Character Reference:
Core friends:
Morgan - 21, started college late. Overweight, dark brown hair and brown eyes. White, about 6 feet tall. Gamer/nerdy type.
Caleb - 18, tall and blond. Skinny, and has a boyish sense of style. Baseball-tees and college sweatshirts. Nerdy. White.
Alan - 18 Sporty, athletic. Average height and weight. Prefers athletic or "athleisure" clothes. White with dark hair.
Victor - 19 Latino, average height, athletic and into rap music.
Non-core friends:
Seth - short, 5'4'' with acne. 18. Nerdy, scrawny, and known to be weird.
Jakob - Originally from an Eastern European country, but adopted to America. Has slight accent. Pale white, dark hair, icy blue eyes. Weird and prefers dark clothing.
Andrew - Nerdy kid, blond, film buff, sarcastic and prideful. White
New Players-
Cooper- 12 year old, younger brother to Seth, wears thick glasses. Short brown hair, watery blue eyes. Thin and nerdy
Luke- 12 year brother to Andrew. Fat. buzz cut brown hair. Brown, dull eyes.
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Morgan spent the rest of the night in a fitful, restless half-sleep. He figured he couldn't do anything too bold. Basic considerations got in the way, such as the self-locking doors of the residence halls. But moreso, his new form was woefully out of place wandering around the residence hall.
His previous plans to beat the shit out of Seth and Andrew with the help of Caleb was most likely out the door as well. He couldn't possibly take him on in this body. He probably couldn't take on anyone in this scrawny, weakling body. In his own body he may be hefty, but at least underneath it all there were some strong muscles.
When morning finally came, and the unfamiliar family around him stirred, he tried to fly under the radar as much as possible. He found the boys small duffle and pulled some clothes out. The mom fussed a little over his unkempt hair, but soon they were rushing out to have breakfast. When they arrived at the dining hall, Morgan was surprised to see Seth and Andrew meeting the family.
"What's the breakfast, Son!" The father said enthusiastically to Seth.
"Pancakes. Coopers favorite!" Seth said, flashing an evil grin to Morgan. Morgan swallowed, suddenly quite fearful.
As the family gathered their food and settled in, Seth navigated Morgan between him and Andrew. He leaned in, a menacing looking face hidden from Seth's family.
"How are you feeling, 'Cooper?!'" Seth sneered.
"What the hell did you do to me. Where is Caleb?!" Morgan hissed back.
"Oh, he's in my little brothers body." Andrew whispered. "And don't worry, they were happy to become older guys. Now they can drink and party or whatever they think college kids do."
"You can't leave us like this. It's not fair, not even to your brothers. They won't survive as us!" Morgan attempted to reason.
"Of course not. But we also don't really care." Seth chuckled, a vile sounding thing. "You don't really get it, do you? We're above the petty concerns of folks like you. Today we are 'Seth' and 'Andrew' but tomorrow we could hop into some meatheads on the soccer team. Or take a ride in a pair of professors. We could even just hop around until we're celebrities or politicians."
"So you've given up any pretense of humanity?" Morgan asked, sincerely disgusted.
"Oh come on. With power like this... why would I care? Once you've realized you can be anyone, step into any life... why pretend you need to care. In a few days we'll be other people. In a few weeks we won't even be in this state. Maybe if you could unmoor your mind like we have, you'd understand." Seth explained, sinisterly.
"And why leave us in these bodies?" Morgan asked.
"To get you out of the way, for a while. Our families leave today. And also... it's humorous. You will be a nerdy little boy and unless you ever learn to do what we can... you'll be stuck in that body for the rest of your... or rather, Cooper's - life." Seth laughed. Andrew grinned too.
"What are you boys talking about?" Seth's mom asked.
"Oh nothing.... just some video game talk!" Seth replied, squeezing Morgan's knobbly new leg hard, as a threat to not speak.
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Later that day, Morgan was being loaded into a car. He hadn't been able to find Caleb, and now he was being trundled off to Seth's family home. One of the last glimpses of the campus that Morgan had come to love was marred by Seth's sneering face, as he watched his family drive away.
When Morgan arrived at Seth's family home, he brought his bag of clothing upstairs to Cooper's room and peered around at this strange new prison. It was an odd thing, being in a preteens room that ostensibly was "HIS" room, but just as the body was foreign to him, so was the contents of the room. There was a box of assorted lego under the window, and the bedsheets were pokemon themed. Looking into the drawers and closet of the room, he found that Cooper kind of leaned into the nerdy aesthetic. Neat collared shirts and simple t-shirts, khakis and jeans. Some of the shirts were further indicators of the stuff Cooper was interested in, pokemon and other video games. It was all rather stereotypical, in all honesty.
Something else he had discovered in his bag before leaving college was an inhaler. Cooper truly was the model of a preteen nerd.
Morgan puttered around the room and house for the rest of the day. He was trying to pick up on how he should act to fit in. It was only later that his small, old model smart phone lit up with a message. It was addressed from someone named "Luke."
"Morgan. I know it's you in that body. We need to talk. -Caleb" Morgan almost dropped the phone.