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|| Player Information ||
Name: Bex
Personal Journal: N/A
Time zone: MST
Contact: PM or plurk; "bexxen"
Current Characters: None
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Castle
Name: Katherine "Kate" Beckett
Canon Point: During the opening scenes of the season 4 premiere, "Rise"
Is this character dead? Yes. Kate clinically dies in the premiere, and even though she is revived, I am taking her from her death.
History: An overview! Or, if you'd rather, everything you never knew you needed to know about Beckett until you decided to app her to an RP game.
Personality:
"You know what I thought when I first met you? That you were a mystery that I was never gonna solve. Even now, after spending all this time with you, I’m still amazed by the depths of your strength, your heart... and your hotness."
- Rick Castle
There is so much more to Kate Beckett than meets the eye. A serious and devoted homicide detective, she's dedicated to her job and her team. She also has a pretty harsh “origin” story; her freshman year of college her mother was murdered, and the killer was never caught. Saddled with grief, Kate put any previous plans on hold and joined the police force right out of college, desperate to find justice and closure.
Kate's obsessive personality - while often an asset in terms of her ability to solve murders and close cases - caused her to dwell on her mother's murder, and her entire being was driven by her vendetta. As a beat cop, she wasn't even allowed to look at the homicide files, and she was caught digging through her mother's file by Captain Montgomery. He saw her fierce potential as a homicide detective early on and later on became her boss. While her obsessive drive did allow her advance of her career path quickly, leading her to become the youngest woman to make detective in the NYPD, it was also had its negative side-effects.
After her mother's death, her father's choice addiction became alcohol; Kate's addiction was the case. She let it take her over for a while, before she went into therapy, read a bunch of books by this author named Richard Castle, and forced herself to finally put the case away and move on. Of course, this happened to be the same Richard Castle who later on decided to shadow her on the job so that she could be an inspiration for his new series. It was ironic that the same man who helped keep her afloat during the most difficult time in her life would later return, and turn her world upside completely.
Due to her history, Kate has a tendency to dwell on her misfortunes when unchecked. After years of struggling with her mother's murder, Kate quickly learned she would never be able to move on without bringing the killer to justice; confronted with the fact that hunting the monster would destroy her, she instead fought to keep it at bay. Not by fighting it head on, but by pretending like it isn't actually there. By compartmentalizing her pain, she learned to cope - unfortunately, it's led to her compartmentalizing everything in her life, as well. Her work life and personal life are kept so fiercely separated that even her teammates notice, but what they don't know is that as often as she hides things from them, she hides even more from herself. Because of her ability to simply submerge her real feelings about her experiences, she easily forgets she hasn't come to peace with them.
Her obsession with compartmentalizing influences her relationships with everyone around her, too. Although her teammates, Ryan and Esposito, are very dear to her, she tends to keep them at an awkward arm's length that keeps them just out of the realm of friends and within co-workers. Lanie Parish, the medical examiner, is established as one of her best friends; they go out for drinks and seem very close; however, their relationship has a subtext of becoming more distant and strained as the series goes on.
The result of this is that Kate, at 32 years old, is still struggling to find out who she actually is. Although she has yet to admit it (and eventually will, after the canon point I have taken her from), her entire being has been defined by her mother's death. Although she has her hobbies and enjoyments in life, her existence as a whole is handicapped by the fact that she doesn't know who she is. Because her self-identity is so shallow, she doesn't know what she wants in life, besides the goal of finding her mom's killer and - as a result of that - taking down murderers in general. This influences not only her work life, but her personal life and romantic relationships as well.
Richard Castle helped to change all of that. Sweeping into her life uninvited, he has slowly begun to chip away at the wall she has built around herself. And she has, in ways she hasn't with anyone else, begun to let him in. Although she does her best to hide her true feelings about him, she opens up to him quickly, and they forge a friendship that is based in something much deeper than a writer's research. That said, she still keeps him at a safe distance, allowing him close enough to prove her appreciation but never close enough to see how deep that appreciation truly runs. She keeps him far enough away so that when he leaves - and she seems convinced he will, once he loses interest in her - the pain won't be unbearable.
