Theo - Flame Of Darkness

Theo

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Played by:	Unknown
Name:	Theodore "Theo" Oliver Aguchi
Codename:	N/A
Alias:	Theo
Race:	Human
Team:	N/A
Occupation:	None
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The insidious vampire Dio was a great user of people. Much like Genghis Khan, Dio believed that the world was his to rule. And one of the ways he sought to go about ruling that world was to, ahem, 'sow his wild oats' in as many 'fields' as possible. So to speak. To this end, while Jotaro Kujo, Joseph Joestar, Mohammed Avdol, Noriyaki Kakyoin, Jean-Pierre Polnareff, and Iggy hunted down Dio… well, he went about gathering followers and fathering children. One of those children was with a woman named Michelle Gunn.
She was on a business trip to Egypt when she met Dio. She had been working late, and she came across him while on her way back to her hotel. His eye contact sent her heart skipping, and his smile alone practically swept her off her feet. So of course she accepted when he asked her to go for a drink. A month later the two were involved, and within three months she was carrying his child. He disappeared soon after. She ended up marrying a man named Sebastian Bell, more for her reputation than love, so her child would not be born out of wedlock.
Her child was born in New York State, when she went back to her husband's estate; his family was well-to-do, and wouldn't have her working when she was with child. Said child was a girl, who Michelle named Marillion. Marillion didn't like the stuffy confines of the indoors, and so often snuck out to wander outside the grounds, particularly at night. She found out in her teens that she was different than the other kids — she could stimulate plant growth and comunicate with animals. She had a Stand, "Fiddler's Green", and it was this that allowed her to accomplish this.
She wasn't the only one who noticed, either. The Speedwagon Foundation, who tended to keep track of Stand users — and relatives of Dio — approached her after her Stand manifested. They just wanted to make certain that her Stand was under control, and to let her know that they were there to assist if she ever did need help with it. They also explained what a Stand was in the first place, as well as telling her aboout Dio, her father (as that's where her Stand came from in the first place). The Speedwagon Foundation determined that she was no threat, and merely gave her their number.
But life goes on, Stand or no. She was only sixteen when she met William "Biffy" Clyro, but the pair of them were in love instantly. He was an up-and-coming rock star, and of course her parents didn't approve. Not wanting to go through the years-long spiel of having to fight with her family, she ran away with him. Unfortunately, teenagers will be teenagers, and "accidents" happen. This "accident" was a boy that Marillion named Theodore. Marillion soon broke up with William, before the child was born, because she wanted to keep the child, and he wasn't exactly mature enough to handle being a father. She wouldn't go back to her own family, for fear they would make her give Theo up for adoption. She became the last thing her family wanted her to be — a single mother. It was hard, raising a boy alone. But she worked hard to give Theo as good a life as she could.
When Theo was about ten, Marillion made the acquaintence of Anaman Aguchi. Marillion's love of music had come back to haunt her again; but instead of a struggling rock star, Anaman was a talented and well-established violinist. Not only was he respected and well-to-do, but he accepted Theo as well. On top of that, Theo and Anaman seemed to actually GET ALONG! Particularly because Theo shared his mother's love of music, though Theo was more skilled with singing and dance than the violin his adopted father preferred. Still, the two of them got along well, so Theo was persuaded to take his new father's last name. Everything seemed set for a peaceful life. Until Theo developed a Stand.
Marillion never told Theo about Fiddler's Green, so Theo had no idea that his grandfather was the vampire Dio. But when he was seventeen, his own Stand manifested. He was at the site of a hit and run on a quiet street, and saw the accident. He didn't have time to look away, it happened too fast. Theo didn't question the instinct, but went to the unconscious victim's side, as he was the only one there, and started checking for a pulse. But when he bent down to listen at the victim's chest, he felt a crawling sensation on his face. He sat up quickly, and batted the thing away from his face. It fell on the victim, and he discovered it was a metal spider with… what might be considered a derpy-looking face. Almost cute, but where had it come from?
And then he felt more of them. They jumped from his face, onto the victim, where they began to spin golden threads over the injured parts of the victim's body. Disturbingly, a few even crawled in the victim's mouth, presumably to get to the injuries inside. Theo sat in shock and watched the metal spiders basically knit the victim back together, before they disappeared. But their threads remained, and before his eyes the injuries started to heal. He had the presence of mind to call emergency services… and then he RAN! He couldn't go back home, not after that. Because SPIDERS OUT OF HIS MOUTH! How was that not creepy?! He needed to get far away, to keep anybody from finding out.
When he didn't return the next day, his mother knew something had gone wrong. Call it mother's intuition. But she knew that, whatever was wrong, it wasn't something mundane. So, she used the number for the Speedwagon Foundation, that had remained unused ever since they approached her as a teen to explain her lineage. She called them. Told them her son was missing, and she had a terrible fear that it was because he had a Stand too. Would they be able to find him? Would he be all right? Or would a mother's worst fears come to pass?

