Introduction
Eoin McDaniels
"I wanted the whole world or nothing."
Appearance
Notable Features
His features are large and dense, built like a brick house—as they say—and he's quick to gain mass. His dark eyes have an opaque, impenetrable quality, accompanied by moody expressions and a melancholic countenance.He has depth and character to his features, but they are also brutal and certainly neither noble nor refined.
He has a few tattoos, most of them shoddily done. The best and most prominent is a rosary that sits on the skin of his lower arm and extends onto the back of his right hand.
He has big and meaty hands that surprisingly possess supreme fine motor skills.
Personal Style
Dressed in whatever is available with his poor financial means. Eoin is often unkempt, his hair overgrown and his clothes stained. He lives rough and he looks it.At most times, Eoin carries a few tools with him, including a hammer and at least one knife that doubles as his weapons of choice, if needed.
Circumstances
Currently
Eoin is currently living and struggling in London's East End. Tired of working dead-end menial labour jobs, he joined the Greenstreet gang and is in the process of establishing himself in their ranks. He looks to carve out a place and business for himself in the gang and is experimenting with numerous new "ventures." His sister Skye has once again banned him from her brothel, but he keeps tabs on her and is looking for a way in. He is still smoking opium on the regular and does middlingly at keeping his addiction in check.Health & Capabilities
If sober, he is a strong man in decent health. He works demanding jobs at the docks and as a bricklayer and builder. Those have aided in developing a solid base of muscle.If he is in the throes of opium addiction, he loses weight and takes on an unhealthy pallor. This often coincides with struggling to keep employment, so his strength visibly deteriorates.
Socioeconomics
Eoin lives in poverty and he has few prospects to change that, unless he makes it big in his gang. He's working on it.Skills & Talents
- Eoin can fight like a mad dog, and he's a good shot.- Carpentry and woodworking
- He is talented at working with his hands in general and is good at fixing and repairing things.
- Strong
- Street-savvy
Identity
Hobbies
Eoin does not have the leisure time for hobbies. He does find room for vices like smoking opium, trying to find someone to mess with, fuck, or relieve of their coins; He partakes in drinking, gambling, and fighting. If he is feeling sentimental and creative, he carves little trinkets out of wood to give to his sister, so she might let him back into her life.Personality
Eoin is an unsettling and dense presence in any room he enters; he is not exactly warm, despite being a lively and energetic character. He is fast-moving and feather-ruffling — stand-offish unless he decides he wants something from you.The man — conscious personality
- Eoin is first and foremost a fighter, all stubbornness and on this earth to find out what is worth fighting for. He is strategic by nature and fiercely defends his territory and personhood. There is great pressure in him; he seeks purpose through struggle.
- A provocateur and experimentalist. If he provokes joy or pain, it is up to his moods and up to his mark. He takes stabs and jabs at people to become free from stillness and sadness. He is pursuing emotional liberation. He is an incorrigible flirt.
- Eoin dreams and hopes despite all circumstances of his life, and he is driven by the urge to free himself from constriction. He experiences strong unrest and needs to find excitement constantly.
What moves below — unconscious traits
- Without realizing it, Eoin harbors a deep well of knowledge and experience, accrued over a life of trial and error. He knows what does not work — because he has made many, many mistakes. This has made him savvy, and he has the uncanny ability to land on his feet, no matter what.
- Eoin thrives when given control and is adept at impartially and effectively controlling group structures. Lacking community-oriented responsibility is a destabilizer for him, that neither he nor anyone else would be able to identify — he is a chronic fuck-up; who would put him in charge of anything?
- He harbors the potential and drive to be highly productive and accrue resources and be generous and valuable to the people he cares for, if he could get a handle on his vices and his hostility. So far, he has failed to shake his anger at the restrictions the world has placed on him, and diverts this energy into self-destruction.
Background
History
Eoin McDaniels receives the light of the world and the rite of baptism on the very last day of the year 1855. He is born a minute or two before his twin sister, Skye. His mother is a Dubliner prostitute, and who his father might be is a question not even worth asking.They have very little, but his mother loves her twins until she dies of consumption. Eoin and Skye are 12 years old when they become orphans and move with their aunt and her new English husband to London, where they settle in Whitechapel in 1870.
Eoin is a difficult boy. He always was, and the unsteady circumstances of his life do not help the matter. He does not respond to any form of disciplinary action and runs away frequently. After his new stepfather dies of a stroke only a year after their arrival in London, he runs away once more and takes his sister with him. For a year or two, they make it on the streets and they are thick as thieves. However, Skye grows into a pretty young girl and Eoin, obviously, doesn't. He grows into a good-for-nothing chap with no prospects, and his sister, even by way of working in brothels, is often the one to make ends meet.
At 16, Eoin finally meets a person who can get through to him, and he builds a semblance of trust with an old carpenter and craftsman, Innes Colfer. He starts apprenticing with him, and for a while, it looks like he is going to straighten out. Carpentry gets him off the street and working, and he is good at it. He rediscovers religion due to the influence of Mr. Colfer's wife, who takes a liking to Eoin. His sister, however, is not tolerated by his new benefactors. They are East Enders, and it is not like they don't know that she is a whore at a known brothel—they know and they don't want her around. It puts strain on their relationship. Eoin lives with the Colfers and he can't take his chances. Into his early 20s, he makes a living in his trade. Shortly after Eoin's 21st birthday, Mr. Colfer dies and his wife moves away to live with her sister in the countryside.
Eoin is back on his own and falls back in love with opium. He is around Irish street gangs but does not join them until his late 20s. He works odd jobs, tries to start his own carpentry shop, and fails. He gets into debt and out of debt and back into debt. He joins the military with the Royal Artillery and spends some time in their barracks in Woolwich, to be posted in India. He serves in the Anglo-Afghan war as a gunner. After five years, he is dishonorably discharged for disciplinary issues, namely drunkenness and disorderly behavior.
After that, he finds himself back in the East End and finally decides he's had it with honest-ish work and he joins the Greenstreet gang.
Experimenting with his new life of crime, he tries to get in on managing his sister's well-running brothel. Unfortunately, she does not need his help and does not want him intruding on her business (and jumping on her girls for free). She bans him from the premises, and Eoin is looking for a way to get back in and back in on the money.
