Post by gwenc on Sept 29, 2011 15:21:41 GMT -5
GWEN ELIZABETH COOPER
Name: Gwen Elizabeth Cooper
Nicknames: Duckling, Yvonne Pallister
Age: 29
Birthday: 16th August 1978
Species: Human
Canon or Original: Canon
Fandom: Torchwood
Play By: Eve Myles
Height: 5' 7½
Weight: 130lbs
Eye color: Hazel Brown
Hair color: Dark Brown
Body type: Athletic, thin
Likes:
[/li][li] weevil hunting
[/li][li] Ianto's coffee
[/li][li] her husband
[/li][li] shooting
[/li][li] being "normal"
[/li][li] her job
[/li][li] helping people
[/li][li] being able to do thing's that she never dreamed of
[/li][li] weapons
[/li][li] beating the bad guys
[/li][li] her family & friends
Dislikes:
[/li][li] being away from home
[/li][li] the risk of her job
[/li][li] her friends getting hurt
[/li][li] lying to the ones she loves
[/li][li] Jack leaving all of the time
[/li][li] evil aliens
[/li][li] spiders/webs
[/li][li] having to write long reports
[/li][li] losing the one she's trying to save
[/li][li] people being killed
[/li][li] being called British
Habits:
[/li][li] swearing
[/li][li] running her hand through her hair
[/li][li] wearing torchwood contact's
Fears:
[/li][li] losing her family or friends
[/li][li] not being in torchwood
[/li][li] dying
Strengths:
[/li][li] Gun handling
[/li][li] Agility
[/li][li] Quick Learning
[/li][li] She never gives up on something when she sets her mind on it
[/li][li] Is smypathic
[/li][li] Has a skill of finding out what she needs to know
[/li][li] Trustworthy
[/li][li] Always there for her friends
Weaknesses:
[/li][li] Can be very emotional
[/li][li] Isn't physically strong
[/li][li] Cares too much
[/li][li] Can let her work take over her life
Powers: None.
Personality: Gwen's personality is best noted by her concern for others and her empathetic nature. She is extremely caring for those she loves and sensitive to their needs and discomforts and thus very much in tune with how to behave around people in difficult situations. While she holds others in high priority it often means she leaves her own needs to the side making her have fits of anger. She is loyal to a fault, but can be pushed to disloyalty in situations when she feels that there is no other choice such as her family coming before Jack. For the most part, she tends to be highly emotional and reactionary, yet she struggles to keep these emotions under control on a day to day basis.
She has a great amount of respect for authority, but with that said she is no means afraid to stand up to authority when she feels her perception of justice is in jeopardy or that the wrong odea has been given. She is curious and driven, and borderline obsessive shown by her force of having an idea and carrying it out to end no matter what. Gwen often struggles to balance her job's traumas with her sheltered life before she joined torchwood even seperated the two into completely different lives when it became necessary for her own emotional stability.
Mother: Mary Cooper
Father: Geraint Cooper
Siblings: none
Other Family:
Rhys Williams - husband
Anwen Williams - daughter
Barry Williams - father-in-law
Brenda Williams- mother-in-law
Friends: Jack Harkness
Rex Matheson
Owen Harper
Toshiko Sato
Ianto Jones
Esther Drummond
Andy Davidson
Martha Jones
Enemies: Too many to mention.
Home town: Cardiff
Current residence: Cardiff
History:
Gwen Cooper was born on 16th August 1978 to Geraint and Mary Cooper. Her childhood was pretty normal but she had alway's wanted to have the same career which she achiweved before becoming so much more. Gwen was a uniformed police constable called in on a murder scene, only to encounter a mysterious team of people called Torchwood who at the time were to her just some kind of special ops group. She got involved when she came across the team investigating one of several murders secretly done by one of Torchwood's own people, Suzie. She also saw a Weevil kill a hospital porter resulting in Captain Jack Harkness took her on a tour of the Hub before he dosed her with a drug that induced selective amnesia, but she still managed to make a note to remember. Which she soon enough did much to the surprise of those that had given it to her. Subsequently, she joined Torchwood at the invitation of Jack, who valued her empathetic nature and ability to see beyond the facts. Having seen Costello shoot Jack in the head and Jack immediately come back to life, Gwen was, for a time, the only member of Torchwood Three who knew of Jack's immortality.
