(Character) Sundance

Sundance's Current Appearance

Giles Wesley Jr. (Elder Brother)

Donald Harris (Step-son)

Ian Harris (Step-son)

Sundance is an OC of the animated web series Helluva Boss.

Sundance is a OC of the Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss universe. In particular, he interacts only with characters in Helluva Boss.

A big thank you is in order for the fine folks at the Hazbin Hotel Wiki:

In particular, the following get a big ol' <3 from big ol' Jules.

* Lazy Skeptic - If it weren't for you, I'd still be trolling the server. To be honest, the place didn't really mesmerize me, until we started talking. It's so odd to find somebody so alike to me who contrasts me on so many things. My good sir, thank you.
* Veggie - My nephew, if Skeptic is the brains of the operation, you are the heart. Everytime people are feeling down, or the server is dying, you pump blood into it. Thank you, my nephew.
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* CollinTheSheep - You play the part well. Kudos, and a thank you for the perfomance.
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## Appearance

Sundance is a 150 year-old Deer Demon, blue in skin colour and black of hair, which is receding. He wears a thick beard and waxed moustache. Clothing is often, if not always, red and black coloured businesswear, excepting his pajamas and finewear. He needs glasses, and his are round-shaped and thin-framed. He has large, pointed ears. Long, crooked teeth befoul his thin-lipped mouth, which he does not care to open out of turn. He is thinly masculine in build.

## History

### **Life**

Cian Delaney, born Sean Wesley, better known by the pseudonym "Sundance" was an American outlaw and weapons dealer.

Born near **Sante Fe** in New Mexico Territory in 1859 to **Giles** and **Martha Wesley** and christened **Sean Wesley** at birth, Sean was already a sibling to a brother and two sisters, and later would have a total of nine siblings, but only three others survived childhood. Cian had a relatively normal childhood, cherished by his brother **Giles Jr.** He was raised **Catholic**, and went to church as often as he could in his youth.

The **American Civil War** affected his life minimally, other than his Giles teaching him how to shoot at an earlier age than he would have liked. When he was 14 he was run off a nearby ranch after supposedly trying to steal a pony, but he claimed he was only trying to 'look at it'. This angered his father, who punished him severely. At age 18 he stole that very same horse, his father's repeater rifle and two boxes of ammo, riding south into Lincoln County after hearing of the murder of **John Tunstall**. He silently observed both sides of the ensuing **Lincoln County War** for a year until Henry McCarty (A.K.A. **Billy the Kid**) took notice of a figure creeping outside his hideout and shot at Sean, striking him in the arm. He rode to a different town, got the wound treated, and wielded the scar as a badge of honour for the rest of his life.

Sean fled the Lincoln County War, meeting two men in Indian Territory named **Atsa** and **Derrick "Butcher" O'Kelly**. The three hit it off and formed an outlaw gang. They mainly robbed carriages and lone wanderers, but would sometimes take up more ambitious jobs, such as taking a deputy named **Bass Reeves** hostage. Turned out that would be their greatest mistake, Reeves organized detectives to hunt them down for the rest of their lives. Atsa and Derrick influenced Sean a great deal, Atsa teaching Sean about the Navajo religion, Atsa being a Navajo himself, which caused Sundance to blend Catholic and Navajo religious customs, resulting in the press giving him his epithet, despite the fact that the Navajo don't perform sundances. Meanwhile Derrick taught Sean about Sean's Irish heraldry, which pushed him to rename himself **Cian Delaney**.

In 1884, at age 23, Cian attempted with the group their most ambitious heist yet, attempting to steal forty troy pounds worth of gold bars from Fort Reno, in the wake of it being understaffed by 30% during Geronimo's War. The heist was a **disaster**, Atsa was maimed, and mercy killed by Derrick. The remaining outlaws made it out, but with only twenty troy pounds. A lot of money, but not all the money in the world was worth Atsa. The two stuck together, and it was during this time that Cian fell into a deep depression, visited a doctor and was prescribed **cocaine**, which he would use for the rest of his life... **and beyond**.

