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APPLICATION FOR HADRIEL
CHARACTER
Character Name: Morgan Walker.
Character Age: 27.
Canon: Original!
Canon Point: N/A
World Description: IN SHORT - something similar to White Wolf's New World of Darkness, though not at all identical.
IN LESS SHORT - Morgan's world comes equipped with the "urban fantasy OC starter pack of traits" -- modern, very similar to the real world, and teeming with a seedy underbelly of the supernatural. Their existence is not a secret, however, and humanity once again proved its adaptability by adapting around this.
While people at their cores are hardly different in this world when compared to our own, the discovery of the supernatural set the development of social and government systems onto a completely different path. Seeking safety in numbers and sturdy walls, enormous cities tend to maintain and govern themselves while struggling to remain self-sufficient. While some of the ‘safer’ supernaturals live integrated (or hidden) in society, there is still danger from creatures that might be looking for easy prey. For the most part, fear keeps a majority of the population contained inside sturdy city walls.
Without a strong, overarching national government, these settlements do struggle sometimes for power and control over each other. Control over more territory means control over more resources. Some have actually enlisted the help of some of the supernaturals (and in some scenarios, ‘enlisted’ is too tame of a word for it – creatures have been bred for the sole purpose of military service.)
The world is a little fragmented and the people are sometimes a little hungry. People have given up many basic rights of privacy and speech in the name of safety, and a militaristic, socialist society is more common than the idea of democracy and freedom. However, humanity continues to flourish, just as it often does.
History: An only child, Morgan was a mostly-happy little accident brought into the world by a young couple who had initially decided against children. Not that he was loved less than any other kid his age; his parents adored him, raised him well, and spoiled the hell out of him.
While the world he lives in is maybe kind of clustered and "generic pop fantasy dystopian," the arts still survive (even if they do not exactly thrive) and Morgan’s mother, in an effort to make sure that her son grew up well-cultured, stuck him in lessons and classes at an early age. Though most of it didn’t stick (he can’t paint or draw his way out of a wet paper bag) coupled with natural grace and a genuine interest, Morgan flourished in dance.
He was thirteen when he and a group of his friends, rebellious and indestructible and out way past curfew, were attacked by an ailing and panicked werewolf. Morgan was one of the two of them to survive.
Eventually, he was cleared to start school again, though not without difficulty. He refused to acknowledge the "change" as part of himself, regarding it as an illness. At first it him a little socially; he was afraid of making connections with people, scared of scaring people, scared of himself. Stubborn, he decided that he didn’t care, and that helped him eventually replace his shyness with a carefully prepared and not always genuine aloofness.
Morgan was nineteen when his mom was diagnosed with a degenerative disease. He began to work in the greenhouses with his parents to help to keep them afloat; when he was twenty-three, they sent her home on permanent medical leave due to her rapidly failing mental health and increasingly frequent fits of mania.
Since then, he's mostly just been coasting along, ignoring the politics of the city and keeping himself relatively unattached. While he's still young, though, he's definitely getting older, and it's becoming harder and harder to remain the island that he tries to be.
Personality: On the surface, Morgan is just enough of a shallow, flirtatious playboy to make him incredibly bland, and just handsome and charismatic enough to be entirely generic and forgettable. He tends to maintain a flippant, easygoing nature that manages to make him absolutely fail to stand out in any sort of crowd. That usually suits him fine, however: he enjoys the company of people and prefers inane, meaningless conversation to anything with depth.
Uncomfortable issues simply make him uncomfortable; stupid banter is his forte, and Morgan will go to great lengths to avoid difficult conversation.
Socially, he is laid-back, a follower. Morgan is never the first one in any line (though he is rarely the last, either), and while he has his own ideals, he rarely pursues them. It takes too much time, wastes too much effort. He would much rather sit back, listen, and wait for someone else to puzzle out the answers to life’s problems for him.
‘A bit lazy’ isn’t to say that he is completely without hobby or interest, however. He enjoys dance, music, and art in general, even if he tends to think admitting that is a reputation killer. As a rule, Morgan worked little at school and works even less in relationships. While it may have been begrudgingly, dance classes were the only thing that could drag him out of bed before nine in the morning on most given days. In adulthood, he does hold a steady job at a city-run greenhouse, but he hates every boring minute of it.
While he has a long fuse and a generally mild demeanor, he can be downright caustic when actually riled up, partially stemming from the fact that he is a werewolf. Not born this way, this is an aspect of himself in particular that he rejects. He has little interest in the fights that sometimes break out between the “factions” of supernaturals that exist and even less in joining up with a pack (probably a good thing, since the wolf that bit him had gone rogue – he has no pack to be grandfathered into.) Not only does he hate what he is, he also scorns others like him. When he does “blow up,” he isn’t prone to physical violence: it hurts, so he’s more likely to shoot off frustrated threats and crack his knuckles in a way that he super hopes comes off as threatening instead of actually resorting to blows.
As a note, Morgan hates the government and has a very tenuous relationship with both it and the military. He does not like having rules imposed upon him, and while he is not the type to go picket, protest, or occupy Wall Street, he is rankled by strict law and privacy invasion.
