Celio Klein

> Nightmares? Is that why you called me back early? Odd, I thought it was about ghosts.
>
> Celio Klein, Episode 13

## Celio Klein

### Relatives

Damian Klein `(brother)`
Sara Covetman `(ward)`

## Gallery

Celio Klein is a supporting character in the *Welcome to Dreamworld* series.

## Appearance

Celio is an adult with dark skin and dark brown eyes. They have long messy dark brown hair with two white flicks that fame their face. Down their left arm, they have a tattoo sleeve of flowers down their left arm.

Celio dresses with a bright purple beanie with several badges and buttons on it and grey earrings. They wear a light blue short-sleeved button up tucked into a long pleated brown skirt and light blue tennis shoes. Around their neck, they wear a necklace with a green teardrop-shaped gem.

## Personality

Celio describes themself as a "wild card" who has acted against people's expectations since they were a child. They are headstrong, taking the initiative and going to confront Sara at the Dreamworld Entertainment Facility while their brother Damian and Wiatt Nicholson prepare by themselves. Celio also has a caring nature, reflected both by their taking in and raising of a young Sara Covetman after the incident in Happy Hollow and by their job as a therapist.

## History

Celio grew up alongside their younger brother Damian in a small town in Ohio. Despite their brother's claims to see spirits and soul energy, they never believed him.

When they were older, Celio came out to their family as non-binary. While their parents would do their best to be supportive, they worried about Celio's physical transition. Their mother in particular struggled to understand why they couldn't be themself without involving transitioning and attempted to encourage them to be who they are and love themself as a girl instead. Despite their parents' hesitancy, Celio would continue to transition and openly identify as non-binary.

As an adult, Celio became a therapist, during which they had Owen Nicholson as a client. During their sessions with him, he had trouble speaking and would instead communicate about his home life through drawings, which suggested odd entities interfering with his and his father's lives. Owen has also spoken with Celio several times about his son, Wiatt Nicholson, who was a young child at the time.

Once Sara Covetman's parents went missing, Celio became her caretaker. They were vaguely familiar with the entity Litho through his attachment to Sara.

Celio finally came to believe their brother's ability to see ghosts once he had gotten his first case which concerned Owen Nicholson. Seeing as Owen had died, they broke the patient confidentiality they held with him in order to assist their brother on his case, handing over several of Owen's drawings and recounting his childhood.

After the Dreamworld Entertainment facility was rebuilt by Litho, Celio allowed Damian to care for Oliver Acrimony to stay at their house. They briefly met Wiatt, recognizing him as the son of their old patient, before Wiatt and Damian asked them to help speak to Sara Covetman. When the other two then told Celio to stay put for the moment, Celio instead decided to go find Sara themself. They confronted Sara at the Dreamworld facility only to learn that she was possessed by Litho. When Litho ordered Star Light to capture them, they attempted to flee, asking Ribbon Dancer for help. Ribbon Dancer sided with Star Light, allowing him to subdue them.

After being captured Celio was held down in the laboratory, in the same room that the animatronic's human bodies are stored in. Wiatt eventually rescues them, Damien and Oliver finding them both soon after. After questioning Oliver's health Celio scolds their brother about safety after he explains how he broke into the building. The group escapes the facility, leaving in Damien's car afterwards.

Months later, Celio with the help of Wiatt and Oddity would perform a procedure to release the TV on Oliver's head.

## Trivia

* Besides Rain themselves, Celio is the first non-binary character to appear in *Welcome to Dreamworld*.
* Rainbott has confirmed Celio is between their 30s and 40s in age in a video covering the worldbuilding of the series.