Turkey has become a much more complicated that originally written. We worked on developing him during the past week, and this is the current progress:

Turkey isn't his real name, as no one would really name their child that [though you can't be too sure]. He's named that because it was the last meal he had with his family. Thanksgiving - the common turkey dinner that drove someone into a lovely slumber during the cold night in late November. Family, you may think, since he's separated from them, were cruel. However, it's the opposite. Turkey's family was very loving and caring, and always treated him right. 

This doesn't mean there wasn't anything mentally wrong in his head. Sure, a lot of teenagers now a days have depression or claim to have a mental illness of the sort and not be diagnosed, but they may be joking. Others just can't access medial facilities, and therefore never be properly diagnosed by a doctor or treated for what they have. A big one now a days is depression, which isn't a mental illness, but more so a neurological disorder. 

A lot of teenagers with depression tend to focus on the past, thinking of all the bad things that have happen in their life up to this point and never consider that the future will be better for them, thus, sadly, some of them resort to attempting or committing suicide. Others just run away from family issues that may bring it about, or try to exclude themselves from whatever the source of their depression lies.

Turkey falls into that category of teenagers, who sadly, try to end themselves and close their book. He decided that after Thanksgiving, already ill with a horrid sickness, that he was going to leave home in the cold, and go to a train station. His intention was to kill himself by jumping into the tracks as the next train arrived at the station. However, due to it being so late and his medication causing him to become drowsy  he fell asleep there. 

This is where Chazz comes in. He's a fairly caring guy, and so seeing that Turkey was clearly homeless at this point since his family had no trace of him, he took him in and onto the train back to his "hide out"/home. Turkey woke there, confused and having a lot of questions - all of which Chazz answered to the best of his ability. Turkey, unlike the common teenager, wasn't scared but in fact interested in the guy, and just tried to fit into the new home. He felt comfortable, and although his mind still boggled with a lot of suicidal thoughts, Chazz constantly cheered him up with kind words and care. In a sense, he became a second father. 

Due to adjusting to the new area/home he was adopted into, Turkey ended up stumbling upon some odd mask that actually looked like a bird creature. After touching it, it made a new home as well - Turkey's body. The mask then became personified, and took control of Turkey's body. At this point, he was an ill puppet. Chazz noticed this, but had no control over the situation, and only tried to help Turkey through it. 

Still conscience, Turkey lives through that type of thing. The mask talks for him, controls his body majority of the time, but keeps him quiet and mute. Turkey now doesn't talk himself, but instead this small little disease in the mask does. It does not just drain Turkey of his life, but also maintains him to a level of which is "inhabitable" for himself. 

Near the end of Turkey's story, he ends up drowning out the mask, and being able to rip it off, becomes finally proud of something he's done. Though, he does pass out. He ends up in a hospital, in a coma, and Chazz - feeling a lot of empathy for the kid - reconnects him and his family. They come to visit in the hospital and hug and hold his body as much as the doctors and nurses allowed, staying by his side until he wakes. 

When he does, the hospital gives him food to restore his energy and he finally starts feeling better - mentally. However, his internal and physical health has been deteriorating ever since the mask came off. It was his source of living for a while, and due to the sudden drop of not having it, causes him to fall into the coma in the first place. At this point, he just slowly dies. The last meal he has is a Thanksgiving dinner - his family in the room still, watching over and helping him, but afterward, he dies.

/Riley