Post by Brooklyn on Jun 10, 2007 20:39:52 GMT -5
Character Name: Terrence Keith Conlon
Nick Names: Spot
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Occupation (Choose one from the occupation board): Head newsie of Brooklyn
Physical Description (pictures don't cut it, EXPLAIN how they look): 5'4" dark brown hair blue-grey eyes
Picture of character:
Personality: Toughest newsie you'll ever meet so don't mess wid him. He has a short temper, but also a soft side...
History:
Spot was the second son to Damon and Flanna Conlon named Terrence Keith Conlon, and youngest brother to Max Conlon. He never knew his mother, Flanna died giving birth, and Damon, broken hearted, turned to drinking. Terrence was pretty much raised by Max, who kept their drunken father away from the small boy, instead of his father taking his rages out on Terrence, Max shut their bedroom door and let him wail on him, Terrence completely oblivious to what his brother went through, he was just being a kid.
When Terrence was six, their father lost his job at the Brooklyn docks for coming in to work drunk, and that was when Terrence saw his father’s true colors. He came in and started in on his older brother, his brother that made sure he was taken care of, dressed him, and fed him while their father slept off the drink. Damon threw his brother across the room and Spot started yelling, their father turned to the younger one and went after him, Max jumping on Damon’s back from behind and pulling him down.
They left that night, fleeing out of Brooklyn over into Manhattan. Terrence turned seven during all this, he was a mischievous child, Max having bought him a slingshot to keep him occupied why he looked for a job, Terrence became a quick shot with the slingshot at just seven, he could take bottles out from the top of walls, some buildings, and sometimes hitting unsuspecting people in the back with rocks, until Max found him and lectured him about hitting unsuspecting passerby’s. Max was ten, and Spot considered that old enough to know what he was talking about. They ended up at the Manhattan Lodging House for a couple of weeks, Spot meeting the young boy who was going to be the leader of Manhattan, he thought the boy was crazy, watching him rope other newsies while the future leader of Brooklyn simply shot cans off the top of the washroom stalls, amused and in awe of the newsie life.
They eventually made their way back to Brooklyn, Terrence glad to be on grounds he was familiar with, but didn’t quite understand yet why they couldn’t go home, his brother simply told him that Da didn’t want them anymore. They spent three years living in the streets, Spot was now nine, he’d learned street smarts, and became an infamous threat to most of the street children there, him and Max known as “The Conlon Brothers”, the kids steered clear from the alley they had taken as their home, and nicknamed the young boy Spot, because of his way to hit anything you put in front of him with the now well worn, well used slingshot.
That same year, Max disappeared one day and never came back, Spot wandered for weeks until he ran into the leader of the Brooklyn newsies, the leader, impressed with the boys inability to back down and his intimidating air, took the nine year old back to the Lodging House.
Spot soon became a feared and respected newsie, his name spread, then when they day came that the leader left when Spot was twelve, Spot found the key to his private rooms tucked under his pillow, with a note from him that read “Lead ‘em well kid…make me proud.” Spot took his role as Leader of Brooklyn seriously, Brooklyn was his territory and all the newsies his men, he struck fear into those that tried to cross him, and gained respect from the other leaders in the other bouroughs, the only leader he never heard from was the the on in The Bronx, he’d heard horror stories about that one, he’d sent boys in there to find out, but had them come back looking like they’d seen a ghost.
He eventually decided to leave The Bronx alone, because now he had Jacky Boy coming to him about some strike, he didn’t believe he’d actually do it until a couple of days later one of his guys, Rails, came to him about an ambush planned on the Manhattan newsies in the distribution center, he showed up, slingshots blazing to answer the call the fellow leader had let out. Becoming the key that was needed to win the strike.
After the strike, Spot returned to Brooklyn, everything going back to normal until trouble stirred in the one bourough he’d left alone, The Bronx. He’d seen some of The Bronx’s boys at the rallies, but no sign of this tough leader he’d heard of, and now he heard uprisings were happening there. Curious, and intrigued, Spot took himself to The Bronx, not without back up of course, and found the one person he never thought he’d see again.
His brother, Max.
Max turned out to be The Bronx’s leader, he ran it almost like Spot ran Brooklyn, angered and betrayed Spot lashed out, a year war between the two brothers started, it spread through other boroughs without meaning, some in Manhattan unable to even move for fear of being caught in the crossfire. Eventually they both stopped, not wanting to destroy each other and making amends, becoming allies, the joint relations between The Bronx and Brooklyn making them a feared alliance.
As Spot got older, he didn’t stop being a newsie until he was 20, unable to find an heir worthy, he finally handed his key over to a scrappy, determined, newsie named Reilly. He himself became the leader of the Brooklyn branch of The Irish Mafia, Max joined him, finally done in The Bronx and coming home.
Spot would run the Irish Mafia all through the twenties and on, only retiring when his wife made him, and Max was injured. He retired with a large organized crime wrap, but they were never able to prove anything. He had six children.
