Mortimer Schaub
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 8:28 pm
Name: Mortimer Schaub
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
School: Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Reading and collecting books, video games, live streams and online videos, music, online writing, horror media, internet culture, shock comedy
Appearance: The most notable thing about Mortimer Schaub is his height: at 6'4", he is one of the tallest students in the school, even compared to some of the other athletic students in school. Despite this, he has no athleticism to speak of. He is of an average weight is 185lbs, though he is visibly out of shape. As a result of his lack of fitness, there are large, residual fat deposits around his stomach and chest region. Mortimer has patches on his hairy legs, due to a habit that Mortimer would do by twisting and fidgeting his hair into ball-like knots, before tearing the knots off. He is of Caucasian skin tone.
He has a full head of short dark brown hair that he keeps parted on his right, where his eyebrows are bushy. His ears are large that stick outwards, where he also has a set of turquoise blue eyes, along with a straight nose. He has a set of pointy canines in his teeth after two baby teeth had to be pulled, combined with a natural overbite. Due to a poor sleep schedule, he has visible dark circles under his eyes. Due to a high water intake, he remarkably lacks any acne on his face, however his arms are rife with skin tags and bumps. Some acne has appeared beneath his elbows, which some mistreatment has given them the resemblance of needle marks.
Mortimer prefers to wear shorts and t-shirts, though sometimes he can wear jeans. Typically, Mortimer dresses without much care. He usually grabs the first clean shirt from the top of his clothes drawer and often wears the same pair of shorts every day of the week. Even on days with cold weather, Mortimer wears shorts, though he wears a black sweatshirt on him when he is subjected to low temperatures. On the day of the trip however, he lost his sweatshirt. Overall, Mortimer wore a black cheap leather jacket, a slightly-too-tight Hotline Miami shirt—bright pink and depicting the character Richard—a pair of beige shorts with a brown belt, white socks, and some black Nike shoes.
Biography: Mortimer Schaub was born on February 12th, 2007 to his parents Sharon and Bruce Schaub. He is the younger child of two children in their nuclear family, being 2 years younger than his sister Catherine Schaub. His mother works as a x-ray technician at hospitals around the city, while although Mortimer doesn't officially know his father's true job, he believes that his father stays afloat doing odd jobs with friends and connections, putting the family being able to sustain a middle-class income level. Mortimer was diagnosed as being neurodivergent when he was around a toddler, though Mortimer himself wouldn't fully learn this information and the extent of his disorder until he was finishing up the 7th grade in middle school.
Mortimer and his family were originally born in the state of California at the coastal town of Redondo Beach, but in 2013 at the age of 6, his family officially moved to Las Vegas, due to a job opening from his father at an office building. Mortimer would end up living the rest of his life in the suburbs of Las Vegas, but would come to California again for visiting the grandparents and going to Disneyland or some other tourist attraction.
Mortimer's disability resulted in speech problems—specifically, it would cause him to frequently stutter, including having trouble speaking words properly or coming across as mumbling. As a result, throughout elementary and middle school, he would be called out of class briefly to be with a speech counselor to improve his speech with simple vocal exercises and reading out loud. Since then, his speech has improved, and as of high school, he has been able to stutter less and control how he speaks. He tries his best to articulate himself properly.
In elementary school, he was given exposure to socialize with his fellow classmates in his homerooms. Mortimer would feel like he was in a close-knitted community within his homeroom, which would give him optimism. At a young age, he was more recognized and able to know his other classmates.
Mortimer did suffer academically at first with his grades, since he struggled in certain types of both questions relating to math and of close reading, though he would be forced to improve. For his first 3 years in elementary school, he originally had no issue, however his teachers in his later years of 4th and 5th grade would be critical of his negative academic performance. The expectations from others, including his teachers and parents would be what would enforce a teacher's pet mentality, since he would carve in towards his academic expectations.
When he was young, his parents, who were listeners towards old-school music, such as the Beach Boys and the Grateful Dead, introduced him to the music of the Beatles, since the band was popular during their childhoods. Mortimer would enjoy the classical tunes of the Beatles, even having childhood nostalgia towards a rented copy of the animated movie Yellow Submarine. His music range expanded to unprecedented levels when he would grow up throughout the years, tackling everything from indie music to progressive music to synthwave to even avant-garde. Keeping up with him being high school, he does listen to emo and pop punk music, suiting his new mature tastes.
