γMore Than The Mugshot...γ
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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βFull Nameβ
Marlene Hazel Grace Vane
βNicknamesβ
Marley || By everyone | Always | Marley is most certainly her most common nickname, as she absolutely loathes her real name and so refers to herself by this shortening whenever introducing herself.
Lois || By colleagues | Sometimes | Reference to fictional reporter Lois Lane, who has a similar personality and insatiable curiosity to Marlene.
Nancy Drew || By Colleagues | Sometimes | Like the nickname 'Lois' this is in reference to a fictional character, a detective, who tends to get in too deep. Like Marlene.
Slugger || By friends and colleagues | Sometimes | In reference to Marlene's swift right hook, and a act-first-think-later mindset.
βAgeβ
Twenty-four
βEthnicityβ
Irish-American
βGenderβ
Female
βSexual Orientationβ
Heterosexual
βHometownβ
Dublin, Ireland (0-3)
Camden, Maine, USA (3-18)
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
βHeightβ
5'5"
βWeightβ
βEye Colorβ
Green
βHairβ
Dark red, and reaches halfway down upper arms
βBody Typeβ
Athletic hourglass
βSpecial Markingsβ
Tattoo | Daisy | Left Wrist | Tribute to Mother |
βExtrasβ
Pretty much anything else.
β"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
βLikesβ
|| Finding Out the Truth || Sleuthing || Dogs || Her Uncle, Phipps || Driving || Writing and Journalism || Drinking || Her Motorcycle || Eighties Rock || Winning Things || Free Stuff || Mechanics || Car Chases || Coffee || Adrenaline || Air Guitaring || Singing in the Shower || Walking Around the House in Sweats || Eating Ice Cream Out of the Tub || Cheesy Soap Operas || Being Told of By Her Father || Carnivals || Chocolate || Proving People Wrong || Bumper Cars || Bon Jovi ||
βDislikesβ
|| Being Wrong || Being Lied To || Getting Caught || Her Sister Getting Up To Trouble || Sitting Still || Waiting || Romcoms (Apart From The Princess Bride, Which She Loves)|| Smoking || Getting Her Nails Done || Being Fussed Over || Hospitals || Injections || Being Teased or Insulted || Sexism || Too Much Responsibility || Deadlines || Snobs || Hypocrites || Racism ||
βHabitsβ
|| Getting Herself into Trouble || Making Lots of Hand Gestures When Explaining Things || Accidentally Breaking or Dropping Things || Foot-In-Mouth Disease || Clicking Her Pen When Thinking || Muttering to Herself || Drumming Fingers When Bored or Impatient || Taking Anger Out on Inanimate Objects ||
βFearsβ
|| Losing Her Family || Losing Her Job || Losing, In General ||
βAspirationsβ
|| To become a world-famous reporter || To uncover the truth behind the Family || To prove herself to her father ||
βSecretsβ
If applicable.
βPersonalityβ
Marley has always been stubborn. Orders didn't sit well with her, and rules were never her style. Her father's tough ways kept her straight, but she was never completely obedient, and she was just as fiery and free-spirited as her mother had been before her. Now? Well, she's still just as fiery, if not more so, hardly the sort to bow down in a fight, no matter her opponent. Telling her what she can and cannot do is a perfect and always effective way to push her buttons, and whatever she supposedly 'cannot do' she will go out and do exactly that, with phtographic evidence and a self-satisfied smile. She is a firecracker of an individual, spitting hot sparks of sarcasm and wit, and although she is reckless, she is smart, and very quick, both physically and mentally.
