Post by Philippe Le Bas on Dec 16, 2007 16:22:51 GMT -5
.x. Basics .x.
Full Name:
Dr. Hecate Aguta Bates
Meaning of Name:
Hecate = goddess [myth] of witchcraft, demons, graves, and the underworld. It means 'far off'.
Aguta = Dead Collector
Nickname:
Pomegranate, Persephone – Vlad the Janitor [ONLY]
Birth Place:
Aguikchuk, Alaska
Side:
Good.
What are they:
Mortal
But once while her family was living in China…her soul was captured by a puppet master of the Triads. It now sits in a jar above his fireplace and when he needs a job done he can control her.
Birth Date:
December 31st 1984
-- 11:59:59pm
Astrological Sign and Details:
Rat/Ox – She has both the same characteristics.
Capricorn: prudent, responsible, realistic, formal, patient, methodical, disciplined, traditional, cautious, conventional, hard-working, persevering, self-reliant, ambitious, businesslike, career-oriented, authoritative, conscientious, and competent. They can also sometimes be rigid, suspicious, status-seeking, demanding, insensitive, inhibited and saturnine. In medical astrology Capricorn governs the knees and skeleton.
Age:
Twenty-three
Gender:
Female
.x. Appearance .x.
Eye Color:
Gray-blue. As if looking out over a mist-covered body of water.
Her eyes also change colors according to mood.
Happy: Grey-blue
Sad: Grey
Angry: Violet
Peaceful: Grey-green
Working: Grey-Violet.
Hair Color:
The color of a ripe pomegranate seeds; an illusion created by black/dark red lowlights and strawberry blond/red highlights.
All natural.
Hair has a slight wave to it.
Height:
Short: 5’3”
Skin Tone:
Pale, Irish skin. Gets it from her father.
Piercing:
One - Ears
Tattoos:
One – Ribs.
“Mortui vivos docent” [The dead teach the living]
Abnormalities:
Missing Thumb and Forefinger on left hand, wears prosthetics that make it hard to identify
Clothing Style:
Mainly scrubs. When she has to leave the safety of her home she dresses in nice slacks and tops.
Keeps to blacks, whites, grays and the occasional red.
.x. Personality .x.
Overall:
Hecate is…non-autistic savant (in layman’s terms…she is very smart). Her spirit animal is a raven (mother is Eskimo). At the age of 15 she was invited to attend the Peking Union Medical College she is now attending Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine online (sometimes in person)
As a child she was finding the bodies of dead animals (domesticated and wild) and proceeded to examine the physical workings and internal workings.
She used to be a lovely child, though too smart for her class and thus she made enemies instead of friends. At the age of twelve she was rushed to the emergency room for a suspected attempt at suicide. This was a lie. Her aunt (who babysat her) had a horrible hatred of the genius child and would abuse her. This is how she lost her two fingers, as well as gaining her pationate dislike for cops.
Her extensive notes on bodies that are brought to her are first tape-recorded and then hand written. On her tapes she often gives the weapon that killed the person, the likely suspects and anything of importance…that could solve the case. The cops never listen to her…
And yet, she is always (there are a few flukes) right.
She /hates/ people, only offering her trust to the night janitor, Vlad, who does her shopping for her.
Likes:
*Rain: She was born on a rainy night when the sky opened up and produced lightning. Her first sound echoed the sound of the lightning.
* Effie Donovan: Her daughter of the age of four and a marriage that lasted a total of two months. The young girl takes after her mother, having the vocabulary of a college professor.
* Oreos: Some women drowned their feelings in chocolate or sex. She loves Oreo’s.
* The Moon: She often refers to the large silver orb as the ‘Murderous moon.’ She often times will find a place outside among the grass and stare of at the moon, singing Native songs under her breath.
* Death: Not that she likes it…but she doesn’t fear it.
* John Doe 472: He has all her favorite numbers, as well as the three numbers adding to 13. Her all time favorite number. After decided that he was a suicide case…she preserved his heart and it sits next to her bed.
* Planetarium: No sun…and they let her in anytime. She likes messing with the huge model planets, pushing them around and trying to destroy the model earth.
Then she leaves it for the people to have to clean up.
* Books: Any books. Medical, fantasy, horror, suspense…etc.
* Torturing her aunt at the mental hospital: Her aunt can’t move…but she can understand her. (mysterious attack…her spine is mush, thus she is paralyzed.)
Dislikes:
* Cops: Because they claimed that abuse was not in her family because no physical evidence could be found on her body.
