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» Journal:youmadeitweird
» Birthdate/Age: Dec 19, 1984/30
» Characters Played: Rumpelstiltskin, Starscream
» Re-App Status: N/A
CHARACTER FACTS
» Name: Shannon Mullins
» Canon: The Heat
» Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heat_(film)
» Canon Point: End of the movie
» Gender: Female
» Age: 37
CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Heavy for her height but significantly strong enough to chase people down on foot and take a great deal of damage in spite of herself, Detective Shannon Mullins stands a squat 5'0", with long, thick brown hair that never gets much more styling than a simple shampooing and a barette to hold it out of her face. Her features are round and doll like at her best, which is rare (she's not one to wear makeup), once described as "one of the Cambell's Soup kids who grew up and became an alcoholic." She doesn't often wear her uniform, preferring loose-fitting street clothes -- layered shirts, pajama pants, sneakers, fingerless gloves.
» Suitability: Shannon lives on her own normally, and despite her loud and abrasive manner is cunning and tough enough to manage in most settings. She'll handle well in law enforcement, because she navigates seedier locales with ease. She gets to know her community and despite seemingly sticking out like a sore thumb is one of the most capable and functional people on her force. I think that emotionally and mentally, she will initially be angry at being stolen, but what's required of her, she'll play it off as no big deal, but people she gets close to she won't have any problem explaining how fucked up she thinks this situation is.
» Orientation: Shannon is canonically shown to be straight, as she is seen flirting with men or brushing off the advances of men she's hooked up with before.
» History: Shannon Mullins comes from a largeish Irish-American family in Boston, of whom she is the only daughter with many brothers. Very all-American, with velvet paintings all over the house of Jesus playing various sports. You know. Classic family stuff. All of them are tough guys with big personalities, and when you see them at a family dinner, it becomes very obvious where a lot of her mannerisms come from. It takes a lot to compete with the egos in her house. Much of what we see of her neighborhood, how she lives, and how her family live suggests she came up in an economically depressed area where ends were met in her household. Nothing is said of when or how she joined the police force, just that her work is very connected to looking after her neighborhood. A point of contention split her and the rest of her family, however, when she arrested her brother, Jason, for dealing drugs once she learned he was getting addicted. While he understood her doing what she did and got clean, the rest of her family has never forgiven her, save perhaps her father, who seems the most even-keeled of her family. Little is known of what helped her make Detective, but she seems to control her dealings with little interference from anyone else in the department.
This changes when FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn takes one of her perps and pushes her off a case while in pursuit of a major supplier, Simon Larkin, who has overseen numerous grisly murders to protect his turf. The anal-retentive, very by-the-book Ashburn finds Mullins to be too rude and unpolished to work with, but in the end they must team up to find Larkin together, with much interference from the DEA. Much of their exploits require a fair mix of their abilities; Ashburn's skills keep them a step ahead of their enemies and naysayers, while Mullins' streetwisdom and antics often give them a clever edge. Mullins comes to appreciate and adopt some of the methods her new partner uses, and Ashburn learns that letting herself go a little has its advantages.
Their misadventures lead them to eventually discovering the identity of Simon Larkin, but not before putting Jason in danger. After nearly losing their jobs, they crack the case and become best friends. Shannon Mullins is decorated for her efforts and bravery, and Sarah Ashburn turns down a major promotion to transfer to Boston to be close to her newfound friend.
» Personality: "Abrasive" is a word already used to describe Shannon, and it bears repeating. You will never in your life meet a more crass, outspoken, mouthy, obstinate creature in all your days. She says what she thinks and often in the least appropriate fashion possible. She does this with such confidence that it's almost difficult to disagree with her. Typically, she tends to be from the school of "earn my respect and you'll get it," which tends to mean her ire doesn't fly directly at you so much, but she can still be pretty rude -- it's just a lot of things straight-laced persons find to be rude are very normal for her, like cursing. Her response to being afraid, sad, or angry is largely the same -- she reacts with outward verbal anger and smart-assery. It may be a defense mechanism; everyone in her family is very tough. She doesn't reveal other emotions easily. In stressful situations she can be stony and badass, but more often than not she will use her loudness and overbearing behavior to throw people off, even make herself look like a bumbling clown to make people drop their guard around her.
