#doc morgan

[inconstantsearchofperfection]

Tom : " did you notice anything unusual about him? "

DOCTOR. : " WELL , Tom . He died . He s dead. "

Tom. : " I meant besides that. "

[photomatt]

Had a great lunch with my first HSPVA jazz teacher, Doc Morgan.

[naamahdarling]

I am kind of afraid to ask based on what little you have already said about him but what makes Doc Morgan feel truly at peace?

Psychedelic drugs.

Ahem.  No, seriously, he’s done a lot of that, and while it can get . . . messy . . . if you’re doing something like ayahuasca that invariably makes you very, very sick, he does enjoy tripping balls and having a good long think.  Possibly doing a little demonic invocation if he feels steady enough.

He feels most at peace after a good day at the shop, after he’s wrapped up his last bundle of herbs, sold his last bottle of tinctures or bag of candy.  He lives above and next to the shop, so he cleans up, goes over the wards, then takes a brief break upstairs to watch the night come in before he goes off to prepare for whatever he’s going to be up to that night.  Seeing patients, minor surgeries, gossipy tea parties with demons, ritual preparation (carve and anoint those candles, cook that yummy offering, chalk those sigils).  That half-hour spent alone with his familiar, reading or making plans for the rest of his evening, is something he really enjoys.

He is actually a very happy person, he loves all the things he does and is enthusiastic about nearly every part of his life.  He’s kind of a weird dude, and he can seem scary (and is scary if he needs to be) but he’s honestly living a very well-adjusted and pleasantly busy life within the boundaries he’s set for himself or had set for him.  He’s a little lonely for human company, but he has a lot of inhuman company, so it doesn’t really upset him much.

I really like Nick.  It would be exhausting to write him for a full-length narrative, he would never be a good primary protagonist, but he’s great at being one of those characters who shows up every four or five episodes, entertains fans splendidly, then leaves before it gets old.

[naamahdarling]

Halloween Asks: #22 you and OC's who have A's in their names.

*LAUGHS MANIACALLY*  You did it you asked it you asked the best question!

YES I DO.  I DO IN FACT OWN HUMAN REMAINS THAT ARE NOT MY OWN!

I have a bunch of my dad’s teeth, and the top of a human skull that none of us know where it came from, exactly, but . . . there it is, in my curio cabinet, absolutely not holding guacamole.  My dad gave it to me.  I wish I could tell you where he got it, but I don’t actually know!  I will ask him when he gets back in town.  The teeth may not count because he’s still alive, IDK.

Ummm.  For the boys:

Danny: “NO. What the actual fuck?”

Sebastian: “Oh.  Well.  Um.  Yes, actually.  Back in my day, we were a little morbid.  Mourning jewelry, death portraits, and so on.  I have hair, and am taking care of some ashes for friends, until I can get out to have them scattered.  I don’t have anything more interesting than that.”

Ariel: “Yeesh.  No.  Um.  Wait.  Yes?  Shit.  Does hair count?  I have a lock of my brother’s hair.”

Jordan: “GROSS AND NO.”

Ethan/Thane: “Yikes.  No.  Pass.”

Tank: “I don’t. But I’m not morally opposed.”

Kell/Aithan: “No. This blood is all mine.”

Doc Morgan: “My favorite spleen is there, in that cabinet.  Here’s my set of ritual surgical instruments handled in human bone -- look, don’t touch!  Look at my cabinet full of human skulls!  I nearly have a complete set!  This tooth came from a lycanthrope, shh, don’t tell him I still have it.  And this is my favorite book, beautifully bound in 18th-century criminal.  Here’s a fake Hand of Glory.  No, the hand’s real, but it doesn’t work. I knew that when I bought it, I just needed a Halloween prop.  This is a jar of eyes, and I am pretty sure the human one I dropped in there is still there somewhere.  That freezer is full of blood.  The head of this walking stick is one of my old femurs -- you can probably see why I moved, look at all that wear.  This ring is a finger bone!  Just stretched out and bent right around, isn’t that wild?  And if you come a little further into the shop, you’ll see--wait, where are you going? Was it something I said?"

