Whisker
Damnation Dignified
Name: Calvin O’Callaghan III
Alias: “Cal” or “CJ”
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Occupation: Heir-Apparent Businessman – At Risk
Height: 6’0
Weight: 159 LBS
Hair: Jet-black and often slicked back or spiked upwards depending on general mood or circumstance.
Eyes: Brown
Personality:
Growing up unconscionably wealthy and with lax adult supervision has given Cal a taste for the ‘finer things’ in life. He’s unquestionably arrogant and vain, but not fundamentally malicious. In fact, his many, many, many friends – or at least those he considers friends in the broadest sense – label him as quite the fun-loving, thrill-seeker with enough cash to accomplish both. He is intelligent to a degree having attended at least two prestigious boarding schools as well as university, but his grades and relationships with various professors were average at best. As for his relationship with his relatives, he greatly admires his gymnast mother, but has a strained relationship with his father and younger brother – a relationship that has only gotten worse since his position as heir has been compromised. He is now willing to do almost anything to regain his status in the world even if he has to take a questionable route to get there.
History:
Calvin Joaquin O’Callaghan was born the eldest son of a father with the same name who owns and operates several successful shopping complexes in Greyholm as well as abroad. His twin brother, Connor O’Callaghan, was born only a few minutes behind. As children, it was the constant family joke that Connor was the shadow that stuck to his back, always chasing, always just a step behind in almost everything. It ignited a competition between both twins that spiraled to the point where even being compared to one another was a source of major irritation.
With his father constantly at work expanding the family business as deftly as a nationalistic conqueror, the twins were left to be raised by servants and occasionally their mother on the off-chance the divorce proceedings would allow. These precious moments are some of the fondest in Cal’s life as she could fill the gaps as a normal parent while supporting both himself and Connor as individuals instead of rivals.
At six years of age, Calvin attended St. Petersons, a “progressive” private school for boys. The views on discipline were liberal at best, and the boys often could get away with almost anything short of murder. Cal quickly established himself as one of the go-to guys for trouble; he was always in the Dean’s office and left with a rap sheet a mile long for his misdeeds. This penchant for fun and trouble carried over to the next boarding school and the next, only exacerbating and growing as he approached high school and college.
Shortly after his fifteenth birthday, Cal was arrested for the first time for reckless endangerment, drug paraphernalia, underage drinking, and joyriding. The seriousness of his crimes sent him to another boarding school for ‘At-Risk Youth’. Thanks to his influence and his assertion that he had ‘absolutely learned his lesson and would never do it again’, he was there only six months before returning to his original school. He graduated 372 out of 605, far below his twin who excelled at 9th in the class.
He took a year off to celebrate and traveled the world with his closest friends on his yacht. While overseas, he met an exotic young woman with whom he became enamored. Two months after his return to Greyholm, they became engaged. And shortly thereafter, he received his acceptance letter to a prestigious university after a ‘generous’ donation.
It looked like the perfect fairytale ending for Cal.
Unfortunately, the nightmare was only just beginning.
One year and two months following his wedding, at age 21, Calvin Joaquin O’Callaghan was arrested once more for two counts of manslaughter and distribution of illegal drugs. It was a big scandal on the front of every newspaper in the country.
“Upcoming young business tycoon Calvin O’Callaghan charged with the accidental murder of his wife Alexandria O’Callaghan and his unborn daughter Theresa O’ Callaghan!”
Though the prosecution attempted to upgrade the charge to homicide after evidence came to light of a growing rift between the couple, Calvin’s steadfast insistence that the fire was an accident and caused by the aftermath of his drug use. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison though he only served 3 before being released on parole in addendum to the court mandate that he must also undergo rehabilitation.
More unpleasant news greeted Calvin upon his return to the normal world. The fallout from his “mistake” had cost his family’s company millions if not more. It had been decided by the corporate heads that Calvin was too much of a risk to the family business and that attaching his name would only add more embarrassment to the O’Callaghan legacy. Pressure to name Connor O’Callaghan as the new heir apparent began to escalate.
As of his 26th birthday, his father remains publicly “undecided” as to which of his sons is fit to succeed him.
Fresh out of rehab and desperate to get his life under control, Calvin has set out to prove in action rather than words that he still is the man for the job.
