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PLAYER
Name: Mel
Journal: theangstmonkey
Contact: AIM: TheAngstMonkey
CHARACTER
Series: Boondock Saints
AU?: No
Full Name: Murphy MacManus
Timeline: After the first film
History: Murphy and his twin brother Connor were born in a small Irish town outside of the big cities in the country. Their father was never really part of their childhoods, but they developed a very close relationship with their mother, Annabelle. Annabelle knew her sons and understood them better than anyone else.
She sent them to Catholic school, where they learned several languages because she ‘insisted on it’. Despite their obvious intelligence neither of the brothers really devoted themselves to school. They got the marks that made their mother happy, not because they had any real desire to learn (though knowing languages most people didn’t know set them even more apart from their classmates). They also became fiercely devoted to Catholic dogma. Their shared understanding of the faith and the way they carried it about themselves caused even the nuns and priests that knew them to treat them with respect and reverence, and this stuck with them even into adulthood.
Despite the love they shared for their Ma and for Ireland, Connor and Murphy figured they might be able to do more if they moved to America. As soon as they were old enough they left their Ma’s house and moved to Boston. They both got jobs at a meatpacking plant where they quickly became liked by all of their co-workers and their boss. They attended church every week and obtained the same respect and reverence from the priests in America that they had earned back home. The boys had their own way, but their devotion to the faith was unquestionable. Murphy and Connor also made quick friends with many people. Their shared best friend was a man named Rocco, who was known for his wit and humor and nicknamed “The Funnyman”.
Rocco was a ‘package boy’ for the mob but had always had dreams of working his way up the ranks of the family. Connor and Murphy quietly disagreed with his profession but their love and devotion to their friends were just as strong as their love and devotion to their Church. Rocco and the twins spent a lot of time together, spending the hours after work at Doc’s pub, where they would get thoroughly smashed every once and a while, but no day more so than St. Patrick’s Day.
One St. Patrick’s Day, some years after they had arrived in America, the twins were celebrating at the pub when Doc informed them that he would have to close the bar because the Russian mafia was buying all the businesses on the block and forcing him out of his property. The pub would be no more the next day. The boys and their friends were disheartened by the news, but they wouldn’t let it ruin their St. Paddy’s celebration. Later in the night the Russian mafia appeared early and told Doc they wanted him to shut down that night.
Despite Murphy’s request that they relax, the Russians refused to back down and then Rocco stood up and insulted the men, which caused the biggest one to hit him. Murphy and Connor stood and in prefect Russian told them that they would have to pay for hurting their friend. A bar fight ensued, ending with the leader of the Russians being tied to the bar and having his arse lit on fire by Connor.
The next morning, as the brothers battled their hangovers, the Russians busted into their small shabby illegal flat. The leader bound Connor to their toilet and told him that as punishment for what he had done he was going to take Murphy outside and shoot him in the head. Connor, horrified at the idea, ripped the toilet from the wall and hauled it up to the roof. He dropped it on one of the men and jumped on top of the other, hurting his leg in the process. Connor collapsed on the ground but Murphy reacted quickly, he picked up the biggest piece of the toilet and killed the second of the men. Then he grabbed an old gift bag from the trash and put all of the cash, jewels, guns and wallets from the Russian guys within it. He picked his brother up and went to the hospital.
After Connor was awake and the doctors had seen them, the brothers called Doc and asked him to come to the hospital. They gave him the gift bag and told him to hide it for them. He gave them a card from an FBI agent that was investigating the murders of the Russian mob guys. Doc told them that the agent had been by the pub and that he said he believed the murders had been in self defense.
The agent’s name was Paul Smecker and the boys were impressed by him. Despite his obvious homosexuality he was an entertaining man and a good man. He told them they would not be charged with any crimes and allowed them to stay overnight in one of the spare holding cells to avoid being mauled by the press.
That night the twins experienced their first shared religious dream. It started to rain and cracks in the ceiling leaked the water onto their bodies. They woke and had the same epiphany; in order to protect all that was good they would have to destroy all that was evil.
After this with Rocco's help the brothers hunted down and killed several key members of the mob. This prompted the mob to hire a professional hitman known as Il Duce to go after them. Smecker was so torn when he realized what the twins were doing that he eventually teamed up with them, even coming to protect them when he learned the mob boss Papa Joe had captured them. He was too late to save Rocco though, who was murdered by Papa Joe in front of the twins. When the twins said their family prayer over Rocco's body Il Duce realized that the boys he had been sent to kill were actually his long lost sons.
