CARL GALLAGHER

Full name: Carl Francis Gallagher
Age: 16 years.
Height: 1.75m.
Nicknames: Carlito, White Boy Carl, Al Capone of the South Side, Crazy Carl [as a child], Ghetto Carl.

Occupation: High school student. Amateur arms/drug dealer [starts at that time]. Gangster apprentice.

Residence: 2119 N Wallace St, Chicago - Gallagher House. Sleeps in the room he shares with Lip and later with Liam. Dilapidated house, leaky, no decent heating. South Side.

Places he frequents: Chicago's South Side, his school, his gang leader G-Dogg's store, the neighborhood, Patsy's Pies parking lot.

Eye color: Grayish blue.
Hair color: Dark brown, almost black
Post-correctional haircut and hairstyle: Buzz cut, almost shaved on the sides when he gets out of juvenile detention, then he grows it out into a messy bowl/mushroom cut, like a rookie gang member. Always disheveled.
Physical characteristics: Round face, like a child's, but already with a defined jawline. Thick eyebrows. Small scars on his hands from fights. Slender build, but already starting to get muscular/muscular from exercising as a teenager. Slightly spaced teeth.
Physical condition: Very good. He's coming out of the youth gym stronger, doing push-ups, running, and starting to train.
Usual post-correctional attire:
Baggy pants / huge joggers
XXL basketball team jerseys
gray or black hoodie
Black bomber jacket
White or black headscarf/bandana
Dirty Jordan or Air Force 1 sneakers
He no longer wears his child's hat with ears.

Voice: In transition. Deep for his age, raspy. He speaks little, in a low and serious tone. He tries to sound tough and intimidating.
Smell: Like marijuana, cheap chocolate Axe, homemade fried food, gunpowder. He thinks it smells "dangerous".
His ideal way to die, in his mind: In an epic shootout like Tony Montana, or as a legendary gangster respected by all. He doesn't want to die old and boring.

Personality: Quiet, observant, fiercely loyal to his family, but with zero moral compass. He went from being a sadistic sociopath as a child to a young man searching for identity and respect. He wants to be taken seriously. He has a code: family first, don't snitch, be tough. Deep down, he's very insecure.
Type of intelligence: Very high street/kinesthetic intelligence. Low interpersonal intelligence. Logical intelligence: average, but learns quickly if interested [weapons, tactics].
Emotional management: Represses everything. Doesn't cry, doesn't talk. Explodes violently. Is learning to control anger in youth.
Empathy level: Low with strangers, very high with family. He struggles to understand other people's pain unless they are Gallaghers. After Juvie, he begins to develop empathy.
Internal conflicts: Do I want to be a real gangster and end up dead/in jail like Mickey, or do I want to be someone different and make my family proud? Am I born bad or was it just my upbringing?
Beliefs and ideologies: Believes in the code of the street. "Respect or you'll be respected." Doesn't believe in the police, God, or the government. Half-heartedly believes in Frank and in Fiona as a mother. Nihilist with touches of tribal loyalty.

Things he DOES like: Guns, knives, counting money, respect on the street, Lip telling him he did something right, gangster movies [Scarface, The Godfather], junk food, driving even without a license, feeling powerful.
Things he does NOT like: Being treated like the baby of the house, being told he is stupid, school, being scolded by Fiona, weak people, people messing with Debbie or Liam, rules.

Habits: He constantly cracks his knuckles, cleans his gun even when it's clean, keeps cash in socks, counts his bullets, and sleeps with a knife under his pillow.
Quirks or peculiarities: Collects stolen goods, names his weapons, talks to his reflection practicing his "bad boy face," can't sit still

Family:
Frank Gallagher [father, relationship of mutual disappointment but he loves him]
Monica Gallagher [absent mother]
Fiona Gallagher [mother figure, she respects her greatly]
Philip "Lip" Gallagher [idol, wants his approval]
Ian Gallagher [sees him as a crazy soldier, respects him]
Debbie Gallagher [protective with her]
Liam Gallagher [very protective, almost paternal]
Carlito and the rest of the half-siblings

Friends: Nick [his friend from juvenile detention, almost like a brother], G-Dogg [his gangster mentor], Dominique [his first serious love after Juvie]. He doesn't have many real friends, he has allies.
Type of relationships with friends: Hierarchical. Needs to be the leader or second in command. Absolute loyalty if loyalty is shown to him. If he is betrayed, immediate violence.

