Dana McKinnon
Aug 25, 2013 15:47:24 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2013 15:47:24 GMT -5
Original
PB: Stana Katic
Name: Dana Frances McKinnon
Age: 28, although she is played at many moments in her life before and after.
Gender: Female
Species: 100% Human
Planet of Origin: Earth
Occupation: Motorbike mechanic and racer, general ruffian and no questions asked companion. In actuality, Dana’s an undercover copper with her own agenda. After her cover was blown she came to be recruited by U.N.I.T as a field operative with occasional dalliances with Torchwood.
Physical Description:
Dana isn’t exactly memorable in her appearance. Her hair is mousy brown, her eyes hazel and her height just over average with her weight kept fit and trim. She stands confidently with a defiant look in her eyes but can keep her head down and blend into a crowd easily. Her face is sharp to match her personality and her eyes ever so slightly accusing. Naturally, she speaks with a strong Edinburgh brogue but can change her accent to fit her role.
There are many scars on this body of hers; a large, ugly looking one in her right shoulder from where she took the bullet and a mess of others on her arms and legs from leading such a dangerous and on the edge lifestyle. From the surgery, she has a long, thin scar along her hairline and others hidden by hair and another along her right arm where the metal plates were inserted. Left handed, luckily.
Her attire is quite casual, often a pair of jeans and a top and almost always a leather jacket. Her hair is tied up or left down, with a few strands lingering around her face. Leather seems to be the order of the day, and if it isn’t in jacket form then it’ll either be in trousers, gloves or even boots. Heels aren’t the thing for this girl, the total tomboy she is. Either she wears trainers, military boots or none at all.
Dana likes to feel protected, and this normally comes in the form of weapons or words. A toned physical physique means she is never left behind and years of martial arts training ensures that she can hold her own in a fist fight. She took fencing classes as part of her adventurous spree as a child, though sadly she hasn’t been able to get her hands on a sword. Instead, she keeps a snub nosed pistol tucked down the waistband of her trousers with ammo magazines in her pockets and a silencer in her jacket lining. As always, a set of trusty lock picks reside in the cuffs of her jacket, hidden in the lining.
Personality:
Dana is one tough cookie. She takes no-nonsense from anyone and likes to do things her own way. However, she is not above compromising and will take ideas into consideration if she thinks it’ll help them in her goal. Her first reaction in a situation is defensive or even offensive violence, but she is very good at keeping her cool and reasoning with people such as her job asked of her. Dana is extremely good at holding a disguise, and has a good memory for such things. She can adapt well to new environments and revels in change and fast paced situations, with danger just being another leap on the ladder.
Despite all that, Dana is not above compassion. Whilst her words may be blunt and laced with humour, she can truly feel for the victims and others she may encounter. Even though she hides it all with a hard exterior, she can be a big softie, especially around animals. Children however, no. Her ways of speaking and mannerisms aren’t very child friendly…
Dana loves a good time and a laugh, but does spend quite a lot of that time with a serious look on her face. A very good liar, it does mean that people don’t trust her as easily as they would others and Dana can be very convincing. Secrecy is favoured above all and very few she meet actually know of her undercover cop stint. Dana is fiercely independent, and it takes a lot for her to admit that she needs help. When wounded, she often curls in on herself and those sarky comments are really the lashings out of a wounded animal.
If Dana doesn’t like the way you’re doing something, she’ll tell you… but it doesn’t mean she’ll be nice about it. She’s not above going behind your back to get the job done. Her life is her work and she finds it hard to distinguish one from the other at times.
History:
There’s nothing worse than an undercover cop with a vengeance. The resilience of humans is regularly underestimated by those who have only seen them in passing, but those that regularly surround themselves with them can vouch that in some cases that is far from the truth.
Dana’s childhood was normal, boring almost; two parents, two kids and a dog; the picture perfect family in a less than picture perfect neighbourhood. Dana quickly grew bored of the normality of things and amused herself with less than approved activities; including scaling the neighbours shed and falling through the roof, playing extreme tennis and pretending to be a spy and sneaking into neighbour’s homes and stealing ‘evidence’.
The meeting of an extraterrestrial entity when she was nought but a child only solidified her thirst for adventure. The strange being identified themselves as a ‘time lord… or lady, whatever works’ and took young Dana to see the stars. After begrudgingly leaving to go back to boring Earth, she was given a locket decorated in intricate symbols and told to keep it close and if she ever needed help then to call.
Everything was fine and dandy until her older brother, a war hero, was gunned down in the street in broad daylight after trying to stop a robbery. He later died of his injuries and sent the whole family into turmoil. Her father got jailed for insurance fraud, her mother drank herself into a depression and Dana was left to look after her. She took charge of her brother’s old motorcycle and went wild with street racing and stunts. It wasn’t until the accident that her mother decided to finally snap out of it. Dana was in hospital for months as they reconstructed her skull and plated it and her arm up. But things continued to spiral. Dana fell victim to septicaemia after surgery on her arm and it looked like she wasn’t going to survive. Clasping the locket close to her chest, Dana sent a mental message out to the time woman from all those years ago with the faint hope that it would work.
Two weeks later, Dana awoke from a coma to be fit and well but with vivid dreams of the woman and a warm orange light. She never stopped riding the motorbike, just toned down the risks. It seemed as if she had finally shocked her mother into becoming sober.
Fastforward to her early twenties, Dana had just graduated from the police academy and gone into policing, finally glad for the sense of purpose. But life quickly became mundane, and the desk jockey work was definitely not what she had signed up for. So she transferred to undercover work, working the streets and pubs of Edinburgh and getting right into the thick of it. She had been putting her name out there as an ex-con looking for work under the same Frances ‘Frankie’ McKinnon with many skills including a getaway driver, burglar and sweet talker. Jobs in that sector were never easy to come by, no-one trusted each other; yet through her career she managed to put many a criminal away.
Her first injury on the job was on an arms deal gone wrong. Personal vendettas have no place at work, especially undercover. But that was just what this was. Dana had managed to track down the gang that had killed her brother and set about infiltrating their ranks in order to put them down for their crimes. One of the benefactors, an old businessman on the job that used to work with her father, recognised Dana and accused her of being a snitch. Dana held her own and convinced them that that was absolute bull, but not before catching a bullet in her shoulder in the man’s retaliation. The gang patched her up the best they could and left her outside the hospital to go on their merry way, which was surprising even for them. Dana wouldn’t catch up with them again until two years later.
But all was not going to go to plan, of course. Moments away from putting them down, her cover was blown by the surprise appearance of another one of those aliens. Exasperated and annoyed, she helped the alien before finally giving up her job as an undercover operator until things died down and the price on her head had reduced to a safer level. In the meantime, she caught wind of a specialised sector known as U.N.I.T that dealt with these extra-terrestrial beings. She landed a job there pretty easily and her new life began.
Addition Medical Information: Metal plates in skull after crash and a bullet scar to her right shoulder that still causes her jip at times. Airports are a nightmare…
RP Sample: See Dante.