At the age of 6, his parents were concerned that he could be at risk at becoming a diabetic at the age of 21. Mortimer was usually a picky eater, along with the fact that he was consuming more fast and junk food, along with carbohydrates. However, these were simply health concerns, since Mortimer's health would remain relatively the same.
Mortimer has been drinking more water than a normal human being, which managed to lend him help from breaking out from acne facially, though he was still prone to traditional acne on his arms as he approached puberty.
The only way that Mortimer was usually nearly in-shape was due to the physical education that he was involved in during school, even though he would perform negatively towards the Pacer Test.
His other hobby began when he was introduced to reading while at school. While he only attended his elementary school library for book fairs, he became interested in the books that were at his family house, which ranged from cookbooks, books of nature and animals, and even copies of standard history books for miscellaneous topics. His school library had old copies of Goosebumps books, which would be one of his first favorite books to read.
In particular, Mortimer loved books that explored the weird and wonderful; as someone who viewed himself as outside of the ordinary, he saw himself in them. Soon, he became an avid reader and collector of books. His favorites are the horror genre—typified by the Goosebumps Horrorland series—and catalogs of the abnormal and extraordinary, such as annuals like Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
Mortimer would grow up with video games at a young age, starting with a Nintendo Wii U for Christmas in 2014, until he would gain a Playstation 4 a few years later and eventually a X-Box One S when he was in middle school. The latter was brought later on, since Mortimer would hear negative word of mouth from his peers of how criticized the original XBox One was, due to the usage of Kinect. Mortimer's first games were exclusively made by Nintendo, such as Splatoon, Super Mario 3D World, and Smash for the Wii U. Later, he would get the opportunity to play on the other consoles that he was gifted, playing games such as Marvel's Spider-Man and Cuphead. As he grew older, he ended up drifting away from console gaming and secluding himself into PC only gaming. He would become a a fan of gory and/or violent video games, such as Hotline Miami 2, Postal 2, Left 4 Dead, and Hitman.
After elementary school and being taught in school on how to use computers, Mortimer got his own laptop, making himself reserved to the digital world of the internet. He would watch videos that were catered to tweens, where he enjoyed watching Let's Plays from YouTubers that he would subscribe to. Later, he got involved with Twitch, becoming a regular chat member for several gaming streams.
His start into middle school was unfortunately different from how Mortimer would imagine. Rather than a tight-knitted community where he was able to know his classmates, he was subjected to a multi-class system, being forced to stay productive. He was looked down upon by 8th graders, when he had began to start middle school in the 6th grade. It was enough to make him frustrated towards the older kids at school, especially since they ridiculed him for his lack of athletic talent in physical education. Not helping matters was due to the environment being full of other students, who were prone to engage in harassment and bullying, Mortimer kept a low profile, since he saw himself as a target for their shenanigans. His need for isolation to avoid being picked on and his view of the older kids looking down on him in his school led to him developing an introvert status.
In 2020, Mortimer was forced to be moved to online teaching for his 8th year of middle school, due to the pandemic. Mortimer didn't see it as a difficult transition, since he already struggled with gaining friends in middle school.
However, during that same year in summer of 2020, his parents divorced. His parents' marriage was already straining when he began to start middle school, mostly from personal conflicts with one another, but it reached it's tipping point 2 years later with a heavy verbal argument heard by both Mortimer and Catherine. The divorce made him feel more isolated and even disillusioned with his sense of innocence being gone, since his idea that his family would stay together in harmony was proved wrong. Due to arrangements with his mother being more supportive and in charge of his education, him and Catherine would live in a different apartment, while he would usually visit his father every weekend for lunch or for 4th of July. He did see his father being somewhat manipulative, however he still respected him, along with respecting his mother, since she helped him throughout his life.