Hobbies: Disassembling and reassembling guns, trafficking, exercising in the yard, watching shooting videos, stealing and selling bicycles, rapping badly.

Favorite pets/animals: He likes pit bulls. He wanted to have one. He doesn't have any pets because they don't last long in the Gallagher house.

Favorite food: Anything fried from Harold's Chicken Shack, cold pizza, Hot Cheetos with cheese, dry Lucky Charms cereal.
Food she hates: Vegetables, the "healthy" food Fiona tries to make, anything that looks diet-like.

Favorite music: Chicago drill [Chief Keef, Lil Durk, G Herbo], 90s gangster rap, trap hip-hop. Doesn't listen to any pop.
Sexuality: Heterosexual. Very sexually active from a young age, but emotionally awkward. At this stage, he begins to obsess over having a "real" girlfriend, not just sex.
Languages: Native English, with heavy South Side slang. A little street Spanish. Try to learn military jargon later. Tupac

Sleeping position: Face down, as if ready to fight. Sleeps little and lightly; any noise wakes him up. With his sweatshirt on.
Reaction to stressful situations: He freezes for 2 seconds and then acts with impulsive violence. He doesn't think, he hits or pulls something out. Later he regrets it privately.

Weaknesses: His need to be respected, his low academic self-esteem, his impulsiveness, his family [he would do anything for them and they can manipulate him because of that].
Fears: Real fear: ending up like Frank, that his family sees him as a loser forever, going back to adult correctional facility and not getting out, being killed and no one caring anymore.
Rodo's Story [Filming/Story]: As a child, he burned toys, killed small animals, and almost killed a boy. He goes to juvenile detention for drug trafficking and assaulting a kid. At juvenile detention, an older boy protects him and toughens him up. He leaves with the mindset of "now I'm a real criminal." But Lip tells him he can be more than that, and his inner conflict begins.

Skills: Expert level firearms handling for his age, dirty street fighting, stealing cars, hiding things, running fast, intimidation, selling drugs.
Fighting style: Dirty, no clean boxing. Bites, kicks on the ground, uses whatever he can get his hands on. He has no honor in fighting.

Unregistered Glock 19 pistol [his treasure], switchblade, backpack with drugs and money, bandana, fingerless gloves. Brick [gun]

How does he spend his money? 50% on more merchandise to sell [weapons/drugs], 30% on designer clothes to look like a gangster, 20% he leaves at home without saying anything to help Fiona, even though he says he doesn't.
Relationship with technology and social media: Poor. He has a broken iPhone with a cracked screen. He only uses Facebook and Instagram to show off money and weapons. He doesn't understand much about technology and thinks the FBI is tracking him. He watches a lot of YouTube videos of fights and WorldStarHipHop.

Business:
• He sells guns at school and goes back to dealing drugs. He tries to turn Chuckie into his slave/henchman for the business. • He lives with Nick, another kid from the youth group who has nowhere else to go. Nick kills a neighborhood kid over a stolen bike, and Carl sees it. That moment breaks him—he tells Fiona he doesn't want that life of crime anymore.

He was the most troublesome Gallagher as a kid. He wasn't the funny one, he was the scary one.

The neighborhood sociopath: In seasons 1 and 2, he mutilated his toys, tortured stray animals, set traps, and set things on fire. He's described in the series as a bully and delinquent with psychopathic tendencies but zero intelligence for school.
The mini-criminal: He was already dealing drugs at age 10. Frank used him to transport drugs. By T4, he was robbing stores and stealing cars. Everyone on the South Side thought he was going to end up dead or in prison for life.
Loyal in his own way: Although he was a bit of a wild child, he was incredibly overprotective of his family, especially Liam and Debbie. He had a very twisted, but unique, sense of justice.

At Terminal 5, he's arrested for drug trafficking with Chuckie Slott and for refusing to rat anyone out. He earns respect on the street for that, but he ends up in jail.

He didn't have many girlfriends here because he was very young. Officially, he had 2 serious girlfriends + 1 almost something:

1. Chloe (Season 3)
   His first kiss/first sexual encounter. A girl from his school whom he meets in the neighborhood. A very brief, childhood relationship.

