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Chase Vincent; Female, 35, Persian Leopard
Topic Started: Oct 20 2011, 02:24 PM (237 Views)
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Persian Leopard
CHASE VINCENT
THE BASICS

FULL NAME: Chase Alexandra Vincent

NICKNAME: “Vincent”, “Chasie” (Her mother ONLY, unless you want a broken neck)

AGE: 35

BIRTHDAY: December 13

GENDER: Female

PROFESSION: Detective


PLAYBY: Angie Harmon
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THE ANIMAL
WE'RE ALL A BUNCH OF ANIMALS

SPECIES: Persian Leopard

OVERALL APPEARANCE: As one of the larger sub-species in the leopard family, Vincent is a big cat but only maxes out around 132 pounds. Paler in color compared to others in the leopard family and possessing atypical, polygonal rosettes that are more reminiscent of jaguar markings than true leopard markings she is easily distinguished and separated from her kin.

DISTINGUISHING TRAITS: She has an identification number tattooed inside her right ear that only shows up in her Geis form.
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APPEARANCE
PAINT US A PICTURE


HAIR: Dark brown to black.

EYES: Very dark, saturated brown. It’s been described as black numerous times.

BUILD: Long and thin. She’s tall for a woman, standing at 5’9. Due to her profession she’s not soft nor is she curvy. Her limbs are strong and lined with muscle that does show well enough to give off the impression she can handle herself. Her musculature is closely related to that of a bicyclist, with most of her power in her thighs. However, she’s not bulked down by this muscle as she’s often required to run and cant be bulked down by anything extra.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: She has a curious pattern of freckles on her back that almost form the shape of a bone. She has a very large, dark freckle on her back, sometimes referred to as a mole. She has a trail of four point starts (they look like red, gold, and orange distorted diamonds) tattoo starting just above her hip bone on her abdomen that trails down slightly. There are 13 stars.

OVERALL APPEARANCE: She is quite tall, and that is the first thing people will tell you about her appearance. Apart from that, she’s a willowy and slim woman with very long legs and fingers. While slow moving or jogging, she can look somewhat graceful, she tends to swagger instead of move in a feminine pace. Additionally she’s a fast sprinter. Most of the time, though, that grace is stolen by the natural arm-swinging and masculine swagger she tends to dominate and display.

She has a square jaw and untamable curls. Her eyes and hair are the same dark shade of nearly-black brown and both can be fairly obvious markers about how she’s feeling on any particular day. Hair up in a pony-tail; I’m doing pretty average today. Hair in a bun; don’t fuck with me, my hair Is in a fucking bun. Hair down; if you make a comment about my hair I’ll punch your teeth in. Her eyes are easy to read and she doesn’t hide her emotions with them. Not from choice, but from the simple fact she just cant. When she’s mad, it shows. When she’s sad or scared, it shows. When she’s happy, it shows.

Vincent is fair skinned and sports a great many freckles across the span of her body which speaks fairly loudly about her Italian and Irish mixed blood.

TYPICAL DRESS: Typically she wears things that are ‘business casual’. Black slacks and any variety of blouse suit her very well. She’s fond of the sleeveless blouses (and the department’s policy that now allows them), but she doesn’t wear that style exclusively. She wears her hair in a pony-tail or simply down around her shoulders (and a bun only when in dress uniform –she hates wearing a bun). She likes comfortable black shoes but isn’t opposed to wearing heels.

PERSONALITY
WHO ARE YOU?


Vincent loves her job. She’s a hard worker and has made work her life. She can, at times (just like everyone else) hate her job. But for the most part she takes everything that comes with it with a grain of salt. She knows the good and bad points of working as a detective; sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s gratifying. She invests all of her energy into it and quickly develops friendships in the workplace because of her reliability and tenacious spirit.

She is a bright individual, quite street smart and happy to learn new things (because you never know when some random tidbit might help in a case). Because of her street smarts and profession, she’s learned to go with her gut instinct and trust it. It’s never led her wrong before.

