Post by daphne adelaide flynn on Jul 23, 2012 18:54:35 GMT -5
[/justify]DAPHNE ADELAIDE FLYNN
you take the things you like and try to love the things you took
| B A S I C S |
Name Daphne Adelaide Flynn
Nicknames Daph, Daffy, etc.
PB Zooey Deschanel
Age 22
Sex female
Year COP
Major COP [also her degree is in biology]
Occupation COP
Hometown Orange Island| P E R S O N A L I T Y |
Daphne is the person that you might find at two in the morning, rooting through your trash. She is dedicated to everything she sets her mind to, which often includes finding out as much as she can about a given situation or person. Going overboard is not in her vocabulary because it describes her whole life and there has never been an occasion in which she thought she was going too far. She’s good at getting the information she wants, even if it isn’t the information she really needs, because she’s both good at sneaking around and finding things and getting people to tell her things. She has a sweet face which, when she’s not being crazy, tends to endear people to her and she often finds herself at home in the interrogation room. The problem with that is that she’s a beat cop and does not get to interrogate many people. Still, if she did, she would probably get information out of them at least three quarters of the time, if not more.
Being rather small, Daphne is easily alarmed by people who are big and scary, despite the fact that she is a cop. If a physical confrontation arose, her tininess and speed [and police weaponry] would be the only things to save her. Despite her fear of large people, she isn’t afraid of much else. She studied biology in college and is no stranger to the gross or the grotesque. Dead bodies, severed limbs, internal organs don’t bother her and she’s unafraid to touch most anything. When she was studying initially, she intended to go into autopsies, but allure of fighting crime was just too strong. Her favorite crimes are busting teenagers doing stupid things because it makes her feel like she’s making a real difference in someone’s life—if she had the patience or the stamina, she would have liked to be a social worker of some kind. As it is, she likes looking around the insides of cadavers too much for that sort of thing.
Daphne has a tendency to obsess over things. She takes her dedication to the next level in most cases and can be kind of a hoarder. Beware going into her apartment because you will probably never find your way out. She keeps things just in case they later become useful—mason jars, twisty ties, old bits of chicken wire, empty egg cartons—and she runs out of space quickly. Every once in awhile, her mother forces her to do a cleaning, but she can’t bare to part with her items and always manages to keep a small collection of things just in case until she acquires a larger collection. Other than useless junk, she also collects trinkets, figurines, Christmas ornaments, salt and pepper shakers, rocks, and all Pepe le Pew novelty items. She doesn’t like living alone, but she has to because there is no one who wants to deal with the amount of things she keeps in her life at all times.
With all of her weird habits, Daphne really just wants to make the world a better place. Despite being a cop and seeing crime all the time, she’s always been a glass-half-full kind of girl and she believes the best of everyone—once she’s stalked them to make sure. She has a lot of ambition and would someday like to be Sherriff—or chief of police—so that she can make the changes to the system that she wants. Saving innocent people, including some wayward criminals, is her number one priority. The problem is that Daphne is a little too intense for her job and tends to take everything a bit too seriously. She will gladly work twenty-three and a half hours a day and she would work all twenty-four if she could. She is married to her job and determined to see that no wrongdoing goes uncaught.
Talents & Skills: Stalking people, breaking out of handcuffs, collecting things.
Weaknesses: Letting things go, keeping her mouth shut, nosiness.
Likes:
- Defending crime
- Doodling
- Pie
- Nicknames/codenames/naming things
- Kittens
- Pepe le Pew—she collects everything of his.
- Umbrellas
- Dancing
- Pretty rocks
Dislikes:
- Scary criminals
- Teens doing bad things underage
- Breaking rules
- People who don’t laugh
- Paperwork
- Laziness
- Throwing things away
| H I S T O R Y |
Daphne is the oldest child of Laura and Louis Flynn, two marine biologists. She was the only child for five years, during which time she got into everything and was constantly being chastised. Even as a baby, Daphne liked to explore and grab things and her parents would lose her if they set her down and blinked. She got better as she got older, but she was always wandering off and getting into places she shouldn't. When she was old enough to really play outside, she would always come back in with things she found--interesting rocks, oddly shaped twigs, pretty flowers. Her parents would let her keep them for awhile, but then they would always get thrown out because they were useless, dirty objects.
