Member
Desiree Monroe
Murphy
32
Female
FBI Counterterrorism Division, Information Specialist
Defender > Attacker
In layman's terms, Desiree is a hacker. Give her just enough time and she'll almost always deliver. It shouldn't hurt to mention that she's a hell of a sharpshooter and has some knowledge in the art of Krav Maga.
Desiree carries an M-4 Carbine, a Glock as her sidearm, a multi-function tool, and her most important weapon: her laptop.
Desiree is a rather complicated character. She is impulsive, yet a meticulous planner. Such contradiction can be explained by the fact that she has OCD-like tendencies, and absolutely hates it when things don't go her way, thus sometimes displaying various degrees of outbursts. She could be described as having a "light switch" personality more often than not, therefore she's either ready to paint the town red, or drinking herself to near death in the couch of her single bedroom apartment home. Desiree can be social if the opportunity presents itself, but she's more of the loner type, a characteristic she hates because it confirms the stereotype that computer nerds are losers who have no friends.
Desiree was born and raised in a small town in Australia. Her mother died during childbirth due to unforeseen circumstances, and that led her to be raised by a single father who had barely any idea as to what to do with a newborn. Eventually, Desiree's father found his groove and helped her grow into the woman she is today. She attended private school up until the age of 10, when her father accepted a job offer in New York and they both moved there.
Even though Desiree had a large number of friends back in Australia, the move halfway across the world devastated her. In the blink of an eye, the young girl was living in a completely unfamiliar place, that which was hundreds of thousands time bigger than her small and quiet hometown. Such drastic change was overwhelming for the girl, and whenever her father was out working late nights, Desiree found comfort in the one thing she considered a true friend: her computer.
School was never an issue for Desiree. She always received good marks in all her classes and was even granted a couple of scholarships to a local university in the city. By that time, the young girl was more than skilled with a computer, and could very easily do just about any possible task one could come up with. Despite her lobby—or rather, lifestyle—Desiree pursued an education in Biology. To any stranger on the street it may seem somewhat unlikely, but she was actually very interested in working within the medical field, something that down the line, would never be achieved.
It was just before graduation that Desiree saw an advertisement for employment opportunities within the FBI. Desiree had seen plenty of cop movies to intrigue her enough to apply, and every time she cleared another hurdle in the application process, she surprised not only her father, but herself as well. After just over a year of going through the hiring process, Desiree was eventually accepted into the academy.
About a decade into her federal career, that which had thus far been filled with awards and recognition (unbeknownst to the public, of course) Desiree was contacted by a woman using codename Six who wanted to invite her to join her organization. The first thing Desiree did was confirm veracity, and soon thereafter she accepted. Because a decade's worth of training shouldn't just be thrown down the drain, Desiree was further offered another deal to act as a liaison between the FBI and Team Rainbow.
Additional training within Team Rainbow followed as her skills kept improving not only in the battlefield, but behind a computer as well. She was eventually dubbed "Murphy" because despite her marksmanship, Desiree had her fair share of clumsy moments, that which led others to bring up the topic of Murphy's Law. But despite that minor (and hilarious) setback, Desiree has more than settled with her routine despite the fact that the nature of her new job both excite and scare the living hell out of her.