* The Sun: because she burns the moment she steps outside. Even in the shade.
* Her ex-husband: Cause he tends to be abusive. Hecate may look strong….but little movements that look harsh will send her into unease.
* Cats: Because her wolf, Cert., will eat them. (except one...who's name is unknown)
* Being a puppet for the puppet-master: She never remembers what happens; she just recognizes the face when it comes into her office.
Habits:
* She has to dissect every body that comes down her elevator – Even if she told the person involved that they would get no autopsy.
Hobbies:
* Solving crimes – This is not part of her job description, but she will often look over the files of a case and give her input, even if is just to her dog.
Jogging: She loves running around the park with her dog.
Search and Rescue: It gives her a chance to give back to her community without having to show emotions.
Puzzles: They keep her sane.
Talents/Strengths:
* Scare Cops: She wields a mean punch and an even meaner glare.
* Remember any case: She has a photographer memory of sorts.
* Intelligence: Her IQ cannot be measured.
* Holding a grudge.
* OCD personality
* Crosswords
Weaknesses:
* Milk…even though she drinks it. (it screws up her digestive system)
* The fact that at any moment she can be stolen to do a crime.
* Her daughter’s puppy eyes.
* Social….interaction.
* Her OCD personality. (It’s a gift and a curse)
Fears:
* Dark Water (She can only swim in pools…when she goes outside)
* Clowns.
* Having to talk to people.
* That she might get so drunk she makes the mistake of sleeping with another random stranger.
.x. History .x.
Family:
Reverend Dante Bates: Alive. 46 years old. His father is from Ireland, which explains is fiery red hair and violet eyes. He is very disappointed in his daughter’s choice of living and tries to get her to go to plays with him. He is her favorite family member because he was the only one who believed that his wife’s sister could abuse his daughter.
He is a reverend in the small town of Aguikchuk, Alaska with his wife of 25 years.
Aput Bates: Alive. 44 years old. She is a homemaker and the cause of Hecate’s interesting hair. Her daughter is her biggest disappointment, and she hates the fact that Hecate works with dead bodies. Because of this…she refuses to touch her daughter, instead providing her with an air kiss. She is an environmental activist and feeder of the bears.
Kanut Augustus: Alive, 50 years old. Aunt of Hecate. She was jealous of the prodigy child and often abused her. Because of her, Hecate will not use certain tools because the young girl was the test subject of many bone saws and other instruments. Kanut was a doctor in her youth but now resides in a mental hospital located in the city of Hecate’s work. She is the pathologist’s sole entertainment.
She is now officially mute and her spine is mush. Hecate continues to torture her with words.
When Hecate was twelve, she cut off the thumb and forefinger of the girls left hand…thus forcing Hecate to have to wear prosthetics.
Marcus Donovan: Alive, 26 years old. Her husband of two months. He is in custody of Effie, their four year old daughter. He is a member of the gang: Triads, working as an doctor and a murderer (sometimes). His biggest regret is when he married Hecate. He currently lives two cities away, moonlighting as a interior designer.
Effie Donovan: Alive. 4 1⁄2 years old. She is the daughter of Hecate Bates and a random stranger. She lives with her ‘father’ in a large apartment with her Brussels griffon (dog) named Sushi. Her hair is the most unusual part of her small frame, being the color of raven’s wings. One moment her hair is black, the next it has highlights of dark blue. Her eyes are as grey as the moon and her skin is like snow. She has an irrational fear of hippos and peathingys.
Corvus: A puppet master for the Triads, he was Hecate’s first fiancé and currently the possessor of her soul. He has a collection of souls that he uses to commit crimes. Currently he lives in Paris, France.
Pets:
Cerberus/Cert: A beautiful grey and black wolf that was found in the wilderness of Alaska when Hecate was on her way back from a trip. He is trained in Search and rescue, Crime Scene Search and Cadaver training. He follows the young Pathologist /everywhere/ and is very protective of her. Biting the hands of many people. Often times, Hecate is asked to loan her dog out to offices, other cities and she once had a request from India as they searched for a man.
Often times she says only she will handle the dog and gets a free trip, but often times she refers to one of her ‘friends’ that train S&R dogs for a living.
Home Life During Childhood:
Secure home. Traveled a lot; thus her tastes are influenced by many different cultures and people.
Schooling:
Homeschooled until college. She attended a few elementary and high schools in order to pick up the language, but found them boring.
