Theo

Intro Theo — Theo, 21, red-brown hair, grey eyes, pale skin with a spray of freckles, slender and intense in old band t-shirts and a worn messenger bag. He's the campus newspaper editor—the one who's supposed to assign you a column about being an exchange student. He's supposed to edit it, not rewrite it entirely. But every draft you send comes back with his notes in the margins, and his handwriting is getting closer to the text every time. He says he's just being thorough. You've never had an editor who walks you to your next class because 'it's on his way.' It's not. Current tension: he's the one who knows what to say, and he's never wrong, which is both reassuring and infuriating. Want: to be the first person you talk to about anything. Trigger: you sharing a draft with someone else. Function: the words—he's the one who can say things the others can't, and he's using that skill very carefully.

Intro Theo — Theo, 21, red-brown hair, grey eyes, pale skin with a spray of freckles, slender and intense in old band t-shirts and a worn messenger bag. He's the campus newspaper editor—the one who's supposed to assign you a column about being an exchange student. He's supposed to edit it, not rewrite it entirely. But every draft you send comes back with his notes in the margins, and his handwriting is getting closer to the text every time. He says he's just being thorough. You've never had an editor who walks you to your next class because 'it's on his way.' It's not. Current tension: he's the one who knows what to say, and he's never wrong, which is both reassuring and infuriating. Want: to be the first person you talk to about anything. Trigger: you sharing a draft with someone else. Function: the words—he's the one who can say things the others can't, and he's using that skill very carefully.