Spin Doctors: A long-range Swarm-type Stand that takes the form of up to fifty quarter-sized metal spiders formed of psychic energy. They can create strings from psychic energy, bite targets for small amounts of damage, scout for danger, or fulfil other tasks befitting creatures of their tiny stature. Spin Doctors can act to protect Theo from dangers he's unable to physically react to in time, so long as he's aware they're present. They're not actually IN his mouth when not in use, but he can be prevented from using his Stand if his mouth is forcibly kept closed.
Golden Threads: Spin Doctors can spin threads of psychic energy; they vary from half the thinness of a human hair to the thickness of a soda straw, with strength as high tensile wire of the same thickness. These threads have many uses — offensive (garroting wires, whips, etc.), defensive (woven latticeworks over people/things), healing (the threads can stitch up wounds and attempt to heal an injury by merging with the tissue), or communication (by putting the string in mouths/on ears). The spiders can spin a web across floors/walls/doorways, to either let him know when someone's passing by (he needs to be in physical contact with the webs) or to bind someone when they walk into the web. These threads are not sticky. If he's incapacitated the threads disappear and all effects currently in progress cease.
Long-Range Scouting: Theo can use the senses of his Stand when they're scouting. He can only "see" through one spider's eyes at a time, but he may freely "switch" which spider he sees through the eyes of, so long as they're manifested. If he and Spin Doctors move out of range, the Stand disappears.
High Willpower: Theo is not the strongest-willed person on Earth, or even the strongest-willed Stand user, but he can withstand assaults to his core beliefs that would leave a normal person questioning themselves, and push past the point of utter physical exhaustion for a normal human being to keep going when those beliefs are at stake.

Dance: Theo is able to follow choreography, either to copy a choreographed dance that others have done, or to make his own by rearranging the steps. Standard stuff, but he picks up this kind of information with surprising quickness. This skill has also given him a reasonably fit body and better than average flexibility. It's still within the scope of human ability, however.
Physical Fitness: Due to his dancing skills, Theo's body is in near-peak shape for a young man his age. His stamina and flexibility are his greatest assets, though while he's still pretty strong, it's nowhere near the realm of the supernatural.
Acute Manual Dexterity: Theo's hands are dextrous enough to pass a coin back and forth over the backs of his fingers without dropping it, quickly create cat's cradle formations, or contact juggle. This skill encompasses other tasks as well; these are merely some examples of what he can do.
Singing: Theo has learned to sing and has been training on and off since he was about ten or so. He's by no means the best in the world, but he has a respectable vocal range and fairly good control over his voice.
Spatial Awareness: Theodore has a very keen awareness of where in physical space his body is in relation to other objects and/or people around him. This is handy for a dancer, but it's even more handy for dodging attacks! However, without his Stand's assistance, Theo's limited to normal human response time (average human response time is between 150 milliseconds and 200 milliseconds).
Situational Awareness: Theo's learning how to take stock of his environment and memorize the hazards around him. Through utilizing his Stand, he can map out an area and memorize its basic layout, and form plans based on those environmental features.
Mental Multitasking: Whether it's due to his Stand or just a natural ability of his, Theo is able to keep track of several different trains of thought at once. Handy when his Stand needs to patch someone up, while he's "listening" to his webs for approaching danger, and making armor for allies, etc.
Connected: Thanks to his Stand's ability to pick up on events via the webs, Theo tends to be scarily aware of things that are going on in his general area. This usually doesn't extend any further than the radius of one neighborhood, and tends to need a few days to kick in.

