CIARÁN MURPHY 24 years old. Second generation Irish 1994, born and raised in the West side of Chicago. Practically raised himself in the wake of his mother's alcoholism. His relationship with his mother is incredibly Lalondic. Spent his childhood detached from his peers, demonstrated autistic tendencies without social deficits. Pervasive emotional detachment, reduced affect, lack of close friends, apathy, anhedonia, unintentional insensitivity to social norms, sexual abstinence, preoccupation with fantasy, autistic thinking without loss of skill to recognize reality. Teachers attempt, and fail, to communicate their concerns of ASD to his mother. Summer of 8th grade, 2007, his mother came home from one of her common weeks-long benders cooing over a baby she claimed her own with obvious signs of FASD. She never came up with his name. Ciarán named him Faolàn, meaning "little wolf". The wolf, the protector, the courageous, the warrior. Faolàn was an eccentric baby and the only person Ciarán would lay down his life for. DEPENDENCE CAN BE A MEAL TICKET. Fall of 2007. Ciarán turns to cigarettes. He had a common habit of going up to the roof of their apartment building at night with little Faolàn, to teach and to play with him. Came across Theodore, someone else who also enjoyed the silence of the rooftops. Theodore was a strange kid, obviously schizotypal, Ciarán was instantly taken. Friendship for schizoid individuals is usually limited to one other person...forming what has been called a union of two eccentrics; "within it – the ecstatic cult of personality, outside it – everything is sharply rejected and despised". #Codependency High HARM AVOIDANCE, associated with fear of uncertainty, social inhibition, shyness, and avoidance of danger or the unknown, is noted. Lower levels of NOVELTY SEEKING, isolative and stoical. Low REWARD DEPENDENCE, minimal need for social rewards. LOW PERSISTENCE; indolence, inactivity, susceptibility to frustration, little drive for higher accomplishments. Freshman year of highschool, 2008. A boy by the name of Elijah Duchamp introduced himself to Ciarán midway through changing in the locker room. He was fascinated by Ciarán, had been watching him since the beginning of middle school. Duchamp was known as the kid who'd write his number on the walls of the bathroom stalls for a good time, the only openly gay man who seemed to contradict almost every stereotype. They began an on-and-off FWB situation punctuated by violence. You want to punch me so badly. (Flirting) 2010, Ciarán gets a job at an Amazon factory, packing boxes into trucks. Disengaged from others and self; self is disembodied or distant object; body and mind sundered, cleaved, dissociated, disjointed, eliminated. Often seen as simply staring into the empty space or being occupied with something substantial while actually being occupied with nothing at all. 2012, Ciarán graduates and moves in with Elijah to escape his mother, abandoning Theodore and Faolàn. Their relationship continued to grow more violent. Elijah attempts to drown Ciarán twice, Ciarán beats him hard enough to almost warrant hospitalization. Fiadh and Faolàn move into Chip's apartment, who comes back into the picture without Ciarán's knowledge. Chip is a violent man. 2014, Faolàn runs away and is killed. Ciarán learns two months later, leaves Elijah, and stumbles to Chip's home drunk and sobbing. Chip is, thankfully, gone at the moment. The only person there is Fiadh. Fiadh confesses to threatening Faolàn and driving him to his death, Ciarán murders her. One. Ciarán is at work, transferring boxes to Amazon vans, post-fight with Elijah. Two. Highschool Ciarán and Elijah. Three. Sketch version of Two. Four. Artfight attacks of Ciarán from serendipurrty and zeromav. The play that Ciarán is from—Mama's Boy—has won honorary mention in the Midwestern Scholastic Competition. Mama's Boy has been a project of mine for three years now. Smiles
