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.
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.