Vicki was raised by Victor Lord, an evil, controlling man whose sexual and mental abuse brought about her multiple personalities. It took years of intense therapy for her to overcome her condition and get fully integrated; if not for that and for the people who loved her, she might've become just like Todd. Todd was raised by a man who was just as sick and disgusting as Victor Lord was, and it's been suggested that Todd was also sexually molested by his step-father; in addition, Todd was beaten day in and day out by his step-father. When he first came to Llanview, he was very sick and twisted. After finding out that Victor Lord was also his biological father, and after Vicki reached out to him because of the abuse that they both had shared, Todd started to change for the better. He's not all there yet, but he's a heck of a lot better than he was in the beginning. Todd is over-protective of all of his kids. When Cole first came to town and he and Starr started going together, Cole was on the football team, and he was hyped-up on steroids. He was pressuring Starr to have sex with him, and the drugs caused him to try to rape her. He tore her clothes; when Todd found out, he had a flash-back of when he'd raped Marty. When he found out that Cole was Marty's son, he got paranoid that Marty had set it up to get revenge. Eventually Starr and Cole DID have sex; Todd walked in on the after-math, where he saw a bit of Starr's thigh uncovered. He convinced himself that Cole had raped Starr, and he beat him up. He'd have killed him if Blair hadn't got in the way. Starr got pregnant, and she and Cole ran away. When Todd caught up to them, he was begging Starr to come home, and promised that he wouldn't stand in her and Cole's way. Starr didn't trust him, and she tried to step between him and Cole. She fell down the steps while Todd's hand was on her. Todd doesn't like Langston, basically because she covered for Starr while Starr and Cole were on the run.
Dorian has always been a gold-digging nut; she was married to Vicki's evil father, Victor ... that made her Vicki's step-mom. She was head of the hospital at one time, but before that she was a doctor who accidentally caused a patient's death. The man she was seeing at the time covered for her at the first, but when the hospital board found out, they took away her license to practice medicine. Vicki was on the board, but wasn't part of the decision. Dorian wouldn't believe that Vicki wasn't involved, though, so she spent her entire life trying to take away everything that Vicki loves ... every man Vicki has had, Dorian has done everything to get. Dorian is mentally unstable, and almost her whole family has a history of mental problems.
Margaret Cochran was a nut who became obsessed with Todd; she kidnapped him and tried to get him to have sex with her. She had him tied down to a bed. Finally, she made it obvious to him that if he didn't have sex with her, she'd kill Blair, Starr and Jack. He knew she'd do it, so he didn't resist anymore when she got on top of him. She got pregnant with Sam, and later supposedly got killed. Todd escaped just in time to save Blair from tied up in a car that was about to be crushed in a salvage yard.
In college, Todd was on the football team. He was failing in class, so he enlisted the help of "Party-Girl Marty" to tutor him. Marty liked him, and they slept together. But Todd was only out for a one-nighter with her, and he rebuffed her afterwards. Todd failed the exam, but Marty got an A+; he blamed Marty for failing, and at a sorority party where Marty had had too much to drink, Todd led a gang-rape against her, along with Zack Rosen and Powell Lord. For years afterwards, he's been trying to make up for it, doing the most insane things to try to get Marty to forgive him. He risked his own life saving Marty from a fire once, along with Jessica, Sarah and C.J., he gave up his own blanket in a freezing-cold cabin where they were snowed into, and he got himself shot up trying to save Marty's boyfriend Patrick Thornhardt. Years later (a couple of years ago), Marty and Cole were kidnapped by the men who had been after Patrick, and they were in an accident where the car tipped over and exploded. Cole was thrown out, but Marty was thought to be dead. A year later, Todd found her, and when he realized that she didn't remember him, he took care of her. Part of him wanted to re-invent himself in her eyes and keep making up for what he'd done to her, and part of him was trying to stick it to John McBain, Marty's current boyfriend. He and Marty ended up falling in love, and he and Marty slept together. When she found out who he really was and what he'd done to her 20 years earlier, she was sick and felt "raped" all over again.
