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[Clive Haywood Murdock]

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We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Personal ★ Information,

[/b][/color]Clive Haywood Murdock
★ AGE:191
★ GENDER:Male
★ OCCUPATION:N/A
★ RACE:Ghost
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Your ★ Beauty,

Appearance,

[/color] One of the main aspects of Clive’s appearance that sets him apart from other people are his eyes. He suffered from a condition called Graves Disease, which is a disease where the thyroid is overactive. His specific case, though, was a certain disease called Graves’ ophthalmopathy, which is an inflammation of the eye muscles that is caused by attacking autoantibodies, which makes the eyes appear to almost be popping out of the sockets. Not only are his eyes large and bulging, they are each looking in a different direction, and they are a bright blue. Of course, now that he is dead, the color has faded away a bit, though the blue color lingers just slightly. His hair is golden brown and lies in bushy curls scattered around his head in a random manner. Clive stood at five feet, six inches, which even for the time in which he lived, was rather short for a man. While almost everything in his appearance seems wrong or out of place, his teeth are almost perfectly straight and naturally white. The small skin that is showing is slightly bruised, save for his face. Because of something that happened to him earlier in his life, he developed a hunchback or in medical terms, Kyphosis, which is a curvature of the spine. In his case, it was because of trauma that he went through. As he is a ghost, he is stuck wearing the clothing that he was wearing when he died, which is an odd black outfit. [/ul]

OVERALL PERSONALITY

[/color] Clive has been conditioned over the years to believe that he is not as good as other ‘normal’ people. It has made him incredibly shy and humble. In life he only spoke to animals or other things in nature, if he could help it because he knew that they wouldn’t judge him. When he was alive, he was very popular with the animals because he was such a gentle person, but after he had passed away animals became afraid of him (as animals usually are of ghosts) and tended to run away when he approached them. Despite what his appearance might indicate, he is really a kind and gentle person and wouldn’t hurt anyone if he could help it. He loves making people happy, or at least, those that are kind to him. Praise is one of the greatest rewards that he thinks he can get. Clive is a very simple minded person, but not for lack of education. He knows how to do basic things like adding, subtracting, reading, writing, etc., but when it comes to things that really make him think for himself, he fails. He doesn’t understand things like philosophy or common sense. Clive really doesn’t think things through, so he often makes foolish mistakes and gets himself into trouble that could have been easily avoided. When this happened, he often got in trouble with his superiors, he either just dismissed it and walked away or hunkered down, depending on who he got scolded by. Going along with him being simple minded, he’ll sometimes say something that sounds incredibly rude, but he never means to hurt anyone’s feelings. Clive has a very odd sense of humor and often cracks jokes or does things that he finds very funny, but no one else does. Another strange part of his personality is that he has a weird fascination with Jell-O. In the few times that he is able to touch tangible things, he will always search for Jell-o. He loves poking it and seeing it shake for a moment. While Clive is a very caring person, he can’t help but love to spook people a little bit. He will do things like poke someone on the shoulder or make a little noise to freak someone out, but nothing that is dangerous.
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Background ★ Info,

History,

[/color] Clive was born to a lower middle class family in London, England, on November 10, 1820 to Elizabeth (Dorée) Murdock and Haywood Murdock. They were incredibly happy to have a boy, but their feelings changed slightly when they saw him for the first time. They still adored him, of course, because he was their child, but when they saw his eyes they were horrified. It wasn’t too obvious at such a young age, but it really looked as if his eyes were going to come out of their sockets. He was second born to the Murdocks; the first being his older sister Hannah. She was five years older than him and she adored him in his ugliness. It seemed that she was pretty much the only one that did. During his elementary years, he suffered endless teasing and bullying because of his appearance. In 1830, when he was ten years old, he got cornered by a bunch of bullies that always seemed to be picking on him endlessly. This was the first time that he’d actually been beaten by bullies, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last. He walked away from the fight all bloody with a broken nose.


The year Clive was born was the same year that King George III came into power. When he became king, taxes shot up because the Crown lands weren’t producing enough money. This meant very bad news for the Murdocks because they were having enough money troubles as it was. His mother was a maid and his father was a farm hand.


When he turned 15, he became an apprentice to one of the small shops in the town. Clive really had no idea what he wanted to do with his life, so his father picked something that he thought would make his son successful…or at least help him live a fairly comfortable life. Despite his appearance, he was one of the shop keeper’s favorite workers because he was so devoted to his job. After he worked in the shop for a few years, the shop keeper promoted him to shop assistant.


Clive took his work very seriously because he wanted to impress the shop keeper and well…everyone around him. He was always very friendly to all of the customers and did all he could to make sure that they got what they wanted. However, as he got older, his eye problem got worse and worse. It got to the point where his eyes were really bugging out from his skull. Unfortunately, it started to put off some of the customers and they started going to different stores to avoid Clive. So, the shop keeper demoted him to the stock room, where no one would see him.


He gradually got used to being hidden in the dark storage room. One thing that helped him adjust to his new environment was the small rats, mice and other creatures made their home in the storage room. No one ever went into the room besides him, so his little friends were save from people that might want to end their lives. When he turned 30 years old, he finally met the shop keeper’s daughter, Joanna, and he was immediately smitten. She was very sweet to him, despite his appearance, which only increased his feelings for her. They didn’t run into each other too often, but Clive’s feelings for Joanna were very obvious. What he didn’t know was Michael Green, the butcher from down the street, also had feelings for Joanna. Clive was in the storage room late one night and Michael attacked him from behind. He continued to hit Clive until he finished telling him to stay away from Joanna.