She also isn't afraid to get her hands dirty, and finds no greater joy in going undercover to get that 'big scoop', and she won't let anyone get in her way, be they snobby heiresses hiding scandals, or armed thugs hiding a body. She is, to be honest, excellent at her job, but doesn't know her bounds, or rather, refuses to believe such bounds exist. She is street-smart, but not quite as slick and smooth as she pretends to be, hiding her clumsier, more awkward self beneath a cool and savvy persona. Marley is extremely brave, although others might simply say extremely stupid, as she rarely thinks about the consequences of getting into big, bad situations, despite them being life-threatening a great deal of the time. All this being said, Marley is quite kind past the rugged and tough exterior, and has many soft spots, including dogs, chocolate, and her sister.
γArmed And Dangerous...γ
"Hit me with your best shot."
βSkillsβ
Thinking on her feet || Marley is extremely good at thinking on the spot, spinning lies out of nothing and getting herself out of tricky and otherwise dangerous situations
Hand-to-hand combat || When she was only young, her uncle began teaching her how to defend herself. She proved to be quite a natural, and sports, as her uncle says, 'a mean right hook'
Charming || Marley can be extremely charismatic when she wants something, and although her hotheadedness will often come to light, and make her far less likable and individual, before that occurs, she is very good at gaining trust
Firearms || Hardly a necessity for a reporter, but years spent at the firing range her uncle own's has rubbed off on her.
βEquipmentβ
Honda RC30 || The gift Marley received from her uncle for her seventeenth birthday, the pair have been inseparable ever since
Black Leather Jacket ||Was Marley's dream jacket. So she bought one
Watch || Analog, was once her father's
βWeaknessesβ
Reckless || Marley may be good at thinking on her feet, but she isn't so good at thinking about the consequences. She often gets herself into perilous, dangerous and all-over bad situations, all thanks to her inability to think further on than the precise moment she is in at the time.
Arrogant || Although her acts surely do warrant merit, Marley often expects more of herself than she should
Stubborn || Marley never backs down from a fight, and once she has her mind set on something, she isn't likely to let go. Screw reason
Curious || Don't forget what it did to the cat
"Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen."
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βHistoryβ
"My story? That's what you want to talk about? My job is to uncover scandals and write about the actions of some of the worlds most notorious criminal minds and you want to talk about me? ... Okay, whatever. Your loss."
"Uh, well, I should start with my parents. My dad joined the US army when he was eighteen, fresh out of college. He started off at the bottom, although my granddad had been a big shot in the army before him, so he might have had a little help along the way, but by the time he met my mom, he was a general. Mom was a teacher at primary school in Dublin, Ireland. She was... well, I never would've put them together. She was fun-loving, free-spirited and a wannabee artist. He... wasn't. But there was one person, a person so powerful in spirit that he can connect the most unlikely of couples in fate."
"Bon Jovi."
"Mom came over to the US to go to Bon Jovi's concert. She'd never left Dublin before. Dad was on leave from the army. They met. Sparks. Chemistry. You know the drill."
"Basically, they decided to keep a long distance relationship going, and, obviously it worked out, because two years later they were married, and not long after that, I showed up. I know deep down dad wanted a son, and so when they had another kid, and it was my sister, Grace, well... I kind of took on the role a little bit. I became the rowdy tyke, and Grace became the little princess, a child prodigy and ethereal angel. Jealous? Who, me?"
"Mum passed away when I was nine. Cancer. Nothing anyone could do. It was just one of those things. Suddenly, I wasn't just the 'son' of the family, I was the mom, too. Grace doesn't really remember mom all that well, but it was me that had to break the news that 'Mommy had gone to Heaven'. Dad was... well, I think he took it the worst. I get that some people might call him a bad parent for not coping as well as his kids did, but honestly? Mom was.. well, she and dad's relationship was something that shouldn't have existed. It defied all logic. And it happened. I think dad knew that too."
"But anyway, depressing stuff aside, I grew up, and left the teeny-tot town I'd grown up in, went on to bigger things. Became a reporter, and... well, here I am, I suppose."
βQUOTEβ
It's My Life - Bon Jovi
βFace Claimβ
Emma Stone
βRoleβ
The Lois Lane
βRoleplayerβ
RubyTuesday