Valentine
"Life happens in the field, it's only pauses when you're not working."
Character Summary
Name: Cynthia Belle Ross
Aliases: Cynth, Cyanide, Belle Toll, Valentine
Age: 49
Birthday: February 14th
Ethnicity: American (WASP)
Birth Place: Salisbury Maryland
Previous Occupation: CIA
Gender: Female
Major/Minor: Linguistics/Foreign Affairs
Languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Farsi, Spanish (Native or near native fluency in each)
"Get your ass in gear before I use your dick as a gear shift."
Appearance
Face Claim: Linda Hamilton
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125lbs
Build: Toned, lean, petite
Eyes: Light Blue
Hair: Sandy Blonde
Skin Tone: Peachy complexion
Tattoos/Scars/Piercings:
- Multiple healed bullet wounds
- Right Shoulder
- Three in the chest
- Two in the left thigh
- Two inch wide scar that runs the length of her mid section from left to the right side on the front
- Stab wound scar on her left forearm
- Back right calf burn scar that is 6 inches long and covers the entire muscle
- Expendables Old School Skull and Perching Raven on left shoulder blade
- Personal Expendables Tattoo on right shoulder blade; Open Jawed Skull with raven peaking out the mouth, bleeding heart rosary hanging from the Ravens beak
- Hypodermic Needle replacing a spoon next to a cup of steaming coffee on the side of her neck
- Cracked bell on her right hip
- Bottle of Cyanide on the palm of her hand
"The maze in my mind makes others feels like the rat that can't find its way out."
Psychology
Protective * Sadistic * Charming * Adrenaline Junkie
Sexuality: Leave them questioning
Relationship Status: Single
Personality: Cockoo for for Cocoa Puffs is the simplest way to describe the personality of Cynthia but she is hardly that simple. While the woman may be the classic text book definition of a homicidal maniac she is anything but. She is twisted yes but all her ways have reason hidden in the maddness and if she kills outside of an assignment or a job it is for very personal reasons and is either to protect those she holds dear or for revenge of a fallen comrade.
She is tough, hard to understand and rather bitchy on the day to day but when she needs to be she is very charming, a quick wit and very funny. Usually though the madder she gets the funnier she gets; which has gotten more than one person knocked on their ass because they couldn't help laugh while she was berating them. In the end though she is actually a caring person who will do anything to keep her team together and alive.
Habits:
- Cracking her knuckles
- Smoking
- Blowing her hair out of her face
Hobbies:
- Reading Auto/Biographies of Serial Killers
- Collecting Medieval Torture Paraphernalia
Fears:
- Returning to the psych ward
- Glow stick jewelry
- Caterpillars
Likes:
- Earl Grey Tea
- 90's Alternative
- Classic Rock
- Bidding Wars on Ebay
- Tainting the Shops Toilet Paper with Hot Sauce when the group pisses her off
- Driving, just driving
- Repelling
- Free Climbing
- Sky Diving
- Flying
- Snowboarding
- Roller Skating
Dislikes:
- Coffee
- Being shocked (like by static electricity or an electric circuit.)
- Modern Country Music
- People who are way to happy without being on meds - Like Rachael Ray
- Perfume Commercials
- Inline Skates
- Hipsters
"Screw the cards life deals you, always keep an ace up your sleeve; or a grenade."
Cards On The Table
Specialty Skills:
- Information acquisition
- Hand To Hand Combat
Standard Skills:
- Car
- Helicopter
- Transport Aircraft
- Small Arms
- Large Arms
- Knives
- Barbaric Interrogation
- Infiltration
Current Supplies:
- Blue jeans, black tank top, white unbuttoned mens dress shirt, rubberband, black converse, three plain silver rings on her right ring finger and another on her thumb, silver snake chain with celtic shield pendent, switchblade, Wallet (legal ID, alternative ID, Visa Card; No limit: Expendable Expense Account, Black AMEX - No Limit, Platinum Mastercard - $15k *No Charges on any card currently, Cash($2k), family photo, list of lost Expendables, laminated four leaf clover, insurance card for vehicle, open carry license for both vehicle and person for Alt ID), Key Ring, Passport's (Legal and Alternative), Samsung Galaxy
- 1964 1/2 Mustang Convertible
- Fully Furnished Studio Apartment - 318 1st Ave S
- Expendables Headquarters - 5015 Colorado Ave South -
- Main entrance access is on Ohio Ave South
- Brick Building-Warehouse Space
- Approx. 5000 Sq. Ft. Additional 2556 Sq. Ft. of Mezzanine
- 3225 Sq. Ft Secured Yard Space.
- Security lighting. Built in alarm system activation at tenants expense.
- Not heated and has 18 Ft-20 Ft. High Ceilings.
- 220V and potential for 440/3 Phase Power. Gas hook ups
- Clearance is 10 Ft. by 12 Ft. Dock height optional on Colorado Ave South for easy access, loading and unloading.
- Beretta 9mm plus spare clip
- Colt 45 in glove box of Mustang
- Box of 45 cal in glove box
- Laptop
- Sunglasses
- Laptop Bag
"They wanted me to be an accountant, I wasn't crazy enough."
