James O'Connel

> *"If you're good, then you're good."*
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> - James' quote in his promo card
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Art by Kristen Trawczynski

## Appearance

James is a tall young man, standing at 5'10" (177 cm), who wears a jacket on top of a collared shirt. He has stubble on his face. His hair is slicked back.

## History

### Early Life

Not much is known of James' life before the war.

### The Great War

In 1917, James enlisted in WW1. He fought in the war and survived. He is still haunted by the memories of the gunfire, bodies, and explosions.

### Path of Perdition

#### Part 1

When James was initially introduced, he was told about a bounty for a man named Vito Castiglione. He found out Vito was boarding California Limited later that day, so he bought a ticket to arrest him and claim the bounty.

He got involved in Vito's murder case along with the rest of the disaster gang and helped them chase Peter before he was able to jump off the train.

#### Part 2

He was separated from the group during the time they lost their memories. He arrived in Madrid in a haze, a few hours before the rest of the group. They met up again in a hospital. They realized James realized had collected Vito's bounty and that Jackson was missing.

The disaster gang was later arrested for what the police claimed was a shootout. They were released when the sheriff realized they had no memories of the past week.

James and Kit were shown a body shot in the shootout that decomposed significantly faster than the rest.

They went on to investigate the church that the shootout started in. After, they went back to the police station and found one of the officers. The decomposed body was revealed to be a crawling one and attacked Mason.

Upon seeing the crawling one, James got temporary insanity and fainted.

After Kit had killed the crawling one and James woke up, a hotel receptionist they had met earlier appeared and told the group about her father and how he saw Sunil in one of his dreams. They agreed to go with her to meet her father.

Her father performed a ritual which made them fall asleep and dream. While James was asleep, he relived his time in the great war.

When they woke up, they regained their memories. They remembered where Jackson was taken and drove up to Kansas in an attempt to save him, although Jackson ended up saving them.

Before they parted ways, James helped Mason leave Aphrodite' Apostles alongside Sybil and Kit.

### Four year skip (1921-1925)

During the four year skip, he and Sybil went on adventures, switching between ghost-hunting and bounty hunting.

#### Dating Sybil

Sometime during the four year skip, James and Sybil started dating.

#### Marriage to Sybil

James and Sybil got married in 1924 in Germany.

According to Split, James' mother hates Sybil because she refused to take his last name and have kids. James' father is fairly supportive of their marriage.

### Masks of Nyarlathotep

#### New York

James and Sybil were sent a telegram from Jackson, telling them he has information on something called the Carlyle Expedition. He also told them to gather the investigators and meet him in New York.

They called the rest of the investigators and told them about the situation. They also offered to pay for hotel rooms at the Plaza.

The day after everyone arrived in New York, James received a phone call from Jackson, who was clearly scared by something. They were told to meet him in his hotel room, since he had information for them.

When they arrived to the hotel Jackson was staying at, the Hotel Chelsea, Jackson didn't respond to the investigators repeatedly knocking on his door. James and Kit were prepared to kick Jackson's door down when he didn't answer, however, Sunil and Sybil stopped them. Instead, they got someone to open the door for them, and they found Jackson's corpse in the room and his murderers fleeing through a nearby alleyway. James and Mason tried to stop them, but were not fast enough.

He looked into Jackson's murder case as well as the other murders similar to it. He went down into Ju-Ju House's basement with Mason and Sybil and was the one who told the group who Jackson's murderers were.

He accompanied the NYPD in the Ju-Ju House police raid, where Mukunga cast Mindblast on him, causing him to go insane for ten rounds.

After the raid, he wandered off and, in a bout of madness, punched a window and hurt himself. He was later comforted by Sybil.

#### Post-New York

James was still troubled by the Mindblast and argued with Sybil, straining their relationship.

## Trivia

* James was a World War I veteran.
	+ Since he was a World War I veteran, he is immune to sanity damage from seeing corpses.
	+ He is currently a bounty hunter.
* James enlisted in the war.
* Although it is not shown in the art, James has red hair and blue eyes.
* James was the first and only character to have temporary insanity.
	+ James has gotten temporary insanity twice.
		- He first got temporary insanity when he saw a crawling one in *Path of Perdition*. He got it again after Mukunga cast mindblast on him in *Masks of Nyarlathotep*.
* James was raised Catholic.
* James currently has the lowest sanity score out of everyone in the 1920s Disaster Gang.
* It was implied that James is allergic to pollen/flowers.
* James was designed by Neutnoise (Nenoi).