Name: Constance Fitzgerald
Universe of Origin: OC
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Species: Human
Appearance: Ref 1 Constance is 5ft6in tall, lithe build, and fairly plain in appearance. She's fairly attractive, but dresses plainly, and doesn't seem to have any particularly striking physical features, with one exception - her eyes. Constance has vivid, emerald-green eyes, often accented with very thin, black tight eyeliner. She often wears a disinterested or deadpan expression, or a frown, and her eyes are often narrowed or squinted, with light wrinkles or rings under them.
She has overal sharp facial features, thin eyebrows, and pale, surprisingly smooth skin. Her hair is dark brown and medium-length, falling to her upper back.
Her usual attire consists of a black turtleneck sweater and pencil skirt, a tan pea coat, nylon leggings, black gloves, and black heeled boots.
Constance's notable tics and habits include her either avoiding eye contact, or glaring intensely at whoever she's addressing. She doesn't smile or emote often, and the most that she's usually likely to give is a quirk of her brow when she's surprised or intrigued by something. She frequently crosses her arms, or folds her hands behind her lower back. When walking, she sways her hips, and when standing, she often shifts her weight back and forth from one foot to the other. She has a nasty smoking habit, and almost always has a cigarette lit. If she isn't smoking, then she's twiddling her thumbs and/or tapping one foot.
Powers & Abilities:- Keen Eye: Constance has an eye for investigation, thanks to her journalistic ambitions and her experience in recordkeeping.
- Amphibious: She's the daughter and wife of sailors, and has spent her entire life close to the ocean. It should go without saying that, even if she's no sailor herself, Constance has plenty of experience when it comes to swimming, fishing, and spending time on or near the water.
- Organization: Constance primarily works (legally) as a secretary. She's got plenty of experience in typing, editing, filing, and organizing files and documents, and she's a little proud of her system for quick and efficient filing of information.
- Humility: Constance thinks of herself as being on the lower rungs of the social ladder. She doesn't necessarily see it as a bad thing, but she feels as though she has no right to judge others either, and she doesn't think herself to be above doing many things that she may be asked to do.
Weaknesses:- Out of Shape: Constance isn't a woman at peak fitness, and isn't physically strong. With a job that doesn't often allow strenuous activity, she doesn't get much time to condition her body either.
- Withdrawal: She's still dependent on drug use to a certain degree, and withdrawal manifests in Constance occasionally shaking, feeling lethargic, or seeming confrontational and abrasive. In extreme cases, her rational thinking may begin to slip.
- Poor Shot: She carries a .38 special for self-defense, but she isn't very experienced. If she does use it, she's likely to only use it in close ranges, and she'll have a tendency to fire multiple shots in a panic.
- Alcoholism: Constance is a lady who can handle her booze. She can probably handle it a little too well. Doesn't help that she
really likes to drink, either.
Attack Potency: Regular Human
Speed: Regular Human
Lifting Strength: Regular Human
Striking Strength: Below Average Human
Durability: Human Level
Stamina: Below Average Human; Constance is by no means an athlete, and she isn't even particularly active. Working mostly sedentary jobs also doesn't leave her much room for exercise.
Range: Arms length, assuming she's not using any particularly long melee weapons. She's only somewhat competent with firearms, and her revolver can only reliably hit targets up to thirty meters away.
Intelligence: Constance is a fairly intelligent woman. While she has no college education, she was one of the higher-performing students at her Highschool, and her work in data entry and record keeping has helped her in memorizing and organizing information that she picks up.
Equipment on Hand: Constance doesn't carry a purse or any other bags or luggage, and so her equipment includes only items that she might have on herself, in her coat pockets. These include her snub-nose revolver, a small pocket knife, a pack of menthol cigarettes, a flip lighter, and a small pen and notepad.
Brief Bio/History*:Constance Fitzgerald is a secretary, former(?) prostitute and stripper, and widowed mother of two, living in the isolated small town of Faircliff, Massachusetts, in 1985. Having a somewhat troubled past, she moved to Faircliff from her home town of Boston with her first husband, Patrick Fitzgerald, in the early 80's, hoping to turn her life around. However, following the mysterious disappearance/death of her husband, she relapsed into her old life of substance abuse and promiscuity. Eventually, with her children in the care of her older sister, Victoria, and with her desire for closure coming to take over her life, Constance began to investigate the region, which had a long, but largely hushed history of paranormal happenings and deaths, stretching back to the 1690's.
EARLY LIFEConstance was born in Plymouth, England, in 1960, to Agatha and Jacob, her parents, two years after the birth of her Sister. Her mother was English, but her father was an Irish-American sailor, who had been to England several times in his career, which was how they initially met. They'd maintained a close relationship despite his frequently being at sea or in the US, but it was shortly after Constance's birth that they officially settled down together, with her mother taking the family to Massachusetts. There, her mother worked as a seamstress and tailor, and her father continued to fish and sail, although he went on far fewer long voyages in his later years.