She does things her way, and it can be hard to get her to bend. She’s hard headed and she doesn’t listen when her mind is focused on a task- of the mindset that her way is the best way and the only way that a task will be done. She rarely shares responsibilities, preferring to do everything once, and do it right so it doesn’t need repeating. She’s a great team player strangely enough. She carries her own load and about 10% of the loads of others to get something done. When not in charge she listens very well and takes orders well, though her high-spirited nature does tend to lead her down the path of leadership if her partner isn’t taking that role already.

Vincent takes control of things and likes being in control. She is brave, which goes without saying, and will do what needs doing to protect someone despite the risks. That being said, she’s afraid when things get out of her control and she cant quickly correct the situation. This usually happens in relationships. Every relationship previous to her engagement ended in catastrophic failure. She cannot end relationships well, whether she’s doing the leaving or someone is leaving her. She ends the relationships ruthlessly out of the blue or works too hard to see it coming. Though somehow, she has managed to find a man who really, truly loves her and sticks with her despite her numerous, almost unbearable flaws.

Work does come home with her. She doesn’t sort out work related issues well in her own mind. Frequently she is roused by nightmares or plagued by cases she’s working or has worked. This bleeds over into whatever small fraction of life she has outside of work as well. Cases come home with her, she’ll elect to spending time with a case file above spending time with her fiancé, and she often times leaves the bed in the middle of the night to go through her information, or leave the house altogether to pursue some that at work. She cannot leave work alone – it drives everything that she is, making her excellent at what she does.

Compassion, though, is one of her strong suits. Vincent can recognize pain and suffering and it kills her to see it. She tries everything in her power to make someone feel better, even when she knows she cannot help someone through something. Not from a lack of effort though. A bleeding heart for the once-bitten, Vincent listens well and can be trusted on to blindly help right a wrong, or console a person if they’re hurting. So long everything is legal.



  • STRENGTHS: She is tenacious and hard working. Vincent puts her work before anything else. Her work is her life and that dedication shows in her success as a detective. She’s an effective team worker and a great leader, though she does tend to take things into her own hands if a task is taking too long. She is guarded with some people, but relentlessly compassionate with victims and people who are suffering.
  • WEAKNESSES: She is very judgmental of men. She doesn’t trust them very well and feels that all males are misogynistic and think less of women then of men. She deals with this by favoring women over men 9.9 times out of 10. She’s impossible to reach, unrelenting when she has a goal, in-your-face, and she’s very pushy. People (men) have described her as rough around the edges and hard to get to know. She’s a horrible teacher, tending to give incomplete or even incorrect instructions.

  • LIKES: Sugar, sweets, her job, hats, a variety of sports, watching football, playing football, team-building exercises, sneaking out of unit meetings, making fun of people, music, exercising, caffeine, useless knick knacks, beef and most red meats, ribs, food, beer, pizza, junk food, the color yellow, day trips, stake outs, her job, oil lamps, being outside, parties, sweat pants.
  • DISLIKES: Shopping, dresses, the dress uniform, red grapes, rats, fleas, ticks, poetry and creative writing, clubs, people who drive slow in the fast lane, trucks of all kinds, llamas and most farm animals, the smell of dog or cat food, needles, puddles, going to court, lawyers, mumblers, most animals really.

HISTORY
HOW DID YOU GET HERE?


Vincent was born after her mother, Delilah, and father, Hank, were officially divorced. She was also conceived after they were officially divorced. Her parents never really understood the concept of getting along and for some strange reason, continue to have flings which her mother later regrets with a vehement passion.

Delilah had been hoping for a boy the moment she found out she was pregnant, was excited when the ultra-sound confirmed it was a male, and then shocked out of her wits when Vincent came out a girl. Her name remains a warning to those who ask; be prepared for the opposite of what you expect to happen –because it will happen, and you’ll be fucked when it does.

