Post by Kai Edvard Falkenberg on May 4, 2013 10:27:57 GMT -5
KAI EDVARD FALKENBERG
FULL NAME: Kai Edvard Falkenberg.
NICKNAMES: N/A
AGE: twenty-eight
SEXUALITY: straight
STATUS: single
GROUP: citizen.
GRADE: N/A
MAJOR: N/A.
JOB OCCUPATION: NYPD Detective
HAIR: Short and blonde, though it can look a lighter brown at times. Usually kept tidily brushed back from his face and kept in place with a tiny bit of gel. He’s not usually too fussed about his hair, so long as it’s not falling into his eyes and annoying him.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: He has some blast scarring on the left side of his chest.
TATTOOS: It’s the insignia for US Navy EOD and it’s on his left arm, at the very top of his bicep.
PIERCINGS: None.
PLAY-BY: Alexander Skarsgard!
LIKES: diving, swimming, the water, his job, old books, strong coffee, black t-shirts, walking through the city in the hour before dawn, Norway, summer, being tee-total, working out, the gym, running, old music from the sixties, the ocean, simplicity, early finishes, Thai food, boats, bananas, energy drinks, languages, playing translator on the job, reuniting with old friends, long drives out to the coast, his uniforms, comedy nights, treating his sister and his niece, corndogs, arcades, fairgrounds, loyalty, leather jackets.
DISLIKES: cats (the hairs get everywhere), cases going cold, hearing bad news, people relying on alcohol, warm juice, soppy love songs, needy people, his family being upset, feeling anxious, obnoxious people, delayed flights, liars, complications, talking about himself, his car breaking down, smoking, drugs, laziness, weak excuses, the flu, actually using his gun, Manhattan traffic, his mom telling him to shave, teen pop music, complaining, hypocrites, burnt food, rare meat, hunting, soap operas, reality TV, romantic comedies.
FEARS: something bad happening to his sister again, dying without telling his family/friends he loves them, being buried alive.
SECRETS: He left the US Navy so that he would be able to protect his sister if anything else ever happened to her. He feels like he let her down once before when he was completely unreachable when she was attacked and never wants her or his parents to be in that position again.
PERSONAILTY: Kai is seriously protective of those he cares about. He can come across a little too strongly at times, but he really does have their best interests at heart when he starts questioning the people in their lives. He can be impatient but he’s also extremely disciplined and has oodles of respect for people who he believes deserves it. He’s surprisingly calm but this is thanks to that disciplined approach to life and his job. Kai is athletic and usually feels out of sorts if he doesn’t manage to fit the basics of a workout into his daily life. He’s sensible and while he does enjoy a good night out, you can always guarantee that Kai will be the designated driver; he’s tee-total out of choice alone and has never seen the point in drinking or smoking or doing drugs, but he doesn’t go around lecturing those who do unless he truly believes they need it. Most of the time, he’s quiet and his social interactions can seem like interrogations. He doesn’t mean for them to be, but he’s always lived for his job and switching off can sometimes be a difficult task. Kai can appear secretive, but he’s seen a lot in his adult life and he prefers to spare others the horror stories. If he’s reliving a memory or he’s had a bad day he’ll just simply prefer not to talk about it. On the other hand, Kai is proud of his past and his accomplishments. He never goes around boasting about them – he’s actually overall, generally modest – but if someone asks him about it or he’s catching up with the guys he used to know then he’s more than happy to explain what he did and recount tales of his training days; it’s just the warfare he tends to leave out of his civilian life. Kai may not seem it at first glance, but he’s a compassionate man and he has to be with his job. He can be persuasive and reassuring though one wouldn’t necessarily call him charming. He’s fiercely loyal and will always have your back. Kai isn’t aggressive by nature, but he can defend himself and others if it’s needed and he will do so without hesitation. He will go out of his way to make others feel better and spends more time than people think following up on old victims or speaking at meetings across the city. He lives for others, always has done. In a way, it hinders his own life a bit, but Kai doesn’t notice. It’s only when the holidays roll around and his mom asks him about finding a nice girl that he realises his love life is lacking. He’s not in a rush to settle down, but after spending time with his niece he has realised that he does want kids one day!
