Trust isn't our issue

Travis ✔ A big container full of cookies, candies, and fudge, plus a nice dark red sweater (not an ugly Christmas sweater, an attractive regular sweater since it's so cold here. Also not dark red because that looks nice on him. just because. that's all he could find.)
Christopher ✔ A book of poetry
Doug ✔ A tin of cookies
Ros ✔ A tin of candies and cookies, plus a note wishing her happy holidays
Katniss ✔ A tin of fudge
Lily ✔ A tin with cookies and candies

Let me know if I forgot anyone!

» PLAYER INFORMATION

Player NAME: Kate
Current AGE: 21
Player TIME ZONE: CST
Personal JOURNAL: kiwikat11
IM & SERVICE: AIM: kiwikat11
Player PLURK: kiwikat11
Current CHARACTERS: Peeta Mellark

» CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character NAME: Wes Mitchell
Canon & MEDIUM: Common Law (tv show)
Canon PULL-POINT: At the end of Season 1 Episode 12 “Gun!”
Character AGE: 35
Character ABILITIES: He’s a sharpshooter and skilled with at least a Glock 17 and a Colt M4 Carbine. He won the LAPD's sharpshooting competition, much to Travis Marks’ chagrin. He also went through law school and the police academy.
Character HISTORY:

Common Law takes places in Los Angeles, California in the present. The series is about two cops whose problem is each other. Wes' childhood is unknown, but it is known that he has a mom and dad and no siblings. He states that he's kind of jealous of Travis because he's never really had anything like a sibling.

Wes went to law school, fell in love with Alex MacFarland, a lawyer, and married her. He goes through a crisis when a client, a young man named Anthony Padua, commits suicide, the case affecting him personally. He changes careers, going from lawyer to cop. He says at one point in the series "People need good cops more than they need good lawyers. And if they need a good lawyer, they got [Alex]." He goes to the police academy and ends up in Missing Persons. Alex does not like that he's a cop, fearful that he's going to get killed in the line of duty, and their marriage starts to crumble.

Travis spoke while Wes was in the police academy, but other than that, they had never met. Travis Marks was working Narcotics. While practicing at the shooting range, David "Paekman" Paek, a mutual friend, introduced Wes and Travis. Wes and Travis had the same theory on a case about murdered prostitutes on skid row. Together, they solved the case and managed to become partners in the Robbery-Homicide Division. Though they worked well together, Paekman was the only one who kept them sane. Grateful for him introducing them, they sent some cases Paekman's way. Paekman caught the attention of the Special Investigations Section.

Somewhere around (before, I think, the timeline is confusing) this, Alex and Wes divorce, though Wes is still in love with her and clings to her desperately. Paekman is busy and doesn't contact Wes and Travis for a while until one day he calls them and says that he thinks the guys in SIS are bad, that they're lining their pockets. He heard 'We bought off Henry' and a date 'August 22nd'. He's worried. Wes and Travis try to calm him down and tell him they're coming. When they arrive at the scene, Paekman is dead. They start looking into SIS, and they don't like what they find. They find a witness that says a man matching John Crowell's (the man in charge of SIS) description shot Paekman. The case got dismissed when the witness disappeared.

One day, Crowell showed up at RHD, leaning over to whisper 'I killed Paekman' and gloat in Travis' ear. Travis got so angry that he started to grab his gun and follow him as if he were going to exact revenge. Wes is unable to verbally or physically stop him, so he trains his gun on Travis in the station and warns him that he will shoot if he takes one more step, trying to stop him from making a horrible decision and essentially sacrificing his career for Travis. Though, after he's arrested and sent to court, explaining why he did it, he and Travis must go to couples' therapy to try to keep their partnership together, and they must stay away from John Crowell and SIS. Now, we're at the beginning of the show, where Wes and Travis bicker and blame each other for everything, doing childish things like arguing with each other's testimony in court and throwing chairs out windows. They are initially resistant to therapy, but as the show progresses, they find that it actually helps them.

