Devon Mather

Devon Mather

INFO
FULL NAME	Devon Mather
NICKNAME(S)	Dev (by everyone)
GENDER	Male
D.O.B.	1997
EYE COLOR	Brown
HAIR COLOR	Brown
NETWORK
FAMILY	Unknown Mother
RELATIONSHIPS	Brittany Brith (attraction, obsession) Danielle Hooper (attraction) Sophie Clark (attraction)
JOB	Student
SCHOOL(S)	Clearwater High School
AFFILIATION(S)	FilmFridayz
PRODUCTION
FIRST	Radar (108)
LAST	With Every Heartbeat (407)
REASON	He got to speak with Brittany like he wished.
EPISODE COUNT	14
PORTRAYER	Matt Bennett

Devon Mather was a Sophomore (Grade 10) at Clearwater High School formerly in the Class of 2015. He was seen as very annoying and didn't know when to stop his actions as he became obsessed with several people, mostly girls he had crushes on. He is very attached to his few friends and is known to latch on to random people in order to get more friends. He was very unpopular and disliked by many, but likes to think he is very popular. He had serious mental issues that were never dealt with or diagnosed which stemmed from his constant dislike from everyone, including his mother. Unfortunately, he had a lapse in stability which led him to plan a well-thought out school shooting. While he only succeeded in shooting one of his planned victims, long-time enemy and bully Ethan Webber, he did not succeed in killing him. He was caught and arrested before he could cause any more harm to other students and sent to jail for 3 years, which means he will not get out until late 2015 in the show's timeline. He maintained two stable friendships with Sophie Clark and Moon Stellar during his short year and a half at Clearwater and had many enemies. He was portrayed by Matt Bennett.

Character History[]

Season 1[]

In Radar, Devon is new to FilmFridays as the new meeting is about to start when Sophie is pushes over to him by Danielle, which confuses Devon, asking why her friends did that. Sophie shrugs it off, not wanting him to know her friend was trying to set them up. Devon introduces himself and tells her he watches the FilmFridays videos and is excited to join when Sophie asks him if this is his first week. Sophie asks him what his favorite video is, and Devon tells her it is the one she stars in and says she's really funny. This starts to creep Sophie out, and she tries to leave, saying she's going back to her friends. As she leaves though, Devon doesn't get the social cue and follows her. This creeps Sophie out even more, and she tries to get away from him by going to the girls' bathroom with Danielle, but Devon continues to follow them. Danielle, now creeped out, asks him if he's going to go into the bathroom with them, but Devon tells her he'll just wait for them outside, still not understanding he is creeping them out. As they leave, Devon is hiding and jumps out at them, screaming "boo" and laughing at his prank. He then suggests they get back to the group before it starts and ushers them back to the room.

The next day, Devon tracks Sophie down at Danielle's locker after following her all day and asks where she went. Sophie tells him she went to her locker, and Devon tells her they need to go to his now, pulling her along with him. He meets up with her again as she talks with her popular friends and calls him and Sophie "besties," causing Brad to make fun of him. Devon asks if they're having a party and if Sophie is going, he wants to go too. Sophie tells him he can't go, and Devon starts making a scene, loudly begging Sophie over and over again to be invited. Her friends tell them to have their own party and leave, making Sophie very upset who angrily leaves Devon alone as well.

Devon tracks Sophie down at lunch and asks if he can join her table. Liam tells him there's no room, and Devon asks why one of them can't move. Ethan tells him to go back to his old table, and Devon asks Sophie to come back to a different table with him. Sophie refuses and tells him to go away, which confuses Devon. He asks her why, and she blows up at him, finally having enough and screaming at him to leave her alone, calling him a stalker. Devon grows very angry and grabs Sophie's lunch, throwing it on the floor before storming off. Danielle finds him later and asks him if he's okay, and mentions that Sophie wasn't completely wrong about what she said to him. Devon says that he knows, but admits to never having friends, and not wanting to let them go when he does find one. Danielle explains that he can't expect someone to dedicate every moment of their life to him and that Sophie thought he was cool until he became too much. Devon explains that he knows there are people out there who do want to be his friend, and will wait until he finds them, leaving very upset.