[naamahdarling]

What do your OCs watch for comfort viewing?

Oh, NEAT.

Ariel watches his favorite cartoons and/or Mythbusters.

Solomon watches garbage paranormal shows like Ghost Adventures, or more high-quality stuff like Destination: Truth (Josh Gates is amazing), or if he’s feeling angry and is alone, he watches nature documentaries where animals eat each other, or Deadliest Warrior type shows where they stab and shoot ballistics gel and/or pig carcasses in order to test various weapons/fighting styles.  He also loves the Slingshot Channel (”Let me show you its features!”) and the Red Hot Nickel Ball videos, so if you hear him laughing in the other room in the middle of the night or making weirdly satisfied sounds on the other side of the couch while some very weird sounds play in the background, that’s what he’s into.

Tank also watches Deadliest Warrior, as well as documentaries on just about anything.

Danny watches those “World’s Most Satisfying Video” videos.

Sebastian watches “How It’s Made” videos and videos of people playing piano covers of pop songs.  He goes into comments on videos of people who are just learning to play and says positive things.  He subscribes and watches them improve.

Thane watches videos on how to make weird random crap with things you have around the house.  Like this is a good example, building a working combination safe out of cardboard.  He’s probably also a fan of the Slingshot Channel.

Doc Morgan watches surgery videos.  They’re very satisfying and uplifting to him.  “Look, look what we can do, look what we can fix and correct!”  Also watches My Cat From Hell.  I think he also likes Steven Universe.  Can’t get a solid answer on that one.

Kell, if he had TV, would watch Horse Movies ™ and cooking shows.  He would also like the Slingshot Channel.

Joey watches speedpaints.  She watches speedpaints for HOURS.

Hot damn this was a cool question!

[naamahdarling]

What is the dorkiest thing Kell has ever done? The gentlest thing Doc Mercy has ever done? The angstiest thing Joey has ever done? The dumbest thing Sebastian has ever done? Your favorite thing that Thane or Ariel have ever done?

These are like the BEST questions holyshit.

UHM.

Kell is actually a giant dork. Giving piggyback rides and trying to learn to sexydance come to mind.  He was also best friends with a mini dairy cow when he was a kid, and he has recently spent some time making his friends cute smells-nice gifts he has yet to hand out that are intended to help keep them safe.

Oh maaaan, I cannot even count the number of times Doc Morgan has patiently and tirelessly worked to put someone back together.  When Thane took a silver bullet ricochet to the skull, Morg stayed right by his side for three days, providing medical support until he’d finished regenerating and regained consciousness.  He’s creepy, but he’s a good doctor.  He works his ass off to help his patients meet their treatment goals, whether that’s a fully functional transplanted demon eye or a complete overhaul of the ol’ meat sack’s secondary sexual characteristics.  He cares about his job and his patients.  He might find their low-level pain kind of funny and their squeamishness alternately hilarious and aggravating, but genuine suffering, or the people he has chosen to care about being unhappy in their bodies or life circumstances, it does bother him a lot.  He’s not a bad guy.  He’s just selective in who he regards as worth his time.  Ranking highly on the “look how soft”ness scale is the so fucking careful way he treated Danny when Danny was dealing with discontinuation effects from the benzodiazepines the vampires had him on during his captivity in Houston.  He was the one who rang Sebastian’s bell about Danny needing a shitton of actual therapy, not just . . . whatever it is Sebastian does where he can make you not feel like shit just by touching you, and who suggested using Sebastian’s emotional manipulation the way researchers have been using MDMA in therapy for PTSD.  He’s a good egg, even if you wake up from sleepovers at his house with rude Sumerian words tattooed on your gall bladder. There were demons in there and he was just trying to help out.

I think Joey had a major angst montage after her mom died and she had to quit school and come back to take care of her kid brother.  Like, she was happy to do it and it was the beginning of a great thing, she wound up opening her own tattoo shop, but it was a painful time.  Picture her in Draculaura pink and black, kneeling on her mother’s grave and sobbing “I don’t know how to do this!” and then it starts raining.  I mean, that’s not a cheerful image, but man, she had a rough time for a while.  She doesn’t do the humorous kind of angst.  She just isn’t constitutionally suited to brooding.  

