Theo Raeken

> "I have a home here [..] Really?"
>
> - Theo talking to  Conri about living in the pack house

* Human
* Chimera
* Evolved Chimera

* At least 10+ Unidentified Ghost Riders  (Self-Defense of himself and Liam Dunbar)
* Multiple Hunters

## Physical Appearance

### Height

* 5'8"  (Feet)
* 1.73  (Meters

### Eye Color

* Blue-Gray  (as a human)
* Gold  (as a chimera)

### Hair Color

* Light Brown

**Theodore "Theo" Karl Raeken** is a Chimera and a member of the Hale Pack. He was the first Chimera to be created that survived the transformation without rejection, though he was not considered to be a "true success". In 2012, Theo returned to his hometown of Beacon Hills, to steal the power of Alpha from Scott McCall, only after manipulating his entire pack to turn against their alpha so that when Theo stole his power, the pack would join their new alpha, coveting the unique combination of supernatural creatures that made up the pack.

Unfortunately for Theo, his plan didn't work out the way he wanted, but he killed Scott anyway, before using a serum to resurrect four of the previously killed "failed" Chimeras, whose bodies had been left at the Nemeton, creating his own Chimera Pack in which he was the self appointed "Alpha" and set his sights on stealing the power if the Beast of Gevaudan.

He was thwarted by Deucalion, whom he had captured for information about how to steal power from other creatures, and Conri Tlanta, a good friend of Deucalion. Theo is shipped away to Conri's Victorian pack house in Long Island, where one of his werewolves, Ash locked Theo up in a dungeon underneath the pool house, connected to the underground tunnels that ran under the mansion.

Theo suffered from hallucinations and nightmares while in the dungeon about his dead sister, Tara, due to a spell cast on him to manipulate his dreams of his sister taking back her heart from his chest, which had been transplanted to Theo when he was nine years old, transforming him into a chimera.

Eventually, Theo was let out of the dungeon, and allowed to live in the pool house. He was taken under the wing of two twin witches from France, who taught him how to cook, and unlocked his love for the activity as he returned to school, to get his GED, and when the semester started in September of 2013, Theo went to culinary school, as a pastry student.

Theo is a member of the **Raeken Family**, was the self declared "Alpha" of the **Chimera Pack**, was a previous ally of the **McCall Pack** during the war, and is a current member of the **Hale Pack**.

## History

Theo was born to Jonathan Raeken and his wife on November 23rd, 1994. He had an older sister, Tara Raeken, and was diagnosed with asthma when he was a young child. He seemed to have a bleak, unhappy childhood as he would talk about his life before becoming a Chimera and killing his sister for her heart. He apparently had an intense asthma attack one day at school, and ended up in the ER.

In the year, 2004, at an unknown point in Theo's youth, where he was either eight or nine years old, he was approached by the Dread Doctors, who were passing through, and was intrigued by them as they asked him why he sounded so rough when he spoke, and that a voice that rough shouldn't belong to a child. Theo told them he had asthma, and hated it, wanting more out of his life than having to carry an inhaler around for the rest of his life, and the doctors told him that he could have that power if he wanted it. As a kid, wanting out of his terrible health situation, Theo agreed and the doctors told him that the only way for him to get the power he desired, was if he got Tara's heart.

At first, Theo was cautious, because getting Tara's heart would mean killing her, but the doctors managed to convince him through manipulation that Tara had wanted him to have her heart, since his was weak, and hers was strong. They said that she had wanted Theo to live a long, happy life to the fullest, and knew he couldn't do that with his current condition.

Eventually, the doctors got Theo to agree, and later watched as Theo let Tara die from hypothermia in the stream in the Preserve, before harvesting her heart, and transplanting it into young Theo, giving him genetic chimerism (or when a human has two sets of DNA, in this case the DNA he was born with along with his sister's DNA as well), which was necessary in order to turn Theo into the first psuedo-supernatural Chimera. In the case of Theo, he survived his transformation, and became a Werewolf-Werecoyote Hybrid.

Sometime after this, Theo and the doctors left Beacon Hills after his parents buried Tara, and moved away, thinking that somehow, Theo had died too, while their son had merely left. At an unknown time, Theo managed to perform a full shift into a wolf form, a secret he kept from many.

In 2012, Theo's plans to overthrow and kill Scott McCall were foiled by Deucalion and Conri Tlanta, who took Theo to his home in Long Island, before locking him up for a couple months in the dungeon, with a dream manipulation spell placed on him during the night, and anytime Theo slept, plaguing him with nightmares until Conri felt acceptance and defeat in the spell, and removed it.

