Connor Molson McQuarrie

Comac, Conan

18

Male

Straight as a question mark

Junior

Connor is a pretty big guy, around 6’2’’ and about 200 lbs. He has dirty blonde hair that gets darker in the winter, and he likes to keep it short. He’s spent a lot of time working on his body and is proud of the results, maybe a little too proud. His eyes are blue-gray, though they look a little different depending on what he’s wearing.

It’s hard being a diplomat’s kid, but Connor has adapted well to the lifestyle. Moving around so much meant he got to be very good at making new friends, though not so great at keeping them. He’s very social and a little on the loud side; some would call him boisterous or unruly, but a few minutes in his company will show that he’s a very kindhearted person. Some might dismiss him as a brainless jock or an arrogant bro, but they would be wrong.

Connor doesn’t exactly crave attention, but he certainly doesn’t mind it and his antics tend to draw plenty of attention. He’s not exactly the class clown, but he has a very exagerated public persona. His speech is laden with little jokes and references and a lot of random and seemingly nonsensical slang, though he adopts a more serious tone in classes or in personal settings. He easily makes friends across all social levels, and has a tendency to assign people arbitrary nicknames. Connor has little patience for pretentious or arrogant people, and even less patience for bullies. He has a tendency to be blunt, which can get him in trouble sometimes.

While he is an honest and loyal guy, Connor has trouble forming close, lasting relationships. Connor is also fairly vain and maybe a little more self-centered than he thinks. Connor is not very good with numbers, and he likes to party a little too much. Those factors combined caused him to fail a year earlier in his highschool career. Connor also struggles with properly expressing his emotions.

Connor’s most visible flaw is that he’s inconsiderate. He doesn’t think much about how his actions or words might affect other people, and assumes that if he’s fine with something, others should be as well. He unfortunately doesn’t know where to draw the line; for Connor, there is no such thing as “too soon”. This has caused no small amount of problems for him over the years.

Sharks, squid, lobsters, whales; the ocean in general.

Connor’s father, David MacQuarrie, grew up on a small farm in Idaho. David’s parents were desperately poor, but they did their best to give David an education. David went to a local agricultural college, planning to take over the farm from his father, but his parents were both killed in a car accident less than a year after he graduated. David knew they’d always wanted the best for him, so he sold the farm and against all odds, got into Cornell, where he first studied life sciences before completing an MBA. David began working in Washington as a political aide, then joined the foreign service. It was on his first posting to Ottawa that he met Connor’s mother, Victoria Molson

Victoria’s childhood was the complete opposite of David’s. As a Molson, she was born into Montreal’s most elite social circle and grew up phenomenally wealthy. She attended all the best schools, and was presumably going to marry some rich peer of hers amongst Montreal’s elite. She was working in Ottawa as a political staffer-to secure connections and influence, not because she needed work-when she met David at a reception at the American embassy. The two fell in love and eventually got married, and Victoria left her native Canada to travel the world with David. Naturally, she still has access to all her wealth.

Connor is a hybrid of his two parent’s worlds, which can be difficult. When Connor was growing up, his father tried to impress on him the value of money and hard work, but his family’s wealth deprived Connor of any real understanding of the concept. Even when David became an ambassador, he still scrimped and saved, and prefered doing work around the house himself. On the other hand, Victoria believed in the importance of social class and paying for quality service. Every summer she’d take a charter jet back to Canada with her son and spend the summer at her family’s lakeside estate, while Connor’s dad would fly economy class to join them for a few weeks. The “cottage” was a permanent fixture of Connor’s childhood, and he retains good memories and close friendships from his time up there.

His father was always insisting Connor get a job as soon as possible, while mom thought it would ruin their image if he were to ever set foot in a fast food joint. The result is that Connor is very conflicted about his background; he’s aware of his status and the importance of maintaining that appearance, but he also feels guilty for having an easy life. He knows he’s supposed to appreciate the value of money and hard work, but he has no concept of what real hard work is.

Connor’s father was recently appointed Ambassador to Spain, and while Connor usually went with his parents on postings, they decided his grandfather’s suggestion of Ashbury would give Connor some much needed stability.

The Molson brewing company, the parent company of a dozen beer brands around the world. Connor’s grandfather, the current chair of the board, likes to keep the company in the family, and arranged to send Connor to Ashbury so he can eventually join his uncle and cousin in running the company.

May 21, 1997

Taurus

@ComacTheBarbarian

Brenden Micah Rivers

His older sister used to call him Bren, although he doesn’t like that much anymore.

