Currently

Oscillating between working in his studio, and keeping his siblings out of trouble.

Health & Capabilities

He has a stoic constitution, and will overwork himself far beyond his limits — at which point his body demands a break. Due to trauma from his adolescence and continued abuse to his hands through his own stubbornness and pride, he is forced to take frequent breaks while working.

Socioeconomics

The restless middle child to working-class O'Donnells had not set Bran up for a life of lofty dreams or privilege. The old man worked himself into an angry canker, and ma worked until Bran thought her fingers might fall off from shaking. Every swing of the axe, every weave of the needle. From a young age, Bran understood the importance of labor and doing a good job, and he took great pride in it. It was too easy for him to catch the attention of a local tailor, too easy for him to thread needle and loop a button with quick, painstaking detail. But there was not much in the way of education or promise for a boy like him, not if he wanted to be a real stitcher — a surgeon. Any hopes he has had for being something more have been crushed, quite literally, with an injury to both hands from his adolescence further inhibiting Bran from being able to fulfill his true dreams. Still, he labors. Every stitch, every seam. To give himself something, to give his family something. One more suit, one more dream fulfilled for someone else.

Skills & Talents

✁ First put thread to needle at age 3, following after his sister, Úna, who was following after their ma.
✁ Stitched up a sweet old tabby cat at age 7 after it was beat on by some older kids. Bran called it 'Troddy', because he was a little trodaire (fighter). Every cat since is also called Troddy.

Present Relationships

✁ The old man, Hugh, age 60, is a laborer, although he spends more time in a pub than down at the docks.
✁ Older sister, Úna, age 33, works as a seamstress in Liverpool where she lives with her husband, Darragh, and their three little brats.
✁ Younger twin siblings, Séamus and Caoimhe, aged 22. While they're both apprenticed with him, most days it feels like Bran's only got so much thread to keep them tethered to something useful. They have a habit of keeping company with gang members, but he knows they've got their ma's fearlessness, and he'd be a cursed hypocrite if he tried to force them on the straight and narrow. Still, Bran worries it's likely only a matter of time before he hears about one or both of them getting arrested, or worse.
✁ Malcolm Kincade, mid-50s, master tailor under whom Bran apprenticed; the two may not share the same faith of the spirit, but they are forever stitched together for their love of the craft. Now that Bran has his own shop these last six years, their relationship has shifted from teacher-student to friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) rivals.