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Character
Name: Seeley Booth
Fandom: Bones
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Time Period: End of Episode 6.14 (celebrating the St. Valentine's Day Massacre with Tommy guns at the shooting range with Bones -- a present from her.)
Wing Color: Black
History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeley_Booth
Personality:
Abused by his ex-pilot turned alcoholic father, Booth tried to protect his younger brother and they were soon taken in by their grandfather who protected them. However, this developed a pattern early on for Booth of wanting to protect others, and sometimes sacrificing himself for others he's close to (particularly his brother). His grandfather is mentioned as saving Booth's life as Booth would have killed himself as a teenager otherwise. In the army he performed with exemplary service which got him promoted to Sargent Major and he earned several medals. He set the record for the longest shot made in combat (one kilometer) and was a particularly great sniper.
As a teen, Booth was a jock and athlete in school and hated the nerdy types who mocked him and made him feel like an idiot. On one particular incident he was called a Philistine and didn't understand what that meant so retorted that he was Catholic, which later led to him not sticking up for the nerdy kid when he was bullied by some of Booth's friends. He was into classic and arena rock, and the early punk music scene -- something his father disapproved of. He was also known for being loyal to Philadelphia sports teams as that is where he grew up, and still has a tendency to favor them. He was in a fraternity in college and in typical jock behavior bragged about some of the pranks they pulled. He joined the army rangers and worked his way up to Sargent Major. Eventually he began working with the FBI as a special agent.
He had a son named Parker, (so named after one of his army buds who died, much to Booth's feelings of guilt even though he kept telling him to get down and the soldier was out of line) but when he proposed to the mother Rebecca, she turned him down. Their relationship was tense because of this, with Booth often wanting to see more of his son and only allowed when Becca felt generous. Part of the conflict was his tendency to be overprotective to the point of interfering, and wanting to check out her new boyfriends to make sure they weren't a bad influence to have around his son and Becca did not appreciate the background checks (which Booth is known to run on others, including his brother's fiance). They worked out better arrangements and develop a more amicable relationship and Becca assured him that unlike what Bones thought Booth felt; she hadn't turned him down because she thought he'd make a bad father, it was just because she didn't want to get married.
While early into recovering from his gambling addiction he works his first case with Dr. Brennan as shown later in a flashback episode. Their relationship started off as a force of cocky and competent versus arrogant and expert. He nicknamed Dr. Brennan "Bones" because of her belief that all forensics and anthropology could best be done through bones, and bones only. They both knew themselves to be experts in the field, but where Bones was truly the best in the world, her intelligence gave her a superior attitude, just as Booth's jock attitude had a tendency to intimidate others. They had a heavy initial attraction, but when they got close to getting together, she turned him down (even though she promised to keep secret his relation to John Wilkes Booth: Lincoln's assassin, and he confessed his gambling addiction) and after solving the case they got in a very heated argument and she vowed never to work with him again. Nevertheless, a year later they did end up working together, and thus began the start of the series.
Towards the start of the series, Booth is extremely cocky with an actual belt buckle to show it. He mellows slightly after the brain tumor, but still has a penchant for showing his individuality with brightly colored unique socks or special ties and ornate belt buckles. Booth frequently references pop culture, sharing John Wayne fandom with Bones as well as a mutual like of the band Foreigner, but more often than not, his references are lost on her and the other squints who don't follow them. He loves Green Lantern comics and reads them when relaxing in the tub (which Bones walks in on at one point) and when trying to make up his mind about whether to be a sperm donor for Bones' baby, he hallucinated Stewie Griffin from Family Guy giving him advice (or mostly insulting him) though this was due to the brain tumor. During the surgery, Booth reacted badly to the anesthesia and wound up in a coma. While he was unconscious Bones stuck by his side working on her next book which Booth wound up dreaming; wherein Booth and Bones were married and ran a nightclub.