Now-state marshal Bass Reeves had tracked the two to a farmhouse in Arkansas, assembling 18 deputies and bounty hunters to capture or kill the two. Luckily for Cian, one bounty hunter had decided to ride out to the farm and try to capture them himself. He was captured by Derrick and **tortured** by the duo until he leaked the ambush. Derrick and Cian had come to the conclusion that they could no longer run together, after 5 years of being criminals together, split the gold and **parted ways**.

Cian ran to the State of Missouri, hiding his gold in the forest. He attempted to survive in the forest for a month before his horse collapsed and died while he was riding along a roadside. He cried for hours at the side of the road for his last friend. He was approached by a woman named **Leslie Anne Harris**, a widow with two sons named **Donald** and **Ian**. She offered him a place to stay in her home on the outskirts of an unnamed town, on the condition that he destroy his rifle. He complied. When they had to go into town, he acted as her new, western husband. Leslie and her sons found Cian's false **romance** hilarious. Cian was a good father figure to Donald and Ian, warding them away from his lifestyle. He enjoyed his life there and considers it the best time of his life. Cian and Leslie eventually got married in a ceremony, partly to sell their story, and mostly because **they loved each other**.

Cian's life had brought **damnation** on Leslie and her home when Bass Reeves' deputies appeared in 1894, choosing to burn their house down with them inside. Six men surrounded the home and lit it ablaze. Ian suffocated before having a chance to escape. He was **16 years old**. Leslie and Donald were outside the only escapable window when it collapsed with Cian still trapped. He yelled for them to **run**, and they did. He never saw either of them again. He hid in the cellar, finding a large revolver that belonged to Leslie's departed husband. He looked inside. **Six bullets**. **Six men**.

**Zero bullets**. **Six corpses**.

Cian went into the woods and retrieved his gold. He was 34 years old now, no longer the **young man out of Sante Fe**. Nevertheless, he collected guns and made a **battle cry**. He tracked Derrick down to a grave in Arkansas. His friend, shot by Bass Reeves two years earlier. He had decided that he no longer wished to live, bought an elephant rifle, reburied his gold somewhere and staked out a town named Woodward in **Indian Territory**, surely Reeves would show. He waited for an entire year before Reeves arrived. Cian picked up his gun and went to the rooftop of his hostel room. He saw his foe in the distance, but didn't wish to shoot yet. If he messed up, Reeves would not only live, but also shoot him. Finally, when he felt confident enough to take a chance, **he pulled the trigger**.

**He missed**. He cursed the name of **God** and threw the gun from the rooftop, stomping his way into the ceiling of the hotel. Consumed by ravenous hatred, he cried out curse upon curse to humanity. He was arrested by Reeves, who sent him before a judge. He could only be convicted of kidnapping Reeves and the attempted murder, and was sent to Clinton Federal Correctional Facility in New York, where he would spend **25 years**. Behind bars for the first time in his criminal career, he had a lot of time to think about everything he had done. He was a figure of legend for the other prisoners, being approached by a man named Garland Rover. Him and Rover weren’t cellmates, but they knew each other from a work program in a smithy, Cian spent all of his time there **gunsmithing**.

In 1899, **on Christmas Eve**, Garland Rover and Cian had produced two revolvers from the workshop using materials they stowed away over the course of three years. They held up a room of drunk guards and forced their way out. They parted ways, both wary of what happened to people who stayed around Cian too long. He didn't stop running until he was two counties away. He walked all the way to New York City, squatting in an abandoned apartment in **Hell's Kitchen**.

He boldly never went by a fake name, although he didn't exactly waltz into a police station either. Despite living in Hell's Kitchen, many of his neighbors were 'civilians' in gang warfare, none of them knew who he was. He continued to create and modify guns in his spare time, and by 1912 he was proficient enough that he could build his own guns from scratch using the furnace in the basement. WW1 didn't affect his life much. He obviously wasn’t conscripted and his neighbors had more to worry about than a European war.

