The Neighbor's History
When Theodore was a child, he always played around in his house with his best friend Ike Gershowitz. Theodore's parents, Roger and Adelle Peterson, were popular meteorologists and built a weather station. Theodore used to sometimes go to the tunnels beneath the station with Ike. The town eventually became suspicious of Theodore's parents and what they were working on. Sometime in the late sixties to the late seventies, Roger and Adelle mysteriously disappeared.
The Secrets of Bosco Bay
In 1984, Theodore was working on a new park in Bosco Bay. He was testing a new attraction he was working on, The Pharaoh’s tomb, which was an egyptian-themed ride. A boy named Joe snuck in and was caught in the corner of a track in the boulder room while it was being tested, and was killed. The park manager at Bosco Enterprises claimed he was never satisfied with the ride’s design. Theodore tried to cover it up, since the manager did not accept liability and the blame would be put on Theodore instead. The park was later demolished after Ferry Farm Funzone, Theodore’s next park, was opened.
The Fernweh Welt and the Peterson family's Bad Blood
In 1991, Theodore's park in Germany was closed after an accident happened on a Flume Ride resulting in the death of four teenagers, who drowned. The Peterson family quickly left for the United States and moved to Raven Brooks, Missouri. The house they moved into, 910 Friendly Court, belonged to Theodore's parents. Theodore joked about taking his son's new room since it used to be his. Theodore set up an office in the basement and started working down there. He noticed his son's unique drawing talent which intrigued him. A little while later, the Golden Apple corporation asked Theodore to create an amusement park for them, which he agreed to. Theodore reunited with Ike Gershowitz and they ate pizza for dinner at the Peterson's house. However, Theodore and Ike got into an altercation, after which Ike was made to leave the property. Ike went missing after that. His wallet was found in a tunnel.
The Mystery of the Puzzle Master and the Grave Mistake
The Golden Apple Amusement Park opened, and a girl named Lucy Yi was in the front cart of the Rotten Core Roller Coaster. Due to the lack of safety features and the work of Gordon Cleave, she fell into a tree and died. Not long after, two detectives from Germany came over to the United States and attempted to apprehend Theodore for the accident in Germany, but they failed. After Ike's wallet was found, Theodore stole it and worked in the basement for weeks. The wallet contained pieces to a secret device in it, which Ike took from Theodore's parents. Theodore made his own device with it, and it worked just like any of the other devices. It was able to give the user good luck but gave the people without it bad luck. It was stolen by a society of humans in bird costumes called "Forest Protectors" before Theodore was able to give it to the puzzle master, who was going to keep it safe. The Forest Protectors used it in a ritual when a storm started and gave the town bad luck. However, it didn't seem to work, due to two of them, Gordon Cleave and Dale Tapps being arrested and one losing their job not more than a day later. During this ritual, the Lucy Yi ceremony was also going on, and the Golden Apple Amusement Park burned down, causing the forest around it to catch alight and the tunnels near where the rituals happened to fill with smoke and collapse.
The Missing Pieces
Looking
In 1995, Theodore's son befriended the kid across the street, Nicky Roth. One time Nicky came over for a sleepover and went into rooms he wasn't supposed go in while looking for a glass of water and Theodore spooked him back to Aaron's room. Later, Theodore and his wife left to go to a store in their car. On the way there, they collide with a pizza truck. Theodore climbs out of his overturned vehicle to seek help while Diane who is severely injured remains in the wreckage. Theodore later waits in the hospital until she eventually dies of cardiac arrest. In the weeks following Diane's death, Aaron becomes very depressed and accidentally pushes his sister off the roof of the house while playing a game. Mya is buried in the backyard by Theodore. At Diane's funeral, Theodore waited inside the house and had a nervous breakdown. He subsequently locks Aaron in the basement to keep him from harm's way, and becomes extra unhinged.
Nicky's Waking Nightmare and the Neighbor's Buried Secrets
Locking the Basement Door.
Theodore was searching the remains of the Golden Apple Amusement Park for scrap parts for his basement. He told the town that Aaron and Mya were with an Aunt Lisa in Minnesota. One day, while chopping up meat, he realized Nicky was in his house, due to the piece of tape left on the front door that moved. He walked up to the closet he suspected Nicky was in but his doorbell rang and it distracted him. Diane's phone book was stolen by Nicky and Nicky's friend bribed a mailman to ring the doorbell to save him. Theodore angrily went back to his work. Later, he entered Nicky's house and took back his wife's phone book. Half a year later, Theodore tried to frame Nicky by setting up random scenarios, and it worked. People weren't sure if Nicky was innocent, causing him to lose many of his friends. One night, Nicky entered Aaron's window, but Theodore figured out how he entered, and the next morning he chopped down the tree Nicky climbed.
Hello Neighbor
After a long time of working, Theodore realized Nicky broke into his basement. He relocks the door, trapping Nicky in. Using another entrance, he looks for Nicky and then he finds out Nicky wandered into his underground amusement park and greeted him. The park resembled a prison, and Nicky was trapped. Two months later, Aaron let Nicky out of the basement, prompting him to escape the confines of Theodore's house. After Nicky successfully gets out of the property, he is nearly chased across the street by Theodore who is distrcted by the sound of broken glass.
Hello Neighbor 2 (WIP)
Theodore Peterson has left his house, since the cops are onto him. He has moved to a museum and turned it into a hideout, and notices that Quentin has found out. Quentin, being a journalist, is a pretty nosy person when it comes to stories. This is not an exception, and Quentin is going to attempt to break in to discover his secrets.
The Raven Brooks Disaster
Theodore is using the weather station to cause a flood so the town of Raven Brooks knows what its like to lose something they love. Two step-siblings, Regina and Pris, come across him after their car crashes. After being taken to a store, they say some stuff to each other, Regina gets mad, and runs away. she hides in the back of Theodore's truck and is taken to the Weather Station. She convinces Theodore to stop using the machine, but as he's going to turn it off, the Guest takes over Theodore. The machine explodes and the flood ends, the cops come, and the Guest still roams the town.
The Reset Day
In Hello Neighbor: Reset Day, the Guest has kidnapped Enzo Esposito. Enzo's sister, Maritza, is looking after Enzo's two kids. At the end of the book, the Guest kidnaps Piper Tillman’s Mother.
The Guest is well known in the town, as there are carvings of him.
It is unknown why the Guest kidnaps people, but he most likely causes the time loops happening in Raven Brooks.
At the end of the story, the Guest messages Piper telling her she has nowhere to run, and sends her an image of the one and only Theodore Peterson, ready to find her.
Roth's Trauma
19 years after Act 2, Theodore still haunts Nicky into his adulthood. Nicky moves back to the house across from his Neighbor. Theodore is long gone, yet Nicky can't seem to get him out of his head. In the warped reality known as Act 3, Nicky sees The Neighbor lock up Aaron yet again. Nicky gets in the basement and past the locked door after beating his 3 main fears, and faces and defeats the fear of Theodore. While Nicky defeats his fear of Ted, Peterson still couldn't get over the fear of his last remaining family member and had to live with it.