Shannon tends to be very dominant in her work space and at home -- you see this in how she deals with her family (most of which is very negative toward her, because she arrested her brother for dealing drugs), and her family is a family of Boston Irish tough guys. There is a lot of posturing and empty threats. You see this at work, too, where associates know not to move the people she arrests without her permission, where her boss allows her to behave as she likes because she's the most effective detectives that works in her neighborhood. This includes standing in his office and attacking his manhood (...verbally) when an FBI agent takes one of her perps and pushes her off an assignment. She will probably take to any work she has on the island with the same kind of zeal, carving a place for herself and pursuing her career goals with tenacity and a level of strength few may believe she has on first looking at her. She's also a weapons enthusiast who knows every piece she keeps in her refrigerator (long story) from top to bottom. She acclimates to new weapons quickly.
Intimately, and in spite of her unconventional appearance, Shannon is very open, very confident, and enjoys a healthy sex life. She is not really interested in settling down, though, evidenced by her frequent moments in the movie where she has to ward off the advances of recent hookups who are looking for something more. She likes for things to remain uncomplicated. In a place like the island, she will already be flexible, but an island is an island and she will probably have to think about repeat performances if she wants to get along. She is not self-conscious in the least. She doesn't wear makeup. She doesn't dress nice unless she has to. She does none of these things, but she views herself as attractive, a force that cannot be stopped.
Around friends, despite her crass nature, Shannon is fun-loving and openly encourages her friends (in her own...unique way) to let their hair down and have fun with her. She enjoys drinking, good food, dancing, most of the usual stuff. Still, she is the sort to jibe to get a rise out of people, using a lot of tough love, but altogether coming from a place of friendliness and caring. She just may tell you to suck it up and stop being such a loser and dance, though.
Shannon's relationship with her family may seem completely toxic and chaotic to anyone standing on the outside, but like those families you see in the trashiest of reality shows, under all that bluster, there's a group that loves each other. Once she realizes Larkin is targeting them, Shannon pulls out all the stops to protect her family, despite their seeming refusal to respect her decisions as an officer of the law. In the end, her family also supports and cheers for her when she is decorated for her efforts in taking Larkin down. She worries about her brother Jason, especially, who in the movie is just getting out of prison and seems enthusiastic to help her with her case, despite the danger it puts him in. She arrested him before because he was getting addicted and had to get clean, and she blames herself for the trouble he gets into after prison, largely on her behalf. By the time we meet the rest of her family in the movie, she is well past trying to explain to them why she did what she did, so it's all just arguing. Once they realize the gravity of the situation, they seem to understand (but still complain the whole way).
Agent Sarah Ashburn did not quickly become Shannon's friend; in fact, among the first words she ever said to her face included a direct threat to kill her. She stole her parking spot, took her perp out of holding, and then shoved her off her case, accusing her of being mentally ill. She viewed her as a trespasser who was messing with her neighborhood without her permission, and as someone who feels a strong connection and dominion over her turf, it threw and angered her that something huge was going on that she was completely unaware of. She stole Ashburn's case file and learned of Larkin, and ultimately Ashburn's boss told her to work with her. She found her specialized skills to be a waste of time, initially, completely out of sync with what she knew worked with the people she grew up around. In time, she came to understand Ashburn better and they sort of competed with each other while simultaneously taking the other under their wing. She taught the agent to take greater risks on the job, to let herself go, and be a little more daring in life in general. Ashburn taught her where organization and a few simple rules could benefit her. In the end, they went through so much together and came to love each other like sisters.
» Re-App Changes: N/A
SAMPLES
At least one sample MUST demonstrate your character's feelings about or reactions to sex! If this is a re-app, samples should reflect changes covered in the Re-App section above and demonstrate their awareness if they retain memories. The Sample Prompts can be found at: http://amatmods.dreamwidth.org/23598.html
» First Person Sample Choice: (Here's the same post in the test drive meme, with comments: http://amatpartygames.dreamwidth.org/34257.html?thread=4455377&posted=1#cmt4460497) Y'know the last time somebody left me pamphlets the morning after, they were for AA. Or for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was hungover at the time, lost them somewhere in my apartment, so I couldn't really tell you.