MOTHER: Felicia Carin Falkenberg, 56.
FATHER: Christen Lukas Falkenberg, 58.
SIBLINGS: Astrid Elsa Falkenberg, 24.
OTHERS: Teodora-Kaia Falkenberg (TK), 6, niece.
PETS: Tallak, German Shepherd!
HOMETOWN: Long Island, New York.
HISTORY: Christen and Felicia were both from Kristiansand in Southern Norway. They met a little later in life than most, once college was out of the way and careers were secured, but they preferred it that way. They shared the same dreams of making it to America and it was a dream that Christen surprised Felicia with not long after they were married. An expanding company had a bottom rung position for him if he wanted it and they would provide the newlyweds with a house out there. It may have been a slight cut in his pay, but it was a step in the direction of their dreams and without hesitation they packed up and hopped oceans to Long Beach, New York.
Kai was born a little over a year after the couple had settled into their new life and their new home. Christen would spend some weeks away from home working, but they managed to maintain a happy, bright family environment and Felicia was more than happy to stay at home with her son for the time being. When Kai was four, his baby sister Astrid came along, kicking and screaming her way into the world. He remembers not being too keen on being a big brother at first, but once she stopped waking him up screaming most nights he found it to be quite a good job and as they got older he only grew more protective of his little sister.
Whenever the children weren’t in school, the family returned to Kristiansand. Both Kai and Astrid were raised to speak Norwegian, which was the language commonly used around the house if nowhere else. Plus, it allowed the siblings to have conversations at school without anyone else listening in; it came in handy when Kai wanted to warn her about some of the boys in her class once they were older.
Kai was never very academic, but he loved sports, especially swimming. In high school he made the swim team and getting him out of the water was a challenge in itself. He may not have been the best on the team, but he was up there with them and he had a couple of medals and trophies in his bedroom by the time high school graduation rolled around. He made decent enough grades, but unlike the rest of his classmates, he didn’t find himself getting excited for college or the parties and the shenanigans that came with it. Kai had been raised well and never drank, smoked or touched drugs, purely out of his own choice. He just didn’t see the appeal in getting wrecked out of his head, especially not when he worked hard the rest of the time to look after himself. He went through the typical boyish stages with girls, but there was nothing back then that sticks out in his mind now by way of regrets or true love lost.
He honestly had no idea what to do with his life until a friend of his mention joining the military. Kai had never really considered it before, but he looked into the different branches and eventually felt as though the US Navy was his calling. His parents were a little shocked by his choice, but Kai passed all the necessities to enlist and soon found himself leaving home and heading to Illinois for his recruitment training. Astrid didn’t want her big brother to leave, but they couldn’t hold him back and by the PIR they couldn’t have felt prouder of him. Kai had another surprise up his sleeve though for his family. During his final week at Command, he had volunteered to join the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) technicians. He had his medical and fitness tests the following week and once again passed straight through them with flying colours, which was unfortunate for his mother’s worry.
The training was brutal, all fifty one weeks of it. There were times when he wanted to call it a day and give in, but so did the rest of the men training with him and together they seemed to pull each other through those low moments. It was hard for Kai to explain to others, but they were like a family and they had each other’s backs whenever they needed. Further away from home again, in Florida, Kai was put through so much in terms of his training that once it was complete he vowed that he’d never say he couldn’t do something again. Everything was so intense and there was so much to think about at the same time as everything else that he started to realise why some of his recruitment buddies thought he was mad for volunteering in the first place, especially before he had even graduated from boot camp.
