[ RANDALL BRIAR JR., HE/HIM, CIS MAN, GEORGE MACKAY ] is a TWENTY-EIGHT year old MORTICIAN from PROSPER, WV. They are INTELLIGENT and THROUGH but also COLD and STUBBORN.
basics.
full name: Randall Briar Junior
nickname(s): Junior, though he is trying his very best to retire that nickname. Randy is preferred.
birthday: 28th December 1969
age: 28
hometown: Prosper, WV
birthplace: Prosper, WV
religion: Baptist
family.
mother: Frances Briar
father: Randall Briar Senior
aunt(s): open
uncle(s): open
sibling(s): Darby Briar
cousin(s): open
pet(s): none
wife and child: Mary Elizabeth Briar and Matthew Francis Briar (NPCs)
appearance & style.
Randall is six foot tall but can often seem taller than that due to his lean build. An almost Lurch-like sort of figure, is how I would describe it. Long hours in rooms with very limited sunlight has left his skin dull, and pale but he tries to remedy that by reading books on his front porch or picking a particularly sunny spot in the library. Due to his line of work he likes to keep himself looking relatively presentable any time he leaves home. His wardrobe a carefully curated collection of respectable greys, browns, and dull blues. Saving true black attire for where it is required of him such as at work or any other type of mourning. A dressed down version of Randall Briar Jr is blue jeans, grey shirt, and corduroy jacket, but hair always combed and fingernails always clean.
family.
Randy’s family means everything to him. It always has, but even more so now that he is a husband and father himself. As the oldest son he has always understood the Briar's position and reputation in the community. Frances and Randall Snr owning the local pharmacy, the whole family being dedicated members of the local church. And to the best of his ability, Randy has tried to uphold that. In his own unique way, of course.
Parents: Despite their shared name, or perhaps sometimes because of their shared name: Randalls Senior and Junior have not always seen eye to eye. For the first twenty years of his life he was a weird, gangly, awkward, loser with the confidence of a baby deer on a highway. Not exactly ideal oldest son material. But, Randy always had his mother in his corner. Always defending his gifts for science and memorisation where he lacked in athleticism and charisma. He and his mother were and remain to be extremely close, he is a complete and utter mama’s boy ..... hence his son’s middle name. If anyone would like the make an Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho joke ....... he deserves it.
Darby: Darby is his little sister and he cares for her, of course. He would protect her against anything and help her with whatever she might ask him for. That does not mean he doesn’t sometimes find her completely infuriating. In the same way that Darby probably finds him infuriating. They are siblings after all and currently in closer quarters than they would probably prefer with Darby currently living in the small granny flat behind his family home.
Mary & Matthew: Randy thought he had a fairly respectable knowledge and understanding of love before he met Mary but he was dead wrong. He didn’t understand it, nor all it’s multitudes. And he understood it even less when they had Matthew. The two are his entire world and he would do absolutely anything for them just to keep them happy, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do to keep them safe. He and Mary met when he was studying in Richmond, VA and were married less than two years later. Another couple years and they had Matthew, the start of their little family. Because they are NPCs I will take this opportunity to talk a little about them: Mary is not from Lockhorn and has struggled to make many friends in the time she’s been here. She’s kind, and sweet, but she’s shy and worse than that, she’s an outsider. In an attempt to battle that she’s taken on a small position at the Briar Pharmacy on days where Randy is home to care for Matthew. Matthew is a two year old ray of sunshine. He loves to laugh, he loves to point at strangers and smile, and he loves trucks.
friends.
This may be shocking, prepare yourself, but the local mortician doesn’t have a whole lot of friends. And that has always been the case. Randy Jr has been a little odd and a little off putting long before he got his job at the funeral home, shit even before he got his high school summer job of helping the graveyard keeper. He has a great fascination with history, particularly ancient history and used to collect bird bones (still has this collection but knows better than to continue it now <3). To put it simply, he’s a little freak (affectionate) and everyone has always known that.
Leaving this mostly empty bc would obv like to plot stuff but two things i should probably mention here: spends a lot of time at the library, growing up and now. and best buddies with Taru since childhood, so if you have been around Taru, you’ve probably at least seen Randy around
living situation.
Randy lives a relatively comfortable life, especially by Lockhorn County standards. He lives in a modest three bedroom home with his wife and son in Prosper, a block away from his family home. His sister Darby also lives on the property but in a small self contained unit behind the main structure. Having a family and a nice family home have always been goals of his, starting his savings the moment he got his first job and being able to achieve this at a relatively young age after he and Mary were engaged to be wed. The home is warm, inviting, and always well kept thanks to Mary. The two of them have a love for books and reading and learning so their home does have more than one bookcase, Randy’s parents often joking that soon enough the two of them could rival Lockhorn’s own library.
work.
Randy is a mortician and works with the local funeral home. It’s not really a job that you can go around saying that you love, but Randy does truly appreciate his work. Without making this section obscenely long for no reason, he believes a person’s death is just as meaningful as their birth. More so, in some cases. That people need and deserve to be treated with respect even after death. Along with hopefully making things easier for his community by not having to go to a stranger for help in a time of grieving, they just have to go to him.
Of course, it is a weird thing. Because of his line of work he is a sort of grim reaper figure. It’s hard not to associate him with death, loss, grieving. He doesn’t expect anyone to understand why he does it, why he chose this career– but it doesn’t bother him. He has always been misunderstood and it is not something that has to be understood for him to be good at and proud of his work.
school.
Apart from sometimes getting into trouble with Taru, and sometimes getting caught in between bullies (less common after befriending Taru), Randy Jr was very, very good in school. He loves learning just to learn. As mentioned history is fascinating to him, and it certainly comes before the rest but he also loved science, math, literature, just about anything Hunting Hills High could offer him. He was a grade A nerd.
He graduated valedictorian of his class, not that it means a whole lot, and after a brief gap in studies (a year) to save some more money he went to study in Richmond, Virginia. He studied his associate degree in Mortuary Science, and while he was at college, he met his future wife. She worked in a local bookstore and of course that just had Randy head over heels immediately.
Long graduated, Randy still finds himself wanting to learn more. His house is full of books but he can still often be found at the library, either by himself or with his son.
aspirations.
To have a happy, loving family. A family he can provide for and that wants for nothing. Of course that’s his aspiration. It’s all he wants really. And it’s challenging, and frustrating at times to be aiming for a dream or a fantasy. But that doesn’t stop him much.
rivalry.
Surface level, he doesn’t care for it. He works for the Lockhorn community as a whole, not just either Prosper or Hazzard he believes he does not value one over the other. However, it’s not like you would find him and his wife and child spending a day in Hazzard.
miscellaneous.
i did not do a whole chart for randy but he is a capricorn sun ........ do with that what u will. also his pinterest board ok bye <3
