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Basics
Character Name: Nina Pickering.
Username: thelittlebullet
Fandom: Being Human
Played By: Sinead Keenan
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Physical Description: Nina may be short, but she's anything but little. Despite standing at five feet one inch, Nina has a personality that makes her seem much taller than that. Her blond hair is naturally curly, and when it's not pulled back it can be considered quite wild. More often though, Nina appears to be no nonsense and incredibly business-like,. If a person gets beyond the layers of clothing, they would see a scar in the form of claw marks on her arm, and a burn scar on her stomach.

Sexuality: Nina in general presents as rather straight. She is coming directly from a hetero-normative romance. However, I believe that in the past, she's definitely had relationships with women.

History: Nora Pickering never wanted to have a child. She never wanted to end up tied down to anything in her life more than what the next night would bring. But as often happens, she met a bloke. The bloke was brilliant, charming, handsome, wealthy and of course married. James, as he was called, met Nora at a club where she was waitressing, and then he swept her off her feet. For over a year, the two of them were blissfully happy. They were together as often as they could be, and James ended up picking up the tab for Nora's clothing and jewelry, and then he moved her into an upper scale flat closer to his office so that he could get away and see her more often.

But then Nora started to get jealous of James's wife, and she started to plot and to plan. A baby would solve everything, she'd decided. Hadn't James told her that he wanted to have a son someday? Moira, his wife had just found out that she couldn't have children. Nora could, and then he'd divorce his wife and the three of them would be blissfully happy in his house out in the country. The plan was so simple; stop taking the birth control pill and eventually the two of them would get pregnant.

It took four months before Nora skipped a period. She never mentioned, and he didn't either. Then she skipped her next period, and the one after and in the morning she started to feel ill. Her breasts hurt, everything hurt and she started to gain weight. Going on a diet while she went to the doctor, Nora's suspicious were confirmed when she found out when she was four months pregnant. Too late for an abortion, she told James and was unprepared for his reaction. He simply stood up, told her that she could have the apartment til the child was born, and once it was, then their association would be done.

Nora flew into a rage and she flew into a panic and threatened to kill herself, threatened to kill the child and James told her completely coldly that if she wanted this child she would have it without any attention or assistance from him. Eventually, he agreed that he'd provide the child a small stipend as long as Nora didn't put his name on the birth certificate. Nora agreed, thinking that eventually he'd change his mind.

He never did.

James didn't show up at the hospital when she'd frantically called in the middle of the night. Instead he'd sent his solicitor to the hospital to remind her about the deal that the two had struck, and Nora had signed and received her first check. But she wasn't cut out to be a mother. She didn't have a maternal instinct in her body and she was entirely unprepared for caring for another life. For the most part, Nora left Nina alone, leaving her in a cot in front of the telly. For a long time Nina didn't cry unless she needed something, but that couldn't last forever.

Nina's first memory is of her mother slapping her and telling her that she ruined everything. Over and over through Nina's childhood she would hear those words and they would be coupled with a slap if she was lucky, or a series with a spoon if she was not. Nina spent the majority of her older child years learning to avoid those slaps and staying out of her mother's way whenever she started to drink or when her boyfriend would show up in the Estate flat. Instead Nina would go to school and study hard, and then she'd stick around the estate and come home late.

As soon as Nina started her period, her mother put her on the pill. "No more babies," Nora had said and the insults had changed from Nina being nothing had turned into her being a slut, despite the fact that Nina hadn't even considered having a boyfriend. That was until Robert Garwood. Robbie was older, and he was the most beautiful man that Nina had ever seen. She fell in love with him instantly, and was amazed when at the twenty-year-old he asked her out. Nina herself was sixteen.

Two months later, Nina'd moved out of her mum's house and into Robbie's. On her third night there, he'd struck her for the first time. Knowing that her mother would never accept her back home and feeling like she didn't have anywhere to go, Nina stayed. She stayed as he became increasingly violent, and when he put her into the hospital, she'd always lie about what had caused her injuries. Doing that was nothing new; Nina had been doing it her entire life.

But that changed a year into their relationship when Robbie was certain that she was screwing around with someone else. She hadn't been, but she'd been working at a shop and saving up to go to nursing school because she wanted a better life. Robbie came home drunk and demanded her money and she fought him on it. After she wouldn't go down when he hit her over and over, he stalked out to drink more and hopefully cool down.

