✖ Character Information
Name: Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro
Series: Bones
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Occupation: Art and Digital Forensics Teacher
Tutor times: between 10am and 4pm
Residence: Apartment
Personality:
Angela is rather a bit of a wild child and seems to be always looking for a good time. She has been known to have a free spirit and is not afraid to speak her mind or confront others about her thoughts, though she is also very open-minded and will always take other people’s thoughts and feelings to heart. She seems to always have something to say no matter what the situation is, whether there’s a dead body on the table or someone is having trouble with sex.
Angela can come across as very sexual orientated, though this is mostly because she is not socially awkward in any manner. She rather considers herself as a sort of sex and relationships guru and is often giving advice to her fellow colleagues when they are having trouble, namely Brennan’s former assistant Zach. She also seems to frequently pass suggestive comments to people she meets, though it is often very unclear about whether she is teasing them or has a genuine attraction.
Angela is all about her art; she loves it, and enjoys drawing real people the most. She valued her work at the Jeffersonian as she had the main job of facial reconstruction, where she felt she gave back the mutilated remains of a person their faces, making them seem more alive again. She also often gained great satisfaction in doing portraits for the families who have lost their loved ones, especially those who have lost children and would never see them grow up otherwise. This shows Angela has an open and caring heart, as she was always the one who took other people’s loss and grief the hardest - but she also saw the pain behind the motives of some of the caught murderers, and sympathised with them.
History:
Angela changed her name to Angela Montenegro upon her eighteenth birthday after hearing it in a dream, but refuses to tell anyone else what her birth actually was. She likes to keep most of her past to herself. After progressing through high school and art school with a patchy love life - including one which involved a lengthy relationship with another woman - she moved to work in the Jefforsonian as a specialist in forensic facial reconstruction. She has since developed a close friendship with the head of forensic anthropology Dr. Temperance Brennan. Angela often tried to endorse Brennan in relationships, though her friend preferred to immerse herself in work.
Whilst working in the Jeffersonian, Angela struck up a relationship with fellow co-worker Jack Hodgins after her tried to ask her out many times but she had refused, worried that their relationship would get messy with them both being co-workers. However, after the incidents of the Grave Digger and a murder involving ghosts, the two became sexually involved and even went as far as engagement, but it turned out Angela had already drunkenly but legally married a man from Fiji. Even though they succeeded in getting a divorce, Angela became worried that Jack was too overprotective and distrusting, and so decided to call it off.
Angela has endured what she feels to be a lifetime of experience in her years working at the Jeffersonian, as she has seen the many corpses of those murdered after FBI Agent Seeley Booth asked Brennan to aid the FBI in solving murder cases. She was felt the need to leave when she struggled to cope with the graphic nature of their new line of work, though a fellow colleague convinced her that she was the most important part of the group as she ‘gave the dead their faces back’, giving them new life. She has since taken this to heart and used it as a focus for her work. Angela also showing great computing skills as she has developed, maintained, and improved the lab's 3-dimensional graphics and computer simulation system - of which she calls ‘The Angelator’.
Angela was one of those who encouraged Brennan to take up the position at Evergrove as she saw it as a good opportunity for her to socialize more with other people, both new and alive. But, since her departure, the Jeffersonian seemed to have rather trivial work for Angela and she began to feel as though her artistic talents were being misused. She asked the university and they gladly opened a spot for her as an art teacher, so she could pass her talents on to others and keep an eye on Brennan’s sexual life.
Please also use this journal for any constructive criticism you might have!