⚠️TW: descriptions of child abuse, SA, and forced prostitution⚠️

Basics

Full Name: Lir Baird O'Connell

Physical age: 30

Actual age: centuries and centuries old, ever since the beginning of time

Gender: Genderfluid

Sex: Cisgender male

Sexuality: Bisexual (Male lean, but he will date women)

Theme song: Blood Upon the Snow by Hozier & Bear McCreary

Voice claim: Cillian Murphy

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: God

Powers (if applicable): N/A

Occupation: Lead guitarist and vocalist of his band 'Ultraviolence'

Face claim: Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in 'Peaky Blinders'

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

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Appearance

Eye shape: round

Eye color: A piercing blue color

Skin tone: fair

Face shape: Oval

Outfit: He dresses in fancy clothes, like suits and coats

Personality: As the ancient Celtic sea god, Lir is the personification of the sea. He is like the water, always calm and never once raises his voice, yet sometimes like the oncoming storm which turns the tide, Lir's anger can be dangerous. Violent. It's a silent rage, with a certain look in his eye, like lightning coming down from the Heavens, brewing the storm only worse.

He is a very dominant man, taking what he wants, whether it be anything, or anyone, and does not care about others. He is incredibly protective of the people he loves, and will do anything to keep them safe. Anything. He can also be very possessive, since Lir was never really loved as a child, and well into his teenage years, so whenever he finally does get love, he wants it to stay as long as possible.

Like the sea, he is extremely unpredictable. One moment, he is in a fight, his knuckles bloody and his rage running deep, and the next, he's comforting a crying girl in the street, his words kind and gentle, not the same man he was 10 seconds ago.

Lir is scared of himself, he's terrified of who he is and what he's capable of, because he never knows when he'll snap or yell at someone after being completely fine moments before. Whenever he feels emotion, it can sometimes become an extremely heightened version of that emotion. Lir has episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs, and he's hurt people he loved in the past because of this, badly, so in order to not hurt anyone else again, he shuts himself off. He doesn't show emotion at all in order to not trigger his erratic and maniacal behavior.

When Lir has these manic episodes, he often has no memory whatsoever of them ever happening, thus leaving him alone with the aftermath, which leaves him in a confused and terrified state. He describes it as "bein' possessed", although that's not what happens.

Lir is a very cold and stoic, but highly intelligent, professional and pragmatic man who rarely expresses emotions and prefers not to get emotions mixed into his businesses. But this was due to how he was "raised", by his father.

Backstory

Born in Dublin, Ireland and moved to the US when he was 13, Lir didn't have the best childhood. He lost all his friends when he moved, so he was lonely. On top of that, his mother, Moira, had died from sickness.

But even after all that, Lir was still a happy boy. He was always smiling and cheerful. Things were looking bad for Lir, but when he turned 14, he found a friend in a boy named John. They did everything together, and spent all the time in the world with eachother. John thought Lir was interesting, he found everything about the boy interesting. From his strange, thick accent to his funny name.

Lir had fallen in love with John, but his dad, Kenneth, found out and decided to punish him for it by locking him in the house's closet. It was dark and claustrophobic, and Lir wouldn't even be let out for food or water, and he starved, sometimes for weeks on end. What made matters worse, the closet was also airtight, so Lir would also very slowly suffocate. Kenneth forbade Lir from seeing John ever again. This, along with Kenneth locking him in the closet to die, marked the beginning of Lir's decent into madness.

But that doesn't mean they stopped completely. Lir and John met in secret, only at night when they thought that Kenneth was asleep. They even shared their first kiss together, and Lir would never forget it. This went on for some time, each secret meeting terrifying yet exhilarating at the same time.

But soon, Kenneth began to become suspicious of his son's late-night disappearances. So Lir went out to meet John, but what he didn't know was that Kenneth had followed him. So they met, and Kenneth was watching from afar. He had never been so angry in his life.

But John and Lir had met to discuss something. John was going to be moving, and he would be moving very soon. Lir was distraught by this, because he didn't— he couldn't— be left alone with his father. John didn't want to leave Lir, but he had no choice.

But 'very soon' came fast, and John was gone. And Lir was heartbroken, and left alone with his father. And Kenneth would keep beating Lir within inches of his life and keep locking him in the closet. But when Lir turned 15, he ran away, cutting out all contact with his father. It was then he met  another 15 year old girl, Steven Kelly, the now bassist of Ultraviolence. Lir fell in love with her instantly, and they became fast friends.

Sometime in June, Stevie had to leave to visit her family, which meant Lir was alone, but not for long because he went out to meet new people.

But because of him just leaving his father's house with him being locked away for six years, he knew virtually nothing about the public world. And because of this, people took advantage of him.

The first man who did that to Lir was named Andrew Dawson, who took Lir out to dinner, took him home, seduced him, made out with him to let his guard down and make it so that Lir thought he loved him, and then || r*ped || him. Then Andrew took Lir and forced him to work at he and his older brother (David's) brothel. Lir quickly became David's personal pet, and David and Andrew had this 'Good-cop-bad-cop' thing going on with Lir where whenever after David abuses Lir, Andrew would come in and act all sympathetic and apologize and keeps him safe, saying how sorry he was that this was all happening, and that "David forced him to do what he did to Lir that night," and Andrew holds Lir's small, broken, frail body and he says it's gonna be okay and poor Lir genuinely believes that Andrew loved him and that he wasn't actually a bad person and that David forced him to do everything.

After Andrew, Lir cut his hair short so that the clients couldn't yank on it like he did. But they did it anyway, and it hurt.

David forced Lir to change everything about him. His clothes, his hair, the way he spoke. But that only made things worse, because that only made people come more. They called him a courtesan, and Lir didn't even know what that meant. But soon after, $10 became $50, and $50 became $100.

Lir accepted this fate. He accepted that this was how he was supposed to be now. This was how he provided for Stevie, since she needed someone to look out for her. And Lir was that person, so he provided for her by selling himself. He was never on top, he was always the one receiving, and he never got a say in it. He was used and abused, both physically and sexually, he was battered and broken, just a release for angry and violent men to use as some sort of sick therapy.

He loved Stevie so much he put himself through Hell just so she would be okay.

When he turned 25, he escaped this life by running away and starting a band with his girlfriend, Stevie. He left it all behind, but the scars stayed with him. He still can't sleep at night, he still has nightmares.

And he's being hunted by Andrew and David, who won't stop until they get their toy back.

SCENARIO #1
You went to go see one of Ultraviolence's shows, you heard they were good and you wanted to see for yourself. The band comes out and Lir introduces himself and his band and they start playing. And Lir sings beautifully. He sings all the songs in English, save for one. And you could tell this next song was hard for him, something personal. So personal, that he sang it in his native language, Irish.
It was a slow rock ballad, filled with both the mournful wailing of both guitar and boy.
Little did the audience or his other band members know, it was a love song.
After the show was over, the band departs off the stage, and soon after you see Lir leaving the backstage door, with no emotion on his face. A mask, you were sure. So you follow him to check on him, and you see him leaning on a railing, smoking a cigarette.

What do you do?

SCENARIO #2
Make it up!