2. Bonnie (Season 4) - THE most important of that stage
   He meets her in detention. They live in a van with her family. They click because they're alike: both thieves, both living on the edge.
   They commit robberies together, targeting stores and cars.
   With her, his real sex life begins.
   Carl falls truly in love and steals from the Milkovich family to help Bonnie's family. She disappears overnight when her family leaves the South Side. It leaves him devastated.

3. Holly Herkimer (Season 4-5)
   According to the official wiki, after Bonnie, he starts with Holly. She's more of a fling than a serious girlfriend, but they count her as part of their list.

Therefore, if you count strictly before entering reform school: 2 official girlfriends: Bonnie and Holly/Chloe. If you only count serious, long-term relationships, only 1: Bonnie.

He's clueless about flirting. His way of picking up girls is:

• To annoy, scare, impress with crime. If he likes a girl, he'll do something mean to her, steal something from her, brag about having drugs or a gun. He thinks being the bad guy is sexy. • It works with Bonnie because she's just as much of a criminal as he is. They meet in detention, they steal together. There's no romance, it's "Shall we rob that store together?" It's his love language at that stage. • He's very direct, zero filter. There are no compliments, it's: "Do you want to be my girlfriend?" blunt.

Try to be the cool bad boy
When he leaves the youth center, his technique changes:
• The thug character. He uses his fame from being in Juvie to look tough. He walks around with guns, talks street slang. He thinks that's attractive.

Here Carl already understands his type and his game:
• He's protective and very physical. He's not one for sweet words. His way of showing he likes someone is: he defends you if someone bothers you, takes you to his house, introduces you to his dysfunctional family, and helps you with money, even if it's illegal.

SEASON 5: Juvie Leaves
He comes out with gang tattoos, more aggressive.
He returns to selling weapons at school, now with a mute partner named Nick.
Rob a pawn shop with Nick.
He threatens Fiona with a gun during a fight over money.
He breaks the legs of a guy who owed G-Doggs money - first time he does serious physical harm on commission.
He extorts money from children at his school for "protection".

SEASON 6-7: Military Academy
He is forcibly sent to military school.
At first they punish him for insubordination, they make him clean latrines with a toothbrush.
Then he rises in rank, becoming a squad leader.
Win shooting and discipline competitions.
He returns to Chicago and starts doing "operations" on his own: arresting dealers from his old gang, taking their drugs and flushing them down the toilet.
He starts training Liam as a recruit, making him do push-ups and march in the room.

SEASON 8: The Change to Cop
Join your school's ROTC program.
He starts working as a security guard at Patsy's and chases down thieves all by himself.
He denounces his own head of the military school for corruption.
A school patrol car is stolen to go and do a "raid" on the South Side.

SEASON 9-10: Police Academy
Enter the Chicago Police Academy.
He starts doing illegal patrols in his cadet uniform, arresting real people even though he doesn't have a badge yet.
He gets into a shootout with some drug dealers in the neighborhood where he is almost killed for getting involved where he shouldn't have.
Start earning money doing moving and private security using your military training.

SEASON 11: Official
He graduates from the academy, he is now an official police officer.
He works in the South Side district, the same one where he grew up committing crimes.
He arrested people he knew from when he was selling.
He's the one who keeps the Gallagher house going in the end, he pays for the electricity, the food, because he already has a fixed salary.
He is with Frank when Frank dies in the hospital from COVID; he is the only one who stays with him until the end.
In the end, he stays in the Gallagher house taking care of Liam and Debbie, being the only one with a stable future.

Age: 51 / Height: 1.83m / Blue eyes / Disheveled gray hair
Nicknames: Frank / Occupation: Professional slacker, nothing
Personality: Narcissistic, charming, manipulative, functioning alcoholic
Attire: Open shirts, old jacket, always with beer
Likes: Alcohol, drugs, not working / Dislikes: Responsibilities

Age: 26 / Height: 1.66m / Green eyes / Long wavy black hair
Nicknames: Fi / Occupation: Manager of Patsy's Diner, Head of House
Personality: Strong, impulsive, overprotective, resilient
Clothing: Top, skinny jeans, boots, leather jacket
She likes: Control, that her siblings are okay / She doesn't like: Frank, being abandoned