Reunited with their father, the twins broke into court during Papa Joe's trial and executed him in front of a courtroom of witnesses.
Personality: Though the brothers have long asked their mother who is the oldest (and have yet to get a satisfactory answer) Murphy has a tendency to take on the ‘younger brother’ role. His personality is more of the joker, while Connor is the one who is likely to take the role of the leader.
It's easy for Murphy to make friends because of his playful, joking nature. For example, he makes friends with the police that had been looking for him and Connor after Smecker clears their first murders as self-defense. When the police show him that the twins have been dubbed the ‘Saints’ by the newspapers, Murphy takes his coffee and pretends to bless the men as if with Holy Water. Many times this playfulness is to counter Connor’s seriousness. He'll break up a tense moment by turning some of Connor's more intense personality traits into a joke.
That’s not to say that Murphy cannot be serious. He understands the importance of what he and his brother are doing. He might make jokes before and after they kill but he realizes how meaningful their job is. He also is so devoted to those he cares about that he doesn't tolerate people hurting them. That doesn't stop him from messing around with his friends, even getting into violent fights with Connor, but he has that mentality that while it's okay for him to mess with Connor, it's not okay for others to do it. The first Russians that the brothers killed came after them because the retaliated for the main mobster hitting Rocco. Murphy doesn't like it when people hurt his loved ones.
Religion and faith are extremely important to Murphy as are loyalty and brotherhood. I don’t just mean ‘Connor’ when I say ‘brotherhood’, but anyone that Murphy finds himself devoted to. This includes Il Duce, who has the added loyalty of being Murphy’s father, Rocco and any other friends he might make in the game.
Murphy might be extremely religious but that doesn’t mean his life is a prime example of morality. He curses A LOT (the word ‘fuck’ is used like over three hundred times in the film) and smokes. Even before he and his brother killed the Russians they were well known for getting drunk and getting into bar fights (something that their mother chastises them for in the best deleted scene that should never have been deleted, seriously there’s naked flopping around on the ground and a very drunk Irish mother in it). Murphy loves beer, good Irish alcohol and is a chain smoker. His playfulness translates into complete rowdiness when he’s drunk as he as so much bent-up energy.
The twins might make a lot of noise but they are extremely cold when it comes to their actual work. Murphy feels no regret at all about the men they have killed. He also has no qualms taking any money or other valuables away from his victims. They were evil men, after all. The displayed natural talent for murder and are also both extremely intelligent (despite all appearance). Both Connor and Murphy are polyglots and speak several languages (Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Irish, English etc).
Despite the fierce devotion that Murphy has to the Catholic Church, he will not ever try and preach to anyone else; though he would probably enjoy open discussion of faith he doesn’t feel the need to convert others. That’s the job of priests after all. Every Sunday in game time Connor will be in the church praying. Murphy’s faith is palpable when he is focusing on it. He’s got a certain kind of ‘aura’ about him which is basically what the priests and nuns that knew him responded to. It's one of the things that set he and Connor apart from others.
Their roles as the ‘Saints’ has sparked controversy in America as people debate the morality of taking the law into your own hands. Murphy will not be open about what he and his brother have done, as he knows that the laws of men are against them. He will, however, always be thinking about it and making a list of men deemed wicked enough. He'll be waiting for the day that his family can take up their mission again.
Murphy is in the process of mourning his friend Rocco, but he will refuse to let the man’s death be in vain. Rocco died telling the twins to never stop what they are doing, and Murphy intends to do just that. That being said though, he believes in his father’s creed ‘No women, no kids’. Murphy will never kill any woman or child, even if they do prove to be very wicked. Its wicked men he’s worried about. He’s a bit of a misogynist, as women need to be protected in his eyes. Even if they did have an extremely strong woman for a mother both of the twins have issues respecting masculine women.
Also, ‘lesser’ sins don’t take their notice. The main ones they worry about are murder, rape and theft, though drug dealing gets on their bad side too as it adds to a lot of the problems in society. However, for example, neither Murphy nor Connor held it against Smecker that he was gay (and Smecker was making no effort to hide it), despite the Catholic teachings about homosexuality, and they called him a ‘good man’.
