Skye O'Neil

**Skye O'Neil** is a side character who is the mother of Finn. She is a single mother who has spent a lot of time focused on providing for her son.

## Biographical Information

### Age

* 45 (Season 1)
* 46 (Season 2)

### Occupation

* Maid
* Overnight Warehouse Worker
* Overnight Deli Worker (former)
* Waitress/Caterer (former)
* Gardner (former)
* Overnight Grave Cleaner (former)
* Home Depot Clerk (former)
* Newspaper Deliverer (former)
* Elderly Helper (former)
* Dog Walker (former)
* Shoe shiner (former)

## Relationships

### Familial

* Finn O'Neil (son)
* Cecilia O'Neil (granddaughter)

## Biography

### Early life

Skye has always lived a life of struggle since she was a child. It was her parents were Scottish immigrants who moved here when she was a baby. The economy was far from doing well and her father had lost his job. Once she was born, they knew they had to find a different life so they got a cheap boat ticket towards North America. They traversed from the east coast and all the way out to the west coast where they ended up in California. Most of her life was spent struggling as her parents did their best to find work whereas only her father found food. It was a toss up of if they'd have food for the night or not based on how much her father had earned for the day.

That was her life for as long as she could remember; school had been a poor excuse for her as she managed to survive through it. Once she was old enough to work, she would leave school running so that she could go help earn her parents bring home more money. When she was sixteen was when she dropped out of school deciding that it would be better to be able to make more money early versus wasting time in school. It would help her parents out greatly who she had adored and wanted nothing more to help them out of the situation they had and let them take some time off. Working had been all she had known as she grew up spending most of her life doing that.

One night at a party was when she met a man who was visiting from Ireland. He was a tall man with a nice smile who gave Skye more attention then she had gotten. Curly wild hair where they hit it off where they ended up talking. She took him back to her messy apartment where they slept together. They had started dating casually to which he didn't do much at all. It was mostly her doing the work of trying to get things together to which she saved enough money up to move to a home. It was in the industrial section of the town where most of the warehouses were and a power plant that rested on the opposite side of the town of the Chase farm. The home was a small single story home that was only cheap because of it's location.

She did her best to make it their home and it wasn't long later where Reuben had proposed to her with. It was a tarnished silver ring that was far from anything fancy. Their wedding wasn't really a thing but instead them signing over papers. Skye had known from an early age that the fancy things in life weren't hers. It was four years after their wedding when she gave found out that she was pregnant. After four tests total to see if it would change, she went out to tell Reuben who hadn't been working. The announcement hadn't necessarily bring a bout of joy from him but he wasn't angry at her. Instead they simply had a mere understanding in which they knew they would become parents. She worked until being on her feet had hurt far too much. It was then that Reuben had gotten a job to help them get by while she could not work.

Once she gave birth, it was to a beautiful baby boy. By her husbands request, she named him Finn Rowan O'Neil and it was then that she understood why her parents wouldn't give her up despite the trouble that came with it. There was that same love as she looked down at this boy and knew she would do whatever she could to give him some kind of life. It wasn't long after his birth that she went back to work trying to earn money for their family. Around that time was when her husband had gotten fired from his job to find himself back on the couch. At least someone was home to watch their son while she worked to keep the lights on, a roof over their head, and food on the table. It wasn't long after she went back to work that her mother had passed away leaving only her father who lived in a small apartment up north. Now he was by himself, still working just as she was.

It got to the point where she had to pick up an over night job so that she could keep the bills paid. It was tiring work where she rarely even slept as she spent most of the time working and whatever she could with her son. Sometimes it even meant falling asleep with holding him close to her. When her son was 4 years old, only a few days before his 5th birthday, he told her that he was going to the store and would be back. Having been dozing off, she simply nodded before drifting to sleep. When she woke up one day to find him gone with no sign of him having come back or being there. A panic in her chest as she looked everywhere from him but there was no sign of him and only her sleeping son in the second bedroom of the small house. Sitting in the living room as she tried to gather herself.

