teal
about
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tl;dr: their story doesn't make sense. i'm still working on it.
- He and Seal originated from a single human. They're different parts of what the original person was.
- Teal technically embodies the original human's childhood imaginary friend, aspirations, dreams, ideal self and all that.
- A flashy loudmouth with a good-spirited sense of humor. Highly appreciates the art of puns.
- Very academically intelligent, he moved to a school with more open education opportunities at the end of their freshman year. Not an IB kid but definitely 100% an AP kid.
- Pretty weak physically, the most he can do is carry his textbooks. Absolutely no match for Seal when it comes to arm wrestling.
- He "met" Seal when he was 15.
- The original human made an unfortunate contract with a demon (not Micah) in form of a wish at the age of 14 that lead to their soul and consciousness being split into 2 separate entities.
- Side note: A lot of the demons mentioned in this universe occupy themselves with manipulating the idea of humans' physical lives
- Although Teal and Seal share some specific physical traits with the original human, their general appearances (voice range, mannerisms, speaking habits, how they carry themselves, hair color, eye color) are different.
- They were kept away from one another until they had both regained mental stability.
- Most if not all of Teal's past memories of themselves, before he met Seal, were fabricated as a simple basis for later memory formation.
- His fabricated memories were of them growing up in a forest just outside of a town, adopted and raised by an elderly couple he lovingly called his grandparents. How to read, write, climb trees, tell what kind of beetles and reptiles show up in what season, everything they've ever known has been taught to him by his grandparents. They nearly lost their life by thieves and a fire on his 15th birthday, but instead he lost his home and grandparents. He was admitted to a hospital to recover from injuries, during hospitalization, police investigation could only scavenge some documents and a few physical items that were largely unimportant. They found out then about a relative of some sorts (Seal) living in the city.
- Met Seal and the demon responsible after becoming stable enough. He did not take the truth well initially, but they had no choice other than to slowly accept their circumstances. Teal had no home to go back to, never had.
- After meeting Seal, he spent the next couple of years accepting and coping with the fact that everything that he thinks he knows is fake. The human mind is a flawed one that can be easily tampered with.
- During these years, the duo came Seal-and-Teal: two parts of a whole. They built their identities off of that single concept to ground themselves in this "new reality". But as Teal finishes piecing the puzzle of his past together, he starts thinking about the future. Seal and Teal may have been a singular person in the beginning, they're two different living, breathing bodies now. Two can't go back to being one. And even if there was a chance, Teal wouldn't want to bet on it. He's started to think of the two of them as Seal and Teal, just two people living their own lives.
- Teal already believes that the two of them are already becoming different people. They've already formed aspirations that are completely separate from the other.
- Seal and Teal share similar lines of thought, so they understand each other fairly well. But recently, they've been getting into small disagreements more.
- Despite everything he's still a very smiley and generally happy kid!
- He still treasures Seal a lot, regardless of whatever conflicts the two are currently going through.
relationships
- best friend, comrade, partner in crime and suffering, the only one that can appreciate the genius behind their (bad) jokes: seal
- "xyn": "xyn"
- acquaintances: theo, micah