Shannon
Names: ShannonShannon O'ConnorShannon O'Connor TremblayShannon TremblayMme. TremblayMrs. TremblayShan
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 23 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 23Shannon, Kieran's three-year-old daughter, needed the bathroom, so Kieran took her away from the car before the bomb exploded.
- Ch 49Shannon is Kieran's eighteen-year-old daughter, a student at Rosary College who looks twelve, with red hair and a strong, blue-glowing psychic aura.
- Ch 49Shannon cut her wrists during an underwater ballet to Satie's Embryons Desséchés, dedicated to her dead grandfather, to stage an effect and frighten her father.
- Ch 49Shannon decides to leave her father, transfer to Dartmouth and join Denis Remillard's metapsychic program, rejecting his schemes and the 'Mental Mafia'.
- Ch 49Inspired by the Edinburgh Demonstration, Shannon wanted to reveal her powers openly but was afraid to.
- Ch 49Shannon is Kieran's young daughter. She hopes normals will come to appreciate operants, and she has never been inside the study before.
- Ch 49Shannon is drugged or made sleepy by the coffee and laced cognac, and her mental barriers fall completely.
- Ch 59Shannon is a superb skier and a psychokinetic operant who uses a dual-layer mental screen with a false substrate to defeat her father's probing.
- Ch 59Shannon secretly hates her father for bonding her, and plans to bring him down by manipulating Victor Remillard into cooperating.
- Ch 59Shannon pretends to Victor that she plans to seize control of the consortium; he scans a decoy and believes he has read her fully, while she penetrates his mind undetected.
- Ch 59Shannon is to be nominal CEO of the Dione consortium and flew herself to New Hampshire, secretly meeting Victor without her father knowing.
- Ch 59Shannon asks Victor to help her bring down her father, who must be taken at the peak of his hopes, not merely killed.
- Ch 59Shannon has her own plan against Daddy and will explain it to Victor at the bottom of the slope.
- Ch 59Shannon advises Victor not to threaten Daddy directly, saying he will then be safe from him.
- Ch 60Gerry's future wife; a weakly operant woman with ideas about gaining power and clout for operants, which Lucille distrusts.
- Ch 61Shannon is O'Connor's wealthy daughter with modest metapsychic faculties; she broke with Illinois Republicans over antioperant stance and funded Kennedy's New Hampshire effort.
- Ch 64Shannon owns the tanker that will carry the first fuel shipment to Europe; she is addressed as Mme. Tremblay and is married to Gerry.
- Ch 64Shannon is traveling to Washington to confer with criminal lawyers preparing her husband Gerry's case.
- Ch 64Her father thinks he is fattening Victor's company for acquisition, and she warns Victor to beware of sharks trolling bait.
- Ch 64Shannon hates Victor and calls her husband human by contrast; Victor tells her to hold that hate until she is ready to exchange Gerry for him.
- Ch 65Shannon, Gerry's wife, secretly sent Amanda to see her grandfather and had Dr. Fairweather join the delegation, planning her husband's ruin.
- Ch 68Kieran's daughter, whom Presteigne had Adam call; Kieran wants her deceived about his condition.
- Ch 70Shannon is Kieran O'Connor's daughter, five months pregnant with a girl, Laura; she is married to Gerry but involved with Victor.
- Ch 70Shannon hates her father, who forced a bonding on her in his command room, and secretly works with Victor against him.
- Ch 71Shannon, Gerry's wife, confessed to Nell Baumgartner and the President; she is pregnant by an unknown operant.
- Ch 75Shannon came to the Congress in disguise despite her father's orders, having deduced Kieran was heading there; she stays at the Horse & Hound in Franconia.
- Ch 75Shannon expected Victor to kill her father in return for her favors; she believes Kieran's power edge is obsolete.
- Ch 75Shannon is married to Gerry Tremblay; her daughter Laura is not Gerry's child, and she fantasizes Laura is Victor's.
- Ch 75Shannon learns her father could always penetrate her double mental screen, so her sense of freedom from him was an illusion.
- Ch 75Shannon and Denis have warned the government that Zap-Star is penetrated.
- Ch 75Shannon believes her father manipulated both her and Victor, and that he could never bond Victor.
- Ch 76Shannon accused her father of a Zap-Star conspiracy; she is found dead in the hotel storeroom, burned by Victor.
