Application for ten_fwd

[lovesherdanno]

Your name or online alias: Ashley
Your email: ashley.lyon84@gmail.com (also available on Google Hangouts)
Another preferred means of contact: AIM: ashleylyon1984 or Skype: bookworm.1984
Character's Full Name: Grace Williams
Character's Canon: Hawaii Five-0
Character's Canon Point: Season 2: Episode 15 “Mai Ka Wa Kahiko”
Character's Journal Name: lovesherdanno
What would you like your character's tag to be?: Grace Williams

Character's background (their past and present):

Grace was born in New Jersey to her parents, Danny Williams and Rachel Williams (as she was known then) where they lived in a small but comfortable two bedroom and Grace was surrounded by her grandparents and aunts and uncles. Being around her paternal family and having Danny as a father, she learned the art of being affectionate with handing out lots of free hugs and kisses to her family.

Eventually, Danny and Rachel separated and divorced, which even though her parents did their best to shield her from the adult drama, she was affected by it. She was worried that she had done something to cause her parents to separate and she was weary about having to live in two homes. Grace lived primarily with her mother and had access with Danny. A few years after her parents’ divorce, Rachel met Stan, re-married and they moved to Hawaii to follow Stan as his job relocated him to Oahu, forcing her father to leave his job at the Newark PD and transferred to the Honolulu Police Department and then eventually the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force.

Similarly to living in New Jersey, Grace has primary residency with her mother and Step-Stan. She sees her father twice a week for visitation. While it’s not exactly known why Danny gets so little time with Grace, it can be assumed that it is Danny’ choice of career as Rachel has voiced her displeasure regarding it over the years.

Grace has a privileged life with her mother and Step-Stan. She attends a private school and her Step-Stan has put Grace in tennis lessons at a prestigious country club. Danny tries to balance it out where he can.

Shortly after her father’s kidnapping recruitment into the Five-0 Task Force, Grace meets Steve, Kono and Chin for the first time at a Kukui High School football game. However, over a discussion of corn dogs and nachos, Danny notices two men with guns and after ensuring Grace’s safety, he and the rest of Five-0 attempt to intercept the gang shooting. Danny sent Grace home to Rachel in a police cruiser and it sparked Rachel to once again voice her displeasure about Danny’s choice of career and concern over Grace’s safety when she is around her father. Rachel then launched a court case to decrease Danny’s visitation, however, she later dropped the petition.

Unbeknownst to Grace and Rachel, Step-Stan was involving himself in some shady business which prompted Rachel and Grace to be carjacked. Danny investigated the case and ends up uncovering Step-Stan’s connection to the carjacking and was able to get Stan to confess that he had incriminating tapes of the Hawaii Housing Commissioner, Bruce Hoffman, of corruption. A very, very angry Danny confronts Hoffman and tells him to back off of Step-Stan or he will expose the tapes to the press which would end Hoffman’s career. He also issued a threat warning about putting a gun in the same zip-code as his daughter.

Grace is later kidnapped by Danny’s ex-partner, Rick Peterson, who had spent ten years in jail due to Danny’s testimony. Knowing that Grace would be the easiest way to hurt Danny and seek revenge, Peterson arrives at her tennis lesson in a Honolulu PD uniform and tells her that her father is in the hospital and he is going to take her to him. Even though Grace knows that she is only to be picked up by her mother, father, Step-Stan or Steve, her worry that her father is hurt and her need to see her father makes her throw the whole stranger danger lesson Danno taught her out the window and she gets into Peterson's car. At the time of entrance into Enterprise, her last memory will be being alone, cold, scared (but trying to be brave) and being restrained to a chair in an old storage rental facility hoping that her father will rescue her.

Very limited Wiki can be found here.

Character's personality:

Despite her parents being divorced, Grace is a happy and well adjusted girl. She has a privileged upbringing with her mother and stepfather, however, her father, Danny Williams, tries to balance it out.

She is shy and wary around new people, with the exception of her father’s teammates. Her father’s teammates are like family to her and she refers to her father’s partner, Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett, as “Uncle Steve”.

