Brief Overview
Theodore Teddy
Havelock is the second and last child of Elsa Havelock and Fabian Havelock, and the younger brother of Farley Havelock. He was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, lived his entire life in the city, and died in the influenza outbreak of 1918 at the age of nine.
Childhood & Death
The younger of the two Havelock boys, Teddy was a sickly child from birth. Doted on and over-protected by his neurotic mother, Teddy idolized his older brother a great deal and lived in fear of his unpredictable and abusive father. Fabian despised Teddy for his physical weakness and saw in his younger son a great deal of wasted potential. Teddy, sensing this, withdrew from Fabian and avoided him whenever possible. He took great joy in drawing pictures and reading, and snuck out to feed alley cats with scraps he saved from the kitchen table when his health permitted such activity.
Although Teddy didn't live long enough to realize even a fraction of its potential, he possessed some inkling of magical talent and occasionally caught glimpses into the space between worlds out of the corner of his eye. His dreams were often plagued with visions of potential apocalyptic futures (attributed by the adults in his life to an over-active imagination), which led Elsa to semi-frequently dose him with sweetened laudanum before bed in the name of helping him sleep. His drawings often featured endless black spirals and abstract shapes of a somehow discomfitting geometry.
Teddy was extremely sad when his older brother ran away to Canada to enlist in the Great War following their father's death, and—alone with his unstable and increasingly nervous mother—his condition began to deteriorate in earnest. This deterioration became incredibly rapid when he contracted influenza in the spring of 1918. He died of the illness a mere month before Farley returned home to New York City after the end of the war.
Undeath
Following Farley's romantic involvement with Moira O'Farrell (whom he later married), Farley learned about the existence of magic that could be harnessed for human purposes. He asked Moira to summon Teddy's ghost for a brief time so he could say goodbye to his younger brother. However, the summoning went drastically awry, leading the boy's spirit to be bound—seemingly eternally—to Farley's dog tags. Moira doesn't know how to free him.
From his new home
in the dog tags, Teddy whispers secrets and advice beyond his lived years to his older brother. He is unable to remember his name, and seems eternally lost, confused, and scared. It is only through the combined efforts of Farley and Moira's children (Jasper, Sylvia, and Matthias) that Teddy's spirit is finally put to rest decades after its initial summoning.