Theodrink Davies

Official image of Theo, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

Theodrink Davies is a Player Character from Arc 10 and is played by Gus.

## Description

Theodrink, or Theo for short, is a Forest Gnome and a level 1 Ranger. His son Brucey thinks he is the best ranger in the world, but Theo admits that he doesn't really know how to shoot a bow. He is a portly and round individual with a bright smile on his face and unruly grey hair that leads into a bushy beard with an exposed chin.

For the party, he is dressed in his best clothes, which are a pair of black slacks, a light blue shirt with a deep collar, a vest, and dress sandals made of nice black leather. Usually, his clothes are wrinkled.

Theo works as a butler for the wizard Tiffany. He got into the butlering business through his passion for gardening, and has worked for Tiffany for a few decades now. His job includes keeping the house clean, making sure there is fresh food in the kitchen, and generally tending to things to make life easier for Tiffany. He loves his job and doesn't have a lot of complaints, but thinks about asking for a raise. Often, he spends the majority of his day tending to Tiffany's business.

As Tiffany's butler, Theo lives right next to the wizard mansion in a modest house. He lives together with his family, which includes his spouse Nona, and their 36 children. They have that many children because Theo and Nona are cursed with fertility, but Theo loves his family nonetheless and is always looking forward to coming back home to them.

His magic item is the Cigar of Fresh Air. He also has a Dimensional Loop.

## Backstory

Early in their marriage, Theo and Nona have trouble conceiving. Since Malum is a place with strong divine magic, and gods walking around between mortals, Theo figures he can just try to contact a fertility deity, and reaches the forest god Mielikki. For them, growing plants and growing children sounds very similar, so they try to help Theo and Nona, but accidentally curse them with fertility. Now, every single time they have sex, they conceive one more child than the last time.

About 30 years before Arc 10, Tiffany gives Theodrink the body of Edd Yaug, to be buried in his garden. Theo does so, and ever since then, the plants in that area of the garden grow better than the others.

### Children

1. Rogra (ca. 100 years old in Arc 10)
2. Lanster, Cranston
3. Porridge, Pragrance, Pixor
4. February, Winnifred, Irwin, Grovir
5. Lucy, Brucey, Sprucey, Goosey, Zeusy (late teens in Arc 10)
6. Droy, Ofrar, Splarm, Quoo, Maximum, Islee (early teens in Arc 10)
7. Alagar, Morthia, Finchead, Lagrius, Draas, Hurgel, Vastion (ca. 6 years old in Arc 10)
8. Rilo, Stupor, Crandice, Lowluh, Junke, Marge, Kamberly, Linlin (ca. 3-4 years old in Arc 10)

## Character Arc

### Arc 10

Theo is a very family-oriented person. When he is at home, he does his best to care as much for the family as possible, and take off some work from Nona. Rogra tells him that he plans to propose to his girlfriend, and Theo is very happy for him.

In preparation for the party, it was Theo's job to send out invitations to everyone. Generally, it is his job to make sure that the party goes smoothly, and he has prepared well for that. On the day of the party, he checks that the Unseen Servants do their job well, and then greets the guests as they arrive. When the first guests are deciding to not follow his schedule, though, instead looking to disturb Tiffany or just browsing through their library, there is little Theo can do, because most of them are very powerful. He points out the guests that behave in a weird way to Tiffany, including Edd Yaug, who is supposed to be buried in his garden; Bishop, who claimed to be Arenothe; and Marigold, who has an invitation without Theo sending one to her.

At first, he tries to keep all of his children away from the mansion, but Dion invites Maximum as his plus one, and Theo understands Maximum's urge to be a detective, and allows him to come, under the condition that Maximum holds on to his hand and leaves after the Show and Tell.

He is aware that there is a secret necromancy thing going on, but also, he knows better than to ask about it. Because of this, he actually knows very little of Tiffany's secrets. He is aware that he knows Tiffany better than most other people, except for maybe Liyra, but even then, he doesn't know her very well. So, he is as surprised as anyone else to find out that Tiffany stabs himself during the Show and Tell, the lights go out, and they are trapped inside the mansion. He immediately tries to figure out what happened, at first both out of loyalty to Tiffany, and to get himself, Maximum, and the others out. The more he finds out about what kind of person Tiffany actually was, though, the more this loyalty vanishes.

During his investigation, he and Bishop, who found Maximum when he ran away, have some discussions about parenting. At first, Theo does not want to listen to him, but later realises that not only does Bishop have some good ideas, he actually has a good connection to Maximum. The three of them find the wall in the basement, but cannot figure out the right combination of stones to press, until Theo and Maximum find the Loom of Lives in the gameroom.

Behind the wall, there is a trapped room full of glyphs in front of the door they actually want to reach. At first, the group does not take the danger of the glyphs too serious, and when they all step through the room together except for one or two at a time, they activate a trap that makes the floor slam them up and down. Maximum falls unconscious, and Theo, who had taken damage from the wall, dies. Bishop and Marigold immediately bring them out, and ask Thorgash to revive Theo, but he doesn't have a diamond. Sharon, however, is able to do it in exchange for a favour from each of them. Theo sees himself in the domain of the Raven Queen, but before she can come into view, Sharon is there, and asks him whether he would like to come back. He accepts, and wakes up again. After that, he and Maximum stay on the ground floor of the mansion, waiting for the others to finish the quest. They get through the glyph room, deactivate the traps, and Luminessa turns Tiffany into a zombie.

As the threat is gone and the mansion is free again, Theo talks to Liyra in the bedroom, and finds out that she is pregnant from Tiffany, but that he did not want to raise the child. Theo tells her that the child will probably be better off without Tiffany, and offers his help. Later, Dion offers him to go work with them and Chance in Tarnish.

### Ranch Sweet Ranch

Like the others, Theo offered his help to Marigold and Bishop to fix their farm and defeat the darkness trying to swallow it. Newly a Warlock with Lord Chance as his patron, he joins them on the ship, together with many of the other party guests. Nona joins as well, and since Thorgash's moms offered to take care of the children, this is kind of the first vacation they have had together in years. They try to enjoy it as much as possible, splashing around and having a picknick.

As they come to the ranch, they see that the darkness has changed. It is no longer just rifts of void, but now, they are portals to various other planes of existence. Theo joins Dion and Luminessa in persuading Bishop and Marigold to try and fix the land by holding hands or kissing, and while the land needs time to heal, just like their relationship, it does help.

There is another problem at the ranch, though, as a tree person named Draen'd has fallen out of the Feywild into the Material Plane, specifically into the middle of the farmhouse, together with their tree. Theo is the first to meet Draen'd, and tries to talk to them, telling them that this is Marigold's house. They react rudely, talking down to him, which upsets Theo even as Marigold, Bishop, and Draen'd can find some sort of compromise. Marigold takes some time to talk to him, telling him that it is alright to be upset, and that he should not bottle up his anger. She also promises him that now, finally, the time of people being entitled towards him is over.

## Trivia

* Gus said that if he could have played with a Commoner statblock, he would have.
* That is also the reason why he is very happy to have rolled a lot of 10s for Theo's stats.
* Theo loves porridge.
* He is a big hugger.
* His approach to problems often is trial and error.
* Once, he read his child Alagar's diary, but knows that this was a mistake.