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HUNTERS JOURNAL
THE BASICS
FULL NAME:
Tara Connoly
Tara Connoly
DATE OF BIRTH | AGE:
August 10 | 25
August 10 | 25
PLACE OF BIRTH | CURRENT RESIDENCE:
Chicago, IL | Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL | Chicago, IL
FACE CLAIM: Emmy Rossum
SPECIES: Human
GENDER: Female
MARITAL STATUS:Single
OCCUPATION: Hunter
ALIAS: Hannah
TALENTS AND SPECIAL ABILITIES
[attr="class","fbidossiertxtboxy"]Most of Tara's special skills are the things that every hunter needs to survive: shooting a gun, tracking through wooded areas, salting and burning a grave. She's an all-around average hunter, solid in a bunch of areas, not a savant in anything in particular. She's a decent shot, but prefers a sawed-off shotgun over a sniper rifle. Though you wouldn't expect it, she's surprisingly scrappy in hand-to-hand combat, and usually prefers close-range weapons like knives to guns.
Where Tara shines is when she's put in a leadership role: years of running her household like an army sergeant has made her quite comfortable taking point on hunts, and she works best when leading a team.
As far as non-hunter skills go, Tara has the uncanny ability to find free stuff. Seriously, she is a master of living off of practically nothing, and has gotten good at making money stretch. She's been known to steal toilet paper from restaurant bathrooms, snag furniture off the curb, and convince other people to spend money on her when she needs to.
She’s also been drinking beer since she was eleven, and can drink pretty much anyone under the table.
Where Tara shines is when she's put in a leadership role: years of running her household like an army sergeant has made her quite comfortable taking point on hunts, and she works best when leading a team.
As far as non-hunter skills go, Tara has the uncanny ability to find free stuff. Seriously, she is a master of living off of practically nothing, and has gotten good at making money stretch. She's been known to steal toilet paper from restaurant bathrooms, snag furniture off the curb, and convince other people to spend money on her when she needs to.
She’s also been drinking beer since she was eleven, and can drink pretty much anyone under the table.
POWERS AND VULNERABILITIES
[attr="class","fbidossiertxtboxy"]Tara's only power is putting the fear of God into any of her siblings with one look.
REPUTATION
[attr="class","fbidossiertxtboxy"]Tara’s known pretty well around the Chicago area as a decent hunter who works well in a team. Outside of Illinois, other hunters would recognize her last time from her father. Since almost everyone universally hates him, the Connoly name doesn’t make her many friends.
PERSONALITY
[attr="class","fbidossiertxtboxy"]If the Connoly's had enough money for psychiatric help, Tara would have her therapist running for the hills. Thanks to good old mom and dad, her childhood taught her three things: trust no one, fuck the police, and solve all personal problems with alcohol and a gun.
Tara has been running a house full of kids since she was a teenager, which would have gone to hell completely if she wasn't such a hardass. She runs the family like the general of a tiny army, trying to keep everyone fed, clothed, and in line with zero help from anyone else. It made her extremely self-reliant, but it also made it hard for her to let go of any amount of control. She doesn't trust anyone enough to ask for help, and usually thinks that something won't get done right unless she's the one doing it. She's definitely a control-freak, and feels comfortable in a leadership role, both in hunting and in her daily life.
This means that she also puts all the responsibilities on herself, and blames herself if something goes wrong. She's often too hard on herself, but has never learned how to healthily deal with anger or guilt. So she drinks a bit too much and throws things against the wall and lashes out on people who don't deserve it, like her family. And since she's too guarded to actually make real relationships, her family definitely gets the worst of it.
She does love them though, even when they drive her completely insane. Family is the most important thing in her life, and she would drop everything and come running if her siblings needed her. She even feels some amount of responsibility towards helping out her father, though she hates him more often than not. Her family's pretty much the only thing she's got, and you do not come between Tara and her siblings.
Tara has been running a house full of kids since she was a teenager, which would have gone to hell completely if she wasn't such a hardass. She runs the family like the general of a tiny army, trying to keep everyone fed, clothed, and in line with zero help from anyone else. It made her extremely self-reliant, but it also made it hard for her to let go of any amount of control. She doesn't trust anyone enough to ask for help, and usually thinks that something won't get done right unless she's the one doing it. She's definitely a control-freak, and feels comfortable in a leadership role, both in hunting and in her daily life.
This means that she also puts all the responsibilities on herself, and blames herself if something goes wrong. She's often too hard on herself, but has never learned how to healthily deal with anger or guilt. So she drinks a bit too much and throws things against the wall and lashes out on people who don't deserve it, like her family. And since she's too guarded to actually make real relationships, her family definitely gets the worst of it.