A combination of his natural restlessness and subtle, selective self-loathing means that he has never been good at keeping relationships, either romantic or platonic. Not that he couldn’t if he tried, but he simply doesn’t care enough to put forth the effort, especially when he has a very fatalistic “it’d never work out in the long run” viewpoint. As stated earlier – he does like people, he usually just doesn’t establish many relationships that are more than merely superficial. He never really settled into the pack mentality that is second-nature for others of his kind, considering he was turned and not born this way.
The one exception to most of these rules applies to his mother. While his father mostly disengaged from his life after the attack, his mom sacrificed a lot of her own life to give Morgan a better one, and he was a clever kid: he saw that. He is devoted to her, especially as her health is beginning to fail and in a bad way. He is willing to do whatever it takes to take care of her, to make sure that she’s comfortable and loved and happy.
In short, Morgan is an alright guy. His moral compass is generally pointed pretty firmly toward ‘good,’ even if his dismissive attitude and overall impassiveness might sometimes suggest otherwise. Cavalier and a little self-absorbed, he is not blind to social injustice or the wrongs of the world, and sure, they rub him the wrong way – he is simply both unwilling to do anything about them and surprisingly good at shirking most responsibility.
Inventory: A pack and a half of cigarettes and a lighter.
Abilities: Morgan is a werewolf and follows most of the traditional werewolf lore. On the nights before, after, and during the full moon, he shifts into a large, gray wolf until sunrise. He still has most of his mental capacities: he won’t be going on any killing sprees and probably won’t be chasing any tennis balls, either. He is stronger and faster than a vanilla wolf, but is otherwise remarkably similar. He does not turn into a man-wolf or anything that seems inherently monstrous.
Since he was not born a wolf, his human form is mostly unremarkable. Morgan is stronger than he looks, though not incredibly so. He does have a higher-than-average sense of smell, and during the two or three days leading up to the full moon, his temper runs a little hotter, but he never had the training needed to tap into most of that potential.
He doesn’t often get sick, he heals quickly (but again, he doesn’t possess magic regenerative powers; he is young and healthy, and being a werewolf boosts that just a bit), and silver is poisonous to him. He’s a dancer, but has no fighting experience, and if handed a gun, would probably shoot himself in the face before he figured out how to hold it correctly.
Flaws: Morgan is lazy, apathetic, a general debbie downer, he's a mean lil shit to other supernaturals, and he judges people for their taste in music. He's sort of self-centered and conditionally kind of cowardly. Also he doesn't share his cigarettes.
Character Name: Morgan Walker.
Character Age: 27.
Canon: Original!
Canon Point: N/A
World Description: IN SHORT - something similar to White Wolf's New World of Darkness, though not at all identical.
IN LESS SHORT - Morgan's world comes equipped with the "urban fantasy OC starter pack of traits" -- modern, very similar to the real world, and teeming with a seedy underbelly of the supernatural. Their existence is not a secret, however, and humanity once again proved its adaptability by adapting around this.
While people at their cores are hardly different in this world when compared to our own, the discovery of the supernatural set the development of social and government systems onto a completely different path. Seeking safety in numbers and sturdy walls, enormous cities tend to maintain and govern themselves while struggling to remain self-sufficient. While some of the ‘safer’ supernaturals live integrated (or hidden) in society, there is still danger from creatures that might be looking for easy prey. For the most part, fear keeps a majority of the population contained inside sturdy city walls.
Without a strong, overarching national government, these settlements do struggle sometimes for power and control over each other. Control over more territory means control over more resources. Some have actually enlisted the help of some of the supernaturals (and in some scenarios, ‘enlisted’ is too tame of a word for it – creatures have been bred for the sole purpose of military service.)
The world is a little fragmented and the people are sometimes a little hungry. People have given up many basic rights of privacy and speech in the name of safety, and a militaristic, socialist society is more common than the idea of democracy and freedom. However, humanity continues to flourish, just as it often does.
History: An only child, Morgan was a mostly-happy little accident brought into the world by a young couple who had initially decided against children. Not that he was loved less than any other kid his age; his parents adored him, raised him well, and spoiled the hell out of him.
While the world he lives in is maybe kind of clustered and "generic pop fantasy dystopian," the arts still survive (even if they do not exactly thrive) and Morgan’s mother, in an effort to make sure that her son grew up well-cultured, stuck him in lessons and classes at an early age. Though most of it didn’t stick (he can’t paint or draw his way out of a wet paper bag) coupled with natural grace and a genuine interest, Morgan flourished in dance.
He was thirteen when he and a group of his friends, rebellious and indestructible and out way past curfew, were attacked by an ailing and panicked werewolf. Morgan was one of the two of them to survive.
Eventually, he was cleared to start school again, though not without difficulty. He refused to acknowledge the "change" as part of himself, regarding it as an illness. At first it him a little socially; he was afraid of making connections with people, scared of scaring people, scared of himself. Stubborn, he decided that he didn’t care, and that helped him eventually replace his shyness with a carefully prepared and not always genuine aloofness.