He didn't cool down. Instead he came home at three in the morning with a bottle of petrol. He didn't bother to try and wake her up, instead he just poured it on the bed and tossed a cigarette on their. The largest amount of fuel had landed on Nina's stomach, leaving a large burn. Smoke inhalation and a severe beating later, Nina woke up at the hospital. For the first time in her life she admitted what had happened to her. She told the police what Robbie had done, and then she'd actually had him charged on the count of attempted murder.

The next day she moved into a women's shelter and finally asked for help. Going into therapy was a step in the right direction, and being around women who were stronger than Nina had been gave her something to strive for. They taught her how to have a spine and how to stand up for herself and the people around her.

Working her way up to being a charge nurse on the intensive care ward, then Nina met George





Powers: Nina is a werewolf, so once a month she turns furry. However, she doesn't have control over the wolf when that happens. Despite that, the wolf inside her gives her increased smell, sight and hearing (which strengthens the closer it is to the moon) as well as improved speed and agility.

Talents/Abilities:: Nina is a nurse.

Personality: The largest part about her personality is how strong she is. The strength is one of those things that have carried her through her life, through her mother and through everything that happened with Robbie. As the sort of epitome of someone who is rebuilt stronger when broken, Nina's sense of self was forged within those fires of what people have done to her. Nina's sense of self that is completely central to her being and it's something that she will fight for. A pillar of her sense of self is a belief in justice, and the fact that there are definite rights and definite wrongs in her universe, despite the fact that she can't control them.

Nina does not accept crap from people, and has a very low bullshit tolerance threshold. Bullshit is something that she can clearly see through, and it's something she hates. In fact I would say that more than violence or anything else, Nina hates it when someone attempts to bullshit her. She will call people out on it, and she'll do it caustically if she has to. The razor sharp wit that Nina uses is especially honed for people who hurt those who she cares about in some way, and Nina will willingly use it to flay the person to their heart, or at the very least to the heart of the matter.

Despite the fact that Nina hates bullshit, there are some secrets that she will accept to a point, though this point is much lower now than it was before she learned that the monsters which everyone said were fictional, are, in fact, real. The secrets come under the header of having boundaries, and boundaries are important to her. She will always respect them to a point, unless a person is doing damage to either themselves or someone else. Then Nina will start to push against them, violate the boundaries if she needs too, and heaven help a person if who they're hurting is a friend of hers.

The sarcastic wit and lack of willing to deal with bullshit were the metal that Nina used to construct her armor. For the first fourteen years of her life, Nina had a very thin skin, and each word that her mother used on her left more marks then the beatings. Nina internalized each word, and they spread almost like a bruise until she began to fight back. She'd use snide comments on her mum, and she'd accept the beating that they earned, thrilled with the power they'd give her. She'd done it a bit more with Robbie, but the sensation of her teeth against her lip was never something she got used to. But later, Nina would use it to chase the world away; use it to drive up huge fences between herself and people who wanted to get close to her. Often she would look at it as a chance to hurt someone before they could get close enough to hurt or leave her.

However, people can get close to her, and they do it by showing that they, themselves, care about other people is the way to do it. George was able to break down Nina's boundaries by showing visiting a man on his day off, and she loved and respected that in him. Nina is a person who is entirely full of compassion, and she can't bear to see someone who is defenseless hurting. It's in her to comfort people even when she herself needs the comfort just as badly. Offering comfort is also a way that Nina can take charge of the situation; it's a way that somehow her world can make sense again if she can only care. Even with Herrick, who she had seen tried to kill George, Nina couldn't bring herself to advocate for his death considering his born again and mentally deficient status. Caring for people when she even when shouldn't is something that Nina has done over and over through the course of the series, and it's something that is closely tied to her sense of justice. People, in her view, deserve to have the truth, and the deserve to be taken care of if they need it. And most of the time, people deserve one second chance.

However, when someone abuses that, Nina doesn't forgive easily, and Nina never forgets things. Ever. Even when she's trying hard not to hold a grudge, things slip out of her mouth; a lifetime of being hard has made it to not have that happen. She needed to train herself not to rub George's nose in the fact that he'd turned her into a werewolf. That said, if a huge part of someone's personality is violence, then Nina never forgets it. She's no tolerance for a person hurting someone else because they can, or because they need to do it. Really, that's Nina's whole problem with vampires: they kill people, and they hurt them first. They don't just hurt them physically; all of the vampires who Nina meets (including Mitchell) hurt people emotionally as well. It's the combination of the two that bothers her the most.

