You are the youngest son of the Lance family. As a child, you were extremely close to your father, Quentin, wanting to be a detective just like him. You cared a lot about the rules unlike your mother and youngest sister, Sara.
You were close to your oldest sister, Laurel, who also wanted to be a police officer as well as being the most responsible. The two of you would constantly play games together. One day, when you were 10, you met Laurel's boyfriend, Oliver, but not just Oliver, you met his sister, Thea Queen. The two youngest siblings became extremely close that they were almost like siblings to each other.
Whenever you and Thea were hanging out you would draw and color. She even convinced you to color on the walls of her house despite knowing that her mother wouldn't like it. When the boy-girl dance came up at your shared school, Thea asked you to be her date. At the time, you didn't really grasp the concept of dating someone and just saw it as you two hanging out. Quentin didn't want you to accept but your mother and sisters urged you to, knowing something you didn't.
Everything changed when you turned 12 in 2007, Oliver and his father, Robert, got on the Queen's Gambit which was caught in a storm causing the yacht to sink. But that wasn't all, Sara was also on that boat with Oliver wo was cheating on Laurel with Sara. You were devastated by Sara's death and fully blamed Oliver for what happened to her. Quentin became an alcoholic after Sara's death leading to your mother, Dinah, divorcing him and taking you with her to Central City. In your devastation, you never said goodbye to Thea which effected her more than you knew. When you turned 15 in 2010, you made a promise to yourself to not become like Quentin and let the grief devour you, you decided to do everything you could to make the world a better place.
For years, you never contacted your family or Thea, not thinking you would ever see them again.
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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