History
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CHILDHOOD
Born to Alice and Tyson Maximè, Sean didn't have a conventional family. Or rather, according to nowaday's standards, he did. His father was an authoritarian and his mother was a kind, soft-spoken woman - she was pliant under his control, which eventually turned into tyrany. Sean was born into that type of family environment and quickly got involved. He wasn't the one primarily accosted by his father's drunken antics, but he would get his fair share whenever he would get in his way. With age Sean's attempts at interfering increased in frequency and so did the beatings. He couldn't understand why his father found the meed to use phsical violence and why his mother often endured the abuse silently. Upon starting school, Sean immediatelly took after his father in temper. He was defensive, crude, didn't take any criticism and had no tolerance for either verbal abuse or bullying. He attacked from the slightest provocation and almost always hit first. He was a rowdy child so his teachers never thought much of any extra bruises or cuts that appeared over his face and body. His parents split up when he was 9 but that didn't change much other than his location. His mother developed the tendency to leave and then return to his father periodically. She couldn't keep a decent job for long, so she often endured her ex-husband's abuse for the sake of financial help for her and Sean. Tired of watching, Sean dropped out of yet another school at 14 and refused to return, opting instead to get a job to support his mother. He didn't want to be liability for her or be the reason she returned to his father. Sadly, he wasn't the reason but the excuse.
Sean learned what Stockholm Syndrome meant at 15 when the nurses tending to his mother in her hospital bed said it in the middle of hushed conversation. 'Poor thing, he beat her half to death. And in front of her son too...'. A day prior Alice had returned to her husband for the last time, only to barely get out with her life after a near-fatal beating. Her injuries and Sean's testament was all the police needed to start a case against Tyson. The bastard got six years in prison for attempted murder, domestic and child abuse.
Sean let the nurses talk. He and his mother were safe.
EARLY ADULTHOOD
From then on it was Sean that supported his mother and himself financially. Going through a near death experience and watching her abuser get locked up had derailed Alice severely and she had neither the strength nor the motivation to get and sustain a stable job. It was Sean's duty to do so. Without a high school diploma jobs were incredibly hard to find, but the, at the time, 16 year old couldn't return to his studies without any financial support. He did the next best thing and started dabbling in petty thefts, small roberies, along with some odd legal jobs, but he was introduced to the grittier side of illegal money-making very shortly after. He eventually got introduced to the mafia as he realized how much money and respect it brought and how much up his alley it was. There wasn't much education qualifications to be had, so his intelligence made him exceptional amongst the many men who'd left their education early on like him but hadn't bothered to educate themselves further. Alongside being innovative, agile, quick-witted and quick-footed, he was incredibly ambitions, but he needed some guidance from an adult. The only person who could handle him was Richard Le Brun, a successful conartist, who managed to employ Sean's temper and anger to better use in the assassination fields.
He took the petty thief and smuggler and turned him into a refined conartist. The man was a better father than Sean's own had ever hoped to be; it was understandable why. Richard had a daughter of his own - Jayme, 5 years younger than Sean, who Sean viewed as a younger sister of sorts. When Sean was 21 and Jayme - 16 Richard was captured and imprisoned for his crimes; a long overdue punishment. His daughter, since she carried his name and had participated in some of his congames, had a warrant on her head as well. Sean had promised her father that he would handle her care if and when Richard was rendered unable to. He kept to his promise and handled Jayme for the next year or so. Financially supporting his mother, himself and the young girl meant upping the stakes and aiming skywards to more serious and dangerous targets, whose heads brought more money. It was how he ended up making the biggest mistakes of his life and targeting Maximillion Hart, an englishman sitting on the proverbial top of the crime circles in Britain.
Hart's power was an unforseen force which played a large role in him evading death at Sean's hands and even managing to catch him at one point. The man was influential and didn't appreciate attempts on his life, especially from young cocky dipshits like Sean; the little conboy did show potential, though, and Hart was intrigued enough to offer him a place under his wing when he captured Sean.
Had the young man known what his refusal would be followed up eith, maybe he would've accepted.
