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Connor MacManus Are you ready for this my brother? And Shepherds we shall be, for thee, my Lord, for thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Et Spiritus Sancti STATS MIND PAST MISC P • H • Y • S • I • C • A • L AGE 28 (at canon point) EYES blue HAIR brown HEIGHT 5'11"; 180cm BUILD athletic; lithe, but with noticeable bulk NATIONALITY irish-american ACCENT irish (considered 'weak'; becomes thicker when very angry/upset) SCARS •bullet wound & clothes iron burn (outer right thigh) •handcuff cuts (wrists, faint) TATTOOS •stylized mary magdalene (neck, left side) •celtic cross (forearm, left) •"VERITAS" (index finger, left) OTHER •ambidextrous (left hand dominant) S • O • C • I • A • L MARITAL STATUS unmarried PARENTS annabelle and noah macmanus SIBLINGS murphy macmanus (twin, fraternal) OTHER KNOWN FAMILY father sibeal macmanus (uncle) FRIENDS & ALLIES david della rocco (deceased); detectives greenly, dolly, & duffy; special agent paul smecker, doc "fuck-ass" mcginty STATS MIND PAST MISC Q • U • I • R • K • S • & • H • A • B • I • T • S •SMOKING chain smoker (less so than murphy) •DRINKING enjoys his hennessy and jameson •ARTISTIC more creative than murphy and likes to think of his barfights and the 'work' the two have done as The Saints as holding some artistic value, refers to their murder fests as 'masterpieces' •TROLL tends to verbally 'poke the bear' even when he shouldn't •BIG BROTHER between the two of them, connor invokes the most older sibling stereotypes •SHOWMAN when connor gets into a mood and gets going, he tends to ham it up like there's no tomorrow •THE BRAINS connor is the one that comes up with the plans and is generally the leader of the two S • H • A • R • E • D • T • R • A • I • T • S GOT YOUR BACK it's impossible to get the boys to turn on each other or put a wedge between them. while this should go without saying, there are times when it looks like the boys could be manipulated in this manner due to their very petty bickering and the occasional physical scuffles they get into with each other. but the bickering is just that: petty. without merit. meaningless. if ever one of them is being attacked or badgered by someone else, the other will step in and the two will provide a united front to gang up and attack that person back. this applies to both good natured insults between friends (rocco was a regular butt-monkey to the brothers in this regard) and mean-spirited jabs, as well as attempts to make one jealous of the other. LOOSE MORAL CENTER connor and murphy share the exact same moral compass and outside of their mission from god, it's not a particularly good one. they're both very sweet and friendly to most people in general, take a easy-going view towards life, and enjoy joking around and teasing others. but they were also not above keeping money and guns found on the bodies of the russians that they killed in self-defense, and lying to the cops about what happened to them so they could later sell it or use it for themselves. and while they objected to rocco offering to use his mafia connections to help doc mcginty keep his bar, they didn't really have any strong feelings for or against the mafia and rocco's role in it until after they realized rocco had been set up to die at the russian hit. indeed, they generally had nothing against the mafia and the people involved in it until the russians and yakavetta made it personal. the two do have a code of honor, however, regarding who they will or will not harm. "good" men are not to be harmed. people such as agent paul smecker, as well as the cops in general, priest, women and children. they are so firm on this that even knowing smecker was smart enough to tie them to the crime scene of the neighborhood shoot out against il duce, they still forbade rocco from attempting to eliminate him as a threat. connor went so far as to threaten rocco's life when rocco had, in turn, threatened the life of both smecker and a priest while smecker was drunk and in a confessional. (smecker was unaware of this and remained unaware even after he left) HEAVILY RELIGIOUS connor and murphy were raised irish-catholic and make a point of going to church on the regular, saying their prayers, and honoring god and christ as they've been rasied to. with their belief that god has given them a personal mission, they take some liberties with how they show their devotion during