He had left her and her brain had searched for why. They weren't a perfect couple; they argued a lot and didn't have that much money but she had worked hard for what they did. Worked hard so that he wouldn't have to as he often chose not to. This left her with no one to watch Finn while she was at work as well and if she couldn't work then she wouldn't be able to buy groceries. A train of thought that left her spiraling and sobbing in the small living room until the sound of footsteps came. Young Finn stood in the doorway rubbing sleep from his eyes, questioning why she was crying. She immediately wiped her eyes and swept her into her arms to tell him nothing had been wrong but it was just a little panic. Taking him for his bath as she stalled on what she would say while using the bubbles she only used for Friday nights.

It was decided that she couldn't tell him at that moment so instead she took him to work. Arriving with her son with her had earned a lot of weird looks. Keeping her head up as she left him with one of the older ladies to talk to her boss and explain the situation. He had agreed to letting her be with him for the day but it could not happen again. Managing being a home depot clerk had been difficult and she had no clue what she was going to do with the grave cleaning duty she had that night. All she could do was put him to sleep and lock the front door with hopes he wouldn't wake up nor would anyone break in. Once work was over, she had took him home to eat and do the usual routine before putting him to bed. Locking the door behind her as she said a silent pray before going to work.

On her break was when she searched all over for some sort of solution to her sleeping son. Kindergarten wouldn't start for a few months for him after this coming birthday so she needed a day time solution until then. It wasn't long until she found a day care that would take him on such short notice but she had to get the paper work in by the time she sent him in. The entry fee would take out a huge chunk of her money so she would probably have to pick up another job which exhausted her at merely the idea. From there she contacted some friends who most of them did not get back to her. There were a few who would house sit and baby sit overnight for a small fee which was better then some of her other options of overnight childcare facilities or professionals.

Over time though, those friends had turned away from her. Slowly she became a ghost to those who were supposed to be her closest friends. The mutual friends that Reuben and her had made were starting to turn away from this single mother without the father in the picture. When he started Kindergarten, all she had to pay for was after school care followed by giving in to the need for a night time nanny. Someone who could be there incase he needed something over night or some sort of emergency happened. A lot of her time went to working and sorting this out as she did her best to juggle everything that came from this. Due to missed days between the two, she was fired from her Home Depot job. Having a early morning gardening job wasn't enough so she applied for a restaurant that doubled in catering. This became her new life as she continued to work through it to the best of her ability. When he was nine years old was when she sat him down and explained what had happened with his father; that he had left and would not be returning. The topic that they had not touched in almost five years. He simply nodded and gave her a hug to which she then had to leave for work. It wasn't long after this that she found the divorce papers in her mail with a note stating it was up to her if she wanted to go through with it. She hid these papers at the bottom of her underwear drawer.

Floating through life as the only tether she had was her son and the funds that it took to raise him. It wasn't until he was entering middle school that he managed to convince her to stop hiring a night nanny. He promised to find an after school program to help him out and he had made friends who he could crash with if he really felt the need to. These arguments were what finally made her give in as she let go the night nanny. There wasn't time to rest though from work as she wanted Finn to be able to go to college if he chose to. She didn't want him to have to do what she had to but be able to find a job that would have her barely getting by nor did she want him to be stuck in loans for the rest of her life. So she continued to work and fund their lives as she lived off coffee. This was her life as she saw her son in passing but made points to show up to events that mattered like his wrestling matches.

Watching him graduate had been one of the proudest days and so was sending him off to college. She continued to work extremely hard as she hoped he would in college. If there was anything she could do, it would be to provide for her son to get through college. After that was done was when she would let herself rest or at least that was what she told herself.

### Season 1

When her son had returned, she was still working as hard as she could. Making sure that she was on time and doing her job as it was according. Spending time with him on the few off days she got despite them being mismatched and being exhausted. Summer free time was not for sleep but for her only son when he made the time for her. Sleep had always been welcomed though to her as the chance arose. After the truth had come out from everything that had happened, she was shocked and felt like a failure of a mother as she hadn't realized what her son had gone through. Instead she did her best to make up for it and get him to talk to her more even if it never did work.

### Season 2

Skye is still working herself to the bone as it's all she's ever known. She could not attend the Mason trial nor was she sure she wanted to. All that had mattered at the end of the day was that her son was safe and sound. He's graduated college but she still has one debt left to pay off for a loan she originally took out so she is doing her best to pay that off so he would not have to worry about it.