In 1919, when the **Eighteenth Amendment** was ratified, he began to fall back into crime. He made guns for the Irish Mob. Although he never joined, he was a frequent associate of **Bill Dwyer’s gang**. He perfected his craft, being able to make revolvers and repeaters of many designs.

Finally in the year of 1926, after a long life, Cian Delaney, formerly known as Sean Wesley, now known as Sundance, died of an unknown illness at the age of 67. His life is known to historians well, as he was one of the few outlaws to escape justice. There were many biographical accounts of his life made, but nobody knew what happened after 1899. Nobody thought that the old man next door was **the last outlaw** standing.

**8 murders - 3 attempted murders - >50 armed robberies - 4 burgulariazations - 8 kidnappings**

### **Post-Mortem**

Immediate Aftermath:

Cian had landed in Hell, and into the pit of depression. His first instinct was to search for friends, particularly Atsa and Derrick. Despite looking for almost a decade, he wasn't able to turn up any actual leads, and lost the will to search for them in the mid-30's. He gave up on living and just became one of many wandering sinners. Without ambition, he withdrew from social groups and just tried to forget his old life.

The first job he got was in 1938, as a guard for a synagogue. The small Jewish minority in Hell was subject to constant pogroms, and as sinners came in with stories of rising anti-semitism on Earth, **the Synagogue of Hope Everlasting** (The largest synagogue in Hell) started massively hiring new guards. Cian was one of those guards. It’s around this time that he started going by Sundance to new people, only sharing his true name with friends. He grew close to the rabbis and laity, particularly a rabbi named Jan.

During his tenure there, he yet again became a figure of legend, having stopped two attempted raids on the synagogue by himself. The most difficult times of his job came after September 1st, 1939, the beginning of the **Second World War**. The millions of incoming Allied and Axis soldiers continued the war in Hell, a common phenomenon, but this was by far the largest scale it had ever seen. In particular former Wehrmacht and SS soldiers posed the greatest risks to the Jewish population of Hell, with entire convents moving inside to their fortified synagogues. It was in this time that Sundance claims to have killed the most people in his life and unlife. The Synagogue of Hope Everlasting survived, mostly intact. In secret, the rabbis began holding Holy Weapons, hoping the edge it had over demons would allow them to survive **6000 years more**.

The tension this caused internally was massive and fearing the **wrath of the Tyrant-King**, Sundance quit his job in 1955. He maintains contact with Jan to this day. He bounced around, attempting to stay out of criminal affairs, although his ongoing cocaine usage kept him in leagues with shady figures, more specifically a mob boss known as Henroin. Being of fair notoriety for his actions in defense of Hope Everlasting, it was easy for him to find employment as a bodyguard for the sinner. His employment ended after the Palace Heist of Lucifer's Steak Knife; a knife made of golden angelic material.

Sundance fled to **Pentagram City**. His short stature and Western background integrated him well into the **Impish** population, and he made many associates as he fell further into crime. His Jewish connections informed that he was being considered to help dispose of the weapons, but he declined and advised them to keep the weapons. In 1965, he opened a gun store in Pentagram City, and his reputation among residents grew. He created his magnum opus in 1966, the **Et Memoriam Revolve**, a brilliantly decorated blackened-steel revolver with gold inlays, that he decorated as a tapestry.

Business hummed along through the chaos of the 1960’s, kicked off by **the synthesization of PCP**. Sundance lived easy, in that time of Hell's history, everyone needed a gun. Even this chaos was too much though, and after a brief stint trying to get into the Wrath Ring, gave up and moved into the newly-established Imp City in 1983. He was among high enough repute with the Imps to live there, but wasn't very respected by the youth.

In Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989, nothing **happened**.

In 2002, a teenage Imp jimmied his door open, and robbed him of a pistol. Hearing the fumbling youth, he inspected, and came across the crime In a moment of panic, seeing an intruder with a gun, he **shot the boy**. Paranoid that somebody would discover the death, he decided to pack up his valuables and run from the city. After bouncing around motels and hamlets, he remembered his struggle to get into the Wrath Ring, and he decided on **becoming an outlaw again**. He packed up his bags, hid his banknotes in various locations around the countryside, and lived off the land in the wilderness.

