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Born Jennifer Victory (a.k.a. Jenny) Wainwright to Markus and Cecily Wainwright, Jenny was an only child. Her father worked as a CIA director, rarely around while she was growing up. Cecily worked a teacher, and served as Jenny's primary parent, the only one that was around all of the time. Even at a young age, Jenny had an aptitude for puzzles and logic, which made her a prime candidate for Agency recruitment later in life.
Such recruitment became inevitable when both of her parents died in a car bomb when she was nine and she became a ward of another CIA Director and his Agency wife, Carl and Greta Ames. The Ames were good guardians, but only encouraged Jenny towards activities that they themselves could support. These included judo, kickboxing, and logic puzzles. Further, she was encouraged and expected to maintain excellent academic and athletic standards.
Following high school, Jenny was well on her way to recruitment, completing service in the navy and an undergraduate degree in Tactical Engineering. After five years of military service she became an Agent for the CIA, specializing in undercover ops. Abroad she'd have many identities, but only one on home soil: Victory Jennifer Ames, honoring both her birth and adopted parents.
Victory Ames matched a profile for undercover ops. With both her birth and adopted parents involved in the CIA she had been cited as a potential agent in her Freshman year of college, but wasn't truly recruited until five years later. Even before that she’d been tested and had passed every aptitude test in the book, including those given to prove loyalty to one’s country. With an eidetic memory, excellent spatial acuity, and excellent movement, Victory worked for a covert branch of the CIA for a number of years doing various missions. Generally these included counter-intelligence and the occasional assassination for the government.
Within the CIA, she worked hard, building her colleagues' trust. She earned herself a reputation as one of the most connected agents in their world, able to get things done with little collateral damage. Until she disappeared. In May 2010, Victory Jennifer Ames fell off the grid, presumed dead.
Following her disappearance a number of other agents— namely those Ames was connected to— have fallen off the grid, presumably killed.
To describe Victory is to describe a myriad of selves as chameleon as the undercovers she has been. In general she’s freakishly loyal to her cause, determined in her resolve, and stubborn to a fault. She is prone to emotional upsets, but these never impede on her duty whether it be to her country or to her boss (as the case may be now). Once loyal, she’s loyal to a fault. Not blind in her loyalty, but certainly abiding in it. She tends to be business on the outside and vengeful when crossed.
To her friends and family and her close colleagues, the only people who really understand who she is, Victory has an odd innocence about her, a gentleness and vulnerability she pushes aside to get the job done. Further, she has a keen wit, strong sense of humour, and sharp tongue.
Within the spy world, Victory acquired a number of assets, contacts, and resources. Her intuition is ultimately her greatest resource, enabling her to develop keen and easy relationships with other spies and colleagues.
Firearms
It was her freshman year at college when the campus was in an uproar. Take back the night rallies were staged more than once a year after a few girls were attacked on their way from the library to the dorms after dark. Victory had never really considered getting a gun before, even though her parents had many of them. When a few of the girls suggested they look into it, she went along just to offer support and advice.
A beautiful little 9mm is what started the woman's fascination and love of firearms. She filled out all the forms, filed all the paperwork, and waited the required period. Soon the little handgun was her possession. She got a conceal/carry license and was packing it almost everywhere. Over the years, this love only grew. From the 9mm she graduated to bigger and better things. Wherever she moved, the local gun club was her first stop.
Judo
As a child, Victory was restless, without focus, and might as well have been the poster child for ADD. Many people told her mother that it was just a kid being a kid, but Cecily Wainwright had other ideas. At age five, little Jenny was enrolled in Judo. There, she gained focus, spent her energy, and learned a useful skill. She kept it up until she earned her brown belt in high school.
After an unfortunate accident at a tournament, Jenny was forced to quit. Though the training she developed over the years stayed with her, she's never returned to classes.
Lockpicking
Doors, simple key locks, briefcases, and sometimes her best friend's diary, these are all that Victory can pick. It all started with a game when she was about seven years old. She'd found an old Houdini picture book in a used books store detailing some of the man's exploits. From there, Jennydini was born. She had her friends lock her in suitcases, closets, trunks, cupboards, anything with a little lock on it and preferrably tied up.
As she got older, she outgrew the game of Jennydini. What she didn't grow out of was the thrill of picking a complex lock. It was a way to relax, entertaining and for Victory, a pleasant distraction from study or work. She was often found in the commons in college with a little lock in one hand and a bent piece of wire in the other, working away at it while she watched television.
