Post by Stella Malkovitch on Sept 7, 2009 4:07:37 GMT -5
Name: Stella Shannon Malkovitch
Nicknames: Just Stella, although people have called her some more unpleasant things in her past.
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Occupation: Police Officer
Any prior relationships with passengers: Ray Conoy's ex-wife.
Personality: Angry. That's the first word people usually come up with when they try to describe Stella. The truth is, she's just not outstandingly, obviously happy. If something is worth smiling about, she will, but most of the time, she doesn't care enough to bother with it. She is, however, extremely passionate, to the point of overreacting at times. She has a temper, and she doesn't always control it all that well, but that's not the only circumstance in which she'll throw her entire emotional well-being into something.
She keeps personal things to herself, and isn't the kind of girl to complain to other people over things that she herself has the ability to change. Even if there's something someone else could do about something to fix it, she's hesitant to ask, and usually requires a little urging before she'll open up about something that's bothering her.
When she is interested or emotionally invested in something, though, she becomes single-minded, unable to think of anything else. However, once she loses interest, it is quite difficult to convince her otherwise. Honestly, it's hard to change Stella's mind on much of anything. She tends to take criticism a little too personally, to the point that advice from friends can seem hurtful to her. She will also bear a grudge, so she can go for a week or two, remaining angry at a friend who doesn’t even know what they did to make her angry with them, until some other friend explains to one or the other exactly what happened.
History:
Stella did not have a particularly happy childhood. She was told that her mother died when she was two, and for her entire childhood, she believed it. She was raised by her father, who wasn't actually around very much (he had to work long hours, seeing as he had no higher education and had to work two jobs just to keep himself and his daughter fed). When he and Stella had time to spend together, they were happy, but those times were few and far between. He died in a work-related accident (he did most of his work in construction) when she was twelve, and Stella was sent to live with a cousin of her mother's. It was there that she developed an interest in self-defense.
Stella was a small girl who didn't really hit her growth spurt until she was fourteen, and before then, she was the brunt of a lot of teasing from other children at her new school. Martial arts gave her an outlet and a means of defense - she got in trouble the first few times she used her newfound skills to chase off the kids who'd been bothering her, but it only took a few times before most of them learned to back off for good. That did not, however, gain her any popularity, but instead landed her the label of freaky outcast kid who kicked people in the face when things didn't go her way.
Needless to say, graduation couldn't come soon enough for her. The end of high school meant freedom. It also meant that with grades as horrible as her attitude, she wasn't going to go much further without some help. She started writing essays, hundreds of them, it seemed, and ended up winning enough scholarship money to put herself through school, working internships at various businesses as she earned her degree in marketing. One of those internships - at a publishing company - turned out to be a long term job opportunity, and she stayed there after she graduated.
It was there that she met Ray, who eventually put enough faith in her to make her his own agent. They had a good relationship - professionally and personally, and eventually, they ended up getting married. They had possibly one of the most dysfunctional marriages in the history of mankind, but there were parts of it that were rewarding, that kept them together for longer than they probably should have been.
Honestly, the problem wasn't with the two of them in particular, it was just that Stella was really dreadful at being a wife in general. She had spent far too much time looking out for her own interests, and had a hellish time trying to adapt to thinking of herself as part of a two-person unit. She picked fights, she threw things, she had a childish temper, and finally, one day, she walked out the door and expressed no interest in coming back. Ray would survive. He had his books, after all. She changed her name, cut the ties between them, and left him behind, or so she thought.
After that, she wanted nothing to do with publication. It seemed no matter where she looked in the literary field, she couldn't do it without hearing her ex husband's name, so she finally managed to find a more definite purpose. The Police Force was a strange place to look for someone who'd been involved in such an opposite field, but she did well on her aptitude tests.Hand to hand combat remained her forte, but she developed an appreciation and skill with weapons as well, and it gave her something to do with her life after she had abandoned the man she had sworn to love and cherish for the rest of it. She worked hard, throwing herself into her occupation, and eventually, it paid off as she rose through the ranks and was sent to work at a higher paying position somewhere else...but in the end, it was somewhere she would never reach...
