avoidant personality disorder
mania
eccentricity

toby is always happy. he simply doesn't do sad. somewhere along the line when he was growing up, someone forgot to mention that it was okay to let the happiness slip once in a while. the closest he gets to any other emotion is frustration at the weird feelings in himself that he can't express: sadness, anger, apathy. he always cares, even if it's nothing to do with him. he'll be the first to come and hug you even if he's never met you before. he's capable of happiness, frustration and fear, though fear quickly flickers to a sort of numb, dreamy look where he tries to convince both himself and the other person that it's just a game and that he was 'got good'. even if he's hit, beaten black and blue or hurt, he'll just say he didn't like that game and can they please not play it again? it's almost impossible to phase him, he'll keep coming back for more whether you want him to or not. he can be slightly irritating because of this.

toby was born as the youngest child to marianne and harold granger, one of two. his elder sister, sasha, was born deaf, so it was second nature to toby to learn sign language. he speaks it as fluently as he speaks english. his parents called him their bundle of joy because he was always happy, even as a baby; he's highly intelligent but lacks any kind of common sense at all, to the point of barely being able to function on his own. even when you think he isn't listening, he probably is; though he'll be happily painting away or writing stories - happy ones, of course. he didn't do sad; ever.

this would all be perfectly normal if it wasn't for one thing. just over a year ago, toby's sister passed away in a very violent and traumatising way, which toby had to witness. tired of her disability, she spiralled into a pit of self loathing which her parents put down to teenage angst, but she told toby it was more. he did his best to cheer her up, but he couldn't stop her from hacking at her arms and taking up with the bad crowd from school. he watched her as she took a badly cut dose of heroin and had a reaction, thinking he'd lost her then only to be relieved when she pulled through. unfortunately, she then refused to pay for that bad batch of heroin and the dealer was not amused. toby hid in his cupboard, quiet and scared as a mouse as he watched his sister being stabbed repeatedly to death. that was the very last night he ever cried properly. he was sad for a few days, then realised his parents needed him, and put on a happy face - a face he hasn't taken off since. his parents told him it was okay to cry - he smiled and said he didn't know what they were talking about.

it was clear their little bundle of joy had developed problems showing emotion other than happiness, but what they couldnt figure out was why - it was more than the average trying to be happy for his parents, he just couldn't. he spoke brightly at his sisters funeral, not shedding a tear; he laughed in his counselling meetings. they were all entirely baffled, but willing to carry on with it til he healed in his own time until the mania set in. toby would stay up all night, too hyped up to sleep, only to crash on the floor or wherever he happened to be when his body just couldn't take anymore. he was a morning person, a night owl, athletic to the extreme - he just couldn't stop moving, his speech became erratically fast and he twitched every time he stood still.

terrified by their sons behaviour, worried he was going to kill himself through this nonstop activity, his parents sent him here because they heard it was the best. compared to the other inmates here, toby is totally innocent - he's a virgin and he wouldn't hurt a fly, ever.

na

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bullimia
anorexia
heroin addiction
delusions

Gabriele is fidgety and easily irritated, quick to attack and has a vicious tongue when needed.
He has been known to hit people for just looking at him the wrong way, usually when he is
exhausted from lack of sleep, not eating and living off of caffeine. he is dedicated to his
brother, determined to be the best brother possible to make up for the time they've lost.
he wont let anyone get in the way of being with alessandro. granted his ideas of being together are a little messed up, but sex=love to gabriele, it's only what comes naturally to him. he is tormented by his past but is determined to have people remember him, not as that italian whore orphan, but as a good person who overcame their troubles. he is obsessed with the thought that this world is simply 'the matrix' and he will be given his second chance when he escapes it.

