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Mun Information
Name/nickname: Ashe. I'm also occasionally called 'Goddess of Hotness and Pain'.
Journal: flameish.
Email: such.melodrama[at]gmail[dot]com.
AIM/MSN name: such melodrama.
Age: 23.
Current Characters in El Dorado: reoismyantidrug and faithfulblogger .
Character Information
Name: Neal Caffrey (Aliases include, but are not limited to, Nicholas "Nick" Halden, Benjamin Cooper, George Danvary, George Donnelly, George Devore, Steve Tabernackle)
Fandom: White Collar
Canon point: Post-Season One
Age: 31
Brief history: Not much is honestly known about Neal's early life. He keeps very tight lipped about his past, though it's safe t say he hardly had a conventional upbringing. It's likely he was in the foster system, though this is hardly a sure thing. He dropped out of high school and never attended college (though he has a few degrees anyway). Instead he found his way into the life of conning, forging and thieving. Early on, he learned from other con artists, including Mozzie, who would later become a close friend to Neal. Though he learned from others, Neal quickly surpassed many of his colleagues to become one of the best in the business at a very young age. He had a brief romance with a fence named Alex Hunter before settling into a largely self-destructive romance with Kate Moreau. Neal was desperately in love with Kate and it wasn't exactly something healthy. Neal spent three years on the FBI's radar before Agent Peter Burke was put on the case, and Peter pursued Neal for four years. In the time before he was caught, Neal was a prolific thief who allegedly committed many crimes (including the theft of the Antioch manuscripts with CARRIER PIGEONS). It is estimated that he forged over 10.3 billion dollars of priceless antiquities. He was finally convicted on bond forgery though, ironically, it wasn't a crime he actually committed. In reality, Neal was covering for his friend Mozzie, an action he in no way regrets.
With only a few months left in his four year sentence, Neal was visited by Kate who encouraged him to escape. He did so, but Kate was already gone. This set Neal on a path to find her that led to him partnering with Burke and serving out his sentence with the FBI as a consultant and kept on an tracking anklet, restricted to a limited radius. Though he was originally meant to stay at a rat trap, Neal made friends with a wealthy widow named June who let him stay with her and gave him access to her dead husband's wardrobe. And everyone rejoiced at Neal's gorgeous suits. Neal settled in to life helping the FBI, all the while hoping to find Kate and the mysterious man who seemed to be controlling her. The arrangement had it's growing pains and Peter and Neal both had their trust issues. Peter often had difficulty believing Neal was really going straight and Neal bristled under the strain of having to constantly prove himself. For a short time, Neal believed that the man who had Kate was Peter, because of a ring Peter owned, but it was later revealed to be Garett Fowler of the OPR, who had tried to frame Neal in a jewel theft. Fowler was after a music box he and others believed Neal had stolen. To find the music box, Neal enlisted Alex's help and they ended up stealing the music box from the Italian consulate while Peter and Diana took down Fowler. In the end, Neal was reunited with Kate and she revealed that she had been trying to get them new lives so they could get away. Neal was about to board a plane with her when Peter showed up and talked him out of it. Unfortunately, just then the plane exploded and Neal watched as Kate died, Peter's interference the only thing stopping him from running into the burning wreckage. Peter was suspended and Neal went back to jail temporarily. And then he found himself in El Dorado.
Personality: If they had to summarise Neal's personality in one word, most people would pick charming. If they were allowed two, they'd tack on insufferably. Neal is a force of nature, a presence that fills a room. A consummate performer, Neal is adept at playing people, with the sort of cocktail personality that allows him to be whatever sort of person he feels is best suited to manipulate the situation to his ends. But this might be painting an unfair picture of Neal. He's not a bad person, necessarily, and he doesn't set out to hurt anyone else. He is just a con man down to his bones. It's deeply ingrained in him, an integral part of who he is, and he's been playing parts and conning people for so long that it's hard to say if he really knows himself beyond his "characters". But for all that Neal might have trouble identifying what makes himself tick, he's a master of dissecting other people's personalities. He knows what buttons to push and what drives them, and he knows how to play people like a finely tuned instrument. It's a source of endless frustration or amusement (depending on the person) for people who know what he's doing, and a cause for bafflement and awe in those who aren't expecting it.