During the 8th grade, Mortimer ended up discovering episodes of Eric André and found the humor to suit his taste for its random surreal nature and dark comedy. The nihilistic comedy from the show ended up aspiring Mortimer to delve into more mature material, especially since he was now seeing the world with a "fuck-it-all" mentality from the various bleakness that he saw to be caused by others. This type of bleakness that he viewed was from how he saw the current social climate at the time from unrest in 2020, along with a growing disdain for politics, in general. He would also end up watching episodes of Xavier: Renegade Angel, which would also add a surreal and random tone to Mortimer's sense of humor. To further hammer in and strengthen his shock comedy interests, Mortimer would look up to celebrity Brandon Rogers, known for making explicit comedic videos.
Mortimer would attend his high school physically after the pandemic, though during his freshmen years, he still wore a mask in concerns of COVID. It was when he began to try to look for actual friends, while trying to take advantage with what social opportunities that high school now posed to him. The batch of friends that he ended up with were part of a group of youths his age that were video-game interested. They were on the lines of misfits, since they were given a bad rap from others, mostly for their heavy specific gaming interests and commonly being in trouble with the local school staff. For Mortimer, he finally had a place at a table.
Mortimer's interactions with the group had gotten wind by his teachers and parents, who knew of the group's reputation, causing them to question Mortimer's judgement and how it could affect his relationship with other kids. Wanting to set the record straight and being sick at how he was being misunderstood, Mortimer declared it was the first time that he actually felt comfortable, noting that he felt happy for once. His parents and teachers didn't fight back, though Mortimer still wanted to get on their good side by continuing to do his academic work the best he could. His relationship with his parents was unchanged, though his teachers were still cautious. His new group of friends were more or less indifferent to Mortimer's situation and simply allowed him in.
Since it was high school, he was exposed more to mature content from online and his fellow peers. He started browsing websites and videos that suited his interests in horror and horror literature, though he would later be encouraged by himself to look up more uncomfortable mentions, such as controversial movies and Wikipedia articles covering graphic topics out of curiosity and boredom.
Around his sophomore years, a website would gain his interest that would allow him to world build and be involved in roleplaying with other people called NationStates. While the site was made to be primarily to be in-character for the nation that one would make, the site also introduced a "Portal to the Multiverse" option, where Mortimer was able to play and sign up for non-nation related roleplaying, which is where he would gain his first experiences in being involved in roleplaying with others online. He would go on to make his own nation with a story, which he sums up as being an "anime version of the SCP foundation", however he kept this nation to himself and not to his friends. He would also have two other puppet nations he would create for the plans of two other self-writing projects, so he can world build with two other primary stories.
Mortimer does have the habit from time to time to dabble in different fandoms and other popular media that become of interest in him. He would be interested in the game series of Danganronpa, favoring the third game and even using some of the characters as placeholders for characters back in his first NationStates world. He played Dead by Daylight, mostly as a killer main, unfortunately he would become annoyed, due to the perceived notion that the game was being unfair to those playing in the "killer" role, based to recent patches that negatively affect playable characters. Not wanting to admit it directly and avoiding the topic, he does have an interest in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, after the introduction of FNAF: Security Breach, based solely on what Mortimer deemed to be wasted potential in the game, which he would write alternative scenarios privately online. Currently, due to the involvement of his idol Brandon Rogers, he watches episodes of Helluva Boss, where he even had received a Christmas gift from his sister, who provided him an autograph from the celebrity that Mortimer put in a frame. While Mortimer is also interested in Hazbin Hotel and is awaiting more content from it, he also has been watching other web animation, such as Murder Drones and The Amazing Digital Circus.
One of the things that Mortimer tends to think less about himself is his sexuality, however he considers himself heterosexual, feeling comfortable towards women. Currently, Mortimer lacks a proper girlfriend and is considered a virgin, though he keeps believing that he is able to still gain one through other means outside of school. He has became aware that he is sexually interested in viewing or writing up queer romances, even if he's straight. Mortimer would keep his vices in terms of drawn sexual pornography private and to himself, having some maturity.
