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About You - The Player
Name: Emily
Age: 23
Contact: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com / iluvroadrunner6 on AIM
Past Role Playing Experience: Here and paradisa, and other places.
The Character
Name: Don Flack, Jr.
Age/Birthdate: 32 / Unknown
Species: Human
*Type: Wanderer
Canon: CSI:NY / post-410: The Thing About Heroes …
*Pre-existing powers: N/A
*Rift Change, if applicable: Intuitive aptitude, but with food. Everything he’s eaten gets a comprehensive recipe stored in his head, and he can tell what’s in something and how it’s made, just by looking at it, so that he can recreate it himself. He will now be your local world class chef.
Livejournal: and_dontgetcute
Played By: Eddie Cahill
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Appearance: Flack is tall, a little over six foot, with dark hair and bright blue eyes. He’s a good looking guy, and a confident guy, and he carries himself as such. He usually dresses in suits for work, but since arriving he’s started to dress down a bit, more in jeans and Henley’s.
Personality: Flack is, first and foremost, a good guy. He’s been a cop all his life, grew up in a cop family, and he’s very much a person solidified in black and white, right and wrong. He has a very high regard for human life, and people who take it senselessly? Generally piss him off. He sees life as something to be valued, and every murder he works impacts him and his views of the case. This isn’t to say that he doesn’t see the shades of gray in his work, and how people can often be victims of circumstances beyond their control-that being said, however, if you try to play those circumstances, and he doesn’t feel that you fit the criteria, he will call you on it. He doesn’t let people get away with taking a life, and doesn’t let himself off the hook easily for every life that he has to take, due to his job.
Since falling through the Rift, however, his view on legality has changed quite a bit. Not for the big crimes, like murder, but it’s become a matter of getting the Wanderer voice heard. He wants to make sure that they get the same justice that everyone else does, and he can see that if they went to the Chicago police department, they wouldn’t. Every instinct inside of him says equal justice for all, and while he doesn’t want to go rogue, either, he thinks that Wanderers should have a place they call their own, and a place where they can go and know that their issues will be heard. That’s why when Rachel asked for his help with a Wanderer friendly police force, Flack jumped on the opportunity because he would be able to help everyone, not just the cases that the police deemed worthy of chasing.
Flack is also a pretty calm guy, but he does have a quick temper and a quick lip to go with it. He’s quoted as saying that when you’re losing your temper and “[he’s] the cooler head in the room, you know you’re in trouble.” There are some things that he feels very passionate about, and he’s not going to hold back a snarky or inflammatory remark when he feels that those things have been offended. He is extremely loyal to the people he cares about, however, regardless of what they do, and he’ll always try and help them find a way out of things. When needed, he can be the cooler head in the room, and he does his best to take care of the people in his life to the best of his ability.
He also really, really likes food.
Events: The first event, in a sense, that shaped who Flack is, is his father. Don Flack Sr. was a legacy cop, as is the younger Flack, and he instilled that kind of respect for the badge into his oldest son, as well as his daughter, Samantha. Flack grew up believing that the badge was owed the highest level of respect, as well as those who wore it, but those who disgraced the badge were also named the highest level of criminal. Even though he bleeds blue, and would do anything he could for another cop, he was still raised with enough objectivity to know that everyone made mistakes-even other cops. Flack was, in a sense, bred to wear a uniform, and without that, Flack wouldn’t even have been close to the same person that he is today.
The second event would be Flack’s arrival in Chicago. Flack actually worked a case in Chicago, and fell through the Rift while he was in the city. After taking a few days to actually become convinced that yes, he really was stuck in Chicago in an alternate dimension, Flack tried to find a way to do what he had done back home, and try to integrate himself into the Chicago Police Department-despite the fact that he needed forged papers to do it, and that went against his instincts as it was. Between the corruption and ignorance of Wanderer issues-being that Flack was one-had that job situation ending very quickly. Someone who was raised on equal justice for all didn’t take too well to the supernatural community being excluded. After he left, he was approached by Rachel Dawes about participating in a police force for Wanderers, and dealing with the issues of the supernatural community. Since it was saving him from working in a bar or having to find some other kind of employment when he had been a cop his whole life, this seemed like a good opportunity for him to still do some good.
Rachel’s sudden death threw a wrench into things as far as getting the force up and running was concerned, but now that he feels like they have enough information to put a process in place, as well as finding a way to get the cases from the Chicago Police and into their hands, so that they could actually work on them. Staffing has also been an issue, but he’s working on that as well.
He has been in Chicago for about a year, at this point, arriving around the same time as Shawn Spencer. (Who’s Riftversary I forgot. I am a terrible mun.)
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