Name: Jill Lovelace
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Appearance:
Personality: Calm, collected and reserved. She is (in)famous for never losing her cool over anything. It might be a defense mechanism from the pain of watching her mother leave her family, but either way, getting a rise out of her over just about anything is like pulling teeth. This doesn't mean she doesn't have strong feelings of her own. She gets excited, scared, and worried as much as anyone else... she's just very, very good at hiding it behind a poker face. She has few friends, but is very close with her aunt's family, for all intents and purpose her adopted family, especially now with her father dead.
Background: Jill was born and raised on the outskirts of Baltimore, the daughter of a bail bonds agent (the person who provides the bail money to a person being charged with a crime and subsequently has to hunt them down and make sure they appear in court if they try and skip town or go into hiding). Her parents never got along well, and when Jill was only four, her mother left without warning, abandoning both husband and daughter. A few months later, divorce papers arrived, and since they preempted the usual divorce court arguments by granting her father Brian sole custody of Jill and agreeing to monthly child support payments, the divorce was finalized without a fight.
Fortunately, although her father's work would have made it difficult to care for Jill alone, his married sister Anne took on helping to raise her niece along with her own children. Thus, Jill had three parents more or less (her father, aunt, and uncle) and two cousins that were practically as close as siblings. Growing up, it was quickly apparent she was bright and gifted, especially with computers.
She enrolled in the University of Maryland, intending to get a degree in forensic science and become a CSI agent (specializing in computers) with the Baltimore Police. Unfortunately, her father suddenly died in a car accident. Grieving over his loss and now faced with the dilemma of paying for the remaining two years of her education, Jill was stuck when her uncle Morgan provided a solution. He and her father had been partners running the bail bonds agency, and now he offered Jill a position working under him while she worked out what to do with her life.
Surprisingly, she took to it well. While her uncle, a solid 230lb brick wall of muscle with three black belts who'd originally been a Marine before marrying her aunt, had been the brawn of the operation, Jill slipped into her father's role as the brains. Her skill with computers and her partially completed degree paid off quite well. Within six months, the bail bonds agency was booming again with Jill handling the investigative side while her uncle handled the physical apprehension side. It wasn't quite what Jill had envisioned for herself. She'd been prepared for working in some lab analyzing computers and tracing email IPs, not learning to use a gun and spending days tracking people either through their computer activity (more often than not with some methods that would be less than legal if they ever came to light) or with good old-fashioned stakeouts. Yet, she's grown to like her job, especially with her uncle and the rest of his family to fill in the void of her dead father.
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Appearance:
Personality: Calm, collected and reserved. She is (in)famous for never losing her cool over anything. It might be a defense mechanism from the pain of watching her mother leave her family, but either way, getting a rise out of her over just about anything is like pulling teeth. This doesn't mean she doesn't have strong feelings of her own. She gets excited, scared, and worried as much as anyone else... she's just very, very good at hiding it behind a poker face. She has few friends, but is very close with her aunt's family, for all intents and purpose her adopted family, especially now with her father dead.
Background: Jill was born and raised on the outskirts of Baltimore, the daughter of a bail bonds agent (the person who provides the bail money to a person being charged with a crime and subsequently has to hunt them down and make sure they appear in court if they try and skip town or go into hiding). Her parents never got along well, and when Jill was only four, her mother left without warning, abandoning both husband and daughter. A few months later, divorce papers arrived, and since they preempted the usual divorce court arguments by granting her father Brian sole custody of Jill and agreeing to monthly child support payments, the divorce was finalized without a fight.
Fortunately, although her father's work would have made it difficult to care for Jill alone, his married sister Anne took on helping to raise her niece along with her own children. Thus, Jill had three parents more or less (her father, aunt, and uncle) and two cousins that were practically as close as siblings. Growing up, it was quickly apparent she was bright and gifted, especially with computers.
She enrolled in the University of Maryland, intending to get a degree in forensic science and become a CSI agent (specializing in computers) with the Baltimore Police. Unfortunately, her father suddenly died in a car accident. Grieving over his loss and now faced with the dilemma of paying for the remaining two years of her education, Jill was stuck when her uncle Morgan provided a solution. He and her father had been partners running the bail bonds agency, and now he offered Jill a position working under him while she worked out what to do with her life.
Surprisingly, she took to it well. While her uncle, a solid 230lb brick wall of muscle with three black belts who'd originally been a Marine before marrying her aunt, had been the brawn of the operation, Jill slipped into her father's role as the brains. Her skill with computers and her partially completed degree paid off quite well. Within six months, the bail bonds agency was booming again with Jill handling the investigative side while her uncle handled the physical apprehension side. It wasn't quite what Jill had envisioned for herself. She'd been prepared for working in some lab analyzing computers and tracing email IPs, not learning to use a gun and spending days tracking people either through their computer activity (more often than not with some methods that would be less than legal if they ever came to light) or with good old-fashioned stakeouts. Yet, she's grown to like her job, especially with her uncle and the rest of his family to fill in the void of her dead father.