Morgan was nineteen when his mom was diagnosed with a degenerative disease. He began to work in the greenhouses with his parents to help to keep them afloat; when he was twenty-three, they sent her home on permanent medical leave due to her rapidly failing mental health and increasingly frequent fits of mania.
Since then, he's mostly just been coasting along, ignoring the politics of the city and keeping himself relatively unattached. While he's still young, though, he's definitely getting older, and it's becoming harder and harder to remain the island that he tries to be.
Personality: On the surface, Morgan is just enough of a shallow, flirtatious playboy to make him incredibly bland, and just handsome and charismatic enough to be entirely generic and forgettable. He tends to maintain a flippant, easygoing nature that manages to make him absolutely fail to stand out in any sort of crowd. That usually suits him fine, however: he enjoys the company of people and prefers inane, meaningless conversation to anything with depth.
Uncomfortable issues simply make him uncomfortable; stupid banter is his forte, and Morgan will go to great lengths to avoid difficult conversation.
Socially, he is laid-back, a follower. Morgan is never the first one in any line (though he is rarely the last, either), and while he has his own ideals, he rarely pursues them. It takes too much time, wastes too much effort. He would much rather sit back, listen, and wait for someone else to puzzle out the answers to life’s problems for him.
‘A bit lazy’ isn’t to say that he is completely without hobby or interest, however. He enjoys dance, music, and art in general, even if he tends to think admitting that is a reputation killer. As a rule, Morgan worked little at school and works even less in relationships. While it may have been begrudgingly, dance classes were the only thing that could drag him out of bed before nine in the morning on most given days. In adulthood, he does hold a steady job at a city-run greenhouse, but he hates every boring minute of it.
While he has a long fuse and a generally mild demeanor, he can be downright caustic when actually riled up, partially stemming from the fact that he is a werewolf. Not born this way, this is an aspect of himself in particular that he rejects. He has little interest in the fights that sometimes break out between the “factions” of supernaturals that exist and even less in joining up with a pack (probably a good thing, since the wolf that bit him had gone rogue – he has no pack to be grandfathered into.) Not only does he hate what he is, he also scorns others like him. When he does “blow up,” he isn’t prone to physical violence: it hurts, so he’s more likely to shoot off frustrated threats and crack his knuckles in a way that he super hopes comes off as threatening instead of actually resorting to blows.
As a note, Morgan hates the government and has a very tenuous relationship with both it and the military. He does not like having rules imposed upon him, and while he is not the type to go picket, protest, or occupy Wall Street, he is rankled by strict law and privacy invasion.
A combination of his natural restlessness and subtle, selective self-loathing means that he has never been good at keeping relationships, either romantic or platonic. Not that he couldn’t if he tried, but he simply doesn’t care enough to put forth the effort, especially when he has a very fatalistic “it’d never work out in the long run” viewpoint. As stated earlier – he does like people, he usually just doesn’t establish many relationships that are more than merely superficial. He never really settled into the pack mentality that is second-nature for others of his kind, considering he was turned and not born this way.
The one exception to most of these rules applies to his mother. While his father mostly disengaged from his life after the attack, his mom sacrificed a lot of her own life to give Morgan a better one, and he was a clever kid: he saw that. He is devoted to her, especially as her health is beginning to fail and in a bad way. He is willing to do whatever it takes to take care of her, to make sure that she’s comfortable and loved and happy.
In short, Morgan is an alright guy. His moral compass is generally pointed pretty firmly toward ‘good,’ even if his dismissive attitude and overall impassiveness might sometimes suggest otherwise. Cavalier and a little self-absorbed, he is not blind to social injustice or the wrongs of the world, and sure, they rub him the wrong way – he is simply both unwilling to do anything about them and surprisingly good at shirking most responsibility.
Inventory: A pack and a half of cigarettes and a lighter.
Abilities: Morgan is a werewolf and follows most of the traditional werewolf lore. On the nights before, after, and during the full moon, he shifts into a large, gray wolf until sunrise. He still has most of his mental capacities: he won’t be going on any killing sprees and probably won’t be chasing any tennis balls, either. He is stronger and faster than a vanilla wolf, but is otherwise remarkably similar. He does not turn into a man-wolf or anything that seems inherently monstrous.
Since he was not born a wolf, his human form is mostly unremarkable. Morgan is stronger than he looks, though not incredibly so. He does have a higher-than-average sense of smell, and during the two or three days leading up to the full moon, his temper runs a little hotter, but he never had the training needed to tap into most of that potential.
He doesn’t often get sick, he heals quickly (but again, he doesn’t possess magic regenerative powers; he is young and healthy, and being a werewolf boosts that just a bit), and silver is poisonous to him. He’s a dancer, but has no fighting experience, and if handed a gun, would probably shoot himself in the face before he figured out how to hold it correctly.
Flaws: Morgan is lazy, apathetic, a general debbie downer, he's a mean lil shit to other supernaturals, and he judges people for their taste in music. He's sort of self-centered and conditionally kind of cowardly. Also he doesn't share his cigarettes.