KSI Ivan
Ivan, of Ivan and Terrence fame, is Freddie's best friend. Together with Ivan they form a sort of straight man/funny man duo, with Ivan being something a cloud co-colander. He never quite seems to be "there" but will constantly come in at a clutch moment with something to say. Whether its relevant or solves the problem remains to be seen.
Backstory
Like Freddie, Ivan is an orphan, though with very different circumstances. His mother was fifty-three when he was born, and his father was 69. He has has no siblings and his parents had managed to out-live any of their own kin. They had never planned on having any children and had even been told they couldn't. It was a fact they accepted until Ivan's birth. His father died when he was only four, leaving his then fifty-seven year-old mother to raise him alone.
Both of his parents were well-educated, with six PHDs between them(his mother holding four and his father two). The two worked together as university professors. There very-much not child-friendly house was filled to the brim with books, journals, research materials, and artefacts, which Ivan grew up playing with like toys. Instead of a rattle, he had a dinosaur fossil.
After his father's death, his mother brought Ivan in to work with him. However, with the university's daycare being accross the campus(effectively several miles away), grieving mother and grieving child did not wish to be too far apart. So Ivan was left to play in his mother's office, adjacent to a lecture hall and to a research library. When needed, she had various aides watch him to keep him from getting into too much trouble. As he got older, rather than send him to school, she home-schooled him in between lectures and even frequently had him sit in on other university classes. However, his mother never followed any set curriculum, and Ivan's schooling would be described as "haphazzard, at best."
He did not attend a formal educational program until highschool, at which point he was enrolled in an on-campus program that blended university classes with highschool classes.