18

Male

Homosexual

Senior

Brenden stands at about 6’0, making him slightly taller than average. He is more lean than overly muscular. His deep, brown eyes are usually don’t give away much about his personality. He holds himself rather well and has excellent posture. His hair is styled religiously almost every morning. The only time you’ll find him with it unstyled is when he’s terribly sick. That also happens to be the only time you’ll find him not dressed up. One thing that remains constant about Brenden is that he likes dressing well. It is rare to see him in less than a button up and tie. He takes great pride in how he looks.

Brenden prefers to keep his face kind of scruffy. It makes him look older than he actually is. While he usually wears contacts, he does wear glasses at time, which make him look younger as well.

Brenden is, in short, an ass.

Well, maybe it’s a little bit more complicated than that. He has an air of carefully constructed overconfidence about himself. He acts like he’s better than everyone else, exuding a cool charm mixed with layers of wit. His charisma can kill most anyone who hasn’t spent a decent amount of time around him, and he knows how to use that to his advantage. He knows when to be personable and knows when it’s okay to be a jerk. Talking to people is something he has learned to be good at. His barriers are akin to that of steel doors that only he has the key to. This makes him excellent at getting information from other people and not giving them information about himself. He also falls on the flirty side, although is almost never serious about the people he flirts with.

Despite all of this, he is rather well mannered and polite. His scathing remarks tend to bite even more because of this. It would be an understatement to say that he knows how to work his way around a social circle. Think of him as that guy you know is a jerk, but somehow still manages to be charming despite that.

Underneath that, Brenden prefers to be reserved. He has learned to accept his facade, despite how uncomfortable it makes him at times. Good manners and a sweet smile are almost never enough to climb the social ladder after all. He is loyal to a fault, which partially explains why he is so intent on pleasing his parents by completing tasks they never assigned him. If someone could manage to get past the walls he’d built they’d discover a young man who cries at almost everything he reads or watches and has a weakness for cute animals. It might be hard to believe, but he’s rather sweet under the cold shell he’s built for himself.

Brenden is also an insomniac, something that he does his best to hide. The right kind of makeup will hide the worst of it, although there are days when it is more obvious than not.

Disappointing those he has decided are important to him and lakes

Brenden is the son of the CEO of one of the top grossing pharmaceutical companies in the US, David Rivers, and his wife, a retired European model Adeline Rivers. He also has an older sister, Michelle. His family life at an early age was more existent than one would think. His father wasn’t around as much as he would have liked, but made an effort to come home when he could. His mother made every effort possible to fill the gaps that came from their father not being around. He brushed elbows with important people all the time, in both the business world and the social. His mother still maintained many of the connections she had when she was younger. He had grown up in the lap of luxury. Life was fine, until the summer before his 15th birthday.

Over the next few months, his older sister would abandon his family without a word and he would discover he was the illegitimate son of a poet his mother had fallen for while his father had been spending more time at work than necessary. This would instill a change in Brenden, warping his personality from a sweet, quiet child to an arrogant asshole hell bent on being better than everyone at everything. Or at least, that was what he made happen. Much of this was learned from the crowd his parents spent their time around. They were both high ranking members of society, and being the perceptive boy he was, Brenden gathered a good deal from the people they spent their time with. Both of his parents realized this change, but never did anything about it.

Inside, he knew why he had changed so suddenly and so drastically. He had to compensate for the gap that his sister had left and prove to some irrational part of himself that he was still part of this family. It was also a way for him to deal with the sadness left by his sister, one of his closest friends, disappearing completely from his life. He brushed his own dreams to the side, instead choosing to pursue the ones his parents had laid out for his sister. Prior to this, he’d always wanted to be an author. He still writes short stories on the internet under a pen name, and has gotten quite a bit of popularity from it. He’s adopted this persona ever since.

The family took a trip to Paris when Brenden was about 10. He and his sister got hopelessly lost, but after the initial shock had quite a fun time running around by themselves. The after scolding they got from their parents afterwards was kind of a downer.

The first few days after his sister left.

Pheonix Pharmaceuticals

One of the top grossing pharmaceuticals in the US yearly. The CEO is Brenden’s father, David Rivers. Although the decision was not forced upon him by any means. He elected to go of his own free will. His parents were more than happy to see their son follow in his father’s footsteps, even if they suspected something was up with his actions.

August 12th, 1997

Leo

@Brivers304
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