Name of Creator: Niamh
Name of Character: Father Eamonn McNamara
Relation to Other Site Characters: Brother of Niamh McNamara
Brief Outline of Personality, History, and Appearance:

Appearance: Father Eamonn is dressed always in a priest's garb. He stands at about five foot eleven and weighs over a 150 pounds. His relationship to his more devious sister is seen plainly on his face with his pale skin, dark eyes and dark hair. No one can deny that Father Eamonn has a kind face and nor can they deny that sometimes, his eyes seem to flash every which direction as if looking for an exit out of the trap he seemed to volunteer himself into.

When around other men, he can be seen clutching the cross around his neck with an iron grip though his face remains calm. At age seventeen, he has a younger face and form than the other priests and so stands out clearly when next to them.

Personality: The one thing that Eamonn regrets in his life was joining the clergy. He did it so that it would be a tangible reminder for him not to act on his "hellish" (as the priest calls them in church) feelings but is slowly losing the battle. With the brunt of holy guilt upon his shoulders and the tempting morsels before him whenever he goes to court to speak to some of its members about Christ, Eamonn is slowly being ripped to pieces spiritually and mentally.

Another thing that makes him regret choosing the clergy over a court life was telling his sister Niamh. He loves her still and still considers her his best friend. However, he knows her grudges run deep and is still haunted by the look of shock and betrayal on her face when he told her he was joining the church. Niamh does not know his secret and he is sure, at this point in time, if she ever found out, she would let rumors run rampant, poisoning everything in its path. Fear keeps him away from her, who he longs to tell just as much as he is sure she is his downfall, and away from other men. Even members of the clergy he sometimes, on accident he points out, thinks about in a "hellish" way.

On the whole, Eamonn is severely twisted inside by the fact that he knows he is safe no where. Where can he go? If he gives in, he knows he will go to Hell and burn for eternity. If he doesn't it, he lives in a hell of his own making that he can never escape. Both ways are horrendous for him to think about and sometimes he lies awake sleepless at night unable to think about anything else besides the flames of hell or the flames of desire.

History: Eamonn is the second son of Sir Anrai and his wife, Maeve. A sign of his father's victory over producing girls, Anrai loved his second son like no other child. He devoted the next year to playing with his son and trying to get another one on Maeve so that he could really prove his virility to everyone around him.

When Niamh was born, though, life changed around the McNamara household. Maeve was ignored where before Anrai had doted on her and never let her go by without a kiss. The infant was sometimes left to cry by herself and Anrai might refuse to let anyone go to her. Worse yet was the way that Anrai sometimes looked at his last son playing on the floor, as if Eamonn had taken all his father's virility in making himself and left none for the rest of the sons that were supposed to follow.

With anger in his heart, Anrai left his home for three years, sending back money occasionally. As the toddler in the house and given the looks his father had been sending him, Eamonn was certain he had done something wrong and sometimes went over that last day with his father before he left, chewed up with guilt over his very existance.

When Eamonn was three, he was given his first pony, sent over from his father from some distant land. Eamonn was touched by the gift, but hated learning to ride it and what it meant. On a horse, he was awkward and uncomfortable. He continually felt like he was going to fall off even with his older brother trotting around him on his own pony. Desperate to do something else, as soon as he could tell his mother, he demanded to be taught other things instead.

So, distracted as his mother was with hiring an appropriate tutor for her sons, she barely realized that the pony was locked away and barely, if ever, taken out again.

When their father returned home, he seemed overjoyed to see Eamonn and his older son and even more so to see Maeve. He wouldn't admit it, but everyone could see that he was keen to see if he had regained his ability to sire sons upon his wife. Nine months later, Aoife was born and Anrai was kept in a perpetually morose, disappointed mood. He also started sleeping in his own separate bedroom and never visited Maeve's again.

Eamonn was soon to welcome his sister into the tutoring session with them. His sister was fast, focused, and absolutely nervewracking to boys who had been taught that women were a weaker and dumber sex. Niamh proved them wrong and continued to prove them wrong throughout the years. Eamonn gravitated towards this different species of woman and, in fact, grew to become Niamh's confidant and best friend.

Everything was perfect until the day he touched a stableboy's hand at the age of thirteen and suddenly felt the urge to kiss him. As soon as he realized the depth of his desire for, well, a MAN, Eamonn left the stable (he was going to ride again with Niamh, despite how awful he was at it) and never went back. When he turned fifteen, he decided to join the clergy.

Niamh was furious, hurt, and felt betrayed. He could see it all on her face and it killed him inside. However, the years at the church did him some good. Being surrounded by pious men all day made him forget his desire for them for a while. But it has come raging back all too recently...