Description

Personality

Personality:

Are they a daredevil or cautious? Once cautious and making sure nothing is wrong to an almost 180 in personality, He can sometimes be reckless or careful, depending on what emotions are at play.
Do they act the same alone as when with someone? It is almost like the partner isn't even there and has no effect on his actions
Habits: He has developed a strange habit when he is at home to constantly checking his cell phone... waiting for his daughter to call him and tell him to pick her up from school.
Drinks: Every couple of nights he will stop down at some local bar to have a few beers.
How much: He'll tell you it was two but the bartender can tell you it was closer to four or five.
Greatest Strength: When he is sober, It would have to be his mind which is good at deciphering problems and forming a plan or strategy
Greatest Weakness: His drinking.
Soft spot: His one true soft spot was taken from him during a Hataf bombing.
Biggest Vulnerability: Those unstable nights where he has to go grab a few drinks to help him forget. Those are the nights it is easiest to approach him or draw him into something he might normally refuse.

Attitude:

Most at ease when: He is rarely at ease though he does seem to settle a bit when he is drunk. Just don't mention family or his daughter.
Most ill at ease when: Almost always. His frown may make him seem like a rough guy but is nothing to what he is like on the inside, always ready to shift the blame to somewhere else
Priorities: His priorities are fairly strait though they seem impossible. The first is to find Hataf and the second is to make those responsible for his pain to pay.
Philosophies: He used to have a philosophy on keeping a happy family but one could say it went up in flames.
How they feel about themselves: There isn't a night that he doesn't sit in his bed staring up at the ceiling and wondering... blaming himself for his daughter's death.
If granted one wish what would it be, why? To see his daughter one more time and tell him he loved her. That morning he had a fight with his daughter because she tried to fake her report card to cover for a bad grade. That night he was waiting in the morgue to help identify her body.

Traits:

Introvert or extrovert? Why? Extremely Introverted, thanks to that one day in his life he shut everyone out.
Drives and motives: His drive is the death of his daughter, his motive is to make the people that killed her pay.
Talents: When he is sober, or as he was in his past, he was able to take apart a scenario under pressure and form a plan that would stay rock solid until the end.
Extremely skilled at: Tracking a suspect or target
Extremely unskilled at: Keeping his cool
Good characteristics: Some might say he has a good heart or he means for better but even he can't tell those lies to himself any more.
Character flaws: His drinking problem, fixation on the Hataf group, introverted life style and a sense of over generalizing the blame for his daughter’s death that might come around on another target.
Mannerisms: Usually involves him opening and closing his hands when his is angry or constantly rubbing his brow when stressed.
Biggest regret: Not being able to save his daughter.
Minor regrets: Divorcing his wife, Not being nicer to his daughter
Biggest accomplishment: In his mind, it was quitting the agency to go off on his own without all that damn paper work
Minor accomplishments: A few notable cases completed as a field agent, though none he can really recall now.

Self-perception:

One word they would use to describe themselves: Tired.
One paragraph of how they would describe themselves: A long struggle of long hours for the FBI and for what? To get a divorce and loose his only daughter to the Hataf and when he takes the initiative gets pulled from the case. A long string of failures from quitting his job to freelance work looking for Hataf combined with drinking. A real winner... Yea right.
What do they consider their best physical characteristic and why: His poker face, since it makes it hard for all but the most experienced of people to know when he is lying.
The worst one? Why? His frown, as it tends to discourage social contact.
Are they realistic assessments? No one would argue about that, if you were asking that.
How they think others preserve them: He honestly could care less but he is certain he has heard a bartender or two comment that he looks like a man who might have lost everything.

Interaction with other people:

How do they relate to others: He gets off as an angry guy who is more likely to beat you with your own words, rather than talk and get to know you.
How are they perceived by strangers: A man to ignore and avoid if at all possible.
Friends: None.
Wife/husband/lover: His wife Crystal divorced him after what happened to their daughter, since she was really the only thing keeping them together.
What do people like most about this char: Hard to find anything they like but most comment that he does seem to have a goal that doesn't let him slip into depression... If only they knew what that goal was.
What do they dislike most about them: His bad vibe and out there personality that makes him almost impossible to get close or talk to.

History

Background:

Hometown:
Type of childhood: Being an only child wasn't as bad as some make it out to be, and he got to enjoy time with his parents when they weren't at work.
First Memory: It would have to be Christmas morning, when he was seven years old, and his parents bought him a puppy, a chocolate lab Benny.
Most important child hood event that still effects him/her: The day his father walked out on his mother and she raised him by herself.
Why? It was what convinced him to remain married to his wife, to make his daughter's life be as "normal" as possible.
Education:
Religion: Christian by name but has hasn't seen a priest or any sight of a church for a long time, with the exception of his daughter's funeral.
Finances: Once it was a nice payment for being a senior field agent now it is whatever he can earn with free lance work, though a pizza is more like a fancy meal to him.

Family:

Mother: Samantha Rederson
Relationship with her: She raised Andrew by herself when his father walked out on them. She was always there for him.
Father: Brentt Rederson
Relationship with him: A man who only had a few childhood memories with Andrew. Some involved camping or a fun sport but this Navy Captain had other things in mind when he left his family.
Other extended family: There might have been a cousin at one time or another but Andrew has fallen out of touch with his family. He doesn't really want to see any of them in their happy lives either.
Close? Why or why not: A close as the sun is to Earth.

The Story Behind the Man

Andrew Rederson, age 37, is a senior field agent tasked with discovering a suspected Hataf Sleeper Cell. After hours, if not days, of searching and tracking down names, a big lead comes from an anonymous tip. The whole idea and area stank of a trap or something else, but at this point Andrew would take anything he could get his hands on. Arriving to the scene early the next day, it was discovered that the possible Hataf Cell cleaned house and closed shop. What he did find, after half an hour sweeping the location, were some tossed plans for some sort of hit and residue for a weapon of some kind. That was when the bomb went off...

Rushing to the scene it didn't take long for something to sink in. The location of the bombing, a bus stop near a usually crowded set of restaurants and shops, was on the direct path home his daughter, age 15, took home from school. Immediately calling some of her friends and asking the school if his daughter left or had remained, the fear of such a possibility became a heavier presence in his mind until it happened. He found her bag, a gift he got last Christmas. A bag she had been asking for, for almost a year now. With it came the remains that looked almost nothing like a daughter. Grief struck him.

After the funeral Andrew pushed to continue on the Hataf case and started to become more "erratic and wild in the work place". It wasn't long until he was deemed "unfit" and pulled from the case. Andrew responded with his resignation to continue his work on his own, and it has been that way ever since. Now he can only focus on making the ones that killed his daughter "pay for the sins and hurt they cast upon his life." It was a pledge he made, with the fires of vengeance burning in his eyes.