personality

What's your character like? What are their strengths? Fatal flaws? Give us a reason to like the character as well as a reason to dislike the character.

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"Garth had a rough childhood" is the most under-rated statement ever made. Garth had an awful childhood. Though he remembers his dad in a lot of ways, especially the way that he smelled and the way that he laughed, he had a big booming sort of laugh that came from the core and was genuine and wholesome, Garth really did not get the opportunity to spend much time with his dad. His parents were young when they had kids, Garth was an accident after fooling around under the bleachers one night, and so they were never together in the traditional sense, they never married and instead were simply kids being idiots and suddenly there was a baby.

Or so it seemed. In truth, Garth's mother purposefully sabotaged their attempts at safe sex hoping to use a baby as an excuse to trap her boyfriend, whom she was always sure was cheating on her. He could not talk to women of any kind- not even his boss, every step the poor man made, his girl would absolutely grill him on it, going so far as to attack him claiming it took him an extra two minutes to come home from the grocery store, where's the bitch that you were with? The man managed to grit his teeth and bear it once he found out his girlfriend was pregnant, and he was on a fundamental level a good dad. He paid his child support, he worked two jobs to afford their apartment and everything. But it was never enough for his girl. At first, it was just arguments and passionate conversations, but as they grew further and further apart, it turned into days and days Garth had to spend without his father. Those days turned to weeks, turned to months, and eventually years, as far as Garth was concerned, his dad abandoned them.

What had actually happened was that a childhood brought up on the wrong side of the tracks left his father with a pretty extensive criminal record and his mother, bitter and angry that he still wasted his time with other women, reported him to the police, who came and arrested him. For most of Garth's early years, his father was in prison. Mom filled his head with lies- that his father was a cheating bastard, scum on the bottom of your shoes, all he wanted was sex and money. To perpetrate some of this, she withheld all of her boyfriend's letters and birthday cards from her son and simply told him that his father was gone, that he never loved them and that it was just the two of them now.

Well, two going on three. When Yogurt was born, Garth almost completely forgot about his father and went above and beyond to help care for his little brother. His mother worked and drank a lot so it was often young Garth's job to take the role of parent. He was able to cook for himself and his brother by 6 years old, worked his first paper route when he was 9, delivered packages for Amazon by 12, all the while it was him getting Yogurt up and ready for school, making his lunch and sending him off on the school bus. Conversely, Garth went to school online, studying from the kitchen table, squeezing classes into his tight schedule and always having to dodge his mother while he did it. She thought it was a load of horse crap, the idea of taking classes online. She was a bit of a conspiracy theorist and believed in the Matrix and such so Garth learned quickly to ignore her.

Instead, he studied hard and when he was about 15, his mother got the brilliant idea to send him off to boarding school. Because he was old enough to work, he was old enough to receive benefits from the state, cutting his mom out of the picture entirely, suddenly the kids did not "need" her and that sent her spinning. So she immediately sent Garth away so that she could have and hold and covet her precious baby Anthony, who everyone calls Yogurt for some reason. But when Garth returned home after a year at boarding school, he came back to something that did nothing but send him into a rage.

Yogurt had a scar on the side of his face.

Someone, if not his mother than someone she was with or someone she invited to the house, had harmed his baby brother. Garth could not have been more furious. They yelled and spat at each other for days, him and his mom, fighting like two dogs in a cage. Garth simply has no tolerance for anyone who hurts his precious baby brother. So he packed up some stuff, got his brother all situated and the two of them fled the house. Their mother tried to get them back but she was alcoholic as fuck so all that she managed to do was waste time in court, only to eventually be sent to an asylum for the criminally insane. By this point, Garth was 18 so he aged out of his mother's control anyway and set up a cute little life for him and his brother in Norbrook (originally, they were from a notable town in Maine), far away from her nonsense, interested in putting the past behind them. Garth finished school, now works as a ____ which pays enough to keep the lights on. He struggles to give his brother everything a young fossa could ask for, he gets a little extra income from his youtube channel and uses that to buy things to make his brother happy.

But that did not last long. At some point, Garth goes on a bit of an adventure with some friends, exploring an abandoned house and barn where gruesome murders may have happened and where some say kids practiced black magic and voodoo and such things, Garth really didn't think much of it, he is not the kind of guy to scare easily. But he came home from that trip... different. It is hard to put your finger on it exactly, just the way that he talked and moved, his reactions to things, he was jumpy and unusually aggressive, very out of character for him. But, co-dependently living with his brother, only Yogurt noticed the changes and he was too scared, too meek, to reach out for help. Honestly, he believed that it was his fault that he had upset his brother and that he was a horrible piece of shit who did nothing but piss everybody off. Yogurt very quickly learned that if he just agreed to everything there would be no fighting. So he gave in almost immediately.

But that is not the end of their problems. A familiar face with a familiar laugh seems to have followed them to Norbrook and though Garth has fond memories of his father, he grew up being told that his dad had abandoned them, just up and left because a younger, prettier girl walked by and he was petty enough, shallow enough, to just bounce just like that. Unfortunately for Garth, none of that was true- his father did not cheat, he never even dreamed of cheating, and he never hit or hurt anyone, never so much as yelled at his kids, let alone beat them. He was a good dad and he wanted to show his boys this- hell he had never even met Yogurt. Garth felt immediately threatened. He believed all of the stories woven about his father over his lifetime, he feared his father was dangerous, not just physically either, but emotionally, he had to protect his brother from this... criminal trying to worm his way into their lives. So Garth pulled the reins and is now paranoid about his father, blocking his phone calls, banning his social media accounts, anything he could do to keep the man away from Yogurt. But he's a persistent little bugger and it has given Garth one hell of a complex.