#also len's first name literally is lennon rhapsody lmao

[vacantgodling]

GOTHICA (CHARACTER OVERVIEW)

yeah i seriously dk what else to call this wip so this is probably gonna be an instance where the fake me out title sticks pff

LENNON RHAPSODY GRANGER

(yes her first name is lennon rhapsody - all together. but call her len)

MOTIVATION (NEED): To stay alive

GOAL (WANT): To be with Aurora romantically

CONFLICT: By getting close to Aurora, Lennon has become a target of The Centurion because she could potentially learn their secrets. 

MAIN FLAW: Main Character Syndrome; aka she thinks of things only in terms of how they affect her and not the broader impact that her actions have on others. She doesn’t consider the idea that other people have rich inner lives, wants, needs, dreams/aspirations, etc. outside of how she interacts with them.

EPIPHANY: She learns sympathy and learns to value others as more than just npcs or hurdles/conquests in her life. 

Lennon Rhapsody has always struggled to stay out of trouble in school; causing her parent's divorce after the third expulsion and getting sent to Holy Oaks Preparatory Reform School by her stepfather after the fifth. Immediately feeling outcasted by her peers despite this being a school of “misfits,” the one person Lennon seems to get along with a boy from the boy’s school, Aurora O’Rion. Sneaking out to meet Aurora and growing closer to him causes feelings to begin to bud, but this more serious romantic inquiry has caught the eye of Aurora’s surperiors of The Centurion, a secret society. After Aurora nearly kills her on their word, he forgoes the final blow to try and help her escape to safety away from The Centurion’s clutches and hides her with his best friend and another Centurion lackey, Morrigan. Caught between her fear and her emotions for both boys, Lennon must recover quickly in order to escape and stay alive.

AURORA O'RION

MOTIVATION (NEED): To get Lennon out of the clutches of The Centurion. 

GOAL (WANT): To have his cake and eat it too; Aurora doesn’t want to give up his position in The Centurion where he can virtually do anything he wants so long as it aligns with The Centurion’s interests and he’s given room, board, pocket money, and isn’t subject to the boy’s school rules like everyone else. However, he does develop Real Feelings for Lennon, but because she’s an outsider he can’t swing that relationship even if he wants to.

CONFLICT: After developing feelings for Lennon and getting her involved more than she should be with him, Aurora must choose between his oath and his emotions. 

MAIN FLAW: Recklessness; Aurora doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions before it’s usually too late to do anything about it. His ability to shirk responsibility because he’s never had to care about anything causes him to make split second decisions and irrational choices that are detrimental to the people around him. 

EPIPHANY: Aurora learns responsibility, and how to think before he acts. His innate drive to fight for what he wants isn’t bad, but he learns that it can be done more effectively. 

Aurora O’Rion has been a lackey of The Centurion since he was born, and has been afforded a life of luxury at what seems to be a meager cost. As he grows older he gets into the business of smashing heads and breaking hearts, earning him the title of bad boy on the combined campus. Meeting Lennon Rhapsody at first just seemed like another game, until she proved to be somewhat different than the other girls he’s led on which sparked his interest. This closeness however catches the attention of The Centurion and Aurora is ordered to kill Lennon—and unwilling to fully give up his life or position, he goes in for the kill, but leaves Lennon alive and hides her away with Morrigan with a plan to sneak her away and have her be presumed dead. This plan turns out to be more complicated than he thought.

MORRIGAN BRIARCOS

MOTIVATION (NEED): To help Aurora.

GOAL (WANT): For things to stay the way they were before Lennon appeared in the picture. 

CONFLICT: Taking care of Lennon puts his position with The Centurion, his life, and Aurora’s life at risk. But he is unable to say no to his friend due to unrequited love. 

MAIN FLAW: Logical to the point of rigidity, self sabotage, and self sacrifice. He has a hard time accepting that he is more than just a pawn in other people’s games, and his emotional repression causes him to accept whatever small morsel of humanity he is given that takes the form of loving Aurora from afar.

EPIPHANY: He learns to be selfish; aka, he learns that it’s okay to want things for himself and to try and attain those things even if they could have bad consequences. This also causes him to learn to stand up for himself more than letting things just go with the flow. 

Morrigan Briarcos has always kept his head down and did what he was told to do, between his stellar grades, his rank in The Centurion’s bracket, and whatever nonsense Aurora gets up to. His best friend’s newest conquest however, has him raising an eye—Aurora has never entertained himself with people beyond the first encounter. It makes something shift in Morrigan’s heart, what he knows is the pang of his unrequited love, and he’s proven right as he watches Aurora and Lennon get closer and closer, until The Centurion notices and Aurora is forced to make a deadly choice. Despite his better judgment, Morrigan sticks with Aurora through the aftermath, hiding Lennon away as she heals and helping him concoct a plan to sneak her out of the campus while she’s still presumed dead. But when Lennon begins to show interest in him, well, how long will it be before he snaps?