application for teleios

[needthepractice]

Player Info

Name: Carly
Age: 25
Contact: favoritings
Characters Already in Teleios: Scott McCall, Elena Gilbert, Percy Jackson
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Character Basics:

Character Name: Kate Beckett
Journal: needthepractice
Age: 34
Fandom: Castle
Canon Point: post-6x05, "Time Will Tell"
Debt:

Class A: 4 years (murder, treason/betrayal)
Class B: 8 years, 6 months (assault, fraud, breaking and entering)
Class C: 2 years (aiding and abetting, blackmail, carrying concealed weapon, disorderly conduct, endangering underlings, failure to accept responsibility, ignoring a direct order by a superior, impersonation, misappropriation of police-issued equipment, threatening, trespassing, vigilantism)
GRAND TOTAL: 14 years, 6 months

Canon Character Section:

History: Here.

Personality: Beckett is a mixture of professionalism and sensitivity, badass and big heart. In the words of Rick Castle, she's like an onion with several layers left to be peeled, each one revealing something new and different about her personality or her past. Via Castle's shadowing, he's been given sneak peeks into her life that others rarely get a chance to see - even people like Lanie Parrish, one of the city's top medical examiners and probably the one person Beckett considers her closest friend. Her mother's murder, which happened when Beckett was nineteen, rattled her to her very core. It was a defining moment for Beckett, who had previously been majoring in pre-law with dreams of becoming a Supreme Court justice. It led to her switch of career choice and her decision to pursue a future in law enforcement with the intent of solving her mother's murder, which for several decades was just another cold case.

The death of Johanna Beckett also took its toll on Kate's father, who later became an alcoholic. It was Beckett who helped her father clean up and start him on the road to sobriety, and to this day he remains one of the people she calls when she needs advice on even the most difficult dilemmas. When she started pursuing new avenues into her mother's murder case, he only told her that if she believed that what she was doing was right, she had his full support.

As a cop, she understands what it's like when someone you love is senselessly taken from you. It's why she tends to take an empathetic approach in handling the families of murder victims on each case she pursues. At the same time, she's a take-no-crap kind of detective when it comes to catching killers and you'd be hard-pressed to find any other interrogator with a tougher stare. She's not going to be prone to wild theories and crazy insinuations like Castle; for her, solving a case is about a conviction, about finding the person or persons responsible for a crime and making sure that justice is served.

That's not to say that the job hasn't been tough on her, because it has. She's dealt with her fair share of trauma, including the sniper shooting at Montgomery's funeral. She spent weeks in therapy trying to process through and come to terms with what had happened to her, and even longer than that dealing with the PTSD that reared its ugly head in the months following. While she was able to move past it eventually, she still bears some scars - some more literal than others. It was also through her relationships with her friends, with Castle and with her father that helped her to surface above the pain.

As for Richard Castle, they've experienced something of an evolution over the years - from reluctant partners to a functioning unit to two people denying their feelings for one another to, finally, a couple engaged to be married. He's the one person she can count on every morning to be there for her with a cup of coffee and a smile. While they fought to keep their emotions from one another at first, even dating other people, they seemed to always been circling one another in orbit - just waiting for the right opportunity. It was after Beckett almost died at the hands of her mom's killer that she knew Castle was more important to her than risking her life to continue her investigation.

They understand how the other person works, and they work as a team, both approaching the same case in a completely different way - which definitely contributes to their impressive number of successfully closed cases. Outside of work, Beckett's been unofficially adopted into Castle's family, something that happened before they even got engaged. She cares a great deal for his daughter Alexis and his mother Martha. Lately, she's even been spending more time at his place than her own, which reveals the degree to which she's become more comfortable inhabiting his space - and letting him into hers every hour of every day.

Through her relationship with Castle, she's become more playful and easygoing in the workplace - his willingness to joke around and have fun has rubbed off on her a little bit, to the point where now she can riff on Esposito or Ryan without missing a beat. When they first started working together she could have been described as stiff and uptight, as a good soldier taking orders and a cop with a very black-and-white view of the law. Now she laughs more, smiles more, and is even willing to entertain Castle's wild theories for a second or two - but it doesn't mean she's less capable at what she does. It just means she knows when to lighten up and when to get serious, and she's found the happy medium between the two. She's a good detective because she's dedicated to the job for the right reasons, but she doesn't let it define her life. At the end of the day, she's able to put her badge and gun away and rest easy - that is, until the next call comes in.

In Teleios, she may understand the concept of redemption - she knows that she has some things she needs to answer for, to make amends for - but she won't be happy with being pulled out of her home to deal with it. In the past she's already displayed a sort of twitchiness at being away from the job for an extended period of time. Once she gets over her default reaction of 'what the hell is going on', she'll want to contribute in whatever way she can so she doesn't go stir-crazy - which will undoubtedly consist of lending her talents to the police station. The presence of Castle and Alexis in Teleios will also soften the blow, though she won't be happy that they're in the same predicament as she is - and the news that she's been here before, even though she won't remember it, will be slightly disconcerting.

Powers/Abilities: No supernatural abilities or powers.

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