SCULLY, Dana

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[/b] Special Agent Dr. Dana Katherine Scully, MD
AGE: 26
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY Heterosexual
BIRTHDAY: 23rd February
CLASS: Commoner
TITLE/RANK: Doctor
OCCUPATION: Physician
ALIGNMENT: Good
SPECIES: Human, with some alien interference.
MAGICAL POWERS:
Thanks to the influence of the implant in her cerebral cortex, it takes a lot for Scully to get sick. There’s also a slight possibility that she won’t die, but she’s not eager to test it.
CANON/OC: Canon
TV SERIES: The X-Files

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HAIR: Red
WEIGHT: 110lbs
HEIGHT: 5’3”
PLAY-BY: Gillian Anderson

GENERAL:

Scully isn’t the tallest of women, standing at only five feet and three inches, which usually means that she’s the lowest head in a crowd. With a weight of one hundred and ten pounds, she has a curvy, slight physique that hides some muscle under the softness. Her skin is pale, and has a tendency to burn rather quickly, thanks to the fair-haired genetics passed down by her father’s side of the family.

Her eyes are very blue, almost like sapphires in the right light, and her hair is confirmedly red. She keeps it cut short so that it doesn’t get in the way when she’s working a case or on a body.

She has a number of scars and distinguishing features: a tattoo on the base of her back of an ouroborous, the symbol of everlasting life; a scar on the highest part of her neck from the insertion of a tiny implant; and finally, several scars from various cases, such as the remnants of gunshot wounds.

ATTIRE:

Scully likes to look smart and professional in suits with either pants or skirts. Whilst she isn’t averse to looking nice – she actually spends quite a bit of time on her appearance – it is rare for her to be seen wearing proper dresses or anything particularly jaw-dropping.

In her downtime, she usually chills out in casuals – nice jeans, a t-shirt or button up, with a sweater or turtleneck in the winter months. She favours earthy colours for her own clothing, and dark colours for her suits. She always wears her long coat when outside.

She is never without a small golden crucifix, given to her by her mother one Christmas.

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• Mulder ~ Probably the person she’s closest and trusts the most, even including her family.
  
• Kids ~ She loves children.
  
• Coffee ~ It gets her through the day. She cannot think about starting work without it.
  
• Her job ~ Though being in the FBI can be hard work, she loves investigating cases and finding answers.
  
• The sea ~ Growing up in a family of sailors means that Scully spent a great deal of time near the seaside, and she feels completely at ease beside the ocean.
  
• Reading ~ Scully is an avid reader of both fact and fiction. She reads everything except crime fiction, which she sees as very amusing.
  

DISLIKES:

• Being ditched ~ She hates being left behind for any reason at all on a case.
  
• People not listening to her ~ Because of her small stature and gender, she’s had to fight hard to get to where she is in the FBI, and nothing pisses her off more than people continuing to act like she doesn’t mean anything.
  
• The cold ~ She can handle being hot, but there’s a point where the cold really begins to get to her.
  
• Crappy motels ~ No central heating, no electricity… Scully’s seen it all and hated it all when they’ve had to get on a case without pre-booking anything.
  
• Cigarette Smoking Man ~ The CSM might be the root of all of Scully’s problems and trauma.

STRENGTHS:

• Anatomy and Physics ~ Scully has a degree in physics, and a doctorate in pathology. She knows her stuff. Going through med school and extending this knowledge at the FBI academy means that she has a good deal of knowledge about most areas of medicine (aside from things like neurology), even if she chooses to specialise in pathology (i.e. dead bodies) and forensics.
  
  
• Good Shot ~ Gun in hand, Scully is an exceptionally accurate shooter. She can K-5 (shot to the heart) a moving target from twenty feet away, and isn’t afraid to draw her gun. She knows that drawing it means she intends to use it, but she is very sure of herself, which helps a great deal. She is also a decent shot with a rifle thanks to her father’s tutelage and a machine gun.
  
