CIARAN MURPHY
✵ 24 years old. Second generation Irish
✵ Cisgender male. He/him

✵ 1994, born and raised in the West side of Chicago. Practically raised himself in the wake of his mother's alcoholism. His relationship with his mother is incredibly Lalondic. Spent his childhood detached from his peers, demonstrated autistic tendencies without social deficits.
✵ Pervasive emotional detachment, reduced affect, lack of close friends, apathy, anhedonia, unintentional insensitivity to social norms, sexual abstinence, preoccupation with fantasy, autistic thinking without loss of skill to recognize reality. Teachers attempt, and fail, to communicate their concerns of ASD to his mother.
✵ Summer of 8th grade, 2007, his mother came home from one of her common weeks-long benders cooing over a baby she claimed her own with obvious signs of FASD. She never came up with his name. Ciaràn named him Faolàn, meaning "little wolf". The wolf, the protector, the courageous, the warrior. Faolàn was an eccentric baby and the only person Ciaràn would lay down his life for.

DEPENDENCE CAN BE A MEAL TICKET .

✵ Fall of 2007. He had a common habit of going up to the roof of their apartment building at night with little Faolàn, to teach and to play with him. Partway through eighth grade, where winter was only beginning, the roof wasn't alone. Theodore was a strange kid, obviously schizotypal, Ciaràn was instantly taken. Friendship for schizoid individuals is usually limited to one other person...forming what has been called a union of two eccentrics; "within it – the ecstatic cult of personality, outside it – everything is sharply rejected and despised". #Codependency
✵ High HARM AVOIDANCE, associated with fear of uncertainty, social inhibition, shyness, and avoidance of danger or the unknown, is noted. Lower levels of NOVELTY SEEKING, isolative and stoical. Low REWARD DEPENDENCE, minimal need for social rewards. LOW PERSISTENCE; indolence, inactivity, susceptibility to frustration, little drive for higher accomplishments.
✵ Freshman year of highschool, 2008. A boy by the name of Elijah Duchamp introduced himself to Ciaràn midway through changing in the locker room. He was fascinated by Ciaràn, had been watching him since the beginning of middle school. Duchamp was known as the kid who'd write his number on the walls of the bathroom stalls for other guys, the openly gay man who seemed to contradict almost every stereotype. They began an on-and-off FWB situation punctuated by violence.You want to punch me so badly. (Flirting)
✵ 2010, Ciaràn gets a job at an Amazon factory, packing boxes into trucks.
✵ Disengaged from others and self; self is disembodied or distant object; body and mind sundered, cleaved, dissociated, disjointed, eliminated. Often seen as simply staring into the empty space or being occupied with something substantial while actually being occupied with nothing at all.

EVEN YOUR FAMILY CAN BETRAY YOU .

✵ 2012, Ciaràn graduates and moves in with Elijah to escape his mother, abandoning Theodore and Faolàn. Their relationship continued to grow more violent. Elijah attempts to drown Ciaràn twice, Ciaràn hits him hard enough to almost warrant hospitalization. Fiadh and Faolàn move into Chip's apartment, who comes back into the picture without Ciaràn's knowledge. Chip is a violent man.
✵ 2014, Faolàn runs away and is killed. Ciaràn learns two months later, leaves Elijah, and stumbles to Chip's home drunk and sobbing. Chip is, thankfully, gone at the moment. The only person there is Fiadh. Fiadh confesses to threatening Faolàn and driving him to his death, Ciaràn murders her.
✵ Mama's Boy is a play that has been a work-in-progress for three years. It has won honorable mention in the Scholastic Midwest Competition.