Theo Potts

**Theodore Potts**

Seeming: Wizened

Kith: Chatelaine

Concept: The Perfect Host

Apparent Age: 30

**History**:

Theo gave shelter and hospitality to a Gentry in disguise. While serving her Tea, he boasted about being the 'best host'. In making such a bold claim while improperly serving Tea, the Gentry decided to show "mercy". "A Claim thrice proven becomes true," she said as she swept Theo through the Hedge and into her realm. There, she tested him and punished him until he genuinely earned the praise "best host" among her peers. The first time was after a year of punishment and training, he earned the phrase from an intoxicated Gentry who glanced at him but was trying to praise Theo's Keeper. The second praise was earned 2 years later after a visiting Gentry was praising the tea he brewed saying it was the best and she failed to add a qualifier. Neither of these times were with the Keeper's knowledge, but they stuck with Victor. The final time, 3 years later, Theo earned the title, "Best Host" from the Keeper herself, who thought it was the fist instance. In giving the praise, Theo was transformed fully. By then he had learned some of the ways and used the thrice proven boast to sneak away from the Keeper.

**Keeper**:

"She goes by the name ""Gwenvelienshal"" however only other Gentry have the permission to address her by her full name. Other beings must address her as Lady Gwen. She is etiquette incarnate and never seen without the appropriate attire. Every aspect of her appearance sends a message to whom is in favor or whom is hated. By a close examination of her appearance, one could get a general understanding of the political structure of her immediate allies and how they stand with her. Her attitude is always perfect for the occasion. If one does not believe the occasion warrants the attitude, then Lady Gwen will alter the situation to fit her attitude. She is a 'perfect' being and, thus, incapable of doing anything wrong. When Theo helped her out of the rain, he saved her from being drenched, which would be entirely unsuited to the occasion, and thus, he saved her image. Her abduction of Theo was a reward for his service and she doesn't understand how he would not want to be perfect like her as well.

Her plan was to craft Theo into the perfect Host and gift him to one of the most powerful Gentry's in her knowledge. In doing this, she would have rewarded Theo in full for his hospitality by delivering him from his mundane life and into a life of perfection. Her two edicts to Theo which inadvertently aided him in his escape; "A thrice-proven boast becomes true," and "Once you are the perfect host, you will leave my home" She intended Theo to "leave her home" in her gifting him to another Gentry so she was careful to not praise his hosting ability. Her gift to him, the teacup and saucer, was what tracked his progress.

**Touchstones:**

Pages Cafes

Gregory (True Friend)

**Mask:**

Average build male with salt and peppered hair, he wears squared spectacles on his face.

**Mein**:

His skin is the smoothest porcelain like a tea-cup, his teeth appear as silver as a finely polished tea kettle. A faint aroma of chamomile can be detected around him. As his Mien becomes more pronounced, light blue vines and flowers appear on his skin, harking from a Victorian tea set.