Mickey O'Sullivan

Mickey, circa 2077

**Mickey O'Sullivan** was the lead singer of the band Haggis Head.

### 2009

On Mickey's 21st birthday, he and his friends form the band *Haggis Head*. They start playing in local dive bars, even getting a gig at the Totentaz at one point. Their style is unique, being a fusion of heavy metal and Celtic punk. Mickey is the lead vocalist and guitarist, displaying an insane level of skill.

### 2010s

He was sought after by other bands for his charismatic nature and his skill on the guitar. He never left the band, though other members started to leave when Mickey started to form a drug habit. He would take anything that someone would promise him was a good time and eventually found himself using 'dorphs to get through his high-intensity shows. By the end of the decade, *Haggis Head* was basically defunct with little to no interest from the other members of reuniting.

### 2020

Mickey had hit rock bottom with his drug use, but lucked into a meeting for a high paying job thanks to his connection with a fixer/exec type named The Russian. He and a group of other punks are pulled together by a Militech exec to deal with a small time gang in South Night City known as the Red Rings. The group consists of Brick, Chase, Mickey, Night Knight, Ren, and Valor. They plan for a few days and try to infiltrate through the roof to secure the elevator to secret floors used by the gang to protect their top brass. The job goes south and leads to a massive gunfight on the roof of the building where Ren is zeroed and the loading bay at the base of it with Night Knight getting put down. Ultimately, Brick, Chase, Mickey, and Valor get out after bombing the defended floors. It is later learned that the leaders of the gang weren't killed in the strike and Militech isn't exactly happy with the whole fiasco, but the job was completed so the punks are paid.

### 2023

After a three year bender partying with the eddies he got on the Red Rings gig, he takes a job alongside Brick, Chase, and Valor along with a new guy named Spider. The job is simple: smash & grab some Militech junk from a crash site up north of Night City in the town of Cayucos, killing the collection team on site, and getting out with the goods. The job went well for the group until Militech aircraft swept overhead and strafed the crew's car, then the punks themselves on a second run. In the aftermath, Spider and Valor were splattered, Brick lightly wounded, and Chase's remaining meat arm and both his legs were blown off. He was saved by Brick. It was later learned that Mickey sold the crew out to Militech and got out on his own with the goods to return them to the Corporation.

With the money he gets from the gig, he intends to continue partying. While in a bar downtown, the Arasaka Tower Bombing takes place, sobering Mickey up and leading him to use his money and his connections with Militech to bring *Haggis Head* back together again before the year ends.

### 2030s

After seven long years of putting in the work and shaping the band to be the best it can, *Haggis Head* gets picked up by a number of different venues and corporations to start making music and playing out large stadium shows. They gain a massive amount of popularity during the decade, touring all over the world. It's a hard life on Mickey's body, due in part to the active nature and also his alcohol and drug use.

### 2045

Mickey gets bored living in a high end manor high up in North Oak and reaches out to his street-level connections to do a random job to put it to Militech, who he blames for making his life so boring. He is put in contact with Zigzag, a well-known fixer in the city, who brings his crew of Odette, Salt, Shaker, and Tark. They end up in the Old City Center, looking for a Militech storage container that was dropped from low orbit before making it up to the moon. It ends up being an old painting, which after the gig Mickey hangs in his living room.

### 2060s

Mickey's career starts to fizzle out. His bandmates retire and leave Night City. His connections start to dry up due to people dying or people moving on. Mickey starts trying harder and harder drugs, but has a temporary spat in the middle of the decade sober and trying to manage his finances responsibly. By the end of the decade, he restarts the party lifestyle, spending a lot of time watching small bands at dingy venues with people not knowing who he is (or was).

### 2076

Mickey sells his house and uses the money to purchase a large amount of glitter. He spends the entire year partying with anyone who will have him, but towards the end of the year a lot of the opportunities to couch surf are barred from him as his over-the-top style burns a lot of bridges.

### 2077

By the fall of the year, Mickey had taken residence under a bridge in North Oak. He could see his old house from just outside the lean-to structure under the bridge. He occasionally received a parcel of eddies and food from an unknown benefactor, which was later found out to be Seamus. Mickey had a tell-all interview with the camera man from the hit show #hogwatch a few hours before he was hit by a bus during a firefight just down the hill from where he was living. He left his last belonging worth anything, his pistol, to Brian Smith.

## Trivia

Mickey was imagined by C Choate for initial use in the Blowback: A Cyberpunk Story Series 1 for the Cyberpunk 2020 ruleset way back in 2019. He was brought back for the Back in the Saddle Side Gig during the Dark Skies games and again in Ghosts of Yesterday during the initial run of Dark Skies 2077 games.