[ A little laugh there, half nervous. ]
Point is I never read them, and whoever the Hell I came here with: Speak up, and don't take that the wrong way; that was nice and all -- probably -- but we're going halfsies on this place. ...60/40. ...75/25. Look, my check card has a spending limit, and I've got shit to do still whenever I get back home from wherever the fuck this is.
» Third Person Sample Choice: [Prompt 2]
"You want some coffee?"
Often after sex, Shannon tended to be up and about sooner than her partner, though she took the time to bask and take in all the more pleasant parts of the afterglow, sure. She just didn't allow any guest longer than maybe an hour's nap if they were going to drop off, because a good roll was never explicitly an invitation to spend the whole night.
She was already in her bathrobe and picking up the garments that'd been strewn all over the room since they got through the door, her muscles ached a little, especially around where the main event happened, but overall her limbs maintained that very pleasant, shaky tingle that she liked. Not one to usually tidy up, this was more about separating her stuff from his; she'd lost two of her favorite T-shirts because shit got mixed up, after all.
Also, on glancing toward the bed, she saw he was still looking at her in that half-dazed, wistful way that did the opposite of putting butterflies in her stomach, making her need her space to herself again as soon as possible.
Though Shannon, herself, remained forever mystified that so many of her casual hookups wanted another date, often saying they thought they had a great time and that predicated something more, to a casual onlooker it would have been plain what put that look in their eyes sometimes: she was a different person in bed, a lot of the bravado and bluster being left at the door, she was more open, vulnerable, even tender, often being of very few words, and those she did muster were to the point, with none of her aggressive tenor. Not very submissive, but not overbearing either. It never occurred to her that she was showing people a different side of herself; she saw that sort of thing as being inherent in the bedroom. One or two had tried to tell her in the past. They clearly just didn't understand a sexual creature when they're in the zone like she did.
"Hey. Moon-eyes. Coffee." She tossed a garment at him. "Pants. Come on." She checked what was in her hands again, thinking as she let it fly that the weight was a little off. "Wait -- those are mine." The fact that they were a silver and black animal print, as opposed to a simple brown slack never even occurred to her.
» Journal:
youmadeitweird» Birthdate/Age: Dec 19, 1984/30
» Characters Played: Rumpelstiltskin, Starscream
» Re-App Status: N/A
CHARACTER FACTS
» Name: Shannon Mullins
» Canon: The Heat
» Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heat_(film)
» Canon Point: End of the movie
» Gender: Female
» Age: 37
CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Heavy for her height but significantly strong enough to chase people down on foot and take a great deal of damage in spite of herself, Detective Shannon Mullins stands a squat 5'0", with long, thick brown hair that never gets much more styling than a simple shampooing and a barette to hold it out of her face. Her features are round and doll like at her best, which is rare (she's not one to wear makeup), once described as "one of the Cambell's Soup kids who grew up and became an alcoholic." She doesn't often wear her uniform, preferring loose-fitting street clothes -- layered shirts, pajama pants, sneakers, fingerless gloves.
» Suitability: Shannon lives on her own normally, and despite her loud and abrasive manner is cunning and tough enough to manage in most settings. She'll handle well in law enforcement, because she navigates seedier locales with ease. She gets to know her community and despite seemingly sticking out like a sore thumb is one of the most capable and functional people on her force. I think that emotionally and mentally, she will initially be angry at being stolen, but what's required of her, she'll play it off as no big deal, but people she gets close to she won't have any problem explaining how fucked up she thinks this situation is.
» Orientation: Shannon is canonically shown to be straight, as she is seen flirting with men or brushing off the advances of men she's hooked up with before.
» History: Shannon Mullins comes from a largeish Irish-American family in Boston, of whom she is the only daughter with many brothers. Very all-American, with velvet paintings all over the house of Jesus playing various sports. You know. Classic family stuff. All of them are tough guys with big personalities, and when you see them at a family dinner, it becomes very obvious where a lot of her mannerisms come from. It takes a lot to compete with the egos in her house. Much of what we see of her neighborhood, how she lives, and how her family live suggests she came up in an economically depressed area where ends were met in her household. Nothing is said of when or how she joined the police force, just that her work is very connected to looking after her neighborhood. A point of contention split her and the rest of her family, however, when she arrested her brother, Jason, for dealing drugs once she learned he was getting addicted. While he understood her doing what she did and got clean, the rest of her family has never forgiven her, save perhaps her father, who seems the most even-keeled of her family. Little is known of what helped her make Detective, but she seems to control her dealings with little interference from anyone else in the department.