Theo was brought aboveground, and integrated into the pack, living in the pool house, and being taken in as a student by Nixie and Naeomi Snow, the two French witch twins, who taught him how to cook and bake, awakening a spark inside him that he never knew about before, and he fell in love with the smell of the kitchen. Theo was also put under Conri's protection as his guardian until November 2012, when he turned eighteen, and had been working to get his GED and start looking at colleges.

Theo returned to Beacon Hills with his pack to fight against the hunters, alongside Diana Winchester and Liam Dunbar, who he rescued from harm more often than not. Theo and Liam, despite their initial distrust and Theo using Liam to kill his alpha, the chimera and the beta became close and trusted each other more, after Liam spent Thanksgiving in 2012 with the pack, brought their by Noah Stilinski, whose son had lived with the pack since Theo was taken from Beacon Hills.

## Personality

As a child, Theo was hurt, due to his bleak childhood, developing sociopathic traits, which slowly grew as his health got worse, and when he was approached by the Dread Doctors, he was easily manipulated by them to either directly, or indirectly kill his sister, Tara to harvest her heart, which would turn him into the first Chimera to survive the transformation.

As a teenager working with the Dread Doctors, Theo was intelligent and charming young man who has demonstrated an exceptional ability to use his cunning to manipulate others around him, convincing the pack that he was a kind, compassionate person, who wanted entry into the McCall Pack, despite really wanting to kill the alpha and take over, showing a ruthless drive in pursuit of power, willing to sacrifice life in order to help him achieve his goals in the end. He has an inferiority complex to true supernaturals, due to the fact that he is not a true Werewolf, and is stuck being a Chimera, which are "cheap knock-offs" according to him.

Theo is also exceptionally adept at reading people, using their emotions and opinions about him, and other people to get them to do and feel what he pushes them to feel. Though he's done this to hurt others, Theo constantly uses this tactic to console Eli Hale, a fellow pack member when he is not feeling well, and always manages to make the kid feel better.

In dire and extreme situations, Theo has been very impulsive and reckless, shown when he killed Scott McCall when his plans to steal the pack for himself failed, despite knowing that killing the alpha would ensure he'd never become an alpha. Theo's impulsiveness shines through when he returns to Beacon Hills, and after getting himself captured, freed, and then arrested, in order to get into the McCall Pack's circle as a victim of the hunters, Theo snaps and kills a deputy who had been about to attack and kill members of the pack with wolfsbane.

After being stuck in Conri's dungeon with a dream manipulation spell on him for months, Theo came out a changed person. He has no longer shown any sign of his power hungry nature, seemingly content in simply living to survive in freedom as he worked to get his GED and started looking at college choices, while Conri and Derek trusted him to babysit their son, Eli, and cook their meals, with supervision from the twins.

Though he has changed nearly completely, bits of the past remained as Theo still wished to be a real Werewolf as part of a real pack. Although he is part of the Hale Pack, and a valued member at that, neither Conri, nor Derek, who can turn him never did so, and Theo never asked them to, as he slowly learned to accept himself as a Chimera. He also showed how much he'd changed when Liam Dunbar spent Thanksgiving with the pack, and stayed in the pool house with Theo, and the two ended up bonding.

Upon his second return to Beacon Hills, Theo saved Liam's life multiple times, by throwing himself into the fire for the beta, showing Liam that he was not the same person he was when they first met. He prevented Liam from killing hunters, due to his IED, slowly teaching him control until Diana Winchester pointed out to Theo that Liam had anchored himself to the chimera, something Theo didn't believe.

Although he was there to help Liam, Theo was still manipulating the pack, so that Conri, Danae, and the rest of the Hale Pack that had traveled to Beacon Hills could destroy the hunter army before they could expand and get close to the pack house, where they could hurt Eli. He kept the pack focused on the Anuk-Ite, while the rest of the pack focused on taking down the hunters from the inside with Diana as their double agent, giving them information.

Initially, Theo was unable to take pain when he arrived at the pack house. He had gotten his own taken away from him by Derek Hale when the man created their pack bond, and after that he'd always wanted to learn how to do what his alpha had done. He was finally able to take pain from a hunter, Gabe, in his last moments of life at the end of the battle, with Liam at his side as Theo stood up, looking down at the hunter's body, before the beta coaxed him to forget about Gabe, focusing on Liam instead.

Theo has also shown his compassion through taking care of Eli Hale and making dinner for the rest of the pack. After going to culinary school to learn pastries and baking, his food got even better, and Eli loved him even more.

## Physical Appearance

Theo is a very attractive muscular young man who has tan skin, rough around some edges, with a brown mole on his upper cheekbone, blue-gray eyes, and light brown hair that he wears tousled with gel, or messy when at home. He has some stubble on occasion, when he has not gotten the chance to shave, or when he had intentionally grown out his facial hair.