Despite the fact that Murphy is a murderer, he seems open and sincere. He jokes and is as friendly as anyone can be. He loves people, good people anyway, and likes being around friends and having a good time. He thinks of himself as a good person; even his killing is done with a twisted idea of right and wrong in mind.
Powers and Abilities: Nothing "special" like super powers or anything. He does have a strange ability to survive getting shot at by hired hit men (including a super scary special one that was secretly his daddy) and amazingly good aim for an amateur. He does get shared, religious dreams with his brother though. Does that count?
Starter Inventory A pair of jeans, a wool sweater, a white undershirt, underwear, socks, workers boots, a pair of sunglasses, two packs of cigarettes and a silver zippo lighter that’s three-quarters filled with lighter fuel.
Anything else?: Hmmm. I think I’m good.
Item of choice: Admit One Ticket
SAMPLES
Post Sample
[Murphy feels his way through the dark, groping for the weapon he knows is there. Finally his fingers make contact with the sturdy iron pipe. A silent sigh of relief overcomes him.]
[muttering quietly] Fuck yeah. [His fingers curl around the pipe and he pulls it towards him. He listens for a moment and can hear the footsteps coming down the hallway] I’m ready for you, mother fucker.
Prose Sample
It had just been a simple looking ticket on the ground. Connor and Da were sleeping in their cramped little space and Murphy had gotten up to relieve himself when he found it. He remembered thinking that such a thing was so out of place on a ship like this, considering it cargo was made of shipping containers and down-and-out men traveling back to Europe after being disillusioned from the states. The MacManus family avoided trouble for the most part. Either people didn’t realize who they were or they did and didn’t care.
Murphy had been on his way back to his family when he found it. The ticket. It was such a curious little thing that he bent to pick it up to get a better look at it. Then he found himself in this hell hole. It was a city that was so unlike anything he had ever encountered before. “Connor? Da?” he called first thing.
That had been his first concern. Where the fuck was his family?! After he learned where he was, and what had happened he realized that he should have been much more worried about himself. He needed to stay alive and in this place that wasn’t as simple as dodging the police. Here he had to fight the undead. Here he had to stay out of the way of the soliders.
Damn, he wished he had thought to grab his guns when he left his family to take a piss. Or that he had left that stupid ticket alone.
Name: Mel
Journal: theangstmonkey
Contact: AIM: TheAngstMonkey
CHARACTER
Series: Boondock Saints
AU?: No
Full Name: Murphy MacManus
Timeline: After the first film
History: Murphy and his twin brother Connor were born in a small Irish town outside of the big cities in the country. Their father was never really part of their childhoods, but they developed a very close relationship with their mother, Annabelle. Annabelle knew her sons and understood them better than anyone else.
She sent them to Catholic school, where they learned several languages because she ‘insisted on it’. Despite their obvious intelligence neither of the brothers really devoted themselves to school. They got the marks that made their mother happy, not because they had any real desire to learn (though knowing languages most people didn’t know set them even more apart from their classmates). They also became fiercely devoted to Catholic dogma. Their shared understanding of the faith and the way they carried it about themselves caused even the nuns and priests that knew them to treat them with respect and reverence, and this stuck with them even into adulthood.
Despite the love they shared for their Ma and for Ireland, Connor and Murphy figured they might be able to do more if they moved to America. As soon as they were old enough they left their Ma’s house and moved to Boston. They both got jobs at a meatpacking plant where they quickly became liked by all of their co-workers and their boss. They attended church every week and obtained the same respect and reverence from the priests in America that they had earned back home. The boys had their own way, but their devotion to the faith was unquestionable. Murphy and Connor also made quick friends with many people. Their shared best friend was a man named Rocco, who was known for his wit and humor and nicknamed “The Funnyman”.
Rocco was a ‘package boy’ for the mob but had always had dreams of working his way up the ranks of the family. Connor and Murphy quietly disagreed with his profession but their love and devotion to their friends were just as strong as their love and devotion to their Church. Rocco and the twins spent a lot of time together, spending the hours after work at Doc’s pub, where they would get thoroughly smashed every once and a while, but no day more so than St. Patrick’s Day.
One St. Patrick’s Day, some years after they had arrived in America, the twins were celebrating at the pub when Doc informed them that he would have to close the bar because the Russian mafia was buying all the businesses on the block and forcing him out of his property. The pub would be no more the next day. The boys and their friends were disheartened by the news, but they wouldn’t let it ruin their St. Paddy’s celebration. Later in the night the Russian mafia appeared early and told Doc they wanted him to shut down that night.
