Name: Brian Parr (his Italian great-grandparents were Gaspare, but they shortened it on Ellis Island)
Age: 29
Gender:Male
Physical Description:
Mundane Skills:
Supernatural:
Character History:
Psychological Profile:
Possessions:
Occupation:
Relationships
Age: 29
Gender:Male
Physical Description:
Average sized and lean with hard features, medium, curly, dark hair, and pale blue eyes. He shaved off all his hair when a streak of white started to go through it, which seemed uncomfortably close to a witch's lock and grew a goatee. If people ask, he says he figured that if he was going to start going bald, he wasn't gonna halfass it and look like he was balding, but just rock the look instead. He tends toward casual attire and does not look entirely comfortable in a suit. The man also has a sleeve of tattoos on each upper arm, though he no longer shows them off, as they keep changing appearance now.
Mundane Skills:
- College Degree: History
- Some law school before he realized it wasn't him.
- Experience as a bartender, barback and bouncer during his years at Boston University.
- Former US Marshal, with law enforcement skillset.
- Good with tools, his dad's doing.
- A practitioner of marital arts, though he's recently taken an interest in Tai Chi and Yoga and meditation.
- Some law school before he realized it wasn't him.
- Experience as a bartender, barback and bouncer during his years at Boston University.
- Former US Marshal, with law enforcement skillset.
- Good with tools, his dad's doing.
- A practitioner of marital arts, though he's recently taken an interest in Tai Chi and Yoga and meditation.
Supernatural:
It's in the dreams and the sudden moments of clarity, where the universe seems to whisper its secrets, but in a language he can't quite decipher. It's like learning to read and write again as a little kid, or tackling a math problem, or learning the game of football with all its rules and gray areas. He's taken up the practice of soft-form martial arts and meditation as he tries to work through the knot in his mind, loosening it bit, by bit. Symbols occasionally flash through his vision, runes and other significant shapes or patterns that he encounters on an every day basis, including crucifixes, star symbols and flames. Right now, he can light candles. That's about it and it wears him out to do so.
Character History:
Brian Parr was born to parents right there in Haye, his father an auto mechanic and his mother a bartender. He was the second of three children, including his eldest sister Jennifer and his younger brother John. Brian spent much of his formative years doing well in school and as a linebacker for the Haye High School Roughnecks. Between that and good grades, he managed to secure himself a partial scholarship to Boston University and worked weekends in Electrum, one of the dance clubs in the area, as a bouncer and then as a bartender, when it became apparent that bartending paid a hell of a lot better.
His grades at BU were good enough, once he was cut from the football team, to get him into law school at Pittsburgh University, but he realized that he wasn't cut out for law so much as a more hands on sort of job, and so took a job as a Deputy in the Pittsburgh Sheriff's department, serving warrants and handling courthouse security. Excellent at this job, he applied for and got a job in the Federal Marshal service, primarily serving at first in witness protection, but moving on into fugitive apprehension and, eventually, the marshal service's Special Operations Group, which handled all sorts of situations, stationed in Louisiana, but active nationwide and on call.
The problem came with Emergence and the Dunn Act, which stipulated that all Emergents were stripped of their citizenship. Being somewhat idealistic despite a hardboiled career and always conscientious in his job, he quickly resigned from the Marshal Service because he didn't like the idea of serving the mass-arrest warrants being brought out for Emergents.
After all, he had a sneaking suspicion that he was one. When a streak of hair went white and his tattoos, which were very biker until they morphed into dragons one day, Japanese mythology the next and other random themes, started to change on a daily basis, he sort of figured that being an Emergent and a Deputy Marshal were mutually exclusive.
He moved back to Haye and started to work at his brother John's cafe/bar, the Water of Life, ostensibly as a bartender, though he can double as the bouncer if he has to.
His grades at BU were good enough, once he was cut from the football team, to get him into law school at Pittsburgh University, but he realized that he wasn't cut out for law so much as a more hands on sort of job, and so took a job as a Deputy in the Pittsburgh Sheriff's department, serving warrants and handling courthouse security. Excellent at this job, he applied for and got a job in the Federal Marshal service, primarily serving at first in witness protection, but moving on into fugitive apprehension and, eventually, the marshal service's Special Operations Group, which handled all sorts of situations, stationed in Louisiana, but active nationwide and on call.
