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My hope is constant in thee, Clan Donald
From the shores of the Moidart to the land of the trees
Created on 2006-07-03 01:45:24 (#10582081), last updated 2008-06-16
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Basic Info| Name: | Calum MacDonald |
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Bio[[Spoilers if you read the personal history. Go. Read No Great Mischief. Now.]]
Name: Calum MacDonald
Age: 34
Height: 6'1
Eyes / Hair: Black
Born: Glenfinnan, Cape Breton, 1938
Died: Canso Causeway, Cape Breton, 1999
Family: Three living grandparents, three younger brothers, one sister. Parents and one younger brother died on the ice when he was 16. Also, the extended clann Calum Ruadh, the descendants of Calum MacDonald, who immigrated to Cape Breton in the 1730s from the Moidart of Scotland.
Education: Scattered formal schooling and home school until he was sixteen. Basic literacy, rudimentary math skills.
Fluent in: English and Gaidhlig (Scots Gaelic)
A note on accent: Because I feel it's important to know how a character speaks. Calum has a Cape Breton accent, which, if one hasn't heard it, is like a Newfoundland accent but more Gaidhlig than Irish, with severely Gaidhlig sentence structure. Extend some vowel sounds and remove almost all 'h's from normal speech. I could type out the accent, but I t'ink dat typin' every word dat comes from his mout' would get t' be a right hassle. You can find an example in the comedy sketches of the Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island.
Personal history: Calum has been a fisher, a farmer, and a miner, and has, according to the courts who convicted him of second-degree murder, "a violent history". Since the death of his parents, he had supported himself and his brothers by subsistence farming, fishing, and lobster trapping. Eventually, driven off the island by the lack of jobs, he led a branch of the clann Calum Ruadh to the mines of Ontario, Peru, South Africa, and everywhere in between. As short-term contract miners, the clann was greatly in demand and did very well for themselves. Until, that is, the long-standing grudge with a French Canadian crew broke into an all-out brawl and Calum killed their leader, Fern Picard, in self-defense. He served his twenty-five-year life sentence and fell into a bottle as soon as he emerged.
Personality: Calum is a leader, a strong man who has been self-sufficient (s much as anyone is in a clan) since he was sixteen. He often has a rough and quick temper, but is a genuinely good person underneath. Like all Scots, he can hold a grudge for generations, and be just a loyal. He stands by what he believes in, even if those beliefs are slow to change. Afflicted by the same regional generational poverty as the rest of the island, he is thrifty and sober when it comes to important matters, and given to drinking and music every other time. Like all Highlanders (Scottish or Caper), family and clan is everything to him. Although he never studied history, he knows all the battles and rebellions of his clan's history, from Bannockburn with Robert the Bruce down to the 1745 Rebellion under the Bonnie Prince, as if they're a part of his own personal history.
Haurvatat: Calum lives in Suite 4A with his husband Adam (Felicia Jollygoodfellow), his brother Colin MacDonald, and Benji Belrose. He helps out at the stables with the help of the mare Christie and a few of the Calum Ruadh dogs.
[[This is a roleplaying journal for the purposes of![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
hearts_andminds. I do not own the character of Calum, who belongs to Alistair MacLeod, or his still-kinda-too-attractive pb, Gerard Butler. Trust me, if I did own him, I wouldn't have the time to be roleplaying.]]
Name: Calum MacDonald
Age: 34
Height: 6'1
Eyes / Hair: Black
Born: Glenfinnan, Cape Breton, 1938
Died: Canso Causeway, Cape Breton, 1999
Family: Three living grandparents, three younger brothers, one sister. Parents and one younger brother died on the ice when he was 16. Also, the extended clann Calum Ruadh, the descendants of Calum MacDonald, who immigrated to Cape Breton in the 1730s from the Moidart of Scotland.
Education: Scattered formal schooling and home school until he was sixteen. Basic literacy, rudimentary math skills.
Fluent in: English and Gaidhlig (Scots Gaelic)
A note on accent: Because I feel it's important to know how a character speaks. Calum has a Cape Breton accent, which, if one hasn't heard it, is like a Newfoundland accent but more Gaidhlig than Irish, with severely Gaidhlig sentence structure. Extend some vowel sounds and remove almost all 'h's from normal speech. I could type out the accent, but I t'ink dat typin' every word dat comes from his mout' would get t' be a right hassle. You can find an example in the comedy sketches of the Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island.
Personal history: Calum has been a fisher, a farmer, and a miner, and has, according to the courts who convicted him of second-degree murder, "a violent history". Since the death of his parents, he had supported himself and his brothers by subsistence farming, fishing, and lobster trapping. Eventually, driven off the island by the lack of jobs, he led a branch of the clann Calum Ruadh to the mines of Ontario, Peru, South Africa, and everywhere in between. As short-term contract miners, the clann was greatly in demand and did very well for themselves. Until, that is, the long-standing grudge with a French Canadian crew broke into an all-out brawl and Calum killed their leader, Fern Picard, in self-defense. He served his twenty-five-year life sentence and fell into a bottle as soon as he emerged.
Personality: Calum is a leader, a strong man who has been self-sufficient (s much as anyone is in a clan) since he was sixteen. He often has a rough and quick temper, but is a genuinely good person underneath. Like all Scots, he can hold a grudge for generations, and be just a loyal. He stands by what he believes in, even if those beliefs are slow to change. Afflicted by the same regional generational poverty as the rest of the island, he is thrifty and sober when it comes to important matters, and given to drinking and music every other time. Like all Highlanders (Scottish or Caper), family and clan is everything to him. Although he never studied history, he knows all the battles and rebellions of his clan's history, from Bannockburn with Robert the Bruce down to the 1745 Rebellion under the Bonnie Prince, as if they're a part of his own personal history.
Haurvatat: Calum lives in Suite 4A with his husband Adam (Felicia Jollygoodfellow), his brother Colin MacDonald, and Benji Belrose. He helps out at the stables with the help of the mare Christie and a few of the Calum Ruadh dogs.
[[This is a roleplaying journal for the purposes of
hearts_andminds. I do not own the character of Calum, who belongs to Alistair MacLeod, or his still-kinda-too-attractive pb, Gerard Butler. Trust me, if I did own him, I wouldn't have the time to be roleplaying.]] ConnectExternal Services:
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