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Harlee Barnes

ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙɪʀᴛʜ
07 April 1984

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
Librarian

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Harlee had a lovely childhood with her parents in Dallas. Her mother worked as a professor at the University of Dallas while her father was forced to stay home because of his disability. He was a soldier in the US Army that joined the Multinational Force in Lebanon during their civil war. He was shot and sent home before his daughter’s birth, it made his legs useless and forced him into a wheelchair. Harlee was daddy’s daughter and her father made sure to tell stories of his time over at Lebanon.

When Harlee was getting older, her father wanted her to learn how to handle a gun after an increased in criminal actions. She agreed and started to lesson in handing a gun. After all, she wanted to join the army like her father did. Her mother didn’t want her only children to die in a war. Harlee didn’t listen and improved her physical appearances with workouts. Her interest in the military increased after 9/11.

In 2002, she applied for the military and waited for approval. During the wait, her father had a heart attack and was sent to the hospital. She went and saw him die peacefully with her mother and other family members in the room. Harlee went into a state of depression and was forced into taking antidepressants by her mother until she felt better. When the military found that out, they rejected her. She enrolled at the University where her mother worked and earned her major. After her mother passed away due to an illness, she moved away from Dallas and headed to Baltham. Harlee started to work at the local library and started to like it.

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Dawson Rodriguez

ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙɪʀᴛʜ
14 November 1995

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
University Student

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Dawson Rodriguez was born in Seattle, a half hour trip away from Baltham and Bainbridge Island. His mother died during childbirth and the father couldn’t bear raising his son without his wife. He transferred custody of Dawson to his grandparent and moved on. They never told their grandson this information until his teenage years, but he always knew something wasn’t right. He moved to Bainbridge Island and lived a peaceful life. Other family members often came over and helped out the grandparents.

In his later years in middle school, the grandma had a stroke and later died on the way to the hospital. Dawson questioned his real parents and wanted answers. The grandpa told the truth about his mother and how his father left him behind. The last time that he heard from his father was six years ago. He just said that he was married and planned on moving to Europe. Dawson wanted to talk to his father, but he knew that it was impossible. He tried to move on forward by studying on his favorite subject, English. He wanted to become a writer and an English teacher.

After high school ended, he was accepted to Seattle University. However, he chose to stay in Bainbridge at his grandparents’ house after his grandpa died peacefully since it was cheaper. And it only took a half hour to get to Settle by using the ferry.

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David Levitski

ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙɪʀᴛʜ
8 November 1963

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
Police Detective

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A man as long-lived as David Levitski could publish a novel of his escapades and life experiences alone. This of course is something David Levitski would rather not occur as he would rather not be judged by his new neighbors for what he achieved throughout his childhood and adulthood. Born to a Polish immigrant following the Second World War named Waclaw Levitski in 1963, David would be the eldest of several siblings raised in a lower income class household that had much conflict inside and out. His father was an abhorrent and abusive alcoholic who struggled from one job to the next—from general labor to distribution line factory work and so on thus when the next time his father lost a job nobody in the family was sure if they were going to leave the city they were used to or if another one in the area would repeat the process. It came to a point when David’s mother divorced his father and they moved to a more stable (relatively speaking) environment permanently around 1974.

David’s new environment was crime-ridden and tough on his mother, especially considering the stigma that still existed amongst divorced women trying to pick themselves up in the era. Perhaps it was here in his mother, Ashley Levitski, where David learned an admiration for hard work ethic since his father was so careless and arbitrary to the point where David didn’t care for him. In a chance encounter in the local park David found himself at odds when he attacked a boy over a name he called his mother to the point he told him that he would “erase his face” – he was interrupted before doing so by a police officer by the name of Thomas O’Reilly, who would be his first father figure.

The time passed in the inner city and under the guidance of the “old school” police officer David found himself joining the Police Department and aspiring to keep his burning temper under control within the confines of the law and if so necessary unleash it on those who deserved it—for not out of a sense of morality, but just desserts. David’s talents were soon discovered in these formative years as he found a knack for noticing things that other officers didn’t which eventually served him well when he was promoted to Detective fairly early on in his career, though due to politics and relationships with his superior’s daughter he found promotion climbing any further was quite unlikely. Still David found himself enjoying the work with every thumb he cracked or head he slammed into a table—as if he was exerting some weird power fantasy over his abusive childhood with his father. Nonetheless, time went on.

Eventually, David found his younger brother, Richard, following in his footsteps—though in his time away from home his brother had taken to weird senses of optimistic morality and found himself clashing with his older brother during holiday gatherings in which they debated perspective. Admittedly, David was abrasive and patronizing towards his own sibling and likened his intelligence to inanimate objects in an attempt to give himself a reason to beat his brother down. However, Richard didn’t snap proving himself to be the better man. Still the siblings found themselves at odds with each other for many years up to through the childhood of Richard’s first son which he named after himself.

The time as a cop carried on and David continued to see people for how they really were—selfish, manipulative, deceitful, arrogant, pig-headed, out for themselves, and ultimately pretty terrible people. For every criminal he met he saw at least one aspect of his father in them which only made it all the easier to trait them with such vitriol. “Guilty until proven Innocent.” he figured about these people. As time toiled onwards things began to change such as his partner in the squad car, shifting from “old school” detectives like Andrew Tate to “new school” detectives like Joseph Atkins and Miranda Beake. The world kept proving itself to David however and he never strayed from how he believed. The years moved on.

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Richard Levitski, Jr.

ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙɪʀᴛʜ
2 December 1995

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
Police Officer

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TBD

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Peter Simpson

ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙɪʀᴛʜ
3 July 1971

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
Real Estate Broker

ʙᴀᴄᴋɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ
TBD

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William Robens

ᴅᴀᴛᴇ ᴏꜰ ʙɪʀᴛʜ
19 August 1987

ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴩᴀᴛɪᴏɴ
High School Teacher

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TBD