Ellen Yin

Personal Information

• Legal Name: Ellen Yin
• Alias: N/A
• Age: 28
• Sexuality: Bi-curious
• Part of Gotham Residing In: Her apartment in West Chelsea Hills, Downtown Gotham.

Physical Description

Relatively tall at 5'7, she has a lithe and athletic frame. Dark hair with light brown highlights, and brown eyes. She's quite attractive. She tends towards jeans and tanks when off the job, while on duty she usually wears blouses or T-shirts with a blazer over it and slacks. She generally wears boots. She has been known to put on a dress on dates, but that's not often.

Persona

Slightly jaded by the things she's seen in her career, and recent events in her life. She has a tendency for sarcasm, and the dark humor most cops develop to stave off the horrors of homicide cases. She's tough and expects her subordinates to do their jobs, regardless of what they might think of her gender or ethnicity.

Key Skills

• Skilled Martial Artist
• Skilled Marksman, Particularly with pistols.
• Experienced Investigator and Interrogator.
• Extensive Training in High Speed Pursuit.

Advantages

• Intuitive Investigator: Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle just click together for her(GM's discretion.)
• Very Quick: Her speed and agility are her greatest physical contributes in a fight in hand to hand, and she's been known to swipe from suspected criminal pockets before.
• Observant: She notices minor things, things most people miss.

Disadvantages

• Believes in the Justice System: Corrupt city officials(including cops), and criminals who are seemingly above the law bother her immensely. This was how she lost her last position, and in a city like Gotham it's even more of a problem.
• Honorable: She keeps her word, and repays her debts. She not beyond manipulation, and omission, but she doesn't lie outright.
• Not very Strong: She's built her muscles as well as her body will allow, but she knows she'll never be very strong.

== Background == Ellen's father was a Detective for the Metropolis Police, and all through her young life she wanted to follow in her fathers footsteps. He encouraged her, and taught her what he could throughout her formative years. Not long after she entered college he was killed while on the job, and seemingly the case was mishandled by his fellow officers. She left school early, with just an undergraduate, to enter the force and find out what had happened to her father.

It took her five years, but she finally got high enough she could get access to his case file, but no matter which way she looked at it, it seemed to be a dead end. She looked over it in her spare time, which continued to get cut in half as she advanced to Detective, but it was on what seemed like an unrelated case where she found the break in her fathers murder. Investigating a corporate scandal cover up right after she made detective, she found a file on her father, with more than a few missing details from his murder case file.

Not long after Yin came across this file, the precinct roadblocked the cover up case, and Yin began to work all angles to find out who was behind it. After several threats to have her kicked off the force as she got closer and closer to the truth, she was sent a file with her families information in it along with pictures of her sister, niece and mother with red X's slashed over them. The threat was not subtle, but with her own fellows on the force not backing her or even a part of the conspiracy, and the Feds seemingly willing to ignore it she was forced to back down. Once the fires she'd set had died down she was suspended without pay.

After a few months of hearing nothing, and in a rut of depression, she received an email from Gotham asking her to transfer over to take over the GCPD's Major Crime Unit. She took up the opportunity, believing that it would make her family safer if she left Metropolis.

Character Extras

• Face Claim: Jamie Chung
• Ons and Offs: Ellen likes to struggle with men for dominance in bed, but ultimately she wants to lose. Her bi curious probably would have been cleared up long ago if she stayed in college longer, but alas...