Theo Keyoko

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*"Well, are you boys gonna sit there with your mouths open or is someone gonna offer me a seat?..." - Theo Keyoko*

**Theo Keyoko** is an area pharmaceutical representative for BioMart Medical Company based in Albany, New York. A California native, she is often described as coldly distant and remote to her colleagues and business associates, but this is only because she is very conscious of her looks. In social settings, she is an out-going and compassionate individual who prefers to separate her work and private life.

Born in Santa Rosita, California on March 31, 1980, Theo is the daughter of Michael Keyoko, a Chinese-American photojournalist, and Ruby Costello-Keyoko, a former actress from Phoenix, Arizona. Although a “tom-boy” growing up, Theo never had any brothers and sisters, but grew up in an apartment building with several other kids. As she matured and fully developed, she dated often in high school, gradually becoming apprehensive toward her male classmates because of her looks.

After high school, she attended Santa Rosita State College and became close friends with Cindy Campbell. Cindy became possibly her first true close female friend after her tumultuous teenage years, and due to Cindy’s often quirky positive nature, she began treating her like a little sister. Part of their friendship was possibly based on Cindy surviving a series of murders in her hometown and wanting to look after her. Through Cindy, she also became friends with Brenda Meeks, a friend of Cindy’s who had followed her to attend college on the West Coast, but their connection became more convivial. They only knew each other because of their common friendship with Cindy. The three of them were frequently joined by “career college student”: Alex Monday, who tagged along with them because she was convinced Cindy was her best friend, but in all likelihood, she was actually more a stalker with severe social issues. The four of them attended a sleep study with several other students under one of the college professors which covered a paranormal investigation at the long reputedly-haunted Kane Manor. Years later, Theo confessed she knew she was added to the experiment because the professor was obsessed with her figure.

Despite a short interest in acting marred by a director that tried groping her, Theo soon became a pharmaceutical representative through Dr. Susan Marrow, her college biology teacher. Convinced her looks could be used as a weapon, she took a job at Overlook Biochemistry in nearby Long Beach, but after the company was acquired by the Universal Science Institute, she was transferred to the BioMart Medical Company, also a USI property. Her new job necessitated a move to Albany, New York where she also did work with Allegius Medical and Hedison Pharmaceuticals, but it also allowed her to be reunited with Cindy now working as a health care worker in New York City.

In nearby Ashford Falls, Theo often competed with the ditzy Lisa Creekmore, a rivalry that that ended into a full competition as they fought to promote and sell their products to the local doctors and hospitals. In their first encounter, Lisa locked Theo in a closet and later slashed the tires on her car. Theo once drugged Lisa and had her pronounced DOA, later finding her conscience and saving her from being cremated at the Conway Funeral Home. The two never did find a peaceful truce, and after Lisa lost her job, she still conspired to "even the rivalry."

In her trips through Ashford Falls, Theo continued to make more acquaintances with the locals. Her rivalry with Lisa brought her into contact with Sheriff David Carmichael and both Russell Coleman and Gabe Jameson tried to proposition her into a date. At the Tangled Vine Bistro, she commiserated over drinks with Bobbi Pierce over the fact that their looks kept them from being taken seriously. Besides Lisa, Theo was also exhaustively stalked by Melissa Strickland, a TV reporter and self-proclaimed paranormal researcher, over her connection to Cindy Campbell, who had since started working in paranormal researcher. As such, Theo is still stressed about doing business in Ashford Falls, choosing instead to do work in nearby Winchester and Peytonville.