While he can be seen as irritable and abrasive for preferring to go a route that he chooses over others, along with being easily annoyed when things do not go his way, he still does care for his friends and family. He is viewed as indifferent towards others and their plights, due to acting unsupportive from supposed emotional context, despite actually being meaningful in wanting to help others and their problems that he believes he can solve or give advice to. He tends to view himself as a victim of circumstance in situations where he's unable to explain himself properly, usually when issues arise that he forgets or come out of nowhere, even ones where he finds himself being the one in blame, usually when he sees himself as not being purposely in the wrong.
The relationship with his family has still been positive, since he's mostly trying to stay on his parents and sister's good terms. His grandparents, who are on his mother's side of the family, are visited by Mortimer, Catherine, and their mother usually a couple times of the year to stay over in their house for holidays. He has a decent amount of friends who share his same interests and can tolerate his sense of humor and bleak views. He does struggle in making new friends, since he is socially awkward, taking a larger period of time to socialize with those unfamiliar to him. He is seen to be polarizing from the majority of the student body for his personality and antics, giving him a checkered reputation.
Mortimer tries to distance himself from any political talk or discussion and against cancel culture whenever possible. He is given the perception that the political system is hypocritical and corrupt, due to heavy disillusion towards the overly-politicization on his favorite types of media, along with Mortimer viewing that politicians exploit their power and wealth to cater towards the elite and not everyday people like him. Despite this, some others in his friend group, even his own mother after a small argument, can consider him a socialistic anarchist. Realistically from Mortimer's standpoint and view, he sees himself as a slightly left wing to centrist, despite a lack of commitment to politics. The claims of his so-called socialist anarchism was due to him voicing support for a governor candidate who advocated for free healthcare, which Mortimer felt was blown up to proportion. He will still get mad in some rare cases, though mostly hypothetically, if someone calls him a tankie or an alt-right goon.
Currently, since college is on the horizon, he is left to debate on his major, since he wants to get a degree in computer engineering to make his own video games. However, the problem is that he lacks the passion for doing so and that he had never expressed and committed to any actual programming skills during his youth. The original major was simply due to his favorite hobby of video games, but overall he lacked any official skill in computer programming. His mother already planned on him going to a community college, which had became a bit of a family tradition, since it was where his mother and sister went to get their degrees. He does want a job that he can join a good salary, however he is harassed with the recommendation of joining Amazon from his own mother and later his father, when his ex-wife had him try to get Mortimer to look into the alternative, which immediately became a pet peeve of Mortimer when it was repeatedly mentioned and forced onto him. Not helping matters for Mortimer was that he had an extremely negative view of Jeff Bezos, being aware of worker's mistreatment and bad conditions occurring in the company. He is beginning to see the appeal of getting himself an English major, since he found he has more passion in online writing, so he can get himself a presentable degree for either a librarian or technical writer job.
To reward Mortimer for his future graduation from high school, he is intended to go on vacation to Japan with his mother and sister. However, due to a health scare from his grandparents, his mother considered cancelling the trip briefly, so that it can be scheduled after Mortimer's first quarter in community college. As a result, she had caved in onto the idea of Mortimer taking the school trip instead, mostly due to Mortimer wanting one more splurge with his friends before they graduate, despite being incredibly aware of the danger involved from SOTF.
Advantages: Mortimer is a walking target, but he isn't stupid. He is willing to defend himself with whatever is put on his plate and will get crafty when he feels that he is being put at a disadvantage. He sees himself as savvy in a number of topics, such as first aid and basic survival, though he is even self-aware that he can't just expect to be an instant marksman from playing first person shooters, but he is able to easily train himself and adapt to the situation. Even if he's socially awkward, he might be able to simply ward off possible threats, instead of attacking them.
Disadvantages: Mortimer is generally seen as a polarizing figure, due to his abrasive attitude when things do not go the way he intends, his teacher's pet mentality, his interests in nihilism, and his overly passive mood. He will be more seeking friends and those in his group circle, rather than attempt to befriend strangers as allies. Even his friends can see him as being overly tactless at one's predicament, though logically in the situation he is be in, he is trying to cope with his impeding doom. Including this, Mortimer is easily seen as cannon fodder from being more gullible and desperate in seeking escape from the game, just so he can save his own life, even at the possible expense of others.
