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Name: John Donnelly Brady Door: Door Pass (Dominant) Canon: Masters of the Air Canon Point: Episode 5, during the mission flying over Munster (October 10, 1943). His plane is going down, and he’s just ensured that every other crew member, including his potentially suicidal copilot, has made the jump. He jumps from the edge of the open bomb bay and immediately arrives in Duplicity before he knows whether or not his parachute deploys or if he hits the ground. At this time he’s still a Captain and is slated for promotion to Major but hasn’t actually been promoted yet. Age: 23 Appearance: John is 6’1” and very lean, toned without having enough muscle definition to look like he deliberately works out – being in the army, he’s subject to PT, but he’s still a pilot living at an air installation when he isn’t on flights, not someone traversing a combat zone 24/7. His hair is dark brown, cut short in the back with long bangs he slicks back in the front; his eyes are a slate blue dark enough to appear brown in low light. His appearance is very neat even in casual situations, and he usually smells like leather and aromatic pipe tobacco, even when he's not actively smoking. He speaks with an accent that pins him as being from the vague area of upstate New York, distinguishable from New York City or New England. History: John was born in a small town about 30 minutes from Rochester, NY in 1918 to a Catholic Irish-American family implied by canon to be upper middle class. He attended Catholic school up until high school, at which point he transferred to a prestigious public school, where he began his career as a musician (saxophone and clarinet). He went on to get a B.S. in music in college, graduating in 1941. A few months later, he was hired as a music teacher to start in the Fall/Winter ‘41 academic year, only to resign that December to join the Army Air Force after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He got his wings in 1942, and arrived at the Thorpe Abbotts airbase, where he would spend the war when he wasn’t in the air (up until his capture and internment), in June 1943. The flight over from Greenland, their intermediate location, to England proved much more eventful for Brady and his crew than the rest of the squadron, and they touched down significantly late—first because they got separated from the group by clouds, then because their navigator, Crosby, accidentally gave Brady the wrong coordinates and sent him into a wall of flak in occupied France as opposed to the friendly skies of England while distracted by his own severe airsickness. While in the air, they also experienced an electrical failure that led to one landing wheel failing to deploy—and when they tried to use the fallback, a manual crank, it jammed. Brady made the decision to bring up the wheel that did deploy, stating that they had a better chance of walking away alive from a full belly landing than a landing on one wheel, and proceeded to successfully emergency land the plane in an open field, miraculously without any injuries or casualties among the crew or himself and his copilot. On the ground and preparing to smoke the pipe he is almost always seen with to calm his nerves, John had some choice words for Crosby—but also ended up lying to his superior officers to cover for him. For the next 5 months, John would successfully fly numerous bombing runs as a part of the group known as the 'Bloody 100th'. The two would end up becoming friends, and ostensibly Harry was John’s closest friend in the unit even after he was transferred to another crew; by the time of the night before John’s last mission, John is shown having a good time with him out drinking, praising his skills as a navigator in front of the group. The following day, October 10th, 1943, John was placed in lead position for a bombing run over Munster, Germany, which would prove to be the most brutal of the war. Bucky Egan, the squadron C.O. whose very close friend had just been shot down, was assigned to ride along as his copilot after requesting to attend despite being on leave. The plane took critical damage and the group’s primary defense, an echelon of fighter jets, had to turn around, leaving them largely unprotected; the decision was made to abandon ship. As was typical, John and Bucky continued to pilot until all crew had bailed, then they themselves grabbed their parachutes and headed to the bomb bay. They got into an argument over who would jump first, but ultimately, John won, reasoning, ‘It’s my ship!’ He was the last to jump and parachute into enemy territory, where he was captured and would spend the rest of the war as a P.O.W. in the German Stalag system. CR AU (Optional): N/A Personality: Positive Trait: Caring — from his first canon appearance, Brady is shown to care deeply about the wellbeing of the people around him. Even after his navigator, Crosby, makes a mistake due to his airsickness and accidentally sends them toward a combat zone in occupied France instead of allied airspace in England, infuriating Brady and endangering their lives, he lies to cover for him when his superiors ask what happened on the ground. Although not overly sociable without the assistance of alcohol, John is very attuned to the emotional wellbeing of the people around him, and is sure to ask the squadron C.O., Bucky, if he is okay when he seems quiet prior to a flight that closely follows the capture or death (at the time unknown) of his best friend. When it comes time for himself and Bucky, who flies with John as copilot on his last mission, to bail out of their failing aircraft, John argues with him, insisting that he jump first, and doesn’t give up until he sees Bucky jump from the plane, even though Bucky outranks him—potentially because he worries that Bucky, in his emotional instability, depression, and profound grief, will try to go down with the plane. Negative Trait: Snarky Although he cares a lot about the people around him, John is very dry, and almost always has a little unnecessary comment to throw in. Once he’s on the ground after the mission in which they almost fly into a wall of enemy fire in occupied France, he berates an already visibly worried and apologetic Crosby, saying, “You’re a navigator, Crosby. You should be able to, I don’t know, find England.”; on another occasion, when others are celebrating a comrade reaching 25 missions, the benchmark (at that time) at which a pilot was allowed to return to the states and finish his combat tour, John feels the need to chime in, albeit in an ostensibly fond way, “by the skin of his teeth”. Negative Trait: Self-contradictory Despite the fact that he cares deeply about the wellbeing and emotions of other people, John tries to project an aloof, unemotional, traditionally 1940s-masculine exterior. He doesn’t want to be seen as soft, which leads to blatant self-contradiction throughout canon. Most notably, after John lies to his commanders to cover for Crosby within Harry’s direct earshot and line of sight, Harry says “you didn’t have to cover for me”, which John reacts to sharply and with anger, quickly saying, “I didn’t cover for you” despite the fact that Crosby literally just watched him cover for him minutes prior. Negative Trait: Aloof Although John has his isolated moments of expressing his caring side, for the most part, he keeps his emotions to himself; he’s very stoic, and usually facially unexpressive, even when receiving bad news, such as being told that they’ll be flying three days in a row after taking heavy losses earlier that day the night before Munster. He holds himself together during the emergency belly landing, betraying none of the fear we the audience see in his facial expression from the front to the crew depending on him in the back; earlier, when the electrical system to lower one landing wheel fails and the fallback—a mechanical crank—proves to be locked in place and also doesn’t deploy the wheel, John holds it together, betraying none of his fear—or how bad the situation really is—to the crew. The most we see him express his fondness for Crosby, who ostensibly becomes his closest friend, is sharing space as they sit on the hood of a jeep watching a plane come in and giving his shoulder an affectionate shake while saying he “does it [getting crews out of sticky situations] too often for it to be luck”—the latter after he’s already had a few drinks, lowering the inhibitions that usually keep him behaving in a more aloof fashion. Powers and Abilities: Piloting: John is a very talented pilot with more than a year of flight training. He’s successfully executed multiple life-or-death emergency landings, and he flew numerous battles before being shot down. Marksmanship: As a soldier, John’s been trained to use his sidearm. Music: John's been playing saxophone and clarinet since school and has a B.S. in music. Inventory: — Wooden tobacco pipe — Colt M1911-A1 semiautomatic pistol — Rosary Samples: Here — Thinking (Prompt I) & Communicating (Prompt IV)