In the first episode, Wes and Travis learn more about each other through a therapy questionnaire. It’s seen how clingy Wes is to Alex by him coming over to water her lawn when he’s upset. Wes and Travis break up, but make up with each other when Wes apologizes, and Travis leaves a date for Wes. In the second episode, Dr. Ryan, their therapist, follows them around work to further observe their relationship. Wes spends the whole time trying to hand her off or leave her behind, not liking her analyzing them and reluctant to take part in therapy. Wes’ car gets wrecked in the pilot. He keeps Alex’s, his ex-wife, name on the registration, much to her annoyance, and it shows how much he’s holding onto her. He follows Travis’ advice and gets a car with all the features Travis wanted, which shows how much Wes likes Travis. In the third episode, they investigate the murder of a woman who was into online dating. While investigating, they discover that Alex is on the dating site. Wes gets jealous and butts into her business. He ends up backing off, giving her the name of an electrician and agreeing that he won’t stop by as often.

In the fourth episode, Wes defends Travis when someone says he’s weighing Wes down. In the fifth episode, they try to learn about trust together. Travis’ foster brother is involved in a string of robberies, and Wes and Travis have a good bonding moment when they talk about siblings or lack thereof. When Travis and his brother have each other at gunpoint, Wes shoots the brother in the shoulder. Travis says he would have taken the shot, and Wes says he knows, but he was there so he didn’t have to. In the sixth episode, Wes and Travis experience performance anxiety over a big arrest number. Travis goes over the case with another detective and Wes gets jealous. Wes goes on a date with a woman, but fails miserably as all he talks about is his past and his ex-wife. He gets a second chance and she invites him to her room, but he finds out that she’s engaged and turns her down. He tells the group, and they don’t think he made a very big step. But I do think being ready to move on to a new relationship after a divorce is a big step.

In the seventh episode, Wes and Travis roleplay as each other. They start out as caricatures, but soon learn things about each other. They learn that Wes needs Travis to be Travis so he can be himself, and vice versa. In the eighth episode, they learn to share and about responsibility when sharing responsibility for a dog. When the dog won’t stop barking, Wes goes to Alex’s place. He kisses her head when she falls asleep next to him on the couch, showing he’s still not quite over her. In the ninth episode, they move in an apartment together to watch a suspect. Travis loves it, and everything Travis does is driving Wes crazy. Wes explodes in therapy, and Travis is angry he kept it all in. They fight, and Travis is mad Wes isn’t backing him up on his theories. In the end, Wes says he’ll back him up from now on.

In the tenth episode, they work with their old mentors. Travis uses Wes’ words from a therapy session to stand up to his mentor, and he also tells him that Wes is his partner, and therefore was going to interrogate the suspect with Travis. In the ninth episode, a case surrounding Dr. Ryan’s fiancé turns up, and Wes and Travis are ordered to stay away. Of course, they don’t listen. Dr. Ryan’s fiancé ends up in trouble, and Dr. Ryan is so angry at them for ignoring her orders that she will no longer see them as a therapist. In the twelfth episode, they tell Dr. Ryan they’ll tell her about why Wes pointed his gun at Travis if she’ll take them back. They go through and tell her all about their past with Paekman and what happened. They figure out that the date is for then, where SIS is going to hit, and who Henry is. They take Crowell down successfully, which got rid of their previous suspensions. That also means that they didn’t have to go to therapy anymore, but they voluntarily decide to keep doing therapy.

Character PERSONALITY: 

Wes can be obsessive, controlling, and anal retentive. He's especially obsessive about his things, or the space he's in. He doesn't like other people using his sanitizer (Pilot 1x01), or people's feet on his dash in his car, and the temperature has to be just right (which is basically freezing for everyone else) like in Odd Couples 1x09. His partner even calls him these words a lot throughout the show. He's very detail-oriented, like in the pilot 1x01 and in Soul Mates 1x03 when he is able to figure out details about the crime, victim, and crime scene that stumped others just by seeing the body and scene.

