About the Writer:

Name: Rae (no really, that’s my name…)
Age: 2.0
Gender: FEMME
Contact: Pm me ^^

Character Application

The Basics

Name: Raelin Lorcan
Nicknames (Alias/AKAs): Rae ;; Linnie
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Family: Her younger sister, Keelin

Kind: MSI Personnel / Chaotic Good

Appearance

Face Claim: Jennifer Connelly
Description: Raelin is the type of woman that make men stop and stare openly in the street. She’s beautiful in an altogether sensual and mysterious way. The first thing most people notice is that her eyes seem bottomless and cold yet at the same time bright and filled with anticipation over some obscure detail or memory she’s seemed to recall at the time. She has an enigmatic smile that neither encourages nor deters those whom she directs it towards most often leaving the recipient feeling insecure and somehow exposed. She’s an average height that allows her to be equal with most men yet at the same time revel in the occasion that she meets a man much taller than she.

She takes good care of her body and eats a very healthy diet and works out regularly. Her muscles are subtle, rippling under her clothes seconds before she strikes or uses them. Like a giant cat she’s graceful and precise, never striking before she knows exactly where and how she will land. One of her best features is her hair. Long and abundant with curls her brown mane is one of her two best feminine features, the other being the generous bosom God saw fit to bestow her with. She takes vitamins every day to make sure that her hair and body stay in top condition. Her hands are soft but her grip is firm, leaving her strength out of the realms of the imagination. Surprisingly Rae only has one tattoo, a Celtic cross on her lower back, only a few have ever seen it.

Raelin was blessed with the fact that she looks younger than she really is, for a 26 year old investigator this was quite a blessing since she was quite sure she looked MUCH older due to the stress she keeps putting on herself, but it seems like stress is no match for good genes and a healthy diet.

In the office Rae prefers to revive the detectives of old wearing pin striped black slacks and rumpled white oxfords. When she goes out of the office she dons a long black coat and her guns are never far from her reach. When she’s not working, Raelin prefers to wear jeans and tight fitting tops to show off the body she’s worked so hard to achieve.

Many people are not sure what they think about Raelin Lorcan but above all most people would find this slim investigator daunting, even her silhouette can be an intimidating thing.

Personality

Likes:

¤ Solving cases
¤ Shooting people who irritate her
¤ Cleaning her guns
¤ Working out
¤ Reading old crime novels
¤ Going through past cases
¤ Rocky road ice cream
¤ Riding her bike through the park
¤ Watching old horror movies
¤ Looking at fine art
¤ Driving her car with the radio blaring
¤ Tall men
¤ Big band jazz music
¤ Swimming
¤ Cats
¤ Dogs
¤ Roller coasters
¤ Old radio shows

Dislikes:

¤ Not being able to shoot people
¤ Wasting Time
¤ Laziness
¤ Lawyers
¤ Politics
¤ Getting dragged into Politics
¤ Loosing her Temper
¤ Annoying children
¤ Going to Confession
¤ Cowards
¤ Ex Boyfriends

Personality: Raelin is a very difficult person to get along with. She’s hostile, bitchy and she has a good eye with a gun. Not necessarily a girl you’d take home to your mother. She has a difficult time following orders that are contrary to what she feels instinctually and openly fights with anyone willing to throw down, even if she knows she’s going to loose. While not OCD she does have little quirks about her that give off sirens to anyone willing to pay attention to them. She’s by no means insane or mentally unstable, she’s just a bitch. She rarely smiles and what passes as her sense of humor is black and would make even the most hardcore gangsters fidget in their seats if they heard her tell a joke.

Raeling, however does have her moments when she can be impossibly sweet and endearing, usually though, she’s drunk and doesn’t remember a thing when she wakes up. Only when completely hammered does Rae’s tough outer exterior dissipate and she becomes what she truly is. A scared, fed up, little girl who just wants to be understood and loved. But since she only gets that way around her partner Marcus most people only see one side of her and aren’t likely to ever forget it or be convinced otherwise.

Rae isn’t just putting up a façade to protect her fragile interior; she’s actually a very strong independent woman who realizes that to take you must also give. She has a strong sense of justice and is willing to sacrifice herself to save an innocent and has gotten into more trouble that way in her life than anything else. Her thought process is complicated but usually fair so she becomes quite agitated when people question her motives or ask the most infuriating question: “What were you thinking?”

She’s secretive and not very open about her feelings which drives her partner up a wall and would be one of the easiest reasons to point out that Rae hasn’t been able to keep up a steady relationship. She’s prone to brooding and depression when not steered into the proper outlets and can become quite emotional at the tiniest little thing after that. Raelin would like to improve upon her many faults but can’t quite find the catalyst for doing so, or a good reason so she remains as she not always was.

Extras

History: It is a history filled with strife, hardship and heartbreak. Raelin came from a family who barely had enough to take care of themselves, let alone a child. The young girl was abused daily, if not physically, then verbally since she was required to do much of the housework when she became old enough. Rae never had time to dream about the things that little girls dream about, she was not Cinderella waiting for her prince to come and save her, she was not the Princess and the Pea, who was swept up by mistake by this common family. These things she knew, so she did not dream they were so. Raelin’s childhood never was.

At a time when she should have been more carefree and happy she was caring for the baby sister fate had so cruelly left behind when it took Raelin’s mother. But Raelin never blamed Keelin for her mother’s death, as she had learned from years of labor; she straightened her pants and took care of the job. She loved Keelin more than anything, she spoiled her, loved her, cared for her like a mother would their own child. But it appears that all the love in the world can still produce an ungrateful child.