Although she can be shy, she makes friends easily at school and she has a lot of them. She is also involved in a variety of different sports and activities including swimming, baseball, tennis and football. Her Uncle Steve has described her as being scrappy, stubborn, hotheaded and loyal to a fault-exactly mirroring the qualities found in her father.

Grace’s favourite colour is pink and she loves Hello Kitty. She is an avid animal lover and has two pets, a rabbit named Mr. Hoppy and a male dog (unnamed).

Grace likes school but like typical kids, she isn’t fond of homework. Math isn’t her favourite subject but she loves history and gym class. She does enjoy reading and she is quite experienced with electronics (though her cell phone use and online activity is monitored by her overprotective father).

Grace doesn’t voice it but she is secretly afraid that her father is going to get hurt, or worse, on the job. His job is a dangerous one and she always worries about him.

Character's skills/abilities/powers: As Grace is human she has no special skills or powers and like other humans, she is prone to illness and injury. That being said, due to her fathers teaching her, Grace is skilled at poker. She also has the ability to melt her father’s heart with her big brown eyes. Even Uncle Steve isn’t immune to those eyes!

Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.: Grace has nothing on her person except her tennis outfit and shoes that she was wearing at the time she is taken from her canon point.

Are you bringing your character to ten_fwd from another game? If you are, which game?: No.
If you answered yes above, briefly summarize how they were changed by and what challenges they faced in the climate of their previous game(s): N/A
Why do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them?

Well, since Danny has been brought to the game, he needs his daughter. If he doesn’t have his daughter with him or knows that she is safe, he will tear the ship apart until he finds a way back to her or Steve McGarrett “borrows” Danny’s handcuffs and forces Danny to sit tight and calm down. So it is for the greater good of everyone’s sanity that he be reunited with his daughter. Though her being abducted in the first place is not going to sit well, but minor details!

Grace is fairly young and she is shy when meeting new people. I’d like her to learn to gain some confidence, learn some new skills and make some friends as she explores her new environment.

Writing Sample #1:

When the school bell rang, Grace gathered her books from her locker before rushing outside. Danno was going to pick her up and they were going to go out for dinner and she had been looking forward to it all day! She loved the time that she spent with Danno and they always had fun together, even though Danno did the boring adult things like making her do her homework and forcing her to eat her vegetables. Grace forced herself to walk through the halls of the school and not run as she knew she’d get into trouble if she was running through the halls. Pushing through the doors of the school, she stopped dead in her tracks, confused as she looked around. This was definitely not Hawaii, or her school and her father was not outside waiting for her.

Trying to remain calm, she sat down on the stairs and rifled through her backpack until she found her cell phone but to her dismay, when she tried to dial her father’s number, her cell phone wouldn’t work. She then tried to dial her Uncle Steve’s number but again, the phone wouldn’t work. Taking a few deep breaths in an attempt to push back the panic that was threatening to overwhelm her. She knew that wherever she was, her Danno would find her. It was only a matter of time. She just had to remain calm and be brave while she waited for him.

Grace sat on the steps for a few minutes, weighing her options. What was going on? How was she suddenly in a new place that was not Hawaii? Was she dreaming? That’s what this had to be right? A nightmare? Grace would have to lay off her secret stash sour gummy bears before bed which was totally not under her bed right now..

Grace sat and waited for a few minutes. She knew she should stay right where she was so Danno could find her when he showed but Grace also knew that it’d be dark soon and she really didn’t want to be sitting here alone. Standing, Grace slung her backpack over her shoulder started walking, hoping that she could find someone who could explain what was going on and maybe they could give her directions to the police station. Hopefully the police could help her contact her father who could come get her and take her home.

Writing Sample #2 (optional):

(NOTE: This sample comes from a game I am in over on Insanejournal. The community is friends-locked which is why I have copied the post like this. The Danny Williams (Danno) featured in this writing sample is not the same Danno in ten_fwd.)

Grace:

>>I have detention for a week! Which is TOTALLY not fair!

