<div class="floatright">(http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m592/MistressofPen/steph4.jpg)</div><strong>Player:</strong>MistressofPen<br/><strong>Character Name: </strong>Stephanie Kane<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Sex: </strong>Female<br/><strong>Place of Birth: </strong>San Jose, California, USA<br/><strong>Former Occupation: </strong>Novelist.<br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Outgoing.  Seems possessed of too much energy at times.  Healthy sense of humor. Strong sense of right and wrong.<br/><strong>Physical Traits</strong>: Stephanie is 5’9” tall, has long, medium-brown hair and blue eyes.  She is fit without being bulky/muscular.  Attire of choice is casual.<br/><strong>Skills:</strong>Air Force Basic Military Training (weapons, combat).  Learned on her own: Can fly a plane.  Hand-to-hand combat focused on disarming an attacker; defensive driving; research. Grew up riding horses, motorcycles, and off-road vehicles from quads to snowmobiles.<br/><br/><strong>Agent Profile:</strong>The year Stephanie started college, when she was 17, her parents took a second honeymoon and were two of the 75 victims of a terrorist attack in Spain.<br/><br/>She took a year off to try to deal with her loss.  She researched terrorism and the particular cell who “claimed” the attack that took her parents’ lives.  Back in school, she was more focused on her research and justice than her education.  Feeling this wasn’t healthy, she decided to write it all out.  In her sophomore year, her tribute to her parents was published.  In the book were memories of her parents, interspersed with information she’d gathered about the terrorists.  She wanted to do more, to seek justice, but was not sure how to go about it.  Her education was suffering, so she looked for other options.<br/><br/>Stephanie enlisted in the Air Force and went through basic training.  Stephanie got her airman’s coin and then, very, very, quietly she was requested to leave.  No explanation was given.  Try as she might, she could not get any information out of the company.  All she learned was that it came from "higher up."  She wondered if her writing and research might be the culprit; had she poked something she shouldn't?<br/><br/>With her agent asking for another book, Stephanie returned to writing.  She decided to create a female spy somewhere between a Patricia Cornwell (cerebral) character and a Robert Ludlum (action) character. She wanted to be able to say that she could do anything that her character could do, so spent a lot of time in the gym to be fit and to learn how to fight, and elsewhere learning other skills.  When one of her novels was turned into a movie, she met a “consultant” for the movie who was ex-CIA, ex-military, but currently a mystery.  When she was recruited, she always thought it was because of this mystery man.<br/><strong>On/Offs:</strong>https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=25149.msg978907#msg978907<br/>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=25149.msg978907#msg978907)