Alias Name: Isla Moore
True Identity: Samantha Miller
Age: 16
Appearance:
Bio: Samantha Miller is the daughter of Joshua Miller the United States Ambassador to the east, Vietnam, China and Japan specifically. Her mother, Ceila, was a seamstress. Joshua and Ceila fell in love when she was employed to fit him for suits. They were married for five years before Samantha was born and immediately Samantha was entered into society as the ambassadors daughter. Going with her parents to state visits and meeting children from other countries. Her education was fierce but her experiences gave her a wealth of knowledge and opportunities few girls had. When she turned fifteen her parents began to plan for her sweet sixteen and she had made many friends in the countries she had visited and kept in touch via e-mail and text. However, three months before her sixteenth birthday intruders entered their home at night and infiltrated her parent's bedroom. They grabbed and sedated Joshua with little effort but they had not expected Ceila to have been restless and go to the fridge, as she returned to her room her scream woke up the household.

Samantha woke with a start and ran out into the hall to hear a muffled bang. Behind her the plaster shattered, not realising quite what had happened until she found her mother laying on the floor, red bleeding into the carpet. Samantha ran but she wasn't quick enough to escape the strong arms of the intruders. If it was not for Adam she probably would have disappeared, the family guard had also woken, found the security disabled and bounded up the stairs like a cheetah. He'd taken down the guy that held Samantha, grabbed her and ran.

The next three weeks were a blur, Samantha didn't remember much and when questioned broke into tears, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with stress related amnesia and post traumatic stress disorder. Her father had disappeared, her mother was gone and so Adam became her carer in the eyes of the law. The search went on but it was decided Samantha and Adam had to go into witness protection until the kidnappers could be found.

Cover story: Isla's parents were getting a divorce and Isla could no longer take the bickering, so her uncle Adam had adopted her and moved to the gated community to get away from the noise and allow her a decent education. They will still be moving in at the start of the roleplay.

Strengths:
Speaks Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Vietnamese, English and French fluently. She also knows some Russian, Spanish and German but only enough to be polite to those she meets.
Received high quality instruction in; Maths, English, US history, Uk history and Eastern history, Geography and Religion.
Etiquette lessons were undertaken from a young age so she is well mannered and poised.
She enjoys swimming and ice skating but is not professional in it.
She loves to sing but doesn't take it as a lesson.

Weaknesses:
While strong in maths her science (mainly physics and chemistry) is weak.
She isn't used to socialising with children her age so seem's pretty awkward.
Due to her trauma she is quite timid and shy.
She is used to getting her way so can seem stubborn and rude without intending too.
She hates thunderstorms.
Violence terrifies her and she freezes or freaks out.

Monday and Wednesday
Period 1: Chemistry
Period 2: World History
Lunch
Period 3: Physics Miss. Yamakami
Ex- Curricular: Archery

Tuesday and Thursday
Period 1: American Sign Language
Period 2: Latin II Mr. Tanis
Lunch
Period 3: Linguistics Mr. Tanis
Ex- Curricular: Riding

Friday:
Study day/ helps with ESL and EAL at elementary schools

Name: Adam Kavanagh
Real Name: Ashton Redmond
Appearance:
Bio: Police officer, then military services before returning to civilian life to protect the Miller family.

Strengths:
Physically strong and fit
Crackshot with pistols
Trained in various unarmed combat methods

Weaknesses:
Smoker
Too attached to his ward (dotes on her)
Blames himself for what happened to the Miller family.
Can't stand the idea of something happening to Isla so becomes over bearing at times.

Name: Kristen StClaire
Appearance:
Bio: Kristen has been a member of the force for over ten years, she specialises in kidnappings and ransom and was attached to the Miller case by request of someone in a senior position. She has worked the case with homocide and intends to get Mister Miller home safely, it was her recommendation that rehoused 'Adam and Isla' in the area they are now and is waiting for the kidnappers to make contact, they have already stated they will only speak with Samantha or with her present in the room.

Strengths:
Law abiding
Tenacious
Justice driven
High endurance levels

Weaknesses:
Stubborn to a fault
See's red if she loses her temper
Isn't used to things being complicated
Can't stand kids in the cross-airs.

Name: Joshua Miller
Status: Kidnapped
Appearance:
Bio: A kind and doting father and a well beloved ambassador, he managed to make peace with the warring eastern countries and it's largely because of him there has been such peaceful operations out of many of the more aggressive countries. He was even most of the way to securing a deal with South Korea which would have them promise to deactivate any nuclear missiles they had.