Wes also has a soft side. He believes in people, believing in their innocence and trying to prove it, like in the pilot and in Roleplay (1x07). He believes that the victim's brother is innocent and fights for him, and he believes the woman's husband is innocent, despite all the evidence piling against him. In 1x08 Joint Custody, he slowly learns to love a dog that he and Travis are taking care of/using as a police dog to solve a crime. He starts out telling him to get off his bed, and ends up snuggling him. He also has a soft spot for Travis, like in the pilot when he tells Travis he can't eat in the car, then when Travis keeps heading for the gas station for food, he tells him to get napkins, giving in to his demands. He also tells off a guy for calling Travis deadweight, telling him that that's his partner, and he doesn't know him, what he's done, or what he's capable of doing.

What motivates Wes the most is justice/his job and his loved ones. As Dr. Ryan put it, he and Travis do not like it when the bad guy gets away. This is shown in the pilot when he thinks the brother is innocent and talks him down from jumping off a building, or all the episodes when they work hard to find the bad guy. His loved ones are so important to him. An example of this is when he thought Travis was shot in The T Word, and he ran for him. There are countless examples of loved ones being important to him, like when Paekman was worried about SIS and he and Travis went to him immediately. He's so concerned over Alex that he won’t let her hire an electrician without him doing a background check on them.

Wes can also be pretty dorky or awkward. On his date, all he could talk about was his past and his ex. In therapy, when he's trying to get Travis to stop talking about Alex, he suggests they play 'fear of my pants' -an unfortunate combination of the therapy games 'what's in my pocket' and 'fear in a hat' in an amusing slip. He also asks Money, one of Travis' foster brothers who owns a not-very-legit-looking business, if they had a receipt or credit card number for their suspect. Sometimes, Wes is just awkward.
 

» EXSILIUM INFORMATION

Chosen WEAPON: Wes usually sticks to what he's familiar with, so I think he would want to keep his Glock 17 from his canon. As his weapon evolves, he can change it into different weapons. He must be proficient in these weapons for his Glock to turn into them. Therefore, after a little time, he could turn it into a Colt M4 Carbine, but he would have to become proficient with, say, a rifle for it to turn into a rifle.

Character INVENTORY: Wes Mitchell’s inventory:

Wearing:
- (1) dark charcoal suit
- (1) light blue striped dress shirt
- (1) silver watch
- (1) pair of dress shoes
- (1) belt

Possessions:
- (1) LAPD badge
- (1) Ruger SP101 Double-Action Revolver at his ankle
- (1) Glock 17 at his side
- (1) Wallet with various items including but not limited to driver’s license, credit cards, etc
- keys to his car and home
- (1) hotel key
- (1) packet of handwipes
- (1) cell phone
- (1) pocket hand sanitizer

» SAMPLES

First PERSON: [[VIDEO]]

[The man on the screen is blonde, his skin slightly tanned. He wears a dress shirt and suit, along with a serious expression.] So... hello. I'm Detective Wesley Mitchell. I'm looking for information about this place beyond the basics, as well as the location of Detective Travis Marks. [It feels like he should say more. He shifts awkwardly in his seat.] I... guess I'll be staying here a while, huh? Might as well make myself familiar with my surroundings and the people here. So... if you'd like to... introduce yourself... [This is getting awkward.] …feel free to. [He shuts off the video.]

Third PERSON: 

Wes took a sip of his drink. He wasn't used to such run-down bars. He was used to a little nicer ones, with smooth jazz playing in the background. He sighed. He shouldn't have gotten into it with Travis. He shouldn't have pointed out everything wrong with him. He shouldn't have done a lot of things. There was just something about Travis that drove him crazy, that made his blood boil. Travis knew which buttons to push and when to push them. He wasn't going to shoulder all the blame in their fight; Travis had brought up Anthony Padua's case, and that was just a low blow.

When would they stop this, this pushing and pulling and biting and punching? It seemed like they were always at odds lately. He wanted the times back when they would just click, when they would run like clockwork and everything made sense. What would Dr. Ryan say if she were here? Something about how the first step would be to apologize, and then talk it out. Wes hated talking things out. He hated being open and exposed. But he and Travis worked. They were in sync, like he had never been with another person. It was different from the way he felt with Alex. But that kind of relationship took effort. He sighed again and tipped back his drink, going off to talk to Travis. But not apologize. He never apologized. Because it was Travis' fault. It was always Travis' fault.



» ADDITIONAL NOTES
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