About

+ Charismatic, artistic

= Laid-back, flamboyant, eccentric

- Unreliable, a horrible show-off, vindictive, fake

Morty's media image is provocative, bright and outrageous. He presents himself as a «pathological liar» with no shame, but actually he just like to play the unreliable narrator role. He's a party animal, and the walking disaster flirting with random people for fun and droping sarcastic jokes most of time because this is the only style of life he used to aaand kind of a coping mechanism for him. He's rather impulsive and emotional. He knows a lot of people and plays a friendly clingy guy role (mostly for his own fun), but doesn't really care for most of this connections and due to his trusting and commitment issues allows to get close to him only a few people. Long story short: an anoying funny faker who wants to be the tricker so bad.

Morty's nicer and softer than he looks, he has a lot of regrets about how he treated some people in past and he *wants* to be a better person, but. It's a secret. He acts nicer with people who he thinks are nice too and LOVES to piss off and laughs over people who dislike him. And he is okay with manipulating people to get what he wants.

Morty Graham is a really laid-back young man who just uh vibes. He is a trip-hop (his solo project) performer and a stand-up comic who uses Judas pseudonym. Sometimes he also plays in his best friend's band The Miserable Fuckup (he can play synthesizer and drums + is a good singer!)

Design notes

Art gallery link

• Build notes: 190 cm | 6'3'', tall, slim and elegant lad.
• Facial notes: I'd say his irl 'prototypes' appearence-wise would be Miles McMillan and Brian Molko. A rather thin and androgynous face shape with noticeable long eyelashes, thin nose with a hump. Has a mole under his lips [left side] and tongue split.
• Piercing: bridge, spider bite [lower lip, left side] and random ear piercing
• Hair: wavy and rather black bob cut, the lenghth may a bit vary
• Style notes: his preferable sfyle is...well, honestly anything that doesn't look Too formal and boring. He likes fancy stuff, but he's also broke for most of time, so most of his outfits are from second-hands. He loves leather, golden elements and is fine with 'feminine' clothes (finds crop tops, dresses and skirts very neat). Some examples may be found here. Also, he may wear pair best friends necklace with Dime!
• Impression: a grin is very likely to be his 'default' emotion. He allows himself to be serious/sad only when he is alone or maybe with someone he Trusts (same for sincere smile and laugh).
• There's no need to colorpick from his references, just try to keep the approximate colors/shades ratio recognizable and you cool.

Preferences

Connections

Adri - purrtner | they break up in their mid 30s, still staying friends

West - his childhood and current bestfriend and also his first (unmutual and kind of unhealthy) crush. They always sticked together during their childhood from the same orphanage, but stopped interacting with eachother when both were about 14-15 y.o. (because younger Morty was a dick and from some point even his bestie couldn't stand him anymore after some shit he did and said).

Now they both are grown up, and both have changed. They met by chance, long time later, at a mutual friend's party, talked about *everything* and found out they both really missed eachother. They are best friends again, and also roommates time to time...

Vasco - she's okay :]

Kelly - a good pal of his. Their relationship's start was, well, awful, as they met each other years ago and Morty was an edgy bastard back then. But now, when they both changed and met, like, 10 years later or smth like that, they're on good terms even though not This Close, Mort appreciates their friendship and finds it really comforting.

Sybil - he knows she hates him, and it's So funny to play on her nerves...

Wallace - "don't you know people tend to change, darling? :)" Erm. Wallace was the one who didn't tolerate Morty's shitty behavior when the both of them were teens, and was very straightforward about it. They don't contact much since then, thankfully, but if they do, deep inside Morty feel uncomfortable and...vulnerable, perhaps? It's like to look at a mirror that only shows the cringe parts of you uhhhh. It sucks.

Feel free to draw him interacting with your characters if you want!

Trivia

Motifs/associations for him are snakes/lizards, 'coldness', being fake and toxicity; lying/betrayal, religious [christian or satanic] stuff; placebo, queen, iamx, mindless self indulgence and mother mother music in general.

Inspiration: Dorian Gray, Thomas Jefferson, Grantaire, Desire , Flowey, Envy, Kaeya, Eddie Munson, Laurent Thierry, Freddy Mercury, queen, iamx, mindless self indulgence and mother mother music in general

• May be drawn with cigarettes, alcohol or drugs
• Speaks English [native], French [C1] and knows some cool Latin quotes
• He's an atheist, but he had the 'ironic Satanist' arc in past. And Judas was some kind of role model for him in his teen years (he always perceived him as a character and therefore erm. Kinned him)
• He has a voice with unstable jumping intonations, and likes to parody other people's voices (really good at this)
• Proooobably has undiagnosed BPD

Code by ChopedOnions + edits by Scrimtas | BG picture credits - Thomas Griesbeck [Unsplash]