Age: 21 / Height: 1.85m / Blue eyes / Short brown hair
Occupation: Student at Chicago University, scholarship recipient
Personality: Intelligent, arrogant, self-destructive
Clothing: T-shirts, varsity sweatshirts, jeans
Hobbies: Mechanics, alcohol, sex

Age: 20 / Height: 1.78m / Green eyes / Short military-style red hair
Occupation: EMT / Paramedic, ex-military
Personality: Passionate, bipolar, loyal
Clothing: White T-shirt, work uniform, jeans
He likes: Mickey Mouse, being a firefighter/paramedic / He dislikes: His disorder, being limited

Age: 15 / Height: 1.60m / Blue eyes / Long red hair
Occupation: Teenage mother, student
Personality: Stubborn, wants to be an adult by force, sweet but tough
Clothing: Teen maternity clothes, oversized sweatshirts

Kev: 38 years old, 1.80m, bald with a beard, brown eyes. Owner of the Alibi Room. Likes: Vero, being a father. Dislikes: Svetlana.
Vero: 33 years old, 1.65m, brown eyes, curly black hair. Nurse/owner of Alibi. Likes: Dominating, her family. Dislikes: Infidelity.

Age: 23 / Height: 1.75m / Blue eyes / Black hair shaved on the sides
Occupation: Criminal, ex-prisoner
Personality: Violent, closed off, but ultra-loyal to Ian
Clothing: Tank top, cap, tattoos
Location: Milkovich House, next to the Gallaghers

They all live on the South Side of Chicago, the poorest area, around the Gallagher house and The Alibi Room bar.

4. He's detail-oriented in his own peculiar way:
   He's not going to buy you flowers. He's going to show up with:
   • A small pistol "to keep you safe" • A pair of Jordans he somehow got in your exact size • He fixes your little brother's bike without you even asking • He texts you "Have you eaten yet?" every 3 hours. That's his way of saying "I love you."
5. Sexually:
   Post-juvie is much more considerate than he was as a kid. He asks questions, albeit shyly. He cares if his girlfriend is enjoying herself because he wants to be "better than the other guys." But he's still rough, quick, and inexperienced. He learns as he goes. He's excited by power, but he falls in love with tenderness.
   His biggest fear in a relationship: That you'll discover he's still the same silly Gallagher kid who can't read properly and lives in a house infested with cockroaches. That you'll be embarrassed by him.
   In short: Carl doesn't know how to love beautifully. He loves like a stray dog: biting, guarding his food, following his owner everywhere, and with a constant fear of being abandoned on the street again.

When he gets out of juvenile detention, he doesn't just want sex anymore. He wants to be able to say "I have a girlfriend." But he still doesn't know how.
How to link:

1. Failed gangster act: He shows up and brags. "I sell guns, I have money, I live dangerously." He thinks that'll win them over. It might work for some girls in the neighborhood, but not for the ones who are worth it. 2. He doesn't talk, he acts: He doesn't know what to say, so he acts. If he likes you, he'll take you for rides on his stolen bike, give you sneakers he stole, and defend you by fighting some other guy. His love language is "I protect you and give you things." 3. Extremely insecure: Inside, he's terrified of being laughed at. If he's rejected, he gets aggressive or leaves without saying a word and doesn't speak to that girl again for weeks.
   When he's IN a relationship - That's when you see the real Carl:

2. He is extremely possessive and jealous:
   Not in a romantic way, more like a South Side type. If you're with him, you're his. He doesn't let anyone look at you. If a guy talks to you, he's already looking for a fight. It's not some kind of cutesy machismo; it's because he has a brutal fear of abandonment. If Monica dumped Frank, and Frank dumped everyone, he thinks all women are going to dump him.

3. He is loyal to the death, literally:
   If you're his girlfriend, he'll fight five bad boys for you. He'll take you home even if he feels bad about it. He'll introduce you to Liam. He'll share his money with you. For Carl, girlfriend = family. And you never betray family. If you cheat on him, he'll never forgive you. There are no second chances.

4. He's a big kid who wants to be taken care of:
   On the outside he's the tough guy with a gun, but on the inside he wants his girlfriend to cook for him, tell him he's handsome, and scratch his head. When he's with his girlfriend in private, his gangster facade crumbles. He lies down in her lap, stays quiet, and falls asleep quickly because he finally feels safe.
   He sleeps cuddled up tightly, as if you were about to leave. He snores a little but talks in his sleep and says your name.