MORANTH, Fern Cedar Misty

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FERN CEDAR MISTY MORANTH

FULL NAME: Fern Cedar Misty Moranth
NICKNAMES: None
AGE: 19
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY: Straight
STATUS: Single
GROUP: Student
GRADE: Freshman
MAJOR: Zoology
JOB OCCUPATION: Tribeca Usher.

HAIR: Red, long and runs to mid back, and Fern usually wears it down and lets it do as it please. It’s got a natural wave it the lengths and that’s enough for her, usually.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: Only little ones from the crazy years gone by. Any that are noticed she can’t even remember where she got them from.
TATTOOS: None.
PIERCINGS: None.
PLAY-BY: Sharon Belle!

LIKES: the college campus, being in class, meeting new people, pineapple juice, sour candies, blackberries, berry picking, fishing, new textbooks, her own clothes, her family, omelettes, documentaries, her family’s brand of crazy, her mom, learning, headphones, cheese, old music, rock’n’roll, animals, junk food, bicycles, reading.
DISLIKES: Apple juice, nightclubs, her siblings fighting, Coral’s mad schemes, people moving her things, not being able to find clothes in her size, ‘the freaks of Queens’ moniker, being mocked, small guys, heels, judgemental people, bad weather, cowards, fancy technology and gadgets, explaining the importance of education to her mother.
FEARS: Anything happening to her mom or siblings, ventriloquist dummies, dentists.
SECRETS: She has many little ones based on her teenage years with her sister Coral, and others with her siblings, and even her mother. Many little ones of various things, but not one that trumps them all. They all vary; sneaking into nightclubs when she was just sixteen, breaking into school to get revenge on Olive’s bullies, helping her mom and grandpa sneak a ton of cash and heirlooms away from the ‘shitty grandma’ one summer when grandpa was thinking of leaving her, even though he went back a week later…the list goes on really.
PERSONALITY: Of all the Moranth children, Fern is the realist. She’s the one with her feet planted firmly on the ground and the one who mostly values her education. Learned and bookish, she’s the least likely one to be running about with fantastical plans, although she still schemes with the best of them; the only difference is that Fern’s schemes are quick and usually the ones that work successfully without landing everyone involved in trouble. Dry witted, she’s mature for her years and often comes across as being older than she really is for a number of various reasons. Fern is outdoorsy, and self-reliant, which are both things her mother passed onto her when she was young. Protective of people she cares about, Fern will do anything for her family, and will defend them to the very end of time even when she’s fighting with them. In her mind harsh words amongst siblings is a totally different ball game to harsh words amongst friends or strangers; only family can insult family. Quiet when she’s away from her siblings, Fern is actually just enjoying the break from them, but it often comes across as loner or shy, which isn’t really the case for her, though she does enjoy her own company since she so rarely experiences it. She’s an animal lover, but the bigger animals, since pets were always just another burden in their household and she fell in love with documentaries on travel and wild animals when she was just a little girl. She’s not big on flirting, and dating isn’t something she’s familiar with, but bullies and people mocking her have been regular occurrences throughout her life. For this reason, Fern is wary of men who take an interest in her, and she can be a tough nut to crack on the romance front. She doesn’t really have any expectations of love in her life, even though she’s a family-centric kind of girl.

MOTHER: Dharma Sharon Moranth, 40 .
FATHER: Marty Lee Garvey, 43.
SIBLINGS: Coral Meadow West Moranth, 20.
Olive Fauna Gale Moranth, 15.
Lark Winter Flint Moranth, 12.
Maple Prairie Star Moranth, 7.
Bracken Oak Storm Moranth, 4.
Linden Wolf Grove Moranth, 3.
Blossom Dove Bay Moranth, 1.
OTHERS: Saul Bernard Moranth, 76, grandfather.
PETS: N/A!
HOMETOWN: Queens, New York City.
HISTORY: Dharma had always been extremely big on using nature to survive and not buying into the latest trends or the big government schemes. She protested her way through life and met Marty at a rally she couldn’t even remember by the time she was pregnant with their first child. They never married, and Marty never stayed around permanently simply because Dharma was a little too much to handle at times with her crazy schemes or newfound way to get out of conforming to ‘the man’. He fathered all of the children, but he sort of came and went as he pleased which oddly worked for their relationship, even if it wasn’t amazingly fantastic with the kids, though they all loved him when he was around and missed him when he was gone. Dharma raised the children in a house in Queens, and she raised them alone for the most part, although her father – Saul – frequently popped in to give them so called ‘life lessons’ and to escape his own wife, and Dharma’s overly clean and preened mother. He also made a decent babysitter for the younger ones when Dharma had to deal with her own life and the drama that was going on with the older daughters.

Fern was the second child born, following the very dramatic and very ‘glamorous’ Coral. At least Coral always thought she was glamorous, but her style was at least two decades out of date and she was boy mad by the age of eight. Fern on the other hand was always level headed, mostly because she was always pulling Coral out of trouble when Coral stumbled into it. She was pretty certain the older sister was supposed to take care of the younger, but it was never the case for them. If Coral got stuck trying to climb through the window to sneak out in an attempt to run away and defy their mother, it was Fern who would grease the window to help her back in, calling Coral an idiot the entire time for trying to climb through the smallest window in the first place.

