you're worse than nicotine

she was born in paradise, nevada to a chef for a mother and a restaurant owner for a father.

she learned how to cook at a young age and her mother was convinced she’d follow in her footsteps.

her mother would be proved wrong, however, when a five year old surina announced that she wanted to be like her grandfather, who was an FBI agent. she didn’t want to be a FBI agent, necessarily, but she did want to help people and catch the bad guys.

try as her parents might to change her mind, surina stuck with the decision to be a police officer even as she entered into high school. once she had her mind and heart set on something, it was hard to talk her out of it.

when she was thirteen, she would meet the man who would later become her husband.

at first, they were only friends, but it was around the time her grandfather passed away that she realized she wanted to be more. he was there for her during the funeral and after and despite how young they were, she knew that she loved him.

they started dating at fifteen and he proposed shortly before they graduated. their families were far from thrilled and gave them the usual speech of how they were too young and should wait, but they decided to get married following graduation despite the protests of the ones that they love.

not long after the wedding, she was accepted into the police academy in vegas and they made the move. he started taking classes to become a firefighter while she attended the academy.

while in the academy, she was severely underestimated and isolated at first because of who her grandfather was. everyone knew of the well-respected man who had worked within the lvmpd and when she graduated at the top of her class and joined the police department in vegas, they accused her of only having done so well because of her grandfather. she set out to prove them wrong, however, and she managed to do precisely that.

though she and her husband agreed that they would wait to talk about children, sometimes things didn’t go as planned and she gave birth to a baby boy, who they named arya, at twenty-two. he was the light of their life and she only fell more in love with him after having giving birth and seeing how he was with their son.

tragically, when arya was two, he would fall severely ill and the doctors were unable to save him. the death of their child put a toll on her marriage, but they managed to work through it because they loved each other too much to give up.

surina had always been a bit reckless, but losing arya made her do things she probably shouldn’t when arresting or interrogating someone. she became more aggressive than usual and it took a lot for her to calm herself down.

at twenty-five, she worked a case that involved a particularly dangerous criminal and after getting shot and having surgery, she was offered a promotion and when she was cleared to return to work, she returned with the title of ‘detective’. 

during her leave of abscence from work, she and her husband conceived another child and at twenty-six, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, who they named anaya. anaya was their second chance and she wasn’t going to let anyone or anything ruin it. of course, she was worried that something would go wrong, but as time went on, she learned to not be so worried and realized that anaya was healthier than arya ever had been.

a year after anaya was born, her husband got offered a better job in new york, still working as a firefighter, so they packed their bags and made the move, once everything was in order for rina to transfer to another homicide unit. 

a couple of years ago, her husband began acting strange after returning home from traveling and she started to suspect him of cheating, but she never wanted to believe it. she wrote off her suspicions as her just reading too much into his behavior and went about her life as usual.

however, she learned very recently that he had been having an affair for a little over a year. the realization not only angered her, but it devastated her because he was the only person she’d ever loved and she couldn’t understand why he would destroy everything that they had over some woman he’d met and not known for very long.

after seventeen years of marriage and being with that same man for twenty years, she’s in the middle of a divorce and they are fighting for sole custody for their daughter because her husband claims she isn’t capable of being a mother. however, they are both angry and hurt and she thinks the custody battle has more to do with that than anything because they are both great parents.

the stress from her personal life resulted in her disobeying orders and putting herself, as well as another officer, in danger. she was on suspension for thirty days but the thirty days is now up and she’s back to work, but still being forced to take anger management and see a therapist. 

there’s more, but that’s the gist of it for now. PERSONALITY:

+ ambitious, loyal, adventurous, spontaneous, hardworking, empathetic, supportive, strong, brave, caring - aggressive, reckless, impulsive, abrasive, tactless, destructive, difficult, cynical, fatalistic, impatient, moody, resentful

HEADCANONS:

Growing up with a mother for a chef, Surina developed a talent for baking and cooking, though it is more of a hobby for her than anything. She can cook/bake almost anything, but Indian and Italian cuisine are her specialties.

Her grandfather was an FBI agent ( he passed away when she was twenty-seven ) and it was because of him that, at five years old, she announced she wanted to be an officer of the law.

Because both of her parents are from India and often spoke Punjabi at home, she is well-versed in the language and having spent so much time around her parents, she has a hint of an accent. Her accent is particularly noticeable when she is upset or excited.

She has several tattoos, the most important being the one on the inside of her right wrist, which is her son’s initials, with his birth and death date included in the letters.

She is particularly skilled with a firearm, mostly from shooting at a young age with her grandfather but also from hunting with her father.

She is both book smart, as well as street smart, and because of this, she graduated at the top of her class in the academy, though many speculated that she only did so well because she’s the granddaughter of a respected special agent within the FBI.

Though her seventeen year marriage would suggest otherwise, Surina is rather hard to get through to. The things she has seen and what she has been through have made her hard. She does not open up easily and once her trust is lost, it cannot be regained.

The locket around her neck was a locket that her husband gave to her after they had their first child. Despite everything going on between them, she does not take it off because it is a reminder of the son that they lost.

She has an eight month old husky pom puppy, who she named Mica.