#craigs is mcdonalds and smoking 🚬

[seancamerons]

WHERE ARE YOU NOW? MOOD BOARDS

craig manning 🎸36 years old // libra // smoker, musician, instructor, family provider, foodie, and father

craig manning, was recently diagnosed (pre-story) with bipolar I, but managing through therapy, to undo damage caused by generational trauma, a big trigger. only child of well-known community surgeon at one time, albert manning (deceased) and julia manning (jeremiah), (step)-son to joey jeremiah, half brother to angela jeremiah, a daughter julia had with joey after she divorced albert.

(under the cut for the rest of the biography)

in this story, craig is overworked, subbing at night and worked many jobs to help their daughter katrina with his domestic partner, manny. he's basically a trying father to a teenage daughter, who frequently argues with him, but he easily gives in total daddy's girl he's trying to be tougher but it isn't working for anyone. the kicker is: that she isn't much older than he was when she was born. he doesn't want her to end up struggling like them. he shields her from his past too, manny too so she knows little of their lives before her birth as a result.

in his early years, albert had been continuously abusive toward craig, but his mother bore the brunt of it. she knew he'd get full custody if she were to leave, but left him behind because she couldn't take her where she was going. she didn't work while craig was younger, before she left, and couldn't afford much so when she ran off, she met joey got a brand new car, and sold some expensive jewelry to get a new sensible reliable car for herself to get away from albert in the prior weeks, ahead of time so there were zero, no, room for error. if he woke up she feared what he'd say and do. julia sadly passed from cancer around, she was in her mid-30s and angela barely remembers her but knows she was her mother. craig tries to keep her memory alive. joey sacrificed a lot as well as craig and manny, they're very close and talk often about things and joey gives him and manny sage wisdom, love in laughter in their modest abode. craig works multiple jobs, like manny his girlfriend, they currently work in theatre, craig does subbing working to get a position as a music instructor. he teaches guitar and piano, song writing at the community college. manny and him had been together since they were teenagers and together created a home that they feel safe and happy. craig is fearsome of commitment but knows manny deserves to be proposed to properly, woo'ed even, so that's where his head is at. he's trying to make it official. he wants her to see how much he means to her, and that all their sacrifices and times of strife were in the long run worth it. ✨