(Approved by myself!)
Name (and title): Inspector Tracey Alice de Carlo
Age: 22
Race: Human
Sex: Female
Hair: Short, vivid red hair cut into choppy, wavy layers. Wavy, full bangs cover her forehead.
Eyes: A strikingly bright green.
Weight: 118 pounds
Height: 5’6”
Theme Song: Sorakara Koboreta Story (Sherlock Hound)
Known Family:
Chief Truman de Carlo – grandfather
Homeplace: Montebelle City, Rochester Republic, Airopa, Earth (city, country, continent, world)
Languages: Gaian (English, the global language of her world), spoken with a Rochesterian (British) accent
Vehicle: Tracey drives a white and blue, old, boxy Ford Escort, with a police siren on top of the roof. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/1997-99_Ford_Escort_wagon.jpg
Weapon: A white, semi-automatic pistol of locked-breech, short-recoil design, carried in a brown leather holster.
Armor: A small, black, bulletproof vest worn underneath her cloak
Strengths: Tracey has impressive aim with her pistol, and is not startled by the recoil of it, as some may be. She has no reservations about shooting at someone, and isn’t frightened by the idea of being shot at or attacked herself. She also has decent strength and speed for a girl of her age, and remarkable observational skills.
Weaknesses: The young detective is very easily distracted by clues and other interesting oddities she spots, and is terrified by magic or any other ability that can’t be explained by science or logic. Her lack of brawn has prevented her from winning several skirmishes, and she’s also a little on the clumsy side, but that trait generally only surfaces in less serious situations.
Skills/Magic: Tracey has no magic, and her only special skills are that of great observation and good aim with her pistol.
Appearance: Tracey is a cute, comely young woman, with an infectiously charming face and eyes. Her fair skin is speckled with light brown freckles, which gives her a natural and down-to-earth quality. Over her cheerful reddish locks, she wears a tan-colored knit hat, with a badge pinned on that is embossed with the insignia of Rochester Republic.
The detective sports a long, loose-fitting tan cloak covered with faded red patches where the fabric has worn, under which is her bulletproof black vest and a burgundy turtleneck sweater. She wears a pair of brown trousers as well, tucked into ankle-high, tan leather boots stained by the sands and mud of Rubato and Florheim. At her waist, she wears a brown leather belt, to which her pistol’s holster and sometimes a magnifying glass are attached. On her back, she carries a brown leather duffle bag, which contains her prized silver watch, among other things.
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Personality: While Tracey tries her hardest to come off as elegant and coldly analytical, she’s truly a somewhat bumbling, but friendly, young gumshoe who’s a little accident-prone when in casual situations. The girl is very observant, and will sometimes get distracted by an interesting detail and begin to go off on a spiel about its significance or novelty. She’s been known to bluff and over-exaggerate in some instances to try and seem like a more astute and deeper-thinking detective. If in a conflict with one she knows to be stronger or quicker, Tracey may get nervous initially, but pushes herself to regain her composure as soon as she can. Insults to her detective abilities tend to faze the quirky girl more than wounds.
Biography: The puzzles, thrills, and glory involved in the fighting of crimes and unraveling of mysteries has always enticed Tracey de Carlo. Motivated by this passion, the girl worked for years studying old crimes and deduction methods in order to become the best detective imaginable. When the fledgling young gumshoe attained the age of eighteen, her services were requested by the local branch of the police, and she accepted the job offer with great joy and gratitude.
Throughout her three years on the Montebelle City police force, Tracey always believed she had risen up the ranks as quickly as she did because of her own skill as an officer and a detective. In her innocence, she never fathomed a guess as to the true nature of her success: the deplorable practice of nepotism. “Never in the police force,” had she asserted to those who suggested the theory to her; “Never would the lives and properties of the good people of Rochester Republic be jeopardized just because someone’s uncle or father wanted to stick their little relative in a position of high esteem.” Upon her premature promotion to inspector status, however, she had to face the grim possibility that her grandfather, chief of police, had in fact hired her and given her the new position without a single consideration of her merits as an officer.
Deeply disillusioned, Tracey seemed to change in her habits at work, and her zealousness for mysteries waned for several months. No longer did she proudly proclaim herself “The Detective Prodigy”, as she had dubbed herself at the beginning of her tenure on the force, and no longer did she carry herself with an air of importance and confidence. When the offer of a world-round trip came, on which the representative of Rochester Republic would meet with sister police institutions around the globe, rallying for anti-crime reforms, Tracey eagerly accepted the opportunity to leave home, hoping to reestablish herself as an inspector somewhere where she would be solely judged on her own worth.
Her travels brought her to the southernmost continent of the world, where the broiling, rugged, and wretched deserts of Rubato and the wild, tangled, unruly forests of Florheim were overflowing with crime. There, an endless cat-and-mouse game seemed to persist between the thinly spread forces of the law and the myriad and elusive criminals. Urged on by her sympathetic heart, Tracey offered her services to police stations across the two nations, advising them to save her special talents for only the extraordinary and the dire. A case the girl has specifically shown interest in becoming involved with in the future is the case of the Madrigals of Santa Mariela, in Rubato.
EDIT (3/19/07): Since arriving in Rubato, Tracey has been assigned a new partner from Cernilia who is a part of the same program she is participating in. The twenty-seven year old woman is a fellow inspector by the name of Daniela Cruz.
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Awards:
The Person Award (Awarded to the Most Developed Character) - EH Summer 2008
Best Character Name - Spring BA Awards 2010
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