Gwen was taught to use guns by Jack where they experienced sexual tension between them however any developing feelings were apparently ended when she returned home and the "ghost machine" showed her memories of her relationship with Rhys. That said it was Owen who Gwen had a brief affair with, largely because she couldn't share her supernatural and extraterrestrial experiences with her boyfriend, Rhys making her turn to the Doctor for comfort.
She took part in a coup with Owen to overthrow Jack and open the Rift, believing it would resurrect Rhys after he was killed in the Hub making her ecstatic when Rhys returned to life, the previous event having not happened. Jack then battled with Abaddon resulting in him dying for a few day's while Gwen stayed by his side, unwavering in her belief in him. He returned moment's later leaving the team as the TARDIS appeared. With Jack missing, and despite being the junior employee, Gwen took over as team leader while at the same time Rhys proposed to her that she accepted.
Just as suddenly as he had vanished, Jack re-appeared and once more took over Torchwood leaving Gwen as second in command. Following a case which involved Rhys' hauling company and his attempt to investigate, Gwen came clean about the true nature of her work for Torchwood and stopped Jack from erasing his memories. She soon married Rhy's yet chose to keep her own maiden name.
When signs of an unidentified life-signs were detected from a warehouse, the rest of the team went to investigate, while Gwen got delayed allowing her to avoid an explosion that trapped the others. Together with Rhys they managed to free the team before finding Hart was to blame. With Rift activity being detected in three locations in Cardiff soon after Gwen went to police headquarters, where she discovered that the Weevils had killed four of the senior police officers. Later, Gwen witnesses the detonation of fifteen bombs around Cardiff causing mayhem. She quickly took command of the confused police officers helping to stop the Weevils before making her way to the Hub. She was trapped in the Weevil cage by Gray but rescued by Jack and returned to the control room, though too late to help fellow team members Tosh and Owen who both died. The deaths of Toshiko and Owen had a profound impact on Gwen, to the point where for the first time in a long time she questioned whether it was worth Torchwood continuing. She was still emotionally unsteady regarding the loss several months later and to help her cope, she took to placing a photograph of Owen and Tosh next to her workstation in the Hub so that they would alway's be close.
At the beginning of Day One of the 456 incident during September, Gwen discovered a man in a Psychiatric Hospital who displayed the same signs as the possessed Children. Deciding that she was the best to talk to him she left and upon meeting him he said he could smell that she was pregnant, which was confirmed later by the Hub's medical scanner. The picture then switched to reveal the bomb hidden inside Jack's body, forcing Ianto and Gwen to abandon the Hub as it was quickly destroyed. After escaping the explosion Gwen was attacked by two government agents which she fought off with a fire extinguisher. Quickly fleeing with their weapons she collected Rhys knowing that they would try to kill him too. They were able to escape when Gwen delayed the government hit squad by shooting their tires out in one of her greatest hit's yet.
The two fled to London where they made contact with Lois Habiba, who informed them of the government's plans and eventually became a spy for them mostly due to Gwens involvement. Lois told them the location of the captured Jack yet were cornered upon reaching the location and were saved by Ianto, who created a path using a forklift and the group, Jack included, escaped. The team managed to relocate to an old Torchwood One storage facilty where they witnessed the return of the 456. Gwen convinced Lois to take a pair of contact lenses that would allow Torchwood to monitor the situation inside Thames House. while also being able to convince Andy Davidson to allow Clem MacDonald to be released from prison.
The 456 soon demanded one tenth of the Earth's children yet Lois stood up to the government, who were planning to give them the children, and blackmailed them to allow Jack and Ianto access to talk to the 456. With Rhys in a hidden location with the recordings that could destroy the government, Gwen purposefully led Johnson and her team to the base and revealed to them what the government were doing, gaining their support. While talking with her, the 456 became angry flooding the building with a virus killing hundreds of people including Ianto Jones. Gwen rushed to the building once it was safe and wept by the body of another one of her bestfriend's while Jack was reborn again.
