Alicia Regan

Virtue

Fortitude. Alicia has never liked the idea of backing down from a challenge. If she were the type to give up, she would never have hauled herself up from the poorest neighborhoods in the city to her job as a respected reporter.

Vice

Pride. Her ego drives her forward, even when any sensible person would have given up. Even when she knows she should turn back, her need to prove her ideas right pushes her on.

Background

Born one of three children to a mother who shared a small apartment with her two brothers and their families, Alicia had a hard time forging a place of her on in the world. The public library became a haven from the madness of her home life, and her attraction to it helped her excel in school. While the other kids were getting involved in crime, she actually did her homework. The effort paid off and she was able to attend the state university on a scholarship. She majored in journalism, interned at the local paper, and eventually got a job covering crime, a job that takes her back to her old stomping grounds more often than she cares for.

About a year ago, Alicia was writing up a story on a group of gangbangers who had been severely hurt in an animal attack. Her editor wanted her to frame the story as Mother Nature fighting back against the corruption on their streets, but Alicia found too many loose ends to rest easy, even after the story went to press. The testimony of the boys involved had been too fragmented, too confused, and the things they described... well, they didn't sound like any animal she'd ever heard of. Since then, Alicia's kept a careful eye on the violent crimes in the region, slowly putting together a picture that scares the hell out of her. It's gotten to be too heavy a burden for her own shoulders, so she plans to share her findings with the world.

Description

A woman in her late twenties, Alicia's skin is the same dark color as diner coffee, and her hair falls in thick curls about her round face. She has a matronly frame that immediately puts people at ease, and a voice that can be cool and comforting one moment and hard as stone the next. Alicia dresses professionally at all times, as if one small tear in the fabric of her persona might bring her whole life crashing down around her.

Storytelling Hints

Alicia is a driven woman: driven by her pride, her need to prove herself, and her fear, both of what lurks in the darkness and what will result if she ever fails. Though her professional situation rests on solid foundations, she secretly fears that the whole thing is far more fragile than it appears, and one false move will send the whole thing crashing to the ground. Yet those insecurities pale in the face of the fear she has of what she's uncovered over the last year. As scared as she might be of losing her job, she is more frightened of what might happen if she doesn't expose the monsters to the world before they find out just how much she knows.