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brokethecycle) wrote2013-01-19 12:09 am
brokethecycle) wrote2013-01-19 12:09 am
Crocker High
For all intents and purposes, Norman's background is going to be similar to canon with the exception of the events of the movie. I'm hacking out those events because the sort of development that Norman follows is way too fun to play out, and having it already done for you is no fun at all.
First and foremost, Norman is a medium. He speaks for the dead. His entire life he's been able to see and talk to ghosts and spirits that inhabit the world around him. Unfortunately, this is a very specialized ability. As far as Norman knew, he was the only person who could do it. This caused a lot of issues in his household.
His family didn't believe him, his town and school thought he was either nuts or crying for attention, and this left Norman alienated from society as a whole.
But that was ok. Norman made a decision when he was eleven that he didn't care. There was no point in trying to hide who he was, it wouldn't change anything, so he was never going to be anything short of himself. Even if that meant he had no friends, he decided he was better off. Why would he want friends that would just call him a freak once they got to know the real him, anyway?
Norman trudged through middle school with a grudging determination. He dodged insults, scrubbed the word 'freak' off his locker daily, and took every bit of peer vitriol with a grim defiance that shouldn't have had to been present in an eleven-year-old. It might have ended worse, if Norman hadn't actually opened up slightly, and allowed himself a few friends. Thanks to the persistence of two close friends back home, he was able to make it through in one piece.
When it came time for high school, his parents dropped a bomb on him. They were sending him off to boarding school. They told him it was for his own good and he really didn't get much say in it. All in all, Norman was pretty unhappy with the arrangement.
Unfortunately his attitude is a little sour about the whole ordeal coming in.
First and foremost, Norman is a medium. He speaks for the dead. His entire life he's been able to see and talk to ghosts and spirits that inhabit the world around him. Unfortunately, this is a very specialized ability. As far as Norman knew, he was the only person who could do it. This caused a lot of issues in his household.
His family didn't believe him, his town and school thought he was either nuts or crying for attention, and this left Norman alienated from society as a whole.
But that was ok. Norman made a decision when he was eleven that he didn't care. There was no point in trying to hide who he was, it wouldn't change anything, so he was never going to be anything short of himself. Even if that meant he had no friends, he decided he was better off. Why would he want friends that would just call him a freak once they got to know the real him, anyway?
Norman trudged through middle school with a grudging determination. He dodged insults, scrubbed the word 'freak' off his locker daily, and took every bit of peer vitriol with a grim defiance that shouldn't have had to been present in an eleven-year-old. It might have ended worse, if Norman hadn't actually opened up slightly, and allowed himself a few friends. Thanks to the persistence of two close friends back home, he was able to make it through in one piece.
When it came time for high school, his parents dropped a bomb on him. They were sending him off to boarding school. They told him it was for his own good and he really didn't get much say in it. All in all, Norman was pretty unhappy with the arrangement.
Unfortunately his attitude is a little sour about the whole ordeal coming in.