âš‘Â GENDER:Â Ciswoman
âš‘Â PRONOUNS:Â She/Her
âš‘Â AGE:Â 38 (December 25th, 1986)
âš‘Â TYPE:Â Half sibling
âš‘Â HOMETOWN:Â New York City, New York
âš‘Â SEXUALITY:Â Bisexual
âš‘Â JOB:Â On-board Law Enforcement
âš‘Â ACCOMMODATION:Â Emerald
âš‘Â FACECLAIM:Â Cobie Smulders
sexual assault and death of a spouse tw
Reagan always knew she was the apple of her mother’s eye. Not just because Shelby told her as much, but also because no matter what life threw at her, she always had her back, even when it felt like no-one else did. She was a rambunctious child, never really able to stay still or do what she was told, and it landed her in hot water with teachers and other disapproving authority figures alike. Still, Reagan didn’t let that stop her, continuing to express herself in whatever way she saw fit, even if that annoyed some people, because that was the person mother had raised her to be.
That was how her mother knew something had gone terribly wrong when Reagan was fourteen. Her usually loud and opiniated daughter became withdrawn and quiet after a party with some of her classmates, totally insular and refusing to let even Shelby in. It took a lot of gentle and patient asking from her mom before Reagan finally talked about what happened and the sexual assault at the hands of a group of senior boys that had robbed her of everything loud and shiny about her. While she eventually recovered physically and learnt to deal with what happened after an extensive amount of therapy at Shelby’s insistence, Reagan’s edges had sharpened, and her carefree attitude became a defensive mechanism to keep people at arm’s length.
What never changed was Reagan’s sense of right and wrong, her need to always help those in the most need, and so the natural path for her felt like a career in law enforcement. But she’d wouldn’t settle for being just any old cop, oh no. Reagan wanted to be an FBI agent, and that is exactly what she did. For years, she worked all over the States, solving crimes, getting justice, helping families and always returning home to her own whenever she could (even if sometimes that was a little bruised and bandaged). It was a promise she had made her wife Nikki, swearing to her that no matter how dangerous the assignment, she would always come back to her. She was the one with the dangerous job, she was the one that tracked down the worst of humanity, Nikki had the far safer job of making sure they spent the rest of their lives behind bars, an ADA with a long career ahead of her.
So when a machine gun was fired at both her and her beautiful, badass wife on the doorstep of their New York brownstone, Reagan assumed it was her fault. It was her fault that her wife had bled out in her arms, that she hadn’t moved fast enough to return fire, that she had lost the only person that made her feel as safe and loved as she was. Even after it turned out to have nothing to do with her, but a case that Nikki had been working unrelated to any case Reagan had worked on, she never stopped blaming herself for not being able to save her.
She was already doubting herself, doubting her skills and her accolades and her ability to do her job, but when she saw what was happening within the organisation that she had dedicated most of her adult life too, when she saw what her government was becoming, Reagan turned in her badge and her gun and returned home for good. She wouldn’t become complicit in something that went against every moral she’d ever had.
Instead, Reagan joined her mother and the rest of her family in the quest for life on board Sylvester Of The Sea, offering her years of experience in law enforcement to whatever organisation Sue Sylvester saw fit to have on board. It took a little while to find her sea legs, but Reagan was more than happy to leave behind the shambles of the life she could have had with Nikki, to remain at sea forever if that meant being free of the ghosts that haunted her. What better way to avoid your demons than hiding on a luxury cruise liner and pouring all of your attention into rebuilding something resembling society aboard it?
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