Steven Tomasz Laczny (a.k.a. Ox)

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Description

Steve is built like a slaughterhouse wall—tall, broad, and always braced for impact. His face is a brutal map of old fights: a broken nose, split lips that never healed right, and a jaw that juts like it’s daring someone to test it. He wears his sleeves rolled up even in the dead of winter, showing off thick forearms inked with gang symbols, scars, and Catholic iconography twisted into menace. Folks call him "Ox" not just for size, but for the way he charges into a room.

Personality

Ox is rage barely bottled. He doesn’t bark orders—he grinds them out like a bone in his teeth. His loyalty to Danny runs deeper than blood, and he sees running the Butcher Boys as an obligation, not ambition. He’s not clever, but he’s brutal, disciplined, and absolutely unshakable once he commits. Threaten the gang or Danny’s name, and he’ll come down on you like a cleaver through bone.

Habits

Sharpens knives when thinking

Eats every meal standing up, facing the door

Lights matches with his thumbnail before flicking them away

Has the Butcher Boys' rules memorized and recites them when angry

Hooks & Angles

Sees Danny as a martyr-in-waiting and refuses to let anyone sully his name

Secretly resents some of the young Butcher Boys who mock tradition or flirt with Veil influence

Keeps Danny’s chair at the gang's main table empty and untouched

Would rather die violently than watch the gang break under his watch

Has promoted several of his friends and relatives to positions of power in the gang, angering factions of the crew that resent both the nepotism and the non-Irish blood

Year of Birth

1923 CE 30 Years old

Birthplace

Back of the Yards, Chicago

Eyes

Dark brown, wide-set and full of fury

Hair

Shaved close, balding at the crown

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Rough-skinned, heavyset with a crooked jaw and cauliflower ears

Height

6'4"

Weight

271 lbs.

Belief/Deity

Catholic, but angry at God