Ted Havens

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Edward Havens is the Worold left over when a man lived through a time-loop of a thousand years.

Personality

Calm collected. Is working With Bristow as part of a greater goal.<ref name=":0">Depending on one’s choice of definitions, Ted was chosen as a scapegoat or a champion. When a primeval predator encroached on a sleepy PEI town, a higher power of unknown origin settled on him as its means of dealing with the problem, a boy with no career prospects who sometimes hunted and fished. He was pointed in the beast’s direction, encouraged, and was summarily devoured.

Ted then, as he tells it, saw a bright light and heard screaming. He emerged from his mother’s loins and landed in her shit, an unfortunate byproduct of some childbirths that nurses normally attempt to clean up in a timely manner. He was wet, pink, and lacking in muscle coordination, and lived out thirty-five years of his life as an affable if impatient genius. The primeval beast emerged, attacked his town, and he was told to fight it. He drove in the other direction until midnight, blacked out, and saw a bright light as he emerged from his mother’s loins, landing amid her shit.

There is no telling how many times Ted lived out his life, but he became intimately familiar with his town, he eventually found his courage and practiced, and collected weapons with a mind to defeating the reptile from an age before things had form or easy label. He suffered ego death, found himself again, honed his abilities, traveled the world to learn from the best people possible, and became Aware of many things in the world.

He did eventually become a competent enough warrior to slay the beast, rallying the people in town as allies and armed forces, but the damage was so severe that the town was wiped from the maps and collective consciousness, to minimize questions.

Ted Havens moved west, lacking a sense of purpose now that his great journey was done, at unease with the universe and paranoid that he would be pulled into another great quest that would test him on so deep a level. He ended up discovering the Sargent Ave Hall apartment complex, and took up residence there, where he remains a resident advice-giver and helping hand. When Bristow is away or sick, Ted takes over the duties around the place, and many residents prefer it when he does. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref>

He does fear ever having to go through the same experience again, the thousands of years in the loop having divorced Ted from his original self.

Relationships

Bristow

Received critical aid that let Ted free himself. Is well aware of Bristow's ambitions and goes along with them for now. He went with Bristow when his landlord visited the Blue Heron Institute.

Marie Durocher

Was never able to really meet and talk with her, possibly due to how his cycle was structured.<ref>“I know about them too. In some ways, better than you do. If you would like to call it a draw now, we can excuse it by saying the esteem and power your god holds reaches to deeper places and times. I wouldn’t have this knowledge if he wasn’t strong. I came prepared.”

“I’m not sure that’ll fly, Ted.”

“Sit, let’s wait for students to arrive and for dinner to be served. I’ll tell you things about your tools that you might not know.”

“My mentor won’t like that.”

“She’s been hinting at her interest in my story. We can pacify her if I let her ask some questions.”

“I think you’re wildly overestimating how easy she is to pacify.”

“I might be. In the course of my journey, there were many people important enough that I came to know them intimately in the course of my journey, many who… well, my memory isn’t perfect. I can’t recall everyone I met. And then there were some who were like your mentor.”

“Different?”

“Deliberately out of my reach.” - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.a</ref>

Alexander Belanger

The man tried to take Ted as a prize.

Reputation

Several groups were interested in getting in contact with Ted.

Appearance

He dresses cheaply but his confidence makes it work for him.<ref>By contrast, Ted Havens looked like he’d picked up his clothes at a thrift shop and cut his own hair, but he wore it well. He looked confident and at ease enough that she imagined he could visit a red carpet event and not get called out for wearing a decade-old t-shirt and drawstring hemp slacks. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.7</ref> His back is a mess of scars.<ref>She eyed Shellie, who had waltzed into the room from the side door, and through the window she could see Ted, who was outside, exercising in a Tai chi type style. He had a big mess of gouges on his back that looked like they had puckered and maybe even gotten infected before scarring over. He didn’t seem bothered by it. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.4</ref>

He gives off a wise, older-than-he-seems vibe.<ref>“Okay,” Lucy said. “Ted Havens. Got caught in some time loop. Relived his life a bunch. To fight some massive monster. Ended the loop, walked out with a few centuries of life experience.”

“Hmm,” Yadira made a sound. “He has that vibe. You see it with some Others. Wise, old.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.3</ref>

Abilities

His trials have left him exceedingly skilled and Karmically blessed, but unwilling to fight when unnecessary.<ref>General Notes: Alongside the Gilded Lily, one of the most powerful and problematic people in residence at Sargent Ave Hall, albeit for entirely different reasons. Ted is not only a man who enjoys the benefits of being technically Innocent, but he did enter into mortal combat with a creature larger than his hometown and strong enough to give all but the uppermost gods pause, and drove it off for another few centuries. The world-weary tend to have exceptional karma, either exceptionally good or bad, but almost always to a level and degree that surpasses what an ordinary person could achieve in a lifetime. Ted is one of these people, enjoying the karma of literal countless lifetimes well lived. When he does leave the complex, he does so because he believes it serves the greater good. This isn’t always or even often the case. - Bonus Material: Dossiers</ref> As an example of his wide and deep knowledge of many subjects: he has devised an antiseptic salve made from common Canadian plants.<ref>It was Ted, approaching from the direction of the field. The man who’d lived the first thirty-something years of his life countless times.

“You were bruised in the fight,” Ted spoke, looking at Lucy. “How are you now?”

“We’ll see, I guess.”

“I devised a salve made using some common leaves in Canadian woodlands. I see three of the ingredients here, and I’ve seen the fourth closer to the school. It helps to fight infection.”

“No thank you. I’m pretty sure it’s only bruises.”

“It should be,” Ted said. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.7</ref>

When fighting he is hyper-efficient and accurate.

Does not have perfect recall of all of his lives, having to discard some of what he experienced.<ref>

- Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.x</ref>

Despite his abilities, Bristow still valued two people higher than him.<ref name=IC>

Ted — Kevin — Shellie — Rae

They were surrounded by numbers, by markings. Arcs were drawn between cards, and notes were made beside the arcs. Respective to their names were cards and numbers. 3, 7, 13, 19. - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.a</ref>

Tools

He kept journals during his timeloop, that the Belanger Circle under Alexander later appropriated.<ref> - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.a</ref>

Chronology

The Timeloop

The Original Ted Havens is long gone. The seemingly endless rebirths have wiped him away leaving only the man that could drive off a primeval.

After the Loop

Was somewhat directionless after he gained his freedom.

Went with Bristow to the Blue Heron Institute. Was there when Alexander forswore Seth, being prepared to remove him, and escorted him off the property.<ref>“I object!” a girl raised her voice. “No way, no, this is bullcrap!”

It was one of the Tedds.

“Mr. Havens?” Bristow asked.

The big guy with the scar rose from his seat at the stage of the big classroom, and navigated the crowd as he approached. “Do you want me to deal with this girl or the headmaster?”

“I think virtually every parent of a child at this school would agree a teacher should be suspended for a time after forswearing a student, until things can be assessed.”
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Mr. Havens got close to Alexander. He reached out, and America Tedd smacked the hand away.
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[Alex] walked down the hall, back toward his office. Ted Havens followed. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.z</ref>

Based on advice from John Stiles he went traveling.<ref>

- Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.x</ref>

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