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12th
School: Red Rock High School
Hobbies and Interests: Reading and collecting books, video games, live streams and online videos, music, online writing, horror media, internet culture, shock comedy
Appearance: The most notable thing about Mortimer Schaub is his height: at 6'4", he is one of the tallest students in the school, even compared to some of the other athletic students in school. Despite this, he has no athleticism to speak of. He is of an average weight is 185lbs, though he is visibly out of shape. As a result of his lack of fitness, there are large, residual fat deposits around his stomach and chest region. Mortimer has patches on his hairy legs, due to a habit that Mortimer would do by twisting and fidgeting his hair into ball-like knots, before tearing the knots off. He is of Caucasian skin tone.
He has a full head of short dark brown hair that he keeps parted on his right, where his eyebrows are bushy. His ears are large that stick outwards, where he also has a set of turquoise blue eyes, along with a straight nose. He has a set of pointy canines in his teeth after two baby teeth had to be pulled, combined with a natural overbite. Due to a poor sleep schedule, he has visible dark circles under his eyes. Due to a high water intake, he remarkably lacks any acne on his face, however his arms are rife with skin tags and bumps. Some acne has appeared beneath his elbows, which some mistreatment has given them the resemblance of needle marks.
Mortimer prefers to wear shorts and t-shirts, though sometimes he can wear jeans. Typically, Mortimer dresses without much care. He usually grabs the first clean shirt from the top of his clothes drawer and often wears the same pair of shorts every day of the week. Even on days with cold weather, Mortimer wears shorts, though he wears a black sweatshirt on him when he is subjected to low temperatures. On the day of the trip however, he lost his sweatshirt. Overall, Mortimer wore a black cheap leather jacket, a slightly-too-tight Hotline Miami shirt—bright pink and depicting the character Richard—a pair of beige shorts with a brown belt, white socks, and some black Nike shoes.
Biography: Mortimer Schaub was born on February 12th, 2007 to his parents Sharon and Bruce Schaub. He is the younger child of two children in their nuclear family, being 2 years younger than his sister Catherine Schaub. His mother works as a x-ray technician at hospitals around the city, while although Mortimer doesn't officially know his father's true job, he believes that his father stays afloat doing odd jobs with friends and connections, putting the family being able to sustain a middle-class income level. Mortimer was diagnosed as being neurodivergent when he was around a toddler, though Mortimer himself wouldn't fully learn this information and the extent of his disorder until he was finishing up the 7th grade in middle school.
Mortimer and his family were originally born in the state of California at the coastal town of Redondo Beach, but in 2013 at the age of 6, his family officially moved to Las Vegas, due to a job opening from his father at an office building. Mortimer would end up living the rest of his life in the suburbs of Las Vegas, but would come to California again for visiting the grandparents and going to Disneyland or some other tourist attraction.
Mortimer's disability resulted in speech problems—specifically, it would cause him to frequently stutter, including having trouble speaking words properly or coming across as mumbling. As a result, throughout elementary and middle school, he would be called out of class briefly to be with a speech counselor to improve his speech with simple vocal exercises and reading out loud. Since then, his speech has improved, and as of high school, he has been able to stutter less and control how he speaks. He tries his best to articulate himself properly.
In elementary school, he was given exposure to socialize with his fellow classmates in his homerooms. Mortimer would feel like he was in a close-knitted community within his homeroom, which would give him optimism. At a young age, he was more recognized and able to know his other classmates.
Mortimer did suffer academically at first with his grades, since he struggled in certain types of both questions relating to math and of close reading, though he would be forced to improve. For his first 3 years in elementary school, he originally had no issue, however his teachers in his later years of 4th and 5th grade would be critical of his negative academic performance. The expectations from others, including his teachers and parents would be what would enforce a teacher's pet mentality, since he would carve in towards his academic expectations.
When he was young, his parents, who were listeners towards old-school music, such as the Beach Boys and the Grateful Dead, introduced him to the music of the Beatles, since the band was popular during their childhoods. Mortimer would enjoy the classical tunes of the Beatles, even having childhood nostalgia towards a rented copy of the animated movie Yellow Submarine. His music range expanded to unprecedented levels when he would grow up throughout the years, tackling everything from indie music to progressive music to synthwave to even avant-garde. Keeping up with him being high school, he does listen to emo and pop punk music, suiting his new mature tastes.