Still, Kai persevered and he made it through, finally wrapping up in California with a relieved grin before getting assigned to his first mobile unit in Bahrain. His first tour at sea lasted five years in total, with sporadic trips home when leave was granted to him. Kai loved his job though and despite knowing how much his mom worried about him, especially when he was actively on duty and not just adding to his training at the unit, he couldn’t wait to get back out there each time. He was wrapping up his final days before his leave when an IED that was being disarmed by a colleague exploded, catching both of them in the blast. Luckily, neither were severely injured and together they fought to contain the rest of the devices before making it back to the sub they were stationed on at the time. They both had some burns, but Kai got off lightly compared to his friend who needed longer to recover and who left after his first enlistment period expired.
While he was away responding to his last emergency call of that tour, his little sister was attending college in New York and training to be a nurse. One night though, while getting the subway back to her apartment after cramming for finals, Astrid was attacked. By the time Kai received the news she had been discharged from the hospital and he was only granted a week of leave to go and see her. He felt as though no matter how much good he did to protect the country, he couldn’t protect his baby sister. Astrid told him that he was daft for thinking like that and by the time his leave was up she had reassured him that she loved him more for what he did than she could do if he had just happened to be at the subway station that night.
Kai re-enlisted with the Navy to continue his career and this time started his three year shore rotation, which meant he was back in San Diego, but still doing the job he loved. During this time he also managed to obtain a college degree in linguistics, thanks to military help. It was never something he specifically wanted, but his commanding officer told him that it could come in handy should he ever choose to pursue different avenues once he stepped down from EOD, which he would do automatically once he hit thirty-one.
It was still something that played on his mind and something that set root when Astrid discovered that she was pregnant; a result of the attack. There was a lot of confusion in the family home for a while, but his sister was strong and Kai hated it. Astrid would remind their parents where Kai had been and what he had seen and how he still bounded through the door with a grin and a joke for them all every time he came home. He tried to tell her that it wasn’t the same, but Astrid was stubborn and nine months later, when Kai was once again responding to an emergency, Teodora-Kaia was born. The men he’s still in touch with refuse to let him live down the moment of his return to base when he discovered that he was an uncle to a beautiful baby girl who partly shared his name. Astrid wanted her little girl to be strong and brave and could think of no better role model than Kai. It touched him more than words could say and the men he was stationed with got a glimpse of that.
A little over two years went by and it was time for Kai to re-enlist again, but this time, he declined. After everything that had happened he wanted to be closer to his sister and his niece. He had lost friends over the eight years since he had signed the recruitment papers and he felt obligated to return to New York and help his sister. It wasn’t an easy choice to make, but Kai felt like it was the right one and after an Honourable Discharge was awarded to him, he was put in contact with some friends of his captain in New York. He was offered a civilian based EOD job, but for the sake of his mom who seems more fearful of what might happen to her children since Astrid was attacked and she heard the horror stories of some of Kai’s injuries, he politely declined it, instead choosing a route that – in his mind – was a little less dangerous than bomb disposal. Kai joined the NYPD as a police officer and his military background helped further him along in that career until eventually the title of Detective was handed to him.
He received a position in the Brooklyn division of the Special Victims Squad, which had been his goal all along. After what happened to Astrid, he wanted to make sure that he did his bit to keep people safe from the monsters out there. Kai’s only been on the team for a few months now, but he’s proving himself to be useful and his multi-lingual capabilities have also come in handy once or twice. He may not be diffusing bombs anymore, but he’s got the know-how to handle a lot more than his appearance may suggest.
With that career currently his new passion, Kai spends the rare free weekends he has taking TK off Astrid’s hands so that she can let her hair down. His sister graduated a little later than she intended to, but she’s working in the hospital now and Kai is only too happy to look after and spoil his niece whenever time will allow it. He’s also still dropping in on his parents and reminding them that he’s alive and well (but ignoring his mom’s pleas to find a bride) and spending a bit of his free time to speak at victim support groups or contact his old Naval buddies. In a way, seeing them and speaking about everything with those who have loved ones deployed overseas helps him too. He doesn’t want to forget what he did or what he saw and while he may be a NYPD Detective now, he’s always going to think of himself first and foremost as that Naval EOD technician, travelling the waters!
YOUR ALIAS: Kim.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: While looking for Atlantis.
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