Discussing the dream later with Sweets and his other work friends, they slowly helped Booth to acknowledge that he was in love with Bones. However, when he confessed to her, taking a chance as a gambler, she turned him down, wanting to keep their work relationship the way it already was. Booth is a hopeless romantic, believing in love at first sight, true love, and the concept of "forever" -- all things Temperance has trouble accepting since it can't clearly be seen through a scientific lens. This was part of what led to her pushing him away, but as the series progresses she comes to acknowledge love when she sees it and even chides Booth saying he was making her stomach hurt with anxiety because he turned his back on true love when he wasn't simply trusting in Jared and his girlfriend's love for each other to pull them through. His intense loyalty to Bones is frequently shown throughout the show, with him even saying if Bones is fired, he'll walk out with her. Likewise, during his confession to her, Booth said he always knew that he loved her and wanted to be with her like an old couple where the guy always knew.
After her rejection, they agree to keep working together as friends only, but Booth informs her he has to move on. They end the season with special opportunities for their careers and take them up, so in the next season when they're reunited, Booth has found a steady girlfriend he is happy with. Despite being Booth's counselor and therapist, Sweets asks Booths' help in relationships and when he was trying to figure out whether he should get married, he told Booth that he didn't want to wind up like Booth: 34 and never been married. This hurries Booth's decision to ask his new girlfriend Hanna to marry him, with nearly disastrous results. She turns him down explaining that she's not the marrying kind and he answers that he can't continue the relationship like he never asked. At that point, Booth gets very distressed with women and specifically what about himself women he loved didn't seem to want in the way he hoped for. He goes drinking (heavily) and tries to insist that he's not a drunk like his father when Bones came to check on him.
When he offers Bones two choices: she can stay drinking with him and they'll keep things as they are, or she can walk out and he'll find her a new FBI guy to work with, Bones takes the first choice and stays with him. Their friendship grows later on Valentine's Day when Booth, bitter from his breakup and unappreciative of all the happy couples around him, gets cheered up by Bones (rather than the typical vice versa) when she knows exactly what he needs and turns down several dates offers so that she can spend it with him at the shooting range and gets him Tommy guns as a present to commemorate the gang wars St. Valentine's Day massacre.
Strengths: A bit of a jock, Booth personifies much of the "All-American Boy" persona. He's good at team sports, (football and hockey most notably) and joined the army at a younger age, working his way up to the rank of Sgt Major and earning several medals. An excellent sniper, Booth holds the record for the longest shot made during combat, and he doesn't like to lose practice, still going to the shooting range and practicing -- he got very worried post surgery that his marksmanship was deteriorating and even sought the guidance of the psychologist advising him. Booth is physically athletic, charming, and good with people (which is at odds with the rest of his team who are often comically bad at dealing with people). His aim is spectacular, and he's even highly skilled with throwing knives, having the best skill with knifes in the rangers and this aids them when he and Bones go undercover in the circus with a knife throwing act.
He's a good father, and it shines through in other aspects of his life, including his initial influence on Zack Addy and his later relationship with Lance Sweets. Booth is very protective of his teammates and people he cares about (or even relative strangers) which made him an excellent soldier and special agent. It's also noted directly in the series that his gravitation towards aggressive fields (hockey, his job, etc.) isn't the violence like his abusive father, but an extension of his protective nature on the job and elsewhere. Extremely protective of Dr. Brennan, Booth has been known to stay by her side even to a level that grows to annoy her, all in order to keep her safe.
Booth is very passionate about anything he believes strongly in, and fights very hard to defend what he considers a just cause. His friend Cam refers to him having a "lion heart" he should trust, and Bones calls him idealistic several times throughout the show and insists he has very romantic views of things. He relies on his instincts, guts, and courage for his end of the case-solving they do. This is in direct contrast with his partner who is highly analytical, purposely unemotional and distant, and all about logic and evidence. Nevertheless, following his instincts and emotions is one of his biggest strengths, along with his faith that helps him get out of some extremely dangerous life and death situations.
Highly charismatic, Booth is attractive and fully aware of its effect on people, using it to its fullest. He's personable and doesn't have troubles getting people to like him, even with the Squints who had a tendency to dislike anyone not as smart as them or general outsiders. He's confident and uses the charm against criminals and in dealing with the workplace alike, though he's expressed dissatisfaction at having to deal with some of the brass and FBI political parties. When working on the cases, his team has a tendency to look at things like a science project, whereas Booth keeps in mind how they'll have to explain things to a jury and due to his position, frequently acts like a translator or liason, to the point that early in the series, Zach was uncertain about talking to anyone on the field without Booth around to translate. However, Booth is extremely loyal and despite the well-known difficulties in working with Bones and her team, he defends them fully, on occasion even at the expense of risking his job or life. He also helps out old friends from the force or Ken Nakamura whom he met during his exchange program days, fiercely loyal to all of them. Boothe's protective nature helps him out greatly sometimes, such as when he had to go for his re-certification as an FBI sharpshooter, his scores were lagging; however, by asking Bones to come watch, he was able to put himself in the position of protecting her and score perfectly.
