Name: Dylan Thomas MacEvitt
Description: Age 28, Married, Male, 5'11", 170#, Blue, Dark hair
Code Name: Poet
Date of Birth: 03.13.1975
Place of Birth: Twin Lakes, Wisconsin
Gaming notes: Faceman; High CHA, High WIS.
Family:
Previous: Bachelors Degree in Psychology (minor in Theatre), Master's Degree in Criminal Psychology.
Home: Dylan lives in a Boston 'suburb' that is, in his opinion, merely one more tiny east-coast village justifiably lost in the tangled undergrowth. He gets to work by commuting to an unremarkable underground parking garage and using a fire exit that no one else does -- on a normal day, the fifteen-mile trip takes an interminable forty-five minutes and boasts only three stoplights largely ignored by the other drivers.
Profession: Jessica knows only that he's works 'analysis' for an Intelligence agency and doesn't want to know more. They tell their friends that he works with a communications development company wholly owned by AOL/Time-Warner and everyone drops the subject.
Languages: Whattya need?
Background: Dylan's a US-born citizen who spent a great deal of time abroad in his youth -- his father was a diplomat, which translated into expensive boarding schools on both the American coasts as well as Great Britain, Japan, and Italy. He has never cared for France but prefers not to go into it.
Claim to fame?: Dylan excels at reading people: he is a natural profiler and uses that talent to good effect when attempting to pass himself off using a cover identity or when interrogating suspects.
Hobbies: Dylan jogs, as much to 'get away from everything' (the job, his private life) as for any health benefit. He will freely admit that it is a mind-numbingly boring activity with very little to recommend it -- he finds it useful because the boredom gives his mind a chance to "turn things over" -- he often comes back from a run with a new idea or solution to a problem.
Biggest source of trouble?: That would probably be the problems/stress caused in his personal life by being part of the
Agency. Dylan's wife (Jessica) knows that he works for an unspecified intelligence network, and knows that she can't tell their friends, which is fine with her -- she finds the whole thing vaguely embarassing. Frankly, she doesn't really want to know any more about what Dylan does; she is a very no-nonsense person who wants the American (yuppie) dream of a lovely house, nice cars, sophisticated friends, and one or two kids in the very, very distant future -- the fact that Dylan gets phone calls and pages at "all hours", even on the weekends, is a continual low-grade bone of contention for the couple. Jessica wants Dylan's job to "behave like a 'real' job", because "this nonsense" doesn't fit in with her picturesque goals at all. As far as she knows, Dylan's a desk-bound analyst.
Favorite gadget?: When it comes to high-tech gizmos, Dylan prefers the subtle: a PDA with full connectivity to the Agency network, a telescope/pen, or a radio/wristwatch. His only unbending preference is for U.S.-made handguns, especially Colts (which generally means using pistols in a very unsubtle .45 caliber) -- his current sidearm is a modern, sleeker version of the classic Colt 1911, the 'Defender'. He'd actually love to put together a collection of Colt pistols, both antique and modern, but Jess would never let him keep them in the house -- to Dylan, one of the fringe benefits to actually getting a private office in the
Complex would be the chance this might give him to start such a collection.
(Originally posted
here)
Dylan MacEvitt (born Dylan Thomas McEvitt) has a natural gift for understanding people. Even when he was young, Dylan saw through the facades and phantoms that people hang around themselves as a way of concealing their true motivations.
Unlike many people with a natural gift, Dylan went out of his way to hone the ability with practice and study in related fields, graduating Redlands University with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a desire to do something substantial with his knowledge and native talent. He spent the next year traveling and investigating possible applications for his training and (after an unsettling experience in Atlanta) had settled on pursuing a Master's degree in Criminal Psychology when his life changed dramatically.
The
Agency recruited him at twenty-three. Two agents from that clandestine organization had been peripherally involved in the events in Atlanta and reported Dylan's involvement in their debriefing -- after preliminary investigations, the clear concensus was to recruit MacEvitt before someone else (inevitably) did.
Dylan took to espionage work with the enthusiasm. A natural leader, MacEvitt uses his talent for reading people in a number of unorthodox ways... most notably when attempting to cajole a superior into making allowances for his team (when necessary), or in undermining the confidence of enemy agents with a few careful chosen words. (Conversely, he has a similar knack for bolstering a teammate's effort a critical moments.)
MacEvitt is no super-agent: he'll be the first to admit that he at his best when surrounded by people (either allies or enemies), but his gift for profiling and manipulation have made him a valued member of the Agency's lower echelon. Were it not for a handful of minor citations for insubordination (he is fiercely and sometimes foolishly loyal to his team, even in the face of his superiors) he might have already progressed even further within the organization.
(originaly posted
here)
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