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[poeticaccountant]

Player: Serina
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Age: 35+
Pronoun: She/Her
Timezone: US Pacific Time
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Character Name: Morgan Wynn
Character Canon: Original
Canon Point: N/A (currently 1892 in his world)
Age: 24

Crime: Sodomy. Morgan is a gay man who knows he is "inverted" and has desires that go against what society and the Church he doesn't really follow expect of him. I chose this crime for him as Morgan is secretly but comfortably gay and would openly live as he pleases if he wouldn't be jailed for the rest of his life for it. He's also made friends with many others who are gay or bisexual, further proliferating the crime he's accused of.

Background: No CRAU.

Background on Morgan Wynn, cw: parental death

Born in London, Morgan Wynn is the only child of Arthur Wynn and his late wife, Morgan. Given his name to honor his mother's memory, the babe was raised in London mostly by a governess, tutors, and the household staff at the family's small estate. His father left the young boy behind at the age of four, when he moved to India to open a new branch of his growing business. His son was given every luxury and necessity to have a productive childhood as a means of grooming him to become part of the family business once he was old enough. As such, Morgan was never moved from London, so he could grow up in the city where he's expected to inherit familial responsibilities.

Arthur Wynn returns to England rarely, and on one trip took a new wife and moved her to India with him, where they began a new family. Morgan has never met any of his half-siblings, and can count on one hand the number of times he remembers meeting his father in person. He considers his closest friends - those gathered during his schooling and since then as a young, working adult - to be more of his family as a result. In time, he's expected to court and marry a woman of the appropriate social class to begin his own family, but his quiet nature and frequent swoons have given him the leniency of more time free of this fate.

By day, Morgan is an accountant for his father's business. Although he's one day expected to take a greater role as an owner or chief financial officer, the young man has (so far) successfully pushed back on the idea. Morgan has no desire to be a leader or to manage other people. He has a love of the complexity and elegance of balancing books, finding and addressing errors, and improving the business from his small corner office. With his father far from the London office, no one who works with the young man expects he'll ever be forced to take on more than what he's comfortable with.

When not in the thick of his accounting work, Morgan appreciates theater and poetry, and has a weakness for the most romantic among them. He frequents both West and East End theaters, eagerly attending plays with friends or by himself. He spends several evenings a week out with friends at various clubs or theaters, and the rest in the modest home settled neatly between the West and East Ends he's purchased for himself after selling the family estate (there was no need to keep it when his father would never use it and when Morgan is trying to find a way out of marrying). He devours poetry, plays, and literature at a frantic pace, and has recently taken up writing poetry himself at a friend's insistence. Someday, he hopes to have enough poems to publish a collection, which can then be performed in salons and libraries across the whole of London.

Outside of his passions for the arts and romance, the young accountant hides two secrets from the world. The first is his religious beliefs; while appearing to be an upstanding Christian man, Morgan is a Pagan. His spirituality is muted due to its secrecy, and many of his beliefs are ill-formed in his head, but he keeps to them as yet another way of honoring the mother he never knew. Morgan's second secret is that he's inverted. With the scandal that is being an openly homosexual man in England, he keeps his romantic desires completely to himself. When asked why he doesn't marry, Morgan insists marriage isn't the life for him, and that his frequent swoons would make him a poor husband. In truth, he knows he will never find happiness with any woman he would be forced to marry. The only people who fully know of his proclivities are the acting troupe he's endeared himself to as they're the only ones who have seen him flirt with and kiss other men.

Personality: Morgan is best described as a "soft" man by those closest to him. He's quiet and warm in nature, forever dreamy about stories (especially faerie stories), generous of spirit and time with his friends, and very accepting of what people tell him without checking for the truth. It makes him naive and gullible at times, something he frowns upon by telling others that he can't read and know everything about the world and would rather have a "good faith" view of the world than to be cynical or pessimistic. His worldview is one that values beauty and honesty, even when it means he gets hurt by it when he learns the hard way about a person or some event happening in the world, such as finding out that the first man he ever kissed did so on a dare and never intended to reciprocate Morgan's feelings. Actors can be fickle and cruel, something Morgan knew, but being hurt like this was a stark reminder that not every story is a happy one.

Morgan is also a determined and passionate man. Society demands that Morgan conform to it and to his father's wishes in taking a wife and starting a family now that he is an established career accountant, and Morgan does everything possible to avoid it. While he'll never be able to marry anyone he loves, he craves a life of love with someone who loves him in the same way, leading him to find excuse after excuse to put off courting anyone. Doing so allows him to find inspiration for his poetry in the books he reads, the plays he sees, and the actors he spends time with when they're off stage. He writes of love and romance after experiencing precious little of it, and he never stops looking for the beauty piece of art he encounters. He'd argue that accounting books are a form of art all their own, though he knows he's an oddity in that way; he won't write any poems about his day job, but he'll happily talk the night away about it if anyone gives him the chance.

There is also a thread of anxiety that lives in Morgan at all times. Because being gay is illegal where he lives, he is on edge just enough to be noticed by the people around him if he is around men he finds attractive or in a situation where anything untoward could be implied about him. This leads to him being overwhelmed easily and, in conjunction with his frail physical state, leads to swoons (fainting) on the regular. Friends call him eccentric as a result, and Morgan desperately clings to that explanation whenever he explains that his body gives out whenever he's under too much stress, self-imposed or otherwise.

Abilities: Morgan is your standard, non-magical human. He's a skilled accountant and an aspiring poet, but otherwise a fairly weak and somewhat sickly man.

Samples: TDM TL | Additional TDM sample

Questions: None!