victoria hand @ shipsahoymod

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███ CHARACTER NAME HERE ███ THE PLAYER Name:Alex Age: 26 Email: theladyunicorn@gmail.com AIM: aladyunicorn Timezone: gmt+10 Previous RP Experience: nope How did you hear about us?: npe THE CHARACTER Name: Victoria Louise Hand Fandom: MCU Point in canon: Post Turn Turn Turn Sexuality: Homosexual Species: Human Age: 38 AU History Blurb: Instead of being killed by Ward, Hand manages to survive the attack though she was in a coma for a couple of weeks while she healed. Personality: When you look at Victoria you see an air of confidence about her, an air of someone who knows exactly what she wants. Growing up as an only child to parents who were involved in politics, she spent a lot of time alone learning how to fend for herself. She turned herself to books and her school work. Victoria didn't find herself all that taken with English and Sciences but Maths from a very young age held her attention. The rules of it appealed to her, appealed to her sense of order. All her life, Victoria has had a strong sense of right and wrong, of doing what was expected of her. She watched her parent's co-workers be surrounded by scandals and how it ruined her life. Beyond that, the lessons of 'follow the law, have a good moral compass' was drilled into her from a young age. That doesn't mean she hasn't always does the best or right thing but those times have been few and far between. She was taught to respect authority and even now when she is in a position of authority herself she will still follow the rules and lessons set out by other people. In her mind, if they succeeded in gaining a successful, high position then what they must do should generally be the correct thing to do - unless they break the rules set out of course. Despite being bound by rules, if someone does break them and manages to reduce the death rate she won't be mad though she won't admit it. She will grill them about breaking the rules and why they did it but in the end she'll be grateful for not having more blood on her hands. As head of Operations, she knows that it falls back on her. Very few people realise just how much having people live mean to her. While many people think she is a minimalist due to seeing agents as expendable it's more that she has faith in their abilities. If things go wrong, while she knows that having more people on the ground could help, it could often mean more deaths. In her own way by sending less agents in she's trying to save their lives. Victoria is the best organizer and multi-tasker that you can find. She thrives when she is busiest. While as a child she was always a bit of a perfectionist and hard worker, joining SHIELD and reaching the position that she has today as Head of Operations, has taught her to take it to the extreme. As a minority - while a lot more accepted in today's society - in a situation that while there is a lot of females it is still got a very male dominated aspect to it has meant that she's learned to shield herself, to build walls around herself and to stop other people getting close to her. Hand is very much a realist. She knows that people die, she knows as a woman that she has more scrutiny on her than her male counterparts and she knows if something goes wrong she will most likely be the one blamed due to her position. She strives to be the absolute best, not to allow anyone to question why. She'll follow the rules, she'll expect others too as well. Due to her enforcement of the rules many co-Agents, especially males, seem to see her as a stickler, stick in the mud and various other unkind things. Women know it is her way of surviving but even then some of them think she should allow herself to think outside of the box more than she does. The problem Victoria has in thinking outside of the box, the last time she did so, someone close to her died due to her actions, something she has never allowed herself to forget. If there is one thing that she hates is people being handed something just because of who they are or who they know. Victoria has worked hard to end up where she is and she expects everyone else to do the same. She knows she's not one of Fury's favourites but she can't helped be rankled by just how much they get away with or handed to them because of who they are. She understands secrecy and believes the work that SHIELD does is absolutely necessary to make the world a better place but the treatment that Coulson received after he was revived is exactly the sort of thing she hates. She just doesn't understand why he was handed exactly what he wanted, just because he was dead for eight seconds and was one of Fury's pet agents. No she isn't jealous. Not at all. She will just keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't get away with too much. Very few people know Victoria outside of work. She has tried incredibly hard to separate her personal life and work life. While there might be one or two co-workers she considers friends she very rarely blurs the line. Of course, she doesn't have much of a life outside of work due to the secretive nature of it and the amount of hours that she does put in. She has a couple of close friends but that's about it. When she is home, she finds herself reading various books, watching movies and enjoying a glass of wine. She'll go for hikes or sit in secluded places allowing herself to disconnect from the world around her, to focus on things other than work. Victoria has always taken great pride in her appearance. She's loved clothes and dressing up for as long as she can remember. She always takes great care to appear neat and well presented. Her suits are always the best that she can buy, without a wrinkle or any stains. The only bit of personality that shines through are the red streaks in her hair. She knows a lot of people at work wonder why she has them but since she's a teenager, she's always dyed them various colours just because she could. Growing up, Victoria knew she liked girls from her early teen years. Unfortunately it was something she never really could open up about. Turning thirteen in the 80s, when the world associated AIDs with gays, she really couldn't announce that she she liked girls. By the time she was twenty she would eventually tell her parents but other than the occasional girlfriend only one friend knew the truth. Victoria grew up keeping it a secret and while today she knows that it doesn't have to be per se she's so used to keeping it a secret she just doesn't advertise it. She's also somewhat worried about what would happen to her job if it was discovered she was a Lesbian. Victoria, since the age of fifteen, has suffered from mild anxiety. In many ways it doesn't appear these days but she still has a couple of triggers for it. While her personality is very much built upon self protective walls a tiny part of it is due to her anxiety. During her late teens and early twenties, if she had to much time on her hands she would find herself trying to figure out what she could to prevent her friends death, so she turned to her work more than she might have. It's a habit that she's struggled to break and as mentioned previously her job has meant that she work has made this habit worse instead of better. She still takes medication for it but very few people are actually aware of this. Most of all though Victoria is loyal to SHIELD through and through and would give her life for her work if it means protecting SHIELD and all it stands for. She will never allow an innocent to suffer if she could do something to prevent it. Despite that she can make the hard call, the call to retreat if it means having Agents live but at the same time she can and will make the decision to send them forward even if it means that some of them die. She doesn't like it and probably never will but she will do it. These are the days that she will go home to her friend, drink wine and watch crappy movies or go for a long walk in order to disassociate the events of the operation. Journal: headofthehub PB: Saffron Barrows Third person writing sample: Anything else: