CHARACTER SKETCH

NAME SHEAMUS O’HARA NELSON

NICKNAME POSSIBLY ‘SKIPPER’ TO HIS CREW

APPEARANCE LOOKS LIKE AN IDENTICAL TWIN

HAIR –STYLE-COLOR-TYPE-TEXTURE REDDISH BROWN

EYES –GLASSES-CONTACTS- BLUE

WEIGHT A TAD MORE STOUT THAN ME

COLORING FAIR

HEIGHT 5’ 7”

BUILD STOCKY

FACIAL FEATURES –LIPS, EYEBROWS, LASHES, JAW LINE, NOSE

SIDEBURNS

VOICE –ACCENT – WAY OF TALKING HAS PRONOUCED IRISH BROUGE

FAMILY THE O’HARA NELSONS. HAD ONE WIFE AND SON WE KNOW ABOUT FOR SURE. (FATHER IS A DIRECT DESCENDANT), BUT EDITH FOUND HISTORICAL SOURCES THAT HINTED OF SEVERAL CHILDEN LEFT IN HIS WAKE BY SEVERAL MISTRESSES, LADIES OF THE EVENING, AND EVEN SLAVES. PERHAPS I SHOULD TAKE ONE OF THOSE ONLINE FAMILY TREE DNA TESTS TO SEE IF ANYONE MATCHES UP TODAY THROUGH HIM.

CONNECTION TO ME FAMILY FAMILY GHOST. GREAT GREAT GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER.

BEST FRIENDS/ENEMIES BEING BLACKMAILED BY MY ANCESTOR WHO WANTED ME TO TAKE HIS PLACE IN PERDITION FOR SLAVE TRADING, IN EXCHANGE FOR MY CREW’S LIVES, DID NOT MAKE THINGS CONDUSIVE TO FRIENDSHIP. I WILL ADMIT THOUGH, THAT HE DID MAKE THE SAILING , THE BRAWLING, ETC. WITH HIM (A LIE) SOUND FUN. TALK ABOUT THE GIFT OF THE GAB! I WONDER IF HE WERE ALIVE TODAY, HE’D MAKE A FINE USED CAR SALESMAN! BUT ONE YOU’D BETTER NOT TRUST!

ETHNIC/CULTURAL BACKGROUND IRISH

SCHOOLING HAD TO HAVE SOME EDUCATION IN ORDER TO BE THE MASTER OF A SAILING SHIP.

OCUPATIONS PRESENT-PREVIOUS PRESENTLY A GHOST, (DIED AT SEA IN 1822. HAD BEEN CAPTAIN. OF A SQUARE RIGGER. IN FACT HE WAS MY WEALTHIEST ANCESTOR. (THE FAMILY ALWAYS THOUGHT HE WAS IN THE CHINA SEA TEA TRADE AND MAYBE HE HAD BEEN AT FIRST UNTIL HE SAW THE MONEY HE COULD MAKE AS A SLAVER). HOPEFULLY AFTER ALL THESE GENERATIONS, INCLUDING MINE, WE NELSONS HAVE MADE UP FOR HIS ILL- GOTTEN GAINS FROM THE MANY CHARITIES WE’VE SUPPORTED OVER THE GENERATIONS.

HOBBIES APPRENTLY BRAWLING, DRINKING, AND CAROUSING.

POLITICAL PREFERENCES UNKNOWN

LIKES SEE HOBBIES. TOOK HIS MONEY BY WHATEVER MEANS

DISLIKES UNKNOWN

MOVIES/BOOKS/PLAYS DOUBT IF HE EVER READ A NOVEL IN HIS LIFE. PROBABLY READ A LINE OR TWO FROM A BIBLE WHEN A CREWMAN DIED AND HAD TO BE BURIED AT SEA ( FEW SHIPS RETURNED TO PORT WITHOUT SOMEONE HAVING DIED)

FOODS ASSUME HE PROBABLY WASN’T TOO PARTICULAR AS THERE WERE LIMITATIONS AS TO KINDS OF FOOD ABOARD.

SPORTS UNKNOWN. PROBABLY A FEW CHILDHOOD GAMES LIKE TAG.

FEARS/PHOBIAS WELL, SINCE HE’S A GHOST AND CONDEMMED HERE ON EARTH, OR RATHER ON THE SEA HE DISGRACED, HE’S PROBABLY AWAITING THE FINAL JUDGEMENT WITH SOME TREPIDATION.

QUIRKS CAN MAKE TIME STAND STILL, USES SNUFF AND HAS MANIACLE LAUGHTER

CHARACTER FLAWS LIAR

FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS/ TYPICAL GESTURES UNKNOWN

CHILDHOOD/TEEN MEMORY UNKNOWN

ROLE MODEL DEFINITELY NOT FOR ANYONE DECENT.

TEN WORDS TO SUM UP WHAT I THINK OF THIS PERSON

FOR DECADES HIS FAMILY BELIEVED HIM TO BE THE EPITOME OF A DECENT MERCHANT IN THE TEA TRADE, SO WHAT OTHER FALSEHOODS DID HE SWEAR THE OPPOSITE OF?

TEN WORDS HOW THIS PERSON AFFECTED MY LIFE.

LEE KNEW ONLY THAT SEAVIEW HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY A SQUARE RIGGER AND WEIRD THINGS WERE HAPPENING ABOARD. BUT I JUST COULDN’T BRING MYSELF TO TELL HIM, TO ADMIT THE SHAME I FELT BEING A NELSON BECAUSE OF SHEAMUS. I ALSO COULDN’T ADMIT THAT IT WAS ME WHO’D SPRAYED POOR SHARKEY WITH ALL THAT REACTOR FOAM WHEN I WAS SPOOKED BY HIS SHADOW. WELL I GUESS NOW THEY BOTH KNOW, LEE IN HEAVEN, AND SHARKEY DOWN HERE ON EARTH WITH ME. WHETHER SHARKEY WILL BELIEVE IT OR NOT IS ANOTHER MATTER.

WHAT I’D SAY TO THIS PERSON IF WE MET TODAY

I DESPISE WHAT YOU DID TO THOSE POOR SOULS AND TO US TOO. I PRAY TO GOD THAT YOU SEEK HIS FORGIVENESS BECAUSE I CAN’T FORGIVE YOU AT ALL.

WHAT I WISH I HADN’T SAID /DONE TO THIS PERSON

NOTHING.