Morgan Grimley

**Morgan Grimley** is a supporting character in *A Few Cruel Twists of Fate*.

### Events of Volume 1

Morgan was killed early on in the story, but is later brought back to life as a brainwashed, manic villain by a mysterious culprit. She later regains her consciousness, and lives out her days as a decomposing zombie, choosing to have a positive outlook on life (and rebirth).

### Original Timeline

In the original timeline, her name was 'Mordred Grimley'. It is unknown how this was changed in the current timeline.

## Appearance

Prior to her death, Morgan was an average skinny high-schooler who was the tallest of the girls. She had a slightly tan complexion, and wore glasses with small ‘horns’ at the rims.

As a brainwashed villain, she possessed a towering 7’8” stature and was almost bald, with hair reduced to a few strands. She was also deathly skinny, with gray, rotten skin which was cold, dry, and saggy to the touch, exposing many of her stiff, sinewy muscles, bones, and organs. However, upon closer inspection, one could observe that her body was continuously rotting and repairing itself. Her face, particularly, was in the shape of a skull. She had incomplete rows of sharp teeth, and sunken eyeholes. Her left eye is blind, while her right eye is red. Her nails were also long, sharp, cracked, and prominent as the skin around them had shrunken.

Afrer her ‘rebirth’, she started wearing a wig and makes attempts to cover up her rotting skin.

### Outfits

In school, Mordred wears the standard female NCPS uniform.

### Costume

When she was brought back to life, she wore the same clothes she had on when she killed and buried, albeit with shackles on her wrists and ankles and metallic objects ingrained into her body, namely her torso, arms, and spine.

## Personality

Prior to her death and eventual resurrection, Morgan was the goofy, bumbling character amongst her inner circle of friends, consisting of Cameron, Germaine, and Sophie. She and Cameron were both in the cheerleading squad, the NC Amazons, and would often be the ones who were game to do anything for fun on a whim. She was impulsive as long as she was with her friends and in a mood for fun, and she liked making them laugh, even to the point where her friends thought that she was embarrassing to have around, but in a charming, goofball kind of way.

When she was resurrected and brainwashed as a villain, she was a manic, aggressive zombie. She was feral and showed no semblance of humanity, but seemed to retain enough human intelligence, and in that way, she was dangerous. However, she had one specific goal in mind: to kill Riley D’Amico.

After regaining her consciousness, Morgan, fortunately, remained optimistic. She saw her resurrection as a second chance at life and immediately thought of being more eager to make the most of it. However, she has the occasional doubts creep up her spine, such as wondering whether or not this is actually a good thing and that she should already be dead, or that maybe she’s lying to herself and her optimism is merely a facade, and the truth is that she’s going to remain an undead woman forever.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Undead Physiology:** Morgan died, but was brought back to life (albeit imperfectly) by an unknown culprit.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**
	+ **Zombification:** The user can convert/turn others (usually dead, sometimes living) into zombies (walking corpses).
	+ **Anatomical Liberation:** Morgan can split her own body apart into pieces and control the said pieces however she wishes, by levitating them away from the user's main body and using them as they were connected to the user. She's heals better from cutting and being slashed because she can just pull her body back together again. They can also remove their own organs without dying and will neither bleed to death nor die if their brain or heart is removed.
	+ **Autonomous Body Parts:** The user can remotely control and recall/rejoin separated body parts and biological matter, including limbs and/or other biological features like bodily fluids, skin, muscles, bones, genes, etc. This may allow users to either rejoin or separate their body-parts/physical features permanently and/or regenerate fully from separated remains.
	+ **Hibernation:** The user can enter hibernation, a state of inactivity and metabolic depression/suppression characterized by low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate. User may be able to slow the metabolism to the point of effective death. The purposes of hibernation include conserving energy, safety reasons, healing, etc.
	+ **Pain Immunity**

## Limitations & Weaknesses

### Internal

* **Insecurity:** Morgan is insecure about her body and appearance as she looks ugly and horrifying. She covers it up by dressing nicely. She also occasionally doubts the value of her optimism.

### External

* **Weakness:** Morgan may have increased strength, but her body is also just as easily damaged. She is also quite slow.
* **Decomposition:** Her body continuously decomposes, only balanced out by her regenerative healing factor.
	+ **Bad Odor:** As a decomposing zombie, she has an extremely pungent odor.
	+ **Rigor Mortis:** Mordred's body is prone to rigor mortis, and her body parts stiffen up. She is especially prone to this whenever waking up, and so she tends to practice stretching and exercise to keep her body in tip-top shape.