Morris Garlant

Slender

Unassuming

Expressive (if not paying attention, which is rare). He'd remind you of a cross between Nicolas Cage, Evan Peters, and Ashton Kutcher.

Bluish-purple hair

Tends to cock his head and lift his chin when he's concentrating; tends to stare into space when he's not

Morris is fantastically attractive when he wants or cares to be, and fantastically ordinary otherwise.

Dresses like a college student

Specialization is for insects. Morris is just...lucky.

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Male

Straight.

Morris Garlant received his high school diplomacy in [redacted] at [redacted]

S.E.N.T.I.N.E.L.

Various honors societies

A few exes a few too quickly

Everyone Morris has ever loved -- or ever known -- never existed at all. Probably.

The epic extent of Morris's intellect, reasoning power, and cognitive capabilities, well in excess of what would be expected by fantastic heroes and wizards of yore, is still less than the raw power of his inherent fortune. Probabilities bend to conform to his best interests before he even knows what they are, and apparently they always already have. Morris seems to embody the butterfly effect, if the butterfly effect were a laser-focused precision tool wielded by an expert for whom minute and delicate operations were as automatic as driving while listening to an audiobook.

Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted. The consequences probably won't be ghastly. For Morris.

No.

All those I loved, they never lived

But never die. No aeons strange

But only this one time, to which I give

All fortune, luck, and will

From which to range to lost Carcosa

Where black stars are hanging still.

Savvy to deception, disguises, politics, academics, bureaucracy, and history that was and never was

Inept with anything on computers that isn't an old PC game. Except that now "old" means "pre-apocalyptic". All six of them. So much for that unfinished game of Alpha Centauri.

Likes: simulations, counterfactuals, Ramen, espionage, storytelling, situations of uncertainty, goth chicks, money, coin collecting, Soviet chic, conspiracy theories, JFK, George Orwell, X-Files, Nicolas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola

Dislikes: boredom, RPGs, meangirls, dumb jocks, overly predictable plot twists, tired cliches, overused tropes, Big Brother, Ashton Kutcher, Henry Ford, Exxon

Incredibly, heroically, fantastically, epically lucky in the most utterly improbable of ways with even more improbable frequency.

Morris is also improbably great at scrying, remote viewing, and astral projection.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Whoever "they" are. They probably know who you are.

So it's better not to get too close to anyone. Especially when they might never have existed at all and still somehow be used against you.

Likes taking notes by hand.

College student.

None ever existed...

Carcosa

Blending in (or standing out) as needed

Morris can have an arrogant stance and demeanor if he isn't taking care not to, which he usually is

Numismatics, likes butterflies, mixology, new weird metafiction, magical realism, retro pre-VR PC gaming

Like, totally 90s