Sweet Grotesque

[Penny]

Credit goes to the lovely SanityOuttheWindow from TS. c:

In short: we play a group of kids, who live at a rather bleak orphanage. In their past, they have had severe trauma... and afterwards, began to see a monster. Said monster is their new companion- a physical body to their traumas and fears, their imaginary friend, and best friend when they first come to this place...

BIO:

NAME:
AGE: (Under 18 if they're the kids)
APPEARANCE: (Anything goes)
BIO: (Include the trauma)
MONSTER NAME:
MONSTER APPEARANCE: (Again, can be anything)
MONSTER BIO: (Not a history, but about them.)

[JB]

NAME: Elam Avon
AGE: 12
APPEARANCE:
BIO: First and foremost, Elam was born into a broken home. His biological father (the status of his blood relations to the child are still ambiguous, given his mother's employment) had up and left well before Elam was born, and his mother, a drug-addicted prostitute, was vastly unprepared to raise a child of any sort. Many a time in the days before he could even walk or talk, Elam came a mere signature away from being put up for adoption. However, his mother worked hard to support her only child, curbing her addictions and attempting to leave her less-than-savory job.
However, circumstance dictated otherwise. Elam's mother, on call for a locally powerful and ruthless drug kingpin, witnessed the murder of an undercover police officer, and forced herself to alert the proper authorities, incurring the wrath of said drug kingpin and his criminal empire. As a key witness in the building case against this crime lord, the police placed Elam and his mother under constant surveillance, for their own safety. That all changed, one dark winter's night, when a cadre of goons contracted by the drug lord lobbed molotov cocktails into their home. By sheer luck alone, Elam had escaped with only minor injuries - but his mother was critically wounded, badly burned all over her body, and their home reduced to ash and cinder.
With his mother physically unable to take care of him anymore, along with the entire case gone cold without her testimony, Elam has recently arrived at the local orphanage; though he is no stranger to the system of child social services, Elam has been plagued by his trauma and survivor's guilt, along with near-nightly, harrowing nightmares . . .
MONSTER NAME: Balrog
MONSTER APPEARANCE:
MONSTER BIO: Balrog didn't surface in its true form for a good while. In truth, Elam's still getting used to the big guy, not that anyone would blame him . . . if they could see him. Balrog is, like many Grotesques, a gentle giant. He began like all fires do - just one small ember. In the aftermath of Elam's orphaning, the child had quickly become ill, developing fevers well over a healthy temperature. During these times, the boy would swear he could see a dancing ball of flame, or a vast change in temperature, though his descriptions were mostly passed off as delirious hallucinations.
In time, however, Balrog become more 'social' coming and going as he pleased, occasionally following Elam around the orphanage like a lost puppy. By the time he grew well over six feet, however, Elam knew full well that Balrog was somehow interconnected with him, and there was no getting rid of him quite yet.
Balrog, like many of his Grotesque counterparts, is silent and gentle, generally not one to make a scene or interact all that significantly. His relationship with Elam is a curious one; quite literally, it seems. Though he will stand by his mortal companion when the going gets rough, he usually just sticks to the sidelines, watching. He tends to appear when Elam is feeling grief - consciously or not - or when there is a source of fire or heat in the vicinity.

[Penny]

NAME: Maxwell Powers
AGE: 12
APPEARANCE:

BIO: Max has been here for the majority of his life, since he was about three. He'd gone missing, being found in a place far, far away from his home, and when they tried to find his parents- no one stepped forward. It was as if they'd never existed. He had been kidnapped, hurt beyond belief, and dumped someplace unfamiliar, only to be swept up by this orphanage. Needless to say, he feels ashamed, betrayed, upset, traumatized, but most of all, lonely. His only companion really has seemed to be the monster that started to follow him around- which he was terrified of at first, but grew into. He does resent it at times though- he thinks that it is what causes his nigh-constant nightmares.
MONSTER NAME: Inigo
MONSTER APPEARANCE: fc08.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/179/2/a/Airslider_by_KoMPepperochu.jpg
MONSTER BIO: Talks with a low, almost whispery voice. Constantly looms closer to the shadows. Can fly, though not well, by using it's hands, and swims wonderfully. Very protective over his master and companion.



