NAME Gilman, Mordecai
AGE 23 GENDER male SEXUALITY heterosexual
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Friendly and approachable, Mordecai was an anomaly amongst his family. Making friends always came easily to him and he greatly preferred the company of others opposed to being alone. However, what he had in kindness he lacked in bravery. If it's one thing in life that has always held him back, it was his cowardice and risk-aversion. Mordecai never handled stress well and was overall a high-strung person that frightened easily, though he would call it self-preservation.
HOMETOWN Newburyport, MA OCCUPATION student
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The past twenty-three years of Mordecai's life had been pleasantly normal. Born the only child to Conrad and Genevieve Gilman, he seldom spent a moment without friends or family nearby. It wasn't so much his own life and experiences, but his family as a whole that could be considered unusual.
The Gilmans weren't a favorable bunch; they had arrived in Newburyport seemingly overnight towards the end of the 1920s. Their reputation would decline before plateauing at "standoffish and odd". A favorite subject within the rumor mill, whispers and conjectures spread about them over the years, from being backwoods inbreds to practitioners of obscure and terrible occult rituals. It was all hearsay as far as Mordecai knew, although he would agree that they could be a little strange. Even before he was born, his own parents union was met with contempt on his mother's end of the family. Deeply religious and superstitious, Mordecai's maternal grandparents described the Gilmans as "godless and unclean." It wasn't until after he was a few years old that his mother's family began to speak with them again.
Despite all the turmoil threaded into his ancestry, Mordecai spent most of his life unbothered by it. It wasn't until recently that he paid any mind to the outlandish tales, when his father disappeared.
The Gilman's suffered from what had been described to him as "a skin condition" that would only begin to develop later in life. His father was no exception -- as his "condition" progressed, he became more and more reclusive until he stopped leaving the house entirely. Going from a constant presence to gone without a trace left Mordecai and his mother in a state of nauseated panic. All that remained was a folded up note left at Mordecai's bedside:
"When we meet again, you will already know."
Mordecai grew suspicious over the other Gilman's cold indifference, as if they weren't surprised at all. If anything, they found Mordecai's distress something to sneer at, like he was a mewling child that missed his daddy.
His father never told him about their family -- where they came from -- what they are. It seemed like a crude joke, but his family stood firm on what had happened and why. It was something that would happen to all of them in due time.
Mordecai couldn't bring himself to tell his mother the truth -- would she even believe him if he did? Would she be better off thinking her husband was dead, or that he was something inhuman, gone to live forever without her?
For the next few years, he remained in Newburyport with his mother, "helping" her search for a missing man that was hardly either of those things at all. It wasn't until life began to return to some guise of normalcy that Mordecai left for college a few years later than he initially planned.
He had heard of a college in Arkham that was said to be in possession of strange and esoteric knowledge -- maybe there was something he could do, if not for his father, then at least himself.
Before it was too late for him too.
The Gilmans weren't a favorable bunch; they had arrived in Newburyport seemingly overnight towards the end of the 1920s. Their reputation would decline before plateauing at "standoffish and odd". A favorite subject within the rumor mill, whispers and conjectures spread about them over the years, from being backwoods inbreds to practitioners of obscure and terrible occult rituals. It was all hearsay as far as Mordecai knew, although he would agree that they could be a little strange. Even before he was born, his own parents union was met with contempt on his mother's end of the family. Deeply religious and superstitious, Mordecai's maternal grandparents described the Gilmans as "godless and unclean." It wasn't until after he was a few years old that his mother's family began to speak with them again.
Despite all the turmoil threaded into his ancestry, Mordecai spent most of his life unbothered by it. It wasn't until recently that he paid any mind to the outlandish tales, when his father disappeared.
The Gilman's suffered from what had been described to him as "a skin condition" that would only begin to develop later in life. His father was no exception -- as his "condition" progressed, he became more and more reclusive until he stopped leaving the house entirely. Going from a constant presence to gone without a trace left Mordecai and his mother in a state of nauseated panic. All that remained was a folded up note left at Mordecai's bedside:
"When we meet again, you will already know."
Mordecai grew suspicious over the other Gilman's cold indifference, as if they weren't surprised at all. If anything, they found Mordecai's distress something to sneer at, like he was a mewling child that missed his daddy.
His father never told him about their family -- where they came from -- what they are. It seemed like a crude joke, but his family stood firm on what had happened and why. It was something that would happen to all of them in due time.
Mordecai couldn't bring himself to tell his mother the truth -- would she even believe him if he did? Would she be better off thinking her husband was dead, or that he was something inhuman, gone to live forever without her?
For the next few years, he remained in Newburyport with his mother, "helping" her search for a missing man that was hardly either of those things at all. It wasn't until life began to return to some guise of normalcy that Mordecai left for college a few years later than he initially planned.
He had heard of a college in Arkham that was said to be in possession of strange and esoteric knowledge -- maybe there was something he could do, if not for his father, then at least himself.
Before it was too late for him too.
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It was unusual for Mordecai's roommate to not return to their dorm at the end of the day.
FACECLAIM Caleb Landry Jones
MBTI ENTP
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Mordecai has been a smoker since his late teens. He has tried to quit, but with little success.