The trauma from the hits on his back caused Clive to develop a hunchback, which only made his appearance more off-putting. Clive didn’t heed Michael’s warning and continued talking to Joanna when she came up to him. He was just so thankful that there was someone that was so kind to him. The shop keeper was kind to him, but not overly caring as Joanna was. She was not nearly as friendly to Michael as she was to Clive, but he still asked her to marry him. When she turned him down, he became so angry that he forced himself on her. Hearing Joanna’s screams, Clive came of the storage room as fast as he could and did all he could to interfere. He distracted Michael long enough for Joanna to get away, but Michael became so angry that he started to continually hit Clive until he feel to the ground…and didn’t get up.


Clive soon woke up and was shocked to see what had happened to him. He clearly remembered what had happened to him and he experienced a rare emotion: anger. Not only had the butcher ended his life, but he had also harmed Joanna. Clive lurked down the street to the butcher’s shop and found the man. Michael looked perfectly fine, just a bit unnerved, most likely at what had happened the night before. And Clive was going to make sure that Michael became even more nervous about his surroundings. As he was a new ghost, he had trouble speaking so that the living could hear him or touching objects, but he did his best. The butcher soon realized who the ghost was by the things Clive was saying and doing. Terrified, he packed up his things and sailed across the Atlantic.


The butcher moved to Saint Calais and bought a secluded mansion with the money that he had been hoarding over the years. Clive followed him to this mansion, of course. The man knew that Clive was still around and he tried all he could to get him to leave. The butcher was a bad man, but he had never killed anyone before, so the guilt was weighing on him heavily. As the years went on, Clive was getting better at being able to make his presence known to the butcher. Because of Clive’s being in his mansion, the butcher gradually started to go crazy. By the end of the decade, Michael threw himself off one of the balconies to rid himself of his guilt and of Clive.


Not knowing what to do with himself now, Clive continued to lurk around the butcher’s mansion. Twenty years passed and he stayed in the mansion all by himself, only making friends with the mice and birds that happened to be living in the mansion with him. In 1910, something happened that made him quite happy. A young family bought the mansion and moved in. The parents were in their upper twenties and they had two children with them: a twelve year old boy named Benjamin and a ten year old girl named Penelope. They would go on adventures together and play games together. The parents just assumed that both Benjamin and Penelope had an imaginary friend that they shared or something like that. However, as the years went on, Penelope and Benjamin drew away from Clive and they became more entangled in their own lives. The two of them eventually got married and moved away. Feeling a bit uncomfortable around the parents, Clive stayed quiet for a few years and just took to silently lurking around the hallways of the mansion. As the years passed, though, he became tired of being alone and keeping to himself, so he risked showing himself to the parents of his past friends. Unfortunately, they didn’t take as well to him as their children had and they quickly moved away, not wanting to be in a house with a ghost.


Soon, another couple was interested in the mansion. This one was a middle aged couple, most likely around their 40s or 50s. They read up on the history of the mansion, so they knew about the ghostly stories that had been told about it. Before they decided to move in or even buy the building, they had a group of ghost hunters inspect it. This terrified Clive, so he fled before the ghost hunters could really do anything to find him.


Clive retreated to the forest that was behind the butcher’s mansion. It was a relatively small forest that ended at the cutoff point of the butcher’s property. The forest was nice and quiet with the rare birds chirping or chattering squirrel. He really liked it in there; it was so peaceful. After about twenty years of haunting the little forest, he finally came in contact with another human. He didn’t speak or show himself to her because he didn’t want to scare her away. The girl shocked Clive because she resembled Joanna quite a lot. He felt a connection with her, so he followed her home. When Clive lurked around her house, he tried his best to look out for her, so that nothing bad would happen to her…and she was a clumsy girl, so it wasn’t easy.


Once the girl had grown up and was out of the house, Clive really didn’t have a reason to stay in the house and he really didn’t want to attempt to make friends with the parents, after what happened the last time he tried that. He found a little shop that was next door to the girl’s house. It was so cute with its little chairs and red and white poles. Clive kept silent, afraid that if he did happen to make a friend here, they would only leave like all the others had. He lurked around the barber shop, happily watching the barbers cut hair and listening to the gossip. After a few years of this, though, the business fell through and the building was boarded up. Clive really didn’t know where to go after that, so he stayed in the abandoned building.


A few years passed and people started coming into the building again. The boards were taken down and the dust was cleared away. Within a short couple of weeks, the barber shop turned into a coffee shop! No one ever drank coffee in the store when he worked there… In fact, he never even knew smell until this coffee shop showed up. Clive really liked the smell of the coffee, so he stuck around…plus, there was nowhere else for him to go. The coffee shop gradually became more and more popular and people swarmed in everyday.


It seemed like a normal day when a certain boy came in. Clive heard his name only by chance and something about it sounded familiar. Dorée…Dorée… It sounded awfully familiar to him and after awhile of pondering on this, he remembered: Dorée was his mother’s maiden name! Perhaps this boy was some distant relative of Clive’s. He once again, felt an attachment to a random person and followed them home.
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