Meaning of name: Griffin; ‘lord, Prince’, Lacy; 'cheerful and unbridled'
Nickname: Griff, Dick (by Seven)
Reason for nickname: Seven is mean
Birth date: May 29th, 1970
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Geminis born May 29 possess a star quality that is unrivalled by others. Their ability to sway the opinions of others is nothing short of miraculous. They possess charm, intelligence, and wit. If they lack for anything it is an introspective side.
Age: 23
CONTENT WARNING! Mentions of mental illness, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, mental and physical abusiveness
In a nutshell:
Griffin is the only son of William and Jacqueline McAllister and the set family heir for his oil company. It all changes for him when William is arrested for frauds and dealings with the mob over some issues with his company. The family starts to lose its good reputation and soon it is reported that William McAllister has killed himself in prison. Griffin who has only gone to high school is left in charge of the remains of his father’s legacy and while the family starts to lose their wealth he’s struggling with addiction and mental illness.
Physical appearance
Faceclaim: Manu Rios
Height: 192cm, 6'3 inches
Eye color: Blue/Green
Hair color: Dark Brown
Tattoos, scars, distinguishing features, etc: A long scar on his back from a surgery after he jumped from the roof when he was 15 claiming he was drunk (he wasn’t). He has titanium rods helping to hold his spine together. After the incident he had to learn to walk again, and he disappeared for a year and his family said he went to school in Paris but really he was recovering
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Older:
Fashion:
Personality
Griffin is seen as vain, flirty, and confident by an average person. He is extremely social and can be often found in parties where he tends to be very vocal by both personality and his body language. People don’t tend to like him very much as he is arrogant, and they find him annoying and judge him for being gay and hooking up with lots of guys (during the 90’s). Some people (Seven) have also thought of him twofaced and really at the point of life he did lie more than he tell the truth. Inside he is extremely insecure and constantly sad and lets his emotions get the best of him. People often think that Griffin is dumb as he is not academically very smart, but he knows how to read people and isn’t easily fooled. Through the changes in his life, it becomes clearer that he’s very fiery and strong and cares deeply for the people close to him.
Sense of humor: Witty
Character’s greatest joy in life: Cats, music, partying, intimate relationships, Seven loving him
Character’s greatest fear: his father
Why? William McAllister is not a very nice person and has traumatized Griffin since his childhood by not thinking that he’s good enough and constantly letting him know it. He was emotionally abusive towards both his wife and son and sometimes it got physical too. He was also a great part take in the reason why Griffin became a drug addict.
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil? When he and Seven stopped being friends, When Sam got shot, hypothetically if something would to happen his mother or his cat.
Character is most at ease when: He is around people who like and appreciate him or when he’s cuddling his cat
Most ill at ease when: He is not taking his medications and when he’s abusing drugs
Enraged when: His father does anything, when Demo does anything (before the two bond)
Depressed or sad when: Seven hurts him, he thinks Sam is dead, his father talks badly about him (honestly this guy is depressed? he’s sad most of the time)
Priorities: His mother, himself, his cat
If granted one wish, it would be: Being happy and saving all the cats in the world
Why? Because he doesn’t have a very happy life but he’d like to have one and because he loves cats
Character’s soft spot: cats, Sam, Seven
Is this soft spot obvious to others? Yes
Greatest strength: Fake it till you make it
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: He hates himself
Biggest regret: Ruining his friendship with Seven
Minor regret: he sort of only has big ones
Biggest accomplishment: Quitting drugs
Minor accomplishment: getting used to not being wealthy, starting modeling
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: His whole life has been exploited by the media so there isn’t much that people would not already know
Character’s darkest secret:
-When he and Seven were 12, there was a fire he caused that almost killed Lorelai and he blamed it on Seven.
- The jumping incident
Does anyone else know?
- Seven, later everyone else when he comes clean about it
- His parents, later Sam and Seven
Goals
Drives and motivations: his mother, his hurt
Immediate goals: he is trying to run the company of his father’s after he has “passed away” and get his family wealth back after losing everything
Long term goals: fixing things up with Seven
How the character plans to accomplish these goals: He tries his best with the company but as he has no experience and the company turns out to be a lot shadier than he thought, he is ultimately driven out. With Seven, he tries to show that he has regrets and that he has changed. Seducing him helped with the matter as well.