Despite Murphy’s request that they relax, the Russians refused to back down and then Rocco stood up and insulted the men, which caused the biggest one to hit him. Murphy and Connor stood and in prefect Russian told them that they would have to pay for hurting their friend. A bar fight ensued, ending with the leader of the Russians being tied to the bar and having his arse lit on fire by Connor.
The next morning, as the brothers battled their hangovers, the Russians busted into their small shabby illegal flat. The leader bound Connor to their toilet and told him that as punishment for what he had done he was going to take Murphy outside and shoot him in the head. Connor, horrified at the idea, ripped the toilet from the wall and hauled it up to the roof. He dropped it on one of the men and jumped on top of the other, hurting his leg in the process. Connor collapsed on the ground but Murphy reacted quickly, he picked up the biggest piece of the toilet and killed the second of the men. Then he grabbed an old gift bag from the trash and put all of the cash, jewels, guns and wallets from the Russian guys within it. He picked his brother up and went to the hospital.
After Connor was awake and the doctors had seen them, the brothers called Doc and asked him to come to the hospital. They gave him the gift bag and told him to hide it for them. He gave them a card from an FBI agent that was investigating the murders of the Russian mob guys. Doc told them that the agent had been by the pub and that he said he believed the murders had been in self defense.
The agent’s name was Paul Smecker and the boys were impressed by him. Despite his obvious homosexuality he was an entertaining man and a good man. He told them they would not be charged with any crimes and allowed them to stay overnight in one of the spare holding cells to avoid being mauled by the press.
That night the twins experienced their first shared religious dream. It started to rain and cracks in the ceiling leaked the water onto their bodies. They woke and had the same epiphany; in order to protect all that was good they would have to destroy all that was evil.
After this with Rocco's help the brothers hunted down and killed several key members of the mob. This prompted the mob to hire a professional hitman known as Il Duce to go after them. Smecker was so torn when he realized what the twins were doing that he eventually teamed up with them, even coming to protect them when he learned the mob boss Papa Joe had captured them. He was too late to save Rocco though, who was murdered by Papa Joe in front of the twins. When the twins said their family prayer over Rocco's body Il Duce realized that the boys he had been sent to kill were actually his long lost sons.
Reunited with their father, the twins broke into court during Papa Joe's trial and executed him in front of a courtroom of witnesses.
Personality: Though the brothers have long asked their mother who is the oldest (and have yet to get a satisfactory answer) Murphy has a tendency to take on the ‘younger brother’ role. His personality is more of the joker, while Connor is the one who is likely to take the role of the leader.
It's easy for Murphy to make friends because of his playful, joking nature. For example, he makes friends with the police that had been looking for him and Connor after Smecker clears their first murders as self-defense. When the police show him that the twins have been dubbed the ‘Saints’ by the newspapers, Murphy takes his coffee and pretends to bless the men as if with Holy Water. Many times this playfulness is to counter Connor’s seriousness. He'll break up a tense moment by turning some of Connor's more intense personality traits into a joke.
That’s not to say that Murphy cannot be serious. He understands the importance of what he and his brother are doing. He might make jokes before and after they kill but he realizes how meaningful their job is. He also is so devoted to those he cares about that he doesn't tolerate people hurting them. That doesn't stop him from messing around with his friends, even getting into violent fights with Connor, but he has that mentality that while it's okay for him to mess with Connor, it's not okay for others to do it. The first Russians that the brothers killed came after them because the retaliated for the main mobster hitting Rocco. Murphy doesn't like it when people hurt his loved ones.
Religion and faith are extremely important to Murphy as are loyalty and brotherhood. I don’t just mean ‘Connor’ when I say ‘brotherhood’, but anyone that Murphy finds himself devoted to. This includes Il Duce, who has the added loyalty of being Murphy’s father, Rocco and any other friends he might make in the game.
Murphy might be extremely religious but that doesn’t mean his life is a prime example of morality. He curses A LOT (the word ‘fuck’ is used like over three hundred times in the film) and smokes. Even before he and his brother killed the Russians they were well known for getting drunk and getting into bar fights (something that their mother chastises them for in the best deleted scene that should never have been deleted, seriously there’s naked flopping around on the ground and a very drunk Irish mother in it). Murphy loves beer, good Irish alcohol and is a chain smoker. His playfulness translates into complete rowdiness when he’s drunk as he as so much bent-up energy.