He lived in a cave, surrounding himself with the wilderness and memories of the past. Taking the time to read the works of **Oscar Wilde**, Sundance increased his literacy considerably, his vocabulary greatly improved, previously being unable to read past a modern 5th-grade level. Sundance simply lived off of game, wild fruits, and a nearby stream. He describes this as a twilight moment in his afterlife, one in which he tried to “**Chase the dream**.”

He went to live in a sinner city named Glasgow in 2008, worried that his health was beginning to fail him. The past years of likely malnourishment, possibly a **food-borne illness**, resulted in him dropping to ~110 lbs.. He took his banknotes and retired to his apartment. He was bored often and left Glasgow for weeks, even months at a time, often, to visit old contacts in Pentagram City and Imp City. One of these trips in 2020 led to him meeting an Impish woman named **Millie**. After quite the adventure, he was very confused, suffering brain-damage, coming across the old gun store. Long looted, all except the forge in the basement, he claimed the land for himself, abandoning Glasgow for **ventures new**.

He was approached by one of the most dangerous, vile, and terrible imps in all of Hell: **Blitzo**. He now makes guns for the murder-for-hire company, I.M.P., unaware that Millie works there. The guns will keep coming, it’s only a matter of time until he is dragged into the chaos of assassin life.

## Current Whereabouts:

Sundance is a gunsmith and salesman in Imp City. He often leaves home for days at a time to visit old friends.

## Personality and mannerisms

Sundance is a heavily conflicted person. At his core, his heart, he feels a need to occupy his time. An adventure to go on, a triumph to be had, a villain (or hero) to **fight**. This often manifests itself in a foolish quest for glory. Despite his at-times suicidal actions, Sundance **fears** death, because he knows that this is it; if he dies now, there is no second afterlife; it will be the end. His soul will **die** with him.

He acts without morals often, although not out of sadism and sometimes not even out of the aforementioned glory-hounding, it is mere pragmitism to him. He does sometimes feel remorseful about his sins, but such thoughts are often purged with a mindset of "Well, nothing I can do now." He can sometimes recognize **right from wrong** in the moment, and acts rightfully, even against his own interests.

He takes pride in his appearance. Dying his hair, dressing suit-and-tie almost everyday, beddazling himself in golden jewelry, and waxing his moustache religiously; all suggest that he does not see himself with his own mind, he sees himself through the **eyes of others**.

He's not very talkative to strangers and seems content with keeping to himself.

He insists that his cocaine use is not an addiction, as he has never gone long enough without it to feel any hypothetical withdrawls.

Despite his medicinal practices, he rarely drinks alcohol, not wanting to "fall in the stereotype that all Irishmen are drunkards."

He grasps his empty palms constantly "to avoid arthritis from settling in".

He dyes his hair black. Naturally, it is white.

## Character Trivia

Sundance can play harmonica and guitar well. He likes to sing, particularly in tenor.

He can speak Irish, but can't read it. On the other hand, he can read Hebrew, but can't speak any associated languages.

He was illiterate until age 23.

He carries candies in his pockets for street urchins, either for them to leave him alone, or when he needs them to do something.

## Out-of-Character Trivia

His design is heavily drawn from American actor Dan Grimaldi, best known for Patsy Parisi in the HBO series "**The Sopranos**".

Sean means "**God is gracious**", and Wesley means "**Man from the west**".

Cian Delaney translates directly to "**ancient defiance**", it is a fitting name for the elderly rebel.

His name and very character started as an allusion for the famous Wild West outlaw, the Sundance Kid.

Sundance was created by the user known as Art Vandeleigh.

Sundance was conceptualized before Episode 5 of Helluva Boss was released, but not released until the next month. His original release was going to be shortly after Episode 5, but the hype surrounding the Western setting episode, plus a **fan-favorite cowboy** antagonist featured heavily in the episode, drove Art to delay the release. Art stated that "I think that time really improved [Sundance's] character.".