i love @seraphinitegames Wayhaven Chronicles and i am fully committed to the idea of creating detectives (or in this case re-purposing an established OC *cough*) for all of these Adorable Vampires. Here’s my interpretation of Morgan, and her Detective, Miyamoto Tsuru - or, as most of Wayhaven calls her, Detective Crane!
Crane is a Huge Freakin’ Weirdo who actually genuinely likes Morgan from the beginning. While Crane shuts down her advances and in general seems not to be affected by her heavy-handed flirtation (at least, on the surface) Crane often chooses to spend time with Morgan because she knows how to Shut Up and god, sometimes Crane just wants some peace and quiet. The world’s too loud and busy, and the fact that Morgan is a-ok with just not talking while they’re in the car for two hours is really nice. As a detective, people basically want to do nothing but talk to Crane... being with Morgan is like a break! And she could use a break, with all of these vampires around having arguments and blatantly lying to her face.
Crane’s aware pretty early on that something Extremely Weird is going on, but is just quietly collecting her facts until she can reveal that she’s not a moron. She’s actually very smart in an intuition based way: she often gets these gut feelings that are likely to pan out well. Though Crane didn’t want to become a detective, she really is suited to the job, and many in Wayhaven have a lot of trust in her due to her reputation as a kind, sincere, and diligent officer. She’s a bit.... mm. Not as educated on the science department, but hey, that’s what Verda is for, right? She has people around to make up for her deficiencies.
Crane is incredibly composed, with a default facial expression that’s extremely difficult to read and a way of speaking that’s kind of flat and distant. Upon interacting with her further, it becomes clear that she can’t actually turn that off - she really just genuinely doesn’t know how to express emotion well, and that’s a bit of a sore spot with her. She knows she’s not a “”normal human””, even beyond her mother and her weird blood stuff. She has trouble connecting with others because of it, and it meant that her childhood was very lonely. She found that she resonated much better with birds, and developed an extreme fascination with them - and in the present day, has an apartment devoted mainly to her birdkeeping hobby and has a bizarre wealth of information about birds stored in her weird little head. She loves talking about them, looking at them, and feeding them, and she always has a bit of birdseed in her coat that she stops to feed “the locals” with.
Morgan may or may not roll her eyes at this.
Crane’s first - and only - romantic relationship was with everyone’s “favorite reporter”, Bobby. This went spectacularly poorly for Crane, because she’d thought - for once!! - that she’d found someone who understood her eccentricities and liked her for them. Crane is trusting and easy to take advantage of, which Bobby did to great effect, getting mountains of information out of her, and earning that Bobby was using her that way really damaged Crane’s ability to trust. This ties into her whole... deal with Morgan.
Crane actually doesn’t mind how overtly blunt with her come-ons Morgan is. She kinda... likes it?? It’s nice to know what Morgan’s intentions are, and not only that, it’s nice to be able to say no. Bobby doesn’t seem like she’s so great at the, uh, respecting boundaries thing, so Crane really likes the feeling of being able to assert herself and be like, “No thanks, not right now” without it being some deal. Morgan’s not emotionally invested, so it’s not like Crane has to worry about hurting her feelings. She can just comfortably say ‘no’, but be privately flattered about the attention... and maybe a bit flustered? It’s hard to make Crane visibly flustered, but Morgan’s incredibly perceptive. She’d know when it was happening. And probably pleased about it, the jerk,