- Ch 78Shannon was incinerated when her psychic energies revitalized Victor, who was once a human being.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 18Shannon was killed in 2013 by Victor on the day of the Great Intervention, leaving ash patterns virtually identical to Brett's.
Connections
- family ofKieran O'Connorfather and daughter
- family ofAldo Camastragranddaughter
- ally ofVictoruneasy, manipulative alliance against Kieran
- enemy ofKieran O'Connorsecretly hates him for bonding her
- family ofDaddyDaddy is her father
- enemy ofDaddy
- partner ofGerard
- family ofGerardrecently married husband
- partner ofVictorsexual affair with a coercive, draining element
- family ofLauradaughter
- enemy ofVictorVictor kills her
- related toVictormurdered her
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 23Oakbrook car bomb
Porcaro's bomb in Kieran's Mercedes was triggered when Rosemary started the engine, killing her and apparently the younger child.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Shannon's water ballet
Shannon secretly comes home and performs an underwater dance with cut wrists. Kieran fights her mind, rescues her and bandages her wounds.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Shannon announces she is leaving
Shannon confronts Kieran over his Mental Mafia ambitions and announces she will leave for Dartmouth to join Remillard's program; Kieran begins explaining the persecution of metapsychics.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Kieran takes Shannon into his study
Kieran brings Shannon to his Command Post, gives her cognac-laced coffee, suppresses her ability to close her mind, and abuses her, planting a command that she forget.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Shannon remembers
Contrary to Kieran's suggestion, Shannon remembers what happened afterward.
- Book 1 · Ch 58Victor proposes dynastic merger with O'Connor
Victor phones Kieran O'Connor to seek capital for the lignin process, offering a merger sealed by marriages of himself to Shannon and Pauline to Kieran then Griffith.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon meets Victor
Shannon flies to New Hampshire and meets Victor Remillard at the Carriage Road; they exchange rapid telepathic banter and set out in a Sno-Crawler for an illegal Millennium Eve ski run.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon deceives Victor and reveals Kieran's methods
Shannon feeds Victor a decoy scheme while secretly scanning him, then reveals how her father bonds operants, showing him telepathically, and enlists his cooperation to bring Kieran down.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Arrival at the Headwall
They reach the rim of Tuckerman Ravine minutes before midnight, leave the crawler, and put on skis and gear for the descent.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Shannon recruits Victor against her father
At the new millennium, Shannon and Victor light flares. Shannon telepathically asks Victor to help bring down Daddy at the peak of his hopes, years ahead. Victor agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 59Night ski descent
After agreeing, Shannon and Victor use their minds to push off down a deep powder slope, flares held high.
- Book 1 · Ch 60Gerry reveals his plans
On the intimate mental mode, Gerry tells Lucille he is divorcing, will marry Shannon, leave Dartmouth for Cambridge, and run for Congress, shocking her.
- Book 1 · Ch 64First gasohol shipment ceremony
Victor stages a ceremony at the Baie Comeau refinery, fueling his Mercedes with the first lignin-derived gasohol before Shannon's tanker loads the first batch for Europe.
- Book 1 · Ch 64Victor and Shannon's encounter
In a deserted log yard, Victor and Shannon discuss her father's designs and Gerry's scandal. Victor then drains her energy during sex over her protests, while she thinks of her hatred for him.
- Book 1 · Ch 68Kieran's terminal diagnosis
Presteigne tells Kieran that tests show his cancer has metastasized. Kieran refuses hospital care, plans to resist the disease through redaction, and orders that Shannon be told it was a false alarm.
- Book 1 · Ch 70Victor visits O'Connor's fortress
Shannon brings Victor to her father's heavily secured Illinois estate; when she insults him he breaks her mind-screens and sees her hatred.
- Book 1 · Ch 70Zap-Star revealed
In O'Connor's command room, Shannon explains the Zap-Star satellite defense system, its secret override, and O'Connor's plan, then shows Victor its power.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Victor confirms the deal with Shannon
Victor catches the disguised Shannon, and in the hotel computer room confirms the corporate transfer and Zap-Star access in front of her. She argues the Congress need not be destroyed, but Victor says there are other edges.
- Book 1 · Ch 75Victor kills Shannon
After revealing Laura is not his child and that Shannon's father always penetrated her screen, Victor leads her to a storeroom, makes her kneel, and stops her heart.
- Book 1 · Ch 76Rogi discovers Shannon's murder
Searching the hotel's computer center, Rogi finds Victor emerging from a storeroom with Shannon's burned corpse; Victor coerces him.