This changes when FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn takes one of her perps and pushes her off a case while in pursuit of a major supplier, Simon Larkin, who has overseen numerous grisly murders to protect his turf. The anal-retentive, very by-the-book Ashburn finds Mullins to be too rude and unpolished to work with, but in the end they must team up to find Larkin together, with much interference from the DEA. Much of their exploits require a fair mix of their abilities; Ashburn's skills keep them a step ahead of their enemies and naysayers, while Mullins' streetwisdom and antics often give them a clever edge. Mullins comes to appreciate and adopt some of the methods her new partner uses, and Ashburn learns that letting herself go a little has its advantages.
Their misadventures lead them to eventually discovering the identity of Simon Larkin, but not before putting Jason in danger. After nearly losing their jobs, they crack the case and become best friends. Shannon Mullins is decorated for her efforts and bravery, and Sarah Ashburn turns down a major promotion to transfer to Boston to be close to her newfound friend.
» Personality: "Abrasive" is a word already used to describe Shannon, and it bears repeating. You will never in your life meet a more crass, outspoken, mouthy, obstinate creature in all your days. She says what she thinks and often in the least appropriate fashion possible. She does this with such confidence that it's almost difficult to disagree with her. Typically, she tends to be from the school of "earn my respect and you'll get it," which tends to mean her ire doesn't fly directly at you so much, but she can still be pretty rude -- it's just a lot of things straight-laced persons find to be rude are very normal for her, like cursing. Her response to being afraid, sad, or angry is largely the same -- she reacts with outward verbal anger and smart-assery. It may be a defense mechanism; everyone in her family is very tough. She doesn't reveal other emotions easily. In stressful situations she can be stony and badass, but more often than not she will use her loudness and overbearing behavior to throw people off, even make herself look like a bumbling clown to make people drop their guard around her.
Shannon tends to be very dominant in her work space and at home -- you see this in how she deals with her family (most of which is very negative toward her, because she arrested her brother for dealing drugs), and her family is a family of Boston Irish tough guys. There is a lot of posturing and empty threats. You see this at work, too, where associates know not to move the people she arrests without her permission, where her boss allows her to behave as she likes because she's the most effective detectives that works in her neighborhood. This includes standing in his office and attacking his manhood (...verbally) when an FBI agent takes one of her perps and pushes her off an assignment. She will probably take to any work she has on the island with the same kind of zeal, carving a place for herself and pursuing her career goals with tenacity and a level of strength few may believe she has on first looking at her. She's also a weapons enthusiast who knows every piece she keeps in her refrigerator (long story) from top to bottom. She acclimates to new weapons quickly.
Intimately, and in spite of her unconventional appearance, Shannon is very open, very confident, and enjoys a healthy sex life. She is not really interested in settling down, though, evidenced by her frequent moments in the movie where she has to ward off the advances of recent hookups who are looking for something more. She likes for things to remain uncomplicated. In a place like the island, she will already be flexible, but an island is an island and she will probably have to think about repeat performances if she wants to get along. She is not self-conscious in the least. She doesn't wear makeup. She doesn't dress nice unless she has to. She does none of these things, but she views herself as attractive, a force that cannot be stopped.
Around friends, despite her crass nature, Shannon is fun-loving and openly encourages her friends (in her own...unique way) to let their hair down and have fun with her. She enjoys drinking, good food, dancing, most of the usual stuff. Still, she is the sort to jibe to get a rise out of people, using a lot of tough love, but altogether coming from a place of friendliness and caring. She just may tell you to suck it up and stop being such a loser and dance, though.
