Mitch Gunther

From Survival Of The Fittest

Name: Mitch Gunther
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Grade: 10th
School: Bathurst High
Extra Curricular Activities: None

Description: Mitch is a young boy of 5’8", and of an incredibly scrawny form that gives him the appearance of being sickly and underfed. However, though his body is thin and boney, it is certainly not without flexibility, as well as underlying physical strength hinted through his lithe and wirey form, long limbs, and thin, claw-like fingers. His face is thin and gaunt, yet smooth-skinned and childlike, with boyish, yet delicate facial features. His skin is of a pale, uneven tone, and his chin-length hair is a dull greyish blonde colour, thin yet shaggy and unruly with loose locks of hair falling over about his face. His eyes are of a misty, sea-green colour, and their cloudy quality often gives him a rather absent, dreamy look to his overall expression, making him look as though he were off in another world. He is often seen wearing tattered, mismatched clothing that are much too loose for his form, most recently having adopted a second-hand outfit: a black, shortleeved t-shirt over a one-sleeved red one(both are much too loose for his frame, exposing a good part of his neck and shoulders), as well as torn, baggy jeans much too large for his size despite being held up by a makeshift belt made out of cable cord. Oddly enough, he prefers to go around barefoot. Bandages are wrapped around his forearms, ribcage, left ankle, and neck, though they’ve now taken to hanging in loose drapes due to continuous scratching and pulling on Mitch’s part. Hidden scars and burns, large and numerous, can be seen just hiding underneath.

For as long as he could remember, Mitch lived a ward of the state, orphaned at the early age of one and marked as a permanent burn victim with the scars to prove it. Since then, he has passed from family to family, gaining even more scars along the way from abusive families and caregivers who were often infuriated with him and took to physical abuse to control him. He remained a solitary figure from time to time, always keeping to himself since early childhood, a misfit even among his fellow orphans. And then he met Cathalie for the first time when he was five, and they were bunked together in the same state orphanage. Whatever event that followed, for some reason Mitch had taken to latching himself to Cathalie her since, developing an almost obsessive attachment to her. He has followed her everywhere ever since, and has even refused adoption on the basis that “he would never go if Cathalie didn’t go.” He even followed her to school, despite his ‘condition’, which seemed to place barriers between him and others, preventing him from relating to other people other than Cathalie.

As his only friend Cathalie would bluntly put it, Mitch is permanently missing a few cards in the deck, and tends to make little sense more than half the time. Relatively innocent, and with little pretense, He is known to utter random musings in his mind, particularly when feeling the least bit uncomfortable, and seems to prefer speaking in third-person. He often doesn’t realize that others are often unsettled or even angered by his erratic tendencies. Despite this, he is naturally a trickster, despite not being such a devious, pretentious person. He simple comes and goes, does as he wants, as he pleases, when he pleases, and however he pleases, regardless of the convenience (or lack thereof) of other people. When he doesn’t get his way, he either resorts to mildly violent tendancies (biting and scratching, for example), or sulks in a corner. Since the two of them go back a long way, he is vehemently, almost jealously attached to Cathalie. He adores her, and prides himself on being her ‘protector’, much to her irritation. Despite not easily trusting people in general other than Cathalie, he is actually quite cheerful and naïve, and talks more than he often needs to. Pain, violence and death don’t seem to bother him in the least, unless Cathalie is the one getting hurt. Thus, he is often never aware that others might be feeling sadness or pain, much less aware if he is the one causing it. Being the erratic, contrary person that he is, controlling him is a near impossible feat, and the only person he obeys is Cathalie…and sometimes not even then. He doesn’t seem to have a problem with hurting others, but often restrains himself from doing so unless he feels that Cathalie is in danger.

Clique: None. He has an automatic dislike for any and all people who are not Cathalie.

Relationships:
Cathalie Meguro – Thus far the only person that Mitch likes, and the only person Mitch obeys, though sometimes not even then. Though he is constantly being physically and verbally victimized by her as a form of stress relief, he has a very strong attachment to her, and shows absolutely no mercy to even the most remote threat that may endanger his precious Cathalie.

Other: Along with his other erratic tendencies, Mitch is a kleptomaniac. He is especially fond of machinery and metal things.