.

Driving a mistletoe spear through Tealeaf's gut during a ceremony, a mistletoe tree sprouted from the weapon and bloomed instantly. Wands made from this wood were said to contain power of the fey themselves, and the berries were potent healing potion ingredients. The Spring Lord warned the Priest that the tree would only blossom and thrive so long as Tealeaf lived, and that the Lord would be back for Tealeaf when he felt it time to retire.

The Spring Lord assigned Bellirut, a Cardinal from the Winter court, to watch over Tealeaf's recovery and life at the church - to train him so he would be ready for the role he would eventually step into. Instead, Bellirut gave Tealeaf some training, then encouraged him to leave the cult with Star, seeing little benefit to having the next Spring Lord locked up in a tower. Tealeaf and Star ran in the dead of night, Star losing his memory in the process.

### Moonshine

After the Feywilds, Tealeaf travelled with Star for a year or two. They finally settled in a birch forest under a petrified Dragon upon a column, which they dubbed Moonshine. Upon deciding to settle, Tealeaf began placing wards and runes in various trees around Moonshine in order to ward off Fae from the Feywilds that could be chasing him or Star. Slowly, they've built up a small town with the help of Lowkey, who Tealeaf reconnected with. Currently, Tealeaf is looking for a purpose for himself, feeling quite lost now that no-one is there to dictate his life.

After reconnecting with his brother, Tealeaf has become friends with Nouk and Zak, much to his delight. Zak has given Tealeaf a netherite axe which he refuses to be without, citing that he feels safe holding it. He has begun research into the End dimension and its creatures, something he has always wanted to do but never had a chance to or a substantial way to find information. Zak took him to visit a stronghold, where he promptly raided a library within the crumbling walls for all of the salvageable books he could find.

A new neighbour, Briar, has arrived, living across the river to the north of Moonshine. Tealeaf and Lowkey went to deliver a parcel, which has caused the brothers to begin arguing about the safety of Moonshine, both blaming themselves. Tealeaf frets that if Briar can come into Moonshine despite his wards, then what is stopping the Spring lord from coming to collect him at any time?

### Moonshine Massacre

Nouk delivered a letter to Tealeaf warning him of L's intent to murder the ram, and Tealeaf decided that it would be best to not run. If he ran, he'd be too tired to fight and it seemed to him that L would stop at nothing to hunt him down to hurt Lowkey. So he merely pulled a chair up to face the door, then sat in it. And waited.

L arrived and Tealeaf was not surprised at the slightest, doing his best to keep calm and collected. He was remarkably proud of himself for being well composed, but he was unable to stop the shake in his voice or the trembling, much to his dismay. L and him talked for a while, but the conversation was cut short by Lowkey, summoned by the blood oath he'd made. Lowkey and L fought, the latter of which dumped lava into Tealeaf's library. Tealeaf stayed behind to put out the fire, losing two of his cats in the blaze.

Once the fire was remedied, leaving the library in shambles, Tealeaf rushed out to help his brother and was promptly killed by L. Where he was wounded by him, flowers bloomed as the Spring lord refused to "let [Tealeaf] get out of the deal that easy". He tried to help Lowkey, but between the panic of being revived, still having smoke and soot clogging up his senses, and general lack of combat ability, he was overpowered by L again and injured across his right eye before Lowkey and Star drove L off.

### Bleat & Moo, Therapy and Doctor's Clinic

Once recovering from the attack, Tealeaf and Nouk decided to set up a doctor and therapist's office together. They built it close-ish to Moonshine, intending to hopefully help remedy some of the hurt on the server. So far, Tealeaf has had one person come for therapy, and he feels better after delivering his services.

Tealeaf also summoned Bellirut to Moonshine, citing the man would help him learn remedies he would not know. He also feels a bit safer knowing a powerful fey is around, but would never admit it.

### The Moonshine monster

The most recent event came in the form of L attacking Tealeaf, seemingly coming out of nowhere when Tealeaf was returning home to see his children. Tealeaf raced away from his home, leading L through the half built and empty streets of Moonshine, hoping to keep the automaton occupied long enough to get him away from his family, Nouk and Lowkey included.

When reaching the fountain square, L caught up, finally putting a stop to Tealeaf's evasive actions. Lowkey and Nouk found the pair, but not until after Tealeaf had popped a totem and had been severely reinjured. Lowkey escorted L out of Moonshine, breaking the portal with a punch after the automaton left. Upon patching Tealeaf up, Tea admitted to Bellirut what had happened. Bellirut constructed him a contraption, a sort of wheelchair that walks on hoof like chair legs instead of rolling on wheels.

Tealeaf is truly thankful, and is doing his best to make sure people don't fret too much.

## Personal Items

 **Wil o' Wisp** | A lantern with a flaming orb inside that seems at least semi alive. It has runic carvings along the metal. Given to him by Briar, he seems unnerved to hold it.

## Pets

* A set of two horses called Bai Mu Dan and Cinnamon (Both named after kinds of Tea)
* A small collection of Axolotls, whom he adores. Matcha, Oolong, Earl, Lancer, Chiffon, Soot, Moo Moo.
* A set of two foxes given to him by Zak, named Shrooms and Marigold
* A skeleton horse named Mr Bones (Double Deceased)
* A set of three cats that live in his library (Mittens, Chamomile, Chimera). Sadly, Chamomile and Chimera died in the blaze caused by L.

## Quotes

* "I just want my brother." - Tealeaf to Lowkey
* "Its unwise to hand out your name so freely." - Tealeaf when talking to Briar.
* "I am not afraid of death." - Tealeaf to L
* "I'm with you to the horizon and beyond." - Tealeaf to Nouk

## Trivia

* Tealeaf's true name is Hedley Lore, but he tells no-one of it.
* Tealeaf is a doctor, but has admitted he never swore a Hippocratic oath.
* Neither Tealeaf nor Lowkey know who is the older twin. Lowkey insists he is because he's taller, Tealeaf thinks he's being an idiot.
* Tealeaf would be considered the fey equivalent of a prince while in the Feywilds and still conducts himself with habits of someone used to being around fey nobility. Most notably, he bows an awful lot at people.