Neal is a charming man, a gentleman and a romantic. He believes in true love, the kind that lasts forever, and it leads him to do completely idiotic things sometimes. There's something timeless about him, and yet something incredibly vintage. It's not just the suits or the style or the love of Sinatra. Neal is respectful and courteous and calls to mind a time long gone. He treats women like ladies and his charm is more smooth than sleezy, his personality more confidence than cockiness. He's smooth. There's an ease to him that's impossible to fake, and he is comfortable in his skin in a way that's downright intimidating. In a lot of ways, Neal is very young, with a boyishness to him that's utterly endearing. He's always smiling, even when he's not particularly happy, doing his best to put other people at ease. The thing is though that Neal isn't a smiling, easy-going guy. He portrays a sort of careless ease, but there's an intensity hidden beneath it. Neal is focused, single-minded, even obsessive about some things. He's passionate and intense and his moods tend to be toward the extremes. His happiness is infectious, his depression is consuming, and his anger is frightening. There's no real guilt about the work he does, and in fact he's very obviously proud of it. He enjoys being good at what he does and he's downright giddy when other people acknowledge his brilliance or appreciate his skill. Neal is a polymath of the con world, a skilled thief, a talented forger and an artist in his own right, a technological virtuoso with a wealth of knowledge about both his craft and the world of art. He really is a singular individual among con artists.
Neal has trust issues. It's nearly impossible to be in his line of work and maintain the ability to trust easily. There is nobody Neal completely trusts, though Peter certainly comes closest. This is obvious in his interactions with Kate and Mozzie. Though the former was his girlfriend and the later his best friend, he lies to both of them about where he keeps his cache of stolen items, because he feels a need to test his friends to be sure he can trust them. That said, there is a naivete to Neal, that stems from the previously mentioned idiocy in romance. As much as he didn't trust Kate in a professional capacity, he was often blinded to her faults. He was willing to take stupid risks for her, and she always came before anything else. In spite of this, Neal is an incredibly intelligent man, and more than that he's clever. He thinks quickly on his feet, is adaptive and thinks outside the box. He is creative, artistic and incredibly open-minded and accepting. He is something of a control freak in his life, and has difficulty just letting go and letting other people help. He is organised and precise, almost to the point of being neurotic, and he's a perfectionist. Though he dislikes violence, believing it is inelegant and pointless, he can handle himself. He's stubborn and something of a brat and he likes getting his way. He's also currently dealing, or rather, not dealing, with the trauma of Kate's death and has the markings of a mild case of PTSD.
Abilities: A brilliant conman, forger, art thief, and all around White Collar criminal.
Third-person sample: Neal tossed and turned in his sleep, unconscious but hardly resting. Behind his eyelids the day of the explosion played over and over like a film that cut back to the beginning instead of stopping. As the plane exploded yet again, he jolted awake and sat up with a gasp. He counted slowly in his head, in Japanese so as to take his mind off the images, breathing deeply in and out until he felt his pulse calmed and the tightness in his chest eased. It was the same as every other night, and he'd come to almost expect it the same way he expected the sun to rise in the morning.
Pushing himself out of bed, he made his way to the bathroom and stripped out of sweat soaked clothes, turning on the shower with shaking hands and stepping under the spray. The pounding of the water served to calm the chaos in his mind and he took a long moment to just breathe. Kate was gone. He couldn't change that, no matter how much he wanted to. But he could find her killer and make him pay. And he could master these reactions so they didn't control him. Because if there was one thing Neal hated more than almost anything, it was being out of control. He was better than this. He had to be better than this. If he wasn't, he'd never get justice for Kate.
Also: This thread.
Magic word: Swordfish.
