Post by Ana-Lucia Cortez on Sept 30, 2008 15:30:02 GMT -5
;; fundamentals
full name;; Ana-Lucia Cortez
nickname;; Ana
birthday;; July 12th, 1979
age;; 29
sexual orientation;; Straight
job;; Former police officer of the LAPD.
Canon;; Yes.
;; appearance
general;; Slim, slender and athletic. Ana-Lucia wears a black skinny strap tank top, jeans and buckle brown boots, her attire changes when she is seen pulling out the thread to her red leather jacket to make it into a vest and is shown wearing that over her clothes. Also there's a time when Ana wears a button down shirt later on with a messenger bag full of water bottles and supplies.
Brown eyes, brown hair and a petite figure. Ana stands at about 5'4 but is extremely slim for her height. She works out even on the beach and it shows definitely. As a police officer you have to meet certain requirements when it comes to being physically fit, and that she is.
favorite;; She's always been a fan of her lips, they are her favorite part of her besides her brain. Ana believes no matter how good looking you are, if you can't use your brain ...what's the point?
hate;; Ana-Lucia has never been quite satisfied with her ...well, butt. While she isn't overly critical on herself the whole point of it is most guys love the Spanish women for their asses and always stare at hers. She doesn't quite know why as it isn't 'bubbly' or big like 'most' Latina's, but it does bother her some-what on the inside. However, she's fearless and won't let you know it.
heritage;; Hispanic/Spanish.
ethnicity;; Puerto Rican and Dominican.
;; personality
general;; Ana-Lucia is a very complex character and at any given time she will surprise you with what she can do.
Physical: The woman packs a powerful punch wherever she goes. During the times in which she is leading the tailies out from their side of the island she punches Sawyer. To her, it shows a level of pride and if not that, it at least makes the person listen especially in a life or death situation. Ana uses violence to her advantage and knowing that she's just a petite little 'soldier' it makes it even more surprising to the person she advances on.
Verbal: Not afraid to not take people's 'crap' to be frank. Ana-Lucia exhibits a strong dislike to those that get in her way. Sawyer also being a person, and Nathan for talking back to her (automatically thinking that he was up to something because he was urinating in the bushes so long.) She plays naive to those that she knows are up to no good until it hits the fan. An example would be with Goodwin, how she plays nice with him even introducing herself earlier on and making 'friends'.
Facade: A good little actress, cops have to be if they want to go undercover, depends what they're assigned. Ana-Lucia isn't so great at holding her emotions in unless she thoroughly has to. Especially when it comes to her leading the Tailies in the jungle. She also explains how she's already dead inside with Sayid, how they'both dead inside. (She does have friends however.) They brought her cake at the station when she came back to work. It shows she can commit to friendships, but usually runs away from them.
Danny: Danny was a sour subject for her. Ana was pregnant and it was Danny's. But probably due to losing the baby and also having to go through all that physical and psychological therapy, Danny left her. Like Big Mike asks her "Want me to kick his ass for you?" Ana pretty much admits that Danny left and there's nothing left to say or do. We know she had a close relationship with Danny because of how she felt when he left and the way she was. It's hard for Ana to get close to anyone, God forbid she actually finds her significant other.
Keep your friends close, enemies closer.: Ana-Lucia learns early on in her life that despite friends and people that care about you, there are the ones that want to see you fail. This bringing us to her next point, how she shuts people that she loves and that love her away from her. It's a wall she puts up and once it's up it's hard to crumble it. She does this because she knows what she does is wrong, she knows she's not God and can't keep everyone happy.
But Ana has kept Bernard alive, the woman even states this and he bows his head.