  
• Logical ~ If there’s any way to define Scully properly, it would be logical. Scully thinks in straight lines and angles – this leads to that, action, reaction. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. She is very good at arguing thanks to this skill, as she is strategic and able to think out her arguments properly before offering them.
  
  
• Mulder ~ Mulder is Scully’s anchor. She takes a great deal of strength and support just knowing that he has her back and that he’s there for her when she needs him, and offers back the same amount. Whilst he sometimes drives her insane with his theories and aliens, he is everything to her.

WEAKNESSES:

• Sceptic ~ To say that Scully is a sceptic would be underrating the sheer degree of her scepticism. Unwilling to believe in the existence of things that cannot be proven by logic, she is always looking for a solution to such things, turning to science, or turning to God in a jam. She has become better with this since joining the X-Files, but remains a non-believer.
  
  
• Her Family ~ Scully will do anything for her family. Anything. She has already known the pain of loss with her father, and more recently, Melissa and Emily, and she doesn’t want to have to go through it again or see those she loves suffer. Threatening them is the best way to get to her. This, of course, extends to Mulder, and to some extent, Skinner.
  
  
• Children ~ Due to her abduction, Scully has been left medically barren and it is extremely unlikely that she will ever bear children of her own. She loves children, but the subject of them always seems to be something of a sore spot for her, and she tries not to think about it if possible. It just makes her angrier at the people who took that option from her.
  
  
• Stubbornness ~ Scully is quite stubborn and resolute in her beliefs. She sticks up for them, but it also means that she can be rather immovable when it comes to certain situations and ideas.

QUIRKS/HABITS:

• If she is given information she doesn’t believe, or if someone says something that she deems rather silly, Scully will roll her eyes and raise her eyebrows. If this notion is continued, and/or the person presses such nonsense, she will purse her lips to indicate that she is having none of it.
  
  
• Likes to record absolutely everything that happens to her in a journal or report – either formally or informally.
  
  
• She is an atrocious singer and a lightweight drinker.
  
  
• When thinking, Scully plays with her necklace idly.

FEARS:

• Being abducted again ~ It’s not a pleasant experience. She came out of it last time with memory loss and developed cancer.
  
  
• Losing her family/Mulder ~ She has a dangerous job – not only dangerous for herself, but for anyone else involved with her. She already found that out the hard way with Melissa.
  
  
• Ghosts ~ No lie. She may understand that her fear is an irrational one (considering she knows that the likelihood of ghosts existing is very low), but it’s still there. Though she’d never tell anyone.

GOALS:

• Unravelling the conspiracy ~ The government one that may or may not be behind every abduction ever.
  
  
• Settling down ~ Eventually. Scully cannot imagine settling down right now, but some day…

PERSONALITY

Dana Scully is a woman in a man’s world. Brought up in a navy household, she is extremely disciplined, and knows the meaning of timekeeping; she is rarely ever late for anything. She can come across as quite serious and stoic, earning her the nickname ‘Ice Queen’ in the academy for her distancing herself from others. She has had to fight for everything she has ever gained – the third child in a family of four, a woman in the FBI, a woman who chose to study pathology in medical school – either against her peers or against tutors who refused to let her advance.

She is a scientific person – intelligent to the point of gifted, and someone who thinks in straight lines, whilst being able to think outside the box. She learns quickly, and enjoys picking up new skills and information during her work; she actively tries to learn something new everyday.

Scully is not an overly emotional or sensitive person; she finds it very easy to separate her work life from her personal life, and they rarely interfere with each other (though as she is very close to Mulder, this occasionally changes.) This can lead to her coming across as cold or hard hearted, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Scully is just very good at hiding her ‘real’ self. She doesn’t really show her emotions to anyone aside from her mother and Mulder, the only two people she trusts completely. Her boss, Skinner, is occasionally on the receiving end if Mulder’s gone missing or is hurt, but she tries to keep it under wraps. She understands professionalism.