Growing up, Constance had a fairly normal life. In Middle School, she took part in a cheer team for some time, but eventually quit due to a lack of interest. In Highschool, she found herself taking an interest in Rock music and popular media of the day, and joined her school's small AV Club, where she would often discuss music and cinema with classmates. It was also in her Highschool years in the club that Constance developed a love for low-budget B-movies and slasher flicks that were becoming popular in the 70's.
LATE 70'SConstance tended to do well in her studies, and, by the time she was in highschool, had seemed to be near the top of her grade, and her maintaining generally good grades meant that she had a lot of expectations placed on her by family and teachers to succeed. However, Constance also had a bit of a rebellious side to her, which often led to her disappointing those who expected better of her. Following the passing of her father in her mid-teens in particular, Constance began to act out more regularly, mostly in relation to strained relations with her mother, who didn't approve of her leaning into the unruly rock scene or her association with troublesome kids.
One troublesome influence on her life in particular was her highschool sweetheart, a roguish boy who, in Constance's eyes, was the perfect, charming greaser type. In reality, he was a sleazy guy, the kind who tended to get off easy due to his looks and personality, and a partner who wound up having a very destructive impact on the young woman's life. Originally, Constance had plans to attend college and study journalism, but when her escapades with her boyfriend led to her sneaking out more, doing drugs, and causing trouble, her grades began to slip. Then, in 1978, she was busted for possession while sneaking out with the boy, an incident which made her mother livid. The two had a falling out soon after, and Constance was kicked out of the house.
Out of the house and passing up college, Constance found herself wandering into Boston. Fortunately, her sister, Victoria, had been living there for some time following her leaving home, and offered Constance a room any time she wanted to stop by. While Constance did take her sister up on the offer, she still spent a significant amount of time out on the streets. During her years there, Constance had very little in the way of help to keep herself housed or fed, with her sister being the main exception. She got by on various "jobs" and gigs, most of which were sexual in nature, and sometimes dangerous. However, while sex work wasn't glamorous or stable, it was something that she was surprisingly able to support herself on, and taking clients and dancing meant that she didn't have to rely on her sister too much, and, even better, it meant that she didn't have to go running back to her Mother.
For Constance, her line of work was profitable enough to keep her afloat, thanks to the busy and bustling nature of Boton's Combat Zone at that time. She avoided dating, in part due to being hung up on her old boyfriend, and partly because getting romantically involved with another man would be inconvenient for her work. She often maintained a somewhat professional relationship with clients for that reason as well, although she wasn't entirely against acting in a flirtatious manner and enjoying herself as she worked. However, despite her best efforts, she did eventually find herself making the (at the time) mistake of becoming romantically involved with another man, named Patrick. Originally a semi-regular client of hers, the two met one evening in Winter, after he had docked near Boston. A sailor, like her Father, Patrick was a fisherman who travelled throughout New England. He was a bit of a shady fellow, with a foul tongue and a love for alcohol, but was by no means a drunk or a criminal. Being a foul-mouthed drinker and a dreg of society herself, the two naturally got along, and though their early relationship merely involved them occasionally crossing paths, spending nights together, or chatting at pubs, they both eventually realized that they connected with one another much more than they would have liked to admit. While it wasn't the most romantic or story-book way for two lovers to meet, they wound up hitting it off nonetheless, and, over time, Patrick and Constance began to put their pasts behind them and live together, eventually getting married in a small church about a year later.
EARLY 80'sWhile her hooking days were behind her,Constance found security and a genuine connection in her new marriage, and the two lovebirds immediately began to think about running off to another town to live together in peace. Boston was too noisy, and they both had some complicated histories there, though neither of them wanted to move too far away, either. In the end, Constance and Patrick settled on a small, sleepy town on the coast, named Faircliff. It was a strange town, barely on any maps, and oddly quiet, despite it being the perfect place for a tourist getaway. To the newly-weds, however, it hardly mattered. They hopped at the first chance to move in, and Patrick took on work as a sailor, spending his time at the Faircliff Docks, while Constance found more honest work at the town library. Shortly after moving in, it was discovered that Constance was pregnant, and she and her husband went on to have a twin son and daughter, much to their delight. After a short break from work, Constance returned to the library, and later went on to keep records for a small legal firm in Downtown Faircliff.
It was around 1983 when Constance's life took a turn for the worst again. Seemingly without warning, her Husband vanished while at sea, along with the rest of the crew on his fishing boat. To Constance, it was a complete shock, and it left her devastated. For two weeks she barely left her own bedroom, let alone the house. All she could do was sob, wait by the phone, and pray. As the weeks passed, however, and as the searches for the missing boat began to come to an end, the realization that the ship was likely lost ate away at her. After her sister had agreed to take in her kids for a while so that she could be alone, Constance's anxiety only grew stronger, gnawing at her more until she had a nervous breakdown.