Sophie later finds Devon at his locker and apologizes. Devon hesitantly accepts her apology, but grows overwhelmingly happy when Sophie says she still wants to be his friend. She advises that he can't talk to her when she's with her popular friends or sit with her at lunch, but despite these restrictions, Devon is just happy to have her as a friend, and accepts them. Devon runs off, very happy to have kept Sophie as a friend.

Eyesopen3 — Devon dealing with bullying.

In Eyes Open, he pitches an idea to FilmFridayz and is ignored. Moon starts to stick up for him when Ethan and Jamie make fun of him and he finds a friend in her. She plans to be in a scene with him at the next FilmFridayz and he is happy.

In Want U Back, he is partnered with Danielle for a choir project and is very excited. He goes over her house that night and her mother takes a liking to him and invites him to dinner. Danielle manages to push it to the next day and invites her boyfriend so that Devon can't make a move. At the dinner, Devon coaxes Danielle to sing which gets her upset. He then calls her babe after Brad does and this causes Brad to leave. He calls Brad a freak and Danielle storms away from the table. He falls into another one of Danielle's plans when he tells Sophie he thinks he has a chance with her and then sees her kissing Brad. This upsets him and he asks her out later that day only to be harshly turned down.

In Two Kinds of Happiness, he asks Moon if she wants to hang out that weekend and she tells him no, so he walks away awkwardly.

In Force A Smile (2), he walks up to Sophie at her locker and asks if the tons of drama happening lately is finally over since she apologized to Jamie, but she tells him it won't since she just spread another rumor about her. He is annoyed, but doesn't get mad and calls her a drama queen. She playfully punches him in the arm and they go to class together.

Season 2[]

In Sweet Nothing, he goes with Sophie, Harley, and Abby to see if Jamie will be the new leader of FilmFridayz. He is the one to actually ask her and when she says yes, he hugs her, which creeps her out, so Sophie tells him to tone down the excitement, which he apologizes for. At the next meeting, he is super happy to have Jamie lead.

In Hurts Like Heaven, he goes to Sophie's locker and asks if she heard about the party Jeremy is having. She tells him that she did, so Devon tells her that she is going with him. Dex comes and Devon asks him to come along with them, but Dex says that he's out of town. Sophie doesn't want to go because everyone there hates her, so Devon says that this is her time to get some redemption and for him to finally get some popularity. Sophie decides to go since she has nothing left to lose and he tells her that she won't regret it, excited to finally feel included. At the party, they walk in awkwardly and don't know where to go or who to talk to. Devon says that they'll split up and talk to people and then meet up again in 10 minutes, which they do. He goes up to Jarrod, who tells Devon to leave, and Kat, who sticks up for him. Jarrod tells Devon that they're not his charity friends and leaves, which makes Devon start to regret going. He meets Troy and introduces him to Sophie, who wants to leave after being bullied. Trying a last resort plan, he grabs Sophie and brings her to her friends, asking them to move on.

After they torment Sophie and boo her out of the party, he asks what is wrong with everyone and blames himself for getting Sophie even more hated by her classmates. Trying to fix things, he stands on the bar and tells everyone that they're heartless for booing Sophie away when she came to make amends. People start to tell him to leave and he tells everyone to fuck off. He runs out of the party as people laugh at him and calls the police on the party saying there's underage drinking and drug use, then giving them the address. Sophie calls him the next morning and apologizes for being mean to him since he stood up for her after she left. He then says that he's going to get revenge on everyone there who humiliated him and wants them to feel just as degraded as he. Sophie starts to get freaked out by what he's saying, but doesn't say anything about it. It is then revealed that Devon is throwing darts at a board with Liam's face on it.

In Kiss With A Fist, Devon is running through the hallway and accidentally bumps into Brittany, apologizing, but she calls him a freak, which makes him feel bad. Later on, he is playing with a gun on the side of his bed and says that he's about to have a lot of fun with everyone.