NAME: Rose Lei
AGE: 14
APPEARANCE:
BIO: Rose is one of the newer kids to the orphanage. Sweet and happy, those within the orphanage think she's rather much a loon- since her parents died in a car crash, and yet she still was uppity. She often speaks of an entity called Lazarus, which much of the kids cannot see, but those that can are unsure of whether or not the monster is good or not...
MONSTER NAME: Lazarus
MONSTER APPEARANCE: fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/140/5/c/plane_of_life_by_gazer777-d3gskqw.jpg
MONSTER BIO: Silent and foreboding, Lazarus has a habit of being scary to those unfamiliar with it. As it seems, only Rose knows that he is good, and gentle enough to tame him (and use him as a pillow at night). He seems to represent both life and death at once- found outside to mark the start the fall and the spring.

[JW%]

NAME: Patrcia Hawke
AGE: 11(or maybe 12)
APPEARANCE: Athletic bundle of energy. Sharp features, natural platinum blond hair(usually up in pig tails), blue eyes that hint at turning hazel when she grows up, skin tone is somewhat dark(not just from being out and getting a tan whenever possible) but still within caucasian realms. Her body is reasonably gender neutral at this point, and probably won't ever grow into a full figured woman, but despite this and her sporty nature she only skirts the edge of being a tomboy. She likes to wear her sunshine yellow cover alls and faded blue shirts with the pretty flowers and butterflies on them. She hasn't yet hit any major growth spurts and is likely somewhat smaller than the rest of the children.
BIO: Patty was raised rather differently than most of the children here. Up until recently she had been living alone with "Daddy", who apparently had been home schooling her several grades above her age level, along with other training for purposes unknown. Patty will admit that "Daddy" was in fact an adopted father, he'd said so, but there's no records(legally her fingerprints were traced back to her "Daddy" who had assumed legal custody of her practially at birth who claimed her as abandoned). Signs point her "Daddy" having too much time and money on his hands, but needing to travel a lot and not really knowing how to deal with children. He was killed in a terrorist bombing, the next morning Patty was found by the police, having seen the early morning news report and then slipped way from one of a long string of "mommies" who had watched her when her "daddy" was not around, made her way across town, and was caught trying to dig through the rubble. Rather than turning her back over to one of her "mommies" who had no legal claim to her, she was sent to the orphanage.

Since then she's been a peppy fearless little thing, being somewhat of a handful as well as accidentally bullying the other children. She doesn't mean to of course, but she is perhaps too fearless and confident for her own good and few of the other children stand up to her. She's gotten herself into a few fights because of this, though again she didn't mean to she just pushed too hard and been too outgoing for her own good. The results of the fights have been embarrasing to everyone involved, as she actually held her own damage wise and tended to inflict more pain than she recieved through some kind of pressure point martial art.

Patty has been known to write letters to her "mommies" telling them she's doing well. The addresses are not always correct(she can't remember them), and neither her spelling nor penmenship is anywhere close to legible, but that hasn't stopped her yet.

MONSTER NAME: Patty simply calls it "Jaggie", though sometimes says that it's her daddy's true form. She's also said that it looks like a Jabberwocky, implying that's it's race.

MONSTER APPEARANCE: Take a lion, turn it's fur into thick steel wires(sharp when it fluffs up for a fight, but just flexible enough to be soft when relaxed) the color of midnight and with black tiger stripes, give it saber teeth(sometimes seen as organically serated), a large fox bat nose and ears, a scorpion like tail tip, and make it's forelimbs massive and ape-like, with large, almost human like clawed hands, extending out at the wrists into huge leathery wings(the trailing ends scalloped or "jagged" like the teeth) or holding close to it's body like a line of bone spikes and folded leather blanket, it's hind paws capable of bat-like climbing and hanging upside down.

"It looks nothing like a Jabberwocky. You sure she didn't mean Manticore or Pridewing? Oh come on, you know, Pridewings, like in World of Warcraft? What do you mean I'm fired? Oh, like you never take a few puffs before coming in to work at this place?"