How other characters will be affected: Seven will eventually forgive him and Demo will run the company and try to fix it
Past
Hometown: New York
Type of childhood: Wealthy but not very happy, though he and his mother have a great relationship
Most impactful childhood memory: The fire that almost killed Lorelai Austen or the time his father first gave him drugs when he was 15
Why? those shaped him into the character he is
Childhood hero: His mother and his father but he definitely lost the spot during his teenage years when it became clear to Griffin that he will never be appreciated by him and that he is a cruel man
Dream job: modeling
Education: High School
Religion: His mother is catholic, but he is not very religious, but he pretends to be for her
Finances: The McAllisters were always rich but at the time when William McAllister got caught of all his crimes and frauds, and Griffin couldn’t find a way to fix the companies issues, they lost all their money
Present
Current location: New York
Currently living with: Alone and then with Sam, later with Seven
Pets: A Ragdoll cat called Blondie that no one at first knew to be a Ragdoll until she grew up to be bigger than expected
Occupation: ceo of his father’s oil company, worked at a company Demo was working in, later modeling
Family
Mother: Jacqueline McAllister née Monteill
Faceclaim: Helen McCrory
Relationship with her: They have always been close; she is his hero, and she loves him the way he is. She does let him hear it, when his behavior bothers her and she can be very demanding but in the end, she just wants her son to be happy.
Father: William McAllister
Faceclaim: Grant Show
Relationship with him: Oh boy. William has always demanded too much from Griffin and been disappointed at him. He wanted Griffin to be his heir but didn’t find him capable since very early on. He never shows him love or appreciation and through his teenage years, Griffin starts to despise him. It all changed for him when William got arrested after he got caught from many frauds and connections to the mob. While in prison it’s believed that William has killed himself and that’s where the setting of Griffins story starts. Later it is revealed that he was never actually dead and has been behind the *big plot*.
Brother: Brighton “Demo” Buttergood
Faceclaim: Daniel Sharman
Relationship with them:
Griffin didn’t know of Demo’s existence while growing up. The two meet and he gets to know Demo as his current boyfriend Sam’s ex. They don’t get along as he is actively trying to get Sam back and is rude to Griffin when Sam is not around to see. Sam learns soon the truth that Demo has been part of the *big plot* this whole time and it forces Demo to shoot him while Griffin is watching. Griffin believes that he has killed him.
This drives Griffin on a quest to get prove against Demo who is manipulating everyone to be even more against Griffin than they were before. Seven Austen is the only one to believe Griffin in the matter.
It takes a long time until Demo reveals to Griffin that he is his brother, an older son of William McAllister and he is actually the man that Demo has been working for all this time.
Eventually Demo sides against William and helps Griffin and the others in their fight against him. The two bond over time and start to see eye to eye and even become close.
Brother: Damien McAllister
When Griffin and Demo are on their 30’s, Damien shows up and they find out he is also their brother that William has forgot to mention. He and Damien don’t become that close, but he does start to see him as family eventually.
Love interests:
Theodore “Todd” Monroe
Todd and Griffin have had an on/off secret relationship ever since high school. Todd was never out of the closet and would say awful things about Griffin behind his back and sometimes to his face as well. During the relationship he was very possessive of Griffin and constantly blaming him for playing games with him (which let’s be fair, he sometimes was). They were not good for each other as the two also shared the problem with addiction since Griffin hooked Todd into drugs when they were in high school. Griffin cares for Todd but he was never really in love with him as his chosen one has always been Seven Austen, but Todd loved Griffin for real and was hurt by their relationship ending. When Griffin is doing badly, he often falls back into his old habits and Todd is certainly one of them.
Faceclaim: Froy Gutierrez
Samson Coleman:
Sam is a reporter who Griffin meets at a fancy party at the beginning of the story. They have instant connection, and they end up immediately spending 3 days together in Griffin’s apartment. All of it leads into a relationship quickly.
Sam is the first person who Griffin fully opens up to and the two fall in love. They break up for a short period of time when Sam has a decision to make between his job and Griffin when his boss wants him to write and awful article about him and Griffin finds out about the situation.
Griffin is hurt by the happening but eventually the two make up and Sam with the help of Landon manages to get Griffin to withdraw from his drug abuse. The two move in together.
Things get difficult for the pair again when Sam’s ex Demo Buttergood shows up to the picture. Demo is trying to destroy their relationship but is unsuccessful at it. It all goes down when Sam finds out that Demo is part of *the big plot* and Demo ends up shooting him, making Griffin believe he's dead.
Faceclaim: Charlie Rowe
Seven Austen:
Seven and Griffin were childhood best friends despite their mothers hating the idea. When Griffin accidentally caused a fire that almost cost Seven’s twin sister Lorelai her life, the two ended their friendship. Griffin, being scared of his father and people’s reaction blamed it on Seven, since Seven was always the troublemaker out of the two and Seven started to hate him.
