application for hometrail
player info.
name/handle: Setine
contact info: the shinra co on AIM
personal journal: parcus
previous characters: applied for Trish from Devil May Cry and reserved Rusty Ryan
character info.
character name: Temperance Brennan
canon & medium: Bones ☠ TV Show
age & species: 30-35 ☠ Human
appearance: played by Emily Deschanel
previous rpg memories: n/a
timeline: up to Season 5: the Witch in the Wardrobe.
background/history link:
Wiki link.
personality:
☠ She puts science first before making any conclusion. Though later on in the series she becomes to get excited about speculation, she's horrible at it. Brennan puts the empirical facts before any psychology. It's how she hides her other side, the side that detests losing people and being betrayed. After her mother and father abandoned her, she sought comfort in science and academia, hence why she finds more in common with facts than with people.
☠ She doesn't believe that she should change just because someone else told her not to. She states that when she was working in Nicaragua, she was threatened to stop identifying bodies killed from the death squads or else she would die. She's also run from the Chinese government because she was doing work in Tibet. She even gets buried alive for trying to solve the murder of two twin boys in an aluminum can. Justice before safety.
☠ Brennan loathes psychology; it's not a hard science, you can't apply the tests of science to it. She cannot think of things as a result of a conditional, she cannot experiment with psychology. Therefore, she wishes to learn how Booth manages to use his intuition- she admires him for it. On that respect, she hates it when people tell her about her science - especially coroners and people who tamper with her crime scene.
☠ She has a strong distaste for religion, she supports death opposition and she knows martial arts and wants a gun. She doesn't let anyone in, she only believes in herself. As time goes on, however, she allows Booth in as a support. But, she loves to shoot people - she shot a man in the foot, she has a hunting license in four states and she tends to hurt men who dare to talk down to her.
☠ She finds more companionship in bones than she does people. There's a disconnect with how she views people: she knows nothing of pop culture, she gets common colloquiums in correct - though, she tries her best to- she cannot read body language nor can she understand humor or sarcasm or timing. She doesn't pick up social cues nor does she know when not to say something. .Though, she seems to be an apt pupil.
☠ She has a derpy side. She adores cute things (daffodils, daisies, cute animals) and she gets along with children. At some point, she allows her wall to fall and considers adoption - but in the end, she decides against it.
abilities:
☠ Crazy intelligent: She's a brilliant scientist. Though her field lies mostly in anthropology and osteology, she's capable in some areas of engineering, mechanics and biology.
☠ Apt at selfdefense: Don't get too close to her, she doesn't like it when people get in her space. She's been known to break the wrists of serial killers, punch out people trying to shoot her, beat up a mob boss etc..
☠ A decent shot: She's a hunter and she can kill, but she isn't as accurate as say, Booth.
☠ Can identify dead bodies: She's the best forensic anthropologist in her field. She can identify a person by their skeleton and give you their age, sex, occupation and hobbies just from the indicators on the bone.
☠ She can say skull in almost every language, but it's also shown that she can speak Chinese and Spanish.
☠ She can sing really well, though the times she sings, Booth gets shot.
any plans for your character here?
YOU ALL NEED AN ANTHROPOLOGIST UP IN YOUR FAIRY TALES AND YOUR ORIGIN STORIES AND WHAT THEY REPRESENT!!!1!!1
possessions:
☠ A skull that she was working on.
☠ The clothes on her back.
samples.
sample journal entry:
It seems illogical to focus on the very glaring matter of being instantaneously transported from what was my location to somewhere that could easily be be across the Atlantic ocean. I am under the firm assumption that I suffered a horrendous concussion and this is my brain's physiological reaction to the injury.
… [A pause, as if she's deliberating whether or not it makes absolute sense.There's an irritated sigh.]
I None of this makes sense: one minutes I am quite obviously knee high in water and then the next minute, I'm in a setting that is reminiscent to old English folklore and myths. There is no obvious connection between the two and no logical explanation for … any of this.
As of right now, until something logical makes itself the best alternative action is to take the skull to a dry place. Considering the vegetation present, that should not be a difficult task to perform.
third-person sample:
[recycled from dramadramaduck]
Red.
Red. From the old english word "rēad", however the root of the word that mostly applied to Temperance Brennan was from the Sanskrit "rudhira" which meant red or blood.
As soon as she saw red on a crime scene, she didn't even bother looking at it. Scientifically speaking, all the color red really was the color wave length that was visible to the naked eye but to her, red meant still organic matter. Of course, as time would go on, Cam would call her in just to be an auxiliary (being the control freak that she was, she couldn't stand it). Temperance made the argument that the most important things to a forensic anthropologist were the black, white and grey of an X-Ray or a catscan. Of course, as the team got more and more involved with solving cases, she … opened herself to the idea that there could be more colors that intrigued her. Red, purple from bruising, the bloating blue of a decomposing body - hardly a feminine choice of colors, but then again, she wasn't very feminine herself.
But, with her partnership with the FBI, the color red's symbolism would be further explored. She saw crimes of guilt, pain, anger - it wasn't all just blood. She could never fathom how a color so beautiful, the color that represented life itself, be convoluted in such a horrifying way.
But, then again, the X-Rays were in black and white, weren't they? Just like right and wrong.