munroe, gabriel william

[gabriel william munroe]

GABRIEL WILLIAM MUNROE THE BASIC INFORMATION FULL NAME Gabriel William Munroe NICKNAMES Gabe, Gabey-Baby GENDER male AGE & BIRTH twenty-two, December 14th SEXUALITY heterosexual CLASS lower class PLAYED BY alex gaskarth THE PERSONALITY There is always that one character that people think to themselves “they are too nice to be real.” In Caroline that person is the face of Gabriel. He is generally friendly to most of the people that approach him although it is rare that he is ever the first person to speak in a conversation. He’d never be mean to someone on purpose, and generally had an odd perception of things. He’ll always think of things from multiple perspectives rather than only picking one that would make him more biased over others. This is something he always over thinks and this characteristic in him is often annoying. No one ever likes to hear that there are other possibilities to a story that aren’t their own. Gabriel isn’t one to put up with bullshit. If he sees something that plays against his morals he will jump up against it. He’ll be the first one to stop a school yard fight, stand up to someone who may not of been able to do it for themselves and he will always listen to someone who feels victimized. He has gotten used to these sorts of actions especially because of his mother. He’ll never physically fight someone. He well knows that he wouldn’t be able to stand a chance against most people physically. No matter what, Gabriel will speak to a person realistically and will never feed them something he doesn’t believe. Although he does have his friends, Gabriel is also an introvert and feels most comfortable on his own. He enjoys hanging around with people but feels like he needs to be around only the ones that he is most informed with over any others. He can’t be around most people for too long or else he starts feeling claustrophobic and will start trying to find reasons to back out of anything. When things get bad for him he’ll try to get back home and either read, or play guitar just to sooth his soul. FAMILY TIES & HISTORY MOTHER Kendra Lillian Munroe, Nurse. FATHER Eric William Munroe, Tutor & Piano Teacher (deceased) SIBLINGS n/a OTHER n/a STORY Each generation of this family has remained cemented to Caroline. There was something about the town that made each of them stay there, an unspoken marriage. The tie often remained in the fact that each parent of a spouse often came from Caroline. There were few outsiders that had ever entered their family and stayed for long. Eric and Kendra were perfect examples of the strange tie that the Munroe family had in Caroline. The two had become friends in high school and became sweet hearts then, eventually getting married and having their son, Gabriel. They tried having other kids for it just didn’t seem to work for the two of them. In all honesty, Gabriel was probably something perfect for them, anyways. Their household was actually a loving one. His parent’s drank, but it was only socially and among friends. Their marriage was happy, they spent plenty of time with Gabriel as well as enabled him to spend some time on his own and although they lived in the middle class they had more than enough to get by. Eric taught piano and guitar to kids in the neighborhood. At a young age he started getting Gabriel into it as well. Several times Gabriel would sit in the back of a lesson and try to mirror whatever his father was teaching the student in hopes that he would be able to master it. Kendra being a nurse often came home at random times of the day, never knowing when her real schedule was. This was fine for Gabriel, especially since he was one to bond with his father, especially over music and when he turned nine they started bonding over football. That was until things went wrong. Shortly after Gabriel’s tenth birthdate, where he had received a brand new guitar from his parents, there were certain changes around the house. Eric found himself in bed most days, too ill to want to move much else, constantly coughing and wheezing. Being a nurse, Kendra thought of it as the common cold at first and offered things like cough syrup, which Eric would take but it never seemed to do much. After about a month of no results, they finally took him into the hospital. A few tests were run but for the most part it seemed like there was some clogging in Eric’s lungs., which at the time was assumed to be mucus. It wasn’t until an additional month of this that they started looking at it more closely. What they found was something that forever scars Gabriel and his mother. Eric had been diagnosed with fibrosis, something that only the male can receive and something that very rarely had great results once it started rolling around. There were a few options. Since at that time Eric’s lungs weren’t completely blacked out he could attempt to live a regular life until he ultimately would pass away, or else he could stay in the hospital on life support. The decision was in Kendra’s hands, as Eric put it, and she wanted to preserve his life so desperately she asked for a room to be set up. The process was a long one. The hospital couldn’t simply give Eric a room for months on end. They weren’t a hospice, nor did they have the room to constantly manage over a man that had a few more months to go. Kendra was desperate, though. She signed him up to have a lung transplant, but there was already a list and no doctor would assure her that they’d be able to do it on time. Often they would remind her that with fibrosis that a lung transplant would be ineffective and the fibrosis would manifest itself all over again. It was during this time that Kendra started asking if Gabriel could be tested if he potentially could carry the disease but the doctors assured her it was something that would have been picked up on a while ago and if it ever did manifest it would be years down the road that it would be anything significant. Because of the irrational behavior of Kendra, she often spent her times constantly working at the hospital, waiting for the room to be open for her husband, working extra time to get money in hopes that if she was able to pay the doctors more that her husband could be moved up the list. After three months of battling it, Eric was officially hospitalized and sedated. For a good two weeks Gabriel sat around at the hospital attempting to study the school that he was missing. His mother would be the nurse that would attend to her husband until the final week where her boss forced her to take a break and just take the time to be by herself. At first hesitant, he accepted and she too found her time at the bed-side of Eric’s while organizing photos for a scrapbook. The new nurse had to explain to Kendra that they couldn’t keep him hooked up to live support any longer. Eventually his lungs were going to have to give out and it would have to be something for her to accept. But Kendra didn’t accept it. They did end up having to take him off of the live support where Eric was conscious and took off sedation for a few hours before he slowly drifted into his death. This was one of the most devastating things to happen for Kendra, and it was something that was reflected into Gabriel as well. Gabriel had always been close with his father and knowing that there would never be a time that he could see him again was terrifying to him. It left him sad for a while but it was something he could actually never fully deal with when he ended up having to baby sit his mother the majority of the time. Because of all the money that Kendra had spent trying to do something over Eric’s death, as well as paying for the funeral, as well as putting a down payment for a stone the Munroe family ran out of money. Shortly after the funeral, Kendra and Gabriel moved to a house in the lower class in order to maintain some sort of stable ability to live. Kendra continued working as a nurse, although hours picked up and she found herself ridden with lack of sleep. Gabriel on the other hand became obsessed with either walking around Caroline, or else staying in his room practicing all the chords that his father showed him as well as practicing different songs. Being in the lower class really had no effect on Gabriel in the least. It was rare that he actually acknowledged his peer’s class except for those of the upper class that looked down at him. He didn’t care. He’d rather them look down at him rather than befriend them when he had absolutely no common interests with them. Gabriel has lived in the lower class with his mom since he was eleven and finally moved out on his own when he turned nineteen. He started getting sick of feeling like he needed to take care of his mother, make sure she took her own medication, as well as making sure that she could get out of bed in the morning. Previously he would have to take a little bit of money from his mother for himself just to get groceries in the house because she was letting herself go so horribly. He felt like he needed to do something for himself. He often visits his mother and tries to keep a smile on her face. She isn’t all frowns and such and there are always things that do brighten her day, but Gabriel is well aware that she needs some sort of boost. He has taken it on himself to not be able to grieve for himself but always have to help others. ALL ABOUT YOU ALIAS brandynnleigh AGE & EXPERIENCE nineteen & eternity ANYTHING ELSE Gabriel needs to be everywhere... and how in the world do i always write such long histories? i don't even mean to ever. AFTER ALL, WE'RE ACTORS ON A STAGE