New Survivor: Frank Morrison. backstory.
Frank Morrison was nineteen and had little to show for it. At six years old, he was taken away from Calgary to start a circuit of foster homes. Because of his unhealthy upbringing, Frank had a quick temper that often ended in a fight, thus he was labeled a problem child. But despite the constant abuse, neglect and pain, Frank still held hope; hope that the next home will be the last, that he won't have to run away anymore.
He bounced from house to house until finally he was taken in by Clive Andrews three years prior, followed by a seven-hour drive to the small city of Ormond.
Clive was a decent man, ex-military, worked two jobs, divorced once. But he made it clear that he would not tolerate any misbehavior. Any act of misbehavior was countered with either a stern lecture or difficult physical chores.
But Frank realized that Clive was the first foster that never raised his hand or voice at him, and Frank believed that his hopes had been answered.
Life in Ormond was hard to adjust to. Everywhere he went, Frank was met with skepticism from the adults and harrassment from his fellow classmates. But Frank endured, then he fell hard for the popular girl of Fairview High, Julie Kostenko.
Julie noticed Frank long before she caught his eye, and had intimidated the other girls of Fairview, save for her best friend Susie Lavoie, into staying away from Frank. She invited Frank to the parties she threw, there he met Susie and the impulsive Joey, who loved to show off and had a talent for art.
The four became inseparable, spending school nights at the abandoned resort up in Mount Ormond and planning cruel pranks on the bullies at school and on other not so nice residents.
But Frank's life soon shattered when Clive did not return home from work one day. He searched the entire city of Ormond, asking anyone who would listen if they had seen Clive. The RCMP did nothing, dismissing the pleas of a worried son and labelling Clive's disappearance as a case of drunken stupor.
Four months past before Clive's truck was found by a survey team at the bottom of a ravine just ten miles north of Ormond, with a body inside. His death was quickly ruled as a suicide.
In the days that followed after, Frank was kicked from the basketball team after losing his temper on a referee for a false foul, was evicted from Clive's former home by the city, and had dropped out of school in response to failing his classes. But he still had Julie, Susie and Joey, who stuck by him the entire ordeal.
The events that transpired resulted in Frank relapsing back into his old habits, which then resulted in the other three bringing out their darkest sides. The four of them then decided to form a gang; The Legion. They donned dark clothes and homemade masks to hide their identity and terrorized the town of Ormond in the dead of night.
One evening, Frank dared Joey to vandalize the hardware store that recently fired him. They snuck in, searching the building to make sure it was empty. They sabotaged the tools, cut the power lines, smashed anything that was glass and spray painted the walls.
But they were not alone, as they got ready to leave, Julie was grabbed by a hooded figure. Reacting quickly, Frank snatched a 2x4 and broke it over the attacker's head, freeing Julie. The attacker was revealed to be a known drug addict with a violent streak.
Frank grabbed the nameless man by the collar, planning on scaring him into keeping quiet, but that plan was dropped when Frank saw a pair of dog tags hanging from the man's neck. He ripped them off and took a closer look; he dropped the addict without mercy as his thumb traced over the name; "Clive Andrews".
Anger began to overwhelm Frank as he demanded the addict to tell him how he got ahold of the tags. The nameless man merely laughed and uttered three little words; "a worthless target".
A dark impulse took over Frank as he took out his knife and stabbed the addict countless times. The panicked pleas of his friends, the terrified screams of the attacker, Frank heard none of it; all he saw was red.
Frank only stopped when the bloodstained knife slipped out of his hand and onto the wooden floor, only then did he realized what he had done. The four quickly mopped up the blood and stuffed the body in the trunk of Joey's car and drove up Mount Ormond.
After retrieving a shovel from the Lodge's basement, Frank ordered the three to leave and to come back in the morning. At first, they refused, but reluctantly agreed and left.
Frank buried the addict's body in the muddy snow covered ground. Once finished, Frank washed the blood off his hands and wrote three separate letters to the other Legion members. He exited the lodge, leaving his mask and knife behind, and ventured into the woods.
The woods grew cold and silent as Frank wandered on, The Fog becoming so thick that he could not see ahead anymore. Frank was sure he would die of hypothermia, or at least starvation. But these thoughts were quickly ignored when Frank heard a cry for help come from deep in the forest, and the urge to follow the cry was too strong for Frank to not answer.
And so, with the last of his strength, Frank forced himself into a sprint and rushed into the dense fog. Julie returned to the lodge in the morning and found the letters from Frank. The remaining Legion members searched everywhere for their leader with no luck. Fairview High now bears a poster on its front doors; "MISSING: FRANK MORRISON."
