[u]Name:[/u]
Matthew O'Connor

[u]Age:[/u]
18

[u]Gender:[/u]
Male

[u]Caste Ranking[/u]
Vault Citizen

[u]Physical Description/Appearance:[/u]
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Standing at about 6 foot even, Matthew is not much of an imposing figure. His weight bounces around 165 to 170 pounds, mostly extra fat coming and going. That being said, he is in pretty good shape. Matthew does not have an Olympian body, but throughout the last 4 years of school he tried to maintain a nice physique. Sparse light brown hairs cover his arms and legs, not too much and it is not too thick, but it is there. His head is covered by a thick layer of light brown hair. It is cut nicely with shorter sides and a top that is only a little bit thicker. Matthew has deep, sometimes piercing, blue eyes. His facial hair is a thick, short cut, brown beard and mustache. On his right forearm, down the side, Murphy has a scar from when he broke his arm and the bone pierced the skin. As far as tattoos and piercings, he has none.

When it comes to attire, Matthew can be seen wearing one of his two Vault 24 jump suits. The one he wears the most is the non-gym jumpsuit. The gym jumpsuit has sweat and odor embedded into it from years of working hard in the iron church (gym). 

[u]Biography:[/u]
Eighteen years ago, the O'Connor family found out that they were having a child. It was a joyous occasion for them. The O'Connor's has been trying for a child for many months but it just never seemed to go their way. Finally, however, Mrs. O'Connor became pregnant. It seemed like a miracle. It was a miracle. And nine months later, a young boy by the name of Matthew was born. Mrs. O'Connor did not pass away during the pregnancy and there were no complications. It was a perfect birth for the O'Connor's perfect child. When they returned home and put Matthew in his cradle for the first time, they felt that their lives were finally complete. Mr. O'Connor worked in the Vault's farm irrigation system, repairing it and monitoring water conditions to make sure that the correct water (no chemical imbalances or radiation) was being sprayed onto the vegetables that were being grown. The Vault's farm though was a newer concept. One of the Overseer's, after years of studying and hard work, figured out how to make a farm work underground. For three years, the Overseer and some of his top scientists worked on creating this farm. Afterwards they trained a select few individuals to oversee the farm and it's systems. Mr. O'Connor was one such person. Mrs. O'Connor was an educator. Now an educator is different from a teacher. A teacher will have the same students for all 12 years of their lives. An educator takes in students, of all ages, who sign up to learn about specific things. Mrs. O'Connor was a wildlife educator. She taught children and adults about Pre-War wildlife. The Overseer assigned her this specific task to help keep morale up in the Vault. He figured that if people had hope of seeing this kind of wildlife eventually, they would be happier and would work harder. The Overseer never planned on allowing any of them into the Wastes to try and find these animals. 

Growing up Matthew was not a problem child. He had a pleasant disposition from a young age. Optimism, curiosity, honesty, hard worker, and driven. These were just some of the terms that came to identify Matthew by the time he reached his teenage years. That being said, when Matthew was in the sixth grade, he got into a fist fight with one of his classmates. Matthew was always a stand-up guy. From a young age, Matthew had a strong sense of morality, of right and wrong. This was instilled into him by his hard working father. This led to his sixth grade brawl. A classmate was picking on a girl for being a Ref. Now Matthew did not personally care for the Refs but his father told him that they had worked hard and earned their place in the Vault, so naturally when he saw the young girl getting picked on, he had to stand up for her. The bully did not take kindly to being challenged and this led to a fight. There was no real winner, Mr. Lancaster separated the two boys rather quickly, but Matthew did get a few good hits in. Matthew and the girl went on to be friends for awhile but then their friendship was strained by growing discontent between the Ref population and the Vault citizen population. Though it was in vain, Matthew tried to maintain his friendship with the girl. 

The later years of school went by without a hitch. Every time Matthew got the opportunity, he would sign up for his mother's class and take it. By age 16, he was well versed in the Pre-War animals. He had even gotten his hands on some books from the Laboratory regarding animals. If Matthew was not studying animal biology, he was shadowing his father down in the irrigation systems or assisting his mother with her class. With school, personal studying, and then work, Matthew did not have much free time. The free time that he did have was separated into one of two activities. Friends or working out. He alternated. Every other day he would work out and on the off days he would be around his group of friends. The friends that Matthew kept were similar to him. All hard workers. They understood their place in the Vault and were trying to become the perfect Vault citizens. Matthew's personal circle of friends consisted of three people (not including himself). That being said, Matthew also enjoyed interacting with as many of his classmates, and other people, as possible. He bloomed into a very outgoing young man. Honesty, drive, optimism, hard work, and curiosity all carried on into his later teenage years. Most people knew Matthew as a stand-up guy.

[u]Work Test Results:[/u]
THOUGH MATTHEW HAS NOT SEEN HIS RESULTS YET, HERE THEY ARE.
Being well-versed in animal biology helped Matthew get set onto a very interesting course. Back 50 years prior, when the Refs entered the Vault, they brought with them domesticated Mole Rats. The domesticated Mole Rats served one purpose and one purpose only. To eat. It took about three years for the Overseer to accept it, but Mole Rat breeding and butchering was the future of food in the Vault. Many people were disgusted by this at first, but after years and years of breeding irradiated flesh OUT of them, people finally accepted the Mole Rats as an acceptable food source. 

When it comes to the Mole Rats there are two types of jobs related to them. The animal husbandry job and the butchering job. Matthew was assigned the role of [b]Animal Care and Husbandry Specialist[/b].

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