Strengths:
Fierce in both work pursuits and family.
Loves his daughter more than anything.
Always tries to be honest and do right by the people he works with.

Weaknesses:
Can be a tad naive
Is socially a bit awkward outside of work.
Isn't built to take much pain.

[place holder for Ceila]

drive.google.com/open?id=0BxokA0dBKb4p..

Duncan Moran
Gender Male
Age 16 (almost 17)
Date of Birth: Sept 25, 2000
Class: Senior

Mon and Wed
Period 1 08:00 - 10:10 Internship
Period 2 10:20 - 12:30 Internship
Lunch 12:30 - 1:40
Period 3 1:50 - 4:00 TA
Tutoring 4:15 - 5:00 (Only by appointment)

Tues and Thurs
Period 4 08:00 - 10:10 Advanced Keyboard II
Period 5 10:20 - 12:30 Advanced Theater
Lunch 12:30 - 1:40
Period 6 1:50 - 4:00 Contemporary Dance
Tutoring 4:15 - 5:00 (Only by appointment)

Fridays
Tutoring by Appointment

Ethnicity: Caucasian
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6’4” (growth spurt has started)
Build: Rugged (extremely strong for his size)
Other Features:
Duncan has a limited sense of fashion. In older pictures, his hair was normally either cut off like he was in Basic Training, or a bowl haircut that made him look like Moe from the Three Stooges. (He opted for the former if he had a choice.) Thanks to his adoptive mother, his hair gets styled - a major improvement. His clothing usually consisted of jeans, a T shirt (preferably some dark color, usually black), and tennis shoes. Much of what he had - which wasn’t much - were hand me downs, flea market or yard sale specials or worse (if you can imagine worse. Trust me; there is if you have ever heard of dumpster diving. Most of his clothes were of that origin). Again his foster parents came through. He’s never comfortable in new clothes though and will often wear old clothes. And Mrs Miller still fights to add a splash of color to his ensemble. So far the best she has managed is to get him to break up the black with a little color - and the addition of buttons now and then.

The only time he wears anything else, it is a suit, usually for doing a presentation or book signing. This year he is stepping up his game a little as he will be a TA for the Lower School and the dress code calls for setting an example.

He wears a glove on his left hand (carries the right glove). This earned him a few Michael Jackson jokes. He takes the glove off to play guitar, wash dishes, cut steak, etc. But the hand was nearly sliced in half a year ago.

A first impression of Duncan - if you discount the signs of a fight - is that he is NOT a troublemaker, but rather a decent, honest kid. No tattoos, piercings or jewelry.

He has wounds from multiple gunshot wounds (left shoulder, right and left upper leg - left side got far worse), knife wounds (left stomach, left hand), broken ribs (worst is on lower left rib cage), and more (back covered with whip marks). His face shows signs of a bad accident or fight.

Personality
Duncan is extremely intelligent, reading at a 2nd to 3rd grade level by age 5 and a middle school level by age 8. By middle school he started going to the college to find books to ready. He could read well over 1000 wpm doing SRA’s (Strategic Reading Assignments) by age 11. (The military dependents schools required students to do speed reading.

Duncan loves all hard sciences (ie not the squishy ones - Biology? Bleh!) He refuses to take it EVER. He is a natural mathlete. He is an expert at chess and all its sci fi variations, but is utterly bored by it.

He completed his GED at age 13 and began studying at a college level, advancing his education through CLEP testing. By age 15 he had two Bachelor’s degrees - Physics and Chemistry and a teaching certificate. He was literally certified to teach high school. He has since jumped into his graduate studies, but is finding it impossible to take mainstream school and work on a PhD at the same time. And it was partly his idea to continue in mainstream school until he was an adult - for no other reason than to round out hiss education and develop socially.

Sports: He loves Soccer and ALWAYS has a soccer ball either with him or in his locker. He also loves swimming and rock climbing. He’s a natural at football and will play, but has no real passion for the sport. The team is the only reason he plays. He HATES baseball - even though he is great at it. While he has played some of the other sports, soccer is the only one he can be easily tempted to play - but the events a year ago reduced his lung capacity making running harder.

Outdoors: Duncan loves climbing in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. He used to live within a short bicycle ride.

