Barrett McPherson

Barret McPherson

Full name	Barrett Duncan McPherson
Date of Birth	Feb 10, 2502
Parents	Mary "Morrigan" McPherson(mother), Father Unknown
Siblings	None
Spouse	None
Children	None
Assignment	None
Gender	Male
Eyes and Hair	Blue eyes/Blonde hair
Height and Weight	6'0"/175 pounds
Status	Active
Education Information
Home Schooling on New Tortuga
Military Service
None
Employment History
Current: Self employed, Freelance Tattoo Artist.

Background

Barrett Duncan McPherson (2502-Current)

Nothing suffocates you more than
The passing of everyday human events
Isolation is the oxygen mask you make
Your children breathe in to survive
I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist.
and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a sh**
-Marilyn Manson "The Fight Song"

Birth

Barrett McPherson was born in the back room of a strip club, with short silk-robed dancers for midwives and a raucous crowd of bar patrons twenty feet away, separated only by graffiti-spattered walls. The cries of pain and torment from child-birthing were drowned out by the drum and bass music that accompanied the girl on stage, as well as the loud, drunken conversations in the rooms beyond. Mary McPherson had just turned nineteen years old six days prior, and had truly wished that her and her son would celebrate the same birthday. She would later go on to say that Barrett was the best birthday present she ever had, even though belated.

Mary McPherson's story was mostly a story of tragedy until she found her way onto the station that would later be called New Tortuga. She was the daughter of a pair of parents killed and displaced by the civil unrest that displaced many before the Unification War. With no where to go or no one else in her life to turn to, she took to working as a serving girl in bars on Newhall and Darcke Moon. It didn't take her long to start getting noticed by men, and those men led to prostitution and eventually being lured into using her attractive face and build to earn her a living. It wasn't what she'd hoped, but through the tired evenings and the trouble of trying to sleep through daylight hours, she eventually heard a call for dancers and servers on a new station, which meant more space and likelihood of a place to call her own. She answered the call.

With a small apartment to call her own and a stable job at one of the on-board clubs dancing for her living, Mary continued to put in long hours to cover her expensive, yet tiny, living space. Boyfriends, tricks, and business came and went until Mary discovered that she was pregnant. The club owner, an ex boyfriend of hers, was supportive and allowed her to dance until she started to show, and then gave her a job behind the bar.

After Barrett was born, things became far more difficult than Mary had ever expected. The cost to keep and raise her son began to take a toll on her, as did finding friends to babysit her child while she was working. On some nights, while she was dancing, Barrett would be in the back of the club being tended to by some of the girls on their breaks. It was touch-and-go for Mary and Barrett for almost two-years straight, and anyone who suggested that Mary was out of her mind for raising a child was met with a stone-cold, alleyway beating. Mary was furiously protective of her child, who was the last of her family and her hope to carry on her father's name into the future. He was all that she had left, and he was all that she would ever want to have.

The Becoming

Fear the nobodies
Wanna be Somebodies
We're dead,
We know just who we are
-Marilyn Manson "The Nobodies"

Nothing burns quite like failure and weakness, which is something that Barrett learned from his earliest memories. A scrawny lad, he learned early on that life is a place for the intelligent or the strong, but never for the weak willed. Bullied early on by his peers and always picked last for "Hallway Football" (a full contact version of traditional "soccer" played in hallway passages), he'd come home often with a bloodied face, doing his best to hide his tears from his mother. Mary would have none of this, of course, and would often give the "Either you kick their ass, or I kick your ass" response. Mary only had to corporally punish Barrett once for refusal, and to this day will state her reasoning for this practice as follows:

"I told Bare when he'd come home because he'd been bulled that aren't none of those boys going to respect him for not standin' up for himself. I told him te' go right back out there and beat the hell out of them so that they knew no one trifes with a McPherson. It's what I done with the girls when I was raising him and it's what he's going to do when I'm not there to pick up his pieces. Ain't no one ever survived by letting themselves be victims, and my boy deserves better than to grow up to be one of //those// men. Last thing he needs is some girl respectin' him for getting run over. I had to teach the boy to protect what's his somehow. I got lucky, because he didn't take it too far. It worked out in the end." - Mary "Morrigan" McPherson

Barrett's Extended Family

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  Mary "Morrigan" McPherson. Mother and former exotic dancer turned bartender/dancer management.

Personality

Appearance

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Tattoo Collection

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  Two of these, one each on the front of his chest where his shoulders meet his pectoral muscles.

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  Upper right bicep

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  Wrapping around his left forearm

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  Lower section of upper-right arm

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  Across shoulder blades and center of back.

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  Right forearm

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  Upper left bicep, top of shoulder, and down his side, some.

Recent History

• Pre-2531: Barrett McPherson has been a sprog under the employ of Yvaine Sterling for the last two years alongside fellow sprogs Hans, Franz, and Mumbles. Nicknamed "JACK" due to his tall height and his spindly arms, he has since "bulked up" and is now continuing his sprog service to his Corsair a more muscular man. However, Yvaine still refers to him as "JACK"

• June 06, 2531: Barrett meets Annabelle Skarsgard in a chance meeting at the Dregs. After a few days of knowing each other, he agrees to help her through 3 days of detoxification.

Trivia

• Barrett is known as "Jack" by the Sprog population. He's one of four sprogs in service to Yvaine. The other three are Hans, Franz, and Mumbles. Barrett earned the nickname "Jack" due to his tall, spindly appearance before he bulked up in the gym. Jack...as in beanstalk.

Theme Music

((Assume NSFW))