Few things really faze her. She works with corpses as a part of her job – cutting up dead bodies really does not shake her at all, and she has been known to joke about eating when making the Y incision that starts every autopsy. A lot of the monsters she has witnessed have startled her, but only a couple of those have actually scared her. She finds it hard to cope with rape cases or anything where a killer specifically targets and tortures women or children, or does something so outside the laws of humanity that she physically cannot understand it – such as the case with the necrophiliac Donny Pfaster.

In spite of the uncaring and dispassionate face she puts on to the world, Scully could not be more different inside. She cares a great deal about a lot of people, but she finds it hard to open her heart. She was taught from an early age that over sensitiveness was weakness, which led to her being unable to express herself openly to anybody aside from those she truly trusted – though she is getting better with this as time progresses. She loves children and animals, and another side of her comes out when she is interacting with them – loving, open and warm.

She has a very dry sense of humour – so dry that most people will miss her quips and wit as just being a part of her normal sentences. She is a lot more open and expressive with Mulder than anyone else in her life – she has no other friends, so to speak, and so Mulder is both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness. She would do literally anything for him. It frightens her how much her life has become intertwined with his, and how she cannot imagine her life without him – and how much someone hurting him could harm her as well.

She is not a believer, but she sees herself as a grounding point for Mulder – she stops him from going out of control with his theories, and acts as a sort of sounding board as he does for her. Scully is a confirmed sceptic until proven otherwise – those three words being key to her opinions on the X-Files cases in general. She is a Catholic, however, having been brought up in a God-fearing household. She is not as devout as she once was, but her belief in God still strengthens her resolve when she feels like all else is lost.

Hurt anyone close to Scully, or Scully herself, and one will find themselves regretting it. Scully can be absolutely merciless if she so chooses – the FBI has pushed it into her head that the moment you draw your weapon, you intend to use it, so if she has her gun out, people better be scared. She does not tend to hold grudges unless someone is a repeat offender or they’ve done something hugely wrong, in which case she will do everything she can to bring them to justice.

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Margaret Scully ;; Housewife/Widower ;; Alive
FATHER:
William Scully ;; Naval Captain ;; Deceased (coronary)

SIBLINGS:
William ‘Bill’ Scully Jr. ;; Naval Captain ;; Elder Brother ;; Alive
Melissa ‘Missy’ Scully ;; Unemployed ;; Elder Sister ;; Deceased (shot)
Charles ‘Charlie’ Scully ;; Unknown ;; Younger Brother ;; Alive

OTHER:
Fox Mulder ;; FBI Agent ;; Partner ;; Alive
Emily Sim ;; Child (5 years old) ;; Biological Daughter ;; Deceased (technically poisoned)
FAMILIAR/PET: None.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Washington D.C., USA
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Has an apartment in Georgetown, D.C.

WEAPONRY:

As a member of the FBI, Scully has had both firearms training and hand-to-hand combat training. She is proficient in both, but is, in particular, an excellent shot with a sidearm, though she is well versed in the use of bigger weapons such as machine guns.

She carries on her person a SIG Sauer P225, which is her duty weapon. She occasionally carries a smaller gun in an ankle holster.

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Dana Katherine Scully was born as the third child to Margaret and William Scully Sr. She had an older brother, Bill, and an older sister, Melissa. Her father was a navy man, which meant that their family moved around very often.

As a child, Dana was noted for being exceptionally bright and intuitive, as well as very curious. She constantly asked ‘why?’ whenever her parents introduced her to something new, always trying to figure out how things worked. Her younger brother, Charlie, was born two years after her, and the two of them had a very close relationship.

Unlike Melissa, Dana was something of a tomboy as a little girl. She was more interested in BB guns than Barbies, and always got into scrapes with her brothers. She was not particularly boisterous, but she hated being left out of anything. When she was six years old, she, Bill and Charlie were out in the woods near their current house, playing with BB guns.