[Filtered to Danno]

>>My teacher and principal want to see you after school.

Arcturus Black:

>>They arrested you?! What happened?

Grace:

>>I wasn't arrested. I just have detention.

>>I punched a boy. He tripped me and stole my backpack.

Arcturus:

>>Then who is detaining you?

Grace:

>>I was sent to the principal's office by the teacher.

>>It's not fair though. I get punished and he didn't. He deserved it.

Arcturus:

>>It's entirely unfair and you ought to tell your father and have him complain.

>>You aren't too badly hurt, are you?

Grace:

>>I am going to tell my dad what happened. He's going to be mad at me.

>>My hand is bruised a bit and hurts but I'm fine.

Arcturus:

>>It might have been worse, I suppose. Your principal might have locked you in a cupboard. Muggle schools really are horrid.

>>Why would your father be cross with you? Won't he believe that it was that boy's fault and not yours? If that's the case you would be better off not informing him at all.

Grace:

>>Why would my principal lock me in a cupboard? I'm sure they'd get in trouble for that if they did. Is that what happens to students in magical schools?

>>My father has always said hitting people is bad. He'll believe me when I tell him that it was the boys fault and not mine but my dad's not going to be happy that I hit him.

>>Danno's going to find out. If I don't tell him, my teacher and principal will.

Arcturus:

>>Of course not! The professors at my school are unfair sometimes but they never do anything that awful. Usually when I get into trouble at school I deserve it. Muggle schools are much worse. A boy I know with muggle parents said that when he went to muggle school he was beaten whenever he used magic. They said it was evil.

>>I am never, ever going to attend a muggle school.

>>Hitting people is bad, Miss Grace, in that it's vulgar and I wish you hadn't had to do it, but I suppose you haven't very many other ways to defend yourself. Even so it's hardly bad enough for the school to write to your father about it.

>>We have to solve this problem, I think. Will you meet me tomorrow morning, before your school begins?

Grace:

>>That's terrible! Magic isn't evil at all! I hope you never have to attend a regular school either! Especially the school here.

>>I've never really gotten into trouble at school before. Not for anything major anyways. Maybe talking in class or something like that. My school back home is so much better than the one here. The teachers are nice and the kids aren't mean.

>>I know that hitting people is bad. I shouldn't have done it and I feel bad that I did. I just got so angry and I wasn't thinking.

>>Sure! I will look for you after Danno drops me off.

Arcturus:

>>Cassi would never make me go there.

>>When I get into trouble it is usually for sneaking out or playing magical tricks on people. Why do you think your school at home is so much better than this one? It's still run by muggles and

>>You lost your temper and he deserved it, you needn't feel bad. What time shall we meet?

Grace:

>>My school at home is better because the teachers are nicer and my friends are there. The teacher's wouldn't let kids be mean to each other if they knew it was happening.

>>Danno usually drops me off at 8:15 a.m. I'll meet you at the front door.

Danno:

>>What happened?

Grace:

>>I punched a boy. But it was his fault!

Danno:

>>Explain.

Grace:

>>He tripped me and stole my backpack. He's been bothering me ever since I started going to that stupid school!

Danno:

>>I'll handle this. You get your backpack back?

Grace:

>>Yes. He dropped it after I punched him and he went to go tell on me. It's not fair that I got detention and he didn't.

>>I'm sorry Danno.

Danno:

>>It's okay, I'll handle it.

Grace:

>>I'm not in trouble?

Danno:

>>I'm not happy about you hitting someone, but no. You're not in trouble.

Grace:

>>I won't do it again. I promise.

Danno:

>>No, you won't. Because you're not going to that school anymore

Grace:

>>I'm not?

>>Best. News. Ever!

Danno:

>>No, we'll figure something else out.

Grace:

>>Okay.



NOTE: Grace is the daughter of Danny Williams, who is currently being played in ten_fwd. As Grace's presence will affect Danny, I have discussed apping Grace and have Church's blessing. Plus, I was totally enabled by Church.