<strong>player:</strong>Kythia<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://25.media.tumblr.com/6ec543a2d21fbbc8bb0e4425b7bb9210/tumblr_mg6v8xklUH1rb8lf8o1_500.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Nicola (Nikki) Ward<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>UK<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>F<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Straight (Bi if that would be more useful)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><br/><strong>Job:</strong>Reporter<br/><strong>Specific skills:</strong>Talented if somewhat sensational writer.  Good people skills<br/><br/><strong>Height:</strong>160cm<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>55kg<br/><br/><strong>Distinguishing marks:</strong>None<br/><br/><strong>Likes:</strong>Money and fame.  Luxury.  Attention.<br/><strong>Dislikes:</strong>Monkeys.  Wide spaces (agorophobic)<br/><br/>Nikki is the daughter of the renowned stage actress Elizabeth Healy by her fourth husband and was destined for RADA from birth.  She starred in a few movies but her career realistically ended when a deliberately leaked sex tape that was meant to raise her profile and catapult her in to the big league backfired by being a little too...graphic.  She lost some parts that contracts had been signed for and wasn't getting any new ones - her reputation made her wholly unsuitable for family films and, at the advice of her publicist, she turned anything none family friendly to give her reputation time to recover.<br/><br/>With nothing to do professionally and not wanting to do anything socially that could hurt the repair of her reputation she started writing a gossip columnist ("The Insider") about her contacts.  Her identity was a pretty open secret, but the gossip magazines she wrote for found it a useful fiction that she was an anonymous reporter.  But they made sure she was invited to the red carpet events and it kept her name alive without running the risk of screwing it up.<br/><br/>And so it was she was handy and on the scene when the hottest celebrity wedding of the year was attacked by Russian terrorists.  She got a book out of it, but more importantly a job with CNN.  A job she proved extremely good at to everyone, including her, surprise.<br/><br/>She quickly moved up the informal ranks of reporters and eventually became the logical choice to travel, on CNN's dollar, to cover the publicity for the manned missions to mars