Quirks:
Workaholic
He doesn’t DO social media. No Facebook. No Twitter. No … what are some others?
Hates texting. My god. You have a phone in your hand. Use it maybe?
Despite multiple awards for computer science, he sucks at all things computer. Oh he can use office software, CAD, math programs. But build a website? BBCodes? Download an App?
He and electronics to not mix. He will hire someone else to add memory to a laptop. If he tries it, good luck.
Hates being told he can’t do something (that noone could - permission is another thing altogether). It just makes him want to try. You may as well have dared him.
Bluntly honest. His friends know better than to ask him anything if they don’t want honesty. (He does try to be constructive usually. He can manage tact.)
Enjoys debating and taking the unpopular side if noone else will. (He once defended slavery in a class where caucasian was the minority as part of an exercise. He even used his southern accent that was usually absent. He won the debate.)
Movies? He’s seen a few. But he’s missed out on a lot when he was younger.

Strengths:
Likes helping people
Natural leader - whether he wants to be or not.
Athletic (despite all the injuries)
Generous

Weakness:
Hates people. He hates having friends. They are such a royal pain, always needing maintenance and attention. Go away!
OCD (not extremely so. He’s not Sheldon from TBBT. But his books are arranged on his shelves by subject, alphabetized. When he buys groceries he organizes everything in neat rows and in set number - like 4 of everything. If bored he’ll start organizing everyone else’s stuff.)
Can’t sit still for long.
Remembering things he’s told. Photographic memory has nothing to do with ears.
Generous to a fault ...

Likes:
Science and Technology
Science Fiction
Soccer
Looking for new things to like
Food (international, new, etc)
Cooking (His mother taught him a little so he wouldn’t starve to death.)
Teaching, tutoring, etc. Few things give him more pleasure than seeing the light come on in someone’s eyes when they finally understand a new concept.

Dislikes:
Bullies
Gangs, drugs, alcohol

Fears:
Demophobia (fear of crowds. He can speak to an audience. He can teach. He can play for a band. But through him into the middle of a dance floor and he will be on the verge of a panic attack. He will hover on the edge of the room.)
Arachnophobia (yes, if a tarantula dropped on his arm he will scream like a little girl)
He is otherwise fearless.

Background
Duncan biological father was US Navy. So he was born into the military from the start. As an infant he was sickly, and at age 3 and a half he was dying in the hospital when his biological father, an alcoholic, abandoned them.

At Age 5 his mother met his Stepfather, at the time a USAF Staff Sergeant (E-5) in military transportation and they were shortly married. Overnight he went from being an only child to having an older brother and sister to pick on him. His whole step family resented him. If his older brother did something wrong, guess who got blamed. They were Deep South Southern Baptists preaching hellfire and damnation and he was the spawn of Satan - as his mother was Catholic.

He soon learned that his stepfather had other flaws. He was prejudiced and abusive. Hardly a day went by that Duncan didn’t get beaten. So he blessed the days when his father was away on TDY’s. Of course, there was always a list of chores. Things finally reached a boiling point. His brother was killed. His sister left to go to a foster family. His mother is was shot. His father went to prison. Duncan was recovering from injuries sustained from severe abuse, gang violence, and even more abuse. He was removed from his family to be placed in foster care.

His foster parents, Dr Isabelle Miller and Dr Jonathan Miller, live in Albuquerque, NM. Both are older than traditional parents and lost a son to military service. His mother is a senior medical doctor and instructor and UNM Medical Center working with terminally ill patients. His father is a research engineer at Sandia Labs. The family also has a butler named Masumi Fujita, whom they hired a year ago to help with Duncan.

Other Stuff
Photographic memory (not eidetic)
Speed Reading
Foreign Languages - Turkish, German, Russian, Cherokee, Japanese, and a fair bit of Italian.
Desert and Mountain survival, basic
Stone Age skills (fire starting, making adobe)
Boy Scouting skills (Yes, he was a boy scout.)
Sling
MMA (mixed martial arts, mixed because of moving around. He’s hardly some Bruce Lee, but he’s never lost a fight … yet. Never started one either.)
Published author (sci fi). Just finished his 5th book. This is how much of his college and gear are paid for.

He also has a violin. His running joke is that he tried to learn how to play it, but every time he practiced PETA showed up at his house with every stray cat and gave them signs that read, “STOP THE TORTURE!”

Personal Gear
Military grade laptop
Smartphone (his first)
Guitars
Keyboards

Parents and butler
docs.google.com/document/d/1Bo0p9RpqT5..

Some of the Teachers. (The last is an old time teacher who has reached tenure and not a part of the rest.) I am using a Google Docs link as I can't find the original images to link.

docs.google.com/document/d/1ojFsKA0CPe..

Albuquerque Academy
aa.edu/page
aa.edu/page/academics/curriculum
aa.edu/Page/Quicklinks/About/Campus-Ma..

Map google.com/maps/place/Albuquerque+Acad..