When it comes to her personal life, Kate does date, and has two substantial relationships with men over the course of the show. However, she does compartmentalize them, too, and her true relationship with them is never seen in any depth on screen. Eventually, Castle confronts her about their relationship and accuses her of staying in relationships with men she doesn't actually love in because she is afraid. Although she doesn't admit to this, she doesn't deny it either - but her history seems to support his point. She tends to keep the people she loves the least closest to her, probably to protect herself from what she imagines is inevitable disappointment. She is confused, and doesn't know herself well enough yet to know what she wants in a relationship; but she has convinced herself that her internal (and by this canon point, external) damage is too much for her to have to deal with a relationship, too. And the idea of dating Castle - the man she's fallen in love with, somehow - scares her. If she lingered on it, she could see a future with him, but she is sure it is one that she would only sabotage in the end. So she doesn't linger. Like everything she's afraid of, she just pretends it isn't there.
Castle's family is another matter indeed. Alexis, his teenage daughter, is someone Kate deeply respects. She sees herself - at least, the her that way before her mother died - in the level-headed child who is so very different from her father. She illustrates this by often taking Alexis' side in conflicts, or justifying Alexis' actions based on Kate's own experiences. But even though Kate's relationship with Alexis' father runs deep, she still keeps the girl at a distance, too. Part of this is habit; part of it is fear. Kate knows that Castle's job with her is dangerous, and on more than on occasion they have been put in a position where he, or both of them, could have easily died. Alexis is a smart kid and Kate knows it; she's acutely aware of the dangers Castle is in and Kate knows that she worries, and with reason. If anything were to happen to her father, Kate can only think of the pain she experienced when her mother died, and she will do everything in her power to protect Alexis from ever having to experience that. On the other hand, Castle has, quite literally and figuratively, saved Kate's life. The idea of not having him at her side is equally as daunting, and the dichotomy would eat Kate alive is she allowed herself to dwell on it. So, like everything else, she simply doesn't. She remains utilitarian in her thought processes, accepting things as they happen and disallowing herself to labor over them.
There is also Martha, Castle's mother. Kate finds Martha to be eccentric and amusing, and the woman contextualizes a lot about Castle that Beckett doesn't quite understand. Kate feels that Martha has a better grasp on life than any of them, being that she is the matriarch and has a history to backup her outlandish personality. While they are not exactly close, Kate appreciates Martha and the loving family she heads.
Finally, there is Kate's dad. While Jim Beckett only makes infrequent appearances in canon, there is an implication that they are incredibly close. Although Kate's wild child years put a wedge between them, she came from a loving home, and if they weren't close before her mother's death, that event certainly brought them closer together. She helped him fight to overcome his alcoholism, and has since been there for him when he is in need. She left her education at Stanford to come take care of him after her mother's death, and Jim is, clearly, the only one who really knows Kate. She tells him enough about her life that he is even pretty clearly keen to Castle and Kate's feelings for each other, illustrating that she probably opens up to him in ways that she never will to anyone else. But, he is her father, after all.
Although serious, haunted, and extremely dedicated to her job, Kate is still full of personality and fun when the mood strikes her. For a TV cop, she has a lot of hobbies; she a voracious reader, very well-versed in comic books, apparently enjoys going to the theater, and has a motorbike that she worked through school to pay for. She's a kickboxer, and Castle implies in his books that she loves animated movies. She has one hell of a sweet tooth, and her favorite foods consist of coffee, Chinese, hamburgers, and bear claws. She's the type who keeps M&Ms on her desk at work and popcorn in the break-room. And she's a little bit of a tomboy, although Kate also proves pretty early on that she can clean up very nicely, and she loves a quiet evening with wine and a bubble bath.
She's also snarky. So snarky that she can even troll Castle, who is, basically, the king of trolls. Because of her usual srs bsnss face, she seems far too straight-laced to be the type who could take on a personality like Castle but when she does, she leaves him speechless. Even if she is all prickly and off-putting on the outside, Castle brings out a childish side of Kate, and she even laughs at his jokes - sometimes. She even goes as far to admit to him that even though she has a hard job, his presence makes it a little more fun.
Kate is a lost little girl, and has been since her mother's death. Her fears often outweigh her confidence, but she has learned to compensate for that by stifling them into submission. Unclear of her wants, and even less knowing of her needs, Kate is stumbling through life, trying to figure out where she stands. But she has a loving family that has built itself around her - if only she would let herself reach out to them and let them help her find her footing.