For being a street kid, Theo seems a pretty jolly sort. He doesn't seem to let things bother him if he can't change them, and he's just trying to make the best of his life. In his situation, that's all he can really do. Having gone from rags, to riches, and then back to rags again, he understands that the good times are just as transient as the bad. But that doesn't make him the sort that believes everything in life is pointless. Quite the opposite — for Theo, the meaning of life is whatever we ascribe to it. He believes that the good has to be enjoyed when it's provided, because that can go away just as easily; if all we do is experience the bad, while never enjoying anything good that comes our way, we've been the architects of our own "pointless" existence.
Theo's early childhood was pretty hard, with his mother being a poor single mother. She did what she could to make his childhood as pleasant as possible, but there wasn't much she could do about being poor. The lessons he learned about saving and being frugal stayed with him even after his stepfather came into his life. He still lives by them, and it's probably at least partially this that gives him the ability to live so well even through his homeless period.
When dealing with others, Theo is upbeat and happy, but there's always an odd aloofness in his countenance that's hard to place. It's there, and one can feel it, but it's hard to pin down exactly what about him exudes it. He has a regal bearing somehow, even when he's dressed like a street kid. Those who know his origins may be slightly unnerved, because they may realize it: that's a tiny bit of Dio they're seeing in his bearing. But it doesn't come off just as 'me above others'; it feels similar to someone who, while dealing with those who should by all rights be his inferiors, a magnanimous and charitable attitude.
While it generally doesn't seem too noticeable, Theo's aloofness CAN sometimes make him seem detached from the rest of the world, as though he's watching the events play out in front of him on a stage rather than being a part of them. This is partially because he's a Stand user — they tend to have the same detached air. But part of it is that regal aloofness that he possesses, as though everybody's on the stage and he's the only person sitting in the audience. That's both good and bad — while things may not affect him as deeply, sometimes he can't connect as well to people who look beyond his upbeat charm.
Theo is indeed quite charming, and knows how to make people like him, whether just on a person-to-person level or how to flirt and charm people romantically. When dealing with others, he knows how to make them feel like what they're saying is the most important thing in the world that anyone has ever said. And he also knows how to make a girl feel like he's an old-timey prince in a fairy tale, and she is his Princess. Which really doesn't do him much good, to be honest, because… well, he's not interested in women.
There's no easy way to say this. Theo is gay. At 17, he's only just starting to realize this — he still has the view that being gay is somehow "abnormal", and will be looking for "reasons" for it. Even in these "enlightened" times, there's going to be an adjustment period, until he comes to grips with this aspect of himself. It won't get addressed in everyday life, nor will it get brought up regularly. But it deserves mention because it will likely cause him to get defensive if someone questions him regarding a girlfriend, or about his love life.
It takes a certain kind of person to want to be a dancer. Agnes de Mille, an early 20th century ballerina and actor, once said that maintaining a dancer's body was so grueling and taxing that "unless a certain satisfaction is derived from the disciplining and the punishing, the pace could not be maintained". Thusly, Theo is… kind of a glutton for punishment in some ways, since he continues despite all the problems. This carries over into many of the other aspects of his life too, though it manifests itself in an unwillingness to give up, no matter how many times he fails.
Theo is… sliiiiightly freaked out about his new abilities. Particularly the fact that there's a horde of metal spiders apparently IN HIS MOUTH! Is he cursed? Possessed?! Though he's not above using it to his advantage. If he's going to get saddled with this trouble, he might as well use it to better his life, right? Though the reason it caused him to leave home is that, well, he truly loves his parents, and doesn't feel like he should be trying to saddle them with his problems. Particularly his mother — she's been through enough, she doesn't need to have to deal with his "issues", too.
Overall, though, Theo is quintessential "nice guy", through a thin mask of aloofness. For all his happiness and charm, he doesn't let people too close most of the time, as he realizes he's different from the population. He doesn't have it as bad as some, though, and he refuses to let the bad things in life drag him down for too long.

Close Your Head!: Like a mage's need to use trigger or control words, this is not something Theo can overcome with any kind of force of will. To manifest his Stand, Theo requires that his mouth be allowed to open, because the energy that his Stand forms from does indeed exit his body through his mouth.
Transmit Damage: While Theo doesn't take damage if a single one of the swarm is defeated, if the whole swarm of spiders is damaged, he will receive that damage. If the whole swarm is defeated, he can die, depending on how much damage the swarm took.
Turn A Blind Eye: While Theo can see through Spin Doctors's eyes, doing this leaves him open to attack; while he's looking through the eyes of Spin Doctors, he's unable to use his own body's senses, and may not be able to detect threats near him.
Range Increment: Spin Doctors's range is about 65 feet, or 20 meters. That is quite long for a Stand, but when either Theo or any of his Stand parts is separated from the other further, the parts of the Stand outside that range disappear completely.
Underage: Theo is currently 17, thus he is underage by US standards. He may not vote, drink, smoke, or be his own guardian without special permission.
DIOOOOOO!: Theo is a direct descendant of Dio, by way of Jonathan Joestar, who Dio hijacked the body of shortly after the latter's death. Though Dio is currently dead, his followers remain. Being of direct descent from Dio places him on these followers' radars in a big way. He might be called upon to join their cause, and Theo and/or his family run the risk of being threatened or hurt by those followers to force his cooperation. It also could cause people who would otherwise be his allies to distrust him, particularly if those potential allies ran afoul of Dio in the past.
Lacking In Melee: Spin Doctors is a long-range Stand — a swarm of small spiders isn't strong or durable enough to stop opponents from attacking Theo in melee range — and its usefulness suffers in short range. Thus when things get up close and personal, Theo can't effectively utilize his powers to their fullest extent, since the opponent(s) is/are too close for Theo to get enough time to react. Spinning those threads and weaving them into something useful doesn't happen instantaneously, after all; it definitely doesn't happen fast enough to pre-empt a punch from three feet away.

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