#devon kaiser

Ooh!! I think you’re going to like Devon!! (Good choice by the way)

Devon has the image of a huge flirtatious dork. He’s charming, good-looking, and he uses that to his own advantage by asking his many friends and conquests for “favours” because he knows they won’t refuse him anything. On the flipside however he’s super afraid of commitment and responsibility and while he has a lot of friends he’s not close to any of them and he’s really lonely. Most of his charisma is a façade he creates for himself because he’s actually reaaaaally insecure and timid but he sees uncertainty and hesitation as flaws and he wants to hide them as much as possible so he can seem pristine and shit in other people’s eyes. He has no idea how to deal with emotional attachment and while the idea of a close friend or lover scares him he also kind of longs for it??? It’s a bit weird.

His story ties in really specifically with the previous generation’s ending (would that count as spoiling???) and long story short he lost his only parent in a drafting of Elementals literally sent to war by obligation, and ended up in the social service system to be adopted. Coincidentally around that time Sam and Ian are considering having a family (partly because they’re looking for a way to distract themselves from horrible horrible things, partly because Ian’s an adorable little angel who would do great as a parent and Sam’s not one to refuse him that), and the whole misfit image kind of resonates deep in Sam’s unwanted baby heart, and Devon is immediately adopted by them.

And while he gets along well with Ian and his new baby brother Garrett (another adopted kid, Moira’s son), his relationship with Sam is fairly strained because of Sam’s way of coping with bad things, which involves him being a distant asshole and leaving most of the children’s care to Ian while he skulks around town aimlessly. Because of that Devon doesn’t really know how to reach out to his dick dad and makes himself appear spoiled with his charismatic persona so that maybe he’ll be noticed and truly cared for like he deserves to be. Who knows it that will ever actually work.