Often, Nina is fearless. She will stare down people whom she probably shouldn't (Mitchell). She will tell people that they're wrong when they do something dumb, and she will do everything she can to foster truth and justice in everyone around her. Having the moral highground is very important to Nina, and she's not one to relinquish it easily. A large fan in being righteously angry, sometimes she occasionally needs to tone it down, but this, again is something that her time with George has softened.

Object: George's star of David that he put around her neck before she left for protection.

Reason for playing: I seem to have a compulsion for picking up characters fandom hates? Nina is a badass and is the only person who sees through Mitchell's stupidity and that will be all of the fun here.

Gods: Eliandre because of Nina's belief in justice and fair play (calling the cops after finding the scrap book) and Toivo because Nina's a nurse.

Writing Samples
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First-Person Network Post: [The video clicks on, but the screen is taken up by her finger and hand. If it were a phone, the place where she was pressing would be where the nine is. After a moment, a woman comes into frame. There's blood in her blond hair and on her face and for a moment she coughs: it's a wet thick sound. When she speaks, her voice is soft and weak and pained.]

Help. I need help. I've been attacked. [She paused for a moment and then she curled up in on herself a bit.] It's bad. I'm a nurse and it's bad.

[After a moment she looks around and notices the room that she's in. The room is small and green and feels more than a little like a cage. Memory and worry makes her shiver as she doubles over a bit.]

No, no, no, not... George. George don't come. Don't come.

[Her voice went softer, lower.] Don't come.

Eve needs you.

First-Person Journal Post: I never expected this. Sure, you start living with a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf... no you become a werewolf and you know that normal lives just go right out the window, but I expected certain things. I expected a door for me after the vampires were through with us. I thought there'd be a door, and I'd go through and everything would be white light and not hurting.

I didn't expect to end up here and with Mitchell.

Just when you think the situation can't get any, there's that.

At least Annie could see us, see we were okay. I just want to know if George and Eve are alive. I want to know if they're happy as mad as it sounds.

We were mental to think they'd leave us be out of the goodness of their hearts.

I wonder who's picking up their pieces now.


Third-Person Action Post: The words echoed in her head. 'I just need some air, George. I just need to pop 'round to the shop. We can't hide here forever, it's unhealthy' She could see George's face when she convinced him that she needed to go out. She could see his eyes and the fear that he never could manage to hide from her. The fear and the pain of everything that the last two months had brought them. 'Take care of Eve, George. Don't take your eyes off of her for a second.' She could hear her words, and they provided a counterpoint to the heaviness of her breathing, the way her heart raced. Her veins had stopped pumping blood; they'd gone on to supply acid. Nina knew why, she knew that she'd used up all of her speed and strength to pull them away from the house. It was an instinct, save the baby, save the pack. But it'd left her there in danger.

Mocking laughter echoed from behind her. One male voice started it, and then others took up the chorus. She could hear them coming closer as Nina realized that she was running into a dead end. The bastards had herded her like the stupid animal they thought she was. Turning with her back against the wall, Nina glared at the mirrored visors that reflected her image back to her. Four Nina's looked back at her, watching her as she tried to catch her breath, as she attempted to swallow her fear. Normally Nina was good at it; there'd been a time when she'd decided no one would hurt her again and she'd meant it. Well, she'd meant that they'd not see how they hurt her.

When the first bat came into view, Nina swallowed. She tensed her muscles, her bones, remembering what MacNair had told them when she'd discovered that she was pregnant. Every break made things stronger. She wondered if the vampires knew that they thought that; she wondered if that's why they'd chosen bats.

The first swing her she dodged, moving to the right so it went wide. This caused more laughter from the vampires, and she wished that she could see their faces, see something other than her own wide eyes and wild hair. As she was ducking forward, another strike caught her on the back and she screamed as she went down. Another stroke caught her knee, and she tumbled forward, feeling it crack. Nina squeezed her eyes shut, wishing that she was strong enough to get out of this; wishing she was strong enough not to be here.

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