At the age of 6, his parents were concerned that he could be at risk at becoming a diabetic at the age of 21. Mortimer was usually a picky eater, along with the fact that he was consuming more fast and junk food, along with carbohydrates. However, these were simply health concerns, since Mortimer's health would remain relatively the same.
Mortimer has been drinking more water than a normal human being, which managed to lend him help from breaking out from acne facially, though he was still prone to traditional acne on his arms as he approached puberty.
The only way that Mortimer was usually nearly in-shape was due to the physical education that he was involved in during school, even though he would perform negatively towards the Pacer Test.
His other hobby began when he was introduced to reading while at school. While he only attended his elementary school library for book fairs, he became interested in the books that were at his family house, which ranged from cookbooks, books of nature and animals, and even copies of standard history books for miscellaneous topics. His school library had old copies of Goosebumps books, which would be one of his first favorite books to read.
In particular, Mortimer loved books that explored the weird and wonderful; as someone who viewed himself as outside of the ordinary, he saw himself in them. Soon, he became an avid reader and collector of books. His favorites are the horror genre—typified by the Goosebumps Horrorland series—and catalogs of the abnormal and extraordinary, such as annuals like Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
Mortimer would grow up with video games at a young age, starting with a Nintendo Wii U for Christmas in 2014, until he would gain a Playstation 4 a few years later and eventually a X-Box One S when he was in middle school. The latter was brought later on, since Mortimer would hear negative word of mouth from his peers of how criticized the original XBox One was, due to the usage of Kinect. Mortimer's first games were exclusively made by Nintendo, such as Splatoon, Super Mario 3D World, and Smash for the Wii U. Later, he would get the opportunity to play on the other consoles that he was gifted, playing games such as Marvel's Spider-Man and Cuphead. As he grew older, he ended up drifting away from console gaming and secluding himself into PC only gaming. He would become a a fan of gory and/or violent video games, such as Hotline Miami 2, Postal 2, Left 4 Dead, and Hitman.
After elementary school and being taught in school on how to use computers, Mortimer got his own laptop, making himself reserved to the digital world of the internet. He would watch videos that were catered to tweens, where he enjoyed watching Let's Plays from YouTubers that he would subscribe to. Later, he got involved with Twitch, becoming a regular chat member for several gaming streams.
His start into middle school was unfortunately different from how Mortimer would imagine. Rather than a tight-knitted community where he was able to know his classmates, he was subjected to a multi-class system, being forced to stay productive. He was looked down upon by 8th graders, when he had began to start middle school in the 6th grade. It was enough to make him frustrated towards the older kids at school, especially since they ridiculed him for his lack of athletic talent in physical education. Not helping matters was due to the environment being full of other students, who were prone to engage in harassment and bullying, Mortimer kept a low profile, since he saw himself as a target for their shenanigans. His need for isolation to avoid being picked on and his view of the older kids looking down on him in his school led to him developing an introvert status.
In 2020, Mortimer was forced to be moved to online teaching for his 8th year of middle school, due to the pandemic. Mortimer didn't see it as a difficult transition, since he already struggled with gaining friends in middle school.
However, during that same year in summer of 2020, his parents divorced. His parents' marriage was already straining when he began to start middle school, mostly from personal conflicts with one another, but it reached it's tipping point 2 years later with a heavy verbal argument heard by both Mortimer and Catherine. The divorce made him feel more isolated and even disillusioned with his sense of innocence being gone, since his idea that his family would stay together in harmony was proved wrong. Due to arrangements with his mother being more supportive and in charge of his education, him and Catherine would live in a different apartment, while he would usually visit his father every weekend for lunch or for 4th of July. He did see his father being somewhat manipulative, however he still respected him, along with respecting his mother, since she helped him throughout his life.