Emotion: There is also a great deal of hurt and pain in her life. Knowing she lost her baby, Danny, killed a man (who should be dead, she probably doesn't have much regret for that) she knows she doesn't fit in the puzzle like a square peg in a round hole and for this she wants to make things right. We see Ana cry for the first time in Eko's arms when she has to go through everything (including losing the kids Emma and Zach).
hobbies;;
target practice
drawing
swimming
running
dislikes;;
when a child is hurt
when people are in need
idiots
favors
her mother (at times)
relationships
holding her temper
celery
desperate people
her emotions (anger wise)
likes;;
guns
tequila and tonic
children
men
sex
helping people
bars
revenge
being free
cats
kick boxing
Fears;;
when a child is hurt or at harm
people won't like her
she's too hard with people
if she'll never have a baby
if she won't settle down
Secrets;;
scar on stomach
lost baby
has a thing for sawyer
wanted to go home
is not so tough
;; origins
general;; Ana-Lucia Cortez was born to Teresa Cortez in Los Angeles, California. Not much is known on whether she had a father figure in her life but it is clear however that she must have grown up with older brothers in the family. By the age of twenty nine the young woman had become a police officer, following in her mother's footsteps only to have her as her commanding officer. Things seemed to be going decent for Ana, a boyfriend by the name of Danny and marriage plans. Then one day something happened that she had dreamed of all her life, the Latina was pregnant.
Didn't take long for a burglary gone wrong to stop all that. A man by the name of Jason McCormick had shot her after Ana let him look for his student I.D, in which he wasn't a student and had pulled out a gun. Physical and psychological therapy followed there after and even though she had always exhibited slight unstable behavior in the force, this was a little bit over the edge.
When it was time to get her badge back she had returned to work... until one night at a bar the woman had downed her drink of poison; tequila and tonic and had gone out to the parking lot to pursue the half buzzed from alcohol Jason. Shooting him in cold blood, no finger prints no lingering thoughts of regret and tossed the weapon into a garbage can.
Later on Teresa knows that her daughter has committed this sin... not much left to the imagination, considering before she called Ana on it they had showed him to her and she refused to identify him saying it wasn't him. Now, Ana hands over her badge to her mother and goes to airport security duty.
At the end of one of her shifts she goes to the airport bar and is approached by a man by the name of Christian Shephard (Jack's father.) asking her to be his personal bodyguard in Sydney, Australia. Ana accepts and the two pick names for each other, she picks Tom for him and he ironically picks Sarah for her. When it turns out to be worthless in empty hotel rooms, endless bars and the breaking apart of Christian's family, Ana declines his offer and heads back to the airport to get a flight on 815 to Los Angeles.
The last words she heard from her mother were on a cell phone. "I want to come home mommy." Ana-Lucia had said, sullenly.
"So come home." her mother responds.
After landing in the ocean, she quickly swims to shore to help people immediately. Out of the mess she manages to save a little girl known as Emma and meets the woman named Libby. "You a doctor?" Ana asks her. When they are ambushed by the Others and another night later the Others kidnap nine more people in which Ana-Lucia successfully kills one and finds a list with their names and descriptions on them. Feeling that's it Nathan, Ana moves everyone further inland and disposes of Nathan by throwing him into a pit that she dug herself.
Nathan disappears right when they move in further and find a station called Arrow. When Goodwin says he's going away from the survivors, Ana says she'll come with him and they move up a hill. Ana reveals that he's the traitor even when he asks for her knife to cut some fruit. She asks about the kids, he gives her a smart answer and the two go after each other. Successfully impaling him with a stick when he jumps ontop of her.
Cortez goes back to camp and tells them they're safe now.
But there are bigger problems when Jin, Michael and Sawyer get washed up on the Others shore, Libby and Cindy bring Jin to Ana when he breaks free and she quickly tosses all three into the pit that Nathan had been in. Asking Eko to hit her, he does and sends her unconscious body down into the pit to find out who these survivors really are. When she finds out they're from the other side of the island survived 815, the woman gets violent and takes Sawyer's gun moving back up for the rope.
When they decide that they're fine, she decides to let them go and migrate with them to the other side of the island. On their journey Cindy disappears and there is strange whispering all around them, unsure what it is Ana fires the weapon ...and kills Shannon. Furious with herself and Sayid just as furious, Eko gets him to back off by Ana tying Sayid to a tree. Eko takes Sawyer back to Sawyer's camp when he's injured and Ana tries to figure out what to do.
Ultimately she lets Sayid free and tells him to pick up his gun. "I deserve it." when neither of them dies, Ana is the last one to make it back to Sawyer's side and sees Jack in an emotional moment. He later after a few days of bonding asks Ana how long it would take to make an army.
