[hider=Laura Allen] [b]NAME:[/b] Laura Allen [b]DOB:[/b] 31/03/1992 [b]GENDER:[/b] Female [b]APPEARANCE:[/b] A caucasian woman sporting brown hair and blue eyes, measuring 5’6” (167 cm) and weighing 134 lb (60 kg) with a lean build honed by her job, though by no means a physical powerhouse. While not winning any weightlifting competitions anytime soon - or ever - numerous inmates of US and some foreign prisons would attest that she doesn’t seem to tire, like Homo Erectus running down an elephant, in addition to being fairly nimble and coordinated. Superiors also have to search pretty far back in their memories to recall the last time she took a sick day due to her own health as opposed to that of a family member. [b]PROFESSION:[/b][list] [*]Deputy Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service Tactical Operations Division (2017 - present) [*]Deputy Sheriff, El Paso Sheriff’s Office (2013 - 2017) [/list] [b]EDUCATION:[/b] Insofar as formal education is concerned, Laura holds a High School Diploma from the El Paso Academy. She acquired most of her actually useful skills via on the job training or from her father before his death. [b]PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION:[/b] Scoring within the average range on IQ tests, Laura possesses what some might call “crackhead determination” - slightly ironic, given her zero tolerance attitude toward drugs stemming from her father’s death at the hands of an addict - capable of near-unbreakable, single-minded focus on a given task or object. Some see this as a strength, others point out the possibility of being overly fixated on one thing and missing something else. A life of unexpected twists and turns led to a person who tackles life one day at a time, considering planning any longer ahead wasted effort that will inevitably be thwarted by circumstances beyond what can be anticipated. Having clawed her way to where she is from the depths of the foster care system, Laura’s learned to recognize and value those who help her, but woe be upon those who attempt to hamper her or take away something she’s worked for. She’s had even less fucks to give since raiding a cult compound in 2019, unwittingly being exposed to the Unnatural. Seeing something as degenerate as that made her much more willing to bend the rules to get results, in effect doing bad things for good reasons. While obviously respecting authority and chains of command, she does tend to see other people as carriers of skills and knowledge at first, only opening up and getting to know the person if she’s likely to deal with them for an extended period of time. This is a result of both the nature of Marshals’ work - frequently aiding local law enforcement or other agencies before moving on - as well as previously described life experience. Those in the “inner circle” though can expect someone they can lean on in nearly any circumstances. [hider=FULL BIO] Daughter of a florist and a US Army vehicle maintenance technician based in Fort Bliss, El Paso, fate woke up and chose violence the very minute Laura’s life began as her mother died in childbirth. As a result, she bonded very closely with her father, spending many evenings fixing up a 1989 Ford F-250 together. But fate decided Laura was too happy, and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dan Allen would be shot by a junkie in a robbery gone wrong in May 2006. With no relatives to take over, Laura ended up in the US Foster Care system and a seed of a plan to get involved with law enforcement was planted. After graduating high school with mediocre grades, Laura turned to any odd job she could get to support herself, from delivery driver through petsitter to lifeguard. Until fate decided to be a bitch again in 2012, blessing Laura and her then-boyfriend Carlos with a son and cursing them with an unexpected financial burden in one fell swoop. Fate could have chosen a worse time, however, as the next year Laura became eligible to join the El Paso Sheriff’s Office, gaining stable employment for the first time since leaving high school and fulfilling a promise she made to herself following her father’s death. Laura was a Deputy Sheriff at the EPSO for four years, two of which as part of the EPSO SWAT unit. The job first led her to contact with the U. S. Marshals Service, aiding them in apprehending a suspect handed to the USMS by the DEA. The work done by the Marshals appealed to Laura, as did the pay rise. “What the hell, you miss all the shots you don’t take.” She thought, took the shot and landed herself a job as a Deputy Marshal in 2017. That’s when fate decreed that joy was not to be, if one could blame fate for this at all. While the stress and working hours of a Sheriff’s Deputy at times strained the family, it was nothing they couldn’t manage. But the increased level of danger, working hours and even less time spent home resulted in some cracks beginning to show. Still, having made the decision together, the Reyes’ labored to plug any leaks and made it work. Until the USMS raided an apartment owned by the “Children of Tarrone” cult in early 2019. That apartment… was not fucking right. Only being able to tell bystanders from perps the moment they draw and start shooting, that she had trained for and was familiar with. Unhinged writing about “the Charnel God”, “the Hungry Ones” and “Dreamlands” on the walls, that she could’ve ignored. Borderline fanatical resistance from perpetrators going so far as to bite people long after they’d been cuffed, so deformed it