Robert Macken

## Appearance

Robert has light blond hair and icy blue eyes. He has cowlicks, but he makes a great deal of effort to control them. He has a very lean figure, but he has very well-developed biceps due to his job as a butcher. He has several scars on his hands that are faded and not very noticeable. When his wife was alive, it was said that Robert had lively eyes. However, his eyes grew dull after the death of his wife, just like his son Jim's eyes after his younger brother died.

## Personality

Robert was very romantic man that always tended to his wife and children. Even as a small child, he was incredibly sensitive to changes around him, and he has always been passionate about certain things, such as butchering and hunting. As a father, he was very generous, but he was very fond and protective of Luka after the death of his wife. Despite the fact that he never possessed a lot of money, he still bought toys for his sons at every possible opportunity. He greatly enjoyed hunting, and he would oftentimes bring home the dead animals to use every part of them. Due to witnessing his mother's infidelity, he has a hard time with trusting others.

## History

Robert was born on April 12, 1849, to two lower-class people in Manchester. While his father was a hunter, her mother stayed at home to tend to Robert. Robert remembered his mother as being cruel since she would always jump at the opportunity to physically punish her son. Since his father was not always home, it was not known that Robert was harshly treated by her. At some point in his early years, Robert's mother began to have an extramarital affair with her brother-in-law.

When he was twelve, his father discovered the affair and swiftly moved their family to a small town in Liverpool in order to distance his wife away from his brother. It took a few months for Robert to get used to the new town, and he quickly grew close to ten-year-old Alice Beddow. Three years after meeting her, he began to court her. They finally eloped when he was seventeen and she was fifteen, and they moved to another small town in Liverpool.

At this town, Robert could not hold a job for very long, which was not something that they had anticipated. As Robert finds new jobs, Alice grew crops, selling them and keeping them to use in their food. Despite their initial beliefs, the townspeople were not open to having new townsfolk, and Robert was not able to find much work even after a few years of living in the town.

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Alice had given birth to their son, Jim Macken. Robert was especially happy to have a son, and he tried his very best to be a good father to his son. However, he did find it hard to connect with Jim at certain points due to his son being much more attached to Alice. At some point, he decided to take a young Jim out to hunt, but the young boy was incredibly disturbed by it. Due to this, Robert decided to not take his future son out to hunt either. Nonetheless, he still goes out of his way to find ways to bond with Jim.

Four years after giving birth to Jim, Alice had given birth to their second son: Luka Macken. Due to Luka being premature, Alice tended to his every need. Robert was also significantly much gentler to this child due to him being a lot smaller than Jim.

Three years after this, Alice gave birth to a girl named Sarah. This particular pregnancy was incredibly hard on Alice's body, and she ended up giving birth six months into her pregnancy. During this pregnancy, Robert turned to herbal remedies to keep Alice strong since none of the village doctors would assist them. However, none of these methods worked since Alice passed away three hours after giving birth. Robert buried her body in the garden that she had carefully tended to. Robert turned his attention on keeping Sarah alive, but the infant died two days after her birth.

Robert, depressed from the deaths of his wife and daughter, ended up losing his current job as a butcher. Despite this, he still tried his very best to be a present father for his remaining children. Due to Luka having a closer resemblance to Alice, Robert was much more attentive to the boy. However, his depression worsened over the two years.

One day, Robert gathered up enough money to buy a toy boat that would entertain his sons. Once he had ensured that the boys had gone outside to play with the boat, he took some rope and headed to the back of the house. He committed suicide by hanging, and his body was eventually found by Jim. His body was buried beside his wife's and daughter's by Jim.