Sun gets a failed kidnapping and instantly the blame is thrown at Ana from Jack, Locke and Kate. Only to find out that Sawyer conned them all to get the guns. Locke invites Ana-Lucia to the Hatch letting her know of a man by the name of Henry Gale and that he needed her to find out who he really was and what happened to him.
Accepting, she gets Henry to draw a map to the crashed balloon and the described grave, Henry isn't to be trusted as found out by Sayid, Charlie and herself. Attempting to speak to Henry again he throws a plate at her, cutting her forehead and attempted to strangle her but Locke ends up interfering and saves her.
Wanting revenge she goes after Sawyer, attempting with violence to get a gun. When all fails, she seduces him and gets the gun. When Ana returns to the hatch she reveals to Michael that she can't do it. He tells her that he'll do it for her, as she gives him the combination he turns around and shoots her. Ana-Lucia dies shortly after.
parents;; Teresa Cortez, Paul Cortez (left)
siblings;; Only child.
other;;
;; roleplaying
sample;;
Panic. Panic was strewn in words from the survivors, in their facial expressions and Ana-Lucia had tried to contain it like a virus gone wrong in the world. Brown eyes watched as Eko had began to come up to her; covered in dried blood. Make no mistake that was blood. He knew. She knew he knew everything that had happened and by tucking a few pieces of her own ebony strands behind her ear it showed off the long scratch at her cheek that was still slightly bleeding. It was a struggle that's for sure. Still, lost in her own thoughts had the brunette been snapped out of them as he had uttered her name with a pang of regret in her mind. As he had taken her by the shoulder the petite girl looked up to him as if with sadness and a hell of alot of regret. What did he want her to say to him? What could she say?
Opening her mouth to speak, he did instead. Ana listened intently. He needed to show her something? Arching both eyebrows Ana replied bluntly, but calmly. "What haven't I already seen before?" and frowned and finally, barely had mouthed. "Are you okay?" looking to him, studying his wounds. There were more things to be dealt with right now. So she waited until he'd show her what he needed to show her. And by God he was speaking, it took him a while. Hell, she knew he wasn't mute or anything, but when he spoke... he said the most important and Godly things the woman had heard in a long time.
It was like he was a saint on this island. Wanting to turn back to see what Aldo and Damion were up to, still her body wouldn't move until Eko instructed her to follow, she had to stand her ground.
(Sample 2:)
"We'll stop here to rest for a while. Don't wander off unless you know what you're doing." The brunette had announced. People parted ways instantly. She saw Eko move over to the stream and another girl over there. Brown hues settled on a log not too far away. Hell, she had been walking all this way too. The woman finally gave in and moved over with the large walking stick and sat down on the log. What the hell was she doing? Ana-Lucia could just hear her mother in the back of her mind. How wrong she was how she didn't know what she was doing.
How could the woman let those kids go? When some others had attempted to move on forward Ana snapped. "What did I just say?" she spoke matter of factly and tone rich with defiance. Cortez leaned back a little bit on the wooden log and wiped her forehead with the back of a hand, setting the stick down onto the jungle floor.
She wondered how those poor children were, what happened to them... if they were okay. The Latina frowned as she thought more and more about it, deciding to get up from her sitting place and move on over to the stream. Kneeling down to put her hands in the fresh water and cup them to drink from.
Eko was there, perhaps he was her only friend or glance to humanity. Despite him killing people with his bare hands, she knew it had to be done. And not to cause a panic, but these people deserved to know what had happened. Backing away form the water, Ana set her plan into motion.
"Everyone... I need your attention." she waited till people quieted down. "You all remember that night when ... things happened. We caught the two that were apart of it. It wasn't wild animals...but people." looking to them all.
"They were dead before we could ask questions. So I suggest we finish what we're doing and then keep moving." scuffing her shoe in the dirt slightly, she didn't let her gaze off of them. They deserved to know, they had to know.
It was her job.
;; behind the character
name;;
age;; 20
gender;; F
years roleplaying;; Forever.
location;;
How You found us;; Through another site, an RP directory (RPG Collection?)