Though their father had instructed that they were only to shoot at cans, the boys found a garter snake and began to shoot at it. Dana shot it, thinking it part of a game, until the snake was finally fatally injured. When she realised what she’d done, she cried for days, wanting the snake to come back to life. It was this that established her compassionate nature, which would later lead on to her entering medical school.

Dana knew from the moment she started high school that she wanted to be a doctor. She didn’t have a lot of close friends, and was seen as quite geeky and gawky – a teenager who hadn’t yet grown into herself. Still, she didn’t really care what others thought of her. She put her head down and worked hard, always going above and beyond with her schoolwork, coming out with exemplary grades. She hit a bit of a wild streak when she entered college, though she still worked hard. She had her first boyfriend there, and she drank and partied and drove her parents insane for a good few years (though she was nothing compared to Melissa, who had turned into a complete rebel.)

At college, Scully studied all of the sciences and literature, and when she continued onto university, she took a degree in Physics, coming out with a First. She gained a scholarship to John Hopkins in Maryland, a specialist medical school. And with that, she packed her bags and left to study medicine. She specialised in pathology.

It was here that she was mentored under Daniel Waterston, and with him, Scully made a huge mistake. She was instantly drawn to the older man. He was intelligent, successful, a fantastic doctor and very handsome. Though she knew he was married, she started a relationship with him. It was casual at first – she missed her family and friends who she had left in California, and saw him as someone to fill that void. They were together for almost two years, until she finally realised the effect she had had on his family. His daughter, who was the same age as her, hated her guts. He had promised her that his marriage was breaking up, and always swore that he would leave his wife for her, but she began to feel very guilty.

It was around this time that she was spotted for the FBI due to her talent. More than ready to break things off with Daniel and very interested in their offer, she moved to Virginia to begin training at the FBI academy in Quantico. It was a new start for her. She studied forensics along with her pathology, until she gained her doctorate. Whilst she loved the challenges Quantico provided her with, she also came to love field work – being out there, making a difference, fighting the bad guys. The FBI brought excitement to her life, and it satisfied her immensely.

About a year after Daniel, she started dating her FBI field instructor, Jack Willis, who was again, slightly older than her. It was a very serious relationship that lasted just over two years, until Jack proposed to her on her birthday, which was more than she could take. She loved him, but she wasn’t IN love with him anymore.

After she graduated at Quantico, she spent a few months teaching at the lab there, introducing new students to forensic pathology, until she was called back to Washington D.C. It was 1993 and she had a meeting with Section Chief Blevins about a new assignment.
Of course she had heard of Spooky Fox Mulder. He was legendary in the academy for his mad profiling skills and his quest for ‘the truth’. And she was being sent to spy on him, to break down his work at the X-Files so that VICAP could have their wonderboy profiler back.

What Scully was absolutely not expecting was to be met with a raffish, relatively young man.
“Do you believe in extraterrestrials?”
And their beautiful partnership was born.

Scully connected very quickly with Mulder, coming to trust him, though not necessarily believe in his wild theories. Her father died of a heart attack shortly after she joined the X-Files, and she was forced to deal with the loss of her ‘Ahab’ – they had always read Moby Dick together when she was a child, and she was the Starbuck to his Ahab.

She went through a lot in her first year of the X-Files, being introduced to terrifying monsters and mutants, aliens and psychics, and Mulder’s sister thought gone forever. Just as they were approaching the second year mark, they apprehended an apparent madman named Duane Barry. This proved to be a turning point for Scully. They extracted a tiny piece of metal from his body – a piece of metal that seemed to have a barcode on it, of all things.

As Scully sat at home that night, examining the chip and wondering how it could exist, Duane Barry crashed through her window and kidnapped her. Though Mulder raced to save her, he couldn’t make it in time. Scully was driven up to Skyland Mountain and apparently abducted – though by what, nobody could say. Aliens? The government? Something else?
All that remained was her gold crucifix.

Whatever it was, she was gone for three months in total – three months that she still cannot recall. In that time, she was operated on, and her ova were all extracted. A chip was also implanted into the back of her neck. She was thought dead.

