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Teo is a young lion/cat hybrid, who lives as one of three people in the same human body. While not 'multiple personalities' in the traditionally psychiatric sense, he isn't an imaginary friend, role playing character or 'fursona', either. He is a person, just a little different.

Sometimes described as an 'old soul', and definitely influenced by being a kitty, his age is a little difficult to pin down. While the human body is decidedly of age, Teo is just as certainly a child. People who know him have guessed his age relative to human children might be around 7 years old, though some of his insights may seem older, and his emotional development sometimes seems a little younger. His language skills shouldn't be held indicative of his age, as expressing himself in words has always been difficult for him, which may or may not have to do with being feline instead of human. He is quite capable of, and interested in handling many mature/grown-up concepts, in his own way.

His interests are varied, but tend to revolve around creative things, cozy things, social things or animal things. He likes to do things he can do himself in the body without a lot of assistance from his headmates, but being a quadrupedal, hands-less cat inside a bipedal human body makes it a little difficult for him to do things all by himself sometimes without working closely together with one of the other people in the body. He likes to help design and work on other crafts, and his particular affinity for gemstones, crystals and natural materials makes him adept at choosing jewelry materials. He likes snuggling with stuffed animals, and seems to be trying to collect every white lion toy ever made into a cozy family. He also collects shells and interesting rocks from the beach. Three of his favorite local-ish places to go are Disneyland, the beach, and the Aquarium of the Pacific, where he likes to watch the fish, particularly the brightly colored ones. Whether he likes watching them because they spark his artistic creativity or because cats like watching fish is unclear. His favorite vacation spot is to visit "the rock store" in Arizona.

Easily the most spiritual of the three, Teo is interested in auras, and has tended to see them around people, though only with 'inside vision', not with the body's eyes! He likes the different energies of different rocks and crystals, and loves to wear them, collect them, hold them, craft with them - anything with his 'rocks'! He isn't affiliated with any religion, but he does get curious about them, though he seems most comfortable with new age/pagan beliefs.

Teo is usually a very warm, giving, sensitive boy. Shy at first, he's very affectionate when he warms up to someone. He had an adoptive family of sorts a few years ago, who abandoned him, and he still feels the loss, though it has gotten easier with time. (He does find the themes of father-loss and brotherhood upsetting.) He really wants some new friends, though he often has a hard time getting along with other kids - maybe because he spends so much time sharing space and thoughts with two older people, or because of his old-soul thoughts, or conflicting child emotions. He'd like some adult, nurturing presences in his life, but is shy in trying to meet people, for fear they won't recognize him as a real, independent and capable person.

He can be contacted directly through AIM as TeoKitten, and generally prefers to communicate there, in real time. He is not especially diligent about responding to comments on his journal, though he does read them - the time between posting and commenting, combined with the system's time management, sometimes causes him to lose track of the conversation in comments - it is very rarely for any lack of interest or affection. If contacting him through AIM for the first time, please indicate that you saw his journal or introduce yourself, as there are spam-bots that contact the IM accounts of all system members from time to time, and it is now assumed that an unrecognized name that sends only "Hi" or "Hello" at first is spam.

Welcome to all friends and potential friends!

Update 05/12: For a long time, Teo's headmates have been doing a certain amount of censoring of what he posts about, not only to keep others from feeling uncomfortable, but because there has been some internal discomfort about it as well. The decision has been made that this is more damaging to Teo than first believed, and that his comfort with himself and the cultivation of a lack of shame for who he is and what he thinks about is far more important than anyone else's discomfort. Therefore, most of his posts are now friends-locked, but very few will be cut for anything. This is your trigger warning: Teo may talk about 'adult' concepts, including sex, even though he is a kitten (child). Conversely, please do not feel a need to 'protect' him from adult content in friended journals, as his system has traditionally been capable of handling this themselves.

[Bio written for him by a 'headmate', but all entries written by Teo. His headmates' journals may be found at shiftercat and fryll.]