Writer's Games: Carnival

Male #8: Morgan Griffin [AKA-ANONYMOUS]

Name: Morgan Griffin

Pronunciation: If you can't figure out how to pronounce that you need to go back to pre-school.

Gender: M

Age: 19

Appearance: Morgan has shoulder length, shaggy black hair that has a thick electric green streak through it. He has pale skin with thin lips and brown cat like eyes (that he rings with eyeliner) on his chiseled face. He is on the shorter side standing at only 5'8 and having a more petite build he sure manages being intimidating well. On the fateful day of the carnival Morgan was wearing his favorite leather jacket- the back one with all the zippers and spikes around the collar- with some torn up navy jeans and tall thick-soled combat boots. As for a top he has decided to be an underachiever and just grab a white tank top, after all, they pretty much go with everything, right? On a second thought he decided to grab his spiked collar to wear around his neck. He might have grabbed some other, more logical things as well if he'd known the danger he was walking into....

Personality: Morgan is a very creative and artistic person with an eye for detail that most people would miss. He is also a very passionate person when it comes to literature, poetry and art. He is pretty laid back, focused and driven person most of the time, as long as he's on his meds that is. Morgan suffers from ADHD that when it's not treated can be an 'airhead' and a 'painfully confusing person' to be around, but he is pretty meticulous about those things so it's generally not a problem. Morgan generally goes out of his way to be nice to people, but when he's around his friend Arwen the two can get pretty sarcastic, borderline downright obnoxious. Having been screwed over in life more than a few times Morgan often struggles to see the good in life, swaying between optimism and negativity.

Background: Morgan was born out of wedlock to a druggies resulting, the first 10 or so years of his life being miserable. His mother never beat him or anything, but there was never food in the house so he was always starving and the house generally reeked, it had always been hard pinpointing exactly what the smell was, it could have easily been the uncleaned dishes, the BO of his mother and whatever man she had brought home this time, or the cat urine. Ms. Griffin didn't really learn her lesson after having Morgan and proceeded to have three other children; all of whom Morgan attempted in vain to care for. When he was 11 he and his siblings were swept into foster care, bouncing from home to home they never really belonged anywhere. Eventually all of the kids were separated and Morgan never saw them again. In middle school Morgan was picked on brutally by the other kids, it got to the point where he was contemplating killing himself. This was the point at which Morgan realized that writing poetry was a comfort to him and after that he didn't stop. The bullying may have continued into high school had Arwen Black, a girl from the grade ahead of them, told them to cut it out before she destroyed them. Everyone knew that when Arwen black threatened to destroy you she meant it and so the bullying problems were mostly solved. Did people accept him? No, but at least kids weren't dumping soda on his head. High school was moderately uneventful, he made a small group of friends and worked two jobs knowing that he'd need to fend for himself and get a apartment as soon as he aged out of the foster care system. When he did, he managed to afford a low end apartment and is currently trying to save up enough money to go to college and master in poetry and the arts.

Fears: Morgan isn't necessarily a fearful or paranoid guy. Like I said before, he is a pretty laid back guy, the only thing that really strikes fear into his heart is Chiropractic Care. -And yes it is a perfectly real fear.

Other: Morgan carries a little leather journal around and will write a poem down whenever he is inspired, even if it is in the middle of a conversation.

He was at the fair with his friends (Including Arwen) celebrating his birthday- and what a crappy birthday it turned out to be.