#theseus|character

Cecil: Why does it seem like every time you talk to us, you end up talking about the weather? Is your life so unimaginably dull that you can't think of any events in your life to describe that might be more interesting than the weather? Let's think of something for you to talk about other than the weather. I mean, we barely even know anything about you, other than where you live.

Cecil: Let's start there. What do you do for a living?

Some gifs for the wtnv characters most likely to come up in my fics and my hcs!

@coronaryqueer | Please understand this is A Can Of Worms, and all can be poked and prodded @singthesongsofsin

Hellaina: She’s my scary snake lady! She’s Vox’s PA (though in truth more akin to a COO). Technically he owns her soul, but she thinks she got the much better deal out of it. She died in the early 1980s of a heart attack induced, in large part, but the whole… 1980s work culture. She is, all things considered, quite happy down in Hell! (She also despises Valentino).

Dia: Hellaina’s wife, and regular in cannibal town. She runs a butcher shop, because her actual skills in pathology aren’t… super useful here. In life she sold organs on the black market, and is a special sort beloved freak. Definitely some vibes of pastel whimsi-goth in that girl.

Jayden: Velvette’s PA. He was created to fulfill a joke originally. Vox has a snake PA, and one of my writing partners hc that Val also had a snake PA, co clearly Vel needed one too. He’s very young, like, died in the last five years and was an influencer in life (and still is in hell) sort of young.

Adelard: OLD. He was in the seminary until he had a bit of a crisis of faith, left to become a healer during the early 1300s, and then a plague doctor when that all broke out. He killed a lot of his patients because it was kinder for that than to die slowly of the plague. In Hell he’s the closest thing to a librarian, and definitely a bit of an eccentric! He collects a lot of the newly fallen.

Belphegor: lord of Sloth, narcoleptic, and an idealist. Probably going to quit at some point to create purgatory, or just… somewhere for the vast majority of the dead to go who weren’t great people but don’t deserve Hell either.

Astaroth: Bel’s best friend, another fallen Angel. Tara spends most of her time on Earth, acting as the classic deal demon. She has a fwb deal with Mephistopheles (yes the one from Faust), and also as Bel’s inter-ring liaison a lot of the time.

Metatron: the Voice of God! (And heretical on my part). He was the first thing ever created, before the universe itself was, and he, God, and Asherah were the primordial polycule… at least until she went to sleep. God did too, some 1400 years ago, so Metatron has been keeping Heaven and Earth from realizing God is MIA by acting in his stead.

As for the wtnv OCs!!!

The new one is Nezha. They’re a glassblower from DB, they’re tiers of punk, they created and then destroyed the stained glass of the Smiling God in DB’s Joyous Congregation. (I have more hc about that, but shhh, the fic will be released in a few days). Their Double was Theseus’s best friend until her death— weird magical inter-city coven they were all a part of.

Speaking of Theseus! He’s the NV weatherman. He’s quite chill, all things considered. He was part of the magical intercity coven (where he met Ted the Weatherman (mentioned! And therefore canon!) from DB. He’s known about the weird effect of the towns for aaaages, but as no one ever asks the weatherman anything, he’s never volunteered any information. After the coven fell apart, he went to uni for meteorology. In an as yet unfinished fic, he becomes Maddy’s (Kevin’s sister) best friend.

Mikhail and Matvei: a set of doubles who hate one anotber. They both went to school outside the Desert. But whereas Mikhail is a relatively good person, he studies time, Matvei is EVIL. Matvei was a StrexCorp enforcer, Matvei is now working on the Sandstorm project. Matvei carved out one of his own eyes in a show of devotion to the Smiling God, and is a hardcore loyalist even without drugs.

Speaking of! Helios is the Smiling God! …sort of. Helios created DB and then just sort of… forgot about it. He came back to find Strex and is now masquerading a priest to figure out how to fix it. He’s also the Greek pantheon Helios, same dude. In the same unfinished fic, he’s Jocelin’s (Kevin’s nibling) biological father.

Maddy and Jocelin! Kevin’s sister and no king respectively. They would be Abby and Janice’s doubles. Maddy wanted to be a botanist, as after their mother took off, ended up raising Kevin. They’re still quite close in large part because of Jo, and because there is no double of Steve. Jocelin, as a child, has a sun allergy Strex ‘fixed’. They’re like… 13 right now, but getting into acting! After Strex was defeated, they were some of the first to move to NV.

AESTHETIC     HEADCANON     MUSIC     CHARACTER

• QUICK STATS •

NAME :: Theseus Noble NICKNAME :: Theo, the Weatherman FANDOM :: Welcome to Night Vale GENDER :: male ORIENTATION :: bisexual, polyamorous BIRTHDAY :: November 9th, 1994 ZODIAC :: Scorpio SHIPS :: /Cecil Palmer, /Lance, chemistry

• BIOGRAPHY •

Theseus Noble was born and raised in Night Vale, like his parents, and theirs. His childhood was, like most people’s, a rather typical experience, his teenage years however, were a more complex thing. When he was fifteen, his best friend found an old book of magic in her attic, and for the next year and a half, the two of them would meet up by the train tracks between their houses, after the sun had gone down. 

Small spells-- for luck, or happiness, or sleep were easy to do. Sigils written in sharpie marker, Latin incantations recited from pixelated photos of spell book pages. And for a while, they were content, but his best friend wanted more than that, wanted something more exciting than the dispersal of bad luck. The thing about a powerful summoning is that neither of them were prepared for it, and more can go wrong than with spells with low stakes. 

The old spell book out in front of them, the two of them standing on the edge of a proper salt circle. Theseus has never been certain what exactly went wrong, except that there was a flash of light, and then he was lying on the ground, with a ringing in his ears, and his friend had wide eyes and talked about some great thing she’d seen in the flash of light.

Neither of them ever told any one what had happened that night and their friendship soon fell apart, her hunting down answers, and he decided that he’d seen enough of magic and mystery. Immediately after graduation, he started a bachelor’s of science at the community collage.

Now, Theseus works at the radio station as their weatherman. At least once a week, he has to try and drag the weather balloons down from the station roof from where they’ve escaped, and his office is a mess of [redacted] reports, and actual weather readings. He hasn’t done any spell work in almost a decade, and most days, he doesn’t miss it, taking more comfort from the sensible numbers and readouts of the weather.

• PHYSICAL •

FACE CLAIM :: Kendall Harrison HEIGHT :: 5′11″ BUILD :: lean VISUAL AGE :: 27 ACTUAL AGE :: 27 HAIR :: black EYES :: dark brown SPECIES :: human HAND :: ambidextrous GLASSES :: no IDENTIFYING :: Most people, Theseus included most days, would say the dreadlocks. He’s had them since he was in his early teens. 

• MENTAL •