The twins might make a lot of noise but they are extremely cold when it comes to their actual work. Murphy feels no regret at all about the men they have killed. He also has no qualms taking any money or other valuables away from his victims. They were evil men, after all. The displayed natural talent for murder and are also both extremely intelligent (despite all appearance). Both Connor and Murphy are polyglots and speak several languages (Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Irish, English etc).
Despite the fierce devotion that Murphy has to the Catholic Church, he will not ever try and preach to anyone else; though he would probably enjoy open discussion of faith he doesn’t feel the need to convert others. That’s the job of priests after all. Every Sunday in game time Connor will be in the church praying. Murphy’s faith is palpable when he is focusing on it. He’s got a certain kind of ‘aura’ about him which is basically what the priests and nuns that knew him responded to. It's one of the things that set he and Connor apart from others.
Their roles as the ‘Saints’ has sparked controversy in America as people debate the morality of taking the law into your own hands. Murphy will not be open about what he and his brother have done, as he knows that the laws of men are against them. He will, however, always be thinking about it and making a list of men deemed wicked enough. He'll be waiting for the day that his family can take up their mission again.
Murphy is in the process of mourning his friend Rocco, but he will refuse to let the man’s death be in vain. Rocco died telling the twins to never stop what they are doing, and Murphy intends to do just that. That being said though, he believes in his father’s creed ‘No women, no kids’. Murphy will never kill any woman or child, even if they do prove to be very wicked. Its wicked men he’s worried about. He’s a bit of a misogynist, as women need to be protected in his eyes. Even if they did have an extremely strong woman for a mother both of the twins have issues respecting masculine women.
Also, ‘lesser’ sins don’t take their notice. The main ones they worry about are murder, rape and theft, though drug dealing gets on their bad side too as it adds to a lot of the problems in society. However, for example, neither Murphy nor Connor held it against Smecker that he was gay (and Smecker was making no effort to hide it), despite the Catholic teachings about homosexuality, and they called him a ‘good man’.
Despite the fact that Murphy is a murderer, he seems open and sincere. He jokes and is as friendly as anyone can be. He loves people, good people anyway, and likes being around friends and having a good time. He thinks of himself as a good person; even his killing is done with a twisted idea of right and wrong in mind.
Powers and Abilities: Nothing "special" like super powers or anything. He does have a strange ability to survive getting shot at by hired hit men (including a super scary special one that was secretly his daddy) and amazingly good aim for an amateur. He does get shared, religious dreams with his brother though. Does that count?
Starter Inventory A pair of jeans, a wool sweater, a white undershirt, underwear, socks, workers boots, a pair of sunglasses, two packs of cigarettes and a silver zippo lighter that’s three-quarters filled with lighter fuel.
Anything else?: Hmmm. I think I’m good.
Item of choice: Admit One Ticket
SAMPLES
Post Sample
[Murphy feels his way through the dark, groping for the weapon he knows is there. Finally his fingers make contact with the sturdy iron pipe. A silent sigh of relief overcomes him.]
[muttering quietly] Fuck yeah. [His fingers curl around the pipe and he pulls it towards him. He listens for a moment and can hear the footsteps coming down the hallway] I’m ready for you, mother fucker.
Prose Sample
It had just been a simple looking ticket on the ground. Connor and Da were sleeping in their cramped little space and Murphy had gotten up to relieve himself when he found it. He remembered thinking that such a thing was so out of place on a ship like this, considering it cargo was made of shipping containers and down-and-out men traveling back to Europe after being disillusioned from the states. The MacManus family avoided trouble for the most part. Either people didn’t realize who they were or they did and didn’t care.
Murphy had been on his way back to his family when he found it. The ticket. It was such a curious little thing that he bent to pick it up to get a better look at it. Then he found himself in this hell hole. It was a city that was so unlike anything he had ever encountered before. “Connor? Da?” he called first thing.
That had been his first concern. Where the fuck was his family?! After he learned where he was, and what had happened he realized that he should have been much more worried about himself. He needed to stay alive and in this place that wasn’t as simple as dodging the police. Here he had to fight the undead. Here he had to stay out of the way of the soliders.
Damn, he wished he had thought to grab his guns when he left his family to take a piss. Or that he had left that stupid ticket alone.