The problem came with Emergence and the Dunn Act, which stipulated that all Emergents were stripped of their citizenship. Being somewhat idealistic despite a hardboiled career and always conscientious in his job, he quickly resigned from the Marshal Service because he didn't like the idea of serving the mass-arrest warrants being brought out for Emergents.
After all, he had a sneaking suspicion that he was one. When a streak of hair went white and his tattoos, which were very biker until they morphed into dragons one day, Japanese mythology the next and other random themes, started to change on a daily basis, he sort of figured that being an Emergent and a Deputy Marshal were mutually exclusive.
He moved back to Haye and started to work at his brother John's cafe/bar, the Water of Life, ostensibly as a bartender, though he can double as the bouncer if he has to.
Psychological Profile:
Brian isn't sure anymore. No one really is, but he used to have beliefs about the law and how America should work and felt that what he was doing was a fundamentally good job. But the orders came down to apprehend people that had done nothing as soon as they could be spotted because people were scared and he had a crisis of faith. What scares him, a perfectly intelligent man, is the haunting thought that he might well not question orders like a lot of guys if he hadn't come up Emergent himself.
He moved around a lot, as he was stationed in Maine and then in Louisiana as a Deputy Marshal, but he's still able to talk the local lingo with the good old boys, though people that mistake him for such are often surprised.
In dealing with people, he tends to be quiet and watch – it's what a lot of good cops do. Polite, easygoing and generally calm, he nonetheless keeps his seething emotional conflict under wraps. As a bartender, being a calm, good listener is a tip generator, so he's at least weathering the situation well. The pay at John's bar isn't nearly as good as it was at places like Electrum, because Haye isn't urban and the clientele is working class and, quite frankly, John is family, so Brian didn't negotiate all that hard for more pay. It's a job with a lot of freedoms, which he likes. His brother and sister, the oldest and youngest respectively, are known to be much more vocal people than the middle brother.
He moved around a lot, as he was stationed in Maine and then in Louisiana as a Deputy Marshal, but he's still able to talk the local lingo with the good old boys, though people that mistake him for such are often surprised.
In dealing with people, he tends to be quiet and watch – it's what a lot of good cops do. Polite, easygoing and generally calm, he nonetheless keeps his seething emotional conflict under wraps. As a bartender, being a calm, good listener is a tip generator, so he's at least weathering the situation well. The pay at John's bar isn't nearly as good as it was at places like Electrum, because Haye isn't urban and the clientele is working class and, quite frankly, John is family, so Brian didn't negotiate all that hard for more pay. It's a job with a lot of freedoms, which he likes. His brother and sister, the oldest and youngest respectively, are known to be much more vocal people than the middle brother.
Possessions:
- A small apartment on Swansea street with very little in the way of furniture – in fact, it's a loft belonging to an older widow who was happy to rent it out to a guy with law enforcement credentials. As a local boy, a good kid and his mother and father's son, he got a nice cut off the rent and a heck of a nice place. During his time off, to keep himself sane, he renovates it for an even larger cut off from his landlady, who likes having a guy that knows tools and repairs around. He's installed a nice deck and a set of French doors and has redone a bathroom up there.
- 62 Chevy K15000, one his father restored into working order and gave to him as a graduation gift from college. It has off-road wheels and other modifications, particularly the V-8 engine on board. Above all, it is rugged, suited for use in the wintertime and unfailingly reliable.
- A Sig Sauer P239 in .40 S&W for which he has a permit as a former federal law enforcement officer. He doesn't generally carry it – Haye just isn't that dangerous -- but he has a good inside-the waist leather holster for it. If he is carrying, he has two extra magazines on him.
- A couple other guns, because it's Pennsylvania and they do hunting.
- 62 Chevy K15000, one his father restored into working order and gave to him as a graduation gift from college. It has off-road wheels and other modifications, particularly the V-8 engine on board. Above all, it is rugged, suited for use in the wintertime and unfailingly reliable.
- A Sig Sauer P239 in .40 S&W for which he has a permit as a former federal law enforcement officer. He doesn't generally carry it – Haye just isn't that dangerous -- but he has a good inside-the waist leather holster for it. If he is carrying, he has two extra magazines on him.
- A couple other guns, because it's Pennsylvania and they do hunting.