Skills | Powers:
Beckett is a homicide detective through and through. Tenacious, intelligent, stubborn, and with an obsessive attention to detail, she's a staple in the force, having even gone as far to be the youngest woman in the NYPD to make detective, because she's awesome like that. And she's way more awesome than Castle. She can also shoot guns better than Castle, beat up suspects better than Castle, get confessions better than Castle, and she looks better in a dress than Castle. Did I mention she's better than Castle? At everything? Well, everything except making up insane stories about murders based on no evidence, but that's why she's the cop and he's the writer.
Also, she's really good at running in heels.
First Person Sample: Here is a network post from a previous game.
Third Person Sample:
It's just another grey Monday morning in New York City.
At least it's not raining yet, Beckett thinks to herself as she hangs up the phone. She's not really sure when it became almost instinct to call him. When Castle was assigned to her, the last thing she wanted on her plate was some narcissistic lover's boy who thought the world revolved around him following her every move. And now, she can't imagine solving a case without him.
Castle was like that. Annoying and arrogant and he had this really unappealing way of wiggling his way into your life and never leaving. She wondered if he would ever get tired of crawling around homicides and driving her up the wall. And she hated herself for sort of hoping he never would.
She was a damn good cop, and she knew that. One of the best, actually, which was exactly why she'd been saddled with Castle to begin with. But she couldn't deny that he helped her. Even if he didn't make her a better cop, he made her feel like she was. And even if she found his somewhat unhealthy obsession with murder to be kind of creepy, it also made her feel like she was making a difference. In his own, weird way, he cared. Seeing the look on his face when they solved a murder together reminded her of why she spent her days kneeling over broken bodies in alleyways. She always understood that every life was important to someone, somewhere. But Castle had helped her feel like her life was important to someone too, even if it was really only for the sake of his next bestseller. Regardless, it was a nice feeling.
“Castle's on his way,” she told her team, pausing to look down at the body in front of her. Some poor guy who'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now he was dead. But only a few hours before, he'd been someone's husband, someone's son, or someone's father. He'd been loved. And someone had ended all of that. Now it was up to her, her detectives, and a writer to find out why.
The sky broke, and a few drops of rain began to fall around the crime scene. Beckett smiled.
Just another grey morning in New York City.
Name: Bex
Personal Journal: N/A
Time zone: MST
Contact: PM or plurk; "bexxen"
Current Characters: None
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Castle
Name: Katherine "Kate" Beckett
Canon Point: During the opening scenes of the season 4 premiere, "Rise"
Is this character dead? Yes. Kate clinically dies in the premiere, and even though she is revived, I am taking her from her death.
History: An overview! Or, if you'd rather, everything you never knew you needed to know about Beckett until you decided to app her to an RP game.
Personality:
"You know what I thought when I first met you? That you were a mystery that I was never gonna solve. Even now, after spending all this time with you, I’m still amazed by the depths of your strength, your heart... and your hotness."
- Rick Castle
There is so much more to Kate Beckett than meets the eye. A serious and devoted homicide detective, she's dedicated to her job and her team. She also has a pretty harsh “origin” story; her freshman year of college her mother was murdered, and the killer was never caught. Saddled with grief, Kate put any previous plans on hold and joined the police force right out of college, desperate to find justice and closure.
Kate's obsessive personality - while often an asset in terms of her ability to solve murders and close cases - caused her to dwell on her mother's murder, and her entire being was driven by her vendetta. As a beat cop, she wasn't even allowed to look at the homicide files, and she was caught digging through her mother's file by Captain Montgomery. He saw her fierce potential as a homicide detective early on and later on became her boss. While her obsessive drive did allow her advance of her career path quickly, leading her to become the youngest woman to make detective in the NYPD, it was also had its negative side-effects.
After her mother's death, her father's choice addiction became alcohol; Kate's addiction was the case. She let it take her over for a while, before she went into therapy, read a bunch of books by this author named Richard Castle, and forced herself to finally put the case away and move on. Of course, this happened to be the same Richard Castle who later on decided to shadow her on the job so that she could be an inspiration for his new series. It was ironic that the same man who helped keep her afloat during the most difficult time in her life would later return, and turn her world upside completely.
