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OOC:
Player Handle: Alms
Contact: pm or errantpastor @ plurk
Pronouns: she
Invite/Current Player: Invite Link
Other Characters: n/a
IC:
Character Name: Dana Katherine Scully
Age: 53ish
Canon: The X-Files
Canon Point: After 10.03, Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
CRAU: n/a
History: wiki!
Personality:
A lifetime ago, in the ancient days of the early '90s, Dana Scully was a fresh-faced young FBI agent eager to prove herself in the boys' club of the Bureau and render the unknown knowable. Having grown up in a military family and devoted most of her education to science and medicine, she has a strong preference for order and logic. Which is too bad, because her life has been largely governed by chaos and conspiracy since the day, twenty-some years ago, she walked into Fox Mulder's basement office and learned of the existence of the X-Files.
She's a bit of a control freak; in a sense, her work as a scientist is part and parcel of this. She wants to understand, to explain and quantify, to fit the world into the scientific frame she understands. It's tempting to reduce her skepticism to a stubborn refusal to believe-- but really belief is the easy part. She wants to know, to understand, to prove. When she says she doesn't believe in the impossible, it's not the phenomena she doubts; it's that she refuses to accept that there's anything that doesn't have some rational explanation. Over the years she's seen enough to be more open to the idea of extreme possibility, but her first instinct is always going to be to question, document, and try to explain. But she's seen a few full-fledged miracles, now; at the very least she's come, grudgingly, to admit there are things she can't know, not yet.
Due to her professional competence and her polished facade, people tend to assume Scully is pretty well adjusted and normal. This is exactly as she wants it. But on a deeper level, Scully's got a darker side; she can be rebellious, she can be angry, she makes bad choices while knowing just how bad they are. She used to sneak out and steal her mother's cigarettes just for the joy of transgression. In a moment of particular unrest, she picked up a stranger, got drunk, got a dubious tattoo, and then nearly got murdered, and honestly she barely regrets any of it. She both craves and rejects approval. She's got an extremely dark sense of humor-- her dog ate its previous owner, she named it after a literary cannibal. But really, Scully would much rather you not know that. Please just keep thinking she is normal and on top of things.
She cares about others, but struggles to let others care for her. In a general sense she has a lot of compassion and empathy for others; she's always wanted to make a difference to others' lives, which is why she's worked in law enforcement or medicine for her whole career. When someone is genuinely in need she has a hard time saying no. But on a more personal level, letting herself be vulnerable is difficult. For the past few decades she's been actively trying to work on that, but she's prone to backsliding-- and honestly the loss of her child, and the years spent on the run as a fugitive with only one person to trust probably didn't help-- nor did the painful end of that intense, long-term relationship. These days she's back to being guarded and stubbornly refusing to admit she's lonely.
But when she does make a connection, Dana Scully is loyal AF. She's a tough nut to crack but when she loves, she does so fiercely. She will go to great lengths to defend the people she trusts and cares about and can be downright vicious when they're threatened. It's hard to gain her trust-- now so more than ever-- and betraying her is borderline unforgivable. In general she's a rule follower, but she'll stand by her principles if they're in conflict with the letter of the law. (Ask her about being held in contempt of Congress!)
As she's gotten older, she's become both more and less patient. Her temper is better controlled and she's better than ever at coping with bureaucracy-- but she's much less willing to suffer disrespect or foolishness. She's tried to turn her back on all things paranormal and be satisfied with a good, quiet life-- working hard to help patients at the hospital, doing charity work where she can-- but there's a deep well of sadness she's mostly trying to ignore, and she's not doing a good job of it.
Much of Scully's life has been spent navigating the tension between what she wants, and what she thinks she should want; she's always been a study in contradictions. These days she's trying to convince herself that what she should want is enough, and that she can be content staying in the well-lit, simple, known world. (Spoiler alert: she can't.)
Abilities: Dana is a medical doctor and an FBI field agent; she's physically very fit, competent in a fight, and a very good shot. She's also very experienced as a forensic pathologist. A trained investigator, she has years of experience delving into strange, unsolved, dare I say-- spooky cases. Scully also has an improbably wide variety of random knowledge, from physics to obscure saint stories to the occasional dead language. Oh, and she does a little sleight of hand, on occasion.
For the most part she's an average, run-of-the-mill human being; the only thing is, she may or may not be canonically immortal. But as she doesn't actually believe it, and wouldn't test the theory, AND that wouldn't apply here anyway-- we can safely ignore that question.
Inventory: Normal everyday stuff; a purse with keys, makeup, a useless 2016 cell phone, a holstered handgun and her badge.
I would also love her to bring Daggoo, the dog she recently stole.
Eternal Reward: The family she never quite let herself believe she could have: Mulder, at his best, and their son William, not in constant mortal danger.
Goals/Ideas: so many things!
- Scully working on her intimacy issues
- Scully casually talking about all the various improbable and impossible things she's seen like it's NBD
- Scully herself getting to be the strange and unusual (love that)
- c r o s s c a n o n s h e n a n i g a n s
- look I'm not proud but we can all agree she's kind of a cougar, yeah? yeah.
- more than anything I am here to be surprised by what pops up with other people!
Samples: TDM Sample
Secret Code Phrase: My curse is my redemption.
