Name: Morgan Rose Moss Age: 46 Birthday: June 6 Pronouns/Gender: she/her/hers, ciswoman Species: Human Faction: None Occupation: Owner and Bartender at Rose-Tinted Pint Glasses Hometown: San Luis Obispo, CA Sexuality: Bisexual Relationship Status: Recently Widowed Personality Traits: Generous, Maternal, Dorky, Nostalgic, Conflict-Avoidant, Grief-stricken
Headcanons [COMING SOON] ~ Wanted Connections ~ About Rosie's
[tw: infertility/pregnancy talk, spouse death]
If Morgan's life was like the movies, it couldn't get its genres straight.
She started from rather unremarkable origins, the daughter of a bartender and a banker in San Luis Obispo, California. Morgan Pruitt spent many a childhood day simply as a background character at a local arcade on Higuera Street. She was forgettable, mostly, with average grades in school, decent friends, a nice enough boyfriend, and a few college prospects.
Receiving acceptance at UC Santa Cruz (the backdrop to her favorite movie ever, The Lost Boys), she moved a few hours up the coast for a university experience that was part stoner comedy, part romance. Her meet-cute with Bradley Moss was scored by the sounds and lights of an arcade on the boardwalk, and it was love at first sight. Textbook stuff, but they made it seem remarkable -- after all, it took millions of grains of sand to make a beach. Life was made up of the little stuff.
After what should have been a happily ever after, life kept going. Bradley and Morgan were married shortly after graduation, honeymooning for a few blissful weeks in Eden Ros, Scotland (with a short stop in Ireland to see some of Morgan's distant relatives). And upon returning stateside, the rom-com turned to a tragedy, turned to medical drama. The Mosses' attempts to start a family proved exceedingly difficult, revealing a host of fertility problems Morgan had never expected. And after a few procedures that promised the world and delivered no results, Morgan wanted to put their money into something that mattered. Something that seemed more worthwhile.
Nostalgia was always in business, right?
Except when it wasn't, as the arcade they'd met in was being closed. Morgan and Bradley couldn't stand to see that disappear from their lives, so they took the savings they had hoped to raise a family with, took out a loan, and bought the arcade. They had to cede some of its property to a cafe moving in next door, but their very own Quarter Past opened not long after -- gone were the more predatory gambling games and massive prizes in favor of a selection of tried and true quarter-based classics, along with a few crane games and low-stakes ticket takers. Quarter Past was about the experience, the community.
Few individuals embodied the goal of the arcade better than Kevin Ma. He was a regular at the arcade, but was anything but regular where Morgan and Bradley were concerned. He was such a sweet young man, trying to find himself in the world. He became like the son they never had, and were proud even when he decided that finding himself in the world meant going far, far away from the West Coast.
And just when things seemed to settle back into a new normal, the movie writers decided on a twist -- against steep odds, Morgan found herself pregnant at 35 with their first and only child. It was a difficult pregnancy for her and they kept it secret as long as they could (they told Kevin and Morgan's parents on the same day, Bradley's the next). Eventually, after a difficult labor and emergency C-Section, Charlotte Grace Moss, their little Charlie, was born.
They found out within a few months that Charlie had prelingual deafness, discovered when they noticed that she wasn't reactive to the sounds of the arcade one late night. She was fitted with cochlear implants and Brad and Morgan set to work learning American Sign Language to better communicate with their infant daughter as her communication skills developed. Morgan watched more of her favorite movies with subtitles, wondering which ones she could share with her daughter when the child was older.
Eventually, Kevin returned from school and abroad, though he too had to adjust to a new normal. Still, he wasn't diminished in their eyes -- Morgan and Brad did their best to accommodate him and his newfound chronic illness, though sometimes it was hard to forget the awkward, gangly teen who had been so full of vigor just years prior.
Quarter Past always remained a place of community, drawing all sorts in with its wide array of hours and attractions for all generations. Morgan tried not to hover too much when Thierry came to meet Kevin during the nights -- but just like that, he was becoming part of the family too.
Until the family was torn apart abruptly, about two years ago. Return to tragedy. The details weren't clear. It was a death, yes, a murder, but likely not premeditated. Unless there was someone who would have wanted to kill Bradley? No, never. There were so many questions, so much paperwork, only so many ways for Morgan to say and to sign to her daughter that daddy was dead. She was worried for her child, for her children (Kevin was hers too, if not by blood), and wanted help. And maybe the right ears heard her, or terribly wrong ones. Before long, there went Thierry. And along came a stranger who told her that there were monsters and suddenly the life she was living was a horror movie. And the longer she stayed in Santa Cruz, the more the walls started to fall down around her.
So Morgan told Kevin she was moving, taking herself and Charlie to Eden Ros, that beautiful place she'd been with her husband long ago. The choice was always his, but Morgan was relieved he wanted to come too. He always had a place with her, if he wanted it. Of course, it's been a year now and just because the backdrop changed doesn't mean there weren't monsters here. It was a supernatural sequel waiting to happen.
But that's the thing -- life isn't like the movies. And even if it was, Morgan's was always an underdog story. And the credits aren't rolling yet.
Bradley died in 2024 and Morgan, Charlie, and Kevin moved to Eden Ros in 2025. Morgan knows about the supernatural, but really doesn't know much at all other than it's real, it killed her husband, and she'll do whatever she can to keep her family safe from the worst of it.
Morgan's bar, Rosie's (Rose-Tinted Pint Glasses), is partly named after her maternal grandmother Rose Brewer, for whom she was also middle-named. While Bradley's family are the ones from Scotland and England, Morgan sees it as a way to honor both sides of the family line. Even if there's some contention between Irish and Scottish whiskey/whisky enthusiasts.
Charlie is about 10 years old at time of game start. She can speak and write English at about the proficiency of someone her age and is fluent in American Sign Language, but is a little disconnected from her new life as she works to pick up British Sign Language. Her speaking is a little quiet and lisping.
Morgan is mostly fluent in ASL. Occasionally she'll forget things, and she and Charlie have developed some shorthand for their own communications.
A few of the women in Morgan’s family on her mother’s side have had some small connection to magic, but most never actually realized or nurtured it. Her maternal grandmother (Rose) had the power of psychometry, but the family thought she was just a hoarder. Morgan's mother Bernadette was a bit of an empath, which drew her to the bartending profession. Morgan has no connection to magic and is fully unaware of anything Charlie may possess.
Morgan has a scar running under her chin from splitting it open once as a college student after she got her sandals caught in between the planks of the boardwalk and tripped. She had to get stitches.
Aside from a cheers, slainte, or salud, Morgan’s favorite drinking toast is, “When we die, we will be buried in coffins made of 100-year-old oaks. We’ll plant their seeds tomorrow.”
