Ciaran O'Malley

[Ciaran O'Malley]

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.:Name:. Ciaran O'Malley (Pronounced: Kieran)
.:Nick Name:. Ciar (Pronounced: Kier), The Boogeyman
.:Rank:. Lower Class
.:Age:. 26

| ~ • ~ | Appearance | ~ • ~ |

.:Physical Appearance:. Ciaran is an unkempt man; he doesn’t keep his thick beard and hair all oiled up like the nobleman or even the middle-class man. He prefers the natural look. He’s poor, and his clothes show it - holes, looser fitting, inexpensive fabric, hand-made by his siblings, hand-me-downs from his father. Ciaran has an athletic build but isn’t too muscular. He stands just under six-feet tall. Ciaran also has some scars - one on his eyebrow, and a few from fights across his body. In spite of all of his roughness, he has almost a romantic look to him. If someone cleaned him up, he could be the dark and mysterious man from a gothic novel.
.:Height:. 5’11
.:Portrayed by:. Jamie Dornan (think him in Death and Nightingales but 10 years younger)

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.:Personality:. Ciaran is as rough as he looks. He has a gruff voice and a heavy Irish accent. He’s tough, prone to anger, and can be violent. In a fight, he holds his own well (and that’s only gotten better as time goes on). Ciaran is very protective of his family and his boss. He is definitely a “guard dog” for them. His bite and his bark are both big, so be careful. . . Ciaran does have a sweet side that he keeps buried down; he hasn’t had the chance to really be gentle. He’s always kind to anyone he’s dating (both men and women, gasp!); he doesn’t want to be his father (even though he takes after him in most other ways). He also has a crush on his boss, Reuben Slade.
.:Skills:. Good with his hands; fighting; intimidation
.:Weaknesses:. Soft spot for his loved ones; his mouth can get him into trouble

| ~ • ~ | History | ~ • ~ |

.:Birthplace:. Whiteabbey, Ireland
.:Family:. Conal O’Malley (father, deceased); Sinead O’Malley (neé Lynch, mother, 46)
Saoirse Conrad (neé O’Malley, older sister, 28); William “Billy” Conrad (brother-in-law, 30); Elizabeth “Lizzy” Conrad (niece, 8); Niall Conrad (nephew, 6)
Tiernan O’Malley (younger brother, 19), Siobhan O’Malley (younger sister, 16), Seamus O’Malley (younger brother, 10)
.:Occupation:. Dock Worker (cover); Enforcer for Slade
.:History:.

cw: mentions of domestic and child abuse, violence
Note: Reuben Slade used with Euphoria’s permission!

Ciaran is the second child of Conal and Sinead O’Malley. He was born in the coastal town of Whiteabbey, where his father worked at the docks. Conal first worked in Whiteabbey and then went to Belfast for better pay, but it was hard to support his growing family. Ciaran went to work with the local blacksmith when he was only twelve, but he had a knack for getting into trouble without his father around. (And when his father was around, he hated it more.) He took after his father in that he found himself working at the docks to support his mother and siblings best, while Saoirse cleaned the local merchant’s houses. Finally, when Ciaran was sixteen, his father got a job in London. The whole family with newborn Seamus got on a boat and left Ireland, never to look back. Out of his four siblings, he and Saoirse remember Ireland best.

London was dark and dreary - a big city that had nothing to offer him. The Brits would make fun of his accent and bully him for being Irish. Quickly, Ciaran would get into fights and was known as Conal’s troubled son. He had no direction in life. He didn’t even know what could be offered to him. All he knew were his dirty hands from working with the boats all day with his father.

Conal had an accident when Ciaran had just turned twenty. Or so the family says it was an accident, anyway. Conal came home drunk as a skunk one night and started beating on Sinead. Tired of the abuse he and his family had taken at the hands of his father, Ciaran fought back. He pushed him. . . but he didn’t realize how hard he’d pushed. Conal broke through the window and fell to the street four stories below. The police wrote it off as an accident; they didn’t really care about the O’Malleys anyway to investigate further.

With the patriarch gone and his older sister married, Ciaran became the main provider of money for his family. Tiernan was too young to work at the time, but Ciaran encouraged his younger brother to find a trade that would help him move his way up in the world. Tiernan took to clocks from an early age (and Ciaran gave him their father’s old pocket watch), and by the age of sixteen was an apprentice for a clocksmith. Meanwhile, Ciaran still worked at the docks, spending long days working with all of the imports and exports.

He was still prone to getting into fights, and one day when he was twenty-two, he got into a tussle with three men about something or other (if you’d asked Ciaran, he wouldn’t remember how the fight started). Ciar tried to take on all three at once and held his own, but ultimately was beaten bloody and had his money stolen. While he was lying on the ground, Reuben Slade approached him. Slade had seen the whole thing transpire and offered him a job, impressed by his prowess and passion. The man gave him a life worth living. Later that night, Slade asked Ciaran to come down by the docks; the three men were dead. . . and being carted off in a small ship. A symbolic gesture that cemented Ciaran’s faith in this man. No one had ever gone out of their way for Ciaran before.

Reuben Slade won his trust and devotion (and love), and Ciaran became his muscle. For the last four years, Ciaran has barely left the man’s side.

| ~ • ~ | Member Info | ~ • ~ |

.:Name or Online Alias:. Bunny
.:Your Pronouns:. they/she
.:Are you 18+: yes :pleading: 
.:How Did You Find Us:. crawls back from the grave