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underpinnings) wrote2029-05-10 02:06 pm
underpinnings) wrote2029-05-10 02:06 pm
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Owen
Prichard
RED LANTERN AU
OOC
| PB: | Sen Mitsuji |
| Time: | US Mountain |
| Player: | Megan |
| Contact: | DM this journal |
Occupation
Owen works security at the Red Lantern Inn, a position he has had roughly one month at the start of the game. When not monitoring interactions or securing private rooms, he can be found training with fellow employees, running errands for workers, or taking odd jobs for clients. He uses his position to gather information on their clients and network in the community. On the side, he helps his aunt's law firm locate and deliver important documentation, works security for her clients, and tracks down persons of interest for her cases.
Playlist
| MØ | FIRE RIDES |
| LP | MUDDY WATERS |
| Interpol | ALL FIRED UP |
| F+TM | DELILAH |
| Bastille | THE DRIVER |
| Neko Case | BLACKLISTED |
| Halsey | CONTROL |
| F+TM | WHICH WITCH |
| Neko Case | VENGEANCE IS SLEEPING |
Basics
| Age: | 23 (Jan 10) |
| Height: | 6'0" |
| Build: | Rangy |
| Eyes: | Dark Brown |
| Hair: | Black, scruffy facial hair along jaw. |
| Marks: | Various scars; notably ugly mark on ribs, missing top half of his last two fingers on his right hand. |
| Dress: | Practical, casual. Preference for athletic wear, compression pieces, hoodies; blazers and slacks for work. |
| Status: | Beta |
Code by Bakesale
Red Lantern History
Owen is a beta working security and odd jobs across the island of Akajima, trying to earn enough money and clout to bring his mother home from Waiheke, New Zealand. Suzue Inoue is an omega from one of the families in the Yamaguchi-gumi branch, married to an alpha smuggling kingpin in New Zealand's North Island--a merger which allowed both parties to share trade routes and stops in the Pacific. She remains trapped in an abusive marriage with a second child on the way, after sending Owen to live with her sister in his teens.
Caradog Prichard tried from an early age to drag his son into the family business. Owen grew up brawling and drinking with hard men, trying and failing to protect his mother from his father's temper, and struggling not to become what his father wanted while still appeasing him. Suzue's wishes for Owen's education fell apart as Caradog continually pulled him away for trips to other islands, meeting contacts, picking up product, learning life on the sea.
Things came to a head after an incident in which Caradog shut Owen's hand in one of the ship's doors, an injury that led to the loss of two fingers. At his mother's urging, Owen attempted to explain the home situation to a counselor. The report was pulled and Caradog tipped off; late one night he pulled Owen out of bed and dragged him onto the ship, ferrying him to an island well off-shore. His father made him dig a hole deep into the sandy earth. Owen thought it was for himself, but Caradog then revealed the counselor's body in the brush, and made Owen bury it.
Suzue begged and reasoned for Owen to be sent away after that. Her sister still lived in Akajima, a lawyer trying to balance her family ties to the Yamaguchi-gumi against a desire to pursue real, upstanding work. Mari could keep Owen out of trouble, out of Caradog's hair, and he could still learn the trade when he came to his senses. Writing the boy off as a snitch he'd prefer not to kill with his own hands, Caradog agreed: make Owen his inlaws' problem. Thankfully, Mari wants little to do with her family beyond Suzue and her sons. She cleaned up Owen's ingrained reliance on alcohol and helped him catch up on his schooling, and after his graduation, put him in contact with a friend who trains and secures work for intelligence and security personnel.
The Red Lantern Inn is only his most recent assignment, and one he hopes to work upward from. If he can find the right leverage or employer in Akajima, he and Mari might be able to save Suzue and his brother.
As the game opens, Owen has been working at the Red Lantern Inn for several weeks, resisting advances from workers and clients alike.
Personality; Sexuality
Owen is buttoned-up and pragmatic, striving to at least appear in control. Of himself, of his situation. Competent rather than confident, he sticks to what he knows, and proceeds with caution in areas of his life where he has little experience or little skill. Rather than spurn the underground his father is apart of, he is trying to learn to play its games, how to move information through it without getting people killed. Each job, each day, is one step in the journey that will make him a man capable of standing up to his father--or at least smuggling his mother away from a group of smugglers.
With that in mind, Owen is as up-front and honest as he can be. What he wants to keep to himself he plays very close to the vest, but he tries not to bullshit people. His opinions are honest, his feelings only hidden in how difficult he finds them to express. Softer emotions can be incredibly performative, a what-you-do approach over what he might say out loud. If he can be relied upon in action, and believed when he speaks, he'll have an easier time leveraging what he needs.
Or so he hopes: Owen is, often to his detriment in Akajima, deeply earnest. Under his control and his emotional armor, at war with the need to survive and get ahead, Owen wants to do what is right. He bears the scars of people who do wrong--physical and otherwise--and he wants to do better, he wants to build something better for his mother to come home to.
If he has to guard a brothel to do it, he will; but he can't help caring about the people in it, and his sensibilities will be tested by the work and the setting. He might find that the people he needs to rub shoulders with are people he'd rather shoulder-check out a window.
But he doesn't let that conflict show very often. He's taken his temper and honed it into great focus--because he does have a temper, built on every injustice and injury of his father's household. Unlike Caradog, he doesn't lash out in his anger. He buries it deep, withdrawing into himself and putting it on a shelf. He takes himself away from the people he's angry with, settling in with his reasons. Owen plays the long game because the short has never gotten him anywhere. He doesn't believe in instant gratification--it's debatable that he believes in gratifcation at all.
Personal relationships are something he finds difficult; even drinking buddies is limited by his past substance abuse. Personal relationships and vices are future points to be used against him, and he refuses to indulge. His work is his life; before that it was school, recovery, dodging his father's wrath. When he left Waiheke there were few people to say goodbye to, and in Akajima he would call more people contacts or associates than friends. He's held people at arm's length all of his life. At the start of the game he will still have his virginity in tact, though he won't be trying to auction it off without either a great deal of persuasion or a bid he can't refuse.
Sex, to Owen, is something to approach earnestly and with an appropriate partner, with a certain amount of feeling attached. His self-imposed restrictions have never quite lined up with circumstances, and he can't imagine they will at the Red Lantern Inn. It's just one more point of weakness, one more distraction, and he does his best to do his job without giving in.
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