[ paul mescal | 27 | cis male | he/him ] Hey, look! It’s [DARRAGH O'CONNOR] at [MYSTERY QUEST ESCAPE ROOMS]. Did you know they [WORK] there as a [CHARACTER ACTOR]? I guess they’re from [DUBLIN, IRELAND] and have been in town for [FIVE], living in [SUTHERLAND PARK]. I also heard they’re a little [HOTHEADED], but also very [SOCIABLE] which definitely makes sense.
tw teen pregnancy, death, abandonment
RAPID FIRE.
Full Name: Darragh O'Connor.
Nicknames: D, Dar.
Pronouns and Gender: He/Him, Cis Male.
Birthday: March 19th, 1996.
Birth place: Dublin, Ireland
How long have they been in Vermont: 5 years, as of Nov 2023.
Sexuality: Bisexual.
Neighborhood: Sutherland Park.
Occupation: Character Actor @ Mystery Quest Escape Rooms / Amateur Boxer.
Family: Aishling O'Connor (Mother, deceased), Murphy Doyle (estranged birth father), Cormac Doyle (half-brother), Cian Doyle (half-brother), Caoimhe Doyle (half-sister).
OVERVIEW.
-- Darragh was the only son of a single mother who struggled for most of her life. Aishling O'Connor became a mother for the first and only time at seventeen years old, and was ill-equipped to handle it after being cut off by her family for deciding to go through with the pregnancy.
-- Despite growing up in uncertainty, for the most part Darragh had a happy childhood. They didn't have much, but they had each other.
-- As far as schooling went, he never displayed much of a natural apt for it. He found classroom settings too restrictive and there was no specific academic subject that held his interest. The only days he would definitively be guaranteed to show up at school was when he had P.E. or football.
-- After a number of calls from his principal and run ins with other mothers on their council estate over fights and scrapes Darragh found himself involved in, his mother enrolled him in a local boxing club when he was ten, and it fostered an interest in the sport that has stayed with him through adulthood.
-- He found something of a father figure there in his coach and trainer, Tom. The discipline of the sport kept him on the straight and narrow, even though there were some run ins in his teenage years with the Garda for being present in robbed cars and where drug deals were occurring.
-- Darragh's whole world shifted on it's axis at his mother's death when he was seventeen years old, and then again a few days later at her funeral when he discovered that his biological father was both alive and well and a man that had three other children who were all older than him and a wife to boot.
-- This news rocked the foundation of everything he thought he knew about himself and his ma, and made him question every word she had ever spoken to him. As soon as he turned eighteen, after a few months of staying with the family of his best friend, he set off travelling rather than having to share a city with a man who knew of his existence and chose to ignore it entirely instead.
-- He initially moved to Australia with two school friends who aspired to do the same and lived/worked there for just under a year and a half before deciding it wasn't for him. Leon and Karl stayed on, while he set his sights on the next continent he would search for some semblance of a new start.
-- The United States were next and after spending a few months on the west coast, Darragh eventually found himself in East Haven, Vermont and decided to settle down there a while after deciding he liked the vibe and the people there .
-- To this day, he still keeps a pretty rigid training regime when it comes to boxing and devotes most of his free time to training / improving his skills in the ring as well as taking on amateur fights.
-- To make ends meet, he works as a character actor at Mystery Quest Escape Rooms. He loves to scare the shit out of people where possible and has been known to be a little generous with hints if he watches a group particularly struggle.
SORTA FUN FACTS.
Has heard every variation of his name pronounced incorrectly. His favorite is Darg. "And what's a Darg when he's at home?"
His official boxing stats as of Nov '23 are 9 matches and 9 wins (4 of which are by KO).
Was supposed to be due on St, Patrick's Day but was born 2 days after his due date, which he's grateful for because he likes his birthday being just about him.
Of his half-siblings, he's only met his half-sister and that was just once. It did not go well and there's been no contact since.
Has been known to lie when asked can he speak Irish if he thinks it can benefit him to pretend to.
CURRENT CONNECTIONS.
roomate of @sasika-lg
cheated on his ex with @scottienolan, semi-complicated
fan of @pruexcassidy's radio show
frequent flyer to the ER @norasinclair works at
friend of @thesarahruiz
friend of / thinks @samxbradford is the best dj in the bizz
SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.
former roommate/maybe someone who let him crash with them when he first moved to EH.
recent ex-gf that he cheated on.
a current roommate would be fun.
an older male that he lowkey idolizes / wants to be like.
weed buds. 🍁
would dig someone he was formerly super tight with that now hate each other (reason can be plotted!)
a best friend. probs the only person he would make a sincere effort to make time for.
co-workers! get litty at the escape room lmao
former co-workers?? pretty open ended, i imagine he did some bar work to get by when he first got here but then made the switch because the hours didn't suit his training
gym-buddies. he practically lives there.
exes. he's def a difficult person to be in a relo with so could have ended on varying terms from good to bad. feel free to come hurt my feelings.
hookups, fwb, usual jazz.
GENERIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.
connections wise he’s pretty much an open book right now, but some baseline ideas that can be springboarded off are:
friendly.
a best friend / ride or dies / close friends / childhood friends from ireland / pseudo-siblings / friends / drunk friends / new friends / former roommate / people he knew from london / people he met on his travels / people who were in aus at the same time as him / people who he only gets along with and vice versa when drinking is involved.
romantic
flirtationship / friends with benefits / one time hook ups / tinder matches / unrequited crush (can be either way) / exes on good terms.
antagonistic.
enemies / former (best) friends / exes on bad terms / frenemies / rivals / negative influence / people who don’t fuck with him.