In Panic Station (1), he is going through a filing cabinet in his room with a folder in it for everyone at school. He finds Brittany's folder and pulls out a picture of her from it, putting it with a bunch of others that were on the hit list found at the school, revealing that the hit list wasn't from Levi, but from Devon. He then says that there's only 2 more days as he admires the pictures. In the lunchroom the next day, he sees Ethan is back and confronts him, saying he's surprised they let a douchebag like him back in the school. Ethan is offended as Devon calls him scum who belongs in jail and doesn't understand Devon's harsh feelings towards him. Devon then says that Ethan has said a lot of stupid stuff about him and he hopes that Ethan would die. Ethan calls him a psycho and almost hits him, but resists the urge. Moon comes and breaks it up, but Devon tells her that he and Ethan were just messing around to avoid any further conflict, unbeknownst to him that Ethan reported his remark about Ethan dying to Mrs. Dayton. He finds Jarrod at lunch and says that he knows Jarrod has connections and that he needs a gun. Jarrod and Kat seem confused as to why he needs one, but all Devon tells them is that it's for private matters. When Jarrod refuses to sell him one until he tells them what it's for, he lies and says it's for protection against a car circling his street at night. He then tells them that he needs one by tomorrow and gives him $250 to pay for the gun and for him to load it. Even though they find Devon's request shady, they still decide to give him the gun.

He gets called down to Mrs. Dayton's office who says she needs to chat with him. She says that if he has anything on his mind, he can talk to her since everything is undisclosed, but he doesn't feel comfortable and says that everything is fine. She lets him go and when he's out of the office, he freaks out, thinking that someone knows of his plan. He goes to his German class and hears from other students that there's a random locker search going on. He freaks out since the gun is in his locker and runs out of the class, getting the gun from his locker and putting it in his book bag. On the way back to class, he sees Sophie crying and asks if she's okay. She goes on about how she's been dealing with having no friends and he cuts her off, calling her stupid. She is confused and shocked he would say such a thing. He explains that she always says she has no friends, but that he's always been there for her, but feels more like a person she spills her guts to instead of a friend. He says that she's a conceited bitch because she never sees what's right in front of her and takes everything for granted. He storms off, pushing her into a locker and is chased by Dex after Sophie tells him what he just did. Devon punches Dex in the face after Dex grabs him and grabs his gun, cocking it and pointing it at Dex. He tells them to leave him alone and slowly walks away as they both stand petrified. After they tell this to the school and he gets suspended, he sits outside of Brittany's house and watches her through her windows, talking about how he'll have to kill everyone that night since he can't get to school, but then changing his mind and deciding he'll have to sneak into the school somehow.

In Panic Station (2), the story behind Devon bringing the gun to school has gone crazy and police are all over the school to make sure he doesn't show up. During Brittany's class, she thinks that she sees Devon standing outside the school staring at her and causes a ruckus, but no one else sees him and think she's lying. Ethan is later alone in the hallway and sees Devon standing there holding a gun. He tells Ethan that if he runs, he will shoot him and called him an egotistical manipulator. Ethan calls him crazy and Devon screams that he's not crazy and shoots Ethan the second that the bell for class change goes off. As students leave class, they see Devon and a bleeding Ethan and freak out, screaming and running. Mr. Hanson calls for everyone to get into a classroom and tells everyone that it's not a drill as bedlam occurs across the school. Devon has to chance to shoot Scott and Danielle, but lets them go and goes after Brittany instead who he knows is alone in the janitor's closet. He opens the door as she starts sobbing and calls for her to get out. He then reveals that he's been in love with her and the only time she acknowledged him was to call him a freak, which is why he has to kill her since he won't let yet another person reject him. He also reveals that he wanted to go to Jeremy's party so badly so he could see Brittany, but she ignored him. Brittany screams for Devon to stop talking, and he shoots at the ceiling to shut her up instead. He tells her that no one tells him what to do and that he's felt like an outsider ever since his mother left him in the rain as a toddler. He then aims the gun at her head and she starts to cry again. Before he can pull the trigger, he is shot with a tranqulizer by police and before he goes under, asks the police officers to kill him, starting to shed a tear before he passes out.

