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ABOUT
Agent Carolina | Catherine Church
NAME
Approx. 29
AGE
April 28th, 2523
DOB
5'11
HEIGHT
Bisexual
SEXUALITY
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Born during the height of the Great War, risks and losses were the lessons that raised Catherine Church from infancy. She'd been sent away by her father at age six following her mother's death to begin intensive military training, expected to continue the late Allison Church's bellicose legacy. Having worked her way up in UNSC rank, she joins Project Freelancer under her father's discretion, where she inevitably excels. She's given the codename Agent Carolina, the pair of states accentuating her (somewhat nepotistical) importance within the program.
Agent Carolina is as self-disciplined as they come— to her own detriment. Perfectionist in her personality and goaded to succeed by her father, Director of Project Freelancer, the burden of expectation is immense. She compartmentalizes these pressures, careful not to let her composure falter in front of her team.
Her fraught paternal relationship in tandem with her unrequited rivalry against Agent Texas (a pseudo-soldier-mother, by the Director's own design) leaves Carolina cloying for the top spot. Her ambition blinds her from acknowledging the verboten truth of her father's project. Even after it collapses, her title lost, her teammates eradicated—
She refuses to lose.
Agent Carolina is as self-disciplined as they come— to her own detriment. Perfectionist in her personality and goaded to succeed by her father, Director of Project Freelancer, the burden of expectation is immense. She compartmentalizes these pressures, careful not to let her composure falter in front of her team.
Her fraught paternal relationship in tandem with her unrequited rivalry against Agent Texas (a pseudo-soldier-mother, by the Director's own design) leaves Carolina cloying for the top spot. Her ambition blinds her from acknowledging the verboten truth of her father's project. Even after it collapses, her title lost, her teammates eradicated—
She refuses to lose.
PERSONALITY
Agent Carolina's earned confidence can, at times, border on arrogance. She's sharp-witted, focused, having trained her entire life to succeed and prepared to accept little else than perfection. Seldom has there been a time where she wasn't on-top, and in wake of losing this spot she fights viciously for it.
Beneath this armor of confidence is a deeply-seeded inferiority complex. Carolina's younger years are spent fretting that she may not live up to her father's expectations, and she resents and admires him in equal measure. These fears are later exacerbated when Agent Texas comes onto the scene, knocking Carolina down to no.2 on the leaderboard and inadvertently calling into question her value as a soldier. This (in addition to the death of her teammate Agent Connecticut) sends her on a reckless quest to re-establish her position and she becomes more cold and stand-offish to her teammates as a result.
However, her intense care for her crew is never overshadowed by this fact. She'll take every measure necessary to ensure their safety, even if it means pushing herself to the limit.
Her unwavering sense of duty, loyalty to her father and need to prove herself all contribute to her inevitable downfall. In not acknowledging these, in roping herself into a rivalry she cannot win, Agent Carolina dooms herself. Perhaps she does so knowingly, regardless of the consequences.
Beneath this armor of confidence is a deeply-seeded inferiority complex. Carolina's younger years are spent fretting that she may not live up to her father's expectations, and she resents and admires him in equal measure. These fears are later exacerbated when Agent Texas comes onto the scene, knocking Carolina down to no.2 on the leaderboard and inadvertently calling into question her value as a soldier. This (in addition to the death of her teammate Agent Connecticut) sends her on a reckless quest to re-establish her position and she becomes more cold and stand-offish to her teammates as a result.
However, her intense care for her crew is never overshadowed by this fact. She'll take every measure necessary to ensure their safety, even if it means pushing herself to the limit.
Her unwavering sense of duty, loyalty to her father and need to prove herself all contribute to her inevitable downfall. In not acknowledging these, in roping herself into a rivalry she cannot win, Agent Carolina dooms herself. Perhaps she does so knowingly, regardless of the consequences.
ABILITIES
ABILITY
To be added.
BACKSTORY
At the age of fourteen she's moved to Sydney, Australia, to attend a hybrid military school at the United Nations Space Command's (UNSC) base. She's taught military history, strategy, STEM, and various other courses in addition to extensive hands-on training. Her father scarcely keeps in contact with her, mostly communicating through letters. She graduates a year early, age seventeen, with top-marks. Her father does not attend the ceremony. Following graduation, she joins the UNSC Marine's branch and works her way up to officer rank.
In June of 2546, Catherine's father reaches out to recruit her to Project Freelancer. She accepts, citing it as a great honor. Catherine is assigned the doubly-weighted codename of Agent Carolina, and works her way up to Commanding Officer status after months of grueling work. She fights alongside her fellow agents on missions to advance humankind's war efforts against The Covenant by acquiring important pieces of technology while honing their skills as super-soldiers. During this time she has a lighter disposition and can be seen joking around with her colleagues, though generally she prefers to stick to herself.
Enter Agent Texas, created by the Director to emulate the late Allison Church. Her inhuman skill succeeds Agent Carolina's immediately and in one swift dropping of numbers she loses her top spot on the leaderboard. In turn, she loses her father's favor. She's that little girl again, swallowed up by her mother's shadow and forgotten. Everything she's worked so hard to achieve is taken from her— by her mother of all people. This does not go over lightly. What ensues is a one-sided rivalry that has her acting a fool, pushing herself to the limit and barreling head-first into danger to come out on top— much to her team's chagrin.
On a mission to Longshore Shipyards, Agent Texas and Agent Carolina are tasked with taking down an Insurrectionist leader, as well as a Freelancer mole (revealed to be Agent Connecticut). A two-on-two fight breaks out. Agent Carolina intentionally puts herself between Texas and Connecticut with the intention of disarming rather than killing her, however Connecticut is killed by Texas's tomahawk. This sends Agent Carolina into a deeper mental spiral, spurred on by grief and guilt for Agent Connecticut's death.
Things fall apart.
Agent Texas deserts Project Freelancer after recovering a pre-recorded transmission from Agent Connecticut, detailing proof of the Director's illegal activity. She attacks the base. Loyal to her father and desperate to beat Agent Texas, Carolina pursues her viciously. She's unable to be swayed even by her closest friends to abandon ship. After crash landing, Agent Carolina is ejected from the ship toward an icy cliff where The Meta (previously Agent Maine), tears out her AI and throws her over, assumedly killing her.
