Mars Gaffney - 50, He/Him, Architect & Brotherhood Regional Manager of West Manhattan
FULL INTRO // TIMELINE
Under the Read More are different connection ideas based on Mars’s life. Feel free to message me or comment on the post if any of these strike your fancy and I can reach out to you to plot more. 💙
💬 Convince Me - Mars is a businessman, a designer, and you have the greatest idea for a potential project. But he really isn't interested, not seeing the merit. But you know if he just worked with you on this and understood, he'd get it. So maybe you've started trying to convince him. Wining and dining, or just shooting him texts and ideas. Is it a recreation center? A potential business? An old building about to be demolished that you think could be revitalized into something so much more rewarding for the community? Whatever it is, you MIGHT need some of Mars's money to help out, which he's even more reluctant to shell out for you.
🚶♂️ Accompany Me - There's a lot of firms in this particular high-rise building in Manhattan, and perhaps you work there as well, or drop off goods to someone else within the office building, or even have a friend's office nearby. You happened to be walking out at the same time as a somewhat intimidating architect who nearly walks into traffic- and you grab him and shout at him for not paying attention. What begins is an odd lunch arrangement. It started as you making sure this man doesn't step in front of a bus, but by now you two expect each other. He always looks tired but by now you both have your lunch plans together and you could probably call yourself friends, even if you barely know what his life is like beyond buildings and blueprints.
🥊 Fight Me - You already weren't having a great night when this drunk asshole started stumbling all over the place. Tempers flared and the two of you ended up in an all-out brawl out in the back alley. Eventually you both walked away from it with a few bruises - but come to find out this idiot you fought is some kind of big-name architect? You see him at a fancy party or on the news and you can't believe it. Especially when you bump into him again, when the beer goggles are off and the both of you are sober and definitely trying to forget about coming to blows.
🫂 Console Me - It's 2020, and you're on the subway home. There's a somewhat dour man sitting alone across the way. He seems completely engrossed in a newspaper when he gets a phone call. You're trying not to listen in, but he's clearly gotten some bad news. He ends the call and crumples into tears. You don't know what to do - so you go over to him, maybe a bit awkwardly, and hold him. You find out that his wife has just passed away after her battle with cancer, and you can't imagine how it feels. Seeing how distraught he is, how alone, you give him your phone number. You find out later that this man doesn't show that type of weakness often - and the broken facade you saw is few and far between. Regardless, you two have continued texting each other, and might've even become odd friends?