Nick Names: Spot
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Occupation (Choose one from the occupation board): Head newsie of Brooklyn
Physical Description (pictures don't cut it, EXPLAIN how they look): 5'4" dark brown hair blue-grey eyes
Picture of character:
Personality: Toughest newsie you'll ever meet so don't mess wid him. He has a short temper, but also a soft side...
History:
Spot was the second son to Damon and Flanna Conlon named Terrence Keith Conlon, and youngest brother to Max Conlon. He never knew his mother, Flanna died giving birth, and Damon, broken hearted, turned to drinking. Terrence was pretty much raised by Max, who kept their drunken father away from the small boy, instead of his father taking his rages out on Terrence, Max shut their bedroom door and let him wail on him, Terrence completely oblivious to what his brother went through, he was just being a kid.
When Terrence was six, their father lost his job at the Brooklyn docks for coming in to work drunk, and that was when Terrence saw his father’s true colors. He came in and started in on his older brother, his brother that made sure he was taken care of, dressed him, and fed him while their father slept off the drink. Damon threw his brother across the room and Spot started yelling, their father turned to the younger one and went after him, Max jumping on Damon’s back from behind and pulling him down.
They left that night, fleeing out of Brooklyn over into Manhattan. Terrence turned seven during all this, he was a mischievous child, Max having bought him a slingshot to keep him occupied why he looked for a job, Terrence became a quick shot with the slingshot at just seven, he could take bottles out from the top of walls, some buildings, and sometimes hitting unsuspecting people in the back with rocks, until Max found him and lectured him about hitting unsuspecting passerby’s. Max was ten, and Spot considered that old enough to know what he was talking about. They ended up at the Manhattan Lodging House for a couple of weeks, Spot meeting the young boy who was going to be the leader of Manhattan, he thought the boy was crazy, watching him rope other newsies while the future leader of Brooklyn simply shot cans off the top of the washroom stalls, amused and in awe of the newsie life.
They eventually made their way back to Brooklyn, Terrence glad to be on grounds he was familiar with, but didn’t quite understand yet why they couldn’t go home, his brother simply told him that Da didn’t want them anymore. They spent three years living in the streets, Spot was now nine, he’d learned street smarts, and became an infamous threat to most of the street children there, him and Max known as “The Conlon Brothers”, the kids steered clear from the alley they had taken as their home, and nicknamed the young boy Spot, because of his way to hit anything you put in front of him with the now well worn, well used slingshot.
That same year, Max disappeared one day and never came back, Spot wandered for weeks until he ran into the leader of the Brooklyn newsies, the leader, impressed with the boys inability to back down and his intimidating air, took the nine year old back to the Lodging House.
Spot soon became a feared and respected newsie, his name spread, then when they day came that the leader left when Spot was twelve, Spot found the key to his private rooms tucked under his pillow, with a note from him that read “Lead ‘em well kid…make me proud.” Spot took his role as Leader of Brooklyn seriously, Brooklyn was his territory and all the newsies his men, he struck fear into those that tried to cross him, and gained respect from the other leaders in the other bouroughs, the only leader he never heard from was the the on in The Bronx, he’d heard horror stories about that one, he’d sent boys in there to find out, but had them come back looking like they’d seen a ghost.
He eventually decided to leave The Bronx alone, because now he had Jacky Boy coming to him about some strike, he didn’t believe he’d actually do it until a couple of days later one of his guys, Rails, came to him about an ambush planned on the Manhattan newsies in the distribution center, he showed up, slingshots blazing to answer the call the fellow leader had let out. Becoming the key that was needed to win the strike.
After the strike, Spot returned to Brooklyn, everything going back to normal until trouble stirred in the one bourough he’d left alone, The Bronx. He’d seen some of The Bronx’s boys at the rallies, but no sign of this tough leader he’d heard of, and now he heard uprisings were happening there. Curious, and intrigued, Spot took himself to The Bronx, not without back up of course, and found the one person he never thought he’d see again.
His brother, Max.
Max turned out to be The Bronx’s leader, he ran it almost like Spot ran Brooklyn, angered and betrayed Spot lashed out, a year war between the two brothers started, it spread through other boroughs without meaning, some in Manhattan unable to even move for fear of being caught in the crossfire. Eventually they both stopped, not wanting to destroy each other and making amends, becoming allies, the joint relations between The Bronx and Brooklyn making them a feared alliance.
As Spot got older, he didn’t stop being a newsie until he was 20, unable to find an heir worthy, he finally handed his key over to a scrappy, determined, newsie named Reilly. He himself became the leader of the Brooklyn branch of The Irish Mafia, Max joined him, finally done in The Bronx and coming home.
Spot would run the Irish Mafia all through the twenties and on, only retiring when his wife made him, and Max was injured. He retired with a large organized crime wrap, but they were never able to prove anything. He had six children.
