Fred Morrinson (Cataclysmic Gerosha)

Fred Morrinson is a minor character mentioned in Ciem: Inferno. He was a Gerosha Middle School resident that had made trouble for the Flippo triplets, and also became an inspiration for Candi to become Ciem.

Character bio
A typical bratty middle school student, he took to the hijacked Gerosha Middle School curriculum's emphasis on "sex everywhere, and all the time" to the extremes that were now being promoted: where the "right" to sex meant a "right" to rape, with the unwilling victim being labeled a "bigot" for not wanting it. Since the Flippo triplets strongly opposed this new direction in "woke" education, he targeted them for revenge.

One evening, as Marina was heading home late, Fred and some friends jumped her, abducted her, and let him rape her in the Old Boonville Cemetery. She barely survived the encounter. However, Candi knew that trying to seek justice for Marina would go about as well as when Candi tried earlier that same year to seek justice for herself after the incident with Don Mendoza that activated Candi's powers. Confused as to how Marina didn't also manifest, Candi felt that she needed to take matters into her own hands.

She created a very crude vigilante costume, as the "Spookfaced Centipede." Under this crude prototype of a Ciem suit, she broke into Fred's room, turning him paraplegic in order to avenge Marina. She broke several ribs in Fred's friends, not letting any of them escape uninjured. They didn't pursue charges on the mysterious attacker, knowing they'd have to out themselves for rape if they did so.

Fred's parents figured out that he was part of the gang that had been suspected of crimes against younger children in the area, and decided to move to another town in order to give their son a chance to start his life over some place where he'd make better friends. However, Fred's father made the mistake of confronting the school board about the curriculum's indoctrination of students with its "radical, kook fringe, shrieking demon leftist sexual ideology." This resulted in the school board hiring Skellig Soorfelt to assassinate Fred's father, before he went to the media with his feelings.

Fred himself was later killed by Halal Affadidah's troops.

Impact on the Flippo girls
While eliminated quickly from the main picture, his impact on Marina's self-esteem was devastating. It led to Marina having more trysts with men at school than her sisters Candi and Miriam did, until she became infamous amongst peers for her "legacy of 17 men." When Matt Baret chose to stay by Marina's side, instead of leaving the minute he'd gotten what he wanted from her, Marina suspected he was the one she was meant to be with. The two of them married, and Marina tried to put Fred and the other 15 men in her history behind her.

Fred's impact on Candi only reinforced her and Imaki's resolve for Candi to become Ciem, as if Don Mendoza hadn't motivated her enough. While Candi saw the inherent risks, she felt that Imaki's plan was essential to retaining her soul - as she'd lose it completely if she became the mindless assassin that Darius intended her to be.

Fred also influenced Miriam's decision to date Corey Mogen - a decision she'd later regret.