He shortly learned that Hart's systematic brutality and cruelty were the two things that set him apart from other mafia heads in the business. Hart felt no moral obligation towards anyone and didn't show Sean any semblance of mercy during his 're-education'. 'Teaching someone a lesson' meant torture in his book. He surgically opened Sean's skull up and placed a tracking device in his head without his knowledge, carved a large 'H' on the back of the man's neck to mark his as to-be property and let him return to Jayme in shambles. During his stay in Hart's hands Sean met another man there who was in a similar process of undergoing torture and the two grew close only reunite years later. Searching for someone to fill this spot
ADULTHOOD
Wrecked by the torturous experience, Sean, like any PTSD victim, vowed to never let that happen to him again. Never be weak. So the cocky prettyboy left for military. He wrote himself down for the minimum of 2 year active duty and 6 years in the military reserve, but had promised Jayme - his entrusted sister figure - to find a way to return earlier. He felt guilty for leaving her behind but he prioritized building himself up stronger.
As promised he managed to cut his active duty short by befriending an epileptic man in the enlisting line and switching identities with him. The man was named Sean Denmark and was enlisted only on half year duty. The two switched and Sean retained that name in honour of the real hokder of it who died a few weeks after enlisting from an epileptic episode, a result of nobody knowing what to do as there were no heslth issues listed in his file.
Being an asshole in military, even though he was technically protected by his status as an 'epileptic' earned the fake Sean a lot of grinding work - he was forced into different serving duties and underwent gruelling training since one of his commanders suspected he wasn't epileptic at all. He grew physically stronger, more rugged-looking and discovered he was bisexual. Developed flawless acting skills and honed his manipulative tactics, with all the pretend seizures and feigned shyness that he 'eventually grew out of'. Learned good aim and when he left and went back to his usual life of illegality, he didn't hesitate to get into more grittier lines of work - ones involving kidnappings, ransoms and all.
When he came back, though, he was surprised to find Jayme wasn't where he'd left her - under the care of her only living free relstive - her grandmother. For months on end Sean and her had been writing to each other and she'd convinced him all was well but Sean returned to discover her under the wing of an FBI agent who'd been on her father's case. Initially he was wary of the guy but after realizing he was training the girl, he decided Jayme - now Natalie - was safer in the old man's hands.
OBSESSIVE NEMESIS
Going back into the gritty industry of congames and assassination was heaven for Sean because he was unstoppable in his newfound desire to be the best, the strongest, the fastest and the most unreachable. This mentality was a result of Hart's torture which still weighed heavy on him and made him an overachiever and... more or less suicidal. It was a subtle sort of suicidal, though. He simply sought out the biggest and most dangerous thrill.
Until he found it. Or rather it found him.
Hart had known where he was this entire time and now came to collect what was branded as his. He did get Sean, but not in the way he anticipated. Instead of Hart training the man like a son a toxic romantic relationship bloomed between the two, resulting in Sean's morals being warped under Hart's influence. His desire to prove himself to the mafia head messed him up long-term because at one point he stepped under Hart's tutelage and that involved a lot of pain and torture. Hart was obsessed with death and destruction and instilled ownership over thr younger man - Sean walked out of that relationship a masochist.
SHAKESPEAREAN LOVE STORY
A year or so after having escaped Hart Sean returned to his work but with a fair amount of caution. He did more undercover missions now and assassinated only high-standing businessmen with many enemies. In a turn of surprising events he took up a job offer that lead him to meeting Natalie again while trying to kill a target. Whereas he was hired to kill a man, Natalie was protecting him along with other FBI agents. He was unable to harm her and found himself cornered by her gun. Mouthy and intelligent as he was, he managed to pull her to his side again, convincing her to flee from her FBI mentor. She returned to the congame alongside him and he took her into his home. They resumed life as 'brother and sister', but more had begun to grow between them as they were now grown and with different mentalities. Similarly broken and jaded, they bonded farther than friendship. They formed a powerful team that took assassination missions together and soon were on the verge of becoming a couple as they both fell for each other. Unsure of whether he deserved her, Sean began to push the woman away, beginning to doubt his decision to attract her to his side. They settled on a friends with benefits arrangement, although Natalie was unhappy with being used as she saw it.
Unbeknownst to him, she fell pregnant, but could not tell him, afraid he would reject her as he had been rejecting her feelings until then. He was out and away from her more often and they fought more and more often. In a moment of strength she left Sean to his own misery.
He never had the heart to blame her.
