Username:
Bubbles.
Kennel Number:
104
Name:
Girvan
Name meaning:
The rough little one
Name origin:
Gaelic
Gender:
Girvan is referred to as male to his first 2 boys, but he could change to female in the future.
Species:
At first he was the sub-conscious creation of a young child, now a monster that lays dormant until another young boy finds him.
To better understand Girvan, one must know....
Girvan is my theory on how people come to have Schizophrenia, as the cause is still debatable. So how this is is the boys start to have dreams about him, then the draw him each time they do Girvan becomes more life-like and powerful, because 'ideas are very hard to kill' (quote: Doctor Who (C) BBC). Eventually he becomes so powerful in the boys mind he starts to take over, this is the time where Schizophrenia is now apparent and incurable, not that is was ever curable in the first place.
Personality:
Girvan doesn’t really have a set behaviour, more he takes what his human is feeling onto himself. But he is rather serious about things, and is sometimes pushy. He isn’t an evil demon, like all others, more of a trouble maker. But the older the boys get, the more trouble he causes them.
Use:
A loved character, to be feared at all times. Girvan will help me better understand this unfortunate disease as I continue to research and write his story. He may also help out in my Unit 4 Psychology when I have to study and do an outcome on Schizophrenia in preparation for my end-of-year exam.
Background/History:
Let me tell you a story about a boy and his dog. You see, when the boy was young he had a problem. His parents tried to fix it, but they just made it worse. They created me, the boy’s own personal demon who represents the side of him no one ever wants to see again. Why? Simple. The boy has Schizophrenia.
It started when he was 5 years old. Now for those who don’t know about this disease, symptoms start to occur in adolescence, not early childhood. Anyway, the boy started to get his words mixed up, and became somewhat distant. Naturally, his parents thought he just had dyslexia, but they found out from a very confused doctor he wasn’t. So they did some tests and concluded he was just having some trouble at school. So life went on relatively normal for the family. But the boy got worse. He lost all his friends, he disconnected from his parents and he hardly ever talked. When he did talk it was like he had never learned a thing, like he was dumb. Or he would talk about one thing, and then suddenly start to talk about another and continuously do that. Like when he was asked what his favourite colour was, he would answer; “Green is my favourite colour. Like my shirt. My mum picked this out for me; did you know she has brown hair?”
Hmm, I think we’re forgetting something. Oh right, me! Well, by this time I was only a drawing in his book. I think he was supposed to draw a dog. You see, the first symptom of Schizophrenia is distorted perceptions. Or, to be simple, having hallucinations. The boy showed these through his art in school. While his teachers praised his ‘new style’ work, they started to worry. But like before, his parents thought little of it.
By now the child had just had his 7th birthday; his symptoms had not grown any better or worse. He was attending speech therapy and he was talking more intelligently. But the little dog in his drawings were becoming more than that. I was spreading, from paper to the wall behind his bed frame. A large image of me was drawn over several sheets of paper, and pasted behind the door. And I was becoming more distorted. I now had horns and wings. I wasn’t just a dog anymore. I was a monster. And everyone knows what monsters do to little children.
Now, let’s skip ahead a few years.
The boy is now 10, and words cannot describe how scared he is. And it’s all because of me. He now has a terrible fear of dogs, wolves, and all other canines. How did this happen? Well, back we go then!
Ok, now we are again after his 7th birthday. He knows all the monsters like Vampires aren’t real, but he strongly believes in me. I’m not an evil demon, you know that, but I did do a very evil thing to him. Haunting his dreams wasn’t easy you know. It takes a lot of imagination from both of us.
Mario Kart
WIP c:
