Flynn, Eamon

Eamon Padraig Flynn

PERSONALITY

Two distinct personalities can be used to describe Eamon. There is the kind, sweet, harmless bookseller. He is known for employing anyone with an interest in books, and often people who would otherwise be unemployed and homeless. He is passionate about literature, and always seems to be trying to put together pieces of his latest novel, though it is doomed to only ever be read by a handful of his customers.
The other Eamon is a hardened soldier, out to get his job done as quickly and efficiently as possible. He no longer feels guilty for killing people and is a fearsome sight as he effortlessly mows down opposition. Soldier Eamon is not a man to be crossed, the man that his father tried to raise unleashed.

HISTORY

Named for his incredible great-uncle, Eamon was never the son that his father had aspired to have. Aodhán had always aspired to weasel his way into commanding his cousins’ criminal empire, that his mother had worked so hard to secure. And all of his hopes had been pinned on his one and only son, who was from the day he was born more like his mother than anyone else in the family. He preferred to learn than fight, read than steal, earn than extort. Aodhán never let there be any ambiguity in how little he cared for his sons pursuits, comparing him unfavourably to his cousins, and often beating him.
Regardless of how little he cared for it, Eamon learned to fight, and he learned how to win. He showed more than a little aptitude for using magic to best his opponents, and even went as far as to be by far the best duellist at Cascade in his senior year, along with being Head Boy. The day that he beat his best opponent in a duel in Camden was the single time that his father ever expressed any measure of pride in his son, and that came in a letter delivered to the school. Not for being Head Boy, of course, but for the fight.
A few months before his eighteenth birthday, Eamon discovered that his father had been abusing his mother, for longer than he had been alive. Spurred on by newfound confidence in his abilities, Eamon confronted his father about his ways, and was forced to duel him. Eamon won, but it was a hollow victory- a week before he turned eighteen, his mother abruptly died of the measles. There was no sign of the disease beforehand, and Eamon didn’t once see his mother while she had it. He had no doubt about what really killed her.
When the United States finally entered the war, Eamon joined the US military to appease (and get away from) his father, and was thoroughly appalled by the atrocities he witnessed and committed. He came back a harder man inside, and broke off most of his contact with his father. Aodhán confronted his son, angered by the disrespect, but the weight that was now behind Eamon’s words threw Aodhán, and he gained some small measure of respect for his son.
Since the war, he has run a bookstore in Camden Hills, speaking only to his father when absolutely necessary. The bookstore’s basement is often used for secret discussions by the O’Briens, and significant amounts of money are laundered through it- though he keeps a secret version of the books to chart how well the actual bookstore is doing. Eamon’s phenomenal ability with a wand is well-known, and he’s often brought into a plan if it’s expected that there will be fighting- though rarely otherwise, as his strange distaste for general mafia business is just as well known. He remains loyal to the O’Briens, and would never betray them unless an opportunity to kill his father was to arise. He also took the post of librarian at the school in 1920, after the last librarian’s shell shock finally got the better of him, and he decided to exit this world.