During the 8th grade, Mortimer ended up discovering episodes of Eric André and found the humor to suit his taste for its random surreal nature and dark comedy. The nihilistic comedy from the show ended up aspiring Mortimer to delve into more mature material, especially since he was now seeing the world with a "fuck-it-all" mentality from the various bleakness that he saw to be caused by others. This type of bleakness that he viewed was from how he saw the current social climate at the time from unrest in 2020, along with a growing disdain for politics, in general. He would also end up watching episodes of Xavier: Renegade Angel, which would also add a surreal and random tone to Mortimer's sense of humor. To further hammer in and strengthen his shock comedy interests, Mortimer would look up to celebrity Brandon Rogers, known for making explicit comedic videos.
Mortimer would attend his high school physically after the pandemic, though during his freshmen years, he still wore a mask in concerns of COVID. It was when he began to try to look for actual friends, while trying to take advantage with what social opportunities that high school now posed to him. The batch of friends that he ended up with were part of a group of youths his age that were video-game interested. They were on the lines of misfits, since they were given a bad rap from others, mostly for their heavy specific gaming interests and commonly being in trouble with the local school staff. For Mortimer, he finally had a place at a table.
Mortimer's interactions with the group had gotten wind by his teachers and parents, who knew of the group's reputation, causing them to question Mortimer's judgement and how it could affect his relationship with other kids. Wanting to set the record straight and being sick at how he was being misunderstood, Mortimer declared it was the first time that he actually felt comfortable, noting that he felt happy for once. His parents and teachers didn't fight back, though Mortimer still wanted to get on their good side by continuing to do his academic work the best he could. His relationship with his parents was unchanged, though his teachers were still cautious. His new group of friends were more or less indifferent to Mortimer's situation and simply allowed him in.
Since it was high school, he was exposed more to mature content from online and his fellow peers. He started browsing websites and videos that suited his interests in horror and horror literature, though he would later be encouraged by himself to look up more uncomfortable mentions, such as controversial movies and Wikipedia articles covering graphic topics out of curiosity and boredom.
Around his sophomore years, a website would gain his interest that would allow him to world build and be involved in roleplaying with other people called NationStates. While the site was made to be primarily to be in-character for the nation that one would make, the site also introduced a "Portal to the Multiverse" option, where Mortimer was able to play and sign up for non-nation related roleplaying, which is where he would gain his first experiences in being involved in roleplaying with others online. He would go on to make his own nation with a story, which he sums up as being an "anime version of the SCP foundation", however he kept this nation to himself and not to his friends. He would also have two other puppet nations he would create for the plans of two other self-writing projects, so he can world build with two other primary stories.
Mortimer does have the habit from time to time to dabble in different fandoms and other popular media that become of interest in him. He would be interested in the game series of Danganronpa, favoring the third game and even using some of the characters as placeholders for characters back in his first NationStates world. He played Dead by Daylight, mostly as a killer main, unfortunately he would become annoyed, due to the perceived notion that the game was being unfair to those playing in the "killer" role, based to recent patches that negatively affect playable characters. Not wanting to admit it directly and avoiding the topic, he does have an interest in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, after the introduction of FNAF: Security Breach, based solely on what Mortimer deemed to be wasted potential in the game, which he would write alternative scenarios privately online. Currently, due to the involvement of his idol Brandon Rogers, he watches episodes of Helluva Boss, where he even had received a Christmas gift from his sister, who provided him an autograph from the celebrity that Mortimer put in a frame. While Mortimer is also interested in Hazbin Hotel and is awaiting more content from it, he also has been watching other web animation, such as Murder Drones and The Amazing Digital Circus.
One of the things that Mortimer tends to think less about himself is his sexuality, however he considers himself heterosexual, feeling comfortable towards women. Currently, Mortimer lacks a proper girlfriend and is considered a virgin, though he keeps believing that he is able to still gain one through other means outside of school. He has became aware that he is sexually interested in viewing or writing up queer romances, even if he's straight. Mortimer would keep his vices in terms of drawn sexual pornography private and to himself, having some maturity.