Name/nickname: Ashe. I'm also occasionally called 'Goddess of Hotness and Pain'.
Journal: flameish.
Email: such.melodrama[at]gmail[dot]com.
AIM/MSN name: such melodrama.
Age: 23.
Current Characters in El Dorado: reoismyantidrug and faithfulblogger .
Character Information
Name: Neal Caffrey (Aliases include, but are not limited to, Nicholas "Nick" Halden, Benjamin Cooper, George Danvary, George Donnelly, George Devore, Steve Tabernackle)
Fandom: White Collar
Canon point: Post-Season One
Age: 31
Brief history: Not much is honestly known about Neal's early life. He keeps very tight lipped about his past, though it's safe t say he hardly had a conventional upbringing. It's likely he was in the foster system, though this is hardly a sure thing. He dropped out of high school and never attended college (though he has a few degrees anyway). Instead he found his way into the life of conning, forging and thieving. Early on, he learned from other con artists, including Mozzie, who would later become a close friend to Neal. Though he learned from others, Neal quickly surpassed many of his colleagues to become one of the best in the business at a very young age. He had a brief romance with a fence named Alex Hunter before settling into a largely self-destructive romance with Kate Moreau. Neal was desperately in love with Kate and it wasn't exactly something healthy. Neal spent three years on the FBI's radar before Agent Peter Burke was put on the case, and Peter pursued Neal for four years. In the time before he was caught, Neal was a prolific thief who allegedly committed many crimes (including the theft of the Antioch manuscripts with CARRIER PIGEONS). It is estimated that he forged over 10.3 billion dollars of priceless antiquities. He was finally convicted on bond forgery though, ironically, it wasn't a crime he actually committed. In reality, Neal was covering for his friend Mozzie, an action he in no way regrets.
With only a few months left in his four year sentence, Neal was visited by Kate who encouraged him to escape. He did so, but Kate was already gone. This set Neal on a path to find her that led to him partnering with Burke and serving out his sentence with the FBI as a consultant and kept on an tracking anklet, restricted to a limited radius. Though he was originally meant to stay at a rat trap, Neal made friends with a wealthy widow named June who let him stay with her and gave him access to her dead husband's wardrobe. And everyone rejoiced at Neal's gorgeous suits. Neal settled in to life helping the FBI, all the while hoping to find Kate and the mysterious man who seemed to be controlling her. The arrangement had it's growing pains and Peter and Neal both had their trust issues. Peter often had difficulty believing Neal was really going straight and Neal bristled under the strain of having to constantly prove himself. For a short time, Neal believed that the man who had Kate was Peter, because of a ring Peter owned, but it was later revealed to be Garett Fowler of the OPR, who had tried to frame Neal in a jewel theft. Fowler was after a music box he and others believed Neal had stolen. To find the music box, Neal enlisted Alex's help and they ended up stealing the music box from the Italian consulate while Peter and Diana took down Fowler. In the end, Neal was reunited with Kate and she revealed that she had been trying to get them new lives so they could get away. Neal was about to board a plane with her when Peter showed up and talked him out of it. Unfortunately, just then the plane exploded and Neal watched as Kate died, Peter's interference the only thing stopping him from running into the burning wreckage. Peter was suspended and Neal went back to jail temporarily. And then he found himself in El Dorado.
Personality: If they had to summarise Neal's personality in one word, most people would pick charming. If they were allowed two, they'd tack on insufferably. Neal is a force of nature, a presence that fills a room. A consummate performer, Neal is adept at playing people, with the sort of cocktail personality that allows him to be whatever sort of person he feels is best suited to manipulate the situation to his ends. But this might be painting an unfair picture of Neal. He's not a bad person, necessarily, and he doesn't set out to hurt anyone else. He is just a con man down to his bones. It's deeply ingrained in him, an integral part of who he is, and he's been playing parts and conning people for so long that it's hard to say if he really knows himself beyond his "characters". But for all that Neal might have trouble identifying what makes himself tick, he's a master of dissecting other people's personalities. He knows what buttons to push and what drives them, and he knows how to play people like a finely tuned instrument. It's a source of endless frustration or amusement (depending on the person) for people who know what he's doing, and a cause for bafflement and awe in those who aren't expecting it.