All through Keelin’s childhood Raeling became quite involved with reading, riddle solving and putting puzzles together, training her young mind to fit pieces together, some day she vowed that she would be one of the great detectives in her novels, she would be help people find loved ones, bring down criminals and serve justice to anyone who defied the system. It was these ideals that eventually led her down the path she took later in life.

At the time of her father’s death, Rae kept vigil over the dying man, to ease his pain and comfort him into the next world. Most people would not associate the Raelin that sat by her father’s side that night with the Raelin that clicks down the halls today. Why would a woman who’s life was a living hell due to that man, ease his pain? The truth is, Raelin wasn’t broken yet, she held no malice towards him, she gripped his hand and prayed for his peace, that he could see her mother when he finally passed on.

It was that night, as she sat by her father’s side that the Dreamwalker, Drake Morpheus came to her and promised her anything she wanted, all she had to do was stay by his side. After all this time, dismissing fairytales and scoffing at things like “wishful thinking” Raelin found herself hardly impressed. She resisted the temptation, part of her insisting that this was not real, that she would wake up alone and all her dreams would be shattered the moment she decided to have one. Apparently her attempts to resist temptation impressed and amused the mysterious voice as he told her so, but then something occurred and the voice left, promising to return. He did not, at least not when Raelin expected him too.

By the time Drake and Raelin met again, Keelin had all but disowned her and Raelin was beginning to think that maybe it would be better to be selfish than to think of others. So when Drake walked through the door of the diner she was sitting in, oozing sexiness from just about every pore, she decided to that maybe now was a good time to start. For a girl that never once imagined what her prince would look like IF she had ever bothered to take the time to think, she decided right then, that this was Prince Charming, and by now, he was holding her hand.

For the first time in her life Raelin did something truly selfish, she fell in love. For awhile the two were happy, Rae was loved, cherished, cared for, she became drunk on the feelings and craved them more and more and more and Drake was more than willing to satisfy her needs. At the time she was also a rookie at the prestigious Mendecant Surnaturel, Inc and was given her first assignment as soon as she was promoted. An achievement that should have made her the happiest in her life was the cause of a cataclysmic chain reaction that produced the current Raelin Lorcan.

She was assigned to find and bring in Drake Morpheus, her current lover and the supposed “scourge” of Merchadent Policy. Rae’s constant agonizing on the subject began the transformation, even Drake noticed a change but was prudent not to say anything. Eventually Rae had to send him away, knowing that because of how she raised herself, because of what life had thrown at her for so many years before Drake came back to her, she would turn him in. When he was gone Rae cried for days.

She felt that she had betrayed the one person who had ever truly loved her and that she had loved back. The thing that hurt most of all though, was the uncertainty, did Drake really love her or was he taking advantage of her? Was it her he really wanted or was he possibly after something else? Her chest constantly ached, her head hurt and she became quite ill from the whole thing, but unlike before, Drake did not come back. Rae eventually got over the experience by convincing herself that she didn’t need anyone in her life, love led to heartache, revealing oneself was a dangerous undertaking, since they used it to rip you to shreds later. The bright eyed rookie had become the stone cold investigator she was today.


Sample Post: Raelin sat in her apartment reading. It wasn’t a wholly unusual thing to see on a night such as this. It was raining outside, the great sheets of water slamming against the window pounded out an unsteady rhythm that she had long since memorized. Looking up occasionally she would peer out the window, gazing at the things she knew were there, but could not see. It was on nights like this, she desperately wished that Drake was with her.

It wasn’t that Raelin hated the rain, she loved it, more than anything, but it was the genuine feelings of loneliness that engulfed her whenever it occurred. In fact she could almost feel his gentle breath against her neck, but she immediately pushed it away. That was something she had no business thinking about. Imagination was a dangerous thing, she sought to avoid dreaming too, but sometimes it could not be helped. However these days her dreams had been fraught with nightmares and not a night went by when she wouldn’t wake up screaming, crying or with a frightened gasp, covered in cold sweat.

She looked back down at her book and sighed, well she might as well go out tonight if she was just going to sit here, there was a record store down the street that she liked to visit, maybe she could get a record that would help calm her nerves. Raeling uncurled herself from her chair and stood, a vision of dark beauty as her long dark hair cascaded over her pale shoulders as she reached for her jacket. The dark green corset she wore was cinched tightly with black satin ribbon and her jeans were formfitting and very flattering.

After she tugged on her favorite pumps she took her umbrella and strayed out into the hallway, nodding curtly at all she passed before she alighted to the last floor. Standing outside in the cold weather, clutching an umbrella she suddenly felt like a child again, it was amazing how debilitating fear was…

She swiftly opened the umbrella and stepped into the rain, listening to the new melody being drummed on the fabric above her head, she professionally made her way to the end of street where the record shop was, but the windows were dark, a sign said that they had closed early due to an emergency. Sighing Raelin realized that she had the worst luck ever for any one person and turned on her heel to head back to her apartment.

Apparently tonight, like every other, just wasn’t hers.

First secret line? Lying next to you, in silent lucidity
And the last rule? Master of illusion, can you realize

I think you've quite effectively captured Raelin, my dear! Though the bit about shoe shopping does strike me as odd, I can let that slide since you've covered all bases.

When you're playing her, just keep in mind that on Drake's part, he does love her...even if she is skeptical of it.

Wonderful job! Absolutely accepted. Now, Megs is off to kick herself into gear and finish the background info before the Grand Opening!