She does love them though, even when they drive her completely insane. Family is the most important thing in her life, and she would drop everything and come running if her siblings needed her. She even feels some amount of responsibility towards helping out her father, though she hates him more often than not. Her family's pretty much the only thing she's got, and you do not come between Tara and her siblings.
HISTORY
[attr="class","fbidossiertxtboxy"]Patrick Connoly knocked up Miranda Keeney in what was a night that neither of them would remember due to the vast amounts of alcohol they consumed. Nine months later they were married, and Tara Catherine Connoly was born in the back of a 1976 Ford Fiesta. Her youngest years weren't the best, but considering she was an only child until she was five, they were significantly calmer than after her first brother showed up.
The Connolys began their family life in Grandma Connoly's mobile home in the Chicago suburbs, which Tara vaguely remembers as being pretty decent. There were more than enough neighborhood children to play with, and Grandma Connoly took better care of the kids than their parents did. Granted, she was a chain-smoking bitch who liked to adopt half-feral cats (the claw marks on Tara's arms still haven't faded completely). But with two alcoholic, usually-absent parents, the fact that Grandma Connoly remembered to feed them made her the best guardian they had.
Grandma kicked them out when Abigail, the fourth child, was born. Thankfully, though, Miranda's aunt died a few days later and left them a small house on the South Side, which wasn't half bad. Sure, they lived between a crack house and a middle-aged prostitute, but there were two floors, two bathrooms, and Tara even got her own room.
It was around this time when Patrick decided to tell his children about hunting, which initially didn't go over so well; the boys were terrified, Tara didn't believe him, and Abigail was too young to understand english. Eventually he convinced them, though, and began teaching them how to shoot a gun and salt and burn a skeleton when he was around. As the oldest, Tara was the one that he put the most pressure on, telling her that it was her job to protect the family while he was away. Granted, that's quite a lot to put on a twelve-year-old, but it was also the closest thing they ever had to bonding time, so she took to it quickly.
Miranda never really knew how to take care of kids, leaving it all to her mother-in-law until they moved, so Tara became Mama Bear to her younger siblings, juggling school, dinners, bills, and everything else that her parents didn't do. When her youngest brother, Dustin, was still a toddler, their mother packed up and left without a word, leaving Tara completely in charge. She dropped out of high school, taking her GED test when she was sixteen so she could work full-time as a diner waitress.
As her younger siblings became more independent, Tara started taking all of her anger and frustration out on the occasional weekend hunt with Patrick, though those usually ended up with her saving his drunk ass from getting killed. These hunts became more and more frequent, until she quit her job completely when her siblings figured out how to make enough money to live off of. For the past few years she's been hunting full-time, coming home every few days to make sure that the house is still standing.
The Connolys began their family life in Grandma Connoly's mobile home in the Chicago suburbs, which Tara vaguely remembers as being pretty decent. There were more than enough neighborhood children to play with, and Grandma Connoly took better care of the kids than their parents did. Granted, she was a chain-smoking bitch who liked to adopt half-feral cats (the claw marks on Tara's arms still haven't faded completely). But with two alcoholic, usually-absent parents, the fact that Grandma Connoly remembered to feed them made her the best guardian they had.
Grandma kicked them out when Abigail, the fourth child, was born. Thankfully, though, Miranda's aunt died a few days later and left them a small house on the South Side, which wasn't half bad. Sure, they lived between a crack house and a middle-aged prostitute, but there were two floors, two bathrooms, and Tara even got her own room.
It was around this time when Patrick decided to tell his children about hunting, which initially didn't go over so well; the boys were terrified, Tara didn't believe him, and Abigail was too young to understand english. Eventually he convinced them, though, and began teaching them how to shoot a gun and salt and burn a skeleton when he was around. As the oldest, Tara was the one that he put the most pressure on, telling her that it was her job to protect the family while he was away. Granted, that's quite a lot to put on a twelve-year-old, but it was also the closest thing they ever had to bonding time, so she took to it quickly.
Miranda never really knew how to take care of kids, leaving it all to her mother-in-law until they moved, so Tara became Mama Bear to her younger siblings, juggling school, dinners, bills, and everything else that her parents didn't do. When her youngest brother, Dustin, was still a toddler, their mother packed up and left without a word, leaving Tara completely in charge. She dropped out of high school, taking her GED test when she was sixteen so she could work full-time as a diner waitress.
As her younger siblings became more independent, Tara started taking all of her anger and frustration out on the occasional weekend hunt with Patrick, though those usually ended up with her saving his drunk ass from getting killed. These hunts became more and more frequent, until she quit her job completely when her siblings figured out how to make enough money to live off of. For the past few years she's been hunting full-time, coming home every few days to make sure that the house is still standing.