Shannon's relationship with her family may seem completely toxic and chaotic to anyone standing on the outside, but like those families you see in the trashiest of reality shows, under all that bluster, there's a group that loves each other. Once she realizes Larkin is targeting them, Shannon pulls out all the stops to protect her family, despite their seeming refusal to respect her decisions as an officer of the law. In the end, her family also supports and cheers for her when she is decorated for her efforts in taking Larkin down. She worries about her brother Jason, especially, who in the movie is just getting out of prison and seems enthusiastic to help her with her case, despite the danger it puts him in. She arrested him before because he was getting addicted and had to get clean, and she blames herself for the trouble he gets into after prison, largely on her behalf. By the time we meet the rest of her family in the movie, she is well past trying to explain to them why she did what she did, so it's all just arguing. Once they realize the gravity of the situation, they seem to understand (but still complain the whole way).
Agent Sarah Ashburn did not quickly become Shannon's friend; in fact, among the first words she ever said to her face included a direct threat to kill her. She stole her parking spot, took her perp out of holding, and then shoved her off her case, accusing her of being mentally ill. She viewed her as a trespasser who was messing with her neighborhood without her permission, and as someone who feels a strong connection and dominion over her turf, it threw and angered her that something huge was going on that she was completely unaware of. She stole Ashburn's case file and learned of Larkin, and ultimately Ashburn's boss told her to work with her. She found her specialized skills to be a waste of time, initially, completely out of sync with what she knew worked with the people she grew up around. In time, she came to understand Ashburn better and they sort of competed with each other while simultaneously taking the other under their wing. She taught the agent to take greater risks on the job, to let herself go, and be a little more daring in life in general. Ashburn taught her where organization and a few simple rules could benefit her. In the end, they went through so much together and came to love each other like sisters.
» Re-App Changes: N/A
SAMPLES
At least one sample MUST demonstrate your character's feelings about or reactions to sex! If this is a re-app, samples should reflect changes covered in the Re-App section above and demonstrate their awareness if they retain memories. The Sample Prompts can be found at: http://amatmods.dreamwidth.org/23598.html
» First Person Sample Choice: (Here's the same post in the test drive meme, with comments: http://amatpartygames.dreamwidth.org/34257.html?thread=4455377&posted=1#cmt4460497) Y'know the last time somebody left me pamphlets the morning after, they were for AA. Or for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was hungover at the time, lost them somewhere in my apartment, so I couldn't really tell you.
[ A little laugh there, half nervous. ]
Point is I never read them, and whoever the Hell I came here with: Speak up, and don't take that the wrong way; that was nice and all -- probably -- but we're going halfsies on this place. ...60/40. ...75/25. Look, my check card has a spending limit, and I've got shit to do still whenever I get back home from wherever the fuck this is.
» Third Person Sample Choice: [Prompt 2]
"You want some coffee?"
Often after sex, Shannon tended to be up and about sooner than her partner, though she took the time to bask and take in all the more pleasant parts of the afterglow, sure. She just didn't allow any guest longer than maybe an hour's nap if they were going to drop off, because a good roll was never explicitly an invitation to spend the whole night.
She was already in her bathrobe and picking up the garments that'd been strewn all over the room since they got through the door, her muscles ached a little, especially around where the main event happened, but overall her limbs maintained that very pleasant, shaky tingle that she liked. Not one to usually tidy up, this was more about separating her stuff from his; she'd lost two of her favorite T-shirts because shit got mixed up, after all.
Also, on glancing toward the bed, she saw he was still looking at her in that half-dazed, wistful way that did the opposite of putting butterflies in her stomach, making her need her space to herself again as soon as possible.
Though Shannon, herself, remained forever mystified that so many of her casual hookups wanted another date, often saying they thought they had a great time and that predicated something more, to a casual onlooker it would have been plain what put that look in their eyes sometimes: she was a different person in bed, a lot of the bravado and bluster being left at the door, she was more open, vulnerable, even tender, often being of very few words, and those she did muster were to the point, with none of her aggressive tenor. Not very submissive, but not overbearing either. It never occurred to her that she was showing people a different side of herself; she saw that sort of thing as being inherent in the bedroom. One or two had tried to tell her in the past. They clearly just didn't understand a sexual creature when they're in the zone like she did.
"Hey. Moon-eyes. Coffee." She tossed a garment at him. "Pants. Come on." She checked what was in her hands again, thinking as she let it fly that the weight was a little off. "Wait -- those are mine." The fact that they were a silver and black animal print, as opposed to a simple brown slack never even occurred to her.
