[b]| Identity |[/b] NYPD Captain Richard C. "Dick" Tracy [b]| Origin & Backstory |[/b] [b]Brooklyn: 1968-1989[/b] Richard Tracy was born in Brooklyn in August of '68. His father Robert was a New York City firefighter and his mother Mary was a schoolteacher. An only child, Dickie grew up in a rough and tumble section of Brooklyn where he learned to scrap rather well. He flirted with boxing as a teen, winning a local golden gloves tournament. never one for schoolwork, Tracy would often cut class and skip school. He managed to graduate high school by the skin of his teeth. With poor grades and from a poor family, he couldn't go to college and knocked around in various jobs before he applied for the NYPD. After making high marks on the exam, he was accepted into the NYPD police academy. [b]The Two-Two: 1989-1995[/b] Fresh out of the academy, Officer Tracy worked a patrol beat out of NYPD's Twenty-Second Precinct. He proved to be a very reliable patrolman and a calm and level-headed in times of action. He famously chased a murder suspect across six city blocks before catching them just before they hit the subway. The good work in patrol led to an assignment as a plain clothes officer in the Two-Two's Flex Squad, a roving unit that made dragnet sweeps in high-concentrated drug dealing areas. After five years on the force Tracy took the detective's exam and passed with flying colors. He was assigned to Auto Theft as his first assignment. [b]Gumshoe: 1995-2009[/b] A quiet and workmanlike tenure in Auto Theft led to a stint in robbery and finally homicide. Partnered with Sergeant Pat Patton, Detective Tracy posted a record high 90% clearance rate during his six years in Homicide. After finishing first in the sergeant's exam, Tracy became a squad supervisor in Narcotics, then a promotion to lieutenant and a return back to Homicide as shift commander. Tracy proved to be as good a commander as he was a detective and ran his shift. [b]Major Cases: 2009-2010[/b] With Tracy's glowing record as a skilled investigator and supervisor, he was promoted to captain and given the reins of a new squad altogether. Named the Major Case Squad, they would serve as a special unit that reported directly to the police commissioner. Ther mission was twofold: Investigate the ongoing influence of criminal organizations in the city and assist with any cases that may involve the presence of metahumans. Given his mandate, Tracy assembled a hand-picked squad and set their sights on Big Boy Caprice, the longtime head of the Caprice Crime Family. [b]| Attributes |[/b] Tracy is an ace detective, a skilled brawler, and a crack shot when the occasion calls for it. Just as important is his force of will and dedication to the job. [b]| Character Notes |[/b] [b]Supporting Characters[/b] [u]Lt. Pat Patton[/u] Tracy's second in command in the Major Case Squad. Pat is a longtime associate of Tracy's, his former partner that came up through the ranks with him. [u]Sgt. Jean DeWolff [/u] Third in command of the Major Case Squad. A hard-drinking and smoking cop, DeWolff is a former member of the Asset Forfeiture who was picked to join the MCS due to her experience in the field. She is an expert on following the money trail of criminal organizations. [u]Sgt. Michael Tork[/u] Member of the MCS, Tork runs a Major Case Squad Quick Response Tactical Squad, a three-man unit that handles raids and stakeouts for the MCS. Tork is a former narcotics detective with a reputation as being and rough and tumble kind of guy. [u]Detective Denzel "Daz" Pierce [/u] A member of Tork's QRT squad, a former St. John's basketball player who uses his size to intimidate belligerent criminals. [u]Officer Vincent Gonzalez[/u] Just off the beat, Vin is the third member of the QRT unit. He is young, ambitious, and hungry to rise. [u]Robert Young/Mumbles Malloy[/u] Mumbles Malloy is a member of the Caprice Crime Family, but is in reality NYPD officer Robert Young, an undercover officer Tracy has placed inside the organization to observe and report any intelligence he can gather. [u]Deputy District Attorney Tess Trueheart[/u] Chief prosecutor in the NYDA's Crimes Against Persons unit, Tess is a skilled criminal prosecutor and Tracy's on and off girlfriend for several years.. [u]The Kid[/u] A homeless street urchin Tracy keeps track of. The Kid serves as a confidential informant operating on the streets of New York and looks up to Tracy as a father figure.. [i]Enemies[/i] [u]Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice[/u] Head of the Caprice Crime Family, Big Boy is a veteran mafioso and former member of the Gambino Crime Family. Big Boy oversees several criminal enterprises that include drug dealing, human and weapons trafficking, loan sharking, and illegal gambling. Despite being a well-known criminal, he has yet to ever been charged with a crime. [u]Billy "The Beaut" Russo[/u] Underboss of the Caprice Crime Family. Billy is vain and self-obsessed. He is the bastard son of Big Boy and holds his father in contempt while he schemes to take over the family. [u]Pruneface[/u] Capo in the Caprice Crime Family. Pruneface, called so because of the wrinkly skin of his face. Based out of the Juicy Fruit, a Bronx strip club, Prunceface runs the trafficking arm of the organization. [u]Flattop[/u] Big Boy's chief enforcer, Flattop is a sadistic psychopath who gets too much pleasure out of his job. If Big Boy needs someone hurt or killed and he wants it done right, Flattop is the one he dispatches. [u]Lew Moxon[/u] Capo in the Caprice Crime Family. Moxon runs the drug dealing arm of the organization. A Gotham transplant, he came to work for Big Boy after he killed a