Hello there! I'm detective Whitrose, you may or may not have heard of me, depending on when you are. And where, I suppose, but mostly when. I move through time, solving unsolved mysteries. Mostly crimes. I'm sure the idea of me doing that is a conspiracy somewhere, which I do hate to prove right but I'm afraid, just this once, the impossible is possible.
Please forgive any technological errors, time gets confusing and I don't often stay here. My assistant insisted that I do something to socialize, which is, I've found, exceedingly difficult when the people around me are anything but consistent from day to day. Also, I just don't go out enough to make proper friends. It's a major character flaw, I will admit that. Anyway, this was the agreed upon solution.
I look forward to getting to know you all a little better.
Character Information - The Detective
Full name: Elizabeth Jemima Whitrose
Alias(es): E.J. Whitrose, Ollie Hackett
Occupation: Detective
Age: Somewhere from late 20s to mid 30s, she's honestly lost track
Height: 5'6
Hair colour: Light brown
Eye colour: Dark brown
Pronouns: She/her
Sexuality: Aroace (sex repulsed, romance favourable)
Trivia:
She hates being called "Liz" but she lets her assistant use the name occasionally because she likes seeing him smile
She definitely has undiagnosed adhd
She often hyperfixates on cases and forgets to eat and drink water for hours at a time
She carries a pocket knife everywhere she goes and she's very good at fighting with it
She hates guns but knows how to use them, if necessary
She owns a bookwheel
She is a deeply unorganized person
Her investigations often involve cork board and red string
She is a professional at bottling up her emotions. This is bad for her
Character Information - The Assistant
Full name: Oliver Hackett
Alias(es): E.J. Whitrose
Occupation: Detective's assistant*
Age: A year younger than The Detective
Height: 6'2
Hair colour: Blond
Eye colour: Grey
Pronouns: He/they
Sexuality: Pansexual
Trivia:
He prefers "Ollie" to "Oliver" but only Elizabeth ever calls him Ollie
He cannot function at all in a messy environment
He hates puzzles because he thinks he's terrible at them
He has the opposite of resting bitch face and he has to consciously correct it when he's posing as the detective
He carries the pocket watch that allows them to time travel on his person at all times
His mind runs at a mile a minute so he often trips over his words
He is very open about his emotions and he wishes Elizabeth could be too
He and Elizabeth are in a QPR
*Bodyguard, PR person, makeup artist, costume designer, cleaner, face of the detective
Backstory - The Detective
Elizabeth's mother was killed when she was very young. Technically, the body was never found, however a vaguely similar one was deemed a Jane Doe just one town over. Even at a young age, she knew something was off about it but nobody believed her because she was just a child. Her father refused to side with her on the matter. She thought all was lost until a woman, who looked a great deal like her mother, showed up and fought for her argument. Except this woman had more than just a hunch, she had evidence. In the end, the Jane Doe was identified as her mother and got a proper burial.
She spent the next many years of her life hoping to be just like the woman who had been on her side when even her father was not. She also desperately wanted to know who the woman was but she could find no good information on that. As she grew, her fascination with solving the unsolved only increased. That was, until everything slammed to a halt as one day she looked in the mirror and recognized the reflection, not as herself but as somebody she met years ago.
Backstory - The Assistant
Growing up, Oliver lacked ambition. His older brother died when he was sixteen and he never quite recovered. He spent years drifting through life, wandering, and distancing himself from everybody he cared for to avoid having to go through such a loss again. His wandering led him all over the world. He was a performing magician for a while, however, once he exhausted the rush of it, he quit entirely. Performing left him with many useless trinkets. Among these, there was an intricate pocket watch. It had symbols he did not understand and knobs that most watches did not. That did not matter to him, he only bought it because it was pretty.
One day, after he had quit, he decided to clear out his collection of useless things. While doing so, he noticed that the watch was ticking off time. When he tried to fix it, it worked not by adjusting the watch's time but by adjusting the time around him. Fascinated, he started fiddling with other parts of it. That dropped him in the middle of a park somewhere he did not recognize, where a woman, lost in a book and ignoring her surroundings completely, immediately collided with him.
Present Information
Elizabeth is the actual detective, however, since they travel to the past fairly often, the general public believes Oliver is the detective. This deception was a willing choice by Elizabeth to avoid any barriers her gender might put in her path throughout time. She hates that the lie is necessary but, for her to get anything done, and for her sanity, it is. Though sometimes she does feel like a coward for hiding behind it.
Oliver has never been happier. Elizabeth is the first person to accept him for all of his flaws. He has a lot of friends but he rarely gets to be truly himself around them. Because of this, he is quick to doubt his place with people, even Elizabeth sometimes. His people pleasing tendencies are helpful when taking on the role of detective because they allow him to easily slip into the role of somebody who is not quite him.
Blog information
Tags
#elizabeth speaks - Posts from Elizabeth
#oliver speaks - Posts from Oliver
#whitrose speaks - Posts from Oliver as the detective
#hackett speaks - Posts from Elizabeth as the assistant
#liz mentioned - Posts in which Elizabeth is mentioned
#ollie mentioned - Posts in which Oliver is mentioned
#mod speaks - Posts containing anything OOC in them
If both characters speak in a post together, Elizabeth's text will be orange
Mod: @ihavenoconsistentinterests
I will have proper drawings of the characters eventually
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