Tactical Training
In grade eleven there was a guy. For a sportsman like Jenny, he shouldn't have been much to look at. Tall and lanky, curly hair that couldn't be tamed, a shade of skin that bordered on olive, he could have had Greek roots. His last name was long enough. He was the polar opposite of Miss Ames and she was completely smitten. It might have been in the eyes. Much to the chagrin of all of her friends, the boy was a massive geek.
Weekend Risk tournaments, chess club, The Society for Creative Anachronism; if there was a hobby that drove the girls away, Peter was neck deep in it. Jenny joined them all. Three months and not even a kiss later, Jenny was dressed in a knight's costume and planning out battles against the enemy with her legions. The boy was gone, a sharp mind for tactics was born.
She loved it so much, she went to university and got a bachelor degree with a double major, one of them was military history. Victory knows all of the tactics used in old battles, she's applied many of them in her SCA tournaments, she is undefeated in simulations… Thanks to the CIA, she has the chance to put it to practical use.
Linguistics
A second language was a requirement to graduate high school in the district that Victory attended. From grade six through grade twelve, Victory waffled between French and Spanish. This resulted in her being nearly fluent in both but a master in neither. In high school, her grades were passable, but she liked it enough to apply to college for a degree. Of all of her interests, language was likely the one to get her the best career after graduation.
She graduated post secondary with a double major in language and military history. Her French and Spanish are now fluent and as a bonus, she was able to pick up a working knowledge of Arabic and Hungarian. Arabic, because according to many of her professors, would be the new language most companies would be looking for. Hungarian, because she was simply interested in the culture.
Master of Disguise
Thank you drama club. From the time she entered grade nine until she graduated college, one of Victory's many passions was the stage. From William Shakespeare to Andrew Lloyd Webber, if it had a wig and a costume she auditioned for it. She didn't always get the part, she wasn't the best in front of an audience, but when she was in front of a mirror, she was a stage diva.
After Victory was recruited by the CIA, it secretly thrilled her that part of her job was to dress up and pretend to be someone else. It may be one of the things she loves the most about it. None of her superiors can deny that when she puts on a costume, it's like looking at a completely different woman.
Eidetic Memory and Spatial Recognition
One of the reasons why Victory was able to have so many other interests while growing up was simply because she didn't need to study much. Being born with eidetic memory and a strong sense of spatial relation has a lot of advantages, that is really just one of them.
This is not to say that whatever Victory sees or reads will be remembered forever, far from it. Over time, a lot of memories fade or become harder to remember. Like most people, she wouldn't be able to tell you what she had for breakfast a week ago Wednesday, unless it was something unusual that was worth remembering. She would, however, be able to tell you every detail about a room she glanced into while walking by it five minutes ago.
The trick to Victory's memory and recognition is that she must first deem whatever it is she's looking at worth remembering. She won't immediately forget minor and insignificant things, but they do fade rather quickly. Things like: How many pencils were in her boss' pen holder on his desk would be remembered a few minutes from the time she was in the room (if she actually looked at the pen holder) while a day or two later, while she would likely shrug if asked that question the next day.
Intuition
Call it a gut feeling, that's what she calls it, at least. With only a few training courses under her belt, Victory has a keen ability to read the body language of others. Her senses enable her to read people by their movements, slight inflections in their voice, and where they are looking when they speak to her (eye language).
This comes in very handy on her operations. She can usually tell if someone is lying to her, unless they have a near pathological ability. If a person truly believes what they are saying, Victory has trouble determining the truth through their body language. This makes it most difficult when she is dealing with victims of brainwashing or people with Stockholm syndrome.
Strongly Connected
Victory's friendliness and personable manner have given her an ample opportunity to build a network of connections throughout the world. There aren't very many places on the globe that she doesn't have at least one person within a couple days travel that she can turn to in a time of need.
Not all of her connections are spies, in fact, more than half of them don't even know who she really is. Some of them are friends, some of them are people she's saved, others are just people that she's become acquainted with and kept in touch. Due to her line of work, most of the people she's able to rely on do have the means to help her however she needs. Whether it's with their own resources or pulling favors, she will be well taken care of if the need arises.
Empathetic
While Victory's life hasn't been exactly harsh, she did have a rough childhood. She lost her entire world and was thrust into a completely new one when her parents died, though most of her routines were maintained for the sake of allowing her to adjust to her new parents and family. The emotional trauma that she went through gave her a strong sense of empathy toward anyone facing hardship or any sort of emotional pain.
For Victory, it's easy to put herself in someone else's shoes. Most of the time this is very beneficial as it gives her a strong desire to seek justice for those less fortunate. Sometimes it can lead to problems though, getting her sidetracked from her main objective for a time while she plays white knight to a tangent. What keeps her on track is her sense of overall purpose, the greater good and a higher calling.
