Criminal Minds OC

Basic Information

Full Name: Veronica Rebecca Harrington
Nicknames: Roni (by everyone), V (by everyone), Recca (by everyone)
Aliases: N/A

Age: 43 (as of Season Twelve)
Birthday: October 31st, 1973

Race/Ethnicity: African-American
Religion: Atheist
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Place Of Birth: Fort Hood, Texas, United States Of America
Current Residence: Quantico, Virginia, United States Of America
Fluent Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
Relationship Status: Divorced

Occupation: U.S. Marine (former), FBI Agent (current)


Physical Appearance

Overall Figure: Veronica has a well-developed figure with curves in the right places.

Height: 5'5
Weight: 126 lbs

Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Hair Style: Varies

Piercings: Ears
Jewelry: N/A
Tattoos: N/A
Scars/Distinguishing Marks: Veronica has numerous scars on her body from her time in the Marines.

Clothing Style: Example 1 Example 2 Example 3


Health

Smoker - No | Drinker - Yes | Drug User - No

Disabilities (Physical or Otherwise): N/A
Mental Illnesses: N/A
Addictions: N/A
Allergies: N/A


Personality

Veronica is a woman with a quiet, icy, and classy demeanor. She's usually distant and reserved, preferring to express herself through her actions rather than words. Whenever she does speak, she speaks candidly and bluntly with lots of sass. Veronica absolutely abhors small talk and frivolousness. Deep, interesting, and meaningful conversations are more up her alley. Veronica isn't easy to get close to and her headstrong, emancipated nature just makes it even more difficult. She applies the term "Quality over quantity" to everything in her life, especially people. She's rather choosy and picky about who she allows in her heart and is very observant which helps her with making those decisions.

Veronica is very ambitious and has a hard work ethic, bordering on being a workaholic. She's very dominant, tough-minded, and disciplined. She has a "common sense" and "big sister" role amongst her peers, giving them advice, warning them of their actions, and being very protective of them. Veronica has a lot of hidden trauma and pain hidden underneath her "ice queen" persona and keeps many cards close to her chest. She prefers to keep her feelings inside and rarely expresses them.

But one would be a fool to think that Veronica doesn't have a wild and crazy side. Sometimes she gets tired of putting up her walls and will let them down but only when she truly feels comfortable enough to do so. When she does so, Veronica will become kind and even generous and affectionate. She also isn't afraid to have a good laugh and has a healthy if not varied sense of humor. Because of the amount of pain Veronica has gone through in her life, she has a high amount of empathy as well as a big heart and can easily insert herself into other people's shoes. If she sees someone in trouble or struggling, no matter how big or small, she'll do everything in her power to help them if they'll accept it. Her compassion knows no bounds.

 

Veronica's trauma and pain runs deep and it has caused her to become rather repressed and inhibited, especially sexually. She has kept everything inside for so long that she doesn't know how to be vulnerable and open up to others. Despite her beauty, Veronica doesn't think very highly of herself, thinks that her body is unattractive and unworthy of sex and love, and also feels guilt and shame when it comes to expressing herself sexually and having sexual desires. This is something that Veronica is afraid to admit despite evidence to the contrary and it has caused issues in her personal relationships which causes more pain for her.

Theme Song: Missing by Evanescence

Fears: Being taken advantage of, being vulnerable
Favorite Color: Black
Hobbies: Reading, cars, motorcycles, video games, cooking
Tastes In Music: What Veronica listens to depends on how she's feeling. She has a wide variety of music that she listens to.


Skills

Talents/Skills:

• Veronica is a skilled markswoman as well as tactician and has won many awards and badges during her time in the Marines.
  
• Veronica's main specialties are analysis and counterintelligence. She's excellent at blending in, being undercover, interrogation, and stealth. Intelligence as a whole is her best and most lethal skill.
• Veronica is quite passionate about cars and motorcycles, being a very skilled mechanic and even participating in races whenever she can. She also has quite a collection that she rarely shares with anyone, considering her cars and bikes her babies.

Combat

Peaceful or Aggressive: Aggressive

Fighting Skills:

• Kickboxing
• Jujitsu
• Judo

Family, Friends, and Foes

Family

 

Mother: Aileen Grant (nee Banks) | Police Lieutenant | Alive

Stepfather: Anthony Grant | U.S. Navy (former), Fire Captain (current) | Alive

Stepuncle: Mark Grant | IT Specialist | Alive
Father: David Harrington | U.S. Marine | Alive
Stepmother: Charlene Harrington (nee Morton) | U.S. Army (former), Lawyer (current) | Alive

Younger Sister: Tiana Harrington | Banker | Alive

Younger Sister: Tisean Harrington | Tattoo Artist | Alive

Stepbrother: Anthony Grant Jr. | Chef | Alive

Ex-Husband: Joseph Summers | Software Engineer | Alive
Daughter: Naomi Summers | Alive

Son: Joseph Summers | Alive

Daughter: Josephine Summers | Alive

 

Crush: Aaron Hotchner, Sean Hotchner, Spencer Reid, Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss, Penelope Garcia

Past: Veronica's father David was a U.S. Marine and he had met her mother Aileen while he was in college. They fell in love which resulted in Aileen getting pregnant and they eloped in Hawaii. The couple settled down in Fort Hood, Texas where Veronica was born. She had a happy childhood and many great memories but little did she know, things were going to get really bad really quickly.

Aileen and David had gotten divorced when Veronica was 8 due to irreconcilable differences and her parents shared custody of her but Veronica spent most of her time at her mom's place due to her father's career. Her mother had gotten remarried to an officer in the U.S. Navy who already had a son and her father had gotten remarried to a prominent military lawyer and had two more daughters.

 

Having a blended family made Veronica come out of her shell and she had great memories with her newfound stepparents and siblings but there were some bad memories to go along with them. Her stepfather Anthony's younger brother Mark was inappropriate with Veronica from the moment he first met her and the grooming soon escalated to full-blown rape when she was 13. Whenever there was a family gathering or reunion, Veronica would be subject to sexual and mental abuse at the hands of Mark but as she got older, she began to fight back against him and avoided him whenever possible, wanting to get away from him and never see him again.

After graduating from high school, Veronica decided to enlist into the Marines, following in her father's footsteps and her MOS was 5811: Military Police. She quickly built a name for herself thanks to her determination, hard work ethic, and sassy attitude and it wasn't long before she worked her way up the ranks and became a Special Agent in the Criminal Investigation Division, even earning a Silver Star for her bravery and heroism. During this time, she had married her longtime sweetheart Joseph Summers, having 3 kids with him. But their relationship was often tumultuous and filled with tension because of Veronica's devotion to her work, her sexual repression which caused them to have a semi-dead bedroom, and the changes to her personality which eventually led to their divorce after 5 years of marriage and 10 overall years of being together. Veronica was very good at her job to the point where she was considered lethal and after 8 years in the Marines, she left and decided to join the FBI with her kids in tow.

Within a year, Veronica found herself in the Counterintelligence Division, working in the Counterespionage Section. She had made quite a name for herself and after 4 years of being there, Veronica decided to join the BAU, seeing it as her ultimate call in life and has been there ever since.