Name: Cary Copeland
Age: 30
Sexuality: Demisexual
Occupation: Journalist // Amateur Artist
Diagnosis:
Giovannini Mirror Syndrome
Because of the accident, Cary experienced serve brain damage, which caused the lobe responsible for personality was damaged. This stopped his personality from developing. Further so, because he does not remember who he is as a person, Cary will reflect the personality and actions of the person who is talking to him.
With medication, Cary can function fairly well and can develop his own personality. The meds aren't fully working however, and Cary must take them often.
Experience:
Cary has not been on his meds since the facility. He has been mirroring the same people for a while, but the facility have been forcing him into rooms with violent patients to record how quickly he can mirror them. However, one of the nurses has been sneaking his meds into his food, so he can be himself.
Personality:
|| Playful
|| Lazy
|| Childish
|| Good-Listener
|| Creative
||
Before the accident, Cary was always an extrovert. He loved to hear people's opinions on everything and was energized by them. He hates to be alone and it can make him quite down when left alone for a while.
Cary is childish and and playful. He never really grew up from his teen stage, and many people find his natural personality annoying. Cary is also very lazy, at home, he's always in his sweatpants, his apartment is littered with cereal boxes.
Cary makes a good friend, since he's a great listener. He loves to try to help people, even if he isn't exactly the best adviser.
- Unfortunately, because of his disorder, many people don't see his personality often.
Bio:
Cary has divorced parents and two brothers. He grew up as a friendly kid in a comfy surrounding. It wasn't until he was 15 things changed. His father was drunk driving, his eldest son in the front and Cary and his brother in the back. Cary an his brother weren't strapped in properly when his father skidded off the road and into a tree, killing the eldest brother.
His mother blamed his father. His brother was paralyzed from the waist down, and Cary had brain damage. At first, things seemed to be okay, Cary began to mirror his drunk father, and got progressively more violent. His father took him to the doctor's, who thought he had anger problems and sectioned him for a short while. This is where he began to mirror his therapist.
At 19, he finally was diagnosed with the rare mirror syndrome, and began taking his meds.
At 21, Cary finally got into Journalism school. He got a good degree and ended up writing for his local paper. He also took up painting, turning his apartment into a giant canvas.
When he was 25, Cary didn't collect his meds and stopped taking them for a while. He began to mirror his boss, attempting to tell people what to do. When his boss found out about his syndrome, he attempted to get Cary into hospital, but Cary resisted, refusing to believe he had a problem. When he got there, Cary would continue to mimic other patients and doctors, getting himself into a lot of unnecessary fights.
Other:
+ Cary spends a lot of his time repainting his apartment. The entire floor, ceiling and walls are splattered with bright colours.
+ He's very close to his older brother. Since both his mother and father find it too hard to look after the both of them, he takes care of Cary during the holidays, and allows him to mimic him a lot, since the meds don't always do their job.
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Name: Parker Troy
Age: 23
Sexuality: Bisexual
Occupation: Gym assistant
Diagnosis:
Myoclonus (hemifacial spasm) || Spasmodic Dysphonia || Drug Addiction ||
Parker struggles with facial and vocal twitches. His face twitches and spasms often, which he can't control. It's mainly his nose and upper lip. He also struggles with Spasmodic dysphonia, which stops him from being able to talk without sounding breathless. His vocal chords tighten at random moments, making his voice go higher pitch, or making certain words sound quiet. To try to make himself sound better, he usually tries to whisper.
He also struggles with addiction to cocaine. He doesn't feel right without sniffing some coke, and usually tries to get himself clean, but it never works.
Experience:
Parker has been inside the hospital for a couple of months, joining when the Facility was just taking over. Most of his pain came from the 'doctors' taking him on and off drugs, forcing him to inject, snort and smoke his drug to record his reactions and withdrawals.
Personality:
|| Friendly
|| Insecure
|| Paranoid
|| Emotional
|| Affectionate
||
Generally, Parker tries his best to be affectionate and friendly to the people he meets. He tries his best to keep himself as approachable, but many people find it hard to look past his facial and vocal spasms.
Often, Parker is very insecure. He worries about his voice and talks in whispers. He worries that nobody will ever find him attractive because of his twitches, and it scares him to think he'll end up alone. This also makes him very paranoid. Everytime he meets somebody new, he gets nervous they don't like him.
When he takes coke, it depends on his earlier mood to how he'd react. If he was in a better mood, the coke elevates his mood to extremes, making him erratic and giving a feeling of invincibility. However, it can also make him very paranoid and borderline delusional.
Bio:
Parker was born to two wealthy parents. He was an only child, and grew up in wealth. He was a talented sportsman, and it looked likely for him to go into a career in athletics. His facial twitches developed when he was 10, and then his vocal twitches. His parents first thought it was puberty, but it continued into his teens.
Around 13, Parker began to get bullied for his twitches, which increased his anxiety, making his twitches worse. Soon, he stopped going to sports practice and become more and more isolated.
At 17, Parker got involved with some stoners, who introduced him to weed. It proved to make his twitches slightly less noticeable, and certainly calmed his nerves. His parents were strongly against drugs, and attempted to keep him in the house.
He began to become rebellious, and started to see his druggie friends for the harder stuff. He went to parties, drank and smoked. His parents had given up at 18. They decided to kick him out. Parker stayed at friends house as he slowly got hooked on the coke.
He lost his chance to go to sports college, and worked in several gyms. He started off as a parkour coach, but failed to get sober, and ended up loosing his job.
Other:
+ Parker doesn't like to listen to much music, unless he's high. He likes to listen to to upbeat techno.
+ He used to be a Christian, but slowly moved away from believing.