Due to her history, Kate has a tendency to dwell on her misfortunes when unchecked. After years of struggling with her mother's murder, Kate quickly learned she would never be able to move on without bringing the killer to justice; confronted with the fact that hunting the monster would destroy her, she instead fought to keep it at bay. Not by fighting it head on, but by pretending like it isn't actually there. By compartmentalizing her pain, she learned to cope - unfortunately, it's led to her compartmentalizing everything in her life, as well. Her work life and personal life are kept so fiercely separated that even her teammates notice, but what they don't know is that as often as she hides things from them, she hides even more from herself. Because of her ability to simply submerge her real feelings about her experiences, she easily forgets she hasn't come to peace with them.
Her obsession with compartmentalizing influences her relationships with everyone around her, too. Although her teammates, Ryan and Esposito, are very dear to her, she tends to keep them at an awkward arm's length that keeps them just out of the realm of friends and within co-workers. Lanie Parish, the medical examiner, is established as one of her best friends; they go out for drinks and seem very close; however, their relationship has a subtext of becoming more distant and strained as the series goes on.
The result of this is that Kate, at 32 years old, is still struggling to find out who she actually is. Although she has yet to admit it (and eventually will, after the canon point I have taken her from), her entire being has been defined by her mother's death. Although she has her hobbies and enjoyments in life, her existence as a whole is handicapped by the fact that she doesn't know who she is. Because her self-identity is so shallow, she doesn't know what she wants in life, besides the goal of finding her mom's killer and - as a result of that - taking down murderers in general. This influences not only her work life, but her personal life and romantic relationships as well.
Richard Castle helped to change all of that. Sweeping into her life uninvited, he has slowly begun to chip away at the wall she has built around herself. And she has, in ways she hasn't with anyone else, begun to let him in. Although she does her best to hide her true feelings about him, she opens up to him quickly, and they forge a friendship that is based in something much deeper than a writer's research. That said, she still keeps him at a safe distance, allowing him close enough to prove her appreciation but never close enough to see how deep that appreciation truly runs. She keeps him far enough away so that when he leaves - and she seems convinced he will, once he loses interest in her - the pain won't be unbearable.
When it comes to her personal life, Kate does date, and has two substantial relationships with men over the course of the show. However, she does compartmentalize them, too, and her true relationship with them is never seen in any depth on screen. Eventually, Castle confronts her about their relationship and accuses her of staying in relationships with men she doesn't actually love in because she is afraid. Although she doesn't admit to this, she doesn't deny it either - but her history seems to support his point. She tends to keep the people she loves the least closest to her, probably to protect herself from what she imagines is inevitable disappointment. She is confused, and doesn't know herself well enough yet to know what she wants in a relationship; but she has convinced herself that her internal (and by this canon point, external) damage is too much for her to have to deal with a relationship, too. And the idea of dating Castle - the man she's fallen in love with, somehow - scares her. If she lingered on it, she could see a future with him, but she is sure it is one that she would only sabotage in the end. So she doesn't linger. Like everything she's afraid of, she just pretends it isn't there.
Castle's family is another matter indeed. Alexis, his teenage daughter, is someone Kate deeply respects. She sees herself - at least, the her that way before her mother died - in the level-headed child who is so very different from her father. She illustrates this by often taking Alexis' side in conflicts, or justifying Alexis' actions based on Kate's own experiences. But even though Kate's relationship with Alexis' father runs deep, she still keeps the girl at a distance, too. Part of this is habit; part of it is fear. Kate knows that Castle's job with her is dangerous, and on more than on occasion they have been put in a position where he, or both of them, could have easily died. Alexis is a smart kid and Kate knows it; she's acutely aware of the dangers Castle is in and Kate knows that she worries, and with reason. If anything were to happen to her father, Kate can only think of the pain she experienced when her mother died, and she will do everything in her power to protect Alexis from ever having to experience that. On the other hand, Castle has, quite literally and figuratively, saved Kate's life. The idea of not having him at her side is equally as daunting, and the dichotomy would eat Kate alive is she allowed herself to dwell on it. So, like everything else, she simply doesn't. She remains utilitarian in her thought processes, accepting things as they happen and disallowing herself to labor over them.
There is also Martha, Castle's mother. Kate finds Martha to be eccentric and amusing, and the woman contextualizes a lot about Castle that Beckett doesn't quite understand. Kate feels that Martha has a better grasp on life than any of them, being that she is the matriarch and has a history to backup her outlandish personality. While they are not exactly close, Kate appreciates Martha and the loving family she heads.
