Teddy Veodrum

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**Teddy Veodrum** is the main protagonist of SELF/LESS and the daughter of Luanna and Paul Veodrum. She is originally from Metropolis City and is the accidental leader of Clan Ember.

## Appearance

Teddy is a self-insert of AViVA, having her brown/yellow hair but being seventeen. In the Metropolis, women and girls are made to wear skirts and blouses, though Teddy has filled her wardrobe with illegal items such as hoodies and track pants. She also keeps the green uniform pieces stolen from her school's lost property.

For her Occasions, she wears heels and a dress, and her mother buys her a pair of black short-heeled boots that come with black laces, though her mother swaps them with pink laces to match her Partnership dress and green laces for her Sealing (which never came). In the Underground, she wears a black hooded jacket, black track pants and black boots. She is gifted a pair of hand-made Scottish red and black plaid from Zelda Moon as her sealing-in as the Clan Leader.

## Personality

Teddy is very independent, not liking restrictions or rules. Despite this, she feels deeply for others and her heart aches for those whom she loves. Teddy is seen as an odd one out, from going to 'infected' in Metropolis to 'Sunlight scum' in the Underground. She does not like to be kept in the dark and will go out of her way to figure out the truth.

Teddy often thinks about the past, who she is inside, and the things that have been kept hidden from her. She often wonders if the past could have been changed and dwells especially on the loss of people whom she was close to, such as her grandfather and best friend Lisa Pech.

Teddy is more of a tomboy and has stolen male pieces of her school's school uniform, keeping illegal items girls shouldn't wear such as track pants and hoodies hidden in her room. Nonetheless she does not refuse to wear a dress and isn't disgusted by vanity or more 'girly' things. In secret, she draws in a notebook, and likes to sketch faces of people she's encountered. Her father is most often away and as such cannot catch his daughter in the act of owning illegal items.

## Relationships

### Luanna Veodrum

Luanna and her daughter have a very close relationship. Luanna knows Teddy inside out and Teddy feels that she can trust her mother, especially after learning that Luanna is a Sympathiser to the Underground. Luanna puts herself at risk, talking to the Sanitisation Crew to eliminate a threat, despite being in danger of Sanitisation herself. Teddy fears that she will never see her mother again (though she does later).

### Paul Veodrum

Teddy is not close to her father and he doesn't love her like her mother does. Most of the time Paul is not even home, working for the Council, and he threatens Teddy and her mother after she was caught breaking the law, playing as a young child. He wants to press the opinion that she is not his daughter, but rather the city's daughter.

### Teddy's Grandfather

Teddy's grandfather was Sanitised years ago. Teddy misses him and is angry at the Sanitisation Crew for taking him away. She believes him to still be one of the most magical people wherever he is, whether he be in relocation or in heaven.

### Lisa Pech

Lisa was Teddy's best childhood friend. Teddy was influenced greatly by Lisa, who was 'infected', and always looked up to her, even after she was Sanitised. Over part/one of SELF/LESS, Teddy laments over Lisa's disappearance, and is furious and sick when she realises what really happened to Lisa. She misses her daily and constantly thinks of her and what she would do in a bad situation.

### Kit Trist

Whereas Kit is happy and excited to be Teddy's friend, Teddy is sick of her treating her like a child or a puppet, underestimating her when she makes her own decisions and being surprised when Teddy achieves something. Teddy snaps at Kit multiple times, shouting at her not to treat her like a delicate Metropolis doll. Nonetheless, Teddy feels guilty when she sees Kit cry and still values her.

### Jamie Guise

Teddy is at first suspicious of Jamie, believing him to be an undercover Council Eye after he freaked her out in the cafe she worked at before moving to the Underground. She slowly develops a romantic crush towards him and the two get into a relationship, trusting each other with secrets. Jamie is gentle to her, but believes she can do things herself unlike Kit does. When Jamie is lost, Teddy is distraught and can't think straight. In his memory, she straightened her pledge to restore peace to the Underground.