Three months later, she appeared in hospital. Nobody knew how she had gotten there, in a critical, near brain dead condition. She was comatose, only being kept alive by machines. Eventually, however, she woke up to see Mulder and her family, who were ecstatic to see her awake and relatively well, considering.

She returned to work just a few weeks later, and so the shenanigans with Mulder continued. Just two months after her return, however, she was the victim of a kidnapping by a death fetishist, Donny Pfaster. He was a murderer, who took the dead bodies of young women and cut their hair and fingers off. He had spotted her whilst in custody for something else, and targeted her. Fortunately, Mulder was able to save her just in time, although she herself had put up a damn good fight to stop him from killing her.

It was this that tarnished her view of the world. She knew about monsters – she had seen enough of them. But an actual person being a monster something new.

Later that year, Mulder was almost killed, which completely shattered her until he revealed himself to have been revived again by a Native American shaman named Albert Hosteen. It was that night – the night of his return – that saw Melissa Scully shot in the head in Scully’s place when members of the government came to kill her. It was also that night that Mulder and Scully found files with people’s DNA on record in a secret underground vault. Both Scully’s DNA and that of Samantha Mulder were there.

Life continued on as normal – well, as normally as it could for the X-Files’ dynamic duo. They met psychics and hunted lake monsters. And Scully’s health took a turn for the worst.

About a year after Mulder’s near death, Scully was diagnosed with naso-pharyngeal cancer. Nobody knew how long she would live. In spite of her sickness, she pushed on with Mulder, though she started thinking about life more subjectively. What had she missed out on in her career-driven life? She had forgotten her faith, left her friends behind. She had nothing but Mulder and her family.

Her cancer metastasised later that year, growing faster and more violently. She covered up Mulder’s breaking into the Pentagon to find out the truth once and for all, during a hearing at OPR in front of the board of directors for the FBI. She lied to them about his supposed death – but she had indisputable proof of the government’s corruption.

More than that, she had names.
However, halfway through the hearing, she collapsed. Her cancer had finally taken over her body. Mulder returned from his journey, only to find that she had been hospitalised and was in intensive care.

All seemed lost. Until Mulder, with the help of his friends, the Lone Gunmen (and their constant enemy, the Cigarette Smoking Man), discovered a second chip. Scully’s cancer had emerged after she had had the first one from her abduction removed, and so he theorised that having this one put in might be her best chance of survival. Though her brother and mother were adamantly against it, Scully decided that it was her choice, and possibly her last option. They inserted the chip.

At first, nothing happened. Mulder went on trial, and Scully’s final rites were said. It seemed that death was knocking at her door.
At the last second, as Mulder named Section Chief Blevins as the traitor in the FBI, the chip was spurred into working. She lay hours from death; and it stopped her. It worked. Her cancer went into remission, and she made a full recovery.

Over the following months, She and Mulder got even closer than they were before. They went out of state a lot more, hung around each other more often outside of work and generally became firmer in their trust and relationship with each other. Shortly after the Christmas of that year, Scully found evidence of what she believed to be Melissa’s daughter, who she figured had been given up for adoption since there was no way Missy could support a child. This child was Emily Sim, a five-year-old girl who bore a striking resemblance to her sister. Emily’s adoptive mother had been found killed, and her adoptive father was a murder suspect.

So to get things straight – she had become very attached to the child in a very short time – she sent off a DNA test to have Melissa’s DNA put up against Emily’s for similarity. Though it came back negative to Melissa’s, it came back positive for Scully’s.
So she had a daughter. Wow. How this was possible, she didn’t know, but she immediately put in for adoption rights to reclaim the child she never knew.

Unfortunately, Emily was very sick. Her biology turned out to be a hybrid of alien and human DNA – the human coming from Scully. She came down with a quick fever, and it turned out that some of the compounds in the alien DNA were reacting negatively to the human DNA. When she lived with her adoptive parents, she had been on antibiotics for a rare medical condition that also kept the toxins in check, but as her previous doctors refused to release her forms, Emily slowly started to die.