Her youth was spent in a duplex with her single mother. She played all sorts of sporty games with the neighborhood boys, found herself most comfortable in the public school system with boys for friends, and bullied just about every girl in her grade. Vincent was a tough skinned girl who acted like one of the boys- as though her mother truly did get that little boy she always wanted. She did average in school, wasn’t really liked or disliked by most of her teachers, and discovered her Geis, a Persian leopard, in the comfort of her home during a very unceremonious bath –at the age of 6.

When Vincent started High School, she was as athletic and boisterous a young girl as she had been in elementary school. She was anxious to play football with the boys. She was NOT interested in dating, and she was NOT interested in the dances and Home Economics. Her mother, already alarmed with just how much of a tomboy her daughter had become (and trying desperately to turn Vincent into the little girl she truly was), tried to get involved in the extra classes Vincent was allowed to take, forcing her into Home Ec. where she was forced to wear a maternity stomach, take care of a screaming baby doll (which she left in the garden shed, upside down in a bucket of water, for the whole week she was in charge of it), and learn to cook. On the bright side, for her cooperation in such a loathsome class, she was allowed to take Shop, Weight-lifting, Outdoor Education, and Recreational Sports.

The high school dances she did attend (at her mother’s begging request to meet a boy), Vincent spent almost the three hour event having a punch drinking contest with one of the football players, who later convinced their coach to let them throw the pigskin around in the courtyard beside the gym – Vincent hijacked this boys-only opportunity and played in her formal dress. Mom didn’t like that.

Vincent did not attend her own prom. Mom didn’t like that either. In fact, Vincent’s senior year was riddled with events that her mother did not approve of; the biggest of them all being the crusade to find her father. The drive and tenacity with which she pursued that shadow of paternity should have been a big red flag to her mother as to what her daughter would one day be doing for a career- but at the time, it was just a 19 year old girl being deliberately hurtful. She did meet her father for the first time when she was nineteen, and the two got along famously. He was a cop, and she was fascinated with what he did for a living, with his laid back attitude, with his cool friends, and the compassion he had for a girl he’d never met.

Vincent suddenly had a direction for her life. Set in stone.

Shortly after graduation, she headed to a Junior College 20 miles outside of Saxis. Having had no boyfriends, no dates, and no gentlemen callers- her mother was alarmed that the opportunity to mingle with males her own age would be lost on Vincent. She tried to convince her daughter to see people romantically, begged her to bring some beau home with her once in a while. Vincent adamantly refused.

So, for Christmas that year Delilah set her only daughter up with a two year membership to a dating service. Worst. Gift. Ever.

Between college, and going on these stupid dates her mother would eagerly set up for her Vincent had little time to really cause any trouble; not that she would have wanted to anyway. She was a studious young woman, focusing on her schooling and the pursuit of her career – which she had managed to convince her mother was in the arts. Vincent was terrible at art, but her mother envied those who could create in any form so, while Vincent attempted to come up with some gentle way to break the news to her mother she lied to her and gave her the greatest joy possible while doing it.

The lie carried on for a few semesters. Several years, in fact. She didn’t open up to her mother until the last semester of her Junior year when the woman finally realized that a young lady studying painting had no use for a knowledge of basic pressure points in the body. When Delilah finally found out just what her daughter was planning on doing with her life, she was devastated and blamed it all on Vincent’s father; whom she pursued with the intent to no doubt command to talk sense into Vincent but instead ended up getting pregnant with, again.

In light of this, Delilah managed to contain her anger with her daughter and their relationship, while rather tense for a few months, survived intact despite what Vincent had expected her mother would take as an enormous betrayal.

Vincent graduated junior college with her mother, father, and her three month old baby brother there to cheer her on. They all went out to dinner, and Delilah managed to get Vincent the waiter’s number while father and daughter eagerly discussed her next step towards her end goal.

She didn’t start out in the Saxis police department, but rather the Burney County department where her father worked. She was successful in her time in the police academy, finding immediate friendship and respect among the older men in the traffic unit who idolized her hard working father. She worked hard, and she loved what she was doing but she wasn’t content to remain in the traffic unit as her father was, and set her sights on something else; narcotics.

