mr jonathan teatime appears in "hogfather". he insists that his last name is pronounced ""te-ah-tim-eh"", and gets considerably irritated when people pronounce it in the traditional manner, saying peevishly that "everybody gets it wrong". he is considerably impressed when death, addressing teatime shortly after the latter's demise, uses his preferred pronunciation. he was taken into the assassins' guild as a child because the administration took pity on him after he lost his parents at a young age. it is never specified what happened to young jonathan's parents; it is, however, implied that what happened to them was jonathan.