Post by Emily on Sept 22, 2015 21:08:10 GMT -8
"as the shadows assume / shapes / I fight the slow / retreat / now
my once-promise / dwindling / dwindling / now / lighting new cigarettes
pouring more / drinks / it has been a beautiful / fight / still / is."
-- Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Full name: Rose Abigail Sterling
Goes by: Rose
DOB, current age: 04/04/1991, 24
Occupation: Agent; the Sterling Group
Immediate family: Randolph and Lilith Sterling (parents, father deceased, mother living); Jameson "Jimmy" Sterling (brother, unavailable); Sylvia Sterling (half-sister, unavailable)
Face: Vikki Blows
Screen name: My once promise
Webpage, optional: N/A
Story
Rose wasn't always such a sourpuss. In fact, right up until her mother and older-brother-slash-stand-in-for-daddy, Jimmy decided that sending her away from home for high school and college was a good idea, she was just peachy. Just as peachy as older sister Sylvie's pretty, yet altogether curiously un-Sterling face. She took what she could with her, which only really amounted to a social nature, a strong gut and a pair of cheer pom poms.
Silvertree Academy was unkind to her. It was there that she learned how to observe and manipulate, because not doing so meant that she'd have ended up ribbons of flesh under some possessive werewolf's massive paw. It was there that she learned how to track and fight, because not doing so meant that she'd have ended up some creepy dark-haired vampire's walking juice box. It was there that she learned that friendship was too temporary for her and that the idea of more than friendship was just some joke with a Latin name that she mispronounced on purpose until she had no reason to pronounce it at all, anymore, ever again.
Her first kill was a ghoul. She was eighteen and angry; so angry. It made her competitive. That, in turn, made her a quick study, a quick volunteer, and lead to a quick rise up through the ranks of the first agency she worked for.
The family called her home to join the Sterling Group three years ago. She recently got stuck with new Lead Investigator Saint Jones for a partner. It's a match made in Hell, often leaving her annoyed and staring blankly by the end of what ever mission she has to endure in his company, for lack of a better word.
Sundown is both when and where you can find her, little but a shadow in the lamp-lit streets of London with a surname that invites spotlights and a job to do. Getting out of bed before dinner time is for suckers.
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