Eric O'Malley

### Relatives

Fergus O'Malley (paternal grandfather, deceased)Patrick O'Malley (father, deceased)

Maggy Maguire-O'Malley (mother, deceased)

## Physical description

### Height

6'3

Eric O'Malley, better known as Lugh, was an Irish terrorist and freedom fighter, infamous for being the leader of Irish Republican Army throughout the latter portion of the conflict known as the Troubles. Lugh was known for having organized numerous murders and atrocities throughout the Troubles, one of which was the assassination of Princess Diana. For years, he was utterly untouchable by British authorities, as were many of his inner circle, thanks to his metahuman ability to see the future. Unfortunately for Lugh, his powers eventually failed him, and he was brutally assassinated by an agent of the British government. While most of Lugh's followers scattered to the winds after his death, he is still a revered figure in the minds of many Irish who remember what he stood for.

## Biography

### Early Life

Eric O'Malley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1952. His father was a Catholic dock worker, his mother Protestant, disowned by her family after getting seduced by Patrick O'Malley's charm and beautiful singing voice. The first few years of Eric's life were tough, being raised Catholic in the Protestant-majority capitol of Northern Ireland. He frequently got into scraps at school, never being offered any aid by his teachers.

Still, he had a pair of loving parents, and his mother would often let him stay up late so that when his father came home from the pub, he could sit on his knee beside the fire, and be regaled with tales of the mythical Tuatha De Dannan before bed.

All that ended when Eric was seven. His father and his friends got into a fight at the pub against a group of Protestants, during which Patrick was struck across the back of the head with a chair and stabbed with a broken bottle. After his death, Eric's mother, bereft of any other means to support her son, turned to prostitution to earn a living. This persisted for a few short months, until she was arrested and jailed, and Eric was sent by the government to Lisburn to live with his grandfather, Fergus O'Malley.

Fergus worked on the killing floor of a butchery, and was a veteran of the Irish War of Independence, and would frequently regale Eric with drunken tales of the fighting back then, and complaining how "the motherless bastard English" had shot him in the leg, leaving him with a limp that had never quite healed. Fergus was a sterner authority figure than Eric's parents, prone to "givin' the lad a whoopin'" whenever he got out of line. This ended when Eric was thirteen, and managed to block one of his grandfather's blows. After that, Fergus never struck him again, complaining that it would hurt his hand to much to do so.

### Joining the IRA

When Eric was fourteen, he began hanging out with members of the local IRA cell. The charming youth quickly found a place among them, and he was taught to sing a variety of rebel songs, his favorite of which was "Come Out Ye Black and Tans", which referenced the war his grandfather had fought in.

Almost a year after his introduction to the IRA, Eric attracted the attention of some members from the recently formed Ulster Volunteer Force, who followed him home one night after they heard him singing "Come Out Ye Black and Tans". Upon reaching the house, Eric informed Fergus that there were men following him, and was ordered to retreat upstairs while Fergus took care of the matter. His grandfather, of course, wasn't taking anything from a bunch of Protestants, and when they appeared at his doorway, he called for the group to get off his property and "crawl back up yer English whore mother's wombs", lest he get his hammer and bash their faces in. Eric watched the exchange from the top of the stairs, and could do nothing as Fergus was gunned down in his own doorway.

Eric managed to evade his pursuers by climbing down from the upstairs window, and rushing back to the IRA hangout, where he tearfully told the patrons what had happened. Duncan McNair, the leader of the group, took Eric out the next day to find the murderers, which Eric helped identify, allowing him and a squad of IRA gunmen to fill them full of holes. And with that, Eric O'Malley was fully inducted into the Irish Republican Army, and committed his first murder.