Having failed to stop the government from activating the plan to take the bottom ten percent of school children, Gwen, along with Rhys and Andy, went to fufill a promise to protect Ianto's niece and nephew. Arriving just as the army did to take the children, the group gathered as many children as they could and ran, along with Ianto's sister and her husband, to a nearby disused building. Although they tried their hardest they were soon discovered making them rub from the large army soon leaving only Gwen and a single child uncaptured. Thankfully she was saved when Jack destroyed the 456 and she happily embraced the children.
Six months after the 456 incident Gwen and Rhys went to meet Jack on a hill, seeing him for the first time since he left to travel the world in the wake of the death of his grandson. Now heavily pregnant, Gwen tried to convince Jack not to leave her and Torchwood, but he left, teleporting into space leaving the female sobbing in Rhys's arms. With Jack gone, the other members dead and Gwen heavily pregnant, the future of Torchwood Three was left in limbo. Anwen Williams was born months afterwards resulting in Gwen, Rhys, and Anwen going into hiding for a year.
On Miracle Day Gwen's father Geraint was brought to the hospital, so Gwen and her family were forced to return to Cardiff. Upon arriving there, Andy informed Gwen of the Miracle making the two of them investigate online. Shortly after they returned Rex arrived at their secret home, which was shortly attacked by a helicopter. With Jack Harkness' help they escaped to Roald Dahl Plass, where Matheson extradited them all to America leaving Rhys and her child. Onboard, Gwen is handcuffed to her seat next to Jack and also learns that he has lost his ability to keep coming back to life before Jack is poisoned resulting in Gwen freeing herself to keep Lyn at bay while Rex put together an antidote for Jack using tips from Dr. Vera over the phone. Upon landing in America, Gwen is freed by Rex as the C.I.A. has turned on him informed by Esther who later picks them up before fleeing.
Along with Jack, Gwen takes charge of the ex-C.I.A. agents to form a new Torchwood team while having to steal supplies to create a suitible base of operations similar to how they had to during 456. They learn that PhiCorp have had a hand in "Miracle Day" drawing their attention onto the group. Los Angeles was the next destination where they were followed by an assassin. Using a perfect impression of an American accent, Gwen was able to trick Nicolas Frumkin into giving her his voice print, palm print, and retinal print, which she needed to access PhiCorp that she later broke into along with Jack. An assassin followed them where he managed to tie them both up. During a short meeting where he threatened to slice through Gwen's throat a few times Rex arrived and shot him in the throat. The three stole the information they needed from PhiCorp and escaped the building. Gwen then recieved a phone call from Rhys, and was informed that her father had been taken to one of PhiCorp's overflow camp resulting in her returning to Wales under another alias.
She was reunited with her family and began planning to get her father out of the camp first trying to persuade the employees at the camp to let her see her father. Unfortaunetly, no visitors were allowed, and even Andy's position as a police officer did not persuade them to change their minds forcing Gwen and Rhys to break into the camp and free Geraint. Gwen went undercover as a nurse, and Rhys brought Gwen into the camp in his truck where she eventually found her father who she tried to rescue before he suffered from another heart attack. He was then reclassified as category one where Gwen realized that the true purpose of the modules were to cremate category one individuals which now included her father. Gwen and Rhys decided to try to break Geraint out of the camp again this time the plan worked allowing Rhys to get away while she blowed up the modules. Gwen returned to America, and recieved a phone call at the airport, saying simply lenses causing her to put the contact lenses on, where she recieved text messages saying that they had her family. Gwen asked them what they wanted which was Jack.
Gwen then returned to Torchwood's base in LA, stunning Jack and tying him up in the car. She told Jack that her family had been kidnapped and that she had to trade Jack for them. Gwen ignored Jack's attempts to trick her into letting him go, and brought him where her contact lenses told them to where Olivia Colasanto and her men were there waiting for them. Fortanutely, they were followed by Rex and Esther, who threatened to shoot them Andy also freed her family. Torchwood then agreed to go with Olivia to see her grandfather who knew that three families had caused the miracle. Before long, Brian Friedkin arrived, and captured everyone in the house taking Rex to another room in order to take revenge on him, but Rex recorded him admitting that he worked for the families with the Torchwood contact lenses. Allen Shapiro arrived watching the scene and arrested Friedkin and Olivia. After Angelo became the first person to die since miracle day Esther found a null field generator under the floor.
