agent cameron chase.

A STUDY OF ... defining humanity , a spark of morality , government sanctioned crime , do ends justify the means ? , universe's favourite nobody , chasing legacies , no escaping responsibility , distrusting supers , a decent egg amidst the rot , not monsters, just people with powers .

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there's a really interesting aspect of the deo that i feel like--isn't so often brought up in modern comics?? at least not as a center point anymore, or notable thing...but it's something i really enjoy as just a point to consider when writing a character like chase or, hell, even bones. the department of extranormal operations does not have a lot of funding. or! to be more exact, the distribution of funding in the department is all over the fucking place. where did most of the funding for the department go, you ask? management maybe? paying agents? giving every outpost decent working conditions? into efforts to improve the lives of extranormal people that, you know, the organization was apparently made for? into material and research to better prep agents for what they're working on? haha no why would they do that when they could put all their funding into the worst guys ever, and unethical experiments, and who knows where else! but definitely not for anyone that's actually working there.

the deo is made up of shitty office buildings, lower management constantly going hey can we please get more funding or the ability to not be understaffed. or like, you know, literally anything. and upper management not having the money either because all the money is going to future problems that the deo is inevitably going to have to fix--or going to have to call heroes to fix.

it's!! really interesting. it's presented quite clearly in at least the new earth comics--especially those written by dan curtis johnson--that even bones doesn't really control what's going on with the deo. bones is shown to be trying his best with what he has. and what he has is constantly being told by those above him to do what they want for AMERICA!!!! and capitalism, and control. that's over simplification, obviously, but it's also kind of. not.

it's important to realize that the deo isn't it's own thing, it's a branch of the government. it is the government of the united states, and a lot of the motives that go into it are aimed to be focused on that sort of american patriotism, supporting of the state and capitalist agenda. this is a huge part of the original deo comics and is such an interesting aspect of characters like chase, bones, barrett... ...so it's a bit of a disappointment when new comics involving the deo don't really get into that aspect of it! i know, modern comics are gonna have modern technology and such...but these are still problems that when they were written, made the deo and those that worked for it feel a lot more real and intriguing to read. i like the deo having advanced technology and such because it makes sense for the extranormal operations department to have that sort of tech! i just miss when it was an important aspect of the story that yes they have that tech, but at the expense of a majority of their memories health and safety.

FULL NAME: cameron "cam" mary chase. OCCUPATION: (active) government agent, (verse dependent) temp director of the deo, (former) private investigator. AGE: verse dependent, mid 20s-early 30s. HEIGHT: 5'5". GENDER: cis woman. SEXUALITY: heavy feminine lean, bisexual. CURRENT LOCATION: between brooklyn and los angeles. ETHNICITY: caucasian. DOB: january 10th, 19XX. PARENTS: elyse and walter chase SIBLING(S): terry chase CHILD(REN): an aborted son, none. RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single, verse dependent. SPOKEN LANGUAGES: fluent in english, portuguese, russian, spanish, and dutch; conversational in arabic, chinese, german, korean, and dutch. real bad at french. RELIGION: not religious in any sense of the word. SCENT: like nicotine and old leather. ATHLETICS: surprisingly agile and built; but visually very lean. resilient as hell. BODY TYPE: appears quite slim, generally has a lean to her posture, and most of what she actually looks like is obscured by oversized trench coats, or whatever loose wear she decides to put on that day. EYES: dark green, like pine. TATTOOS: none, but she does want one. PIERCINGS: right ear daith piercing. SOCIAL MEDIA: girl has a facebook that hasn't posted in eight and a half years, and her sister convinced her to get a snapchat where she exclusively sends short replies and forgets it's installed just to get fifty snaps from her sister. she'd probably ask you for your myspace if you said you won't give her your number. SMOKING: 24/7. DRINKING: on occasion. HOBBIES: tried surfing with her sister, was really bad at it. has been writing a horror novel since she was a teenager, it's still not done. VIRGIN: haha. absolutely not. FAVORITE COLOR: faded purple. desaturated colours. FAVORITE DRINK: jelly shots, fireball. FAVORITE FOOD: cold salad any crustacean, big fan of cheap freezer shrimp. FAVORITE MUSIC: rock and country. CLOTHING STYLE: oversized anything! but especially tan trenches. she does occasionally wear more official outfits, like she has a real nice black suit vest--but that's only on very very rare occasion. usually she's got her tan or black trench coat that used to belong to her dad's. she does wear graphic t's when she's not working, and sometimes tank tops. always wears pants, you will never see cam chase with shorts.

honestly i think one of the things i really like about chase is that she is confidently wrong. there are so many instances where chase is actively trying to push something because she genuinely believes it's right and in some ways, it is!! but things go wrong not only because of the foundation she's working on--she isn't breaking out of the system, she's trying to work with it--but because she is too blinded by her own belief that something is right that she fails to see how much she might be hurting someone.