Character Profile: James Sullivan Jr.
Name: James "Sully" Sullivan Jr.
Age: 30
Height: 4'6"
Weight: 117lbs..
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Irish ancestry
Relatives: James Sullivan Sr. (Father/Deceased), Margaret Sullivan (Mother)
Occupation: Delivery driver/Part-time boxing instructor
Character Type: Sarcastic/Cynical/Humorous/Loveable/Troubled
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When deciding the initial cast of Stiel Maiden, I wanted Lori's love interest to be unconventional. Sure, I could have hooked her up with a dashing, good looking piece of a man candy...but that would have been too easy. No, I wanted her love interest to be a flawed, troubled fella with lots of potential, but always behind the 8-ball reaching it. Enter James Sullivan Jr, aka "Sully". Now, I've had this character sitting in the rafters for a while now. I actually made him towards the tale end of MG's existence. Of course he was a bit bigger back then...lol. What possessed me to make a little person? A couple of things really. The contrast of Lori being this larger than life powerhouse of a woman...giving her heart to a guy she's 2 times the size of seemed like a unique plot choice.
Now before I go on, I have to explain the initial debuts of Lori and Sully in ECS: Betrayal. I had already plotted out the 1st 2 volumes of Stiel Maiden at that point, and wanted to kind of connect both stories in a way. Six degrees of separation and all that. The scene in the yoga studio with the 2 of them arguing like a married couple was completely ad-libbed. I wanted to make it so that there relationship starts with animosity initially, and quickly evolves into full blown love as both Lori and Sully realize they're exactly what eachother need in a partner...ESPECIALLY with what's to come in the story. As for Sully's backstory, as in hinted at by him...he's the son of a deceased pro boxer. His father, James Sr...was a promising middleweight who was raising up in the ranks fast, but found himself involved with the wrong people. I won't go into detail, because that's to be revealed in the story. James was only 4 when his father passed, and he was raised by his mother Margie to the best of her ability, seeing as it wasn't until he was 5 that they learned of his dwarfism.
Growing up, he idolized his deceased father, and took up a vested interest in boxing himself. As it turns out he's actually quite good at it despite his size. So good that he trains fighters part-time, when he's not working his job as a delivery driver with best friend Chester A. Arthur. Sully is the classic underdog character, but we see him on an upswing of luck over the course of the story. And of course as of the last volume, he's now involved in the "secret life" Lori lives...so now we'll progress into how he handles it. Now where did the inspiration of Sully come from? Honestly...nowhere in particular. He's not based on anyone, if anything...I'd say his personality is pretty much based on my own. As far as his appearance, the goal was to make him look conventionally unattractive, but still like a "cute, angry dwarf". There's still a lot more about Sully to be revealed, and he's going to play a VERY important role in the story in later volumes.
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