Gwen was deported back to Wales when Jack refused to explain to Shapiro what it was although admittably she didn't come quietly where she spent the next two months at home with her family, robbing pharmacies in order to obtain medicine for her father. Geraint was forced to live in the basement, as he would be sent back to an overflow camp to be burned if he was found. Gwen's house had been searched, but Geraint had fortuanetly not been found. Gwen's family had their groceries delivered to them, and one day the delivery man happenned to be Oswald Danes who picked up Anwen as soon as he entered causing Gwen and Rhys proceeded to beat up Oswald, until he explained that he had information about the Miracle. Gwen asked Jack to returnn to Wales, and he along with Rex and Esther arrived at Gwen's house and using the leads that Oswald had given them, Torchwood realised that the Blessing was in Shanghai. The police soon returned to Gwen's house, and used a new app to find Gwen's father where Gwen begged them not to take Geraint, pointing out that he was still warm however they took his anyway. Gwen then went to Shanghai with Jack and Oswald who she decided to take for fear of her husband killing him, in an attempt to find the Blessing. Upon arriving in Shanghai, Jack's gunshot wound began to hurt him again, so Gwen helped him with this bandage when drops of Jack's blood then began to move towards the blessing.
Based on the direction in which Jack's blood was moving, Gwen was able to locate the Shangai end of the Blessing where she called Jack and Oswald and asked them to come, and then spoke to Rhys who was planning to visit her father in the overflow camp with Andy. Gwen told Rhys that she wasn't sure if she wanted to end the Miracle since it would mean her father's death, but Rhys told her to let him die if necessary. It was how the world should be. When Jack and Oswald arrived, the three broke into the facility that housed the blessing. They found some explosives inside which they strapped to Oswald which he used to threaten to blow himself and the facility up if the families tried to stop them. A family member then revealed that in order to end the miracle, mortal blood would have to be put into both sides of the Blessing. Fortuanetly, Rex had transfused Jack's blood into himself, and he was at the Shanghai end allowing them to stop the miracle.
Gwen decided that she would shoot Jack as she didn't want him to have to kill himself as one of the family members in Shanghai then shot Esther, so that ending the miracle would mean allowing Esther to die. Jack and Rex were unsure of what to do, but Gwen, having already accepted that ending the miracle would mean killing her father, decided that it would be better to end the miracle and let Esther die. That said she did care deeply about the female but knew that death had to exist. Gwen shot Jack whil Rex removed his bandage, and both of their blood was sucked into the blessing, ending the miracle allowing Gwen and Jack to escape in an elevator with Jilly Kitzinger after Gwen had beating the female up slightly while Oswald blew up the facility and a family member. Meanwhile in Shanghai, Rex survived but Esther, unfortuanetly, did not. Jack, Gwen and Rex returned to America where they attended Esther's funeral. After the funeral, Gwen watched as Rex was shot by Charlotte Willis, and was shocked when he, having somehow gained Jack's immortality, came back to life.
Name: Yume
Age: 18
Contact: Pm & Hotmail
Other characters: Casey & Rory
Role play sample: As cautious as she was, she could only stay still. The sight of Owen charging out was both relieving and a bit amusing. Despite the fact that the last time she'd met John, he had tried to kill her, she found that Owen was being extremely foolish. Wait, what had John just called her? What exactly made her the bleeding heart beauty? Was it simply because she was sympathetic and that she believed in just treatment of every and all person and being?
Gwen didn't get much time to even form a response before she heard gunshots being fired, and she thought that was perhaps the worst if ideas. There was small chatter and she noticed when Jack joined into the fray. Owen was reprimanded and John had the person that he had been seeking out, most likely. Being told "And you, missy, come here, beside me, please. Carefully." was exactly what she wanted to hear.
"Right." She said and redirected her attention to John, walking slowly away from him and closer to Jack with each step. She knew better then to run, for it was easier to make a mistake with your guard down then it was to when paying close attention.
"Jack's right though Owen. It's a pedestrian area, with all the civilians they'll wind up calling the police because of the gunshots, and well... I think you can figure it out from there." Gwen stated, though she was talking, she was still on high alert. It felt like she had taken ages before reaching the relative safety of being beside Jack. (from old site a couple years ago)
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