This got harder for them to do, however, when Laura got pregnant again. Five months after Daphne's fifth birthday, her twin brothers Michael and Matthew were born. Daphne was so excited to have new people to play with, but babies turned out to be super boring, so she turned back to collecting things outside and trying to revive dying birds.
From the moment they could walk, her brothers were just like her--into everything and always on the move. Being the older sister, Daphne became their self-appointed discipliner--every time they did something, she was running to her mother to tell on them. Unfortunately, being watched by a seven year old is different from being watched by an adult and Daphne found that they did not get chastised nearly as much as she did. Their presence did, however, allow her to accumulate a collection of small rocks, shells, and flowers.
Since it seemed to upset her parents that she brought dirty things into the house, she took to cleaning them--flowers were kept in plastic bags because they were hard to wash, but the rocks and shells were thoroughly rinsed, dried, and displayed on her dresser on paper towels. When her parents realized that her collection actually included some pretty neat specimens, they bought her some geology books. As biologists, they couldn't have been more thrilled at her interest in science and, as she got older, they started to broaden her horizons. Her favorite subjects by the time she was nine were geology, speleology, oceanography, and paleontology.
As she got older, she started being more interested in what her parents did than what the ocean did. Sure, she knew all about the tides and sediment and plankton and stuff, but her parents knew about fish and turtles and seals and how they were on the inside. Science became her best subject and, though math wasn't her strong suit, she seemed better at grasping it when something cool was involved. Her strange collections grew and she started collecting things for later use--things she didn't understand yet, but that she intended to understand someday.
When she was fourteen, they took a family vacation. Each person was allowed to pick one place they wanted to go and Daphne picked North Carolina to dig for gold and mine for gems. Her father told her that it wouldn't be the same as being a real geologist because the gems were probably planted there for tourists, but Daphne was obstinate and so they went mining. After panning for gold, they each came back with test tubes filled with flecks, a minorly exciting activity, but the mining proved much more successful. They were offered one price for buckets of dirt and a different to go into an actual mine--Daphne was insistent they go into the mine.
Once there, they found all manner of quartzes and small stones, thrilling Daphne to no end, but just as they were about to leave, she struck metaphorical gold. Being the most enthusiastic digger there, she knew she was bound to find something and that something was a scuffed topaz the size of her fingernail. The guide told her that no one had found topaz in that mine for years and, whether or not that was a true fact, Daphne cherished it for the rest of the day and still cherishes it. She keeps the topaz in satin-lined jewelry box next to the rest of her rock collection, in its place of honor.
When it came to high school, geology was not an easy hobby to fit in. There was no rock-hunting club and no class other than generic ninth grade earth science that went into any detail about rocks. Even if Daphne had taken that instead of honors biology, it would have only been a lecture and some test questions. Despite this, Daphne found biology to be satisfying. On frog day, she was one of the only girls actively poking around the inside of the frog and then, later, she was one of the few girls to take anatomy and AP biology. That was okay, though, because it was in those classes that she finally made friends. The people who were like her understood her weird quirks--they may not have been as into biology and rocks as she was, but they were into other things, like physics or computers or astronomy.
Senior year, she dual enrolled in four classes, only needing a couple more classes to graduate. By the time she went to college--Orange Island University, because they had an amazing biology program and she loved her island--she only needed three years to graduate. She had always liked the idea of going into law enforcement and her initial intention was to work in autopsy or forensics, but after awhile, the idea of being a cop was attractive. She enrolled herself in the police academy the summer before her senior year and finished it the year after she graduated [which was a year early] and now aspires to investigate murders as well as possibly do autopsies in her spare time. And collect rocks.
| E X T R A S |
Her cat is a cornish rex named Speedy Gonzales. Because she really likes Looney Tunes.
She keeps a journal. The cover is made with flowers she's hand-pressed and, every time she finishes one, she hand presses a new one. For gifts, people often received dried flower bookmarks. She dries a lot of flowers.
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