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- | ====== Kier Eagan ====== | + | <WRAP infobox> |
- | Kier is the founder and former CEO of [[lumon_industries|Lumon]]. He is a relative to [[helena_eagan|Helena | + | | **Kier Eagan** {{kier_eagan_wax_figure.png|Wax Figure}} || |
- | + | ^ Also Known As | The Founder, The Grandfather, Chosen One | | |
- | ^ Also Known As | The Founder, The Grandfather | | + | |
^ Portrayed By | [[https:// | ^ Portrayed By | [[https:// | ||
^ Status | ^ Status | ||
+ | ^ Born | 1841 | | ||
+ | ^ Died | 1939 | | ||
+ | ^ First Appearance | [[Good News About Hell]] (likeness) | | ||
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+ | ====== Kier Eagan ====== | ||
+ | **Kier Eagan** is the visionary founder and first CEO of [[lumon_industries|Lumon]]. He acted as the company' | ||
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+ | ===== Biography ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Life and Career ==== | ||
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+ | Little is known about Kier's family and early life. According to Kier, his skin was susceptible to bruising as a child due, in part, to his parents' | ||
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+ | Despite his health vulnerabilities, | ||
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+ | While working as a stewman in an ether factory, Kier met a swab girl named [[imogene_eagan]] whom he later married.((Season 1, Episode 5, "[[The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design]]" | ||
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+ | Kier served as a military doctor in his early 20s,((As mentioned in Natalie’s speech at the gala, per the [[the_we_we_are# | ||
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+ | ==== Methodology ==== | ||
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+ | Kier dedicated large amounts of his work to his philosophy that a life of service equated to the highest form of love. He embedded this idea in the formation of Lumon' | ||
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+ | One of Kier's most influential works was his theory on taming [[the four tempers|the four tempers]] of the human soul. According to Kier: | ||
+ | <WRAP script inset> | ||
+ | In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which are derived every human soul. Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice. Each man's character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave of my own mind, and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.((Season 1, Episode 3, "[[In Perpetuity]]" | ||
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+ | Kier believed evenly-tamed tempers were the key to achieving the " | ||
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+ | ==== Legacy ==== | ||
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+ | On paper, the town of [[Kier, PE]] seems to have been developed into a living legacy to Kier's name and likeness, honoring the Lumon founder and the extended Eagan family in local business names and public statues. Even still, the full reach of Kier's legacy and impact beyond the walls of Lumon remains somewhat of a mystery. | ||
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+ | Kier's writings continue to be a prominent and guiding pillar inside present-day Lumon, but it is unclear how much of Kier's work (if any) has been published or made accessible for broader public consumption. Lumon has memorialized Kier's writings and words within the office through excerpts in internal publications, | ||
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+ | ===== Trivia ===== | ||
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+ | * Kier's favorite breakfast was three raw eggs in milk every morning. This factoid is part of the orientation questionnaire given to newly awakened Severed employees. | ||
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+ | ===== Quotes & Dialogue ===== | ||
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+ | >The light of discovery shines truer upon a virgin meadow than a beaten path. | ||
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+ | >Be ever merry. | ||
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+ | >Keep a merry humor in your heart. | ||
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+ | >The surest way to tame a person is to let him believe he’s free. | ||
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+ | >Tame thy tempers. | ||
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+ | >Let not weakness live in your veins. | ||
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+ | >We must be cut to heal. | ||
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+ | >The remembered man does not decay. | ||
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+ | >Tame in me the tempers four that I may serve thee evermore. Place in me the values nine that I may feel thy touch divine. | ||
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+ | >Render not my creation in miniature. | ||
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+ | >Be content in my words and dally not in the scholastic pursuits of lesser men. | ||
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+ | >And I shall whisper to ye dutiful through the ages, in your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice. You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am 10 centuries demised. | ||
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+ | >I dug inside of soldiers and within them, found the war. | ||
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+ | >I know that death is near upon me, because people have begun to ask what I see as my life’s great achievement. They wish to know how they should remember me as I rot. In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which are derived every human soul. Woe. Frolic. Dread. Malice. Each man’s character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave of my own mind, and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrated power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children. | ||
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+ | >Come now, children of my industry, and know the children of my blood. <WRAP attribution> | ||
===== Appearances ===== | ===== Appearances ===== | ||
==== Season 1 ==== | ==== Season 1 ==== | ||
- | * [[Good News About Hell]] (likeness) | ||
- | * [[Half Loop]] (likeness) | ||
- | * [[In Perpetuity]] (voice) | ||
- | * [[The You You Are]] (likeness) | ||
- | * [[Hide and Seek]] (likeness) | ||
- | * [[Defiant Jazz]] (likeness) | ||
- | * [[What’s for Dinner]] (voice) | ||
- | * [[The We We Are]] (likeness) | ||
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- | See also: [[List of characters]] | + | ===== See Also ===== |
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+ | * [[List of characters]] | ||
+ | * [[kier_eagan_portraiture]] | ||
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