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[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; line-height:13px;"]theo mckenzie — i'm just young enough to still believe, still believe, but young enough not to know what to believe in
— theodosia alexandra mckenzie was born on the fourteenth of january in 2003 to alexandra agbe and david kassab in ann arbor, michigan. both her parents were seniors at the university of michigan — alexandra was an english major working as an ra in a freshman dorm while david was a biochem major. when theo was born, alexandra and david hadn't spoken for almost six months, and so the only person there when theo was born was morgan mckenzie, the freshman alexandra had "adopted" earlier that year. alexandra died almost immediately after theo was born, and her last wish was that morgan take theo.
— morgan named theo. he gave her her middle name because it was her mother's name, and he had just read a book about aaron burr the day before and thought theodosia would be a pretty name for a girl if he ever had a daughter.
— theo was the campus baby until morgan graduated. the sight of morgan walking to class with theo napping in the kangaroo carrier strapped to his chest was pretty common. his sophomore computer graphics professor is actually her godmother, and every time morgan came to her class, she would ask him to bring theo so she could teach the class with theo resting on her hip. she even visits at christmas.
— theo and morgan moved to syracuse, new york a few months after he graduated, when theo was four. they've lived there, in the same house for eleven years. at this point, it's covered with every school picture theo has ever taken and participation certificates and awards from things she doesn't even remember entering.
— she took her first dance class when she was three. technically, it wasn't even a dance class — it was her being babysit by one of the dance students morgan was friends with and toddlering her way through an intensive contemporary routine because the instructor thought she was adorable. she's been dancing ever since, but now she's switching from dance to cheer because she thinks cheer is cooler. it's worked out for her, as she's one of four sophomores on her school's varsity cheer team.
— she's an only child and it shows. she grew up being given pretty much anything she wanted, except the pony she begged morgan for when she was six, so she was definitely spoiled. she's not particularly rude — she mostly just gets very frustrated when things don't go her way, or when she's in a group project and no one does any work because she did all of it herself. it's just that earth sign energy,
— the minute she got a twitter, she started making white people jokes. she doesn't mean them, because she loves morgan, but she thinks they're absolutely hilarious. she makes fun of morgan for not being able to dance or season food all the time — and she says that his inability to season food is why she insists they cook dinner together, just so she can make sure everything is properly seasoned, but they both know it's because she loves doing stuff with her dad.
— her bedtime stories when she was a kid were all of the books her mom recommended to theo — think shakespeare plays and obscure 20th century literature — and she and her mother even share a favorite author. she's a lot more like her mother than she knows, even down to the way she looks at morgan when they're arguing and she thinks she's right.
— because of her biological dad, she's half-iranian, but it's not exactly something she thinks about too much. she just assumed her dad had died, like her mom, and so she's never given it much thought. she knows she's not white, though, and words can't even explain how many books and how many seminars morgan went to about how to raise a black child when you're white.
— theo is pretty persistent, enough that she got morgan to let her have not one, but two dogs. both are newfies, but buddy is almost twelve years old and kiki is a little under four months old. theo doesn't have a favorite, but if she did, it would probably be buddy. he slobbers everywhere, but he's not a nibbler like kiki is. she has amare, too, but she pulled on amare's tail too much as a kid and now he doesn't like her very much.
— she calculated morgan's birthchart once and now she reads their horoscopes for the day/week every morning at breakfast.
— she hasn't cracked or shattered a phone screen ever in her entire life. she's only ever gotten a new phone because it was gift or she dropped her last phone in water, which happened about twice. both times she was trying to throw a pool party on snap.
— she's very protective of morgan, meaning that when he gets not one, but two boyfriends, she goes into full protective daughter mode — including, but not limited to, flinging food at them at dinner and yelling "get outta my house!" like she pay bills there, setting traps that only seem to work on morgan and blatantly telling them they're ugly.
— has exactly twelve s'well water bottles scattered around various locations in her house. she has one in her cheer bag, one in her backpack, two in the fridge, and the other eight are god knows where.
— she's not a spoiled brat by any means — she volunteers at a woman's shelter downtown and teaches women there how to use shit like excel and google sheets to help them get good paying jobs, and she works at her city's library.