I apologize for my awful English.
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Male, adult, very kind, sometimes playful like a child, sometimes sad and unsociable. Favorite place in the forest is the cemetery. Sleeps in the grave. Talks to the dead. Gets nervous when someone jumps on tombstones. Quite religious.

Mother: Fernelescent
Foster father: Widmung
Brother (in past human life too): Eris



@ Fernelescent

I was inspired to create the character by the book "All Quiet on the Western Front". In human life, Saater was a very young boy. He was cheerful, friendly, kind, loyal and gentle. A little cowardly, but fearless in decisive moments. He wasn't aggressive at all. But he had to fight. In the war (not WW1, in our world there was no such war at all) all his comrades were killed. A bomb fell on his parents' house. Then death came for him. Before he died, Saater got tangled in the barbed wire, and hung on it for a very long time, wounded. He felt like a deer with its antlers tangled in a tree. When he woke up in the forest, he had no memory of what had happened to him in his human life. But his longing and sense of loss stayed with him. That is why Saater is often sad over unmarked graves and sleeps in a hole in the cemetery. The endless forest heals his soul. He loves jumping in the meadows with lilac flowers and butterflies, enjoys the serenity and sunlight and happily plays with kind deer and fawns, though melancholy and fatalism always nestle in his soul. Saater often walks alone. So he looks gothic. Saater loves to cuddle and hates any kind of fighting, but he can fight well. Especially when someone hurts his friends.

When it comes to Theodor-Phillip, it's important to separate what he *thinks* he is and what is actually going on.

He sees himself as this "Forest Merry Spirit", an eternal entity that possesses body after body and needs physical form as a vessel.
This is only a response to traumatic events he witnessed as a fawn. Many fawns lose their mothers at a young age, and Theo wasn't an exception. The picture of a dead doe he beloved shocked the guy, but he was still too little to proceed those feelings.
He just kinda... moved on. Surviving was his top priority, and slowly but surely the grief was supressed. That's when the whole Forest Spirit thing started.
Instead of considering himself an orphan on his own, Theo decided to be optimistic and say he's a child of the Forest. That is also the reason why he sees Forest as a female. Being her ambassador gives Brother Theo a meaning in life, which he otherwise would've lost long time ago. "What do you do if you *don't* make everyone happy all the time", right?
Of course he does not possess multiple bodies: it's just a dissosiation from fatigue he gets from time to time (it's not easy dancing that much!). He might even realize that. But what harm does that little play pretend make? So what if it's not real -- it sooths him and then he does good deeds to others.

In the end does ot really matter if you're a Forest Spirit or just some random deer?

NOTE:I saw some others making bios for their deer, so I decided to hop in! Pls bear in mind that this is largely a WIP, and may be messy or inaccurate at times ^^;

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