Name: Gerard Beicheart Connolly
Social Class: Lower Middle Class
Age: 28
Birthday: August 13, 1794 (Starting day of the RP is March 21st, 1823)
Nationality: Irish
Birth Place: Cork, Ireland
Residence: Bedforshire, England
Gender: Male
Education: Self taught
Income Source: (Occupation, titled, investments, inheritance, allowance, etc.) Rancher, £30 annually.
Native Language: English, Gaelic
Height: 5'9
Weight: 170 lbs
Build: Athletic
Eyes: Pale blue, Sleepy
Hair: Blonde, straight, short
Skin Tone: Rosy, Sun Kissed
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings: A vertical slash scar on his right forearm. Connolly family crest tattooed on his right arm. Bite mark on his left calf from a wolf attack many years ago.
Personal Style: Gerard wears simple laborer's clothing, since he earns little to even afford wearing anything fancy. Instead he wears a blue buttoned up shirt, black or white trousers with suspenders, a pair of leather boots and a gray, worn out coat. At times he prefers to just roll up his shirt sleeves to his elbows, donning a rancher hat to shade himself from the sun.
Responsible * Reserved * Humble * Gloomy * Passionate * Indulgent
Sexuality: Bisexual (unaware and wouldn't care)
Relationship Status: Widowed
Personality: Among the four notoriously rowdy Connolly brothers, Gerard has always been the odd one out. The Irish are said to be the toughest fighters and hard drinkers of the whole of Britannia. His family proud of the Connolly clan's fiery reputation continued by the brothers, yet little of those qualities would generally describe Gerard as a person. At a very young age he learned to work hard to earn money together with his brothers even if it means breaking a few rules, just to put a proper meal on the dinner table.
He mostly keeps to himself, growing up as a shy and awkward lad had made him a subject to his brothers constant teasing. He may be slow to trust but once he does he never hesitates to show his warmer and goofier side, both traits that he rarely shows to anyone. He adores music, and would spend his time alone playing the Bouzouki. They say he got his mother's angelic voice and used to sing with his brothers to pass time while sharing a couple of drinks.
Gerard is a hard worker, even though his skills with the blade would get him a much better earning job, he learns to be happy with what he already has. He could have been a mercenary or gone back to piracy but would rather keep himself away to a life of violence, as he thinks he already had enough of those in one lifetime. Years ago he just turned his life around, he got tired of his old one which has now left him with regrets. The remainder of his former mistakes has left him dim and jaded and nowadays he somehow makes up for it by doing some honest living.
Habits: -Whistles a distinctive tune, an old Irish drinking song
-Muttering his own thoughts
-Wouldn't make direct eye contact when speaking to someone
Hobbies:-Learning to read with Milli
-Singing and playing the Bouzouki when taking a break from work.
-Sailing
Fears: - Have to be forced to do something forbidden by the law
- Killing innocents
- Not be able to save people he cares
Likes:- Animals
- The Countryside
- Books
- Children
- A good drink
- The sea
Dislikes: - People who take advantage of the poor
- Bad migraine (from drinking way too hard)
- Violence, unless it's necessary
- Living alone/Loneliness
- Staying way too long in one place
- Unnecessary killing
General Skills:
- Country Knowledge(England)
- Culture Knowledge(Irish/Gaelic)
- Carriage Driving
- Horseback Riding
- Dueling
- Swimming
- Instrument (Bouzouki)
- Singing
- Breaking and Entering
- Cooking
- Masonry
- Sculpture
Trained Skills:- Language - Gaelic -Local Language Of Ireland (Required Skill - Includes reading and writing in traditional Celtic Runes)
- Suairt - Traditional Celtic Boxing
- Duinn - Fighting using long swords and round shields
- Maolain - Calling of a mist for cover; usually used when trying to escape a hoard that is too large to fight
- Lorcain - Unearthing ancient Celtic sacred sites and reactivating them as a holy field that is protected against Cargast
- Riada - Banshee like scream that can stun the Soulless for a few moments; area effect
What Is On Your Person:- Clothing - Blue buttoned up shirt, black pants with suspenders, gray worn out coat, pair of leather boots, straw hat, locket with a picture of his late wife.
- Longsword strapped on his back
- Coin pouch, containing a few changes
- A copy of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in his inner coat pocket
- Whittling knife
- Wooden statuette of a deer
- Handkerchief
- Canteen
Residence:- Another few sets of clothing
- Family tartan Kilt, kept neatly in his drawers
- The family round shield, engraved with the family crest
- Farming tools
- Herding tools
- Three more books piled on his table, next to a candle lamp.