Play by: Katee Sackhoff
Link to helpful picture: i43.tinypic.com/r0e44w.png
Nicknames: Just Stella, although people have called her some more unpleasant things in her past.
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Occupation: Police Officer
Any prior relationships with passengers: Ray Conoy's ex-wife.
Personality: Angry. That's the first word people usually come up with when they try to describe Stella. The truth is, she's just not outstandingly, obviously happy. If something is worth smiling about, she will, but most of the time, she doesn't care enough to bother with it. She is, however, extremely passionate, to the point of overreacting at times. She has a temper, and she doesn't always control it all that well, but that's not the only circumstance in which she'll throw her entire emotional well-being into something.
She keeps personal things to herself, and isn't the kind of girl to complain to other people over things that she herself has the ability to change. Even if there's something someone else could do about something to fix it, she's hesitant to ask, and usually requires a little urging before she'll open up about something that's bothering her.
When she is interested or emotionally invested in something, though, she becomes single-minded, unable to think of anything else. However, once she loses interest, it is quite difficult to convince her otherwise. Honestly, it's hard to change Stella's mind on much of anything. She tends to take criticism a little too personally, to the point that advice from friends can seem hurtful to her. She will also bear a grudge, so she can go for a week or two, remaining angry at a friend who doesn’t even know what they did to make her angry with them, until some other friend explains to one or the other exactly what happened.
History:
Stella did not have a particularly happy childhood. She was told that her mother died when she was two, and for her entire childhood, she believed it. She was raised by her father, who wasn't actually around very much (he had to work long hours, seeing as he had no higher education and had to work two jobs just to keep himself and his daughter fed). When he and Stella had time to spend together, they were happy, but those times were few and far between. He died in a work-related accident (he did most of his work in construction) when she was twelve, and Stella was sent to live with a cousin of her mother's. It was there that she developed an interest in self-defense.
Stella was a small girl who didn't really hit her growth spurt until she was fourteen, and before then, she was the brunt of a lot of teasing from other children at her new school. Martial arts gave her an outlet and a means of defense - she got in trouble the first few times she used her newfound skills to chase off the kids who'd been bothering her, but it only took a few times before most of them learned to back off for good. That did not, however, gain her any popularity, but instead landed her the label of freaky outcast kid who kicked people in the face when things didn't go her way.
Needless to say, graduation couldn't come soon enough for her. The end of high school meant freedom. It also meant that with grades as horrible as her attitude, she wasn't going to go much further without some help. She started writing essays, hundreds of them, it seemed, and ended up winning enough scholarship money to put herself through school, working internships at various businesses as she earned her degree in marketing. One of those internships - at a publishing company - turned out to be a long term job opportunity, and she stayed there after she graduated.
It was there that she met Ray, who eventually put enough faith in her to make her his own agent. They had a good relationship - professionally and personally, and eventually, they ended up getting married. They had possibly one of the most dysfunctional marriages in the history of mankind, but there were parts of it that were rewarding, that kept them together for longer than they probably should have been.
Honestly, the problem wasn't with the two of them in particular, it was just that Stella was really dreadful at being a wife in general. She had spent far too much time looking out for her own interests, and had a hellish time trying to adapt to thinking of herself as part of a two-person unit. She picked fights, she threw things, she had a childish temper, and finally, one day, she walked out the door and expressed no interest in coming back. Ray would survive. He had his books, after all. She changed her name, cut the ties between them, and left him behind, or so she thought.
After that, she wanted nothing to do with publication. It seemed no matter where she looked in the literary field, she couldn't do it without hearing her ex husband's name, so she finally managed to find a more definite purpose. The Police Force was a strange place to look for someone who'd been involved in such an opposite field, but she did well on her aptitude tests.Hand to hand combat remained her forte, but she developed an appreciation and skill with weapons as well, and it gave her something to do with her life after she had abandoned the man she had sworn to love and cherish for the rest of it. She worked hard, throwing herself into her occupation, and eventually, it paid off as she rose through the ranks and was sent to work at a higher paying position somewhere else...but in the end, it was somewhere she would never reach...
Play by: Katee Sackhoff
Link to helpful picture: i43.tinypic.com/r0e44w.png