In the following months,despite her returning to work and seemingly moving on, Constance remained depressed and unable to cope with her sudden losses in private. As she began to slip back into old habits, her sister began to take over in looking after her children, and by 1984, as Constance indulged in frequent drug use, drinking, and one-night-stands, Victoria had gone on to keep the kids over permanently. Constance allowed it, self-aware enough to be able to see that she wasn't in the right state to continue raising them on her own, but the seeming loss of her children also pushed her even further into her self-destructive spiral into debauchery. While working from 1984 onward as a receptionist at the Faircliff Medical Center, at the northeastern edge of town, she would engage in prostitution on the side, both as a way to supplement her income, as well as to help her cope with her loneliness and provide her with companionship. She also began to develop an unhealthy obsession around the story of her Husband's disappearance, surprising her Sister when she began to discuss her searches into the town's history and other past maritime accidents, which she saw as Constance still struggling to accept the official story, and attempting to rationalize and come up with some explanation that could provide her with closure.
Instead of finding the answers and closure that she wanted, Constance instead found herself was dragged deeper down by the discovery of a very morbid and disturbing past that she didn't know belonged to her new home town. Established as the colony of Fairclough in the 1600's, Faircliff had not only a long history of accidents and disappearances at sea, but also a sordid past full of Indian cults, witch hunts, curses, medical experimentation, and murders. What she hadn't realized about Faircliff was that it had always harboured a number of macabre secrets, many of which remained unexplained, with the disappearances at sea being just one piece of what appeared to be a larger puzzle. Despite her Sister's protests, Constance began to investigate more. When Victoria began to show worry over her mental state, Constance toned down her discussions on the matter, and hid many of her findings, while continuing to learn as much as she could on her own.
One evening, in the hours preceding a strong Atlantic storm, Constance found herself drawn to the abandoned grounds of the old St. Brigid's Hospital, which Faircliff Medical Center had come to replace. Following a hunch of hers after looking up records pertaining to a number of patients who had disappeared from the hospital - patients who had been involved in disappearances and alleged paranormal phenomena - she found the Hospital to still be inhabited, albeit not by a Human. In her exploration of the facility, she came across a long-forgotten secret passageway, which led from the hospital to a series of drainage ditches, just outside of the Northwestern edge of town, towards the Old Faircliff Church. One of the oldest structures in the area, the Old Church had been abandoned for over a century, yet all signs seemed to point to it being linked to the tunnels and the old hospital in some way. It was during her approach to the Old Church that the storm rolled in, becoming unusually strong as Constance entered the Church grounds, before being attacked by a hellish monster that had presumably followed her from St. Brigid's. Locking herself within the Old Church, Constance was hunted by the beast, taking refuge for a time in a small safe room on the second floor, where she realized that the world outside of the old building was changing. After retrieving a key hidden atop a large cross in the main hall of the church, Constance fled, pursued by her otherworldly stalker, finding the hallways of the building to twist and warp unnaturally, before she fled into a seemingly endless, dark tunnel. Her perception of reality began to break down, until she felt the ground beneath her shift, and heard the splashing of water under her boots. Suddenly cast into the light, Constance found that, not only had she left the Old Church, but that she had left Faircliff entirely, as she exited a damp alleyway in the town of Lludw Cigfrain, a town in Wales, on the opposite end of the ocean from where she had been just moment before.
Although escaping her monstrous attacker, Constance was almost immediately attacked once more by a powerful demon, and drawn unwillingly into a massive brawl that saw one of the buildings nearby being destroyed, and her being arrested by members of AEGIS. The following day, Constance, along with several others, were recruited by the organizations small local branch, who she followed in the hopes that she could understand more about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance from her own world.
Brief Personality Description*:Constance is a complicated woman. She can certainly be abrasive at times, and she generally presents herself with a reserved, sometimes icy demeanour. She's often quiet, although when she isn't quiet, she's probably very, very loud - usually when angry or drunk, or both. Though she's raised Catholic, Constance has a sinful personality, and she regularly and happily indulges in alcohol, tobacco, other illicit substances, and sex. Due to her experiences on the streets in her younger adult years, Constance tends to have a somewhat dark, dry sense of humour. She can be sarcastic and straight-faced, and tends to find herself entertained by jokes or subjects that others may find distasteful. She's somewhat self-deprecating, and, due to her own shady past, is usually hesitant to judge other people harshly for their actions.
Despite her possibly antagonistic or antisocial demeanour and her inappropriate behaviour in private, Constance attempts to maintain an air of professionalism when working, and will cooperate with others without much hesitation. She's usually eager to help others, and carries out her tasks quickly and to the best of her abilities, even when she's tired or bothered by other matters.
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