As a still practicing Roman Catholic, Booth is highly principled and has a set view of what moral standards should be. While this doesn't make him intolerant of other views (he relates to other religious people, whatever the religion and defends Shinto beliefs at one point), it does give him an added passion to upholding the law and his own moral sense of right and wrong. While he still arrested Bones' father for being a murderer and wanted felon, he also said he respected the guy because in the Old West, Max (her father) would have been considered a hero or sheriff since he was doing what he felt was necessary to protect his family. Seeley Booth doesn't blindly follow the law, but he does uphold them, even arresting his own partner Bones for shooting an unarmed man (who was trying to set her on fire at the time).
Booth is extremely street-smart, not just able to read people, but understand when to be intimidating, and he's familiar with how criminals act. He's referred to as being very empathetic, and when he was in Japan, unlike the rest of the Americans who simply told the Japanese what to do, Booth was quiet and reserved (atypical of his usual behavior) and instead asked questions and was very respectful, which earned him a good friend. His intuition is well-honed and unlike the squints who refused to even take a "guess" on things other people would consider obvious, Booth is ready to follow his gut, which is only rarely wrong, and has often saved his life. He's confident with women (in spite of his highly altruistic and idealist romantic nature, or perhaps because of it) and while he gets a little flustered when some women flirt with him, he flirts back with Angela and is frequently referred to as an Alpha Male, even by Bones who actually gave a speech praising him as one for his birthday.
Weaknesses: In his high school days, Booth admitted to Bones that he was actually much like the jock bullies that tormented her and the other "squints" -- the science team at the Smithsonian during those days. He deeply regrets the decisions not to intervene and protect people back then and tries to atone for it with the life he leads now. Likewise, due to his "Catholic conscience" he also tries to atone for his days as a ranger in the armed forces, when he was a sniper (and to date he's marked at least 50 kills). He's a recovery gambling addict, still going to addicts meetings and as he told one of his old army buddies, he doesn't even play a game of monopoly now. This becomes a big worry for Dr. Brennan when they have to go inside a casino at one point and she was worried he'd relapse. It comes into play again later when Sweets suggests that he should be the one to make the first move and take the chance between him and Bones because he's the gambler -- and on a few of the cases, he's been known to take a gambling risk, though this is often because of relying on his gut instincts. His ex Cam was also familiar with this along with his tendency to insist that it wasn't a problem so long as he was winning.
His psychologist/therapist (Sweets) describes him as having "White Knight Syndrome" and his protectiveness has been known to get exactly that over the top and often interfering in order to protect his partner. Usually it's mentioned that it's because of his abusive father, but his overprotective nature is well known even outside of protecting Bones and her own relationship issues. However, he can be self-sacrificing to the point of hurting himself (not just in his usual line of duty taking bullets and going through explosions) but emotionally and mentally, he puts a lot of stress on himself and politically hurts his career to rescue or protect someone else. This becomes a recurring theme, started with his brother Jared and at least hinted at by Cam when Bones was taken in by some of Jared's claims that Booth simply wasn't as ambitious as himself and that that was why Booth didn't get ahead. The truth became more apparent to Bones when Booth sacrificed the credit for his best work in a case prosecuting the mob, in order to get Jared out of trouble for drunk driving. Later on, Dr. Brennan asked Booth to have her baby via sperm donation, which greatly frustrated him because he want to be more than just a sperm donor, yet he still wound up saying yes, even though the stress (and a brain tumor) caused him to hallucinate.