In Won't Go Home Without You, Ethan has a hallucination of Devon while alone in the bathroom and starts freaking out, so Tim has to explain that Devon is in prison. He later sees Eric as Devon and freaks out yet again. Ethan is diagnosed with PTSD after being shot by Devon, which is why he keeps seeing him everywhere.

In How You Love Me Now, Devon's court case is coming up and much of the episode deals with Brittany and Ethan dealing with whether or not they should or can testify in it. A flashback of Devon is shown when he is about to shoot Brittany. Because neither testify against him, he is sentenced to 3 years in prison.

In Here's to Never Growing Up (1), Ethan continues to have visions of Devon coming after him due to his PTSD and starts taking drugs as a result to help cope with it.

Season 4[]

In With Every Heartbeat, he reaches out to Mrs. Dayton to ask Brittany and Ethan if he may speak to them. In the end, only Brittany comes and after he tries to excuse his mental illness on the shooting and his crazy actions, Brittany scolds him for not taking responsibility for his actions. She then explains the trauma he put them through, but he doesn't seem to understand the full extent of what he did. When she leaves, he keeps repeating that he's better now, trying to convince himself that it's true.

Appearances[]

Season 1 (5/21)

Season 2 (8/33)

Season 4 (1/26)

With Every Heartbeat (407)

Central Episodes[]

Season 2

Panic Station (1)

Trivia[]

He is one of the 8 characters to appear in less than half the episodes of a season they were a regular in the whole time.
He appeared in the least amount of episodes of all regulars in both the first and second seasons.
He appeared in the least amount of episodes as a regular.
He is the last member of the original main cast to be introduced in an episode, not being seen until the eighth episode.
He had a total of 3 plots.
- He is tied for the least amount of plots in Season 1.
He is one of the only 2 regular characters to not receive a plot in a season in which they were a regular. The other was Blake Sommer.
He is one of the 9 regular characters to never be Top of the Season.
His actor was changed from Noah Munck to Matt Bennett after the mid-season finale for season one.
While he certainly has mental problems, they were never diagnosed or dealt with before his shooting.
He was sentenced to 3 years in prison, which would be at season 8 in the show's timeline.
He had many romantic feelings for girls who didn't reciprocate, leading to his mental instability.
It was revealed that his mother left him in the rain as a toddler, but it is never explained whether he is adopted or taken in by other members of his family.
He is the first character to be abandoned by his biological parents, the second was Jamie, the third was Scott, and the fourth was Peyton.
He is one of the three regular characters to leave the series completely before graduating. The others being Abby and Adrianna.

Quotes[]

(To Sophie): "Any reason you were pushed over to me?" (First Line) - Radar
(To Danielle): "I don’t have any friends and I never have. It’s like when someone finally talks to me, I don’t want to let them go." - Radar
(To Danielle): "Hey babe, can you pass me the potatoes?" - Want U Back
"I came here trying to improve my image…but that sure didn’t happen." - Hurts Like Heaven
"I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!!" - Hurts Like Heaven
"I’m done dealing with these fuckers who think they can push us around. I’m not taking it anymore."
(To Sophie): "You’re so pathetic and self-obsessed that you don’t see what right there in front of you. No wonder everyone leaves you, because you are a bitch! You’re a stupid conceited bitch!"
"I’ve loved you Brittany…Sophie rejected me, Danielle rejected me…but you won’t. NEVER AGAIN!" - Panic Station (2)
"I’ve been rejected my whole life by everyone. It’s time everyone else feel the pain I’ve been feeling since I was a toddler and my mom left me out in the FUCKING RAIN!" - Panic Station (2)
"Please kill me..." - Panic Station (2)
"I'm better now..." - With Every Heartbeat

Interaction[]

Friendships	Conflicts	Attractions	Love Triangles
Devon and Moon	Devon and Ethan	Devon and Sophie	Devon-Danielle-Brad Love Triangle
Devon and Sophie	Devon and Brittany	Devon and Danielle
		Devon and Brittany