gabriele devia was born in the backstreets of rome, italy, quite literally. his mother, a
heavily pregnant fifteen year old prostitute (child prostitution was common in italy in
those who looked old enough and were unfortunate enough to gain 'masters'. his mother
was carrying twins, the two children grew up together in
a very cruel orphanage, with sour faced women to
care for the bastard children, the pregnancies the master
would not allow to interfere with his whores work. any
one of the women in that orphanage could have been
gabriele's mother, he had no idea. when he was growing up,
it simply wasn't important. Gabriele was 5 years old
the first time he was abused, the master bundling a burly
man into his bedroom in the middle of the night and
forcing him to perform sexual acts on him. his first experience of
sex was aged 10, with a small woman who pretended to
be nice to him then beat him afterwards with a poker and
called him filthy. Somehow, he managed to keep this a
secret from Sandy, who he hoped to keep safe from
the abuse. it was around this time that Gabriele took
an interest in swords and was allowed, in return for his
continued prostitution, to take lessons - after all, he could
pay his own way. he threw himself into the distraction,
becoming instantly good at his new hobby. the teacher
was so impressed that she put him forward for
his first
major competition when he was just 13 years old. he
came second on account of the fact he secretly
had taken a beating and been raped by his master the
night before for daring to set the competition up in the
first place. His failure to impress quickly ruined his one chance
of escape. He came back a few weeks later to find a note from
Alessandro, stating that he was gone but he couldn't say where
or they would find him, but that he hoped he got out too
and when he did, he would be waiting for him. the note had
contained a small set of numbers, their code, a forwarding
address which gabe stuffed inside a locket he was allowed
to wear. to begin with, he shut out the pain of losing his
twin, going back to his life of prostitution with only the
barest pain in his eyes. it wasn't until one night, when
he was almost fourteen, he was lying in bed with two of
the older female whores who were taking pity on him after
he had taken a serious beating, that he found an escape.
one of them tied his arm, slipping a needle into his veins
and then he was free, safe where they couldn't touch
him. the matrix was on tv and suddenly he understood, he
knew that was the truth; he had to escape this, his
personal matrix. that was where sandy would be, why he had
been forced to write in code. it all made much more sense.
he could do anything when he was high, and no one cared
anyway - it gave him less money to escape on and more
versatility when he was fucking because he couldn't feel pain as well.

it took him til he was 17 to escape, finally breaking out of
one of his clients houses and running, just running. he didn't
know where he was going. he was wanted, owed a shitload
of money on heroin, his master was after him - he spent the
next two years on the run before being shipped to
fairways after he was found huddling, terrified, very
underweight, shaking in withdrawal and muttering on
about the matrix. here he found alessandro, and actually
wants to be healthy again, though he will not let go of his
matrix belief, not when it's the only thing which made
him survive this long.

na

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
intermittent explosive disorder.
histronic personality disorder.
erotomania.

on the outside, mikey could appear quite normal, happy and bubbly, always having a smile on his face. he could be described as an excited puppy, his personality sometimes being a little over-bearing.

he loves to be the centre of attention, and he's constantly happy, always singing or dancing or rushing around doing things. he also likes to look after people, especially his best friend kieran anderson, whom he had looked after for six years, and he feels its his duty to protect him.

mikey can be a very loveable person, always wanting to cuddle someone, extremely affectionate. he can't stand it when people hate him, because he just likes to make friends.

mikey has a dark side to him, one which he doesn't let come into view very often. he is obsessive, especially with kieran, whom he is completely and madly in love with. he will do anything for kieran, and he wants to be with him so badly.

he is very dependant on others, and he hates being alone, which is why he traced kieran to fairways. he can be extremely jealous, and because of that, he can get violent. he can seem extremely creepy at times, watching people from afar, and observing them.

if you were to ask mikey about his life before he came to work for the andersons, he wouldn't be able to tell you much. his mother and father treated him like a servant around the house, making him do everything for them. he was cooking, cleaning, paying the bills and managing the house by the time he was six years old, while his father worked, and his mother stayed at home.

his mother was a cocaine and heroin addict, and what little money them family made went to the upkeep of the house, so she had to make money for her fix somehow. she had quite a lot of associates on the drug scene, and she started inviting them into the house, at different times during the day, while mikey's father was out, and made mikey do sexual favours for them in exchange for money.

eventually, his mother ran up a debt that couldn't be fixed easily, and she sold mikey, who was ten years old at the time, to one of her regular clients, who happened to work at the anderson household, where the drug experiements were taking place.

mikey was still treated as a sex slave by the man, but under the pretence that he was just another servant working at the house. no one questioned why someone who was so young had a full time job.

this was when he met kieran, the boy he fell in love with at first glance, even if he was unconcious at their first meeting time. from then on, mikey made a promise to himself to protect ki from harm, and help him get away from his father.

he would fight off the men in the warehouse each night, dragging kieran to safety after his father was done with him. he would try and take care of him as best as he could, even if it was emotionally draining sometimes, and he would often get beaten for being so disobedient.

he became obsessed with ki, treasuring those moments when the boy was fully awake and could talk to him. but most of the time, this wasn't possible, and so he made up conversations in his head, stories about his and kieran's adventures. he would often take photos of them too, while kieran was passed out, and made a scrapbook of their time together.

mikey ran away from the anderson household a week before kieran murdered his parents. he got hold of police records, and about a month or so after kieran was admitted to fairways, he tracked him, and checked himself in, determined to win his heart.

i'm keeping him. :]

Rudolph Tiberius Deluca
Salem Charlie Montague