[b]Name:[/b] Morgan
[b]Profession:[/b] Pilot
[b]Age:[/b] 22

[b]Appearance:[/b]

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[b]Personality:[/b]

[i]I cling on to the ghosts of the past.  I wrap myself so deeply into the illusion I have weaved around myself that it has become who I really am.  This is me....perhaps it has always been me.[/i]

Morgan is the quintessential joker and flirt.  Brash and cocky, when he is not on duty he can be seen losing himself behind the latest cocktail or alcoholic drink.  Either that or bedding someone else on the station or planet that he takes his leave on.  Irreverent, arrogant and seemingly devoid of scruples and generally just not giving a damn, Morgan is the ultimate source of frustration to his superiors and his poor, long suffering partner.  If he wasn’t so damn good at what he did, he would have been excised long ago from the space corps.

This is who he is.......perhaps.

The truth is something different.  A man besieged with his own insecurities, believing himself to be nothing more than a failure, Morgan carries with him the ghosts of a past that he cannot truly rid himself off.  He believes himself to be in over his head — and that it is nothing more than a matter of time before the truth is realised and he is exposed for the fraud that he truly is.

Morgan is haunted by the sight of a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes...looking up to him as her life slowly faded away from her.  Holding her hand because for that moment, for that one moment in his life, he was powerless to do anything.....powerless to save the girl that he loved with all of his heart and soul.  

It is something that is eating away at him slowly from the inside.

Morgan is afraid.  Of friendship.  Of companionship.  Of commitment.  He is frightened to love again, or to believe in anything, because if he does.....if he loses someone he cares for deeply again.....it will kill him.

It was.....[i]is[/i] far easier to drink his troubles away.  Carve another notch on that bedpost.  

It allowed him to forget.

[b]Background:[/b]

[i]Her name was Vanna.  She was the best of us, of all of us.  She was better than I deserved.  Now, and certainly then.  Sometimes I still see her.  In my sleep, in my dreams.  It is the only way we can ever see each other again.[/i]

Born the son of a long line of pilots in the space corps, from an early age, it was believed that Morgan would follow in the footsteps of his parents, and indeed he did.

Just not in the way he believed that he would.

Morgan passed every single examination set in front of him by the space corps with ease.  He was always the brightest and the best of his class.  He was future commander material.  When he met his beloved Vanna at the space corps facility and became engaged to her, it seemed his future was bright and there was no mountain that was too high for him to reach.

When it all came crashing down, it came crashing down [i]hard[/i].  It happened the night before their wedding.  

At one of the finest restaurants on the space station Eclipse, where they had met, and where they had due to be wed, Morgan stood.  Taking his bride onto the dance floor, hand in hand, arm in arm, they began to dance to the sound of violins.  When the loud bang came, they were all already too late.  Vanna slumped forwards, into Morgan’s arms.

As he lay her down gently, cradling her, crying for help....as the blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, she looked up to him.  She reached up with trembling hand, touched the side of his cheek......

[b][i]”Carry on.....always....for me.  I love you.”[/i][/b]

They were the last words she ever spoke.

Vanna was given a funeral befitting her, as her coffin was sent out into space, as she would have wanted....

Two years on, Morgan honoured her final wish.  Carrying on with his line of duty, he was nevertheless scarred by what had happened.  A pale shadow of the man he used to be, where he acts on the surface like a cocky and arrogant braggadocio, the truth is simply that he is a person who is beset by his own insecurities and demons that he cannot truly excise.

He believes himself to be trapped in a situation that is slowly spiralling out of control....