Player Handle: Alms
Contact: pm or errantpastor @ plurk
Pronouns: she
Invite/Current Player: Invite Link
Other Characters: n/a
IC:
Character Name: Dana Katherine Scully
Age: 53ish
Canon: The X-Files
Canon Point: After 10.03, Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
CRAU: n/a
History: wiki!
Personality:
A lifetime ago, in the ancient days of the early '90s, Dana Scully was a fresh-faced young FBI agent eager to prove herself in the boys' club of the Bureau and render the unknown knowable. Having grown up in a military family and devoted most of her education to science and medicine, she has a strong preference for order and logic. Which is too bad, because her life has been largely governed by chaos and conspiracy since the day, twenty-some years ago, she walked into Fox Mulder's basement office and learned of the existence of the X-Files.
She's a bit of a control freak; in a sense, her work as a scientist is part and parcel of this. She wants to understand, to explain and quantify, to fit the world into the scientific frame she understands. It's tempting to reduce her skepticism to a stubborn refusal to believe-- but really belief is the easy part. She wants to know, to understand, to prove. When she says she doesn't believe in the impossible, it's not the phenomena she doubts; it's that she refuses to accept that there's anything that doesn't have some rational explanation. Over the years she's seen enough to be more open to the idea of extreme possibility, but her first instinct is always going to be to question, document, and try to explain. But she's seen a few full-fledged miracles, now; at the very least she's come, grudgingly, to admit there are things she can't know, not yet.
Due to her professional competence and her polished facade, people tend to assume Scully is pretty well adjusted and normal. This is exactly as she wants it. But on a deeper level, Scully's got a darker side; she can be rebellious, she can be angry, she makes bad choices while knowing just how bad they are. She used to sneak out and steal her mother's cigarettes just for the joy of transgression. In a moment of particular unrest, she picked up a stranger, got drunk, got a dubious tattoo, and then nearly got murdered, and honestly she barely regrets any of it. She both craves and rejects approval. She's got an extremely dark sense of humor-- her dog ate its previous owner, she named it after a literary cannibal. But really, Scully would much rather you not know that. Please just keep thinking she is normal and on top of things.
She cares about others, but struggles to let others care for her. In a general sense she has a lot of compassion and empathy for others; she's always wanted to make a difference to others' lives, which is why she's worked in law enforcement or medicine for her whole career. When someone is genuinely in need she has a hard time saying no. But on a more personal level, letting herself be vulnerable is difficult. For the past few decades she's been actively trying to work on that, but she's prone to backsliding-- and honestly the loss of her child, and the years spent on the run as a fugitive with only one person to trust probably didn't help-- nor did the painful end of that intense, long-term relationship. These days she's back to being guarded and stubbornly refusing to admit she's lonely.
But when she does make a connection, Dana Scully is loyal AF. She's a tough nut to crack but when she loves, she does so fiercely. She will go to great lengths to defend the people she trusts and cares about and can be downright vicious when they're threatened. It's hard to gain her trust-- now so more than ever-- and betraying her is borderline unforgivable. In general she's a rule follower, but she'll stand by her principles if they're in conflict with the letter of the law. (Ask her about being held in contempt of Congress!)
As she's gotten older, she's become both more and less patient. Her temper is better controlled and she's better than ever at coping with bureaucracy-- but she's much less willing to suffer disrespect or foolishness. She's tried to turn her back on all things paranormal and be satisfied with a good, quiet life-- working hard to help patients at the hospital, doing charity work where she can-- but there's a deep well of sadness she's mostly trying to ignore, and she's not doing a good job of it.
Much of Scully's life has been spent navigating the tension between what she wants, and what she thinks she should want; she's always been a study in contradictions. These days she's trying to convince herself that what she should want is enough, and that she can be content staying in the well-lit, simple, known world. (Spoiler alert: she can't.)
Abilities: Dana is a medical doctor and an FBI field agent; she's physically very fit, competent in a fight, and a very good shot. She's also very experienced as a forensic pathologist. A trained investigator, she has years of experience delving into strange, unsolved, dare I say-- spooky cases. Scully also has an improbably wide variety of random knowledge, from physics to obscure saint stories to the occasional dead language. Oh, and she does a little sleight of hand, on occasion.
For the most part she's an average, run-of-the-mill human being; the only thing is, she may or may not be canonically immortal. But as she doesn't actually believe it, and wouldn't test the theory, AND that wouldn't apply here anyway-- we can safely ignore that question.
Inventory: Normal everyday stuff; a purse with keys, makeup, a useless 2016 cell phone, a holstered handgun and her badge.
I would also love her to bring Daggoo, the dog she recently stole.
Eternal Reward: The family she never quite let herself believe she could have: Mulder, at his best, and their son William, not in constant mortal danger.
Goals/Ideas: so many things!
- Scully working on her intimacy issues
- Scully casually talking about all the various improbable and impossible things she's seen like it's NBD
- Scully herself getting to be the strange and unusual (love that)
- c r o s s c a n o n s h e n a n i g a n s
- look I'm not proud but we can all agree she's kind of a cougar, yeah? yeah.
- more than anything I am here to be surprised by what pops up with other people!
Samples: TDM Sample
Secret Code Phrase: My curse is my redemption.