copy & pasted from my dA:

"... his name will be Teanni, and his nickname Tea Leaves ( or just Tea ). it's a well-known fact that he seems to have an obsession with tea like some do with coffee; however, it is not quite as well-known that this stems from a silent protest against a drunkard of a mother who was more or less always too intoxicated to take care of him. he was raised as her daughter--she didn't know how to take care of a son. although he identifies wholly as male, he expresses himself more or less as female since that is how he grew up."