character profile no.6 - Morgan Ashler

gender;; male
species;; human
age;; eighteen
hair color;; dark, dark brown
eye color;; blue
skin;; normal white, prone to tanning
love interest;; Ana

Aha...I recently finished coming up with most of Morgan's history. Let's start out- when he was fourteen years old, he was tempted by these evil little beasties called starbeasts. Starbeasts grant wishes for seemingly no benefit for themselves, but what they do is grant the wish in such a horrible way, that they feed off of the consequent misery and insanity. Morgan wished for knowledge, and they granted that by pretty much draining everything from his family's brains and putting it in his. The morning after he got his wish, he came downstairs and his family was just...a bunch of drooling puppets. They weren't even stupid- there was absolutely nothing in their heads. He'd lived with his mother, father, brother, sister and grandpa.

Because of that wish, Morgan knows what it's like to give birth twice, and have a C-section. He's "fought" in Vietnam, World War II, and in Korea. He can do what his parent's did- be a psychiatrist, in his mother's case, and be a doctor like his dad. He knows what it's like to shot heron and smoke crack, even though he's never done any of that himself, and he know what's it's like to be beaten up-- all of it from his family. He's a 'genius' in the sense that's he's lived six lives.

Morgan is eighteen when the story takes place. He hasn't gone to school since he was fourteen when he ran away- both his brother and sister were older than him and in high school, so he's pretty good at biology, chemistry, different foreign languages and mathematics.

Morgan's in between lanky and filled out, though he's more lanky. He's probably about five foot ten, or so, and he's got hair the color of dark chocolate (sorry about the food reference) that looks worse brushed than not brushed, and blue eyes the color of pool water-- which, in case you don't see many pools, is really bright. He has the ability to make walls, barriers in any shape, form, size or function. The walls look like smoke trapped between two layers of glass.

Morgan lives with Aka Timenbold, Jill Garth and her son Casper Babcock. He found Aka in the process of going loco after killing her mother when she was thirteen about a year after he'd taken off, and was able to fix her up. They continued to travel together, and about another year afterwards picked up Jill and Casper. Jill was a recovering druggy who'd dropped out of school to take care of Casper-- having gotten pregnant when she was sixteen. Casper's father, a guy named Robert Babcock who Jill described as being insanely optimistic, was killed in a fire. He'd intended to stay with Jill and Casper, so he was a good guy.

One of my favorite parts in Morgan and Ana's story, is when Jill, Morgan, Aka, Ana, and two of Ana's brothers- Nana and Ranen- had gotten caught on another world and were lined up to be hung. Ana, Nana and Ranen were the in the nooses, and Morgan hopped on stage to give Ana a...pretty thorough good-bye kiss (first one, between those two), and pushed a razor into his mouth so they could cut their ropes. Norse, the fourth brother, hadn't been caught you see, and he was off setting up a...fireworks display ^^

No picture of Morgan. A friend of mine did one, but I've got no clue where that thing got to-- I think she's still got it...

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