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[b]Roleplay[/b]
[url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/78914-gotham-city-stories-always-accepting/ooc]Gotham City Stories[/url]

[b]Quote[/b]
[color=f26522][i]“You need a good kick to the head, don’t you?”[/i][/color]

[b]Name[/b]
Caroline “Carrie” Keene Kelley

[b]Alias[/b]
n/a

[b]Age[/b]
13 (April 1st, 2002)

[b]Occupation[/b]
Student, Hamilton Hill High School

[b]Skills & Abilities[/b]
[color=aba000][b]Acrobatics[/b][/color] – Given her neighborhood and history, Carrie has found skill in maintaining mobility in an urban environment through parkour movement which involves a constant of running, jumping, and climbing. This lends to a skill that allows her to get out of sticky situations such as when she was seemingly surrounded by a group of thugs to which she escaped by simply outmaneuvering them. 

[color=aba000][b]Fighting [/b][/color]– A bit of a tomboy with a penchant to react aggressively due to the lack of a proper home life, Carrie in combination with her experience, intelligence, and agility is a capable fighter; particularly in her brand of street fighting. This is only accelerated by the more violent situations her neighborhood has been providing due to the constant increase of crime by street gangs and organized crime factions such as the one run by Edward Skeevers.

[color=aba000][b]First Aid[/b][/color] – Through a brief period with the Girl Scouts of America, Carrie learned how to do a variety of skills including basic first aid.

[color=aba000][b]Intelligence[/b][/color] – Noted by one of her teachers at her high school, Horace Westlake, Carrie is said to have a greater intelligence then she lets on with the likelihood of given her personality and home life lending it to not being desired or challenged in application. Despite her unapplied skills she maintains excellent grades in her classes without much effort which can be proven due to her early admittance to high school.

[color=aba000][b]Investigation[/b][/color] – Due to her intelligence and patience, Carrie has the tenacity to be a keen investigator. This is landed to her by perceptive skills. This assessment is fairly correct as Carrie has found herself in situations able to reason, and deduce a solution or answer quite efficiently and quickly. She was the first one among her friends group to discover that Harper Row’s father was working for Edward Skeevers and that “fever” had been running through her school by local street gangs.

[color=aba000][b]Marksmanship[/b][/color] – With thrown objects such as rocks and her slingshot, Carrie is a keen marksman.

[color=aba000][b]Multilingualism[/b][/color] – [i]Sort of.[/i] Carrie Kelley is adept at the street language of The Bowery/East End area where terminology. It is perhaps the only language she currently knows but she has picked up quite a bit from her experience in High School within Spanish crowds and her own language class. Time will tell.

[color=aba000][b]Stealth[/b][/color] – Through trial and error as well as advice from her friend, Harper Row, Carrie has learned that in some scenarios it is best to keep her head low and be quiet. This is a skill learned only somewhat recently when she got involved with a small street gang briefly to find out who had been funneling drugs called “fever” into her community.

[b]Equipment[/b]
[color=aba000][b]Collapsible Sling [/b][/color]– Easily concealed, Carrie has in her possession a sturdy but cheap slingshot that can be mounted on the wrist with a few minor modifications which Carrie has already made given a few incidents that forced her to use the object in certain situations. In addition it seems to be particularly nostalgic for her, so whilst obtuse in combat scenarios she prizes it amongst her few items she owns.

[b]Personality & History[/b]
Caroline Kelley was born in the Bowery of Gotham City to two unassuming lower class parents who initially found the birth of their daughter as a godsend despite of their rough financial situation with Mr. Kelley being a late night custodian at Ace Chemicals. Through a looking glass it would seem that Caroline would have an ordinary life in a lower income neighborhood; but then it must be reminded that the city she lived in was still very much Gotham and the neighborhood known as The Bowery was amongst the worst neighborhood for crime and drug trafficking, only being slightly better than East End and Chinatown. Truly this child’s life was doomed to be ridden with some degree of issue from the beginning— it was just a matter of time.

When she was six years old she met a girl named Cleo Starr who became fast friends with the red-headed tomboy, which only foreshadowed their relationship years later. It was her relationship with Cleo that allowed her to learn life skills in the Girl Scouts whom her friend’s mother was involved with when the time for the year came around to it despite the costs of living in the low wealth neighborhood of The Bowery, who saw it not only as an escape for the girls but important to their development. As the girls aged through elementary school it became evident that Carrie had a knack for causing trouble where trouble didn’t exist (a rare thing in the Bowery) and by the age of ten she had been in a small handful of skirmishes with boys and girls alike—though her parents didn’t care, which perhaps one of the reasons she found herself getting into trouble; this lack of parentage at home mixed with the toxic social environment of The Bowery. There was a learning experience in these physical altercations however as she found that boys tended to be stronger than her, which quickly made her realize she had to be faster than them.

Fast forward several ears later, Caroline is a freshman at Hamilton Hill High School in the same neighborhood she has been accustomed to—but a dangerous element has moved in—a street gang called “The Mutants” who have encroached on the territory of the “Demonz” which causes concern as Carrie’s small part of The Bowery finds itself in the middle of a gang war with a powerful drug called “Fever” thrown as an x-factor; an x-factor that gets her best friend thrown into the emergency room at Gotham General and between the years of vigilante influence and her own anger at the drug infiltrating not only her parents but her best friend, finds herself inspired to get to the bottom of things and somehow stop it before it destroys what she has left. Befriending Harper Row in the process of investigation into her high school and the Mutants influence amongst the students and some of the faculty. The next step into her solution would lead her towards a situation that was way too dangerous for her own good...

Carrie Kelley doesn’t have a vigilante alias, a costume, or an arsenal. She just knows someone has to figure something out.

[b]Character Arcs[/b]
[color=aba000][b]“Fever”[/b][/color] – After infiltrating a small clique in her high school, Carrie has already deduced that the funneling of the drug is due to the influence of a relatively new gang by the name of “The Mutants” whose cheap production of the drug has cemented their power in the low income neighborhoods of Gotham that Carrie is from. Inspired by vigilantism efforts of various heroes she decides to continue her investigation for better or worse…

[b]Extra[/b]
[color=aba000]Kaye Daye[/color] – Friend with an interest in writing, fan of the Basil Karlo novels.
[color=aba000]Cleo Starr[/color] – Best friend, initially Carrie's conscience and inspiration.
[color=aba000]Harper Row[/color] – Acquaintance, student with aspiring skill in mechanical engineering. 
[color=aba000]Ruby Ryder[/color] – Friend, tended to get Carrie involved with the wrong crowds in middle school.