[WB] Starke Sanitarium

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Starke Sanitarium loomed at the end of a a double row of tall moss-draped trees. The thick twisted trunks shadowed the long driveway in an obvious, but always disregarded, foreboding of what experiences lay beyond the austere facade of the old plantation house The drive ended in a large cul-de-sac that one could imagine being full of horsedrawn carriages and fine ladies in hoop skirts being helped out by white-suited slaves. These days, the sanitarium was no less supported by the suffering of others as it was hundreds of years ago. The mechanisms were just different and the illusions of its respectability had been changed.

 

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Luke Marshall

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Luke is the kind of guy that it's easy to be jealous of. Rich, sporty, fairly intelligent. At least on the outside. His looks come from several generations of the casual eugenics of wealthy men marrying models and beauty queens. Being 'not new' money, Luke isn't flashy about his wealth, and he has the effortless confidence of someone who's had a life of security and excess. Playing a variety of sports through high school and college have given him an athletic body that can make just about any clothing look good. Grey-blue eyes and short dirty-blond hair round out the look. Keeping up with adventure sporting has helped keep him in shape despite his very unhealthy lifestyle.

Age: 24
Height: 6'
Build: Athletic
Demeanor: Lost, Spoiled
Orientation: Bisexual
Mental Illness: None
Admitted for: illegal drug/alcohol addiction

Character History

Luke had a comfortable, affluent life full of advantages that he was mostly oblivious to. He did well in private schools, excelling both academically and at sports with the help tutors and trainers. Tragedy struck when both his parents disappeared on a business trip to Asia. Luke's uncle adopted him and took over his brother's business that Luke was to inherit. Despite his uncle's best intentions, Luke's life was forever redirected in a more sinister direction by his new family.

With Luke's uncle busy with a sprawling family business, Luke's aunt schemed with her children to make sure that business stayed in their immediate family. Luke's older cousins lured him into the darker side of wealth, hedonism and irresponsibility, and Luke was gradually pulled away from his intention to run his father's business and make something of himself. Due to his family's interference, Luke barely graduated college and was content to lurch from one party scene to another. He made no attempts to collect his inheritance, happy to let his uncle do the work while Luke lived off the substantial passive income. After establishing this reputation, one cousin made sure Luke overdosed at a rave they were attending by shooting him up even more after he was drunk and delirious.

It was easy enough to have Luke sent away after that, with no intention of ever having him return.

 

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Crisanto Harris

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There's something dark about Crisanto, and it has nothing to do with his complexion. It depends on the viewer whether they find that darkness attractive or intimidating. There's a predatory hint in his handsome, ambiguously tan features. Short wavy black hair flops atop his head, sometimes slicked back and sometimes free and wild. Cris's eyes are so dark brown, they're nearly black, and he is one of the situations in which they're a window into his soul. His walk is somewhere between slinky and that of a prowling hunter, unless he's adopted a more demure or polite demeanor in order to manipulate someone. Cris worked his vanity muscles, in the same way an angler displays their lure, and his v-shaped torso is clear in just about any kind of clothing. Since his arrest, Cris has only had prison clothes to wear, but somehow he makes even those 'work'.

Age: 22
Height: 5'10"
Build: Athletic
Demeanor: Charming/Slimy
Orientation: Gay
Mental Illness: Sociopath, Depersonalization & Derealization disorders
Admitted for: determine his mental competence to stand trial for murder and multiple assaults and thefts

Character History

Crisanto's father was US military stationed in the Philippines. His mother was a prostitute and got herself pregnant and guilted him into taking her to the US. That marriage didn't last long. Dad got stationed elsewhere and married someone else, liking his new family better. Cris's mother also re-married, a housekeeping client of hers, and dramatically shifted her affection to her new children. After an adolescence of neglect, Cris was on his own as soon as he turned 18. With little in the way of job skills, he remembered what his real father frequently yelled at his mother when he was little. After entering into the oldest profession ever, Cris quickly figured out he preferred spending nights in nice apartments and luxury hotel rooms rather than teen homeless shelters. He started stealing from his 'older friends', too, when they started to tire of him. The first time he got caught stealing, Cris went out of his body and beat the older gentleman badly. Afterwards, Cris wasn't bothered by what he'd apparently done.

The frequency of these incidents increased in the last year, just around when his clients were urging him to leave, not even requiring tense confrontations. When one customer died, the police really put in some effort to catch the violent rentboy. Cris's entire defense was that he wasn't in control of what his body was doing and that he didn't even think what he was witnessing from outside was real. After sneaking in a couple sexual favors, his public defender really pulled all the strings he had to get Cris a thorough psych evaluation in an attempt to keep him out of maximum security prison and a possible death penalty.