Theo’s throat was dry, every thud of his heartbeat seemed to make his hands shake and his vision waver.

He’s not drugged, right?

He’d never been more intimately familiar with the television itself.  The shape and color of the TV set, the proportion of the screen to the outer frame, the little border of silver around the very edges, and the ‘Starry’ brand name logo at the very bottom.

I guess that’s what happens when you stare vacantly at it for five minutes, trying to distract yourself from something else.

He suspected it would be ingrained in his memory for the rest of his life.

Jeez.

Seriously, if this turns out to be a trigger event somehow… I mean, he is Kaiser’s son, if I’m not hugely mistaken. As a second generation parahuman, he could have a much milder trigger event than others.

Then again, that might already have happened.

Which might just be a very short span of time. 

How so?

You planning on spontaneously combusting in that seat?

Theo clutched the remote control in both hands.

Theo! Now that’s a character we haven’t seen in a while! How’s it going?

I have a feeling we’ll explore his feelings about Kaiser’s death a bit.

For five minutes, he hadn’t taken his eyes off the TV set.

But he’s not really watching, is he.

For those same five minutes, the TV set had been off.

Yeah. I mean, I wasn’t expecting it to be off, but still.

“Who’s a pretty baby?  Who’s a pretty little girl?  You are! Yes you are!”

Hi, Kayden.

This is the leader of one of the city’s top threats, right here.

I wonder how Theo feels about that. We’ve barely met him, so I have no idea how he feels about Kaiser, or the Empire, or anything they stood for. Maybe he feels like he should’ve ended up as Kaiser’s rightful heir, or something like that. Or maybe he disapproves of Kaiser’s actions and resents that Kayden has ended up with the mantle of continuing where he left off.

If that is even the case. Several of Purity’s subordinates were people who had left the Empire, just like her, because of Kaiser’s manipulation. Maybe the Pure are actively distancing themselves from Kaiser’s methods. Maybe Theo dislikes that?

Basically what I’m saying is that this could go in a lot of directions.

Incidentally, if I were to be right in my guess from the intro post about the POV characters being Fellowship recruits, that would require Theo to a) have powers, and b) be of interest to the Slaughterhouse Nine, presumably due to brutality. I suppose it’s also possible that they’re after Purity, but unless her time in the Empire has changed her quite a lot, I don’t think she’d accept.