PLAYER: Jenna
AGED 18+? Yes.
RESERVED? Yes.
IN-GAME CHARACTERS: N/A. Invited by Coffee.

NAME: Linda Park
CANON: DCTV's The Flash
CANON POINT: post 2x06, "Enter Zoom"
ARRIVAL TYPE: Rescued. The rescue would take place after Linda recieves a photo of Barry's injuries post-Zoom encounter, while she is en route to Coast City.
IC USERNAME: @spicechampion

HISTORY: Linda's entry at the DCTV Wiki. 

PERSONALITY: Linda is straightforward to a fault - what you see is what you get with her. Driven, determined, opinionated without apology or deferral, she is proud of her accomplishments, of her ambition and path both in  her career and in the world. As a journalist in the sports and entertainment field, she works hard in a hard industry, and she knows she has to put in twice the work to get a quarter of the recognition and approval.

When she focuses her attention on something new, it's an all or nothing sort of experience. She finds a sort of peace in mastering something new, in learning all that there is to something. Whether it's a hobby, like finding the ultimate records for her collection, or a new skill, that sort of rapt attention and focus becomes fuel to the fire until she's checked off whatever achievement is looming over the horizon.

Some achievements are more of a continuous moving finish line, like finding the perfect record. Some are further out, fire under her heels, like her carreer goals - she wants to be the proper editor of a paper one day, wants to get away from sports and write about real things. Whether in her career or in an interpersonal context, like relationships not working out, failure is frustrating for her. When she fails, she gets upset, retreats into herself a bit, gets a bit harder on the surface until she can rationalize it out again, and find her balance.

Linda can be prideful and stubborn, and often doesn't consider how her own rocket fuel might burn the people around her. As an example: with Barry, she never considered that her own excitement, her own delight at finding someone so delighted with her would result in someone so torn between one passion and another. (It's worth nothing that her disappointment and frustration is tempered in hindsight by his admission of being the Flash - she can appreciate and accept that someone might value work over love, but not playing games.)

Linda's not fond of her romantic side, of that ambitious side of her that secretly dreams in whitewashed pickets and tire swings. Linda wants that, in some distant future, wants that as an accomplishment in life, a achievement unlocked. Her emotions sometimes scare her, overwhelming and strong and driving in their own right. she stamps those down, in favor of lust that can be controlled and compartmentalized - especially post-Zoom, where emotional connections nearly cost her her life. This can make her seem cold, calculating even; she's lost connections with friends and lovers for coming off as unfeeling, emotionally detached. 

Post-Zoom, entering into ClockBox, she's still recognizable as Linda, at least outwardly. Inside, she's a little shell-shocked, a little broken up from the sheer terror of facing her own mortality. There simply isn't enough time between learning the identity of the Flash and being dropped off a building to have the utmost faith in a superhero's abilities, and that has deeply shaken her.

In this new place, she'll need to trust the people she knows, but new trust is going to take time. Recognizing that new faces aren't Earth-2 visitors out to get them, that there's no Zoom around the corner, will take time. She wants to believe, though, that the world is still a good place. Give her a day to settle and some place to call home base, and Linda will tackle this mystery like any other: by researching all possible leads, interviewing all new faces, and leaving no stone unturned. 

INVENTORY: En-route to Coast City, Linda would have packed for a few days but not for life. I'd like her to leave her luggage (perhaps on accident), but retain her purse. Contents would include: her cell phone, journalist's flip pad and her space pen, a travel size bottle of hot sauce, a dog earned copy of Brave New World (with a flower pressed in the pages), and assorted mints/hair ties/loose objects. 

CHANGES: N/A

ONE: Linda's ClockBox TDM thread(s), featuring Eddie Thawne, Cisco Ramon, Leonard Snart + Mick Rory, + others
TWO: Network/prose at Linda's Eudio TDM thread, featuring Eddie Thawne
THREE: A network post, featuring Caitlin Snow.

FOUR, a written piece that has no home: 

"nobody got hurt", she tells barry. it isn't true. she gets hurt, but she gets to be the one to choose the hurt. control over that hurt is important.

she learns that barry has feelings for someone else. she finds out that it's iris. doesn't know, immediately, if she's learning this because iris has feelings back or if iris simply doesn't want to share, but she's not an idiot. it doesn't take a genius to see that barry is into iris.

it's almost inevitable that what they have - something casual, something outside of barry's main life, main friends and family, something tangential - is going to be sacrificed for the more important things.

she decides to call it quits, decides to let barry chase whatever it is he's going to go for, to whatever extent it might go.

she tells him it's okay, gives him her blessing, but she goes home and deals. on her own, reminds herself of what she wants and what's important. takes a few days mini vacation, a long weekend to rainy keystone city to wander record shops and book stores and soak her mind in the things that she loves, her own inspirations.

when she comes back, it's in the past. no amount of dreaming in the past can change that.