Editing Shadowwalkers: John Hanrahan (section)

==Bio/Background==

John Hanrahan has built a life in New Trinadad on two pillars: his family and his union.

John was born 42 years ago in St. Bridgette's Hospital.  It isn't entirely clear to him whether Edith and Thomas Hanrahan were his biological parents, but they're the only parents he ever knew, and by the time he was old enough to worry about it he wasn't worried about it. And they're both gone now, but their legacy lives on in the city through the dozen or better children (biological and otherwise) that they raised and which are now out in the city with their own biological and chosen families.  John is approximately in the middle of the Hanrahan kids.

23 years ago, John met Maria Henriquez.  They were married - in an elopement that did not make either family particularly happy - less than a month later.  Felicia, their oldest, came along a year later.  Since then, they've had two other biological children and have fostered half-a-dozen others (some officially through the government and some unofficially from family or friends). Their townhouse also regularly houses family and friends who need a roof for whatever reason.

The constant flow of people is messy and needy and expensive and John would not have it any other way.

And that is, in fact, how he ended up with an entropy field bound to his body.  When they were teenagers, John's foster brother fell under the sway of some young Adept who was trying to start a cult.  In normal circumstances, John would just have beat the brakes off of the weedy little guy who thought he was the next Jim Jones and dragged his brother back home.  But, there was the whole magic thing.  So, John did what he always did when he had a problem he couldn't solve - he sought a solution from a family member.  Well, a friend of another cousin happened to be a bit of a ritualist herself, and after a very tense evening, she managed to bind an energy field to John that would give him the ability to deal with the Adept.  After that came the beating and the dragging and the deprogramming.

The other constant in John's life has been his work at the New Trinadad Steel Mill.  He's been employed there - a member of the United Metalworkers Local 19A - for 26 years now.  John's talent for keeping his work crews in line and keeping them out of trouble with the bosses got him promoted to shop steward. His coworkers in the union aren't family, but their the next best thing.  And he supports and protects them just like he does those bound to him by blood or marriage.

'''Living Situation'''

John and his family live in a converted duplex in the part of New Trinadad mostly populated by industrial workers. (I’m guessing that’s Grid 12-ish.) “Converted“ meaning that John and Maria own both halves - the two bedrooms in one side weren’t enough.

No supernatural means were involved in their purchase of the house - unless you count the magical interest rate that Maria’s cousin’s stepbrother, who works in loan origination at New Trinadad Credit Union, managed to score for them. 

'''Vehicles'''

John owns an old (not cool retro old, just old) F-150 that is theoretically his daily driver, but approximately 75% of the time it’s being borrowed by one of his kids or a friend or extended family member to move or do renovations or other truck things. He mostly just gets rides to and from work with one of the other union members in his neighborhood.

John and Maria also own a slightly newer minivan (let’s say a Toyota Sienna). That is Maria’s primary vehicle, but John of course has access to it.

Both are owned free-and-clear, and despite their age and mileage are pretty well cared for. Neither is going to be on display at a car show any time soon, though.

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