MONSTER BIO: The creature is enthropy incarnate, representing that which is no longer there, which has passed on to a greater or greatest state of chaos and is no longer what it once was. It's touch/breath/gaze has been known to cause paint to peal, metal to rust, grass to wither and fallen leaves to compost(despite this it seems to have some control over the power, only using it for aestetic effect and doesn't apparently cause rapid aging or sickness in the people it interacts with). Considering this, Patty's statement that it's stinger tail and fangs are hollow and venomous with acid makes it seem like she's just gilding the lily(there's no sign this is true, and no reason for there to be venom, but no reason it wouldn't be either). It can be invisible in plain sight, or it can walk through shadows, it's size seems to depend on where it wants to be, always being just a little "too big" for whatever scene it appears in(sometimes appearing only partially, like it could only fit half its body through the shadow into the room). Sometimes there are lots of it(Patty says that there's only one, it just looks like it's in many different places at once because it can't decide where best to be, and then mutters something about quantum states and headaches that she hasn't quite figured out). It also seems to have some control or relation with gravity, as people have been known to feel heavier in it's presence, and children who have fallen while it's around land with no injury, claiming they felt like they floated down, even when they are unaware of it being around(like most Grotesqueries it conceals itself from most people).

Like all the Grotesqueries, the creature is very protective of it's child(the other children being protected or entertained by it simply because it's bored and they're around, not because it has any interest in their well being), and though Patty can often sweet talk it into doing things, for the most part it has a more paternal nature, sometimes actively working against Patty's wishes when it's in her best interest(such as refusing to carry her to the roof during a thunder storm and pinning her down and holding her still when she throws a temper tantrum). Despite displaying an incredible ferocity for protecting Patty, the creature mostly seems lazy and feline, though every so often it will bring... things into Patty's room at night, and seems to expect her or her roommates to fight and kill these injured and weakened phantasmal horrors, under close supervision of course(Patty usually manages to steal a kitchen knife or other weapons for these occasions, and usually puts it back afterwards). Other times it will just lay there taking up too much space on Patty's bed or in the room as a whole, and let the children pet it or even climb on it and use it as a pillow. The creatures purr often rattles the whole building at night, and can be mistaken for a large truck, train, or low flying jumbo jet passing by, but to the children it has a pleasant "white noise" effect, helping them to sleep and reminding them of when their parents/loved ones would carry them or take them on long car drives when they were very little.

[Alastor]

NAME: Maylene Westbrooke
AGE: 12
APPEARANCE:
BIO: An 'only' child (in actuality, she has a stillborn twin sister) who grew up in the nearby suburbs of another city. Her mother was incredibly bi-polar, frequently switching between abusing her and spoiling and treating her kindly. One night her mother had REALLY hurt her during a low swing. On the upswing, she realized what she had done and turned herself in. May landed in the orphanage with no family to go to.
MONSTER NAME: Lenny the Terrible and Jatore
MONSTER APPEARANCE:
MONSTER BIO: Lenny is the left head, with a kind-heart and humorous personality, if only from his own idiocy. Jatore is, to put i simply, a cold bitch. ...provided she's awake, often being asleep.

[Penny]

NAME: Petra Clarke
AGE: 24
APPEARANCE:

BIO: Petra was born and raised in a small town nearby, with two wonderful parents. That of course ended when she was quite young- around five or six- when a heavy snowstorm came through. The power out in their house, their parents would cook with a grill- inside the house. How she survived was a mystery- but she still remembers waking up one day with her parents unable to do such, and, like a smart child that she was, getting on her warmest clothes and running out to find her neighbors. She was left here, and grew up here with the monster that she has- who disappeared when she went away to college at 18 to become a nurse, but now haunts her every once in a while since she's back.
MONSTER NAME: Valhalla
MONSTER APPEARANCE:

MONSTER BIO: Valhalla is a mute Grotesque, and not the brightest- but very much brute force. It shows the utmost adoration and affection for Petra- sort of like a puppy dog.


NAME: Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Duncan
AGE: 43
APPEARANCE:

BIO: Teddy has some massive shoes to fill. Not only was he named after his parents' favorite president, but he inherited the orphanage from his Uncle Thomas, who was, at that time, considered to be a wonderful headmaster. Teddy has seen the place fall to shambles under him, and though he tries to keep the kids well and act as a father figure to them, he can't comprehend that maybe something else is going on... Something else like the monsters that live here...


NAME: Nancy Jameson
AGE: 36
APPEARANCE:

BIO: Nancy is the lady at the front desk. Rumor has it she and Teddy are both having massive affairs on their respective partners, but as of yet, nobody's quite sure yet...

