Post by Bridget Lacey on Sept 20, 2023 21:04:06 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
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BRIDGET ELIZABETH LACEY
"The night was young and so were we
Talked about life, God, death and your family
Didn't want any promises
Just my undivided honesty"
BASICS
NAME: Bridget Elizabeth Lacey
AGE:
aged up: 28 (09/06/24)
BIRTHDATE: September 6th, 1996
PRONOUNS: She/her
SEXUALITY: Bisexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Sector agent - translator and crisis/hostage negotiator (she is also a liaison with LEPD for translation services and hostage negotiation call outs)
NEIGHBORHOOD: The Heights
MEMBER GROUP: The Sector
POWERS: Omni-lingual and telepathy
Omni-lingual - She can start to understand and speak any spoken language within a couple seconds and up to a minute of exposure to it. The more similar the root language is to other languages she’s been exposed to, the faster she picks it up. However, she cannot read and write a language without studying it. If she’s been exposed to the spoken language first then learning to read and write it comes much easier, sometimes taking mere days to learn the basics and weeks to become proficient for languages she’s had more exposure to.
Telepathy - With intense focus, she can read thoughts and even communicate to another person in their mind. Reading thoughts alone is easier than communicating back, but it still puts strain on her mentally and physically. Nosebleeds and headaches are common side effects of using this gift, so she tends to avoid using it except when necessary. Her omnilingual ability also applies to reading thoughts.
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 5’5
WEIGHT: 115 pounds
HAIR COLOR: Light brown (usually with blonde highlights)
EYE COLOR: light green
FACE CLAIM: Alycia Debnam Carey
OVERALL APPEARANCE:
Bridget is average height with a slim-athletic build. She has a fair complexion with light green eyes, frizzy, wavy/curly brown hair that usually has blonde highlights. She alternates between keeping her natural curls and straightening her hair. She wears contacts most days, but will occasionally be spotted in glasses when she doesn’t feel like wearing the contact lenses or her eyes are too irritated for them. For work she dresses professionally, usually in button down shirts or a basic blouse with a jacket over, sometimes dresses or skirts but mostly in slacks. When she’s not at work, it’s mostly jeans, t-shirts, shorts, tank tops, sundresses, hoodies, whatever is comfortable for the season. Her makeup is generally a natural look unless she’s going to a special event.
INSIDE
LIKES: Working with people and not being chained to a desk all day. Hiking. Making new friends. Staying up late talking to friends, dates, or even random friendly strangers. Keeping busy. Deep conversations.
DISLIKES: Paperwork. Early mornings. People who talk crap when they think whoever they are talking about won’t understand the language they are speaking. Having to do anything ‘crafty’ (she’s not good at it). Feeling lonely.
STRENGTHS: Connecting with people. Being discreet when necessary. Goal oriented and determined. Quick learner, especially with hands-on training. Perceptive.
WEAKNESSES: She can be stubborn and rigid when she thinks she’s right. Competitive. Occasionally petty. Unwilling to accept failure in herself, she will push past her limits if it means getting the job done, even if there are personal consequences.
OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Bridget comes across as warm and friendly, definitely a people person. She’ll try to strike up a conversation with anyone who seems willing. She’s good at reading between the lines, a product of her job training and general experience with her abilities. Although, when friendships or relationships end on bad terms, Bridget isn’t above sending a bag of dicks or a glitter bomb out of petty anger or frustration. She puts her all into the things she does. She’s intensely competitive, and hates losing. She doesn’t expect to be the best at everything, but when there is something she knows she isn’t good at she’ll just avoid doing it if she can since she hates to fail at anything.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Enterprise, Alabama
FAMILY:
David Lacey - father - gifted (empathy and psychometry) - attorney
Christina Lacey - stepmom - gifted (emotional manipulation) - real estate agent
Jennifer Fitzpatrick (formerly Lacey) - mother - human - attorney
Aaron Lacey - 31 / (full) brother - open faction
Charles Lacey - 23 / half brother - gifted (intuitive aptitude)
Dean Lacey - 21 / younger half brother - gifted (emotional manipulation)
PETS: Two tabby cats named Cheddar (orange tabby) and Jack (grey tabby).
HISTORY:
Bridget came from a family of Gifted individuals, her father, step mother, and brothers were all Gifted. Her mother was Human, but she knew about Gifted thanks to her ex husband. Their divorce was amicable, and both being attorneys, it went as quickly and smoothly as any divorce could. Aaron and Bridget were still young, and their time was split 50-50 between parents, alternating weeks between households.
School and grades were stressed in both homes. Bridget kept straight As all through school, and she excelled at college. Her gifts, being omnilingual and telepathic, lent well to attaining a degree in applied linguistics. Her parents encouraged her to pursue work in the public sector, and Bridget applied to work with the FBI, thinking she could use her Gifts in a positive way. During the application process and interviews, she was recruited instead to work for the Sector.
Bridget was an idealist when she began working at the Sector. She thought she'd be keeping Gifted and humans safe from each other. She didn't know much about Hunters yet, just that they existed in some nebulous part of society. Through the years she's been working with the Sector, her eyes have been opened up to a lot of the realities of the world she's a part of. She knows now that keeping Gifted a secret comes at a price, but she doesn't see any other realistic way of doing things.
As a crisis/hostage negotiator, situations are usually pretty serious by the time she gets called in. She does everything she can to keep things from escalating and diffuse a situation if possible. When the suspect won’t cooperate is when she uses her telepathy, trying to find the most peaceful resolution for everyone involved. She’ll push until they’re both in pain and bleeding if she has to, but she saves that for the last resort. During her day to day job, she mostly translates for the Sector, LEPD, and any other local agency who requests assistance. She gets kept pretty busy, but she prefers it that way.
Bridget unwittingly dated a Hunter shortly before moving to Los Eurosia. She never suspected them, but they tried to convince her to ‘give up’ her gifts and become human. They told her that they knew someone with the ability to permanently take away her gifts. They said it would be safer for her, that she wouldn’t ever have to worry about the wrong people learning she was Gifted again. Bridget was so shaken by the incident that she occasionally has nightmares about losing her gifts. It’s one of the worst things she could imagine happening to her, since they are such an integral part of who she is and the work that she does.
With the growing Gifted population in Los Eurosia, Bridget was reassigned a couple years ago. She rents a two bedroom apartment in The Heights, and she’s coming to think of the city as fondly as she thinks of her hometown.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Aimee
AGE: 34
TIMEZONE: EST