Cole's real father was Patrick Thornhardt, an Irishman who Marty fell in love with. He was being pursued by the Irish Mafia; Todd got himself shot up impersonating Patrick, and lost a year out of his life. When he finally got back to Blair and Starr, he found Blair having sex with Patrick on the floor. He went really dark after that, and plotted against Patrick. Patrick and Marty finally got back together, and they got married. Then they went on the run, pretending that the Mafia had killed Patrick. Years later, they finally got him.
When Margaret Cochran "died", Todd went looking for his kid who he never saw. He hired Rex the P.I. to find him; at the same time Rex was working with Michael and Marcie McBain, who were trying to adopt a kid they named Tommy. They wanted Rex to find out about the birth parent, in case something might be wrong with "Tommy". When Rex realized that "Tommy" was actually Todd's kid, he tried to convince Todd that Sam was dead. Todd kept on, though, and eventually realized that the McBains had his kid. Marcie ran off with "Tommy" when she found out, and Todd hired some people to find her. Michael's brother, John McBain (Marty's boyfriend), went after them to make sure that Marcie didn't get hurt. Todd finally got Sam back.
Langston's parents were killed in a car crash. She started off being really nasty to Starr in school, which is another reason Todd doesn't care for her. Then she and Starr became best friends. Langston was living by herself and taking care of herself for over a year, all the time pretending that her parents were still alive because she didn't want to become a ward of the state and have to lose her parents' home and get carted off to a foster home. Dorian found out, and she petitioned to take Langston into her home.
Nash and Jessica were married. He was a dreamer who had a wine vinyard that he was about to lose to debtors. He refused to ask Jessica or her family for the money to pay off his debtors, because he was too prideful. Jared was pretending to be a Buchanan at the time, and even though Nash didn't trust him, he convinced Nash to throw in with the Buchanan investors. Jared was really trying to help Nash and make up for all the dirt that he had pulled on Jessica, but Dorian ruined it. She was trying to stick it to Clint Buchanan, so when she found out that Jared was really Charlie's Bank's son, she revealed everything at a big stock-holder's gathering. Since every Buchanan deal that Jared had made while pretending that he was a Buchanan was now null and void, Nash's debtors called in the loan then and there. In a rage, Nash started fighting with Jared. He ended up falling through the skylight, and died later at the hospital.
Back when Gigi was alone and pregnant with Rex's son Shane, she was friends with Brody. Brody really liked her. Rex had left without knowing that Gigi was pregnant, and Gigi's parents had kicked her out. Brody proposed to Gigi, promising to be Shane's father even though he wasn't. Gigi was 16 years old and didn't know where else to turn, and Brody was really good to her, so she accepted. When Brody went off to the Navy, promising to marry Gigi when he got back, Brody's mom lied to Gigi and told her that Brody had been killed overseas. Gigi went away, and spent the rest of the time working as a waitress and raising Shane on her own. When Gigi ran into Rex, Rex was with Dorian's daughter Arianna. Adrianna slowly became jealous and unstable, and started confronting Gigi at every turn. She found out about Brody, and discovered that he was still alive. She bribed Brody to come back to Llanview and take Gigi away, but Dorian ended up trying to bribe Brody to leave Llanview because she didn't want Adrianna to marry Rex. When things finally came to a head and Rex found out all the dirt that Adrianna had done, he was forced to admit that he still loved Gigi. It took some time before Gigi finally admitted that she had never stopped loving Rex.
Todd's only been married twice ... to Blair and to Tea. Dorian's got three daughters ... Cassie and Adrianna are her biological daughters, and Langston is her adopted daughter. Adrianna flew out of town on her broomstick, after causing maximum damage to Rex and Gigi ... namely Gigi. But Todd would rather throw himself off of the Golden Gate Bridge screaming "I love you Marcie" than to be married to Adrianna, lol!
Blair's mom, Addie, is Dorian's sister. Addie's been in and out of the mental home most of her life. When Blair first came on, she was played by an Asian actress. It was explained then that Addie had been raped by an Asian man. Now, Blair is blonde.
Gigi Morasco and her psychotic sister Stacey Morasco.
John McBain the cop, his brother Michael McBain the doctor, and Michael's wife Marcie McBain the child-stealin