For our Narrative II project in English, we were tasked with creating an original story with other students in our class. Together, each group would work to create compelling and deep characters and place them into a world and create a story. My group chose to create a story about loss and found family where a character sets off to find their brother in a dark, dystopian, and sci-fi world.
Character Biography
As sort of our introduction to the Worldbuilding unit, we had to create a characters to help flesh out our world. You can find out about my character, Mori, below.
Age: 20
Occupation: Unemployed
Gender: Male
Home: WESTERN WASTE DISPOSAL DRAIN 04(closed due to pipe fault)
Parents: Casus(missing), luck(deceased)
Height: 6’2”
Basic Visual/Behavioral description:
Mori is a Sergal who mostly keeps to himself out of social anxiety. Mori is described in his records as “tall and a bit boney here and there…always slinking with bad posture unless you can enthral him; he’ll snap up in an instant and investigate whatever caught his attention.” A testimony of Mori’s appearance from a local shop keeper[1] was as follow’s: “Such a nervous lookin fella! Always so silen’. Can neva’ ear im’ approachin’. Dispait’ tha, e’ can be quite clumsy wih’ dem proses[shorthand for prosthetics] e’ as’! When I trieda’ poke im’ bout is’ proses…is’ eyes went wide n’ he stood up ta’ full heigh’! E’ made me fall back on mah behaihnd he stood up so quick. Tha’ stare e’ gave me… eugh(shivers). He ran outa’ da’ store afta e’ gave me dat heart attac’!” Another testimony from a neighbor goes as follows: “Do I know Mori personally? Ha! Well…sort of. I mean, I don’t know too much about his character but I know about his background; ya know, since I’m an information broker? Gah! Whatever! Anyway, Mori’s parents… well his mom was turned into a coat and his dad…well, no one really knows what happened to his dad. His past? After his mom was taken down, he was taken away and had some pretty nasty stuff done to him. The details aren’t free but I can tell you this: those proses aren’t on him by choice…something, something, grey building in the watterhen[2] zone.”Noticeable habits:
He mostly slinks unnoticed through town. He tries to keep a low profile since he has a hard time talking to people. He keeps a thick, worn cloak tightly wrapped around himself and conceals himself in it. He gets tense if people try to talk to him and he can’t keep eye contact very well. He’s usually just wandering around town, looking in shop windows and admiring antiques and artisan works(somehow, his posture gets better when observing the crafts). He can disappear faster than the blink of an eye and his footsteps are as quiet as a cat. When pressed about his prosthetics, he stands up tall and locks eye contact. He does this for a few seconds then vanishes when the person blinks. He runs off to a dark corner where no one is and quietly cries.Personal things:
He doesn’t have very good experience with people who say that “they’re here to help”. The last person who said that to him traumatized him and gave him his signature prosthetics. Because of that, he now has an extremely bad view on raptors[3] and people who may actually be trying to help him. His prosthetics are his sore spot and if people even mention them casually, he gets reminders of what happened. Because of what he went through when he was younger, he can no longer interact normally with people. He thinks everyone is trying to hurt him. Everyone except his pet Snippy[4]. He loves Snippy. He would literally go back to that place for Snippy.Core:
He wants to see his family again. He wants to have his body back. He wants to get a house in the upper layers to live in. He doesn’t want to ever see the marsh ever again. Most of all, he wants the “bad ones” gone so no one has to ever go through the same thing that he had to go through. He wants to get Snippy a nice bed and fresh food. He’s just so cautious of those around him that he can’t focus on the things that he wants.
Worldbuilding Pitch Video
To close this project, we created a pitch video. It basically summarizes our storyline and gives some details about the other characters