History
Why The Expendables Recruited You: Nepotism mostly; Cynthia is the eldest daughter of Barney Ross's older brother. The fact she is former CIA and is skilled doesn't hurt. The fact she is as mental as the entire original team combined doesn't help. He recruited her to start up a new chapter of the Expendables out on the North West Coast. She was with the original team for five years after her release from Julia Tutwiler Prison in Alabama. After which she relocated to Seattle to start her own team.
History Before Before The Expendables: Cynthia grew up in Salisbury Maryland, daughter to Benjamin and Dorthy Ross; niece to Barney Ross. Life for her growing up with rather boring and she kept her nose in a book most of time. The fact that most of the books she read was on the most brutal of histories, the way nations played each other and their people and even the Diary of Jack The Ripper was something that never sat well with her parents. She did not see her uncle growing up much but she would hound him for stories when he was around and her eyes would glass over as he told her. Something was never right with the child.
She wanted his life, the excitement and was naive at the time; thinking it was all guts and glory. Her parents and Barney did not want that life for her but Barney knew the look in her eyes so he suggested university first, for her to become a language specialist. Hoping that she would end up spending her days in D.C. translating boring bullshit for the rest of her days and never actually have to see or be involved in any fighting.
That didn't happen; her professor for Farsi was retired CIA and ended up recruiting her for his former employer. She excelled in hand to hand combat and infiltration during training; this coupled with her extensive knowledge and execution of foreign languages made her a choice candidate for over seas under cover work. By the time she was 24 she was leading teams into the worst situations and bringing back what her government required.
That was until she was 27 and their mission to Chili. Her handler ended up being a double agent and her entire team paid the price. Cynthia lost what little of her mental faculties that she had left and went on the hunt. Seeking out each person involved with the death of her death and executing St. Valentines Day Massacre. There as no man hunt for her, she simply returned to D.C. and turned herself in afterwards. Had images of the massacre not leaked to the press she probably would have continued on in her career but once they did the CIA had to make an example of her.
She plead guilty to 35 accounts of 1st degree murder, with her lawyer tacking on that she was legally insane. She was sentenced to five life sentences with no chance of parole and shipped off to a maximum security prison in Alabama. Those years she refers to as the worst in her existence; life there being much more of a horror story than anything she ever saw in the field.
But the press is fickle and soon the cameras were turned to other stories and she was soon forgotten; all the better in her book. It took years but eventually enough strings were pulled, until they nearly broke, and she was released; the parole board stating she was fully recovered and no longer a threat to herself or society. Yeah, fucking right. Less than a week later she returned and took out the Warden of the Psych Ward. The man had tormented her for years, as well as other women. The state not wanting any bad publicity to come out because of his murder covered it up and Cynthia walked away free.
History Since Since Joining The Expendables: It was after she walked away Scott free for yet another murder that Barney finally grabbed his niece and brought him to work for him. The team did not know what to think about her, she knew how to do the job but she was always a head case, even before everything. Now she was a walking encyclopedia of mental diagnosis, most of which they had no name for.
Barney knew she could be trouble but being the uncle she idolized as a child seemed to be a helping factor. She was able to be in the job she was meant for in her mind and he was able to smooth her out enough to actually function in society when not on mission. The fact that the work they did was just the type of thing that got her locked up in the first place didn't hurt. Several years under her uncles wing paid off and it wasn't long before she was off to Seattle to form her own team.
Barney set her up with an expense account for her team and she began recruiting. It took a good five years to find a core group but finding people with the right skill that are just stable enough to get the job done but crazy enough to take the job are hard to come by. Over the last ten years they have been the secondary team that goes to work with the primary team is tied up or on vacation. Now a days though they work taking on the harder jobs. The primary team is the face but they are getting older, even for an Expendable. Cynthia is the next generation and her team is top notch.
Over the last year they have begun to recruit younger members. While the team might seem unkillable, everyone dies eventually and you want to pass down what you know to the next generation before it is too late. What she is looking for these days are people that the government doesn't want because they are too unstable or think too much outside of the box. Governments never want to deal with headcases that know how to work explosives. For Cynthia, that is the perfect type of person she needs. Some might be young and dumb but some of the older members are pretty stupid, so it works out.
"I've finally discovered that I will never be him, that is both liberating and terrifying."
Extras
Character Quote: Stop fiddling with your dicks, I need your heads to function right now. - usually uttered when she is trying to get the guys to pay attention.
Theme Song: Sound Of Madness - Shinedown
Most Memorable Kill: Killing the psych ward Warden with with a hypodermic filled with foam from a coffee house latte after her release; she pushed the plunger down and injected his carotid artery. The man was never without one and she felt it was symbolic. He always said his blood type was caffeinated. The air in the foam caused an air embolism.
Most Memorable Injury: The 2 inch wide scar that runs over her mid section; refuses to say anything about the injury other than it was acquired during her time in a mental ward.
How You Got Your Code Name: Most will attribute Cynthia's code name to the fact she was born on Valentine's Day but it is more of a historical reference than the actual reason why. Back in the 90's Cynthia, along with her then current group was on mission down in Chili. Information leaked and they were ambushed. All but Cynthia were killed. Instead of going back she tracked down the leak, a double agent, as well as those involved and lined them up in a garage, subsequently massacring them in the same manner of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. She has been branded Code Name Valentine ever since.
Anything Else: Fall of a Seraphim
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