Finally, there is Kate's dad. While Jim Beckett only makes infrequent appearances in canon, there is an implication that they are incredibly close. Although Kate's wild child years put a wedge between them, she came from a loving home, and if they weren't close before her mother's death, that event certainly brought them closer together. She helped him fight to overcome his alcoholism, and has since been there for him when he is in need. She left her education at Stanford to come take care of him after her mother's death, and Jim is, clearly, the only one who really knows Kate. She tells him enough about her life that he is even pretty clearly keen to Castle and Kate's feelings for each other, illustrating that she probably opens up to him in ways that she never will to anyone else. But, he is her father, after all.
Although serious, haunted, and extremely dedicated to her job, Kate is still full of personality and fun when the mood strikes her. For a TV cop, she has a lot of hobbies; she a voracious reader, very well-versed in comic books, apparently enjoys going to the theater, and has a motorbike that she worked through school to pay for. She's a kickboxer, and Castle implies in his books that she loves animated movies. She has one hell of a sweet tooth, and her favorite foods consist of coffee, Chinese, hamburgers, and bear claws. She's the type who keeps M&Ms on her desk at work and popcorn in the break-room. And she's a little bit of a tomboy, although Kate also proves pretty early on that she can clean up very nicely, and she loves a quiet evening with wine and a bubble bath.
She's also snarky. So snarky that she can even troll Castle, who is, basically, the king of trolls. Because of her usual srs bsnss face, she seems far too straight-laced to be the type who could take on a personality like Castle but when she does, she leaves him speechless. Even if she is all prickly and off-putting on the outside, Castle brings out a childish side of Kate, and she even laughs at his jokes - sometimes. She even goes as far to admit to him that even though she has a hard job, his presence makes it a little more fun.
Kate is a lost little girl, and has been since her mother's death. Her fears often outweigh her confidence, but she has learned to compensate for that by stifling them into submission. Unclear of her wants, and even less knowing of her needs, Kate is stumbling through life, trying to figure out where she stands. But she has a loving family that has built itself around her - if only she would let herself reach out to them and let them help her find her footing.
Skills | Powers:
Beckett is a homicide detective through and through. Tenacious, intelligent, stubborn, and with an obsessive attention to detail, she's a staple in the force, having even gone as far to be the youngest woman in the NYPD to make detective, because she's awesome like that. And she's way more awesome than Castle. She can also shoot guns better than Castle, beat up suspects better than Castle, get confessions better than Castle, and she looks better in a dress than Castle. Did I mention she's better than Castle? At everything? Well, everything except making up insane stories about murders based on no evidence, but that's why she's the cop and he's the writer.
Also, she's really good at running in heels.
First Person Sample: Here is a network post from a previous game.
Third Person Sample:
It's just another grey Monday morning in New York City.
At least it's not raining yet, Beckett thinks to herself as she hangs up the phone. She's not really sure when it became almost instinct to call him. When Castle was assigned to her, the last thing she wanted on her plate was some narcissistic lover's boy who thought the world revolved around him following her every move. And now, she can't imagine solving a case without him.
Castle was like that. Annoying and arrogant and he had this really unappealing way of wiggling his way into your life and never leaving. She wondered if he would ever get tired of crawling around homicides and driving her up the wall. And she hated herself for sort of hoping he never would.
She was a damn good cop, and she knew that. One of the best, actually, which was exactly why she'd been saddled with Castle to begin with. But she couldn't deny that he helped her. Even if he didn't make her a better cop, he made her feel like she was. And even if she found his somewhat unhealthy obsession with murder to be kind of creepy, it also made her feel like she was making a difference. In his own, weird way, he cared. Seeing the look on his face when they solved a murder together reminded her of why she spent her days kneeling over broken bodies in alleyways. She always understood that every life was important to someone, somewhere. But Castle had helped her feel like her life was important to someone too, even if it was really only for the sake of his next bestseller. Regardless, it was a nice feeling.
“Castle's on his way,” she told her team, pausing to look down at the body in front of her. Some poor guy who'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now he was dead. But only a few hours before, he'd been someone's husband, someone's son, or someone's father. He'd been loved. And someone had ended all of that. Now it was up to her, her detectives, and a writer to find out why.
The sky broke, and a few drops of rain began to fall around the crime scene. Beckett smiled.
Just another grey morning in New York City.