It took time for her to get her foot into the door, she had to test numerous times and had to show her interest and dedication to the job. She was in a uniform for three years before she finally got herself a position with the narcotics unit. In her last week in her uniform she was involved in an accident that sent her to the hospital; she had pulled over a speeder, ran the plates and returned with a warrant for the driver’s arrest. Upon returning to the car to kill time and hold the suspect while she waited for another traffic unit a scuffle ensued and her hand was slammed in the door with such force it shattered four of her knuckles and four other bones in the carpus bones of her hand. She still managed to subdue the driver, and upon the second car’s arrival they took her to the hospital where she was rushed into emergency surgery for her hand.

She met a young intern named Keith Eastham there in the hospital and despite her better attempts at keeping herself professional, she ended up quite in love with the handsome young man. They started dating once she had finished her doctor’s visits for her hand – it took four surgeries to fully repair her hand though she lost all sensation in her left thumb and still experiences dull aches in that same hand in cold weather because of metal implants that will not be removed.

Despite how much she dreaded it, she took Keith home to her mother as things got more serious and to her total horror her mother absolutely adored Keith. Their relationship was intense, quick, there was a great happiness in her with the young man who could make her laugh, tempt her into breaking rules, and seemed to worship the ground she walked on. The only problem with him was his outlook on her work; he didn’t like her job, he felt it wasn’t something a woman should be doing and routinely begged her to consider quitting once he was fully licensed, promising to support her.
Vincent wouldn’t quit, but her relationship with Keith would flourish. She worked for five years in the narcotics unit, and it wasn’t until she witnessed the death of a colleague that she considered leaving the unit. With a desire to be closer to Keith whom she was now engaged to, she moved back into Saxis and took up a position in the homicide unit in Saxis – and entered an entirely different world.

Unlike the Burney county department, no one in the Saxis department knew her father’s name. They didn’t know her. So there was no respect for her upon entering simply because of her last name. She was fully exposed to the sexist, demeaning nature of the men around her – a unit full of men who seemed reluctant to welcome a woman into their midst. Vincent had to fight and claw for everything she got. Partnered with an older, angry, bitter dark skinned man she was spared no kindness even by her partner; she had to bleed even for his respect and it seriously changed her attitude towards men in a few short years. She came to mistrust men, harsh and critical towards them and preferring the company of women. Despite her natural skill for her career she had to push herself to be better than everyone around her to earn that respect, though it simultaneously made the men angry and harsh with her.

The first two years were very hard for her. Keith’s continued begging for her to quit nearly drew her to give up – nearly. But she held on, and eventually, slowly things got better. She earned her respect, forced friendship and began to fight back in the face of their blatant sexism.

She’s got friends now in the unit; they respect her, and know that she is a force to be reckoned with. Already hardnosed, Vincent has gotten even fiercer in her years with the unit, developed a harsh temper and an effective skill in handling any and all flack she gets from the men around her. She forced her way in and flourished, opening the doors for other women in the unit who she supports without hesitation, though she can do little for them to make their life any easier in the unit, only offer her friendship and her advice.

Her partner Henry is preparing to retire after nearly forty years of service with the department, and Vincent is expecting a new partner any day to enter the unit. She is still engaged to Keith after five years, and there is no talk of the actual wedding going on at all – despite her mother’s attempts to bully her into moving forward and giving her grandchildren, which Vincent is NOT going to do.




  • FAMILY: Delilah – Mother (Goose) | Hank – Father (Bloodhound) | Franklin – Brother (Ocelot)
  • FRIENDS: Almost the entire BCDP, Kit Ezra, the Saxis Homicide unit, Henry Newton.
  • LOVE INTERESTS: Keith Eastham
  • PETS: None. Ew.
THE BEAST
NOW, WHO'S THE REAL ANIMAL...


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AGE: ABCD

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