must’ve been several generations of inbreeding, that she could’ve gotten over. Torn up basement with DIY coffins and bodies showing clear signs of being partially eaten, that she might have eventually pushed out of her mind. But not all at the same time, and not after encountering the cult’s leader. No amount of inbreeding and traumatic injuries could explain that. Little did Laura know at the time that she and two police officers had just killed a member of the DeMonte clan, a survivor of the 2005 post-Katrina purges of New Orleans Ghouls carried out by Delta Green. Fate had not been kind that day, and Deputy Marshal Reyes came out of that apartment a changed woman. The psychological fallout of that raid was the last straw, the iceberg that sunk a marriage. For three months following the raid and a mostly-peaceful divorce, the now Deputy Marshal Allen had convinced herself that her son Domingo hated her for being a terrible, absentee mother and only hung on by a thread by burying her head in work, only pulling out of the dive following an intervention staged by Supervisory Deputy Marshal Daniels, who made Carlos and Domingo aware of the situation, and though not enough to recover the marriage, Laura had at least gotten back to wings level. The whole time since the Tarrone DeMonte raid, she’d been covertly monitored by Delta Green. When it became apparent the psychological fallout was a result of home life issues as opposed to the Ghoul encounter itself and that the Deputy Marshal had stabilized, the observing agent gave his handler the green light on approaching her. [/hider] [hider=BONDS] [list] [*]Domingo Reyes: Laura’s unexpected son and without a shadow of a doubt the number one priority in her life since 2012. When it comes down to it, even the job she loves is nothing more than a means of supporting her son. [*]Carlos Reyes: Laura’s ex-husband, an El Paso general repair car mechanic. Despite the storm of 2019 being long past and both sides making attempts to mend things, not all casualties of that incident are yet buried nor can the ordeal be easily forgotten. [*]Supervisory Deputy Marshal Cedric Daniels: A senior Marshal whose team Laura was part of for the first three years of her USMS career, he recognized a problem based on his own crisis nearly a decade earlier and put together a solution. Since then Laura considers him not only a good boss working for whom she remembers fondly, but also a personal friend she can reach out to for work advice when needed. [/list] [/hider] [hider=MOTIVATIONS] [list] [*]Fate’s had a thing for kicking Laura where it hurt, leading her to develop a stubborn determination to hang on to whatever life she’s got with teeth and claws, to pick herself back up just to spite fate and show it where it can shove its bullshit. [*]Taking priority over everything else, this world is the one Domingo will have to live in, and Laura will burn bridges, bury friends and sacrifice her body and mind to make it better for him. [/list] [/hider] [hider=FEARS] [list] [*]Whatever life’s thrown at her, she’s so far managed to dodge or roll with the punches. But there will come a day when fate will have the last laugh and she won’t have the strength or will to get back up. Knowing that this is inevitable and closer each day has kept her up at night before, compounding other fears and insecurities. [*]Serious harm or inconvenience to Domingo. While the occasional hurdle helps build character, there are very few people she would wish even the experience she had growing up on, and as bad as she had it, it still could’ve been a lot worse. [/list] [/hider] [b]WEAKNESSES:[/b][list][*]Latex Allergy[/list] [hr] [b]HIT POINTS:[/b] 43 (12+16+15) [b]STRENGTH:[/b] 12 [b]DEXTERITY:[/b] 16 [b]STAMINA:[/b] 15 [b]BUREAUCRACY:[/b] 3 [b]INTELLIGENCE:[/b] 12 [b]WILLPOWER:[/b] 15 [b]SAN/BREAKING POINT:[/b] 75/60 [b]POWER:[/b] 75 [hider=SKILLS] (SKILL BASE + ROLL + EXTRA = TOTAL) Marksmanship 70 + 0 + 0 = [b]70[/b] Tactical Driving 70 + 0 + 0 = [b]70[/b] Awareness 70 + 0 + 0 = [b]70[/b] First Aid 50 + 9 + 1 = [b]60[/b] Forensics 50 + 15 + 0 = [b]65[/b] Armorer 50 + 6 + 0 = [b]56[/b] FL: Spanish 50 + 0 + 0 = [b]50[/b] HUMINT 30 + 17 + 13 = [b]60[/b] Hand to Hand 30 + 5 + 0 = [b]35[/b] Breaking & Entering 30 + 16 + 0 = [b]46[/b] Law 30 + 14 + 0 = [b]44[/b] Subterfuge 10 + 19 + 11 = [b]40[/b] Stealth 10 + 13 + 0 = [b]23[/b] Spycraft 10 + 13 + 0 = [b]23[/b] Criminology 10 + 17 + 0 = [b]27[/b] Craft (Comb. Engines) 10 + 5 + 0 = [b]15[/b] Occult 0 + 0 + 5 = [b]5[/b] [/hider] [b]ADAPTATIONS:[/b] Violence: Helplessness: [hider=OFF-DUTY EQUIPMENT] [list] [*]Clothing: Loose, durable, practical clothing with a lot of pockets. [*]Weapons: Sig M11-A1 Compact (Medium Pistol) + two magazines (15 rounds). [*]Tools & Equipment: Appendix holster, IFAK (Epinephrine auto-injector, Tourniquet (2x), Israeli bandage, roll of surgical tape, nasopharyngeal Airway Tube, latex-free gloves, chest seal (2x), thoracostomy needle, gauze, elastic bandage, rescue blanket (150x200 cm), scissors, triage card, sharpie), Motorola G7 Power smartphone. [/list] [/hider] [hider=OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT] [list] [*]Clothing: Windbreaker printed with the name of the agency, Kevlar Vest (NIJ level II), location/task-appropriate attire. [*]Weapons: Staccato P (Medium Pistol) + three magazines (17 rounds). [*]Tools & Equipment: OWB holster, flashlight, ID card and USMS badge, handcuffs, pen and notepad, evidence bags and latex-free gloves, radio. [/list] [/hider] [/hider]