He is on the shorter end of average height, although he is taller than Liam, something he occasionally teases the beta with. Due to a constant workout schedule, in the home gym in the lower levels of the mansion Theo maintains a lean, athletic build; in fact, Malia Hale once stated that Theo had a "perfect body," and Theo seems to agree with this sentiment, since he has no problem stripping nude in front of others and claims he has nothing to hide, especially before, or after he shifts into a wolf, needing to strip down in order to transform.

Theo is usually seen wearing trendy clothes, such as designer slim-fit jeans, solid-colored v-neck t-shirts, and hoodies, vests, or jackets in neutral colors. His wardrobe has gone up in value, thanks to Conri Tlanta and his intense shopping sprees he takes Theo and Peter Hale on, allowing Theo to pick up whatever catches his eye. He has started wearing jewelry as a result.

## Powers and Abilities

**Evolved** **Chimera** **Physiology:** As a Chimera, Theo has gained the common powers of an Omega-level Werewolf and Werecoyote, though at a somewhat lower level. Though he has been shown to be the strongest of the Chimeras, he was still inferior in strength to true werecreatures, as evidenced by Theo's comments that Chimeras are like "cheap knockoffs" in comparison to real shapeshifters.

Despite this, Theo was shown to be the strongest of the 'failed' Chimeras, as well as the most skilled with his powers. Notably, he was also the only Chimera who was able to fully shapeshift into a true Wolf, something that is rare even for Werewolves. Initially Theo struggled to absorb someones pain for its traditional use, due to his lack of empathy, though he was able to successfully take Gabe's pain at the end of the war.

### Abilities

* **Advanced Combat Skills:** Theo has shown himself to be a skilled fighter, making use of his Werewolf-Werecoyote instincts as well as his pseudo-supernatural abilities to great effect and what appears to be a degree of formal close quarters combat training. His combat skills also allowed him to temporarily hold his own against the Dread Doctors, and survive multiple fights with the Ghost Riders, many of whom, he was able to kill.
* **Skilled Manipulator:** Theo is shown to be extremely good at manipulating people, as he was able to fool and manipulate the McCall pack into believing he was a regular Werewolf who just wanted to join the pack for weeks.
* **Spell Knowledge:** Alongside teaching Theo to cook and bake, the French witch twins, Nixie and Naeomi Snow taught Theo all about magic and spells he could cast without being a witch.

## Weaknesses

Though Theo, as a Chimera, is not susceptible to mountain ash like true supernaturals are, the fact that his powers were likely inferior in strength to real shapeshifters still put him in a disadvantage in a fight. It is unknown if Theo is vulnerable to substances such as wolfsbane, mistletoe, or wolf lichen, which are commonly used to weaken Werewolves and Werecoyotes.

He is, however vulnerable to Werewolf venom, such as the venom that belongs to Conri Tlanta, Danae Tlanta, and although he had not triggered his Werewolf gene by killing a human; Eli Hale. He is also not vulnerable to silver.

## Relationships

* Theo and Deucalion (Former Allies, Former Enemies, Packmates)
* Theo and Conri (Guardian, Packmates)
* Theo and Derek (Alpha, Packmates)
* Theo and Peter (Packmates)
* Theo and Malia (Former Enemies, Packmates, Allies)
* Theo and Stiles (Childhood Friends, Former Enemies, Allies, Packmates)
* Theo and Eli (Packmates)
* Theo and Danae (Mentor/Mentee, Packmates)
* Theo and Diana (Partners in Crime, Allies)
* Theo and Liam (Former Enemies, Allies, Dating)

## Etymology

* **Theo**: Theo is the short form of the masculine given name Theodore, which is derived from the Greek name Θεοδωρος (*Theodoros*), meaning "gift of God" or "divine gift." This is a combination of the Greek roots Θεος (*theos*), "god," and δωρον (*doron*), meaning "gift." It is a name notable for being shared by several saints, including Theodore of Amasea, Theodore of Tarsus, and Theodore of the Studite, along with also being the name of two popes. However, some names beginning with the prefix *Theo-* are not necessarily derived from Greek, but are rather derived from the Old Germanic *theud*, meaning "people *or "folk." Such Germanic names include Theobald, Theodoric, and Thelonious.*
* **Raeken**: Raeken is a variant of the name Reagan, an Anglicized version of the Irish surname *Ó Riagáin* ("son of Riagán"), which is derived from the Irish personal name Riagán, which means "little king" or "little warrior." The name also is derived from the word *riodhgach*, meaning "impulsive," which, combined with the meanings "little king or warrior," is a very fitting surname for Theo Raeken considering his desire to be Alpha ("king"), his warrior instincts, and his impulsivity.

## Gallery

Theo Raeken; HumanEvolved Chimera FormGolden EyesTheo's ClawsRelaxingFighting for LiamKitchen ChimeraChimera ShiftSoft Smile