NAME: Lancaster, Matthew Cornelias

NICKNAME(S): Matt (Only good friends)

SEX: Male

AGE: 26

HEIGHT: 6'4"

WEIGHT: 151lbs

CONCERNS: Grief that has progressed into depression as well as some delusions. He has auditory and visual hallucinations and is quick to feel guilty about things. He eats small amounts (slowing descending in the underweight category) and doesn't wish to sleep due to nightmares. He has attempted suicide once or twice, but is usually easily comforted with just some kind words and a caring touch, such as a hand on his shoulder or a hug. He tends to go overboard with drinking when he had access to it and will often abuse medication if he's given the whole bottle and trusted to medicate himself. The mention of the names 'Abby', 'Abigail', or 'Aurthur' will often send him into an abrupt relapse in which he seems to completely break down.

BRIEF PERSONALITY SUMMARY: Matthew is a quiet, soft spoken man. He is somewhat timid and usually as a tiny, tiny smile on his face, which disappears often. He seems almost lost most of the time, prone to simply wander about the house looking at this or that. He eats meager amounts of food and doesn't usually say much when in a room with other people who aren't speaking directly to him. He is, however, a very kind individual. He's always willing to help and will volunteer to do things for others. He is generous, compassionate, and sensitive, which is why they let him into The Minthill House. He gets along well with others and has a very submissive kind of personal, not dominant at all.

BIO: Matthew was adopted at the age of six, his mother dying of a disease and his father having left his mother once he found out she was pregnant. He was raised by an older couple who adopted many kids as their own. He went through school being picked on as a nerd or a geek due to his extreme disinterest of sports and his emphasis of study and fine arts. He became and extremely skilled tenor, violinist, and pianist, going to college to be an Orchestra and Choir teacher. While in school, he met his soon-to-be wife, Abigail Sweeten. After he graduated and got a job teaching high school choir and orchestra, he and Abigail married. About a year later, Abigail told him that she was pregnant, and the couple celebrated. Wanting to keep the gender a surprise, they decided for a boy, he would be named Arthur, and a girl would be named Rosalina.

One fateful day however, Matthew and Abby were driving home from Abby's relative's house in a storm when a tree was struck by lightning and fell on the road. They swerved to avoid the tree, but the car swiped the tree and tumbled off the road. flipping four times. The accident killed both Abigail, and their unborn child. Matthew waited on the side of the country road for hours, fading in and out of consciousness, before help came and took Abby's lifeless body away. Matthew began showing symptoms just after he was released from the hospital (After many surgeries and three months) with the knowledge that Abby had not survived and that his unborn child, Arthur, was killed as well. Since then, his friends has been claiming that he had gone insane, sometimes seeing them and yelling in fear, or sometimes coming to his home to check on him and finding him hiding somewhere, sobbing hysterically, and apologizing as if Abby were there. On occasion, they'd come to spend time with him and he'd spent hours simply wandering around his own house, walking from room to room and occasionally staring out a window. They finally got him help for Matthew overdosed on sleeping pills and they found him in his house, on the bathroom floor, unconscious and lying in a puddle of vomit.

REFERRED BY: Christopher Blum, family friend and Kyle Lancaster, brother.

NOTES: Matthew has long white scars on various places, one from his left shoulderblade curving around the side to his shoulder, one from his left collarbone to just under his right pec, and one from the left side of his left knee across he front to the right side of his left ankle (From the car accident). He's got various other scars all over his body from the crash, but the previously mentioned scars are the largest. Matthew walks with a slight limp. He loves Turtles, blue turtles especially.