Booth isn't nearly as intellectual or as educated as his science "squint" counterparts, and very often when they ramble or explain things he can't completely keep up. He doesn't like the big words he doesn't understand and has to ask them to cut it down for brevity's sake. When it gets to be too much, he gets temperamental and violent and has even threatened to shoot Hodgins and Zach in the head when they annoyed him too much (or if Zach asked advice on sex). However, as the show progresses, this lessens noticeably as they develop a closer friendship rather than just an at-odds working relationship. Early on, he had severe temper issues and shot a clown face/siren on an ice cream truck and later on a musician's speaker when his badge got spit on citing he found it justifiable. It was revealed that Booth suffers from coulrophobia (fear of clowns), though after his brain tumor was removed and he underwent some psychological and personality changes, his fear was significantly lessened. Bones keeps calling it coulrophobia, though in typical "alpha male style" Booth insists he's not afraid, he just hates clowns.
From his past traumas, his childhood and being tortured while in the army, Booth carries some heavy scars; both physical and mental. He also carries some extremely heavy guilt from his time sniping, and he hates having to kill, even though he was a fantastic sniper. Nonetheless, much of his actions throughout the show are attempts to atone for his past (possibly a producer carryover from David Boreanaz's days as Angel in Buffy) and a lot of striving to become a better man.
Samples (ALL samples must be set in Luceti-verse.)
First Person:
This can't be real. If I'm a prisoner of war, where are my captors? This forest doesn't exactly look like Afghanistan though and who the hell would kidnap a ranger just to dump him in the middle of an unknown island? Well... the gravedigger, but that's a whole other story.
Of course, I shouldn't be expecting the unknown kidnappers to be following the laws governing the Geneva Convention or else they wouldn't have broken article 13 and done some bizarre experiment involving attaching wings. At least, I think they're wings. This would be where having Bones around would really help. Although I guess most other squints could probably define it as well. Unless they did that annoying thing where they refused to acknowledge the obvious. And I'm talking to a notebook, none of this should be real and wishing myself awake isn't working, which leads me back to the first worry that I have another brain tumor. I wonder what insights Stewie Griffin will provide this time.
Third Person: It was too cold out to be topless. Even for the District of Columbia, it was February, and not even close to Spring when the cherry trees would flower. That raised the question of why Booth was topless. Looking around to figure out why, he soon figured out why. He had wings. Wings. At least that's what the black things looked like. At first he figured it was some tacky Halloween decoration, which would mean this was all some giant prank. Now who had he pissed off in the FBI recently? Well, enough that they would drug him and drag him out of the city to some unknown forest in the cold. Surely there couldn't be that long of a list. In fact, no one was immediately springing to mind. Squints didn't usually have the kind of sense of humor that involved elaborate pranks like this, and while there was a first time for everything, he couldn't think of anyone who would do this that could. Booth wasn't a stranger to being kidnapped, drugged, or even knocked unconscious, but it still was not an easy thing to achieve. He was a special agent in the FBI, and he didn't get there by being weak.
Like any person would, Booth gave a light tug on the wings and quickly decided a squint or some other scientist had to be involved because there was no way those things were just glued on. What a pain. He looked around for his gun. If it was just a prank by friends, they'd have left him his gun. All he found was a notebook, but it didn't seem to be filled with his kidnappers demands which was less than helpful. Well damn. Whatever strange psycho had left him out there didn't appear to be nearby at least, and straining his ears, Seeley Booth could discern the vague sounds of settlement nearby. Despite the goofy getup, at least he'd be able to call someone for a ride since the bastards had stolen his cell phone as well. The knowledge that this was leading more and more towards pointing at a murderer rather than friendly idiot was a little unsettling. The last time he'd been kidnapped and drugged, the Gravedigger was using him like a bargaining chip and he only got out of that thanks to his little brother who wound up court-martialed for using army resources without prior authorization. Certainly not something Booth felt like reliving.
Still, the Gravedigger was dead now, and unlike Gormogon, there were no apprentices to worry about. No, far more likely whoever the culprit was, was an unknown until now. Fine then. If that was the way they wanted it, they were now in the FBI's radar. As he neared the city -- more a town really, and definitely not D.C. -- Booth paused in shock. Everyone had wings, or at least clothes to cover them up. Various colors, not just black like his or the expected angel white. "Well Toto, we're definitely not in Kansas anymore," he muttered softly, with a vague pang as he wondered if that was a reference Bones would just tell him she didn't understand what he meant or whether she'd surprise him like with John Wayne and know exactly where it was from. He wandered in further and tried to flag someone down to ask them questions, but only an annoyed look and a matter about pesky new feathers.
Things had definitely gotten weird.