–– introducing MATTY HAMMOND . word on the street is they are a BOUNCER , having been around for TWO MONTHS . despite an otherwise clear record, sometimes they are known to engage with THE SYNDICATE’s affairs. though they are DISTANT and DEFIANT , they can also be PRACTICAL and LOYAL . in the chaos of new york city, they’re sure to fit right in.
tw: abandonment, heart attack, death .
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name : matthew jackson hammond aka : matty age / d.o.b. : twenty seven / august 19th, 1997 gender : cis man pronouns : he/him sexuality : bisexual hometown : camden, maine current residency : brooklyn, ny notable connections: heath morgan – biological father , willa morgan - half sister affiliation : the syndicate (affiliate) job position : bouncer @ pink flamingo education : high school diploma personality : defiant, practical, stoic, distant, judgmental, insensitive likes & dislikes : (+) smoking, being awake at night, driving around aimlessly, getting high / (-) loud crowds, overly excited people, small talk
═══ BIOGRAPHY
── tldr: matty, born in maine to a struggling single mother, faced hardship early in life. his mother's erratic relationships and eventual abandonment when he was ten left him traumatized. raised by his uncle, matty spiraled out of control during his teen years and was frequently in trouble with the law. his side business of selling some w**d to a small amount of local customers supplied him with some pocket money, but money was always tight, and with relentless pursuit for cash it's a surprise he managed to graduate at all. bogged down by his upbringing, he gave up on life before it really started and thought his life would always consist of working in his uncle's diner, but when the latter died suddenly of a heart attack, matty faced true introspection for the first time when he found his father's name on the back of a piece of paper while cleaning out his uncle (and mother's) things. he decided to seek him out – for reconciliation, for revenge, who knows? and shortly after arriving to the city, he started to try and find an in with the syndicate in order to climb up in life. when in rome, right?
── full bio: matty didn’t have an easy start in life. born in maine to a single mother, lani, the woman struggled to hold down a job that allowed her to take care of her baby. they lived paycheck to paycheck for a few years until she saw no other option than to return to her hometown, where her brother had a diner. when she worked at benny’s as a waitress, things were better for them, but lani was perpetually exhausted trying to raise a child all by herself, and to escape the harsh reality she would flutter from man to man, always getting swept up in empty promises that would leave her heartbroken when she inevitably ended up alone again. when matty was ten years old, his mother decided to follow after her then-boyfriend, leaving her child with her brother and leaving both benny and matty in the dark about her whereabouts or plans to ever return. obviously, this abandonment was traumatic for the young boy. benny was good to him, albeit entirely out of his depth, but despite his best intentions, matty spiraled out of control – first out of grief and pain, but later, in middle and high school, he became nearly unhinged as he found ways to deal with the realization he was left behind. benny tried his best to keep his nephew in check, but the boy was tough, skipping school, getting into street fights, and - on a few occasions - getting arrested. nothing seemed to stick to him, until eventually, even his uncle had enough, and gave him an ultimatum when he was a senior: clean up his act, work in the diner and make sure he graduated, or move out. matty knew he couldn’t be self-sufficient yet despite various illegal side hustles, and so reluctantly, he began bussing tables at the diner, doing just enough in school to get by, and keep himself to himself just enough to stay under the radar of the local boys in blue. it worked: he managed to graduate (barely), he was reliable (enough) at work, and with age, he seemed to find some stability. that was, of course, until november 3th, when his entire life was shaken once again. it was incomprehensible, the suddenness of his uncle’s heart attack, but the chaos that ensued over legalities and formalities only added fuel to the fire, though it wasn't until the end of the month that matty reached a breaking point, while he was cleaning out his uncle's house and found some of his mother's things – including a name he didn't recognize on the back of a picture he'd never seen before. it didn't take long for matty to put two and two together, and for the first time in his life, he could redirect his anger to a person he didn't also love. his father. even the word itself sounded dirty. he wasn't sure if it was anger or jealously that he felt when he googled his father's name and saw a successful man, but whatever it was, it sparked a fire for the first time in the young man's life, and before he knew it, he'd packed up his pickup truck and was on the road. without much of a plan and driven only by a desire to finally have a better life, he disappeared into the night and headed down to the city to try his hand at the less than savory world of the big apple. and for a man with few morals, the syndicate might just be the perfect starting place.
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