College #1: Peking Union Medical College
* MD with board certification in anatomic and forensic pathology.
* Masters in Biology
Major in Pathology
Minor in Music – Cello
College #2: John Hopkins Medical College
* Continuing education.
Favorite Subject:
Pathology and Orchestra [Cello]
Important Experiences or Events:
Losing her fingers.
Her naming.
Health Problems:
Asthma
Chronic Bronchitis
Hyperopia -- farsightedness.
Religion:
None. Believes in Science.
Past Careers:
Collector of the Dead – China
-- Removed dead animals from peoples homes for disposal.
Past Lovers:
Corvus
Marcus Donovan – Married for two months.
Biggest Mistakes:
Marrying Marcus.
Putting her guard down in a bar [GHB in her drink – led to the conception of Effie and divorce]
Biggest Achievements:
American Board of Forensic Anthropologists – President
One of the youngest persons to be accepted into college and graduate with an MD.
.x. Current .x.
Home:
Basement of the Police Station – Morgue.
Favorite Possession:
Preserved Heart of John Doe 472
Town or City Name:
Shawl
Wealth Status:
Middle Class.
She makes enough money to support herself but not enough to support her child, hence the reasons the courts rule in favor of her ex-husband. Most of her money goes to providing proper funerals and burials for the John/Jane Doe’s that come into her lab.
Detailed History:
When she was born…in a small, fur covered house in Aguikchuk, Alaska…the sky’s opened up and a bolt of lighting struck the ground next to her at the same time a crow answered the call of her scream.
Thus she was given her Inuit name that day, Chulyin.
As a child in the small town (I’m talking around a population of 17) she would often find dead animals and take them back to her parents work shed. It was there that the inquisitive Irish and Inuit child learned the physical and internal workings of most creatures. Her favorite animal to study was a bear that she stumbled across on her way to go fishing. After saying prayers to both the Catholic god and the Inuit gods, she began cutting up the creature.
This was when she learned that she would become what her middle name meant. Gatherer of Dead.
When she was four, her parents decided to go to Canada (for a conference) without her. This was when she learned of the horrible side her aunt had. When her parents came home, after three days, the tiny girl was walking with a limp…half her calf gone.
This has been a problem she has suffered all her life, even now displaying some limping movement.
After this, they decided that she would come with them to anything lasting more then two days. Yet the overnight things still would cause her much pain.
When she was seven, her family then moved to India. She loved the culture there, but it was short lived. Two years later her family was shipped off to China.
She only went back to visit her small hometown once, at the age of 12, and this was when she lost her thumb and pointer finger on the left hand. Being airlifted to an emergency room in Canada, the surgeons there were unable to replace the fingers back onto bloody stumps.
She was fitted for prosthetics before she left and was sent back to her parents in China.
Her father was outraged and tried to press charges against his wife’s sister. But the cops were unable to do anything for the doctor’s had ruled it an accident.
Her dislike of cops came from the multiple times they came and said that no damage could be seen (her leg would be ‘bandaged’ up…or nothing would appear on her body), her aunt being a powerful witch who would seal the flesh together…then release it to its injured state when the cops left.
From the ages of 9-15 she would wander the streets, looking for something to do. Often people hired her to take out their dead animals, feeling it was dirty to touch them. She did as she was told and then went on with her life. Unknown to her, her father had invited the President of the local medical college to dinner for her fifteenth birthday.
He was fascinated by her knowledge of the body. He accepted her to his college at that spot.
At the age of fifteen she was finally learning close to her level. She was friendly to the teachers, but that was truly it.
Then she tried to make friends, finally coming into the arms of a man named Corvus. They began to do everything together…and when she turned 18, her proposed. The joy on her face was captured into his camera, as well as her soul. After collecting her soul for his uses, he left her standing at the altar, only two months later.
She left the church, submersing herself in her studies; until she was partnered up with Marcus, a Russian exchange student and member of a notorious group, known as the Triads (brought into the gang by Corvus). Hecate, instantly fell in love with him.
They were married four months after they met…a few days before she turned nineteen.
Her husband loved her, until one day, she disappeared into a bar and came out with a new man.
The father of her child.
When she told him that she was pregnant he filed for divorce and custody of the unborn child. And he won, only because Hecate had gotten in a fight the night before the hearing.
She lost all her money.
After giving birth to the little girl, Effie was taken from her arms.
She began depressed, living in her closest friends’ basement. And then, a week after the ‘kidnap’ of her child….she was asked to come and fill in for the retiring coroner in Shawl. She couldn’t accept fast enough.