Occupation:
Daytime Manager/Bouncer/Bartender, at the Water of Life. It's his brother's place. Sheriff Mark Luntz tried to hire him, but he turned the guy down. When his brother is getting some sleep, Brian fills in for him at a pittance pay, because what is family for? In any case, he runs the place when his brother's not there and mostly lives off the tips he gets, along with his savings. (He was careful in the Marshals)
Relationships
John Parr – Brother. Boss. Owner of the Water of Life, a cafe and bar that seems to be doing a steady enough business. The nights are much wilder than the days. John is the closest of the entire family to Brian, but Brian isn't interested in confiding in him. John's a really understanding guy and Brian knows he'd keep a secret, but he doesn't want to put him in danger. If Brian ever got found out, he be putting his brother in danger. Ironically, John is a D&D nerd and, unusually for Haye, is quietly involved in Emergent Rights causes.
Sheriff Mark Luntz – He's known Brian since he was a kid, a friend of his father and all that. When Brian came back to town after resigning from the Marshals, he wanted to hire Brian right on the spot – it was a waste of a good, experienced law enforcement guy. He'd be curious as to why Brian isn't interested, except he has a lot on his plate with the Emergent situation because places like Haye are on their own. The previous mayor, Rudy Lefkowitz, resigned recently and it looks like the next mayor is going to be Henry Hawkins, a favorite of local Pastor Gary Miller, of the Haye Covenant of Light Church, an influential and stridently anti-emergent minister whose congregation has grown considerably with recent troubles. Luntz is known around town as a good guy, but he's a little too nice and moderate, not to the liking of the current mood and Hawkins already made it clear that he's going to replace Luntz with someone 'more energetic.'
Jennifer Parr-Hawkins – His sister, who is married, has a couple of kids and they don't really talk about anything deep because she's a bit involved in being the best mom and wife she can, which strikes Brian as a little ridiculous, white picket fence. Then again, she's always been a conformist and member of the 'in-group' from her days as a homecoming queen and cheerleader. Her husband, Brad Hawkins, is in the real estate development business, but he's also a douchebag that has ranted about Emergents and the two of them seems to be rather avid donors to the Haye Covenant of Light Church. Brian keeps his distance.
Carla and Frank (Mom and Dad) – There for him, and they think he just got out of that job because it was becoming too psychotic and things were breaking down (true) but he's kept things from them, too. His dad is a hard working kind of dude, but kind of conservative. He's always been proud of Brian, but because he did football and got good grades and became a law enforcement guy. His mother is more sympathetic, but he isn't sure he wants to put her in danger with her knowing what's going on with him.
Sheriff Mark Luntz – He's known Brian since he was a kid, a friend of his father and all that. When Brian came back to town after resigning from the Marshals, he wanted to hire Brian right on the spot – it was a waste of a good, experienced law enforcement guy. He'd be curious as to why Brian isn't interested, except he has a lot on his plate with the Emergent situation because places like Haye are on their own. The previous mayor, Rudy Lefkowitz, resigned recently and it looks like the next mayor is going to be Henry Hawkins, a favorite of local Pastor Gary Miller, of the Haye Covenant of Light Church, an influential and stridently anti-emergent minister whose congregation has grown considerably with recent troubles. Luntz is known around town as a good guy, but he's a little too nice and moderate, not to the liking of the current mood and Hawkins already made it clear that he's going to replace Luntz with someone 'more energetic.'
Jennifer Parr-Hawkins – His sister, who is married, has a couple of kids and they don't really talk about anything deep because she's a bit involved in being the best mom and wife she can, which strikes Brian as a little ridiculous, white picket fence. Then again, she's always been a conformist and member of the 'in-group' from her days as a homecoming queen and cheerleader. Her husband, Brad Hawkins, is in the real estate development business, but he's also a douchebag that has ranted about Emergents and the two of them seems to be rather avid donors to the Haye Covenant of Light Church. Brian keeps his distance.
Carla and Frank (Mom and Dad) – There for him, and they think he just got out of that job because it was becoming too psychotic and things were breaking down (true) but he's kept things from them, too. His dad is a hard working kind of dude, but kind of conservative. He's always been proud of Brian, but because he did football and got good grades and became a law enforcement guy. His mother is more sympathetic, but he isn't sure he wants to put her in danger with her knowing what's going on with him.