It broke Scully’s heart. This child – her daughter, her baby – was dying and there was nothing she could do. As Emily approached her final hours, Scully lay beside her and took her into her arms, holding her until she finally passed on.
It was a turning point for her. She was unable to have children, and the only progeny she would ever have, was now gone.

She later underwent regression hypnosis to find out what happened to her after she went missing during a night of guarding a woman who was supposedly a multiple abductee – in this, she told of experiencing a UFO flying over them and taking the woman. She could not remember this event in her conscious memory.

Much, much later, she and Mulder were called upon to help look for a bomb threat in the J. Edgar Hoover building, but Mulder insisted that they search the office block across from it. They found the bomb, and a series of events followed that involved them heading to Texas tracking an alien virus, Scully quitting the FBI, she and Mulder almost kissing and then she was stung by a bee carrying said virus when their lips were an inch apart.

She fell into anaphylactic shock and then a coma, and was taken onboard an alien UFO to be used as a host for a parasite. Mulder travelled all the way to the Antarctic to save her, which he managed to do, though she died in the process; it all ended up relatively happy again – though the government covered up the presence of the virus, she and Mulder did make it out alive, and there wasn’t much more she could ask for.

They continued their work at the X-Files. Over the following year, she witnessed Mulder being subjected to a case of a body swap with a high ranking army guy, ghosts (which were absolutely terrifying) and a man who could control the weather. She almost died – an event that alluded to her never being able to die – and went undercover with Mulder as a married couple investigating a too-good-to-be-true housing estate.

She almost died again due to a man attempting psychic surgery on her to remove her heart, after being stalked by an author who had become obsessed with her. She was drugged into silliness, drugged by a giant fungi (and almost digested), and was taught how to play baseball by Mulder.

And that just about brings us to the present; Mulder and Scully, on the road again.

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But he hadn't even used Chaos to defeat her, and it had been so humiliating...
She decided not to care. He was not here, in this mad world that she did not belong in. Neither were Weiss or Nero. Her brothers. Her beloved siblings, unbeaten and strong. Rosso felt a pang of loss, and realised she missed them. There had been no camaraderie, but there had been unity. They were connected, without the hulking fool, Azul, and the girl-child, Shelke. They were not true Tsviets.

Movement from across the hall startled Rosso from her revelrie. Her head snapped round to focus on the newcomer. He had appeared in a cell, like she had. She wondered what his supposed 'crime' had been. Perhaps he had attacked someone, as she had.
She turned her head again to stare at the wall. They were separate, so she did not care. She did not long for companionship.

There was something rather familiar about him, but she could not place it. Not in his appearance - more his presence. She ignored it – such a thing would not be an aid to her escape from this place. It was useless, so she cast it aside.
Her deep carmine eyes panned across the tiny cell again, trying to find a weakness that had not been there on her first observation, but she still could not find anything.
How she loathed it, being cooped up, like a fierce cuahl caged for doing what instinct dictated.

The scent of mako hit her almost as strongly as blood, and she whipped around, walking quickly to curl her fingers around the bars. Her pupils dilated, and for a moment she almost looked drunk on the taste of her essence. The man opposite had vanished, but the floor seemed to ripple with a black haze. She watched it creep, logic telling her that this was the very same person who had been trapped, as she had. Her thoughts were confirmed as the smoke reshaped itself into a human - the silver haired one from before.

How had he done that? Her previous dismissal of him was thrust aside as her curiosity piqued. She unhooked her hands from the bars of her prison, drawing back a little. His eyes were a strange colour, intense and blue-green, flecked with yellow. She met his stare with one of her own.
“You do not know a Tsviet when you see one?” she responded to his question, though she was unsure if it had been rhetorical. Maybe it would be wiser to hide her identity, but Rosso was a proud creature. She was not afraid. She would not hide her name in hopes of being left alone.
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