Roark Rickaby was born on December 19th in St. Louis Missouri to Irish immigrant parents, Rocky at a young age lived in a nice house with his mother while his father worked on a railroad, during this time he learned how to play the violin, though later his mother Sophie became bedridden sick and due to this, Rocky had to live with his aunt and cousin. At the age of 16, due to his behavior Rocky is kicked out of the McMurray House and decides to move in with his uncle in Kankakee, Illinois as a farmer, though only 3 months later Rocky leaves on the Missouri Pacific Railroad to Central Oklahoma where he joins a circus as a roustabout, though the circus closes and Rocky finds himself stuck in South Dakota with a violin that was gifted to him by a hobo. Sometime later Rocky joins Zib's band and works at the Lackadaisy speakeasy doing favors for the owner Mitzi May, he later has his cousin Freckle employed and later due to him burning a moonshine barn down, Lackadaisy is attacked by pig farmers leading to Viktor Vasko getting shot in the chest. After this Ivy Pepper and him go on a mission to retrieve wine from a cellar, though they are caught and Rocky gets his head smashed in by a hearse, he later gets his head fixed up by Elsa and carries on with his duties.