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Memento Mori

I'm attached to the MC from Memento Mori. He's from a short story, well the plot is from an entire short story that I finally decided to turn in a novel.

Zachary (Zach) Bent
Age: 17
Messy black hair, brown eyes
Wears Marvel Superhero T-Shirts/A Flash T-Shirt, Jeans, red Chucks
Suffers from General Anxiety Disorder
5'5"
Reads a lot of comic books and Sherlock Holmes stories
Obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and Steampunk
Wants to solve mysteries, which leads into the main plot of Memento Mori
Lives in a small town outside Philly, pretty far outside almost country, not quite suburbs.
((It's based off real places))
Skeptical about everything and tries to be logical
Has a sister, Hannah and lives with his mom
He's quick and a good shot, but always gets into trouble because he's not that great of a fighter



http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...

Gabriel (Gabe) Moriarty
Age: 17
Hair and Eye Color=N/A
Wears t-shirts, jeans
Plays football and lacrosse
He loves action/sci-fi movies, favorites being TRON, Total Recall and The Matrix
Secretly loves Fiddler on the Roof
Has always dreamt of hunting monsters, which also leads into the main plot XD
Lives in the same town as Zach
He's close to his brother who was a football player, now works in the factories
All about conspiracy theories esp. ones that involve extraterrestrials, he's all over the Roswell, Area 51 and then the Original Moon Landing
Loves, loves to talk
Loves to learn about guns
He's not fast but he knows how to fight, use a gun and practices fencing on the weekends (he wants to hunt monsters)
He always ends up saving Zach who gets himself into trouble

The relationship between Zach and Gabe was inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Watson. But the real ones. Well, meaning the short stories and the 2010 movie. ((SHERLOCK HOLMES ISN'T AN SNOBBISH ASSHOLE. . .he's just an eccentric, arrogant, drug addict asshole. There's a difference))