The two were enemies all through high school though Griffin regretted his actions after losing him as a friend. Even while Seven hates him, the two banter a lot and have an obvious connection.
When the story starts, they’re only forced to see each other during social gatherings and Griffin tends to annoy Seven on purpose.
When Sam and Griffin break up the first time, he goes into a dark place and starts seeing his father’s ghost while he’s on drugs. Seven finds him on this state and helps him out and the next day the two end up hooking up the first time which causes Seven a big crisis and he is very conflicted about his feelings.
They can’t deny their feelings for long, but the two decide that it’s healthier for the both of them to call it quits while they still can.
When Sam is shot and thought dead, Seven feels for Griffin again and is on his side on the issue and they begin to build up a healthier relationship with each other which eventually leads up to them dating for real and later they get married and starts a family together.
- They tease each other a lot but are madly in love
- Griffin is the only person who is allowed to call Seven Dakota, but at first he does it to annoy him and only later Seven starts to like it (though he would never admit it). Griffin also calls him kitten and tiger a lot which equally much annoys Seven.
- Seven was Griffin’s sexual awakening
- They have a big height difference that also greatly annoys Seven
Faceclaim: Miguel Herrán
Children: Virginia McAllister & Amory McAllister, both adopted with Seven.
Relationship with them: Both of children are close with Griffin and he loves them very much.
Other important family members: Landon
Griffin is close with his limousine driver Landon. Griffin parties a lot and Landon has been driving him around since he was a teen, and he has become as a sort of father figure for Griffin. He also helps Griffin to recover from his addiction and sees the good in him.
Faceclaim: Henry Ian Cusick
Uncle: Gaspard Monteill
Aunt: Angelica Monteill
Grandmother: Lacy McAllister, she was close with William which is why Griffin was named after her, but she was a strict and ruthless woman who Griffin was scared of as a child. She died when he was still young.
Favorites
Color: Green
Least favorite color: Orange
Music: He has a big collection of music and there isn’t anything that he would hate When he loses his money, he must sell all of his LP records and it takes him years to try to track his old collection back.
Food: Salmon
Literature: He doesn’t read
Form of entertainment: Music mostly
Mode of transportation: Limousine, later walking, and subway
Most prized possession:
-His father gave him a lighter with their family crest in it when he was younger. It’s golden and has run in the family for years. Even though he despised his father, he keeps the lighter always with him.
-His music collection
Habits
Hobbies: Listening to music, Parties, singing
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Inside listening to music and cuddling Blondie
Spending habits: Is loose with money
Smokes: a lot.
Drinks: a lot.
Other drugs: yes.
What does he/she do too much of? Use drugs, spend time regretting his life choices and missing Seven.
What does he/she do too little of? Taking care of himself, reading
Extremely skilled at: Flirting, he can sing, never takes a bad picture
Extremely unskilled at: Academics
Traits
Optimist or pessimist
Introvert or extrovert
Daredevil or cautious
Logical or emotional
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat
Prefers working or relaxing
Confident or unsure of himself/herself
Animal lover
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: He hates himself but at the same time he can be confident about his looks. He has his father’s eyes, and it has always bugged him. He regrets a lot of things, but it gets better for him in the end with a little love and understanding, losing his wealth, getting clean and eventually facing consequences of his own actions (like the fire).
One word the character would use to describe self: a mess
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait? his generosity
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait? disloyalty
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic? He’s pretty and he knows it, what he wouldn’t like is in the details but other than that he knows he’s blessed with looks.
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic? He hates his eyes as said before and the scar on his back that he thinks makes him look ugly and it reminds him of his suicide attempt
How does the character think others perceive him/her:
- negative: arrogant, slutty, annoying
- positive: strong, fiery, beautiful, and sometimes even smart (his loved one’s)
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: He wants to be liked by people, it’s very important to him
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others? All the time. He lies a lot and hides his mental issues and opinions in a fear of being judged.
Person character most hates: William McAllister
Best friend(s): Seven Austen
Friends: Samson Coleman, Paris Gardiner, Raleigh Holt, Henry Van Tassel, Landon
Person character goes to for advice: Landon and his mother
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: his children
Person character feels shy or awkward around: He had a crush on Henry Van Tassel and felt shy around him while growing up
Person character openly admires: His mother
Person character secretly admires: Demo Buttergood
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Seven Austen
