<div class="floatright">(https://67.media.tumblr.com/2d739396ae59b5679bff7fbebfc3616d/tumblr_o7bp7bBdOT1tmmtpjo1_1280.jpg)</div><a name="user_MEHO"><strong>Character Name:</strong> Melissa Jane Hobbes</a><br/><br/><strong>Player ID:</strong>mia h<br/><br/><strong>Rank:</strong>Detective<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><br/><strong>Role:</strong>Youngster following in the family tradition<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Despite giving up on a career as a professional athlete close to a decade ago, Melissa couldn't get out of the habit of being fit. There is pretty much no sport that she hasn't tried at one time or other, and she has the bruises and scars to prove it, look closely enough and the evidence of her athletic misadventures can be seen.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>When Melissa is focused and wants to or enjoys doing something there is very little that can stop her from doing it. But when she is less confident she can withdraw and seem indecisive. Melissa is also prone to making tiny mistakes, something she is working on in her professional life as she now carries round a notebook with 'To Do' lists, although the notebook is becoming more of a comfort blanket that a necessity.<br/>She does find the job stressful and needs ways to blow off steam, usually this involves alcohol or adrenaline and sometimes both. The things that get to her the most are the witnesses who didn't see anything or couldn't be bothered, both of which have been known to end with her turning the air blue in the squad car.<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>The Hobbes have been a cop family for a long time, with Melissa being the 4th generation to enter the profession. The tradition goes back to Melissa's Great-Grandfather Joseph Hobbes, the youngest child of an Irish immigrant family, who despite his lack of education rose from being a lowly beat cop to being a Police Captain, setting the standard for his ancestors.<br/><br/>Melissa's older brother Richard couldn't wait to join the UPD have been indoctrinated from birth that policing is just what a Hobbes did by both the family and the dozen's of uniformed Uncle's. Melissa had different ideas about her future, she was a gifted athlete and gymnast and from an early age was picked up as someone who had the potential to make it at the highest levels of the sport. The practice was endless but Melissa enjoyed it so her parents didn't mind the early morning training sessions and the long trips to competitions. But Melissa's dreams came to end during her sophomore year at High School, when during a competition she slipped off the asymmetric bars landed badly and blew her knee. After several surgeries it became clear that the knee would never heal enough for her to compete professionally.<br/>This caused Melissa to rethink what she wanted to do with her life, eventually she left for college to study psychology but really she was getting away from her life to find out who she was and what she wanted to do. At the same time Melissa was leaving for college Richard was graduating from the State Police Academy, where he was carrying the weight of expectations to match the achievements of rest of the Hobbes family in their UPD careers. This made Richard both incredibly driven and slightly reckless at times. It was this recklessness that lead Richard into making a bad call, he chased a robbery suspect into an abandoned house without waiting for backup. The criminal was able to outflank Richard, shooting and killing him before fleeing the scene, no one has been arrested for his murder.<br/><br/>As a result of Richard's death, Melissa dropped out of college and enrolled in the State Academy, joining the UPD was now something she needed to do. While her father wasn't thrilled at the prospect of what might happen to his daughter, he did his best to support her by pulling strings to make sure that she was in the best instructors classes and when she graduated she was assigned to the best Training Officer in the UPD. By the time Melissa had fully completed her training her father had decided to take early retirement, leaving Melissa as the only Hobbes on the force. If forced to admit it, Melissa would say she wasn't the best Cop that she knew but she knew how the UPD looked after it's extended family which is why she was given opportunities and assignments that would normally go to more experienced Officers. But she was surprised that when an opening for a Detective came up she was strongly encourage to apply for the position even though she'd would be competing against Officers that had at least a decade's experience on the force, more than double her time on the force. Melissa was even more surprised when she got the promotion, with one of the reasons for her success being cited as her breadth of experience. Melissa has been a Detective for a little over 6 months and still getting fully to grips with the job.<br/><br/><strong>Other:</strong>The only people who use Melissa's full name are her family, to everyone else it's Mel or MJ<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>What cop shows do <span class="bbc_u">you</span> watch regularly:</strong><br/>Brooklyn 99, Angie Tribeca, NCIS, Lucifer, Person of Interest, Hawaii Five-0, Sherlock, Limitless<br/><br/>Mysteries of Laura, Castle, The Mentalist, Rookie Blue, Golden Boy, The Bridge, Cracked