This article is about a member of House Mongfish. For others in the lineage or other uses, see Mongfish (disambiguation).

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Theopholous DuMedd
Name	Theopholous "Theo" DuMedd
Occupation	Student, storyteller
Residence	formerly Castle Wulfenbach; currently Mechanicsburg
First Appearance	Volume II, page 32 - Calming panicked children ✣
Parents	Serpentina Mongfish (mother)
Relatives	Agatha Heterodyne, Zola Malfeazium (first cousins), Lucrezia Mongfish-Heterodyne (aunt), Demonica Mongfish (aunt), Lucifer Mongfish (grandfather)

"Pretty good. I've never heard that one before."

"I just made it up. You liked it? My favorites are the ones with the Heterodyne boys' dopey monsters—Punch and Judy."

Agatha and Theo ^[1]

Theopholous duMedd [pronounced doo-MEDD], or simply Theo, was formerly Head Boy among the Castle Wulfenbach students, and is a known Spark. He is well-liked, apparently for good reason, as he is a gifted storyteller and a genuinely nice guy.

When Agatha Clay winds up at the bottom of the social heap^[2] in the castle's school, Theo takes her part, just as he had previously done ✣ with a social nobody named Gil.^[3] Theo may have had a thing for Zulenna Luzhakna.^[4] It is Theo who leads the student expedition into the Baron's labs to peek at the hive engine, after which he is assigned grease trap cleaning duty of indefinite duration. When he is caught using that time to build a machine to do it for him, an unwise Lackya brings him before ✣ the Baron—in a lab where the Baron is about to cut into Othar Tryggvassen's brain, an image duMedd does not appreciate.

After aiding in ✣ Agatha's escape, Theo again encounters Othar and apparently lays another fine tale ✣ on him—one that features Agatha's family connection to the heroic Heterodyne Boys and what a big fan Theo is of Othar's exploits, but seems to overlook the fact that the Mongfish scion is a Spark himself ✣ .

A couple of months later, Theo resurfaces^[5] in Mechanicsburg, arm in proverbial arm with Sleipnir O'Hara.^[6][7] Their lingering distrust of Gil^[8] is resolved after they overhear him declare his intentions to help Agatha.^[9] Using the Heterodyne Device, Theo and Sleipnir rescue Gil from Vole's attempt to nab him.^[10]. With Zeetha, they accompany Gil into Castle Heterodyne and form part of his "pirate crew" for a short time,^[11] but are soon ✣ wandering the castle on their own ✣ .

He is was briefly menaced ✣ by his aunt in Agatha's body, who has expressed that she was never very fond of her sister. Uh oh.

He and Sleipnir have completed transferring Von Pinn to the devil dog. The danger involved tested their relationship and demonstrated how deeply each cares for the other. Theo's own parents died twelve years ago while fighting air pirates.^[12]

Theo is currently recuperating at Mamma Gkika's along with Sleipner; who by the way was particularly peeved ✣ when she realized that it was a brothel and not "just a beer house," before being knocked out by the ringing of the Doom Bell.

Outside world Edit

Professor Kaja Foglio has said that Theo's name was a joke based on his initial fate as a casualty during the exodus from Castle Wulfenbach^[13], but that they grew so fond of him that his life was spared. Apparently some one is now watching out for him, or Othar might have shot the little Spark back in Volume 5 ✣ .

References

1. ↑ Vol. 2 p. 51 ✣ Discussing the Dragon King of Mars
2. ↑ "It factors in ✣ family lineage, sparkiness, and some other nonsense.
3. ↑ Theo takes ✣ the revelation of Gil's parentage pretty hard.
4. ↑ Theo and Zul ✣
5. ↑ watching Gil parade through the streets ✣
6. ↑ Sleipnir "thinks she knows ✣ where the Eye of the Snake Eater is hidden."
7. ↑ Sleipnir will "carry the supplies" ✣ herself.
8. ↑ "We didn't entirely trust you." ✣
9. ↑ "You sounded like ✣ the Gil we used to know."
10. ↑ "Exactly how ✣ are we escaping?!"
11. ↑ "This is my crew!" ✣
12. ↑ Agatha H. novel p115
13. ↑ i.e. DOOMED! See Kaja's LJ