Name:
Declan Murphey
Age:
19
Appearance:
Around 6 foot. Athletic build. Dark brown hair. Brown eyes.
Scars:
Many from gang fighting. The most prominent are; scarred knuckles from fighting, a knife scar spanning several inches across his chest, and another knife scar across his right cheekbone.
Tattoos:
None
Outfit:
Plain black shirt, Blue jeans, old sneakers
Problem/Addiction:
Mental issues regarding the death of his brother, Criminal background, Recovering from alcohol addiction
Background Type:
Criminal
Biography:
Declan was born in Limerick, Ireland, to a young working class Christian couple. His father was a builder and his mother a full time housewife, as she, in total, had seven children (five sons, two daughters), Declan the eldest of the lot. From a young age, Declan acted as a secondary provider for his family, finding money any way he could on the streets. Most of the time he would just do chores for neighbours, but as he grew older, he began to involve himself in criminal activities with the street gangs. At first, the crimes he comitted were purely to find an extra coin or two to put in to his younger siblings' hands, but it soon changed in to second nature.
He would drink lots, he would swear lots, and most of all, he would fight lots - he fought on the street with his bare fists as if it were a sport, for no particular reason at all. It would often get out of hand and, one some occasions, someone would get stabbed. Declan had never stabbed anyone, and a stabbing had never had an impact on his life, until one fateful day when a fight - that Declan had started, got so brutal that both himself and his younger brother, Oscar, were stabbed in the chest. He made it out alive, but his brother wasn't so lucky. With his brother dead and his family in tatters, Declan fell in to a deep depression, blaming himself. After many weeks of thinking, he left his violent ways behind and vowed to leave the world of street fighting. He began to sober up and sort himself out, getting a full time job and getting his family afloat once again.
Around 18th birthday, a time when his family were doing particularly well and, on the most part, had recovered from Oscar's death, his father decided that they move away from the city, away from the dark memories and the constant risk of events repeating themselves. The family immigrated to Aidensville, a town in South Carolina, USA. Over the next few months Declan focused on getting a completely legal job to keep a flow of cash coming to his family as well as making some friends with similar predicaments to himself. He lives alone in a small apartment, but still gives most of his wage to his family.
He works in a local garage, fixing vehicles with skills he nurtured in his younger years. He is also a takented singer and guitarist, so he spends some of his spare time busking to earn an extra dollar or two.