My fave thing Thane has ever done is probably getting caught in the shower singing that Fireflies song.  Thane cannot sing.  Mattie caught him making . . . song-like noises . . . and was utterly charmed.  Thane was mortified, but also cracked up.  There was a whole dynamic there I won’t go into but the gist of it is that it was really sweet and slightly vulnerable.

My fave thing Ariel ever did was . . . wow, it’s hard to pick.  Tabletop Ariel?  Maybe the super-gross “forearmed” pun he made at Eddie after his (Ariel’s) severed, semi-digested arm hit him (Eddie) in the face.  He laughed himself sick, threw up a lot because seeing the arm was just a little disturbing, then went and blew up the bad guy.  Maybe the time he fed Twizzlers to a dragon.  Non-tabletop?  IDK, probably how he falls in love with chickens really easily, but his affection for a big Dorking rooster named Captain Dorkington McNugget was not returned, and he got attacked a lot.  Also, literally his entire wardrobe is fantastic.  He has two settings: “Ridiculous but Also Ridiculously Attractive” and “Post-Apocalypse and Apocalyptically Hot”.  The sheer number of stupid tee shirts he owns gives me life.

ETA: NO!!! No my fave thing Ariel has ever done is definitely work at Penguin Hut!

[naamahdarling]

/big hug I'm sorry your photos are bringing up old traumas for you. Always love for you coming from my corner of the interwebs. What's the goofiest looking animal you could ascribe to each of your OCs?

Thanks. I’m . . . okay? Just filled with the nagging suspicion that I have been wasting my fucking life.  Which . . . fine, I don’t fucking care, I don’t have the energy to care right now, and also I have recently discovered that I can eat Taco Bueno again so like fight me or whatever.

Ariel: 

Solomon:

Sebastian (on the left):

Thane:

Tank:

Jordan (who is actually so ridiculous and awkward already that I didn’t have the heart to pick something really painfully silly, so you just get broody pup in a hoodie):

Danny:

Joey (cute but can become abruptly terrifying):

Doc Morgan:

Kell (reguarly falls asleep like this):

[naamahdarling]

Various OCs' thoughts on those gothic black bath bombs? (I am fascinated by them but I know others who're creeped out by 'em.)

I personally think they are super-cool!

Solomon: “It looks like ink. That’s so beautiful.Yes. I will bathe in this.” Said with real satisfaction, as though it fulfills some deep-seated need he had not until this moment realized. He falls asleep in the tub, his crow familiar lounging next to him like a weird duck, his inky black hair trailing in the water.  His boyfriend takes a picture. It wins a photography competition.

Ariel: He is impressed and would def. try one, but it’s not his Aesthetic. He frowns for a few moments. “It would be neat for tentacle toy bathtub fun, though. ....WHAT.”  He starts the process of buying some online, muttering about “Like y’all don’t have weird kinks?”

Kell: “.............. N O .”  It is the largest no you have ever witnessed.  Not rude or intimidating, but all-encompassing.  Absolute.  He refuses to discuss it further.

Sebastian: “I can’t take this seriously. But it is fascinating to watch!”

Danny: “It’s a neat effect. Does it smell nice?  I would use it if it smelled nice.  I don’t like the red one at all, though.” He watches the video again.  “Actually, I would love one if it had micro glitter or shimmer powder in it. Like, black water with just a galaxy of shimmery glittery particles in it.  Then I could be swimming in outer space!”

Doc Morgan: “I had my line routed through the Abyss so my tap water just comes out looking like this.” He blinks. “I’m kidding.  That was a joke.  I want a hundred of these.  The red one at the end is especially exciting!” His expression compels anyone standing near him to edge slowly away.

Thane: He is utterly perplexed. “Why would you do this?”

Tank: “Another step closer to realizing my dream of becoming an eldritch sea witch!”  He laughs.  “I’d try it for fun, but bath bombs aren’t my thing.”

Jordan: “COOL.  Guys, come look at this!”

Joey: She dumps four into a jacuzzi tub and lies there for 12 hours watching Disney movies on her cell phone.