Name: Killian Murphy Age: 32 Sexuality: Pansexual Gender: Non Binary Portrayed By: Matthew Gray Gubler Availability: Taken
“Mirror, Mirror on the wall….we know who wasn’t fairest of all.”
A native of Ireland, Killian Murphy is probably the closest thing to a ‘mad scientist’ that Baberton has. Most people either find him creepy, or interesting it seems. He is a very reserved individual, but this is more because he spends so much time inside his own mind. He is very much a philosopher and a good one at that. Killian almost never stops thinking. He’s been called completely mad before due to some of the ideas he comes up with in regards to everything from conspiracy theories, to explaining the mysteries of life, to just explaining basic everyday things in an abstract way. Really though, he is the definition of the phrase 'madness is genius.’
For pretty well his entire life, Killian has always been considered a bit odd. Even as a kid growing up in a very rural area of Ireland, Killian was different from most kids his age. He always had his own, very unique way of seeing the world that even most adults didn’t understand. He was often bullied by the other kids, but he paid them no mind. Preferring instead to just spend his days surrounded by books and scribbling away madly in his journals. His parents used to worry that there was something wrong with him and brought him to all kinds of doctors and specialists hoping to be given some explanation for their sons strange behavior, but they were always told the same thing. Killian was a perfectly healthy boy. A bit odd, perhaps, but otherwise normal.Resigned to this fact, they more or less left Killian up to hi own devices and he grew into a very independent yet equally strange young man.
Upon graduating high school, Killian would spend the next few years studying philosophy at the university located near Baberton and took a job as a professor of philosophy there almost immediately after his graduation with his PhD. His class is actually fairly popular as many of the students love his crazy ways of thinking. He encourages them to never let anything stifle their minds and to let them roam freely, no matter how crazy their thoughts might get.
Killian may not have known Annie, but it was next to impossible not to know of her. He’d heard many and many stories about the self proclaimed 'Queen of Baberton’. A queen, was she? Perhaps. An evil queen like the ones in fairy tales. Killian had head of how evil this one little girl could be. It wasn’t hard at all to imagine her as the beautiful queen intent on being the fairest in the land. But of course, like all fairy tale villains, Miss Pierce met her end. She was definitely not the fairest of all. At least, that’s how Killian sees it.
Killian still remains that strange, somewhat anti social character he has been since childhood. He isn’t really the most friendly sort, but manage to get on well with most. He probably gets along with his students better then most adults, though probably the only person that it can be said he truly cares about is a young boy who lives next door to him by the name of Ashton Sherwood. Like him, the young boy is different from most people his age. Though his uniqueness is definitely nothing like Killian’s, he still struggles with fitting in amongst his peers. Killian sees a lot of himself in the boy and never forgets to tell him that he should embrace that which makes him different. In many ways, Killian sees Ashton as the younger brother he never had nor even realized he particularly wanted.
Is he mad? Maybe a little. But if you think you can handle it, then Professor Murphy’s door is always open for anyone who wishes to sit down and talk. Any conversation with him is always pretty well guaranteed to be an interesting one.
Kilian was, at one point, engaged. Though most people find it difficult to put up with him for extended periods of time, his fiance, Callie, never did. She actually loved his oddness. It seemed like it really would be happily ever after for Killian, but tragically, Callie was died when the apartment building they were living in back in Ireland caught fire. Killian has never gotten over her death and has been wracked with survivors guilt ever since. He has never told anyone in Baberton about her, preferring to keep her memory just to himself.