made man in the Falcone Crime Family and fled to New York for refuge. [u]Breathless Mahoney[/u] A former nightclub showgirl, Breathless has been Big Boy's concubine for over ten years. As ruthless as she is beautiful, she both loves and loathes Big Boy while at the same time has a strange attraction to the police officer who doggedly pursues him. [b]| Character Goals |[/b] Anyone who is familiar with my character selection in games like this know I tend to play a type. I've always liked the idea of the ordinary man, a true ordinary man and not like Batman, making a stand against the powers that be. Jim Gordon, Frank Castle, Slam Bradley, they are all regular men that are driven by various motives be it justice, revenge, or redemption, and they have their code and what they believe in and they will fight for that. Tracy is very much in that mold. I want to play Dick Tracy as a guy who, while still the tireless crusader, realizes he has to play a little dirty to get justice. Tracy was one of the big characters I loved when I was a kid. I was little when the movie came out and watching it when I did, like Batman '89 and the James Bond movies, created a lifelong interest in the character that I still have to this day. I want to bring Tracy into the 21st century and keep his crime-busting spirit. It may not be the 20's and 30's, but I think there's a place for a striding champion of justice like Tracy in today's society. [b]| Sample Post |[/b] [hider=Sample] [b] Major Case Squad Offices One Police Plaza Manhattan[/b] "Are you alive or dead?" Officer Vin Gonzales asked, sitting behind his desk and leaning back in his chair. "Dead," Officer Denzel "Daz" Pierce said, leaning against the filing cabinet beside the desk and sipping coffee. "Twenty left." "Were you a president?" "No. Nineteen." "Did you do anything significant?" "Yes. Eighteen." While Gonzales and Daz continued their game, Sergeant Jean DeWolff entered the room with files in her hands. She gave the two officers a slight glance before continuing to her desk and laying the files down. DeWolff sat down and began to look over the contents inside the folder. "Were you a pro athlete?" "Nope. Seventeen." "An actor?" "Nope. Sixteen." "Listen up," Captain Tracy said as he came up to the group with Sergeant Tork and a skinny black man in a suit and tie following in his wake. Daz's eyes lit up from behind his sunglasses. Daz stood up and shook the man's hand. "Narco in the house! Shit, you must be desperate!" "You know me, Daz," the man said with a smirk. "I gotta be at the end of my rope to come see your ass." "I bet," said Tork. "This is my new squad. The sulky young man over there is Officer Vin Gonzalez and the one person in the room that's not dogshit ugly is Sergeant Jean DeWolff. Vin, Jean, this is Sergeant Kasper Cole. He used to run with Daz and I back in Narco." "That was back before his head got too big to be seen with us," Daz said with a pat on Cole's back. "You get a set of stripes and a cushy job with CID Narco and it changes you. Where's the love, Kasper?" "Yeah, I'm crying you a river, Daz," Cole said with an elbow into his ribs. "You all seem like you're doing well. Heard y'all are kicking ass and taking names with Captain Tracy." "We do okay," Tracy said with a shrug. "The bad guys are getting locked up. "The question is," said Daz. "What brings you here? I know you, Kasper, you don't play catch up until after you punch out." "You always knew how to read me. Yeah, Narco needs a little help from you boys." "What is it?" DeWolff asked, pushing away the files on her desk. "Anybody ever heard of the Crusaders Motorcycle Club?" "Yeah," said Gonzalez. "They're a bunch of redneck assholes that operate out of Brooklyn, right?" "Right you are," Cole said with a nod. "But they're more than that. They're a biker gang with chapters all across America and the world, the Brooklyn chapter is their home base. Aside from claiming that they are law-abiding citizens, they also happen to be a big time distributor of drugs and illegal guns. They ATF, DEA, and NYPD have been running a joint task force over the past year, monitoring them with wiretaps, camera surveillance, and undercover informants. We're getting ready to raid their Brooklyn clubhouse, as well as the homes of a half dozen members." "Where do we come in?" Tork asked. "Because a week ago we stumbled upon something that could be a real problem. The chapter president, Arthur Blackwood, is a metahuman. It appears that he is super strong and durable and all kinds of headaches. Since he's a meta, that falls neatly into Major Case Squad jurisdiction. I talked to the guys at the ATF and DEA, they want you to come in and help out with taking Blackwood out at the clubhouse. It'll be a search and seizure as well as an arrest warrant. We'll find what we need in the clubhouse to send Blackwood to prison for a long time. We just need you to make sure he stays down." "I know we got the Caprice case going on," Tracy said with a look to all of them. "But with the wiretaps in place all we're doing is casting and waiting to get a bite. I figure this will give us a chance to stretch out legs. Plus it gives us a chit with Captain Major in CID Narco, something we might have to cash in if we want to get a bead on Big Boy's dealers." "So that's a yes?" Kole asked with a look towards Tracy. "Damn right," Tracy said with a grin. "I'll be the first to jump out." "Oh, damn," said Daz. "Cap'n gonna show us something?" "I been doing this since before some of you were born. I know how to take scalps." "What are we waiting for?" Tork asked. "Let's get our motor running and head on down the highway." [/hider]