Still a junior in college, she proceeded to take her classes online.
Broke, she demanded to live in the spacious basement, and they had to accept (she would’ve left and around ten bodies would’ve rotted in front of them.
She designed an elevator, now being used in Penthouse apartments, as well as creating new ways to examine the body without causing horrible cuts and loose particles that can interfere with her investigation.
Now, the entire basement is her home and after graduating…she attends online classes at John Hopkins.
Other: She is tormented by a policeman named James. Everyday he proceeds to quote Shakespeare into her intercom, thus causing her to retaliate in ways that he does not understand. Most people hate her due to her hatred toward them.
As a young adult (Visiting her parents) she ran into a small wolf cub outside of town, she then proceeded to raise it. His name is Cerberus but she refers to him as Cert (meaning Devil’s eyes).
He is very protective of her, once biting the hand of a police officer that tried to enter her bedroom.
Hecate’s signature way of greeting people is by sticking a scalpel to their throat and yelling at them for something they possibly didn’t do.
Anything Else: She gets really angry when people call her Ms. Bates; she has her doctorate. She is a doctor.
Roleplay Sample:
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Update
I guess I should tell why so many people dislike her.
Dr. Bates is rude.
To narrow it down some more...
She is rude to idiots.
And yes, her idea of idiocy is different their yours.
Don't be stupid around her.
Don't try and correct her.
She knows what she is talking about.
There is a reason she has a PhD in Pathology.
She is also /very/ antisocial.
She has discovered that she gets along better with people when she is communicating with them on a TV screen in the room she has set up above.
Thus...no one will come in and disturb her place.
BUT there will always be the occasional disobeyer and as long as you are intelligent she will 'deal' with you (of couse, this is as rare as seeing two snowflakes that are the same)
Update
All you want to know about…
Puppets:
Puppets are an old tradition in the Triads and are viewed as having a position of honor.
There are three types of puppets.
1: Loose Puppets –
Hecate is under this category. The souls of Loose Puppets are stolen when they are experiencing pure and raw emotion, happy or sad. This is done with a special type of camera and the soul is transferred into a beautifully carved Jerusalem Class jar.
Loose puppets are LIVING. They are like everyone else; they bleed with hurt, the feel, they experience pain, and they will die within a normal human lifespan. They were turned to puppets for the only reason of fun or need.
They are unable to be distinguished from normal humans.
2: Triad Puppets –
These puppets are either Loose or Chained puppets. During their life they were Triad members which either died or gave their souls for the honor of semi-immortal life. They are usually very high up in the chain of command and are under direct control of the Boss.
They are either living or dead and can be identified by a tattoo of Japanese “T” on their left ankle.
3: Chained Puppets –
Their souls were captured by a necromancer when they were first dead. Their souls were captured to preserve their life. They are usually brought back by lovers or family. They can be noticed by their lack of speech. This is done when first brought back for their tongues are removed to keep them from speaking of the afterlife.
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The loss of a puppets soul immediately condemns the person to no afterlife, unless it is restored to them, which will end in their death anyway.
Puppets cannot have their soul returned to their body unless they are lying on their death bed. The only way the soul will return to them will be when the Puppet Master is killed and the jar is placed in the hands of the soul’s owner.
After this is done, the Puppet will either die (soul intact) or will wear the soul around their neck in a Jerusalem glass vial.
Puppets also have the ability to give someone their soul. This is usually done with lovers. It is presented as a gift and the Puppet is then in the control of the new owner.
The new owner is to protect the soul and the soul will be passed onto the Puppet again, only after the owner is killed.
The owner of the puppet then has the choice of returning the soul back to the Puppet (thus killing them) or to allow them to live the rest of their life.
This is a test of loyalty and love, for the puppet must also agree to the terms.
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Loose puppets are called by the Necromancers Sixth string (of a harp). This is the binding string and each puppet has a tune. This is sent out across the winds and the puppet whose tune it is will respond and become under the Master’s control.
Triad Puppets are called by the Necromancers first string. This is the sleep string and Triad puppets have their own tune.
Chained Puppets are called by the Necromancers second string. This is the string of waking.
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When a puppet is called by the harp strings of their Puppet master they instantly tense before going limp. Eyes will roll back into their head and they move with jerky movements. Often time they are seen as drunks and even their killing is sloppy, this is because all motor function is controlled by the puppet master…
The closer the puppet master is to the Puppet…the smoother the movements.