Their house and lifestyle wasn’t grand, and they stood out a mile in every situation. Toys littered the yard, there was a new child added to the family every few years with an obscure nature based name to boot. If Dharma could have gotten away with keeping her kids away from school she would have done, but she tried that with Coral and Fern and it failed when the state threatened to intervene and Fern expressed a desire to go to school. So, instead, she frequently argued with teachers who commented on the children’s struggling in class, or their behaviour, and would regularly express her hatred for the education system. She thought there was nothing better than the books they had at home and the documentary channels on the televisions; both she encouraged. That was how Fern developed her love for both, and she was the only one who would happily spend hours with her mom’s ‘recommended reading’ of Noam Chomsky and the classics, while also absorbing everything on the Discovery Channels.

Dharma also forced her love of nature and survivalist skills onto the kids. Some days they didn’t go to school because she bundled them into the car in a rather dangerous, and illegal fashion for her five door saloon, and drove them out into the country. There she would show them how to pick berries, find food ‘in the fucking wilderness’, and fish. They wouldn’t go home until they had found their dinner. Summer vacations consisted of trips to the middle of nowhere where they would live off the land for two weeks at a time and be gasping for a burger by the end of it. Dharma however just told them all that they could survive the apocalypse should it come, ignoring Fern’s comments about possible irradiated ground, and went on to show them all how to fight; just in case. She was an unconventional mother, but she loved her kids and even if neighbours and the people at school dubbed them the freaks of Queens they were a happy bunch.

Fern adored her siblings even if she showed it with dry wit. There were times when Coral’s oversharing made her want to scratch her own eyeballs out, but she would still walk through fire for her big sister, even if she felt like the big sister at times when she was being the sensible one. The family was never dull for a moment, and there was always some excitement, some drama, or some crazy plan going down with a relative or at school. It always ended with the three eldest in their bedroom late at night, listening to Coral go on about how amazing it was, Olive ask ridiculous questions she regretted hearing the answers to, and Fern asking if they could all shut up and go to sleep before she threw herself out of the window and wished she was adopted again.

So, home life was weird, insane, but brilliant. However, beyond the mailbox was a different matter. They were known for being a bizarre family that no one could really ever understand, and that attracted the bullies. They didn’t have money to spend on flashy new things, and the younger children had hand-me-down toys and clothes. Fern missed out on that being the second born, but she also was the only daughter who inherited their father’s height. Dharma wasn’t a petite thing at 5ft7, but Marty was 6ft3, and when Fern was hitting her teenage years she towered over the rest of her classmates and showed no signs of stopping. When high school rolled around Fern was already taller than the boys in her grade and it was something the bullies noticed; she had bright red hair and was a giant. However, bullies stopped picking on her after the summer between sophomore year and junior year when Fern actually hit six foot. Dharma, loving mother as always, brought men’s jeans for her exceptionally tall daughter and larger sizes to make up for the rest. She apparently didn’t have the time or money to accommodate Fern’s growth spurts. Coral had stopped at 5ft9, but while Fern looked every bit like their mother, her height was certainly her father’s.

Although her mother thought little of education, Fern actually wanted to make something of her life and not turn out quite like her mom. She adored Dharma and credited her with so much, but she wanted to have letters after her name someday, and not have a zoo for a home life. Her passion for animals, born from the Discovery Channel, rather than the half a dozen small pets they had gone through over the years, spurred Fern on into looking at Zoology when it came to colleges. She knew she wouldn’t leave the city since the family still needed a sensible head around for a few more years until maybe Lark got over the trauma of witnessing far too many ‘girly moments’ that a boy should not have to be privy to, and could step up to fill her place. She had high hopes for him clinging to some semblance of sensibility. Coral had skipped out on college to try to fulfil her wild dreams of having her own chat show one day, which at that point meant she was talking the ear off everyone in a late night diner where she had landed a job. Olive, while she had a good heart, had somehow come through her upbringing in the Moranth household more naïve than a Disney princess, which genuinely left Fern concerned for her sister.

Dharma listed what felt like a million reasons as to why Fern ought not to go to college, but Fern’s mind was set, and there was no changing it. She had been accepted to study Zoology at NYU, and after three months of continuously measuring herself each Sunday night she had concluded that she had come to sit at 6ft2, which was barely a relief. However, at least now she could buy clothes without wondering if they’d be kept aside for Lark or one of the other boys someday. Fern started college in the September, but stayed living at the family home to help take care of things there, and because she had no money of her own to move out with. She was making it through college on loans as it was! However, she did pick up a night job working at Tribeca as an usher.

That’s where she is now. Balancing her first year of college with the constant madness of her home life, and wondering what on earth the next day might bring, or if that day will be the one when she finally snaps and throws Coral out of a window. If that does happen, she’s pleading insanity, because as much as she loves her family they’re all a bunch of bloody lunatics, and she’s had nineteen years with them!

YOUR ALIAS: Kim – Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: Under the troll bridge.
SAMPLE:

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[kim]