New Character: Terrance "Terry" Davidson

Name: Terrance "Terry" Davidson
Occupation: Police Detective
Sex: Male
Age: 34

Characteristics:
STR 13 DEX 12 INT 15 IDEA 75%
CON 13 APP 9 POW 14 LUCK 70%
SIZ 13 SAN 70 EDU 17 Know 85
99-Cthulhu Mythos: 99
Damage Bonus: +1D4

Magic Points: 14
Hit Points: 13

Skills:
Bargain: 30%
Credit Rating: 45%
Dodge: 24%
Drive Auto: 30%
Fast Talk: 60%
Handgun: 60%
Hide: 30%
Law: 45%
Listen: 60%
Other Language: Spanish: 41%
Own Language: English: 85%
Persuade: 35%
Psychology: 45%
Shotgun: 50%
Sneak: 30%
Spot Hidden: 80%
Track: 20%

Weapons: Handgun, Shotgun

Call of Cthulhu
13 Questions.
1. What is the character’s name?
Terrence "Terry" Davidson.

2. Describe your characters physical traits, race, and typical dress.
Terrence is an African American man with rough facial features. He’s six feet tall and in excellent physical condition. He dresses in a plain grey suit while on the job. He isn’t very fashion conscious, but keeps himself neat and clean shaven at all times.

3. What is your character’s occupation?
Homicide Detective with the NYPD

4. Describe the character’s educational background / career successes and failures to date.
Terrence was educated in the NYC public school system in Brooklyn, NY. Following in his father’s footsteps he enrolled in the academy out of high school and began working his way through the ranks.
Early in his career in homicide he worked on a case involving a rash or serial murders targeting members of New York’s academic circle. Nearly a dozen Professors, Doctors, and Scietists where discovered dead with the same signature stab wounds and mutilated eyes. However, the murders stopped before any real leads where established and remains a cold case to this day.

5. Describe your characters childhood. (What state, country, etc.)
Terrence was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. His father, Michael Davidson, raised Terry as a single father after Terry’s mother Grace died of cancer when he was only five. Times where tough when Terry was younger; his father trying to move up in the force and Terry dealing with the local gangs at school.
A run in with the law landed a young Terry in jail, until his father bailed him out. That night changed his life. Michael brought Terry to the one place he thought would help his young son, his late wife’s grave. He laid it all on the line, talked about everything. His life, his work, and their relationship. When they left that night Terry had a new respect for his father and a new outlook on life.

6. Describe characters family and loved ones.
Terrence is a married man with a young daughter. His wife, Chauna, teaches High School English. Chauna and Terry met on the 5 train about ten years ago; Chauna calls it their line. His daughter, Amanda / "Mandy", is a very healthy and happy nine year old girl currently obsessed with Hanna Montana and the Jonas Brothers.
Terrence’s father, Michael, moved out of the city and upstate when he retired and Terry moved out. He currently spends his time golfing and meeting up with the local "older men’s club".

7. What is your character’s faith / life philosophy. Does he believe in god?
While raised Catholic Terrence has never been a faithful man. When asked if he believes in God or Jesus his response is "Never met the guy, but he sounds like a nice fellow." When he was younger he looked into other religions, including Islam and African Tribalism, but nothing really clicked.

8. Describe your characters’s current living conditions.
Terry and Chauna maintain a small two bedroom in Park Slope. The rent is a little high but it offers a lot of opportunity for their daughter.

9. Describe the character’s diseases, scars, or "issues". (Drug habits, cancer, etc.)
Terrence has various scars on his body from fights and accidents in his youth and career. Of notability is a scar on his lower right scar; the remnant of a appendicitis operation.

10. What does you character find unsettling, frightening, etc.
Terry is a very protective person, so his family coming to harm frightens him the most. He also feels uncomfortable when a situation is taken out of his hands.

11. Any close friends, notable contacts, or enemies?
Terry works with a partner, Eliza Montoya, She’s a bit more emotional in her work that Terry in and has a lot to prove. However, they’ve been working together for three years now and Terry trusts her with his life.

12. What is your characters morality?
Terrence is an optimist believes in the innate goodness of humanity, regardless of the horrible things he’s seen. At the same time, he believes the law to be the ultimate expression of the people’s will to maintain the strength of society. In that regard he also believes most criminals are misguided or, at worst, sick.

13. In short, describe your character’s personality. Any nervous ticks, flaws, strengths that seem noteworthy. (Ex. Jim can’t use public restrooms because he thinks they are filthy, other than that he is a confident guy and very outspoken, never afraid to talk up the Yankees...even in a Boston pub during baseball season.)
Terry is a man driven to protect and provide. He’s warm hearted but can be stern and single minded as well. He’s willing to put himself on the line for other people, and some times this has caused him more grief that happiness. He seems tireless at times, but that’s because he hides the weight of his responsibilities well.