Editting. Okay the backstory didn't really get that shortened.. more like changed and slightly shortened, and as it's 2:30 am here I'ma going to bed now and I'll finetune it tomorrow. I may do a written appearance as the pictures more of a template than a portrait, if I do it'll just be a short paragraph or I may just not do it at all, I dunno. It's also possible that i'll decide to fine tune the personality, again dunno. Tell meh what ye think. XD Now to the cigarette factory and then to sleeptown!
Name: Sean Mumble Grumsby
Role: Sean
Age: 17
Likes:
Cigarettes,
Bitter (Beer),
Books, mostly old stories like H.P. Lovecraft’s works,
Stupid, loose drunk girls,
Crisps,
Any and every type of Metal, The Blues, and Industrial music,
VNV Nation, Mind.In.A.Box and Hollywood Undead,
Old movies.
Dislikes:
Tyler James Benson (With Raes approval of course, just say no and I’ll remove it :P),
The idea of Family,
All the new movies that have more action than a story,
Books that don’t have a true plot,
Relationships in general,
Rap, RnB, hip-hop,
People who pointlessly start fights,
Snobby rich kids.
Fears:
Claustrophobia, but it’s more than just a simple fear of being trapped physically for him, he is forever fearful of being trapped in any way, shape or form, but most of all in a relationship or family. He also has an innate fear of heights and finds it hard to stand on a second floor balcony without his stomach turning and his head beginning to spin.
Dreams: To become a writer.
Personality: Sean isn’t necessarily a bad guy, although you wouldn’t be able to work that out by talking to him, it’s just that he prefers to have a tough guy, easily annoyed and not very emotional masquerade surrounding him as a moat surrounds a wall surrounding a castle. Although it’s a lot more complicated than that, the moat is more of a pile of mud, surrounding a wall of near impenetrable steel which pointlessly protects a ruined broken castle that is falling apart, and to complicate it further this broken castles exists in an upside down floating rock of a world that is forever changing, the wall becoming broken whilst the castle is reinvigorated and the moat becomes a bloodied, impassable sea. The truth is that Sean can be an extremely nice person, caring, helpful, happy, fun and insightful, but after the abandonment issues it’s become a little broken and messed up, most of this kindness isn’t seen, rather it is hidden behind the curtains of the play where it is used to secretly help.
In reality he comes off as an easily annoyed, unhappy and less talkative person that will always try to keep the conversation based on someone else rather than himself and is more than happy to make insights about others but will never let anyone start a conversation with him about himself. Sean has a hell of a lot of problems, a hate of family, the idea of family, relationships, closeness, having any kind of connection tying him to anyone, the list goes on and as his shrink which he is forced to visit once a week keeps telling him it is the cause behind his implausible claustrophobia. Of course he’d never let anyone know this. He’s much happier to keep his problems to himself and work them out on his own whilst alone in a room reading a book, or working on the plot for his own than to work it out with another person. Although it would likely be hard to believe Sean hate’s people who fight and start arguments, he’s used to men fighting around him and causing trouble but it’s different when it’s directed at a woman. An unknown force simply swells up inside him the second he witnesses it and the reaction is near immediate with no thought behind it, however none of this counts when it’s Sean and when the woman in question is in the wrong, or at least in the wrong in his mind. This is yet another problem that his shrink relates to his domestic violence ridden past.
Background: Sean Mumble Grumsby was born to Mary and Jack Grumsby in a small hospital on the outskirts of London before being whisked back to their tiny house just outside the estate. Sean rarely saw his mother during his short-lived childhood as she was forced to work two jobs to keep the required supplies incoming and the rent paid. His father on the other hand was a lazy drug-addled asshole, who spent most of the day pulling the babysitter and most of the evening pulling off her skirt. It’d be no real surprise to hear that the household was rife with domestic violence and whenever his mother was around there were fights to be had. These unfortunate circumstances stayed with Sean until his sixth birthday, upon which a truck hit his father. As Sean understands it his father was on his way home in a drugged up state and walked in front of a speeding truck, never to be seen again. Although Jack was no saint he loved Mary and she went into an immediate depression after hearing the news of Jack’s unfortunate demise. This depression lasted for a year, it got so bad that Mary ended up quitting all her jobs and drinking scotch from the time she awoke to the time she went to bed. If not for Sean it’s extremely likely that Mary would of taken her life then and there, instead she straightened herself out and went to a psychiatrist.
A year later Mary was fit enough to work and had decided that it was time they had a change. Following her dream Mary took Sean and caught a flight to America. When they arrived Mary found a small flat with a tiny rent which could easily be paid, still that didn’t mean that she’d get to work one simple job and stay at home with her son, in fact she ended up getting three jobs once more in the hopes that after a couple of years she could save up enough to get a proper flat in a nice area. Sean was alone from the time he woke up to the time he went to sleep, having to get himself breakfast, prepare lunch, get to school and time and make sure he had a good dinner in the evenings. To most this seems like a horrible existence, but Sean isn’t most people and he loved it, the freedom was brilliant not to mention that it made all his friends at school jealous, well that and his British accent, which he somehow still holds. Mary never got to buy a nice flat; instead in two years time she ended up dieing of cancer. As it turned out Mary had known about the cancer for quite a while but she couldn’t afford the hospital bills and had no health insurance, so rather than upsetting Sean with it she simply kept it a secret. With his only uncle meeting an untimely end a short while after Sean was born and three of his grandparents being dead, the fourth being hospitalised on life support, Sean ended up being sent to an orphanage.
With no need to fit in and no care what people thought of him Sean spent the better part of three years walking the orphanage as a ghost that nobody saw or cared about. After which he finally just gave up on it, he had no reason to be depressed, he was the not the dead one, he still had himself, it was not like he had truly had anyone other than himself before, why should it be different now? There was no real point behind being sad, it was better to simply get over it and move on with his life so that he might actually find some form of happiness one day. After he finally snapped out of his ghost-like state the orphanage workers thought that things were turning up, in hindsight they were simply turning worse and he was putting on a masquerade that hid all his problems and refused to discuss them. Over time he grew to hate family, to hate the idea of being connected to anyone that much and relying on them, soon that grew into any form of connection and the only thing worse than family was a family with no blood ties. When he was fifteen it was decided that he should be sent to a shrink, this wasn’t exactly insightful or helpful, the shrink merely told him what he already knew. Still, however much he hated the idea he played along and the orphanage workers were relieved to have a “professional” telling them what was wrong with him, why he would not allow anyone to adopt him and why if they tried he would make their life a living hell. One last chance at redemption was offered to Sean in the visage of the Reynolds’ Family. Nobody really knows why Sean decided to accept the offer, most think it’s for the money, some think that’s it’s because he actually wants a family, and a rare few say it’s simply to get away from the orphanage. What everybody does know though is that there are certain conditions for both parties, well condition rather than conditions. For Sean it is that he must not cause trouble for them and must actually try to fit in, for the Reynolds’ it’s that they’ll keep making him visit his psychiatrist weekly.
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“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” - Frederick Keonig
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." - Oscar Wilde