While he can be seen as irritable and abrasive for preferring to go a route that he chooses over others, along with being easily annoyed when things do not go his way, he still does care for his friends and family. He is viewed as indifferent towards others and their plights, due to acting unsupportive from supposed emotional context, despite actually being meaningful in wanting to help others and their problems that he believes he can solve or give advice to. He tends to view himself as a victim of circumstance in situations where he's unable to explain himself properly, usually when issues arise that he forgets or come out of nowhere, even ones where he finds himself being the one in blame, usually when he sees himself as not being purposely in the wrong.
The relationship with his family has still been positive, since he's mostly trying to stay on his parents and sister's good terms. His grandparents, who are on his mother's side of the family, are visited by Mortimer, Catherine, and their mother usually a couple times of the year to stay over in their house for holidays. He has a decent amount of friends who share his same interests and can tolerate his sense of humor and bleak views. He does struggle in making new friends, since he is socially awkward, taking a larger period of time to socialize with those unfamiliar to him. He is seen to be polarizing from the majority of the student body for his personality and antics, giving him a checkered reputation.
Mortimer tries to distance himself from any political talk or discussion and against cancel culture whenever possible. He is given the perception that the political system is hypocritical and corrupt, due to heavy disillusion towards the overly-politicization on his favorite types of media, along with Mortimer viewing that politicians exploit their power and wealth to cater towards the elite and not everyday people like him. Despite this, some others in his friend group, even his own mother after a small argument, can consider him a socialistic anarchist. Realistically from Mortimer's standpoint and view, he sees himself as a slightly left wing to centrist, despite a lack of commitment to politics. The claims of his so-called socialist anarchism was due to him voicing support for a governor candidate who advocated for free healthcare, which Mortimer felt was blown up to proportion. He will still get mad in some rare cases, though mostly hypothetically, if someone calls him a tankie or an alt-right goon.
Currently, since college is on the horizon, he is left to debate on his major, since he wants to get a degree in computer engineering to make his own video games. However, the problem is that he lacks the passion for doing so and that he had never expressed and committed to any actual programming skills during his youth. The original major was simply due to his favorite hobby of video games, but overall he lacked any official skill in computer programming. His mother already planned on him going to a community college, which had became a bit of a family tradition, since it was where his mother and sister went to get their degrees. He does want a job that he can join a good salary, however he is harassed with the recommendation of joining Amazon from his own mother and later his father, when his ex-wife had him try to get Mortimer to look into the alternative, which immediately became a pet peeve of Mortimer when it was repeatedly mentioned and forced onto him. Not helping matters for Mortimer was that he had an extremely negative view of Jeff Bezos, being aware of worker's mistreatment and bad conditions occurring in the company. He is beginning to see the appeal of getting himself an English major, since he found he has more passion in online writing, so he can get himself a presentable degree for either a librarian or technical writer job.
To reward Mortimer for his future graduation from high school, he is intended to go on vacation to Japan with his mother and sister. However, due to a health scare from his grandparents, his mother considered cancelling the trip briefly, so that it can be scheduled after Mortimer's first quarter in community college. As a result, she had caved in onto the idea of Mortimer taking the school trip instead, mostly due to Mortimer wanting one more splurge with his friends before they graduate, despite being incredibly aware of the danger involved from SOTF.
Advantages: Mortimer is a walking target, but he isn't stupid. He is willing to defend himself with whatever is put on his plate and will get crafty when he feels that he is being put at a disadvantage. He sees himself as savvy in a number of topics, such as first aid and basic survival, though he is even self-aware that he can't just expect to be an instant marksman from playing first person shooters, but he is able to easily train himself and adapt to the situation. Even if he's socially awkward, he might be able to simply ward off possible threats, instead of attacking them.
Disadvantages: Mortimer is generally seen as a polarizing figure, due to his abrasive attitude when things do not go the way he intends, his teacher's pet mentality, his interests in nihilism, and his overly passive mood. He will be more seeking friends and those in his group circle, rather than attempt to befriend strangers as allies. Even his friends can see him as being overly tactless at one's predicament, though logically in the situation he is be in, he is trying to cope with his impeding doom. Including this, Mortimer is easily seen as cannon fodder from being more gullible and desperate in seeking escape from the game, just so he can save his own life, even at the possible expense of others.