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Gideon Mandel Special Agent Gideon Mandel has been with the Bureau for nearly thirty years now. It's outlived his marriage - his wife, Janice Lifschitz, left him ten years ago, unable to take it any more. It's not that the job has taken things away from Gideon, though. It's more that he's refused to let them form. The job is his life. Finding, tracking down and putting away serial killers of all kinds, supernatural or not, has consumed him. Despite this, Gideon Mandel is well-known in the Bureau as a straight arrow who never deviates from the letter of the law, and a passionate and ardent opponent to the death penalty. While he's tracked killers for many years, his empathy has yet to be worn away - it's his greatest tool, after all, even if his coworkers can be put off with the amount of caring he often shows to his targets once they're in custody. He has two children, Steven (15) and Melissa (12). He tries to see them when he can, but the job keeps him on the move a lot. He cares more about them than anything else in the world, and always carries photos of them in the inner pocket of his jacket as well as his wallet. He has tried numerous times to write books about his experiences - other agents have done it and made a mint. However, despite his best efforts, it never seems to work out. He has the writing style down, but he just can't help but inject too much of what he's actually seen into it...and that's a problem. The Wintergreen Process awakened latent telapathy in Gideon Mandel, after all. If he seems to have a preternatural connection to the killers he hunts, it's because their thoughts haunt his very dreams. Every book he's ever written has been quashed before publication after giving the readers nightmares. 1. What is the worst thing your character has ever done, from their own perspective? Gideon missed the birth of his daughter because he was on a case. In many ways, this was the last straw for his marriage. While his ex-wife has moved on, and they remain good friends, Gideon has never forgiven himself for not being there. He has sworn to himself that he will not miss her Bat Mitzvah, period. 2. What is the worst thing your character can imagine themselves doing? Choosing to not prevent a death. Gideon dreads the day when he becomes deadened by what he sees enough to agree that someone has to die. 3. What is the worst thing your character can imagine anyone else doing? Gideon has seen a lot of terrible things and thought even worse ones. And yet, for him, it always comes back to cannibalism. The cannibals are the worst. Not the blood-drinkers - the ones who go and eat whole parts of a human. It's disgusting, it's sickening, and it makes Gideon's flesh crawl in ways that other acts don't. 4. What supernatural thing have you seen and forgotten or willfully ignored? On the day he joined the FBI, Gideon met himself leaving the building. The other Gideon was older - much older - but he could still sense that the man he was looking at, scarred and changed though he was, was also Gideon Mandel. Occasionally, he still has nightmares about that meeting, but he remembers nothing of what went on during it. 5. What is the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to your character? There are scars on Gideon's wrists and ankles from one of the times a case went badly. He ended up restrained in the killing room of one of the unsubs that his team was going after. He fought so hard to escape that he left permanent scars along his wrists from the restraints. It didn't work. Gideon doesn't entirely remember what happened - he passed out at some point - but when it was over, his team got him free and the unsub was taken down. But Gideon still remembers the hell of being restrained, unable to do anything but struggle and pray to a God Gideon is no longer sure he believes is there. Mors Rattus fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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