[Alastor]

NAME: Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
AGE: 43
APPEARANCE:
BIO: Yes, he's that Shaggy. He's long since given up his days of being a hippie-slash-teen detective and now works at the orphanage as the janitor. He's still a hippie at heart, his time as a teen detective leading to him becoming permanently high and giving him the ability to see the monsters in the orphanage (though this might stem from a trauma as a child as well).

[Penny]

NAME: Sue Rodgers
AGE: 16
APPEARANCE:

BIO: He is the only child here with no trauma, and no Grotesque- even though he can see everyone's. He left his parents on his own (his parents being extremely neglectful of him, and soon perishing mysteriously), actually, at the age of seven, arriving around the same time as Max. He was alarmed at the monsters he saw here, but grew out of it. He's a supreme jerk, mostly just pissed he has a girl's name.

[surfingpichu]

NAME: Sophronia (Sophie) Vartle
AGE: 12
APPEARANCE: Sophie is a small, rather demure young girl with fair skin and dark hair that reaches her shoulders. She has grey eyes, and appears rather frail. She wears a long pleated red dress and red ribbons in her hair to match.
BIO: Sophie was the daughter of a rather wealthy couple who lived in upstate New York. Her father was fanatically religious and brought his children up to be the same. Sophie had a younger brother who was born severely epileptic which left him, from an early age, very frail and susceptible to disease. Seeing the young boy's affliction as a warning from God, or a curse of the devil, Sophie's father began to invest a good deal of time and money into seeking cures for his son's illness. When this started happening, their mother quickly left their father, calling him a loon for his ludicrous beliefs. Sophie grew very close to her brother, but without proper treatment his condition continued to degrade, as did her father's sanity. As the cures her father sought became more and more akin to torture Sophie was forced to watch quite helplessly as her sickly younger brother's condition slowly degraded, until one day Sophie discovered that her father had accidentally drowned the boy while attempting to perform a 'cleansing' ritual to free him from his curse. Sophie's father was arrested sequentially and Sophie found herself in the care of the Orphanage. Sophie was traumatized by the event, losing both her brother and father in one night, and is currently still trying to cope with their loss.
MONSTER NAME: Grendel
MONSTER APPEARANCE: A chimera of sorts, Grendel possesses a lion's head with the torso of a man. It walks on six furry legs, and is quite agile in spite of his rather large size. He possesses a long, whip like tail that can be used for grabbing onto things, and well as for whipping at things that present a threat. Two similar appendages protrude from this grotesque's back, serving similar functions to the tail. His skin is very hard and colored a deep grey, appearing to be scaly and thick, and his fur is a deep black color.
BIO: In spite of Grendel's rather vicious looking form, he is really quite docile and sensitive. The only time he is ever close to being hostile is when Sophie is being threatened. Though tame, Grendel is fiercely protective of Sophie, and rarely leaves her side. He can be a rather stubborn creature, and does not like to be ordered around, though he will take orders from Sophie when asked.

It is speculated that Grendel is actually a manifestation of Sophie's brother, Horatio's soul, or a manifestation of this that was created in order to protect her after her brother died, but all of this is rather unbased and does not have much evidence either for or against.

[Firefly]

Name: Perdita Smith

Age 13

Appearence:

Bio: Perdita was found abandoned in the street, as a baby. Luckily she was found, before she could die, and was taken to the orphanage. As such Perdita knows nothing about her past, not even her own name ( she was named by the orphanage after Shakepeare's Perdita, who suffered a similar fate). She ran away from the orphanage at one point, and was found living in the streets, and was brought back. Perdita suffers from abandonment issues, and is out of touch with reality. She spends most of her time reading books, and avoiding contact with people. Her favorite books are about Greek Mythology which lead to her monster developing into what it became.

Monster Name: Helen, Lucia, Satin

Monster Appearence: images.elfwood.com/art/t/r/trumbo/cerberus.jpg[/img]

Monster Bio: Helen is the head on the left. She has the oldest personality of the three and tends to be rather cranky and lazy and prefers to sleep all day. The middle head is Lucia, who is like a mother figure to Perdita, always giving kind words and advice when she’s troubled. The head on the right is Satin who is a whirlwind of energy and is always ready o play and have fun… much to Helen’s annoyance. Lucia serves as a mediator between them.