Disguise
Victory not only dresses the part, she IS the part. Thanks to many years of practice and her strong empathy to others, she's able to play the part of a chameleon and mimic practically any behavior she's witnessed before. Whether it be in movies or in real life, as long as she has some sort of model to relate to, she can play the part.
While this is a very strong advantage in her line of work, she does need that model. Should she not have some sort of guide to follow, she might not be able to play her part convincingly. Luckily, with modern times, it's practically impossible for her to not have at least one reference to any particular role.
Athletic
Since before she entered grade school, Victory has been involved with activities that promote physical health. This is not only habit for her now, it's a way of life. No matter what the mission or where she is, Victory always has time for her morning and evening routines. This promotes a healthy body, healthy mind, and allows her to sleep better at night.
All of her activities have also given her a strong and flexible body. She is able to preform movements at 37 that most Americans can't do at 16. It helps with more than just chasing after an opponent, escaping tight situations is much easier due to being able to bend.
Migraines
It might be thinking too hard, it might be trying to process too much at once, it could be the smell of beef cooking. Whatever triggers them, Victory suffers from near crippling migraines. In order to combat the condition, she has to keep a ready supply of medication. Sometimes getting it through customs can be a pain.
Should she lose her medication or run out, the only cure for one of her migraines is a shot of morphine or a completely dark and silent room to sleep in. Regular over the counter medication will cause her to become nauseated of more than half the time she will end up praying for the porcelain god to take the pain away.
Jump to Conclusions
There are times when instincts and intuition utterly fail. Sometimes when there just isn't enough time to think things through, Victory has a tendency to jump to conclusions. Sometimes she jumps to the wrong one. This can be especially dangerous to her and to her missions, trusting someone she shouldn't in a pinch or the reverse of that situation, could have her returning home in a body bag…. or not at all.
Collateral Damage
Most agents try to minimize it. A casualty here, some destroyed property there, it can be justified as a loss for the greater good. Victory can't stand to lose anything or anyone — a concept created by the early (and premature) loss of both of her parents. Her obsession with a clean operation can sometimes put herself and those around her at risk, sometimes to the point of blowing an entire mission.
Victory's biggest problem is that she has the classic 'Blob' syndrome. She sees a puppy in a car and she has to rescue it from the giant pudding threatening to swallow it. Not only that, if she's able, she'll go back to save the car too. A lesson that Victory has yet to learn from experience is, sometimes it's alright to let the pudding have the car, after all, you rescued the puppy.
Sensitive
Victory's emotional empathy for her victims is something of a detriment to her line of work. Should anyone pull at the right heart string it is possible that she risk an entire mission to save that person. This is a woman that didn't learn the valuable lesson from Black Hawk Down: If you have to leave someone behind to finish the job, do it.
There has been more than one occasion that had the poor woman sitting at the bottom of the shower, weeping like a little girl. The world is a horrible place and even though it could kill her, she tries to save it one person at a time.
Aliases
It is extremely lucky for Victory that the world is a big place. It's unlucky in the fact that her circles tend to run a little smaller. There are times that an old mission crosses paths with a newer one and this is where having so many aliases is detrimental. Should anyone recognize her from an old disguise it could put her in grave danger, if not kill her.
To avoid much crossover, Victory must keep careful track of what disguise and alias she is using where. Should she lose her personal mission records, it's possible that the problem could occur more often than not. Large functions are a danger due to CIA interests generally keeping up with each other. Guest lists have to be carefully looked over and cover stories planned before she is able to attend.
One bad knee
A Judo tournament in high school ended badly for Victory. During a particularly difficult exhibition, her foot stuck to the mat while she was attempting to throw her opponent. Without the free movement, her leg twisted and she fell with her sparring partner on top of her.
It took one operation and six weeks in a cast to repair the torn ligament. Although her youth, physical therapy, and her other activities helped return her to full movement, the pain still flares up if she's straining too hard. Even almost two decades later, she must wear a soft brace to support her knee when trying to participate in strenuous activities.
Assets
- Vasha
- WANT TO BE ONE?! I WILL ADD YOU!! Just Page/Message me!
RP Hooks
- Brainwashed: Victory's loyalties have been skewed.
- OOC Info only: Victory is highly connected in the spy-world and has been taken by a hostile organization who is having her former contacts hunted by her. If you would like to be one let me know!
- Navy: With former naval service, Victory might know you from here!
- CIA: If you work for the CIA maybe we worked together— let me know before you make reference to me please!
- ALIAS: Maybe you know one of Victory's aliases rather than her! Mistaken identity is always fun!