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Name: Ennis del Mar
Fandom: Brokeback Mountain
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Time Period: 1963, just after completing his first job on Brokeback Mountain
Wing Color: White with tan/gold accents
History: Wiki article.
Personality: To describe Ennis in one word would be difficult, but I would probably have to go with "lonely". Fitting, seeing as how even his name can be translated as "island of the sea" (inis being Irish for "island" and del mar being Spanish for "of the sea"). This profound loneliness defines a large part of his character and stems from his isolated childhood, though it isn't a subject he's willing to frequently broach. Shortly after meeting Jack Twist Ennis describes to him how his parents were killed in a car accident.
Jack: Are you from ranch people?
Ennis: Yeah, I was.
Jack: Your folks run you off?
Ennis: No, they run themselves off. There was one curve in the road in forty-three miles, and they missed it. The bank took the ranch, and my brother and sister raised me, mostly.
While he becomes romantically involved with three people throughout the course of the film (Jack, his wife Alma, and his girlfriend Cassie), Jack is the only one with whom he is shown to really relax on a consistent basis and the only one with whom he manages to maintain a longterm relationship. He is also more willing to share details about himself with Jack and after a relatively short amount of time. Even so, when it comes to his past or emotions, he's quick to change the subject when able. He prefers to maintain a gruff and quiet exterior that is juxtaposed with Jack's chatty and much more open nature.
Jack: Your brother and sister do right by you?
Ennis: They did the best they could after my folks was gone, considerin' they didn't leave us nothin' but twenty-four dollars in a coffee can. I got me a year of high school before the transmission went on the pickup. My sis left. She married a roughneck, moved to Casper. Me and my brother, we got ourselves some work on a ranch up near Worland until I was nineteen, and then he got married. No more room for me. That's how come I end up here. … What?
Jack: Friend, that's more words than you've spoke in the past two weeks.
Ennis: Hell, that's the most I've spoke in a year.
Later in the movie we are given more insight into Ennis's thought process and possible reasons for his defensiveness. After Jack suggests that they start a ranch and live together Ennis recounts an event from his childhood, before his parents passed away. He tells Jack of two men that used to live together in his hometown, how they were "tough old birds" but how they were laughingstocks in the town and how one was eventually murdered. He describes how his father took him and his brother out to view the corpse, possibly as a lesson.
Jack: You seen this?
Ennis: Yeah, I was… what, nine years old? My daddy, he made sure me and my brother seen it. Hell, for all I know, he done the job. Two guys livin' together? No way.
Unfortunately, most likely as a result of his constantly pent-up emotions and frustrations, Ennis possesses an extremely violent temper. This is most often sparked by others making comments that relate to Jack or witnessing how the relationship affects him, no doubt due to how defensive he is over the affair as a whole. His reactions range from yelling and throwing accusations to actual physical violence, even to the point of grabbing and threatening his wife after she makes a disparaging remark about Jack.
Ennis is not shown to have many hobbies thanks to an erratic and demanding work schedule, preferring to live simply and practically. That said he does seem to enjoy the outdoors and horseback riding.
He is also a heavy drinker and smoker as seen from the beginning of the film to the end; it's unclear when or why he develops these habits. He and Jack often drink together when spending time on the mountain and Ennis is also shown to drink and smoke excessively whenever he is feeling stressed or impatient about something (for instance, when anticipating Jack's arrival for a visit he drinks several bottles of beer and fills an ashtray).
When it comes to dislikes, Ennis complains repeatedly about Jack's harmonica-playing but it is almost always with a smile and joke. In much the same way he likes to comment on Jack's boisterous antics while also finding them amusing.
Ennis: [My dad] thought rodeo cowboys was all fuck-ups.
Jack: The hell they are! Yeehaw!
Ennis: There you go.
Jack: I'm spurrin' his guts out, wavin' to the girls in the stands! He's kicking' to high heaven but he don't dashboard me, no way.
Ennis: (He begins laughing.) I think my dad was right.
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Ennis: It was only about three seconds I was on that bronc. The next thing I knew I was flying' through the air.
Emotionally and mentally he is patient and rarely complains about his less than ideal life situation. He is content to live simply, day to day, and is not easily flustered.
Weaknesses: As said before, he is only human. He also gets very clumsy when drunk and loses focus when he becomes too angry. For example, after storming out of his home in a rage he picks a fight with a truck driver and ends up being beaten badly despite initially having the advantage.
Emotionally, his temper is definitely his downfall. He punches Jack after Jack accidentally elbows him, attacks two men at a July 4th celebration when they use foul language around his children, and yells at a man that sees him in an emotionally vulnerable state after leaving Jack, just to name a few instances. Also, Ennis frequently clams up and makes himself emotionally unavailable which can hurt those around him.
Mentally, Ennis has had very little formal education and thus is not particularly book-smart at all. As quoted above, he was only given one year of high school and his brother and sister were unable to provide any other resources for him.
Samples
First Person: Q&A, if you don't mind!
Third Person: Initially, upon waking up in this place, Ennis hadn't had much reason to suspect anything had happened beyond him drinking more the previous night than he should've. Crisp, clean air. Lush greenery. It wasn't unlike Wyoming, wasn't unlike the view up on Brokeback itself. But then…
He'd already come back down off the mountain, back to Signal and while it wasn't the fanciest place it sure as hell wasn't so barren as all this. Ennis jerked himself upright at the first drop of rain on his face, movements still clumsy with sleep as he scooted back until he felt the rough bark of a tree against his skin. A brief shelter, at least. Not that that was all he felt. He grunted, craning his neck to deduce the cause of the pain near his shoulder blades. Upon spotting the small, useless appendages it was all he could do to not work himself into a panicked frenzy, leaping immediately to his feet with all traces of grogginess evaporated.
"Fuckin'…" Ennis's eyes again surveyed the landscape, finally catching sight of the journal a meter or so from him. Just about where he'd woken up, really, in a place he didn't remember and in clothes he'd never changed into. Overcoming any apprehension he moved to retrieve it, pausing only long enough to glance up at those slate grey clouds before retreating back beneath the leafy shade of that nearby tree. Whatever it was that he'd found seemed to be his only real clue and he didn't plan to risk letting it get soaked and potentially damaged.
What the hell was going on? If this was some kind of goddamn puzzle or a trick or something that… no, that didn't make any sense either. He couldn't figure that he had many options either way; working out mysteries wasn't something he'd be arrogant enough to claim as a strength. It seemed that his only chances for making sense of the situation rested with the journal in his hand and in the possibility of finding another person that might have some answers.
Staying out here wasn't going to remain an option for long, that was for sure.
Q&A
Q&A
"Secrets"? I ain't yet had the opportunity to gather up too many "secrets".
2. What are you ashamed of?
Well... I got nothin' I'd say I'm ashamed of, really, but I wish I coulda' done more for my brother and sister after my folks was gone.
3. What is your most valuable possession?
I can't say I have much in particular.
4. What's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Well now my brother and sister raised me up from when my folks passed until I turned nineteen. That's as much as anyone could ask for, I figure.
5. Describe what you might call a good day.
Sun shinin', a little peace and quiet. Maybe some whiskey when it's all said and done. I'm no good at sittin' by and bein' idle while someone else does the work.
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