danny_boy

Name: Danny McKinnon

Age: 31

Gender: male

Type: Dreamer

Appearance:

Danny isn't terribly tall for a guy, clocking in at just under 6 feet. He has a stockier build which still makes him look intimidating given his size. His light brown hair, which can look almost blond in some light, is usually kept short and manageable, but without a real sense of style. As far as he figures, if it's not hanging in his eyes it looks fine.

When not at work, he dresses plain and cheap. His clothes are a combination of old flannel shirts, undershirts and plain grey or police academy tshirts. At work he's in standard detective attire, which usually amounts to one or two different varieties of suits and a collection of either plain or bordering on ugly ties. Getting dressed up has never been his thing, reserving it for funerals and weddings, but the promotion to detective had him dressing some semblance of better.

Personality:

To sum up Danny's personality in one word it would be bitter. He's bitter about everything, the job, the world, the weather, his family, his house, his car and everything else. Although he has moments where he comes across as the loving man his wife knew when she married him, those moments are few and far between. Life has given Danny the short stick and he won't let you forget it.

When he's not bitter he's angry. Armed with a short fuse, he's quick to snap at anyone and capable of backing up his bark with some serious bite. Danny is not the type of guy you call a name in a bar, but if you screw with him he'll knock you out then arrest you for assaulting a police officer.

Deep down though he can be a good guy, it's just been beaten out of him in a mixture of life and his father's belt. He's loyal to his friends and the brotherhood and really believes that as a cop he's doing good work. The only problem is, there's too much bad out there for just one man to take on.

Sexuality:

heterosexual

City History:

Danny's dad was the stereotypical Irish-American: drunk. Charlie McKinnon was a damn good cop but when he wasn't being a cop (and sometimes when he was) he was a mean drunk. Danny was raised in a house where nothing he did was good enough in his dad's eyes, including following in his father's footsteps and becoming a cop himself. As a kid, he'd been beat up by his dad more than the kids in school, even though he started most of the fights with his dad in order to protect his mother and older sister.

Three weeks after graduation, Danny's high school girlfriend, Janey, found out that she was pregnant and he married her two weeks later in a quiet service at St. Peters. Three months into the pregnancy though she lost the baby. Because he still loved her, Danny stuck with her and kept on sticking even though she miscarried three more times after the first. The doctors finally decided children just weren't in the cards for the couple. Charlie of course blamed Danny for his inability to produce grandchildren and Danny added it to the list of things about his life that seemed to go wrong despite his best intentions.

The week before Danny graduated from the police academy, Charlie died of heart failure on his favorite stool in his favorite bar. The night Danny got the news was the first night Danny got drunk.

After the first night, Danny realized it was easier to just be drunk and continued to drink. It was completely reasonable for him to go through four or five beers after a shift and a 12 pack on his day off. He had a flask in his locker at the police station, a flask under his seat in his cruiser and a few stashed around his house as well. It was completely normal for Danny to take nips off of it throughout his day and then go out with the guys afterward.

Once Danny had climbed the ranks of the police department and shaken off his rookie status, he caught the attention of the department. Though he did a longer than usual run, his drinking problem one of those things that everyone knew about, but no one talked about, keeping him from getting the promotion to detective until well after he'd earned it. He did finally get it though he put his heart and soul into it, though the stress just left to more drinking.

Special Skills and Abilities:

Danny's a very good shot and ranked highest in his class at the police academy.

Weaknesses:

Alcoholic - As much as he'll deny it, Danny's an alcoholic. He sneaks hits off his various flasks throughout the day, even when on shift and he goes out for a drink almost every night. And he's not a nice drunk either, prone to bar fights and snap judgments.

Short Temper - Danny doesn't always look like trouble but it doesn't take much to set him off. He'll throw a punch with just one harsh word tossed in his direction and after he beat up his offender? He'll arrest them for kicks.

Hero Complex - There's no good explanation for when it started, maybe after graduating from the police academy, maybe it had always been around since Janey's first miscarriage. Whatever it was, Danny's got this idea in his head that he's got to save people. Most importantly he's got to save the endless string of damsels in distress he comes across. He's a total sucker for a pretty face and a cry for help, willing to break more than one rule to ensure some poor girl's safety.

Pessimist - Danny rarely sees the good in life. Most of what he sees is the gloom and doom of the world. Nothing he's seen as a cop surprises him, it's all just another day at the job. It gives him a shitty outlook on life, but he considers it as something that comes with the territory.

Strengths:

Excellent Record (as a cop) - Danny has been an extremely successful cop; he's got a natural gift for it. His understand of the law is thorough and although he sees the world in black and white, it helps him show no mercy in the eyes of the law.

Loyalty- His loyalty to the badge runs deep, he'll do anything for one of his brothers in blue.

Family or Connections:

Married to Janey McKinnon.

Residence:

Danny and Janey don't live far from the police station, in the Irish district of the town down the street from where Danny grew up.

Career:

Police detective

PB: Ben McKenzie