Player name: Douwe

Character name: Amata Maria Soto Viteri (goes by Amata Soto)
Age: 34
Profession: HR Specialist (focusing on Intelligence)

Power, if applicable: NA

Where do they live?: In a small house in the residential area of Victory. She technically shares an apartment, but only keeps a spare set of clothing and some misc items there.

Personality: She is not all she seems. Early on, it was obvious that no one ever expected much from her, and she just went with it until she found a place where they did take her seriously. She's taken advantage of that and the fact people assume she gets where she is because of her looks (beautiful people are chosen over others only because of their appearance) or her parents (daddy pays for everything she ever wants, including an ivy league degree), and not because she is intelligent and very socially savvy. Is good at undercover, but she requires a lot more to distract from the fact she's the daughter of a US senator.

After the whole Situation, Amata is very cynical and distrusting. It's not obvious; her gentle, socialite mask is very firmly in place. She trusts her former team and her family, and that is it. She doesn't discuss her former job (outside of the basics when required), nor does she discuss her injuries, or the Situation. It's not a classified-level secret and did get a fair amount of press due to her father, but they aren't getting any more information out of her. She always keeps her gun on her, and her shoes are either heavy soled and easy to run in or she can slip off in a moment's notice and run that way. She also has a black contact she uses to black out her left eye, because the blurriness of it is more distracting than useful.

Appearance: Amata works very hard to be elegantly beautiful, drawing inspiration from woman like Audrey Hepburn instead of some modern attractive woman. Her eyes are dark, nearly black (one is outright black; it is noticeably different if someone is looking for it), as is her natural hair color. At work, she has an army's worth of professionally tailored suits. Most are black or gray, with pretty colored blouses to make them not completely boring. When she's dressed casually, she is usually in jeans and nice blouse or sweater-sweater cardigan.

Her fashion weakness is shoes. Oh, is it shoes. There are pairs she never wears, but displays around the house like they are actual art. The shoes she does wear take up nearly two closets worth of space and cover every style imaginable. The vast majority are heels, but she has a fondness for ballet-style shoes as well. A distant second favorite article of clothing that isn't required for work are jackets, as she picks up at least four new ones a year and only gets rid of one, perhaps, for the four to replace.



PB: Mia Maestro

Background: Amata is the youngest child and only daughter of a former very successful (and very inherited) business man who went into politics. The lack of a private family life, as much as her parents tried, and the focus on upholding certain standards defined much of her childhood and adolescence. Being a good girl and doing what she should gave her privacy, and being a bad girl ruined that (as she learned from a party she should not have gone to when she was about sixteen) and being a child and not technically part of the political sphere would not save her.

While it was a great ideal to hold up to those standards perfectly, Amata was a pretty bright child. It didn't take long for her to realize that the standards were more shallow than a kiddie pool. They could do anything, so long as they weren't caught. Considering what her family got up to ... they were very, very good at not getting caught. This seemed to be a requirement for the average family when a member was involved in politics.

Amata played the role she was given, with a lot of mental wondering on whether she could truly become her role, was always her role, or that she just hid who she actually was deep inside. She had plenty of friends and none at the same time, because even if only half the people she knew had their own masks of perfection and idealism, hers was very, very firmly in place. She was known for being sociable, friendly enough, very vain and fashionable, and not all that bright.

The moment of truth came upon her high school graduation, where she had her first actual choice of what she could do. There was no expressed path she should go, nothing her parents were necessarily pushing her towards more than anything else. If she wanted to go to college, that was fine. If not, that was fine. If she wanted to travel, that was fine.

She thought about it, and with some help with pedigree and her daddy's connections, got into Harvard. This was not where anyone was expecting she was going to end up, and brought up many comparisons to Legally Blonde or just taking advantage of the system. Which she did, so she tried not to be too offended over that (or the fact Legally Blonde so does not apply to her. As if she'd wear pink that often).

The years at Harvard consisted of a new personality tailored for attempting to be taken seriously. It didn't work as well as she hoped, for whatever reason. Possible positive discrimination (for being female, if that was still an issue), for her Hispanic heritage (for all that she was born in California), if it was because she was still strongly feminine and into fashion and makeup, or if it was the fact she was rich and presumably bought her way in. She did hope it wasn't the last one, because a good three fourths of the students bought their way in the same way she did. Either way, very few people took her seriously. She adapted and worked with being underestimated, which possibly led to better grades than she may have received if they thought she had any talent.

