Murray Martin

**Murray Martin** is a 2021-introduced a teen boy who attends Enchatria High, He appears in the debut is Girlisty Gossip.

## Character

### Appearance

Porter is slim yet stocky build ghost with slime green skin and dark green hair with long bangs swept to the left. His limbs are fading away and transparent, and has dark-green eyebrows that match his hair. Porter has intense blue eyes with two green sclera and dark blue pupils.

He wears paint-artist inspired clothing that are colorful and look like they have been painted; he wears a black shirt and a black brick-pattern shorts with paint-like stains all over his clothes. He wears a shackle on his left wrist and chains wraps around his waist, with two chains dangling on his sides. He wears blue shoes and has two painter spray cans of "ghost paint" attached to the chain suspenders on his shirt.

### Personality

Free-spirited, rebellious, and honest, Porter has been labeled several times as part of the "bad boy" type due to spreading his graffiti art everywhere around the school, and has accumulated more "Detention Chains" than anyone else in school. Porter's nickname, "Paintergeist" comes from his love of art and loves painting on everything. Whenever inspiration strikes, he wastes no time in finding the nearest canvas, usually a wall, and painting an image in ghost paint. Despite Porter's art constantly lands him in trouble with Principal Revenant, he always remains upbeat, friendly, and cheerful, always looking for his next masterpiece. However, Porter's playful and laid-back behavior makes it hard for other to take him seriously unless he outwardly shows it. Porter proves to be crafty and observant, such as getting past the Hall Moanitors long enough to paint his artworks. Porter is also is the only student at Enchatria High to notice the increase of detention chains that Principal Revenant been giving out unfairly. He also was able to steal the key Principal Revenant uses to transfer her chains to the students and plays along with her deal to betraying his friends in order to see how the key works and free them later.

Though sometimes coming off rude and often considers to be a troublemaker but he has a soft side, and greatly cares about his friends. Porter is very considerate whenever he's creating artworks, as he hates ruining other people's property, so he only paints using "ghost paint", a type of paint that fades away after a while, and only permanently paint something if he owns it. In In her Kiyomi Haunterly's dairy, Porter spray painted a touching haiku for her when he notices she been feeling down lately. In the The Great Escape, Porter offers to take on all the Detention Chains of the other students as Jessica Piper and her friends work to stop Principal Revenant's plot to invade the Normie and pass off her punishment chains to innocent students.

## Abilities

Porter is a ghost and therefore hold abilities of a regular ghost.

* **Permeation**: Porter can pass through solid matter.

* **Floating**: Porter can float.

* **Immortality**: Like all ghosts he is immortal.

### Skillset

* **Artist**: Porter is a skilled artist, particularly in using spray cans and paint, but is also good as drawing pictures with pen or pencil. Porter demonstrates the ability to telekinetically control his spray cans and paint cans by waving his hands and arms around.

## Relationships

### Family

Porter is the son of the Poltergeist, which may or may not be his father.

### Friends

Porter attends Haunted High, and is good friends with Timmy Plasience and Jimmy Stones. In her dairy, it mentions that Porter hangs out with Kiyomi sometimes, even before she became popular, and openly compliments her, which she appreciates and might have slight attraction to him as a result.

### Romance

Porter has an mutual interest in Jessica Piper. They met in the Enchatria Girls movie The Great Escape when Porter was getting chase by the Hall Monitors and nearly crashing into her, implying that it was love at first sight for Murray and Jessica. Throughout the film, Porter shows he cares very deeply for Jessica by helping her around Haunted High after she got trapped in he school and separated from her friends. Although Porter's antics and jokes occasionally annoyed Jessica, he makes her laugh and Spectra assist Porter in trying to figure out Principal Revenant's secret plans. Porter is very open in his showing his affections for Jessica, as Murray called them a "duo" and on many occasions complimented Jessica, whether he meant to or not, such as saying she was smart and touching her hand when comforting her. Murray even went out of his way to fix up a old writing desk to give to Jessica, causing Jessica to hugged Porter. When Jessica was going to confront Principal Revenant, Porter said "No! I could lose you." and save her from getting capture by following Spectra to the office, showing how much he cares for her safely

In return, Jessica welcomes Murray's compliments and two quickly become close. Jessica expressed her worries about Porter when he stayed back at Chicago High when he's covers in detentions chains, wishing he could come with her and kissed him on the cheek for all his help. At the end of film, Murray and Jessica begins a somewhat long-distance relationship as she returns to Enchatria High and he stays at Chicago High.

## Timeline

* January 22, 2021: Mattel requests the trademark for Murray Martin.
* September 23, 2021: Murray Martin make his 2D cartoon debut in "Girlisty Gossip"
* February 13, 2021: Murray Martin makes his 3D cartoon debut in "Why Do Girls Fall in Love?".
* July 26, 2022: Preview photos of Murray Martin reach the internet seconds after the reveals at San Diego Comic-Con International.

## Notes

* Porter's OBEY art is a reference to the 1988 scifi movie *They Live* and the 1989 Andre the Giant Has a Posse street art campaign it inspired.