Race: Human
Sex: Male
Real Name: Damen Kirk
Nick Name: Trigger
Birth Date & Location: 5th March, 1965 – New York, USA
Died: 21st April, 2007 – Los Angeles (Read About It)
Position: Hitman
Group Affiliation: Freelance
DESCRIPTION:
With brown eyes and short-cut light hair, Damen Kirk is fairly unassuming looking but recognisable when pissed off (which is often). Though possibly dressing nice on occasion, usually he ends up sticking to street clothes – especially with his leather jacket. Half the time, people identify him by a combination of the smoking, jacket, and pissed off look.
(Damen is played by Denis Leary)
BACKGROUND:
Damen’s childhood easily fit the profile of the criminal element. His mother slept around with different men each week, and his father was usually too high on drugs to care. Various “foster” fathers treated him in different manners. Some were pleasant; others were mean. Most simply didn’t care about young Damen, who they thought of as the kid who got under foot. In school, he was never a bright intellectual, but was more ‘muscle’ for the big bully in the schoolyard. His mother was able to stay clean long enough to keep social services from taking away the young, impulsive boy. Called in for constant conferences, Damen always managed to barely avoid getting kicked out of school. All of that changed, however, when he was a freshman in High School.
Matthew Prendergast was used to being king of the schoolyard, though he came from another middle school. The number of his friends that came with him made him think that he could be the power there again. So he set out intimidating various students in the school again, which was far from one of the best and known for chronic discipline problems. Matthew immediately figured out that Damen would be a threat to him, and told him to stay out of the way. Damen simply looked up from his locker in the hallway. “Fuck off, dickwad,” he said with the eloquence only a fifteen-year-old can manage. Prendergast arranged to jump Damen with a couple of his ‘boys’ the next day.
Everyone was suitably terrified of Matthew until two days later. It was Friday; Matthew was with one of his friends hitting on one of the young girls. “Hey, Matt,” one of his friends said. “It’s that dweeb from the other day.” Pointing down the hall, they saw Damen with a . . . golf club? One which he had stolen from his mom’s current boyfriend.
Matthew decided that he wanted to try to impress the girl by showing off his dominance. “Hey, Damie,” he said, pointing out the blonde kid in the leather jacket. “What, you no good to hang with us anymore? Gonna go preppy?” He walked near Damen, and slammed his locker shut.
whaaaaaack!
“Beat me you stupid fuck,” Damen said, whacking him constantly with the steel club. “This is what happens when you fuck with me.” whack! Whack! Whack! Matthew’s cries eventually got the attention of one of the teachers, who attempted to restrain Damen. Matthew suffered two broken ribs and a fractured arm.
Thus ended Damen Kirk’s acquaintance with his home, and the higher education system. Though they managed to pull him off Matthew, this only resulted in his fury being turned on the nearest teacher… and having the street smarts to run away. When the cops came to his home to talk to mom, Damen quietly packed his bags and left.
He joined a street gang after that, but fortune decided to favour him. Damen met a young New York gangster, who decided to recruit him into the mob – rescued from the streets, he worked for the gangster for five years, learning the ins and outs of the business until he was brutally gunned down.
It was 1985. There was one sibling Damen had, a sister three years younger than he was. She had been devastated when he left, and he’d always had a soft spot for her. Now he finally had a chance to return home for a bit, fully intended to see what happened with her. He found she ran away, and finally located her a year later, overdosed on cheap cocaine. Because of the love of his sister, and blaming himself for what happened, he developed a soft spot for women.
By 1988, he’d proven his abilities to the point where he was trusted as one of the leading men for the small family. He was one of those people with a natural talent. However, as the hatchet man, he soon earned his nickname: Trigger. Damen’s short fuse often found him pissed off, and this would lead to shooting things.
In 91, disaster struck the family. One of the local DA's managed to successfully get and prosecute a racketeering indictment against the head of the family, and some of the top members. Fortunately for Damen, he was not among them. To this day, he respects the vow of silence he made.
After this, he became more or less freelance. The most notable event in this time is during a hit in Sicily in 1998. He met another skilled assassin, going by the name of Andropov Andreievich. Both were hired to do the job, in what each considered a rare ‘team’ event. Andropov (real name: Nikolai Makarov) took a liking to the young American, and decided to save him when he was captured by the target.
Since then, he stayed in semi-regular contact with the Russian, exchanging leads and even working more in the former Eastern Bloc.
In Season Three he had a drunken one-night-stand with Catherine Eldridge after she came to Nikolai’s apartment looking for solace in the wake of her daughter’s death. Though the two decided to keep this a secret it wasn’t long before it came out – with disastrous effect. For Damen, he lost the only woman who’d actually given a damn about him, Reanna Kossington.
Throwing himself into his work with local mob family the Gromyoko’s, Damen went a step too far after crossing a member of a rival family. Subsequently he was executed by his friend and fellow mobster Nikolai Makarov.
POWERS/ABILITIES:
Damen’s ‘abilities’ are pretty much what you would expect for a mob hitman, though he does have some experience with the occult. He does have one ‘occult’ ability, however, which works as an advantage and disadvantage.
Because of what is often left unsaid in conversations, Damen sincerely believes all statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in some sense. The result is that reading his mind, it is impossible to ever tell if he is being honest or lying.
A situation which makes most people with telepathic ability highly suspicious of him.
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