One of the things she played with a lot was mind fucking with people. Obviously, she was a girl, and just as obviously, all girls gossiped. It was not difficult to keep track of the latest gossip ... nor was it impossible to introduce gossip herself and see how it developed through her social circle. If it proceeded to destroy the reputations of the people she disliked, that was an awesome bonus. It wasn't a good process, because rumors developed at a fairly random rate and in directions one can't entirely predict, but it was quite amusing to watch them go~

She graduated when she was twenty-two, majoring in International Studies. Her first job was an internship with a diplomatic friend of her father's, who was stationed in the US Embassy in Spain. That job was pretty easy, consisting of paperwork and meetings where her job was to be charming and pretty and hope it distracts them enough that they don't realize the social sleight of hand the important people were doing. When the diplomat she worked for retired from his job, she returned back to the US, she was at loose ends until she got recruited into the FBI. Sort of. They told her she'd be awesome at it, and she went okay! and applied. She got in through the Intelligence Critical Skill program, survived her basic training, and was assigned as a probationary Special Agent to a team that works in a variety of undercover operations, such as human trafficking.

Amata herself did not undergo as many undercover missions as she potentially could have; her father was still a US Senator and she was well-known for being his daughter. That ruined one mission in a spectacularly embarrassing way, and after that all of her undercover missions were information-gathering in low-risk areas. For high risk missions, she was relegated to monitoring the bugs/cameras or covering the exits.

For possibly the first time in her life, she was taken seriously. Not perhaps as seriously as she could have been, but she was expected to do her part and pull her weight without excuses. She was probably the most innocent of her team (the most badass went to her supervisor, who she had an epic but horribly inappropriate crush on because he was a) supervisor and b) much older and c) had many issues), but was quick and the most socially apt. If they needed to charm in their way anywhere, they put her out in front and let her smile her way in.

She was a Special FBI agent for about seven years, sticking with her same basic team the whole time. Two died in the line of duty (and she had actually replaced someone who had also died), another one was transferred to another unit, but the core four consisted of her, her supervisor, and the two people who trained her in. She pined after her supervisor in a wonderfully subtle way (except mostly not), got over it, and married at thirty to a charismatic, handsome, and all around awesome man who did lots of awesome international business things.

Things were great for about a year, and then they stopped being great and started to be horrible and then ended in a very messy divorce. Thank god there were no children (on her side ... one of the reasons for the divorce included a rather adorable son of her ex-husbands that was most definitely not hers and born while they were married), or it could have gone on for years. Amata went grrr at all relationships and put her focus back into being a workaholic (and once again fighting said supervisor crush that never entirely went away...).

Which was great until she was abducted while on a routine undercover mission she wasn't even a part of (she was covering one of the exits). They left her beaten and in a coma, about twelve hours later, in a suspiciously public area that didn't notice anything (in theory). The resulting investigation lead to her husband, who had (very suspiciously) disappeared a week earlier and no obvious trace to where he ran to.

Amata wasn't in a coma for long, thankfully. Most of the damage that she received was also fixable, with one major exception: the eyesight in her left eye was entirely shot. They saved some of it (blurry blobs of color instead of completely blind), but there wasn't any more they could do. The hearing in her left ear was also affected to a lesser degree (with some hope of it being restored over time), but the eyesight alone meant she no longer qualified as a FBI Agent.

To say she was angry is a major understatement.

The investigation went nowhere in finding out who the ringleaders were, although they managed to find the people who were hired to beat on her. She moped around her apartment and was depressed a lot as she waiting for her body to heal. There was talk she'd be transferred over to the HR department once she was off disability leave, which she at first dreaded and then waited desperately for because she was bored. The special kind of bored that only heightened her depression, because she hadn't been truly bored for years.

When she was almost ready to be discharged and return back to work, her supervisor visited her and told her about another potential path. Amata was familiar with Ad Meloria, as most FBI Agents were, but what it covered was outside of her jurisdiction and she didn't have any direct experience. They were looking for Human Resource specialists with background in intelligence, according to him, and that might be an easier path to follow instead of returning to the FBI. What went unsaid was 'and meeting your replacement', but it was implied.

She decided to go for it, and moved back to the West Coast for the first time in ten years. She's been at Ad Meloria for just under two years now, and her greatest asset to the agency is that she can call on a lot of people for funding/information/suspicious activity/because she's bored and wants to talk to someone.

Skills: Has more personal connections to call on than imaginable; comfortable with guns; can speak Spanish fluently; her fashion sense is fantastic

Goals:

The player's:

a) Have her have to use her gun or go on the field for some reason (emergency)
b) Someone to find out she's partially blind/deaf
c) To get over the bitter about not being an agent anymore

The character's:

a) Have the most fabulous shoe collection ever
b) Get her eyesight back
c) Buy a dog