- Bouzouki
- Flute
- Wendy, German Shepherd
Family History: The Connolly clan goes way back to the Viking era, a name known as one of the fiercest warriors in Ireland and close descendants to the Gaelic warriors who practiced the mystic arts. The name holds respect and even fear in the past years, as it was prominently carried on by the notorious Connolly brothers. Four sons to a retired sailor father and a stay at home mother, Gerard was the youngest among them.
His family didn't make much coin which got the brothers to do all kinds of crazy, even unlawful schemes just to get by. They had a lot of run ins with the law, and more than once got themselves locked up because of it. At some point, the brothers got into piracy, convinced by someone who was hiring new men for "The Velvet Rose", at a dingy tavern one night. Gerard was barely 18 when he got his first real taste of adventure. The life of piracy got to him, he never thought of a life that was better than raiding British cargo ships. Gerard and his brothers didn't care for consequences as long as they bring something of real worth to their parents back home.
Your personal life: Minimal of 3 detailed paragraphs about your characters life up until this point.
Gerard was born in Cork, Ireland to a lower class family. Their family was brought up by a close knit clan of warriors dating back to the Vikings. It was traditional for the clan to train children in the arts at a very young age. Their family barely earned enough when Little Gerry was growing up in the city, that at 12 he indulged himself to a life of petty thievery with his three older brothers. They do break ins, pick pocketing and even mugging. He barely understood the line of morality as it was a common thing for the poorest to do such things for a living. When he turned 18, his brothers were recruited into piracy, the only life they had for the next three years.
One morning, in broad daylight, they were intercepted and bombarded by a Ship of the Line, for the first time fear struck the young man as he ducked for cover under a pile of rubble. He saw men, some he would even call as his friends, would get thrown into the air and into the sea at impact, some are blown into smithereens right before his very eyes. They escaped, barely got out of the bombardment alive for the price of bloodshed including two of his brothers. His eldest brother, Aldous, who now ascended as the new captain after the former died in the attack, was blinded by vengeance and had sworn to take the fight back to the British army even if they all die trying. Gerard objected at any more pointless deaths even if surrendering means saving the only family he has left. Because of their apparent disagreement on the following months since the events, the relationship between them turned sour. Gerard would openly voice out his concerns on Aldous drastic decisions and warped judgments only to be fall into deaf ears. His brothers deaths has greatly affected him the most. He had failed to watch over them as he had promised his mother.
While they were looking for supplies mainland one evening, Gerard was ambushed by the military and taken into custody, only to be offered a deal if they surrendered peacefully in exchange of saving him and his brother from death. It took a long while for him to be convinced but Gerard eventually agreed, betraying his brother and pointed them to the location of the Velvet Rose with her new captain. They killed off the rest of the men except for Alduous. Once he was captured with Gerard's now reluctant participation, his brother cursed him. The last thing he heard from his brother while in tears was a spiteful wish of him being dead. Gerard couldn't look at him directly out of shame and sorry, as this was the only way he knew how to save both of them. Holding their end of the bargain, the officials assured his brother will be kept alive, living in a life of servitude in the colonies to make up for his crimes and as for Gerard himself, they had agreed to let him slip out for helping them resolve a three year case, with the condition of never turning back from his old life. For years, he wondered if what he did was actually worth losing over the trust of his remaining family.
A few years later he got himself to work as a laborer in Hampshire, where he met his feisty wife Marianne at a tavern while she served him a drink. He instantly fell in love and for the first time in a while Gerard was happy. They both got married and lived a quiet life in the countryside. His happiness was short lived once again when his pregnant wife died of childbirth with their stillborn daughter. The next morning, Gerard left Hampshire. He didn't want to stay any longer and be reminded everyday of the most precious things that he lost. He moved from city to city, temporarily working to indulge his drinking habit. At the age of 25 he was offered a job to work for Benedict Wyndham, a Gentry spice merchant as a rancher for three years now, taking care of their horses, or as the family's coach driver. At times even assisting him on seafaring businesses. He thought this was what he needed, to start anew and actually do something good for a change.
What you want for your life: Gerard has lived alone for a long time and although he never thought much about it, he yearns for companionship. He wishes the war with the Soulless will once day conceive peace in the end. He also dreamed of opening an inn someday, a place he could call his own, providing a safe haven for travelers who came across the countryside. He wished for a quiet and stable life there, spending his remaining days reading books, or playing the Bouzouki by the porch with Wendy.
Character Quote(s): "There's no point in staying on the ground. Get yourself up, and walk it off like a man."
"Sometimes a comforting tune would make things little bit better."
"I'd delve through hell itself if it means finding a way to stop this madness."
Theme Song: Anything Else: - Cargast
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Doris the alcoholic momma bear - Sometimes he whittles wooden animals for the farm children
- Is actually a really good singer
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