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Name: Conall Hayes
Gender: male
Age: 33
Height: 6’6”
Build: muscular
Hair: red, straight, worn loose to slightly past the shoulders
Eyes: green
Skin: pale, quite heavily freckled
Typical style of dress: scruffy and practical
Alignment: neutral good
Orientation: probably straight
Occupation: carpenter/provider of horse muscle
MSLT: 6, anti-sue

Personality: Conall is generally good-natured, dogged, slow to anger and always willing to lend a hand where needed. This said, though he is friendly, he isn't very confident in himself. Secretly he has very low self esteem and believes himself to be all together too big and too stupid to be worth much to any friend he might make. He feels very lonely a lot of the time and wishes he could start a new romantic relationship, but doesn't have enough belief in himself to pursue one.


Name: Nuala Hayes
Gender: female
Age: 12
Height: 4’11”
Build: light
Hair: blond, straight, either worn loose or in a ponytail, comes to the bottom of her shoulderblades
Eyes: grey-blue
Skin: fairly pale
Typical style of dress: scruffy and practical
Alignment: neutral good
Orientation: unknown
Occupation: student/dad helper
MSLT: 4, anti-sue

Personality: Nuala is athletic, friendly, outgoing and bold. She'll try anything once, provided it doesn't have to do with maths, grammar, science or any of her other mortal enemies. She is never satisfied unless she's doing something, preferably something to do with horses, and is extremely defensive of her father and younger sister. Though she still loves her mother, she is wary of her as she is aware that she herself has many of the qualities her mother always looked down on in her father.


Name: Rachel Hayes
Gender: female
Age: 7
Height: 4’0”
Build: light
Hair: blond, wavy, usually worn in a plait or in pigtails, around mid back length when loose
Eyes: blue
Skin: fairly pale
Typical style of dress: dresses and skirts, unless she’s doing something messy
Alignment: neutral good
Orientation: unknown
Occupation: student/dad helper
MSLT: 7, anti-sue

Personality: Rachel is a very bright young girl. She loves to learn more than anything in the world and thoroughly intends to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a university professor or some kind of scientist when she grows up. She hasn't quite decided which yet, but with her sharp mind and the stubbornness she shares with the rest of her family there is little doubt that she'll achieve it in the end.

Name: Eponia
Gender: female
Age: 5
Height: 6’0” at the withers
Build: heavily muscled
Hair: black with white markings, mane and tail worn long
Eyes: brown
Skin: grey/black under black hair, pink under white hair
Typical style of dress: saddle and bridle or harnesses as called for
Alignment: neutral
Orientation: straight
Occupation: draft horse


Family history

Conall is the second child of three, having one elder sister and one younger brother. In school achieved high grades in anything involving strength or hand-eye coordination and, though diligent effort, scraped average grades in his other subjects. When he was thirteen, his elder sister died of heart failure at the age of twenty three, having been waiting for a transplant for five years. Though he still misses her, he recovered well from the loss and privately writes letters to her about anything he thinks would particularly amuse her before burning them so she can receive the ghost letter.

In his later years of school, he found himself enamored of the very popular Kate Johnson, but was as invisible to her as most other normal people were and reluctantly moved on. On finishing sixth form, he became apprenticed to a carpeting firm and, in the evening and on weekends, indulged his love of horses by helping out at the local riding school.

A short while after his twentieth birthday, he ran into Kate Johnson in a bar, and was surprised that she seemed to recall him (vaguely) from school. They exchanged numbers and email addresses and began to communicate. Not long after this, Kate confessed to Conall that her parents had kicked her out of their house and that, without a job or any money to speak of, she had been sleeping on friends’ sofas for a while but that she was beginning to run out of friends. Having spent all his time since leaving school saving up, Conall had just enough money for the down payment on a small flat, and he suggested to Kate that she move in with him and that once she managed to get a job, she could start helping him pay the bills. She readily accepted, and they moved in together.

It wasn’t long before the close living conditions led first to romance and then to pregnancy. Though both of them were only just twenty one, they agreed to keep the child. Kate put off getting a job, and Conall took a second one working weekends and some evenings at a fast food restaurant. Five years later, Kate still didn’t have a stable job (she seemed to get fired quite a lot) but between what she had been able to save up from her brief employments, Conall’s money and some help from his parents they were finally able to afford a wedding. On the honeymoon, Kate became pregnant with another daughter and once again pushed back finding a decent job.

As time went on Kate began to seek ways to entertain herself and, after a trip with a couple of her old friends to Las Vegas, she discovered a love of gambling. Sadly, however, although very intelligent she was an abysmal card player and loved to bet on long odds. Once her habits had drained both the family’s shared current account and all their savings, she began to borrow but without telling Conall and as she did all their accounts, the first he knew of her borrowing was an angry phone call over an ignored final demand. The flat, which he had recently finished paying for, was remortgaged. Kate, however, couldn’t give up her gambling and the family’s finances continued to deteriorate. Eventually Conall gave his wife an ultimatum; either give up gambling or get out. Six months later, their divorce was finalized and Conall won custody of their two daughters.

Though Kate was gone, Conall was still falling behind on payments owed and eventually got to the point of having his flat repossessed by the bank. When this happened, he sold all the furniture and other effects of the place along with his car and all of his other valuable possessions, save for the young shire mare he had received as a gift from the owner of the stables he still worked at when he had the time. The money he made from this was just enough to pay off the last of the debts his wife had left him, with a little left over to buy a far away cabin and passage to a new life for himself and his daughters...

House plan

The front porch - nothing of note save for a boot scraper
The kitchen - stove, cupboards of pots pans and food, a fireplace
The dining room - a sturdy wooden table with three chairs, a cupboard with cutlery and crockery, a dish of water and dish for food
The bathroom - nothing too fancy, but the floor here is stone rather than wood
The hallway - a few pictures hang on the walls
The girls’ room - a set of bunk beds, two sets of draws, a wardrobe, a chest full of toys, partially finished homework
Conall’s room - a bed, a table and chair, a few pieces of harness that seem to be under repair
The living room - a sofa, four beanbags, Conall’s tools and current carpentry projects, a fireplace, a bookshelf, a table and three chairs
The back porch - a swinging wooden bench
The back garden - a large tree with a clearly home made swing attached to it, plenty of space to run around, rather wild looking
The paddock and shelter - lots of grass, water trough, often a large horse
The stable and loft - often a large horse, feed/bedding/grooming kit/hoof care tools for said horse in the loft
The shed - tack/harnesses for horse, cart, various gardening tools including a scythe for cutting the grass
The manure heap - is self explanatory

The humans

Conall

Lunch time!


Nuala


Rachel




The palui

Ceallach

Being a pet isn't so bad.
Lunch time!


Aretmis

Stolen fruit.


Ciar