Just Some Guys Trying to Get By
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Elliot
A moody teenager locked in a constant battle with her depression. Elliot is praised for being mature and intelligent for her age but it’s fueled by a strong, lingering, fear that showing the cracks in her life will cause her to get shipped away to a mental institution. So she puts on a mask, goes about her day pretending that she’s better than her juvenile classmates, and goes home at the end of the day to suffer in silence. It's a life she's more than willing to play out...at least until the day she wakes up and finds herself far from home and under the surveillance of a rambling stranger. It turns out Elliot is some kind of prophesied figure who is destined to bring the world into a new age of peace, which- understandably- doesn't sit well with her at all.
Worth more trouble than she lets on; underneath those tired gray eyes, Elliot is a sarcastic pessimist who is willing to do/say whatever is necessary to benefit herself at any moment, even if those moments end up getting her into even more danger. She has no idea how to go about saving the world or even where to take the first step, and the fear and uncertainty only grows stronger the longer she roams the country looking for a solution.
Seth
A wild and scraggly youth squatting in an abandoned building in some dying town. Seth...sure is trying their best. Paranoid, covered in scars, avoided by others due to a strange skin condition and a few public manic episodes; they certainly have a lot going on and nobody really knows what their deal is. They just showed up one day and people have felt uneasy around them ever since. The body Seth is forced to live with is one that is constantly in pain; always burning and aching, always getting sick or convulsing, always causing them to seek out the aid of drugs to help manage everything. And then there’s the voices. Persistent, convincing, always twisting the truth. Drugs don’t help, if anything, drug use makes them worse, it makes them louder, it makes them stronger, and it’s getting to a point where Seth isn’t sure if they can handle it anymore.
Always on edge and talking to thin air, has a hard time acting normal and every failed attempt to fit only shines a brighter light on their issues. Seth has a hard time seeing themselves as a normal person- or even anything that’s close to being remotely human- thus they always refer to themselves as a “monster” and often refuses to be called by gender specific pronouns because “what use does a monster have for those?” There's more to the illness that Seth suffers from than meets the eye.
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