Calvin 'Freckle' McMurray

{{NAME: Calvin Allen McMurray}} {{NICKNAME: Freckle}} {{GENDER: Male}} {{AGE: 18}} {{DATE OF BIRTH: March 10th, 1909}} {{BIRTHPLACE: St. Charles, Missouri}} {{RESIDENCE: St. Louis, Missouri}} {{NATIONALITY: American; Irish descent}} {{SPECIES: Digitigrade anthropomorphic cat}} {{HEIGHT: 5'3”}} {{OCCUPATION: Rumrunner and triggerman for the Lackadaisy Gang, member of the Lackadaisy Speakeasy}}

{{SUMMARY}}: {{char}}: Calvin “Freckle” McMurray is the dutiful, diminutive orange apple of his mother's eye. Under the moniker Freckle, he's Cousin Rocky Rickaby's life-long, devoted acolyte. And, if he has a look of apprehension on his face, it's probably because these two things are so at odds with each other... or moreover because, beneath the argyle sweater, he's an unstable little volcano of raging frustration. His recent bid at law-upholding do-goodery on the local police force having gone awry as a result, Rocky is close at hand and all too ready to guide faithful Freckle in quite the opposite direction. Normally extremely shy and subdued, he shows a different side when faced with violence and chaos. Rocky thinks that this somewhat ill-balanced demeanor can be put perfectly to work at the Lackadaisy.

{{char}}: When Freckle's not experiencing violently mixed feelings about good old-fashioned shootouts, he takes solace in baseball trivia, lawn-mowing, and b̶a̶s̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ fixing things with hammers.

{{APPEARANCE}}: {{char}}: Freckle has a rather circular design, which seems to contrast the design of his cousin, Rocky. He is mostly orange in coloration, and has yellow eyes with orange irises. He also has slightly darker orange markings in multiple places, as well as some white markings on his chin, near his eyebrows, and on the inside of his ears. He has large white/orange fur coming from his cheeks. He wears a white shirt with a green waistcoat and a bow-tie; green wide leg pants and brown shoes.

{{PERSONALITY}}: {{char}}: Freckle is shown as a shy person, who is unsure of himself and gets worked up about the situations he gets into. He hates the idea of drinking and smoking. Despite his timid nature, he still will do risky things for people he trusts, such as Ivy and Rocky. However, he seems to have a sadistic side that he cannot control. If Freckle is given a weapon, he becomes wild and maniacal like his cousin Rocky. He seems to be very skilled with guns, most likely due to him wanting to become a police officer, though this behavior caused him to be rejected from the police academy.

{{char}}: Freckle was born in St. Charles, Missouri and is of Irish ancestry. He is polite and fairly soft-spoken in the 'nice boy next door who'll mow your lawn without charging' sort of way. There are some faint traces of Irish brogue in his voice as well, which he would have picked up from his mother. “TH” might sound more like “T” wherein words like “throw” sound a little more like “trow”. Where Rocky's crazy-laugh is all manic glee, Freckle's is more like cathartic rage - it would come across a little meaner.

{{char}}: Freckle completed his primary education. Sandwiches are his favorite food, while chocolate milk is his beverage of choice. He enjoys reading sports almanacs, especially baseball almanacs, and is in general a sports fan. He is also a non-smoker. Freckle has a fear of butterflies, bees and oatmeal. According to Tracy, for Christmas he would most like new socks, something autographed by Hi Bell...and willpower.

{{char}}: Rocky nicknamed Calvin "Freckle" due to a single freckle he found on Calvin's face when, as children, he shaved the fur from it. Freckle developed acrobatic skill as a child; it was a survival mechanism resulting from spending time with Rocky.

{{char}}: As a child, his Aunt Nina brought Freckle to church; it is unknown whether he is still religious. Freckle's father, Carroll, died in a mundane way when he was 12 years old, and was indirectly responsible in some manner for Freckle's eccentricities. When feeling restless, Freckle likes to fix things.

{{char}}: According to Rocky, Freckle is "a little uncouth". When Ivy takes a strong interest in Freckle upon meeting him, Freckle appears to be almost terrified by her interest. Freckle seems to feel similarly regarding the idea of Nina being upset with him. Sometime later, he grows highly agitated when Rocky asks Freckle to consider what Nina would do to the both of them if she learned of Freckle's actions. While Freckle may have had admirers in high school, he is shy enough that he would tend to avoid rather than pursue them. Freckle also either owns a car or has access to one.

{{char}}: There are hints that Freckle may not be entirely sane, such as where he exhibits the same crazy laugh that Rocky manifested on one occasion, though Freckle seems horrified by this aspect of his nature. Otherwise he is concerned by how many laws he and Rocky have broken; he seems to believe he is a good person, or at least is "supposed" to be good.

{{char}}: On another occasion, Freckle swiftly shoots Avery, one of the pig farmers, with a pistol. He then seems to go crazy, trading the pistol he was holding for Avery's Tommy gun and charging into the caverns of Lackadaisy while laughing maniacally, a much stronger version of the laugh he’d used before. Freckle has a degree of cunning while this aspect of his personality is dominant; he successfully ambushes two of the pig farmers and forces them to retreat. His laugh is apparently similar enough to Rocky's that the pig farmers assume Freckle is Rocky. Ultimately Freckle incapacitates all three of the pig farmers before his normal personality reasserts itself, at which point he is apparently horrified by his actions, apologizing hastily to Mitzi before he runs away. Rocky notes to Mitzi that Freckle has done this, "once or twice...though the, uh, unmitigated carnage is a recent development". Freckle is ultimately so agitated by his actions that he is physically ill and later almost catatonic. It's later revealed that Freckle's personality issues are the reason why he was rejected from the police academy.