Neal is a charming man, a gentleman and a romantic. He believes in true love, the kind that lasts forever, and it leads him to do completely idiotic things sometimes. There's something timeless about him, and yet something incredibly vintage. It's not just the suits or the style or the love of Sinatra. Neal is respectful and courteous and calls to mind a time long gone. He treats women like ladies and his charm is more smooth than sleezy, his personality more confidence than cockiness. He's smooth. There's an ease to him that's impossible to fake, and he is comfortable in his skin in a way that's downright intimidating. In a lot of ways, Neal is very young, with a boyishness to him that's utterly endearing. He's always smiling, even when he's not particularly happy, doing his best to put other people at ease. The thing is though that Neal isn't a smiling, easy-going guy. He portrays a sort of careless ease, but there's an intensity hidden beneath it. Neal is focused, single-minded, even obsessive about some things. He's passionate and intense and his moods tend to be toward the extremes. His happiness is infectious, his depression is consuming, and his anger is frightening. There's no real guilt about the work he does, and in fact he's very obviously proud of it. He enjoys being good at what he does and he's downright giddy when other people acknowledge his brilliance or appreciate his skill. Neal is a polymath of the con world, a skilled thief, a talented forger and an artist in his own right, a technological virtuoso with a wealth of knowledge about both his craft and the world of art. He really is a singular individual among con artists.
Neal has trust issues. It's nearly impossible to be in his line of work and maintain the ability to trust easily. There is nobody Neal completely trusts, though Peter certainly comes closest. This is obvious in his interactions with Kate and Mozzie. Though the former was his girlfriend and the later his best friend, he lies to both of them about where he keeps his cache of stolen items, because he feels a need to test his friends to be sure he can trust them. That said, there is a naivete to Neal, that stems from the previously mentioned idiocy in romance. As much as he didn't trust Kate in a professional capacity, he was often blinded to her faults. He was willing to take stupid risks for her, and she always came before anything else. In spite of this, Neal is an incredibly intelligent man, and more than that he's clever. He thinks quickly on his feet, is adaptive and thinks outside the box. He is creative, artistic and incredibly open-minded and accepting. He is something of a control freak in his life, and has difficulty just letting go and letting other people help. He is organised and precise, almost to the point of being neurotic, and he's a perfectionist. Though he dislikes violence, believing it is inelegant and pointless, he can handle himself. He's stubborn and something of a brat and he likes getting his way. He's also currently dealing, or rather, not dealing, with the trauma of Kate's death and has the markings of a mild case of PTSD.
Abilities: A brilliant conman, forger, art thief, and all around White Collar criminal.
Third-person sample: Neal tossed and turned in his sleep, unconscious but hardly resting. Behind his eyelids the day of the explosion played over and over like a film that cut back to the beginning instead of stopping. As the plane exploded yet again, he jolted awake and sat up with a gasp. He counted slowly in his head, in Japanese so as to take his mind off the images, breathing deeply in and out until he felt his pulse calmed and the tightness in his chest eased. It was the same as every other night, and he'd come to almost expect it the same way he expected the sun to rise in the morning.
Pushing himself out of bed, he made his way to the bathroom and stripped out of sweat soaked clothes, turning on the shower with shaking hands and stepping under the spray. The pounding of the water served to calm the chaos in his mind and he took a long moment to just breathe. Kate was gone. He couldn't change that, no matter how much he wanted to. But he could find her killer and make him pay. And he could master these reactions so they didn't control him. Because if there was one thing Neal hated more than almost anything, it was being out of control. He was better than this. He had to be better than this. If he wasn't, he'd never get justice for Kate.
Also: This thread.
Magic word: Swordfish.