WESTEN, michael andrew

[michael]

MICHAEL ANDREW WESTEN


"twenty years of karate, combat experience on five continents, a rating with every weapon that shoots a bullet or holds an edge... still haven't found any defense against mom crying into my shirt. "

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the basics
character name : michael andrew westen
nickname(s) : mike, mikey
age : thirty-two
date of birth : may 11th, 1980
member group: visitor
sexual orientation : heterosexual
occupation : private investigator


the appearance
appearance : michael stands at a solid six feet, weighing a hundred and eighty-three pounds. he has dark brown hair and blue eyes. he wears suits, most of the time, because of his work. outside of that, he's a jeans and t-shirt sort of guy. he likes to look sharp while on the job. outside of that, he really couldn't care less. also, he has a scar on his left cheek from a beating by his father.


play by ; jeffrey donovan



the personality

likes :

his job
yogurt
his car
fiona
his best friend
tuna and tahini

dislikes :

the bad guys
getting beat up
arguing with fi
damaging his car
getting shot at

strengths :

fiona
loyal
observant
intelligent

weaknesses :

fiona
his mom
temper
forgiving

personality :

• yes, fiona is both a strength and a weakness. she stands by michael, helps him in his work and would die for him, and he for her. the weakness is that he really can't tell her no. he'd give her anything or do anything for her.
  
  
• michael is the loyalist of loyal. to his family, fiona and his best friend. he'd never ever turn his back on any of them.
  
  
• however much he loves his mother, she's a serious pain. but, because he loves her so much, she's a weakness for him. michael has a hard time telling her no. plus, in his line of work, people have and will use his family against him.
  
  
• michael doesn't just 'leap'. he does a lot of listening and observing beforehand. he always thinks things through, because in his line of work it could be life or death.
  
  
• he doesn't have a short temper, though when he finally gets to the point of loosing it, watch out. michael has a very hard time controlling it once it's there, and sometimes he doesn't want to control it.
  
  
• michael is extremely intelligent. always thinking, always has a plan. hopefully, anyway.
  
  
• he has a very hard time forgiving people. even his family, at times, depending on what they've done.
  

the family life


partner : fiona glenanne, thirty-one, former member of the ira, currently a foreign arms dealer
children : n/a
mother : madeline westen, fifty-one, retired
father : frank westen, fifty-three, unknown
siblings : alyssa brooke westen, twenty-three, physical therapist
other significant relatives : n/a


history : my name is michael andrew westen, and i was born on may 11th, 1980, to frank and madeline westen in miami, florida. my father was abusive, both physically and emotionally, and my mother did nothing to stop it. i was a pretty quiet kid, having no siblings till i was nine, when my sister alyssa came along. my father abused her, too, as she got older, which made us very close.

i stole some groceries when i was nine, my father having blown his paycheck on alcohol. things only got worse, and i was ten when i stole my first car. whenever dad got drunk and we needed groceries that's what i'd do. so by twelve, i'd stolen quite a few. mom knew about it, but always kept her mouth shut. when alyssa reached high school, i saw it as my job to protect her from bullies. they listened to me for the most part, but i still had a few fights over it.

i was fifteen when i decided to dump all my dad's alcohol down the toilet, trying to help his alcohol problem, but it only made things worse. he decided to take the brunt of it out on my mom. that was also the year he made me rebuild his charger, from the ground up. i always had good grades in high school, but it didn't count for much, with how much i got suspended.

when i was seventeen, i'd had enough. i decided i was going to join the army. but, i had to get signatures from both of my parents. to my surprise, they both did. or so i thought. i later found out that mom forged dad signature so i could get out. she knew i'd end up in jail if i didn't do something good. so i left, missing my own graduation. i had a girlfriend at the time, and thought she'd wait for me, but on my first leave i found that a 'friend' of mine had stolen her from me. so i drove his motorcycle into the river.

i spent some time in the military, my dad passing away while i was there. then got out, becoming a private investigator. i traveled all over the world, and that's how i met fiona. i was in dublin, ireland, working undercover as a michael mcbride. we hit it off pretty much from the beginning, hooking up often while i was there. it soon became a serious romance, which was abruptly ended when my cover was compromised. i had to leave without telling her why or where i'd gone. i met my best friend, sam, a few years later while in bulgaria. he was a navy seal while i was in the army, becoming a free lancer like me, so we became fast friends.

four years after the dublin incident, i was back in miami and fiona found me, some how. she gave it to me good, being a very violent person, but after taking some of her anger out on me, i explained everything and we got back into a relationship. we fight a lot, even though we love each other. i guess we just have a strange way of showing it.

recently i've been hired to investigate some goings on in a little town called hope harbor, in maine. fiona, of course, opted to come with me, as did sam. i wasn't told much about the situation, so hopefully the citizens of hope harbor are a talkative bunch. either way, i'm not going anywhere to i get to the bottom of it.

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