traditional sunday rites, as they feel they are chosen by god and thus allowed the deviation. and, indeed, this deviation from the norm has been allowed by the priests of their church in south boston, serving only to re-enforce this idea of a 'special allowance' on their behalf. CO-DEPENDENT connor and murphy are dangerously emotionally and mentally co-dependent with each other. the two have been together since the womb and separating them in any real way happens only when there is danger to at least one of them. even when they're out of each other's sight (around a corner, in another room), there's rarely more than 20ft between them. the regular exception to this being when they're in church and one is giving confession while the other sits in the back and prays. they do everything together. they only accept jobs that will hire both of them and give them the same schedule, which has led to them taking jobs at meat-packing plants over more lucrative ones that would force them to be apart. they dress the same way. smoke the same brand. walk in tandem, drink casually in tandem, put their sunglasses on or their rosaries away in tandem. they take turns with the shower, but they don't leave the room or take much effort to close the curtain. and the toilet in their loft has nothing to cover it. they are each other's other half. the two have gone so far as to get matching tattoos on visible parts of their bodies. both because of the religious symbolism that's important to them, but also so it's easier for others to tell that they come as a set, since being fraternal means they don't look exactly alike. though murphy does have three tattoos his brother doesn't, these are not on easily visible parts of his body (two on his back, one over his heart). they are usually covered up in the presence of others so as not to break up the whole mirror image impression they like to give off murphy is everything to connor. his safety and happiness is more important than anyone or anything else in their shared life. CONNOR'S TAKE: all that said, connor is fully aware of how detrimental this co-dependency can be. connor knows murphy will treat being connor's shadow as more important than any desires he has that would stop them from being seen as a unit. he knows murphy prefers to follow him and will not, generally, go off and do things on his own, even if he might want to. because of this, connor takes some effort to push murphy into doing things 'on his own'. seen most prominently during during bar brawls, where connor will hold friends back while murphy is dealing with a single opponent, insisting that murphy can 'handle himself'. which murphy certainly can. P • E • R • S • O • N • A • L • I • T • Y Other stuff here WIP WIP WIP STATS MIND PAST MISC CANON POINT One year after Yakavetta's public execution: long after the boys have gone to ground with their father, but before they become sheep herders in Ireland. T • I • M • E • L • I • N • E BIRTH •Canon: Unknown (sometime in 1971 or 1972) •Headcanon: March 17, 1971 MOVE FROM BOSTON TO IRELAND •Canon: Unknown •Headcanon: Just after Noah MacManus starts his 25 to Life sentence, sometime in 1974 GAIN IRA CONNECTIONS •Canon: Unknown •Headcanon: Sometime between the ages of 15 and 22 MOVE BACK TO BOSTON •Canon: Unknown •Headcanon: In the boy's early 20's, sometime between 1991 and 1994 BECOME THE SAINTS • March 17, 1999 The boys participate in (and win) a bar fight against Russian Mafia Soldiers. • March 18, 1999 The Russian Mafia Soldiers seek the boys out and attempt to get revenge, the Russians are killed in self defense; They turn themselves in and the media dubs them 'The Saints of South Boston' for both their selfless actions to protect each other, and all accounts of them from neighbors and congregation members being positive. • March 18/19, 1999 The boys share a dream/vision they believe to have come from God telling them to "Destroy that which is evil so that which is good may flourish". • March 19, 1999 The boys do some gratuitous violence against 9 Russian Mob Bosses and Underbosses in the Presidential Suite of the Copley Plaza Hotel, killing them all, then placing pennies in their eyes and giving them their final rites. Their friend, David Della Rocco, a 'package boy' for the Yakavetta Crime Family, arrives with orders to kill the Russians. He is caught by the boys and they have fun at his expense before going home and partying. WAR AGAINST YAKAVETTA • March 20, 1999 Rocco kills three men from the Yakavetta Crime Family in a diner after realizing that he'd been set up to die at the Russian Mob meeting. Rocco and the boys talk, and they decide to take out everyone in the Yakavetta family using Rocco's inside info from having worked for them for the last 18 years. •March 24, 1999 Vincenzo Lipazzi is executed at the Sin Bin during his regular Wednesday visit. •March 26, 1999 The boys and their best friend Rocco go out to kill 'The Sick Fuck' Mafia Hitman and his friends at his regular Friday poker game. They are assaulted afterwards by Il Duce and manage to escape with their lives. •March 28, 1999 The boys assault Yakavetta's home in an attempt to take him out. Yakavetta kills Rocco and leave the boys for Il Duce to deal with. Il Duce arrives and finds the boys giving final rites to Rocco with their family prayer. He surprises them by continuing the prayer and the three realize they are family. •Late June, 1999 Agent Paul Smecker and Dectives Dolly, Duffy, and Greenly help the boys and their father sneak into the courthouse where the head of the Yakavetta Crime Family is on trial (again) so they can execute him and bring knowledge of their existence to the public eye. RECEPTION TO THE SAINTS OF SOUTH BOSTON Is mixed. But there is a quiet and subtle implication in sermons from the Catholic Priests in the area that the Church approves of their existence and actions. Or, at least, approval of their lack of inaction toward those who perpetrate evil against the innocent. •Number of Deaths Attributed to Them During War on Yakavetta: 23 STATS MIND PAST MISC S • K • I • L • L • S • & • K • N • O • W • L • E • D • G • E COMBAT •handguns (connor is the better shooter) •rifles •knives (decent) •barroom brawling (connor is the better brawler) •random objects as weapons LANGUAGES •irish gaelic •english (mixed american/british) •latin •spanish (mixed spain/mexican) •italian •french (parisian) •german •russian OTHER •catholic dogma •shadowing •butchering/meat-packing •crime scene clean-up •bartending/bottle juggling •tattooing CONNECTIONS •(former) irish republican army members(IRA) •FBI (paul smecker) •catholic church •general underworld •boston city police (detectives dolly, duffy, and greenly) INTERESTS/HOBBIES •murphy's independence •movies and television •prayer •smoking •drinking •reading •vigilantism SUPERNATURAL •VISIONS FROM GOD/GOD'S COMMAND connor and murphy believe they were given a vision from god telling them to "destroy all that which is evil so that which is good my flourish"; they awoke at the same time in the middle of the night and finished the sentence aloud after having the shared vision; if we take them at their word, then they did have a vision from god; if we don't then they, at the very least, shared the same dream space and came to the exact same conclusion as to what they were being told, and by who •SHARED DREAMS connor and murphy are known to share the same dreams, including ones that are not necessarily a vision from god •UNCANNY ACCURACY for two men who did not have a known or implied hobby of target practice (nor did they keep or maintain guns at their home), connor and murphy are extremely good shooters; to the point that they were able to place eight near-perfect shots into eight men, while duel-wielding guns and hanging upside down and spinning; this is mitigated when facing off against someone with an equal level of uncanny accuracy, badassery, and possibly some divine protection (i.e. their father) •"DIVINE" PROTECTION even when standing still and firing, both connor and murphy have walked away from a gun fight with a professional hit-man (that tore up the front porch of a house) with superficial bullet wounds to their thigh and shoulder; in the second movie - set eight years after the first - they also walk away from a gunfight with a dozen trained shooters with only a couple superficial wounds each; either they are hella lucky (possible) or someone up on high is watching out for them so they can continue their mission I • N • V • E • N • T • O • R • Y WEAPONS OF CHOICE •2 Suppressed Beretta 92FS (9mm) •Rope (tactical) CLOTHES •Everyday: Black Navy Pea Coat, Black Mock Neck Shirt, Blue Jeans, Black Work Boots, Ray-Ban Sunglasses; Rosary •On The Job: (everyday plus) Black Leather Driving Gloves, Double Shoulder Holster, Black Three-hole Ski Mask (sometimes)

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