Eamon O'Connor

About

Eamon O'Connor's left eye twitches in precise, metronomic intervals—a neurological souvenir from chemical exposure—and he times his speech patterns around it, pausing mid-sentence like a man working with a faulty metronome. His hands move in strange, deliberate choreography when he talks, sketching invisible equations in the air, his fingertips still stained that permanent rust-orange from 23 years of refinery work, each burn scar a node in a network only he can read.

Backstory

Eamon O'Connor spent 23 years at Whitegate Refinery outside Cork engineering predictive algorithms so precise that his supervisor Declan Hourigan called him 'the canary'—not as a compliment, but as acknowledgment that he caught system failures three weeks before they catastrophized. The chemical burns across his knuckles came in 2031 during a containment failure nobody officially reported; Declan pulled him from the exposure chamber personally, and Eamon spent the next eight years watching the tremors in his hands worsen, the eye-twitching begin, understanding through bitter mathematics that his own biology was entering cascade failure. When the collapse accelerated in 2039, Eamon's models predicted the timeline so accurately that communities in West Cork initially treated him like an oracle—until they realized his predictions meant their deaths, and they started shooting messengers instead of listening. He's spent the last four years alone with salvaged equipment in the Knockmealdown

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